Emergency powers, #earthquakeCalifornia; looting: Missouri (worst supertyphoon: Ph Pres not made aware, emergency powers)

The California governor declared a state of emergency a few hours ago in the aftermath of the magnitude 6 earthquake in northern California.

Last week, the Missouri governor declared a state of emergency due to the riots and looting.

      In November, when the strongest typhoon in recorded human history hit the planet and devastated  Tacloban,  the lawyers of the Philippine president forgot that he had emergency powers … (image from the U.S. government geological studies site; a few seconds of music from the movie theme “2012”; both used here non-commercially for academic purposes. This podcast plays automatically — you should be hearing it right about… now…)  

SC releases list of reporters/ media orgs/ persons who were given copies of SALNs

 

 

The Supreme Court released today  a list of persons who requested for and were given copies of the justices’ Statements of Assets, Liabilities, and Networth.

an Inquirer reporter posted in his twitter account the following pages of a chart (or excel file in hard copy) from the Supreme Court showing how the SC released copies of the justices’ SALNs to reporters, news organizations, students, civic groups, BIR employees, etc..

It will be recalled that the President, as a continuation of his tirades against the Supreme Court, demanded that the Supreme Court release copies of the justices’ SALNs. 

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