We beg to differ.
Everywhere you look — physically or conceptually — in the Philippines and you find systems and solutions that cannot scale. The most famous of these is the jeepney. The jeepney “system” (if you can even call it a system) is a public transport solution that requires more labour input with every unit of capacity expansion….
Think what you may of the administration of President Bongbong Marcos. Whether you are a Dutertard or a Yellowtard, one thing’s certain: the Marcos presidency had single-handedly neutralised two polar camps of rabid cults of personality. The Yellowtards — worshippers of the clan of accidental “national hero” Ninoy Aquino — are now reduced to a…
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Yes, it does and perhaps some of you had seen if way earlier than I did (which was a couple of days ago). Forgive me if you ever seen me saying that people who announce their “quitting from Facebook” were just melodramatic, attention seekers. That was a hasty generalization on my part. But, yeah. There…
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The Philippines is making dangerous moves. After Manila allowed the US to increase its military bases all over the country, it is now in the middle of a geopolitical tinderbox. With the U.S. stationing its NUCLEAR-capable Typhon missile system in the Philippines, and a Russian attack submarine recently spotted lurking in the West Philippine Sea…
If nobody’s noticed yet, there is a common denominator argument used across the board in the Philippines’ national “debate”, and that is that politicians on the other camp are “power-hungry crooks” out to “steal from Filipino taxpayers”. Whether one is a Yellowtard, a Marcostard, a Dutertard, or a commie terrorist, the argument is that or…
This is, after all, an age when even “harmless” jokes can get you in trouble with HR at the office. What Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte did in what came across as a grave threat against Philippine President Bongbong Marcos is inexcusable. Duterte, after all, is second in line to the top job. Indeed, the…
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Had to believe that a veteran political operative such as Lito Banayo dislikes US president-elect Donald Trump. What’s not hard to believe is he has a child who is a US citizen. Most of the children of the elite of our country are dual citizens or have migrated to other countries for obvious reasons. Banayo…
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Donald Trump is the 47th President of the United States. He won on the back of a no-nonsense campaign that addressed issues that hit Americans right at their very backyards. This proved effective against rival and Democratic Party candidate Kamala Harris’s play of the gender and race cards backed by a who’s who of A-list…
