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“They say the presidency is destiny. Perhaps the tribulation that the Vice President had to endure is how the universe is strengthening her for the most difficult job of her life.” With this premise PhilSTAR columnist Andrew Masigan deems it fit to claim that Leni Robredo is ripe for the Presidency in 2022. In his…
As of this writing super-typhoon Goni (codenamed “Rolly” in the Philippines) hit land in Bato, Catanduanes in the Philippines’ east coast. The storm is packing winds of 225 kph accompanied by 280 kph gusts. It is moving southwest at 25 kph in the direction of Mindoro island. According to projections issued by the Philippine Atmospheric,…
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I draw the line at certain dirty political tactics and one of the nastiest ones is creating an artificial crisis so that a politician can take credit for “saving” people from it. One such case of which recently crawled across my Facebook newsfeed and it was a post where Camarines Sur (Camsur) Governor Migz Villafuerte…
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Nobody really knows at this point. But one thing’s for sure, the messaging and dissemination machinery backing its spread is awesome and well-orchestrated; so much so that even as early as the build-up period leading to its release on the anonymous website Collective.com.ph in its now-famous post DECEPTION The Shocking Truth Behind Leni and Jesse…
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Over the weekend, Filipino Netizens have been abuzz over the plight of Ateneo de Naga student Pio Emmanuel “Em” Mijares who had ‘heroically’ heckled Philippine President Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III as he delivered his ‘Independence’ Day Speech in Naga City last week. Mijares was arrested by the police on the spot and charged with…
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The last couple of weeks has seen circus following circus kicking off crescendous waves of crocodile emotions that swept many Filipinos off their feet. One good thing coming out of that is that it brought to fore some really key features of the dysfunction that underlies the Philippine National Thinking Process. Below, for the reading…
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So now Secretary Jesse Robredo is dead. And lo, what do we see around us now but a multitude of armchair eulogies — many of them spread shallow across 140-character snippets of textual diarrhoea — waxing poetic on how good a man he was. That’s all good folks — if it weren’t for the fact…
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