Category: Society

WHO instructed Tab Baldwin to “limit” his public “apology” to just “four minutes”?

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WHO instructed Tab Baldwin to “limit” his public “apology” to just “four minutes”?

It is becoming increasingly evident that the Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) is maintaining (or at least trying to maintain) tight control over the messaging surrounding the tragic deaths of basketball players Rene Clert Baterbonia and Divine Adili during a team activity in Baler, Aurora province. It explains the very measured trickle of information out…

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Education, Media, Society

The public relations debacle the Ateneo finds itself in following the tragic deaths of Rene Clert Baterbonia and Divine Adili

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The public relations debacle the Ateneo finds itself in following the tragic deaths of Rene Clert Baterbonia and Divine Adili

The whole trouble with the Ateneo is that it is perceived (fairly or unfairly) by the Philippine public to be an elitist institution even in the best of times. The Ateneo, after all, is an expensive institution of learning to be a part of. Its fees are beyond the reach of the vast majority of…

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Education, Society

Filipino oligarchs’ scramble for the spoils of the land is the only real campaign “platform” in lead up to 2028

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Filipino oligarchs’ scramble for the spoils of the land is the only real campaign “platform” in lead up to 2028

Most Filipinos don’t realize that our country is awash in wasted opportunities since it’s so-called independence from the Americans. The Americans were responsible for the destruction of infrastructure built during the 300 years of Spanish colonization most of which was lost during World War II. With Japan as its new pawn after the war, the…

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Development, Politics, Society

The Philippine Senate has become a serious liability to the Filipino people and needs to be trashed ASAP!

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The Philippine Senate has become a serious liability to the Filipino people and needs to be trashed ASAP!

Who is winning the high-stakes Public Relations (PR) War that determines which of the Philippines’ big feudal clans will bag control of the Philippine government and, following that, access to all the multi-billion peso goodies that can be scraped off the Philippine economy over the next few years? Will it be the Marcostards? Will it…

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Crime, Politics, Society

How can the Philippine Senate even be considered qualified to judge to begin with when its members are winners of a mere popularity contest?

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How can the Philippine Senate even be considered qualified to judge to begin with when its members are winners of a mere popularity contest?

Such is the “high stakes” exercise this impeachment “trial” of Vice President Sara Duterte is made out to be. Yet its entire outcome — the anticipated “verdict” of this “trial” a long way down the track (if it ever does transpire) — is hinged on the quality of judgment to be passed by the so-called…

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Charter Change, Politics, Society

SO WHAT if Vice President Sara Duterte is impeached or not?

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SO WHAT if Vice President Sara Duterte is impeached or not?

While the rest of the peoples of the world grapple with the big issues — many of them existential — the Philippines’ citizenry are subject to the ongoing feudal machinations of its ruling oligarchs. Indeed, the Philippine Senate is basically that — a chamber composed of people who are mostly members of the same tony…

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Politics, Society

Filipinos need a proper “far right” party

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Filipinos need a proper “far right” party

The trouble with the Philippines is that its political discourse is cursed with a lopsided ideological spectrum. There is a “far left” camp consisting of the commies, their terrorist “New People’s Army”, and the so-called Makabayan bloc of front organisations that orbit them. There is also a swathe of confused centre-left to centre-right camps that…

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Politics, Religion, Society

Rather than own up to their role in the Toboso “massacre” of the “Negros 19”, leftist and commie militants blame the state

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Rather than own up to their role in the Toboso “massacre” of the “Negros 19”, leftist and commie militants blame the state

Inquirer columnist Randy David weighs in on the Toboso massacre in his piece “The other tasks of the university”. What the leftist-militant idiots are now calling a “massacre” is what the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) described as an encounter with elements of the New People’s Army (NPA), the terrorist arm of the Communist…

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Politics, Society