Category: Government

@TIME exaggerates De Lima’s “heroism”, paints the Philippines as lawless under Duterte

April 22, 2017 Ilda 22 Comments

As someone who still pays for a weekly subscription, I’m very disappointed at TIME Magazine editors. I just realised that after all these years reading about and admiring people featured on their annual 100 most influential list, it turns out that some on the list include people whose achievements were simply romanticised, exaggerated or completely…

Crime, Government, Politics

Banana Workers Should Thank Cathy Binag For TADECO’s Now Uncertain Future

April 10, 2017 P. Farol 4 Comments

According to the ANFLOCOR website, “the Tagum Agricultural Development Company (TADECO) is one of the highest yielding banana plantations in the world, is engaged in the production and export of fresh Cavendish bananas to Japan, Hong Kong, China, Korea, Middle East, Russia, Malaysia and Singapore under the Del Monte Brand name. It is the flagship…

Crime, Government

The Crass Moralism of The Silent No More Facebook Page

April 7, 2017April 7, 2017 P. Farol 24 Comments

Silent No More is one of those Facebook pages that crosses my timeline now and then, largely because some of my friends belong to the yellow political spectrum or have business with some of its high priests. Among Silent No More’s recent posts, one that made me cringe a bit was one that shamed Elenita…

Government, Politics

I Will Make Like A Hockey Player And Get The Puck Out Of Here

April 1, 2017April 1, 2019 Gogs 18 Comments

This is the end Beautiful friend This is the end My only friend, the end Of our elaborate plans, the end Of everything that stands, the end No safety or surprise, the end I’ll never look into your eyes…again The Doors. I am so done with GRP . Today I am…

Government, Politics

URGENT memo to the Duterte Government: Get your communications machine in shape!

March 29, 2017 benign0 16 Comments

Still, there is no substitute for good communications and intelligent messaging. This is, after all, the information age — a time when the best-intentioned initiatives can crumble under the weight of a single ill-timed or ill-thought-out pitch to the public and the most vile ideas can be delivered in a neat pastel-coloured package and propagated…

Government, Media

Leni Robredo epitomises the deep impoverishment of Philippine society

March 23, 2017 benign0 10 Comments

You made your bed. Now you have to lie on it. This is the underlying principle that guides whether or not “vice president” Leni Robredo was right to get onto the world stage to shriek about the “horrors” of the “extrajudicial killings” (EJKs) going on in the Philippines. The EJKs (whatever way it is defined)…

Culture, Government, Society

Outrage over Leni Robredo’s bimbo antics offer opportunities that require clear minds to exploit

March 20, 2017 benign0 3 Comments

Filipinos are up in arms following “vice president” Leni Robredo’s monumental gaffe of a video to the United Nations in which she painted the Philippines as a failed state and made statements just short of inviting foreign agents to intervene in her country’s domestic affairs. Indeed, for a purported “vice president” to suggest that her…

Government, Politics

VP Leni Robredo’s statements against the Duterte government are treacherous

March 17, 2017 Ilda 22 Comments

Is current Philippine Vice President Leni Robredo one of the dumbest politicians in the Philippines today? With her recent actions, it seems like it. Robredo has decided to go on a full head-on collision course against her President Rodrigo Duterte – someone she is supposed to serve as part of her mandate. In a pre-recorded…

Government, Politics