Tag: yolanda

‘The Philippines says Thank You’ video: missing the bigger point #PHthankyou

February 9, 2014February 9, 2014 FallenAngel 47 Comments

So apparently, three months after Tropical Storm Haiyan (local name Yolanda) hits the Philippines, the Department of Tourism (DOT) comes out with a short video called “The Philippines says Thank You”, with the accompanying hashtag #PHthankyou. Ok. So what then? Frankly, the video just fails to move me. I’m probably only a handful of Filipinos…

Culture, Development, Government, Lifestyle, Media, Politics, Society

Vhong Navarro and Tent Cities as Top Stories? I guess not.

February 6, 2014January 29, 2015 Ms. Mike Portes 12 Comments

Surely, the Philippines hasn’t rebounded from the ravage of the Zamboanga stand off and the calamities that came, one after the other, but why is it, that the Vhong Navarro argumentum ad misericordiam hogging all forms of media while minimal attention is given to those in the South of the Philippines who are still living in…

Culture, Media, Society, The South

Noynoy’s 2016 presidential promise to Mar Roxas is destroying the Philippines

February 4, 2014 benign0 7 Comments

Time and again, Filipinos and their government (which, in a democracy, reflects its citizens’ character) have proven a lack of ability to step back and manage their affairs to a level of competence befitting a modern 21st Century state. In key occasions when it was a national imperative to exhibit a collective resolve to squarely…

Development, Government, Politics

What Vhong and Deniece teach us about religion and the news

February 3, 2014 benign0 22 Comments

A lot of people remain baffled by the attention that the Vhong Navarro and Deniece Cornejo show attracts. They cite that there are more important things going on — the Disbursement Acceleration Program imbroglio that President Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino III is entangled in, the plight of Leytenians still reeling from the carnage wrought by…

Civics, Crime, Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Media, Religion, Society

Top smut consumers: Filipinos just need some stimulation on the fly

January 24, 2014 Kate Natividad 11 Comments

Hey, here’s another item to chalk up for “Pinoy pride”! According to a GMA News report, Filipinos are among the top viewers of Internet porn in the world. Filipinos, it seems, are renowned for their “stamina” when it comes to their duration of visits to the porn site P0rnHub_dot_com [Editor note: Spelling changed as a…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle, Media, Religion, Society

A National Day of Prayer will not atone for the Filipino government’s incompetence

January 20, 2014January 21, 2014 FallenAngel 23 Comments

From the start, let me just say, there is nothing wrong with having a National Day of Prayer on January 20, 2014, per se. It is a day for the congregations of various faiths in any country to come together to offer thanks to and to seek guidance from their respective deities. But in the…

Government, Lifestyle, Religion, Society

Sen. Bong Revilla’s tell-all pork scam privilege speech: thick on emotional appeal, thin on logical argument

January 20, 2014 benign0 21 Comments

So Philippine Senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr today has concluded his privilege speech before the Senate where he supposedly aired his side following his being implicated in allegations of pork barrel thievery surrounding alleged scam leader Janet Lim Napoles. Did we learn anything new from the speech? It seems none — other than that Revilla…

Crime, Government, Politics

China reportedly prepares detailed military plans to seize Spratly Islands from the Philippines in 2014

January 14, 2014February 5, 2023 benign0 59 Comments

The People’s Republic of China (PRC) is reportedly drawing up plans to invade the Spratly Islands this year, 2014. China’s claim is based on an assertion that the Han Dynasty had “discovered” these islands in 2 BC. The islands were claimed to have been marked on maps compiled during the time of Eastern Han Dynasty…

Civics, Government