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UP Diliman Chancellor Fidel Nemenzo has NO RIGHT to speak for all UP students

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UP Diliman Chancellor Fidel Nemenzo has NO RIGHT to speak for all UP students

Students of the Philippines’ premiere state university, the University of the Philippines (UP), are always being styled in the mold of the iskolar ng bayan (the nation’s scholars) narrative propagated by its “activist” community. The subtext of this term suggests that UP grads are expected to be paragons of charity and altruism — folks who…

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Education

Pinky Webb was forcing Malacanang spox Harry Roque to answer Danny Arao’s “challenge”

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Pinky Webb was forcing Malacanang spox Harry Roque to answer Danny Arao’s “challenge”

The latest flypaper “issue” currently keeping Yellowtards’ mouths flapping is a video featuring a spat between CNN tele-“journalist” Pinky Webb and Malacanang spokesman Harry Roque who she was interviewing. Webb was eliciting a reaction from Roque to a tweet fielded by University of the Philippines (UP) “journalism” professor Danilo Arao where he issues a challenge…

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Media

UP officials could be criminally liable for obstructing police investigations or harbouring terrorists

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UP officials could be criminally liable for obstructing police investigations or harbouring terrorists

Aren’t all Filipinos subject to laws regarding obstruction of police investigations? This means any “accord” that gives special treatment to officials of the University of the Philippines (UP) by giving them power to deny police access to their jurisdiction is unlawful by nature. Philippine law is quite clear about what constitutes obstruction of justice. Presidential…

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Crime, Education

Only criminals and terrorists benefited from the UP-DND military ban agreement

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Only criminals and terrorists benefited from the UP-DND military ban agreement

What makes students of the University of the Philippines so special that they get to study in an exclusive sanctuary against state security forces that no other student bodies in the Philippines enjoy? The fact is, all Filipino students and all jurisdictions that are subject to Philippine law already protected by the Bill of Rights…

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Crime, Education

Kiko Pangilinan’s call: “Don’t mess with UP” — communists are EXEMPTED from this of course

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Kiko Pangilinan’s call: “Don’t mess with UP” — communists are EXEMPTED from this of course

Do the communists speak for the majority of members of the University of the Philippines (UP) student body? Do they represent the voice of the average Filipino student who only wants to pursue her studies in peace and in safety? This is the question Filipinos need to ask seeing that rhetoric that aims to create…

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Crime, Education

Agreement banning Philippine military from UP campus finally TERMINATED!

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Agreement banning Philippine military from UP campus finally TERMINATED!

Finally the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) will be able to do its job rooting out the scourge of communist terrorism at one of its key sources of recruitment — the University of the Philippines (UP). This development was shared in a tweet issued by the campus newspaper of the UP, the Philippine Collegian…

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Crime, Education

Opposition pleas to “remember” the “horrors” of the “Martial Law Years” starting to sound pathetic

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Opposition pleas to “remember” the “horrors” of the “Martial Law Years” starting to sound pathetic

Listen. Can you hear that? It’s the sound of the wailings of the Martial Law Crybabies. One wonders why they need to wax crybaby ad nauseum over the “horrors” of them “Martial Law Years” to anyone who cares to listen when they’ve already spent hundreds of millions of pesos on monuments, statues, two Aquino presidencies,…

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History, Politics

Filipinos like COMELEC commissioner Rowena Guanzon are threats to democracy and Philippine progress

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Filipinos like COMELEC commissioner Rowena Guanzon are threats to democracy and Philippine progress

Filipino Netizens became witness to irrational behaviour on social networking site Twitter from Rowena Guanzon, Commissioner of the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) after she went on a bragging spree because “trolls” annoyed her. She referred to herself as a “senior” Commissioner in a desperate attempt to get some respect after she made a series of…

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Culture, Society