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Latest hit on daytime TV here is the impeachment trial of the head of the Supreme Court.
lots of conspiracy theories but it's PNoy cracking down on corruption starting with the big shots instead of removing a few low level crooks and letting the big shots go.
On the other hand, one has to feel sorry for a good man who only did what everyone else did, and now is being targeted for his actions as a warning to others.
the good news: They aren't making a circus out of the trial.
an editorial in the pro business Manila Bulletin, notes that by televising the trial, the people will decide not matter what the Senate decides.
and this article suggests one of the problems in this country:
MANILA, Philippines — Five of the senator-judges in the impeachment trial of Chief Justice Renato Corona have fathers who presided over as judges in the trial of former President Joseph Estrada in 2000
maybe getting new blood from the middle class into the gov't will help...
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Senator McCain and others are here, in meetings about the Chinese threat to take over the Philippine Sea(aka south china sea).
Few in the US realize that McCain was one of those who helped normalize relations with VietNam in the early 1990's, after that country started reforms. And like the Philippines, VietNam has claims to most of the South China sea.
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