Category: Society

Law-abiding Filipinos are getting sick of law-breaking Filipinos

December 26, 2014 benign0 173 Comments

Some of us Get Real Post writers are often criticised about the way we generalise Filipinos. Indeed, to be fair, there are hundreds of articles here that explore from every angle and at every level of depth, the country’s renowned collective criminality, its petty anti-intellectual political discourse, the routine mediocrity of Filipinos’ undertakings, and the…

Civics, Crime, Culture, Government, Politics, Society

#ToBeFilipino this Christmas season

December 24, 2014December 16, 2022 benign0 42 Comments

Ah, to be Filipino. No other time of the year clarifies this term better than the Christmas season. Tis’ the season for giving indeed and to be Filipino is to take the initiative to remind people of this fact. Namamasko po. To be Filipino is to wish people a “Merry Christmas” with an open palm…

Culture, Lifestyle, Society

Cyber-attack on Sony Pictures changes the Internet business landscape

December 23, 2014December 23, 2014 benign0 4 Comments

‘C’ is for “cyber”. Is World War C starting? It could be. A possible cyber-attack against North Korea may be in progress but the nature of the attack and who might be behind it remain shrouded in mystery at the moment. Various network infrastructure monitors have detected intermittent Internet access outages in North Korea over…

Crime, Government, Lifestyle, Society, Tech Talk

The new Ten Commandments for the 21st Century announced!

December 22, 2014 benign0 81 Comments

A collaborative exercise organised by Silicon Valley technology entrepreneur Lex Bayer and Stanford University humanist chaplain John Figdor, authors of the book Atheist Mind, Humanist Heart has come up with a new set of Ten Commandments for the 21st Century. According to the “Winning Beliefs” page of the authors’ website, 13 judges selected the ten…

Civics, Culture, Development, Education, Politics, Religion, Society

First Church of Atheism: Atheism will turn into just another religion if its adherents are not careful

December 19, 2014 benign0 38 Comments

Atheism is becoming a religion and its prophet is Richard Dawkins. The fledgling Church of Dawkins is on track to follow the same evolutionary path trod by other organised religions. Originally, it is intellectuals that embrace the teachings (because they understand their true essence) of the prophet and went about to propagate said teachings. It…

Culture, Lifestyle, Religion, Science, Society

Let’s not allow political correctness to get in the way of a real discussion about Islamic terrorism

December 18, 2014 benign0 26 Comments

Down in Australia’s premiere banking district at the heart of Sydney last Monday, Man Haron Monis, a self-styled Islamic cleric took staff and customers of a Lindt cafe in Martin Place hostage and forced them to raise a black flag bearing an Arabic inscription in white that says “There is no god but Allah; Muhammad…

Crime, Culture, Religion, Society

5-star perks for VIP inmates bared in Philippine prison but top jail exec excused!

December 17, 2014December 18, 2014 benign0 21 Comments

At first, I really didn’t understand what the big “shock” over the 5-star-hotel-like trappings laid out for “special” inmates in the Philippines’ main prison facility, the New Bilibid Prison in Muntinlupa City, Metro Manila was all about. Stories about the top-notch perks enjoyed by the country’s prison royalty have been the stuff of legend for…

Crime, Government, Society

3 dead at conclusion of Martin Place Siege in Sydney

December 16, 2014December 16, 2014 benign0 5 Comments

When I woke up this morning, I turned on the news and found out three people died at about 2 a.m. in a Martin Place cafe at the heart of Sydney’s Central Business District. Around 2 a.m. local time (1500 GMT on Monday), at least six people believed to have been held captive managed to…

Crime, Society

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