Month: February 2020

IBON Foundation “red-tagging” complaint will fly only if they can CATEGORICALLY DENY links to the Communist Party

February 10, 2020 benign0 2 Comments

News has now gotten around that communist front IBON Foundation filed an administrative complaint against Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Undersecretary Lorraine Badoy among others. IBON Foundation reportedly claim that Badoy engaged in “red tagging”. Presumably, the complaint draws partly from a video showing Badoy allegedly “hijacking” the agenda of a talk show that included…

Politics, Society

Stopping ABS-CBN’s Franchise Renewal By Hook and By Crook

February 10, 2020February 10, 2020 P. Farol 4 Comments

This morning Solicitor General Jose Calida filed a quo warranto petition at the Supreme Court to nullify the franchises of ABS-CBN and ABS-CBN Convergence, Inc “as they are unlawfully exercising their legislative franchises.” It would look like the final nail in the coffin of ABS-CBN’s franchise renewal. That is if we consider that a number of…

Government, Media, Politics

How Filipinos can fix their broken “democracy”

February 8, 2020 benign0 4 Comments

Perhaps rightly so, Opposition partisans in the Philippines lament the way “democracy” is working for them nowadays. They lost an entire nation in the 2016 elections that catapulted former Davao City mayor Rodrigo Duterte to the presidency today and botched a chance to gain a foothold into Congress when they suffered a catastrophic loss in…

Media, Politics, Religion

DICT Usec. Eliseo Rio’s Wounded Pride Used as Fodder by the Lame #OustDuterte Movement??

February 6, 2020 P. Farol 9 Comments

The resignation of Department of Information and Communications Undersecretary Eliseo Rio Jr. was literally a log in the dark as far as I am concerned. I was alerted to it by the calls and chat messages from my consultant friends in various government agencies and political offices. Questions like “What the hell is Rio’s resignation…

Government, Politics

Nobel + Corona + Virus: The best way to remember PNoy’s twisted legacy

February 6, 2020 zaxx 2 Comments

January 25 is a day that’s indelibly seared like that by a branding iron into the brain of former President Noynoy/Pnoy Aquino. It was the special day of his mother Cory (born on Jan 25, 1933) who then passed away at just the right moment in time for him to be catapulted via Yellow necro-political…

Government, Politics

Speaker Cayetano Holds Hostage the Livelihood of Thousands of ABS-CBN Employees

February 5, 2020February 5, 2020 P. Farol 5 Comments

One of the House Speaker’s duties is to make sure that important political and economic legislation is passed in an efficient and timely matter. House Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano prides himself for having passed the 2020 budget in record time but not without detractors alleging that he had favored allies with hundreds of millions. Fellow…

Media, Politics

The Yellow-led Philippine Opposition are missing many opportunities to LEAD Filipinos

February 3, 2020 benign0 2 Comments

Small wonder that they continue to look so lost and broken. Rather than lead, the Philippine Opposition in its current form today merely react. One can easily observe just how disturbingly reactive the Opposition are — turning their attention from one thing to another depending on what is “trending”. This sort of behaviour all the…

Politics

The Fallacy of “Special Problems”

February 1, 2020 ChinoF 6 Comments

The wokes tend to see certain social problems as “special problems.” It’s based on the idea that certain problems deserve more attention than others. For example, poverty in a slum town in a South American country, or hunger in a certain part of Africa. Or, as some woke Filipinos desire, many people in this country…

Civics, Culture