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Homicide rates in Ph significantly spiked in 2010 at beginning of Aquino admin

April 6, 2017December 23, 2020 benign0 7 Comments

According to homicide incidence figures taken from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s International Homicide Statistics database, the incidence of intentional homicides jumped from lows of 6.44 and 6.93 per 100,000 in 2008 and 2009 respectively (towards the end of the term of former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo) to rates in excess of…

Crime

Philippine Twitter Goes Bananas Over Cong. Tonyboy Floreindo’s #25Billion Scam

April 5, 2017April 5, 2017 P. Farol 3 Comments

Topping the oddities that happened over the past few days is the trending hashtag #25BillionScam which nearly overtook #ColdPlayManila a couple of times over the past few hours. I’m not sure how many tweets it takes for a topic to trend, but I’ll estimate that it’s in the magnitude of a couple of thousand per…

Politics

Save lives by voting against Duterte in @TIME poll according to Inquirer writer @boyingpimentel

April 4, 2017April 4, 2017 benign0 10 Comments

What was the Inquirer editor thinking? A post by writer Boying Pimentel (on Twitter as @boyingpimentel) published on the Inquirer, via its US bureau, encouraged Filipinos to Vote against Duterte in Time poll to prevent more killings. A link to the article was also posted on Pimentel’s Facebook page. Evident in the title of his…

Media, Society

Dutertard vs Yellowtard: Cult of personality is a hard Filipino habit to break

April 3, 2017April 3, 2017 benign0 12 Comments

Filipino activists have it all wrong. The scope of their advocacies is defined by people, and not by principle, issues, and ideas. When one defines her interests or advocacies around a person, she necessarily locks herself into a non-negotiable loyalty to that person’s own advocacies. It is a lazy sort of advocacy — picking based…

Culture, Politics, Society

I Will Make Like A Hockey Player And Get The Puck Out Of Here

April 1, 2017April 1, 2019 Gogs 18 Comments

This is the end Beautiful friend This is the end My only friend, the end Of our elaborate plans, the end Of everything that stands, the end No safety or surprise, the end I’ll never look into your eyes…again The Doors. I am so done with GRP . Today I am…

Government, Politics

Are the Inquirer and ABS-CBN fulfilling their duty to ‘inform’ Filipinos?

March 31, 2017March 31, 2017 benign0 8 Comments

Perhaps Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was out of line cussing at “news” media organisations Inquirer.net and ABS-CBN News. But then his assertions about the instances where he alleges he had been slandered by these media outlets need to be addressed. One such case surrounds reports published during his campaign that he had ₱211 million stashed…

Media, Politics, Society

Filipinos are not safe while current VP Leni Robredo is in power

March 30, 2017March 30, 2017 Ilda 53 Comments

Women who use The Woman Card – the act of claiming they are being victimised because of their gender – so liberally are disappointing and do not help advance the real issues rational women are fighting for. One woman who quite often use The Woman Card is current Vice President Leni Robredo. She claims that…

Politics, Society

URGENT memo to the Duterte Government: Get your communications machine in shape!

March 29, 2017 benign0 16 Comments

Still, there is no substitute for good communications and intelligent messaging. This is, after all, the information age — a time when the best-intentioned initiatives can crumble under the weight of a single ill-timed or ill-thought-out pitch to the public and the most vile ideas can be delivered in a neat pastel-coloured package and propagated…

Government, Media

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