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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

When it rains, it pours: weathering the Filipino calamity

June 3, 2012 FallenAngel 4 Comments

Starting this week, we still living here in the Philippines encountered the first bouts of deluge that are a sure sign of the arrival of the rainy season. With the advent of the rainy season, the start of the school season comes along with it too. Expect there to be heavy traffic starting tomorrow, as…

Culture, Economy, Environment, Government, 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

Philippine Congress mints new anti-cybercrime and anti-slander laws

June 1, 2012June 1, 2012 benign0 9 Comments

Media people whether they be old-school journalists, “on-line reporters” or Web publishers (such as bloggers and much of the rest of humanity who have access to Facebook and Twitter among others) are up in arms about the raft of “anti-media” bills being drafted and passed in Congress. Critics of these measures assert that these “anti-media”…

Crime, Culture, Media, Tech Talk

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

Moving on after the trial: repeal of the Foreign Currency Deposit Act followed by a full-scale audit and investigation

May 31, 2012August 12, 2013 benign0 35 Comments

The challenge of “moving on” needs to be substantiated. I keep hearing that challenge in the context of the recently-concluded trial and conviction of Philippine Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona. That circus took up no less than six months of the already meagre attention span of Philippine society and, as most circuses do, it…

Crime, Culture, Development, Featured, Government, Politics

Philippines Are You Not Entertained?

May 31, 2012 Gogs 25 Comments

It dawned on me exactly what has been bugging me. I am no legal expert. But I do know something about sports and I do know a little about movies. It is in these arenas that I see analogies that help me figure out what was so wrong in the Chief Justice Impeachment trial. Tim…

Crime, Culture, Government, Media, Politics