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		<title>Death and Glee after nearly stepping on a human brain</title>
		<link>http://raissarobles.com/2010/09/09/death-and-glee-after-nearly-stepping-on-a-human-brain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 03:04:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>raissa robles</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hong Kong news]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Emily Dickinson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality - Emily Dickinson By Raïssa Robles I&#8217;ve had a hard time sleeping nights in the last two weeks since the hostage taking of a tourist bus in Manila. You see, I nearly stepped on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For one insane moment, I nearly offered to be a hostage negotiator</title>
		<link>http://raissarobles.com/2010/08/29/for-one-insane-moment-i-nearly-offered-to-be-a-hostage-negotiator/</link>
		<comments>http://raissarobles.com/2010/08/29/for-one-insane-moment-i-nearly-offered-to-be-a-hostage-negotiator/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 10:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>raissa robles</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti=terrorism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[hostage taker Rolando Mendoza]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manila bus hostage-taking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Raïssa Robles I was seated before the same plastic picnic table at the Rizal Park complex with the hostage taker&#8217;s older brother, Ignacio Mendoza. It was past lunchtime. Ignacio was slurping some hot instant noodles he had bought off the same food stall where I was recharging my cellphone. Then his younger brother Gregorio [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines denounces harassment of member</title>
		<link>http://raissarobles.com/2010/05/10/foreign-correspondents-association-of-the-philippines-denounces-harassment-of-member/</link>
		<comments>http://raissarobles.com/2010/05/10/foreign-correspondents-association-of-the-philippines-denounces-harassment-of-member/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 11:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>raissa robles</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010 election]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[FOCAP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Members, We are issuing this statement on the harassment of a FOCAP member. _____________________ Statement on Harassment of FOCAP Member The Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines condemns in the strongest terms the manhandling and detention of one of its members, Francis Malasig of the EPA photo agency in Taguig city Sunday night. Malasig [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Justice Secretary Agra, why did you throw out an eyewitness report implicating Zaldy Ampatuan?</title>
		<link>http://raissarobles.com/2010/04/19/justice-secretary-agra-why-did-you-throw-out-an-eyewitness-report-implicating-zaldy-ampatuan/</link>
		<comments>http://raissarobles.com/2010/04/19/justice-secretary-agra-why-did-you-throw-out-an-eyewitness-report-implicating-zaldy-ampatuan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 08:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>raissa robles</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ampatuan massacre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mindanao]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Acting Justice Secretary Alberto Agra]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Acting Justice Secretary Alberto Agra exonerated Muslim Mindanao Governor Zaldy Ampatuan of the Ampatuan, Maguinandao massacre because he said Governor Zaldy was not there at the scene of the crime. Governor Zaldy had a plane ticket and cellphone records to prove this, he said. But no witness ever said Gov. Zaldy was at the massacre [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asking President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo about sex was easier than asking about politics and her feelings</title>
		<link>http://raissarobles.com/2010/01/31/an-eat-and-tell-story-about-a-rare-dinner-date-with-president-gloria-macapagal-arroyo/</link>
		<comments>http://raissarobles.com/2010/01/31/an-eat-and-tell-story-about-a-rare-dinner-date-with-president-gloria-macapagal-arroyo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>raissa robles</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ampatuan massacre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asking Pres. Gloria Arroyo about sex...]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ex-defense secretary Gilberto Teodoro]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sen. Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gilberto Teodoro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Gomez of Associated Press]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Malacanang Palace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[presidential accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senator Benigno Aquino III]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nearly eight years ago I asked President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo,  “I’m sure a lot of women are dying to ask you this question.” “And since you are not a widow, they would like to ask you this question. You don’t have to answer this if you don’t want to, but a lot of women are dying [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At a surprise Palace dinner President Arroyo told the foreign press: &#8220;I&#8217;m worried&#8221; over poll automation</title>
		<link>http://raissarobles.com/2010/01/29/633/</link>
		<comments>http://raissarobles.com/2010/01/29/633/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:22:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>raissa robles</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poll automation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2010 elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dana Batnag of Jiji Press]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jim Gomez of Associated Press]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Oliver Teves of Associated Press]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zhao Jiemin of Xinhua News Agency]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I wasn&#8217;t going to write about poll automation just yet. I thought what President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo told the foreign press corps last Friday, January 22 was old hat, until I saw the presidential palace story on the dinner: PGMA assures foreign media there will be no failure of election President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo last night assured [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Part 2: FOCAP members are told how the Ampatuans became rebels instead of suspected monster murderers</title>
		<link>http://raissarobles.com/2009/12/15/part-2-the-ampatuans-are-the-type-of-rebels-that-foreign-media-have-not-encountered/</link>
		<comments>http://raissarobles.com/2009/12/15/part-2-the-ampatuans-are-the-type-of-rebels-that-foreign-media-have-not-encountered/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>raissa robles</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mindanao]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Presidential powers - Martial Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ampatuan massacre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andal Ampatuan Jr.]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Correspondents Association of the Philippines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maguindanao massacre]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Before Martial Law was imposed in Maguindanao, the Ampatuans were known worldwide as the prime suspects in the deliberate liquidation of 57 people, 30 of  them journalists. This has set a world record for the worst one-day killing of media men in peace time, while covering a democratic exercise. To understand how stupefied many of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Part 1:The Philippine government may well be resorting to a rubber band lifting of Martial Law in Maguindanao</title>
		<link>http://raissarobles.com/2009/12/14/380/</link>
		<comments>http://raissarobles.com/2009/12/14/380/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>raissa robles</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Philippine government may well be resorting to a rubber band lifting of Martial Law &#8211; gone today, here again tomorrow maybe. Catholic prelates are breathing a sigh of relief, but I&#8217;m one of those who aren&#8217;t. To understand why, I&#8217;ve inserted below two video clips I&#8217;ve uploaded to YouTube. The imposition of Martial Law [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wanted urgently: another backhoe to dig up the 58th missing massacre victim in Ampatuan, Maguindanao</title>
		<link>http://raissarobles.com/2009/12/03/wanted-urgently-another-backhoe-to-dig-up-59th-missing-massacre-victim/</link>
		<comments>http://raissarobles.com/2009/12/03/wanted-urgently-another-backhoe-to-dig-up-59th-missing-massacre-victim/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>raissa robles</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ampatuan massacre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Journalism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Peruvian forensic anthropologist  aDr. Jose Pablo Baraybar]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“We need a backhoe to empty out the previously excavated mass graves to sift through the debris to ascertain whether an untouched part of the grave may still hold some human remains,” according to Peruvian forensic anthropologist Dr. Jose Pablo Baraybar who is helping gather forensic evidence to use in the coming court trial. They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lakas-Kampi Party standard bearer Gilberto Teodoro knows part of the reason why the Maguindanao massacre happened</title>
		<link>http://raissarobles.com/2009/11/26/266/</link>
		<comments>http://raissarobles.com/2009/11/26/266/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 05:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>raissa robles</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2010 election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ex-defense secretary Gilberto Teodoro]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and family]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andal Ampatuan Jr.]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A source who personally knows members of the Ampatuan family has just told me this piece of disturbing news: First, assuming the son Andal Ampatuan Jnr. carried out the crime, the son is NOT the mastermind. The son reportedly carried it out on someone else&#8217; orders.  The key to finding the mastermind is the back [...]]]></description>
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