Category: Government

Run for the banks! Senator Judges behold the return of the ‘S’ word: SEQUESTER

May 21, 2012 benign0 32 Comments

Unintended consequences — the evil spawn of those famous last words: It seemed like a good idea at the time. It’s the cancerous mass-thinking process that latches humanity onto the glitzy, glossy, mind candy of easy shortcuts and quick fixes fuelled by sef-important notions of what one considers to be “noble” goals. “Cheaper faster better”…

Civics, Crime, Economy, Government, Politics

The fate of Philippine democracy is in the hands of the Senator Judges of the impeachment court

May 18, 2012September 27, 2013 Ilda 48 Comments

This is it. This is what some of us have been waiting for. No, it’s not really the much-anticipated appearance of Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona in court. Okay, yes. We are going to be glued to the tube when he finally testifies, indeed. But at the back of our heads, the long wait…

Crime, Featured, Government, Politics, Society

Kaya Natin leader and Ateneo director Harvey Keh caught lying in Corona impeachment trial session

May 17, 2012August 18, 2022 benign0 35 Comments

In yet another spectacular showcase of the flat learning curve of all who stand for that quintessentially Filipino oxymoron “civil society”, Manila Times “columnist” and Director of the Youth and Social Entrepreneurship Program of the Ateneo School of Government Harvey Keh was grilled to a crisp by various parties in the Senate Court in the…

Civics, Crime, Government, Media, Politics, Society

Corona’s day in court: dignity versus bastusan

May 16, 2012May 16, 2012 Ilda 170 Comments

The whole country is awaiting the highly anticipated appearance of Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona in his own impeachment trial. There is not a day that goes by that the prosecution does not fail to ask the defense team when they will call Corona to the witness stand. And so do some of the…

Crime, Culture, Government, Politics, Society

Separation of Powers: it really matters

May 16, 2012October 2, 2013 a 47 Comments

In the course of the testimony of hostile witness Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales, the senator-judges raised their concerns over what seemed to be excessive powers of the Ombudsman, should one take the entirety of her statements as the truth. If everything Morales said is true, then she can just snoop on other government officials’ vital information…

Government, Politics

AMLC – the new Philippine Constabulary: Impeachment Senator-Judges beware!

May 15, 2012 benign0 22 Comments

It’s the second day of Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales’s “testimony” in the impeachment trial of Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona. Bottom line still is the fact that no beginning cash balance to serve as a baseline to give meaning to the cash flows presented by Morales could be produced. Without a beginning balance, there is…

Crime, Government, Politics

Ombudsman Morales testimony muddles rather than substantiates Prosecution claims of Corona dollar holdings

May 14, 2012 benign0 148 Comments

And the comedy of errors that is the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona continues as today’s session concludes. A long accounting made by Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales of various funds movements between 82 bank accounts across several banks to the name of Chief Justice Renato Corona over a period beginning 2003 through 2011 revealed…

Crime, Government, Politics

The final solution to Pinoy stupidity

May 14, 2012August 12, 2013 FallenAngel 116 Comments

Die Endlösung der Pinoy Dummheit. Is it just me, or does everything sound just that much more intimidating, menacing, or daunting in German? For those who don’t get the reference, the Nazis dubbed the plan of systematic execution of the Jews the final solution to the Jewish question – “die Endlösung der Judenfrage”. Right from…

Culture, Development, Government, Politics, Society