Pens vs pork: People’s Initiative puts dead end to Aquino’s ‘Daang Matuwid
Tens of thousands returned to Luneta Park today to kick off the Luzon leg of the petition for a People’s Initiative bill to abolish the...
Aquino’s DAP speech: Same smug defense of a badass budget scheme
By Carlos Maningat as originally posted on Blog Watch, Philippine Online Chronicles. It was more of the same smug defense of the controversial Disbursement Acceleration...
Netizens pray for Senator Miriam Santiago #MiriamFight
by JC Maningat as originally posted at the Philippine Online Chronicles Politiko Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago announced on Wednesday that she has been diagnosed with...
SC declares key provisions of DAP unconstitutional
The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that the salient provisions under the Aquino government’s Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) are unconstitutional. Voting 13-0-1, the SC justices declared the following acts...
Tumultuous disturbance
by Carlos Maningat, originally posted at Philippine Online Chronicles It was not the usual platitudes at the podium by the President, who seemed to be...
PCOS machines: the enigma of vertical lines and cramped warehouse (Part 2 of 2)
Continued from PCOS machines: the enigma of vertical lines and cramped warehouse (Part 1 of 2) by Carlos Maningat as originally posted at PCOS machines:...
PCOS machines: the enigma of vertical lines and cramped warehouse (Part 1 of 2)
By Jose Carlos Maningat , as originally posted at PCOS machines: the enigma of vertical lines and cramped warehouse (Part 1 of 2) Time is...
Open Data Philippines: Why it is dripping with pretensions
By Jose Carlos Maningat, Originally posted at Philippine Online Chronicles/Blog Watch – Open Data Philippines: Why it is dripping with pretensions Sans the hype and...
Post-Yolanda: Aquino’s disaster conspiracy with World Bank, ADB
by Carlos Maningat as originally posted at Post-Yolanda: Aquino’s disaster conspiracy with World Bank, ADB Filipinos will foot an even bigger foreign debt bill in the...
How citizens are tracking #YolandaPH foreign financial aid via #AidMonitorPH
By Carlos Maningat. Originally posted on Blog Watch In the wake of the super typhoon Yolanda’s onslaught that left many provinces in bleak state, staggering...
Pork barrel, by any other name, is anti-development
Jose Carlos Maningat It took a growing anti-pork barrel dissent for President Aquino to utter the “it is time to abolish the PDAF” spiel, only...
‘For what?’ Sotto won’t say sorry amid Kerry Kennedy’s plagiarism complaint
Senate Majority Floor Leader Vicente Sotto III remains firm against issuing an apology even as Kerry Kennedy, daughter of the late US senator Robert F....
The historic landmark signing of the Bangsamoro framework agreement
Originally posted by JC Maningat at POC Moro rebels sign peace framework with gov’t Leaders of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) signed on Monday a framework agreement with...
Black Tuesday protest march as netizens rallied at the Supreme Court #PIFAph #cybercrimelaw
by JC Maningat (Originally posted at Cybercrime law trends on Twitter worldwide, tops Reddit The controversial Philippine cybercrime law continued to make waves at the...
EXPOSED: Wrong PCOS count to hound 2013 polls! #juanvote
Unlike attention-hungry politicos who banner their faces in time for the 2013 elections, counting errors by Smartmatic’s precinct count optical scan (PCOS) machines cannot be...