April 2010
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Marvel iPhone and iPad App is future of comic... →
The narrative artwork that is the comic book would be page layout in panels and published as a magazine. In the 1800s, the first American comic book and the first graphic novel appeared in print. It wouldn’t be until the publication of Action Comics issue 1, written by Jerry Siegel and art by Joe Shuster with Superman on the cover and title character that comic books would be turned into an...
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Watch“Philippines election campaign in full swing” reported by Felicity Tan.
Video via Barriosiete
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Ten Thousand Things: Unverfied reports.... really... →
I have unverified reports that 1) Gibo has been kidnapped by aliens and replaced with an exact replica 2) Villar has a tattoo of GMA’s face on his butt 3) Gordon will undergo a sex-change 4) JC De Los Reyes used a condom when he was a teenager 5) ERAP has started a Quartets for Christ to woo…
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Political Things that Hurt →
Manny Villar and his supporters probably had only Noynoy Aquino in mind when they started the psych-document caper. They had a simple goal — scare off people so that the Aquino would suffer the same exodus of votes that hit Villar.
Yes, this should be laid at Villar’s doorstep. Let us not dignify that excuse about excitable, gung-ho followers. If this were so, Villar would have apologized...
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Enrile: Legarda badmouthed Villar →
By Dennis Carcamo (philstar.com) Updated April 26, 2010 05:19 PM
MANILA, Philippines – Vice presidential bet Sen. Loren Legarda had called her now running mate Sen. Manny Villar “crooked,” “rotten” and “good for nothing,” according to Senate President and re-electionist senator Juan Ponce Enrile.
In a press conference today at the Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino headquarters in Mandaluyong City,...
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Villar presses ‘psy war’ →
There are days, when one simply wishes to tune out of this campaign. Too many imbeciles like Delgado call attention to themselves. It is quite clear that:
a. Delgado blundered by using another psychologist who could contradict him.
b. Delgado’s lie was quite obvious. He said, everything came from a brown bag. The documents should have looked crumbled for the presscon.
c. Delgado...
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Ateneo Alumni to Villar: Admit you're losing!
‘STOP LIES, BLACK PROP VS AQUINO, ROXAS’
Alumni of the Ateneo de Manila University Batch 1974 and a political officer of the Liberal Party have challenged Nacionalista Party presidential bet Senator Manny Villar to stop sowing intrigues and lies against Liberal party tandem Senator Benigno S. Aquino III and Senator Mar Roxas II.
Rose Romero, one of the political officers of Roxas, said Villar’s...
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Arbitrary detention and extortion by officers of... →
It appears that this is a common modus operandi of Philippine policemen in many slum areas that are suspected of having drug activity. They intimidate people who they think they can milk with bribe money. The sad thing is, while innocent people like my mom are subjected to this kind of inhuamne treatment; the guilty ones easily get away with violating the law by bribing these policemen.
I’m...
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Why issues are not front and center in 2010 →
New Media and the Election of 2010
People too talk about black propaganda, of Death Stars and Sith Lords.
We look at questions of Savannah, of C5, of SALN and speak of ammo but fail to ask, if Manny Villar became president shouldn’t questions about whether he cheated, lied, and broke laws to build his empire be answered now, rather than when he’s president when allegations such as that would...
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The iPhone Leak Gets Ugly: Police Raid Gizmodo... →
Gawker Media says, search warrant is illegal. (via thegreatest)
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Why issues are not front and center in 2010 →
Villar and his past
Questions about Villar’s past continued to hound him.
On March 16, Lila Shahani posted a piece on her blog searching for the source of Manny Villar’s wealth. She concluded that Villar could very have perjured himself or was money laundering.
More than a month later, Dean dela Paz wrote on April 22, Squidballs and sloppy sorties, which was a rather emotional piece against...
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Symantec: Philippines 1st in web-based attacks in... →
In a small room at Le Bistro along Valero Street at the heart of Makati City, the Philippines’ financial district, Raymond Goh, Technical Director Systems Engineering and Technology Advisory Group delivered Symantec ($SYMC)’s Symantec Internet Security Threat Report XV.
The atmosphere was not as somber as one might think, given that the news being delivered was bad.
In South East Asian region,...
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Manny Villar was truly poor →
When asked how difficult it was back then to feed nine children, Nanay Curing recalls: “Hindi naman mahirap. Simple lang naman ang kinakain namin eh. ‘Yun lang mga isda na putol ang ulo, putol ang buntot, ang inuuwi ko. Hindi naman ‘yung mamahalin.”
With a double income much higher than the nation’s average, the Villar couple could easily afford to feed their children.
Their fish dealer-mother...
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"However, Gonzales reportedly got an assurance...
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Is Gonzales endorsing Villar? By Jaime Laude (The Philippine Star) Updated April 24, 2010 12:00 AM
MANILA, Philippines - Is Defense Secretary Norberto Gonzales the campaign manager of Nacionalista Party (NP) standard-bearer Sen. Manuel Villar Jr.?
Several middle and senior grade military officers posed this question yesterday after Gonzales reportedly endorsed Villar at...
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LP senatoriable Gen Danny Lim: “Destroy what... →
clariztanganco:
noypipol:
“Destroy what destroys us.”
This is the political call made by detained Brigadier General Danilo “Danny” Lim to the public as the election campaign period winds down to its final leg.
In a…
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“Local powerbrokers like Nograles float the myth of the “political machine” that...”
– Alex Magno, Electoral Financing, April 22, 2010 (via mlq3)
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Dispatches from the Enchanted Kingdom
Opinion Written by Manuel Buencamino Dispatches from the Enchanted Kingdom Business Mirror WEDNESDAY, 21 APRIL 2010 20:53
Between a fellow who is stupid and honest and one who is smart and crooked, I will take the first. I won’t get much out of him, but with that other guy I can’t keep what I’ve got.—Lewis B. Hershey
Someone who calls himself “thecusponline” captured the essence of the...
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MLQ3 on Tumblr!: "Villar responds," by Lito Banayo →
MALAYA/April 20, 2010 ‘Villar lies when it is convenient for him to do so.’ SENATOR Manny Villar has been making the rounds of broadcast media to respond to various issues hounding his campaign, and dish out remarks against his main protagonist, who has been featured by Time Magazine on its…
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What survey says about the LP and NP
During the opening days of the 2010 national election campaign period, Social Weather Station and Pulse Asia delivered a blow to the Aquino campaign. The Yellow Army suddenly found its considerable lead destroyed by the highly efficient Villar War Machine. Both Aquino and Villar found themselves in near equal footing.
I write this because of what I have observed between the reaction of the...
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MLQ3 on Tumblr!: Editorial: "Whitewash" →
Editorial Whitewash Philippine Daily Inquirer First Posted 21:36:00 04/20/2010 FROM THE VERY START, IT WAS CLEAR THAT what would be blind was not the administration of justice but the justice secretary, and that he would be blind to the ethical dilemmas his background would present in an…
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“Knowing others is intelligence;
knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering...”
– Tao Te Ching
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Ako’y PiNOY at MARangal by Sinaglaya Band
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"Villar is Finished," by Joel Rocamora (April 7,... →
Villar is Finished
Joel Rocamora, April 7, 2010
The biggest news in the campaign, now only a month from the May 10 election, is the collapse of the Villar candidacy. His main competitor, Noynoy Aquino has not increased his survey numbers since January. But in three months, Villar has lost ten…
Now charlatans will know to beware the geeks →
thegreatest:
givemesomethingtoread:
Simon Singh’s historic win is also a triumph for his online allies
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Result of SSS Employee's Union Mock Election...
Here are the results of the Mock Election conducted by the SSS Employee’s Union (ACCESS) participated in by their members from all over the country, from Abra to Jolo tallied last April 17, 2010. Resuts are as follows: President Candidate Name Vote Percentage
Benigno Aquino III 56.22%
Gilbert Teodoro, Jr. 21.27%
Richard Gordon 7.43%
Joseph Estrada 5.16%
Manuel Villar, Jr. 4.30%
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Manny Villar’s P10 Billion Vista Land IPO proceeds →
“Finally, exactly how did they got hold of the P10 billion proceeds? Listening to the interview, it seemed like they owned those shares before the IPO (subscribed to the shares) and then sold them to the market (during the IPO). Under what SEC conditions could this be done in the Philippines?”
Good questions. i hope they get answered.
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[Random Salt] Round and round →
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While Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) founding chairman Jose Maria Sison was studiously careful not to endorse a presidential candidate in a recent Bulalat interview—endorsement being, after all, a validation of the very system that the CPP and its various arms would see consigned to the dustbin of history—I find it worth noting that, between front-runners Noynoy Aquino and...
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Concentric Rings II: Land-grabbing, land...
Part 2 of 3-part series on Villar, this time on human rights
By guest blogger Lila Shahani. Originally posted at Notes from an Insomniac. Reposted here in verbatim with her permission.
“Hindi talaga ako papayag. Magbubuwis talaga ako ng dugo. Ipaglalaban ko talaga ang lugar na ito.” Pol had been a cheerful, voluble man, inordinately fond of teasing his wife and playing pranks on...
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Concentric Rings, Part II: land-grabbing, land... →
a must read
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“I’m tempted to publish what I know are “photoshopped” pictures of Manny Villar...”
– Manuel Buencamino, “Pseudologia fantastica,” Dispatches from the Enchanted Kingdom, April 14, 2010. (via mlq3)
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The Opportunity of Solomon and the Luisita...
I originally posted this at Filipino Voices on September 15, 2009. I am reposting it here for archival purposes.
It was the latter half of the 1980s. The Provisional Freedom Constitution was promulgated by Corazon Aquino and a year later, Filipinos overwhelmingly ratified a new Constitution in the Philippines. 1987 saw Dirty Dancing was all the rage. Elsewhere, a truce began in the Iraq-Iran...
