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Month: February 2010

Laking tuwa ng Malacañang

Published by Ellen on February 6, 2010

Walang mapagsidlan ang Malacañang ng kanilang tuwa sa tagumpay ng operasyon nila laban kay Sen. Panfilo Lacson ng ililabas ng judge kapahon ang warrant of arrest para sa pinakamasugid na kritiko ng pamahalaan.

Nakita nyo ba ang mukha ni Gary Olivar, deputy presidential spokesman ng nagbigay ng reaksyun sa warrant of arrest ni Lacson? Hindi maitago ang tuwa. Kunwari pang hands off. Alam naman natin kung paano pinaandar ang makinarya ng pamahalaan para lamang madiin si Lacson sa pagkamatay ni Bubby Dacer at ng kanyang driver na si Emmanuel Corbito.
Narinig ko sa radio si Ric Diaz, hepe ng National Bureau of Investigation counterterrorism unit, at siya ang namumuno sa team na maghahanap ngayon kay Lacson. Tumatawa siya sa radyo na parang nanunuya.

Sige tumawa ka. Bilog ang mundo. Kapag oras na ang amo mong utak ng maraming krimen sa mamamayang Pilipino ang hahabulin ng batas, ang taumbayan ang magkaroon ng selebrasyon.

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Revilla and Jinggoy take the lead in latest Pulse Asia survey

Published by Ellen on February 6, 2010

Pulse Asia’s score card based ontheir Jan 22 – 26 nationawide survey among 1,800 respondents with a +/-2 margin.
The top 12:
1. Bong Revilla
2. Jinggoy Estrada
3. Pia Cayetano
4. Frank Drilon
5. Miriam Santiago
6. Juan Ponce Enrile
7. Ralph Recto
8. Serge Osmeña
9. Tito Sotto
10. Lito Lapid
11. Bongbong Marcos
12. Joey de Venecia

Currently leading the senatorial race is Senator Revilla whose overall voter preference of 51.9% translates to a statistical ranking of 1st to 2nd places, putting him in a virtual tie with Senator Estrada (50.4%), who is ranked 1st to 3rd. Meanwhile, Senator Pilar Juliana S. Cayetano (46.8%) is ranked 2nd to 4th, slightly ahead of former Senate President Franklin M. Drilon (43.2%) who ranks 3rd to 6th. Tied from 4th to 6th places are Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago (41.2%) and incumbent Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile (39.7%).

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Media covenant for elections

Published by Ellen on February 4, 2010
Ready for 2010 elections
Ready for 2010 elections

Media remains the main battleground for the hearts and minds of voters.

As we approach the start of the official campaign period (Feb.9), members the Philippine Press Institute came up with a media covenant for elections.

The covenant was drafted when PPI, with the support of The Coca Cola Export Corporation, conducted a seminar-workshop on preparing journalists for the 2010 election in Cagayan de Oro in October 2009. This week, in Cebu, the covenant was approved by 31 journalists who represented PPI newspaper members.

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Mahigpit na ang laban

Published by Ellen on February 4, 2010

Dapat pasiglahin na ni Noynoy Aquino ang kanyang kampanya.

Kahapon lumabas ang pinakabagong survey ng Pulse Asia kung saan halos pantay na si Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III at Sen. Manuel Villar, Jr. sa mga nangunguna sa presidential race.

Sa survey na ginawa ng Pulse Asia noong Enero 22 hanggang 26 sa 1,800 sa buong bansa, 37% ang nakuha ni Noynoy at 35% ang kay Villar.

Dahil plus at minus two percent ang survey, sabi ng Pulse Asia halos tie na yan sila.

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Aquino, Villar statistically tied in latest Pulse Asia survey

Published by Ellen on February 3, 2010

Statement of Sen. Benigno Aquino III on the Pulse Asia survey results in the comments section.

With about four months to go before the May 10, 2010 elections, presidential candidates Senator Benigno “Noynoy” C. Aquino (Liberal Party) and Senator Manuel “Manny” B. Villar (Nacionalista Party) are tied for the presidency, with Senator Aquino registering 37% of voter preferences and Senator Villar 35%, the latest Pulse Asia survey showed.

The nationwide survey conducted Jan. 22 to 26, among 1,800 respondents has a margin of error of +/-2%.

The only other presidential candidate with a double-digit preference is former President Joseph Estrada (Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino) at 12%.

The other candidates register voter preferences of at most 5%. Less than one in ten Filipinos (6%) does not have a preferred presidential candidate at this time.

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Following the leader

Published by Ellen on February 2, 2010

Update: Martir,Preztosa and Paez were all confirmed.

Gloria Arroyo’s penchant for midnight deals seems to have rubbed on with some members of the bureaucracy.

Victoria Bataclan, president of the Union of Foreign Service Officers wrote to Senate President Juan Ponce-Enrile in his capacity as chair of the Commission on Appointments to convey the grievance of the members of foreign service corps, this time not about another political appointee in violation of foreign service law but about another career foreign service officer, Patricia Ann Paez.

The CA is scheduled to meet today.

Brig. Gen. Jonathan Martir and Brig. Gen. Romeo Prestoza are also among those whose promotion to Major General are for confirmation today.

Martir’s name was included at the last minute. There is something wrong here because Martir is due to retire March 5. There’s a rule in the military that one cannot be promoted within one year to retirement.

We are told that a very influential member of the CA is pushing for Martir’s confirmation even if it’s in against the law because a security agency identified iwht the general supplies the guards for his son’s business. Talk of ethics!

Prestoza is lucky because Sen. Panfilo Lacson won’t be here to block his promotion. Prestoza, it will be recalled, was the one who enticed Mancao to implicate Lacson in the Dacer-Corbito double murder case. Success!

Paez, who holds the rank of career minister and is currently detailed in Malacañang as special assistant, is being promoted to Chief of Mission I. If promoted she would qualify for an ambassadorial assignment.

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I left to evade conspiracy: Ping

Published by Ellen on February 2, 2010

Question: Why is former President Joseph Estrada not being charged when he was also named in the case?

by JP Lopez
Malaya

Sen. Panfilo Lacson yesterday admitted that he left the country early last month to evade what he called an “evil conspiracy” against him.

“As I had correctly suspected, the harassment by the DOJ upon the order of Malacañang will never stop. I am a victim of a conspiracy of whispers between Mrs. (Gloria) Arroyo and her stooge in the Department of Justice,” Lacson said in a statement.

Lacson said the Arroyo administration has employed “even the most tenuous of evidence to justify their own interpretation of probable cause to satisfy their political vendetta against my person.”

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Army officer in court martial for molesting ‘mistah’s’ wife

Published by Ellen on February 1, 2010

by Victor Reyes
Malaya

An Army lieutenant colonel is being tried by a court martial for the alleged sexual molestation of the wife of his classmate at the Philippine Military Academy.

A copy of the charge sheet against Lt. Col. Marlo Guloy showed the incident happened about two years ago in Zamboanga City.

Guloy, of PMA Class `90, is facing violation of Article of War 66 or conduct unbecoming of an officer and a gentleman and violation of AW 97 or conduct prejudicial to good order and military discipline. The violations carry the penalty of imprisonment and dishonorable discharge.

Guloy was last assigned with the Army’s Intelligence Security Group based in Fort Bonifacio.

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