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Volume 11 – Issue 35 • 16 Pages
JUNE 22-28, 2018
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FROM THE AJPRESS NEWS TEAM ACROSS AMERICA
Elderly woman goes on racist rant against Bay Area Fil-Am and family Video of elderly woman harassing a Filipino and Mexican-American family goes viral, Daly City mayor responds AN elderly white woman last week harassed a Filipino- and Mexican-American family, going on a racist, xenophobic rant while waiting behind the family in the line of a Daly City, California grocery store. Last week Filipina-American Jenny Vela posted a video on Instagram in which an older white woman mockingly addresses the multicultural family saying, “Look at all the groceries they’re buying. Steal our food, steal our money, steal our jobs.” A man not seen in the video, presumably Vela’s husband, Alfred — who is MexicanAmerican — defends the family by saying, “I’ve got a family to feed,” to which the woman replied, “So what? Go back to your country.” The husband replied, “This is our country.” “You’re lying, you’re lying, you’re lying, just like how you got here,” the woman retorted. Vela’s Instagram post, which was published before she made her account private, was captioned: “I’ve never felt so angry and sad overall because I had my 5-year-old
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Trump signs executive order to keep migrant families together
Aquino faces trial over DAP funds by VINCE
F. NONATO Inquirer.net
IN an eleventh-hour reversal, Ombudsman Conchita Carpio Morales has ordered the indictment of former President Benigno Aquino III for usurping Congress’ budgetary powers when he approved the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP). Morales, in a June 14 resolution Militants condemn the Disbursement Acceleration Program approved by then made public on Wednesday, June President Benigno Aquino III and and carried out by his budget secretary, 20, partially granted the appeal of Florencio Abad, during a 2014 rally on Taft Avenue in Manila. Inquirer.net photo by Richard Reyes activists led by Bayan Muna Rep.
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MENDIOLA AJPress
IN an interview with London-based newspaper Financial Times, Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. expressed his desire to run for presidency and return to Malacañang after President Rodrigo Duterte’s term ends. “My career is politics, and, in fact, you aspire to as excessive a stature inside your chosen area as you can possibly obtain—and that might be president in my case,” Marcos said. Although according to him, presidency is “ not something that I wake up in the morning and plan on.” He does, however, want to build a “more egalitarian system of government,” as he told FT.
get Secretary Florencio Abad showed a “joint purpose and design to encroach on the powers of Congress by expanding the meaning of savings to fund programs, activities and projects under the DAP.” Six years in prison If convicted by the Sandiganbayan, Aquino and Abad could face six months to six years imprisonment. Sought for comment, Abigail
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by AUDREY
MORALLO Philstar.com
MANILA — The country’s so-called independent foreign policy amounts to a hedging strategy where the Philippines maximizes returns from different world powers while minimizing long-term risks, an international security analyst said on Wednesday, June 20. Writing for the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, international security analyst Peter Chalf said that the country’s independent foreign policy is in pursuit of a “geopolitical sweet spot,” where the Philippines can maximize its returns from many different powers while offsetting long-term risks. “He (Duterte) has pursued two parallel courses of action: First, to resolve oustanding disputes with Beijing in the South China Sea in an effort to remove what was a key source of international distraction under the Aquino administration; Second, to pragmatically manage the country’s bilateral partnerships to maximize potential sources of aid and assistance with the minimum CAYETANO IN WASHINGTON, D.C. PH Foreign Affairs Secretary Alan Peter S. Cayetano met with US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo in
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Washington, D.C. on Thursday, June 21.
Photo courtesy of the Philippine Embassy
PH embassy defends Independence Day party at Trump hotel by RITCHEL
MENDIOLA AJPress
THE decision to hold the 120th Philippine Independence Day celebration at the Trump International Hotel was defended by the Philippine embassy in Washington on Tuesday, June 19. In a statement, the embassy said, “Ambassador Jose Manuel Romualdez deemed it fitting to hold the Phil- Former Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno ippine Embassy’s 120th Philippine Independence Day celebration at the Trump International Hotel, an elegant Philippine Ambassador to the U.S. Jose Manuel and historic venue in Washington, D.C.” Romualdez
Photo by Boyet Loverita
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Bongbong considers returning to Malacañang as president by RITCHEL
Carlos Isagani Zarate who questioned her March 3, 2017, decision that cleared Aquino of criminal liability in connection with the economic stimulus program that had been stricken down by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional. The Ombudsman said it found Aquino liable for usurpation of legislative powers under Article 239 of the Revised Penal Code after a “reevaluation of the case.” She said Aquino and Bud-
PH seeking ‘sweet spot’ in its foreign policy, expert says
Trump reverses highly criticized practice in his ‘zero-tolerance policy’ AFTER weeks of heart-rendering coverage of children being separated from their parents at the border, President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday, June 20 to remove that practice from standard border protection procedure. Trump previously argued that he had no authority to stop the separations, but after receiving intense rebuke from Americans across the political spectrum --- as well as international religious and political figures -- he officially reversed the practice which his own administration implemented earlier this year as a part of a “zero-tolerance” immigration policy.
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“In my father’s administration, I kept hearing ‘nation-building,’ and I do not hear that phrase anymore,” he said. He added that the Philippines must “come to some kind of modus vivendi” with China, as well. “With the Philippines being such a strategic place and with your traditional strong relationship with the U.S. and China as an emerging superpower, it puts us in a very difficult spot,” he explained. Marcos also divulged that supporting civil servants and teachers, and making appointments based on merit instead of political loyalty might be included in his platform — the latter being a slight swipe at Duterte who has a strict policy of not appointing or hiring people he doesn’t know.
Former Sen. Bongbong Marcos
“Because he’s now in the national area, he must take advantage of the talent that’s available out there,” he said.
PH Supreme Court rules with finality: Sereno is out by JOMAR
CANLAS ManilaTimes.net
THE Supreme Court (SC) has ruled with finality to remove Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno from her post via quo warranto, according to its spokesman. In a short press briefing on Tuesday, June 19, Theodore Te read the high tribunal ruling that voted 8-6 in denying Sereno’s motion for reconsideration against the quo warranto petition that was the basis for her ouster. In an en banc session, the high court said that the arguments Sereno raised were “rehashed” and “discussed exhaustively” and therefore “saw no reason” why it should reverse its ruling Philstar.com photo by Miguel De Guzman on May 11. The eight justices who voted to Marcos lost the vice presidency in 2016 to Leni Robredo with nar- oust Sereno were Noel Tijam, who row margin. This had prompted drafted the resolution; Teresita Leonardo-De Castro, Diosdado
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Philstar.com photo
Peralta, Lucas Bersamin, Francis Jardeleza, Samuel Martires, Andres Reyes and Alexander Gesmundo. “Wherefore, respondent’s Ad Cautelam Motion for Reconsideration is Denied with Finality for lack of merit. No further pleadings shall be entertained. Let entry of judgment be made immediately,” a source told the Times, quoting the draft resolution. The dissenters were Justices Antonio Carpio, Presbitero Velasco Jr. , Mariano Del Castillo, Marvic Leonen, Estela PerlasBernabe, and Alfredo Benjamin Caguioa. In its May 11 decision, the high tribunal said Sereno, an impeachable official under the 1987 Constitution, could be removed from office through quo warrant proceedings, which Solicitor General Jose Calida initiated
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