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Dapat Biyernes ng hapon pa

Published by Ellen on September 6, 2008

Ini-imbistigahan daw ang limang miyembro ng Criminal Investigation and Detection Group na umaresto kay Jake Macasaet, publisher ng Ang Pahayagang Malaya m noong Huwebes habang siya ay kumakain ng tanghalian sa Century Park.

Ayan na naman. Palpak kasi ang dating kaya naghanap na naman ng sangkalan. Ang kawawa ang mga maliliit na sumusunog lang sa laro nitong mga nasa taas.

Walang natuwa sa pag-aresto kay Macasaet at nagdagdag ng impression na may masamang binabalak itong pamahalaang Arroyo para mapagtakpan ang kanilang malaking palpak na ang MOA-AD (Memorandum of Agreemenet – Ancestral Domain) sa Moro Islamic Liberation Front. Binatikos pa sila kaliwa’t -kanan ng mga organisasyon ng media.

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Raymundo case update

Published by Ellen on September 4, 2008

I have received inquires on what has happened to 1Lt Artemio Raymundo who was charged and detained for giving away CDs at an LRT station in September 2006.

Well, he is still detained. He will mark his second year in prison on Sept. 25.

Not only that. He was arraigned for violations of Articles of War 96 (Conduct Unbecoming of an Officer and Gentleman) last August 18, the day Gloria Arroyo declared a holiday. Last Friday, without the assistance of his chosen counsel, Harry Roque, who had requested for a postponement because he would be in Malaysia, he was arraigned for violations of Articles of War 64 (Disrespect Toward a Superior Officer).

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Malaya publisher arrested over libel case sleeping for 9 years

Published by Ellen on September 4, 2008

by Raymond Africa

Agents of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group yesterday arrested Malaya publisher Amado “Jake” Macasaet for a libel case filed against him nine years ago.

A CIDG team led by Senior Insp. Berlito de Guzman served the warrant on Macasaet, 72, in his Port Area, Manila office before noon.

The warrant was issued September 2 by Judge Emma Young of the Manila Regional Trial Court.

Macasaet was released after posting a P10,000 bail yesterday afternoon.

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Panggagago sa taumbayan

Published by Ellen on September 3, 2008

Erased na raw ang peace panel na nakikipag-usap sa Moro Islamic Liberation Front, sabi ni Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita.

Ganoon lang ba yun? Paano na lang ang mga namatay at ang mga nawalan ng bahay na umaabot sa 250,000 dahil sa kanilang pinaggagawa sa Mindanao?

Ito ang statement ni Ermita:“President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has directed a new paradigm in the peace process by mandating that peace negotiations be refocused from one centered on dialogue with rebels to one of authentic dialogue.”

Hindi ko ma-translate sa tagalog dahil hindi ko maintindihan ang ibig sabihin. Ang nakukuha ko lang ay mas uunhain daw ang pakikig-usap sa mga taong apektado kaysa mga rebelde. Ngayon lang nila alam yan?

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Small blessings

Published by Ellen on September 2, 2008

Maybe I should thank the Commission on Human Rights for saying that the arrest of journalists who covered Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV and Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim at the Manila Pen on Nov. 29, 2007 “constitutes arbitrary arrest/detention in violation of human rights standards.”

It’s definitely better than the dismissal of our class suit by NBI- agent- turned-judge Reynaldo Laigo of the Makati RTC who said that our arrest, handcuffing, and detention was “justified’ and even added that we were “so lucky” that the police didn’t initiate criminal charges against us.

With a leader who has no respect for the Constitution and disdains truth, CHR chair Leila de Lima gives me some hope. Maybe I should thank her for making the Commission say that “there have been violations of the human rights of liberty, security of person and freedom from arbitrary arrest of the complainants in the Manila Peninsula Siege.”

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Piggery naging cemetery

Published by Ellen on September 1, 2008

Ang panibagong report ng VERA Files ay tungkol sa Quedan and Rural Credit Guarantee Corp. (Quedancor) na sinasabing bangko ng mahihirap.

Kaya talagang nakaka-ngitngit madiskubre na ginagatasan pala ito ng mga tauhan ni Gloria Arroyo. Talagang walang patawad. Isusubo na lang ng mahihirap, aagawin pa.

Ang isang kaso na ginawang showcase ng Verafiles ay yung kay Aura Drew Escanlar ng Iloilo City na ginamit ang kanyang pera para sa kanyang review sa nursing board examinations noong December of 2004 sa pagpatayo ng piggery o babuyan.

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CHR: No basis in detaining journalists during Nov 29 standoff

Published by Ellen on September 1, 2008

The Commission on Human Rights said Monday there was no basis to justify the arrest and detention of several journalists during the Nov. 29, 2007 standoff at The Peninsula Manila hotel in Makati City.

In a news briefing, CHR chair Leila de Lima said some violations were committed during the arrest and processing of media personalities in the aftermath of the six-hour standoff between government forces and the group of Army Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim and the Magdalo led by Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV.

In one of its resolutions, the CHR recommended that the case be “referred to the Department of the Interior and Local Government and to the Philippine National Police for internal inquiry and for filing of proper administrative disciplinary cases and measures applied to proper persons.”

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Quedancor swine program another fertilizer scam

Published by Ellen on September 1, 2008

Following is the first of a three-part series on Quedancor written by VERA Files.

by Diosa Labiste, Luz Rimban, and Yvonne Chua
VERA Files

(First of three parts)

ILOILO CITY— Aura Drew Escanlar was all set to take the nursing board examinations that December of 2004 when she decided instead to put up a piggery.

What changed her mind was an offer from the Quedan and Rural Credit Guarantee Corp. (Quedancor). Called “the poor man’s financing institution,” the Department of Agriculture’s (DA) credit guarantee arm was giving out loans in the form of piglets and feeds, with a buy-back scheme that assured borrowers some income.

Escanlar then used her parents’ savings to build pigpens and buy piglets, and signed up for the Quedancor Swine Program (QSP). Less than a year later, Escanlar lost almost everything. The income from the buy-back scheme was always delayed, and the feeds came late or were not delivered at all. After 50 of her piglets died, Escanlar stormed the Quedancor regional office here. “You have turned my farm into a graveyard,” she told Quedancor employees.

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