Tag: democracy

Filipinos have more important things to worry about than woke “issues”

July 7, 2020July 7, 2020 benign0 5 Comments

If we are to believe our top “activists” and “thought leaders”, it would appear that the Philippines’ most pressing problems are the ABS-CBN broadcast franchise, the Anti-Terrorism Bill (which is now a law), and “gender issues”. Perhaps this is because the voices that dominate the discourse happen to be the ones who command strong followings…

Politics, Society

@StephenSackur HardTalks Maria Ressa, tells her to GET REAL!

June 26, 2020July 8, 2020 benign0 14 Comments

Rappler CEO Maria Ressa may have suckered an entire Western news media industry into spreading her lies, but not Stephen Sackur, renowned hard-hitting investigative journalist and host of the BBC’s show Hard Talk. Cornering Ressa for such a talk, Sackur asks all the hard questions of Ressa; how, despite all her claims that a climate…

Media

Maria Ressa’s apologists continue to emotionally blackmail Filipinos into hating the system that convicted her

June 15, 2020June 15, 2020 benign0 6 Comments

Here is why Rappler CEO Maria Ressa lost her case against Wilfredo Keng who, several years ago, filed a case of cyber libel against her and “reporter” Rey Santos Jr. She failed to make a strong case in her defense. Evidently, no lessons were learned. We can see this in a statement issued by the…

Media

In the time of COVID-19 pandemic, Duterte actually knows how to talk to his people

March 28, 2020 benign0 40 Comments

Ironic that Inquirer columnist Vincen Gregory Yu (was his name mis-spelt or is that really his name?), in his quaint expression of Singapore envy today, would issue the following lament in wistful observation of how well that country’s Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong, briefed his people on how his government was managing the ongoing COVID-19…

Politics

How Filipinos can fix their broken “democracy”

February 8, 2020 benign0 4 Comments

Perhaps rightly so, Opposition partisans in the Philippines lament the way “democracy” is working for them nowadays. They lost an entire nation in the 2016 elections that catapulted former Davao City mayor Rodrigo Duterte to the presidency today and botched a chance to gain a foothold into Congress when they suffered a catastrophic loss in…

Media, Politics, Religion

What didn’t destroy Duterte only made him more popular

January 23, 2020 benign0 4 Comments

As the saying goes what doesn’t kill you only makes you stronger. Recent popularity surveys reveal that Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte remains popular among Filipinos despite his critics’ best efforts to sabotage his government. Duterte got an “excellent“ net satisfaction rating of +72 in the last three months of 2019, according to emailed results of…

Politics

Scratching the ChaCha itch: Why an Opposition VP like Leni will never work well for the Philippines

January 9, 2020 zaxx 9 Comments

Who else can come up with that idiotic provision in the Constitution of allowing a candidate from the Opposing Party to serve as co-pilot in running the country? None other than one with a Yellow-logic-infested brain of course. Yep, the 1987 Cory Constitution, like the stupid Lina law that protects squatters from getting evicted unless…

Charter Change, Government

Unless social media changes, it will continue to make people dumber instead of smarter

January 7, 2020 benign0 7 Comments

Social media is proving to be less and less effective at delivering across important messages in an increasingly complex world. The trend towards more digestible but, as a consequence, less substantial content shared on social media started back in the mid- to late-2000s when “microblogging” sites like Twitter started ramping up in popularity. As more…

Society, Tech Talk