tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83833215454897788752024-03-15T05:49:58.039+11:00GRPunditbenign0http://www.blogger.com/profile/08022916216097762181noreply@blogger.comBlogger1635125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383321545489778875.post-35316878911551175792018-09-01T09:32:00.001+10:002018-09-01T09:32:19.196+10:00Leni Robredo is incapable of taking a position on CRITICAL national issues<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Philippines' "vice president" Leni Robredo is renowned for starting every statement with the phrase "<i>ang sa akin lang naman</i>" (in my humble opinion). As in something like this, for example...<br />
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Ang sa akin lang naman, Martial Law in Mindanao won't be effective...</blockquote>
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Blah blah blah... And more of that to the same effect.<br />
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What does Robredo's propose? <i>Essentially nothing</i>.<br />
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The trouble with that is, Filipinos are all options but <i>no roadmap</i>. As such, Robredo mirrors the essence of the failure of the Philippine Opposition. They make a lot of noise about options (packaged as being "critical" of the administration) yet offer no pathway <i>forward.</i><br />
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It is hardly surprising why the Philippine Opposition led by the Yellowtards continues to fail.benign0http://www.blogger.com/profile/08022916216097762181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383321545489778875.post-79092600554272698272018-08-30T11:14:00.002+10:002018-08-30T11:14:52.738+10:00Why is an agricultural country like the Philippines now importing rice and fish?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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[<i><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">Public <a href="https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10215401281038048&id=1017656404" target="_blank">post</a> by Facebook user Benedict Exconde</span></i>]<br />
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Four things:<br />
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1. Basic supply and demand. If your country has 100 million (and increasing, no thanks to Roman Catholic Church meddling, lobbying and politicking) mouths to feed and your local food production cannot keep up with demand, how do you plan to address the supply gap?<br />
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2. All administrations between Marcos and Duterte did not give value to agriculture and fisheries as important elements of the economy and national security (i.e., food security). They wanted agrarian communities to do away with agriculture and become laborers in the manufacturing and service sectors, which are controlled by the ruling class, with the "pro-masses" Maoists getting regular payola from them. The failure of these administrations to come up with a comprehensive long-term national food security and rural development plan and their sheer lack of regard to agrarian communities brought us to where we are now, a clusterfuck that Duterte himself is having difficulty to solve<br />
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3. The reality is that consumers do not care where their food comes from. All they care about is having readily available, high quality and affordable food choices. With the economies of the world now interconnected to each other and incomes apparently growing, expect consumers to exercise the power of choice- and governments, including that of the Philippines, should recognize that<br />
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4. To protect the welfare and interests of farmers and fishermen, and consumers, the opportunists in the middle of the value chain, and their enablers and protectors should be annihilated, while there must be a way to link farmers and fishermen, and consumers more directly without the need to go through a lot of middlemen.benign0http://www.blogger.com/profile/08022916216097762181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383321545489778875.post-39192596487815726682018-08-30T08:27:00.000+10:002018-08-30T08:27:36.713+10:00More celebrities like Inigo Pascual should get behind efforts to encourage PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY amongst the poor!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Poverty is a choice. This is most specially true in the 21st Century where information and technology needed to make the right choices are at everyone's fingertips. Thus, <a href="https://twitter.com/OneInigoPascual/status/1034036064346750976?s=19" target="_blank">a call to Filipinos</a> from a revered celebrity such as one issued by Inigo Pascual is long overdue...<br />
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There's nothing like the <i>right</i> conversations being started with the backing of a celebrity.<br />
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Back in 2013, top media personality Bianca Gonzalez made a similar call that also <a href="https://www.getrealphilippines.com/2013/07/bianca-gonzalez-speaks-out-on-manilas-squatter-infestation/" target="_blank">kicked up a storm</a> around the topic of the poor's renowned sense of entitlement...<br />
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Ang dami nating nagtatrabaho para makaipon para sa prime lot at bahay plus buwis pa. Bakit nga ba bine-baby ang mga informal settlers?</blockquote>
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Translated:<br />
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“So many people working hard to save to buy a house on prime land while paying their taxes. Why do we have to baby these informal settlers?”<br />
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It is an old concept. The simple principle behind Gonzalez’s tweet is rule of law and everyone — whether rich or poor — being subject to it.<br />
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These are the worthwhile causes Filipinos need to get behind and lend their awesome star power to!benign0http://www.blogger.com/profile/08022916216097762181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383321545489778875.post-65358352172794735892018-08-28T22:43:00.000+10:002018-08-28T22:43:12.402+10:00The humiliation of never having been the first female Chief Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The last few days must have been really hard for never-had-been-chief-justice Lourdes Sereno. Congratulations have continued to pour in citing not just newly-appointed Chief Justice Teresita De Castro's eminent qualifications but also her being the Philippines' <i>first</i> female Chief Justice.<br />
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Indeed, this is a huge blow to Sereno. It is very likely that she regrets the day former President Benigno Simeon 'BS' Aquino III suggested she step up to the office she now never occupied.<br />
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To add to the humiliation is the evidently warm welcome accorded to De Castro by the Supreme Court staff. Suffice to say, it can be easily surmised that Sereno was not at all well-liked by her never-had-been colleagues and staff in the High Court.<br />
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Sereno is better off lying low and ignoring any further pats on the back (and on the head) coming from the Yellowtard community. This is a community of inbred thinkers who had utterly failed to evolve. And Sereno is a sad casualty of this Yellowtard disease.benign0http://www.blogger.com/profile/08022916216097762181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383321545489778875.post-22672270387044187522018-08-28T21:51:00.000+10:002018-08-28T21:51:24.717+10:00Opposition "activists" lack a logical reason for disliking Chief Justice Teresita De Castro<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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All the "thought leaders" of the Yellowtard-led Philippine Opposition could do is whine about why they <i>believe</i> newly-appointed Chief Justice Teresita De Castro is not "fit" to be Chief Justice. Other than that, the Yellowtards cannot seem to come up with any more objective reasons why they <i>do not like</i> De Castro.<br />
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All the Yellowtards really want is for their preferred girl the now never-had-been-chief-justice Lourdes Sereno to be reinstated (or rather to have her appointment un-voided). But the fact is, De Castro, by all accounts, is the better-qualified magistrate. Just on the basic things, like her psych evaluation results and her compliance to the requirement for all public servants to have a complete record of Statements of Assets, Liabilities and Net Worth (SALNs), De Castro is eminently qualified. As far as basic requirements to be a civil servants alone, De Castro already beats Sereno hands down.<br />
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You wonder then: <i>What is the problem with these Yellowtards?</i><br />
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The problem with the Yellowtards is that all they really want is to get back to power. The welfare of the Philippines is likely to be the farthest from their minds. This is why they think nothing of kicking up another impeachment complaint against several Supreme Court Justices. The end to which they take this effort is a mystery. Actually it isn't. The Yellowtards just want power.benign0http://www.blogger.com/profile/08022916216097762181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383321545489778875.post-82436321239854844412018-08-28T13:02:00.000+10:002018-08-28T13:02:24.155+10:00Here are 4 monuments to the Yellowtard narrative that Filipinos need to reevaluate...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's high time Filipinos who have had enough with the Yellowtards decide on the fate of certain monuments and icons that they have been subject to for many years!<br />
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The 500-peso bill...<br />
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The Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA)...<br />
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The EDSA Shrine...<br />
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Ninoy Aquino Monument, Makati...<br />
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Indeed, the time has come for Filipinos to decide whether or not they would like to continue to live under the banner of an obsolete narrative!benign0http://www.blogger.com/profile/08022916216097762181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383321545489778875.post-27980414107920424562018-08-28T08:31:00.001+10:002018-08-28T08:31:27.606+10:00On #NationalHeroesDay, Filipinos should understand the difference between a "martyr" and a "hero"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It seems Filipinos are a bit confused about the two notions and they seem to owe that confusion to (1) the imprecision of their “national language” and (2) their deeply-religious collective character.<br />
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Indeed, the imprecise way Filipinos evaluate concepts is evident in the flaccid nature of their national “debate”. The country’s foremost “thought leaders” habitually go off on shrill “activist” campaigns on the back of ill-defined and sloppily-framed premises. The messiness with which Filipino thinkers chart the discourse continues to contribute to the wishy-washiness of Filipinos’ concept of what defines their nationhood. This is why “heroes” and “martyrs” matter a lot to the Philippines’ cadre of politically-passionate “thought leaders” — because grounding of advocacies, movements, and political platforms on the theatrics of melodrama is easier. It is definitely easier than doing the hard intellectual heavy-lifting of framing issues properly and intelligently.<br />
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Thus, Filipinos’ most revered historical characters are mere martyrs — people who died. Absent from the Philippines’ nationalist rhetoric, however, is a strong martial tradition.benign0http://www.blogger.com/profile/08022916216097762181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383321545489778875.post-38162850137130249692018-08-25T14:03:00.000+10:002018-08-25T14:03:01.179+10:00Even back in 2015, Naga City was already engulfed by a crime epidemic that kept its residents gripped by fear<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A report published on <i>Bicol Today</i> way back in 2015 cited Naga City as "<a href="http://bicoltoday.com/2015/09/18/naga-regions-most-dangerous-city-police-region-5-report-2/" target="_blank">the most dangerous city in the Bicol region</a>".<br />
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“Naga has the highest number of index crimes as compared to other Bicol cities.” Police region 5 statistics said. </blockquote>
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Naga police and Mayor John Bonggat cannot be contacted for comment regarding Naga’s new imputed bad image.</blockquote>
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Joey Natividad, editor of the publication went on to <a href="http://bicoltoday.com/2015/10/02/on-why-naga-city-is-dangerous/" target="_blank">write</a> about the fear gripping residents of the City of Naga at the time...<br />
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It is the FEAR felt by a Naguenio mother that her high school son may be beaten up by a gang of street addicts on his way home from school. It is the WORRY felt by a mother that her college girl student might get molested by a co-passenger inside a tricycle. It is APPREHENSION by a young professional that, by walking the street in downtown Naga, his laptop computer might be snatched by thieves riding- in- tandem on motorcycle. The same fear felt by a Naguenio family that, planning to spend their one-week vacation in Manila, they might return home to Naga and discover that their home would be ransacked by thieves.</blockquote>
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It should be noted that in 2015, a Yellowtard president, Mr Benigno Simeon 'BS' Aquino III was in power. At the time, it was only a small paper, <i>Bicol Today</i> that was crying out for help on behalf of the beleaguered residents of this city -- a cry that evidently fell on deaf ears amongst the officials of the then adminstration and the editors of big corporate Yellowtard news organisations.benign0http://www.blogger.com/profile/08022916216097762181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383321545489778875.post-54875041799939724942018-08-24T18:54:00.000+10:002018-08-24T18:54:16.813+10:00Millennials should MOVE ON because Martial Law chatter is irrelevant to their future prosperity<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As Rod Stewart once crooned in an address to "young hearts": <i>time is on your side</i>. This is really the only thing truly relevant to young people who have everything to look forward to and only lessons to learn from the past.<br />
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There is a big difference, however, between learning lessons history has to teach and being paralysed by imagined "historical parallels". The latter is essentially what old-fart Martial Law Crybabies are trying to do. They are emotionally-<i>blackmailing</i> young Filipinos into believing that the "evils" of authoritarianism continue to loom in the horizon and, like the fear of damnation that is a key feature of the particularly primitive way Filipinos practice their Catholicism, enjoin them to remain fearful of that ever-possible dark future.<br />
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This they do, not out of a genuine concern for the well-being of the future generation, but to further their political ends. We see this in the Yellowtards' astounding willingness to overlook electoral fraud perpetrated in past elections. People genuinely concerned about the future health of Philippine democracy wouldn't allow even a smidgen of fraud to to taint their electoral process. Yet, here we see today's Yellowtards turning a blind eye to a huge blight on their national elections.<br />
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Indeed, young Filipinos -- "millennials" as they are called today -- should move on and face the future with courage and curiosity. There are some things to learn from their parents' generation's politics. But, for the most part, their parents and grandparents have failed to institute the sort of politics that befits the modern and progressive nation young people aspire to build.<br />
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Young people should not frame their thinking with the thinking that, to begin with, created the problems they inherit today.benign0http://www.blogger.com/profile/08022916216097762181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383321545489778875.post-63965343633126610152018-08-23T22:01:00.000+10:002018-08-23T22:01:02.615+10:00Winning a Twitter poll is one thing. But can Yellowtards win a REAL election?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Yellowtard Netizens are rallying trolls to vote on various Twitter and online polls to prove that their "leader" Leni Robredo is the fairest of them all. This, plus other polls that make respondents decide between a Yellowtard position and some other position on various issues <a href="https://twitter.com/PinoyAkoBlog/status/1032593422719373312?s=19" target="_blank">preoccupy the minds</a> of Netizens nowadays...<br />
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The question remains, however: Can the Yellowtards win a <i>real</i> election?<br />
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That remains to be seen. Activity on Twitter and other social media platforms have long been notorious for being unreliable indicators of the public sentiment. It brings to question whether the energies being expended by so-called "thought leaders" of the Opposition constitute an optimal deployment of resources.<br />
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Do the Opposition even have a coherent election winning machine and a platform to back an effective bid in the coming elections? These are the more important questions these people should be asking themselves.benign0http://www.blogger.com/profile/08022916216097762181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383321545489778875.post-27255541616012706322018-08-23T20:58:00.000+10:002018-08-23T20:58:59.703+10:00Should Filipinos "move on" from the alleged "atrocities" of the "Martial Law regime"?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The answer to that question depends on whether or not there still are options to do something to bring some sort of closure to the heartaches of the Martial Law Crybabies.<br />
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It seems, however, that while the Philippine Opposition led by the Yellowtards continue their shrill campaign keeping Martial Law Crybabyism a dominant aspect of their campaign, they evidently fail to offer a roadmap to achieving that closure. What more can be done if after more than 30 years of Yellowtard domination of the Philippines' political narrative, they have failed to contain the influence of the Marcos family which steadily grew over this period despite the Yellowtards' vehement efforts?<br />
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Perhaps one of the Yellowtard politicians should run on a platform that promises justice for so-called Martial Law "vicitms", vows to prosecute the Marcos family, and aims to sequester whatever wealth the Martial Law Crybabies claim this family still possess.<br />
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If the Yellowtards are convinced of the Marcoses' guilt, then they should walk their talk and field a slate and campaign to back that conviction. Otherwise, all they ever be will be no more than a bunch of baying Crybabies. And history will remember them as nothing more than just that.benign0http://www.blogger.com/profile/08022916216097762181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383321545489778875.post-375619892328842182018-08-22T22:10:00.000+10:002018-08-22T22:10:34.241+10:00The Philippine Roman Catholic Church serves the Liberal Party and its cadre of Yellowtards<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Even just the profusion of the colour Yellow in Santo Domingo Church last Tuesday, the 21st of August (death anniversary of Benigno 'Ninoy' Aquino Jr) could make one conclude that the Philippines' Roman Catholic Church is a partisan organisation. It routinely provides a venue for the poltical events of the Liberal Party (a.k.a. the Yellowtards) and, in this particular instance, provided a platform for the politically-charged rhetoric of partisan leaders gathered there to commemorate the occasion.<br />
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Filipinos need to get to the bottom of this evidently profound relationship between the Yellowtards and the Roman Catholic Church. The Church is a powerful organisation that commands the fear and awe of the vast majority of a country of 100 million. Its mandate is to serve the spiritual needs of this people. What it is doing, however, is perverting that mandate towards poltical ends.<br />
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An organisation such as the Catholic Church being involved in national politics is a dangerous thing considering its officials are bound by a vow of obedience to the head of a foreign government, the Pope.<br />
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It's time Filipinos come to grips with the true agenda of the Roman Catholic Church. Whilst Yellowtard "activists" rail against Chinese incursion into the Philippines' sovereign interests and the communists rail against US "meddling" and continued "imperialism", nobody seems to be taking the Church, itself a vassal of a foreign government, to task for its own influence peddling in Philippine politics.benign0http://www.blogger.com/profile/08022916216097762181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383321545489778875.post-8298272043363713322018-08-22T12:55:00.002+10:002018-08-22T12:55:36.120+10:00Wondering why the Marcoses aren't in prison? Simple. Ask the Yellowtards. #RememberNinoy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's become fashionable nowadays to wax poetic about the "horrors" of the "Martial Law years" and how these alleged horrors continue to cast a shadow over Philippine politics today. That has been a talent of Yellowtardom exhibited over the last 30 years -- keeping Martial Law Crybabyism <i>fashionable</i>.<br />
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The reality is more confronting, however. The shrill din of Martial Law Crybabies masks a more stark reality -- that under the watch of the Yellowtards, none of the supposed "injustices" perpetrated under the "Marcos regime" were rectified.<br />
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Now we see them issuing their lame melodramatic laments around the continued prominence of the Marcoses in Philippine politics. Yet none of them question who actually failed to put them in prison (if, in fact, they deserved to be imprisoned to begin with).<br />
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For that matter, one wonders: why all the noise about the Marcoses when what is really astounding is the <i>silence</i> surrounding Marcos's top Martial Law henchmen -- Juan Ponce Enrile and Fidel Ramos? The earlier is a former Senate President and the latter a former Philippine President.<br />
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If anything, it is the Yellowtards who have much to answer for when it comes to taking stock of "injustice" in the Philippines. They were, after all, the dominant oligarchs over much of Philippine history post 1986. It's time for the <i>right</i> questions to be asked.benign0http://www.blogger.com/profile/08022916216097762181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383321545489778875.post-60255767305666452372018-08-18T10:20:00.001+10:002018-08-18T10:20:50.464+10:00Why doesn't Leni Robredo respond to claims that she is "incompetent"? Because she can't!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The qualifications and abilities of "vice president" Leni Robredo, who is but a heartbeat away from the presidency if, indeed, she won the 2016 elections <i>honestly</i>, has long been a subject of intense debate.<br />
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No less than the president has <a href="https://amp-smh-com-au.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.smh.com.au/world/asia/duterte-hopes-to-hand-presidency-to-dictator-ferdinand-marcos-son-20180817-p4zy3n.html?amp_js_v=a2&amp_gsa=1#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&ampshare=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.smh.com.au%2Fworld%2Fasia%2Fduterte-hopes-to-hand-presidency-to-dictator-ferdinand-marcos-son-20180817-p4zy3n.html" target="_blank">raised this concern</a>...<br />
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Duterte has repeatedly questioned Robredo's suitability for the job. Robredo has said that she doesn't want to dignify Duterte's attacks against her, and instead urged the President to focus on the economy.</blockquote>
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...and, as can be observed, Robredo's response is typical of someone who actually has <i>no response</i>.<br />
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Indeed, her sidestepping the question by, instead, telling the president to "focus on the economy" comes with a bit of irony. On many occasions, Robredo has proven herself to be quite mathematically-challenged, botching reckoning of relatively simple arithmetical puzzles. As such, it is highly doubtful that she could, herself, focus on "the economy" if her life -- or administration -- depended on it.<br />
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Why can't Robredo simply prove that she is competent enough to hold the position she was supposedly elected to? The mystery endures...benign0http://www.blogger.com/profile/08022916216097762181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383321545489778875.post-58662167984067830702018-08-17T12:39:00.001+10:002018-08-17T12:39:59.272+10:00Nothing wrong with Duterte "endorsing" a successor other than the incompetent Leni Robredo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Yellowtards are up in arms over a statement Duterte made where he said that "vice president" Leni Robredo "cannot improve on anything here" if, presumably, she succeeds him as president if he decides to step down before his term as president ends.<br />
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The Yellowtards should lighten up. They were the ones, after all, who popularised a tradition of implementing changes in leadership <i>extra-constitutionally</i>. They managed to seize power this way no less than twice. Counted among their leaders too is famed convicted mutineer Antonio Trillanes who for much of the early 2000s tried to launch military coups against then President Gloria Arroyo.<br />
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It does not help that Filipino vice presidents are elected separately. It means presidents cannot count on their emergency successors to continue their work. The system is flawed this way. As such, nobody can blame any sitting president for looking upon their respective VPs with anything more than polite tolerance.<br />
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In the case of Leni Robredo, there really isn't anything much about her that holds promise for the Philippines. Filipinos are therefore entitled to explore options and need not be held prisoner by a piece of paper dating back to 1987. This is a lesson they will have learned really well from the Yellowtards themselves. Ironic, right?benign0http://www.blogger.com/profile/08022916216097762181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383321545489778875.post-50849960231169081352018-08-15T21:36:00.001+10:002018-08-15T21:36:46.458+10:00What would "vice president" Leni Robredo do as president?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Short of whatever surprise Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte may have up his sleeve, "vice president" Leni Robredo is set to take over as "president" of the Philippines if Duterte steps down. That Duterte would hint that a possible military junta could take over after he steps down can be interpreted as meaning that this possibility is actually a remote one. Who would, after all, reveal what would normally be a top secret plot if one such is indeed in the works?<br />
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The question is, what kind of "president" would Robredo be? From the flaccid leadership she has so far exhibited, things don't look too promising. She will be a pussycat in a den of lions to say the least.<br />
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Such is the luck of Filipinos. They cannot even find a good leader within their 100-million strong lot.<br />
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Even supporters of Duterte are baffled as to why he'd even think out loud about stepping down. One would think that a President who won the trust of enough voters to be given the opportunity to lead a people would be committed to the task over the agreed terms.<br />
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The least the Duterte administration could do is ensure that a competent replacement is found if, indeed, Duterte plans to step down before he completes his term in 2022.benign0http://www.blogger.com/profile/08022916216097762181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383321545489778875.post-57066844188019530922018-08-15T16:11:00.000+10:002018-08-15T16:12:33.943+10:00Will the Yellowtards get in bed with House Speaker Gloria Arroyo just to beat President Duterte and prevent a Marcos presidency?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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One of the options being proposed from various quarters is for the Yellowtards led by "vice president" Leni Robredo to form an alliance with House Speaker Gloria Arroyo to "topple" the administration of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. This is a possible strategy to exploit what seems to be an emerging opportunity in light of recent statements made by Duterte that he is wanting to step down from office.<br />
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The more important thing proponents of this marriage of convenience see is that it could block Bongbong Marcos's path to the presidency. Marcos's mounting pressure on Robredo's hold on the office of the VP is making Robredo's claim to the presidency should Duterte step down quite precarious. Furthermore, she has so far failed to show any ability to consolidate power and even step up to exhibiting convincing leadership over a fragmented and rudderless Opposition.<br />
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The trouble with this proposal is that it is a shortsighted tactic that promises nothing over the long term. Politicians who seize or ascend to power in such a way are inherently dishonest as they are essentially putting one over the Filipino public.<br />
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Filipinos should wisen up and learn to see through stunts like these. Only idiots and dishonest people advocate such bald forms of crooked politics.benign0http://www.blogger.com/profile/08022916216097762181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383321545489778875.post-25800691986558883692018-08-15T12:35:00.000+10:002018-08-15T12:35:42.673+10:00Do the Philippines' Catholic Bishops deserve kicks in the ass? Yes they do!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Bishops of the Philippines' Roman Catholic Church do indeed deserve a wake up call. If that call comes in the form of a boot up their asses, then so be it. <i>Amen!</i><br />
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The Philippines' Catholic hierarchy have long presided over the delivery of misleading and often downright <i>false</i> information. They have, for example, fought tooth-and-nail against measures to implement long-overdue population control measures and reproductive health initiatives to empower and improve the lives of tens of millions of impoverished Filipinos.<br />
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This misinformation on a national scale is done via dishonest means -- using emotional blackmail and the exploitation of Filipinos' deeply-ingrained religious and superstitious fears. They deliver their drivel through the abuse of a popular Filipino Sunday pasttime -- the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Rather than focus on sermons that delve into spiritual matters, Filipino priests use the pulpit to spew the Church's position on matters of national politics.<br />
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It is time Filipinos say <b>ENOUGH</b> to the Philippine Catholic Church's abuse of the trust Filipinos have placed upon it to look after their <i>spiritual</i> needs. Time to kick the asses of these dishonest bishops!benign0http://www.blogger.com/profile/08022916216097762181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383321545489778875.post-60630866147488671952018-08-15T08:52:00.000+10:002018-08-15T08:52:05.696+10:00Crooked COMELEC-governed elections are Philippine democracy's broken backbone<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Philippines is supposedly a "democracy". This is an assertion continuously made with pride by the Yellowtards -- rabid supporters of the Aquino-Cojuangco feudal clan who claim ownership of the 1986 "people power revolution" that supposedly "restored" democracy after two decades of supposedly authoritarian rule.<br />
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It is therefore ironic that no less than the Yellowtards themselves are behind the continued immunity enjoyed by officials of the Philippines' Commision on Elections (COMELEC) from scrutiny following decades of overseeing fraudulent elections. This coddling of election fraudsters and their equally crooked technology partners is especially acute today in light of the single foothold to power the Yellowtards are desperately propping up.<br />
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The current "vice president" Leni Robredo is widely seen to be a beneficiary of the COMELEC Mafia. She was catapulted to power by the COMELEC under the watch of its then chairman Andy Bautista who has since fled overseas presumably to escape the law. Robredo had also enjoyed an arbitrary waive on a rule prohibiting politicians taking office if they fail to submit a Statement of Contributions and Expenditures (SOCE) before an irrevocable deadline imposed by the COMELEC. The Liberal Party under which she ran for office in 2016 had failed to comply to that rule but thanks to "friendly" COMELEC officials at the time, she is now the regarded by her friends as the Philippines' "vice president".<br />
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Indeed, Philippine democracy is broken. It is broken at its very spine thanks to spineless COMELEC officials and their crooked sponsors and defenders.benign0http://www.blogger.com/profile/08022916216097762181noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383321545489778875.post-58417003963485877992018-08-15T00:30:00.000+10:002018-08-15T00:30:15.692+10:00Incompetent "vice president" Leni Robredo at the centre of a succession crisis gripping the Philippines<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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What are Filipinos to do? On many occassions, current Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has expressed his weariness with his job raising the possibility that he would step down given the opportunity. The trouble is, the person supposedly set to replace him should this happen, the current "vice president" Leni Robredo, is seen my many Filipinos as being too <i>incompetent</i> to fill as vital a role as President of the Philippines.<br />
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Robredo has so far failed to exhibit any sort of leadership or statesmanship chops befitting a potential president of a nation of 100 million. Despite being seen to be "leader" of the Opposition, she has exhibited no evidence that she is up to that job either. For that matter, the idea of a "vice president" leading the Opposition does not even make sense to begin with!<br />
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To make matters worse, evidence is mounting that Robredo may not even be the legitimate Vice President. Charges of fraud perpetrated back during the 2016 elections continue to bring to question her claim to the office. Even if Robredo eventually finds herself replacing Duterte as president, those fraud allegations will likely cast a pall upon her administration making what is already a lame duck even lamer.<br />
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If there is anyone who actually should be resigning, it should be Leni Robredo. She needs to make way for a more credible process to legitimise a true Philippine Vice President and relieve Filipinos of their crisis of leadership succession.benign0http://www.blogger.com/profile/08022916216097762181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383321545489778875.post-69436061125708473732018-08-14T08:22:00.000+10:002018-08-14T08:22:41.133+10:00First NutriAsia, now communist-backed workers of Liwayway Marketing Corp (Oishi products) are on strike! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It is starting to look like the proverbial array of dominoes of Cold War yore that were likened to the foreseen falling of the chain of Indochinese and southeast Asian nations to the scourge of communism. Filipino communists seem to be on the advance. And they are infesting the labour unions of an increasing number of large Filipino manufacturing enterprises.<br />
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The next domino <a href="https://twitter.com/anakbayan_ph/status/1029017046225281027?s=19" target="_blank">teetering under the spectre of crippling labour unrest</a> is Liwayway Marketing Corp., (makers of Oishi)...<br />
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It seems the Philippines' communists have found ample opportunity to create the sort of instability in Philippine society upon which to launch their so-called "people's revolution" which remains the singular objective of their cause.<br />
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An unstable society where unemployment is high serves as fertile ground for a communist uprising, and here we see the seeds of such a morass. Communists are not interested in working with mainstream free-market society toward progress. They only want revolution that leads to the establishment of a dictatorship of the proletariat. They are a disease that should be eradicated from Philippine society.benign0http://www.blogger.com/profile/08022916216097762181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383321545489778875.post-57514116800707343522018-08-13T21:57:00.000+10:002018-08-13T21:57:56.491+10:00Why look to the President in times of bad weather?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Pounding monsoon rains and typhoons are a routine occurrence in the Philippines. By now, Filipinos should have disaster response down pat at the local level. Yet, year in and year out, Filipinos are consistently caught flat-footed by the next storm or flood. And everytime it is to whoever is sitting in Malacanang that they look to for salvation.<br />
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The worst thing about calls to current Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte today is that most of it is being issued by "influencers" of the Opposition with a tinge of malice. The calls are not genuine. They are delivered with scorn with the intent to entrap rather than contribute to ameliorating a bad situation.<br />
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It is easy to see through the nefarious agenda of Yellowtards who try to "trend" hashtags like #NasaanAngPangulo on social media. Their intent is to lure Duterte into a damn-if-you-do-damn-if-you-don't debacle. He shows up and makes a statement and they nitpick it to pieces. He doesn't show up and he's suddenly an "absent president". You can't win.<br />
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Calls for the president to be visible in times of crisis are legitimate calls. But coming from a malicious Opposition such as this one led by the Yellowtards, such calls are no more than just poison.benign0http://www.blogger.com/profile/08022916216097762181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383321545489778875.post-41038851094462795362018-08-12T17:36:00.000+10:002018-08-12T17:36:04.019+10:00Martial Law Crybabies should stop judging @MsLeaSalonga<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So what if top Filipino singer Lea Salonga rose to the pinnacle of achievement in the performing arts under the "regime" of former President Ferdinand Marcos? The Philippines, after all, experienced its Golden Age of locally-produced music under over that era.<br />
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All that is beside the point, however. The Yellowtards who comprise the majority of the members of the shrill Martial Law Crybaby community <a href="https://twitter.com/benign0/status/1028071639160745985?s=19" target="_blank">can't really tell the difference between what is objectively "bad" and what they merely don't like</a>. Indeed, mixed into their brew of confused morality and ethical frames is the Medieval idea of "evil" which, they think, if attributed to something they unilaterally don't like automatically gives them the moral ascendancy to condemn.<br />
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Yellowtards are an intellectual disease in Philippine society. They hijack entire issues and apply their twisted sense of morality to the discourse surrounding it to the point where the entire discussion is muddled in a toxic brew of infantile emotionalism.<br />
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The fact is, following the <i>coup d'état</i> in which Yellowtard heroine Cory Aquino seized power, saw the beginning of the Dark Ages of Filipino performing arts. The next 30 years over which Yellowtardism blanketed the cultural landscape of the Philippines would see no more than brain-dead cinema and dumbed down teleseryes that turned Filipinos into a people vulnerable to the Kool Aid served to them by the Aquino-Cojuangco clan packaged into what is now known as the Yellowtard Narrative. The rest is history.benign0http://www.blogger.com/profile/08022916216097762181noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8383321545489778875.post-26903498998984016232018-08-12T13:33:00.000+10:002018-08-12T13:33:23.626+10:00Stop it already with "resilience" sloganeering whenever disaster strikes!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As expected, the notion of "resilience" is again being touted as the Filipino virtue on exhibit as torrential rains pound Metro Manila and as floodwaters rise. Thus Filipinos' idea of "coping" with disaster is doing nothing during sunny days and being "resilient" during rainy days.</div>
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The trouble with being assured of the goodness and blessedness of being "resilient" during one disaster or the next is that it lulls people into a bizarre sense of hollow superiority over an adverse situation. Under such a mentality, the adversity Filipinos face is seen to be a kind of an "evil" that they expect to overcome on the basis of an ill-placed sense of righteousness that entitles them to victory.</div>
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Sounds baffling? That's because it is. It is no more baffling than the reality that Filipinos undergo the same preventable disasters year in and year out with hardly any change in the manner and quality of their response to it.</div>
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"Resilience" is no longer a sanctuary to distract from the reality that Filipinos have not done enough to respond intelligently to what is essentially a technical problem that can be solved using technical solutions.</div>
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When you charm a snake make sure you don't turn your back to it. That's what happened to the Yellowtards. In supporting Carlos Celdran's "Damaso" stunt, they foolishly turned their back towards the beast they had gotten in bed with.<br />
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The Roman Catholic Church, after all, makes friends only with those who toe the line. The "prayerful" branding of the Yellowtards was consistent with this line. Not Celdran's stunt, however. Even the nuns that pad the street rallies Yellowtards are famous for wouldn't have approved of a social media caricature disrupting a religious event.<br />
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This is the whole trouble with using personalities as currency for one's advocacies, politics, and ideologies. Personalities are not stable. Principles usually are. Unfortunately Filipinos find using the latter as bases for their convictions as too difficult. Too much brain is needed for that.benign0http://www.blogger.com/profile/08022916216097762181noreply@blogger.com0