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Loser mentality: Filipinos’ 500-year dependence on foreign investment

June 13, 2013July 8, 2015 benign0 10 Comments

To understand the fundamental flaw in the idea of the Philippines’ relying on a strategy of counting on “foreign investment” to rescue its people from their own self-created wretchedness, it is important to understand the equally fundamental definition of poverty. Quite simply: Poverty is a habitual entering into commitments one is inherently unable to honour….

Charter Change, Development, Economy

The key to true Philippine Independence does not lie in Philippine Media products

June 12, 2013May 7, 2019 benign0 8 Comments

As expected, Philippine Media is breaking out all the colours to mark the day: lots of red white and blue, the yellow sun and three stars, poetry waxed about Jose Rizal and Andres Bonifacio — the works. Fiesta Independence Day! Check it out: this extravaganza of nationalist sentiment candy is emanating from an institution —…

Civics, Culture, Media, Society

The Philippines in 2013 remains dependent even on ‘Independence’ Day!

June 12, 2013 benign0 32 Comments

So once again we are celebrating “Independence” Day — or rather the date we would like to think the Philippines won its independence. I do wonder though why we continue to propagate the notion that we emerged from the year 1898 the winners. Last I heard, winners get to rule. Last I heard, we did…

Development, Society

The emergence of the Filipino metrosexual and the rise of the man-beauty industry in the Philippines

June 11, 2013 Kate Natividad 48 Comments

Omg, what’s gotten over Filipino malehood? Reuters observed in a recent report that “Whether it is just a normal facial or an expensive power peel, pricey whitening skin care products or a cheap, improvised facial mask, looking good and flawless is a top priority for the Filipino ‘macho’ man.” The report, as a matter of…

Culture, Lifestyle

Awesome! Charice Pempengco’s mom is a lesbian too!

June 11, 2013 benign0 6 Comments

So now it turns out, Charice Pempengco’s mom is also a lesbian. Oh, sorry, was a lesbian. According to Raquel Pempengco “she, too, was once a lesbian but chose family over her own sexual desires after meeting the young star’s father.” And there’s more… “I’m the lesbian,” she told Bandila, according to a Huffington Post…

Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle, Society

In One with the Gezi Park Resistance: I am also a ‘capulcu’ in solidarity to the Turkish People

June 9, 2013June 9, 2013 Jose Mario de Vega 1 Comment

This is a response to the call of the eminent and radical American Professor Noam Chomsky with regard to his call to the world to support the Turkish Resistance/Occupy Movement. I overwhelmingly concur with the great professor in his stern condemnation of Turkey authorities’ brutal police crackdown on protesters who merely are denouncing the demolition…

Politics

Pining for Manila’s Old Glory is a Sign of a Lack of Vision

June 7, 2013 P. Farol 12 Comments

My Fascination for Old Manila and my Quiapo Roots I have been engaged in a rather long running hobby of hunting for old pictures of Manila on the internet. So much so that it led me to create Lumang Tao Moments a few years back — it is a site where I curate all the…

Development, Environment

That Ain’t No Way To Have Fun says the Azkals fans

June 7, 2013 Gogs 21 Comments

Open up the window Let some air into this room I think I’m almost chokin’ From the smell of stale perfume And that cigarette you’re smoking ‘Bout scared me half to death Open up the window, sucker Let me catch my breath Mama told me not to come Mama told me not to come She…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Society