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INQUIRER: GLORIA ARROYO, SON FILE BILL TO PENALIZE ECONOMIC SPYING
- Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has teamed up with her son in crafting a bill that would punish "economic espionage." "We need to advance the development and lawful use of Philippine proprietary economic information by protecting it from theft, wrongful destruction or alteration, misappropriation and conversion by foreign governments and their agents or instrumentalities," the authors said in the bill's explanatory note. "The development, protection and lawful exchange of such information is essential to the competitiveness of critical segments of Philippine business and industry."

Philstar p.13 Shooting Star by Bobbit Avila: "Did Pres. Benigno 'PNoy' Aquino really say as reported during an ambush interview in Subic that the so-called 'scams' happening in his regime paled in comparison with those that occurred under the Arroyo administration? If the friends or allies of the former Pres. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo committed corruption, they are damned and hauled to jail. But if the friends of PNoy Aquino commit them... it's called Daang Matuwid. Honestly, the magnitude of the crime is irrelevant!"

BAKIT palaki nang palaki ang hinihinging BUDGET ni PNOY? di ba DAPAT marami nang NAIPATAYONG classrooms, tulay, kalsada, airports, farm to market roads at DAPAT KONTI na ang MAHIRAP, at MARAMI na ang MAY TRABAHO? MALAKI DAW ang improvement ng EKONOMIYA so di ba dapat KUMOKONTI na ANG GASTOS ng gobyerno? SAAN NAPUNTA ang budget SA TATLONG TAON na siya ang NAKAUPO? ibig sabihin - WALANG NANGYARI dahil PANAY ang HINGI nya ng MAS MALAKI!!!

Pnoy on CJ Corona's SALN: walang special treatment kahit sino!
Pnoy on Senate and HOR's
SALNs: di pwedeng PAKIALAMAN ng yan dahil CO-EQUAL branch yan!

TRIBUNE EDITORIAL: The call for the removal of the pork barrel in government became stronger as an offshoot of the P10 billion scam on the use of the PDAF which is the version of the pork barrel in Congress. Noynoy apparently is still enjoying the numerous financial perks, an issue that Gloria has been WIDELY AND PERIODICALLY BASHED on the head by the SELF-RIGHTEOUS MOB that now seems to be only too tolerant of the practice being carried out today by Noynoy, the argument being that the intentions are DIFFERENT NOW and then. THAT'S PURE BS OF THE HYPOCRITICAL YELLOW TYPE.

TRIBUNE EDITORIAL: CLEAR HYPOCRISY
What about EQUAL TREATMENT? Corona was removed from office as a result of his FAILURE TO FULLY DISCLOSE HIS ASSETS in his SALn and now the BIR is having a HARD TIME requesting, even supplicating, for them to voluntarily provide their SALns. The Palace said that since the Legislative and the Executive are co-equal branches of government, the BIR  as part of the Executive CANNOT ENCROACH ON THE INDEPENDENCE of members of Congress in compelling them to submit their SALns. The statement, however, was A COMPLETE TURNAROUND from the Palace stand on the Judiciary, the third co-equal branch of government, during the Corona impeachment trial.

MLA STANDARD: JOJO ROBLES: And, for the record, there have been at least FIVE BOMBINGS hat have been reported in Mindanao. These took place in Cagayan de Oro, Cotabato City, Midsayap, Datu Piang and Sharif Saydona Mustapha. In all these cases, all the palace's Prevaricator-in-Chief, Edwin Lacierda, could say is that the incidents "ARE STILL BEING INVESTIGATED." Goodness knows WHEN he investigations will end - or IF THEY'VE actually started already.

MLA STANDARD: ROD KAPUNAN - In the meantime, as we continue to incur annual budget deficit our foreign debt continues swell now standing at $59 billion or roughly equivalent to P2.537 trillion in the peso is denominated at P43 to a dollar. As one progressive economist observed, there is no way the country could ever extricate itself from its deepening budget deficit. Our practice of borrowing to artificially maintain the balance is nothing more but "kiting" intended only to postpone our day of reckoning. Only the greedy oligarchs will continue to get rich while the rest will sink deeper into the pit of poverty forever blinded by the promise of freedom and democracy.

MLA STANDARD: EMIL JURADO - Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, who has been under hospital arrest for year now, certainly does not need hospital surroundings to recover from her debilitating ailment. If the Aquino administration can APPEAL TO other government to spare the LIVES OF FILIPINOS CONVICTED OF ILLEGAL DRUG TRAFFICKING, I cannot see why it cannot be more humane and considerate towards A FORMER PRESIDENT whose HEALTH IS DETERIORATING.