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PGMA declares state of emergency, cancelled rally permits Posted February 25, 2006  PROTESTERS CLASH WITH RIOT POLICE Protesters brave fire hoses as they clash with riot police while trying to get near the People Power Monument in EDSA last Feb. 24. Police used fire hoses and batons to disperse the 5,000 protesters, including nuns and priests. Police arrested three of their leaders, UP Prof Randy David included. Cardinal-designate Gaudencio Rosales of Manila called for prayers and calm after President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo placed the country under a state of emergency after a rumored coup attempt. (CNS photo) Media takeover, arrests and Executive Order 1017 Posted February 26, 2006  Ninez Cacho-Olivarez, editor in chief of a pro-opposition newspaper, The Daily Tribune -photo: PDI INVOKING President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's declaration of a state of national emergency, police on Saturday warned of arrests without a warrant and the takeover of media entities posing a "clear and present danger" to government. Rural and urban economic gap widens Posted March 5, 2006
The growth in revenues of industries in the country has been outpacing
the rate of expansion of the whole economy, leaving a wider economic
gap between the rural and the urban sectors.
Search called off for landslide survivors Posted February 26, 2006 
[Photo from ABS-CBN footage]
The search for survivors of the devastating landslide in Brgy. Guinsaugon, Leyte was called off, with officials conceding that 973 people still missing are almost certainly dead.
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Posted March 19, 2006 by Josua Jaena Of clowns and butchers
Nowadays, it's a crime to assert your right. Justice Sec. Raul Gonzales sees it a crime to mobilize rallies against the government, and walking with pals across a street wearing protest shirt is no different. Forget about promenading in Manila's public place Baywalk. Much more, forget about the Bill of Rights of the Philippine Constitution. Funny, but your clown is a butcher of basic rights, too. So does his paranoid boss.
QUEZON CITY - Because pump prices in the Philippines is dictated by overpricing in the world market, we are over-charged by P2-P6 per liter every time we gas up, or buy kerosene for our homes.
THE PERENNIAL grandstanding and endless politicking of our national officials has affected gravely our economic viabilities. The current political turmoil in which the President is accused by the opposition of cheating to win the past presidential elections is just one manifestation that the unitary system does more harm than good in the economic life of our nation.
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When clowns and butchers rule a nation, Filipinos get a free farcical show that temporarily ease their hunger. Only, the climax sees them being led to a slaughterhouse and butcher them for being too expressive of their rights.
