Category: Society

What is national security, and why is it misunderstood?

June 17, 2022 The Unpopular Opinion 1 Comment

Renowned, retired professor Clarita Carlos from the University of the Philippines has been chosen by incoming President Marcos Jr. as his national security adviser. Filipino netizens generally responded positively with her appointment in the aforementioned position, which is usually offered to retired military personnel. Initially, the image of national security has been equated with national…

Development, Government, Society

Hospitality and Hospital Industries: Pillars of Philippine Economic Growth

May 31, 2022 zaxx 10 Comments

Entertaining tourists and guests, and making them feel welcome and at-home make up a crucial pillar of the Philippine economy. Our national-pastime-turned-industry of singing, dancing, cracking jokes, and playing basketball provides our valued international and local visitors a good time to sit back and relax over San Miguel light and chicharon bulaklak pulutan while the…

Culture, Development, Economy, Society

What to do now with all those People Power memorial relics and other Yellowtard statues and monuments

May 18, 2022May 18, 2022 benign0 109 Comments

What does one do with all those statues of Ninoy Aquino and Cory Aquino littering the Philippines? What is the plan for all these buildings and spaces appropriated to the commemoration of Yellowtard “heroes” and their “glorious” stories? These are now all but quaint legacies of an era that ended this year — one that…

Culture, Politics, Society

Movie Reaction: Silverton Siege

May 8, 2022 ChinoF 2 Comments

I watched Silverton Siege along with my sister’s partner on our dining area TV while they were waiting to get home one night. The movie was an interesting embellished telling of the 1980 incident in Silverton, Pretoria, South Africa, that is credited to have started the movement to have anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela Freed from…

Culture, Film Review, Society

“It was me in the sex video”: Why did Aika Robredo delete her tweet?

April 14, 2022 benign0 9 Comments

Aika Robredo, daughter of Opposition Yellowtard presidential candidate and current “vice president” Leni Robredo finds herself yet again in the midst of another media circus. An old tweet of hers had surfaced that seems to have been fielded at the time woke hashtag #EveryWoman was “trending” on social media. The tweet very likely makes reference…

Politics, Society

Aika Robredo “sex video”: The latest Yellowtard stunt to make them look like victims all for political gain

April 12, 2022 benign0 14 Comments

The week has barely started and the Yellowtards have cooked up a new outrage fad. The venerable Philippine Star “reports” on this dubious subject today in its article “Robredo camp slams sex tape allegations involving daughter, urges supporters to ‘hold the line’”. Note, however, the use of the term “allegations”. What then is the Robredo…

Lifestyle, Politics, Society

Why Yellowtards cannot shake the ELITIST label

March 30, 2022 benign0 10 Comments

The single biggest crisis the Yellowtard camp are dealing with in the final five weeks of the campaign is the perception that they are elitists. Try as they might, the label sticks like a rash. A virtual who’s who had been pointing out this politically-debilitating character of the Yellowtards for years. Unfortunately, it seems it…

Culture, Society

Robredo camp to Filipino voters: Follow us because we are the “good guys” and we are SMARTER than you

March 29, 2022 benign0 31 Comments

This is the vibe one gets when observing the desperate house-to-house campaign the Yellowtard camp of Leni Robredo are now mounting under her daughter Tricia’s orders. The approach is one of condescension — as if they are on a Mission from God to evangelise the heathens. It is no different from the pretence of benevolence…

Politics, Society