http://pinoyobserver.com Pinoyobserver is top Philippine commentary and lifestyle blog Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:13:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_2979" align="alignleft" width="170" caption="General Delfin Bangit is New AFP"][/caption] Senator Richard Gordon says that the power crisis in Mindanao and in other parts of the country is "artificial". Gordon checked and found that the water level in the dams in Lanao are normal and even government installed a new power ... http://pinoyobserver.com/2010/03/power-crisis-in-the-philippines/ [caption id="attachment_2975" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Joey de Venecia III continues to be in the Magic 12"][/caption] Don't know yet? Filipinos living abroad should know this. Starting April 10, Filipinos working and living abroad have to troop to our embassies and consulates abroad to vote for their preferences. One needs to mark the names ... http://pinoyobserver.com/2010/03/absentee-voting-starts-in-april-10/ [caption id="attachment_2972" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="A drop in Noynoy's numbers, Gibo's gain"][/caption] A six percent drop in the surveys with just a few more weeks before the May 10, 2010 elections mean disaster for a candidate. And the Nacionalista party knows this. Manny Villar's chances for the presidency has been terribly hurt ... http://pinoyobserver.com/2010/03/villars-ratings-drop-estradas-gain/ [caption id="attachment_2967" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Ang Ladlad attacks are political, never moral"][/caption](reposted over at Filipino Voices) A few days ago, ZTE-NBN whistleblower Joey de Venecia III spoke before a huge throng of gays and lesbians. Based on what my friend told me, Joey spoke of the attempts by the Commission on Elections ... http://pinoyobserver.com/2010/03/joey-de-venecia-iii-defends-ang-ladlad/ [caption id="attachment_2965" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Devastation in the earth"][/caption]Yesterday's dawn quake in Chile left 122 people dead--so far. The quake registered 8.8 in the Richter scale, the second deadliest quake to ever hit earth in nearly a century. More than the damage wrought by the quake, it sent chills to millions ... http://pinoyobserver.com/2010/02/chilean-quake-sends-global-chills-of-apocalypse/ [caption id="attachment_2962" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Alex Lacson--a vote for him, a vote for a New Philippines"][/caption]Would it be possible for someone, a neophyte in politics like Attorney Alex Lacson to win a seat at the Senate without spending 300 million pesos? Pragmatics amongst us would say no. I say a resounding ... http://pinoyobserver.com/2010/02/alex-lacson-a-vote-for-him-a-vote-for-change/ “It is our revolution. This is our revolution: for true freedom, true justice and true progress. It is our People Power Revolution for everything that our great country can be. “Give us back our freedom. Give us back our dignity as free men, and leave us to make the best ... http://pinoyobserver.com/2010/02/may-10-a-new-revolution-says-mar-roxas/ [caption id="attachment_2952" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Me, with Blogwatch people with presidentiable Eddie Villanueva"][/caption] I attended a very interesting focus group discussion yesterday, which dealt with political blogging. Plogging, as a writing project of people interested in politics, is a new persuasion now by Pinoy bloggers since, as what one participant says, its ... http://pinoyobserver.com/2010/02/plogging-and-the-art-of-the-critique/ . Since the 1980s, these families have lorded it over the political landscape--not thru purely democratic means but thru the employment of terrorism. [caption id="attachment_2948" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="300 million ka lang, says Abalos in ZTE hearing"][/caption] Residents of Mandaluyong are fed up with the tyrannical rule being imposed upon them by two ... http://pinoyobserver.com/2010/02/abalos-gonzales-political-clans-turned-mandaluyong-into-political-fiefdom/ "Follow Gen. Lim’s example. Be real officers and gentlemen.” This was the challenge issued by Belle Enriquez, Official Spokesperson of detained Brigadier General to the Armed Forces of the Philippines concerning the detention of 43 health workers suspected by the military of being members of the New People’s Army (NPA). In a ... http://pinoyobserver.com/2010/02/general-danny-lim-to-afp-respect-the-rights-of-morong-43/