Sabi ni AFP spokesman Maj. Gen. Jose Angel Honrado na hindi raw dapat mag-alala ang mga military officials na lilitisin sa court martial dahil iyon raw ay magiging makatarungan.
“Ito and proseso na sasala kung sino ang guilty at ang hindi guilty. Ito ang tamang korte para magpatunay kung sino talaga ang inosente at kung sino ang may kasalanan,” sabi ni Honrado.
Nagpapatawa naman itong si Honrado.
It’s a tribute to Henrik Ibsen that his writings continue to be relevant and provocative today as they were more than a hundred years ago.
In commemoration of one hundred years after the passing of Norway’s most famous playwright, the Norwegian embassy in Manila held a special screening last Wednesday of a modern adaptation of Ibsen’s “Enemy of the People.”
Ambassador Stale Forstein Risa said the 2004 movie adaptation of Ibsen’s 1882 play has been entered in the Norwegian movie festival. It’s actually the fourth rendition in film. The first two were done in the United States (the 1978 movie starred Steve McQueen) and in 1989, in India.
(The first time I saw the Black Eyed Peas singing “Bebot” on MTV, I asked my nephew if it was a special Manila performance and he said it’s part of the BEP’s album. I must say it’s a fun song. Here’s an article in the Los Angeles Times on “Bebot” describing it as a “surprise phenomenon”.)
Filipinos’ hip-hop anthem
By David Pierson, Times Staff Writer
November 22, 2006
Hey, man, all of you listen
to me
Here comes the real Filipino
Came from the barrio – Sapang Bato
Went to L.A. and labored
In order to help my mother
Because life is so hard
But the disposition’s still bright.
—
SO begins the story of Allan Pineda, a member of the hip-hop band the Black Eyed Peas, who two years ago wrote a song about his journey from a poverty-stricken district in the Philippines to Los Angeles’ Atwater Village.
May rason naman para magsaya ang oposisyon sa resulta ng pinakahuling survey ng Pulse Asia sa mga senatoriables sa May 2007 eleksyon.
Ang nasa top 12 ay mga personalidad na masasabing naka-linya sa oposisyon. Ito ang nangunguna sa senatorial race sa ngayon: Loren Legarda; Panfilo M. Lacson; Francis N. Pangilinan; Manuel B. Villar, Jr.; Alan Peter S. Cayetano Vicente C. Sotto III; Ralph G. Recto (28.7%); . Korina Sanchez; Aquilino Pimentel “Koko”III; Gregorio B. Honasan (24.1%); JV Ejercito-Estrada; Edgardo J. Angara;
Sabi ng Pulse Asia, hanggang no. 19, maari pang masabi na malakas ang posibilidad manalo. Ang pito pang sumusunod ay sina Benigno C.”Noynoy” Aquino III; Francis G. Escudero; John Henry Osmeña (17.8%); Rozzano Rufino B. Biazon (17.8%); Imee R. Marcos (17.6%); Joker P. Arroyo (17.0%); at Luisa “Loi” Estrada.
(Following is an article by Pablo Tariman on soprano Camille Lopez Molina who will be performing with tenor Otoniel Gonzaga and Dulce on Dec. 9 at the Philamlife Theatre, 8 p.m.
(For tickets: P3,000 for orchestra seats and P2,000 for loge please call 900-70-23 or 0906-5104-270.)
A couple of weeks from now, soprano Camille Lopez Molina will be Mother Abbess in the Sound of Music mounted by Repertory Philippines and a week later, she will be singing an Andrea Chenier duet with tenor Otoniel Gonzaga at the Philamlife Theater with the Manila Philharmonic Orchestra Orchestra under the baton of Rodel Colmenar.
Although Camille is a mother of two (Beatriz Milagros, 2 and Sofia Isabel, 10 months), she just finds it tough sinking through the part of Mother Abbess in the musical. “She is a lot older, wiser, more spiritual and she is the big boss of the convent,” she says. “I’m certainly not young anymore but I’m very far from being wise and spiritual and not fit to be an administrator. Acting is being so I find it really hard to act wise when I feel such an idiot inside sometimes. I’m glad I’m finally finding my way around the role but it’s still a big, big effort.
Lawyer Harry Roque said they have received reliable information that former Agriculture Undersecretary Jocelyn “Jocjoc” Bolante has made arrangements to go to Jakarta, Indonesia next month to meet a Pakistani Rotarian/businessman.
Bolante was the treasurer of Rotary International. He was arrested last July 7 at the Los Angeles airport for attempting to the enter the United States on an expired visa.
“This means, he will go on self-deportation this December,” Roque said.
(The following article is from www.gmanews.tv)
For the third time this year, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was brought to a Quezon City hospital on Saturday where will stay until Sunday for what Malacañang officials and her attending physician called a long-overdue “routine” checkup.
“There is nothing to worry about,” said Dr Julieta Cervantes, Mrs Arroyo’s attending physician at St. Luke’s Medical Center, during a press briefing in the hospital at about 2:30 p.m. Saturday.
The rebellion case against 49 persons in connection with the supposed coup plot last February was reduced last Monday to arguments over lack of photo-copying machines.
One has to give credit to state prosecutors Deana Perez and Geronimo Sy for trying to put order and sense in the preliminary investigation hearings. In the first place, the affidavit complaint signed by NBI deputy director Reynaldo O. Esmeralda and Jesus A, Verzosa of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group was neither here nor there.
One example was the stupid mistake in referring to Francisco “Dodong” Nemenzo, former president of the University of the Philippines as Prudencio Dodong Nemenzo.
Twice rebuffed by the Supreme Court in her bogus “People’s Intiative”, Arroyo has given the signal to violate again the Constitution: Constituent Assembly minus the…
(The author of this article, Regina Bengco, is Malaya’s Malacañang reporter. She is one of the 43 journalists sued by Mike Arroyo for libel.)
Forty-two of the 43 media persons sued for libel by First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo yesterday agreed to file a suit against Atty. Arroyo for abusing his powers to file libel cases and for violating the rights of journalists.
Lawyer Harry Roque, the group’s counsel, briefed some of the media persons on the case at the Malcolm Hall at the University of the Philippines campus in Diliman. He said the suit is “an unprecedented social experiment but a worthwhile endeavor.”