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Month: November 2006

More Filipinos are hungry

Published by Ellen on November 2, 2006

The latest survey of Social Weather Station on hunger in the Philippines underscores the irreconcileable gap between Gloria Arroyo’s claims of economic success and reality on the ground.

While Arroyo was in China waxing ecstatic over strong peso against the dollar (“The highest ever!”, Malacañang exults) and projected economic growth of 5.5 and 6.5 percent in 2007, SWS released its latest survey that more and more Filipinos are experiencing hunger. Nothing to eat!

SWS said a record high of 16.9% of families experienced hunger at least once in the past three months was reached again in September 2006.

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Kailangan magtatago sa dilim

Published by Ellen on November 1, 2006

Naintindihan ko na ang pagka-sekreto ay mahalaga sa military. Ngunit alam ko rin na bawal sa military ang paglabag ng karapatang pantao. Kahit pa sa mga nakakulong.

Ano kaya ang kinatatakutan ni AFP Chief of Staff Hermogenes Esperon na sinigurado niyang walang media na makakita ng paglipat ng anim na Marine colonels, kasama si Col. Ariel Querubin, sa Cavite noong Lunes.

Ang lima pang opisyal ay sina Col. Orlando de Leon, Lt. Col. Armando Bañez (birthday niya noong Martes), Lt. Col. Custodio Parcon,Lt. Col. Achilles Segumalian, at Col. Januario Caringal.

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Plot against Querubin?

Published by Ellen on October 31, 2006

Is AFP Chief of Staff Hermogenes Esperon laying the ground for a more vicious and sinister plot against the six Marine officers transferred to Cavite in the darkness of the night first hour of Monday?

Navy Spokesman Giovanni Carlo Bacordo had said that intelligence reports uncovered a plot to spring them out. He specifically mentioned the bemedalled Col. Ariel Querubin.

But there are also talks that Esperon is merely laying the ground for the elimination of Querubin.
“They’ll make it appear that he was shot while escaping. The over-used script, you know,” a source said.

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