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                    [Title] => Erap to Garci: You can’t always fool people
                    [Summary] => "You can fool the people once, twice, but not all the time."


Ousted President Joseph Estrada made this comment about former election commissioner Virgilio Garcillano during a phone patch interview with reporters at the Fernandina Forum in Greenhills, San Juan yesterday.

Estrada made his comments through a cell phone call to Herman Tiu Laurel, spokesman for the Freedom (Free and Restore Erap Estrada for Democracy, Order and Meritocracy) Movement, while Tiu was speaking during the forum.
[DatePublished] => 2005-12-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1735838 [AuthorName] => Sandy Araneta [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 299131 [Title] => Loren to compel PET to show ‘missing’ ballot boxes [Summary] => Former senator Loren Legarda yesterday said her lawyer would file a motion before the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET) to compel the House of Representatives to produce the missing ballot boxes in relation to her election protest against Vice President Noli de Castro.

"My lawyer will file a motion to compel the Congress authorities to come up with the ballot boxes or an explanation on where they are," Legarda said during yesterday’s Fernandina Forum at Dencio’s Grill and Bar in Greenhills, San Juan town.
[DatePublished] => 2005-09-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 290936 [Title] => PNP operating on P35-B budget [Summary] => Despite a P35 billion budget this year, the Philippine National Police (PNP) is unable to buy new equipment and recruit more policemen to bolster its crime-fighting capability.

Speaking at Fernandina Forum at Dencio’s Bar and Grill in Greenhills, San Juan yesterday, PNP spokesman Chief Superintendent Leopoldo Bataoil said 90 percent of the P35-billion budget is being used to pay the salaries of policemen.

"We are operating within a budget of P35 billion for year 2005," he said.
[DatePublished] => 2005-08-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 200459 [Title] => Focus on Iraq’s reconstruction, Palace urges UN [Summary] => Instead of again debating the Iraq war issue in the United Nations, President Arroyo said yesterday the world should focus on how to reunite and rebuild Iraq after the fall of the "tyrannical" regime of Saddam Hussein.

"We have already made our stand on that. We are not engaged in debate anymore because it’s already there. Whatever we say, that is the reality for us, a reality that we expected," the President said in an interview with the GMA-7 news program "Front Page."
[DatePublished] => 2003-03-27 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804833 [AuthorName] => Marichu A. Villanueva [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 197861 [Title] => Government hits call to repeal oil deregulation law [Summary] => Malacañang warned lawmakers yesterday against moves to repeal the Oil Deregulation Law of 1998, saying this would not help the country cope with rising oil prices caused by the crisis in the Middle East.

Energy Secretary Vincent Perez Jr. made the warning after House Deputy Minority Leader Enrique Garcia urged President Arroyo to certify as urgent a bill that would repeal the oil industry deregulation law, or Republic Act 8479, because of its supposed failure to control oligopolistic pricing practices in the oil industry.
[DatePublished] => 2003-03-06 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804833 [AuthorName] => Marichu A. Villanueva [SectionName] => Headlines [SectionUrl] => headlines [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 193934 [Title] => Filipino psychic predicted fall of space shuttle [Summary] => Last Saturday’s explosion of the US space shuttle Columbia was predicted by a Filipino psychic last week, describing it as a "big flying object falling from the sky" that would signal the start of a series of man-made and natural catastrophes in key cities around the world. [DatePublished] => 2003-02-03 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1650428 [AuthorName] => Perseus Echeminada [SectionName] => News Commentary [SectionUrl] => news-commentary [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 193418 [Title] => ‘GMA to be ousted; 2 senators to die’ [Summary] => A psychic who predicted the ouster of President Joseph Estrada, the death of two congressmen and the outbreak of the Gulf War in the early ’90s said yesterday President Arroyo herself would become a victim of a power grab being orchestrated by people within the circle of power in Malacañang.
[DatePublished] => 2003-01-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1650428 [AuthorName] => Perseus Echeminada [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 177497 [Title] => Docs decry moonlight raps [Summary] => Doctors of the government-run Lung Center of the Philippines decried yesterday the "moonlighting" charges leveled against them, saying they only conduct private practice after office hours to cope up with the rising cost of living.

Dr. Jose Pepito Amores, spokesman of the 15 Lung Center doctors accused of moonlighting told reporters at the weekly Fernandina Forum in Greenhills that they only practice in private after office hours to augment their salaries which are not enough to support their families.
[DatePublished] => 2002-09-26 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [8] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 173887 [Title] => Malonzo challenges accuser-solon to martial arts duel [Summary] => Irked over allegations that the city government was nearing bankruptcy, Caloocan City Mayor Reynaldo Malonzo challenged his adversary, Caloocan Rep. Edgar Erice, to face him in a martial arts bout instead of continuing his back-stabbing.

Malonzo, a former actor who appeared in numerous martial arts flicks, issued the challenge during a forum aired over the radio yesterday to highlight the three-week feud between two former political allies under the Lakas-NUCD party.
[DatePublished] => 2002-08-29 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1650428 [AuthorName] => Perseus Echeminada [SectionName] => Metro [SectionUrl] => metro [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 137043 [Title] => Rosebud: I’ll take to the streets if... [Summary] => Former undercover agent Mary "Rosebud" Ong vowed to take to the streets to press for the ouster of Sen. Panfilo Lacson if nothing happens after her exposé on his alleged involvement in kidnapping and drug trafficking.

"I would go to the streets kung walang mangyari (if nothing happens)," Ong told the weekly Fernandina Forum in Greenhills, San Juan yesterday.

Ong said she has revealed only one percent, and that the rest of her exposé is "nakakasuka at nakakatakot (stomach-turning and frightening)."
[DatePublished] => 2001-10-18 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => [AuthorName] => [SectionName] => Nation [SectionUrl] => nation [URL] => ) ) )
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