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Making sure we got the President correctly on internet libel

Published by Ellen on October 18, 2012

Aquino before FOCAP Oct 17, 2012 — Aquino with foreign correspondents

This is what President Aquino said at the forum of the Foreign Correspondents Association in the Philippines Wednesday on internet libel in the Cybercrime Law which he signed last Sept. 12:

Question: My question is in regards to Cybercrime Law. Just in regards to your mantra under your term to improve human rights in the Philippines. How does opening the past and allowing people to be jailed for posting defamatory comments online improve human rights situation in the Philippines?

Aquino: Well, can I just state for the record: as the Chief Executive of this land when the proposed measure was brought before me, I had basically two options. Under the Constitution, if I agree with the same I sign it into law. If I disagree with the same, I veto everything. I cannot… I only have a line veto on the budget measure. I don’t have a line veto on other measures.

PNoy, Padaca don’t get it

Published by Ellen on October 7, 2012

Padaca posts bail — Padaca, accompanied by Interior Secretary Mar Roxas, a Liberal Party stalwart, posts P70,000 bail given by President Aquino.

What is it in being in position of power that dulls the mind and blurs the comprehension of people we thought were sensible?

Former Isabela Governor and newly appointed commissioner of the Commission on Election posted the following reply to those who are criticizing her for accepting bail money from President Aquino. She cited this particular tweet: “ “Grace Padaca’s acceptance of bail money and refusing to subject herself to investigation speaks volumes of her character.”

Padaca’s reply:

“If i have done things the usual way, i would not have fought the dynasty in Isabela and win.

President Aquino accepts Puno’s resignation

Published by Ellen on September 11, 2012

From Official Gazette:

Puno at Senate hearing. Thanks to Yahoo for photo. — Thanks to Yahoo for photo.

Statement of Presidential Spokesperson Edwin Lacierda on the resignation of Undersecretary Rico E. Puno:

Last Friday, former DILG Undersecretary Rico E. Puno submitted his letter of resignation to the President, through Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr. The President has accepted Mr. Puno’s resignation effective immediately.

Statement of Undersecretary Puno on his resignation, September 11, 2012

As Undersecretary for Peace and Order in the DILG, I am entrusted with duties and responsibilities that involve strict confidence, security and protocol. Violating the confidential nature of my duties may expose people to danger or jeopardize critical operations. Hence, I am duty-bound to act with restraint and circumspection, even when subjected to personal attacks in the mass media. This is why I have opted not to react to the speculative accusations that have been hurled against me by some media organizations.

This is the chronology of events that transpired on August 18 and 19, 2012 as I followed the orders of the President:

PNoy’s buddies: ‘they are different from you and me’

Published by Ellen on September 9, 2012

Update: Puno resigns. http://www.interaksyon.com/article/42864/dilg-usec-puno-resigns

PNoy inducts Rico Puno — Pnoy inducts his shooting buddy.

After days of deafening silence on the issue of his favorite undersecretary,Rico Puno,in-charge of police matters at the Department of Interior and Local Government,attempting to get hold of the documents in the possession of the late Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo, President Aquino finally spoke and revealed that it was upon his orders that Puno did it.

Speaking to media on the sidelines of the summit of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation in Vladivostok, Russia, Aquino disclosed: “Sometime in the early evening (Aug. 18), tumawag sa atin si Secretary Leila de Lima at pinaalalang may mga confidential folders si Secretary Robredo that needed to be secured. I instructed him (Puno) to seal the office of Secretary Robredo to ensure that ‘yung all of these records will be left intact. And that is the extent of the instructions that I gave to him.”

Transcript of the Vladivostok press briefing:
http://www.gov.ph/2012/09/10/for-the-record-interview-with-president-aquino-on-usec-puno-in-vladivostok-russia-on-september-8-2012/

Wrong target of Aquino’s anger over GMA’s bail

Published by Ellen on July 26, 2012

Arroyo out on bail waving to supporters — Happy

President Aquino is justified in his anger over Arroyo being out on bail.

But his anger is directed to the wrong person.

A day after Arroyo was released from detention, Aquino spoke about his displeasure with Pasay City Regional trial Court Judge Jesus Mupas.

He said Mupas was asking the “impossible” for requiring a corroborative testimony to the testimony of the government star witness,former Maguindanao provincial administrator, Norie Unas.

The killing of Nixon Kua and Pnoy’s fantasy picture of the country’s peace and order situation

Published by Ellen on July 24, 2012

3rd Sona — Is he aware of peace and order situation outside Malacanang?

We mourn the passing of a colleague and friend, Nixon Kua, former head of the Philippine Tourism Authority, who passed away late Monday evening, two days after he was shot by what police said was a robbery incident in the posh Ayala Greenfields in Calamba, Laguna.

The incident happened in front of the house of his brother, Allyxon, who was also shot several times but survived.

Aside from his brother. Nixon was with his wife, Susan, and two children, Sue Anne and Daryl. Imagine how traumatic it must be for the wife and children.

Nixon’s wake is at Sanctorium on Araneta Avenue, Quezon City.

Nixon’s started his journalism career in the mid-80’s with Tempo, the tabloid sister publication of the Manila Bulletin. He was one of the pioneers of the Philippine Star after the 1986 People Power Revolution. He was assigned at the Presidential Commission and Good Government and that was where I first met him.

Crab talk

Published by Ellen on April 24, 2012

Aquino at PPI 2012 — Aquino whining about media. PPI chair Jake Macasaet and Press Secretary Heminio Coloma listen.

It was crab talk at the two-day 16th National Press Forum of the Philippine Press Institute at the Traders Hotel. President Aquino, who was the keynote speaker, was the one who started it when he began his talk with a childhood anecdote about Filipino crabs:

“Ayon po sa kuwento, narinig ko po sa aking ama, sa loob daw po ng isang bar, umiinom ang isang Amerikano. Pumasok ang isang mangingisdang Pilipino na may dalang timba na puno ng alimango. Ibinaba niya ito, at ang sabi po ng Amerikano: “Buddy, your crabs are about to escape.” Tiningnan lang po ng Pilipino. Ang sagot ng Pilipino, “Don’t bother and don’t fret; they’re Filipino crabs. Before they get out, they’ll be pulled back in.” Walang raw pong makakaangat, kasi lahat sila naghahatakan pababa.Habang pinipilit ng ilang kababayan nating makaahon, siya namang sipag ng ilan na hilain siyang pababa.”

Dip in Aquino’s satisfaction rating should do him good

Published by Ellen on April 8, 2012

working the crowd — Satisfying the crowd

President Aquino’s satisfaction rating may have dropped a little but by any standard it’s still high.

The Social Weather Station survey, conducted among 1,200 respondents nationwide on March 11- 13, 2012, saw the president’s satisfaction rating dip from nine points from plus 58 in Dec. 2011 which was “very good” to plus 49 which is still “good.”

His predecessor, Gloria Arroyo, never hit that high a satisfaction rating in her nine years of stolen presidency. The highest she got was plus 30 in March 2004, two months before the 2004 elections where she again robbed the people of their mandate.

VERA Files statement on Grace Lee

Published by Ellen on February 13, 2012

In a text message to Ellen Tordesillas, author of the report, Lee said, “The only points about your article I want to clarify is that I never uttered the words ‘altar’ or anything that might hint to desiring marriage.”

It was her co-anchor DJ Suzy, not Grace Lee, a Korean TV and radio personality President Benigno Aquino III is said to be dating, who said the relationship between the two was headed for the altar.

Lee made the clarification in reaction to a VERA Files story yesterday that said she saw herself tying the knot with the President.

Grace Lee sees herself marrying P-Noy

Published by Ellen on February 12, 2012

I did this story for VERA Files: The altar. That’s where Grace Lee says her relationship with President Benigno Aquino III is headed. In her…

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