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The 2025 global balance of power: 5 major players
by Josephus Jimenez - January 10, 2025 - 12:00am
The immediate future of the world and its 8.231 billion people depends on the strategic minds and decisions of only five people: US President Donald Trump, China's Xi Jinping, Russia's Vladimir Putin, whoever is...
Navigating our West Philippine Sea foreign policies
by Josephus Jimenez - January 9, 2025 - 12:00am
The year 2025, the Year of the Snake, presents to us tremendous opportunities to take charge of our own destiny. We should decide here and now to stop being bullied by China and also cease being dictated by the US...
The budget: a lethal weapon of political destruction
by Atty Josephus Jimenez - January 8, 2025 - 12:00am
Budgets can make or unmake the nation.
Why PhilHealth deserves a zero subsidy
by Josephus Jimenez - January 7, 2025 - 12:00am
PhilHealth itself is to blame for its zero subsidy in the national budget.
Prospects of an Asian, even a Filipino pope
by Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez - January 3, 2025 - 12:00am
The year may yet usher into the world earth-shaking news of Pope Francis, the 266th Supreme Pontiff resigning the seat of Peter, following the footsteps of his predecessor Pope Benedict XVI, due to declining health....
Outlook for 2025 geopolitics: global boom or gloom?
by Atty Josephus Jimenez - January 1, 2025 - 12:00am
The world will most likely navigate along the unknown waters of unpredictability in 2025 with three powerful men making disruptive decisions and taking risky actions, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and Xi Jinpin...
What an eventful 2024 for the Marcoses
by Atty Josephus Jimenez - December 31, 2024 - 12:00am
We bid farewell to 2024. This is the last day of the year which we should mark as the year that the Marcoses have gained so much legal and political mileage in the government and in our justice system.
Is today's world ready for the Messiah?
by Atty Josephus Jimenez - December 24, 2024 - 12:00am
Five years ago, my wife and I joined a religious pilgrimage to the Holy Land, and we did celebrate Christmas right there in the Church of the Nativity, in Bethlehem, which is currently under the control of the Palestinians,...
13 laws you may not know about 13th month pay
by Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez - December 23, 2024 - 12:00am
There are still employers and employees who are clueless about Presidential Decree No 851, the law mandating 13th month pay to all wage-earners or salaried personnel, whether daily-paid, wage-earner, or monthly paid...
The philosophy of giving Christmas gifts
by Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez - December 20, 2024 - 12:00am
My most favorite poet and philosopher, Kahlil Gibran, wrote an amazing piece, titled "On Giving" which I wish to share with you before Christmas Day.
Where does Christmas gift end and corruption begin?
by Josephus Jimenez - December 19, 2024 - 12:00am
If you are heads of agencies implementing the tax laws, tariffs and custom duties and your son or daughter gets married two days before Christmas, may you properly allow one of the ninongs to write a check of one...
Ayuda for the indolent from taxes of the overworked
by Atty Josephus Jimenez - December 18, 2024 - 12:00am
Since our tax system is regressive, rather than progressive, most taxpayers consider taxation as a burden, a penalty for working hard and earning more, while the lazy, the inept, the indolent, and the social parasites...
Corruption in the use of calamity funds
by Atty Josephus Jimenez - December 17, 2024 - 12:00am
It is Christmas time and we should all be talking about joyful things.
Rumors of another Senate coup
by Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez - December 16, 2024 - 12:00am
To be Senate president is to occupy the third-highest position in the Philippine government. My little birdie in the Senate and another in the Palace plus one more in the House confirmed there is real talk on ousting...
Democracy's tyranny of numbers
by Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez - December 12, 2024 - 12:00am
The problem with elections is that they make choices for the most popular and not for the most competent.
Till ?15.18 trillion debt do us part
by Atty Josephus Jimenez - December 11, 2024 - 12:00am
How can this nation grow if about one-third of its annual budget is allocated for payment of our external and domestic debt, both principal and compounded interests?
Forcibly ejecting Badjaos: unchristian and illegal
by Atty Josephus Jimenez - December 9, 2024 - 12:00am
It is the firm conviction of this column that the public officials who caused the ejection of the Badjaos against their consent committed a gross violation against the law of God and the law of man.
Sara’s “Slings and Arrows of Outrageous Fortune”
by Atty Josephus Jimenez - December 7, 2024 - 12:00am
As William Shakespeare wrote in Hamlet: "To be, or not to be, that is the question, Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,...
Impeachment based on betrayal of public trust
by Atty Josephus Jimenez - December 6, 2024 - 12:00am
The president has already thumbed down the possible impeachment of the vice president.
Malversation of public funds
by Josephus Jimenez - December 4, 2024 - 12:00am
Those subordinates of the vice president, who are deemed as accountable officers or special disbursing officers, and who turned over the millions they withdrew to another person, like the security officer, should...
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