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Continue reading →: NBA finals: Why the Lakers will win
Maiba muna. It’s June and it’s that time of the year when basketball afficionados are afflicted with the fever of the National Basketball Association (NBA) championship series. After it became clear that a Lakers-Celtics rematch will not materialize, many hoped for a Kobe-LeBron showdown. But that dream matchup between two…
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Continue reading →: Railroading HR 1109, Con-ass: a scandal far worse than Hayden’s sex videos
A scandal as sensational as Hayden Kho’s sex videos was how Rep. Raymond Palatino of Kabataan partylist described what happened last night at the Batasan where Speaker Prospero Nograles and other Palaka congressmen, with marching orders from GMA, railroaded House Resolution 1109. But without any intention to downplay or trivialize…
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Continue reading →: Notes on the first quarter GDP growth: Spinning a good news from bad economic data
Last Thursday (May 28), the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) released the first quarter 2009 National Accounts. The report said that the gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 0.4%, a significant deceleration from its 3.9% growth during the same period last year. To be fair, NSCB Secretary General Romulo Virola…
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Continue reading →: Evicted farmers will be back at the Batasan gate, undaunted, more determined
On Friday (May 22) afternoon, members of the House of Representatives’ (HoR) Special Action Force (SAF) and the Philippine National Police (PNP) violently demolished the temporary structures set up by farmers camping out of the HoR. The farmers were on the 40th day of the campout, which they set up…
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Continue reading →: Why Arroyo’s P330-billion ‘stimulus’ package will not solve joblessness (Part 2)
Originally published in Bulatlat.com Part 2 of a two-part series (See Part 1) As Filipino workers marked Labor Day last May 1, about 400 from their ranks are being displaced daily as fallout of the global economic crisis. By the Department of Labor and Employment’s (DoLE) own reckoning, the global…
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