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Telltale Signs: Who is Vetellano Acosta?
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010. Who is Vetellano Acosta? No one ever heard of him before and no one knows anything more about him since but the hitherto unknown Vetellano Acosta is the first name that close to 55 million Filipino voters will see on their ballots in the May 10 elections. In contrast, all 7 commissioners voted unanimously to include Vetellano Acosta’s name on the list even if none of them had ever heard of him before he applied. In his Comelec application, Acosta listed his residence ...Acosta ...
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Telltale Signs: October 2009
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009. The First Nobel Prez Winner. Barack Obama is not the first nor the youngest US president to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. That distinction belongs to Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt who was awarded the honor in 1906 for his role ending the Russo-Japanese War. But “Peace” has never been a word associated with Roosevelt’s policies and world view, especially as they affected the Philippines. To implement their imperial ambitions, Roosevelt secured an appointment from US Pres. Wi...
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Telltale Signs: November 2008
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008. At a recent house party I attended, the lady host remarked that it was a curse to be a Filipino. “My white friends, when they host parties, they only serve one or two main dishes and a lot of crackers and cheese,” she said. “But for Filipinos, we are always expected to serve six, eight or more main dishes.”. 8220;It takes so much more time and so much more money to be a Pinoy,” she said with a sigh. Where he decried the Filipinos’ penchant for fiestas where the poor are ...
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Telltale Signs: August 2009
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Thursday, August 27, 2009. Jose Rizal and Ninoy Aquino: Cosmic Brothers. If you compare all the Philippine national heroes from Lapu-Lapu to Cory Aquino, it is unlikely that you will find two heroes more uncannily similar, in how they lived and in how they died, than Dr. Jose Rizal and Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino, Jr. More than other heroes, Rizal and Aquino fit the textbook mythological model of a “tragic hero” – one born=2 0of privilege, imbued with heroic qualities, and fated to endure gr...Dr Jose Rizal l...
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Telltale Signs: December 2008
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008. If convicted plunderer Joseph “Erap” Estrada succeeds in winning re-election to the presidency in the May 2010 elections, the Filipino people can blame President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and former president Cory Aquino for this woeful occurrence, Arroyo for granting him an executive clemency on October 24, 2007 and Aquino for her public apology to him on December 22, 2008. This barrier amy have evaporated this Christmas when People Power icon Cory Aquino, speaking after Estrad...
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Telltale Signs: January 2010
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Thursday, January 28, 2010. Telltale Signs: COMELEC’S INDIFFERENCE TO OVERSEAS FILIPINOS. When Maritess Salientes Bloom, a dual citizen from Boston, Massachusetts, appeared at a hearing before the members of the Philippine Commission on Elections (COMELEC) in Manila on January 14, 2010, she was hopeful that the commissioners would grant her petition to extend the voter registration period for overseas Filipinos. 8221; which everyone in the room joined in chorus. It seemed too good to be true. For the...
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Telltale Signs: June 2009
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Friday, June 26, 2009. A Community Left Out in the Cold. SAN FRANCISCO - Greg Macabenta, Baylan Megino and I answered the call of Rudy Asercion, Executive Director of the West Bay Pilipino Multi-Service Center, to attend the public hearing of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors on June 22 to speak out in favor of providing city funding to West Bay, the community non-profit agency that provided services last year to 3500 Filipino families in the South of Market (SOMA) district of San Francisco. Every o...
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Telltale Signs: April 2009
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Thursday, April 16, 2009. Although the staggering number shocks the conscience, the issue had received little national media attention until the Philippine Commission on Human Rights (CHR) began a three-day public hearing in Davao City on March 30, 2009 on the 814 “extra-judicial killings” that have taken place in this Mindanao city between August 19, 1998 to February 1, 2009. In a speech before the Integrated Bar of the Philippines in February of 2009, Mayor Duterte explained his perspective: “If ...
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Telltale Signs: May 2009
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Thursday, May 28, 2009. As the deputy chief for civil-military operations during Balikatan 2007, Lt. Gadian was in a position to know exactly how the funds were allocated and how they were actually spent or misspent and who were responsible for any misappropriation of these funds. The high-ranking officials of the AFP. Only a centavo went to the operating troops on the ground, but worst scenario is that nothing went to them and only a meager amount went to support the projects.”. Lt Gadian fears that if ...
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Telltale Signs: March 2009
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Thursday, March 26, 2009. AFTER Joseph "Erap" Estrada was elected president in 1998, he stopped his predecessor's six-year campaign to disband the 560 "private armies" that had proliferated all over the Philippines. Instead, Estrada added one more “private army” to the list - but one that was crafted from within the ranks of the Philippine military establishment, an elite unit that would go after his political enemies and engage in “black operations.”. Why was Dacer a special target of the PAOCTF? Despit...
