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Month: August 2014

Empower public with information on Ebola

Published by Ellen on August 5, 2014

Ebola virus poster

Warning: There’s a hoax screenshot of my article in Yahoo on Ebola virus which says “Ebola virus has killed 23 people in Manila”.

This is not true. It’s a hoax.

There is no report of death due to Ebola virus in the Philippines.

This is the legitimate link to my Yahoo article: https://ph.news.yahoo.com/good-hygiene-weapon-vs-ebola-174551384.html. It’s based on the interview with Dr. Tony Leachon, president of the Philippine College of Physicians and information director of the University of the Philippines, Manila; on what we should do against the deadly Ebola virus that is wreaking havoc in West Africa.

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Filipinos are worth making good movies for

Published by Ellen on August 3, 2014

CCP lobby alive with film enthusiasts.
CCP lobby alive with film enthusiasts.

It was one time when I didn’t feel bad when I was told that there were no more tickets available for the film I wanted to watch.

I was so happy seeing the Cultural Center of the Philippines filled with people who love films. It showed that Filipinos yearn for good films. The scene disproved the condescending arguments of producers of silly films that they were just giving the Filipino audience what they want.

Cinemalaya showed that we have an abundant supply of cinema talents.

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Antidote to DAP-inspired abuses: FOI

Published by Ellen on August 1, 2014

By Ellen T. Tordesillas

Budget Secretary Florencio "Butch" Abad submits 2015 budget to Congress.
Budget Secretary Florencio “Butch” Abad submits 2015 budget to Congress.
The P2.6 trillion 2015 budget submitted by Malacanang to Congress will institutionalize the practices in the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) which the Supreme Court had declared unconstitutional.

In the 2015 budget proposal, “savings” is now defined as portions of allocations that “have not been released or obligated” due to “discontinuance or abandonment of a program, activity or project for justifiable causes, at any time during the validity of the appropriations.”

With this definition, President Aquino and Budget Secretary Florencio Abad can hijack funds allocated to projects under the 2015 General Appropriations Act as what they did with DAP the past three years.

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