Tax on Text Labanan!

Do you know that Congress, led by Speaker Prospero Nograles and Quezon Rep. Danilo Suarez are leading the charge to tax us on every text we send to our friends? For businessman Joey de Venecia III and OFW crusader Susan “Toot’s Ople, that’s too much.
For Joey, the House-approved measure imposing a five centavo excise tax [...]

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Senator Richard Gordon knots ZTE-NBN deal

Senator Richard Gordon, chair of the powerful Senate Blue Ribbon Committee already concluded that the mothballed ZTE-NBN deal is not a mom and pop operations. No. For him, it’s a father and son caper. That’s how Gordon sees it.
Never mind if there’s a photo of the First Gentleman Mike Arroyo with his wife Mrs. Gloria [...]

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Shell’s Stupidity

Have’nt you noticed something? Shell just lowered their pump prices probably after seeing that not all big players followed suit. Diesel prices went up to 28 pesos plus during the weekend and it’ll remain about 26-27 by this week.
But, if you go to Cavite or Quezon City, you’ll find that diesel pump prices remain at [...]

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Treachery Against the Continuing Revolution

On May 10, we will be commemorating the death of the great Plebian Andres Bonifacio. This is not marked as a holiday in any of our calendars. Yet, it bears remembering here, since that treacherous death signalled the new chapter in the Katipunan revolution. As what fellow Historian Ambet Ocampo wrote in his book on [...]

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Era of Plots and Counter-plots

As I am writing this, I received information that Gloria’s men are meeting in a secluded place in Malacanang and plotting for their next move. With the impeachment complaint squashed, the palace political operator is reportedly plotting to oust ex-Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. The ouster of JDV will be made in a political caucus [...]

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A NEW MORNING FOR EVERYONE

Many economists are already saying that more than 250,000 Filipinos will probably lose their jobs due to the global recession. This doesn’t take into consideration the estimated 20-30,000 Pinoys abroad who’ll probably lose theirs and go back here because of the US financial meltdown. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have both [...]

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Pinoy Film Mavericks

 
Pinoy film makers are one of the best in the world. In fact, many young film makers are rewriting film-making history by their creative works. Mavericks, they are, these young artists are making waves in the international front.
 
Sadly, not too many of us, know about them or their works of art.
Now, idealistic film-makers are uniting [...]

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Punish the bribe giver

The Supreme Court yesterday punished members of the Court of Appeals who reportedly took part in the GSIS vs. Meralco case bribery scandal. CA Justice Vicente Roxas was fired for violating the Canons of Judicial Ethics while his colleague, Jose Sabio, was suspended for 3 months. Other members of the committee who handled the GSIS [...]

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Isang Milyong Ninoy laban sa kampon ni Gloria

Sa paggunita ng pagkakapaslang ng dating Senator Ninoy Aquino sa 21 Agosto, maglulunsad ng isang “cultural show” ang civil society. Ang nasabing concert, na lalakuhan ng mahigit 50 bandang Pinoy, ay isang aktibidad na dapat lamang lahukan ng lahat, sapagkat ito’y isang paraan upang maipakita natin ang ating pagka disgusto sa kasalukuyang kalagayan ng ating [...]

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Why do Filipinos hate Gloria and adore Erap

I had this wonderful conversation with a lady hostess last week. My friend and I was talking about the political shit we are in. When I mentioned “Erap”, the lady just suddenly blurted out something about the difference of Gloria and Erap.
” You know why I hate Gloria so much,” says the lady in between [...]

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