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• Will GMA’s Maguindanao Martial Law Play Unravel?

  
  At Midfield — Authority: 130
  It’s Day 3 of the proclamation of martial law in Maguindanao (except in the MILF-controlled areas) and today civil rights advocates will be leading the charge to formally question the constitutionality of Pres. Arroyo’s Proclamation 1959. But this early the Arroyo administration’s slip is already showing. ...
  14 hours ago

• Arroyo declares Martial Law

  
  Pinoy Observer — Authority: 140
  Mrs. Arroyo with her hawks, Norberto Gonzales and Fidel V. Ramos 1959 was the third time Martial law was availed of by government as an emergency measure. The first time was when President Jose P. Laurel, the government caretaker , declared martial rule when foreign invaders entered Manila. The Laurel proclamation ...
  1 day ago

• A Call For Vigilance As GMA ‘Experiments’ With Martial Law In Maguindanao; Move Called ‘Baseless’

  
  At Midfield — Authority: 130
  I lived through Marcos’ martial law. As the dictator consolidated his hold on absolute power then his sycophant even call Proclamation 1081 ‘”smiling martial.” Not long after that his legal brain trust even crafted the phrase and legal construct called “constitutional authoritarianism.” “The New ...
  2 days ago

• Let Us End Arroyo’s Reign Of Greed – Joey De Venecia (PMP

  
  At Midfield — Authority: 130
  Opposition senatorial aspirant  Joey de Venecia III has called on all opposition parties to “to unite to prevent any member of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s family from keeping their House seats.” De Venecia warned that “in running for congressman, Mrs. Arroyo plans to continue her family’s reign of greed ...
  2 days ago

• Martial Law in Maguindanao?;Gilbert Teodoro, The Ampatuan Arms Stockpile, And The Maguindanao Massacre

  
  At Midfield — Authority: 130
  The buck stops with the President. So news is now breaking that Pres. Arroyo is formally placing Maguindanao under martial. Ill update this as details come to light. This puts an official character to what has actually prevailed in the area this past week. It has also just been reported by DZMM radio that ...
  2 days ago

• GMA Declares ‘Limited’ Martial Law in Maguindanao;Gilbert Teodoro, The Ampatuan Arms Stockpile, And The Maguindanao Massacre (Retitled/Updated)

  
  At Midfield — Authority: 130
  The buck stops with the President. So news is now breaking that Pres. Arroyo is formally placing Maguindanao under a limited state of martial law, including a suspension on the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus (thus authorizing warrantless arrests). Executive Secretary Eduarda has just read out on state ...
  2 days ago

• FVR’s Quit Call To GMA: Epiphany or Political Play?

  
  At Midfield — Authority: 130
  Former President Fidel V. Ramos: While the law may not require that she quit her post, Ramos said Mrs. Arroyo should step down in order to level the playing field in the congressional race in Pampanga’s 2nd district. “But can you imagine the fairness of it all? You, as commander-in-chief of the Armed ...
  5 days ago

• Running For Office Just-For-The-Fund-Of-It: Public Coffers In Jeopardy

  
  At Midfield — Authority: 130
  Call me biased, jaded or simply stupid. But reading the report from the COMELEC that  99 individuals have filed Certificates of Candidacy (COCs) to run for President comes like a slap on my sensibilities. Don’t get me wrong. I do not presume to have the ability to  peer into the hearts of the wannabes. Now ...
  5 days ago

• Philippine News feature

  
  Baybayin.com (not Alibata) art and education resource — Authority: 117
  The oldest Philippine American news paper this week has a feature on Baybayin. Check it out Baybayin on the front page of the Philippine News
  6 days ago

• GMA In Congress: An Abomination

  
  At Midfield — Authority: 130
  I hate writing this, wasting space and bandwidth to condemn sycophants and their masters who think nothing of the widely known sentiments of Filipinos. They must alternately think their God’s gift to the Philippines or that we’re dumb: Gloria Macapagal Arroyo: Mga kababayan, lubos na karangalan at ...
  6 days ago

• GMA Dumping The Ampatuans,Crowning New Warlords?

  
  At Midfield — Authority: 130
  The heat is on. Not only on the kingpin political clan of the Ampatuans of Maguindanao but on the waning regime of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. The government of the day has long had the Ampatuans as its not-so-secret weapon for its dagdag-bawas/ zero-ang- kalaban electoral ‘victories’ dating back to 2004, plus ...
  1 week ago

• The Maguindanao Massacre ‘Smoking Gun’; Where Is The Backhoe Operator???

  
  At Midfield — Authority: 130
  This must be the biggest ‘smoking gun’: the backhoe of the Maguindanao provincial government that was used in the most gruesome crime this country has ever witnessed. Quite surrealistically, it was also this backhoe that crime scene investigators had to use last week to dig out the corpus delicti: the very ...
  1 week ago

• The Liberal Party ‘Occupies’ The COMELEC; LP Team ‘Credo’ Out

  
  At Midfield — Authority: 130
  It’s a slow news day so you can probably forgive the COMELEC  for allowing the survey leading Liberal Party to literally take over the offices of the constitutional elections regulatory body. No matter, too, that the only ‘ competing’ event on cable TV was the live Mrs. World beauty pageant from Vietnam. ...
  1 week ago

• Saving Maguindanao From The Brink?; 7 Murder Raps VS Andal Amputuan For ‘Role’ In Massacre? (Retitled, Update)

  
  At Midfield — Authority: 130
  For the first time in 4-and-a-half days it appears there could be responsible handling of that Satanic incident in Maguindanao that claimed 57 innocent civilian lives, including up to 18 working journalists. In credible fashion, Interior and Local Government Secretary Ronaldo Puno revealed that four Maguindanao ...
  1 week ago

• Saving Maguindanao From The Brink?; Andal Apmaputuan Being Inquested For ‘Role’ In Massacre

  
  At Midfield — Authority: 130
  For the first time in 4-and-a-half days it appears there could be responsible handling of that Satanic incident in Maguindanao that claimed 57 innocent civilian lives, including up to 18 working journalists. In credible fashion, Interior and Local Government Secretary Ronaldo Puno revealed that four Maguindanao ...
  1 week ago

• The Ampatuans And The Balance of Terror In Muslim Mindanao

  
  At Midfield — Authority: 130
  Four days since that carnage in Maguindanao that snuffed out the lives of innocent journalists, women, and supporters of the Mangudadatu clan( 57 and counting), government is finally trying it match its hollow words of assurance with some glimmer of positive action. Malacanang says that before that day is out, the ...
  1 week ago

• Chiz Escudero Rolls Up His Tarps; Let The 2010 Political Wars Begin!

  
  At Midfield — Authority: 130
  For the second time in a month, Sen. Francis ‘Chiz’  Escudero unburderned himself about his misgivings of the current despoiled state of Philippine politics and his hopes… And this time Escudero, while saying his dream of new change (bagong pagbabago) remains burning passionately, said the dream will have to ...
  1 week ago

• Satan’s Work: The Maguindanao Massacre of 2009 Claims 64 Lives

  
  At Midfield — Authority: 130
  Where is Datu Andal Ampatuan, Jr., scion of the warlord clan of Maguindanao, now being fingered as one of the authors of this most horrible carnage in that province where command votes for past, an future elections in Muslim Mindanao are determined? Make no bones about it, the Ampatauans, politically-aligned ...
  1 week ago

• Satan’s Work: The Maguindanao Massacre of 2009

  
  At Midfield — Authority: 130
  Where is Datu Andal Ampatuan, Jr., scion of the warlord clan of Maguindanao, now being fingered as one of the authors of this most horrible carnage in that province where command votes for past, an future elections in Muslim Mindanao are determined? Make no bones about it, the Ampatauans, politically-aligned ...
  1 week ago

• OFW remittances soar to $12.8-B in 9 months

  
  Pinoy News and Blogosphere Buzz — Authority: 139
  MANILA – Remittances from overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) soared to $12.8 billion in the first nine months of the year, or from January to September.    
  2 weeks ago

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