We beg to differ.
Recall back to the twilight years of the presidency of former President Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino III. Back then, Aquino was so desperate to shore up the flagging political fortunes of his party that he would go as far as reminding Filipinos to stop referring to the regime of former President Ferdinand Marcos as the…
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The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed humankind’s long-ignored exposure to the risk of virulent diseases running wild and severely impacting the world order. It all but levelled the playing field. People from both rich and poor countries were not spared from the disease’s harmful, and in a lot of cases, deadly effects on the human body….
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After years of muddling through the Philippines’ “justice” system, some progress in the crackdown on pork barrel politics has finally been made. Janet Lim Napoles now reportedly faces “jail time of 12 to 18 years for each count of malversation” after the Sandiganbayan ruled “Napoles, [former Cagayan de Oro representative Constantino Jaraula], and three others…
I remember sitting down in a Japanese restaurant in the Philippines after being away for a decade and a half. Somebody offered me a “California Roll” and I was in the shock of my life when I discovered that a California Roll in Manila had a certain ingredient I abhor that was not present…
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January 25 is a day that’s indelibly seared like that by a branding iron into the brain of former President Noynoy/Pnoy Aquino. It was the special day of his mother Cory (born on Jan 25, 1933) who then passed away at just the right moment in time for him to be catapulted via Yellow necro-political…
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And then what? It’s time we practice what we preach and be really clear about what happens next now that the Yellowtards, the shrinking partisan bloc within the current Opposition loyal to the Aquino-Cojuangco feudal clan, have been soundly crushed. The close of the 2010s marks the end of a decade that saw the crash…
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A photo of Andal Ampatuan Jr, who was recently convicted for the murder of 58 people in 2009 in what has since been dubbed the Maguindanao Massacre, flashing the “L” hand gesture has been making the rounds. The “L” salute, as most Filipinos know, signifies allegiance to the Aquino-Cojuangco feudal clan and the partisan camps…
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” Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness, there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” Matthew 22:13 What is ironic about that Bible quote in the context of May 2019 is that if the Liberal Party heeded the advice of the first part of the…
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