How soon is change coming to the Philippines? The recent chain of events revolving around Jun Lozada certainly has triggered not just a running scandal but possibilities and images that must be jolting the whole Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo government.
Can you surf the Net where you are? If not, someone must have told you by now that you, Romy Neri, Ben Abalos, Mike Arroyo and the ZTE-NBN scandal are all over YouTube these days. That’s 30 videos and counting.
THE testimony by Rodolfo “Jun” Lozada Jr. that former Comelec chairman Benjamin Abalos Jr. and the husband of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, first gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo.
It is now universally expected that the COP (Conference of Parties) 13 will produced a watered-down “Bali Roadmap” that reflects countries bending over backward again to seduce the United States to join a post-Kyoto multilateral process to bring down greenhouse gas emissions.
I was utterly shocked to see the photos of Filipino actress Ara Mina "hotting it up" with the ascetic ideologue Jose Maria Sison, whose writings I read while studying Asian politics at SOAS in London. I also am a keen student of Asia cinema, and I am familiar with the career of Ms Mina.
JOHN NERY - SOME JOURNALISTS are uneasy about surveys—in part because they involve numbers and in part because they are a competing source of influence. But there is no getting away from political polls; in a democracy, which depends on the consent of the governed, they are a necessity.
