Month: February 2019

The Philippine Government should shut down Facebook and make Maria Ressa happy

February 12, 2019February 12, 2019 benign0 15 Comments

If we take the time to sift through what some personalities in the “journalism” and corporate “news” media communities have been screeching about, it would seem that Facebook is increasingly regarded as the source of all forms of misinformation nowadays. Indeed, in the Philippine setting, nowhere is this idea more aggressively promoted than in the…

Media, Tech Talk

Filipinos led by Leni Robredo flirt with inciting racial hatred for ethnic Chinese foreigners

February 11, 2019 benign0 13 Comments

Filipinos who are demonising a Chinese national who threw a cup of taho (a sweetened beancurd snack) at a police officer the other day are flirting with the dangerous possibility of inciting racial tensions with ethnic Chinese foreigners residing in the Philippines. Jiale Zhang is currently facing charges of “direct assault” against a police officer…

Politics, Society

Should South Korea grant Filipinos visa-free entry?

February 10, 2019 zaxx 7 Comments

One of the biggest hurdles for Philippine passport holders is the enormous hassle of entry visa applications. Producing PSA certificates, bank statements, income tax returns, properly filled-up forms, ID pictures… what a waste of precious time on mostly unnecessary red tape! Fortunately, the winds of change are beginning to blow on this Pacific-facing vessel holding…

Culture

“Activist” noise surrounding this “measles epidemic” should be taken with a grain of salt

February 8, 2019February 8, 2019 benign0 7 Comments

People should get a grip over this recent measles “outbreak”. Partisan camps and social media “influencers” have been polarised between just two camps — (1) the Department of Health (DOH) headed by Sec. Francisco Duque who have been asserting that “low vaccine coverage because of the Dengvaxia scare” is behind this outbreak and (2) the…

Society

Whatever Bong Go is doing, it seems to be working

February 6, 2019 benign0 14 Comments

Surveys are showing that senatorial candidate Bong Go is ramping up as a force to reckon with in the race for a seat in the Philippine Senate in this year’s elections. Widely-derided as epal (grandstanding) and “well-funded” in Opposition circles, Go is delivering the goods as far as gaining traction in the collective consciousness of…

Politics, Tech Talk

A new and deeper-affecting REVOLUTION is happening in the Philippines!

February 5, 2019February 5, 2019 benign0 10 Comments

A revolution of a different sort is at hand in the Philippines and it has the potential to effect the truly profound sort of change that is long overdue. The recent successful clean-up of Boracay and Manila Bay has created a new collective consciousness in the Filipino — one that has eluded an entire people…

Civics, Culture, Society

Rappler and Opposition “bloggers” lead the way in MISINFORMING the Filipino people!

February 4, 2019February 4, 2019 benign0 2 Comments

Like most activist concepts that had began their lives as noble pursuits, the notion of “media freedom” had been perverted beyond all recognition by the Philippines’ snowflake activists. Worse, in the hands of downright dishonest and political agenda-laden “thought leaders” of the Philippine Opposition, the concept has since suffered a death spiral in relevance. For…

Media, Politics, Society

A Childless Single’s View about Parenting and Family

February 3, 2019February 3, 2019 ChinoF 24 Comments

The recent issue over lowering the age of criminal responsibility got from Webmaster Benign0 his usual good form of an answer – be better parents. This goes with another intention by president Duterte himself, that he wants to make the parents responsible for their children’s criminal actions. They say you shouldn’t always blame the parents;…

Civics, Culture