Tuwang-tuwa ako sa Facebook shoutout ni dating Lt(sg) Manuel “Cash” Cabochan noong Linggo ng gabi.
Halatang excited na siya sa kanyang paglaya pagkatapos ng sobra pitong taon na pagkulong dahil nanindigan sila laban kay Gloria Arroyo mula pa noong Hulyo 2003 sa Oakwood. Inulit nila ang kanilang paglaban kay Arroyo noong Nobyembre 2007 sa Manila Peninsula.
Sabi ni Cash paglabas na paglabas niya ang gusto niya gawin ay “kumain ng fishball sa sidewalk..pwedeng sumama, bawal kumontra.”
I covered the Batangas rally of the Liberal party in Batangas last Saturday. The mood was celebratory. The atmosphere was that of victory- at- hand.…
Magdalo soldiers former Marine Captain Gary Alejano and former Ltsg James Layug were released today after Armed Forces Chief Delfin Bangit approved the recommendation of the military court to consider the eight month sentence served as they have been in prison for almost two and half years after the 2007 Manila Peninsula incident.
(Left to right) Marine Capt. Gary Alejano; Lt (sg) James Layug; Lts. (sg) Eugene Gonzales;;Air Force Capt Dan Orfiano; Lt(sg) Andy Torrato
The eight others are former Lts. (sg) Eugene Gonzales, Andy Torrato, Manuel Cabochan; Capt Dan Orfiano; Lt. (jg) Arturo Pascua; and 1Lts. Billy Pascua, Jonnel Sangalang, and Armand Pontejos are expected to be also released tomorrow (Monday) after they have posted bail.
(Left to right)Air Force 1Lt. Billy Pascua;Lt (jg) Armand Pontejos; Lt (jg)Jonnel Sangalang;Lt (sg) Manuel Cabochan; and Lt (jg) Arturo Pascua.
Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV will continue to remain in detention as he has not been allowed to post bail in the coup d’etat case in connection with the July 2003 Oakwood incident.
Last week, I wrote that “The law doesn’t protect deceit” in connection with the report on the fake psychiatric evaluation of Liberal Party presidential candidate Benigno Aquino III and the refusal of ABS-CBN to name the source of fraud.
I’m running here two statements from ABS-CBN on the issue because I believe that it benefits us all to listen to all sides in any issue.
The first article “Telling it like it is” is by Maria A. Ressa, head of ANS-CBN News and Current Affairs and managing director of ANC.
The other article “Name Your (Anonymous) Sources! “ is by Glenda Gloria, chief operations officer of ANC and member of the board of the Public Trust Media Group.
Telling it like it is
by Maria Ressa
by Dona Pazzibugan and Marlon Ramos
Philippine Daily Inquirer
Zaldy Ampatuan, the suspended governor of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, and his cousin Akmad Ampatuan, the former acting vice governor of Maguindanao, will be dropped from the list of those accused, Acting Justice Secretary Alberto Agra said Saturday.
The two men were initially alleged to be among the key planners of the massacre that drew condemnation from all over the world.
Agra said he had ordered state prosecutors to exclude Zaldy and Akmad Ampatuan from the information sheet filed before the court, and that the prosecutors would formally inform Quezon City Judge Jocelyn Solis-Reyes that they were not charging the two with murder.
Asked if the two would now be released, Agra said: “It will depend on the judge.”
Zaldy and Akmad Ampatuan were among the family members transferred from detention in General Santos City and Davao City to Camp Bagong Diwa in Bicutan, Taguig City, on Friday night.
Pumunta kami sa palengke. Panay Pacquaio,a ng kanyang kalaban na si Rep. Roy Chiongbian at ng kanilang mga kapartido ang mga posters. Bigla kaming may nakita na malaking poster sa harap ng isang bahay na nagsasabing “Danny Lim for mayor. Ang litrato isang may kapayatan na mama.
Natawa kami dahil iba ang mukha ng Danny Lim na kilala naming na tumatakbo para senador sa tiket ng Liberal Party. Nang lumapit kami, katabi ng “Danny Lim for mayor”, mayroong sticker ng “Danny Lim for senator”.
Inikuwento sa amin ng mga kamag-anak ni Danny Lim for mayor na number one kagawad daw siya ng siyam na taon. Independent daw siya ngunit ang kanyang dinadalang congressman ay si Pacquiao na ang partido ay People’s Champ Movement at luminya sa Nacionalista Party ni Manny Villar sa nasyunal na antas.
Sabi ng kamaganak ni Kagawad Danny Lim na sina Rosa at Alberta, na tumatanaw daw sila ng utang na loob kay Pacquaio dahil tinulungan daw ng boksingero ang kanilang tiya na nangangailangan ng P200,000 para sa kidney transplant.
Most presidential bets seek new mining code
by Roslyn Arayata
Alyansa Tigil Mina
Majority of the presidential candidates favor a revision of the country’s mining policy, a survey of a network of green groups revealed.
Conducted on the third week of February by the Green Electoral Initiative (GEI) led by EcoWaste Coalition and Greenpeace, the results showed that six of the seven candidates who responded to the GEI survey support the passing of an Alternative Mining Code.
Iloilo City candidates go for Cha-cha
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Iloilo City candidates go for Cha-Cha
by Melvin Purzuelo
Green Forum-Western Visayas
Iloilo City. —It’s yes to “Cha-cha” and to mining for all three congressional candidates here.
Sa kanyang presscon noong Lunes tungkol sa kanyang pagtalon sa Liberal Party, sinabi niya na kaya daw siya bumaligtad dahil ang sambayanang Pilipino ay hindi makalimutan ang kurakutan ng adminsitrasyung Arroyo at hindi na sila papayag mangyari yun.
Sabi niya ang unang problema daw ni Gilbert Teodoro, Jr , ang kandidato para presidenet ng administrasyon ay ang pagkadikit kay Gloria Arroyo.
Ang pagbabago daw ay mangyayari sa administrasyon ni Noynoy Aquino at Mar Roxas. Kaya daw siya nag-resign bilang permanent representative sa United Nations noong Abril 1.
Alam pala niyang ang kurakutan nina Arroyo, bakit tumahimik siya at nagsipsip sa pekeng presidente? Bakit ngayon buwan lang siya nag-resign?
The much-respected Maria A. Ressa, head of ABS-CBN News & Current Affairs, invokes “confidentiality of sources” in rejecting the challenge of the Nacionalista Party to reveal the names of their alleged “two sources from the Nacionalista Party ” who gave them the fake psychiatric analysis of Liberal Party Sen. Benigno Aquino III by a Jesuit priest.
“While it’s tempting to take the Nacionalista Party’s challenge, it violates a sacred rule of journalism,” Ressa said.
I don’t agree with Maria.
Journalism is basically truth telling. A journalist’s job is to tell the public the truth.
This is journalism!
by Nick Macfie
Bangkok
(Reuters) – Seven minutes of film taken by Reuters cameraman Hiro Muramoto illustrate how a scrappy street protest turned deadly on a balmy Bangkok night.
It is some of the last video Muramoto, 43, a father of two young children, ever took. He died on Saturday from a gunshot wound to the chest, his killer unknown.
The film encapsulates the fear, the tension and the sudden, chilling bloodshed after a month of protests by Thailand’s “red shirts” whose anti-government protests had largely been festive and peaceful until then.
Muramoto, a Japanese national who had worked for Reuters in Tokyo for more than 15 years, arrived in Thailand on Thursday. He was taken to hospital two days later without a pulse. The bullet had entered his chest and exited the body through the back.
His camera was returned to Reuters by the protesters. It is not known if the footage was his very last.