Archives for: October 2010
Vice-President Binay, Speaking Without Thinking?

Vice-President Jojo Binay is receiving lots of criticisms after he virtually exonerated the Bar Exams Blast suspect after it turned himself to authorities through the facilitation of the Vice-President and former justice secretary Bello.
The suspect is Anthony Nepomuceno who is being tagged by the National Bureau of Investigation as the person who was identified by witnesses that threw a hand [...]

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LimeWire Shut Down By US Federal Court

One of the popular online sharing services today received a very bad news from the United States Federal Court after the music industry that filed suit due to copyright infringement won the case five months ago.
LimeWire was ordered by the court to shut down its online service after the US judge ruled to favor the case filed by 13 music [...]

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Paul the Octopus Dies World Cup 2010 Sage Found Dead in His Tank

The famous octopus who has taken the center stage during the 2010 World Cup for predicting the results of different matches perfectly has already died.
Paul the Octopus was found dead on his tank at the SeaLife Aquarium in Oberhausen, Germany.  Paul is 2 and half years old.
Paul on predicting the results of World Cup games in particular the games with [...]

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Another Plagiarism Case of Associate Justice del Castillo on the Ang Ladlad Case

Associate Justice Mariano del Castillo has been most recently one of the most controversial Supreme Court justice due accusations of plagiarism on the majority decision he penned on the Vinuya et al vs. Executive Secretary for which a purported 22 parts of the decision were directly lifted from foreign sources without attribution.
The issue spurred academic and legal discussions with the [...]

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SSS Housing Loans Applications, Requirements and Inquiries

The SSS or Social Security System offers a housing loan program to all its members.  Most recently, this housing loan program has been expanded to cover the ever-growing number of our OFWs or Overseas Filipino Workers.
This program aims to assist our OFWs to have their own homes through an easier paying scheme and to keep up to the mandate of [...]

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Latest Philippine Weather News Updates – Typhoon Katring

Latest Philippine Weathers News Updates: Just after the Philippines has been devastated by Super Typhoon Juan, it is expecting another typhoon to enter its territory early next week.
The purported new typhoon will named “Katring” and is brewing in the Marianas Islands down the Pacific and with its direction going up, it may hit the northern part of the country [...]

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Legalizing Plagiarism and Judicial Vengeance

After the majority of the Supreme Court Justices absolved their colleague Associate Justice Mariano C. Del Castillo for plagiarism as regards to the majority decision he penned on the Vinuya et al vs. Executive Secretary case involving the Filipina comfort women asking the Japanese government for compensation, the highest court of the land is committing another grave mistake of asking [...]

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Biggest Losers on Strong Peso Against Dollars Include Bloggers

The past couple of months, we have seen the strengthening of the peso currency against the US dollars and this makes some sectors frown.  From the 45-46 peso per dollar, it has now spiraled down to the 43 level.
Some of the sectors hit by this strengthening of the Philippine peso against the US dollar are the exporters, the OFWs and [...]

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Palace Review of IIRC Report Sucks!

The review made by the Palace legal people and approved by President Aquino on the Incident Investigation and Review Committee (IIRC) Report on the Manila Hostage Crisis makes some people scratch their heads.  What has happened to all the recommendations?  Well, most of them were downgraded from spanking to simply verbal reminders.
I personally am very much disappointed with what President [...]

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President Aquino Gives Amnesty to Sen. Trillanes and Other Mutineers (Full Text)

President Aquino announced today that he had signed the amnesty to all mutineers that had participated in a coup against the administration of Gloria Arroyo in a move to usher in unity and reconciliation.   This amnesty will include Sen. Trillanes who is detained and had not since performed his official duty in the Senate.
The said amnesty was forwarded to [...]

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