Life on Mars By Antonio C. Abaya Written on May 28, 2008 For the Standard Today, May 29 issue After a journey that took almost ten months, NASA’s Phoenix Lander landed in the north pole region of the Planet Mars last Sunday, May 25, to begin a three-month search for signs of life beneath the [...]
Combating Smuggling By Antonio C. Abaya Written on May 26, 2008 For the Standard Today, May 27 issue As every business person or manufacturer in this country knows, smuggling is one of the most insidious banes in our economy, undermining the enterprises of legitimate importers and struggling domestic producers, and depriving government of billions of [...]
ONE – A Filipino Movement GLIMPSES Jose Ma. Montelibano It is public knowledge, internally, that Filipinos are burdened by a curse called divisiveness. This destructive pattern is not the exclusive domain of Filipinos in the Philippines but is like a virus that travels where Filipinos travel. It is very much alive among Filipinos in North [...]
Dear Folks, Below is one of Gloria Arroyo’s “praise” releases. Once again, Gloria is taking the Filipinos’ intelligence for granted. With more than 900 extrajudicial killings and 185 forced disappearances of leftists, actitivists, journalists, priests, farmers, and politicians in the past 7-1/2 years of her government, these “human rights action centers” are nothing more than [...]
The Cancer of Corruption By Senator Ping Lacson (Speech before a public forum sponsored by the Concerned Citizens Movement delivered May 28, 2008 at the Manila Polo Club, Makati City) Let me begin with a short story. A big acacia tree crashed on a segment of the fence surrounding Malacanang palace. Hence, it needed immediate [...]
Doesn’t the SEC act in Meralco remind you of the Comelec? AS I WRECK THIS CHAIR By William M. Esposo Thursday, May 29, 2008 A few days before the May 27 Meralco Annual Stockholders Meeting, Winston Garcia, GSIS General Manager representing a quarter of Meralco stockholders, conceded that he will not be able to muster [...]
Dear Folks, President Gloria Arroyo must really be scared to death by Rep. Jose de Venecia’s possible appearance at a Senate Blue Ribbon Committee hearing that she insinuated that it could lead to a “tragic ending” for de Venecia. Whoa! Has Gloria gone bananas that she had to use the term “tragic ending,” which could [...]
The Filipino remains clueless AS I WRECK THIS CHAIR By William M. Esposo Tuesday, May 27, 2008 If you cannot even identify your rapist, then you have no case at all and may well be raped again by the same assailant. Such is the rape case of the Filipino nation. Luckily, a patriot named Professor [...]
PerryScope by Perry Diaz Esperon’s New Assignment The recent retirement of Gen. Hermogenes Esperon as Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines ((AFP) and subsequent appointment as Presidential Adviser on the peace process in Mindanao has made a lot of people agog in disbelief. In the relatively short time that he served [...]
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 26, 2008 Contact: Ben de Guzman 202.422.4909 Perry Diaz 916.691.6642 Jon Melegrito 202.361.0296 www.nafve.org (Web site) nafve2007@gmail.com NAFVE SALUTES VETERANS ON MEMORIAL DAY; CONTINUES CAMPAIGN TO SECURE PASSAGE OF FILIPINO WWII VETERANS LEGISLATION National Coalition Affirms Commitment to Filipino Veterans Legislation, Issues Action Alert during Congressional Memorial Day Recess [...]
