Category: Crime

United States Senate report on CIA torture shocks the world!

December 11, 2014 benign0 42 Comments

A 525-page unclassified portion of a 6,000-page report compiled by the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) about the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)’s Detention and Interrogation Program using enhanced interrogation techniques (a euphemism for torture) on detainees following the September 11 attacks in 2001 was released on December 9, 2014, after a presentation…

Civics, Crime, Government, Politics, Society

How lessons learned from #Hagupit can help deliver justice to the #Maguindanao massacre victims

December 9, 2014 benign0 9 Comments

Super Typhoon Hagupit (locally code-named “Ruby”) has come and gone, and many lessons have been learned. But the most important insight following this experience is quite tragic: that the thousands upon thousands of lives lost in previous years to typhoons were all preventable. The death toll in the aftermath of Hagupit’s visit to the most…

Civics, Crime, Culture, Government, Media, Politics, Society

Race Card on the table as America reels from consecutive police ‘brutality’ cases

December 4, 2014December 4, 2014 benign0 10 Comments

Coming in the heels of the recent street riots that erupted over the failure to indict of Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson who gunned down Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager who happened to be black, another grand jury voted not to indict Daniel Pantaleo, a New York Police Department (NYPD) police officer accused of fatally…

Civics, Crime, Culture, Society

3 ways a lack of ethical citizenship serves as a serious roadblock to Philippine progress

December 3, 2014December 3, 2014 benign0 13 Comments

The trouble with Filipinos is that they don’t see any meaning in their lives that is bigger than themselves. At best there is, like most warm-blooded mammals with bulges in their heads wider than their brainstems, that instinctive altruism for his own immediate family. But even that one is often brought to question on account…

Civics, Crime, Culture, Development, Environment, Lifestyle, Politics, Religion, Society

Adultery Central: Should the Philippines ban hanky-panky website Ashley Madison?

December 1, 2014 Kate Natividad 25 Comments

I read recently that Ashley Madison is in town! Ashley Madison is a dating site for people interested in finding a partner for an extramarital affair. It is a popular dating website based in Canada and has been around for some years now. Well, like most internet businesses, it needs to expand. What better place…

Crime, Culture, Lifestyle, Media, Religion, Society, Tech Talk

Did Butch Abad just out an Aquino SC justice for perjury?

November 29, 2014November 29, 2014 BenK 8 Comments

In the aftermath of the announcement of the unexpectedly disappointing third-quarter GDP figures earlier this week, Budget Secretary Florencio “Butch” Abad offered a rather strange explanation for part of it, the 2.9 percent retraction of government spending during the quarter: “…the decrease was largely caused by the low utilization of notice of cash allotments (NCAs)…

Crime, Economy, Politics

An open letter to Pope Francis on his visit to the Philippines in 2015

November 29, 2014November 29, 2014 Ilda 78 Comments

Dear Pope Francis, Information about your visit to the Philippines has been occupying the country’s local media for months. Members of the national and local government have been busy preparing for your arrival. The Manila City Mayor Joseph “Erap” Estrada recently declared a four-day holiday for Manila residence during your visit. The decision, he said…

Civics, Crime, Development, Government, Politics

Maserati owner Joseph Russel Ingco prime suspect in mauling of MMDA officer!

November 28, 2014 benign0 15 Comments

As of this writing, it’s been 15 hours since news broke that a man driving a blue Maserati allegedly mauled a traffic officer of the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) yesterday. The incident involved an altercation in Quezon City between MMDA traffic enforcer Jorvy Adriatico and the Maserati driver now identified by the Quezon City…

Crime, Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle

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Tony Basconne
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Mon
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Tres
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Send in the US clowns
on EDSA 40 years after: Overthrow and “Leftist” Ideals Don’t Work
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Spivey Adobo
on EDSA 40 years after: Overthrow and “Leftist” Ideals Don’t Work
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on EDSA 40 years after: Overthrow and “Leftist” Ideals Don’t Work
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