Flooding in Manila following Typhoon Gaemi: Déjà vu all over again!

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Journalists “reporting” on the devastation wrought by the passing of Typhoon Gaemi (along with southwest monsoon rains) may as well be copy-and-paste jobs. After all, there is a trove of past news reports on typhoons (and even minor weather disturbances) hitting the Philippines and causing disproportionate devastation. Indeed, what stands out is the embarrassing sameness…

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Development, Environment

US propaganda continues to be parroted by Rappler “thought leaders”

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It’s important to the Americans that the Duterte brand in Philippine politics be destroyed since it advocates for an independent foreign policy. Witness how we have become the outlier in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) community. Among the original founding members, we are only ahead of Cambodia and Laos while Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia,…

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Development, Politics

Donald Trump’s rallying cry is now “Fight!” — just like that of the Yellowtards

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In an ironic twist of fate, former United States president Donald Trump is now basking in the limelight following his survival of an assassination attempt over the weekend. The Colonial Master’s politics now mirrors the necropolitics of its Mini-Me in southeast Asia — except that the beneficiary of the violence lived to fight on. CNN…

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History, Politics

Assassination attempt on Donald Trump: illiberal means to “save democracy”?

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Quite confronting that an assassination attempt on a former American president and the Republican candidate in the coming presidential election in the United States could still happen in this day and age. Following shots fired during former President Donald Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania resulted in the deaths of a member of the audience and…

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Crime, Politics

Do billionaires work a billion times harder than ordinary people?

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No they don’t. If that were true then we may as well ask if Singaporeans work ten times harder than Filipinos seeing that their per capita income is ten times that of the Philippines. As a matter of fact, billionaires and Singaporeans work less than the average Filipino. For that matter, rich people work less…

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Business

Failed 1Sambayan “united opposition” in 2021 now a template for opposition to Duterte dynasty in 2025 elections

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Philippine electoral politics are back to plumbing an all-too-familiar theme — preventing a [insert bogeyman’s name here] win. The spectre of three Dutertes in the Senate has been the subject of furious chatter amongst the intelligentsia over the last couple of weeks since Vice President Sara Duterte dropped hints that her father, former President Rodrigo…

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Politics

Traditional values come back to bite woke “diversity” sentiment in the West as conservative parties score gains

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“Activist” groups and their mainstream media allies are branding recent political developments in Europe (and, to some extent, the rest of the world) as a shift to the “far right”. Earlier this year, analysts in Europe were already seeing “a significant chance the far right will, for the first time, be able to influence Europe’s…

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Business, Politics, Society

Why Filipinos are More Enamored with America than with China

Posted on By Hector Gamboa 5 Comments on Why Filipinos are More Enamored with America than with China

It was reported that the Chinese Embassy in Manila has accused the United States (US) of stoking tensions in the West Philippine Sea (WPS). Chinese Embassy officials further claimed that the US is doing this to advance its own geopolitical interest in the region. Of course, right on cue, Duterte sycophants, who are likened to…

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