Category: Politics

Can Leni Robredo unite and deliver votes to the Philippine Opposition?

July 10, 2018 benign0 7 Comments

We can start to answer this question by first understanding what it would take to unite and strengthen the Opposition. At the moment, the Philippine Opposition is virtually non-existent. It lacks a leader, a vision, and an election-winning strategy. Without the latter, a vision is practically useless, because you need to be in power to…

Politics

Martial Law “victims” aren’t a reliable source of information about the Martial Law years

July 2, 2018 benign0 12 Comments

Indeed, those who lived through it live to tell about it. Those who died, well, aren’t really in a position to say much today. All they really have are those who presume to speak for the dead. It is therefore no surprise that the presumptive “leaders” of the Opposition, the so-called Liberal Party (better known…

Culture, Politics, Religion

Rodrigo Duterte may inspire Filipinos, but he cannot change them

June 30, 2018July 3, 2018 FallenAngel 7 Comments

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is already two years into his term. While he is not the first presidential candidate to be elected on the promise of change, he is possibly one of the few under whom Filipinos feel that it is genuinely happening. Duterte has done quite a few things differently from his predecessors. He…

Culture, Development, Politics, Society

Philippine President Duterte’s statements make people discuss ideas and question traditional beliefs

June 29, 2018June 29, 2018 Ilda 33 Comments

Members of the Opposition found yet another reason to feel outraged over President Rodrigo Duterte’s latest statements. I don’t know why until now the Opposition still reacts with indignation because Duterte is quite predictable. Yes, he often says things that our mothers wouldn’t approve of, but we should all be used to it by now…

Politics, Religion

Love it or hate it: Duterte’s attack vs the Catholic Church is leading Filipinos down a DIFFERENT path

June 28, 2018 benign0 14 Comments

Scientific inquiry is advancing at an accelerated pace. Belief systems tend to be on a retreat in societies that are increasing in affluence. The latter way of life (living off beliefs) has been decisively beaten in much of the First World. But it remains entrenched in the Third World. The earlier (living off sound evidence-…

Politics, Religion, Society

Enemies Fourth Estate (Part Three): Fake Journo Sixto Lagare’s Lust for the P100 Million DILG Federalism Fund

June 22, 2018June 23, 2018 P. Farol 3 Comments

Sixto Baflor Lagare is more of what I consider a RACKET SCIENTIST than a legitimate journalist. But that’s not speaking lowly of him because I have learned to respect the peculiar type of intellect that looks at all sorts of situations and finds ways to benefit from it. I really can’t say that Lagare is…

Government, Media, Politics, Uncategorized

Winning an election is a skill the Philippine Opposition needs to learn again

June 22, 2018 benign0 9 Comments

The Philippine Opposition led by the Liberal Party (a.k.a. the Yellowtards) is directionless and spreading itself thin. It is raising a stink around one outrage fad after the other and not focusing on the single biggest factor to success in Philippine politics — winning an election. If one looks across much of recent history, one…

Politics

A Tale of Three Genetic Mutations: Aquinos’ Rare Deleterious Alleles, Genghis Khan’s ‘LCT Gene’, and Charles II’s Inbreeding Depression

June 16, 2018 Anthony Quilon 18 Comments

A Piece of Chalk Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Weinberg is one of the deepest and most original thinkers in modern physics. His research has mostly been in the theory of elementary particles and the related quantum theory of fields, together with occasional forays into cosmology. One thing I like about Weinberg is that he’s not…

Lifestyle, Politics, Science

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