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Praying for safe return of Ces and team

Published by Ellen on June 10, 2008

Update: ABS-CBN rules out ransom

Rep.Roilo Golez yesterday called on those who cherish freedom and peace “to pray for the safety and life of Ces Drilon and all other who are under involuntary and hostile custody. Let’s pray that God will enlighten and soften the hearts and minds of their captors.”

Ces and her crew, cameraman Jimmy Encarnacion and assistant cameraman Angel Valderama, together with peace advocate Octavio Dinampo, a professor at the Mindanao State University were abducted armed men in Maimbung, Sulu Sunday. Police reports say the kidnappers were members of the bandit group, Abu Sayyaf.

ABS-CBN appeals to colleagues in media to exercise “utmost consideration for the safety of our news team.”

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11 Magdalo ‘boys’ plead guilty to conduct unbecoming

Published by Ellen on June 10, 2008

Check out statement of Atty. Trixie Angeles on this subject in the comments.

by Victor Reyes

Eleven junior officers facing trial in connection with the 2003 Oakwood mutiny yesterday changed their plea to guilty from not guilty to the charge of conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman.

The change of plea was made at the resumption of court martial proceedings and after a five-minute meeting with AFP chief Lt. Gen. Alexander Yano.

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Mga astig na senador

Published by Ellen on June 9, 2008

Mayroon tayong kasabihan na “Be careful with what you wish for because it might be granted.” Mag-ingat sa iyong pinapangarap, baka magkatotoo.

Naisip ko ito dahil sa pagwawala ng mga astig na senador na sina Juan Ponce-Enrile at Miriam Santiago sa Joint Foreign Chambers of Commerce of the Philippines na kanilang inimbitahan sa Senado noong isang linggo.

Ang JPC ay organisasyon ng mga banyagang kumpanya sa Pilipinas. Kasama na doon ang mga kumpanya mula sa United States, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Europe, Japan at Korea.Hubert Ito ang pinaghirapan ng pamahalaan na hikayatin na magnegosyo dito sa Pilipinas. Alam naman natin rin na kaya sila nandito dahil kumikita naman sila. Totoo naman na hindi yan sila magtityaga dito kung hindi naman sila kumikita.

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Anwar’s anecdotes

Published by Ellen on June 8, 2008

anwar1.JPGFormer Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has an advice to people who complain that they have no time to read: Serve jail time.

Six years in prison on trumped -up charges of corruption and sodomy has not diminished Anwar’s wit and sense of humor. Speaking at a forum in Makati organized by De la Salle University College of Business and Economics, Ramon V del Rosario Sr. Graduate School of Business, and Asian Institute of Democracy, Anwar said while in solitary confinement from 1998 to 2004, he was able to read the entire collection of the works of Shakespeare not once but “four-and-a-half” times.

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Pakistan: US responsible for creating environment of terror

Published by Ellen on June 8, 2008

Tracing the roots of terrorism, Pakistan officials say the United States planted the seeds of what are now the Taliban and Al Qaeda.

“You reap what you sow,” Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas, director-general of the Inter-Services Public Relations, said in a recent briefing with Filipino journalists at the Pakistan Army headquarters in Rawalpindi.

In assessing the global war on terrorism led by the United States with Pakistan as one of its key allies, Abbas said one has to go back to the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.

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Mga numerong tumbok sa laman ng tiyan

Published by Ellen on June 7, 2008

Ngayon lumalabas ang mga statistics na nakakabahala. Inilabas ng National Statistics Office ang kanilang survey sa araw-araw na pamumuhay at lumabas na noong buwan ng Mayo ang inflation rate ay 9.6 percent. Ito na ang pinakamataas sa mga nakaraang sampung taon.

Ang inflation ay ang pagtaas ng mga bilihin at ang pagbaba ng halaga ng pera.

Ngayon ang statistics ng NSO ay malapit sa laman ng tiyan ng taumbayan hindi katulad noon na panay magandang statistics ang pinapalabas katulad ng 7 percent na growth rate. Kaya tuloy pinaglalandakan ni Gloria Arroyo sa kanyang mga placards sa buong bansa “Ramdam na ramdam ang kaunlaran.”

Ulol. Ramdam na ramdam ang kahirapan.

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Hillary phobia

Published by Ellen on June 5, 2008

Poor Hillary Clinton. As America basks in the euphoria of having a first black presidential candidate, everybody wants her to disappear from the political landscape.

Actually American political commentators had been wanting her to quit months ago prompting her to tactlessly recall the assassination of Robert Kennedy. Last May 23 , Hillary defended her staying in the race despite Obama overcoming her earlier lead by recalling that her husband, Bill, did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June. She said she didn’t understand all those Clinton-quit-call and reminded everybody: “We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California.”

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Tribune publisher guilty of libel

Published by Ellen on June 5, 2008

By Tech Torres
Inquirer

A Makati City court on Thursday found journalist and newspaper publisher Ninez Cacho Olivarez guilty of libel for writing a column accusing a law firm of influence peddling in the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3 (NAIA3) deal.

And the Villaraza Cruz Marcelo & Angcanco Law Firm (also known as The Firm) says it is pursuing 47 more libel suits — each case for one article — it has filed against the publisher of The Daily Tribune.

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