Category: Politics

The Ateneo and La Salle administrations’ failure to protest human rights violations

October 4, 2016October 4, 2016 Ilda 28 Comments

Administrators of two elite Philippine schools seem to prove what some have been suspecting all along – that the teachers in the country are teaching students what to think instead of how to think. Before the first encounter between the Ateneo de Manila University (AdMU) and De La Salle University (DLSU) in this year’s UAAP…

Education, Politics

Hysterical Leila de Lima is not the right woman to represent women

October 3, 2016 Ilda 41 Comments

The ongoing war of words between Senator Leila De Lima and her political enemies headed by President Rodrigo Duterte has some feminist groups in the Philippines up in arms, labelling criticism against De Lima as misogynist and a form of sexual harassment. They are using the gender card in defending De Lima. As a female,…

Politics, Society

On the crybaby response of mainstream “journalists” to online trolls

September 30, 2016September 30, 2016 benign0 77 Comments

You’d think the way this cadre of “journalists” now “come together” to comfort one another “in a time of trolls” that trolling is such a new and unprecedented scourge in the business of online content production. “I still think that journalists who think themselves worth their profession should come together and look at this as…

Media, Politics

Only by crushing the Yellow disease will the Philippines’ deep wounds be healed

September 28, 2016 benign0 145 Comments

At no other time has the Philippines been as deeply-divided as it is today. A virtual civil war is being waged on the Net between the “Dutertards” and the “Yellowtards”. Because current President Rodrigo Duterte is from Mindanao — the first president from the Philippines’ deep south, no less — the battle lines between the…

Culture, Politics, Society

Aquino government’s failures made Philippine problems harder to fix

September 28, 2016September 28, 2016 Ilda 30 Comments

I was compelled to start blogging in 2009 about Philippine politics and culture after I read a report that former President Benigno Simeon Aquino III who was then still a Senator announced that he will be running for President in 2010. I found it extremely ridiculous that the reason why he decided to run was…

Crime, Politics, Society

Remembering Elias’s Legacy

September 26, 2016 Batangenyo 34 Comments

There’s one fact that we Filipinos cannot accept – we are being manufactured. We are being mass-produced by this elitist society and we are not aware of it. Why? Because we chose to ignore the rays of understanding that we could have if we took off the shadow of ignorance that conceals us from reality. Over…

Culture, Education, Government, Media, Politics, Society

Demonizing political enemies is a tradition of the Aquino gov’t that De Lima was a part of

September 24, 2016 benign0 21 Comments

After being ousted as chairman of the Senate Justice Committee, Leila De Lima is, predictably, playing the victim card, claiming that she no longer “feels safe”… De Lima said she was not confident whether Philippines security agencies would protect her. “Can I rely on the government and (Philippines National Police) for safety or (National Bureau…

Government, Politics

De Lima should learn from Arroyo how to suffer with quiet dignity when under fire

September 23, 2016 benign0 32 Comments

It’s beginning to emerge that there was a rivalry between gang leaders Herbert Colangco and Jaybee Sebastian within the New Bilibid Prison. It seems, in the midst of all that, Sebastian emerged as the one favoured for coddling by the Philippine Government during the administration of former President Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III. Senator Leila…

Crime, Government, Politics