Tag: activism

The Philippines contributes nothing but its VICTIMHOOD to the South China Sea crisis

June 4, 2015 benign0 56 Comments

Read articles about the South China Sea conflict on foreign media sites like Bloomberg, TIME, CNN, the BBC, and even Singapore’s The Straits Times, and you will find the real major players in the flashpoint mentioned liberally — China, the United States, and Japan. Perhaps even Vietnam. What is notable about international media coverage of…

Development, Government, Politics

#PrayForThePhilippines! Rodrigo Duterte may become president and the #WestValleyFault may strike soon!

May 20, 2015May 20, 2015 benign0 37 Comments

We all want to be scientific in the way we make our life’s decisions, right? So do the maths. On your way to work, what are the chances of you being killed by a goon of a dictator? Whether it be during the reign of former President Ferdinand E. Marcos or the prospective rule of…

Crime, Government, Media, Politics, Society

Why the misfortunes of the rich are more important than the tragedies of the poor

May 19, 2015May 19, 2015 benign0 8 Comments

In case nobody’s gotten the hint yet, nobody really gives a relative rat’s about the plight of those boat people and the 72 factory workers killed in a slipper factory in Valenzuela. Scan the news and the feeds and you will find that the top stories are all about the rich. Binay’s and Pacquiao’s billions…

Culture, Lifestyle, Media, Society

The hypocrisy in Filipinos’ outrage over the Jejomar Binay Billions

May 18, 2015 benign0 8 Comments

In most normal societies, the mere smell of a rat in one’s person would be enough for that person to be regarded as a political pariah. Not in the Philipines. For months, smoke has been detected in the camp of Philippine Vice President Jejomar ‘Jojo’ Binay thanks to an onslaught of politically-motivated “probes” into his…

Crime, Culture, Government, Politics, Society

Ph media to blame for lack of awareness and division over issues like the Mary Jane Veloso case

May 8, 2015May 8, 2015 Ilda 17 Comments

I’ve never heard of the name Mary Jane Veloso until a week before her scheduled execution on the 28th of April 2015. When her name started trending on social media just days before she was supposed to be killed by firing squad, I still had no idea what her ordeal was about. I have to…

Crime, Government, Media, Politics, Society

The public relations disaster that is Celia Veloso

May 4, 2015May 4, 2015 benign0 16 Comments

As I wrote in my previous article The Philippines’ shame: Bickering over the Mary Jane Veloso case, the five-year plight of Mary Jane Veloso leading to the 11th-hour stink raised by the Philippines’ “activist” community which, in turn, spurred the government of President Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III to get on the ball negotiating a…

Culture, Media, Politics

Philippines’ who’s-who of credit-grabbers queue up for a spot in the Mary Jane Veloso limelight!

April 29, 2015April 29, 2015 benign0 11 Comments

And so the frantic scramble for credit begins. Elections 2016 is just around the corner. Gentlemen, start your engines! First in the queue of credit-grabbers’ list is God. According to hipster “social news network” Rappler, this is the Philippines’ official position on the matter of the suspension of the execution convicted drug smuggler Mary Jane…

Civics, Crime, Culture, Government, Media, Society

We see people like Mary Jane Veloso everyday and routinely FAIL to act

April 28, 2015 benign0 11 Comments

This is literally the eleventh hour. Does dead woman walking Filipina Mary Jane Veloso stand a chance of living to see the dawn of the 29th of April 2015? We don’t know at this point. As netizens covered by my personal radar have been tweeting over the last couple of days, as long as there…

Crime, Culture, Society