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When Anne Curtis-Smith asks “What’s the plan?” EVERYONE pays attention.

April 5, 2021 benign0 23 Comments

Filipinos have been on edge lately as the daily average number of confirmed COVID-19 infections has been breaching 10,000 the last several days. With hospitals bursting at the seams and lockdowns over the foreseeable future casting a grim pall over people’s lifestyles and livelihoods, people are looking for comfort and answers. Popular Australia-born starlet Anne…

Glitz and Glamour, Government

The Opposition are desperately using the Taal volcano eruption to make Duterte look bad

January 17, 2020January 17, 2020 Ilda 6 Comments

In the midst of the aftermath of the recent eruption of Taal Volcano, the Opposition still haven’t gotten over desperately trying to prove that Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte doesn’t care about the people. They have a habit of looking for him as soon as an adverse event happens and then ridicule him as soon as…

Government, Politics

Proof of how hopeless Mar Roxas’s campaign and messaging team REALLY is!

April 1, 2016April 1, 2016 Kate Natividad 6 Comments

Mar-tards just don’t get it. In their efforts to mount a last-ditch effort to shore up Mar Roxas’s stats (showing photos of him surrounded by hakot crowds in various stadiums and all that), they are showing just how disogranised they are and just how incoherent their messaging strategy is. In fact, the more they publish,…

Culture, Media, Politics

Que horror! President Noynoy Aquino was not invited to the Typhoon Yolanda commemoration!

November 12, 2015November 12, 2015 FallenAngel 8 Comments

Actually, he was. Malacañang talking head Sonny Coloma, of course, would like us to believe that there was no invitation, therefore BS Aquino was not able to attend. Parang patampo pa nga ata eh. (It was almost like he was pouting that there was no invitation.) Instead, on that day, November 8, BS Aquino was…

Civics, Development, Government, Politics

4 reasons why Mar Roxas will not win the 2016 Philippine presidential elections

August 3, 2015August 4, 2015 Ilda 421 Comments

Current Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Mar Roxas is the Liberal Party’s official candidate for the 2016 Presidential Elections. That has always been the plan or promise made to Roxas by his party-mates so he would agree to step aside and postpone his own plans to run for the Presidency back in…

Crime, Politics

Filipinos have no Philippine ‘Nation’ to rely on in the event of a catastrophic earthquake

May 22, 2015 benign0 10 Comments

So some residents of Metro Manila now know how big or how little a risk they face in the event of a strong earthquake hitting sometime in the future. A certainty, we are told. But information is only useful when it is actionable. The information so far being circulated by the Philippine government comes primarily…

Civics, Development, Environment, Government, Lifestyle, Politics, Society

An open letter to Pope Francis on his visit to the Philippines in 2015

November 29, 2014November 29, 2014 Ilda 78 Comments

Dear Pope Francis, Information about your visit to the Philippines has been occupying the country’s local media for months. Members of the national and local government have been busy preparing for your arrival. The Manila City Mayor Joseph “Erap” Estrada recently declared a four-day holiday for Manila residence during your visit. The decision, he said…

Civics, Crime, Development, Government, Politics

A country under an inutile gov’t: The #Philippines 12 months since Typhoon #Haiyan struck

November 10, 2014November 10, 2014 benign0 29 Comments

The marking of the first year’s anniversary of the visit of Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) to the Philippines in November 2013 is a bittersweet one. While the disaster devasted millions of Filipino lives, its most appalling legacy is the vast open wound it left in the Filipino’s collective psyche — the realisation that theirs is an…

Culture, Development, Environment, Government, Media, Religion, Society