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Magkano ang presyo ng katotohanan

Published by Ellen on May 21, 2008

Tama naman si Sandra Cam sa kanyang sama ng loob sa ilang senador, lalo na kay Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile, na nagre-reklamo sa P2 million na gastos ng Senado para protektahan sina Rodolfo “Jun” Lozada, Jr. at Dante Madriaga, dalawang witness sa imbestigasyon ng NBN/ZTE bill.

Si Sandra ay naging witness sa imbestigasyon ng Senado sa jueteng kung saan kinuwento niya ang kanyang pag-deliver ng pera galing sa isang Col. Mosqueda ng PNP kay Rep. Iggy Arroyo, kapatid ni Mike Arroyo. Alam ni Sandra ang sakripisyo ng isang testigo laban sa mga lider ng sindikato ng kasamaan.

Adel Tamano is president of ALCU

Published by Ellen on May 21, 2008

Congratulations to our friend, Adel Tamano!

Atty. Adel Tamano, the youngest University President of the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (PLM), was inducted on Friday at a simple ceremony at PLM as the President of the Association of Local Colleges and Universities (ALCU).

Atty. Tamano, along with the other officers of the association, was sworn in by Senator Alan Cayetano, the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Education.

Mayuga “afflicted” with Alzheimer’s disease

Published by Ellen on May 21, 2008

Ex-Navy chief ‘can’t remember’ report on ‘Garci generals’

By Joel Guinto
Inquirer

Former Navy chief Mateo Mayuga claims he “cannot remember” certain details of his controversial report clearing senior military officers of involvement in alleged vote-rigging operations that supposedly ensured President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s victory in the 2004 elections.

Ka Bel

Published by Ellen on May 20, 2008

Following is a tribute by Ina Silverio to Ka Bel. Ina used to be in the staff of Rep. Beltran in the House of Representatives. She is now with the joint monitoring team in the peace talks between the Philippine government and the National Democratic Front.

by Ina Silverio

My boss, favorite labor leader/mass leader, kaibigan and pinakamamahal na kasama Anakpawis Rep. Crispin Beltran died yesterday, a little before noon after sustaining massive head injuries.

Surplus of airports amid food deficit

Published by Ellen on May 20, 2008

Gloria is in Panglao, Bohol today, one of the provinces that she posted an unbelievable win in the 2004 elections. She has announced building an international airport there. Read this piece on the folly of that project.

By Ernesto M. Pernia
Philippine Daily Inquirer

International airports are a humdrum topic until one realizes that we have too many of them, yet we do not have enough food, power, water and other basic needs. The subject comes to mind because another international airport is to break ground this month in Panglao Island, Bohol. President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo herself is scheduled to preside over the ceremony.

The project was first conceptualized more than 20 years back when hardly anyone even dreamed that the island would become a world-renowned tourist attraction. With the typical on-again, off-again manner of government planning, not too many people paid attention to the project. Of late, however, it’s been rushed supposedly so that it can be completed in two years, before the end of the President’s and the provincial governor’s term in 2010.

Bigay bawi

Published by Ellen on May 19, 2008

Latest as of May 21, 2008: Tuloy na naman ang fare hike. Click here for Inquirer’s story.

Latest: Binawi na naman. Click here for story on “Fare increases deferred.”

Noong isang linggo, pinaglandakan ni Gloria Arroyo ang P20 na dagdag sa minimum wage. Kahapon naman inaprubahan ang pagtaas ng singil sa pamasahe ng 50 sentimos sa jeepney at P1 sa mga bus.

Ano ito, binigay ng kaliwang kamay, binawi ng kanang kamay? Ang masakit pa nito, mas malaki ang binawi kaysa binigay. Nagpapatunay na puro lang talaga pang propaganda ang ginagawa nitong pekeng administrasyon. Dahil hindi na nila alam kung paano bigyan ng maayos at totoong solusyon ang problema ng kahirapan dito sa Pilipinas Kaya ang ginagawa, lokohan na lang.

Idiot’s guide to GAA

Published by Ellen on May 18, 2008

To my fellow idiots when it comes to numbers, there’s hope in understanding the voluminous national budget referred to by lawmakers and bureaucrats as the General Appropriations Act.

Yesterday, I attended a briefing conducted by the bright guys behind the Center for National Budget: Joseph Ranola, Bingo P. Dejaresco III, Resty Maglalang, Domingo Teope, Victor Tirol, Jr.

The group has broken down the intimidating GAA into short primers and analyses for easier reading. The main publication is the “Guidebook to Effective and Transparent National Budget Legislation”.

We know that all through these years Malacañang, in connivance with legislators have been giving the people a bad deal. For how do you explain P3.81 trillion (that’s twelve zeros) debt, the interest payment alone eats up one third of our budget. How did we sink in debt?

Esperon as peace adviser; Dureza, press secretary

Published by Ellen on May 18, 2008

Presidential Adviser Jesus Dureza is going to Malacañang as press secretary to replace Ignacio Bunye has been rewarded a lucrative position as member of the Monetary Board.

Dureza will be replaced by former Chief of Staff Hermogenes Esperon under whose term reports of extra-judicial killings by the military increased.

Sen. Jamby Madrigal, chair of the Senate Committee on Peace, issued the following statement:

Babalik at babalik ang hindi nabayarang kasalanan

Published by Ellen on May 17, 2008

Napansin nyo ba ang posters sa mga poste sa Metro Manila na nagsasabi, “Suportahan si Presidente, Ibagsak ang presyo ng kuryente.”

Mukhang malaki ang pondo nitong kampanya laban sa Meralco. Ngunit mukhang ang gumawa nito ay hindi nakihalubilo sa taumbayan. Mukhang doon lang sa kanyang airconditioned na upisina na bayad ng Malacañang kung hindi man mismo sa Malacañang.

Lopez, Pidal, Rolex

Published by Ellen on May 17, 2008

by Lito Banayo
Malaya

Their paths will always cross. Across generations of their family even.

Mariano Arroyo used to be the appointed governor of Iloilo back when we were yet to be a commonwealth of the Americans. Together with a Chinese rice trader named Sualoy, he introduced jueteng into his province. And what a hit it made with the timawas who bet daily on the numbers game. Such that the illegal numbers racket hit the pages of a local newspaper published by Benito Lopez, who turned it into a crusade.

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