Restore senior citizens’ discount MR. EXPOSE Amb. Ernesto Maceda 02/03/2010

Restore senior citizens’ discount MR. EXPOSE Amb. Ernesto Maceda 02/03/2010 Former Sen. Ralph Recto, then chairman of the ways and means committee, stubbornly refused to allow any exemption to his 12 percent eVAT proposal. He refused to exempt VAT on medicine, oil products and canned foods. But he did allow exemption to PAL in the purchase of airplanes and spare parts. Recto, Teves and GMA said they needed to raise P100 billion from VAT to be spent for schools, health services and other social service projects. But that promise never happened..... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/commentary/20100203com4.html

COMMENTARY EDITORIAL Propaganda FRONTLINE Cheap shot ZOOMING IN Midnight appointers: Garcia (1961), GMA (2010) MR. EXPOSE Restore senior citizens’ discount C.R.O.S.S.R.O.A.D.S Greed and betrayal HE SAYS What Earth says SHE SAYS Lessons from space

Greed and betrayal C.R.O.S.S.R.O.A.D.S Jonathan De la Cruz 02/03/2010

Greed and betrayal C.R.O.S.S.R.O.A.D.S Jonathan De la Cruz 02/03/2010 Greed and Betrayalis the title of the recently re-released book of veteran journalist and teacher Professor Cecilio Arillo. Dubbed the sequel to his earlier publication on the 1986 Edsa Revolt Breakaway, the book chronicles a number of the previously unwritten undertakings during the Cory administration which should provide a clearer picture and thus a more objective appreciation of that era in Philippine life. The book comes as a refreshing counterpoint to the hosannas being thrown the public by the “avenging Yellow crowd” as our fellow columnist Mentong Laurel describes the crowd now surrounding Liberal Party (LP) presidential bet Sen. Noynoy Aquino. True to his calling, our colleague in the profession who started in media way ahead of us as a reporter in the then Roces owned Manila Times group of publications in 1964, this 143-page book carries 10 pages of “Notes and References” which should debunk this early the claim of the Noynoy operators that this is a hatchet job meant to derail the Tarlac solon’s march to Malacañang. Well, they better get a copy and read the entire thing before they get derailed themselves by their own self-denial bordering on amnesia and “feel good” propaganda. Yellow fever victims..... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/commentary/20100203com5.html

COMMENTARY EDITORIAL Propaganda FRONTLINE Cheap shot ZOOMING IN Midnight appointers: Garcia (1961), GMA (2010) MR. EXPOSE Restore senior citizens’ discount C.R.O.S.S.R.O.A.D.S Greed and betrayal HE SAYS What Earth says SHE SAYS Lessons from space

Lessons from space SHE SAYS Dinah S. Ventura 02/03/2010

Lessons from space SHE SAYS Dinah S. Ventura 02/03/2010 Some of the most popular television series in the last century to the present involve alien themes or plots that range from the highly fictitious to the “believable,” couched in “scientific” findings. Our generation saw drama in Roswell, comedy in 3rd Rock from the Sun, adventure in Lost in Space and Star Trek, violence in Alien and Predator, and so on, but nothing quite beats Star Wars and E.T. in popularity. After all these alien-themed shows and films, where whole industries made millions by taking a few facts and letting their imagination flow, the people of planet Earth have become convinced that aliens in outer space are either harmless and cute or intense and dangerous. Either way, everyone is sure they are highly evolved, intelligent super beings with powers far beyond our human comprehension. What these works of fiction seem to agree on, however, is that we, humans, possess something aliens have lost in their advancement — a heart, or the ability to love..... MORE Source:  The Daily Tribune ALTERNATE URL: http://www.tribune.net.ph/commentary/20100203com7.html

COMMENTARY EDITORIAL Propaganda FRONTLINE Cheap shot ZOOMING IN Midnight appointers: Garcia (1961), GMA (2010) MR. EXPOSE Restore senior citizens’ discount C.R.O.S.S.R.O.A.D.S Greed and betrayal HE SAYS What Earth says SHE SAYS Lessons from space