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Filipinos never pass up an opportunity to exhibit their renowned ethnocentrism. In the wake of Hurricane Sandy which devastated much of the eastern seaboard of the United States, there have been many heartening reports of how the level of preparedness and swift action of the US government to mitigate the foreseen effects of the storm…
In the last 24 hours, I’ve been seeing lots of updates and memes being published on Facebook and Twitter timelines as well as mainstream media sites expressing one opinion or another about the recent purchase of Lucasfilm and, of course, its all-time epic Star Wars franchise by media giant Walt Disney. Many of these shoutouts…
Various communist front organisations are now crying bloody murder over the on-going party-list purge being undertaken by the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) to rid the country of groups found to be inconsistent with the party-list concept. Communist front Bayan Muna, for one, faced with mounting pressure to justify its continued branding as a party-list group…
Presidential Spokesperson Abigail Valte continues to fail to answer a very simple question that her boss President Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino III has faced since the beginning of his term — What’s next with Hacienda Luisita? Of course it comes as a convenient feature of the most recent fielding of this question that the asker…
This is going to be a short one, Â because it’s Monday and I’ve got four or five meetings scheduled for today at BGC and in JAKA on Ayala Avenue. Get Real Phlippines Post is probably the only blog on Philippine politics left slugging away at the “establishment” and various poseurs. Â The others have either put…
” I am the maker of rules dealing with fools I can cheat you blind” – Alan Parsons Project Hey ! We are very lucky to have an all wise president. No accomplishment at all but gets elected. Now he knows who is guilty and who is not why bother with expensive court system? Just…
You can easily tell that Filipinos aren’t a very reflective people. Go to any public place — a mall, a department store, a train station — or take a ride in a public utility vehicle like a bus or jeepney and chances are your senses will be assaulted by loud monotonously-throbbing music punctuated by tacky…
A bum stomach. It is indeed unfortunate that President Noynoy Aquino (BS Aquino) fell ill during most recent trip to Australia. It is due to this illness that he had to cut short his attendance to a state banquet hosted by Australian Prime Minister (PM) Julia Gillard. Not that I, or any of BS Aquino’s…
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