Noynoy cashing in on the people’s ignorance BACKBENCHER Rod. P. Kapunan 01/30/2010

Noynoy cashing in on the people’s ignorance BACKBENCHER Rod. P. Kapunan 01/30/2010 All because there is a growing clamor for a reduction of taxes, Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino is cashing in on that sentiment, in the hope of easing the pain of being tagged as an intellectual loafer. For one, the Jesuits, who have been acting as the shepherds of the country’s elite, are already batting the idea of canonizing Cory Aquino, and they have every reason because it was she who restored to them the privilege of tax exemption while playing the dual role of attacking and collecting donations from the government. This is why Noynoy, and obviously upon the advice of the hypocrites and the self-righteous, has come out in favor of a tax rate moratorium. Thus, people who are not familiar with the way the system works, easily buy the idea..... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.classicposters.com/commentary/20100130com3.html

COMMENTARY EDITORIAL Losing it all FRONTLINE Passing the buck of failure again BACKBENCHER Noynoy cashing in on the people’s ignorance

Palace: DFA says don’t talk about final draft to media Seguis downplays MILF peace accord By Michaela P. del Callar and Aytch S. de la Cruz 01/29/2010

Palace: DFA says don’t talk about final draft to media Seguis downplays MILF peace accord By Michaela P. del Callar and Aytch S. de la Cruz 01/29/2010 Fearing a collapse of the peace talks with the Muslim secessionists with Malacañang’s admission of a final draft agreement spelling out “executive doables,” in the final draft agreement, chief government negotiator Rafael Seguis yesterday belied reports that there is already a final agreement, similar to the scrapped expanded Muslim homeland accord declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court (SC), that will give the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) a Bangsa Moro sub-state. Seguis and his MILF counterpart, Mohagher Iqbal, started formal talks in Kuala Lumpur Wednesday to exchange and discuss their respective draft copies of a comprehensive peace pact..... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.classicposters.com/headlines/20100129hed1.html

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Midnight maneuver EDITORIAL 01/29/2010

Midnight maneuver EDITORIAL Click to enlarge 01/29/2010 It seems that Gloria and her cohorts are so inebriated by the prospect of turning most of Mindanao into fiefdoms in exchange for guaranteed political fealty that the push for a Bangsa Moroland seems to never end. It took the Supreme Court (SC) to stop an earlier effort to put up the separate state that is the Bangsa Moro homeland in Mindanao through the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MoA-AD) that was all set for signing in Malaysia..... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.classicposters.com/commentary/20100129com1.html

COMMENTARY EDITORIAL Midnight maneuver FRONTLINE An unconstitutional peace pact again? ANALYSIS Obama: Bloodied warrior for change NO HOLDS BARRED Unparliamentary DIE HARD III Without Erap, lose Mindanao FEATURE ‘Dogs of war’ saving lives in Afghanistan

An unconstitutional peace pact again? FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 01/29/2010

An unconstitutional peace pact again? FRONTLINE Ninez Cacho-Olivares 01/29/2010 With some five months to go before she departs Malacañang, Gloria Arroyo is still pushing through with a peace pact with the Moro secessionists, which will still give them the so-called “ancestral homeland” they have been demanding from this government. Malacañang says that the new peace pact, or the second Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MoA-AD) for the Bangsa Moro people, which is really the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels, will follow the constitutional path, unlike the first one, which was struck down by the high court for being unconstitutional.... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.classicposters.com/commentary/20100129com2.html

COMMENTARY EDITORIAL Midnight maneuver FRONTLINE An unconstitutional peace pact again? ANALYSIS Obama: Bloodied warrior for change NO HOLDS BARRED Unparliamentary DIE HARD III Without Erap, lose Mindanao FEATURE ‘Dogs of war’ saving lives in Afghanistan