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Talk to the pundits and commentators and hear their lamentations over the sluggish fourth quarter GDP growth figures of last year. Talk to the investment analysts and you hear a very different story.

Having used up much column space last year predicting an inevitable slowdown of the growth rate, and seeing it materialize, I find [...]

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I urge you reading this, let us ask President Aquino to veto the National Cybercrime Bill, and ask him to send it back to Congress that they may rewrite this bill to make it equal, fair, and more importantly, Just.

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You be the judge

On January 30, 2012 By

Let’s see if retired Associated Justice Serafin Cuevas, the lead defense counsel of impeached Chief Justice Renato Corona, can slither out of this one.

The Philippine Daily Inquirer reported Cuevas claiming that Malacanan was pressuring him to quit as Corona’s lawyer. He said he was being harrassed by the BIR and that an [...]

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Obama’s war on Outsourcing is first about getting elected. It is about brining jobs to his voters– which is his job. It is about American confidence, and resiliency. It is about screwing with the Chinese, but mostly it is about America.

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The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits – Albert Einstein

Before yesterday’s hearing, I thought I had the defense strategy figured out: Tie the hands of the prosecution; block the submission of evidence by raising legal technicalities; confuse the public with legal gobbledygook; and distract everybody with the hairdo of [...]

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Scratch our backs…

On January 24, 2012 By

Edcel Lagman was replaced by Danilo Suarez as minority leader in the House. Lagman was understandably pissed. He resigned from the Lakas-Kampi party which he chaired.

“I cannot continue to associate politically with some opposition members who are closely linked and beholden to the former President so much so that they succumb to [...]

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The Philippines it seems is engulfed in all things Hollywood at the moment. With the filming of the Bourne Legacy taking place in Manila filling the nightly news with human interest stories surrounding both actors and extras, another “courtroom drama” was unfolding in the Senate with the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona.

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In its latest release of The World by 2050 report this month, HSBC elevated the prospects for the Philippines projecting it would be the 16th largest economy by mid-century. This is in stark contrast to where the country was positioned last year, outside the top 40, a remarkable leap in the space of a year. [...]

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The Day LOLcats died

On January 19, 2012 By

SOPA / PIPA protest song.

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