We beg to differ.
It’s hard to tell if it is the timing of the phenomenal explosion of the AlDub fad or the simple fact that politics has just gone so far down people’s hierarchy of things to give a shit about. But just from looking at the sorts of things Filipino ‘netizens’ are tweeting about nowadays, politics and…
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Election “activists” are now calling for Filipinos to vote for candidates who are “honest”, “competent”, and “experienced”. Specifically most of these calls come from supporters of Liberal Party presidential candidate Mar Roxas — the “anointed” successor to current Philippine President Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III. Calling for those virtues and then dropping Roxas’s name is…
First of all, Filipino voters do not appreciate debates. They appreciate dance and singing numbers and seeing politicians mouth off the latest trending catchphrases. But when it comes to things that require thinking, guess what: Nosebleed! Indeed, if there is a national “debate” of consequence, it is happening only within a small clique of “politically…
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Just now, I came across an article from www.gmanews.tv which a friend of mine says carries a misleading headline because he says it may give the impression that Senate Electoral Tribunal Chair Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonio Carpio had rendered a decision regarding the citizenship of Grace Poe. In the body of the article it reads:…
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: If the Philippines were to hold the Presidential Elections now, Senator Grace Poe will come out the winner. In fact, if we were to believe the result of the surveys that show Poe consistently leading the popularity polls, holding the election in 2016 would just be…
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Just kidding folks, Mar Roxas really didn’t say that, but he might as well have said it. Thing is, Roxas’ reaction to Senator Grace Poe’s announcement of her decision to run as president instead of accepting an offer to be his running mate in the 2016 elections might serve as an indication of the character…
The sloppy journalism of ABS-CBN News has finally caught up with it. In an “open letter”, the University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) Student Council (SC) pointedly denounced the “unethical journalism” practiced by the Philippines’ largest for-profit media corporation… Last Tuesday, 15 September, the Vice President of the Philippines, Jejomar Binay, visited the University…
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The buzz is out and it says that Senator Grace Poe is expected to declare her bid for President in the 2016 National and Local Elections. It would have been anti-climactic for me had I not seen Victoria P. Garchitorena mouthing off on Facebook against Poe’s use of the UP Bahay ng Alumni as the…
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