Filipinos are sick of having Ninoy Aquino nostalgia shoved down their throats

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Another uneventful August 21 has passed once again proving that the Ninoy Aquino magic has not only faded, it’s been utterly crushed. The dawn of the death anniversary this year of the late former Senator Benigno Aquino Jr saw the hashtag #NinoyIsNotAHero “trend” on Twitter. Margaret Claire Layug reported via GMA News Online that “[as]…

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Politics

Thank Ninoy for the holiday, I guess

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The greatest “heroic” act Ninoy Aquino did was to die face down on the tarmac of the Manila International Airport. Other than that, he was all optics and hot air, reminiscent of the vice-president today. He didn’t die for the Filipinos, he died for his ambition. And it paid off for his wife and son….

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History, Politics

Duque Should Ban Two Korean Covid-19 Rapid Testing Kits Before Soul Searching

Posted on By P. Farol 2 Comments on Duque Should Ban Two Korean Covid-19 Rapid Testing Kits Before Soul Searching

What Health Secretary Francisco Duque III should be doing is to double down on putting his nose to the grindstone and shun the cringe-inducing dramatics of being under-appreciated as well as needing to do some soul searching. Ditto for Covid-19 Testing “Czar” Secretary Vince Dizon. Perhaps, if they did, they could have prevented the country…

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Government

Filipino ‘wokes’ and communists demonising their own police and the military is un-Filipino and ILLEGAL!

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Apparently, it’s become somewhat of a fashion statement nowadays in the chi chi “activist” communities to be parroting “woke” sentiments about the “evils” of the police and the military. What is interesting about this fashion trend is that its fashionista “thought leaders” offer no alternatives to legitimate state security forces and law enforcement agencies that…

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Crime

The Philippines is reverting back to an agrarian economy thanks to COVID-19

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Nothing necessarily bad about agrarian societies though these get their bad rep from their association with the Third World and “underdevelopment”. Some “economists” would measure “modernisation” in terms of the proportion of the workforce employed in agriculture. As the thinking goes, a progressive shift in the workforce from farming to manufacturing and services and, therefore,…

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Business, Development, Economy

PhilHealth corruption no different to COMELEC corruption under Aquino’s watch!

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Corruption is so endemic to Philippine society that it still boggles the mind as to why Filipino regulators and investigators remain so inept at detecting and prosecuting it. The recent corruption scandals surrounding the Philippine Health (PhilHealth) Insurance Corporation follow a template oft-repeated in the country. One such approach seemingly taken by crooks to siphon…

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Crime

FREE: the National Word of the Philippines

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How many words are there in existence?  Webster’s Third New International Dictionary (2005) contains more than 476,000 vocabulary entries. And each word opens an entirely new world in itself. Take the word justice for example, which opens up the complex concept of receiving what one deserves. Or look into words like peace, socialism, or even…

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Culture

COVID-19 economic collapse is the crisis the Philippines had to have!

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Filipinos can no longer rely on their traditional gravy trains — OFWism, work outsourced from the First World, foreign investment, and foreign aid — to prop up their labour-added-value economy. Foreign workers are coming “home” by the droves, the First World is rapidly repatriating its offshore work, and governments all over the world are diverting…

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Business, Economy, Government