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6 dead so far as #Hagupit (#RubyPH) tears through #Philippines’ central islands

December 8, 2014 benign0 4 Comments

Thanks to “the largest peacetime evacuations the country has ever seen” mounted in preparation for the coming of Super Typhoon Hagupit (locally code-named “Ruby”), death at the appalling scale seen during last year’s devastation wrought by Super Typhoon Haiyan (locally code-named “Yolanda”) had been largely avoided so far. According recent forecasts, the next major populated…

Civics, Government

E.Samar hit by #Hagupit first, winds start to batter coastal areas as residents flee

December 6, 2014December 6, 2014 benign0 14 Comments

Dolores, Eastern Samar has been identified as the unlucky town where Super Typhoon Hagupit will first touch the Philippines. According to current forecasts, Hagupit will be packing winds of 180-200 kph near the centre with gusts of up to 220 kph. As of 11 a.m. Philippine time, the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration…

Civics, Environment, Government

Super Typhoon #Hagupit nears Philippine landfall, tied with 2 others as 2014’s most powerful

December 6, 2014 benign0 11 Comments

Updated forecasts have put Super Typhoon Hagupit (locally code-named “Ruby”) landfall in the Philippines tonight (Saturday evening 06 Dec 2014 Philippine time) and is expected to cross near Manila sometime late Monday, 08 Dec 2014) according to Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) reports. Forecast trajectory of the storm is “very close to the ‘multi-model’ consensus”…

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Latest forecasts put Typhoon #Hagupit (Ruby) on a course to hit Metro Manila over the weekend

December 5, 2014 benign0 32 Comments

A “very dangerous situation” is now “evolving” in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Hagupit (Tropical Cyclone 22W locally code-named “Ruby”) approaches the Philippines threatening to impact at least 30 million people according to the latest AccuWeather.com report filed about 0100H 05 Dec 2014 Philippine time… Hagupit rapidly strengthened into a super typhoon on Wednesday afternoon…

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Why Support for A Violent Erring Driver is Troubling

December 5, 2014 ChinoF 52 Comments

It’s Blue vs. Blue. On the blue corner, it’s MMDA enforcer Jorvy Adriatico. On the other blue corner, it’s businessman and flauntatious Maserati owner Joseph Russel Ingco. It’s a stupid way to put it, right? Filipinos love rivalries, though. And it’s perhaps annoying to see both trying to gain sympathy through media. However, my opinion…

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Race Card on the table as America reels from consecutive police ‘brutality’ cases

December 4, 2014December 4, 2014 benign0 10 Comments

Coming in the heels of the recent street riots that erupted over the failure to indict of Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson who gunned down Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager who happened to be black, another grand jury voted not to indict Daniel Pantaleo, a New York Police Department (NYPD) police officer accused of fatally…

Civics, Crime, Culture, Society

3 ways a lack of ethical citizenship serves as a serious roadblock to Philippine progress

December 3, 2014December 3, 2014 benign0 13 Comments

The trouble with Filipinos is that they don’t see any meaning in their lives that is bigger than themselves. At best there is, like most warm-blooded mammals with bulges in their heads wider than their brainstems, that instinctive altruism for his own immediate family. But even that one is often brought to question on account…

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Super Typhoon Hagupit (Tropical Cyclone 22W) on a course to hit Central Philippines!

December 3, 2014 benign0 24 Comments

Tropical Cyclone 22W (Hagupit) is on a course to hit the central islands of the Philipines by the weekend. The storm is currently classified as a Category 4 “super typhoon” but is forecast to weaken to a Category 2 by the time it reaches the Philippines according to a Joint Typhoon Warning Center (JTWC) report….

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