Category: Politics

Will the next anti-Duterte rally be AWESOME enough for Millennials?

September 12, 2017 benign0 10 Comments

According to various sources, there will be (yet another) protest rally against the government of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte in the coming days. What are these rallyists going to protest? Duterte’s purported authoritarianism? Martial Law in Mindanao? “Killings” related to his “war on drugs”? So what else is new? This is, after all, the era…

Lifestyle, Politics

Those who hate fake news but tolerate Trillanes’s fake accusations are hypocrites

September 10, 2017 Ilda 8 Comments

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s critics, particularly members of the Liberal Party and their supporters, hate fake news. They even disseminate a list of web sites that they believe publish fake news. The list includes our very own blogsite proving that what they consider “fake” are publications that they do not agree with. They don’t seem…

Crime, Politics

The Philippine Opposition will not succeed against Duterte unless they change strategy

September 8, 2017September 8, 2017 benign0 20 Comments

The big question that should be asked of the Philippines’ Opposition is this: What alternative path do you propose? As far as can be observed, the Opposition, led by the Liberal Party, has failed to elevate its discourse above the state it had been in back in 2016 when it lost the Philippines to the…

Politics

Senator Antonio Trillanes’s psychopathic behaviour doesn’t belong in the Philippine Senate

September 6, 2017 Ilda 24 Comments

Senator Antonio Trillanes is exhibiting signs that he could be a psychopath. He doesn’t care about damaging the reputation of the Philippine Senate as long as he gets what he wants. Indeed, Trillanes has a long history of betrayal. In the past, the public witnessed how he used his privileges as a senator to persecute…

Crime, Politics

The Fastest Way to Change the Anti-People Yellowtard Constitution is through a Revolutionary Government

August 31, 2017 zaxx 18 Comments

The 1987 Yellowtard Constitution needs tweaking. No, it needs a major overhaul. Wrong again – it needs a total and complete replacement. So what’s wrong with the Yellowtard Constitution? Let’s just take this provision for example: ARTICLE VII (Executive Department) SECTION 2. No person may be elected President unless he is a natural-born citizen of…

Charter Change, Government, Politics

Reports of LP’s P2M deal with Kian delos Santos’s parents explode!

August 30, 2017 benign0 6 Comments

Reports that the Liberal Party (LP) had offered two million pesos to Saldy and Lorenza delos Santos, parents of murdered teenager Kian, to join protest rallies against Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte are making the rounds! There are even reports that the plan was hatched in the Aquino residence at Times Square Street in New Manila….

Politics

Democracy is not dead – only Ninoy and Cory Aquino are

August 29, 2017 FallenAngel 4 Comments

Every year in August, Filipinos are unfailingly reminded of the deaths of their “icons of democracy”, former president Corazon “Cory” Aquino, and her husband Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. It is generally accepted that Ninoy’s death paved the way for Cory to be president, and Cory’s death was how the son, Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino III…

Culture, Government, Politics

Meeting the parents: #JusticeForKian no longer lies with Duterte’s critics

August 29, 2017August 29, 2017 FallenAngel 4 Comments

The problem with how president Rodrigo Duterte’s critics have approached opposition to the anti-drug campaign is that they assert a few things that they have yet to prove a definitive causal link to: a) that the killings are state-sanctioned, and; b) that Duterte himself has encouraged impunity. So when the death of the young Kian…

Crime, Government, Politics