I have spent about 30 minutes trying to find a video of Miriam Defensor Santiago’s interview where she promised to have herself shot if something happened. Then there is another video interviewing her after and she saying I lied afterwards laughing maniacally.
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\nThen there are the gaffes of senators and lawmakers about one issue and another.
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\nThere are the swipes of cabinet officials against other people.
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\nThere are the tantrums thrown by Presidents and other public officials.
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\nThere are more importantly the public policy speeches of government officials\/politicians\/ other actors of the political sphere.
\nThe FactCheck.org Philippines is a step towards the Philippines that is uses facts to make decisions. It is a step towards true democracy, not one dominated by the so called bobotante.
\nIf we cannot even take note\/archive\/make use of things in the public domain what gives us any chance of using the voluminous data that an FOI bill will produce.
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\nThe FOI bill must also have a component for keeping into record and transcribing and exposing via the internet all the speeches, interviews, videos produced in local television. This is one of the way that we can make the FOI bill more useful.
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I have spent about 30 minutes trying to find a video of Miriam Defensor Santiago’s interview where she promised to have herself shot if something happened. Then there is another video interviewing her after and she saying I lied afterwards laughing maniacally. Then there are the gaffes of senators and lawmakers about one issue … <\/p>\n