Category: Society

All bark and no bite: Will Leni Robredo REALLY stand up to Duterte as his EQUAL?

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All bark and no bite: Will Leni Robredo REALLY stand up to Duterte as his EQUAL?

That remains to be seen. Then again, on second thought, hasn’t Leni Robredo always been on a campaign against Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte? From Day One, “vice president” Leni Robredo remained on campaign mode against her own government long after the elections had been concluded and well into her (disputed) term as VP. She was…

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Culture, Politics, Society

After the Storm: Stories on Ondoy

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After the Storm: Stories on Ondoy

The following is a re-post of my article “Day Ten, post Ondoy” originally posted on FilipinoVoices.com on the 7th October 2009. The article has since been included in Elbert Or’s After the Storm: Stories on Ondoy, an excellent collection of pieces “mostly written in the midst of and immediately after the typhoons Ondoy and Pepeng…

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Culture, Society

Why do communists have a problem with being “red-tagged”?

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Why do communists have a problem with being “red-tagged”?

Isn’t red the symbolic colour of the communist “movement”? Wasn’t the Kremlin, the seat of power of the now-defunct Soviet Union situated at Red Square? Isn’t the People’s Republic of China referred to as Red China? Aren’t the flags of these two former and current (respectively) commie empires predominantly red? Aren’t the flags of front…

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Crime, Society

The Concept of Heroism is Twisted by Celebrities as well as “Opposition”

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The Concept of Heroism is Twisted by Celebrities as well as “Opposition”

I wonder if celebrities Liza Soberano or Angel Locsin are trying to be heroes. They probably think that supporting movements that oppose something else is heroic. If not, maybe others think of them as such. But to me, that is a wrong view of heroism. Well, I slammed the idea of venerating heroes after all,…

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Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Society

Philippine “activism” is in a PR crisis and the Baby River “issue” worsened it

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Philippine “activism” is in a PR crisis and the Baby River “issue” worsened it

They keep trying and trying to no avail. Today’s Filipino “activists” suffer from a crisis of public perception. They keep screeching about being “red tagged” yet continue flying red flags during their rallies. They insist they are not terrorists yet seem to choke on any words to denounce the Communist Party of the Philippines’ (CPP’s)…

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Lifestyle, Society

WHO is Baby River’s FATHER??

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WHO is Baby River’s FATHER??

One of the big “issues” spun around the “plight” of KADAMAY “activist” Reina Mae Nasino is that her child “Baby River” was taken from her by the state presumably deeming that a person who is in prison is not fit to be carer of young children. Nasino was “charged with the illegal possession of firearms…

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Lifestyle, Society

Will the death of Baby River save Filipinos?

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Will the death of Baby River save Filipinos?

Is there salvation in “helping the poor”? As Christians we are led to believe so. The very essence of all so-called liberal ideals held sacred by Christendom ingrained this notion in the minds of hundreds of generations. We can see it persisting even today at the core of the “activists” cause in the way its…

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Religion, Society

The Opposition modus operandi: Hyping one OUTRAGE FAD after another

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The Opposition modus operandi: Hyping one OUTRAGE FAD after another

What exactly is the Opposition platform? What do they propose to be the alternative path to the way being shown to Filipinos by current Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte? If we are to believe, as today’s Opposition partisans would have us believe, that the Duterte Way is all bad, what proposal for a different path is…

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Politics, Society