The Vogue Magazine feature on Angelina Jolie is inspiring.Click here for the article by Jonathan Van Meter and more photos by Annie Leibovitz. Inquirer’s man…
Making life worth living.
Category: General
US cancels military exercises with RP over rape case
By Veronica Uy
Agence France-Presse, INQUIRER.net
THE United States has cancelled its annual joint military exercises with the Philippines due to the continued detention of a US Marine convicted of rape, an embassy spokesman said Friday.
“The custody issue is at the heart of this,” embassy spokesman Matt Lussenhop told INQUIRER.net. “Due to the current custody issue (over the US Marine), the usual protection provided to US servicemembers is in doubt.”
Following is Fe Zamora’s story ” Isafp holds lavish Christmas bash with ‘Emperor’ “in today’s issue of Philippine Daily Inquirer.
Decadent!
Update: AFP warned soldiers against solicitation for their Christmas party but played deaf and blind to reports of solicited appliances given away by ISAFP Chief Delfin Bangit in their party last Wednesday.
AMID shouts of “Long Live the Emperor,” Armed Forces intelligence chief Brig. Gen. Delfin Bangit threw P500 bills, like they were candy, at the Isafp (Intelligence Service of the Armed Forces of the Philippines) Christmas party held on Wednesday night.
I think Gloria Arroyo’s latest flip-flop on cha-cha was driven by her fear of being abandoned by her opportunistic allies now that she is seen as a lameduck.
Yesterday morning, in her speech at the Asian Development Bank, Arroyo said she will pursue cha-cha with “urgency and vigor.”
With the prospect of her staying in power beyond 2010 courtesy of cha-cha, she can still command the support of congressmen, especially when impeachment time comes again next year.
Five days after she backed off from Charter-Change, Gloria Arroyo again made another turn around and said her adminisitration will pursue Cha-Cha with “urgency and…
Malaya’s report on the Luneta rally:
BY GERARD ANTHONY NAVAL
REFORMS in government, including in the electoral system, should first be instituted before tinkering with the Constitution, Church leaders said in an anti-Charter change rally held yesterday at the Quirino Grandstand at the Luneta.
“Mas magiging maayos ang charter change na pino-propose (nila) kung magkakaroon muna ng pagbabago sa mga tao bago ang kung ano man ang baguhin… tulad ng Saligang Batas natin,” said Jaro Archbishop Angel Lagdameo, president of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines which initiated the rally.
Rep. Luis Bersamin of the lone distict of Abra was killed when two unidentified men shot him in an ambush after he attended a mass in Mt. Carmel church in Quezon City.
The ambush on Bersamin came only four days after a similar ambush was attempted on Pasig Representative Robert “Dodot” Jaworski Jr., who cited politics or the illegal drug trade as possible motives, and after revelations by officials of an alleged plot to assassinate House Majority Leader Prospero Nograles.
What’s happening to our country?
ORGANIZERS of Sunday’s prayer rally at the Quirino Grandstand yesterday said President Arroyo and her administration allies can come to the gathering but they will not be answerable for the public’s reaction to their presence.
Read this in Malaya.Click here.
Much as the organizers stress that tomorrow’s rally is “apolitical”, the assembly of thousands opposed to Gloria Arroyo and her allies in the House of Representatives is a forceful political statement.
A mammoth crowd would underscore the political isolation of Gloria Arroyo.
Canadian Ambassador Peter Sutherland turns over a sack of seedlings to Emilio Punio, barangay captain of Guinsaugon, St.Bernard, Southern Leyte, as a symbol of Canada’s assistance to the village that was hardest hit by the mudslides last February.
While most of us have moved on to other tragedies and have forgotten the victims of the mudslides in Guinsaugon early this year, the Canadian government cares about those who have been left behind and is helping them recover from the misfortune.
Ambassador Sutherland visited Southern Leyte recently to see the projects that received assistance from the Canadian International Development Agency through the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are setting examples of how celebrities should use their fame and fortune to make this world a little better especially for the less privileged.
The following photos of their recent Cambodia visit are in current issue of People magazine (www.people.com). I first saw them in Rickey’s blog, the number one blog in the country today.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie with their children Maddox, Zahara, and Shiloh Nouvel.