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Why should Malacanang ban Rappler "reporter" Pia Ranada? Here are three key reasons among many others... (1) Rappler has a case pending with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) related to violations of regulation that bars media organisations from receiving funds from foreign entities in exchange for some measure of management control. (2) Rappler has been caught out defending the sloppy reporting of its "reporter" Carmela Fonbuena after she made baseless allegations that Special Assistant to the President Bong Go "intervened" in a Philippine Navy project. (3) Rappler led the spreading of misinformation surrounding the alleged "victims" of the Duterte administration's "war on drugs" and has not responded to questions raised about the soundness of numbers that it "reported" and fed to the foreign media about so-called "extrajudicial killings" (EJKs). Fellow Rapplerette Natashya Gutierrez...

How can you have a balanced discussion on #FactsMatterPH in the Philippines when you convene such an inbred bunch of "resource persons" in an uppity university campus and have the event streamed by suspect corporate media organisations?? Apparently anything is possible when you are as thick as the organisers of the the so-called conference on "Democracy and Disinformation (Why 'fake news' and other forms of disinformation threaten our freedoms and how to fight back)". The conference will be held Monday and Tuesday this week at the chi-chi Ateneo de Manila campus in Makati City. As can be seen in the poster above, the attendee list consists of familiar names -- names associated with the same clique of media oligarchs, discredited "joirnalists", and liberal activists allied with the Liberal Party led by the Old Guard of "influencers" loyal to the Aquino-Cojuangco feudal clan that lorded over the Philippines from their ivory tower...

More evidence is emerging that the rudderless Philippine Opposition are scraping the bottom of the barrel in their efforts to find arguments to "oppose" the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte. The most recent flypaper issue Opposition "activists" are buzzing around is a photo of Duterte hugging his daughter. The photo was shared by Duterte's partner Honeylet Avanceña and featured in an ABS-CBN News   report . Not to miss an opportunity to make a superficial splash in the political discourse, Opposition Nerizen "Superficial Gazette" let loose a vicious meme showing various pro-administration personalities' faces photoshopped onto the photo. The photo is captioned by the following tweet... By releasing pictures of him hugging his daughter, #PresidentDuterte tries to humanize himself in the eyes of Filipinos. But it can never erase his inhuman destruction of this country.  Here's a look at what's actually going on. #...

A screen shot of what looks like a tweet posted -- then subsequently deleted -- by the Twitter account of top Opposition blog Pinoy Ako Blog  (PAB) hinted at a wish that Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and his entire family to would perish in a plane crash. Translated in English, the text before the smileys in the purported tweet reads, "To be fair, at least if he dies during the trip, he'll be with his family in death." It is interesting to note that Jover Laurio, the person behind PAB , was named Filipino of the Year by the Inquirer . For the record, the author of this post  did reach out to her supporters to seek assistance in getting a statement from Laurio regarding the above purported tweet. [ Update : The offending tweet is still online as of this update and can be accessed here .]

In a tweet , Tonyo Cruz made assumptions upon assumptions about the circumstances surrounding Deakin's photo with Bongbong Marcos, et al . The photo had apparently sent  the whole community of Martial Law Crybabies screeching  over this  latest  outrage  fad. On these, Cruz built conclusions that are, as expected, flawed and, because he issues them in a tweet, possibly libelous . James Deakin, please don’t portray yourself as a victim of hate. Please lang. Konting perspective naman. Maraming buhay ang sinira ng BFF mong si BBM at ang pamilya nya. The Marcoses destroyed Toyota. They plundered the economy. Why do PR for BBM wittingly or unwittingly? The tweet refers to appeal for sobriety posted on Facebook by Deakin where perfectly valid points were made that put the photo in proper perspective -- perspective that escapes the Taliban-like logic of "social justice warriors" like Cruz. So I woke up to a whole Twitterverse of hate this morning. All based...

It's easy to see why campus newspapers in Philippine universities are dismissed as communist propaganda vehicles. Their editors are members of an obviously communist-run "College Editors' Guild of the Philippines". In a recent rally organised by this "guild"  reported by TV Patrol , the Cold War era slogans on the placards on display reveals their leanings... When will these bozos learn? When will they at least apply of innovation to their activism?

Writer and pro-Duterte supporter KRIZETTE LAURETA CHU lauded the real Filipinos of the year after the Philippine Daily Inquirer acknowledged Pinoy Ako Blogger Jover Laurio through their very own survey: I'm so sorry to the fallen heroes of Marawi, to their suffering but dignified widows, to the evacuees who are trying to piece together their lives after terrorists attacked their city. I am so sorry to that group of young Filipino students and delegates who bested other nationalities in the international math competition in Singapore (Singapore, the birthplace of Singaporean style Math, and our kids won.) Im sorry to Hilary Andales, the student from Philsci Visayas, who brought home P20 million for winning the Breakthrough Challenge for an explainer video on relativity in a global science competition. Sorry to the Philippine ice hockey team who won a gold medal at the 2017 SEA GAMES. A surprise win, and a very welcome one. Sorry to Capt. Jeffrey Buada, the Scout Range...