The Senate Electoral Tribunal (SET) decision throwing out the petition questioning the citizenship of Senator Grace Poe is an uncomfortable one. The number of the votes and the members either voting for or against the petition are causes for serious concern.
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‘A horror’: French president vows ‘pitiless’ counterattack after terrorists kill 149 in Paris
Dozens are dead, the country’s borders are closed and the city of Paris has been flooded with soldiers after an “unprecedented” string of terrorist attacks struck the capital Friday night – the worst to hit France since the Second World War.
“If the ‘matuwid na daan’ continues, in a generation’s time we’ll be a First World country,” an emotional President Aquino said in his final State of the Nation Address last July. More of the same rhetoric on our “great leap forward” to modernity will surely make it to the airwaves as the Aquino administration hosts the Economic Leaders Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) in Manila on Nov. 18-19.
unwitting court jesters of the world, filipinos are, the philippine government, even religious leaders, included. we’re always good for a laugh or two, laglag bala being only the latest gaffe that has the world laughing in exasperation if not in pain, for us. as for the looming summit, we won’t even need stand-up comics to entertain putin and obama atbp. happily shutting down this third world economy so world leaders can safely party for their economic gains is already too tragic-comic for words anyway. esp because the palace doesn’t get it. joke’s on us.