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Will the Philippines become the next Hong Kong or Taiwan, Province of China?

April 14, 2019July 15, 2023 zaxx 30 Comments

Hundreds of Chinese vessels are swarming Philippine-claimed Pag-asa Island like an army of ants feasting on a helpless slowly dying Maya bird that’s lost hope. It’s just a matter of time till China will have gained de facto control over the entire Philippine-side of their nine-dash line in the South China Sea (SCS). And all…

Development, Politics

Leni Robredo’s statements are as pointless and dangerous as her position in government

April 11, 2019 Ilda 14 Comments

Current Philippine Vice President Leni Robredo has become the country’s laughingstock. Her statements turn into memes and get mocked for being pointless. Frankly, most members of the Liberal Party have become laughingstocks too, but since Robredo issues more statements compared to her party mates, she is the default spokesperson for the Opposition and therefore, their…

Government, Politics

Attention Filipinos: Only a strong military gives SUBSTANCE to REAL national pride

April 9, 2019 benign0 26 Comments

There is a good reason why countries all over the world spend billions developing and maintaining military capability. It is because military force has always been and continues to remain the only real way to defend national interests. Unfortunately for the Philippines, Filipinos beg to differ. It is quite evident that Filipinos have never seen…

Culture, Government

Why “Make Love, not War” Doesn’t Work

April 8, 2019 ChinoF 28 Comments

Obvious political shill Jim Paredes’ recent shenanigan drew a lot of perhaps well-deserved criticism. A supposed “moral paragon” does the equivalent of a sex tape online. His defenders say, hey, it’s his business. But why post online a business that should be discreet? Or, why “record your love,” as the movie Parenthood puts it, and…

Culture

Clarification: The Otso Diretso Hand Sign is NOT EQUAL to the Zaxxun Flick Sign

April 6, 2019April 6, 2019 zaxx 5 Comments

Pinoy Ako Blog was offering some public service recently by trying to help one-time GRP contributor Sass Sassot out on a certain point of curiosity: Anong hand sign yan? The very short article simply answered back: Kung nagresearch ka lang ng slight malalaman mo ang sagot sa katanungan mo. Nevertheless, tulungan na lang kita ha….

Politics

Few weeks to go ’til election day and the Opposition have already lost. Here’s why…

April 5, 2019 benign0 12 Comments

Despite all efforts — mostly dirty and dishonest — on the part of the Philippines’ Opposition partisans to gain traction with the broader Filipino voting public, the bid for control of Congress in this year’s election has evidently been won by candidates either (1) backed by the administration of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte or (2)…

Politics

Jim Paredes apologists are going about their apologism the wrong way

April 3, 2019 benign0 13 Comments

Apologists of singer Jim Paredes are in a state of profound confusion. As the scandal surrounding a private video of Paredes that somehow fell into the wrong hands and got shared all over social media unfolded, his supporters (mostly members of the current Opposition camp) went from first attempting to suppress discussion by making the…

Society

To Jim Paredes: Good luck and have a nice life

April 2, 2019April 2, 2019 benign0 8 Comments

Presumably the “scandal” is over now that Jim Paredes has owned up to and apologised for the grief a private video had caused after it somehow found its way onto the Net and went “viral”. Certainly the bigger lesson here — that nothing transmitted over the Net stays private forever — is not lost. It’s…

Lifestyle, Politics