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PerryScope » PerryScope: Gloria’s Gambit
by Perry Diaz
It seems to me that Charter change (Cha-cha) is going nowhere in the House of Representatives because of the infighting between President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s henchmen Speaker Prospero Nograles and Congressman Luis Villafuerte. They’re the respective leaders of Lakas and Kampi which will soon merge under a new name: Lakas-Kampi-CMD. The merger would boost Gloria’s control of the House of Representatives after the 2010 elections assuming that she would still wield power in her party after she steps down from the presidency. But the prospect of losing power …
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Featured, Opinion » A question of trust
by Lito Banayo
from MALAYA
You realize that things are all awry and priorities all wrong among us with the inordinate attention showered upon a video showing two adults in private sex. Last week, the sleazy episode found its way into the Senate floor, and more than half of the entire evening news was devoted to various angles of the same story.
News about the first recorded victim of the “swine” flu in the country is eclipsed by Hayden and Katrina, who has every right to get mad because clearly she was …
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Opinion » AFP training urgently needs a curriculum overhaul
AS I WRECK THIS CHAIR
by William M. Esposo
from Philstar
Worse than being ill-equipped in war materiel, it is most detrimental if the policy makers and officers of a country’s national armed forces are ill-equipped up there in the head. Not having enough bullets or bombs is not as deadly as not having enough brains to know the real enemy and conceive a winning strategy.
A blundering British High Command ordered the charge of the Light Brigade in the Battle of Balaclava during The Crimean War and we all know the folly of …
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Politics & Government » EXCLUSIVE: U.S. Gov’t Offers $1 M Reward for Arrest of Abu Sayyaf Chief Sahiron
by Alex P. Vidal
SAN DIEGO, California (MAY 27, 2009) — Enough is enough.
This seems to be the battlecry of the Department of States of the United States of America as it announced in Washington D.C. today a reward offer of up to $1 million for information leading to the location, arrest and/or conviction of Radullan Sahiron, senior leader of the Philippines-based Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG).
Many innocent men, women and children have been killed or seriously injured as a result of Sahiron’s actions, announced Ian Kelly, spokesman of the Bureau of …
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Culture, Sports, Entertainment & Technology »
11-year-old Ilonggo son wins U.S. speech contest
by Alex P. Vidal
SAN DIEGO, California – Inspired by the life story of Australian naturalist, zoologist, animal and wild life conservationist and television personality, the late Stephen Robert Irwin, known simply as Steve Irwin, Nathaniel Dean Baldevieso Viejon’s inspirational speech on Irwin won him the 2009 Modern Woodmen’s Speech Contest‘s trophy recently in Aurora, Illinois.
Nate, as he is known to his family and friends, is 11 years old and a 5th grader at Schneider Elementary School in Aurora district, a suburban west of Chicago. Nate, who is an animal lover, …
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Opinion » Ban seminars before national elections
by Reginald Tamayo
A Barangay Captain told me that he regretted attending recently a convention of all Barangay Captains in Manila. He said that they were billeted in exquisite hotels. It was supposed to be a 3-day convention but it was incised into just one day. This only means that they paid their 3-day stay in the hotels but had actually lodged only for a day. Worse, he claimed that during their assembly they did nothing except to listen to the presidentiables who talked about their plans to run for the …
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