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An
Arsenic he is not and will never be, and now even his
team mate is junking him.
GO
candidate Ping Lacson is complaining that a cocandidate
has junked him and replaced his name in sample ballots
distributed in the provinces. He said that “some GO
personalities are ill mannered.” Was
Ping referring to two other GO bets who were reported to have
junked some GO candidates earlier?
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The
Department of Justice dispatched officials of the Public
Attorney’s Office under Public Attorney Persida Rueda-Acosta,
to the Quezon City jail, one of the most congested
prison facilities in the Metro, to attend to the legal
problems of inmates and to find ways to decongest the
city jail.
The
public lawyers paid particular attention to the problems
of overstaying detainees some of whom are already
candidates for release. The visit was in conjunction
with the medical program of the Department of Health.
Similar programs will be conducted in other Metro jails
in the near future.
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The
BusinessMirror reported on Labor Day that the government
“is not taking the possibility of extreme climatic
events such as droughts, severe cyclones and floods,
sitting down.” It has called on the DOST to prepare
programs as its immediate and long-term guides to define
the country’s weaknesses and strengths on the subject of
climate change.
Studies
made by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
show that the transport sector is the top CO2-emission
source at 24 million metric tons. The good news is that
the Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry and
Natural Resources Research and Development (PCARRD)
based in Los Baños, Laguna, is pursuing the National R&D
Program on Biofuels which is expected to bring down the
volume of CO2 emissions into the atmosphere with
biofuels that are more environment-friendly than fossil
fuel.
In a
related development, a major daily reported that methane
released from flooded rice paddies in most Asian
countries, add to global warming problems just as
coal-fired power plants and transport emissions do.
The IPCC
report released in
Bangkok
said that rice production is the main source of
increasing methane emissions. The International Rice
Research Institute (IRRI) based in Los Baños added that
it is the bacteria that thrives in rice paddies that
produce methane when it decompose animal dung and other
organic matter in the soil. A molecule of methane is 21
times more potent than a molecule of carbon dioxide, the
report said.
Climate
change or global warming is a threat to man’s existence
that we cannot ignore. Not on your life.
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Political strategist Ray Orosa, also an economic expert,
continues to warn the public that the latest survey
commissioned by GO was meant to place the President and
her administration in an “extremely bad light.”
Reli
German, TU campaign manager, criticized the opposition
for its dirty tricks and its main objective of unseating
the President.
He said
the opposition “wants to create total public
disenchantment with our political system and this could
ignite a conflagration that could engulf the entire
nation” which he said jives with the new acronym of the
opposition—Plan Co Revolt.
To
emphasize GO’s “revolt” plan, one will find the best
illustration in GO’s giant billboards picturing the
faces and names of the GO team. Beside the name of
Trillanes is a gigantic word—REVOLT, reflective of the
opposition’s view that they are on the revolt stage and
that all of them share the Trillanes coup d’état
doctrine.
In
another report, GO spokesman Adel Tamano was said to
admit that the most that the opposition can get is 40
out of 230 congressional seats which reflects the very
weakness of the GO team, its failure to garner enough
support from the grassroots level because of lack of
local leaders and poll people to work on the
distribution of its campaign materials, and oversee the
election process.
As we
have always pointed out, it is not the surveys that win
elections, but the machinery from the grassroots up to
the national level that will spell the difference.
Junking is already rampant among GO candidates and it is
pathetic to see GO senatorial candidates making deals to
include their names in sample ballots.
Talk
about mind conditioning, now comes former president Erap
saying that because of the strong showing of GO
candidates in the surveys, only “large-scale cheating”
can change this trend and warned (or threatened)
President GMA of a “revolt of the masses” if
administration candidates upset GO in the May 14
elections.
But
there are realities GO must face. In the face of GO’s
faltering campaign, TU now is making headway going on
the final stretch. In achieving its objectives, TU
focused on many factors including machinery, logistics,
organization from the top to the grassroots level,
packaging of candidates, platform, personalities,
command votes, and the voters’ pining for peace and
progress in our country and less of politics.
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The
President’s detractors have made it a habit to turn
issues into attacks on the presidency and on everyone
close to her. We believe that most of our countrymen
have already seen through this gambit and are getting
tired of foul-mouthed politicos whose only claim to fame
is for having hit the headlines after raining verbal
blows on a woman.
Look at
Trillanes, who after bungling a noncoup coup attempt, is
now blaming the government for putting him under arrest.
Did he not realize that he committed a crime?
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Tax
evaders are normally taken to task by the BIR, and now
here’s the government of Makati City that owes the
taxman billions but refused to come across. When the BIR
froze Makati’s bank accounts including that of its
mayor, they blamed the government and cried harassment.
Pay your
taxes!
Makati is not under a monarchy and it is answerable to the
government for its tax obligations.
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Being
attacked in the media is a painful experience. But the
media seem to enjoy targeting the First Gentleman who,
in exasperation, filed dozens of libel cases against his
attackers.
The
stressful experience almost got him but doctors at St.
Luke saved him. Now after undergoing an open-heart
surgery, FG has sworn to forgive his detractors and took
steps to withdraw several libel cases he filed.
Instead
of finding humility in such a humane gesture, many in
the media cried foul saying that such an act is just for
show since this is election time and that this is just
part of a bigger design to attract votes, etc. etc. etc.
Can’t
you guys make up your minds? |
