We beg to differ.
After thirty years of living in the Philippines as a man with Middle Eastern ethnic origins who chose to be naturalized as a Filipino decades ago, I still have yet to grasp why most Filipinos and their political analysts still cleave to the inappropriate categorizations of political behavior. Most still tend to say that that…
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Around this time last year, Forbes Magazine declared LeBron James a billionaire. Tonight something on Facebook made my spidey sense tingle. Nothing gets me more enraged when I see a billionaire allegedly exploited. Is Taco Bell Philippines using the name , image and likeness of LBJ without his consent? This billionaire advocate seeks…
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One of the keys to winning the Presidency in the 2028 elections is to gain political control over as many vote rich areas all over the country and this IS the genius behind the National Task Force to End Local Communist Armed Conflict’s P9 billion Barangay Development Program. The barangays targeted for the Barangay Development…
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The Commission on Audit (COA) figuratively slapped the fat off the face of Vice President Sara Zimmerman Duterte Carpio for spending P668,197.20 in a manner not fully compliant with RA 9184 and its implementing rules & regulations. Really, it is a small fraction of the P3,000,000,000 (Three billion pesos) she demanded for her office —…
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Not even a year into her term as Vice President, Sara Zimmerman Duterte Carpio was caught trying to jump the line of succession leading to the Presidency and this has unmasked her power mad, reptilian character. The failed plot entailed seizing the House Speakership through former President now Congresswoman Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, having President Ferdinand…
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Not really sucked the oxygen out, as Opposition columnist Manuel L Quezon III writes in his Inquirer piece “Ruling coalition fiesta”. Eerily quiet is the same as noisy if you think about it. Quezon writes, “With an opposition with no teeth, speculation on ruling coalition intramurals has sucked all the political oxygen out of the…
In his Manila Standard column today, Lito Banayo beseeches the President, “Please listen to your sister”. Banayo refers to the issue of the Afghan refugees that the United States are suggesting should be temporarily accommodated in the Philippines while they are being cleared for resettlement in the US. Banayo credits said sister, Senator Imee Marcos,…
Proof that all is not well within the ruling coalition? Columnist Alex Magno in his PhilStar piece “Overreach” today fearlessly forecasts that “personality clashes that surfaced the past few weeks will become more severe as realignments happen in preparation for the midterm elections.” At a recent event, Vice-President Sara Duterte professed support for President Marcos…
