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Deafening SILENCE greets Cory Aquino’s 10th death anniversary

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Deafening SILENCE greets Cory Aquino’s 10th death anniversary

Today is actually the tenth anniversary of the death of former President Corazon “Cory” Aquino. That’s a pretty significant milestone. Most people make a big deal about a round-figure anniversary. This year, however, we aren’t seeing any big commemoration extravaganzas bathed in the colour yellow. EDSA is all business-as-usual — still the massive smoke-belching parking…

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Politics, Society

Those Who Govern or Those Who Are Governed: Who Is To Blame?

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Those Who Govern or Those Who Are Governed: Who Is To Blame?

Before there was a President Donald Trump chanting the catchy “Make America Great Again”, our country had a Ferdinand Marcos. In his inaugural speech, he addressed the Filipino people not as groups and tribes, but as a nation under one flag, carrying their hopes for a better future. He told the people “this nation can…

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Culture, Government, Politics, Society

Why impeach Duterte when a good old-fashioned Yellowtard “people power” might work?

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Why impeach Duterte when a good old-fashioned Yellowtard “people power” might work?

It seems that the Yellowtards (the leading faction of the Philippine Opposition rabidly loyal to the Aquino-Cojuangco clan) have lost faith in that very iconic “activist” enterprise that originally garnered them worldwide fame — “people power” street “revolutions”. Nowadays, these snowflakes seem to have lost their edge and are now resorting to legal means to…

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Politics

An Opposition in government STILL exists, but it is no longer Yellow in nature

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An Opposition in government STILL exists, but it is no longer Yellow in nature

Don’t believe any of the traditional “thought leaders” associated with the old (and utterly beaten) Liberal Party-led Opposition when they say that Filipinos are now subject to a rubber-stamp Congress thanks to how they voted in this year’s elections. The idea that there is “no real opposition” in Congress is a big lie that the…

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Culture, Development, Society

Opposition candidates should distance themselves from the International Criminal Court intervention in the Philippines

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Opposition candidates should distance themselves from the International Criminal Court intervention in the Philippines

If this year’s crop of candidates vying for seats in Congress know what is good for them, they should avoid the “issue” of the intervention in the Philippines being mounted by the International Criminal Court (ICC). The ICC has indicated a resolve to continue to pursue an investigation into allegations that the government of Philippine…

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Government, Society

It was under President Gloria Arroyo through the mid-2000s that Yellowtardism began its slow DEATH

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It was under President Gloria Arroyo through the mid-2000s that Yellowtardism began its slow DEATH

Happy times ahead! Former President Gloria Arroyo is now Speaker of the House of Representatives — a triumphant return after almost two decades of unjust persecution. It is not surprising the way the Philippine Opposition under the “leadership” of the Liberal Party (a.k.a. the Yellowtards) are getting all shrill about the return of Arroyo. It…

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What has Ninoy Aquino actually achieved that makes him better than other Opposition leaders?

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What has Ninoy Aquino actually achieved that makes him better than other Opposition leaders?

Actually, I am curious as well. What did Ninoy actually do for the country? Take out his monologues and death (of which only an insane person will deny the country is divided about). For fairness, we’ll discount his suspicious absence in Plaza Miranda and his arguably treasonous Jabidah myth making. And let’s take out allegations…

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Why removing the Aquino name from the Manila International Airport should be seriously considered

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Why removing the Aquino name from the Manila International Airport should be seriously considered

The clamour for the purging of the Aquino name from the Philippines’ premiere international airport persists. This, to be fair, is baffling to an entire generation raised on the notional “heroism” of the late Senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr who was murdered on the tarmac of the then-named Manila International Airport in 1983. The trouble…

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