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Devil and the deep blue sea Written by Tribune Editorial Tuesday, 07 August 2012 00:00
Monday, August 6, 2012
Devil and the deep blue sea
- Written by Tribune Editorial
- Tuesday, 07 August 2012
It
would be an unenviable situation that congressmen allies of Noynoy will
find themselves in today as the House votes on the Reproductive Health
(RH) bill since it seems that they are caught between the devil and the
deep blue sea.Their position becomes more precarious as the House majority leader pushed nominal voting for the bill instead of the mere raising of hands.
The majority leader claimed that nominal voting bespeaks of transparency, rather than a viva voce vote.
That could well be true. However, given that Noynoy is pushing the congressional enactment of the RH bill, nominal voting could very well have something to do with knowing just who voted for, or against it, as it is generally known that when the Malacañang resident wants a congressional vote on a measure he wants passed, great are the Palace rewards for the congressmen who go along with what Noynoy wants.
Noynoy tried to marshall his forces in a caucus yesterday, worried that the vote today would be marred by absences after the Church gave those who will vote in favor of the bill something to think about related to next year’s elections after the prayer rally at Edsa Shrine against the bill which is evidently a show of force by the bishops on the Church’s diminished but still potent clout..... MORE
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/index.php/commentary/editorial/item/2582-devil-and-the-deep-blue-sea
Waiting for Noynoy’s order? Written by Ninez Cacho-Olivares
Waiting for Noynoy’s order?
- Written by Ninez Cacho-Olivares
- Tuesday, 07 August 2012
Presidential
pressure must certainly be piling up on the Judicial and Bar Council
(JBC) to amend its rule on disqualifying nominees and candidates for
positions in the Supreme Court (SC) and include Noynoy’s favorite bet
for the chief justice position, Leila de Lima in the shortlist, despite
the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) having categorically stated
that the disbarment cases against her will be pursued.Noynoy’s pressure on the JBC has become much too evident, considering the fact that the JBC has again postponed its voting for the selection of the candidates scheduled yesterday. His loyal ally, Rep. Niel Tupas Jr., has already prepared an amendment to change the JBC rule on disqualification, for De Lima’s benefit.
The body claimed that, with the re-entry of the two members of Congress in the JBC, more time is needed for them to review and assess the qualifications of the nominees to be included in the shortlist which would be submitted to the President..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/index.php/commentary/item/2581-waiting-for-noynoy%E2%80%99s-order?
Swarm of bees tells Hillary Clinton to 'buzz off'
Swarm of bees tells Hillary Clinton to 'buzz off'
Hillary Clinton’s six-and-a-half hour trip to Malawi literally went by in a buzz. The US Secretary of State has received not-so-warm welcomes from several countries she’s visited, but in Malawi she was reportedly chased onto her plane.
Chased onto herhttp://www.rt.com/news/hillary-clinton-bees-mawali-962/ plane by a swarm of bees, that is.
Clinton ran for cover and boarded her jet to escape the bees, which attacked her at Malawi’s international airport, the local Nyasa Times quotes witnesses as saying. The Secretary was preparing to board a Johannesburg-bound flight when the stinging swarm forced her to make a quicker entry than planned..... MORE
Source: RT.com
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/
Twitter impostor: Hacked Reuters account says Washington, al-Qaeda allied
Twitter impostor: Hacked Reuters account says Washington, al-Qaeda allied
Just two days after phony posts appeared on Reuters’ blog, the agency’s Twitter account was also hacked. Once again, the hoax tweets informed readers of rebel losses in Syria, and reported fake White House admissions of supporting al-Qaeda.
Many of the tweets were sensational, but fraudulent statements coming out of the White House.
“Obama takes Al Qaeda off list of terrorist organisation, says Al Qaeda no longer a threat to US interests,” the Reuters Tech account tweeted Sunday..... MORE
Source: RT.com
URL: http://www.rt.com/news/reuters-twitter-account-hack-931/
Tobacco tax rise = smuggling increase
Tobacco tax rise = smuggling increase
- Written by Jonathan de la Cruz
- Monday, 06 August 2012
With
news of increased smuggling activities all over the place, the latest
being the now celebrated(?) rice smuggling in Subic and the
multibillion-peso smuggling of meat products, it behooves Finance
Secretary Cesar Purisima and his associates, in and out of the agency,
to review their oft repeated promises that they will be able to ward off
smuggling of other products, especially cigarettes and tobacco as they
try to railroad passage of the questionable “Sin Tax” law increasing
excise tax on these items which most experts believe will result in
smuggling. The experience of many countries including the United States
is instructive.More than five years ago, 27 states in the US decided to raise taxes on tobacco in a move to pump revenue into their cash strapped treasuries. The state officials had the shock of their lives. Not only did the cash increases hardly materialize, a fresh scourge cropped up before their very eyes. Michigan’s Mackinac Center for Public Policy which closely tracks tobacco tax rates across the United States noted that the increases “inspired an increasingly dangerous cigarette industry where big profits lured criminal gangs and drug traffickers into the booming markets.” The Center noted that smuggling is an “unintended consequence of high cigarette taxes.” .... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/index.php/commentary/item/2494-tobacco-tax-rise-=-smuggling-increase
Lawbreakers Written by Dinah S. Ventura
Lawbreakers
- Written by Dinah S. Ventura
- Monday, 06 August 2012
Another young man has lost his life undergoing a “rite of passage” that has been deemed unlawful.Marc Andrei Marcos, law student, in joining a law school fraternity, went through an initiation process that, in the end, took rather than gave him a future.
His family grieves, concerned citizens are righteously indignant, and the authorities are in the thick of investigations. The news reveals that some 20 individuals may be involved in the death of young Marcos.
Government officials have reiterated that hazing is against the law. “It is a heinous crime under the law. In fact, it is non-bailable,” said Undersecretary Francisco Baraan III, officer in charge of the Department of Justice (DoJ), in a Daily Tribune report last Aug. 2.
For this non-bailable offense, students of the law are, ironically, risking their future in order to help assure themselves of a future..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/index.php/commentary/item/2493-lawbreakers
Frat culture Written by Aldrin Cardona Monday, 06 August 2012 00:00
Frat culture
- Written by Aldrin Cardona
- Monday, 06 August 2012
Our country was born through the blood and sacrifices of fraternity members.The Katipunan was envisioned as a frat, called brotherhood at the time, with Bonifacio — the Supreme Leader — entailing sacrifices and millenarian practices for acceptance and leadership even at the time of his death at the hands of his own “brothers,” or fratmates if we are to call them now.
Frats have served the country well during dire straits.
The RAM stood up against Marcos when this brotherhood of soldiers realized he had gone too far. The Magdalo banded together to demand Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s ouster. Many university frat members have joined the underground under a testy political situation with many of them sacrificing their lives for their causes.
Each Filipino family has a relative in a fraternity. Each province or region has its own amalgamation of brotherhoods and sisterhoods, called sororities. Majority of communities have them. The Catholic church has several confraternities and is open about it..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/index.php/commentary/item/2492-frat-culture
Noynoy calls House caucus to assure RH bill passage
Noynoy calls House caucus to assure RH bill passage
- Written by Fernan J. Angeles
- Monday, 06 August 2012
WORRIED OVER ABSENCES OF ALLIES AFTER CHURCH RALLY
Apparently wanting to assure the passage of the Reproductive Health (RH) bill two days after the Catholic Church made a grand reminder to legislators about its still potent political clout, President Aquino called a caucus among Liberal Party (LP) members in the House of Representatives at Malacañang on the eve of the voting for the bill.
Some House members expressed fears that several legislators may resort to disappearing acts during the day of the vote to prevent being targeted by the Church during next year’s elections.
In a text message sent by the Office of Communications Assistant Secretary Renato Marfil, the caucus is scheduled at 1 p.m. today. However, there wasn’t any agenda indicated in the text advisory regularly sent to Palace reporters for reference. Even Aquino’s deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte confirmed the caucus but did not give further details about the event..... MORE
Apparently wanting to assure the passage of the Reproductive Health (RH) bill two days after the Catholic Church made a grand reminder to legislators about its still potent political clout, President Aquino called a caucus among Liberal Party (LP) members in the House of Representatives at Malacañang on the eve of the voting for the bill.
Some House members expressed fears that several legislators may resort to disappearing acts during the day of the vote to prevent being targeted by the Church during next year’s elections.
In a text message sent by the Office of Communications Assistant Secretary Renato Marfil, the caucus is scheduled at 1 p.m. today. However, there wasn’t any agenda indicated in the text advisory regularly sent to Palace reporters for reference. Even Aquino’s deputy presidential spokesperson Abigail Valte confirmed the caucus but did not give further details about the event..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/index.php/headlines/item/2553-noynoy-calls-house-caucus-to-assure-rh-bill-passage
UN applies pressure on Noy for RH enactment
UN applies pressure on Noy for RH enactment
- Written by Fernan J. Angeles
- Monday, 06 August 2012
The bill seeks to make it mandatory for the government to provide free contraceptives in a country where more than 80 percent of the population is Catholic and which has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in Southeast Asia.
Ugochi Daniels, country representative from the UN Population Fund, said she remained “cautiously optimistic” that President Aquino’s allies who dominate the House of Representatives could muster the numbers to pass the bill on Tuesday after 14 years of often divisive debate.
“What is important now is to highlight the urgency of the bill,” Daniels said..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/index.php/headlines/item/2551-un-applies-pressure-on-noy-for-rh-enactment
DENR OKs gas, mineral search in Benham Rise Written by PNA Monday, 06 August 2012 00:00
DENR OKs gas, mineral search in Benham Rise
- Written by PNA
- Monday, 06 August 2012
Paje revealed this as he included in the DENR’s performance review in the Senate the approval of the Philippines’ claim on the jurisdiction over the seabed resources in Benham Rise area by the United Nation on April 12.
”It’s now ours. The UN has agreed. It’s already ours. The DoE can take the ball if they want to,” Paje said.
Paje told the Senate committee on finance that the Benham Rise is rich in manganese and possibly, other minerals and natural gas..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/index.php/nation/item/2538-denr-oks-gas-mineral-search-in-benham-rise
DENR OKs gas, mineral search in Benham Rise
DENR OKs gas, mineral search in Benham Rise
- Written by PNA
- Monday, 06 August 2012
Paje revealed this as he included in the DENR’s performance review in the Senate the approval of the Philippines’ claim on the jurisdiction over the seabed resources in Benham Rise area by the United Nation on April 12.
”It’s now ours. The UN has agreed. It’s already ours. The DoE can take the ball if they want to,” Paje said.
Paje told the Senate committee on finance that the Benham Rise is rich in manganese and possibly, other minerals and natural gas.
DENR Undersecretary Peter Tiangco, who spearheaded the campaign to get the jurisdiction of the Benham Rise seabed for 12 years, said if the DoE or any department cannot explore the area at this time “the important thing is it is now ours.”.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/index.php/nation/item/2538-denr-oks-gas-mineral-search-in-benham-rise
Palace ups dengue, leptospirosis alert
Palace ups dengue, leptospirosis alert
- Written by Fernan J. Angeles
- Monday, 06 August 2012
At a press briefing in Malacañang, deputy presidential spokesman Abigail Valte said President Aquino has instructed the Department of Health (DoH) to make sure that government hospitals and medical professionals were ready to work round-the-clock mode to attend to the growing number of leptospirosis victims which stood at 2,002 from January to July this year, up from the 887 cases in the first seven months of 2011.
“The Department of Health (DoH) has already assured us that all government hospitals in the country have been put on stand-by, while government hospital administrators have already been told to be ready and equipped with whatever medicines are needed (as) medical professionals have already made a commitment to be and available to serve at anytime they’re needed,” Valte said..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/index.php/nation/item/2540-palace-ups-dengue-leptospirosis-alert
Garbage volume in Las Piñas City drops by 37%
Garbage volume in Las Piñas City drops by 37%
- Written by Pat C. Santos
- Monday, 06 August 2012
This after Las Piñas Mayor Vergel Aguilar recently noted significant drop in volume of solid wastes collected from households and commercial areas in the last three months.
Aguilar renewed his call for a continued practice of proper garbage disposal and minimal use of plastics and styrofoams as food packaging and carry-out bags.
Aguilar said there is about 37 percent decrease in garbage volume collected by the city’s Environmental Sanitation Office from households in 20 barangays, public markets and talipapa as well as in all commercial center areas in Las Piñas.
The city’s 60 compactor trucks make an average of 105 trips per day to collect solid wastes from households, 50 talipapa and wet markets and 15 public markets. To date, the Environmental Sanitation Office said only about four percent in plastic and styrofoam materials are found from the trash collected..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/index.php/metro-section/item/2509-garbage-volume-in-las-pi%C3%B1as-city-drops-by-37
Six-month suspension order served on Councilor Paulate — QC official
Six-month suspension order served on Councilor Paulate — QC official
- Written by Arlie O. Calalo
- Monday, 06 August 2012
Nevertheless, DILG-QC director Juan Juvian Ingeniero said the case was different from Paulate’s colleague, Councilor Francisco Calalay Jr., whose staff accepted the copy of the order without any resistance when he handed it to his (Calalay) office on July 25.
That was the same time when he served the order on Paulate, who is also a movie and television personality, through his staff but the latter refused to receive it, Ingeniero told members of the Quezon City Press Club.
He recalled that Paulate’s employees even blocked them when he and his staff posted the order on the door of the local lawmaker’s office at the legislative building.
Just the same, the DILG-QC official insisted that he already served and enforced the preventive suspension order which he also posted on the bulletin board of the city council..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/index.php/metro-section/item/2512-six-month-suspension-order-served-on-councilor-paulate-%E2%80%94-qc-official
More than a flip-flop Written by Tribune Editorial
Sunday, August 5, 2012
More than a flip-flop
- Written by Tribune Editorial
- Sunday, 05 August 2012
The Supreme Court (SC) tried to sound Solomonic in its resolution of the impasse on the Congress representation in the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC), but in the end it was an admission of its abject inability to rule independently and stick to its position.
The acting Carpio Court’s decision to suspend its “executory” decision that Congress is only entitled to one seat in the JBC was clearly a co-opting to the whims of both the Palace and Congress on the issue.
While the decision was not entirely a reversal of the earlier ruling, it exposed the Carpio Court’s lack of resolve in defending what the SC justices had already interpreted as what was contained in the Constitution which was the expressed limit of only one representative for Congress in the body.
The decision resulted in both legislative chambers to order their representatives to withdraw from the nominating body which is tasked to draft the shortlist for the SC chief justice candidates from which Noynoy will choose the head of his reclaimed and pliant high court..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/index.php/commentary/editorial/item/2453-more-than-a-flip-flop
Told you so Written by Ninez Cacho-Olivares
Told you so
- Written by Ninez Cacho-Olivares
- Sunday, 05 August 2012
Hate
to tell you “I told you so,” but I did tell you so, which is why the
nation now has not only a subservient-to-Malacañang Supreme Court (SC)
but also a high court petrified of a Congress, because both can easily
impeach and convict any SC justice they want — even when there is no
impeachable offense committed.This has all come about because the Malacañang tenant now knows how powerful money and position can be in getting Congress to do his every bidding — including throwing out any justice, especially the Chief Justice, and any impeachable officer holding a constitutional office and convict them despite the absence of an impeachable crime.
It was being preached then by Noynoy and his Yellows, and yes, even some SC justices who were salivating for the chief justice post, that the high bench was nothing but a Gloria Arroyo court, and that with CJ Renato Corona heading the SC, never can the Filipino people expect justice and impartiality in its decisions. This, claimed the hypocrite of the first water Noynoy, was the reason he was out to impeach and convict Corona, to reclaim the SC for the people..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/index.php/commentary/item/2452-told-you-so
Father of political detainee Ericson Acosta appeals for son’s health, freedom
Father of political detainee Ericson Acosta appeals for son’s health, freedom
“I cannot but be distressed by the continuing prejudice of our justice system against my son and other political prisoners like him.”
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
Bulatlat.com
MANILA — The family of political detainee artist Ericson Acosta has issued a new appeal to human rights advocates and Acosta’s friends and supporters, this time regarding the detainee’s health problems.
Acosta’s father, Isaias, said his son is in immediate need of medical attention because of a worsening kidney problem. Isaias, 79, said Ericson, who has been detained for over a year since February 2011 in Calbayog, Samar on false charges, is suffering from painful kidney stones. He and his wife Liwayway, 80, are not in the peak of health either and have their own share of health issues.
“We are both physically suffering due to our respective conditions but nothing compares to the torment of knowing that our son continues to be unjustly imprisoned,” he said.
Isais said that in his last visit to Acosta, his son said he had been feeling persistent pain in his abdomen and lower back. The pain, Acosta said, intensifies whenever he urinates. Now he has also noticed spots of blood in his urine.
“My cousin, Ericson’s uncle, displayed similar symptoms before he succumbed to prostate cancer. Ericson rarely complains when he is sick. Even when he was arrested last year, his first words to me were, ‘Daddy don’t worry about me. He always tells his mother not to fuss over him. That’s how Ericson is. He suffers in silence. Once when he was still in grade school, he waited until a stomachache had become too unbearable before he finally told us to take him to the hospital. It turned out he immediately needed to undergo an appendectomy. The doctor said we got there in the nick of time,” Isaias said.
According to the detainee’s father, Acosta’s last check-up two years ago revealed a renal function abnormality and a possible prostate affliction.
“So as soon as we received word that he was in pain, we arranged for a visit and asked our lawyers to immediately file a motion before the court seeking urgent medical attention for my son. We had to skip the visit because of my condition. But after we filed the motion, we were told that the judge in charge of his case had just retired. How long would it take until a new judge is installed? It is as if our frustration with the slow resolution of Ericson’s case is not enough. We are once again left bereft of immediate legal options,” he said..... MORE
Source: Bulatlat.com
URL: http://bulatlat.com/main/2012/08/03/father-of-political-detainee-ericson-acosta-appeals-for-sons-health-freedom/
Radioactive cesium found in Japan’s fish, seawater
Radioactive cesium found in Japan’s fish, seawater
Harmless traces of radioactive cesium have been discovered in fish and seawater in several areas of Japan, as the country continues to debate whether their fish is safe to consume and anti-nuke protests grow in the wake of the Fukushima disaster.
Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) stated that radioactive cesium, presumably from the crippled Fukushima I nuclear plant, was found in seawater and fish in several regions of the country, Russian news agency Itar-Tass reported from Tokyo.
The aquatic radiation was detected in central Japan (Shizuoka Prefecture), the western part of central Honshu (Niigata) and the country’s northeast (Iwate)..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.rt.com/news/radioactive-cesium-japan-fish-seawater-895/
Pilgrims or mercenaries? Iran asks Turkey, Qatar for help freeing captured nationals in Syria
Pilgrims or mercenaries? Iran asks Turkey, Qatar for help freeing captured nationals in Syria
Tehran has asked Turkey and Qatar to help secure the release of Iranian nationals kidnapped in the Syrian capital Damascus on Saturday. The Free Syrian Army claimed the Iranians were members of the elite Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
Forty-eight Iranians who disappeared in Syria on Saturday were kidnapped by the Free Syrian Army, Iran's Fars news agency reported..... MORE
Source: RT.com
URL: http://www.rt.com/news/syria-kidnap-damascus-iranian-pilgrims-872/
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