November 2007 – Page 2 – ellen tordesillas

Lim calls for Arroyo’s removal

Published by Ellen on November 29, 2007

Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim read the following statement in a press conference he and Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV held at the Manila Peninsula Hotel:

Today, we address all decent Filipinos to announce that now is the time to end the sufferings and miseries inflicted upon us by the illegitimate Gloria Macapagal Arroyo government and start a new life, a new Philippines. The die is cast pursuant to our constitutional mandate as protector of the people and state.

And by these acts the officers and men of the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the Philippine National Police supported by the masses of our people and the various political forces give substance to the constitutional provisions which says the Philippines is a democratic and republican state.

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Trillanes, Lim walk out of court hearing

Published by Ellen on November 29, 2007

It was about 10:30 in the morning when the Makati regional trial court resumed hearing the charges against Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV and 30 other Magdalo officers for their role in the so-called “Oakwood Mutiny” on July 27, 2003.

Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim, chief of the First Scout Ranger Regiment, was on the witness stand. He had been summoned to testify on the “Oakwood Agreement” that was forged with the government.

Lim said under the agreement, only five leaders of the supposed mutiny would be charged and the rest would be admonished.

Marami pang Marilou Ranario

Published by Ellen on November 28, 2007

Sana mapanood ng aking mga kababayan doon sa Antique ang nangyari kay Marilou Ranario at hindi na sila makukumahog papuntahin ang mga anak nilang babae sa Middle East para pumasok na domestic helper.

Si Marilou ay 33-taong gulang Pinay na nakakulong sa Kuwait dahil sa pagpatay ng kanyang amo. Nagawa ni marilou ang krimen dahil siya ay minamaltrato, hindi binabayaran ng kanyang suweldo at gusto pang ibenta siya ibang lalaki.

Si Marilou ay titser na taga Surigao del Norte at may dalawang anak. Katulad ng marami sa ating mga kababayan, kahirapan ang tumulak sa kanya mamasukan sa Kuwai noong 2003.

Rise up and be counted!

Published by Ellen on November 28, 2007

On the eve of Brig. Gen. Danny Lim’s appearance at the Makati Regional Court hearing (Nov. 29, Thursday, 9 a.m.) on the so-called Oakwood mutiny in July 2003 by the Magdalo officers, two statements were posted at the Sundalo website.
One is this statement by “Para sa Bayan”:

We presently find in existence a dangerous concept where the armed forces now owe their primary allegiance and loyalty to those who temporarily exercise the authority of the executive branch of the government rather than to the country and the Constitution they have sworn to protect.

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Legends & Adventures

Published by Ellen on November 27, 2007

Carmen Guerrero Nakpil never disappoints.

The second volume of her memoirs “Legends & Adventures” (post-war, 1946-1983) is as absorbing and engaging as the first, “Myself, Elsewhere” set in pre-war Manila.

Narrating her life as a journalist, Mrs. Nakpil gives a glimpse of the good old days of Philippine journalism: “What I enjoyed about my newspaper job was being in the thick of things. I did not grasp, until I became a journalist how cloistered, how impossibly recondite, my incarceration in Ermita had been.

Musical events not to miss

Published by Ellen on November 26, 2007

The Great Performance Series sponsored by the Philippine American Life Insurance Company and Manila Pavilion Hotel will close with the Manila debut of world-acclaimed classical…

Mar vows to lead LP to victory

Published by Ellen on November 26, 2007

by Dennis Gadil

Sen. Manuel Roxas II yesterday took over the presidency of the Liberal Party with the promise of leading the once dominant party to victory in 2010.

Roxas was overwhelmingly elected to a three-year term by the LP executive council after an hour-long, closed-door session at the Club Filipino in San Juan.

He was given “blanket authority” to appoint the party’s officers and reorganize the party starting November 30.

Kailangan ang exorcist

Published by Ellen on November 26, 2007

May report and dalawang reporter ng Arab News na lumabas sa Malaya tungkol sa limang babaeng OFW na nasa shelter ng Philippine Consulate General sa Jeddah na sinasaniban daw ng demonyo. Nasaksihan ito ng dalawang reporter ng Arab News na sina Romy Tangbawan at Ronald Concha.

Ito ang report ni Tangbawan at Concha sa Malaya: “Five women, all runaways, were sporadically doing weird and scary things, such as crying or screaming in voices not theirs. One would plead for mercy, another would answer in a strange voice, and still another kept laughing like the crazy woman often portrayed in ghost movies.

“The apparently possessed women would start running helter-skelter and had to be restrained by welfare officers and other wards who were not affected.

Arraignment by batches

Published by Ellen on November 25, 2007

There are many things not right about the special general court-martial of Maj. Gen. Renato Miranda, Brig. Gen. Danny Lim and 26 other officers allegedly involved in the plan to withdraw support from Gloria Arroyo’s bogus presidency in February 2006.

But last Friday, there was a feeling among the accused, their lawyers and their relatives that there was something more sinister but they just couldn’t put their hands on it.

One, they didn’t get a notice for the Nov. 23 hearing except for five lawyers who had not been attending the hearings for various reasons, one of them distance. Not surprisingly none of those lawyers notified showed up.

Mar Roxas warming up to reconciliation with GMA for 2010?

Published by Ellen on November 24, 2007

Tomorrow, at the historic Club Filipino, Sen. Mar Roxas is expected to be elected president of the Liberal Party, taking over from former Senate President Franklin Drilon.

Roxas is being groomed as the Liberal party’s bet for 2010 in its bid to recapture Malacañang which they have failed to do in the post-Marcos era.

If there would be elections in 2010, we expect the following to run for president: Loren Legarda, Noli de Castro, Manny Villar, Ping Lacson, Mar Roxas, Dick Gordon.

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Month: November 2007