President GMA’s Great Moves
The reason Gloria Arroyo’s running for Congress is that she is aiming for a powerful office for her harassment after she has stepped out of office and is stripped of immunity. Her political comeback via Congress is to revive Charter Change which still very much alive in GMA’s mind. She may...
Source: Blog For Noob Dot Com | Noob Blogger
Philippine Lasallian Family Statement on the Maguindanao Massacre
I’m reproducing here the statement of the Philippine Lasallian Family on the Maguindanao Massacre.
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Brutal, barbaric, and heinous. These were words used to describe the
Maguindanao massacre that has claimed the lives of more than 50 people-the majority of them being...
Source: The Four-eyed Journal
The Long View: Shattered talismans
The Long View
Shattered talismans
By Manuel L. Quezon III
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 21:23:00 11/25/2009
IN A NATION WHERE THE POWERLESS HAVE few options, the least useful being to try to out-goon, out-gun, and out-spend those who possess a plenitude of these things because of political...
Source: Manuel L. Quezon III: The Daily Dose
Mass murder in Maguindanao
The President and Zaldy Ampatuan in happier days, courtesy of Newsday
Back on September 7, 2009 in my column A necessary provocation, I pointed out the integral role warlords play in the ruling coalition. Just a week ago, as a photo in Uniffors shows, the Ampatuans were lionized by the ruling coalition....
Source: Manuel L. Quezon III: The Daily Dose
Philippine Democracy in Jeopardy: Warlordism in Mindanao threatens 2010 elections
You ask–why is it that this government allows just one political clan to dominate politics of one province? I am referring to the Ampatuans, who continues to lord it over Maguindanao province in Mindanao.
It is a known fact that the Ampatuans are close political allies of Philippine president Gloria...
Source: pinoyobserver.com
