We beg to differ.
Let’s get one thing out of the way, Manila is a dump — literally. Pictures and videos of Manila including the iconic Luneta Park littered with mountains of trash have been circulating the Internet support this view for many. It’s been a dump for decades and it will stay a dump as long as Joseph…
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In her recent Manila Times piece, A social media wish list for 2019, social media “expert” Noemi Dado issues a call-to-action for Netizens for the coming new year 2019: “It is time to replace or concentrate on personal websites or blogs, instead of Facebook, as the main platform.” Dado likely built this idea on the…
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As if we needed more proof of just how inept and incompetent Pnoy’s administration was, here we have another court throwing out what is the last of the cases it had filed against Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Now, it becomes ever so clear that the previous administration’s cases against Arroyo was an evil to make themselves…
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You gotta pity the University of the Philippines’ men’s basketball team that went up against the Ateneo de Manila in this year’s UAAP championship match. They may have been under pressure to win the game to fulfil the dream of the Yellowtard-led Philippine Opposition to “oust the dictator”. The “dictator” in this political fantasy is,…
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Historical parallelism – because two or more significant events happened in the past, then one similar event happening again will lead to another of the corresponding event. And the most recent example, being bandied around by critics of current president Rodrigo Duterte, is that the University of the Philippines (UP) Men’s Basketball Team’s UAAP (University…
Malamang wala na talagang naniniwala na may naging silbi si Bam Aquino sa senado at naplitan na si Jover Laurio aka @PinoyAkoBlog na magbayad ng advertisement sa Facebook para lang may magbasa ng post niya tungkol sa idol siyang re-electionist senator. Sa post ni @PangitAkoBlog este @PinoyAkoBlog, gigil na gigil niyang ginigiit na gawa gawa…
The Philippine Opposition led by the Liberal Party (a.k.a. the Yellowtards) are currently busy celebrating the conviction and impending arrest of former First Lady Imelda Marcos. This, of course, is seen to be a defining moment as, from their prespective, this “development” pulls a key pillar holding up what they call the “revisionist” take on…
Too many colours. Too many symbols. Too many sound bytes. Philippine politics is framed by the clever work of public relations (PR) consultants who craft poetic messages that extend strong emotional hooks that the public readily bites. Because of the potent emotional payload of the messaging that makes up the bulk of the campaign rhetoric…
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