Back With A Vengeance

After a long, deep slumber, Remate Tonight is back on the streets to fill that space on newsstands left vacant for years. Bigger, better and bolder than ever.
From its purely masa format, the paper has morphed wonderfully into something that responds to the call of the times, tailor fit for the Global Pinoy. Thanks to the genius of the paper’s new owner and publisher who once dreamt of acquiring the old Remate Tonight where he started his career in journalism as a cub- National Press Club President Benny Antiporda. Coupled with the prolific Joe Torres who is now at the helm of the publication’s editorial team, Remate Tonight is sure to soar great heights and regain its crown as one of the country’s princes of Tabloids. For one to claim kingship would be ignoble, if not totally ridiculous. Afterall, tabloids have been collectively lording it over other classes of publications, readership wise.
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The team-up of Mssrs. Antiporda and Torres- both previously subjected to harsh criticisms by a few self-righteous industry peers- will definitely raise eyebrows. Who among them critics are purely legit by the way? I can count some in. The others?
Spite me.
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Now, to business.
From his pathetic Boy Padyak caper to becoming a more pathetic garlic-wielding Con-Asswang warrior, Sen. Mar Roxas is once again back on the headlines for crying out against the delayed implementation of the Maximum Retail Price (MRP) for medicines, his brainchild. Doesn’t MRP sound more of a political acronym- Mar Roxas for President?
Cheaper medicines or cheap trick? Another cheap gimmick.
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Presidential Anti-Smuggling Group chief Antonio Villar and Optical Media Board chairman Edu Manzano are at loggerheads over some missing DVD replicating machines. Villar claims the same replicating machines went missing after they were first seized during the time of now Sen. Bong Revilla as OMB head.
A replicated incident. A clear machination.
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The machines were allegedly consigned to a wealthy Chinese businessman from North of Manila. A “king” on his own right, the businessman also belongs to a powerful clan of politicians. He is known in the underworld as “Mr. G.”
GOTCHA!!!
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Quezon City is close to becoming the country’s entertainment capital with all those bright lights from strip clubs, gay bars and other night spots illuminating the city every night. Unknown to many, a group of gamblers who are mostly owners of these night spots have been secretly operating underground POKER games around the city and under the noses of city government and police officials. From POKING to POKER capital.
POKER ina na yan!
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House Speaker Prospero Nograles says they are more concerned with the spread of the A H1N1 virus in congress than the influx of protesters come PGMA’s State of the Nation Address. He fails to state, however, if the president, congressmen and senators are susceptible to the disease or not.
Hope their congressional IMMUNITY works!
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A faction of younger generals in the military is reportedly planning to takeover the armed forces’ leadership from their seniors through Oplan: August Moon. The scheme aims to catapult Gen. Delfin Bangit of PMA Class 1978 to the top military post, sidelining senior generals from older PMA classes.
Bad news: Pagasa predicts more typhoons will visit the country by next month with most making landfall by night. Ergo, NO moon in August.
Sorry, guys.
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Atty Ferdinand Topacio, counsel for the Jimenez family members accused of masterminding the killing of Ruby Rose Barrameda presumes that the victim is still alive, judging from the lack of a DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) sample from the cadaver fished out off Navotas harbor previously.
This lawyer should be sent to Neverland and check out if Michael Jackson’s alive too.
Beat it, Topakcio!