Sabi ni AFP Chief Hermogenes Esperon ang galing-galing daw ng kanilang operasyon laban sa New People’s Army at sa Abu Sayaff kaya kukunti na lang raw ang mga yun.
Ang mga NPA, pagdating daw ng 2010, hindi na pansin ang mga yun.
Magaling, di ba?
Sabi ni AFP Chief Hermogenes Esperon ang galing-galing daw ng kanilang operasyon laban sa New People’s Army at sa Abu Sayaff kaya kukunti na lang raw ang mga yun.
Ang mga NPA, pagdating daw ng 2010, hindi na pansin ang mga yun.
Magaling, di ba?
Caught unprepared with their pants down by the Nov. 29 walkout by Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV and Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim from the coup d’etat hearing at the Makati court, Gloria Arroyo’s security officials are falling over each other floating the possibility of another coup try.
First it was Defense Secretary Gilbert Teodoro, tipping reporters of what was shared to him by the military’s intelligence agents. “I believe it’s an assessment of our intelligence services.There’s a possibility that there may be destabilization by various threat groups.”
Armed Forces Chief Hermogenes Esperon Jr. added to it saying, “Some people, especially those with delusions of grandeur, will always plan things. They never give up.”
Update:AFP, PNP defy SC ruling on National ID
Senators say GMA can’t be trusted on National ID
by Victor Reyes
The Armed Forces yesterday batted for the national identification system which was shot down by the Supreme Court during the Ramos administration.
The military made the recommendation to President Arroyo during a command conference in Camp Aguinaldo. The President directed the defense department to study the military’s proposal.
Ano ba naman ito si Erap at iniimbitahan si Noli de Castro sumali sa oposisyon at maari raw siya ang magiging kandidato ng oposisyon sa pagkapresident sa 2010.
Sana panakot lang ni Estrada ito sa mga taga oposisyon na gustong kumandidato sa 2010 para sila ay magkasundo na isa lang ang kakandito.
Kung nagbibiro si Estrada, hindi magandang biro yun. At nakakasama sa kanya. Ibig sabihin noon siya mismo walang pagpahalaga sa katotohanan at hustisya. Paano mo naman tatanggapin ang isang taong kumapi kay Gloria kahit nabulgar na ang kanyang pandaraya noong 2004 na eleksyon ay panggigipit sa taumbayan.
Malaya’s update: Missing jet not shot down
Inquirer: PAF continues to search for missing plane
Last Nov. 26, it was reported that one of two Philippine Air Force S2-11 aircraft sent to the contested Spratly Islands in South China Sea to search for 26 Filipino crewmen whose fishing vessel capsized a few days earlier in stormy weather went missing.
On board the aircraft were lead pilot Captain Gavino Mercado Jr. (PMA Class ’99) and co-pilot Captain Bonifacio Soriano III (PMA Class 2000)
A month and 11 days has passed. The pilots remain “missing.” There has also been no official report on the results of the investigation conducted by PAF.
Update: Esperon makes a pitch for extension.
Minsan, nagreklamo ako sa sobrang higpit ng coverage sa court martial hearings, wala na kaming magawang matinong reporting.
Pina-alala ko sa isang opisyal na noong trial ni Gen. Carlos Garcia, ang opisyal na nag dispalko ng milyon, umabot pa yata ng bilyon, na pera ng military, pinayagan ang TV sa loob ng courtroom.
Sa court martial hearings ng 28 na opisyal na sangkot daw sa planong mag-withdraw ng support kay Gloria Arroyo noong Pebrero 2006, ang TV cameras ay pinapayagan lamang ilang minuto sa simula. Yun lang. Hindi kami pinapayagan maki-pagusap sa mga akusado kahit tapos na ang hearing.
Ha! Ha! ha!
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A kin of one of the detainees in Camp Capinpin shared with us this cute story:
A week after the world celebrated the birth of Jesus Christ in a manger more than 2,000 years ago, the officers detained in Camp Capinpin were overseeing the birth of man’s best friends. Eleven of them.
Tuesday night, Col. Ariel Querubin’s female bull mastiff, Jenny, gave birth to 11 puppies.
Heto na naman tayo.
Sinabi ni Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita na sang-ayon siya sa mungkahi ni Jesus Dureza, presidential adviser on the peace process, na palitan ang Constitution para raw maisulong ang negosasyon sa Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
Sabi ni Dureza napagkasunduan ng mga negosyador ng pamahalaan at ng MILF na magtatag ng Bangsamoro region ngunit kailangang dumaan sa “constitutional process” o proseso na naaayon sa Constitution. Ang proseso na ‘yan ay kailangan ang referendum at ayaw ng MILF dahil sigurado hindi papayag ang marami sa mga taumbayan sa probinsiya na gusto nilang masama sa Bangsamoro region.
by Christine Avendaño
Philippine Daily Inquirer
A new proposal that will see the government resorting to constitutional amendments possibly in 2008 to push the stalled peace negotiations with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) would likely have the backing of Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita.
“If this will help peace talks and governance in Mindanao, why not?” Ermita said in expressing his possible support for the proposal that government officials were expected to present to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her security officials to move forward the negotiations.