Category: Politics

How the media management regime of the Aquino Government mirrors that of Nazi Germany

September 2, 2012January 16, 2019 benign0 91 Comments

Go figure. Certain media outlets like Rappler.com, and its cadre of “online journalists”, for example, seem to have first crack at “reporting” stories about administration “achievements”. The biggest media conglomerate in the country, biggest broadsheet and online news site, and the most popular mass entertainers all seem to exhibit a palpable bias towards the Yellow…

Government, Media, Politics

Sotto’s plagiarism begets a blogging bill

August 30, 2012 a 75 Comments

Picture yourself as an average kid catching your younger sibling being a douche. You see him doing the typical mischief kids do in their worse days; throwing massive tantrums, stealing toys from other children, hitting people for no apparent reason, stuff like that. Being the good kid that you are, you beckon to your brother…

Government, Politics

Tito Sotto’s plagiarism: Is it really that important in the scheme of things?

August 29, 2012August 29, 2012 benign0 104 Comments

With regard to this whole circus over plagiarism allegedly perpetrated by Philippine Senator Vicente “Tito” Sotto III, I have to ask the obvious question: Was anyone harmed? I frame that question with the level of unrelenting ferocity I observe with which people have been attacking Senator Sotto. Even as this issue is “debated” ad nauseum,…

Crime, Media, Politics, Society

Does new Chief Justice Lourdes Sereno have enough emotional intelligence to run the Supreme Court?

August 29, 2012 benign0 32 Comments

Reports of the emotional health of newly-appointed Supreme Court Chief Justice Lourdes Sereno continue to make discussion fodder for the Philippines’ chattering classes. Sereno is noted for being rated a four on a 1-to-5 psychological stability scale (5 being the lowest) by a test administered by the Judicial Bar Council (JBC). According to “unverified” news…

Culture, Government, Politics, Science

Senate plagiarism – a template to follow?

August 29, 2012August 29, 2012 Ms. Mike Portes 8 Comments

Since the news of Sotto’s plagiarism broke out, I knew someone in his office will get it, for it is rare for these politicians and even business leaders to be writing their own speeches. I was waiting for the celebrity senator and his office to own up but Hey! They haven’t and looks like they…

Government, Politics

Villafuerte and Robredo, What’s in a name?

August 29, 2012August 29, 2012 Ms. Mike Portes 6 Comments

Asking the widow of Sec. Robredo to run under the Yellow banner as senator in a time of grieving was already unpalatable, but a tweet that is politically charged since it bore the #Villafuerte name was just the call to detonate the bomb. “Julio Villafuerte, son of Camarines Sur Governor LRay Villafuerte and grandson of…

Politics, Society

Airbus in $7bn deal to supply aircraft to PAL

August 28, 2012 benign0 No Comments

European aviation giant Airbus has won a $7bn dollar deal to supply Philippine Airlines (PAL) with more than 50 aircraft over the next five to seven years. PAL, whose management had recently been taken over by San Miguel Corporation (SMC) after it bought a 49% stake in the airline is undergoing a massive re-fleeting program…

Economy, Money Talks, Politics

How the new Chief Justice Lourdes Sereno might save Hacienda Luisita from the CARP

August 27, 2012August 29, 2012 benign0 34 Comments

Back in April of this year, the Supreme Court (SC) voted 8 to 6 to value Hacienda Luisita on the basis of a 1989 assessment of Php40,000 per hectare or a total Php200 mllion compensation to the owners of the entire property when it is subject to the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program (CARP). Newly-appointed Chief…

Government, Politics

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Brandon
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megget
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megget
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megget
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benign0
on The ultimate theory on why woke people are such mental cases
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benign0
on The ultimate theory on why woke people are such mental cases
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