Richard "Dick" Gordon disclosed the truth throughout an interview with certain media outlets that former Pres. Noynoy Aquino (PNoy)‚ former Budget Secretary Butch Abad might have been indicted for bigger charges specifically malversation and also graft and corruption. Based on Sen. Gordon while cooperating with the judgment of the office of the Ombudsman to indict former Pres. Noynoy Aquino and also former Budget Secretary Butch Abad for supposed usurpation of powers along with DAP controversy‚ he stated
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Antonio Tujan Jr is the director of IBON International‚ which coordinates the NGO Cluster on Rights and Equity at Rio+20‚ and is one of three NGO representatives selected to speak at the Rio+20 "High Level Roundtables” where heads of state and Nobel laureates speak to civil society and the private sector. He is chair of two major international aid coalitions‚ Better Aid‚ and the Reality of Aid Network‚ among other organizations. About IBON International Our MissionCapacity development of peoples’
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Yulo SPEAKER OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY The Philippines had reverted to bicameralism from unicameralism in 1940 with officials elected on November 11‚ 1941. Expected to assume their positions on December 30‚ 1941 Jose Yulo SENATE PRESIDENT Benigno S. Aquino SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE Field Marshal Douglas MacArthur COMMANDER‚ USAFFE Basilio J. Valdez CHIEF OF STAFF OF THE PHILIPIINE ARMY WAR CABINET Manuel L. Quezon PRESIDENT (1941 - 1944) Sergio Osmeña VICE PRESIDENT SECRETARY OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION
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Introduction Hacienda Luisita was once part of the holdings of Compañia General de Tabacos de Filipinas‚ Sociedad Anónima‚ better known as Tabacalera‚ which was founded on November 26‚ 1881 by a Spaniard from Santander‚ Cantabria and Santiago de Cuba‚ Don Antonio López y López. He was the first Marques de Comillas and was famous for being an associate of the first Spanish Prime Minister with foreign blood‚ the Spanish-Filipino mestizo Don Marcelo Azcárraga y Palmero. His relative on his Spanish
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of government‚ President Corazon Aquino appointed 48 members of the constitutional convention that drafted a new constitution restoring the presidential form of government and abolishing the Batasang Pambansa. The 1987 Constitution replaced the 1973 Constitution which was amended twice in 1981 and 1984. • The Reform the AFP Movement (RAM) led by Gregorio Honasan‚ one of the leaders of the EDSA revolution‚ staged a military coup against the newly-installed Aquino government on August 28‚ 1987. The
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COMMENTS/REACTIONS ON 2014 SONA July 28‚ 2014‚ President Benigno S. Aquino‚ delivered his fifth State of the Nation Address and tackled the matters for government’s contribution in terms of education‚ health services‚ defense‚ public works and many more. The President first mentioned about the controversial “Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP)”‚ and still convince his bosses (Filipinos) of the good achievements of DAP. As an example‚ he cited Technical Education and Skills Development Authority
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interesting facts about Picasso is the length of his name‚ which is Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruíz y Picasso. Picasso’s mother was named Doña Maria Picasso y Lopez and his father was named Don José Ruiz Blasco‚ and he was a painter and art teacher. Furthermore‚ Picasso was a very poor student compared to his peers‚ but he had a unique talent from a very young age to draw. Another interesting fact
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Most countries in a primary economy level are stuck in poverty. Citizens seek economic freedom and success. Third world citizens hear of this magical land called America where the food is good and the women are even better. The idea of assimilation lurks in the minds of these citizens and since more immigrants assimilated in the 1950’s a civil rights movement was sparked. The push for equality led to an idea of an idyllic society in the minds of third world citizens. These third world citizens want
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unpopularity and the overwhelming call for her resignation. Even our current president‚ Noynoy Aquino‚ is a glaring representation of how elites have ruled over our country. Benigno Aquino III comes from a long line of elite families from both his maternal and paternal side. Both of parents where part of a political elite family that have been ruling over our country since the American period. His father Benigno Aquino Jr. was a former Senator whose assassination became one of the reasons for the People Power
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drop in FDI. Though the remittances from overseas Filipinos to the country grew in the first ten months of 2011‚ however the compensation that overseas Filipinos received actually fell‚ in peso terms‚ due to an appreciating peso. In 2011 the Aquino administration sought a FTA (Free Trade Agreement) with the EU and join the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The administration further allowed the US to even more directly influence Philippine economic policy making in its self-interest‚ by entering
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