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Kitakits sa Luneta

Published by Ellen on August 25, 2013

Aug 26 Million People MarchSee you all at Luneta tomorrow.

Wear comfortable shoes and clothes. Some are enjoining everybody to wear white to symbolize cleansing of the corrupt system. But actually any color will do.

Bring umbrella just in case it rains. It is a long struggle to assert our right to good governance and we need to be fit and healthy. We can’t afford to get sick.

Bring water. It’s important to hydrate yourself when you are out there in the sun.

Bring something to sit on on the ground like newspaper or cloth.

Understand the issues you are fighting for, why you are there.

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Hold your applause

Published by Ellen on August 22, 2013

PNoy: all pork barrel misuse is during past administration.
PNoy: all pork barrel misuse was during past administration.
I will hold my applause until I see the results of the Aquino administration’s efforts to investigate the pork barrel scam which was triggered by the discovery of a Janet Napoles operations involving initially five opposition senators and has now spilled into the current administration’s territory.

President Aquino and the Senate leadership have shown that they are listening to passions online and on the ground by accommodating the call for a probe into the misuse of the multi-billion Priority Development Assistance Fund, commonly referred to as pork barrel.

After dismissing the Napoles-triggered pork barrel expose estimated to reach as high as P10 billion as not as massive as the P728 million fertilizer scam during the time of Gloria Arroyo, Aquino yesterday said he is open to the suggestion of Senate Majority Leader Alan Peter Cayetano to tap former Sen. Panfilo Lacson as special independent investigator who will look into the alleged irregularities in the use of pork barrel funds by some senators.

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