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Mindanao simmers again

Published by Ellen on May 29, 2008

I was reading an analysis “The Philippines:Counter-insurgency vs Counter-terrorism in Mindanao” when news of an explosion in Zamboanga City came in.

Two persons were confirmed dead while 23 others were injured. Investigators were looking at the possibility that Al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf militants were involved in the attack.

The analysis I’m reading was precisely warning about this situation. It said that the Philippines is mixing up counter-insurgency with counter-terrorism “with dangerous implications for conflict in the region”.

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Reporter says Magdalos had no plan to take over government

Published by Ellen on May 27, 2008

by Ashzel Hachero
Malaya

Reporter Alvin Elchico of ABS-CBN and a close friend and townmate of one of the Magdalo leaders, former Army Capt. Milo Maestrecampo, took the witness stand for the defense Tuesday and said he never heard the soldiers holed up at Oakwood hotel talk of any plan to take over the government or attack their fellow soldiers who had been ranged against them.

The soldiers led by detained senator Antonio Trillanes are being tried for coup d’etat at the Makati regional trial court.

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Gen. Miranda recalled back to Isafp midnight

Published by Ellen on May 26, 2008

Another case of “give- and- take” policy of this illegitimate administration.
Just now, I was told that Gen. Miranda was ordered back to ISAFP detention quarters by Gen. Espino, the camp commander after just a few hours with his wife in the hospital. Heartless. What are they afraid of?

Will give update on this tomorrow.

Also for tomorow’s hearing of the human rights committee at the House of Representatives, the detained officers were not allowed to attend.

Ex-Marines chief allowed out of jail to visit ailing wife

By Joel Guinto
Inquirer.net

Former Ex-Marines chief Major General Renato Miranda, who is facing court martial for an alleged coup plot in February 2006, was allowed to leave detention Monday to visit his wife, who is stricken with breast cancer, a spokesman for the Philippine Navy said.

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Kapag katotohan, tama sa lahat na oras

Published by Ellen on May 26, 2008

Ano ba naman itong si JDV? Naghihintay raw siya ng tamang panahon para sabihin ang alam niya tungkol sa NBN-ZTE scandal kasi kapag kinuwento raw niya ang alam niya baka raw matumba si Gloria Arroyo.

O ano ngayon kung matumba si Arroyo? Yun ang pinakamagandang mangyari sa Pilipinas.

Sinabi ng Inquirer kahapon na tinawagan raw nila si House Speaker Jose de Venecia na nasa Russia tungkol sa plano ng Senate Blue Ribbon committee na tatawagin siya bilang resource person sa imbestigasyon ng maeskandalo na $329 million (dolyar yan, ha) na kontrata sa ZTE Corporation ng China para magpatayo ng national broadband dito sa Pilipinas.

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Fugitive Marine captain presents ‘vision’ on YouTube

Published by Ellen on May 26, 2008

By Joel Guinto
Inquirer.net

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdVZ2dJcl2k&feature=related

or here:

http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=yuka2888

Fugitive Marine Captain Nicanor Faeldon said he was prepared to die in the pursuit of his “vision” to arouse “national consciousness.”

Faeldon surfaced on the popular video sharing website YouTube almost six months after he eluded arrest during a failed uprising by rebel soldiers on November 29 last year.

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Compounding injustice

Published by Ellen on May 25, 2008

It’s a cruel irony that those who are asked to lay down their life in
order that we can have a just and humane society are being subjected
to continuing inhumanity and injustice.

That’s one of the dark legacies of recently retired Hermogenes Esperon
to the military establishment that the new AFP Chief Alexander Yano
would have to rectify to redeem the institution’s integrity and soul.

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Lalong nakakabahala

Published by Ellen on May 24, 2008

Update: Si CHR Chair de Lima daw ang lumalabag ng human rights ng mga police- Raul Gonzalez
Lahat tayo shocked sa nangyaring krimen sa RCBC sa Cabuyao, Laguna kung saan sampung tao ang pinatay ng mga magnanakaw.

Hindi sila nakuntento na nagnakaw. Pinagbabaril ang lahat na nanakita sa kanila.

Siyempre gusto natin mahuli ang mga kriminal. Sa sibilisadong mundo, salot ang mga kriminal. Ang gumawa ng kasalanan, dapat parusahan. Klaro yan sa mamamayan na ang may pakana ng krimen ay dapat maparusahan. Ayaw natin ang walang pakundangan na pagpatay ng mga inosente, lalo na kapag mga alagad ng batas ang may kagagawan.

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Copp’s “Triangle of Life”

Published by Ellen on May 22, 2008

This article by Doug Copp, rescue chief and disaster manager of the American Rescue International, is again going the rounds of the internet following the earthquake in China that has claimed the lives of more than 40,000 people.

Copp says “when buildings collapse, the weight of the ceilings falling upon the objects or furniture inside crushes these objects, leaving a space or void next to them. This space is what I call the ‘triangle of life’. The larger the object, the stronger, the less it will compact. The less the object compacts, the larger the void, the greater the probability that the person who is using this void for safety will not be injured. The next time you watch collapsed buildings, on television, count the ‘triangles’ you see formed. They
are everywhere. It is the most common shape, you will see, in a
collapsed building.”

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