Global Balita June Series #1

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Opinion » Quotes of the day
by Lito Banayo
from MALAYA

Prospero Nograles, on the eve of the merger of Lakas (Teddy Boy Locsin’s favourite “party of thieves”) and Kampi (Gloria and Mike Arroyo’s favourite party of what else?) was “ecstatic” over the conjugal union of the two. As of this writing, the mega-event is supposed to be ongoing.
Said Nograles: “For now, winning the elections in 2010 is not our main goal. Changing the character of our politics is”.
Oh my God! After almost nine years of Gloria’s hegemony, during which Nograles has seen himself catapulted to …
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Opinion » My rambling thoughts on Kho-Halili sex video
Kapeng BARAKO
by Jesse Jose
from Fil-Am MegaScene

Sheesh.
What’s the big deal?
Bakit pinagkakaguluhan ito?
The people, men, women and children, the media, the tsismis shows led by Boy Abunda and Kris Aquino, the politicians, the police, the NBI, the Dept of Justice, Gabriela, the Philippine Congress …
Even the Philippine Medical Association …
The whole country, actually …
Is riveted to this sex video.
How laughable naman.
How pathetic.
How sad.
Only in the Philippines, I tell ya.
Sure, here in America, people get riveted, too, to sex scandals. Yes, they talk about it. But they don’t talk about it weeks after …


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Opinion » Take Justice Into Our Own Hands
GLIMPSES
Jose Ma. Montelibano

The way I see the political equation is that a weak people attract bad governance. That is why any good governance advocacy will never work unless it carries in it a parallel movement for a strong citizenry. All the way from my boyhood days, I already heard the generation of my parents promote the cause of good governance. Today, 50 years later, most good government advocates insist that never in our history is good governance needed more. This is another way of saying that efforts for good governance …

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Opinion » Enrile versus Pimentel: Who can we believe?

AS I WRECK THIS CHAIR
by William M. Esposo
from Philstar

Pikon (short fused) is a term that has often been used by media to characterize Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile. On primetime television last Monday, Enrile displayed that side of his character again.

All the way to your bedroom or living room, depending where you watch the TV news, you can almost feel the figurative angry snorts from the nose of the raging bull in the Senate who was accusing Senator Aquilino “Nene” Pimentel of being a “coward, hypocrite, traitor and a spoiled …

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Politics & Government » Good, Honest Governance at Work

PRESS STATEMENT OF GOV. EDDIE PANLILIO
May 28, 2009

GOOD, HONEST GOVERNANCE AT WORK
Quarry collections reach P395.598M in 23 months
Exceed NRDC collections in 3 years

Today, I congratulate the Biyaya a Luluguran at Sisikapan (Balas) committee, the provincial checkers, the provincial environment and natural resources office, the members of the provincial mining regulatory board, and the provincial treasurer’s office for their collective success in being able to collect, on behalf of the province, P395.598 million in taxes from sand and gravel.

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Opinion » What a country!
by Lito Banayo
from MALAYA

Another boat sank off the waters of Batangas, and twelve people are reported to have died. Another 42 have survived. On the basis of the arithmetic, Marina officials say the boat was overloaded, because it had registered capacity for only 42 passengers. Soon, when the victims shall have been buried, the issue of maritime safety will be forgotten. Months ago, another boat capsized off the waters of Calayan Island off Sta. Ana in Cagayan. I don’t even remember how many perished. The same reason was given …

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Opinion » The defeaning silence of the church on the sex video scandal
by Reginald Tamayo

The sex video scandal of Dr. Hayden Kho and Katrina Halili is like a wild virus. It has traumatized the families of the victims and it has demoralized many women especially the young ones. The extent of the impact of the scandal is undeniably strong that it has become a favorite topic in coffee shops, beauty parlors, market place, and many other public places. All are practically mouthing their views about this scandal. But there is one sector which I haven’t heard saying its views: the Catholic Church ...

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Opinion » Writ of Amparo

Telltale Signs
by Rodel Rodis

It was reportedly “imported” from South America as a response to the widespread extra-judicial killings of journalists and activists which have proliferated in the last decade. The Writ of Amparo (Spanish for “protection”) was promulgated by Philippine Supreme Court Chief Justice Reynato Puno and his associate justices on October 24, 2007 to provide an opportunity for aggrieved parties to seek a Court order directing the military and police authorities to spare a particular individual from harm.

On May 20, 2009, the Philippine Supreme Court issued a Writ of …

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Opinion » U.S. Aid: A Joke!
by Erick San Juan

I was shock to read in a “public relations” newspaper that most of our bilateral agreements with the United States government, benefits us more than them.

In its opinion page, it is said that the United States is the Philippines’ only mutual defense treaty partner and the largest source of foreign military financing. It added that the U.S. government’s foreign military aid to the Philippines helps in modernizing the Philippine Armed Forces. We allegedly received the highest level of funds in East Asia and the Pacific under the …

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Opinion » Children Suffer Most When Justice is Denied
by Fr. Shay Cullen
from PREDA

Beth was a docile and submissive child. She lived in fear of her dominating father and he was addicted to buying the dirt cheap child pornography CDs that are widely available in the Philippines. It was perhaps inevitable that he would rape her and he did several times over two years ago in the province of Bataan not far from Manila. When she was rescued and brought safe in the Preda Children’s Home, she recovered and was soon strong and brave enough to tell her story …

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