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By Raïssa Robles

July is usually a month when Congress reporters hardly have anything to write about because our honorable legislators are on recess (read – vacationing abroad).

Some lawmakers use this lull to try to grab media attention.  As an example,  look at Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos.

His spin doctors are no doubt telling him that this year, he should project himself on the national stage, with an eye on next year’s presidential election.

Nearly every week, Marcos has been popping up and mouthing off on one topic after the other. The problem is, he seems to think that mere mouthing is enough, that it’s OK getting news attention even if he’s spouting nonsense.

Take his recent statements on the South China Sea conflict with China on the very eve that the Philippine government was poised to argue its case against China’s occupation of some islands claimed by the Philippines before the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea (ITLOS).

The Chinese ambassador had suddenly said Beijing was open to holding bilateral talks, now and “forever”.

The government of President Benigno Aquino III rejected the talks. Because according to Communications Secretary Herminio “Sonny” Coloma, the Philippines would rather stick to a multilateral approach.

Coloma said:

“The Philippine position is clear: the principle of ASEAN centrality should be recognized in accordance with the Declaration of Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea (DOC).”

Disregarding this, Marcos piped up and said:

“China opened the door and we shut it. The Chinese said let’s talk and we snubbed them. It’s like the Philippine government itself is encouraging China to take and maintain an unbending stance on the issue,”

“We should not be snobbish. I can’t see any reason at all why we are not talking to China. On the contrary, there are more than enough obvious reasons why we should talk to superpower China.”

At face value, Senator Bongbong Marcos’ statement appears correct and reasonable.

But then, Marcos admonished the government to think of the “national interest” and in a press release, he lectured the executive department on the three ways to resolve the dispute:

“Marcos pointed out that there are three ways to resolve the dispute: by war, adjudication, or multilateral/bilateral agreements.

“We do not want war. Arbitration is not one that is going to be recognized by the Chinese. So it has to be negotiations,” Marcos said.”

You can read his entire press release here.

When I was a reporter covering the Senate and whenever I realized that a senator was pulling my leg or telling me a half-truth, I would ask the senator in question to explain what he meant by his statement and on top of that, I would get a contrary opinion to the senator’s opinion.

In this case, Senator Marcos is being less than honest when he lumped the “multilateral/bilateral” together.

I assume Marcos says this misleading statement in the full knowledge that China will only talk bilaterally with the Philippines provided Manila meets certain conditions:

● First, Manila has to recognize China’s “indisputable sovereignty” over Philippine territory in the West Philippine Sea;

● Second, Manila must drop the multilateral approach, which includes persuading the ASEAN to push for a Code of Conduct in the South China Sea and getting as many nations as possible on its side on the issue;

● Third, the Philippines must drop the arbitration case before the ITLOS.

Yet rather than call Marcos out on his misleading statement, reporters seem to be doing nothing more than just reprinting his press releases. How I wish my fellow reporters would be more aggressive in asking senators and other power-players to explain in detail what they really mean. In short, to grill them and ask them to flesh out their general, unsubstantiated statements.

In Marcos’ case, they could ask him: Should he ever become president, would he swallow Beijing’s conditionalities and acknowledge China’s “indisputable sovereignty” before negotiating bilaterally? Would he agree to drop the Code of Conduct and the multilateral approach involving as many nations in the world?

A few people I’ve met who know the Marcoses have always considered Sen. Bongbong to be a bit dim, and definitely less whip smart than his sister Imee. Is he too lazy to do research? Too cheap to pay for a decent researcher? But what about all that money his father and mother looted, according to the Swiss Federal Supreme Court? (Yes, there is a Swiss Federal Supreme Court ruling on this matter. You can read all about it by clicking here. )

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  1. NEARING FURTHER BALIMBINGAN PERIOD
    Sona Will Sound It Off

    Dynasties and party switching

    Access to more detailed information on party switching patterns allows us to empirically assess the linkage between party switching and other patterns in our democracy, including dynastic politics.

    An excessive number of dynasties and more intensive party switching are often cited malfunctions in the Philippine political system, yet they have never been linked by any empirical evidence before. In theory, and as elaborated earlier, the lack of strong political parties is part and parcel of the personality-centered politics that tends to dominate Philippine elections.

    And the most dominant feature of personality-centered politics is often associated with the rise of dynastic clans. Thus family allegiances rather than party- and policy- focused allegiances tend to dominate the landscape of Philippine politics.

    Anecdotal evidence suggests that political dynasties possess long-lived political careers, in part because they engage in extensive party switching (notably defecting to the party of the winning candidate for the Presidency).

    This practice could be compounded by Presidential candidates who actively seek alliances with dynastic clans in key vote-rich regions, in order to garner stronger political and financial support. In the literature, these practices are considered part of the broader pattern of personality-based politics that hollows out the party-based system (Quimpo 2008).

    The data suggest that dynastic legislators have increasingly dominated the group of party switchers in Congress. The number has increased from 22 in 2004 to 80 in 2013—or from roughly 45% of the total number of party switchers in 2004 to almost 80% by 2013.

    It is interesting to note that the majority of party switchers are now comprised of what Mendoza, et al. (2013) refer to as “fat dynasties” — politically dynastic legislators who have relatives in other elected positions at the same time of their incumbency. Put differently, these are dynasties often with multiple family members encumbering elected offices at the same time.

    These fat dynasties are expected to muster even greater political clout when compared to “thin” dynasties (those dynastic clans that field merely one family member at a time) and non-dynastic politicians, largely because they have control over far larger shares of public resources and the state apparatus.

    The political dominance of some of the “fattest” dynasties (e.g. those with large numbers of family members in office) also potentially provide a much stronger political base in some of the Philippine regions where these patterns have become more pronounced.

    This appears to provide initial evidence of a possible link between two major dysfunctions in the Philippine democratic politics — political dynasties that have begun to dominate the political landscape at the local and national levels and excessive party switching that is deemed by analysts to render political parties inutile in developing and advancing coherent policy platforms on social and economic development.

    http://pcij.org/blog/2014/10/01/wannabe-prez-binay-6-ex-prez-the-balimbing-route-to-power

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  2. A nation led by turncoats?

    As noted by Prof. Julio Teehankee (2014), most political parties in the Philippines have become dysfunctional so that party switching has become a routine phenomenon, notably prior to Presidential elections (and also immediately after, once the victor is declared).

    Due to strong personality-based politics, it is also not uncommon for aspiring Presidentiables to set up their own political party, attracting the bulk of the necessary political machinery through party switching rather than party building. Many leaders from virtually all levels of the Philippine government (national, regional and local) are also prolific party switchers.

    These patterns raise serious questions about the accountability of the nation’s leaders. If party switching is pervasive in the Philippines, what is its impact on the stability of policy agendas?

    What are the possible factors associated with increased party switching, notably from a regional perspective? Are poorer regions associated with more party switchers, due to the need for pragmatic relations with whoever holds central authority?

    And finally, is there still such a thing as an “informed voter”, if the majority of politicians do not adhere to or care to develop clear political and policy platforms anyway?

    Read more:

    POLITICAL PARTY SWITCHING: IT’S MORE FUN IN THE PHILIPPINES
    By Prof. Ronald U. Mendoza, Jan Fredrick Cruz, and David Yap II

    http://pcij.org/blog/2014/10/01/wannabe-prez-binay-6-ex-prez-the-balimbing-route-to-power

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  3. I just finished watching the HBO show Game of Thrones and I can’t help but get reminded of Escudero every time there’s a scene of Little Finger worming his way to all the powerful people at the realm. Up to now no one knows who his loyalty belongs to but your guess is as good as mine. No one but himself!

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  4. It’s very unfortunate that until now with and all the blessing’s coming from PNOY administration ,ROXAS remains a poor 15% choiced in surveys….NO MORE NO MORE…Roxas must just run for Senator and go for the Senate Presidency but still he will not be sure of taking it…It is only Duterte or Poe can beat Binay in 2016.

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    • That MAMAPASANO murder of SAF’s , hindi kaya may alam din si ROXAS noon? Napaka impossible that Roxas was kept on the dark during those period’s…..ILINIGTAS LANG NILA SI ” MAMA’s BOY ” para umangat ang kanyang antas sa mga survey’s?

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      • I beg to disagree @ victinluz. Election nowadays is all about how deep is your pocket and duterte/poe, at present, don’t have moneyed backers yet. In the last barangay and local elections, only candidates who out-bought their opponents won, even beating the INC candidates.

        D & E voters are now wiser and don’t mind of corruption issues – anyway politicians are all corrupt, many said. No wonder the binays are always unbeatable in Makati.

        With that argument, Mar has the edge over all his expected opponents considering the full backing of the powerful LP and his own huge resources.

        Furthermore, Mar is “clean” and is acceptable to ABC voters alike while poe is backed by “el trapo” (not chapo) chiz and a bunch of plunderers

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    • who knows, it could also be a very fortunate thing. it would be nice to see if the next president would be able to get foi and the anti-political dynasties laws going. at this point, can’t count on mar and binay to be doing this for obvious reasons.

      hopefully, someone will ask the candidates about this and what their vision of tuwid na daan is all about.

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      • Mailigaw na rin dito ang komentong ito:

        There you go…

        The dynast PNoy’s real world is the same as any politician practicing patronage politics, past or present…

        And Abad’s ‘technical malversation‘ (since 2011, I think) got caught red-handed by no less than the SC.

        Sad reality.

        I believe that is further “stating the obvious.”

        Not to mention that cynics may be born each day the sad reality is PERPETUATED, regardless if to a smaller degree than the rest.

        Kalakaran naman dangkasi, eh! “If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em” kind of thing instead of putting the much needed safeguards against corruption.

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        • sorry po, para sa akin, one does not have to be in dynasty to do bad things. napoles is not dynastic, ebeng baloloy is barely dynastic, gerry limlingan is prob’ly not dynastic too. they’re satellite people orbiting around dynasties, reinforcing, conniving, enabling, and just as bad, maybe badder. I think, anti dynasty law should not lull us into believing, or give us false hope that upon its approval, graft and corruption will end, and everyone will be happy.

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          • So, you thumb down one of the safeguards against corruption?

            Just to elicit a categorical statement from you.

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              • At least one has to realize that there may not be a ‘cure-all’ even in anti-corruption legislation.

                That’s why anti-political dynasty law, as its creation is enshrined in the Constitution and as one of the safeguards in fighting ‘bad apples’ in government as well as would-be ones, STILL has to be enacted despite your #54.2.1.1.

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  6. Guys, the musician-turned-activist Jim Paredes has been elevated by Salgado as an ally of Roxas bent to take Binay out or far from the Election 2016 picture. I FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE (sorry, guys, the words, comfort, comfortable, uncomfortable have infected me like a disease; I need another dose of baycas’ yakapsul). Why is not CPM, my idol in the Blogosphere, mentioned as also bent to take Binary out or far from the Election 2016 picture?

    May be, as long as we here in CPM are NOT ONE in crowing for Roxas, it is OK to Binay and his Camp. A Poe win is ok, A Duterte win is ok. A XX win is ok. But not so a Roxas win. That is, Roxas is the one to fear. Makes me believe in some of the threads in @Parekoy’s story.

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  7. Off-topic but relevant and horrific:

    1. A new mass extinction could be underway, researchers say (CNN 6/20/15)

    “Sixty-five million years ago, the dinosaurs disappeared in what’s known as the Earth’s fifth mass extinction. Today, a sixth mass extinction could be well underway and humans are the likely culprit, according to new research published in Science Advances.
    “The five mass extinctions on Earth were caused by large-scale natural disasters like meteors or enormous chains of volcanic eruptions, wiping out between half and 96% of all living species.
    “But the modern mass extinction isn’t being caused by a freak act of nature, the researchers say. It’s being caused by man-made changes to the environment including deforestation, poaching, overfishing and global-warming, and it’s proving to be just as deadly.”

    2. Scientists: Sun’s irregular ‘heartbeat’ could mean future freeze (CNN 7/14/15)

    “Scientists have made a discovery about the sun’s “heartbeat” that they say indicates that Earth’s Northern Hemisphere could experience a deep freeze in 15 years.
    “The sun has a “solar heartbeat,” or cycle of activity, that produces energy that causes sunspots and solar flares. Scientists at Northumbria University in northeast England developed a model that illustrates the history of these heartbeats and that predicts there will be irregularities in them. The model suggests that solar activity will fall by 60% during the 2030s.”

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    • Oh, oh — that indeed is a great concern. We will have literal physical honest-to-goodness frozen assets, not just about Binay family and dummies frozen bank assets.

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      • Yes, fur lined underpants will be the order of the day. In order to protect your physical assets.

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          • Always a pessimist.

            The largest meteor impact event on Earth was recorded on June 30, 1908 in what is known as the Tunguska Event in remote Siberia. Estimates of the energy of the surface blast range between 10 to 15 megatons of TNT or about 1,000 times greater than that of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

            It is estimated that the Tunguska explosion knocked down some 80 million trees over an area of 2,150 square kilometers and the shock wave from the blast would have measured 5,0 on the Richter scale. No fatalities was reported due to remoteness of the location. (wikipedia)

            Will there be another meteor blast, probably gigantic, that may hit MM? Most likely – due to unabated corruption in one of its major cities.

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        • ancient, the scots have codpieces to protect their assets, pero they wore skirts no matter how cold the weather. apparently, those assets are not to be warmed up more than or above the body’s normal temperature, and ought to be kept cool. something to do with the sperms’ motility. kaya men are encouraged to wear shorts and not to wear tight underpants, boxer shorts is preferable. keep it loose and hanging, he, he, he. hairy, airy.

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          • @Moonie. Did you know that in the UK soldiers in uniform wearing kilts are not permitted to travel on the upper deck of double decker buses. Just in case they display their personal assets on the way up stairs.
            Kilted soldiers wear nothing under their kilts.

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    • Fascinating. I had read about the sixth mass extinction but not the solar heartbeat.

      Well, maybe we’ll at least get Torre de Manila solved by then (2030), but I am not sure about the Ampatuans.

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  8. Re Junjun Binay CA petition on Ombudsman’s second suspension order:

    We have the interesting phenomenon of CA Justices inhibiting themselves one after the other — for good reasons of course. And the reason effectively is that they may prejudice the case AGAINST Junjun.

    My naugthy mind asks — if the replacement CA Justice will likely prejudice the case FOR Junjun, will the replacement Justice inhibit? Just asking.

    Also, will these events likely to cause relief or anxiety to the Binay family? Again, just asking.

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    • There are currently 67 Ct.Appeals justices including the Presiding Justice.

      Three replacements might cause DISBELIEF to the Binay family!

      64 justices remaining possibly cannot inhibit for good reason or reasons.

      Thus, there will be possibly 64 Disbeliefs for the Binay family coming soon! Is that too much?

      he he he

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      • Or, acc to Wikipedia –

        ‘The court consists of 68 Associate Justices and 1 Presiding Justice. ‘

        So, 69! Three Justices already caused RELIEFS to the Binay family.

        So, assuming correctly possible 65 Justices are potentials for DISBELIEFS to the family.

        A failing grade number is 65% score. Nervous na ang buong pamilya!

        :-)

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  9. GRACE POE TAKING A BREATHER

    INQUIRER — Amid political noise, Grace Poe says she needs to think, pray (01:06 PM July 15th, 2015)

    http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/705335/amid-political-noise-grace-poe-says-she-needs-to-think-pray

    Senator Grace Poe is making herself scarce from the media to “think” and “pray.”

    “Kailangan ko muna mag-isip at magdasal (I need to think and pray),” Poe said in a text message Tuesday.

    Some reporters noticed that the neophyte senator, who used to be accessible to the media, would now seldom answer questions on politics. She also begged off to attend a weekly forum at the Senate scheduled every Thursday.

    Good for her.

    I hope that in this self-imposed retreat by Grace Poe, she takes the time to go through the commentaries in Raissa’s Blog. It is not at all toxic reading for her. In the main they are well-meaning not only coming from her critics here but her champions.

    I believe strongly that if she uses her intelligence and best thinking self, she can come to understand that we, by our praises and criticisms, mean well for her — so that when she becomes our President or Vice President or remain as a Senator she can at least take our commentaries here as some sort of vicarious experience added to what she has already experienced.

    Grace Poe:

    Don’t be blind sided by P-noy if that is the result of your intelligent analysis and thinking, but please don’t be blind sided as well by Escudero. Examine and analyze carefully what P-noy has done for the country and compare that with what Escudero has done for the country. You are a graduate of political science, so that can assist you in your thinking.

    On my part I am both a champion and a critic of yours. In the early days, I placed you on a pedestal. But I have matured in my view of you. (I am 77. I have an academic degree from the Philippines; and like you, I have a degree from a highly regarded US graduate school.)

    Best wishes during your retreat.

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    • Dear Senator Grace Poe,

      Be true to yourself as foundling.

      Please run for P or VP in order for your opponents to question your citizenship (either by QW or DQ case).

      The hypothetical “Baby Marciano” (or other PH foundlings, for that matter) relies on you.

      Thank Q.

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    • Isn’t this similar to a script Pnoy followed when he went to a retreat in a convent with some nuns shortly before he decided to run for president?

      Is Grace Poe following a Pnoy script now?

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      • yvonne, this shows that the collective memory bank of CPM — yours in this case — is working, that is, A-Ok. And yes, that is an interesting repeat of P-noy’s retreat before the big jump; whatever that is in Grace’s case.

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  10. President Aquino will have a casual dinner with Interior Secretary Mar Roxas, Sen. Grace Poe and Sen. Francis Escudero either Wednesday night or any day this week, according to a Palace source.

    newsinfo.inquirer.net/705247/guess-whos-coming-to-dinner-at-the-palace

    [IMAGE]

    When finally C, P, M, and PNoy will meet at dinner…

    PNoy will perform this ever reliable way of picking his candidate/s. (To see, please click or tap on the sentence.)

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    • It will soon become well known that Chiz Escudero has as Masters Degree in “Social Climbing”.

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      • Ancient Mariner,

        With all the comments, stories, jokes, etc we read about Escudero — and really, we don’t have to go far, we only have to review the various comments in CPM about him, won’t it give you nightmares if Escudero said the following at that dinner:

        “Mr. President, I have thought this through over the last several days. Here is my suggestion if you agree, and of course with the agreement of Secretary Roxas and my friend Senator Poe. Mar should be our Presidential candidate; Grace should be our Vice President; and if you agree, Mr. President, I will be their Chief Campaign Manager.” Then everyone shook hands and had a hearty dinner.

        Although, I myself sketched that scenario, I immediately reacted to that scenario: Oh, my goodness no. Not a Bipo this time. Oh, please NO. Not a variant of Noybi.

        Patay kang bata ka!

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        • Yes, it sure would.
          Firstly because of our social climbing poser.
          Secondly , because like you I was a Grace Poe fan but for all the stated reasons I do not now believe she is a good candidate. If she comes back from her rest days and comes up front about her origins, life in USA and provides a substantiated account of her claim to be a natural borne Filipina and her claim to be qualified to sit in the Senate and run for President, I might warm to her again.
          Question. Why does she need Escudero when she has a husband to provide her support.
          Another question. What does her husband think of her palsy, walsy relationship with he of limited financial resources.

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          • I am beginning to warm up to the up-to-now-unstated idea of some psychological flaw along with things we have observed about “Amazing Grace.”

            She is intelligent and she knows how to express herself well in English and Pilipino and so her choice of words have meaning she wants to convey. We are not talking here of an Erap with his “eraptions.”

            Thus the choice of words — her being “comfortable” with Escudero somehow brings up the image of a teenager saying that same word to the mother. But not of a future President — a needy future President. If she said, Escudero happens to have ideas of governance and the future of the country which mostly coincides with mine, that would have been very reasonable. In fact P-noy can speak that way about Mar.

            Added to that the picture of Grace wanting to have Escudero available and around her for support makes me “uncomfortable.” Hahaha, there is that word again.

            Sa ating wika, ang tatanungin natin — ano kaya ang pinakain ni Escudero sa kanya?

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            • nherrera, grace is intelligent, so was adolf hitler. he was also orator whose speeches were recorded for posterity, mesmerized all those that listened to him. then, the ignominy. sadly, not all people use their intelligence for good cause.

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              • Yes, @moonie, that is a corollary thought. High intelligence is a double-sided blade. If the side of goodness is dominant, then Hosanna; but if the bad side is dominant, then woe unto us.

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  11. THE NUMBERS BEHIND CHINA’S RECENT STOCK EXCHANGE CRISIS

    In a recent Philippine Daily Inquirer editorial and in the same paper’s column of the economist Cielito Habito, the matter of China’s stock exchange crisis was discussed.

    Essentially the comment was that the effect on the Philippines is minimal unless China goes into economic depression which is probably deemed unlikely at this time.

    Being a numbers man (while not at all a stock analyst-expert), I looked at the numbers and the associated chart:

    – Within a one year period ending today, the Shanghai Composite stock index rose from 2046 to a whopping 5178, a 153% rise.

    – From a high of 5178 in a month’s time the Index went to a low of about 3500 about a week ago; this is a plunge of 32% from its high. But a better measure of the plunge, is the plunge relative to the year ago level of 2046; that is (5178-3500)/(5178-2046) or a plunge of 54%, that is, relative to the rise from 2046 to 5178. THAT IS A BIG OUCH.

    – In today’s (yesterday in the Americas and Europe) stock movement: All the Americas Indices were up; Europe was mixed — probably due both to the Greek and Chinese situation; and ALL Asia-Pacific Indices were UP, except the Shanghai Index down 3.03%, Hong Kong Index down 0.26%, Russia Index down 0,71%, and Thailand Index down 0.11%

    – Sorry, guys, I just want to see the numbers behind Inquirer’s editorial and Habito’s comments and want to share. I will not do this again. Promise.

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    • Mel, you got me hooked on this, so I did a Google search on this topic to see if it has relevance.

      Here is what I have found with the Shmita years in relation to the Philippine political scene.

      1901-1902 Shmita Year

      Philippine Organic Act of 1902 was enacted because of these three conditions
      1. The cessation of the existing insurrection in the Philippine Islands
      2. Completion and publication of a census
      3. Two years of continued peace and recognition of the authority of the United States of America after the publication of the census.

      1916-1917 Shmita Year

      The Jones Law of 1916 was passed. It was also known as the Philippine Autonomy Act, which replaced the Philippine Organic Act of 1902. This is the first time that the Filipinos elected their representatives and senators of the Legislative Branch.

      1930-1931 Shmita Year

      Establishment of the Partido Komunista ng Pilipinas, the parent organization of the Communist Party of the Philippines that has as its military arm, the NPAs.

      OsRox Mission of 1931 was created to deal with the Americans of granting full independence to the Philippines. They secured the Hare-Hawes-Cutting Act, but it was rejected by the Philippine Legislature and Quezon. HHC Act was the predecessor to Tydings McDuffie Law that establishes the Commonwealth of Philippines

      The advent of the Great Depression in the United States in the 1930s and the first aggressive moves by Japan in Asia (1931) shifted U.S. sentiment sharply toward the granting of immediate independence to the Philippines in 1932

      1937-1938 Shmita Year

      Philippine women’s suffrage plebiscite of 1937. This plebiscite allowed women to vote in elections, and 1937 also saw women exercising their rights of suffrage and the election of women in public office. The election of 1938 also marked the first time block voting was allowed.

      1944-1945 Shmita Year

      Phillipines Campaign (1944-1945) began with the amphibious landings on the eastern island of Leyte on October 20, 1944 until the end of the war in 1945.

      Philippine Commonwealth Government was reestablished in Tacloban, Leyte

      .
      1965-1966 Shmita Year

      In 1965, Ferdinand Marcos, Sr. became the president of the Philippines trouncing President Diosdado Macapagal

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  13. Ménage à trois

    Partial report from an unreliable source present at the palace dinner:

    PNoy asked Grace as V of Roxas. Grace looked at Escudero for some cues and Escudero answered for Poe. PNoy reminded Escudero politely that Grace could answer that herself.

    Grace asked about the Citizenship and Residency Issues and PNoy promised it is a done deal.

    Grace reluctantly agreed but wanted Escudero to be the co-campaigm manager to protect her interest. PNoy looked at Roxas and Roxas nodded. Escudero also asked to be the Senate President for his remaining term in the Senate. Roxas agreed with the same smirk which is usually worn by Chiz. Chiz reminded of his previous demands that he needs to have his boys a cabinet position, Commission on Appointments, and Commission on Appropriations, and additional positions at BOC. Roxas replied of course, but with a smirk…

    But then Chiz asked for another demand that made PNoy really irritated and Roxas almost spoke french, while Poe was worried and telegraphed her reluctance at Chiz…

    **

    So it was going well but seems there were some bumps…

    **
    Oops… don’t believe this particular misinformation for this is another one of those stories…

    :)

    Abangan…

    Parekoy
    07-15-2016

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    • Escudero’s final request. “Could you please ask the waiter to put the left over food in a doggy bag for me please.”

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          • My 007 in the Palace overheard that “el trapo” (not el chapo) chiz asked PNoy for the BIR post for one of his boys from Bicol

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              • “Grace asked about the Citizenship and Residency issues and PNoy promised it’s a done deal.”

                Not quite. Lawyer Raymund Fortun’s open letter to grace posted on 6/8/15 on Kicker Daily News states, in part:

                “You DID state UNDER OATH that your residency in the Philippines as of May 13, 2013 was 6 years, 6 months. I as a lawyer will hold you to that oath. You KNEW or OUGHT TO HAVE KNOWN the implications of that declarations.”

                “That you are now trying to wiggle your way out of that declaration under oath somehow tarnishes you in my eyes because THE LEAST that I expect from you is HONESTY. Are you singing a different tune now because you are becoming a traditional politician who we detest?”

                Selected lyrics from the song “You gave me a mountain”
                “But this time Lord, you gave me a mountain
                A mountain you know I may never climb
                It isn’t just a hill any longer
                You gave me a mountain this time”

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    • Gademit who the hell is chizmozo to make such demands? The only suitable answer whenever he ask for something is ‘uhuh ,,, hmmm,,, mmp or some sounds coming out from behind.

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    • If the source is right I’d say that Chiz surely knows how to negotiate. We all know that Grace is Escudero’s ‘alas’ and in excellent position to make big demands. So move over Drilon. Chiz will be the next senate president then VP in 2022. Finally as president in 2028. Is it wrong to be ambitious?

      Last demand, Heart will be the Speaker if the House. Hahahaha

      Sumasarap ang bawat pahina ng kuwento.

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    • after last night meeting, what if the tandem of roxas-poe will be the anointed the one so chiz will campaign for bi-poe? pag nanalo itong bi-poe, magiging senate speaker sya. any time within the term of bi-poe makulong si binay magiging pres. si poe at vp si chiz. chis and the gang will manipulate poe. coup and other destabilization taking place. sampahan ng kaso si grace dahil sa citizenship/ lack of residency at matalo maging pres. si chiz. i am already experiencing this nightmare. kawawang bansa ko sa koko ng mga LAGIM. SAKIM pala

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  14. PLAYING TRIVIA WITH GRACE POE

    While we are anxiously waiting for Grace’s decision to run for President, or Vice-President, independent or under the banner of LP or NP, let us play a little bit of trivia:

    GRACE REPORTEDLY CONDUCTED BUSINESS IN THE U.S. DURING HER STAY AT THE U.S.

    Questions:

    a. With whom did she conduct the business with?
    b. What was her position in the business?
    c. How many employees did the business have?
    d. What was the reported sales volume of that business?

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  15. Roxas-Poe it is!

    Belmonte’s last minute sabotage was a dud and he was berated by PNoy. Belmonte knows that when Aquino made up his mind nobody can change it so the issued correction from Red Nose Reindeer!

    Poe issued her first statement that she is going to help Roxas and Aquino on the Tuwid na Daan to prepare the public to soften her change of mind of transferring her comfort from Chiz to Mar.

    Media blitz will be issued from now to SONA to promote and strengthen the tandem.

    Escudero got most of his demands but back to his old self by contacting Binay and Erap. Tapped conversations are not that alarming yet but enough to continue watch Escudero’s moves if he is doing his part of the bargain.

    Binay accepted the fact that he will confront a more formidable tandem and now tries to show bravado but his camp now is so worried by the jumoing of his allies from hos sinking ship.

    Erap is contemplating to run but emissaries were wMar to solicit a deal.

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  16. a suggestion to the presidential candidate running against binay: focus on jobs, the creation of jobs, the environment that favors job creation. jobs, jobs, jobs. kung magnanakaw ang nasa itaas, ano ang ipekto nito sa pagpapalago ng ekonomiya at pagpaparami ng trabaho. language of jobs will be understood in urban centers as well as in the peripheries. sino sa mga kandidato ngayon ang nagcontribute na sa pagpaparami ng trabaho? sino sa mga kandidato ngayon ang nagpasimula sa mga call centers?

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