Piercing Pens

We’ve just joined Blog mad! (Just because the word “mad” is in the title of the post, it doesn’t mean it’s about a certain politician again.)

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You may want to try it, too.

INQ7’s Rowena Guanzon wrote:

We have heard all sorts of jokes, and true to the nature of Filipinos, Erap won votes with his Erap jokes. But the “revelation” of Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago that she heard from a “chattering relative” of Senate President Franklin Drilon that Cory Aquino and Drilon are involved in a plot to hatch a coup d’état or to “physically remove” Gloria Arroyo by Oct. 15, is not funny. Cory Aquino plotting to murder someone? Ridiculous. Preposterous. Incredible. (E-mail me if you know of other fitting words).

My choice of adjective is “insane.”

National Union of Journalists of the Philippines
Press Statement
October 4, 2005

There seems to be no end to threats to press freedom in the Philipines after another journalist was attacked Tuesday morning outside his office in General Santos City.

Danilo Aguirre, a correspondent for the Mindanao Bulletin, is fighting for his life as of this writing at General Santos Doctors’ Hospital after he suffered a gunshot wound to the stomach.

Whatever the motive of the attack, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) strongly condemns the shooting as we continue to condemn and call the attention of the government to the series of
threats and killings of journalists in the country.

The brazen attack on Aguirre is an attack on media. It is a reflection of the government’s failure to ensure security not only for journalists but for all Filipinos, especially those in the provinces who complain of human rights violations as our leaders busy themselves with politics in the capital.

The NUJP calls on the authorities to immediately investigate the attack on Aguirre and arrest the culprits. We reiterate our call for the government to immediately resolve the cases of killings of journalists.

Jose Torres Jr.
Chairman
Commission for the Protection of Journalists
National Union of Journalists of the Philippines

Youth Demanding Arroyo’s Removal and TXTPower promise to bring a new feature to the anti-Gloria campaign with a Hello Garci computer game.

“Before we had the Hello Garci ringtones. Now, software engineers and college students are finalizing the Hello Garci computer games which will be the next craze among the youth. Our protests are becoming more sophisticated,” Youth-Dare spokesperson Mong Palatino said.

INQ7 reports on the details of the game: (more…)

Cybersquatters have taken over the Internet domain names that has Miss International Precious Lara Quigaman’s name.

The domain name laraquigaman.com leads surfers to the porn site Young Asian, while preciouslaraquigaman.com has been bought by an unlisted registrant on September 26 and is now being offered for sale at a minimum for a minimum price of $500.

Meanwhile, laraquigaman.net redirects to a page with Precious Lara Quigaman’s picture and a link to her official website. This page is hosted by youth e-zine Tinig.com.