Articles by JC Maningat

August 25, 2014 0

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 pork barrel system, a year after the mammoth “Million [read more]

July 15, 2014 0

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 Program (DAP) replete with [read more]

July 3, 2014 0

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 Stage 4 lung cancer. [read more]

July 2, 2014 0

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 [read more]

June 17, 2014 0

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 caught off guard during his Independence Day [read more]

March 23, 2014 0

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: the enigma of vertical lines and cramped [read more]

March 10, 2014 0

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 running out for the Commission on Elections (Comelec) as it [read more]

January 25, 2014 0

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 thrill that [read more]

January 1, 2014 0

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 coming years as some [read more]

November 14, 2013 0

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 amounts worth of financial aid for [read more]

August 24, 2013 0

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 to propose reforms in the system seconds after. The [read more]

November 12, 2012 0

‘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. Kennedy (RFK), has confirmed that she wrote a [read more]

October 15, 2012 0

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 the [read more]

October 2, 2012 0

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 global scene on Tuesday as it [read more]

September 19, 2012 1

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 seen at once. To [read more]

September 5, 2012 0

Did Sotto copy again? Netizens point out translation of Kennedy speech

by Jose Carlos Maningat Originally posted at Sotto copied again? Netizens point out translation of Kennedy speech It seems that Senate Majority Leader Vicente Sotto III did it again. Netizens [read more]

March 12, 2012 0

Did HLI rehash Sereno’s dissent in its motion on Luisita ruling? (part 2)

by JC Maningat Continued from Did HLI rehash Sereno’s dissent in its motion on Luisita ruling? Part 1 Not only did the Luisita landlords urge the high court to grant their motion for P10-billion [read more]

March 2, 2012 0

Did HLI rehash Sereno’s dissent in its motion on Luisita ruling? (Part 1)

by JC Maningat Much has been left unsaid on the sinister attempt of the President’s relatives to overturn the Supreme Court’s ruling ordering the distribution of Hacienda Luisita. The [read more]