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Baffling logic: Maria Ressa blames Facebook for the Philippines’ political dysfunction

January 6, 2018 benign0 8 Comments

There is something disturbingly familiar about the way Maria Ressa, CEO of “social news network” Rappler, blames social media giant Facebook for her troubles and even that of the Philippines’. In a recent tweet, Ressa cites the news report, Mark Zuckerberg makes ‘fixing’ Facebook a personal goal for 2018 (which she republished on Rappler) and…

Politics, Society, Tech Talk

Annoyance is a political platform: Why Inday Sara Duterte should run for a Senate seat

January 5, 2018 benign0 3 Comments

Inday Sara Duterte, daughter of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, is in the running for a seat in the Philippine Senate according to recent surveys that put her within the “Magic 12” list of “winnable” contenders. She should take the shot. According to her, only annoyance for her father’s critics will be an incentive to run……

Politics, Society

Wait a minute… Why do Filipinos hate the Marcoses so much to begin with?

January 4, 2018January 4, 2018 benign0 65 Comments

Would the Philippines have gone on to be a better country had the late former President Ferdinand Marcos never existed and, as a consequence, the “Martial Law years” never transpired? The way Filipino “activists” keep harping about the “evil” Marcos and the “dark ages” he subjected the Philippines to under his “Martial Law regime”, it…

Culture, Society

The annual Quiapo Church Black Nazarene fiesta (Traslacion) and Filipinos’ fascination with crowding

January 4, 2018 benign0 16 Comments

It remains quite the modern-day curiosity how more than a million people would troop to Manila for a chance to catch a glimpse and possibly — hoping against hope — touch the “revered” Black Nazarene figurine. I don’t get it. How is this crowding around a relic different, say, from the 30,000 Filipinos several years ago who trooped to…

Culture, Religion

So what if Senator Sherwin Gatchalian called “Netizens” ‘ulol’ and ‘gago’?

January 2, 2018 benign0 7 Comments

If we recall, current Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said far worse things. And yet here he is, the winner of the 2016 Philippine presidential elections. Democracy, right? Gatchalian is the current Yellowtard flypaper of the moment. A who’s-who of Yellowtards are buzzing around him after he called “Netizens” who responded to a tweet he fielded…

Lifestyle, Politics

On that word “Manigong”

January 1, 2018 Charles Englund 20 Comments

Now here is a Tagalog word that you only hear during new year’s eve (and even then, hardly). That is “manigong” as in Manigong Bagong Taon, the Filipino greeting for a Happy New Year. I have always had a problem with this word, which I presume means “prosperous”. It is a word doused with generous…

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Culture, Lifestyle

“Cleaning up toxic waste” – can Rappler’s Maria Ressa get Facebook to get rid of pro-Duterte accounts?

December 31, 2017January 1, 2018 FallenAngel 7 Comments

A comment on social media asks: who would win? A social media “giant”? Or a bunch of Filipinos tapping away on Facebook? In this case, the former pertains to none other than Rappler CEO Maria Ressa. On the other side, you’ve got a great many Filipino Facebook (FB) users who also happen to be supporters…

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Western media clueless about Philippine affairs, easily falls for Maria Ressa’s desperate lies

December 31, 2017December 31, 2017 benign0 22 Comments

The year 2017 is drawing to a close and, despite the emotional screeching of Philippine Opposition elements, the country does not seem any more “authoritarian” (or not authoritarian) than it was back at the dawn of 2016. Just the same, the objective fact that the Philippines remains as “democratic” as it’s ever supposedly been does…

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