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It’s 9 vs 6: SC favors Neri’s plea vs ZTE probe

Published by Ellen on March 25, 2008

The true color of the Supreme Court now

by Evangeline de Vera

Voting 9-6, the Supreme Court yesterday ruled that acting Higher Education chair Romulo Neri correctly invoked executive privilege in refusing to answer three questions asked by the Senate in connection with its inquiry into the allegedly corrupt $329 million national broadband network project awarded to the China’s ZTE Corp.

The tribunal thus granted the petition of Neri that the Senate be stopped from compelling him to testify on what he said were confidential matters, saying doing so would be detrimental to the country’s diplomatic relations with China.

RP in last minute scramble to beat UN deadline

Published by Ellen on March 24, 2008

By VERA Files*

(Last of two parts)

A month before the May 13, 2009 deadline, the Philippine government intends to submit a claim before the United Nations over its extended continental shelf, which scientists and legal experts say include the resource-rich Kalayaan Island Group (KIG) and other disputed territories.

Bomba ang isyu ng rice shortage

Published by Ellen on March 24, 2008

Ang galing-galing talaga ni Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap. Bilib na bilib na ako sa kanya.

Noong isang linggo, ang solusyon niya sa peligro na magkaroon ng pagkukulang sa bigas ay ang pag-order sa mga fastfood na kalahating tasa na lang daw ang isilbing kanin.

Cory Aquino has colon cancer

Published by Ellen on March 24, 2008

From Inquirer online:

Former president Corazon Aquino is suffering from colon cancer and is in a hospital, her family said Monday.

Aquino’s daughter Kris, a people television host and actress, read a statement on television saying the cancer was discovered when the former president went to have a check up.

Arroyo neglect, government infighting jeopardize RP’s territorial claim

Published by Ellen on March 23, 2008

By VERA Files*

(First of two parts)

Neglect by President Arroyo and squabbles over turf and money have derailed government efforts to establish the country’s new archipelagic baseline, and may jeopardize the Philippines’ claim over resource-rich Spratlys that fall within its extended continental shelf.

Murder in the making

Published by Ellen on March 23, 2008

AFP Hermogenes Esperon has failed to break the spirit of the 28 officers he has charged with various offenses in connection with the military unrest in February 2006 following the leak of the “Hello Garci” tapes the illegitimacy of the Arroyo presidency.

Now, he is trying to kill them by depriving them of adequate air.

Dawn of Tuesday last week, Medal of valor awardee, Col. Ariel Querubin, complained of shortness of breath and chest pains. It was only after four hours, at about 7 a.m., that he was brought to the Camp Aguinaldo hospital, where the X-ray machine was out of order and no medicine available. Querubin had to send his security escort out to buy his medicine. He was later transferred to V. Luna Medical Hospital where he was confined at the Intensive care Unit. He will be brought to the Philippine Heart Center today for angioplasty.

Mensahe ng Easter

Published by Ellen on March 22, 2008

Ang Easter Sunday o Domingo ng Pagkabuhay ay mararating lamang kapag natapos na ang Biyernes Santo at Sabado de Gloria. ‘Yan ang magandang mensahe ng Easter Sunday: walang resurrection o pagkabuhay kung walang kamatayan.

Maganda itong mensahe ng Easter sa ating krisis pulitika sa bansa. Marami kasi ang nagtatanong kung bakit sa dami ng kasalanan ni Gloria Arroyo- pang-aagaw ng pwesto ng president noong 2001, pandaraya sa eleksyon noong 2004, garapalang pangungurakot hindi lamang siya pati na ang kanyang mga alagad, pambabastos ng Constitution, panunupil ng malayang pamamahayag at marami pa – nandiyan pa siya sa Malacañang samantalang karamihan sa mga Pilipino ay ayaw sa kanya.

The Bucket List

Published by Ellen on March 21, 2008

I just finished watching the movie, “The Bucket List” starring Jack Nicholson, Morgan Freeman, and Sean Hayes (of Will and Grace).

It’s about two terminally- ill men in their fifties who formed a friendship while stuck in a hospital room.

The Bucket List was started by Carter Chambers (Freeman), a car mechanic, which is actually a list of things you want to do before “you kick the bucket”.

Penitensya sa kakulangan ng bigas

Published by Ellen on March 19, 2008

Update: Sen. Mar Roxas tells GMA on rice issue: “Magpakatotoo ka.”

Ang galing nitong si Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap.

May napipintong pagkukulang sa bigas at ang kanyang solusyon ay magkaroon ng kalahati na order ng kanin sa mga fast food. Galing , no?

Nangangailangan ang Pilipinas ng 1.8 milyon na tonelada ng bigas at hirap na hirap makahanap ng mabilhan ang pamahalaang Arroyo. Nasa balita kahapon na nakabili na raw sila ng 335,000 na toneladang bigas galing sa Thailand, Vietnam at Pakistan. Kulang pa rin yun.

Which group do you belong?

Published by Ellen on March 18, 2008

Two weeks ago, I interviewed Jun Lozada at the La Salle Greenhills, his and his family’s home for over a month now since he survived the kidnap try by Gloria Arroyo’s minions at the airport.

I’m sharing with you excerpts of that interview. They make good reflections this Lenten season:

Q: You downplay people’s “hero worship” of you. Are you scared?

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