Archive for February, 2008
Here’s a virtual look at the interfaith rally for those who weren’t able to attend. Two videos, first is from GMA News and the second is from a street point of view as the people march towards Makati.
Erap’s great line today, “I was understaying, Gloria is overstaying”
February 29th, 2008 | Posted in Videos | 1 Comment
Today, there is an interfaith rally in Makati. A Stand for truth, justice and change. There is a call for resignation. There is one voice among many. A united front. The Arroyo Administration is taking notice. Their fear is growing in proportion to the ever increasing calls for the [...]
February 29th, 2008 | Posted in Current Events | No Comments
George Bush and his allies collude with The House of Saud for their oil at the expense of the American public, and President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has China and their “loans” at the expense of the Filipino public. China needs oil, America needs oil, The Philippines just needs money. Unfortunately, The U.S. hasn’t [...]
February 28th, 2008 | Posted in Government | 2 Comments
On Tuesday, the Bishops called an emergency meeting. It took some time to reach a consensus and to finalize the statement. After all was said and done, the Bishops released their Pastoral Statement: Seeking Truth, Restoring Integrity. We were waiting as to whether or not they too would call for the resignation [...]
February 28th, 2008 | Posted in Government, Religion, Social Concerns | 2 Comments
I guess I’m not the only one skeptical and weary of Dante Madriaga. After all, if his testimony is bought hook line and sinker, and then later recants, it will be to the detriment of The Senate and the proceedings regarding the NBN deal. What if Madriaga later says he was forced to [...]
February 27th, 2008 | Posted in Current Events | No Comments
I first encountered the name Dante Madriaga, early this month on Ellen’s blog. It was in Ellen’s blog which reproduced a document that was sent via email and which was allegedly written by a certain Engr. Dante Madriaga.
Well, Dante Madriaga finally surfaced at the Senate yesterday, albeit quite late in the game. [...]
February 27th, 2008 | Posted in National News | No Comments
Lies, and more lies. Gloria Arroyo has no more logical defense against the fact that she is involved in The scrapped $329 million National Broadband Network (NBN) Deal. The lies have succumbed to more lies, and the viewing public is once again given a bunch of irreconcilable excuses for which no amount of [...]
February 27th, 2008 | Posted in Government | No Comments
The man at the center of the NBN deal scandal, Benjamin Abalos has won a golf tournament raffle. But wait, it was in his own golf club at Wack Wack. The golf club where the infamous “back off” incident occurred. The same golf club where he threatened Jun Lozada to never go [...]
February 27th, 2008 | Posted in National News | 1 Comment
If there are people out there who are weary of calling the troop surge in Iraq a success, then they are not alone. Although Republican politicians, mainstream media, George W. Bush and especially John McCain have touted the surge a success, they are only telling of the paint job that has been done to [...]
February 27th, 2008 | Posted in World News | 1 Comment
If anyone has been wondering as to the political strength of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, one need only to look at the actions of her three predecessors to garner a brief look as to the wall she has backed herself into. These past few days, we have seen former President Cory Aquino attend masses [...]
February 26th, 2008 | Posted in National News | 1 Comment
February 25, 1986. Where were you? A great deal of many Filipinos remember and know exactly what they were doing on that day. This was the day, when Filipinos across the nation, and the rest of the world also found out where Ferdinand Marcos was. And it was the important [...]
February 24th, 2008 | Posted in Government, Social Concerns | No Comments
As I have written here before, I’m a Hillary Clinton supporter, but have thought deeply of supporting Barack Obama. Let’s be honest, the spectacular shows that Barack Obama puts out in state after state is quite tremendous and inspirational on so many levels. As I have said with friends and family, it just [...]
February 24th, 2008 | Posted in Politics | No Comments
Being president is an honor bestowed upon an individual who gains the trust of the people. The presidency is a position of trust, and without trust, the position is compromised. The people have been second under the Arroyo administration, it has been second from the very beginning. And as I have contemplated [...]
February 22nd, 2008 | Posted in Government | 2 Comments
The Center for People Empowerment in Governance released their Issue Analysis No.3 on February 8th. In this article titled Governance by Arrogance, the focus is mainly the way The Arroyo Administration seems to be governing especially in the light of the recent events of the Jose De Venecia ouster and The Jun Lozada debacle [...]
February 22nd, 2008 | Posted in Government | No Comments
As early as last year, we knew that there was something fishy about The NBN deal, and yet, the administration chose to pursue it last year even under the guise of Executive Agreement (in order to bypass the Senate). It was eventually terminated, but in that termination, shouldn’t the government already have started its [...]
February 22nd, 2008 | Posted in Government | No Comments
The following video is taken from Youtube and is an animated video of a wiretapped conversation between Jun Lozada and Joey De Venecia. Joey De Venecia has confirmed that it is his voice on the video and has attributed this conversation as coming from Benjamin Abalos who he says wiretapped the conversation. I [...]
February 21st, 2008 | Posted in Videos | 2 Comments