Last Friday, at the forum organized by the Concerned Citizens Group at the Manila Polo Club last Friday, UP students who are active in the…
Making life worth living.
Month: May 2008
We see that the International Monetary Fund is standing four-square behind the government’s refusal to scrap the value added tax on oil and, by extension, on power rates, and sticking to providing direct support to the poor in this time of surging prices.
Government’s refusal to scrap the VAT on oil is based on the simple fact that revenues continue to lag behind spending. It needs the money and it is loathe to lose any source of revenues. We have this suspicion the purported direct transfers to help the poor cope with rising prices of food and other necessities are but an after-the-fact rationalization.
By Joel Guinto
Inquirer
Court martial proceedings for the 28 officers accused of an alleged February 2006 coup plot on Friday were deadlocked on whether or not the lesser charges against the group have prescribed and should be dropped.
I was reading an analysis “The Philippines:Counter-insurgency vs Counter-terrorism in Mindanao” when news of an explosion in Zamboanga City came in.
Two persons were confirmed dead while 23 others were injured. Investigators were looking at the possibility that Al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf militants were involved in the attack.
The analysis I’m reading was precisely warning about this situation. It said that the Philippines is mixing up counter-insurgency with counter-terrorism “with dangerous implications for conflict in the region”.
Mukhang maayos itong si Leila de Lima, ang bagong chair ng Commission on Human Rights. Sana mabigyan ng katapat na aksyon ang kanyang mga sinasabi.
by Ashzel Hachero
Malaya
Reporter Alvin Elchico of ABS-CBN and a close friend and townmate of one of the Magdalo leaders, former Army Capt. Milo Maestrecampo, took the witness stand for the defense Tuesday and said he never heard the soldiers holed up at Oakwood hotel talk of any plan to take over the government or attack their fellow soldiers who had been ranged against them.
The soldiers led by detained senator Antonio Trillanes are being tried for coup d’etat at the Makati regional trial court.
He would have wanted to hold her hand “for moral support” as she was being wheeled to the operating room.
Another case of “give- and- take” policy of this illegitimate administration.
Just now, I was told that Gen. Miranda was ordered back to ISAFP detention quarters by Gen. Espino, the camp commander after just a few hours with his wife in the hospital. Heartless. What are they afraid of?
Will give update on this tomorrow.
Also for tomorow’s hearing of the human rights committee at the House of Representatives, the detained officers were not allowed to attend.
Ex-Marines chief allowed out of jail to visit ailing wife
By Joel Guinto
Inquirer.net
Former Ex-Marines chief Major General Renato Miranda, who is facing court martial for an alleged coup plot in February 2006, was allowed to leave detention Monday to visit his wife, who is stricken with breast cancer, a spokesman for the Philippine Navy said.
Ano ba naman itong si JDV? Naghihintay raw siya ng tamang panahon para sabihin ang alam niya tungkol sa NBN-ZTE scandal kasi kapag kinuwento raw niya ang alam niya baka raw matumba si Gloria Arroyo.
O ano ngayon kung matumba si Arroyo? Yun ang pinakamagandang mangyari sa Pilipinas.
Sinabi ng Inquirer kahapon na tinawagan raw nila si House Speaker Jose de Venecia na nasa Russia tungkol sa plano ng Senate Blue Ribbon committee na tatawagin siya bilang resource person sa imbestigasyon ng maeskandalo na $329 million (dolyar yan, ha) na kontrata sa ZTE Corporation ng China para magpatayo ng national broadband dito sa Pilipinas.
By Joel Guinto
Inquirer.net
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdVZ2dJcl2k&feature=related
or here:
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=yuka2888
Fugitive Marine Captain Nicanor Faeldon said he was prepared to die in the pursuit of his “vision” to arouse “national consciousness.”
Faeldon surfaced on the popular video sharing website YouTube almost six months after he eluded arrest during a failed uprising by rebel soldiers on November 29 last year.