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According to ABS-CBN News “correspondent” Chiara Zambrano, Philippine universities are “fighting back”. In a “joint statement”, the administrations of the Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU), De La Salle University (DLSU), the University of Santo Tomas (UST), and Far Eastern University (FEU) asserted that their respective institutions “neither promote nor condone recruitment activities of the New…
Philippine Opposition Netizens are abuzz over the mention of Imelda Marcos’s shoe (or shell) collection in an episode of the fourth season of Netflix series The Crown. The scene features Princess Margaret (played by Helena Bonham Carter) describing a banquet she attended in Manila wherein she is approached by then First Lady Imelda Marcos who…
Senate Bill 1083, An Act to Prevent, Prohibit and Penalize Terrorism a.k.a. “The Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020” is causing alarm amongst the Philippines’ “woke” community of self-described “activists”. If enacted, they claim it will give power to any Chief Executive to “weaponize the law”. In his opinion on the matter, a certain Attorney Mel Sta….
Filipinos should get a grip. It is actually possible to live without ABS-CBN. It’s been proven. Many chi chi Ateneans and other private school kids who form part of ABS-CBN executive management very likely lead entire lives not watching a single one of the “entertainment” products their own company subjects Filipinos to. Indeed, an interesting…
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Filipino Netizens became witness to irrational behaviour on social networking site Twitter from Rowena Guanzon, Commissioner of the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) after she went on a bragging spree because “trolls” annoyed her. She referred to herself as a “senior” Commissioner in a desperate attempt to get some respect after she made a series of…
Commission on Elections (COMELEC) Commisioner Rowena Guanzon did an appalling disservice to her profession when she issued a challenge that prejudices against lawyers who are not graduates of the University of the Philippines and Ateneo law schools. Evidently hounded by Netizens scrutinising her points of view, Guanzon issued a challenge to a debate to any…
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As an alumnus of the Ateneo, I can’t help but wonder about what’s really going on in the heads of the members of what is arguably the most elite academic community in the Philippines. Indeed, the Ateneo is so elite that even Ateneans aspire to de-elitisize themselves as soon as they step out of its…
In the aftermath of yet another devastating “natural” disaster — this time an earthquake hitting southern Mindanao — Filipinos are again exhibiting the lack of decisive and deliberate fast action required to deliver timely relief to its victims. Much of the action being instigated by local governments are the usual appeal for aid from the…