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Enrile calls for unity on cybercrime law By Manila Standard Today | Posted on Oct. 12, 2012 at 12:01am | 1,051 views
Cagayan Rep. Juan “Jack” C. Ponce Enrile Jr. on Thursday praised the wisdom shown by the Supreme Court in issuing a temporary restraining order against the controversial cybercrime prevention law and urged netizens to help in “polishing the law for the general good.”
“The heated debates and even street marches that happened prior to the Supreme Court’s issuance of the TRO last Tuesday demonstrates the vibrancy of our democratic system of government,” Enrile said. “Once again, the Supreme Court has demonstrated its wisdom.”
“I laud the honorable justices for their decision in protecting and preserving our fundamental right to free speech and expression,” the Cagayan lawmaker said
Enrile, who is among the leading Senate candidates of the United Nationalist Alliance for nex t year’s elections, said “the time for noisy and divisive debates on the merits of [Republic Act] 10175 has passed and the opportunity is once again there for all concerned to join hands in polishing the law for the general good.”
“This cannot be done with more noisy and angry debates outside of the confines of Congress but with a sober and objective appreciation of, first, what issues the law intends to address and second, what can be done so they can be addressed without trampling on our basic rights, a m atter that has caused a lot of worries from various quarters.”
He also lauded the government for freely allowing the public to air their concerns on the law without breaking up any street protest staged by some groups.
“The tolerance shown by Malacañang an d our police authorities in not shackling these protest actions is not a demonstration of weakness on the part of the government but rather, of the enlightened and liberal policy of Pres. Noy Aquino.” http://manilastandardtoday.com/2012/10/12/enrile-calls-for-unity-on-cybercrime-law/
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Project (Performance-Based):
Formal Report Voice Projection & Enunciation Confidence Mastery of Role Group Coordination Defense Voice Projection & Enunciation Confidence Mastery Logic and Clarity of Ideas Visual Aid 14 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts. 14 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts.
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‘Wipe them out’ By Christine F. Herrera | Posted on Oct. 15, 2012 at 12:01am | 299 views
Former President Joseph Estrada on Sunday warned that splinter and breakaway groups would start to spring and armed hostilities ensue once the government signed a peace agreement with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. “Wipe them out. You have to wage war in order to win peace,” said Es trada, who claimed that the only way to put an end to the Muslim rebellion and the communist insurgency was to continue fighting the rebels. Estrada, who was deposed in 2007 after being convicted of plunder, but was later pardoned by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, in 2000 declared an “all-out war” on the MILF, and after three months the military captured Camp Abubakar, the headquarters of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. That camp and 13 other major camps and 43 minor MILF camps fell and came under the control of the Armed Forces, but the MILF continued its insurgency. When Estrada was convicted of plunder, the Muslim clerics said he received his just deserts as his conviction was part of the murkah he would suffer for eating roast pork and drinking beer inside an Arabic school to celebrate the fall of Abubakar. Estrada on Sunday lamented the government’s decision to give back to the rebels the 46 MILF camps, including Abubakar, in Mindanao that were successfully overrun by the military when he was President. He said it was a wrong for the government to give up the 46 camps and give their control back to the rebels because that allowed them to regroup and consolidate their forces. “The peace agreement and peace talks with the Muslim rebels will never work,” Estrada said. “After you talk peace with them, another group will crop up and wage war against the government. I should know. I tried talking to them too, but it did not work. “The Muslim rebels demand secession. There are those who will agree to sign peace now, but definitely, others will not and they will form another group if they haven’t yet as the peace agreement is being signed. “Dealing with the communist insurgents is even easier. You simply grant them what they demand like agrarian reform, programs to alleviate poverty, livelihood programs and there will be peace, they will give up their arms.” Based on his experience as President, Estrada said, he had already shown that the government was capable of completely crushing its enemies. “The enemies were completely defeated under my leadership as commander in chief,” he said. “We had good generals. Without much bloodshed, the MILF camps, all 46 of them, were taken over by the government. But now, these camps are back in the hands of the MILF.”
http://manilastandardtoday.com/2012/10/15/wipe-them-out/
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Formal Report Voice Projection & Enunciation Confidence Mastery of Role Group Coordination Defense Voice Projection & Enunciation Confidence Mastery Logic and Clarity of Ideas Visual Aid 14 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts. 14 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts.
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Charges vs. Lee remain By Rey E. Requejo | Posted on Oct. 15, 2012 at 12:01am | 124 views
The Department of Justice said on Sunday the possible downgrading of charges of massive fraud against multi-millionaire real estate developer Delfin Lee was not yet final and the government have other recourse to put him and the others behind bars for a long time. Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said government lawyers have asked the Court of Appeals to reconsider its decision clearing one of the five officers of Lee’s Asiatique Realty Holding s, which allegedly used ghost borrowers to obtain P6.6 billion loan from a government housing agency. “The charges against Delfin Lee et al remain to be syndicated estafa, hence, non -bailable. The Court of Appeals decision has not attained finality yet,” De Lima said. The recent decision of the Court of Appeals to clear Christina Sagun, the company documentation head, could lead to downgrading of charges of syndicated estafa against Lee and the others. Syndicated estafa is a non-bailable offense that requires five principal accused. Lee has been a fugitive from justice since the court ordered his arrest last year. The three other accused include Lee’s son, Dexter. De Lima said the court’s decision dismissing the charges against Christina Sagun may have “legal implication” on the case against Lee and the others but its effect on the case, which is being tried at the Makati trial court, will not be immediate. Government prosecutors claimed Lee and the four others conspired to get a P6.6 billion from Pag-IBIG Fund using ghost borrowers “false pretenses and fraudulent acts or means.” One of the accused, legal department employee Alex Alvarez, said batches of documents were brought to the company and notarized without the borrowers appearing in person. But the Court said government prosecutors failed to proved during the preliminary investigation there was no sufficient evidence against Sagun, the company documentation head. “The evidence is utterly insufficient to prove her knowledge or participation in the al leged fraudulent acts of Globe Asiatique and its officers. The Department of Justice erred in finding probable cause to indict her of the crime of syndicated estafa or even simple estafa,” said the court ruling penned by Associate Justice Angelita Gacutan.
http://manilastandardtoday.com/2012/10/15/charges-vs-lee-remain/
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Formal Report Voice Projection & Enunciation Confidence Mastery of Role Group Coordination Defense Voice Projection & Enunciation Confidence Mastery Logic and Clarity of Ideas Visual Aid 14 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts. 14 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts.
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Enrile slams Palace over bribery hint in tax issue By Macon Ramos-Araneta | Posted on Oct. 15, 2012 at 12:00am | 202 views
Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile slammed a Palace official Sunday for saying that senators who don’t support the administration version of the sin tax bill could have been bribed. “I don’t know what they’re thinking. Do they think the senators are thieves? Is this how the allies of Malacañang look at senators?” Enrile said after Secretary Manuel Mamba, head of the Presidential Legislative Liason Office, said anyone who would not support the government version of the bill could be suspected of having received bribes from lobbyists working for big multinational companies. Interviewed over radio dzBB on Sunday, Enrile said the senators were no t opposed to the government’s move to generate additional revenues, but taxes should not be “repressive or oppressive.” During the public hearings conducted by Recto’s committee, Enrile said he had repeatedly cited the need for a reasonable approach to the imposition of additional taxes so that companies that will be affected will not close down, hurting employees and their families. “Let us look at the overall impact [of the new taxes] including [their effect on] the consuming public,” Enrile said, noting that higher prices for cigarettes would also hurt workers who use them to relieve stress. While anti-tobacco advocates blasted Recto for his recommendation to cut the tax take from P30 billion in the Houseapproved version of the bill to only P15 billion, tobacco farmers and their representatives praised the senator. “We thank Senator Recto because he did not ignore our sector in crafting a better tax proposal than the one passed in the House where our views were not even heard,” said Philippine Tobacco Growers’ Association president Saturnino Distor. “While it is easy to just go with the flow and agree with what the government wants, it is difficult to be balanced, just and truthful,” Distor said. “Recto chose to do what is difficult because this is the right thing to do.” Small cigarette manufacturers like Associated Anglo American Tobacco Corp. also thanked Recto for considering the interests of local players. Both groups, however, pressed for even lower taxes on tobacco products. Distor said the increases proposed by Recto, especially on low-priced cigarettes which make up 60 percent of the total market, was still too high with a 120 percent hike in the first year alone. “We appeal to the senators to draft a final version that sets moderate and gradual inc reases. Any significant drop in the volumes of low-priced cigarettes would seriously affect the livelihood of small tobacco farmers and workers,” said Distor. Dy said the 120 percent increase was still high, but much better than the 700 percent increase recommended by the House version. He said that Recto pointed out in his speech that “under a regime of super high sin taxes, the local players will be taxed to extinction, or elbowed out of the market by foreign-made tobacco and alcohol products.” “Senator Recto is right in saying that the void this will create in the market will be filled by smugglers,” he said. With Maricel V. Cruz http://manilastandardtoday.com/2012/10/15/enrile-slams-palace-over-bribery-hint-in-tax-issue/ Practical Activity (Handwritten): Story Background Summary of Events Reported Speeches Grammar and Mechanics 10 Penmanship Punctuality 10 10 10 5 5 50 Project (Performance-Based): Formal Report Voice Projection & Enunciation Confidence Mastery of Role Group Coordination Defense Voice Projection & Enunciation Confidence Mastery Logic and Clarity of Ideas 9 pts. Visual Aid
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Reds won’t go back to negotiating table By Florante S. Solmerin | Posted on Oct. 15, 2012 at 12:01am | 130 views
The draft framework agreement with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front is useless in getting the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army to the negotiating table, National Democratic Front of the Philippines chief negotiator Luis Jalandoni said Sunday. “The propaganda of the GPH [Government of the Philippines] on the signing of this Framework next week is to pressure the NDFP to agree on a ceasefire and resume formal GPH-NDFP peace negotiations,” he said in a statement released by the CPP Bureau. First, Jalandoni said, the government should comply with the basic binding GRP/GPH bilateral agreements such as the Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees and the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law. “The JASIG requires the GPH to release 13 NDFP Consultants in GPH prisons. The CARHRIHL requires the release of political prisoners who have been charged, detained or convicted for common crimes in violation of the Hernandez political offense doctrine,” he said. “There are some 385 political prisoners, 107 of them arrested and detained under the current Aquino regime.” According to Jalandoni, the draft framework agreement remains very tentative, pending discussions by the panels. “There are still major points to be negotiated, namely Power Sharing, Wealth Sharing, Transitional Arrangements and Modalities, and Normalization. These have to be negotiated in detail and put down in four annexes which will form part of the framework agreement. The current draft contains certain dangers,” he said. “There is a lot of dependence on the GPH executive and legislative branches,” he added, adding that GPH panel head Marvic Leonen had said the framework agreement must be in accord with the Constitution and legal processes. Jalandoni expressed suspicion over the Aquino administration’s timing. “It [the government] is making it a big propaganda to cover up the basic problems of the Filipino people , such as the series of oil price hikes, soaring prices of basic commodities, demolitions of urban poor communities, lack of genuine land reform and national industrialization, and violation of national sovereignty in allowing US military intervention in the country. He also hopes to use the targeted signing by the end of this year of the definitive Framework Agreement with the four annexes to benefit his candidates in the next elections,” he said.
http://manilastandardtoday.com/2012/10/15/reds-wont-go-back-to-negotiating-table/
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Formal Report Voice Projection & Enunciation Confidence Mastery of Role Group Coordination Defense Voice Projection & Enunciation Confidence Mastery Logic and Clarity of Ideas Visual Aid 14 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts. 14 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts.
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Comelec urged to drop govt-backed party-lists By Gigi Munoz-David | Posted on Oct. 15, 2012 at 12:02am | 132 views
The Youth group Anakbayan on Sunday urged the Commission on Elections to disqualify Palace- backed party-list groups and to stop giving them “special treatment” in its campaign to purge the party-list system of groups that are not complying with the law. Anakbayan national chairman Vencer Crisostomo called on the poll body to disqualify Akbayan, the Black and White Movement, and several other party-list groups with close ties to Malacañang and with members holding appointive government positions. “If the Comelec won’t disqualify the Palace-backed [party-list groups], then the campaign to get rid bogus [party-list groups] would be selective and pointless,” Crisostomo said in a statement. “They would just be covering up for and giving advantage to the Aquino party -lists.” On Oct. 11, the Comelec disqualified seven more party-list groups to add to the 13 it similarly disqualified on Oct. 10 for not representing marginalized or underprivileged sectors. “The common denominator was the lack of sector representation or multi -sector representation, because the position of the commission is that when you represent more than one sector, you’re actually representing ev erybody, in which case you fall under the regular congressional district,” Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. said. Still, the following day the election watchdog Kontra Daya welcomed the government’s move to purge the party -list system of opportunists, but said the poll body’s decision to remove those representing many sectors could deprive the people deserving of representation. The group said the poll body should remove only those parties that were not representing the marginalized and underrepresented sectors. Crisostomo said they were prepared to pursue the cases against Akbayan and other Palace-backed party-list groups and to campaign for real peoples’ representation. He said various groups would be marching on the Comelec today to call for the disqualification of Palace-backed partylist groups. Brilliantes has been quoted as saying that having members in government positions does not disqualify a party-list group, and in reference to Akbayan. Crisostomo disagreed. “We cannot fathom how Comelec can see nothing scandalous with Malacanang appointees running for party-list,” he said. “The party-list law clearly prohibits government-funded entities and groups with non-marginalized leaders and nominees from joining.”
http://manilastandardtoday.com/2012/10/15/comelec-urged-to-drop-govt-backed-party-lists/
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Story Background Summary of Events Reported Speeches Grammar and Mechanics Penmanship Punctuality 10 10 10 10 5 5
Project (Performance-Based):
Formal Report Voice Projection & Enunciation Confidence Mastery of Role Group Coordination Defense Voice Projection & Enunciation Confidence Mastery Logic and Clarity of Ideas Visual Aid 14 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts. 14 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts.
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Filipinos scavenge for food in Saudi Arabia By Ronald O. Reyes | Posted on Oct. 15, 2012 at 12:01am | 430 views
What’s in the garbage. Filipino workers go through the trash to search for food in Al-Khobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. At least 10 migrant laborers, who stopped reporting to their employer in July because of abuse and contract violations, are left without means to support themselves. MIGRANTE Middle East Breakfast, lunch and dinner for 10 overseas Filipino workers in Saudi Arabia come straight from the dump. An advocacy group based in Middle East said they are stranded in Al-Khobar, eastern part of the kingdom, Saudi Arabia, having stopped work last July over their employer’s alleged malpractices. “The 10 OFWs went through the garbage hoping that they could look for food or something that is edible,” said Migrante Middle East regional coordinator John Leonard Monterona, citing on-site reports. They were identified as Bonifacio Bayubay, Perlito Garcia, Marlon Ciervo, John Ryan Lupega, Ronie Villegas, Demetrio Galia, Rodel Lonsame, Percival Bibat Jr., Wilfred Elbanol, and Jonathan Querido, all deployed by YHMD International Manpower Services, with last known address is Ground Floor, Gedisco Center, 1564 A. Mabini St., Ermita, Manila. The contract was for construction workers and some equipment operator/technician under the Ali-Fahad Al Huraish Establishment based in Al-Hasa, Saudi Arabia. According to Monterona, the workers filed a complaint before PH labor attaché Adam Musa on contract substitution, illegal salary deduction, salary downgrading, no sick leave and medical insurance. Also listed in the charge sheet were delayed payment of salary, driving without officia l driver’s license, non-payment of overtime work, working more than 8-hour a day, poor accommodation, no bathroom and no drinking water. “Labor Attache Musa, after several case dialogues, is convincing the OFWs to go back to their work and forget their complaints,” Monterona said. “This is gross negligence on the part of Labor Attache Mus,” he said. “It is his foremost duty to provide whatever assistance the distress OFWs need such as guiding them, including documentation, in filing labor case versus their employer.”
http://manilastandardtoday.com/2012/10/15/filipinos-scavenge-for-food-in-saudi-arabia/
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Story Background Summary of Events Reported Speeches Grammar and Mechanics Penmanship Punctuality 10 10 10 10 5 5
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Formal Report Voice Projection & Enunciation Confidence Mastery of Role Group Coordination Defense Voice Projection & Enunciation Confidence Mastery Logic and Clarity of Ideas Visual Aid 14 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts. 14 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts.
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House approval of P2.6-T budget set By Christine F. Herrera | Posted on Oct. 15, 2012 at 12:00am | 57 views
The majority bloc in the House of Representatives rejected on Sunday amendments to the proposed P2.006 trillion budget but opposition members said they would still seek cuts in President Aquino’s P317 billion pork barrel fund. “No cuts. No realignments,” said Cavite Rep. Joseph Abaya, chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations and concurrent Transportation and Communications Secretary. But House Minority Leader Danilo Suarez said minority members wanted to re-align P5 billion of the P317 billion pork barrel fund of the president known as the Special Purpose Fund (SPF). “It’s just a minimal amount, nothing earthshaking, just close to P5 billion that we wanted realigned from the P317 billion SPF,” Suarez said. The House is expected to pass the P2.006 trillion budget on third and final reading today and its Senate counterpart will be discussed in the bicameral conference committee before a final version can be submitted to the President for approval. Congress will go on a three-week Halloween break starting on Wednesday. The sessions will resume on November 5. “The House had to rush approval of the budget so it can be immediately transmitted to the Senate and so they can tackle it in the committee level even while Congress is on a Halloween break,” Suarez said. Suarez and former National Treasurer Leonor Briones have been vocal against t he secrecy that shrouded the president’s SPF, which was solely under the discretion of Aquino. Suarez said the Budget Department finally transmitted to the House details of what he called “hidden and vague SPF,” which would be presented to members before its approval today. He said the minority would still try to seek realignments and raise the issue before the plenary when the budget is presented for approval on third and final reading. “If the House would not allow the amendments and realignments, we can raise the issue with our counterparts in the bicameral conference committee,” Suarez said.
http://manilastandardtoday.com/2012/10/15/house-approval-of-p2-6-t-budget-set/
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Story Background Summary of Events Reported Speeches Grammar and Mechanics Penmanship Punctuality 10 10 10 10 5 5
Project (Performance-Based):
Formal Report Voice Projection & Enunciation Confidence Mastery of Role Group Coordination Defense Voice Projection & Enunciation Confidence Mastery Logic and Clarity of Ideas Visual Aid 14 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts. 14 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts.
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Cagayan Rep. Juan “Jack” C. Ponce Enrile Jr. on Thursday praised the wisdom shown by the Supreme Court in issuing a temporary restraining order against the controversial cybercrime prevention law and urged netizens to help in “polishing the law for the general good.”
“The heated debates and even street marches that happened prior to the Supreme Court’s issuance of the TRO last Tuesday demonstrates the vibrancy of our democratic system of government,” Enrile said. “Once again, the Supreme Court has demonstrated its wisdom.”
“I laud the honorable justices for their decision in protecting and preserving our fundamental right to free speech and expression,” the Cagayan lawmaker said
Enrile, who is among the leading Senate candidates of the United Nationalist Alliance for nex t year’s elections, said “the time for noisy and divisive debates on the merits of [Republic Act] 10175 has passed and the opportunity is once again there for all concerned to join hands in polishing the law for the general good.”
“This cannot be done with more noisy and angry debates outside of the confines of Congress but with a sober and objective appreciation of, first, what issues the law intends to address and second, what can be done so they can be addressed without trampling on our basic rights, a m atter that has caused a lot of worries from various quarters.”
He also lauded the government for freely allowing the public to air their concerns on the law without breaking up any street protest staged by some groups.
“The tolerance shown by Malacañang an d our police authorities in not shackling these protest actions is not a demonstration of weakness on the part of the government but rather, of the enlightened and liberal policy of Pres. Noy Aquino.” http://manilastandardtoday.com/2012/10/12/enrile-calls-for-unity-on-cybercrime-law/
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Story Background Summary of Events Reported Speeches Grammar and Mechanics Penmanship Punctuality 10 10 10 10 5 5
Project (Performance-Based):
Formal Report Voice Projection & Enunciation Confidence Mastery of Role Group Coordination Defense Voice Projection & Enunciation Confidence Mastery Logic and Clarity of Ideas Visual Aid 14 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts. 14 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts.
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‘Wipe them out’ By Christine F. Herrera | Posted on Oct. 15, 2012 at 12:01am | 299 views
Former President Joseph Estrada on Sunday warned that splinter and breakaway groups would start to spring and armed hostilities ensue once the government signed a peace agreement with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. “Wipe them out. You have to wage war in order to win peace,” said Es trada, who claimed that the only way to put an end to the Muslim rebellion and the communist insurgency was to continue fighting the rebels. Estrada, who was deposed in 2007 after being convicted of plunder, but was later pardoned by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, in 2000 declared an “all-out war” on the MILF, and after three months the military captured Camp Abubakar, the headquarters of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front. That camp and 13 other major camps and 43 minor MILF camps fell and came under the control of the Armed Forces, but the MILF continued its insurgency. When Estrada was convicted of plunder, the Muslim clerics said he received his just deserts as his conviction was part of the murkah he would suffer for eating roast pork and drinking beer inside an Arabic school to celebrate the fall of Abubakar. Estrada on Sunday lamented the government’s decision to give back to the rebels the 46 MILF camps, including Abubakar, in Mindanao that were successfully overrun by the military when he was President. He said it was a wrong for the government to give up the 46 camps and give their control back to the rebels because that allowed them to regroup and consolidate their forces. “The peace agreement and peace talks with the Muslim rebels will never work,” Estrada said. “After you talk peace with them, another group will crop up and wage war against the government. I should know. I tried talking to them too, but it did not work. “The Muslim rebels demand secession. There are those who will agree to sign peace now, but definitely, others will not and they will form another group if they haven’t yet as the peace agreement is being signed. “Dealing with the communist insurgents is even easier. You simply grant them what they demand like agrarian reform, programs to alleviate poverty, livelihood programs and there will be peace, they will give up their arms.” Based on his experience as President, Estrada said, he had already shown that the government was capable of completely crushing its enemies. “The enemies were completely defeated under my leadership as commander in chief,” he said. “We had good generals. Without much bloodshed, the MILF camps, all 46 of them, were taken over by the government. But now, these camps are back in the hands of the MILF.”
http://manilastandardtoday.com/2012/10/15/wipe-them-out/
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Story Background Summary of Events Reported Speeches Grammar and Mechanics Penmanship Punctuality 10 10 10 10 5 5
Project (Performance-Based):
Formal Report Voice Projection & Enunciation Confidence Mastery of Role Group Coordination Defense Voice Projection & Enunciation Confidence Mastery Logic and Clarity of Ideas Visual Aid 14 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts. 14 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts.
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Charges vs. Lee remain By Rey E. Requejo | Posted on Oct. 15, 2012 at 12:01am | 124 views
The Department of Justice said on Sunday the possible downgrading of charges of massive fraud against multi-millionaire real estate developer Delfin Lee was not yet final and the government have other recourse to put him and the others behind bars for a long time. Justice Secretary Leila de Lima said government lawyers have asked the Court of Appeals to reconsider its decision clearing one of the five officers of Lee’s Asiatique Realty Holding s, which allegedly used ghost borrowers to obtain P6.6 billion loan from a government housing agency. “The charges against Delfin Lee et al remain to be syndicated estafa, hence, non -bailable. The Court of Appeals decision has not attained finality yet,” De Lima said. The recent decision of the Court of Appeals to clear Christina Sagun, the company documentation head, could lead to downgrading of charges of syndicated estafa against Lee and the others. Syndicated estafa is a non-bailable offense that requires five principal accused. Lee has been a fugitive from justice since the court ordered his arrest last year. The three other accused include Lee’s son, Dexter. De Lima said the court’s decision dismissing the charges against Christina Sagun may have “legal implication” on the case against Lee and the others but its effect on the case, which is being tried at the Makati trial court, will not be immediate. Government prosecutors claimed Lee and the four others conspired to get a P6.6 billion from Pag-IBIG Fund using ghost borrowers “false pretenses and fraudulent acts or means.” One of the accused, legal department employee Alex Alvarez, said batches of documents were brought to the company and notarized without the borrowers appearing in person. But the Court said government prosecutors failed to proved during the preliminary investigation there was no sufficient evidence against Sagun, the company documentation head. “The evidence is utterly insufficient to prove her knowledge or participation in the al leged fraudulent acts of Globe Asiatique and its officers. The Department of Justice erred in finding probable cause to indict her of the crime of syndicated estafa or even simple estafa,” said the court ruling penned by Associate Justice Angelita Gacutan.
http://manilastandardtoday.com/2012/10/15/charges-vs-lee-remain/
Practical Activity (Handwritten):
Story Background Summary of Events Reported Speeches Grammar and Mechanics Penmanship Punctuality 10 10 10 10 5 5
Project (Performance-Based):
Formal Report Voice Projection & Enunciation Confidence Mastery of Role Group Coordination Defense Voice Projection & Enunciation Confidence Mastery Logic and Clarity of Ideas Visual Aid 14 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts. 14 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts. 9 pts.
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Enrile slams Palace over bribery hint in tax issue By Macon Ramos-Araneta | Posted on Oct. 15, 2012 at 12:00am | 202 views
Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile slammed a Palace official Sunday for saying that senators who don’t support the administration version of the sin tax bill could have been bribed. “I don’t know what they’re thinking. Do they think the senators are thieves? Is this how the allies of Malacañang look at senators?” Enrile said after Secretary Manuel Mamba, head of the Presidential Legislative Liason Office, said anyone who would not support the government version of the bill could be suspected of having received bribes from lobbyists working for big multinational companies. Interviewed over radio dzBB on Sunday, Enrile said the senators were no t opposed to the government’s move to generate additional revenues, but taxes should not be “repressive or oppressive.” During the public hearings conducted by Recto’s committee, Enrile said he had repeatedly cited the need for a reasonable approach to the imposition of additional taxes so that companies that will be affected will not close down, hurting employees and their families. “Let us look at the overall impact [of the new taxes] including [their effect on] the consuming public,” Enrile said, noting that higher prices for cigarettes would also hurt workers who use them to relieve stress. While anti-tobacco advocates blasted Recto for his recommendation to cut the tax take from P30 billion in the Houseapproved version of the bill to only P15 billion, tobacco farmers and their representatives praised the senator. “We thank Senator Recto because he did not ignore our sector in crafting a better tax proposal than the one passed in the House where our views were not even heard,” said Philippine Tobacco Growers’ Association president Saturnino Distor. “While it is easy to just go with the flow and agree with what the government wants, it is difficult to be balanced, just and truthful,” Distor said. “Recto chose to do what is difficult because this is the right thing to do.” Small cigarette manufacturers like Associated Anglo American Tobacco Corp. also thanked Recto for considering the interests of local players. Both groups, however, pressed for even lower taxes on tobacco products. Distor said the increases proposed by Recto, especially on low-priced cigarettes which make up 60 percent of the total market, was still too high with a 120 percent hike in the first year alone. “We appeal to the senators to draft a final version that sets moderate and gradual inc reases. Any significant drop in the volumes of low-priced cigarettes would seriously affect the livelihood of small tobacco farmers and workers,” said Distor. Dy said the 120 percent increase was still high, but much better than the 700 percent increase recommended by the House version. He said that Recto pointed out in his speech that “under a regime of super high sin taxes, the local players will be taxed to extinction, or elbowed out of the market by foreign-made tobacco and alcohol products.” “Senator Recto is right in saying that the void this will create in the market will be filled by smugglers,” he said. With Maricel V. Cruz http://manilastandardtoday.com/2012/10/15/enrile-slams-palace-over-bribery-hint-in-tax-issue/ Practical Activity (Handwritten): Story Background Summary of Events Reported Speeches Grammar and Mechanics 10 Penmanship Punctuality 10 10 10 5 5 50 Project (Performance-Based): Formal Report Voice Projection & Enunciation Confidence Mastery of Role Group Coordination Defense Voice Projection & Enunciation Confidence Mastery Logic and Clarity of Ideas 9 pts. Visual Aid
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Reds won’t go back to negotiating table By Florante S. Solmerin | Posted on Oct. 15, 2012 at 12:01am | 130 views
The draft framework agreement with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front is useless in getting the Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army to the negotiating table, National Democratic Front of the Philippines chief negotiator Luis Jalandoni said Sunday. “The propaganda of the GPH [Government of the Philippines] on the signing of this Framework next week is to pressure the NDFP to agree on a ceasefire and resume formal GPH-NDFP peace negotiations,” he said in a statement released by the CPP Bureau. First, Jalandoni said, the government should comply with the basic binding GRP/GPH bilateral agreements such as the Joint Agreement on Safety and Immunity Guarantees and the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law. “The JASIG requires the GPH to release 13 NDFP Consultants in GPH prisons. The CARHRIHL requires the release of political prisoners who have been charged, detained or convicted for common crimes in violation of the Hernandez political offense doctrine,” he said. “There are some 385 political prisoners, 107 of them arrested and detained under the current Aquino regime.” According to Jalandoni, the draft framework agreement remains very tentative, pending discussions by the panels. “There are still major points to be negotiated, namely Power Sharing, Wealth Sharing, Transitional Arrangements and Modalities, and Normalization. These have to be negotiated in detail and put down in four annexes which will form part of the framework agreement. The current draft contains certain dangers,” he said. “There is a lot of dependence on the GPH executive and legislative branches,” he added, adding that GPH panel head Marvic Leonen had said the framework agreement must be in accord with the Constitution and legal processes. Jalandoni expressed suspicion over the Aquino administration’s timing. “It [the government] is making it a big propaganda to cover up the basic problems of the Filipino people , such as the series of oil price hikes, soaring prices of basic commodities, demolitions of urban poor communities, lack of genuine land reform and national industrialization, and violation of national sovereignty in allowing US military intervention in the country. He also hopes to use the targeted signing by the end of this year of the definitive Framework Agreement with the four annexes to benefit his candidates in the next elections,” he said.
http://manilastandardtoday.com/2012/10/15/reds-wont-go-back-to-negotiating-table/
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Comelec urged to drop govt-backed party-lists By Gigi Munoz-David | Posted on Oct. 15, 2012 at 12:02am | 132 views
The Youth group Anakbayan on Sunday urged the Commission on Elections to disqualify Palace- backed party-list groups and to stop giving them “special treatment” in its campaign to purge the party-list system of groups that are not complying with the law. Anakbayan national chairman Vencer Crisostomo called on the poll body to disqualify Akbayan, the Black and White Movement, and several other party-list groups with close ties to Malacañang and with members holding appointive government positions. “If the Comelec won’t disqualify the Palace-backed [party-list groups], then the campaign to get rid bogus [party-list groups] would be selective and pointless,” Crisostomo said in a statement. “They would just be covering up for and giving advantage to the Aquino party -lists.” On Oct. 11, the Comelec disqualified seven more party-list groups to add to the 13 it similarly disqualified on Oct. 10 for not representing marginalized or underprivileged sectors. “The common denominator was the lack of sector representation or multi -sector representation, because the position of the commission is that when you represent more than one sector, you’re actually representing ev erybody, in which case you fall under the regular congressional district,” Comelec Chairman Sixto Brillantes Jr. said. Still, the following day the election watchdog Kontra Daya welcomed the government’s move to purge the party -list system of opportunists, but said the poll body’s decision to remove those representing many sectors could deprive the people deserving of representation. The group said the poll body should remove only those parties that were not representing the marginalized and underrepresented sectors. Crisostomo said they were prepared to pursue the cases against Akbayan and other Palace-backed party-list groups and to campaign for real peoples’ representation. He said various groups would be marching on the Comelec today to call for the disqualification of Palace-backed partylist groups. Brilliantes has been quoted as saying that having members in government positions does not disqualify a party-list group, and in reference to Akbayan. Crisostomo disagreed. “We cannot fathom how Comelec can see nothing scandalous with Malacanang appointees running for party-list,” he said. “The party-list law clearly prohibits government-funded entities and groups with non-marginalized leaders and nominees from joining.”
http://manilastandardtoday.com/2012/10/15/comelec-urged-to-drop-govt-backed-party-lists/
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Filipinos scavenge for food in Saudi Arabia By Ronald O. Reyes | Posted on Oct. 15, 2012 at 12:01am | 430 views
What’s in the garbage. Filipino workers go through the trash to search for food in Al-Khobar, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. At least 10 migrant laborers, who stopped reporting to their employer in July because of abuse and contract violations, are left without means to support themselves. MIGRANTE Middle East Breakfast, lunch and dinner for 10 overseas Filipino workers in Saudi Arabia come straight from the dump. An advocacy group based in Middle East said they are stranded in Al-Khobar, eastern part of the kingdom, Saudi Arabia, having stopped work last July over their employer’s alleged malpractices. “The 10 OFWs went through the garbage hoping that they could look for food or something that is edible,” said Migrante Middle East regional coordinator John Leonard Monterona, citing on-site reports. They were identified as Bonifacio Bayubay, Perlito Garcia, Marlon Ciervo, John Ryan Lupega, Ronie Villegas, Demetrio Galia, Rodel Lonsame, Percival Bibat Jr., Wilfred Elbanol, and Jonathan Querido, all deployed by YHMD International Manpower Services, with last known address is Ground Floor, Gedisco Center, 1564 A. Mabini St., Ermita, Manila. The contract was for construction workers and some equipment operator/technician under the Ali-Fahad Al Huraish Establishment based in Al-Hasa, Saudi Arabia. According to Monterona, the workers filed a complaint before PH labor attaché Adam Musa on contract substitution, illegal salary deduction, salary downgrading, no sick leave and medical insurance. Also listed in the charge sheet were delayed payment of salary, driving without officia l driver’s license, non-payment of overtime work, working more than 8-hour a day, poor accommodation, no bathroom and no drinking water. “Labor Attache Musa, after several case dialogues, is convincing the OFWs to go back to their work and forget their complaints,” Monterona said. “This is gross negligence on the part of Labor Attache Mus,” he said. “It is his foremost duty to provide whatever assistance the distress OFWs need such as guiding them, including documentation, in filing labor case versus their employer.”
http://manilastandardtoday.com/2012/10/15/filipinos-scavenge-for-food-in-saudi-arabia/
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House approval of P2.6-T budget set By Christine F. Herrera | Posted on Oct. 15, 2012 at 12:00am | 57 views
The majority bloc in the House of Representatives rejected on Sunday amendments to the proposed P2.006 trillion budget but opposition members said they would still seek cuts in President Aquino’s P317 billion pork barrel fund. “No cuts. No realignments,” said Cavite Rep. Joseph Abaya, chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations and concurrent Transportation and Communications Secretary. But House Minority Leader Danilo Suarez said minority members wanted to re-align P5 billion of the P317 billion pork barrel fund of the president known as the Special Purpose Fund (SPF). “It’s just a minimal amount, nothing earthshaking, just close to P5 billion that we wanted realigned from the P317 billion SPF,” Suarez said. The House is expected to pass the P2.006 trillion budget on third and final reading today and its Senate counterpart will be discussed in the bicameral conference committee before a final version can be submitted to the President for approval. Congress will go on a three-week Halloween break starting on Wednesday. The sessions will resume on November 5. “The House had to rush approval of the budget so it can be immediately transmitted to the Senate and so they can tackle it in the committee level even while Congress is on a Halloween break,” Suarez said. Suarez and former National Treasurer Leonor Briones have been vocal against t he secrecy that shrouded the president’s SPF, which was solely under the discretion of Aquino. Suarez said the Budget Department finally transmitted to the House details of what he called “hidden and vague SPF,” which would be presented to members before its approval today. He said the minority would still try to seek realignments and raise the issue before the plenary when the budget is presented for approval on third and final reading. “If the House would not allow the amendments and realignments, we can raise the issue with our counterparts in the bicameral conference committee,” Suarez said.
http://manilastandardtoday.com/2012/10/15/house-approval-of-p2-6-t-budget-set/
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