Category: Politics

Corona impeachment prosecution continues to be out-classed by defense team

January 25, 2012 benign0 38 Comments

Today’s impeachment trial session (evaluating the bid to impeach Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona) seems to have been about the rigour around which the proceedings are being conducted by the senator-judges led by Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile. One of the more revealing moments of the session was around the way the prosecution called…

Crime, Government, Politics

Anti-Corona Mob laments Cuevas’s brilliant wit and ‘star quality’ of defense team

January 23, 2012February 10, 2014 benign0 77 Comments

Apologists among the mob who have been campaigning for the ouster of Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona now seem to be getting really desperate — desperate enough to question the very manner with which Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile is conducting the Senate trial. A certain Floren Hilbay, for example, writing for the Inquirer.net…

Civics, Crime, Media, Politics

Yingluck Shinawatra and PNoy a match says Kris Aquino

January 21, 2012January 13, 2014 benign0 19 Comments

First celeb Kris Aquino may have been on to something when last Friday she tweeted, “Came from Malacanang. Lunch for Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra. She’s tall & slim & attractive! 44 yrs old, bagay for PNoy!” [Latter Tagalog phrase translated “a good match for PNoy!”] Prime Minister Yingluck was on an official visit to…

Glitz and Glamour, Politics

Will Noynoy Aquino incite rebellion if Chief Justice Renato Corona is acquitted?

January 20, 2012January 30, 2012 benign0 109 Comments

Another EDSA ocho-ocho “revolution” in the works? That’s according to House Minority Leader Edcel Lagman who reportedly spoke of knowledge of a plan on the part of the administration of President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III to incite an uprising if Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona is acquitted in his on-going impeachment trial… â€œI hope…

Civics, Crime, Government, Media, Politics

Corona impeachment: Prosecution team is incompetent not just underdogs

January 19, 2012March 16, 2017 Ilda 169 Comments

Supreme Court Chief Justice, Renato Corona is richer (only) by eight million pesos according to an ABS-CBN headline report. This is shocking news, indeed. This means that the embattled Chief Justice won’t be able to afford to purchase even just a second hand Porsche similar to the one President Noynoy Aquino (PNoy) bought in 2011,…

Civics, Crime, Government, Media, Politics

Impeachment Basis is ‘Ice, Ice, Baby!’

January 19, 2012 Hector Gamboa 16 Comments

In 1992, I still had plenty of hair, was just fresh out of high school and I was in my first year of college. Back then I also held a job as a car wash and gas station attendant. If I remember it correctly, I was merely making around 7 dollars per hour and my…

Politics

Karen Jimeno: the classy face of Corona’s legal team

January 19, 2012May 17, 2018 benign0 124 Comments

If the underlying strategy of those who are campaigning for the ouster of Philippine Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona is the use of mainstream mass media to demonise him, they may be in for a worthy challenger from those who defend him. Lawyer Karen Jimeno who has taken the role of one of the…

Glitz and Glamour, Media, Politics

Day 3 of Corona impeachment: ABS-CBN lawyer bungles questioning of key prosecution witness

January 19, 2012January 21, 2012 benign0 44 Comments

Key point of contention on Day 3 of the trial of the impeachment complaint against Chief Justice Renato Corona is the emergence of allegations that Corona did not declare all of his assets — specifically big properties already revealed to the media — in his statement of assets, liabilities and net worth (SALN). So now…

Civics, Crime, Media, Politics

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