Monday, April 2, 2018

SNIPE SWIPES

My, that was a rather long break there. Here’s hoping all Christians truly had a blessed Holy Week.

PRO(9)-ZamPen turned over four brand new vehicles and equipment to four of its Regional Mobile Forces Battalions, in a move to enhance the anti-crime campaign in their respective areas of operations. Taking from P/Chief Sup Billy Beltran, his deputy, Edwin De Ocampo, headed the turnover rites, where 20 Global Positioning System (GPS) and 50 night vision goggles were also granted.

Although our city is not one of them, it is safe to surmise, our City Police have earlier had its fair share olf thr bargain. This is PRO-9’s homebase, if you please..

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The day of reckoning to determine who actually won the 2016 Vice Presidential elections starts tomorrow, Monday, 2 April. The Supreme Court, acting as Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET), is set to proceed with the recount of votes to resolve with finality, who between former senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Vice President Leni Robredo truly won in the race.

The recount will cover 5,418 clustered precincts in Camarines Sur, Iloilo and Negros Oriental.

The PET bared, media would not be allowed to cover the recount to be conducted daily from Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Marcos filed the protest on June 29 2016, claiming that the camp of Robredo cheated in the automated polls in the May 2016 national polls.

Marcos contested the results in 132,446 precincts in clustered precincts covering 27 provinces and cities. He sought for a recount in Camarines Sur, Iloilo and Negros Oriental,. Where Robredo won overwhelmingly under  suspected mysterious circiumsatances..

Robredo, on the other hand also filed a counter-protest, questioning the results in more than 30,000 polling precincts in several provinces where Marcos won.

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The Holy See strongly reacted to a reported interview between Pope Francis and an Italian journalist, who later claims the Pope denied the existence of hell, resolutely saying the narration should not be considered an accurate depiction of Francis’ words, but the author’s own “reconstruction.”

A recent meeting between Pope Francis and Italian journalist Eugenio Scalfari, 93, was a “private meeting on the occasion of Easter,” without “giving him any interview,” the Vatican statement, dated March 29, adamantly said.

Discounting his overly-advanced age, what else could we expect of the writer? He is a self-proclaimed atheist, founder and former editor of Italian leftist newspaper La Repubblica. In an article published on the site March 29, Scalfari claimed that Pope Francis told him, “hell doesn’t exist, the disappearance of the souls of sinners exists.”

In addition thereto, it was Scalfari’s fifth meeting with Pope Francis, and is not the first time he has been accused of misrepresenting the Pope’s words following a private audience.

In November 2013, following intense controversy over quotes the journalist had attributed to Francis, Scalfari admitted that at least some of the words he had published a month prior “were not shared by the Pope himself.”

Likewise, in a meeting with the journalists of the Foreign Press Association of Rome in 2013, Scalfari maintained that all his interviews have been conducted without a recording device, nor taking notes while the person is speaking.

See, such accounts clearly absolve the Pontiff of any unchristian pronouncement.

The hell with him!

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Russia, in venting its ire against the West in an escalating spy row, expelled diplomats from 23 countries in the biggest wave of tit-for-tat expulsions in recent memory.

The Russian foreign ministry said it had summoned the heads of missions from the concerned 23 countries to tell them of their move.

Among the countries are France, Germany, Canada and Poland, Ukraine, the Netherlands, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Finland, Lithuania and Norway were also told to pull their envoys.

The moves also came in retaliation for the coordinated expulsion of Russian diplomats by Britain and its allies over a nerve agent attack against former double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in the English city of Salisbury on March 4.

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In another advanced move ahead of the trilateral summit among squabbling USA, South Korea and the North, the latter’s Kim Jong Un will meet South’s Pres. Moon Jae-in at a border village on April 27.  And this time the meet in not in secrecy as in the most recent North Korea-China powwow right in Beijing itself.

Pundits then deduced that the rare meeting could prove significant in global efforts to resolve the decades-long standoff over the North’s nuclear program.

And the announcement was jointly issued by officials of the two countries after they met at the border village of Panmunjom. (By Jimmy Cabato)

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