Category: Politics

The LIAR Justice Carpio should accept President Duterte’s challenge to a debate

May 6, 2021May 6, 2021 benign0 4 Comments

Retired Supreme Court Justice Antonio Carpio leads the only group — 1Sambayan — that aspires to cobble together a broad Opposition coalition to go up against the camp of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte in the coming 2022 elections. It therefore makes sense that Carpio, at the very least, dignify the President’s challenge to a debate…

Government, Politics

Duterte is right. The Philippine arbitral “win” versus China not worth the paper it is printed on.

May 6, 2021 benign0 12 Comments

Thing with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is that he calls important stuff for what they are. In the case of the Philippines’ claim to vast territories in the South China Sea, Duterte points out that waving a piece of paper at a global power quietly building structures on territory other powers say you have a…

Government, Politics

The time has come for Filipinos to consider a Bongbong Marcos presidency!

May 2, 2021May 2, 2021 benign0 33 Comments

Recall back to the twilight years of the presidency of former President Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino III. Back then, Aquino was so desperate to shore up the flagging political fortunes of his party that he would go as far as reminding Filipinos to stop referring to the regime of former President Ferdinand Marcos as the…

Politics, Religion

WHO is the Yellowtard Zena Bernardo? Is she Ana Patricia Non’s “mother”?

April 29, 2021 benign0 8 Comments

An Interaksyon “report” dated the 22nd April called her “a relative of community pantry organizer Ana Patricia Non”. But then an ABS-CBN News “report” posted on the same date referred to her as her “mother”. So the important question Filipinos are asking nowadays is this: Who is Zena Bernardo??? Seeing that the jury is still…

Politics

Apology accepted Ms Angel Locsin

April 24, 2021April 24, 2021 benign0 9 Comments

The Opposition is now on the Defense following the debacle that was ABS-CBN starlet Angel Locsin’s community pantry birthday bash (pardon the pun). What started as a nod to the renowned Filipino tradition of birthday celebrants hosting “palamon” (food treat to friends and, in the case of politicians and VIPs, the community) turned into something…

Glitz and Glamour, Politics

Turning Ana Patricia Non into a celebrity is not going to end well…

April 22, 2021April 22, 2021 benign0 6 Comments

It’s official. Ana Patricia Non, founder of the Maginhawa Street Community Pantry is now a celebrity. She’s become the postergirl of the latest charity industry that is this week’s buzz on the social media spaces populated by the Philippines’ politically-passionate. Initially, “progressive groups” — the Yellowtards (the bloc of partisans loyal to the Aquino-Cojuangco clan)…

Glitz and Glamour, Politics

Tina Panganiban-Perez was right to ask if #CommunityPantry organiser Ana Patricia Non had links to communist groups

April 21, 2021April 21, 2021 benign0 14 Comments

You either are or aren’t a communist. How difficult is it to answer a “yes” or “no” when asked, Are you a communist? Evidently, very difficult. This fact about the Philippines’ political and cultural minefield was brought to the fore when, in a recent press conference given by Ana Patricia Non, founder of the Maginhawa…

Media, Politics

So now #CommunityPantry initiatives are being “red tagged” according to the communists

April 20, 2021April 20, 2021 benign0 16 Comments

It’s been just several days since “community pantries” had become a social media sensation and over that short period they’ve been reduced to a political ball being kicked around in the vast football field that is the Philippine national political “debate”. The Philippine Opposition have pretty much taken possession of this ball and their game…

Civics, Politics, Society

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