Hacienda Luisita farmers rejoice but still vigilant over SC decision
“Now that the SC has decided in favor of Luisita farmers and farm
workers, the burden of implementation is with the President’s family the
Cojuangco-Aquinos and the Department of Agrarian Reform.” – Anakpawis
Rep. Rafael Mariano
By RONALYN V. OLEA
Bulatlat.com
MANILA – Felix Nacpil Jr., 39, along with some 40 farm workers, left
Hacienda Luisita early morning to get a copy of the Supreme Court (SC)
decision, Nov. 24.
On board two jeepneys, they arrived at the SC at around 9 a.m.They waited until noon to get hold of a 56-page resolution
penned by Associate Justice Presbitero Velasco on the motion for
reconsideration filed by their group Alyansa ng Magbubukid sa Hacienda
Luisita (Ambala).
Voting 14-0, the high court granted their petition and unanimously
ordered the distribution of 4,916 hectares of Hacienda Luisita lands to
the original 4,296 original farmworker beneficiaries (FWBs). It
modified its July 5, 2011 ruling ordering the Department of Agrarian
Reform (DAR) to hold a referendum to let the Luisita farmers choose
between owning shares of stocks in Hacienda Luisita Inc. or getting
portions of the more than 6,000-hectare estate..... MORE
Source: Bulatlat.com
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2011/11/25/hacienda-luisita-farmers-rejoice-but-vigilant-over-sc-decision/
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Sunday, November 27, 2011
Moral and honest? FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 11/27/2011
Moral and honest?
FRONTLINE |
Ninez Cacho-Olivares |
For one who claims to have divested all his shares in Hacienda Luisita, Noynoy certainly continues to look after the interests of the Cojuangco-Aquinos, with his latest spiel stating that the landlords, all of whom belong to his clan, must be justly compensated.
The claim today of course is that Noynoy really has no personal interest in the hacienda, having divested all his shares as the law states.
But this divestment of Hacienda Luisita shares claim is truly opaque, from the time of the Cory Aquino presidency to today, under the son’s presidency.
It was claimed, in 1987, when the Cory Constitution was in place and with a new Congress elected, that Cory had already divested her hacienda shares..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20111127com2.html
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Outsourcing stems Philippines labor exodus focus 11/27/2011
Outsourcing stems Philippines labor exodus
focus |
MANILA — Malaysia-based computer whiz Arlene Teodoro packed his bags and flew home to the Philippines this year, going against the tide in an impoverished country that sends millions of workers abroad.
Forced to leave his family and friends in 2008 in search of a decent job overseas, the 35-year-old bachelor says he is back for good because his skills are suddenly in big demand amid a business process outsourcing boom.
“Nothing compares to being back in the Philippines,” said Teodoro, part of a 30-strong computer science class at a Manila university in the early 1990s, most of whose members also went overseas to find work.
“When I was working abroad I’d use up all my vacation leaves to attend family events and reconnect with my family.”.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20111127com3.html
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Hungry Americans Occupy Turkey Giveaway (w/ Video)
Hungry Americans Occupy Turkey Giveaway
Many Americans enjoyed a hearty Thanksgiving meal, but unfortunately many others are going hungry this holiday season. Nowhere in the US is the problem worse than in Los Angeles, where 10 thousand people camped out this week for a free turkey dinner.It is difficult for Lisa Jones to plan beyond tomorrow.
“Lost my house, lost my business. Now I’m just kinda surviving,” said Jones as she waited in line for a free turkey in South Los Angeles.
She struggles to make it through the day. The mother of three is worried about her oldest son, who is fighting the war in Afghanistan. She is also among the millions of Americans who go hungry every day..... MORE
Source: RT.com
URL: http://rt.com/usa/news/hungry-turkey-jones-people-259/
US AMD dilemma: Big dollar or world peace?
US AMD dilemma: Big dollar or world peace?
Russia’s President Medvedev sent a sharp warning this week to Western powers over the planned NATO missile shield in Europe. He said if the plans go ahead without guarantees of Russia's safety, Moscow would deploy missiles of its own.Years of negotiations over the proposed shield, which America wants to place in Turkey and in former Warsaw Pact countries on Russia’s western border, have been deadlocked over the US refusal to agree to Russian participation in the project.
America says the anti-missile shield is aimed at protecting Europe from so-called rogue states like North Korea and Iran, but Russia sees it as a threat to its own national security..... MORE
Source: RT.com
URL: http://rt.com/news/us-missile-russia-dilemma-301/
Solon declares war on MWSS, Manila Water and Maynilad BLURBAL THRUSTS Louie Logarta 11/27/2011
Solon declares war on MWSS, Manila Water and Maynilad
BLURBAL THRUSTS |
Louie Logarta |
It would seem that whenever the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) happens to be featured in the newspapers, somehow it is for the wrong reasons.
Just the other week, a pro-administration lawmaker wrote to the Commission on Audit (CoA) to get them to look into the books of the agency as well as its two private concessionaires in Metro Manila — meaning the Lopez-owned Maynilad Water Services and the Manila Water Co. which is controlled by the Ayalas — claiming there were serious abuses and irregularities in the way they were operating which were disadvantageous both to the government and their millions of consumers.
In her letter to the CoA, Rep. Bernadette Herrera-Dy of the Bagong Henerasyon party-list group indicated she had received information that both Maynilad and Manila Water were manipulating their respective concession contracts which resulted in excessive and onerous rates being charged to consumers as well as illegal, extravagant and unconscionable public expenditure and use of government property that were clearly unbeneficial to the interests of the state..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20111127com4.html
Workers imprisoned for exercise of union rights
Who says lady justice is blindfolded and does not favor anyone?
While Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo remains “detained” at the St. Luke’s
Hospital, two Karnation workers died in jail and 18 were imprisoned for
three years for having conducted a strike.
By MARYA SALAMAT
Bulatlat.com
MANILA – Who is the biggest criminal of them all?
Former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo can grow more ill and burrow
deeper into a luxurious hospital arrest while public pressure mounts to
charge her for electoral fraud, plunder and gross human rights
violations.
But the working people, if charged in court even with trumped up
charges, face immediate arrest and years of imprisonment, difficulties
in getting court approval for bail and in mustering enough money for it,
and continued threat of imprisonment while their case drags on in court
for alleged acts committed during a labor dispute that have also been
“criminalized.” This, at least, is the example provided by the ongoing
saga of the “Karnation 20” workers, based on the appeals for help aired
on their behalf by the non-government Center for Trade Union and Human
Rights (CTUHR).
As if these were not horrible enough, the labor center Kilusang Mayo
Uno railed this week against the call of the Employers’ Confederation of
the Philippine (ECOP) to decriminalize employers’ violations of minimum
wage laws. The labor group describes this as “clearly callous and
anti-worker.”
In an interview with BusinessMirror last week, ECOP
president Edgardo Lacson opposed bills in the House of Representatives
seeking to legislate a longer prison term for employers who violate the
country’s wage laws, saying the government should do the opposite and
decriminalize such violations. Lacson was reacting to House Bills 942,
1817, 1889, and 2884 authored by Reps. Reynaldo Umali, Emmeline Aglipay,
Ben Evardone and Joseph Victor Ejercito, respectively, which seek to
extend the penalty of two-year imprisonment to four years for such
crimes.
Non-payment of minimum wages in the Philippines is one of the most
rampant and persistent violations committed by employers based on the
labor department’s survey. But few, if any employer on record, had been
jailed for this..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2011/11/25/workers-imprisoned-for-exercise-of-union-rights/
Bipolar II disorder VIEWPOINTS Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz 11/27/2011
Bipolar II disorder
VIEWPOINTS |
Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz |
In layman’s language, it can be said that a “bipolar disorder” has reference to a transit from one extreme adverse behavioral pattern to another opposite extreme errant behavior, i.e., from one pole to another in terms of contradictory and excessive change in thoughts, feelings and actions (bipolar). In fact, psychiatry speaks of bipolar disorders.
The abnormality is expressed in the plural whereas there are in effect two species of inordinate action and reaction manifestations (disorders). In fact, it is quite revealing that the malady is in the sphere of the so-called “mood disorders” in terms of afflictions in disposition and pursuant conduct. Thus it is that there is “Bipolar I” and “Bipolar II” disorders.
Specifically in conjunction with Bipolar II disorder, it appears to be the interchanging mood and consequent behavior from the so called “Hypomanic” situation to the “depressive” condition. In other words — as amateurs in behavioral science understand by reading the pertinent entries in AMA DMN-IV 4th education:.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20111127com7.html
Caught in the crossfire TABLETS OF STONE Larry Faraon, OP 11/27/2011
Caught in the crossfire
TABLETS OF STONE |
Larry Faraon, OP |
With the monumental decision on the Hacienda Luisita case, the obvious perception is that even the most noble of advocacies such as land redistribution and ownership program was being “caught in the crossfire” between warring feudal lords of the Supreme Court (SC) and Malacañang Palace. Indeed, timing is always interesting. They can deny it to death, but it would seem that the decision upholding the right of the sugar farmers over the portions of land in the huge Cojuangco estate in Tarlac comes just in time when the SC needed leverage and ballistics to get back at the Executive Branch over its disregard of the former’s temporary restraining order (TRO) against the watch list order (WLO) of former President and now Pampanga Rep. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo a week ago.
Of course, the farmers and their supporters are gleeful. I still remember clearly when my two spinster aunts would clash over anything. They would try to outdo each other in giving me coins and chocolates, of course, always to my advantage and gain!
We just hope that the magistrates were acting objectively on the “merits” of the case instead of going along with the speed by which the Department of Justice (DoJ) and the Commision on Elections (Comelec) concocted the electoral sabotage charges against Arroyo. Of course, the Hacienda Luisita case had been pending almost buried six feet below the ground of the SC’s pile of unresolved files. But since timing is always interesting, it is always convenient to resurrect some “messiah” in condemning and punishing the violators of the law. It would even look like the SC was daring P-Noy to disregard its decision a second time around!.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20111127com6.html
Somali pirates free ship with 15 Pinoy sailors By Virgilio J. Bugaoisan 11/27/2011
Somali pirates free ship with 15 Pinoy sailors
By Virgilio J. Bugaoisan 11/27/2011An Italian merchant ship along with its 21 crew members — 15 Filipinos and six Italians — seized in April in the Arabian Sea near Oman by Somali pirates has been freed, Italian news media yesterday reported.
The 225-meter Rosalia D’Amato — owned by Naples-based shipper Perseveranza — had been sailing from Brazil to Iran with a cargo of soybeans and came under fire from its attackers when it was taken on April 21.
La Repubblica daily reported that the ship was currently on its way to “a safe area” and said a ransom had been paid.
Pirates had initially demanded $22 million to free the ship..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20111127hed5.html
Erap forgives GMA for 2001 power grab, plans to visit her By Gerry Baldo 11/27/2011
Erap forgives GMA for 2001 power grab, plans to visit her
By Gerry Baldo 11/27/2011Former President Joseph Estrada has already forgiven former President Arroyo who was his vice president when she was installed as president by an elite-backed people power revolt that ousted Estrada in 2001 and even indicated plans to visit Mrs. Arroyo.
But Estrada said Mrs. Arroyo, now a representative of Pampanga’s 2nd District, should still be held accountable for her sins against the Filipino people.
Estrada, in a television interview yesterday, said that Mrs. Arroyo had wronged the Filipino masses who had wallowed in poverty during her nine years in office.
“Madali akong magpatawad eh (I am easy to forgive),” Estrada said..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20111127hed2.html
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Luisita land valuation up to SC — Palace By Virgilio J. Bugaoisan 11/27/2011
Luisita land valuation up to SC — Palace
By Virgilio J. Bugaoisan 11/27/2011After President Aquino insisted that the government should give just compensation to his relatives who own Hacienda Luisita, Malacañang yesterday said the value of the sugar estate which would be parceled for farmer-beneficiaries of the agrarian reform would have to be determined by the Supreme Court (SC).
In an interview over state-owned Radyo ng Bayan, deputy presidential spokesman Abigail Valte said although Aquino has been vocal in asserting compensation for the Luisita owners, that amount that would be deemed “just” would be established by the high tribunal.
“The executive branch is not the one to give the valuation of the land. That is a function of the court. It is not something within our control or something for us to decide,” she stressed..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20111127hed4.html
Bill seeks probe of athletes’ poor showing in Indonesia filed 11/27/2011
Bill seeks probe of athletes’ poor showing in Indonesia filed
11/27/2011Sen. Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III has filed a resolution asking the Senate committee on games, amusements and sports to conduct an inquiry into the “problems which caused the below-par performance of the Philippines vis-à-vis the projected output of the Philippine Sports Commission” in the 26th Southeast Asian Games held recently in Jakarta, Indonesia.
“This is not a witch-hunt. We want to get to the bottom of the debacle by taking a close look at the whole sports situation, from the selection of athletes to training processes and funding of sports associations, for instance, not finger-pointing and blaming individuals,” Pimentel said.
Pimentel said that “despite the great efforts exerted by our brave Filipino athletes,” the Philippines was overtaken in the bi-annual competition by other countries, including Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia and Singapore, which finished 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th, respectively..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20111127nat2.html
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Different Filipino styles of driving 11/27/2011
Different Filipino styles of driving
11/27/2011The Filipino art of driving differs in styles from defensive driving to reckless drivers who break traffic rules and got away with it.
Reckless driving is the number one culprit in road accidents in the country, which could have been avoided had the drivers observed simple traffic regulations.
The most common violations are beating the red light, over-speeding and overtaking.
Other causes of road accidents are drunk driving, mechanical defects, using cellular phones while driving, road defects, overloading and sudden turn, left or right or U-turn without first stopping to see if there are no incoming vehicles..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/nation/20111127nat7.html
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AFP chief of staff to relinquish top military post ahead of his retirement By Mario J. Mallari 11/27/2011
AFP chief of staff to relinquish top military post ahead of his retirement
By Mario J. Mallari 11/27/2011Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief of staff Gen. Eduardo Oban Jr. will relinquish the top military post one day ahead of his mandatory retirement on Dec. 13, dousing speculations of his possible extension in the active military service.
At a press briefing yesterday, AFP spokesman Col. Arnulfo Marcelo Burgos Jr. said there is change of command ceremonies scheduled on Dec. 12 at Camp Aguinaldo.
“General Oban will retire 13th of December, the change of command ceremony will be held Dec. 12, a day before his birthday,” Burgos said.
Burgos added Oban had concluded his farewell visits to his counterparts in Brunei and Malaysia and is scheduled to do final round of visitations to major camps throughout the country to ensure continuity of his plans and programs for the 125,000-strong organization..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/metro/20111127met2.html
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‘JV’ wants Mikey Arroyo’s businesses investigated By Gerry Baldo 11/27/2011
‘JV’ wants Mikey Arroyo’s businesses investigated
By Gerry Baldo 11/27/2011The tax evasion case now pending against Ang Galing Pinoy Rep. Mikey Arroyo and his spouse may only be a tip of an iceberg, San Juan Rep. Joseph Victor “JV” Ejercito said yesterday.
Ejercito added there are other transactions that have been contracted by the party-list representative which may not be above-board during the presidency of his mother.
Ejercito said there are reports that Mikey had entered into some business deals during the time of his mother since the ouster of his father, former President Joseph Estrada, in 2001.
Ejercito refused to give details on the transactions even as he urged the Aquino government to investigate the “businesses” of the lawmaker..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/metro/20111127met1.html
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