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    Ellen Tordesillas, Contributor

    Ellen Tordesillas, Contributor

  • Magdalo Rep scores neglect of PH-occupied territories in Spratlys

    Commentary By Ellen T. Tordesillas In the power point presentation Rep. Ashley Acedillo of the Magdalo Party showed last Wednesday, he compared the massive fortification and expansion of the Chinese of their occupied reefs in the disputed Spratlys area in … Continue reading →

  • ALS Ice Bucket Challenge: A fad for a good cause

    Commentary By Ellen T. Tordesillas Today’s fad is the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. ALS stands for Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis described in a website on ALS as “a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal … Continue reading →

  • Learn your body repair schedule

    By Ellen T. Tordesilllas On weekend outings, it takes a lot of will power not to overeat. The Lake Hotel in Tagaytay (where our group, VERA Files, held a writeshop on human trafficking last weekend) helps guests enjoy their vacation … Continue reading →

  • Filipina human rights activist refused entry in India

    Commentary By Ellen T. Tordesillas What’s wrong with working for a world where no one becomes a desaparecido? Apparently some people in India have a problem with that because Mary Aileen Diez Bacalso, secretary general of Asian Federation Against involuntary … Continue reading →

  • 5 possible reasons why PNoy floated Chacha and term extension

    Commentary By Ellen T. Tordesillas Faced with overwhelming opposition to a Charter Change to allow President Aquino to extend his term beyond 2016, Malacañang has backtracked and assured the public that he is not supporting changes in the Constitution in … Continue reading →

  • Listen to your mother

    Commentary By Ellen T. Tordesillas Had former President Cory Aquino not died on Aug. 1, 2009, her son, Benigno Aquino III would not be in Malacañang today. At the time of Cory’s death, nine months before the May 2010 presidential … Continue reading →

  • Aquino satisfaction rating plunge:The calm before the storm

    Commentary By Ellen T. Tordesillas Take note that the Social Weather Stations survey showing a 16- point plunge in net satisfaction for the Aquino administration was conducted on June 27 – 30, 2014. From 45 percent last March, satisfaction for … <a href="http://blog.tools.news.yahoo.com/inbox/2014/08/13/aquino-satisfaction-rating-plunge-the-calm-before-the-storm/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">→</span></a>

  • 11 facts that render bribery allegations vs Harry Roque ridiculous

    Commentary By Ellen T. Tordesillas The murderous Ampatuans must be enjoying the spectacle of the prosecutors in the Maguindanao massacre destroying each other. Atty. Nena Santos, representing 25 of the of the 58 who were killed in a massacre in … Continue reading →

  • Aquino sisters wanted Abad out; Hyatt 10 came to his rescue

    Commentary By Ellen T. Tordesillas From our always reliable source : A few days after the Supreme Court declared parts of the Disbursement Accelerated Program or DAP unconstitutional last July 1, the three presidential sisters- Ballsy Cruz, Pinky Abellada, and … Continue reading →

  • Antidote to DAP-inspired abuses: FOI

    Commentary By Ellen T. Tordesillas The P2.6 trillion 2015 budget submitted by Malacanang to Congress will institutionalize the practices in the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) which the Supreme Court had declared unconstitutional. In the 2015 budget proposal, “savings” is now … Continue reading →

  • BJMP displaces sick detainees to make room for Gigi and Janet

    Commentary By Ellen T. Tordesillas While everybody was trying to recover from the emotional performance of President Aquino in his 5th State-of-the-Nation address Monday night, pork barrel queen Janet Napoles was brought to Camp Bagong Diwa jail at the Bureau … Continue reading →

  • Aquino pays tribute to Abad’s creative genius

    Commentary By Ellen T. Tordesillas The speech of President Aquino during 75th anniversary of the Department of Budget and Management on April 25, 2011 has become relevant amid the controversy generated by the Disbursement Accelerated Program or DAP, the brainchild … Continue reading →

  • Health workers: Philippine health care is very sick

    Commentary By Ellen T. Tordesillas The wealth of a nation is its people. It  goes without saying that a healthy population is a prerequisite for a country to progress. Healthy people live longer and are more productive. On Monday, President … Continue reading →

  • Stem cell research and many more in DBM list belie urgent reason for DAP

    Commentary By Ellen T. Tordesillas When  a combative President Aquino addressed the nation Monday last week defending  his Disbursement Accelerated Program or DAP which had been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, he made it appear that the projects funded … Continue reading →

  • Aquino’s DAP: lethal mix of ignorance and arrogance

    Commentary By Ellen T. Tordesillas President Aquino’s belligerent stand against the Supreme Court’s decision declaring his pet initiative, the Disbursement Acceleration Program, unconstitutional was not at all surprising considering his defense of Budget Secretary Florencio Abad, Jr. last Friday. Reading … Continue reading →

  • Aquino’s doctrine: good intentions superior to Constitution

    Commentary By Ellen. T. Tordesillas Finally, President Aquino will speak to the people of the Philippines on the controversial Disbursement Acceleration Program or DAP today, Malacañang announced. Today is exactly two weeks after the Supreme Court in a unanimous decision … Continue reading →

  • What’s wrong with the picture?

    Commentary By Ellen T. Tordesillas The picture we are referring to is that of Interior Secretary Mar Roxas hoisting a sack of NFA rice during an inspection of a rice warehouse in Muntinlupa. Some say that picture, which has gone … Continue reading →

  • Acts of kindness to the fallen

    Commentary By Ellen T. Tordesillas Lawyer Edward Serapio, former presidential counsel during the Estrada administration, once told me when he was under detention in Camp Crame in connection with Estrada’s plunder case way back in 2001, that he was so … Continue reading →

  • New UNICEF Rep is a Balikbayan

    By Ellen T. Tordesillas For Lotta Sylwander, her assignment to the Philippines as UNICEF Representative, is actually a homecoming. Sylwander, from Sweden, was a backpack tourist way back in the 70’s and 80’s. She met and married (they are now … Continue reading →

  • Did Aquino use his power judiciously in deleting Nora Aunor from National Artist list?

    Commentary By Ellen T. Tordesillas President Aquino and his minions should not wave the legal banner about the Chief Executive’s power not to uphold the recommendation of the National Commission on Culture and Arts and the Cultural Center in conferring … Continue reading →