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Why Yellowtards need people like @PinoyAkoBlog to ‘say what they want to say’

October 23, 2017October 23, 2017 FallenAngel 5 Comments

Unfortunately for the pro-Duterte community, the recent exposés on the identities of those behind certain anti-Duterte websites – SilentNoMorePH and PinoyAkoBlog among them – did not have the desired effect. Rather than flush out others who are involved in what is widely believed to be a well-oiled information control machine, one of the persons identified,…

Culture, Media, Society

Da Pinoy and Road Manners

October 22, 2017 joeld 6 Comments

I recently got into a Facebook group comments section with the topic of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) regarding aftermarket lights, exhausts, horns, etc. It started with one complaint of a person who got traffic citations for his aftermarket blue corner lights and aftermarket exhaust on his scooter. He was basically saying that the LTO…

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Culture, Lifestyle, Society

Has Looting Pig (LP) Drilon Gotten Away with Billions of Pork Barrel Funds?

October 21, 2017 Amir Al Bahr 7 Comments

Four years after the Pork Barrel Scam led to a rally of sorts at Rizal Park, it seems that most people have forgotten the theft of up to 14 billion pesos in Priority Development Assistance Funds and the many questions that were never asked or answered at the height of the biggest corruption controversy in…

Crime, Government

Pinoy Ako Blog’s popularity with some academics at ADMU & UP proof of their mediocrity

October 20, 2017July 7, 2018 Ilda 8 Comments

Recently I sat back and watched while one of our former hecklers got a dose of her own medicine. I felt validated that I had proven again that the best defence against our detractors is patience and the discipline to allow them the time and space to dig their own graves. I always knew that…

Media, Society

A New Marawi City that is SQUATTER-FREE is an absolutely worthwhile goal

October 20, 2017 benign0 10 Comments

There’s a lot of talk lately about “re-building” Marawi City. Jose Montelibano in his Inquirer column today offers thoughts on what needs to be considered to not just to do that but to do it right, as in build A New Marawi that, at the same time, puts it on a path towards becoming a…

Culture, Development, Government

Duterte’s policies are unpopular with people who want to maintain the status quo

October 19, 2017February 10, 2018 Ilda 13 Comments

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is unlike previous Presidents the country has ever had. It’s not just his swearing and his unabashed tirades that make him exceptional. We already know that he is the first President to hail from Mindanao, which in itself is already a standout feature of his. But what the Opposition fail to…

Culture, Development

Filipinos will gain more self-respect by eliminating their dependency on First World dole-outs

October 19, 2017 benign0 5 Comments

For all of Filipinos’ kayabangan (bluster), there does seem to be sufficient level of actual achievement to match. This observation is best encapsulated in the Tagalog phrase “Wala naman palang ibubuga.” Filipinos rely almost entirely on capital that trickles down from the First World into their gaping mouths — so much so that even the…

Culture, Politics

HOPE lies in imagining a JEEPNEY-FREE Philippines

October 18, 2017June 26, 2022 benign0 14 Comments

As usual, the whole “debate” around the plight of the hundreds of thousands of jeepney drivers and the “threat” to their “livelihood” presented by the prospect of modernising public transport in the Philippine has taken a wrong turn. Highlighted by the usual “socially-aware” cliques of “activists” is the wellbeing of what is, essentially, a relatively…

Development, Lifestyle