Category: Politics

‘Honorable’ Pwede na yan mentality back fires!

September 27, 2012September 27, 2012 Ms. Mike Portes 10 Comments

The BANGKO SENTRAL NG PILIPINAS WEBSITE at http://www.bsp.gov.phÂ HAS BEEN HACKED!Â This is what our government gets when our legislators dare pass a cybercrime bill that’s impotent! Screencap reads: Anonymous Philippines The Philippine Government has just passed a bill that effectively ends the Freedom of Expression in the Philippines.The Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 is the…

Politics, Tech Talk

Possible psych war being waged in SC as Chief Justice Lourdes Sereno snubbed anew by peers!

September 24, 2012November 29, 2017 benign0 62 Comments

Just how long will newly-appointed Philippine Supreme Court (SC) Chief Justice Lourdes Sereno be able to maintain her trademark smile over the next 18 years she will be serving her post? The stresses of the job are piling on, which does not bode well for Sereno who, according to the supposed findings of a psychological…

Culture, Government, Politics

PNoy’s call for a re-writing of Philippine history: Will it change the future for Filipinos?

September 23, 2012September 23, 2012 benign0 33 Comments

According to Philippine President Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino III, history taught in Philippine schools should consist only of “truthful information” and not “the web of lies spun by propagandists and revisionists.” This is what he makes the underlying principle in his latest project — to rewrite Filipino history books according to what he thinks actually…

Development, Education, Politics

Drilling in Recto Bank gas field possibly set back by Trillanes adventurism

September 21, 2012January 15, 2014 benign0 4 Comments

When it comes to China, money is the primary currency of any kind of negotiation. And in light of the big tiff between Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile and “Senator” Antonio Trillanes IV, the cast of characters is a lot bigger and includes one of the Philipines’s biggest mining companies, Philex Mining Corporation, and its…

Development, Money Talks, Politics

Senator Trillanes to Senator Enrile: Hasta la vista, baby!

September 20, 2012January 14, 2014 Ilda 124 Comments

The Bourne Legacy director Tony Gilroy reportedly said that he decided to shoot his movie in Manila because it felt so “Bourne”-ish. In his own words he said that the city is “just so colorful and ugly and gritty and raw and stinky and crowded.” The director was spot-on in describing what his naked eyes…

Government, Politics

National Press Club, Your Freudian Slip Is Showing

September 20, 2012August 14, 2014 Gogs 20 Comments

freudian slip freud·i·an slip Noun: An unintentional error regarded as revealing subconscious feelings. We don’t know anything for sure (is that libel) but a Freudian slip is what seems to have happened . The National Press Club initially said that the libel portion of the Cybercrime Act was “society’s weapon against bloggers”. They had since…

Culture, Media, Politics, Society

Formerly-jailed coup plotter Trillanes now embroiled in diplomatic coup blessed by Ph president

September 20, 2012June 9, 2013 benign0 36 Comments

I recall that archaic metaphor used to describe guys who are in romantic relationships with two women — they are said to be swimming in two rivers. That’s what red-faced President Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino III is looking like now having been caught out overseeing two negotiation channels facing the Chinese government: one via what…

Crime, Government, Politics

Trillanes storms out of Senate after being outed for engaging in ‘backroom negotiations’ with China

September 19, 2012May 3, 2016 benign0 66 Comments

A baffling lack of confidence on the part of President Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino III in his own cabinet officials was belied by a revelation today that Senator Antonio Trillanes IV was authorised by the President to act as a “backroom negotiator” to China on behalf of the Philippines. In a heated argument between Trillanes…

Government, Politics