Category: Politics

House Speaker GMA Ignores Calls to Sack Majority Leader Nonoy Andaya

January 13, 2019 P. Farol 3 Comments

Camarines Sur 2nd District Representative Lray Villafuerte might as well stick his head in the sand after embarrassing himself with a FAILED call to boot Camarines Sur 1st District Representative and Majority Leader Nonoy Andaya. In a news article, House Speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo dismissed Villafuerte’s call to sack Andaya saying, “Well I don’t know…

Politics

“Mean Girls” Defense for Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno, Really?

January 10, 2019January 12, 2019 P. Farol 5 Comments

I woke up this morning the first thing I read was what seemed to be an attempt by the Duterte Administration or its allies to defend Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno from the corruption allegations lobbed by House Majority Leader Rolando Andaya. In the piece titled “Andaya Naman”, the very first sentence says, “House Majority Leader…

Government, Politics

Philippine Opposition led by the Liberal Party set to suffer major losses in the 2019 elections

January 10, 2019January 10, 2019 benign0 7 Comments

The smoke is only now clearing following damning revelations that premiere major blogger of the Opposition — Jover Laurio of Pinoy Ako Blog — has been receiving funds from no less than the Queen of All Philippine Media, Kris Aquino to “boost” her blog posts on Facebook. As this smoke clears, what emerges are the…

Politics

BEWARE of politicians using the Black Nazarene feast and other religious rituals as campaign platforms!

January 8, 2019 benign0 21 Comments

To be fair, religion has long been an effective way politicians reach the masses. Indeed, even the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) are not above using “pastoral letters” as a means to deliver political messages to their flock who loyeally tune-in dressed in their Sunday best. Thus, one cannot really judge politicians who…

Politics, Religion

Fake News On Sen. Loren Legarda Abandoning Tulong Dunong Program Exposed!

January 5, 2019January 5, 2019 P. Farol 3 Comments

An article appearing on a website called Bistado made the rounds screaming that Senator Loren Legarda had stripped hundreds of thousands of poor but deserving children of free education. The first few words on the lead paragraph is already a dead give away of the shoddy attempt at journalism as the unnamed writer couldn’t make…

Politics

The death of Jover Laurio’s @PinoyAkoBlog is classic death-by-Yellow treachery

January 3, 2019 Ilda 9 Comments

Philippine Liberal Party’s main blogger Jover Laurio has been exposed as celebrity and ex-Presidential sister, Kris Aquino’s beneficiary. Of course Laurio didn’t want this important information to go public, but she had no choice but to admit that she did accept funds to boost her posts on social networking site Facebook. She wrote a blog…

Media, Politics

Under Mayor Joseph Estrada, Manila is still a dump

January 1, 2019January 1, 2019 Ilda 13 Comments

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…

Lifestyle, Politics

Desperately wanted: COMPETENT Opposition bloggers!

December 30, 2018 benign0 4 Comments

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…

Media, Politics