So much has been said about good faith as a valid defence to President Aquino’s illegal redistribution of government funds under the Disbursement Acceleration Program… 07/25/2014
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An Uncomplicated Mind
Good faith or arrogance?
What is Filipino?
A friend I met during the Pinoy Fiesta & Trade Show at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre last June 28 shared with me an interesting… 07/11/2014
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Trouble in the diaspora
By Joe Rivera A malicious and hideous blog that goes by the title of Blood Stained Singapore has become the bane of the Filipino diaspora… 06/27/2014
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Looking bad
Uncomplicated mind: By Joe Rivera As if allegations of being the mentor to the pork barrel queen are not enough to make him look… 06/13/2014
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Swindlers’ list
Everybody knows a swindler, a dishonest person who cheats by very clever means in order to obtain money, fame or other advantages through pretense or… 05/23/2014
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Basically slave labour
Oftentimes, news coming from the establishment is not really as encouraging as they sound or as good as they intend to be. Canada’s Citizenship and… 05/09/2014
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Inventing the enemy
Noted semiotician, philosopher, medievalist and author of The Prague Cemetery, The Name of the Rose and Foucault’s Pendulum, Umberto Eco once wrote: “When there is… 04/25/2014
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Negotiating in bad faith
In his novel, The Dogs of War (1974), Frederick Forsyth wrote about a group of mercenary soldiers hired to depose a fictional government in Africa.… 04/11/2014
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Watchdog reporting & gotcha journalism
The works of investigative journalists have enabled the porousness of today’s social media or the Internet in general in creating a virtually open source community.… 03/28/2014
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America’s duplicity
The current crisis in Ukraine, or more particularly in the Crimean peninsula, has become a conundrum that is both as old and as new as… 03/14/2014
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