By Estanislao Albano, Jr.
Possible next project of Solicitor General Jose Calida: COAranto.
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A movie more terrifying than “The Nun” is coming.
The title is “Nanlaban.”
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A cat in Bristol, United Kingdom brought home a plastic bag of unidentified illegal drugs which it found while roaming outside of their home on September 16.
Move over, Odel. This cat leaves no room for speculation. (Odel is the PDEA sniffing dog President Duterte does not believe in.)
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Senator Nancy Binay reminded Assistant Secretary Esther Margaux “Mocha” Uson that ridiculing PWDs is a crime.
Uson did not know. She thought PWDs are like the move for federalism which she and her sidekick could trifle with or use their obscene imagination on.
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Malacanang Spokesperson Harry Roque advised the public not to take every word the President seriously in the wake of the latter’s remarks that the priest is to blame for the collapse of a church in Itogon, Benguet during typhoon Ompong which resulted to the death of a dozen people.
Could it be that this was what happened when President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the AFP and the PNP immediate arrest of Senator Antonio Trillanes?
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Duterte, followers claim no rice shortage.
Would they also agree that there is no shortage of rice weevils?
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Motto of the Department of Agriculture under the watch of Secretary Emmanuel Piñol: “We vilong.”
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One decision people have to make these days is to choose the rice with the lesser weevil.
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Regarding the skyrocketing price of sili (pepper), Secretary Piñol advised Filipinos to plant sili.
That’s a very practical solution. As for the high prices of rice, some people think the best solution is for Piñol to just concentrate on planting sili.
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Agriculture Secretary Piñol has been appointed to chair the National Food Authority Council.
Let’s hope and pray that when there is a spike in the price of rice, he will not lecture us to plant rice in our backyard. One reason is after planting the sili he urged the public to plant, some people may no longer have space to plant the rice.
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President Duterte accused the reds, the Magdalo and the Liberal Party for plotting to oust him saying that this is based on intelligence. On the other hand, Defence Secretary Delfin Lorenzana stated that the opposition is not involved in the plot, only the reds.
It appears that the President has intelligence that his Defence chief does not know about.
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Senator Panfilo Lacson has called upon the government to start going after the big fish in its war against drugs.
Perhaps Duterte should issue a stern warning to the Department of Justice, Bureau of Customs and the PDEA that any more fumbling of the cases against the big fish will be dealt with ala Senator Antonio Trillanes IV.
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The stark contrast between the Duterte administration’s war against drug and moves against its critics is that in the war on drugs, it focuses on the small fry while in the crackdown on the critics, it starts with the most prominent.
The situation makes one think that it is on the opposition front where there is really war and not in the drugs front.
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Is it true that the reason alleged drug lord Peter Lim who has a standing arrest warrant is not being arrested is because it is still being reviewed if he has complied with all the requirements to be a drug lord?**
