Villar concedes to Aquino

It was a fight well fought.

Mga kababayan,

Nagpasya na ang mamamayang Pilipino. Malinaw na sa kabila ng ating pagpupunyagi, hindi tayo nabiyayaan ng tagumpay sa halalan noong Lunes.

Humaharap ako sa inyo ngayon upang tanggapin ang pasyang ito. Upang igalang ang boses ng sambayanang Pilipino.

I congratulate Sen. Noynoy Aquino on his victory. The challenges he and our country faces are enormous and we should all work together.

PASG uncovers int’l drug base on island off Quezon

QUEZON – The Presidential Anti-Smuggling Group (PASG) stumbled over a drug transshipment and manufacturing base last Thursday night on Icolong Island in this province.

The PASG said Saturday that their teams spent 14 hours along the western coast of Southern Luzon Thursday to trace the nautical route of misdeclared import shipments in violation of the Tariff Code.

PASG Director for Region 13 Philip A. Placer said his agents followed a suspicious shipment that ended in a safehouse in Sitio Sabang, Barangay Judith in Burdeos on Icolong Island and immediately conducted a raid.

SPEECH: MITING DE AVANCE (Senator Manny Villar, May 07, 2010)

Mga minamahal kong kababayan:

Halos tatlong buwan na ang nakakaraan, dito rin sa Tondo, sinimulan natin ang ating himagsikan laban sa kahirapan.

Sa loob ng tatlong buwan, naikot ko halos ang buong bansa, nakakwentuhan ko ang ating mga kababayan na patuloy nagsusumikap upang mabigyan ng disenteng buhay ang kanilang mga pamilya, nakasalamuha ko ang ating mga kababayan na patuloy pa ring umaasa na uunlad ang ating bansa.

Maraming datos na ang inilabas upang isalarawan ang kahirapan ng buhay sa ating bansa.

Ayon sa isang pag-aaral, 24% ng mga pamilyang Pilipino (katumbas ng 4.4 milyon na kabahayan) ang nakaranas ng gutom sa nakaraang 3 buwan.

Opposition slams Aquino’s power-share arrangement

DEPOSED President Joseph Estrada attacked presidential frontrunner Benigno Aquino III on Thursday, saying his plan to share up to 80 percent of his powers with his vice president if he won showed a lack of preparation for the presidency.

Estrada said Aquino’s statement, made in a press conference Wednesday, made it appear he would be overdependent on his vice president in running the affairs of government, which was not a sign of good leadership.

“As President, you alone exercise the powers of the executive, although you can delegate your functions to your Cabinet members. You have to take responsibility for all your decisions, major or minor.

Moral Theology and its Impact on Noynoy’s Medical Report

Here is the opinion of Fr. Mark Reburiano, a professor of Moral Theology who teaches at St. Patrick’s Seminary in Menlo Park, California. Fr. Mark is considered as an authority on Moral Theology. Fr. Mark studied for 10 years in Rome and was a student of Pope Benedict. He was the protege of Cardinal Leveda, who has served as the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in the Roman Curia (“the defender of the faith”). He speaks 5 languages.

These are the conclusions from his opinion:

April 30 Rally with Senator Villar

To all volunteer organizations supporting Sen. Manny Villar’s candidacy:

Attached is the program/invitation for our political rally with Sen. Villar.

Dubbed as “Pagkakaisa ng Maralita para Tapusin ang Kahirapan”, the April 30 activity will serve as the volunteer organizations’ political contribution to MBV’s presidential campaign as we will be signing a covenant/manifesto of unity to rally behind Sen. Villar’s call to end poverty. The manifesto will also serve as our declaration endorsing Sen. Villar as the genuine people’s candidate.

MERALCO deal with Noynoy bared

CONSUMER groups identified with the Movement for Better Values (MBV) today picketed the Meralco office in Ortigas to protest the “unwarranted, exorbitant and unjust” increases in electricity rates.

The MBV also dared MERALCO to answer consumers’ concern that the P12.98 billion overcharged rates it had collected from its customers in 2004 and 2007 had, until now, not been investigated and refunded to the consumers because it was contributed by the Lopez family to Noynoy Aquino’s campaign fund.

Villar’s ma cries foul, tells son to be strong

“It pains and it almost kills.”

This was the reaction of the 86-year-old blind mother of Nacionalista Party presidential candidate Manny Villar amid the vicious attacks hurled against her son by his political opponents and critics, the latest of which was that the senator did not come from poverty.

“Nasasaktan ako sa pinagsasabi nila laban sa anak ko na halos ikamatay ko…… halos ikamatay ko,” Curita “Nanay Curing” Bamba Villar told reporters during a press conference at her home in Las Piñas.

She broke down in tears for a while that nearly called off the press conference.

16 Luzon lawmakers defect to Villar camp

BlogWatch.ph: Villar camp: Claim on PSE pressure pure fiction

The camp of Nacionalista Party (NP) standard-bearer Sen. Manny Villar lashed back at former president Joseph Estrada and Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile for peddling lies and deceiving the public regarding the propriety of the stock offering of his real estate company.

“Senator Villar is once again being tried publicly via the media by his political opponents. We challenge them to present documents if indeed they have any such credible documents to back their allegations,” said lawyer Nalen Rosero-Galang, chief legal officer for Villar.