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Watch Aquino deliver his first SONA in video

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July 26, 2010  Tags: SONA 2010  Posted in: Benigno Aquino III  14 Comments

Aquino’s state- of- the-nation address (with English translation)

By His Excellency Benigno S. Aquino III President of the Philippines to the Congress of the Philippines Session Hall of the House of Representatives Speaker Feliciano Belmonte; Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile; Vice President Jejomar Binay; Chief Justice Renato Corona; Former Presidents Fidel Valdez Ramos and Joseph Ejercito Estrada; members of the House of Representatives [...]

July 26, 2010  Tags: SONA 2010  Posted in: Benigno Aquino III  63 Comments

Enrile is Senate President; Belmonte, House Speaker in 15th Congress

The 15th Congress opened today electing Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile of the Partido ng Masang Pilipino as senate president and Quezon City (4th district) Rep. Feliciano Belmonte, Jr. of the Liberal Party as speaker of the House of Representatives. Enrile, dubbed as “unity” senate president, obtained 17 out of 20 votes of senators belonging to [...]

July 26, 2010  Tags: juan ponce enrile, Sonny Belmonte  Posted in: 15th Congress  3 Comments

Primed for shocker SONA

President Aquino promises a shocker in his first state of the nation address tomorrow. Two of my Facebook friends can’t wait for it. Reyna Elena said, ” I will watch, I will listen and will prepare to be shocked. This could be the day that he will reveal the real story behind the Kris Aquino [...]

July 25, 2010  Tags: SONA 2010  Posted in: Benigno Aquino III, Governance  28 Comments

Ang anak ni Chavit

Tinanong si Chavit Singson, gubernador ng Ilocos Sur, kung dadalawin ni Gloria Arroyo ang kanyang anak na si Rep. Ronald Singson sa kulungan sa Hongkong at mariing niyang itinanggi. At bakit hindi? Di ba magkakaibigan silang matalik? Di ba dapat ang magkakabibigan nagdadamayan? Lalo na kailangan ni Arroyo ang kakampi sa Kongreso. Kahit durugista ang [...]

July 25, 2010  Tags: Illegal Drugs  Posted in: Illegal Drugs  34 Comments

Sino ang bobo, si Ferrer o tricycle driver?

Credit where credit is due: The photo came from the website “ispoops” (http://www.ispoops.com/photoblog/Mikey_the_Strict_Sekyu_2000/#2000) by Carlo Barrameda. Hindi lang makitid ang utak nitong si Commissioner Nicodemus Ferrer. Matapobre pa. Sa daming batikos na ipinupukol sa kanila ukol sa kanilang pag-aprub kay dating Pampanga congressman Mikey Arroyo, anak ni Gloria Arroyo, na kinatawan ng mga tricycle driver [...]

July 24, 2010  Tags: Mikey Arroyo  Posted in: Abante, Gloria Arroyo and family, partylist  39 Comments

New Special Forces chief mentioned in “Hello Garci”

The latest reshuffle in the military has Major General Arturo Ortiz taking over as commander of the Philippine Army. Ortiz is an awardee of the Medal of Valor, the highest military award. (Two medal of valor awardees- Marine Col. Ariel Querubin and Marine Lt. Vol. Custodio Parcon are among those facing charges of mutiny for [...]

July 22, 2010  Tags: Hello Garci  Posted in: 2004 elections, Military, Mindanao  45 Comments

Breaking news: Trillanes cannot attend opening of Senate on Monday- Makati RTC

by Ashzel Hachero Malaya A Makati court hearing the coup d’etat case of the Magdalo soldiers on Thursdya junked the bid of the group’s leader, detained Senator Antonio Trillanes IV to attend the opening session of the 15th Congress on Monday, July 26. Update: Detained Senator Antonio Trillanes IV asked Judge Oscar Pimentel of the [...]

July 22, 2010  Tags: Antonio Trillanes IV  Posted in: Benigno Aquino III, Magdalo, Military  48 Comments

Dirty politics behind Yusoph kidnapping

Update: Commission on Elections (Comelec) commissioner Elias Yusoph has denied that he received money from local candidates in Lanao del Sur province before the May 10 elections as accused by a military official. He also chided Brig. Gen. Ray Ardo, chief of the Army’s 103rd Infantry Brigade, for coming up with an accusation based on [...]

July 22, 2010  Tags: Nuraldin Yusoph  Posted in: 2010 elections  21 Comments

Plagiarized statements to support an unjust decision

It was a heart-rending scene. Seventeen grandmothers, in the sunset of their lives, staged a rally Monday before the Supreme Court protesting the plagiarism in the decision that denied them remedy for the wartime savagery they suffered. Their counsel, CenterLaw’s Harry Roque, call the April 28, 2010 decision, the ”third siege of Mapanique” The first [...]

July 21, 2010  Tags: Comfort women  Posted in: Human Rights, Malaya  66 Comments

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