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...
Results: Pulse Asia Research’s June 2014 Nationwide Survey on Presidential Performance and Trust Ratings
While most Filipinos remain appreciative of President Aquino’s work (56%) and continue to express trust in him (53%), they grant him much lower national approval...
Ombudsman intervenes at Supreme Court for plunder raps vs. MWSS, Maynilad & Manila Water
Water for All Refund Movement, or WARM, received last Thursday a notice from the Supreme Court en banc granting the letter-request of the Office of...
Wishlist: What do you want to hear from President Aquino on DAP?
The Palace is taking the taxpayers for a ride on the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) bandwagon . I am not surprised that President Benigno S....
An open letter to Butch Abad
July 11, 2014 Dear Butch, Peace! I knew you then when we were young and idealistic college students. We both listened to Fr. Ferriols and...
DAP and the Culpable Violation of the Constitution
by Dean de la Paz as originally posted at DAP and the Culpable Violation of the Constitution After the declaration of unconstitutionality by the Supreme...
Day 1 : Partnerships for Disaster and Climate Resilience #resilientPH
Natural hazards – storms, floods, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, drought and landslides – occur regularly in the Philippines but disasters have increased in frequency and magnitude in recent...
Finding the Truth in the PDAF Scam: How untainted is Jinggoy?
By Megan Flores as originally posted at the Philippine Online Chronicles The whole nation has been watching the series of (unfortunate) events lately regarding the...
How is such thievery related to issues relevant to Nora Aunor?
By Dean de la Paz, as originally posted at My president is not a pig! Paraphrasing Nora Aunor’s famous cry from her award winning magnum...
Groups to file impeach raps vs. Aquino over DAP
by Emily Vital, as originally posted at Philippine Online Chronicles After the Supreme Court declared the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) as unconstitutional, progressive group Bagong...
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...
With all due respect
by Jego Ragragio as originally posted at Blog Watch, Philippine Online Chronicles. I had been struggling on a piece for the past week or so, unable...
Suit filed at the Presidential Electoral Tribunal : Jail Brillantes & his 5 Commissioners for contempt
This is press statement from the Movement against Graft and Abuse of Power “JAIL Commission on Elections (Comelec) Chairman Sixto Brillantes and his...
Youth group challenges President Aquino to a debate on pork barrel, corruption
“The police forced me to swallow the banner I was holding. It was about this big.”-Em Mijares “We demand trial by combat” This is what...