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He will never be president—
but Elly provides us perennial comic relief
By PURPLE ROMERO
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He has done outrageous things—from suing Pope Benedict to scattering spikes on EDSA in 2004, which damaged a hundred cars, after he was declared a nuisance candidate in the presidential elections. Continue Reading »
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I was reading the transcript of a recent Hillary Clinton campaign speech when I got that weird feeling of déjà vu. Clinton was in Pittsburgh, going on and on about trade with China. She promised to “stand up to China and other non–market countries,” which, she claimed, “subsidize their exports and put our manufacturers at a disadvantage.” The U.S. needs “to immediately and aggressively crack down on China’s unfair trade practices,” including “currency manipulation,” which she deemed “outrageous.” Her goal, she said, was “leveling the playing field for our manufacturers with smart fair trade.” Continue Reading »
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Palace confirms Arroyo meeting with ZTE execs
ABS-CBN NewsOnline
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President Arroyo met with officials of ZTE Corp. in Shenzhen, China for a “social lunch” five months before the firm won the contract fo
r the $329 million National Broadband Network (NBN), Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita said Wednesday.In a press conference in Malacañang Palace, Ermita said Mrs. Arroyo’s trip to the ZTE office in November 2, 2006 was part of her official schedule. He also denied that Mrs. Arroyo and her husband, Jose Miguel Arroyo, discussed the proposed broadband deal with ZTE executives during the meeting.
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BEYOND 2010
By Antonio Abaya
Manila Standard
In his presentation last week at the Asian Institute of Management, on the 2010 presidential elections, political analyst Tony Gatmaitan made his usual pitches about the Lucena-Lingayen corridor, the relative strengths of the Kampi-Lakas, NP, LP, NPC and PDP-Laban and their announced or expected nominees, the role of radio and TV ads in the campaign, etc. He spoke in a lecture sponsored by the Futuristics Center , of which I am a director.
Posted in Government, Military, Politics, country, election, people | 18 Comments »  Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, center, smiles as outgoing Armed Forces Chief Gen. Hermogenes Esperon Jr., left, congratulates his successor Gen. Alexander Yano during a Change-of-Command ceremony at Camp Aguinaldo at Manila’s Quezon city Monday, May 12, 2008. In her remarks, Arroyo pardoned nine military officers who apologized after being convicted of a 2003 coup plot, saying that the country yearns for stability not “political shenanigans.” Continue Reading »
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ON THE BRINK
Editorial, Daily Inquirer, May 12, 2008
MANILA, Philippines - US Senator Barack Obama is about to make American history. Six more primaries remain in the nominating season, with US Senator Hillary Clinton expected to do very well in West Virginia, Kentucky and Puerto Rico, but even these victories will be short of the miracle the former first lady needs to win the Democratic Party’s nomination.
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Why P100 gasoline might be goodBy John Mangun - Business Mirror
Yesterday (May 7, 200
 the international investment house Goldman Sachs forecast that crude oil will reach as high as $200 per barrel within the next 24 months.This might be dismissed as typical investment-market chatter if not for the fact that these same oil analysts at Goldman predicted in 2005 that oil would breach $100 a barrel. That would put the price of a liter of gasoline at P100 just in time for the 2010 presidential election.
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OF 17, OOPS GOING 18
 Mother with 17 children with names beginning with J is expecting again… but struggling to find a new name
Having 18 children would be more than enough of a challenge for most women, but for U.S. mother Michelle Duggar it throws up an extra problem … she has to come up with an 18th name beginning with J so it won’t stand out among its siblings.
The seven sisters and 10 brothers are Joshua, 20; twins Jana and John-David, both 18; Jill, 16; Jessa, 15; Jinger, 14; Joseph, 13; Josiah, 11; Joy-Anna, 10; twins Jeremiah and Jedidiah, both nine; Jason, seven; James, six; Justin, five; Jackson, three; Johannah, two; and Jennifer, nine months old.
Mrs Duggar, 41, of Bible-belt state Arkansas, is expecting on New Year’s Day.
“We’ve had three in January, three in December. Those two months are a busy time for us,” she said.
The fast-growing family lives in Tontitown in north-west Arkansas in a 7,000 sq ft home, and the children are all home-educated.
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ANG ATING KASAYSAYAN
 (In memory of Ka Simon who just passed away, let’s go back in history up to the time he was among those who gallantly fought for our independence. Ka Simon, saan ka man naroroon, we SALUTE YOU!!!)
The Philippines in earlier times
It is thought that the earliest inhabitants of the Philippines lived some 40000 years ago. On Palawan, the long and small island in de western Visayas, human bones were found dating to about 22.000 years ago. Stone tools from ancient times were found too on Palawan. Continue Reading »
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