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In the wee hours of July 27, 2003, some 300 soldiers, led by some 70 young officers, wearing red armbands with the Katipunan’s rising sun symbol, commandeered the Oakwood premier hotel at the Makati Commercial Center, wired the surrounding areas and declared withdrawal of support from Gloria Arroyo’s unelected presidency.
This is interesting.
By David Willey
BBC News, Rome
A fresco painting by a Renaissance master which once decorated the bedroom of Pope Alexander VI in the Vatican has gone on show in Rome.
A leading Italian art historian and curator says he has documentary proof that it was once part of a much larger painting depicting the aged Pope kneeling in front of his youthful mistress, Giulia Farnese.
Noong isang araw, nagmiting ang mga administrasyon na senador sa isang restaurant. Dumating si Gloria Arroyo at pinag-usapan nilang tungkol sa Blue Ribbon committee na napabalita na noon na mapunta kay Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano.
Siyam ang kaalyado ni Arroyo sa Senado. Sina Edgardo Angara, Joker Arroyo, Juan Ponce-Enrile, Gregorio Honasan Lito Lapid, Richard Gordon, Bong Revilla, at Miriam Santiago. Walo lang talaga kasi ang pangsiyam, si Juan Miguel Zubiri, ay pekeng senador. Hindi siya binoto ng taumbayan. Nandiyan siya sa senado dahil sa mga pekeng boto na mina-manufacture ni Lintang Bedol sa Maguindanao.
Dayana Zubiri really takes after his patron and patronness Gloria and Mike Arroyo. Forgive Sen. Trillanes? The fake senator is having delusions.
Voting 17 to 4 on Resolution 22 Wednesday, the Senate officially asked the court to allow detained Senator Antonio Trillanes IV to perform his duties as senator.
Only Senators Joker Arroyo, Juan Ponce-Enrile, Richard Gordon, and Miriam Defensor-Santiago voted against the resolution.
Who will chair the Blue Ribbon committee will be a test of Senate President Manuel Villar’s so called “independence.”
It will also show us if the assertion of the three opposition senators – Jinggoy Estrada, Chiz Escudero, and Alan Peter Cayetano – that the opposition will still set the agenda in the Senate despite their collaboration with Malacañang allies holds.
Last week, Villar agreed that Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano would chair the powerful Blue Ribbon Committee. It will be recalled that the opposition had expressed their disappointment over the way Sen. Joker Arroyo, chair of the Blue Ribbon in the 13th Congress, used his position to protect Mike Arroyo from the intense scrutiny of other senators who had information of his questionable deals.
By Veronica Uy
INQUIRER.net
Senators on Tuesday deferred voting on a resolution expressing the sense of the Senate to allow jailed Senator Antonio Trillanes IV to attend sessions.
“We will take up as the first order of business tomorrow,” said Senate Majority Floor Leader Francis Pangilinan of the issue that took up most of the second day of the chamber’s regular session.
Pangilinan and Senator Edgardo Angara also signed the resolution Tuesday.
Who was Gloria Arroyo addressing when she said in her State of the Nation Address, “From where I sit, I can tell you, a President is always as strong as she wants to be.”
Surely not the political opposition and civil society who were never impressed with her stolen power.
Was she directing it to the so called “hardliners” in the cabinet like national security adviser Norberto Gonzales and Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez who just do what they want to do and say what they want to say and all that she can say is “Amen”?
Update from Inquirer:Trillanes to file petition anew to post bail
From the Tribune:
Eighteen senators, majority of them are from the ranks of the administration bloc, have joined the opposition in expressing their sentiment toward the current dilemma of detained Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV whom they feel should be allowed to participate in sessions and other Senate functions.
Senate Resolution 22 effectively expressed the law-makers’ position that the chamber can take into its custody Trillanes in order for him to attend and perform his duty as a duly-elected senator of the Republic.
They said this is also to show their support to the petition for bail of Trillanes currently pending before the Makati City Regional Trial Court hearing the Oakwood mutiny case that the Magdalo leader is currently facing.
May kasabihan tayo na ang isda ay nahuhuli sa sariling bibig. Ganoon nga ang nangyari kay Army Chief Romeo Tolentino.
Pagkatapos ng pasikot-sikot na denial na wala raw kinalaman ang military sa pagkawala ni Jonas Burgos, anak ng press freedom fighter na si Joe Burgos, Jr., sinabi niya noong isang linggo na ayon sa kanilang record, miyembro raw ng New People’s Army si Jonas.
O ano ngayon kung NPA si Jonas? . Yun ba rason para kidnapin at patayin?
The most applauded in Gloria Arroyo’s hohum State-of-the Nation Address was the part when she said, “From where I sit, I can tell you, a…