REGGAE: THE AMAZING SONG

BY: JASON MRAZ

ARROYO'S ILLEGAL COMPANIONSHIPS

PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT GLORIA MACAPAGAL-ARROYO WITH 

ILLEGAL GAMBLING QUEEN LILIA PINEDA OF PAMPANGA PROVINCE PHILIPPINES

US Military Contractor Hires Pinay Prostitutes

An unidentified Filipina is reportedly at the center of a new federal investigation against Blackwater, the controversial private military company.

Two former employees – husband and wife Brad and Melan Davis – are suing Blackwater under the False Claims Act, a federal law that allows civilians to file charges against federal contractors.

The couple alleged that Blackwater (now known as Xe Services LLC) kept an unidentified Filipina prostitute in the payroll for a State Department contract in Afghanistan.

The North Carolina-based company allegedly charged the government for her time working for Blackwater male employees in Kabul.

The alleged prostitute's salary was categorized as part of the company's “Morale Welfare Recreation” expenses.  Read more >>>

THE GREAT AMERICAN DREAM

Confessions of a 'couch surfer' 

NEW YORK - Alice Katie Dugan is a jobless, homeless New Yorker. But this crisis in her life has led her to an innovative way to keep a roof above her head—actually, several roofs.

“A couch surfer to me is somebody who doesn’t have a permanent place to stay and has to result to staying with friends or family and they end up staying on a couch,” Dugan explained.

Dugan lost her job more than 4 months ago. She can’t afford an apartment anymore, so she started couch surfing, staying at one friend’s place after another for free.

Recently, a friend agreed for her to couch surf at his luxury high rise apartment building in Long Island. US$600 a month gets her the couch and closet space. Not a bad deal, she says, considering she could never have afforded a luxury apartment.

“The benefit is being able to stay in a very nice facility that might have amenities like a pool or a gym and stuff like that,” Dugan said. “Of course, there’s clean kitchens, nice bathrooms, and it’s fully furnished.”

The biggest drawback to couch surfing, Dugan says, is the complete loss of privacy.

“You don’t have your privacy, they don’t have their privacy. It’s a necessary evil.”

In the meantime, Dugan has been working gigs as a model, actress and odd jobs here and there until she finds a full time job.

“It’s been really hard looking for a job and I’m actually very lucky. I’ve been only searching for about 4 months lately and I’ve been getting several interviews every week,” Dugan said. 

Dugan says she does not intend to surf couches for long, and as she searches for a new job, her biggest motivation is to have her own comfy bed in her own bedroom.

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NPO Ballots for ARMM No COMELEC Markings

Comelec spokesman James Jimenez says security markings of ballots for ARMM is not necessary as they have already placed five (5) other security markings. The anti-election cheating group, Kontra Daya on the other side suggested that all the ballots printed by NPO without the said markings should be burned so as not to be used for cheating.

ARMM under Gov. Zaldy Ampatuan, an Arroyo ally and one of the accused in the Maguindanao massacre, is the most controversial cheating capital of the Arroyo regime since Mrs. Arroyo's 2004 election against FPJ.   

SI ERAP LANG ANG MAY BINAY NG BUHAY

PRESIDENT JOSEPH EJERCITO "Erap" ESTRADA y Marcelo
NO HOLDS BAR

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PANGASINAN town, Anda Mayor PULIDO PRAISES 

PRES. ERAP's INTEGRITY and HONESTY

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PHILIPPINES WELL-ADMIRED POLITICIAN, THE YOUNG and 

ENERGETIC SENATOR CHIZ ESCUDERO TELLS IT ALL FOR ERAP

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FAILON NGAYON INGGIT SILA

By: Heber Bartolome

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PRES. ERAP WILL TEST THE REPUTATION 

OF ARROYO'S COMELEC ELECTION AUTOMATION

THIS COMING 2010 ELECTION

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PINOYS WILL NEVER BE FOOLED THIS TIME

Election is telling people what they want to hear

Philippine presidential debate is a sign of desperation and of wanting to win at all costs. Sacrificing the truth; making impossible and empty promises in exchange for political gains is the sentiment of former president and presidential candidate himself Joseph Estrada.

For Pres. Estrada, the intellectually limiting  emotional manipulations is very dangerous in order to get ahead in the campaign and in the surveys . This  is indeed unfair for the people, to receive such hypocrisy, false piety and insensitive party lines.

Televised public forums, or what has Deputy Presidential Spokeman Ricardo Saludo termed as their “high grounds” only shows that the presidential candidates are giving the public clearer ideas about their true political colors shaded by their educations, associations, qualifications and stage managed experiences.

Nowadays, the public is finally paying attention to the scholarly deceptive practices of creating political platforms and programs of candidates of the outmoded, outdated, obsolete of the old and traditional political parties of the social elite. They are indeed very well informed now.

JOSON OF NUEVA ECIJA GOES VILLAR

Rep. Edno Joson: Let’s try Villar another pro-poor president

Former President Joseph Estrada was cheered and warmly welcomed when he went around last Thursday, February 18, 2010 in the vote-rich province of Nueva Ecija in his mission to re-take Malacañang.

““Sino’ng presidente ang gustong halikan ni Ai-ai de las Alas?” Estrada’s political adviser Ernesto Maceda asked the crowd at the plaza of Muñoz City.

“Si Erap!” the crowd responded.

“Sino’ng presidente ang gustong halikan ni Mommy Dionisia?” he asked again.

“Si Erap!””

A very convincing warm welcome that will likely guarantee another Estrada landslide win in Nueva Ecija like what he did in the 1998 presidential race.

Nueva Ecija today has no more well-entrenched political family that can carry any national candidates—the Josons—ousted in 2007 election is inclined to support the well-funded Nacionalista Party (NP) presidential bet Manuel Villar Jr., who also fashions himself as a pro-poor candidate.

Leaning toward Villa

Nueva Ecija 1st Dist. Rep. Eduardo Nonato Joson was reportedly declared that their family's local party, the Bagong Lakas ng Nueva Ecija, has yet to endorse a presidential candidate, and that they are leaning toward Villar.

““Familiarity breeds contempt. So bagong dugo na tayo at baka sakaling may pag-asa [ang] mahihirap (Let’s go for new blood who might really fulfill the hopes of the poor), Edno said of Estrada.””

Estrada is not bothered by this development, what's more is that his other local leaders aside the Josons told him that they believe Novo Ecijanos will 100% vote for Erap the second time.

Estrada's entourage was observed by local political analyst avoiding the Josons in their Thursday sorties in Nueva Ecija, a province with 1.187 million registered voters as of March 2009.

Speculations were proven when the former president said there’s no reason for him to link up with the Josons after former Gov. Tomas Joson, who campaigned for him in 1998, with treachery went over to the side of President Arroyo in the 2004 presidential elections. Estrada’s best friend, actor Fernando Poe Jr., was running against Arroyo at the time.

““Me and FPJ are like brothers. ’Pag sinaktan mo siya, para mo na rin akong sinaktan (If you hurt him, it’s like hurting me, too),” Estrada said. ”

Problem of Novo Ecijanos in PMP 

The Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino (PMP) cannot count or expect from their only Novo Ecijano candidate to help them court voters for the former president. One of their guest senatorial candidates, JV Bautista of the group Sanlakas, although a native of Guimba town, he is not admired by Novo Ecijanos for being bigheaded and boorish attitude

The one that can help is Sen. Jinggoy Estrada’s chief of staff, Simeon Garcia, is a former representative of the 2nd district of Nueva Ecija.

While in the 4th district, PMP is fielding former Jaen Mayor Prospero Antonio Esquivel for congressman, against its long-time nemesis, the re-electionist Rep. Rodolfo Antonino uncle of Gen. Santos Rep. Antonino of Mindanao. 

Estrada believed that in spite of Tomas Josons’ support for Arroyo in 2004, his friend Poe still won in the province by a wide margin. Arroyo got 160, 438 votes, while Poe had 476,220 votes.

Estrada didn’t mention that in 2004, Gov. Tomas Joson’s brother, Vice Gov. Eduardo Joson IV, stood by Poe and acted as coordinator of the latter’s Koalisyon ng Nagkakaisang Pilipino while their other brother Rep. Edno Joson went all out for Sen. Ping Lacson and ran as its senatorial candidate.

Estrada didn’t acknowledge either that, in 2004, his senatorial candidates—his son Jinggoy Estrada, Juan Ponce Enrile, and Ernesto Maceda were the one's who asked for the support of Tomas Joson for a share of Nueva Ecija’s vote.

FG still alive after Mandaluyong road accident

Mike Arroyo Still Alive

News reported First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo was not injured seriously after the car he was riding on his way to a round of golf at Wack Wack Golf and Country Club figured in a road accident in Mandaluyong City in the early morning of Wednesday, February 17, 2010.

Mike Arroyo was reportedly had a bump on his head when his sports utility vehicle (SUV) crashed into a post to avoid an oncoming vehicle.

Mr. Arroyo underwent a major heart surgery a few years ago and is now undergoing rehabilitation. He has stayed away from the media spotlight after he was dragged into a number of billions of pesos corruption controversies.

Malacañang through newly appointed Press Secretary Crispulo Icban Jr. confirmed that Mr. Arroyo was involved in a vehicular accident and assured the nation that Mrs. Arroyo’s husband has no serious head injury.

Icban also said Mr. Arroyo appeared calm and healthy after undergoing a checkup at St. Luke's hospital immediately following the road mishap.

Gloria Arroyo, who was immediately informed about the car accident, was reportedly pleased over the safety of her husband, said one Palace official.

Palace officials were only informed by the palace press about the road accident and unaware of the condition of Mike Arroyo immediately after the mishap.