Category: General

Nakabahala ang sitwasyon na dahil sa hindi dumating ang inaasahan ulan sa mga buwan ng Hunyo at Hulyo, kumukonti ang pondo tubig sa ating mga dam at natutuyuan ang palayan sa central Luzon.

Kaya sinasabihan tayong humanda sa mga brownout na mangyayari kailangan magtipid ng tubig para kukunting kuryente ang magagamit.

Nakakabahala dahil wala tayong sapat na irigasyon para patubigan ang mga palayan sa Luzon na siyang pinanggalingan ng pinakaraming palay sa bansa. Kapag mahina ang ani, hindi lamang mga magsasaka ang maghihirap kung di buiong bayan dahil mapipilitan na namang mag-import ng bigas. Siyempre tataas ang presyo ng bigas.

This is interesting.

By David Willey
BBC News, Rome

A fresco painting by a Renaissance master which once decorated the bedroom of Pope Alexander VI in the Vatican has gone on show in Rome.

A leading Italian art historian and curator says he has documentary proof that it was once part of a much larger painting depicting the aged Pope kneeling in front of his youthful mistress, Giulia Farnese.

Who will chair the Blue Ribbon committee will be a test of Senate President Manuel Villar’s so called “independence.”

It will also show us if the assertion of the three opposition senators – Jinggoy Estrada, Chiz Escudero, and Alan Peter Cayetano – that the opposition will still set the agenda in the Senate despite their collaboration with Malacañang allies holds.

Last week, Villar agreed that Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano would chair the powerful Blue Ribbon Committee. It will be recalled that the opposition had expressed their disappointment over the way Sen. Joker Arroyo, chair of the Blue Ribbon in the 13th Congress, used his position to protect Mike Arroyo from the intense scrutiny of other senators who had information of his questionable deals.

The most applauded in Gloria Arroyo’s hohum State-of-the Nation Address was the part when she said, “From where I sit, I can tell you, a…

Here goes again Esperon threatening to railroad further the court martial proceedings against Maj. Gen. Renato Miranda et al by appointing a lower-ranking military official to try the accused officers.

Here’ Victor Reyes’ story in Malaya

Armed Forces chief Gen. Hermogenes Esperon Jr. said the unnecessary use of the peremptory challenge in the court martial of ex-Marine commandant Maj. Gen. Renato Miranda and company is just a ploy to delay the proceedings.

Last July 18, Miranda got rid of Lt. Gen. Alexander Yano, military tribunal president, by challenging him. His co-accused Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim then challenged Yano’s successor Maj. Gen. Raul Caballes and also got the latter to inhibit himself. Each of the accused is entitled to a peremptory challenge even without cause and any officer challenged would have to exclude himself from the proceedings.

Looks like the situation in the Senate has been salvaged for the Filipino people.

Despite the votes of administration senators that will make him retain the senate presidency, Manuel Villar is giving the major comittees to the opposition. The latest we heard is the important Blue Ribbon Committee will go to Alan Peter Cayetano.

Alan will make use of the position of General Counsel for the committee by appointing Adel Tamano, who competently served as spokesman for the Genuine Opposition.

I hope that my seatmate, Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, would be able to attend the opening of Congress. I recall that the Liberal Party had…

It’s a float. The scheming Gloria Arroyo is testing public reaction.

President Arroyo has once more revived the issue of Charter change with her remark yesterday that she might run for a congressional seat in Pampanga when her term ends in 2010.

Arroyo made the remark at the opening of the Luzon Urban Beltway infrastructure conference at the terminal lounge of the Subic Bay International Airport,

Read this story to see the dreadful kind of human beings we have as members of our House of Representatives.

by Peter Tabingo

Go globe-trotting on taxpayers’ money and get paid even without working.

With these and similar promises of the good life, senior members of the House of Representatives yesterday welcomed first-term members during the chamber’s orientation seminar.

Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. regaled his audience of some 80 neophyte and returning lawmakers with the announcement that since last year, each House member’s allowance for foreign travel has been pegged at P1 million.

When they appear in the court martial hearing tomorrow, Marine colonels Ariel Querubin, Orlando de Leon and Custodio Parcon will be bald. They have shaved their heads in sympathy with the families of the Marines who died whenthey were ambushed by the MILF in Basilan last week and in disgust the way the military is handling the tragedy.

By Joel Guinto
INQUIRER.net

Three Marine officers facing court martial over an alleged February 2006 coup plot have shaved their heads not only in sympathy for their 14 comrades slain in an encounter in Basilan last week but also to show their disgust with the military leadership’s handling of the incident.

“We shaved our heads to sympathize with out fallen comrades and manifest our disgust for the manner by which the government and the AFP [Armed Forces of the Philippines] leadership is handling the incident,” Colonel Ariel Querubin said in a text message forwarded to reporters by his wife, Maria Flor.,