Category: Crime

Why cadet Cudia’s case has played out on social media like an EDSA revolution

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Why cadet Cudia’s case has played out on social media like an EDSA revolution

I don’t pretend to know much about the nitty-gritty of military life. In fact, the closest I ever came to experiencing it involved being an officer in the Citizen’s Army Training (CAT) program in high school, and being a normal cadet in the Reserved Officers Training Corps (ROTC) program in college. If anyone cares to…

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Civics, Crime, Culture, Media, Society

Ban on access to porn over the Net in the Ph to start this month

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Ban on access to porn over the Net in the Ph to start this month

If things work according to plan, devices and networks accessing the Internet through Philippine Internet Service Providers (ISPs) will supposedly be porn-free this month. Yugatech.com reports this is a move initiated by the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) to comply with Republic Act 9775 or the “Anti-Child Pornography Act of 2009″… With the implementation of the…

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Crime, Tech Talk

What the case of PMA student Cudia says about Filipino society at large

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What the case of PMA student Cudia says about Filipino society at large

The case of dismissed Philippine Military Academy student Aldrin Cudia has lingered long enough among the chattering classes. When news of it first broke out, it seemed that Cudia was dismissed for being a few minutes late for a succeeding class. Eventually, it became known to the public that Cudia was found guilty of something…

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Crime, Culture, Lifestyle, Media, Society

Pnoy’s Anti-Corruption Campaign Is Really Ampaw

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Pnoy’s Anti-Corruption Campaign Is Really Ampaw

If I hadn’t read it in Manila Bulletin, I wouldn’t have believed President BS Aquino III himself had cautioned a couple of high school students not to pick an ampaw President in the 2016 elections.  In 2009, we were all but screaming the same thing and hoping against hope that people would not vote for Aquino,…

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Crime, Government

Kim Henares’s BIR tax cheat ad fiasco: All Filipino doctors need is an extra layer of skin

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Kim Henares’s BIR tax cheat ad fiasco: All Filipino doctors need is an extra layer of skin

Poor Kim Henares. The beleaguered Commissioner of the Philippines’ Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) is caught between a rock and a hard place — her ass is being kicked by President Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino III to bleed more legal revenue from the Filipino people. Trouble is, Filipino politicians derive illegal revenue from all that…

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Crime, Culture, Politics

Does the Eraserheads’ song ‘Spolarium’ tell of the rape of Pepsi Paloma?

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Does the Eraserheads’ song ‘Spolarium’ tell of the rape of Pepsi Paloma?

What is it about the words in the Eraserheads’ song “Spolarium” that continues to intrigue urban legend mongers? Speculation surrounding how the underlying meaning of its lyrics points to the sensational 1980s rape case that links Philippine Senator Vicente “Tito” Sotto to the alleged rape of 1980’s starlet Pepsi Paloma have finally made it to…

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Crime, Glitz and Glamour

Electioneering the 2016 Philippine presidential elections: will Filipinos continue the ‘bobotante’ tradition?

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Electioneering the 2016 Philippine presidential elections: will Filipinos continue the ‘bobotante’ tradition?

With just a little more than two years to go, electioneering for the 2016 Malacanang power grab is starting to get into the swing of things. As in the past, showbiz celebrities, unqualified politicans’ offspring, and dynasty heirs and heiresses persist as the banes of “activists” championing a more “intelligent” vote. As expected, the usual…

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Crime, Culture, Politics, Society

Zombie panic! When will Philippine Media own up to the routinely irresponsible journalism it feeds to Filipinos?

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Zombie panic! When will Philippine Media own up to the routinely irresponsible journalism it feeds to Filipinos?

The Philippine province of Pangasinan continues to reel from the aftermath of a fatal scoop propagated by giant media conglomerate ABS-CBN through its tele-tabloid Bandila. The “scoop” involved reports that victims of a “terrible flesh-eating disease” were found in Pangasinan and that the disease as “prophesied” would engulf the rest of the planet and cause…

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Crime, Media