Category: Government

When Anne Curtis-Smith asks “What’s the plan?” EVERYONE pays attention.

April 5, 2021 benign0 23 Comments

Filipinos have been on edge lately as the daily average number of confirmed COVID-19 infections has been breaching 10,000 the last several days. With hospitals bursting at the seams and lockdowns over the foreseeable future casting a grim pall over people’s lifestyles and livelihoods, people are looking for comfort and answers. Popular Australia-born starlet Anne…

Glitz and Glamour, Government

The Philippine Opposition need to find a SMARTER way of using COVID-19 as an election-winning “issue”

March 22, 2021March 29, 2021 benign0 8 Comments

Following the colossal collapse of their first opening campaign salvo, the ill-fated “1Sambayan” initiative, Filipinos are still holding their breath waiting for the Philippine Opposition’s next major brainwave. So far all we get is the usual noise — the same shrill whining over how the Philippines is coping with the 12-month-old COVID-19 pandemic. That “crisis”…

Government, Politics

Why the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in the Philippines is like a typical Manila rush hour experience

March 1, 2021January 4, 2022 benign0 2 Comments

Watching how the COVID-19 vaccine comes available to the Filipino public in recent days reminds me of the state of public transport in the Philippines. The service is inconsistent and unpredictable — all madness and very little semblance of method. Like the variety of buses, jeepneys, and all sorts of mechanical contraptions that clunk along…

Culture, Government, Society

The Philippines is right not to join international condemnation of the Myanmar coup d’etat

February 14, 2021February 14, 2021 benign0 10 Comments

Why should the Philippines join the international community to condemn the coup d’etat that ousted the “democratic” government of Myanmar and established military rule there? Leading the condemnation, after all, is none other than the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) which, need we remind ourselves, itself has been unfair in its treatment of the…

Government, Politics

SIT DOWN! Leni Robredo’s DISHONEST response to Duterte’s opinion about female national leaders

January 18, 2021 benign0 32 Comments

So what if Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte thinks women don’t make good presidents? Well, at least we now all know what Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte really thinks. That’s way better than all those wokes out there who habitually signal the virtuousness of their “inclusive” pretensions but are less than virtuous — and far more exclusive…

Government

Trump ouster highlights just how ARBITRARY the enormous power of Twitter is

January 12, 2021 benign0 2 Comments

An unintended consequence of the “permanent suspension” of US President Donald Trump’s account on Twitter is how the awesome power of Big Corporate Social Media — that can so arbitrarily be wielded — has been laid bare for all to behold. It has now come to light that Twitter and the rest of the Silicon…

Government, Society, Tech Talk

Twitter is now officially more powerful than the US Government

January 9, 2021 benign0 3 Comments

Hats off to Big Corporate Social Media. They first started out as little websites where people could “share” stuff and engage in “social networking”. Then they started to call themselves “platforms” and rightly so as such was to become their reach, ubiquity, and deep embedding into the fabric of society that people could be forgiven…

Government, Politics, Tech Talk

Leni Robredo’s dishonesty and grandstanding during disasters is turning Filipino voters off

November 20, 2020 Ilda 2 Comments

Current Vice President Leni Robredo is a dishonest person. That needs to be emphasized as a community service. The public needs to know that she has been the bane of Philippine society since she started her stint as the second in the presidential line of succession or a spare tire if we are to be…

Government, Politics