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		<title>christmas 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 15:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angela</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[if memory serves, not since the erap impeachment trial of 2000 has the holiday season been as politically charged as this one.   the acquittal of hubert webb et al continues to be front page news, with former nbi directors exchanging &#8230; <a href="http://stuartsantiago.com/christmas-2010/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>why ping</title>
		<link>http://stuartsantiago.com/why-ping/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 07:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angela</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[almost everyone&#8217;s saying senator panfilo aka &#8220;ping&#8221; lacson should surrender and prove his innocence in court instead of forever playing the unfairly accused fugitive.   but when i think of the vizconde massacre and how there is so much reasonable doubt &#8230; <a href="http://stuartsantiago.com/why-ping/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Midnight CJ and the Four R&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://stuartsantiago.com/midnight-cj-and-the-four-rs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angela</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rene Saguisag The framers could have said the position of Chief Justice (CJ) should be filled up immediately and that only the CJ could swear in a Prez. They did not. They said any judicial vacancy should be filled up &#8230; <a href="http://stuartsantiago.com/midnight-cj-and-the-four-rs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>HOW MONA LISA DIED</title>
		<link>http://stuartsantiago.com/how-mona-lisa-died/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angela</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walden Bello Representative Edcel Lagman of Albay has a term for legislative measures that gain approval in a congressional committee yet never make it to a full floor debate owing to one reason or other. He calls them “Mona Lisa” &#8230; <a href="http://stuartsantiago.com/how-mona-lisa-died/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>no guts, no gloria</title>
		<link>http://stuartsantiago.com/no-guts-no-gloria/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:44:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angela</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stuartsantiago.com/?p=1748</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[well the woman has guts, and she really doesn&#8217;t care what fvr thinks, much less what wewho-want-her-out think, not as long as there are people in place who continue to support her. but it&#8217;s offensive, that happy grin she was &#8230; <a href="http://stuartsantiago.com/no-guts-no-gloria/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>pacquiao&#8217;s place</title>
		<link>http://stuartsantiago.com/pacquiaos-place/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angela</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stuartsantiago.com/?p=1706</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[praising pacquiao by showbiz grande dame armida siguion-reyna aka tita midz is a good read.  specially this half: Day after the fight, the papers had everybody who was anybody with a quote. Sen. Chiz Escudero hoped the boxer “inspires” those &#8230; <a href="http://stuartsantiago.com/pacquiaos-place/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>last-minute blues</title>
		<link>http://stuartsantiago.com/last-minute-blues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:26:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angela</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stuartsantiago.com/?p=1664</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[there must be another way of handling the comelec registration process.   alam naman natin na may last-minute mentality ang pinoy.   comelec should have expected, and prepared for, the swarm instead of saying, kayo kasi&#8230;   lalo na&#8217;t merong concessions made to &#8230; <a href="http://stuartsantiago.com/last-minute-blues/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>the audacity of chiz</title>
		<link>http://stuartsantiago.com/the-audacity-of-chiz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angela</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stuartsantiago.com/?p=1656</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[nagulat ako kay chiz.   nagulat ako nang sabihin niyang he&#8217;s out of the nationalist people&#8217;s coalition, that is, out of the shadow of party bosses playing traditional politics.    napa-wow ako sa kanyang declaration of independence, at sa wari ko &#8230; <a href="http://stuartsantiago.com/the-audacity-of-chiz/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>environment 7: denr &amp; the poor</title>
		<link>http://stuartsantiago.com/environment-revolution-7/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angela</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stuartsantiago.com/?p=1628</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[THE DENR &#38; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (Why The Poor Will Always Be With Us) Junie Kalaw In Mindanao, two years after her historic succession to the presidency, President Aquino, a very religious person, appealed for the help of the citizenry, especially institutions &#8230; <a href="http://stuartsantiago.com/environment-revolution-7/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>environment 4: forests left</title>
		<link>http://stuartsantiago.com/environment-revolution-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angela</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stuartsantiago.com/?p=1606</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[FORESTS LEFT Junie Kalaw Traditional politics dies hard.  Upon Mrs. Aquino&#8217;s exit, with the convening by President Fidel V. Ramos of a new legislature and the appointment of a new secretary for the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), &#8230; <a href="http://stuartsantiago.com/environment-revolution-4/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>environment &amp; revolution</title>
		<link>http://stuartsantiago.com/environment-revolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 10:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angela</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stuartsantiago.com/?p=1581</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[if junie kalaw were alive he&#8217;d be saying i-told-you-so, just like odette alcantara.   junie and odette were our leading environmentalists, pioneers, who didn&#8217;t live to see the great floods wrought by ondoy &#38; pepeng [and some dam(ned) officials] but &#8230; <a href="http://stuartsantiago.com/environment-revolution/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>the games begin</title>
		<link>http://stuartsantiago.com/the-games-begin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:57:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angela</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stuartsantiago.com/?p=1466</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[was going to blog on alex magno&#8217;s game-changer series, express amazement at how cory&#8217;s death and noynoy&#8217;s audacity seems to have changed his politics, and wonder what his bosses gma and fg have to say.   then i read manuel buencamino&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="http://stuartsantiago.com/the-games-begin/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>mar roxas, way to go!</title>
		<link>http://stuartsantiago.com/mar-roxas-way-to-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angela</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stuartsantiago.com/?p=1421</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[why was i surprised when mar called a press conference to make his important announcement?   certainly not because i wasn&#8217;t expecting him to give way if noynoy decided to run.   i guess what i wasn&#8217;t expecting was that mar would &#8230; <a href="http://stuartsantiago.com/mar-roxas-way-to-go/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>gloria should go</title>
		<link>http://stuartsantiago.com/gloria-should-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angela</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stuartsantiago.com/?p=1333</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; to the wake, i mean.   and she knows it.   not so much for the nation &#8212; we can take or leave protocol, i find &#8212; but for the international community.     the whole world is watching.   she &#8230; <a href="http://stuartsantiago.com/gloria-should-go/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>mean and nasty</title>
		<link>http://stuartsantiago.com/mean-and-nasty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angela</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stuartsantiago.com/?p=1305</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[i wondered who was responsible for the friday rumor that had cory passing away and people bursting into tears.   mabuti at napasinungalingan agad, though not quick enough to spare us a taste of the great grief coming, sooner or &#8230; <a href="http://stuartsantiago.com/mean-and-nasty/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>cheap meds &#8211; gma vs. mar</title>
		<link>http://stuartsantiago.com/cheap-meds-gma-vs-mar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angela</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stuartsantiago.com/?p=1265</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ano ba talaga?   kahapon ito ang balita:  Arroyo to sign cheap meds EO MANILA, Philippines-President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo will finally sign next week the executive order placing a price ceiling on 22 essential drugs sold in the country. Malacañang made the &#8230; <a href="http://stuartsantiago.com/cheap-meds-gma-vs-mar/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>my problem with randy david (updated)</title>
		<link>http://stuartsantiago.com/my-problem-with-randy-david/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angela</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.stuartsantiago.com/?p=1228</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[i was on the verge of blogging about the tenure case of tibak (activist) u.p. professor sarah raymundo of the department of sociology now chaired by prof. randy david, when the news broke that prof. david intends to oppose gloria &#8230; <a href="http://stuartsantiago.com/my-problem-with-randy-david/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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