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	<description>Truth is our business</description>
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		<title>Filipinos satisfied with May 10 elections: SWS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BY ELLEN TORDESILLAS
In the past,  political observers warn that in the Philippines,  it’s possible to win in the elections but you lose in the counting.
The results of a series of surveys conducted by Social Weather Station evaluating the May 2010 automated elections showed that almost two-thirds of Filipino voters (68 per cent) were satisfied with ...]]></description>
		<link>http://verafiles.org/front/filipinos-satisfied-with-may-10-elections-sws/</link>
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		<title>Will the Magdalos’ saga finally end?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By ELLEN TORDESILLAS and TESSA JAMANDRE
(Conclusion)
 
HUNDREDS  of junior officers of the Armed Forces of the Philippines who took over the Oakwood Hotel in 2003 in a mutiny against military corruption continue to face the consequences of their actions, with lives derailed and careers destroyed.
Most of them spent years in jail, were physically and ...]]></description>
		<link>http://verafiles.org/main/focus/will-the-magdalos%e2%80%99-saga-finally-end/</link>
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		<title>Ampatuan Jr. pleads not guilty to massacre of 57th victim</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By TESSA JAMANDRE
HEARINGS on the Maguindanao massacre resumed Wednesday, the first under the Aquino government, with former Datu Unsay Mayor Andal Ampatuan Jr. and 16 other suspects pleading not guilty to the murder of the 57th victim, UNTV journalist Victor Nunez.
Ampatuan, the alleged mastermind, and the other suspects, mostly police officers, were each asked in ...]]></description>
		<link>http://verafiles.org/main/focus/ampatuan-jr-pleads-not-guilty-to-massacre-of-57th-victim/</link>
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		<title>Querubin released</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BY VICTOR REYES
MARINES Col. Ariel Querubin was released yesterday from detention in Camp Aguinaldo and turned over to the custodial care of Brig. Gen. Reynaldo Ordoñez, chief of the Philippine Defense Reform office.
The release order was based on the provisional liberty signed by AFP chief Lt. Gen. Ricardo David Tuesday night.
Querubin, a recipient of the ...]]></description>
		<link>http://verafiles.org/front/querubin-freed-from-detention/</link>
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		<title>Unfinished business: Coup and mutiny cases</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By ELLEN TORDESILLAS and TESSA JAMANDRE
(First of two parts)
THE stockades at Camps Crame and Aguinaldo in Quezon City and the Marines headquarters in Fort Bonifacio, Taguig that once held scores of soldiers accused of rising up against the government are now empty except for three prisoners—a senator, the Armed Forces’ most bemedalled officer and a Marine ...]]></description>
		<link>http://verafiles.org/main/focus/unfinished-business-coup-and-mutiny-cases/</link>
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		<title>Militants greet Aquino SONA with rally</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MILITANT groups welcomed President Benigno Aquino III along Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City with a rally, as they have done with previous presidents, every fourth Monday of July.
Aquino passed through Commonwealth en route to the Batasan Pambansa Complex where both Houses of Congress assembled to listen to him deliver his first State of the Nation ...]]></description>
		<link>http://verafiles.org/main/photos/militants-greet-aquino-sona-with-rally/</link>
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		<title>President Benigno Aquino III&#8217;s State of the Nation Address</title>
		<description><![CDATA[STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS
PRESIDENT BENIGNO AQUINO III
July 26, 2010, Batasan Pambansa Complex, Quezon City
(English translation below)
Speaker Feliciano Belmonte; Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile; Vice President Jejomar Binay; Chief Justice Renato Corona; Former Presidents Fidel Valdez Ramos and Joseph Ejercito Estrada; members of the House of Representatives and the Senate; distinguished members of the diplomatic ...]]></description>
		<link>http://verafiles.org/main/focus/pres-benigno-aquino-iiis-state-of-the-nation-address/</link>
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		<title>Enrile is Senate President; Belmonte, House Speaker in 15th Congress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[THE 15th Congress opened today electing Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile of the Partido ng Masang Pilipino as senate president  and  Quezon City (4th district)  Rep. Feliciano Belmonte, Jr. of the Liberal Party  as speaker of the House of Representatives.
Enrile, dubbed as  “unity” senate president,  obtained  17 out of 20 votes of senators belonging to Liberal ...]]></description>
		<link>http://verafiles.org/main/focus/enrile-is-senate-president-belmonte-house-speaker-in-15th-congress/</link>
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		<title>Dirty politics behind Yusoph kidnapping</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By FROILAN GALLARDO
CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY.— It was all about the huge amount of bribe money that corrupted election officials who issued orders to cluster polling precincts to favored politicians during the last elections in May, military officers and poll watchdog groups said.
The officers and NGO leaders said  this was the reason  Nuraldin Yusoph, the ...]]></description>
		<link>http://verafiles.org/front/dirty-politics-behind-yusoph-kidnapping/</link>
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		<title>Lawyer says   SC decision vs. comfort women riddled with plagiarized statements</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By ELLEN TORDESILLAS
IN the sunset of their lives, 17  Malaya Lolas (Liberated Grandmothers) staged a rally  Monday before the Supreme Court protesting the plagiarism in the decision that denied them remedy for the wartime savagery they suffered.

CenterLaw’s Harry Roque, counsel for 40 grandmothers who were forced to serve as “comfort women” to Japanese ...]]></description>
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