The following is the statement as released by the Senate, of Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile regarding the privilege speech that Senator Manny Villar gave on the C-5 Controversy. SP: Mr. President, I stood up several times because I wanted to ask questions from the distinguished gentleman who delivered a privilege speech a while ago [...]
Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile Regarding Manny Villar Privilege Speech
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Draft Quezon for Senator
November 3, 2009 By 157 Comments
Senate Report – Will It BE ‘Hearsay’?
February 25, 2009 By 5 Comments
After Malacanang has conveniently called the WB report as hearsay, what will stop it again to call that of the Senate report as thread from the same cloth? In recommending plunder charges against Joc Joc Bolante et al in the P728 million fertilizer fund mess, the Senate committee that held several public hearings, is deemed [...]
Barking Up The Wrong Treaty
February 23, 2009 By 19 Comments
Let it not be said that we at Filipino Voices did not understand the VFA controversy long before the compleat explanation of it had become common knowledge even in the Main Stream Media and the rest of the Blogosphere. Let it be on the record herewith, that we at Filipino Voices understood the answer given [...]
Joker Arroyo and PDI: In Flagrante Innuendo
February 20, 2009 By 6 Comments
Well it looks like the VFA brouhaha has taken a turn towards the hilarious as the Philippine Daily Inquirer and Senator Joker Arroyo have kissed and made up a whopper of a headline today in SECRET VFA PAPER BARED. Their Love Quarrel over the Neri Executive Session is now forgotten and forgiven as together they [...]
Just kidding
February 20, 2009 By 25 Comments
(This article was written about a decade ago during the presidency of Joseph Estrada. I’m sharing it with FV to provide certain historical perspective to the fear of some of a shooting war with China which may be engendered by the imminent passage of a Philippine law defining the baselines of the territorial sea of [...]
Undiplomatic China
February 18, 2009 By 36 Comments
China today issued a strongly worded statement after the Philippine Senate passed the Archipelagic Baselines Bill. The Chinese foreign ministry even asked the Philippine Charge d’Affairs to explain why the Philippines issued such a bill which effectively placed the Kalayaan Group of Islands and the Scarboroal Shoals under the “regime of islands” consistent with the [...]
Does the US Consider the VFA a Treaty?
February 17, 2009 By 35 Comments
One of the greatest intellectual disservices being committed by the mass media right now is not explaining the correct and simple answer to this question to the Public. Instead they have picked up on the jingoistic passions of the leftist lynch mobs with long historical axes to grind and allowed various misconceptions about this [...]
Negativity And The World Bank Blacklist
February 14, 2009 By 25 Comments
Senator Miriam Defensor has made up her mind, nay, judged the World Bank as a “squatter” with its controversial report on the bribery-attended rigging of road contract biddings shot full of double hearsay. While some may not agree with her abrasive style, the good lady senator did make some valid points this past week. But [...]
World Bank Says Contractors Have Detailed Report
February 9, 2009 By 5 Comments
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