WATCH: A glimpse at the coronavirus pandemic messaging of Lee Hsien Loong, Jacinda Ardern, and Erna Solberg – prime ministers of Singapore, New Zealand, and Norway – and how their approaches are communicated differently from President Duterte's.
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Tomorrow October 16 , Wednesday is one sad day for every Filipino.
Walang silbi mga @DOHgovph@dofgovph and @teamphilhealth leaders natin.
Php 30 billion Philhealth funds will be transferred to the National Treasury for unprogrammed appropriations.
This 3 rd tranche will drain @teamphilhealth funds to deprive many poor Filipinos access to better healthcare. ✊🔥🇵🇭
Gising Pilipinas !
'POGO QUEENS' INCLUDED IN ADMINISTRATION'S 2025 SENATORIAL SLATE
Reelectionist Senators Pia Cayetano and Imee Marcos, authors of RA 11590—the law that legitimizes POGO operations—have been included in the administration's 12 prospective senatorial candidates for #Halalan2025.
JUST IN: Former Education Usec. Gloria Jumamil Mercado claims that VP Sara Duterte’s chief-of-staff asked her to resign after she raised several concerns regarding the procurement for the agency’s computerization program.
Mercado made the revelations at the hearing of the House of Representatives’ committee on good government and public accountability on Wednesday, saying that Duterte's chief-of-staff, Usec. Zuleika Lopez as the person who asked her to resign.
Mercado said this request from Lopez came after she opposed suggestions from former Education Assistant Secretary Reynold Munsayac that bidders in the computerization program should just “discuss among themselves” the fate of the bidding.
Mercado also claimed to have received envelopes - a total of nine - containing cash while she was at DepEd. She said she did not open these, but learned upon her leaving the office that it contained P50,000 cash.
Mercado: Between February of 2023 to September 2023, I received a total of nine envelopes labeled HOPE (head of procuring entity), my current position at DepEd during that time.
Mercado: These envelopes were handed to me mostly by Assistant Secretary, Sunshine M. Fajarda, which she says came directly from Vice President Duterte.
Mercado: What she would typically say, as she hands the envelope, it would appear that I received this envelope by virtue of my office as hope. Atty. Fajarda is the wife of Edward Fajarda, who is the Special Disbursement Officer. | @GabrielLaluINQ
Today's #FleaMarketOfIdeas by Joel Ruiz Butuyan (Feb. 8, 2024).
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Monsod: On the contrary I submit that the problem is not the Constitution but because we have not fully implemented it, especially its provisions on social justice and local autonomy.
Did economic prosperity stop because of the 1987 Constitution and EDSA People Power?
Economist @jcpunongbayan and Kevin Mandrilla pointed out PH economy was so bad under Marcos, Sr. regime that the concept of "golden age" is a "big, fat lie."
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Until recently, @CraigMokhiber was a top U.N. official working on human rights. He just left his post with a scathing resignation letter blasting U.N. and Western complicity in Israeli abuses.
Mokhiber joins Democracy Now! to talk about the current war in Gaza and more.
Humanitarian ceasefire now! Protect ALL civilians, especially children. Repatriate & shelter all overseas Fils in Gaza. “Side with the child over the gun”
Ang proposal ng Malacañang for 2024 ay ZERO budget for PGH capital outlay (new buildings, facilities, etc) kasi kulang daw ang pera -- pero may nahanap namang pondo para sa confidential fund. Make it make sense!
On VP's latest remarks to defend confidential funds:
1. Di totoong public servant ang mga opisyal kapag tinuturing nilang kalaban ang kababayang nagtatanong kung paano ginamit ang pera ng bayan.
2. "Nat'l security" and "whole-of-nation" are now smokescreens for corruption.
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