Category: politics
christmas 2010
if memory serves, not since the erap impeachment trial of 2000 has the holiday season been as politically charged as this one. the acquittal of hubert webb et al continues to be front page news, with former nbi directors exchanging … Continue reading
why ping
almost everyone’s saying senator panfilo aka “ping” lacson should surrender and prove his innocence in court instead of forever playing the unfairly accused fugitive. but when i think of the vizconde massacre and how there is so much reasonable doubt … Continue reading
Midnight CJ and the Four R’s
Rene Saguisag The framers could have said the position of Chief Justice (CJ) should be filled up immediately and that only the CJ could swear in a Prez. They did not. They said any judicial vacancy should be filled up … Continue reading
HOW MONA LISA DIED
Walden Bello Representative Edcel Lagman of Albay has a term for legislative measures that gain approval in a congressional committee yet never make it to a full floor debate owing to one reason or other. He calls them “Mona Lisa” … Continue reading
no guts, no gloria
well the woman has guts, and she really doesn’t care what fvr thinks, much less what wewho-want-her-out think, not as long as there are people in place who continue to support her. but it’s offensive, that happy grin she was … Continue reading
pacquiao’s place
praising pacquiao by showbiz grande dame armida siguion-reyna aka tita midz is a good read. specially this half: Day after the fight, the papers had everybody who was anybody with a quote. Sen. Chiz Escudero hoped the boxer “inspires” those … Continue reading
last-minute blues
there must be another way of handling the comelec registration process. alam naman natin na may last-minute mentality ang pinoy. comelec should have expected, and prepared for, the swarm instead of saying, kayo kasi… lalo na’t merong concessions made to … Continue reading
the audacity of chiz
nagulat ako kay chiz. nagulat ako nang sabihin niyang he’s out of the nationalist people’s coalition, that is, out of the shadow of party bosses playing traditional politics. napa-wow ako sa kanyang declaration of independence, at sa wari ko … Continue reading
environment 7: denr & the poor
THE DENR & SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (Why The Poor Will Always Be With Us) Junie Kalaw In Mindanao, two years after her historic succession to the presidency, President Aquino, a very religious person, appealed for the help of the citizenry, especially institutions … Continue reading
environment 4: forests left
FORESTS LEFT Junie Kalaw Traditional politics dies hard. Upon Mrs. Aquino’s exit, with the convening by President Fidel V. Ramos of a new legislature and the appointment of a new secretary for the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), … Continue reading
environment & revolution
if junie kalaw were alive he’d be saying i-told-you-so, just like odette alcantara. junie and odette were our leading environmentalists, pioneers, who didn’t live to see the great floods wrought by ondoy & pepeng [and some dam(ned) officials] but … Continue reading
the games begin
was going to blog on alex magno’s game-changer series, express amazement at how cory’s death and noynoy’s audacity seems to have changed his politics, and wonder what his bosses gma and fg have to say. then i read manuel buencamino’s … Continue reading