Tag: rodrigo duterte

PNP Chief Ronald ‘Bato’ dela Rosa should just stop performing for the cameras

February 1, 2017February 1, 2017 benign0 9 Comments

Honeymoon’s definitely over for Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Ronald ‘Bato’ dela Rosa. Half a year of heady PR, show-and-tell, and media circus came crashing down as the reality of the persistent rot at the core of the Philippine police came to the fore in recent months. Revelations of corruption and institutionalised racketeering and extortion…

Crime, Government

Is the Roman Catholic Church ‘full of shit’?

January 25, 2017January 25, 2017 benign0 22 Comments

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte thinks so. Duterte railed against the hypocrisy of the Church in a speech he delivered Monday asserting, as a matter of fact, that the hallowed institution is full of the proverbial brown stuff. Church officials have been vocal in condemning the extrajudicial killings that had attended the administration’s crackdown on the…

Religion

Is it about time Filipinos stop making throwbacks to Noynoy Aquino’s administration?

January 24, 2017 FallenAngel 8 Comments

At the start of every new administration, inescapably, someone always harks back to the previous one. The reasons for doing so usually fall into these common categories: 1) The predecessor is blamed for an inherited problem; 2) Credit is taken for something started in the previous term; 3) The successor wants to express gratitude for…

Civics, Development, Government, Politics

PNP Chief Bato dela Rosa has suddenly become the rockiest component of Duterte’s anti-crime drive

January 22, 2017 FallenAngel 22 Comments

Philippine National Police (PNP) Chief Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa is perhaps in his most precarious position to date. News recently came out that a Korean businessman, Jee Ick Joo, was found dead within Camp Crame, after being kidnapped from his home. Talk about this being a lucky break for President Rodrigo Duterte’s critics, in particular,…

Crime, Government

Was the Philippines’ mainstream media hoodwinked into reacting to #LeniLeaks?

January 16, 2017January 16, 2017 benign0 4 Comments

That, of course, is a question that will underlie countless debates over the foreseeable future. Was there a conspiracy to oust sitting President Rodrigo Duterte in the works behind the shadowy non-security of a YahooGroups message forum? Is there really evidence to support sedition charges against Leni Robredo’s camp sitting in those “leaked” emails? Only…

Media, Society

Typhoon #NinaPH: the struggle for Leni Robredo’s PR image is on! #Nockten

December 27, 2016December 27, 2016 FallenAngel 15 Comments

To observe someone’s true colors, especially leaders, it is best done when they are in situations they cannot plan for, or cannot entirely control. An easy example, of course, would be to see how one takes charge in the aftermath of natural calamities. That in itself is a crisis situation that can easily go awry….

Government, Media

Biases and prejudices rule our lives

December 26, 2016 Carlo de Leon 28 Comments

“A major danger in using highly abstractive methods in political philosophy is that one will succeed merely in generalizing one’s own local prejudices and repackaging them as demands of reason. The study of history can help to counteract this natural human bias.“— Raymond Geuss We all have our own fair share of biases and prejudices…

Government, Politics

The populists and the guardians of ‘decency’

December 15, 2016 rsurtida 55 Comments

There’s a common trait shared by some of the critics of US president Donald Trump and Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte that drives even the most rational supporters of both presidents into near-fanatic levels in defending their chosen candidate. The supposed supporters of “modern liberal thinking”, the antithesis of the “backward and barbaric” maxims supposedly espoused…

Culture, Government, Media, Politics, Society

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