Friday, March 9, 2018

Let's Do The News! (March 9, 2018)



- The camp of former Senator Bongbong Marcos praised Senator Tito Sotto's exposure of the alleged 2016 electoral sabotage. On March 7, Sotto revealed to the Senate that there has been a recorded early transmission from various vote counting machines before the start of the election on May 9, 2016. Atty. Vic Rodriguez, lawyer of Marcos, said that this expose shows that the former senator is not the only personality to condemn and oppose the alleged large-scale electoral fraud in the 2016 national elections.

- Meanwhile, Ilocos Norte governor Imee Marcos remains optimistic over Bongbong's early poll case victory against Vice President Leni Robredo as she suspends her bid to the senatorial office.

- Quezon City Representative Kit Belmonte feels that the House Committee on Justice lacked evidence to impeach Supreme Court Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno.

- The camp of undefeated Australian boxing champion Jeff Horn believes that a rematch with Filipino boxing idol Manny Pacquiao is already ‘slim to none’. According to reports, Glenn Rushton, trainer of Horn, welcomes another bout against Pacquiao but doubts that the camp of the fighing senator is still open to the idea.

- Matt Yglesias from Vox told about the flawed strategy of the DCCC, challenging Americans to reject the conventional wisdom about how to defeat Republicans and gain control of the US Congress. He said "There's very little evidence that "electable" moderates do better."

- The Kansas Senate rejected the resolution that could put everyone's constitutional rights and liberties up for grabs.

- Baseball player Ichiro Suzuki returns to Seattle Mariners.

- The Special Vehicles Operations unveiled the Range Rover SV Coupe at the Geneva Motor Show. Limited to 999 units, it's powered by the same 5.0L Supercharged V8 engine producing 555PS of power, capable of going 0-60mph in five seconds and onwards to 165mph. It's priced at 240,000 GBP.

2019 Land Rover Range Rover SV Coupe

- Toyota and Mazda established their joint venture company called the Mazda Toyota Manufacturing, U.S.A., Inc. and they will be producing cars like Mazda's full-size crossover and Toyota's Corolla at their new Alabama plant beginning in 2021.

- A certain Volkswagen executive expresses concerns about Germany's diesel ban, calling it "scary and unnecessary".

- Activision announced this year's Call of Duty installment called Call of Duty Black Ops 4, coming to PS4, XBOX One, and PC, this October 12th worldwide.

- WHOA! Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy is coming to Nintendo Switch XBOX one, and Steam this July 10!

- Nintendo announced that Super Smash Bros. is coming to Nintendo Switch with the inklings from Splatoon joining the all-star fight!

- Bandai Namco will end service of their Dream Festival! R arcade game and app game at the end of March.

- Square Enix is joining the idol craze with the unveiling of their new Idol Fantasy app game coming to iOS and Android this summer.

TTFN!!!

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