Category: General

Gloria Arroyo owes her presidency to the men and women who cheated for her in the 2004 election as well as those who obstructed justice to cover-up for her crime. It’s payback time forever.

The following story by Victor Reyes is in today’s issue of Malaya:

THE Navy was rocked yesterday by a wave of text messages saying that an unqualified officer who was linked to the “Hello Garci” tapes would succeed flag-officer-in-command Vice Adm. Mateo Mayuga when the latter retires tomorrow.

The perceived “bayad-utang” appointment of Vice Adm. Tirso Danga, chief of the AFP’s Western Command, prompted Mayuga to appeal to men under his command to respect the choice, whoever he may be, of President Arroyo.

Continue reading‘Bayad-utang’ appointment feared at Navy

What can I say, but pray that this unconciousnable rape of democracy will finally wake the Filipino nation up.

On Monday, Dec. 12 at 10 a.m. Congress sitting as a joint assembly would convene at the plenary hall of the House of Representatives to start the process of proposing amendments to the 1987 Constitution.

Cha-cha advocates hail this as their best Christmas gift to Gloria Arroyo.

Knowing that she is behind this assault on the Constitution (son Mikey and brother-in law Iggy are part of the gang) what comes to mind is a Filipino saying, “Kumuha ng bato, pamukpok sa ulo” (Got a stone to bang her head with). That’s more like it to me.

Here’s ABS-CBN’s update:

Reynato Puno has been appointed Supreme Court chief justice, Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita announced just now. Puno succeeded Artemio Panganiban, who retired yesterday. Click here…

It looks like that Jose de Venecia does not have the 195 congressmen or three-fourths of Congress to railroad the convening of the Constituent Assembly.

They now introduced a new resolution (HR1450)that does not mention Constituent Assembly but merely to convene to accept proposals. Rep. Edcel Lagman said they would only need only a simple majority votes,which is only 117.

Rep. Roilo Golez (anti Cha-Cha) and Teddy Locsin (pro Cha-Cha) dared to push for voting if it’s three-fourths of Congress.

The presiding officer, Deputy Speaker Raul del Mar , of Cebu City tried to avoid the issue. Now, he just said, he is taking the position of Lagman that they need only a simple majority.

Talagang bastusan na. Malaya’s update on JDV’s Con-Ass Express.

At this very moment, a few minutes past midnight, the majority of members of the House of Representatives are trying to railroad the convening of the Constituent Assembly without the participation of the Senate.

I just came from the Batasan where 161 congressmen voted for the deletion of the sentence, “The adoption of resolutions proposing amendments to or revision of the Constiution shall follow the procedure for the enactment of bills.” in Section 105 of their own Rules.

There were only 25 opposition congressmen who voted “No.” (Click here for news report)

Here’s Inquirer Online’s account of the verdict on the Subic rape case:

By Tetch Torres
INQ7.net
Last updated 07:12pm (Mla time) 12/04/2006

ONE of four US Marines accused of raping a Filipina in Subic last year was found guilty while three others were acquitted by a local court Monday.

Lance Corporal Daniel Smith, 21, from St. Louis in Missouri, faces up to 40 years in prison following the verdict handed down by Judge Benjamin Pozon of Branch 139 of the Makati regional trial court (RTC).

Estimates of those who perished in Albay from the destruction wrought by typhoon Reming keep on rising. Philippine National Red Cross officials said missing persons…

Four days after Gloria and Mike Arroyo were discharged from St. Luke‘s hospital last Monday, they were back again today. Gloria went there a little…

The interview of ANC’s Ricky Carandang with departing Defense Secretary Avelino Cruz wherein he revealed a warning from Defense Secretary Ronald Rumsfeld in Dec.2005 against Gloria Arroyo’s plan to declare martial (click here) made us look back to reports around that time.

Our Dec.16, 2005 post was a document on “Detailed Exit Plan” for GMA believed to have been prepared by a group headed by National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzalez.