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Mikey Arroyo finds Facebook posts ‘depressing”

Published by Ellen on September 30, 2009

In an article written by Gil Cabacungan, Inquirer reported that Pampanga Rep. Juan Miguel “Mikey Arroyo” yesterday pushed for tighter regulation of the Facebook, the world’s leading social networking site, after he claimed to be a victim of a “malicious attack” by one of its members.

“My picture was posted on Facebook with a caption saying I was shopping for wine at the height of “ondoy”. This is another malicious attack on my person. It is so depressing,” Arroyo wrote in an e-mail response to the Facebook post which has appeared in several blogs.

Arroyo claimed he was in Malacañang last Saturday and that it was difficult to cross Katipunan from the village where he lives because of the rising floods. “How could I be at Rustan’s on Katipunan Avenue at the height of Ondoy when Katipunan was impassable at that time? For the record I was in Malañang with my family trying to mobilize rescue and relief operations for people of Metro Manila and for my constituents in my district in Pampanga,” he said.

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Malacañang takes back Arroyo’s announcement of turning Palace into evacuation center

Published by Ellen on September 29, 2009

Update: Back to Malacañang as evacuation center.

Arroyo grandaughters Mikaela and Monique
Arroyo grandaughters Mikaela and Monique
Malacañang is taking back Gloria Arroyo’s announcement that the Place will be converted into a relief and evacuation center for victims of typhoon “Ondoy”.

Former AFP Chief Hermogenes Esperon, now chief of the Presidential Management Staff said there was an apparent miscommunication: Malacañang was not supposed to be an evacuation center as Arroyo herself announced Monday.

“This is a repacking center, meaning we will receive donations, repack them, then send them to evacuation centers where the flood victims are,” he told the Philippine Daily Inquirer. “If they want to receive relief goods, they should go to the evacuation centers.”

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House panel junks impeach rap vs Ombudsman

Published by Ellen on September 29, 2009

While everybody is busy coping with the damage wrought by typhoon “Ondoy”, congressmen saves Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez.

By Lira Dalangin-Fernandez
Inquirer.net

The House of Representatives’ committee on justice has junked the impeachment complaint against Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez.

Cheers erupted from employees and officers of the Office of the Ombudsman who attended the proceedings as the chairman of the panel, Quezon City Representative Matias Defensor, announced that an “absolute majority” had found the complaint insufficient in substance.

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Arroyo’s latest gimmick: packs her bags, turns Malacañang into refugee and relief center

Published by Ellen on September 28, 2009

Gloria Arroyo’s statement:

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The recent calamity brought about by typhoon Ondoy was an extreme event not likely to happen again in our lifetimes. This of course is of little comfort to our countrymen who were ravaged by the storm, and who now need more than ever our time, our compassion, and our time, our compassion, and our material support as they try to rebuild their lives.

As my own small contribution to the common effort, I have ordered Malacanang Palace to be opened to the general public, effective immediately, as a center for relief and rescue operations, the receipt and distribution of charitable donations and the temporary relocation of families who were displaced or made homeless by the storm.

Relocated families will be sheltered in all available premises within the Palace grounds. Government employees will be asked to make room for our guests, and I myself will move across the river to temporary quarters at bahay pangarap in the PSG compound.

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Ilang rubber boats ang $35,000 na ginastos sa hapunan ni Arroyo sa New York?

Published by Ellen on September 28, 2009

Habang pinapakinggan ko ang sinasabi ng mga rescuers na gustuhin man nilang tulungan ang lahat na humihingi ng tulong noong kasagsagan ng bagyong Ondoy, hindi nila kaya dahil limitado ang kanilang mga gamit, naala-ala ko ang $35,000 na .dalawang hapunan ni Gloria Arroyo at ng kanyang mga alipores sa New York noong isang buwan.

Sinabi ni Lt. Col. Edgard Arevalo, spokesman ng Philippine Navy, na iilan lang ang kanilang rescue team, rubber boats at trucks. Sinabi sa TV hindi yata umaabot 20 ang rubber boats ng Navy.
Sinabi rin ni Marikina Mayor Marites Fernando na 13 lang ang rubber boats ng Marikina.

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Waterworld

Published by Ellen on September 27, 2009

Posted by Mimi de Jesus on You Tube.

This is what Gloria Arroyo said in her State of the Nation Address last July:

As a country in the path of typhoons and in the Pacific Rim of Fire, we must be prepared as the latest technology permits to anticipate natural calamities when that is possible; to extend immediate and effective relief when it is not; the mapping of flood-and-landslide-prone areas is almost complete. Early warning, forecasting and monitoring systems have been improved, with weather-tracking facilities in Subic, Tagaytay, Mactan, Mindanao, Pampanga.

We have worked on flood control infrastructure like those for Pinatubo, Agno, Laoag, and Abucay, which will pump the run off waters from Quezon City and Tondo flooding Sampaloc. This will help relieve hundreds of hectares in this old city of its age-old woe.

Patuloy naman yung sa CAMANAVA, dagdag sa Pinatubo, Iloilo, Pasig- Marikina, Bicol River Basin, at saka river basin ng Mindanao.

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Seeing many areas in Metro Manila turned into an ocean, I remember the 1995 futuristic movie “Waterworld”.

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Nauubusan na ng gimik

Published by Ellen on September 26, 2009
Officials with Arroyo include Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita (to Arroyo's right),Labor Secretary Marianito Roque behind Ermita), Foreign Undersecretaty Esteban Conejos (in barong,third guy first row)
Officials with Arroyo include Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita (to Arroyo's right),Labor Secretary Marianito Roque behind Ermita), Foreign Undersecretaty Esteban Conejos (in barong . first row)

Nakita nyo ba ang litrato ni Gloria Arroyo kasama ang mga Overseas Filipino Workers na nag-eskapo sa kanilang mga malulupit na among Arabo nang siya ay dumating mula Saudi Arabia noong Huwebes?

Hindi ko alam kung ako ay maawa o maiinis.

Binigyan, siguro ng mga Labor officials, ang mga OFW ng miniature flag at kanila yun winawagayway na para bang Olympic team na na nanalo sa kompetisyun sa ibang bansa. Ano namang medalya ang kanilang dala? Luha sa kanilang malupit na karanasan?

Hilaw ang tawa ni Arroyo. Paano nang ininterbyu ng mga reporter ang mga OFW, panay pasakit ang kuwento.

Gusto ng Malacañang na palakpakan si Arroyo sa pagsagip ng mga kawawang OFW sa trahedya na kanilang napasukan.

Pwede ba, naibenta na ang ganyang gimik. Ginawa na yan ni Sen. Manny Villar at dating Pangulong Estrada.

Hindi pwedeng uubra kay Arroyo ang ganyang gimik dahil siya ang naka-upong pangulo (kahit ninakaw lang niya ang pwestong yun). Di ba programa niya ang magpadala ng mga Pilipino na sa ibang bansa bilang katulong? Mismo ang pamahalaan, ang TESDA, ang nagbibigay ng training para magiging supermaids. Kaya, ayan ang inabot ng marami nating kababaihan na OFW.

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Metro Manila flooded

Published by Ellen on September 26, 2009

Breaking news: Supreme Court has cancelled the bar exams scheduled tomorrow.

Many areas in Metro Manila are flooded.

For people who need assistance: National Disaster Coordinating Council (NDCC) Emergency Numbers: 912-5668, 911-1406, 912-2665, 911-5061. Help hotlines: 734-2118, 734-2120.42 .

If you are home safe, pray for those who are stranded.

We experienced brownout earlier this afternoon. I’m glad that electricity is back.

If you have electricity, charge your cellphones and laptops. Store water from the rain.

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