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A message to Ateneo faculty member Nathania Chua a.k.a. @PilosopoTanya

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Dear Nathania Chua:

My professor in "Global Poverty, Local Solutions" did field work in poverty stricken areas in the Philippines. During our first day, when I introduced myself as a Filipino, he told me this immediately: "One of the major problems in your country is that the elite in your country is so full of themselves."

The Ateneo de Manila University is one of the schools where the elite are educated. I noticed that you are an Assistant Instructor there. I fear for the future of our country with you as the teacher of our future elite. What a horrifying future for our motherland!

So when I worry about how hard it is for the laylayan in our lipunan to advance in our society, I'll always think of you and imagine how you have connived in perpetuating a system that constantly rewards matapobres.  A University that doesn't see any problem with a DOJ Secretary fncking her subordinate, her married subordinate, is a university doomed to produce the same elite …
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Jo Lapira: youth wasted on Joma Sison's bankrupt communist ideology

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“Youth is wasted on the young”, they used to say. If you send your daughter or son, to universities, like the University of the Philippines. You send him or her, to learn about the subjects, of the field, he/she is hoping to finish and graduate. Not waste his/her time on bankrupt political ideologies like communism.

Jo Lapira, the NPA casualty is a good example. Her parents, may have been slaving to earn money to send her, to college and give her a good education, so that, after graduation, she could have a good job and a good career, to better her life.

However, she wasted this opportunity in her life fighting for an ideology she hardly understood. She wasted her life; and now her life ends tragically, in a clash with the AFP.

Those who still believe this communist ideology is the panacea of our country’s problems should realise that this communist ideology is a failed ideology. It has been tested, and the communist theory of workers’ utopia, is a Delusion, and a Mirage. What you se…
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Leni Robredo's lack of social graces is her worst enemy!

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Sometimes I wonder if the person behind Leni Robredo’s PR strategy is her biggest campaign donor Kris Aquino.

Robredo’s style is very showbiz, very “The Buzz”: She makes up her own issue, then she goes around answering it. No matter how stupid it is.

This Vin D’Honneur thing was started yesterday by Robredo’s own office when they issued a statement that sh e was disinvited.

Now, Robredo is going around giving interviews saying “ayaw ko na palakihin”.

But at the same time, she’s the one going on and on about how badly she was treated, even if no one’s asking.

Just watch this.

Artista talaga. Even Kris Aquino took years to reach this level of ka-cheapan.

Rubbing elbows with the alta sociedad hasn’t taught Leni any social graces. When you’re not invited to a function (or if you’re disinvited), the worst thing you can do is talk about it. Talking about it only makes you look cheap and desperate.

This was another ploy to get sympathy, no doubt, just like her marathon media appearances aft…
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A strong call to Sen. Leila de Lima to explain AWFUL crime statistics under her watch

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Dear Sen. De Lima,

In the light of the countless massacres, ejk, & bombings which proliferated in 2010-2015, the Filipino as a nation cannot negate that these senseless killings were clear phenomenon during your stint as DOJ Secretary under Tuwid na Daan.

We want to hear from you & from the previous admin re: the following:

》CRIME RATE up by 350% (2010 to 2014):
¤ 2010 : 324,083
¤ 2014 : 1,160,000

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》DRUG ADDICTS:
¤ 2012 : +/- 1,700,000
¤ 2016 : +/- 3,700,000

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》RAPE CASES (92% up in 4 years):
¤ 2010 : 5,132
¤ 2014 : 9,875
¤ NOTE: 70% of the victims are children

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》VICTIMS of Riding-in-Tandem:
¤ 2010 :  1,819 victims of riding-in-tandem
¤ 2011 :  2,089 victims of riding-in-tandem
¤ 2013 :  3,000 victims of riding-in-tandem

Worse--

》 CRIME SOLUTION Efficiency Rate (based on Phil. Statistics Authority)

¤ 2004 : 89.86%
¤ 2005 : 88.79%
¤ 2012 : 36.67%
¤ 2013 : 28.56%

Pray tell, where were you then and what have you & Human Rights groups done at that time?

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