An Opposition in government STILL exists, but it is no longer Yellow in nature

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An Opposition in government STILL exists, but it is no longer Yellow in nature

Don’t believe any of the traditional “thought leaders” associated with the old (and utterly beaten) Liberal Party-led Opposition when they say that Filipinos are now subject to a rubber-stamp Congress thanks to how they voted in this year’s elections. The idea that there is “no real opposition” in Congress is a big lie that the…

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Culture, Development, Society

The Philippine Opposition are bewildered and in DENIAL. Here’s how they can regroup…

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The Philippine Opposition are bewildered and in DENIAL. Here’s how they can regroup…

The Philippine Opposition are lost and have scattered, running around like headless chickens. You can see it in how their disgraced candidates have withdrawn from the limelight and clammed up following their catastrophic loss in this year’s mid-term elections. Despite an array of assurances to their flock that the Laban (“fight”) will persist and contrite…

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Culture, Politics

The Next House Speaker Will Be Crucial in the Post Aquino Era

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The Next House Speaker Will Be Crucial in the Post Aquino Era

The results of the 2019 Philippine mid-term elections  could very well be ushering in the start of the post Aquino era which some say was largely defined by an almost paralyzing fear of a return to a tyrannical regime and hate for the Marcoses in particular. There are political scholars who say that the bulk…

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Politics

Filipino voters should let go of their fixation on celebrity candidates like Jinggoy Estrada and Bong Revilla

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Filipino voters should let go of their fixation on celebrity candidates like Jinggoy Estrada and Bong Revilla

Jinggoy Estrada and Bong Revilla consistently being in the Top 12 senatoriables list in this year’s elections (according to SWS and Pulse Asia polls) illustrates the whole trouble with Philippine society. One wonders what bases surveyed members of the electorate apply when selecting these poltiicians. Both Estrada and Revilla, as we know, were in detention…

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Crime, Politics

The greed of the Yellow Opposition could doom their election bid again

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The greed of the Yellow Opposition could doom their election bid again

There is no better time to find out the true character of people than before a national election. Not only do we find out who among us are passionate or indifferent about the state of the nation, we also find out how far some people would go for their advocacies or for their politics. Take…

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Politics

Filipinos should stop helping the poor through the Roman Catholic Church

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Filipinos should stop helping the poor through the Roman Catholic Church

The Roman Catholic Church is, no doubt, one of the wealthiest and most influential foreign-based multinational businesses in the Philippines. Even more outrageous is that they don’t pay taxes. They’ve got a real good racket going on more so because this institution, far more than celebrities like Regine Velasquez and Manny Pacquiao, exert virtual mind…

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Religion

Bikoy saga: a crooked Philippine media uncritically delivers a crook’s message

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Bikoy saga: a crooked Philippine media uncritically delivers a crook’s message

The world will never run out of scammers but the big problem, specially in the Philippines, is that mainstream media keep giving air time to them. Recent events in light of the “sudden” emergence of the supposed man behind “Bikoy”, Peter Joemel Advincula prove this. In our more than a decade of blogging we’ve seen…

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Crime, Media

Filipino voters NOT GOOD ENOUGH for Otso Diretso candidates according to Randy David

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Filipino voters NOT GOOD ENOUGH for Otso Diretso candidates according to Randy David

In his Inquirer column today, Prof. Randy David attempts to explain why the Opposition continues to do poorly in the campaign lead-up to this year’s elections. By poorly, he refers to the consistently-low ranking most of the members of the Opposition led by the “Otso Diretso” coalition suffer in various surveys published by polling firms…

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Culture, Politics