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Angkas and the #SaveAngkas activist fad are parts of the problem, not the solutions

December 22, 2019 benign0 4 Comments

The latest fashionable hashtag at the moment is #SaveAngkas. Angkas (a colloquial term for “hitch a ride”) is a motorcycle ride hailing and delivery service that is one of those modern-day jeepney-style solutions to systemic problems that could have been avoided if Filipinos exercised a bit more foresight and longer-term planning. The Philippine government is…

Development, Economy, Money Talks

Yellow-led Philippine Opposition continues to fail to win political ground along ideological lines

December 21, 2019December 21, 2019 benign0 4 Comments

Nowadays you’d be hearing a lot of chi chi Western European and North American concepts being bandied around by “thought leaders” of the Opposition. Granted, 1980s relics like “human rights”, “press freedom”, and “people power” had been worn to tatters by the Yellow mob as a result of their habitual use of low-ball approaches to…

Culture, Politics

Aquino and De Lima responsible for delayed justice for Maguindanao Massacre victims

December 21, 2019 benign0 5 Comments

A photo of Andal Ampatuan Jr, who was recently convicted for the murder of 58 people in 2009 in what has since been dubbed the Maguindanao Massacre, flashing the “L” hand gesture has been making the rounds. The “L” salute, as most Filipinos know, signifies allegiance to the Aquino-Cojuangco feudal clan and the partisan camps…

Crime, Media

There are worse people than Andal Ampatuan Jr and they are among us

December 19, 2019December 19, 2019 benign0 10 Comments

Frankly I fail to be impressed by all the huffing and puffing about how “shocking” the massacre of 58 people is allegedly in the hands of warlord Andal Ampatuan Jr. I also fail to be impressed by the people who are grandstanding about calls for “justice” and close public scrutiny of (and the proposed televising)…

Crime, Media, Society

Claims that the Philippines is a “war zone” all DISCREDITED. So what’s next?

December 14, 2019November 11, 2021 benign0 5 Comments

Despite a vast international fear mongering initiative mounted by Rappler CEO Maria Ressa to paint the Philippines as a blood-soaked “war zone”, very few are convinced that the Philippines is a bloody mess. Indeed, what actually came out of all that are revelations that Ressa lied about her claim that she knew a thing or…

Crime, Media

Other Motorcycle Taxi Services to Operate if Angkas Pilot Testing is Extended

December 9, 2019 P. Farol 1 Comment

Perhaps various posts on social media about the rather unfair situation involving Angkas and other motorcycle taxi services had gotten tot the right ears. Today I was told that our dear Usec. Mark Richmund De Leon had been instructed by Transportation Secretary Art Tugade to tell the public that other motorcycle taxi services would be…

Government

Shocking PISA bottom ranking a wake up call for Filipinos to uplift education

December 8, 2019 benign0 19 Comments

What is truly shocking about the bottom ranking of the Philippines in the recently-published Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) report is that Filipinos are shocked to begin with. It is hardly surprising that Filipinos scored dismally in key areas of basic education given that Philippine society has long been known as one that does…

Culture, Education

SO WHAT if the Philippines is “less democratic” under Duterte?

December 3, 2019 benign0 9 Comments

Leaders of today’s Philippine Opposition will have us believe that democracy is in crisis — even in decline (horrors!) — and, as such, heralding a coming era of doom and gloom for the nation in the coming years. They, of course, attribute this unfortunate prognosis to the government of President Rodrigo Duterte who, since Day…

Government, Politics

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