Will SC probe graft at Court of Appeals now?

LIFE’S INSPIRATIONS: “… maintain justice in the courts…” (Amos 5:15, the Holy Bible).

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WILL SC PROBE GRAFT AT COURT OF APPEALS NOW? What will the Supreme Court and the Judicial and Bar Council do, now that Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV has been reported as having filed a resolution calling for a Senate inquiry into his disclosures that two Court of Appeals justices who stopped the suspension of Makati City Mayor Jejomar Erwin Junjun Binay were paid millions of pesos by the Binay Family through a Makati-based lawyer?

I am sure this is no longer a matter that can be swept under the rug, so to speak, and which would go away if it is ignored and not attended to by the tribunal and the Council. It is now a corruption scandal of epic proportions which can engulf even the Supreme Court and the JBC if they are not going to act on it.

There is no more justification for any “hands-off policy” from the Court, as its spokesman, Atty. Theodore Te was reported to have announced several days ago in the wake of a clamor, sparked by news headlines, for an investigation of justices at the same Court of Appeals who allegedly sell their decisions to highest bidders. This scandal of judicial corruption has clearly become an ailment that needs excising.

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WE MUST DO SOMETHING MORE AGAINST GLOBAL WARMING: All these talk about global warming and climate change scorching some 60,000 hectares of agricultural lands all throughout the Philippines would have been a good reminder about the evils of environmental degradation and the death and destruction that would surely come in their wake. This is, after all, no longer just a national problem but a scourge of international reach.

But, sadly, government officials and private individuals or entities trying to do something about global warming and climate change actually are contributing more to the worsening of the problem rather than solving it, by their present approaches and proffered solutions which are, at best, mere palliatives that would not yield any benefit.

Again, let me point out that trillions and trillions of dollars, euros, yens, and even pesos, have already been spent in the past, in the hope of arresting deadly weather aberrations, but it is clear that the global march to death and destruction because of these aberrations goes on unabated, and has even accelerated in frightening speed. So what do we do?

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READ THE BIBLE, OBEY GOD: SURE ANTIDOES TO CLIMATE CHANGE: Try some other solutions, side by side with the current international efforts to combat global warming and climate change, that’s what. Time and again, I am saying that it has become greatly imperative to realize that this climatic danger was prophesied to happen by the Bible in its chapters and verses, so that it is extremely necessary now to see what the Bible is proposing as solutions.

Right away, I can think of Deuteronomy 28:15 and 22-24 and Matthew 7:24-27 as Biblical warnings which foretell the coming of environment destruction. There is nothing to lose for anyone if we study these verses for a moment, and then try to discern from them the fact that the solution being offered to fight global warming is immensely simple.

What is this solution? It is making all of humanity go back to God, by a sincere and earnest reading of the Bible, and then obeying God’s commands written therein. It is only when we adopt this approach that things will begin to change. By then, people will be inspired to care truthfully not only for themselves but even for others, and for the environment as well. There is still time for this, really!

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