I got this message from an officer who was flabbergasted seeing AFP Chief of Staff Hermogenes Esperon in a suit during the thanksgiving dinner in…
Making life worth living.
I got this message from an officer who was flabbergasted seeing AFP Chief of Staff Hermogenes Esperon in a suit during the thanksgiving dinner in…
Honasan, Trillanes allowed to personally file candidacy by Ashzel Hachero in Malaya:
THE Makati regional trial court yesterday granted the separate requests of former senator Gregorio Honasan and Magdalo leader Navy Lt. (s.g.) Antonio Trillanes IV that they be allowed to leave their detention cells to personally file their certificates of candidacy for senator at the Commission on Election main office in Intramuros.
In a one-page order, Makati RTC Branch 148 Judge Oscar Pimentel allowed Honasan to leave Fort Sto. Domingo in Sta. Rosa, Laguna from 8:30 in the morning till noon of Feb. 7 under police escorts.
Pimentel gave Trillanes, who is detained at the Marines headquarters in Fort Bonifacio, between 8:30 a.m. until noon on February 6 to file his candidacy. He will be escorted by Marine custodians.
This is what you call adding insult to injury.
By Veronica Uy in Inquirer.net
The police director for Western Visayas has recommended awards for the policemen who stormed the Iloilo provincial capitol last week in an attempt to physically evict Governor Niel Tupas Sr.
Chief Superintendent Wilfredo Dulay admitted this before the Senate hearing on the capitol assault, which many quarters have dubbed an “overkill” based on television footage of the incident which showed heavily armed Regional Mobile Group personnel training their weapons on unarmed civilians, among them Tupas’ son and namesake, who is also a member of the Provincial Board.
In his letter to the Philippine National Police (PNP) Director General Oscar Calderon dated January 21, Dulay “recommended appropriate awards for all tasked personnel for carrying out successfully the lawful order of higher PNP authority.”
It was admirable of James Jimenez, director for public information of the Commission on Election, to admit on TV a gross mistake by the Commission in its Resolution 7767 implementing the Fair Election Act (RA 9006) in relation to the May 14, 2007 synchronized national and local elections.
There’s a provision in Comelec Resolution 7767, promulgated Nov. 30, 2006, that says, “Surveys affecting national candidates shall not be published fifteen (15) days before an election and surveys affecting local candidates shall not be published seven (7) days before an election.”
Pia Hontiveros, host of ANC’s “Strictly Politics”, said they discovered the disturbing provision during a seminar conducted by ABS-CBN on election laws, rules and regulations last Saturday in preparation for the May election. She then decided that it would be the topic of “Strictly Politics” last Tuesday. (I’m editorial consultant of that show.)
Last January 19, some 134 concerned citizens gathered at the Asian Social Institute in Malate, Manila for a whole day of “discernment for the common good”.
They came out with a call to the Catholic Bishops of the Philippines titled “A Cry for Shepherds”
I.The Signs of the Times
Hindi ako magugulat kung sa kahuli-hulihan, si Ralph Recto ay sasama sa administration tiket.
Di ba sabi niya “neutral” siya? Kaya ang pag-usapan lang ay kung ano ang magandanag package para sa kanya. Nayari na nila si Armand Sanchez, ang gubernador na kanila rin. Ang balita ay inaayos rin ang kanyang kapatid na si Ricky para congressman.
Wala namang naniniwala na kaya tinanggal si Sanchez ay dahil sa bali-balitang jueteng lord. Alam naman nila ang kanyang balita kay Sanchez bago nila ginawang kandidato noong 2004 na eleksyon.
Last Tuesday, Mandirigma/Fearless Warrior posted the information that former Senators Tito Sotto and Tessie Oreta have left LDP President Edgardo Angara and have joined Eduardo “Danding” Cojuangco’s Nationalist People’s Coalition.
Monday night I was talking with Oreta and she was telling me her disappointment about being left out in the list of of possible senatorial candidates of the opposition in favor of her nephew, Noynoy Aquino. She was critical of the selection process of UNO.
She and Sotto had long severed political ties with Angara. She had always been loyal to Estrada. There was never any mention of her talks with Danding Cojuangco.
Tomorrow, Gloria Arroyo leaves for Davos, Switzerland to attend the World Economic Forum.
She had done the preliminary work of impressing the Swiss government by having the Ombudsman file a case of bribery and graft against her favorite former justice secretary, Hernando Perez.
We are not sure if the Swiss government, which supplied the money trail of Perez’ mysterious $2 million deposit, would be able to see through the charade because the Ombudsman’s charges actually protect Perez from the higher and non-bailable charges of plunder and money laundering.
Mike Arroyo’s defenders are going on a junket to Germany, charge to the Filipino people. Objective:”The halls of this institution should be protected at all costs,” Rep. Eduardo Gullas said.
My foot!
This report by Wendell Vigilia in Malaya:
Congressmen will go out of their way in their search for the truth behind the alleged multi-million bank account the family of President Arroyo is hiding in Germany.
The House committee on ethics yesterday decided at the resumption of the hearing on the expulsion case filed against Rep. Allan Cayetano (NP, Taguig-Pateros) to send a five-man team to verify the alleged account in HypoVereinsbank in Munich.
May kasabihan tayo na wala namang magtitiyaga magpukol na bato sa isang puno na hindi hitik ng bunga.
‘Yan ngayon ang nangyayari kay Rep. Alan Peter Cayetano ng Taguig-Pateros na kasama sa senatorial tiket ng United Opposition.
Itong mga nakaraang linggo, dalawang mga pekeng isyu ang ibinalibag kay Alan. Isa ay ang kanyang pagsolicit raw ng kontribusyon . Noong isang araw naman, may napadala ng pekeng fax message sa mga diyaryo na nagwi-withdraw na raw niya ang kanyang kandidatura sa pagka-senador dahil dadayain lang naman daw siya.