QUESTION EVERYTHING Mong Palatino Bulatlat.com Last part of four series First part | 13 natural and man-made disasters of 2013 Second part | ‘We Should Legalize Everything’ and Other Shocking Sound Bites of 2013 Third part | ‘Wrecking Ball’ and other objects that made news in 2013 Despite the calamities that brought unprecedented devastation in…
Year: 2014
3 farmers shot at in Porac, Pampanga
At around 4 a.m., Jan. 12, father and son Noel and Reynold Tumali and Arman Pardino were on their way to the farm when they were shot at by suspected security guards and goons of Leonardo-Lachenal Holdings, Inc. (LHI), FL Property Management Corp. (FL PMC).
Activist couple nabbed
Joel Amonte, 56, and his wife, Gloria Pritargue Almonte, 52 , were forcibly taken from an apartment in Valenzuela City. By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – An ailing activist and his wife were arrested by state agents, at around 7 p.m. January 9. Joel Amonte, 56, and his wife, Gloria Pritargue Almonte, 52 ,…
Floods affect Caraga, Davao regions
Floods worsened in Davao region and Caraga region (Davao del Norte, Davao Oriental and Compostela Valley) since this weekend following days of continuous rains.
Yellow tape
By RAYMUND B. VILLANUEVA
Life in the electronic concentration camp: the many ways that you’re being tracked and controlled
[A security camera] doesn’t respond to complaint, threats, or insults. Instead, it just watches you in a forbidding manner. Today, the surveillance state is so deeply enmeshed in our data devices that we don’t even scream back because technology companies have convinced us that we need to be connected to them to be happy.
Inequality blurs global economic recovery
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star A tempered sense of euphoria, spurred by developments in the US economy (the world’s largest, with gross domestic product at $16.245 trillion), qualifies the assessment that the global economy’s growth would pick up in 2014 and “finally overcome its hangover” from the 2008 financial-economic…
Alarm bells for 2014
By Carol Pagaduan-Araullo Streetwise | BusinessWorld 2013 is past; 2014 is here. Ideally each New Year should be met with great enthusiasm, optimism and anticipation of good, if not better, things to come. Or so most of us can only hope. But the reality in this country is that injustice does not get righted nor…
Bunkhouse bunk
By LUIS V. TEODORO Vantage Point | BusinessWorld If the destruction wrought by typhoon Yolanda had a positive side, it was the opportunity it offered to rebuild the shattered communities of the Visayas into habitats that would not only provide poorer residents adequate shelter but also protect them from the calamities that regularly strike these…
Labor group seeks TRO on SSS premium hike
“Aquino is lying when he said the hike will result in greater benefits for members.”
International lawsuit vs Fukushima nuke makers, suppliers being readied
“Contaminated water [from the damaged nuclear power plant] goes back and forth into the Pacific Ocean – goes across to the Philippines, to the west side of America.”