Category: Politics

It’s time Duterte’s supporters grow up and stop referring to him as ‘Tatay’

July 1, 2017July 1, 2017 benign0 10 Comments

During the term of former President Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III, we criticised his government and his followers as being perpetually in campaign mode all throughout his term of office. His Yellow Camp would incessantly grandstand about his and his clan’s goodness and prayerfulness and every speaking engagement was seized as an opportunity to remind…

Politics, Society

Leni Robredo should redeem Trillanes’s dignity after it was crushed by the BBC’s #HARDtalk

June 26, 2017 benign0 5 Comments

Philippine “senator” Antonio Trillanes’s epic choke during an interview with Stephen Sackur in the BBC’s HARDtalk programme last week all but highlighted the sad disarray of the Philippine Opposition. Indeed, last week was a perfect storm as it saw the coming together of insight into just how inutile the Philippine Opposition of today has become….

Media, Politics

Trillanes TV meltdown a fatal blow to the credibility of the Philippine Opposition

June 23, 2017 benign0 14 Comments

Following the “burning” of Philippine “senator” Antonio Trillanes IV on live TV in the BBC talk show HARDtalk, attention now turns to a beleaguered Opposition faced with the hard question: What now? Trillanes, after all, had been one of if not the most aggressive of the Philippine Opposition’s attack dogs. Now reduced to a national…

Media, Politics

BBC journo Stephen Sackur exposes idiocy of “senator” Antonio Trillanes on live TV!

June 22, 2017 benign0 4 Comments

Journalist Stephen Sackur shows the rest of the world’s “journalists” how it’s done on his BBC talk show HARDtalk where he put Philippine “senator” Antonio Trillanes IV through the wringer. Trillanes is one of the harshest critics of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and, by far, the most rabid — like a dog with a bone…

Government, Media, Politics

Duterte critics who wish him dead have no respect for human rights

June 17, 2017 Ilda 10 Comments

Members of the Philippine Liberal Party and their supporters are feeling a sense of schadenfreude lately. They delight in the thought that President Rodrigo Duterte could be sick. Some of them even claim that he is in a coma. Apparently, someone has been spreading the rumor that he is in a coma. This was after Duterte decided…

Culture, Politics

Criticising Duterte for skipping Independence Day rites is futile: Ph is not truly independent!

June 14, 2017June 14, 2017 Ilda 13 Comments

Current Philippine Vice President Leni Robredo’s public relations team or, shall we say, propaganda machine is working overtime. They found an opportunity to try and put her image in a good light after President Rodrigo Duterte decided to skip the 119th commemoration of Philippine Independence Day. Photos of her in salute pose during the recent ceremony…

Government, Politics

The Philippine Liberal Party, its allies and its supporters are the real enemies of the Filipino people

June 8, 2017 Ilda 14 Comments

Some of us have always thought that Filipinos in general are both gullible and pushovers. This notion lends itself to the fact that Filipinos have been sidelined by their neighbours in South East Asia – people who started out with countries as backward as the Philippines. But the belief all Filipinos are slow is not…

Politics

Philippine society cannot change unless Filipinos change the way they think

June 6, 2017 benign0 8 Comments

Recent events have once again proven how important information is. Now an overused cliché, it is still worth reminding, in this age of the Internet and social media, how fast information can spread. While the human mind is wired to respond quickly to stories, it is not particularly well-equipped to evaluate data outside of an…

Culture, Development, Media, Politics