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A pre-analysis of the likely BS in PNoy’s 2012 State of the Nation Address (SONA)

July 19, 2012 benign0 9 Comments

The next presidential State of the Nation Address (SONA) to be delivered to joint sessions of Philippine Congress next week is likely to have ‘BS’ written all over it. That’s because the 2012 SONA is, in fact, a speech that will be delivered by Philippine President Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino III. Like any speech that…

Development, Economy, Government, Politics

Former Google pioneering exec now Yahoo! CEO – and pregnant!

July 18, 2012 benign0 4 Comments

A Stanford graduate and one of the pioneering software engineers at Google, new Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer had much to do with the evolution of Google’s user interface and, as such, has had a direct hand in shaping the way users experience Google. Mayer joined Google in 1999 as employee number 20 and was the…

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Filipinos still can’t get over being dependent on the United States for national defense

July 17, 2012June 9, 2013 benign0 37 Comments

Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) Secretary General Renato Reyes Jr says it like it’s a bad thing — that the United States possibly intends to renew its use of key military bases in the Philippines in its bid to “rebalance” troop deployment towards the region. This follows a recently-concluded meeting between Philippine President Benigno “BS” Aquino…

Culture, Development, Government, Society

My Cutting Edge Solution To The Bus Discipline Problem

July 17, 2012December 20, 2018 Gogs 31 Comments

“THE MOST INTERESTING THING ABOUT KING CHARLES I IS THAT HE WAS 5’6″ TALL AT THE START OF HIS REIGN, BUT ONLY 4’8″ AT THE END OF IT… BECAUSE OF… Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protecteur of England PURITAN-…… “ Monty Python If I was in charge (thank God I am not) , I would have…

Culture, Society

Should celebration of Catholic masses be allowed in shopping malls?

July 16, 2012April 16, 2014 benign0 13 Comments

The archdiocese of New York City (NYC) recently implemented a ruling that puts an end to a 26-year tradition of the Filipino community in that city of celebrating their Simbang Gabi pre-Christmas late night masses at the Philippine Center in Fifth Avenue. Last December 2011, NYC Archbishop Timothy Cardinal Dolan had allowed the masses to…

Culture, Lifestyle, Money Talks, Religion

CNN report on Philippine economy barely comes across as news

July 16, 2012 benign0 51 Comments

The Philippines has long had an economy propped up by consumption binges that are funded by overseas employment that sucks the substance out of the society from the inside, and outsourced work that turns the country’s brightest grads into red-eyed parrots. It all sounds awfully familiar. And why shouldn’t it? The above paragraph may as…

Development, Economy, Money Talks

The Philippines’ flaccid response to the grounded Chinese warship within its claimed territory

July 15, 2012 benign0 11 Comments

So finally a Chinese warship that had run aground in Half Moon Shoal (known as Hasa-Hasa Shoal to the Philippine Government) had been “rescued” and “refloated” by other Chinese navy vessels that had come to its rescue. The rescue party reportedly consisted of “at least five vessels and several smaller boats” freed the People’s Liberation…

Civics, Government

Filipino cosplayer among Top 7 to follow on social media

July 15, 2012July 15, 2012 benign0 19 Comments

Filipino Cosplay Queen Alodia Gosiengfiao was recently listed by Mashable among its list of 7 Cosplayers to Follow on Social Media feature. Gosiengfiao is a noted personality in the eclectic cosplay community in the Philippines and has broken into mainstream media trying her hand in TV hosting and appears in a supporting role in the…

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