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A fellow furparent across the street yelled “Animal abuse!” when I called my dog. My front gate’s latch failed, before I knew it my three-year-old everything-breed had bolted and crossed the street to my neighbor’s sari-sari store. “Dingaling!” I shouted. “Animal abuse!” my neighbor shot back, laughing. She petted my hairy Houdini’s narrow noggin, then…
Few people talk about how the stigmatization of addiction and the bloody Duterte drug war exacerbated the suffering of ten million Filipinos. It would be great if the arrest and detention of former President Rodrigo Duterte magically ended their daily struggles. But their misery continues. Duterte characterized drug users as violent beasts who ought to…
It has been more than 14 hours and many questions now surround the tragic deaths of Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) basketball players Rene Clert Baterbonia and Divine Adili. According to what appears to be an official statement issued by the ADMU in a post on social media platform X shortly after the incident, the…
Who is winning the high-stakes Public Relations (PR) War that determines which of the Philippines’ big feudal clans will bag control of the Philippine government and, following that, access to all the multi-billion peso goodies that can be scraped off the Philippine economy over the next few years? Will it be the Marcostards? Will it…
According to the moral framework of woke and leftist people, the “oppressed” are never guilty of any crime. Guilt is fixed on the “oppressors” and their descendants and is based on race and even one’s position in the economic order. This is in stark contrast to the Judeo-Christian tradition where rape and murder, for example,…
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As if the bad reputation copped by the Philippines for its world-renowned institutionalised corruption weren’t enough, the country has also been flagged as one of a number of countries “considered havens for ‘Islamist terrorist ideologies’.” Reports of “leaked” policy papers formulated under the office of former Australian Liberal Party leader Sussan Ley “would have planned…
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Filipino “journalist” Frenchie Mae Cumpio was recently handed a guilty verdict by a Philippine court on charges of terrorist financing. As expected, a who’s-who of communist sympathisers and “press freedom groups” are now up in arms over the outcome crying bloody “travesty of justice”. On cue, a multitude of mainstream media organisations focus their “reports”…
Not a day goes by without the latest news reported by “journalists” or opinion pieces issued by the Philippines’ “thought leaders” on the on-going corruption “issue” (more like the latest outrage fad) gripping the nation sailing up our screens. Most people simply scroll past these headlines according them no more than an occasional eye-roll. Names…