Category: Politics

All in the family: father-son-brother tandems that impeached Corona

June 6, 2012June 6, 2012 benign0 9 Comments

The Philippines indeed is a glitzy world of dynastic politics. The following signatories to the impeachment complaint of former Philippine Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona (of a total 188 signatories) are direct relatives of three Senator-Judges during the trial — Senators Edgardo Angara, Jinggoy Estrada, and Juan Ponce Enrile — who voted to issue…

Civics, Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Government, Politics

Miriam Defensor-Santiago: Our modern day Pilosopo Tasyo

June 6, 2012August 8, 2013 a 188 Comments

You might encounter the term Pilosopo Tasyo (Philosopher Tasyo) or simply pilosopo in a couple of typical Filipino conversations, and is generally taken to mean “someone who takes things literally in a sarcastic way,” usually thrown at people who can’t help but nitpick on people’s faulty sentence construction for fun. While the word has donned…

Government, Politics, Society

The Emergence of BaSta Aquino

June 5, 2012June 5, 2012 Gogs 58 Comments

“You who are on the road Must have a code that you can live by And so become yourself Because the past is just a good bye. “Teach your children well, Their father’s hell did slowly go by, And feed them on your dreams The one they picked, the one you’ll know by.” Crosby Stills…

Culture, Education, Government, Politics, Society

Was the Philippine Senate also a victim of Malacañang railroading?

June 4, 2012June 6, 2013 benign0 19 Comments

Is it me or is there some kind of a muted national coming-to-terms in the aftermath of a six-month long impeachment trial that was “won” by the Malacañang of President Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino III? Think of how one might suffer a temporary psychosis while engrossed in an intense video game, consumed by an adrenaline-fuelled…

Civics, Crime, Government, Politics

Looking beyond PNoy’s hypocrisy: the beauty of keeping your mouth shut

June 3, 2012June 4, 2012 a 104 Comments

The momentous and much-praised (to the point of being overrated) victory of PNoyâ€™s administration in ousting former Chief Justice Renato Corona from office was marred by the presidentâ€™s blatant hypocrisy in refusing to fulfil his promise of waiving his bank secrecy rights for the sake of a new era of transparency and accountability. PNoyâ€™s administration…

Government, Politics, Society

Next Pigs Will Fly: When Noynoy takes stock of his own agendas

June 2, 2012 Gogs 13 Comments

Did the editors at the Philippine Daily Inquirer overdose on Dormicum? The normally so yellow publication that you can call it Chiquita shocked at least me that Rigoberto Tiglao called out BS Aquino for what he really he did and put it in perspective with a time line. In it, he describes various ambitions in…

Crime, Government, Politics

Lessons from Renato Corona’s experience: Five tips on how to survive an impeachment trial

June 2, 2012April 29, 2016 Ilda 72 Comments

After 43 sessions within the span of 5 months, the impeachment trial of Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona has finally ended with an overwhelming vote for a “guilty” verdict. So much has been said about how the prosecution cut corners and violated the most sacred parts of the Philippine Constitution just to demonize the…

Crime, Featured, Government, Politics

For Noynoy is an Honorable Man…

June 1, 2012July 19, 2013 Hector Gamboa 55 Comments

The following message was inspired from Mark Antony’s speech (from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar) and modified to make it apropos on the aftermath of the conviction of Chief Justice Renato C. Corona. Friends, Filipinos, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Chief Justice Corona, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives…

Civics, Politics

benign0
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Brandon
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megget
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megget
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megget
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megget
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benign0
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benign0
on The ultimate theory on why woke people are such mental cases
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