Archive for December, 2005

Pasko sa kasulukuyang krisis

Kadalasan sinasabi, Pasko naman, kalimutan na natin ang alitan, ang magaganda lang ang isipin natin. Kalimutan raw ang bangayan. Dapat raw magkasundo. Wala naman masama sa magkasundo. Ngunit magkasundo tayo saan? Magkasundo ba tayo sa pandaraya? Magkasundo pa tayo sa pagnanakaw? Magkasundo ba tayo sa pang-aapi ng ating kapwa para lamang maging masagana ang ating [...]

December 22, 2005   Posted in: Web Links  66 Comments

Update sa “Sinamantalang OFW”

(Dalawang tao ang nagpadala sa aking nitong sagot ng dalawang empleyado ng Philippine Consulate sa Al-Khobar sa memo sa kanila ni Ambassador Bahnarim Guinomla tungkol sa reklamo ng isang babaeng OFW na biktima raw ng rape. Sa aking artikulo noong Martes, hindi ko pinangalanan ang babae at ang akusado. May nag-post din nitong sulat sa [...]

December 21, 2005   Posted in: Web Links  377 Comments

Hubris

In a way, it’s good that the Gloria Arroyo- chosen Consultative Commission included a provision to scrap the 2007 election and extend to 2010 the term of office of elective officials, local and national. With this provision, they removed their masks and showed the people what they really are: Arroyo’s stooges. It was no surprise [...]

December 21, 2005   Posted in: Malaya  152 Comments

Sinamantalang OFW

Limang beses akong nakatanggap sa e-mail nitong sulat galing sa iba’t-ibang OFW. Nakasulat- kamay kaya kinailangan kong i-type. Seryoso itong kaso dahil, kung totoo, involved ang mga taong dapat ay tutulong at magtanggol ng ating mga kapwa Filipino. Hindi ko muna i-mention ang pangalan ng dalawang ina-akusang nag-abuso. Kinukuha ko pa ang kanilang paliwanag. Sulat [...]

December 20, 2005   Posted in: Web Links  341 Comments

Collective position paper on Transitory Provisions

(The following statement was issued by 22 members of the Consultative Commission who disagreed on the recommendation to scrap the 2007 elections and extend the term of elective officials to 2010. Almost all of the signatories were present during the presentation by Concom Chair Jose Abueva to Gloria Arroyo of their recommendations in Malacañang last [...]

December 19, 2005   Posted in: General  462 Comments

Abominable

Conceived in deceit, the Gloria Arroyo-appointed Consultative Commission produced a set of recommendations so abominable that the Filipino should move to discard not only the documents but also its authors. The rare politicians who have not lost their sense of decency have already issued statements condemning the recommendations submitted last Friday to Arroyo by the [...]

December 19, 2005   Posted in: Malaya  357 Comments

Dissenting Opinion

(Letter of the seven members of the Consultative Commission dissenting from the recommendations submitted by Concom Chair Jose Abueva to Gloria Arroyo) 13 December 2005 Her Excellency Gloria Macapagal Arroyo Malacañang Palace Manila Dear Madam President: We, the undersigned members of the Consultative Commission, wish to express our serious reservations about the adoption by the [...]

December 18, 2005   Posted in: General  443 Comments

Highlights of Consultative Commission’s recommendation

The following highlights of the proposed amendments by the Abueva-lead Consultative Commission was released by Concom last Friday.) COMMITTEE ON THE STRUCTURE OF THE REPUBLIC HIGHLIGHTS OF THE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO ARTICLE X (LOCAL GOVERNMENT) OF THE 1987 CONSTITUTION (Approved subject to style, by the Plenary on 13 December 2005) General provisions · The territorial [...]

December 18, 2005   Posted in: General  453 Comments

Garapal

Buong araw kahapon, naghahanap ako ng kumpletong kopya ng mga rekomendasyon ng Consultative Commission na binuo ni Gloria Arroyo para pag-aralan ang pagpalit ng Consitution. Noong Biyernes kasi, tuwang-tuwa na pineresenta ni Jose Abueva, chairman ng Concom, ang kanilang buong rekomendasyon. “Mission accomplished,”pagyayabang pa niya.

December 18, 2005   Posted in: Web Links  348 Comments

2nd statement of Capt. Nicanor Faeldon

The military is often painted as a bogeyman, and the prospects of a military takeover raised as a specter to frighten people into silence. Yet the past two successful revolutions in which the military participated show us that in both cases, the military only intervened, just enough to tip the scale of power. Then they [...]

December 17, 2005   Posted in: Military  91 Comments