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Forget SWS, Here’s The Great ACS Survey: ChowKing or Tapa King?

If you’re sick and tired of politics and surveys, you’re not alone.The good news is that we have just the right thing for you: another survey. Not just any survey like the SWS, but a juicy, delicious and apolitical survey: Kris Aquino vs. Baste Duterte.Well, not really. It’s a survey of your fast food preference between two kings: ChowKing and Tapa King.So go ahead, vote in our ACS (Adobo Chronicles Survey) poll and let us know which of the two fastfood chains you prefer. Or which endorser — Aquino or Duterte!

['Pol Pinoy']

10/10/2017 0:00

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Filipina Slams Job Applicant For Not Being Fluent in English, Says She's Only Fit For DH Work

One Filipina earned the ire of her countrymen after her rant she posted on her Facebook went viral. The said post insults and belittles a job applicant with a 4-year education degree who she said is not fluent in English language.According to her, the job applicant is not fit to work in Dubai as a tutor nanny but is only fit as a domestic helper i.e. housemaid.In her post, it appears that somebody she knows asked her for a favor to find a job in Dubai. It's not uncommon for OFW's to stand as 'backer' for other aspiring applicants who also wants to work abroad. Actually, this happens all the time in every career.But back to the rant of this certain Pinay. While being fluent in English is the whole point of becoming an English tutor, the whole point of being a good person is the way you treat others. If you treat someone like crap because they don't qualify for a certain job, then you become the crap.We must agree with this woman though, when she said that the applicants are not fit to be tutors but that does not give her the right to insult them.

['Vic Patnugot']

22/07/2016 0:00

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Donald Trump Wants To Patent Three Words

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, through his lawyers, has filed a patent application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), claiming ownership of three words he has consistently used in his campaign speeches.These words are:AmazingHugeUnbelievableIf his application is approved by USPTO, anyone who uses those any of the three words could be sued under the U.S. patent law, under Title 35 of the U.S. Code.

['Pol Pinoy']

22/07/2016 0:00

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#CocoyGate: Mar Roxas' “special assignments” for PR operator Joyce Ramirez

NOTE: I didn't proofread this article anymore. I'm too tired already.The Year was 2015Ramirez orders an attack?“For the first time in my life: I felt like an activist. I had to do something and ask the question: WHERE IS THE PRESIDENT? I was actually surprised that it became a viral hit. Let me tell you now, that was unintentional. We just posed the question out to the socialverse, hey WHERE is the President? Nothing is wrong with asking a question.”“Only fame whore, social climber would invent such claim.”“In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.”Like this, Joyce. LIKE THIS.Ramirez and PR Asia Worldwide Before we go any further, it’s worthy to note that Ramirez used #NasaanAngPangulo on her own company’s twitter accounts:Ramirez's company Publicy Asia / PRAsiaWorldwide owns @INTERXNShe even appeared to be glad that the hashtag was featured on TV Patrol!But of course, those two screenshots are just circumstantial evidence.We need more... and more is what I'll give you.Anyone other than Lopez? My mentor,DISCLAIMERS:I have several other sources aside from Lopez and these two, but I will not be using the information they gave just yet. As I've said, I don't lay all my cards at once.I will take every step to ensure that none of Ramirez’s post-Roxas clients will get entangled in this article, for the simple reason that they may not have been aware of Ramirez’s proclivities.If your name somehow gets entangled, don't blame me. Ask Joyce. Now that we've gotten that out of the way, the two additional sources I have for this article claim that they used to be part of Ramirez’s social media influencer fleet, but they had a falling out because Ramirez is a cheapskate, i.e. they said she doesn't pay people well.First Source spills beans on #NasaanAngPangulo I shall conceal the identities of the other two sources because doing otherwise may jeopardize their livelihood. I will, however, provide some relevant – VERY RELEVANT – screenshots.Both sources, who we shall call Source 1 and Source 2, were part of Ramirez's fleet of social media influencers, i.e. they were part of the twitter campaigns Ramirez commandeered. Referring to Ramirez, Source 1 said:“Nakalimutan nya yata na madaldal sya dati. Hahahaha! Kaya tigilan niya mga paninira n'ya dahil madaldal sya! Hahaha!” Source 1 then gave me three screenshots allegedly showing Ramirez’s instant messages (IMs) dated 29 January 2015. I have redacted other IMs to protect my source’s identity, then combined Ramirez’s IM’s into one neat graphic."INTERXN" is what Ramirez calls her fleet of social media influencers.Based on the screenshots, Ramirez wrote:“We have a special assignment. Can we trend 6PM later? It is special political operations.” Six p.m. of 29 January 2015? That's exactly what Lopez told me!Ramirez added:“Our assignment is to amplify that PNoy snubbed the 44 dead policemen.” Ramirez appears to be referring to the arrival of the bodies of 44 Special Action Forces (SAF) slain in the botched Mamasapano Clash. Pnoy was absent during the arrival ceremony, attending instead the opening of a car plant somewhere in South Luzon.Ramirez wrote:“Tweets about heroism, PNoy not showing up at the rites, being a coward, shame, etc.” I think it’s clear now that the supposed Twitter campaign is against Pnoy.“Big money on the line for the team as much as P250K (Php 250,000) each but per INTERXN policy each must present work delivery in prep for the elections.” Joyce may have been referring to her influencer fleet when she said “team” and the payment per influence when she said “P250K”.Interestingly, she said “in prep for the elections”. Was she intending to use a supposedly confidential black propaganda operation as marketing material from the onset?I mean, I dislike Roxas, but I kinda feel bad for him in this particular aspect of the matter.But we’re not done yet.#WishKoKayPNoy: 2nd Source, 2nd Campaign My second source, another former member of Ramirez’s social media influencer fleet, provided me screenshots of their group chats, where Ramirez appeared to be providing specific instructions for yet another anti-Pnoy social media black propaganda campaign.In the screenshot, Ramirez wrote:“Wag masyado hard sell kay Mar ha and pumili kayo matinong photos wag yung mukang stunt PR (sic). Act like news outlets.” Before we go any further, it’s worthy to note that Ramirez used #NasaanAngPangulo on her own company’s twitter accounts:Ramirez's company Publicy Asia / PRAsiaWorldwide owns @INTERXNShe even appeared to be glad that the hashtag was featured on TV Patrol!But of course, those two screenshots are just circumstantial evidence.My mentor, Manila Standard columnist and former editor-in-chief Jojo Robles , taught me how to treat sources. He said I should always wait for a second independent source to corroborate what my first source said. And because I am a very obedient student, I looked for not only one, but two other sources for this issue.Now that we've gotten that out of the way, the two additional sources I have for this article claim that they used to be part of Ramirez’s social media influencer fleet, but they had a falling out because Ramirez is a cheapskate, i.e. they said she doesn't pay people well.I shall conceal the identities of the other two sources because doing otherwise may jeopardize their livelihood. I will, however, provide some relevant – VERY RELEVANT – screenshots.Both sources, who we shall call Source 1 and Source 2, were part of Ramirez's fleet of social media influencers, i.e. they were part of the twitter campaigns Ramirez commandeered. Referring to Ramirez, Source 1 said:Source 1 then gave me three screenshots allegedly showing Ramirez’s instant messages (IMs) dated 29 January 2015. I have redacted other IMs to protect my source’s identity, then combined Ramirez’s IM’s into one neat graphic."INTERXN" is what Ramirez calls her fleet of social media influencers.Based on the screenshots, Ramirez wrote:Six p.m. of 29 January 2015? That's exactly what Lopez told me!Ramirez added:Ramirez appears to be referring to the arrival of the bodies of 44 Special Action Forces (SAF) slain in the botched Mamasapano Clash. Pnoy was absent during the arrival ceremony, attending instead the opening of a car plant somewhere in South Luzon.Ramirez wrote:I think it’s clear now that the supposed Twitter campaign is against Pnoy.Joyce may have been referring to her influencer fleet when she said “team” and the payment per influence when she said “P250K”.Interestingly, she said “in prep for the elections”. Was she intending to use a supposedly confidential black propaganda operation as marketing material from the onset?I mean, I dislike Roxas, but I kinda feel bad for him in this particular aspect of the matter.My second source, another former member of Ramirez’s social media influencer fleet, provided me screenshots of their group chats, where Ramirez appeared to be providing specific instructions for yet another anti-Pnoy social media black propaganda campaign.In the screenshot, Ramirez wrote:Ooohh, instructions to create fake news?The IM was accompanied by a sample tweet that reads:“Respeto at Hustisya para sa Fallen 44. #WishKoKayPNoy” The sample tweet included photos of Roxas taken during the SAF 44 arrival ceremonies.OOHHH, SNEAKY! Aktibista ka lang talaga, Joyce? Talaga lang?Orders from up above? Based on the evidence, Ramirez appeared to have machinated at least two Twitter campaigns against Roxas’s own principal, President Benigno Aquino III, with the second campaign launched barely a week after the first.Based on another screenshot, Joyce was acting on someone else’s orders, presumably from DILG Usec. Tom Villarin, basing on Lopez’s information.Ramirez wrote:“Eto daw #WishKoKayPNoy inject positive images na si Mar Roxas ang humarap sa burol so paki-Google photos positive spin for Mar pero wag hard sell or halata. Photos na lang ikalat no words let the people comment wag tayo.” One of her influencers replied with a photo, and Ramirez responded with:“Yes, mga ganyan. Discreet kundi aawayin tayo ng lahat.” Judging from the 08 February #WishKoKayPnoy sample tweet, this exchange of IMs happened around 08 February 2015.And yes, it appears that Mar Roxas is indeed the beneficiary of both Twitter campaigns.But Pnoy’s loyal minions in Malacañang seem to have caught wind of Ramirez’s online operations.The IM was accompanied by a sample tweet that reads:The sample tweet included photos of Roxas taken during the SAF 44 arrival ceremonies.Based on the evidence, Ramirez appeared to have machinated at least two Twitter campaigns against Roxas’s own principal, President Benigno Aquino III, with the second campaign launched barely a week after the first.Based on another screenshot, Joyce was acting on someone else’s orders, presumably from DILG Usec. Tom Villarin, basing on Lopez’s information.Ramirez wrote:One of her influencers replied with a photo, and Ramirez responded with:Judging from the 08 February #WishKoKayPnoy sample tweet, this exchange of IMs happened around 08 February 2015.And yes, it appears that Mar Roxas is indeed the beneficiary of both Twitter campaigns.But Pnoy’s loyal minions in Malacañang seem to have caught wind of Ramirez’s online operations.PNoy's Malacañang smells something fishy On 18 February 2015, or a little over a week later, Ramirez re-emerged in the group chat.Ramirez wrote:“Hello if any of you posted something anti government kindly delete cos people are accusing us of destabilization. Remember to always keep neutral. Delete muna any post na may government related content cos we are being monitored daw by government kahit wala naman tayo pinost na masama for your safety thanks.” Ok, hold on one second!FIRST, it’s clear that the two twitter campaigns #NasaanAngPangulo and #WishKoKayPnoy were intended to discredit then President Aquino, so I do not understand how Ramirez could say that “they’re not doing anything bad”.SECOND, it’s also difficult to understand how Ramirez’s fleet of influencers can “keep neutral”, since the two campaigns specifically are black propaganda. Thus, I can only surmise that Ramirez meant the exercise of greater subtlety among her minions.THIRD, it’s interesting that Ramirez seems to have acknowledged the presence of a Pnoy-era online monitoring team. Was Ramirez referring to the “Malacañang Call Center” that former PCDSPO chief Ricky Carandang reportedly created? Was Ramirez referring to the the same Aquino-era Malacañang Call Center where Palace-sponsored cyber operations – including troll operations – allegedly took place?And by the way, Pinoy Ako Blog’s On 18 February 2015, or a little over a week later, Ramirez re-emerged in the group chat.Ramirez wrote:Ok, hold on one second!, it’s clear that the two twitter campaigns #NasaanAngPangulo and #WishKoKayPnoy were intended to discredit then President Aquino, so I do not understand how Ramirez could say that “they’re not doing anything bad”.it’s also difficult to understand how Ramirez’s fleet of influencers can “keep neutral”, since the two campaigns specifically are black propaganda. Thus, I can only surmise that Ramirez meant the exercise of greater subtlety among her minions.it’s interesting that Ramirez seems to have acknowledged the presence of a Pnoy-era online monitoring team. Was Ramirez referring to the “Malacañang Call Center” that former PCDSPO chief Ricky Carandang reportedly created? Was Ramirez referring to the the same Aquino-era Malacañang Call Center where Palace-sponsored cyber operations – including troll operations – allegedly took place?And by the way, Pinoy Ako Blog’s Jover Laurio was seen with Carandang in 2015Laurio with Carandang.Coincidence? Ask Roosevelt.Coincidence? Ask Roosevelt.Regardless, what’s clear here is that whatever deal Ramirez had with the Roxas camp was more than just a one-off affair and that Ramirez loves sipping her own Kool-Aid.But it gets even more interesting from here.Like a scorned loverApparently referring to Roxas, Ramirez wrote:"Di man lang niya isipin puwede natin siya ituro for destabilization." In an earlier conversation and based onRamirez replied:“Told yah. It’s him.” According to the screenie, the influencer even offered to save the pictures as evidence.Ramirez also wrote:“Hard mo na masusuka tao sa kanya not branding.” Judging from his screenshot, Ramirez ordered the influencer to hard-sell Mar Roxas, which is the total opposite of her orders at the beginning, which was to subtly sell Mar Roxas and nothing more.Hard selling means blatantly and shamelessly promoting something. This tactic is generally frowned upon by the PR community because it is usually off-putting for target audience.Essentially, Ramirez seems to have instructed her influencers to hard sell Roxas, i.e. still fulfill her agreement with the Roxas camp while sabotaging it at the same time.Ramirez apparently went as far as threatening to preserve evidence about their transactions when she wrote:“Beat your own prof losers. Evidence pa ha. DILG making orders against PNoy so stupid.” Yes, at this point, it appears that Ramirez is sabotaging her own client.It's interesting that Ramirez has so much confidence on her PR skills. I mean, if she's really good, then why am I writing this article right now?But how did it come to this point? Why did these even happen?Money. Money, Money Another screenshot from 25 February 2015 provides more insight about the why behind the what:Based on the image, Ramirez wrote:“Ibabasura ko yang Mar hanggang ngayon di nagbabayad puro utos ang DILG ang kakapal.”Ramirez, presumably out of anger or sheer disappointment, called Mar a “squatter”. But another screenshot suggests that her vendetta didn’t end there:Ramirez wrote:“Villarin DILG Usec. Wala bayad as if. Sa sobrang galit ko pinadala ko kay VP Binay.” Ramirez posted an image showing her message to then Vice-president Jejomar Binay’s camp, which reads:“BayanMuna and the reaffirmist groups are one of the primary movers behind the oust Pnoy activities. They join VP Binay, Peping Cojuangco, GMA, the Napoles senators and corrupt businessmen like Bobby Ongpin in an unholy alliance to use the #saf44 as a way to oust PNoy. To the SAF, PNP, and AFP remember that these communists are the same ones responsible together with the NPA of (sic) killing thousands of your brothers in arms. Huwag magpapagamit sa mga communista!!!” I am not sure if Ramirez was telling the truth here, especially since she appears to be spiteful during the times those messages were sent. What’s clear, however, is that she may have committed a major mistake: she sent Binay a message that is against Binay.I guess that’s why my sources told me that the Binays never hired her.If I were a Binay and after seeing that, why the hell would I? VP Binay, good call!At some point, Ramirez seems to have become unhappy with her deal with Roxas’ camp, as evidenced by a screenshot of her chat with one of her then-closest influencers, provided to me by no less than that influencer himself/herself.Apparently referring to Roxas, Ramirez wrote:In an earlier conversation and based on pronoun antecedents , the influencer asked her if it’s really Mar Roxas who ordered the black propaganda campaigns:Ramirez replied:According to the screenie, the influencer even offered to save the pictures as evidence.Ramirez also wrote:Judging from his screenshot, Ramirez ordered the influencer to hard-sell Mar Roxas, which is the total opposite of her orders at the beginning, which was to subtly sell Mar Roxas and nothing more.Hard selling means blatantly and shamelessly promoting something. This tactic is generally frowned upon by the PR community because it is usually off-putting for target audience.Essentially, Ramirez seems to have instructed her influencers to hard sell Roxas, i.e. still fulfill her agreement with the Roxas camp while sabotaging it at the same time.Ramirez apparently went as far as threatening to preserve evidence about their transactions when she wrote:Yes, at this point, it appears that Ramirez is sabotaging her own client.But how did it come to this point? Why did these even happen?Another screenshot from 25 February 2015 provides more insight about the why behind the what:Based on the image, Ramirez wrote:But another screenshot suggests that her vendetta didn’t end there:Ramirez wrote:Ramirez posted an image showing her message to then Vice-president Jejomar Binay’s camp, which reads:I am not sure if Ramirez was telling the truth here, especially since she appears to be spiteful during the times those messages were sent. What’s clear, however, is that she may have committed a major mistake: she sent Binay a message that is against Binay.I guess that’s why my sources told me that the Binays never hired her.Akbayan Party-list I think that you, the reader, have come up with your own conclusions about this issue based on what you’re read in this article. However, let me raise some points that you may have missed out on.Two factions,In as far as presidentiables, Roxas headed the “Balay Faction” while Binay headed “Samar”. At the time, Roxas’ presidential hopes were in danger because VP Binay’s was consistently outperforming him in popularity surveys.Evidence suggests that Roxas’ Usec. Tom Villarin was Joyce Ramirez’s contact, i.e. the one who calls the shots in as far as the two black propaganda campaigns are concerned. Villarin, along with the pretty much the rest of Akbayan Partylist, was affiliated with the Balay Faction, i.e. it is in Villarin’s interest to make Roxas win in 2016.Given available data, it is entirely possible that Villarin and Akbayan launched the aforementioned black propaganda campaign without Roxas’ consent. On the flip side, however, Villarin is pretty much Roxas’ right-hand man in those days, so it’s quite hard to believe that Roxas knew nothing of the operations.After all, have all SM employees personally met Henry Sy?Evidence clearly suggests that that Akbayan Partylist – where Senator Risa Hontiveros belongs – is into black propaganda. Surely, Villarin would not have acted on his own because such a massive black ops requires thorough coordination and funding.But I guess they fell short on funding because Ramirez was pissed.Regardless, I think this adds new color to the recent I think that you, the reader, have come up with your own conclusions about this issue based on what you’re read in this article. However, let me raise some points that you may have missed out on.Two factions, Balay and Samar , dominated politics inside the Aquino-era Malacañang.In as far as presidentiables, Roxas headed the “Balay Faction” while Binay headed “Samar”. At the time, Roxas’ presidential hopes were in danger because VP Binay’s was consistently outperforming him in popularity surveys.Evidence suggests that Roxas’ Usec. Tom Villarin was Joyce Ramirez’s contact, i.e. the one who calls the shots in as far as the two black propaganda campaigns are concerned. Villarin, along with the pretty much the rest of Akbayan Partylist, was affiliated with the Balay Faction, i.e. it is in Villarin’s interest to make Roxas win in 2016.Given available data, it is entirely possible that Villarin and Akbayan launched the aforementioned black propaganda campaign without Roxas’ consent. On the flip side, however, Villarin is pretty much Roxas’ right-hand man in those days, so it’s quite hard to believe that Roxas knew nothing of the operations.Evidence clearly suggests that that Akbayan Partylist – where Senator Risa Hontiveros belongs – is into black propaganda. Surely, Villarin would not have acted on his own because such a massive black ops requires thorough coordination and funding.But I guess they fell short on funding because Ramirez was pissed.Regardless, I think this adds new color to the recent fake news controversy involving the seven-or-so EU parliamentarians whose photos were splashed on national broadsheets. One of the persons in the picture is actually not even European: it’s Tom Villarin.The brown guy is Tom Villarin.A gentle warning to current and former clients As promised in the disclaimers, I took every step to ensure that none of Ramirez’s post-Roxas clients will get entangled in this article, for the simple reason that they may not have been aware of Ramirez’s proclivities.You are politicians. You need publicity to survive. I understand that perfectly. Besides, I do not like burning bridges unnecessarily.I know all of you, and I think that all of you, despite your respective flaws, have the potential to change this country for the better. Don’t let Ramirez take that opportunity away from you.With that said, I think I now understand why oppositionists like Pinoy Ako Blog accuse me of being a paid hack, because it seems that most political content creators in the past were on the payroll of some PR operator, so they thought I’m cut from the same cloth.I’m sorry to disappoint you, but the best thing I got from any politician is free food.But of course, I do not speak for the other bloggers, like those who pulled the “Poe-Cayetano 2022” issue out of their own @$$. Who knows, would it be outlandish to suspect that they're on Ramirez's payroll too!?Anyway, let me finish this article with this piece of advice for Miss Ramirez:Joyce, you need a career shift. Mag-TESDA ka na! Note, however, that based on the data provided above, it’s best for you to find ways to ensure that Ramirez will not do to you the same thing she did to Roxas.I know all of you, and I think that all of you, despite your respective flaws, have the potential to change this country for the better. Don’t let Ramirez take that opportunity away from you.With that said, I think I now understand why oppositionists like Pinoy Ako Blog accuse me of being a paid hack, because it seems that most political content creators in the past were on the payroll of some PR operator, so they thought I’m cut from the same cloth.I’m sorry to disappoint you, but the best thing I got from any politician is free food.Anyway, let me finish this article with this piece of advice for Miss Ramirez:DONT FORGET TO SHARE!Did you like this post? Help ThinkingPinoy stay up! Even as little as 50 pesos will be a great help! Just click the link below! :-)RELATED POSTS:During my first two hours speaking at the #CocoyGate #SenateHearing and possibly owing to first time jitters, the #NasaanAngPangulo scandal accidentally slipped my tongue. I was really very nervous then, and since I swore to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth, I virtually told every truth that was in my mind at the time.In PR terms, I think that slip of mine was a miscalculation, no matter how minor. That slip could have totally derailed the #CocoyGate issue, so I was really relieved that it didn’t. Regardless, mainstream media “tried” to report on it: “tried” because the articles that came out were essentially slanted in favor of the accused, with none of them – except GMA News (Thank you!) – asking for my side.Truth be told, I have already lost interest on the #NasaanAngPangulo issue, until one of my little birds told me a few days ago that the PR operator mentioned in my article – PR Asia Worldwide’s Joyce Ramirez – ordered her fleet of social media allies to attack me online. I think my very highly placed little birds have no motive to lie, so I think it’s reasonable to say, from my end, that Ramirez committed an egregious mistake.You see, I am not the kind of guy who lays all his cards on the table. I always leave a couple of aces up my sleeve for use if and when the need arises. Suffice it to say, let me use one of them against Ramirez today.In the February 2017 ThinkingPinoy article “ #NasaanAngPangulo: Mamasapano, Mar Roxas’ Ambition, and a PR operator ”, I explained that a friend, former National Youth Commissioner and former MTRCB member Michael “Mike” Acebedo Lopez, told me a really good story.Lopez said that in 2015, then DILG Secretary Mar Roxas, in a desperate attempt to salvage his presidential ambitions, engaged in a multi-million peso black propaganda campaign against then President Benigno “PNoy” Aquino, a campaign that aimed at pinning all the blame on the latter over the SAF44-Mamasapano Scandal, effectively shielding Roxas from Mamasapano-related bad press.According to Lopez, close Roxas aide and then DILG Usec. Tomasito “Tom” Villarin commissioned publicist (i.e. PR operator) Joyce Ramirez to launch a Mamasapano-related Twitter campaign focused specifically against PNoy, in the hopes of minimizing the bad publicity that his principal Mar Roxas, a de facto superior of the SAF 44 policemen, would receive.Lopez did not specifically name Ramirez, but other sources provided me with that information.Lopez, who has a hatred of all things yellow, said he helped Ramirez by providing a list of Twitter hashtag, one of which was the “legendary” #NasaanAngPangulo, the hashtag used for the anti-Pnoy campaign that was launched at exactly 6:00 PM Manila on 29 January 2015.Lopez said Ramirez maintains business connections with major social media players, which allows her to force any issue into the Twitter trending list and like clockwork, #NasaanAngPangulo trended worldwide shortly after its launch.As evidence, I provided an excel file that was last modified in 2015, showing Joyce Ramirez as its author. The excel file basically used the #NasaanAngPangulo campaign as case study that she used for pitching her services to other politicians.Roxas has since denied links with Ramirez and #NasaanAngPangulo. But that's expected.Meanwhile, Ramirez reacted to my revelation at the Senate with a statement, part of which reads:Referring to ThinkingPinoy, Ramirez also said Unlike many people, I am immune to name calling, so I’ll let that second quotation go. Actually, I was even tempted to let the entire thing go because Ramirez, while an interesting figure, is a very small fish to fry. I think she’s a waste of cooking oil.But based on what my little birds told me, her recent actions warrant an Armageddon.According to my little birds, Ramirez recently ordered her fleet of pro-Duterte influencers to attack my page. I don’t exactly know what triggered her, especially since I never really mentioned her or anything related to her during the past couple of weeks.Well, a few minor social media players tried to attack me recently. They called the #CocoyGate Senate Hearing “a little Poe-Cayetano 2022 show”, which, I feel, shows total disrespect for Senator Grace Poe who could not have handled the hearing more fairly. ( Thank you, Grace. Are they part of Ramirez’s fleet? I don’t know, but quoting Roosevelt:Well, I’ll fart on them rainbows that smell like World Peace with a hint of cinnamon.

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2017-08-10 08:21:36+00:00

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Filipino feminists like Risa Hontiveros had abandoned Mrs Patricia Bautista

In most modern 21st Century liberal democracies, victims of rape and harassment are encouraged to blow the whistle on their abusers. After all, abusers won’t be punished unless someone points the police and the justice system in the right direction to make resolution happen. Feminists, in particular, are supposedly in full solidarity with their females-in-arms. They are expected to get behind hapless women who blow the whistle on abusive spouses, bosses, and other big bad men who are in a position to make their lives miserable.Unfortunately, it seems Filipino feminism had abandoned Mrs. Patricia “Tish” Bautista, wife of Commission on Elections (COMELEC) Chairman Andres Bautista. Unlike Senator Leila De Lima who philandered with a married man, was an abject failure as head of the Philippines’ Commission on Human Rights, and stands accused of abetting a vast drug trafficking network within the country’s largest penal facility, Mrs. Bautista does not get to find comfort in the warm bosom of her own society’s feminist movement (pardon the pun).The question is, how is Mrs. Bautista a different enough case to De Lima to warrant such a world of difference in the amount of support from Filipino feminists that she attracted (or failed to attract, as the case happens to be)?The difference, it seems, lies in party loyalties. Mrs. Bautista’s husband, after all, is the COMELEC chairman who presided over the conduct of the 2016 national elections. This is a man who refused to investigate allegations of electoral fraud and bent the rules to prevent a mass disqualification of Liberal Party candidates for failure to comply with his own agency’s guidelines. As such, it seems, the Liberal Party owes him a lot.This mutual utang na loob (debt of gratitude) now manifests itself in the way the usual self-appointed “watchdogs” of righteousness have relented from pouncing on what is, by any standard, a national scandal. Filipinos have long defined their lot as the inventors of “people power”. This “will of the people” is deeply-ingrained in the dogma and propaganda collateral (collectively referred to as the “Yellow Brand”) of the Liberal Party. As chief of the Philippines’ electoral governance body, Andres Bautista being accused of being in possession of “unexplained wealth” should have roused the “people power” squad to a protest frenzy. But that did not happen. Neither did Filipino feminists come to his wife’s rescue.The thing with Filipino feminism is that its key “thought leaders” happen to be stalwarts of this clique of partisans within today’s Opposition. Take former commie-turned-reactionary Senator Risa Hontiveros who is routinely described as a “staunch feminist”. She refers to her party, Akbayan as a “feminist party” and claims that it…[…] opposes the sexism and patriarchy of Philippine society whose insufferable expressions include the reduction of women to face-and-body sex objects and our demotion to half-humans, half-citizens in a society of institutions lorded over (literally) by men.Quite a mouthful but essentially builds upon the old cliché that women are “victims” in a “man’s world”.The trouble with being a partisan first and a “feminist” a distant second as Hontiveros evidently is, is that the principles of the second routinely trumped by the loyalties of the first results in an untenable inconsistency held prisoner by the grip of utang na loob. The feminist rhetoric surrounding De Lima (a Liberal Party senator), for example, breaks down when one considers that De Lima does not fit the mold of the hapless victim of “a society of institutions lorded over (literally) by men.” Mrs. Bautista, some would argue, is not exactly an exemplar of hapless victimhood herself. But De Lima is a Philippine senator and her lover is a subordinate upon whom she wields clear power over.Between the colegiala profile Mrs. Bautista cuts today and the brass-balled persona De Lima brings to bear in her numerous media rampages, one couldn’t help but be baffled by the choice of people Filipino “feminists” led by the likes of Hontiveros prefer to rally behind.The short of it is that Mrs. Bautista blew the whistle on a powerful man and, now, finds herself up against a diminished but still-powerful clique of politicians institutional leaders, and “influencers”. That’s pretty much the same sort of situation the average hapless rape or harassment victim faces when she mounts the courage to face her oppressors. Real feminists encourage that sort of initiative. It gives them something to work with in championing their cause. Unfortunately, Filipino “feminists” are poor copycats who, under the shadow of their political overlords only manage to exhibit a pale shadow of the real thing.

['Oratio Imperata']

2017-08-10 08:21:36+00:00

https://www.getrealphilippines.com/2017/08/filipino-feminists-like-risa-hontiveros-had-abandoned-mrs-patricia-bautista/#comments

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President Duterte appoints Guevarra as new Department of Justice secretary

After the announcement on the resignation of Vitaliano Aguirre II as Justice Secretary, President Rodrigo Duterte quickly found a replacement to his fraternity brother.Malacañang announced on April 5, that Senior Deputy Executive Secretary Menardo Gueverra has been appointed by Duterte to lead the Department of Justice (DOJ).Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said in an interview that the President already signed the appointment papers of Gueverra.Photo: Malacanang/RTVMThe Palace was confident on Guevarra because of his skills and experience as a lawyer.“Ang Department of Justice ay isa sa mga pinaka-sensitibong departamento dahil po katarungan ang pinag-uusapan dito,” Roque told reporters.“Kilala natin si Usec. Guevarra. Talaga namang napatunayan na ang kaniyang kagalingan sa batas at integridad.” he added.Newly appointed DOJ Secretary Menardo Guevarra takes his oath before President Rodrigo Duterte. Photo: MalacanangGuevarra took up graduate studies in Economics at the University of the Philippines after obtaining his A.B degree, Major in Political Science, at the Ateneo de Manila.He also took law studies at the Ateneo and placed second in the 1985 Bar examinations.The new Justice secretary also appointed as member of 2010 Philippine Truth Commission, Deputy Executive Secretary for legal affairs at the Office of the President in may 2015, and Commissioner of the Philippine Competition Commission in Febuary 2016.During his work as Senior Deputy Executive Secretary under the Duterte administration, he’s the one who wrote executive orders and memorandum orders signed by President Rodrigo Duterte, including the martial law proclamation amid the Marawi crisis.

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2018-04-05 18:44:08+08:00

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Lolit Solis admires Mommy Dionesia for selling 3M worth of bags, jewelry to raise funds for the soldiers in Marawi

Rumors circulating that Dionesia Pacquiao sold around P3-M pesos worth of bags and jewelries to raise funds for the soldiers in Marawi City.Entertainment writer and TV Host Lolit Solis praised the mother of the Filipino champ for her generosityDionesia Pacquiao was not confirming if the rumor was true or not.The mother of Filipino boxing champ and Senator Manny Pacquiao rumored to sold around P3-M pesos worth of branded bags and jewelry to raise funds for the soldiers fighting in Marawi City.Talent manager and entertainment writer Lolit Solis wrote the news on Instagram and claimed that Dionesia Pacquiao raised funds for the soldiers in Marawi City by selling her personal belongings worth millions of pesos.Solis also praised Mommy D because she sacrificed her precious belongings just to help the soldiers in Marawi City.“Kahit ano pang sabihin mo, bongga si Mommy Dionisia Pacquiao ha. Nagbenta siya ng mga branded bag at mga alahas na umabot sa almost P 3M para ibigay sa mga sundalo natin sa Marawi. Ang ganda ng dahilan niya, matanda na siya at iyong mga babae niyang anak hindi mahilig sa alahas at branded bag Naisip niya ito at walang panghihinayang na ginawa.,” Lolit Solis wrote.She said that Senator Pacquiao inherited his generosity to her mother Dionesia.The entertainment writer also said that people must help the soldiers in the times of crisis because they put their lives in danger just to protect the innocent people from the enemies of the state.“Sa mga ganitong panahon dapat talaga natin suportahan mga sundalo nating lumalaban at nasasaktan, iba namamatay sa paglaban para tayo ay maging safe para hindi maranasan ng pamilya natin ang hirap. Nandun sila lumalaban, namamatay para sa atin para malaya at safe ang atin bayan. Ipinadama ni Mama Dionisia ang pagmamahal ng isang ina. Sana marami pa ang tumulong magdasal para sa matatapang natin sundalo, magpakita ng pagmamahal sa pamilya nila na nawalan ng tatay o nanay dahil sa Marawi,” She wrote.“Thank You Mama Dionisia kaya pala ina ka ng Champion dahil isa kang mabuting ina. We love you at para sa ating matatapang na mga sundalo, we Salute you stay safe our heroes. salamat salamat,” she added.The rumor that Dionesia Pacquiao sold her expensive bags and jewelries circulated on social media last week and until now, Mommy D. still not confirming if the rumor was true.

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2017-06-27 00:25:27+08:00

https://pinoytrending.altervista.org/lolit-solis-admires-mommy-dionesia-selling-3m-worth-bags-jewelry-raise-funds-soldiers-marawi/

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SARA DUTERTE: I AM AFRAID FOR MY FATHER

In an interview of GMA News TV’s “State of the Nation with Jessica Soho” to Mayor Sara Duterte, she said that she was “afraid” for her father.Sara Duterte said that at first, she did not want her father to run and win because of the attention and burden of the presidency. But she said the whole family is always there to support him.“Kaya ayoko nga din siya tumakbo at maging president kasi ayoko yung nakatutok lahat sa kanya, yung burden ng trabaho sa kanya. But kami nandito lang kami to support him, kasi nandyan na he,” she said.“Pero ako what I really am, I'm afraid for him.”“Hindi kami sanay na buong bansa, ganon. So, ano lang, adjustment lang siguro,” she added.When asked about her duties being the Davao City Mayor, she said that her focus would be on her duties as her father's replacement.“Priority ko kasi, ma'am, yung position ko dito sa Davao City as mayor. Kung hindi naman kasi talaga ako tumakbo as mayor, pwede ako mag-full time dun. Pero, kung ano yung kailangan nilang tulong ma'am, pwede ako. Kung tawagin ako to do something, ready ako,” she said.Nevertheless, Sara said she was happy that her father won and that she did not expect the outcome of the election.

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14/08/2018 0:00

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Broadcaster Noli De Castro Loses It On Live TV (Video)

Overstaying ABS-CBN broadcast anchor Noli De Castro may have had a senior moment or his vision may have suddenly blurred he couldn’t read the prepared questions in his script. He totally lost it during a Skype interview with newly-crowned 2016 Miss International Kylie Verzosa of Baguio City, Philippines.Unable to read what was on his script, he simply asked the beauty queen if he had a boyfriend.Everything went downhill from thereon. At one point, the usually screaming and tip-toeing De Castro mimicked Verzosa’s response by blurting out some “hehehehe.” He even called Verzosa “Kyle” which is usually a male name.Viewers who watched the awkward incident in extreme shock called on De Castro to step down. “He’s had his time. He’s overdue for retirement,” they said.

['Pol Pinoy']

30/10/2016 0:00

https://adobochronicles.com/2016/10/30/broadcaster-noli-de-castro-loses-it-on-live-tv/#respond

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LOOK: Affidavit of Mayor Espinosa implicates Sen. De Lima, other Generals, Media men uploaded on internet

The alleged affidavit of the killed Mayor of Albuera, Leyte Rolando Espinosa uploaded on social media.The papers was already passed in Department of Justice because of the DOJ Stamp showed on the picture.Espinosa mentioned Senator Leila De Lima,PNP High Ranking Generals, members of CIDG, members of AFP. public officials and some mediamen in his affidavit.The names of the people who protected the illegal trade are listed in Espinosa’s pocket book.According to the affidavit, Mayor Espinosa the protectors of illegal drug trade based on his personal knowledge are:Former Department of Justice and now Senator Leila De Lima Gen. Dolina Gen. Loot Gen. Espina PSSUPT MACANAS PSI MAGAMAY SPO1 BLANCO PCI CAMACHO PSUPT MASAUDING PSUPT JAMBIRAN PSPT ELMER CINCO FISCAL ONATE PCI ABORDO PO3 ARAFOL SPO1 TORREFIEL CIDG PSI NUNEZ GOV PETILLA V GOV LORETO SIXTO DELA VICTORIA PSI PARDINAS V MAYOR BAYBAY MIKE CARRY CAPT ALBOR FROM AFP NORMAL STA. IGLESA CAPT ANDREZ CRUZ CAPT ALBERTO SUMALIAG CAPT ELONOR BACUSMO CAPT DELIA BATISTIS ATTY BATO ATTY UNGAB CHING VELOSO PCI DIAZ MAYOR TONY SANTIAGO PAUL TAN JOJO DOYON JOHN PILAPIL (MEDIA) KAG JANET PULIDO LINAO(MEDIA) YUDZ(MEDIA) LALAINE JIMENIA(MEDIAThe Mayor of Albuera also admitted in the affidavit that his son, Kerwin Espinosa was involved in illegal drug activities and he possessed an armed group to protect him.The task of the armed group of Kerwin Espinosa is to kill those pushers who did a bad transaction with the alleged drug lord.The affidavit was posted by fanpage Hidden Truth PH on Facebook.The Mayor of Albuera Leyte was killed by members of CIDG8 Saturday and according to them, Espinosa fought back to the authorities.PNP Director General Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa quickly ordered the killings to be investigated, the members of CIDG who are also present in the crime scene would also faced investigation.He also believes that the killings of Espinosa was did to discourage his son alleged drug lord Kerwin Espinosa to testify against police officials who allegedly received drug and gambling money.Even the Netizens reacted on the uploaded affidavit of Espinosa, saying that the one who plotted to kill Espinosa may included in the people that he implicated.Mayor na ang pinapatay sa War on Drugs na ito…mabigat siguro ang revelation in Espinosa. Buti na lang may sworn affidavit siya. — Sass Rogando Sasot (@srsasot) November 5, 2016The one who silenced Mayor Espinosa is most likely in his affidavit. Damn! pic.twitter.com/kJI6woC9S7 — Shykulasa (@shykulasa) November 5, 2016But na lang may nagawa ng sworn affidavit si Mayor Espinosa bago pa man siya napatay. https://t.co/QjJF2HtNMk — Casabianca (@baintob) November 5, 2016To all concerns, take a look of Espinosa's affidavit & think who do you think will stop his testimony?"Dead men tell no tales" https://t.co/RYastmXyCQ — Marski 👊👊👊 (@merilla2010) November 5, 2016

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2016-11-05 16:27:32+08:00

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Help Donald Trump Pick His Vice President

Faced with the possibility of running against two women in November’s U.S. presidential elections, presumptive Republican nominee has come up with a short list of potential VP running mates and is asking the American voters to help him decide.Trump needs to win the powerful women’s vote in order to counter the competition with Hillary Clinton and her rumored VP pick, Senator Elizabeth Warren. So, his short list is composed of all women:Former Alaska Governor Sarah PalinFormer Arizona Governor Jan BrewerFormer Minesotta Representative Michele BachmannConservative columnist and author Ann CoulterAs part of our civic duty, we at The Adobo Chronicles, have decided to help Trump decide on his VP running mate.Please participate in the poll below:

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13/05/2016 0:00

https://adobochronicles.com/2016/05/13/help-donald-trump-pick-his-vice-president/#respond

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Doctor slams VP Robredo and her supporters for urging PET to change their rules on recount

A Doctor who’s also a staunch supporter of President Rodrigo Duterte criticized Vice President Leni Robredo and her supporters for insisting that Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET) should consider the ballots shaded only by 25% as legitimate votes.In her post, Dr. Ethel Pineda uploaded a copy of the 1 page advertisement of the group The Outstanding Women in the Nation’s Service (TOWNS) that opposing the rules of PET to only count ballots with 50% shading.According to her, the pro-Robredo group should ashamed with themselves for not understanding the rules set by Commission on Elections (COMELEC) on shading names of candidates during the last Presidential Elections.She questioned why only the supporters of Robredo were insisting to the 25% rule.“How these women who signed this petition can muster the audacity to state barefaced lies is beyond me.”Several days ago, TOWNS said that they’re opposing the new rules of PET because they believed that the 25% shaded markings are legitimate votes.They explain that the people who only shaded the ballots are “aged” people or “might have difficulty in writing,”“We want to have our voices heard. We ask the PET to respect justice and fair play and protect the votes of the ordinary Filipino by rescinding its new rule that sets a threshold of 50% shading.” the statement of TOWNS read.Several weeks ago, reports circulating that Vice President Robredo already lost 21,000 votes because of the 50% shading threshold set by PET.However, the camp of Robredo denied the reports and accused the Marcoses of spreading propaganda.

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2018-05-18 09:09:11+08:00

https://pinoytrending.altervista.org/doctor-slams-vp-robredo-supporters-urging-pet-change-rules-recount/

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“Wisdom of the crowds” and “power to the people” debunked: What’s next for democracy and social media?

You’d think the Senate probe on “fake news” would be an undertaking in aid of legislation. Thus the presumption underlying such a probe is that some sort of legislation will be proposed to address the “problem” of “fake news”.So what exactly is the “problem” with “fake news”?One thing that could be noted in yesterday’s Senate hearing on “fake news” is that the cast of characters screeching about this monumental “problem” is a familiar one — led by embattled Rappler CEO Maria Ressa is a bevy of “resource persons” from the established clique of “social media for social good” bloggers and personalities. The so-called disente mob, in short.There was no diversity in opinion because the members of this inbred clique all sing off the same hymn book and espouse the idea that Facebook and other social media platforms are somehow responsible for the proliferation of “fake news”. It did not seem to occur to these bozos that the algorithms of most social media platforms were designed to merely mirror the tastes and preferences of their users. This means that what gets profile on Facebook newsfeeds, for example, reflect the character of its base of users.If this notion sounds terribly familiar, it is because it is the same property of a system of government Filipinos had signed up to — democracy. Just like Facebook and Twitter, a democracy produces politicians in the likeness and image of its electorate. Just like democracy had put political power in the hands of the people, social media had, for its part, put mass communications in the hands of the people.Recall way back when Ressa and those “resource persons” in the hearing were all cheers about the power for “social good” social media accorded the ordinary schmoe. They were all cheers because they saw themselves as the “experts” in the use of these new technology platforms. A bit premature in retrospect. Turns out these “experts” did not really know the true nature of the toys they were playing with. Suddenly these toys started to work against these “experts”. And then, just as suddenly, these toys were regarded as weapons wielded by “evil” people.That’s a nice story — except that it isn’t true. It exists only in the bewildered minds of this erstwhile clique of “experts” who presumed to own the manner with which these tools could be applied to the ends of their personal enterprises.These are the same people who conveniently fail to realise that elected officials were chosen by the Filipino people and that information that propagates and spreads all over media were selected by Internet users. They see themselves as “experts” when the elected leaders and “liked” and “shared” information on social media are on their side and as “victims” when the elected leaders and “liked” and “shared” information on social media work against their agenda.In short, these people — represented by the set of “resource persons” in this recent Senate probe — are a bunch of spoilt brats.When you sign up to a system where power is decentralised and outcomes emergent, you do not expect to be fully in control of how said system behaves. Both democracy and social media are premised on the notions of “power to the people” and the “wisdom of the crowds”. On that, these crybabies need to reframe their argument and prove that those two notions have become obsolete and, on top of that foundational position, make their case for a change in system that is agnostic of any partisan agenda.If we feel that the power and wisdom channeled through our democracy does not produce “good” leaders, then we need to challenge the notion that entrusting the selection of those leaders to the people is right. If we feel that the information chosen to be consumed by the broader public is not “good”, then we need to challenge the notion that free access to information dissemination tools is right. But in doing so, we need to ensure that these things are challenged outside of any one person or group’s agenda.What was revealed in yesterday’s Senate probe is that both sides engage in the same dishonest social media practices and both sides allow their rabid personal loyalties to get in the way of truly intelligent discourse. This is the same revelation that follows several decades of “democracy” under the 1987 Constitution. Like the study of Economics, the underlying assumption that the market (and the electorate) behaves and makes descisions in a rational manner is flawed. Unfortunately, both traditional practices in the “sciences” of economics and politics theory built their theories on that flawed premise as has been revealed in recent years.The more productive debate then evidently lies in exploring alternative sytems or how best to tweak the existing ones to revert the focus back onto the whole point of this; i.e., the “social good”. Perhaps Facebook should, indeed, be banned in the Philippines as Ressa seems to be suggesting. Perhaps the 1987 Yellowtard Constitution needs to be replaced as the camp of Duterte propose. These things need to be discussed intelligently and not merely labelled as this or that camp’s pet issue.It comes down to personal accountability. Obviously, the power to choose did not seem to ingrain that ethic in Philippine society. Or, perhaps more likely, we haven’t given Filipinos enough time or tools to sharpen their wits when participating in the application of these tools. All these things need to be taken into consideration and discussed like a mature and modern people.

['Oratio Imperata']

2018-01-31 01:25:56+00:00

https://www.getrealphilippines.com/2018/01/wisdom-of-the-crowds-and-power-to-the-people-debunked-whats-next-for-democracy-and-social-media/#comments

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Philippines: US Warships Pack Up, Seen Loading Crates Of Balikbayan Boxes

Four US warships left this free port on Tuesday, a day before the scheduled conclusion of this year’s joint military drills between Filipino and American troops.The maneuvers called Philippine Amphibious Landing Exercise (Phiblex 33) ended on Monday, although the drills were scheduled to run until Wednesday. The exercises involved 500 Filipino soldiers and 1,400 American troops.It was not clear whether the early end of Phiblex 33 was a response to President Duterte’s recent assertion that the joint exercises were the last of his six-year presidency.Mr. Duterte has also said he wants US forces out of Mindanao island so he can talk peace with Moro separatists who have not forgotten US atrocities there during the Moro wars of the early 20th century.US Marines from the USS Bonhomme Richard and the USS Germantown were seen loading military vehicles and other equipment back to their ships on Tuesday noon. The ships were scheduled to leave later that day.The USNS Fall River and the USS Green Bay left the port on Tuesday morning, according to the seaport department of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority.In addition to the military vehicles and equipment, the four US ships were seen being loaded with crates and crates of balikbayan boxes — those corrugated boxes containing tax-free goods brought in an out by expatriates and returning Filipinos.In a statement issued today by the Bureau of Customs (BOC) the US ships did not violate any Philippine law because the Americans were considered balikbayans. They have been residents of the Philippines for decades during the time when America maintained US military bases in the country.“The Americans who were here for the military drills were considered returning citizens and as such were each entitled to the number and contents of balikbayan boxes as permitted by existing law,” BOC said.

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11/10/2016 0:00

https://adobochronicles.com/2016/10/11/philippines-us-warships-pack-up-seen-loading-crates-of-balikbayan-boxes/

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STATE-WIDE PLASTIC BAN LOOMS IN CALIFORNIA

to shop,” the senators pointed out, ” so if plastic cards are also banned, people will stop shopping and there would be no need for plastic bags or goods. It’s a simple case of supply and demand.”

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25/01/2017 0:00

https://adobochronicles.com/2014/01/25/state-wide-plastic-ban-looms-in-california/

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ARIZONA GOVERNOR JAN BREWER WILL BE GRAND MARSHALL IN SAN FRANCISCO’S 2014 GAY PRIDE PARADE

flashed the news report on their websites, news alerts and live broadcasts. The social media also burst with posts, even among self-identified gay men and women, praising Brewer for her act of courage.The Pride Committee said that no other act by an individual merits the honor of being named Grand Marshall . “We might even double the parade attendance by the potential of Arizona residents coming to San Francisco in June to support their well-loved governor,” the committee said.Upon hearing about the Pride Committee’s decision, the National Coalition of Gay Immigrant Associations ( NCGIA) annouunced that it will boycott the SF Pride Parade this year, citing Brewer’s anti-immigrant record. She signed into law Arizona’s SB 1070, the most stringent anti-immigrant law in the country.

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26/02/2017 0:00

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Proof of how hopeless Mar Roxas’s campaign and messaging team REALLY is!

Mar-tards just don’t get it. In their efforts to mount a last-ditch effort to shore up Mar Roxas’s stats (showing photos of him surrounded by hakot crowds in various stadiums and all that), they are showing just how disogranised they are and just how incoherent their messaging strategy is. In fact, the more they publish, the more foolish they look.Perhaps Carlos Celdran, in a video he released today on Facebook, had a point when he wrote in a comment “If [Roxas’s] social media team isn’t gonna get his vision across, then I will do it myself, Dammit”. Certainly Celdran’s intentions were oozing with goodness in that instance. But, in the process of issuing this pompous initiative, he probably spoke for the rest of the Mar-tard community in admitting that Saint Mar’s campaign is as hopeless as his chances of becoming President of the Philippines.Take this whole idiotic effort at damage control being pushed by the Mar-tard community following the massive fallout resulting from the infamous Mar Roxas Yolanda Comicgate. Their approach for discrediting people who are LOL!-ing their hearts out over the silliness of the lame historical revisionism in Roxas’s Sa Gitna ng Unos comic book is by pointing out that rival candidate Rodrigo Duterte and vice presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos also make use of their own comic-formatted campaign material.But what these Mar-tards fail to take into account is that hideous tragedy and destruction underlie the bald lies in Roxas’s Comicgate. In comparison, Duterte’s and Marcos’s comics are harmlessly amusing at worst. Sa Gitna ng Unos, on the other hand, would have been funny if not for the shameless misrepresentation of Roxas’s role in Tacloban at the height of the effects of the devastation wrought by Sypertyphoon Haiyan. The comic attempts to reverse Roxas’s idiotic displays of administrative ineptness, his lack of ability to delegate, his hollow epal-esque attempts to inspire, and his straight out politicization of the disaster.Indeed, the comicization of the Haiyan disaster for Roxas’s bullshit political agenda adds a thick layer of insult on top of that shameful act of politicization he perpetrated in 2013 when he reminded Tacloban City Mayor Alfred Romualdez of how players’ family names matter in the bigger scheme of things.The PR disaster of Sa Gitna ng Unos is just the most recent of the now-long string of PR gaffes that color Roxas’s campaign history. You sometimes wonder whether someone in Mar’s campaign team is deliberately sabotaging his chances of becoming president by using cleverly-disguised PR gimmicks that were, in reality, designed to fail miserably. That “Fast Forward” video, for example. I mean, WTF??! What kind of thinking processes were brought to bear to produce that one??If Mar Roxas and his mob had proven to be Kaboboan Central during the campaign, imagine a Mar Roxas government at work!That’s something to think about, my fellow Filipino voters. Roxas’s bobo-campaign and his cadre of Mar-tards make laughingstocks of themselves now. To vote Roxas President of the Philippines will give him the keys to making the Philippines itself a mirror of that cretin-like thinking on a national scale.Isip-isip muna bago bumoto mga kabayan!

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2016-04-01 01:42:29+00:00

https://www.getrealphilippines.com/2016/04/proof-hopeless-mar-roxass-campaign-messaging-team-really/

Get Real Philippines

Need for '#diversity' is eroding American #meritocracy

Last year I attended a seminar where a guest female speaker spoke about her experiences earning her degree while being a Latina in a predominantly white university. She began advocating that universities should hire more staff members of Latino background in order for the Hispanic students to have people to relate to. And I'm sitting there thinking 'I can't believe I'm hearing this.'This 'need for diversity' isn't just limited to the tech industry, it's everywhere. Many are still under the impression that companies hire based on a candidate's qualifications. But in today's increasingly liberal America that is slowly becoming less and less the case. You can see this push for multiculturalism and minority empowerment in so many facets of society now, it's even saturated throughout the media. Everyone needs to represented regardless in some way that it has become a nationwide neurotic obsession. Just recently, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg donated 5 million dollars in student scholarships to undocumented immigrants. Ridiculous.Diversity should NOT be a policy.-------------------This is a GRP Featured Comment. Join the discussion!http://getrealphilippines.com/blog/2015/06/could-hiring-practice-biased-towards-women-and-minorities-doom-silicon-valley/#comment-1196278

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2018-03-13 00:04:52+00:00

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VENEZUELA, U.S., PHILIPPINES ELEVATED TO BEAUTY PAGEANT HALL OF FAME, WILL NOT BE PARTICIPATING IN 2015-16 CONTESTS

The Association of Beauty Pageant Franchise Holders (ABPFH) has just released the list of top 20 countries with the most number of titles and runners-up in the “big four” of international beauty pageants: Miss World, Miss Universe, Miss International and Miss Earth.At its annual meeting held this week in Puerto Rico, the ABPFH members signed a memorandum of agreement banning the top three countries on the list from participating in any of the big four pageants in 2015 and 2016.“We wanted to give other countries a better chance to improve their standing in the beauty pageants,” a spokesperson for ABPFH told reporters.The top three countries who will not be participating in the pageants for the next two years are Venezuela, the United States and the Philippines.Venezuela tops the list with 21 crowns and 40 runners-up. The U.S. has 14 crowns and 55 runners-up, while the Philippines has 10 crowns and 21 runners-up.ABPFH said that the three countries can again send representatives to the pageants beginning in 2017.

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23/06/2018 0:00

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Gloria Arroyo’s acquittal proves Noynoy Aquino is a failure

The cornerstone of former President Benigno Simeon Aquino’s so-called fight against corruption — the jailing of his predecessor, former President Gloria Arroyo — just got shot down by the Supreme Court. The last remaining case against Arroyo, which was the plunder case over the alleged misuse of Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) funds, was finally dismissed by the high court. The decision is proof that BS Aquino did not have the goods on Arroyo from the very start. He just used the promise of jailing Arroyo to win the gullible voters over to his “cause” way back in 2010.BS Aquino made prosecuting Arroyo the rallying point of his campaign and then of his administration. He made it look like he was after the “big fish”. But it was obvious to some people that it was persecution that he was after. He didn’t care about due process as long as he could show Arroyo detained or locked up. He didn’t care about her medical condition and neither did he show respect for a former teacher, ally and head of state.At first, the public was pleased with his bold move. They were impressed by the speed with which his minions managed to file a case against her to prevent her departure overseas. As mentioned before, back in 2011, there was pandemonium at the Manila international airport when former Department of Justice Secretary and now Senator Leila De Lima panicked after she found out Arroyo was leaving the country and ordered officers at the airport to help bar her from leaving for Singapore. And with the assistance of the media in inciting anger against Arroyo, some members of the public also joined the fray — besieging her at the airport. Her frail and helpless appearance on a wheelchair did not stop them from acting like a lynch mob. The scene resulted in a standoff because Arroyo’s supporters insisted on her Constitutional right to travel abroad.De Lima’s initial violation back then was in defying the Supreme Court’s temporary restraining order on the travel ban against Arroyo. De Lima even risked disbarment for ignoring the highest court’s order.Fast forward to today, the Supreme Court’s decision did not surprise most people. Many eventually realised that the cases against Arroyo were trumped-up. One by one, the cases were dismissed due to a lack of evidence and witnesses to testify. As written before back on 2013, years of Malacañang’s unyielding commitment to putting GMA behind bars had only resulted in the dismissal of all the charges. Obviously, the charges against GMA had been filed even when the evidence was still “half-cooked”. Evidently, the evidence was based on “innuendoes, half-truths and propaganda”.It seems the only people who were shocked that the last remaining case against Arroyo was dismissed are BS Aquino’s most rabid supporters. Both De Lima and Ombudsman Conchita Morales expressed their dismay that the case was dismissed. De Lima kept implying that President Rodrigo Duterte, an Arroyo ally, had something to do with her acquittal. Frankly, they are behaving like they received an uppercut – a blow they didn’t see coming. Goes to show they aren’t very smart at all. De Lima as a lawyer and Morales as former Supreme Court judge should have realised that the case against her wasn’t water tight. The prosecution did not do their job properly:The evidence against her was weak, said [Arroyo] through her lawyers. She argued that “not a single exhibit of the 637 exhibits offered by the prosecution nor a single testimony of the 21 witnesses of the prosecution was offered by the prosecution to prove that [Arroyo] amassed, accumulated, or acquired even a single peso of the alleged ill-gotten wealth.” The prosecution also failed to show or detail the paper trail to prove that Arroyo committed the charges she was indicted for, said the Pampanga lawmaker.Arroyo has been vindicated, indeed. She survived five years detained at the Veterans Hospital with very little contact with her loved ones. She lost five years of her life – years that could have been spent as a productive citizen. She could have had her medical condition fixed abroad like she wanted to back in 2011. Not only did she waste five years of her life detained, her reputation was also tainted. While some have finally realised that she was a victim of BS Aquino’s personal vendetta, there are some people — those who were gullible enough to believe the lies — who still think she is guilty even when the cases against her were dismissed. For that, Arroyo should consider filing a case against BS Aquino to compensate her. She could use the United Nations Human Rights Council ruling in 2015 that the BS Aquino government needed to compensate her for damages during what they consider to be illegal detention.Despite what Arroyo went through, she is actually luckier than former Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona. Corona passed away without getting the chance to clear his name. Corona, who was removed from office at the order of BS Aquino, was also a victim of public persecution. The cases against him were also dismissed.Arroyo’s patience and perseverance paid off. BS Aquino and his rabid supporters look like fools now. In his singular focus on persecuting Arroyo, BS Aquino became a victim of his own arrogance and vindictive nature. They proved that haste is waste. Had they been more diligent and worked harder at building a stronger case against Arroyo, they could have won. But we all know BS Aquino does not have the discipline and foresight to win anything on his own. He was just lucky to ride the wave of his mother’s popularity. Too bad his luck has finally run out.

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2016-07-19 14:19:23+00:00

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Sen. Gordon suggested to use of Penal Labor where prisoners can work in prison

Senator Richard Gordon proposed a brilliant idea of making the prisoners more productive during their while they are serving their sentence.Gordon asked the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) to allocate a budget to allow prisoners to work in prison.During the hearing on the budget of the Department of Justice, Gordon suggested that prisoners whose jail terms have almost been completely served their sentence could be made to work on infrastructure projects of the government.Prisoners can help to plant trees, clean the rivers and plant vegetables and trees to help the government to improve agricultural production in the country.He also suggested that prisoners must be given allowance in exchange of their labor.“They could plant trees on denuded mountains so that floods could be prevented. They could also desilt rivers or they could fix damaged irrigation canals or systems to improve crop production in the country. They could be given allowances for the community work,” the senator said”The Senator believes that by the use of prison labor, inmates may reformed very well before being released into the society in the same time, they are contributing in fixing the problems of the government.“This way, the inmates are provided an occupation in preparation for their reintegration into society. At the same time, we can also start the reforestation of our mountains and prevent floods, especially in Central Luzon,” he added.Gordon also praised the officials of Bucor Ret. PC/Supt Rolando Asuncion, BuCor officer-in-charge, revealed that Samsung Electronics is interested in hiring prisoners as their workers for their production line.

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2016-11-22 07:49:41+08:00

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FCC ORDERS SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE TO GIVE EQUAL TIME TO ALL CANDIDATES

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has ordered Saturday Night Live (SNL) to have each of the remaining 36 Republican presidential candidates host a future episode of the late-night comedy television show.SNL had previously announced that Donald Trump will host the November 7 episode, prompting complaints from the rest of the Republican candidate field.FCC rules mandate that if free airtime was granted to a candidate over the public airwaves, equal time had to be made available to his or her opponent, if it was requested.Well, all of Trump’s opponents requested equal time.So there you have it, for 35 weeks after November 7 viewers will be treated to a GOP presidential candidate hosting SNL, starting with Ben Carson.On the Democratic side, since Hillary Clinton appeared for a short segment of SNL recently, each of the Democratic presidential candidates (except Jim Webb who dropped out of the race today) will be given the same amount of time on the show.That, folks, is how Demoracy works!

['Pol Pinoy']

20/10/2017 0:00

https://adobochronicles.com/2015/10/20/fcc-orders-saturday-night-live-to-give-equal-time-to-all-candidates/?share=email

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DSLU Professor asks if De Lima’s admission having an affair with a married man can lead to her disbarment

“Would Leila De Lima’s admission that she had an affair with a married man lead to her disbarment?”De la Salle University Professor Antonio P. Contreras asks his followers if the revelation of Senator Leila De Lima that she had a relationship with her married driver and bodyguard Ronnie Dayan can lead to her disbarment.He also posted the supreme court resolution of the case of Jose Emmanuel M. Eala who got disbarred for having a illicit affair with a married woman.Contreras’ friends quickly answered to his question. Regine Ala cited the Rule 138 Section 27 of the Supreme CourtRule 138, Section 27 on disbarment or suspension of attorneys by the Supreme Court; grounds therefor; and Rule 139-B on Common Provisions, allowed din ang RTC and CA to suspend such Attorney until further action of the SC. Grounds for Disbarment: deceit, malpractice, or other gross misconduct in such office, grossly immoral conduct, or by reason of his conviction of a crime involving moral turpitude, or for any violation of the oath which he is required to take before admission to practice, or for willful disobedience of any lawful order of the superior court, or for corruptly ot willfully appearing as an attorney for a party to a case without authority to do so.Netizens also believes that her admission can lead to her disbarment.

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2016-11-15 01:24:50+08:00

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How Duterte DPWH Sec. Villar thwarts LP’s "Plan B"

The “Missions” of the Duterte PresidencyDuterte’s crimefighting timeframe makes it easier for his opponents to sue him. Duterte’s anti-contractualization stance can serve as an incentive for big business to kick him out. Duterte’s anti-corruption “plans” gives his political rivals incentive to kick him out too.The Realness of Liberal Party's Plan BSenator-JudgesPoe (NPC-Poe bloc) Escudero (NPC-Poe bloc) Trillanes (NPC-Poe bloc) Legarda (NPC-Poe bloc) Sotto (NPC-Poe bloc) Gatchalian (NPC-Poe bloc) Gordon (NPC-Poe bloc) Zubiri (NPC-Poe bloc) Pimentel (PDP Laban) Cayetano (IND)The Curious Case of Cayetano and Poe7 anti-impeachment14 pro-impeachment7 are from LP or LP-aligned (Aquino, Villanueva, Drilon, Hontiveros, De Lima, Recto, Pangilinan)4 are from UNA (Binay, Honasan, Gordon, Pacquiao) Ejercito is assumed arrested.1 is NPC-Poe bloc rogue member Trillanes1 is the independent Lacson, who doesn’t approve of Duterte [Inquirer]1 is Nacionalista’s Cynthia VillarLP is Duterte’s enemy, so Duterte can’t get anyone from them.Duterte’s anti-corruption drive will most likely hit Jejomar Binay, thus antagonizing the UNA bloc, so Duterte can’t count on UNA either.Trillanes is surely pro-impeachment, while Lacson is too idealistic, so he can’t count on either.Evaluating Political OptionsA potentially suboptimal choice for DPWH head in exchange for Duterte’s security of tenure Another LP presidency in or before 2019.Villar = Duterte remains president for the next 3 years. No Villar = Duterte is impeached.The public was in for a shock today when President-elect Rodrigo Duterte asked Mark Villar to become DPWH secretary [ Rappler ].Mark is the son of real estate mogul Manny Villar and Senator Cynthia Villar, the de facto leaders of the Nacionalista Party. While generally considered to be “quiet” politicians in the past several years, the Villars were entangled in the the C-5 Road Extension Scandal [ Philstar ] during Manny's senatorial stint. Thus, netizens find the title “DPWH Secretary Villlar” oxymoronic.Even TP was confused. However, after some research, it appears that logic necessitates a DPWH Secretary Mar Villar.Let TP explain why., one of the main pillars of Duterte’s campaign platform is the fight on drugs and criminality, where he actually promises to significantly suppress crime in three to six months [ Rappler ]. While TP thinks this is possible via by-the-letter law enforcement, some camps fear that such a short time-frame will necessitate the use of extrajudicial (i.e. unconstitutional) methods [ ABSCBN ]., another main pillar of Duterte’s platform is the criminalization of contractualization [ Philstar ]. Of course, ending contractualization means drawing the ire of business tycoons who most probably have strong political links., Duterte also promised to suppress government corruption, something that will ruffle more than a few feathers, to say the least. Duterte is currently silent with respect to calls to pursue graft and/or plunder cases against Binay and Aquino but he never said that he won’t do it. Remember that we have a lawyer-president right now: we should judge him more by what he doesn’t say than by what he actually utters.There are three down-sides to these three promises, which are:Let’s set these aside for now. We need to talk about one more thing.At the rate things are going, it seems that Liberal Party VP bet Leni Robredo might actually win. Yes, there have been allegations of electoral fraud [ TP: Hash Code ] and Robredo’s winning margin is thinner than Grace Poe’s resume [ TP: Obsolete Technology ], but TP has reason to believe that the Liberal Party will make sure that Robredo will indeed become VP. Sobrang inutil naman ng LP kung VP na lang, hindi pa nila kayang “diskartehan”.That is, regardless of what’s fair and just, TP foresees a Robredo vice-presidency, adding fuel to Liberal Party’s Plan B.Adding what we have discussed in the previous section, the Liberal Party will now the have the basic ingredients to impeach Duterte:: Duterte can be charged with culpable violation of the constitution [ LawPhil ] via cases that may arise from the 3-6 month crimefighting timeframe (e.g. extrajudicial killings whether trumped-up or not).: Anger from the business sector (stemming from anti-contractualization) that can be used to reinforce the legitimacy of the first point.: Robredo serves as a suitable replacement in the event of a “successful” Duterte impeachment trial., a majority of House Representatives in the incoming 17th Congress are from the Liberal Party [ TheDiplomat ], with LP snatching around 115 seats out of the no more than 300 available. Dividing 300 by three, the House of Representatives needs at the most 100 congressmen (probably fewer) to transmit an impeachment complaint to the Senate.Despite potential defections [ DailyGuardian ], LP’s remaining members can serve as the core of the pro-impeachment bloc. If the core block doesn’t reach critical mass, LP can just wait for Duterte to start his anti-corruption drive and LP can expect more congressmen to rejoin their fold.Basically, 100 pro-impeachment votes in a group of 300 isn’t too difficult to obtain.Given these four, the Liberal Party needs one last ingredient:Earlier this month, Albay Governor Joey Salceda attempted to quash Plan B rumors when he said, “Impeachment is improbable, also therefore Plan B is cute but fictional.” [ Politiko He substantiated his claim by citing ten senators who are more likely to vote against Duterte’s impeachment. The first eight senators belong to the NPC-Poe bloc while the last two are known Duterte allies. In particular, these senators are:ThinkingPinoy agrees with most of the names Salceda mentioned, except Antonio Trillanes, who obviously is itching to kick Duterte out of Malacañan [ TP: Julia Vargas ]. Some camps may argue that he will be forced to vote along party lines (NPC-Poe bloc) but TP has reason to believe that money is more than enough to prevent him from doing so [ Inquirer ]. Some may also argue that Pacquiao will be pro-Duterte, but the fact he aligned with Binay says a lot about where his loyalties lie.And there's a wildcard: Senator Poe herself, who may vote against Duterte in an impeachment trial.Hence, we are left with only 9 anti-impeachment senators at best.Now, there are 24 senators in the incoming 17th Congress, so a two-thirds vote equals 16. In short, Duterte has just about enough votes to avoid conviction, as 24 – 9 = 15 votes is one short of a two-thirds majority.The reader is reminded that Duterte is keen on making Senator Alan Peter Cayetano a part of his cabinet [ TP: Guide to Duterte ]. That is, we can expect the senator to resign from the senate and become a cabinet secretary by June 2017. He can even take a sabbatical from the Senate right away and work for Duterte as a de facto secretary with an acting head serving as a placeholder (Yasay).With that said, the nine anti-impeachment senators lose one member, and the number goes down to eight. The same story goes for Poe, who was also offered a cabinet position [ Inquirer ]. This brings down the number to seven.Now, you may recall that JV Ejercito is currently facing serious graft charges [ Philstar ], so he can suffer the same fate as Revilla, Enrile, and his half-brother Jinggoy.In short, Cayetano-Poe resignation plus an Ejercito arrest implies a two-thirds pro-impeachment senate majority,That is, it is essential for a President Duterte to get another anti-impeachment senator so that the pro-impeachment bloc becomes 13.Now, let’s evaluate the 14 remaining senators who don’t belong to the group-of-eight:Francis Tolentino (Duterte-aligned) is 13th place in the count, but with 12th placer de Lima’s 1.3 million lead over Tolentino and less than 4% of votes to be counted, Tolentino has virtually lost the senate race.Here’s the problem:So we have one senator left:Of the 14 remaining senators, Sen. Cynthia Villar will be the easiest to convince to align with the Duterte camp, especially since husband Manny not-so-subtly endorsed Duterte during the campaign period [ Politiko ].However, just like what TP said months ago, political power play is about quid pro quo [ TP: Campaign Planes ]. That is, the Villars won’t pledge support without gaining anything in return.With a sure no-vote from Cynthia Villar, Duterte can be assured that he will not be impeached, at least until 2019. That is, Cynthia Villar will serve as Cayetano’s replacement in the anti-impeachment clique, after Cayetano resigns from the Senate.Personally, TP is neutral-to-negative about the Villars. However, given the Liberal Party’s desperation for power [ TP: How to Plunder ], not having nine anti-impeachment senators will almost certainly encourage the LP to do whatever it takes to impeach the Davaoeño.That is, we, the Filipino people, are faced with two mutually exclusive possibilities:Surely, I didn’t support Duterte just for him to be unseated so soon. After all, Duterte can just fire hte Villar boy when he messes up.To put it simply:Regardless, the bottomline is:Did you like this post? Help ThinkingPinoy stay up! Even as little as 50 pesos will be a great help!

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2017-06-24 23:44:59+00:00

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#DengGate: Aquino’s Garin ignores WHO warnings, risks 700k Filipino kids’ lives

The vaccine’s anticipated impact on dengue burden is expected to stem from its documented ability to prevent 8 out of 10 dengue hospitalizations and up to 93% of severe dengue that includes hemorrhagic dengue fever that can be fatal in vaccinated study participants 9 years and older.That is, persons who have never had dengue before and were inoculated with Dengvaxia, if infected with the dengue virus, will suffer from the disease as if it was their second dengue infection.A healthy individual gets infected with dengue. He suffers from dengue fever and somehow recovers from it. However, if he gets infected again, the secondary dengue fever will be worse than the first. Suffice it to say, secondary dengue has higher mortality rates than primary dengue.Some severe dengue cases result in organ damage (heart, etc).Now, what did Dengvaxia do to the 4th graders who have no history of dengue?Suppose we have a 4th grader who has never been infected with dengue receives Dengvaxia. If that child gets infected with dengue for the first time, that child will suffer from severe dengue instead of just regular dengue.In short, the child would have been better left without the vaccine, as Dengvaxia increases the dengue mortality rates for recipients who have never been infected with dengue.Simply put, Dengvaxia is poison for those who have never had dengue… but Aquino and Garin wanted it anyway.How did this happen?Concealing Critical Information The DoH and Sanofi were not totally honest.First, the vaccine is a lot less effective to those who have never had dengue.If you have had dengue, the vaccine's efficacy is 81 per cent. However, if you have not been infected with dengue before, this figure is only 38 per cent [The vaccine’s effectiveness against those who have previously been infected with dengue is undeniable. However, the vaccine is a lot less effective if the recipient is seronegative for dengue, i.e. the recipient has no traces of dengue virus in his or her bloodstream.Of course, we can argue that having a vaccine that works only 4 out of 10 attempts is better than having no vaccine at all. And this leads us to the second point, which is…Second and more importantly, health experts have been warning the entire time that Dengvaxia may have considerable adverse effects on seronegative recipients.Senator Richard Gordon, after consulting health experts, has already warned against Dengvaxia in as early as 2015. In a December 2015 press release, he said: The DoH and Sanofi were not totally honest.If you have had dengue, the vaccine's efficacy is 81 per cent. However, if you have not been infected with dengue before, this figure is only 38 per cent [ ST ].The vaccine’s effectiveness against those who have previously been infected with dengue is undeniable. However, the vaccine is a lot less effective if the recipient is seronegative for dengue, i.e. the recipient has no traces of dengue virus in his or her bloodstream.Of course, we can argue that having a vaccine that works only 4 out of 10 attempts is better than having no vaccine at all. And this leads us to the second point, which is…Senator Richard Gordon, after consulting health experts, has already warned against Dengvaxia in as early as 2015. In a December 2015 press release, he said:“…We talked to several health experts and they told us that they had already warned government long before about the possible adverse effect of the new drug on individuals with no prior history of dengue [ Senate ]”.Gordon’s warnings were bolstered by no less than the March 2016 World Health Organization (WHO) report just a few months later and just days before Aquino and Garin launched the Mass Vaccination Program.Ironically, this report appears to have been used as the basis of the Mass Vaccination Program.WHO already said over and over that the vaccine may do more harm than good to recipients who have never had dengue prior to inoculation (seronegative)… and WHO said it multiple times BEFORE Garin’s DoH launched the mass immunization program.My gahd, I heyt drahgs!Issuance of WHO Guidelines The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Dengvaxia on 23 December 2015 but it was put on hold five days later pending the release of World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines [Despite the lack of WHO guidelines, Garin vouched for Dengvaxia just days after the DFA announcement, in an interview with Karen Davila [ The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Dengvaxia on 23 December 2015 but it was put on hold five days later pending the release of World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines [ GMA ].Despite the lack of WHO guidelines, Garin vouched for Dengvaxia just days after the DFA announcement, in an interview with Karen Davila [ YT ] in 03 January 2016.At the 1:45 mark, Davila asked:Who is the perfect candidate to receive the dengue vaccine? . . . I've never had dengue. Ako ba, should I be vaccinated anytime? Garin replied: Garin replied:Yes. It's recommended for those nine to 45 years old,” Garin said. Oh crap! From where does Garin derive her blind faith on Sanofi and Dengvaxia?!The Aquino government seems to have changed its mind when the Philippines hosted Dengvaxia’s global launch on 11 February 2016 [The Aquino Administration bought P3.5 billion worth of Dengvaxia in March 2016. Note that all contracts worth in excess of P50 million require the signature of the President.To give Garin the benefit of the doubt, I presume that Garin used the 17 March 2016 WHO guidelines [The problem: that same WHO document contains so many red flags that Garin willfully ignored.Let me list these red flags down one by one.The Aquino government seems to have changed its mind when the Philippines hosted Dengvaxia’s global launch on 11 February 2016 [ CNN ], or over a month before WHO’s 17 March 2016 publication of its background paper Dengue Vaccines on [ WHO ].The Aquino Administration bought P3.5 billion worth of Dengvaxia in March 2016. Note that all contracts worth in excess of P50 million require the signature of the President.To give Garin the benefit of the doubt, I presume that Garin used the 17 March 2016 WHO guidelines [ WHO ] to justify the April 04 launch of the mass vaccination program, as they are the only guidelines available at the time.The problem: that same WHO document contains so many red flags that Garin willfully ignored.Let me list these red flags down one by one.Red Flag 1: Warning to TravelersPage 5 of the WHO guidelines states, “in travelers unlikely to have already had dengue, vaccination may be substantially less beneficial (and there is a theoretical risk that it may be harmful).”The WHO document advises AGAINST vaccination of travelers who have never had dengue because it may be harmful. Yes, WHO admits that Dengvaxia may be harmful to those who have never been infected with dengue.Red Flag 2: Vaccination can do harmPage 6 of the WHO guidelines states, “Current data suggest substantially lower benefit of vaccination in seronegative individuals 9-45 years of age. There is a theoretical possibility that vaccination could do harm in this population.”WHO says Dengvaxia is a lot less effective to those who’ve never had dengue, and that it may even be harmful to them.Red Flag 3: Lack of ContraindicationsPage 12 says that according to Dengvaxia’s packaging, the drug should NOT be administered to those with severe allergic reactions, those with immune deficiencies such as HIV or AIDS, and those who are pregnant or breastfeeding.So why was there no contraindication against those who’ve never had dengue?Red Flag 4: Insufficient number of trial samplesPage 19 states, “The number of severe or hospitalized episodes was too small to undertake meaningful analyses stratifying by other factors.”Again, this is an admission that there weren’t enough samples.Red Flag 5: Severe dengue risk if given to seronegative peoplePage 24 states, “The vaccine could act as their primary infection, and the subsequent true primary... infection (which would otherwise be typically less severe) could simulate a secondary… infection (which is typically more severe)”There. Page 24 of the 17 March 2016 WHO document said what Sanofi said just days ago.There probably are more red flags after page 24 of 67, but I believe that discovering five should have been enough to convince authorities to think twice about Dengvaxia.WHY DID AQUINO’s GARIN IGNORE THEM? It’s interesting to note that on 01 April 2016, the Philippine Daily Inquirer published the article “WHO approves PH rollout of dengue vaccine”, even if WHO only essentially said they tolerate the rollout and that they do not necessarily approve of it.Specifically, WHO-Philippines chief Dr. Gundo Weiler said, “It is the prerogative of a country to license the product [In short, Aquino’s Garin rolled out Dengvaxia in contravention of expert opinion.WHO reinforces warnings As if the 17 March 2016 WHO document wasn’t enough, the WHO issued another document a month later that basically reiterated the warnings.On 14 April 2016, or several days after the Aquino Government launched the mass vaccination program, Peter Smith of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine delivered a report entitled “Dengue Vaccine (CYD-TDV ‘Dengvaxia®’) Clinical Trial Results to the World Health Organization [According to the report (parentheses supplied),“There is a theoretical possibility that vaccination may be ineffective or may even increase risk of hospitalized and severe dengue in those who are seronegative at the time of first vaccination, regardless of age. However, there are few trial data available on older (aged 9 and up) seronegative participants to address this.” Let’s translate that to plain English:“There is a chance that Dengvaxia may be useless or even increase risk of severe dengue to recipients aged 9 and up who have never had dengue, but there’s an insufficient number of trial subjects to confirm this.” And there’s the trial methodology’s fatal flaw because when translated to really, really plain English, the April 2016 WHO report basically says:Dengvaxia is untested on people aged 9 and older AND have never been infected with dengue. That is, in as far as those aged 9 and up and seronegative are concerned, the drug is UNTESTED.Now, here’s the important question: Page 24 states, “The vaccine could act as their primary infection, and the subsequent true primary... infection (which would otherwise be typically less severe) could simulate a secondary… infection (which is typically more severe)”There. Page 24 of the 17 March 2016 WHO document said what Sanofi said just days ago.There probably are more red flags after page 24 of 67, but I believe that discovering five should have been enough to convince authorities to think twice about Dengvaxia.It’s interesting to note that on 01 April 2016, the Philippine Daily Inquirer published the article “WHO approves PH rollout of dengue vaccine”, even if WHO only essentially said they tolerate the rollout and that they do not necessarily approve of it.Specifically, WHO-Philippines chief Dr. Gundo Weiler said, “It is the prerogative of a country to license the product [ Inq ].”In short, Aquino’s Garin rolled out Dengvaxia in contravention of expert opinion.As if the 17 March 2016 WHO document wasn’t enough, the WHO issued another document a month later that basically reiterated the warnings.On 14 April 2016, or several days after the Aquino Government launched the mass vaccination program, Peter Smith of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine delivered a report entitled “Dengue Vaccine (CYD-TDV ‘Dengvaxia®’) Clinical Trial Results to the World Health Organization [ WHO ].According to the report (parentheses supplied),Let’s translate that to plain English:And there’s the trial methodology’s fatal flaw because when translated to really, really plain English, the April 2016 WHO report basically says:Now, here’s the important question:How many among the 1 million kids aged 9-10 that Aquino and Garin targeted for vaccination with Dengvaxia have been previously infected with dengue?Seropositive, or those who have had the dengue virus in their bloodstream Seronegative, or those who never had the dengue virus in their bloodstream Seroprevalence, meanwhile, refers to the seropositive proportion of the target population. Dengvaxia recipients can be split into two categories:Seroprevalence, meanwhile, refers to the seropositive proportion of the target population.The studies mentioned in the previous sections indicate that Dengvaxia is considerably effective for seropositive recipients and I will not contest that. The problem, however, is what Dengvaxia does to seronegative recipients.

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2017-06-24 23:44:59+00:00

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Thinking Pinoy

How the 1986 'people power revolution' was engineered by the United States

The Marcos Administration, during the 1972-81 martial law period tripled the country's road network, doubled the electrification of the country's homes, increased irrigated cropland eight-fold, and achieved rice and corn self-sufficiency. Minimum daily wage rates tripled, although inflation, driven by international oil price hikes and exploding U.S. interest rates, more than wiped out these wage increases. The oil price hike got Marcos thinking about Nuclear power.But the opponents of Marcos were soon being wined and dined in Washington, by both the right wing (Shultz and Wolfowitz) and the left wing (Rep. Stephen Solarz, Sen. Ted Kennedy, and Princeton's Richard Falk) of the "Project Democracy" apparatus, which performed the subversive tasks assigned by the synarchist banking institutions. Salvador Laurel, the son of the quisling President of the Philippines under the Japanese occupation, headed the opposition after Aquino's assassination, and in February 1984, visited Washington, where he was greeted by Vice President George H.W. Bush and Secretary of State Shultz. Representative Solarz introduced legislation into the Congress to abdicate the treaty regulating the U.S. bases in the Philippines, cutting the agreed aid to the Philippines by two-thirds. At the same time, a nest of anti-nuclear and anti-development NGOs in the United States took up the cause of overthrowing the "Marcos dictatorship," including a gathering of anti-nuclear forces in Manila, including Richard Falk and representatives of the West German Green Party. Stephen Bosworth, a close collaborator of Henry Kissinger, was appointed Ambassador to the Philippines, and from that position he would subsequently orchestrate the coup against Marcos.Throughout 1985, President Ronald Reagan defended the American relationship with the Philippines and with President Marcos, despite the fact that Secretary of State Shultz and Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz openly disagreed with that assessment, instead demanding Marcos's head. The crisis came to a head in July 1984, when the U.S. Congress adopted the Solarz proposal to rip up the Bases Agreement, not only slashing the financial commitments, but insisting that the remaining aid be distributed not by the Philippine government, but by the Church, which, under Cardinal Jaime Sin, had openly called for insurrection against the government.By November, the plans for insurrection were unveiled publicly, as the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the home of Henry Kissinger and Zbigniew Brezezinski, carried out a "war game" against the Philippines, based on a scenario in which President Marcos is assassinated, Soviet "spetsnaz" commandos join the New People's Army in taking over the Philippines, and the U.S. military goes into action to "save" the country.The CSIS's work in Asia was largely financed at that time by the C.V. Starr insurance empire, run by Maurice "Hank" Greenberg. Greenberg and C.V. Starr owned most of the insurance industry in the Philippines, and a number of Philippine politicians as well, and served as the crucial "on the ground" economic hit man in the Marcos coup.Marcos continued fighting for the principle of a new world economic order. In November 1985, EIR and the Schiller Institute, the international association directed by Lyndon and Helga LaRouche, invited Gen. Edgardo Mercado Jarrin (ret.), the head of Peru's Institute of Geostrategic and Political Studies, to tour Asia, promoting the partial moratorium on foreign debt then being implemented by the Peruvian government. In addition to conferences in Thailand and India, General Mercado Jarrin and the EIR/Schiller Institute delegation met with President Marcos in Manila. Marcos told the delegation: "Third World Asian and South American countries should get together and push through the condonation of part of their loans. How can Third World countries pay their loans, amounting to $900 billion?" Marcos estimated that the paying capacity could not exceed $300 billion.The Aug. 16 EIR (Executive Intelligence Review) published a story entitled "Plotting the Fall of an American Ally," which reported that U.S. Ambassador Bosworth was plotting a military coup against the Marcos government. The article reported: "Bosworth now meets up to two hours every day with Acting Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Fidel Ramos, a West Point graduate whom the United States is attempting to groomn as a leader of a new civilian-military junta, despite his loyalty to President Marcos." The story was based on information from reliable sources both in the Philippines and in Washington, where certain patriotic layers within the government, intelligence, and the military did not accept America's transformation into an imperial power serving the synarchist financial interests.The EIR exposé forced a public denial by General Ramos and by Ambassador Bosworth. As events proved, the warning was deadly accurate.Marcos was finally coerced by Washington into calling new elections for February 1986, even though the Constitution mandated elections only in 1987. The opposition, in constant coordination with U.S. Ambassador Bosworth and the Shultz State Department, chose to run Aquino's widow, Corazon Aquino, as the Presidential candidate, with Laurel for Vice President.As still seen today in such neo-con-controlled "people's power revolutions," such as in Georgia and Ukraine, U.S. intelligence agencies financed and controlled the "citizen" electoral monitor organization, the National Movement for a Free Election (Namfrel), and prepared to declare "vote fraud" if the election did not go the way intended. Paul Wolfowitz in November 1985 told the U.S. Congress that there would be a "complete collapse of political confidence" if the elections were not perceived as "fair"—i.e., if Marcos were not defeated.Indeed, on election day, the opposition was ahead in the early returns from Manila—which was expected—and Aquino was instructed to declare herself the winner. However, when the rural votes came in, where Marcos was still loved for the development he had brought to the Nation, Marcos overtook Aquino and won the election. In an astonishing public admission, former U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines William Sullivan (who had also been Ambassador to Iran when the Shah was overthrown by similar means in 1979), told CBS News on Feb. 9, two days after the Philippines election: "The facts as they emerge are becoming increasingly irrelevant, because it's the perception that prevails both in the Philippines and, I think, internationally, that Mrs. Aquino won the election as far as the polling places were concerned, but the government, in the tabulation, changed the vote counts."As EIR had warned, General Ramos then led a military revolt against President Marcos, calling for crowds to surround the military base in the center of Manila, to create an image of "people's power," while the masses of the population were disenfranchised by the overthrow of their elected President. By the end of February, President Reagan had been convinced by Shultz to give up his defense of President Marcos, and endorse the military coup; Marcos and his family were sent to Hawaii.The results of this subversion are still evident today in the decay of the economic and social fabric of the Philippines. Corazon Aquino fulfilled every IMF request, from the closure of the completed nuclear power facility to the deregulation and privatization of much of the economy. It was a surprise to some of Aquino's supporters, when the pro-IMF members of the Marcos Cabinet were retained in the new government. General Ramos took over directly in the next Presidential election in 1992, selling the nation to the Enrons of the West through corrupt, unequal contract agreements, especially in the energy sector, which left the country in absolute bankruptcy after the speculative assault on the Asian economies in 1997-98. Joseph Estrada, another "commoner," was elected President in 1998, but was allowed only two years in office before another "economic hit man"-orchestrated-coup again with General Ramos doing the bidding for his foreign controllers) brought him down in January 2001.----------------This is a GRP Featured Comment. Join the discussion!http://getrealphilippines.com/blog/2015/10/revising-the-revisionist-philippine-history-as-told-by-the-victors/#comment-1373424

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01/12/2017 0:00

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Donald Trump: Thumbs Up To Obama’s Plan To Deport Undocumented Immigrants Beginning In January

In a rare show of bi-partisanship, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump today embraced President Barack Obama’s plan to deport tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants beginning in January.Undocumented families in the U.S. could be rounded up and deported , according to a report that has shocked immigrants rights’ advocates and provoked condemnation from Democratic presidential hopefuls.The Department of Homeland Security is preparing for raids that would see hundreds of recently arrived immigrants deported, according to a report in The Washington Post.Citing anonymous sources, the report said that adults and children “would be detained wherever they can be found and immediately deported”.The operation would focus on people who entered the US from its south-west border since the start of 2014, many of whom are assumed to be escaping gang violence and institutional collapse in Central America. It would also focus on people who have already been ordered to leave by an immigration judge, according to the Post.The White House would not confirm if the Obama plan was meant to replace these undocumented immigrants with the 10,000 Syrian refugees that the president had previously announced would be allowed into the country.“Finally, Obama has come to his senses,” Trump said, emphasizing that “the deportation of undocumented immigrants and creating a border wall to prevent illegal immmigration have always been part of my campaign agenda.”However, Trump said that the Obama administration’s deportation announcement does not go far enough.“We need to do more. We need to also deport Americans — especially those running for public office — who have divided loyalties between America and their foreign place of birth or lineage,” the real estate mogul stated.Trump was obviously referring to his closest rival in the 2016 U.S. presidential race, Senator Ted Cruz, who was raised in Texas but born in Canada to a Cuban father.Upon learning of Trump’s comments, Cruz told The Adobo Chronicles: “Look who’s talking. Here’s my challenge: I will self deport if Donald does the same.”Trump was born to a German father and Scottish mother.

['Pol Pinoy']

26/12/2017 0:00

https://adobochronicles.com/2015/12/26/donald-trump-thumbs-up-to-obamas-plan-to-deport-undocumented-immigrants-beginning-in-january/#respond

Adobo Chronicles

Lack of a focus on the future keeps #Filipinos mired in the past!

[Filipinos live by flawed notions when it comes to] casting blame. It's practically saying let's punish the children or descendants of those people who did wrong in the past. Let us make the children answer/suffer for the shortcomings, real or imagined, of their elders. I don't think that is what Jose Rizal meant or thought when he made a statement about our youth as the future of the country. Pointing to the past crimes of the other party will not really prove the innocence of the accusing party. It will only prove that everybody is guilty of the same crimes.I don't think martial law is being use as a tool to frighten the people. Even if it is I don't think there will be people who will get scared because martial law is a non-starter at this time. It was a fad in the '70s and '80s. It was the trend in the past that will be hard to repeat in the present. What actually was happening was, for lack of a legitimate issue against, for example Bongbong [Marcos], people bring up the past that can be attached to him in order to put him on the defensive. And what better way to do it than drag his dictator father in the picture?Politics is all about points. Wherever you get it you must get it.I'm actually speaking about not putting too much fuss about martial law as a tool to frighten us not because it was harmless but because it is now being floated about as a handicapped, an obstacle on Bongbong's path to frustrate his political ambition. It's all politics.You know what's scarier than the specter of martial law for some people? The possibility of Bongbong Marcos becoming the president of the country.----------------This is a GRP Featured Comment. Join the discussion!http://getrealphilippines.com/blog/2015/10/why-the-neveragain-slogan-reflects-filipinos-total-failure-of-imagination/#comment-1374749

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GRPundit

Duterte Announces List of Media Allowed To Cover Malacañang Inauguration

Other than the state-run People’s Television Network, none of the Philippines’ mainstream media are happy campers these days, especially leading up to the June 30 inauguration of President-elect Rod Duterte.Mainstream media have not only been slapped with the cancellation of Duterte’s media briefings in recent weeks, but have also been shut out of live coverage of the presidential inauguration from inside the Rizal Hall of Malacañang.Today, the Duterte inauguration committee announced that the Davao City mayor has given his approval to allow a few media outlets access to the palace ceremonies on June 30. These outlets — 8 local and 2 foreign media — have not only been alloted front seats at the inauguration but have also received official invitations to join the diplomatic corps in the maruya (banana fritters) and buko (coconut) juice reception that immediately follows.As announced by newly-appointed presidential spokesperson Ernie Abella, those given exclusive credentials to cover Duterte’s inauguration in addition to PTV-4 include:1. Mocha Uson (the sexy performer who recently scored an exclusive video interview with Duterte)2. The Adobo Chronicles3. The Professional Heckler4. Mosquito Press5. Eritas Times6. So, What’s News?7. The Sick Man of Asia8. XOLXOL.ph9. The Onion10. Saturday Night LiveIn addition, Abella said that Facebook will live-stream the palace ceremonies.

['Pol Pinoy']

27/06/2016 0:00

https://adobochronicles.com/2016/06/27/duterte-announces-list-of-media-allowed-to-cover-malacanang-inauguration/?share=email

Adobo Chronicles

In The U.K., The Chicken Crossed The Road — Away From KFC To Jollibee

KFC, the old, reliable fastfood chain has apologized to its patrons for the shortage of its prime menu item — chicken.A shortage of chicken has forced many KFC stores to temporarily close shop.An investigation conducted by The Adobo Chronicles revealed the reason for the shortage: the chicken has crossed the road — from KFC to Jollibee.Jollibee, the popular fastfood chain based in the Philippines is about to open its first store in the U.K.Apparently, British chicken find more joy in being served at a Filipino establishment.Oh, Chicken Joy!

['Pol Pinoy']

27/02/2018 0:00

https://adobochronicles.com/2018/02/27/in-the-u-k-the-chicken-crossed-the-road-away-from-kfc-to-jollibee/?share=email

Adobo Chronicles

BOBBY JINDAL LIKENS DONALD TRUMP TO KIM KARDASHIAN

we wouldn’t put her in the White House, either.”In a speech at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Jindal said that Trump and Kardashian are in the same league, being both products of reality television.“Like Kardashian, Donald Trump is a narcissist and egomaniac. The only thing he believes in is himself,” Jindal said.Trump and Kardashian both reacted to Jindal’s barbs.Trump said, “Jindal has no legal standing to make such statements. He’s an anchor baby, and I’m going to make sure that if I become president, he will be deported.”Kardashian on the other hand told The Adobo Chronicles®, “Let see him get naked and let’s see who has a better behind.”And the 2016 political season shifts into high gear.

['Pol Pinoy']

11/09/2018 0:00

https://adobochronicles.com/2015/09/11/bobby-jindal-likens-donald-trump-to-kim-kardashian/

Adobo Chronicles

Filipino Lechon May Prolong Your Life!

which has been linked to a longer life span. Researchers tested the theory by feeding a selection of roundworms a good dose of niacin and their life lasted one-tenth longer.You can also find the vitamin in paprika, sun-dried tomatoes and peanuts. But why bother? You can find niacin in lechon, which is all that really matters. So eat up!Oh, and don’t forget the sauce. Not just any sauce, but lechon sauce by Mang Tomas!

['Pol Pinoy']

15/06/2018 0:00

https://adobochronicles.com/2015/06/15/filipino-lechon-may-prolong-your-life/#respond

Adobo Chronicles

MISS UNIVERSE CELEBRITY JUDGE PEREZ HILTON SAYS MISS PHILIPPINES WAS THE UNANIMOUS CHOICE

Perez Hilton, one of the four celebrity judges at last Sunday’s Miss Universe beauty pageant is finally breaking his silence about the gaffe in which pageant host Steve Harvey first announced that Miss Colombia won the crown and moments later recanting, saying it was actually Miss Philippines who won.Miss Philippines Pia Wurtzbach deserved to win, the Hollywood entertainment mogul categorically stated on his website.Perez also revealed that all four celebrity judges voted for Wurtzbach to be Miss Universe. “It was unanimous!’ The other judges were Emmy Award-nominated actress Niecy Nash, 2012 Miss Universe Olivia Culpo and football legend Emmitt Smith.The Miss Universe Organization also hinted today that Miss Philippines received a unanimous vote in the public online voting, at least among all Filipino voters. Viewers worldwide had the opportunity to vote for their favorite contestant in real time.As for Miss Germany who claimed none of the contestants (who were announced as the surprise judge) voted for Wurtzbach, Hilton said, “How can Miss Germany know that? The contestants’ votes were anonymous.”In the world (or planetarium) of Miss Universe, reason prevails. And so does rhyme. Unanimous, Anonymous.

['Pol Pinoy']

22/12/2017 0:00

https://adobochronicles.com/2015/12/22/miss-universe-celebrity-judge-perez-hilton-says-miss-philippines-was-the-unanimous-choice/?share=email

Adobo Chronicles

Donald Trump Finds A Vice Presidential Running Mate In Martin Shkreli

Despite his second-place finish in last week’s Iowa Caucuses, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is confident he will win his party’s nomination for the 2016 elections. To reinforce his confidence, he has named his vice presidential running mate. Martin Shkreli.Shkreli is an American entrepreneur and financial and pharmaceutical executive. He is co-founder of the hedge fund MSMB Capital Management, co-founder and former chief executive officer (CEO) of the biotechnology firm Retrophin LLC, and founder and former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals AG. In September 2015, Shkreli received widespread criticism when Turing obtained the manufacturing license for the antiparasitic drug Daraprim and raised its price by 5,556 percent (from US$13.50 to US$750 per tablet).On December 17, 2015, Shkreli was arrested by the FBI on charges of securities fraud and released on bail.This week, Shkreli testified before Congress and his performance impressed The Donald.“I like this guy. He is not intimidated by anyone, not even by members of Congress. Just like me,” Trump said.Today in New Hampshire, while campaigning for next week’s primary, Trump officially named Shkreli as his VP running mate, saying that the “pharma bro” exudes the kind of tough, shrewd, fearless Washington outsider that America needs to make the country great again. “He even has the same smirk as I do,” Trump added.Birds of the same feather flock together.

['Pol Pinoy']

05/02/2016 0:00

https://adobochronicles.com/2016/02/05/donald-trump-finds-a-vice-presidential-running-mate-in-martin-shkreli/

Adobo Chronicles

IN STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS, AQUINO ENDORSES SISTER KRIS FOR PRESIDENT IN 2016

his reform and transformation agenda in 2016.joy over the great confidence that my brother has put on me to continue his daang matuwid (the right path), this administration’s rallying cry and mantra.”In a lighter moment during the interview, Kris was asked what nickname she would like to be called when she becomes president. “In the family tradition where my dad was called Ninoy and my brother NoyNoy, I would love to be called KringKring,” she said, this time with a big smile on her face.

['Pol Pinoy']

28/07/2017 0:00

https://adobochronicles.com/2014/07/28/in-state-of-the-nation-address-aquino-endorses-sister-kris-for-president-in-2016/

Adobo Chronicles

SEATTLE SEAHAWKS WILL MAKE IT UP TO FILIPINOS AT THE SUPERBOWL

NFC Champions Seattle Seahawks have a lot of making up to do, and it’s not with the San Francisco 49ers, but with Filipinos.In their season game against the Minnesota Vikings late last year, the Seahawks attempted to show the world their humanitarian concern by having Doug Baldwin, who is part Filipino, carry the Philippine flag as the team entered the stadium. It was a show of solidarity with the Filipino people following Typhoon Haiyan which killed thousands and left thousands more injured and homeless. There was one problem: Baldwin carried the Philippine flag upside down with the red stripe on top. The red stripe on top, instead of the blue, meant that the Philippines was at war which, clearly, it was not.Now that the Seahawks are in the Superbowl, they announced that they will reprise their criticized entrance when they enter the New York stadium. This time, Baldwin will carry the Philippine flag the correct way, with the blue stripe on top.One hundred million Filipinos will be watching. Go Seahawks!

['Pol Pinoy']

20/01/2017 0:00

https://adobochronicles.com/2014/01/20/seattle-seahawks-will-make-it-up-to-filipinos-at-the-superbowl/

Adobo Chronicles

JOLLIBEE TO PULL OUT OF THE U.S. MARKET; CHOWKING GAINING MOMENTUM

McDonald’s has all but conceded that it cannot compete with Jollibee in the Philippines. The clown is simply unable to keep up with the popularity of that “fat, stupid happy bee” in the Asian island nation.But the opposite is true in the U.S.McDonald’s is outpacing Jollibee in all markets throughout the continental U.S., as well as in Alaska and Hawaii.As a result, Jollibee has announced it is completely pulling out of the U.S. market.In the last few years, many have noticed that the Jollibee mascot has become pale and has lost a lot of weight (see photo) due to the declining number of customers and disappointing sales figures.Jollibee Foods Corporation says it will relocate all of its U.S.-based mascots to the Philippines, where they are expected to recover quickly.Meanwhile, another Philippines-based fast food restaurant is gaining momentum in the U.S.Chowking USA is a quick service restaurant from the Philippines with a Chinese-influenced menu. Chowking, its mother brand, is one of the most recognized and well-loved fast food chains in the Philippines. The brand opened its first store in the U.S. in 1995. Back then, the chain catered primarily to Filipino Americans, bringing them iconic menu items from the original Chowking.Today, Chowking USA serves not just the Filipino community but the local US market as well by providing a delicious and satisfying Chinese fast food experience. It now has 19 locations in 3 states: California, Nevada, and Washington.Goodbye Chicken Joy. Hello chow fun!

['Pol Pinoy']

07/04/2018 0:00

https://adobochronicles.com/2015/04/07/jollibee-to-pull-out-of-the-u-s-market-chowking-gaining-momentum/

Adobo Chronicles

PANDA POPULATION HAS TRIPLED IN JUST SIX MONTHS

The Chinese government continues to be puzzled by the sudden increase in the panda population in just the last six months. The latest official panda count is placed at 1,600 but as of the end of February, 2014, an unofficial panda census shows that the number of these absolutely lovely animals has reached almost 6,000, not including the worldwide zoo population.In an investigative report done by a reporter for The Adobo Chronicles, it was revealed that at least 4,000 of the pandas registered with the Chinese Ministry of Endangered Animals, were actually chow chow (chow) puppies, whose fur were dyed so that they would look like baby pandas.Reacting to the Adobo Chron report, the Beijing government issued an advisory for all panda owners to report to the Ministry of Endangered Animals with their “panda” pets for verification and registration. “Pandas” discovered to be actual chows will be given decoloring baths and the owners will be dealt with a hefty fine.

['Pol Pinoy']

06/03/2017 0:00

https://adobochronicles.com/2014/03/06/panda-population-has-tripled-in-just-six-months/

Adobo Chronicles

Martial Law and former President Marcos are not inherently 'evil'

If former President Marcos was as bad as they paint him out to be, then why build so many schools that further improved people’s literacy ? Why bother developing the country’s infrastructure that would enhance the economy? With an independent and highly functioning society, the gov’t wouldn’t need to impose Martial Law. And Dictatorship would certainly be resisted.If somebody were a true dictator and as corrupt to the core, he would create conditions that debilitate the country and incapacitate the very people he wants to rule over and steal from– through an unending cycle of poverty, miseducation, dumbing down of the culture through corporate media and depriving them of elevated culture.Is this being a pro-Marcos? It’s just a perspective. No need for labelling and putting things into boxes that only bring discussions to a dead-end. Who knows, maybe the truth might be too complex that even the scholars and historians aren’t ready for it.This is a GRP Featured Comment. ------------------------This is a GRP Featured Comment. Join the discussion

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GRPundit

Filipina Programmer Builds Own Company at Age 13! Look at her now

Isabel Sieh, 13 year-old programmer. Photo credit: TCF / Gineers NowMeet Isabel Sieh from Antipolo City, Philippines. She was only 10 years old when she learned how to code. She learned the basics of programming at school but when her parents saw that she's enthusiastic about coding, they got her a tutor. That is when coding became a passion of little Isabel.Unlike most kids her age who spends most of their time watching cartoons on YouTube or playing on their tablets, Isabel spends her time learning programming languages and creating websites. Three years later, she launched her very own company.Girls Will Code is the name of her company and it aims to teach young girls programming. It also advocates to schools in the country to teach students basic programming.Isabel, now 13 years old is still a student but she's also become a teacher. In fact, she taught basic programming to a group of younger kids at Bagong Nayon 2 Elementary School. She taught them how to code using Scratch Jr. - a programming language specifically designed for kids to learn coding while having fun at the same time.Isabel believes that learning how to code early can have a positive impact on the future of Filipino kids.

['Vic Patnugot']

05/08/2018 0:00

http://pinoynewsblogger.blogspot.com/2017/04/filipina-programmer-builds-own-company.html

Pinoy News Blogger

PACQUIAO’S AND MAYWEATHER’S WEIGHTS COULD JEOPARDIZE THE MAY 2ND FIGHT IN LAS VEGAS

In boxing, a weight class is a standardized weight range for boxers. The lower limit of a weight class is equal to the upper weight limit of the class below it. A boxing match is usually scheduled for a fixed weight class, and each boxer’s weight must not exceed the upper limit.For the welterweight class, under which the Pacquiao-Mayweather fight is scheduled for May 2nd at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, the upper weight limit is 147 lbs. or 66.7 kilograms (the lower limit is 140 lbs which is the upper limit for the super lightweight class).Manny Pacquiao has been training so hard and eating so healthy that his weight going into tomorrow’s fight night was down to 143 pounds. While that does not disqualify Pacquiao under the welterweight rules, there are rumors that his opponent, Floyd Mayweather may exceed the upper limit of 147 pounds.Mayweather has been very confident he would easily defeat the Filipino boxer that he has been training very lightly while binge-eating and drinking in exclusive restaurants in Las Vegas.Sources close to the American boxer have been heard as saying that as of last private weigh-in, he had registered 159 pounds.While Manny’s coach Freddie Roach is worried that his protégé would be at a great disadvantage if he weighed close to the lower limit under the welterweight class, Floyd’s uncle and trainer Roger Mayweather is losing sleep over the possibility that his nephew will be disqualified for being overweight.It all boils down to the official weigh-in which is just hours away! The magic numbers to watch for are 140 to 147.UPDATE!!! The official weigh-in has just concluded! Mayweather weighed in a 146 lbs. and Pacquiao at 145 lbs. Tuloy ang laban! (The fight is on!)

['Pol Pinoy']

01/05/2018 0:00

https://adobochronicles.com/2015/05/01/pacquiaos-and-mayweathers-weights-could-jeopardize-the-may-2nd-fight-in-las-vegas/#comments

Adobo Chronicles

Filipinos have nothing to lose in re-implementing the death penalty

I’m pro-death penalty for economic reasons. We’re talking extreme types of criminals here, the ones who pose a serious threat to society, the ones who are impossible to reform. The ones who rape three-month-old babies or hack their fathers to death and eat their internal organs because they’re high on shabu. Why should a poor country like the Philippines waste government funds to house, feed, and guard monsters like these, when that money can be used to help poor young children instead, who can still be molded into responsible and productive members of society?When the debates on the death penalty start at the Senate, I hope someone (maybe Manny Pacquiao) will show data on how much the government spends each year on the prison system, and compute how many children can be fed and sent to school with that amount of money. Our taxes should be used to benefit law-abiding citizens, not to keep inhuman criminals alive.I also hope the senate gives a voice to survivors of heinous crimes (or the relatives of victims who died), because they’re the ones who can credibly speak on the death penalty, not clueless yellow morons like Kiko Pangilinan, Risa Hontiveros, and Bam Aquino who have no idea what it’s like to live with the risk of getting raped, robbed, or killed in the most brutal way by crazed shabu addicts everyday.If Hontiveros has another one of her idiotic little girl monologues about the worst criminals changing for the better, please send her to the Abu Sayyaff’s lair in Mindanao by herself with no media, no, no guards. If she can do that, then maybe we can listen to her.Another thing, please leave the God-God arguments out of the debates. You are the Senate, dammit. Demonstrate to the country what separation of church and state means. Don’t use religion to argue your case. Religion is your personal choice, not the law of the land.If the Catholic priests start yakking again, draft a provision to tax them and include it in the constitutional amendments. If priests want to have a say in government, they need to pay like the rest of the taxpayers in this country. The Catholic church makes millions every day collecting alms from people, but where’s the money? How come so many people are still poor and helpless in their parishes? The priests keep saying the government should show mercy to criminals, but have they ever donated some of their millions to build better prisons? Have they ever done anything concrete to reduce drugs and crime in their communities?A person’s right to life comes with the responsibility to respect the right to life of others. If you violate the right to life of another person, you forfeit your own right to life.The only exception is if the victim of your crime (or their relatives) pardons you and gives the justice system permission to let you live.As a citizen, I don’t think the death penalty should be used lightly, but I do want to see it there in the law as an extra option that the courts and the police can use in extreme cases.Simple logic–there’s nothing to lose by having it there. If it doesn’t turn out to be an effective deterrent, we’re not worse off from where we are now. But if it does turn out to be effective, we gain a lot.-------------------------This is a GRP Featured Comment. Join the discussion

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29/08/2018 0:00

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Why Duterte Wants To Close Boracay

Luzon (Manila), Mindanao (Davao) and the Visayas (Boracay).’Whenever we have visiting heads of state or foreign dignitaries, we will bring them directly to the Malacañang of the Visayas to spare them from the traffic nightmare and pollution in Manila,’ Duterte said.’And what better way to host our foreign guests than in one of the most beautiful beaches in the world,’ he added.

['Pol Pinoy']

10/02/2018 0:00

https://adobochronicles.com/2018/02/10/why-duterte-wants-to-close-boracay/

Adobo Chronicles

LOOK: Ph flags raised, Duterte photo in Cambodia street

President Rodrigo Duterte’s charisma has been felt by the Philippine neighboring countries. Duterte has been going around the countries for a state visit raking productive bilateral deals with other countries.The latest is his visit in Cambodia where the Philippine flag is raised while a gigantic photo is placed beside the Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni as Duterte expected to arrive in Cambodia.Look how stunning Rody is – the rockstar President. WATCH THE VIDEO BELOWWhat can you say about this? Leave your comments below!

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2016-12-13 18:59:27+08:00

http://duterte.today/look-ph-flags-raised-duterte-photo-cambodia-street/

Duterte Daily Stories

JEWELERS VERY UPSET ABOUT OBAMA’S DECISION ON KEYSTONE

Thousands of jewelry retailers are very upset at President Barack Obama’s announcement yesterday rejecting the Keystone Pipeline project that would have facilitated the flow of 800,000 barrels a day of carbon-heavy petroleum from Canada to the United States.A spokesman for the jewelers told The Adobo Chronicles that Obama’s decision practically would kill the already struggling jewelry retail business.Keystone is a pricing practice widely accepted in the jewelry business, and it has nothing to do with carbon imprints.Keystone pricing = the wholesale cost of an item x 2In other words, we are talking about a 100% markup on an item. If a jewelry retailer buys a gold ring for $100, then he or she will sell it for $200. This is the standard default method of many traditional jewelers.Some higher-end or name-brand jewelers will go as far as charging was is called triple-keystone pricing. This is the wholesale cost of an item x 3 (hence triple markup).It was only after The White House held a conference call with U.S. jewelry retailers that the group realized it was just a matter of misinformation and miscommunication.So the 100% and 200% mark-up continues. But now jewelry buyers fully understand why their favorite jewelry stores can offer discounts or sales of up to 50% off!

['Pol Pinoy']

07/11/2017 0:00

https://adobochronicles.com/2015/11/07/jewelers-very-upset-about-obamas-decision-on-keystone/#respond

Adobo Chronicles

Yellowtards are incapable of comprehending the abundant lives of true thinking Filipinos

I’ve just come from a lovely out-of-town trip with my husband and our lifelong friends and was offline for 2 days (I have a wonderful life outside FB—unlike a lot of these keyboard warriors. Such losers.).I only got home now, logged in and saw all the trash on my wall. And I see that monsters of the disente variety have descended on my wall and used it as a way to spread their particular gospel of hate. I haven’t read a lot. Just a handful—and the rest, I will ignore and/or delete. Once I find the time.(Not tonight. I have books I want so bad to read. Also, I want you to have more time to read through the hateful comments, if you so wish—disabuse yourself of the notion that ONLY pro-Dutertes are capable of poison and hate. And, too, here’s a truth you must keep in mind: none of that poison is about me but everything about the commenter )Here’s the thing.There are only 6 opinions that matter to me in the whole world. That would be my husband’s, my 3 children’s, and my 2 dogs’.(Yup, my 2 dogs’ opinions of me matter far far more than some random online person. My dogs are much finer creatures, for one and for another, they are far better human beings than a lot of human beings I know.)You’d be hard pressed to find a more solid family than ours. And you’d be hard pressed to find a bunch of people who have my back more than these 6 do and who say, “That’s my wife/mom.” with as much love and pride as they do.This is the abundance of my life.And for as long as I have those 6 in my life, I keep on keeping on. I know what it is I am fighting for and for whom and why.My work with the impoverished is front and center of my life. And I will do all I can to support a president who I think will take a lot of them out of the vicious cycle of poverty.And there is this other person whose opinion of me matter far more than those 6 up there and it is MY opinion of myself.Long and far and wide have I traveled so I now stand solidly by my side. I know the stuff I’m made of. And it will take so much more than ugly memes and cyberbullying to get a rise out of me.I know it’s real hard for cowards who can only be brave behind a keyboard to understand this but what can you do about losers no?You can’t make my words mean what it is you want them to mean.And you can’t make me be what I am not.I write because there is far too much left unsaid that must be said. And I write because I know silence is far more dangerous than speaking up.And I have, long ago, gathered the courage and given myself permission to write my truths—no matter if the truth I share is the truth others don’t want to hear.It is as simple as that.---------------------------Lorraine Marie T Badoy as posted on Facebook

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2017-08-14 22:04:41+00:00

https://grpshorts.blogspot.com/2016/12/yellowtards-are-incapable-of.html#comments

GRPundit

The Yellowtards are an annoying bunch of fake and obsolete Opposition leaders

Over the six-year rule of former Philippine President Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III, we at Get Real Post used to be continuously asked why we are so against Aquino. My personal response to that is that he represents everything that is wrong with the Filipino. This makes sense considering that GetRealPhilippines.com — the mothership of Get Real Post — has, since 2000, focused on articulating the rich variety of facets and nuances of the cultural dysfunction that is at the heart of why the Philippines continues to muddle along in abject mediocrity.Aquino just happens to be some schmoe who showed up out of nowhere and happened to have the right stuff to become President of the Philippines. By “right stuff” I mean this in the context of Filipino standards and Filipino mindsets — that even in a “democracy”, Filipinos still see leadership in their society as a birthright. We can see this in how Filipinos show banal deference to legacies of their traditional masters: people of European descent, kin of oligarchs and the aristocracy in their midst, men in priestly robes, and people who speak English with an Arrrneeoow twang. All these constitute the right stuff that guarantees acceptance in an elite clique of self-appointed disentes and, on the back of that, the political and financial backing needed to clamber to the top of Philippine society’s socio-economic food chain.And now that BS Aquino and his merry band of Yellowtards are no longer in power?Well, the trouble with that is, in a “democracy”, a well-organised Opposition working off an intelligent and coherent platform of positions on pertinent national issues is important to keep the discourse relevant and, consequently, said “democracy” a healthy one. Because Aquino and his Yellowtards are the biggest losers of the last elections in 2016, they continue to be seen as the default leaders of that Opposition. Being seen as the leaders is, of course, different to actually leading. There is no real evidence that the Liberal Party (a.k.a. the Yellowtards) are actually leading the Philippine Opposition save, perhaps, in terms of sheer noise.See, the LP and the Yellowtards were merely crowned the leaders of the Opposition. But they have not, by any measure, earned that position — not in terms of achievement, nor in terms of thought leadership nor any exhibited aptitude applied to defining a vision for the country and laying out a roadmap towards that vision. To most Filipinos, the Yellowtards are the Opposition because, well, they are the Aquinos and the president is a Duterte (to reboot an old Mar Roxas quotable).This is what makes the Yellowtards such an annoying bunch. They have failed to earn the right to be, well, annoying. Their incessant whining about how things are not up to their standards of “decency” under the watch of current President Rodrigo Duterte is not matched by an alternative approach to delivering different results to a citizenry who have grown tired of seeing the same things election in and election out, decade after decade.Indeed, the only thing the Yellowtards are known for is how they perverted a “revolution” into one out of which would emerge the same sorts of crooks and the same endemic social dysfunction. They then proceeded to convince an entire generation of Filipinos that all this has nonetheless been nothing short of “revolutionary” and a cause for celebration every year. When one considers this astounding 30-year political scam, the fact of how ludicrous it is that the Yellowtards want everything to go back to the way things were becomes self-evident.Granted that, perhaps, there is lots about the way Duterte does things (and conducts himself) to be critical about, the more important missing ingredient in the Opposition’s proposition to the Filipino people is an alternative way forward. You need to come up with a product that is better than your competitor’s and different from your old product — the product that caused you to lose a valued customer to begin with.

['Oratio Imperata']

2017-10-03 06:41:20+00:00

https://www.getrealphilippines.com/2017/10/the-yellowtards-are-an-annoying-bunch-of-fake-and-obsolete-opposition-leaders/

Get Real Philippines

LOOK: Duterte cracks a joke, room bursts into laughter

President Rodrigo Duterte is known for his tough talk, but he tends to give funny one-liners, too.As far as this picture from Malacañang is concerned, we think it’s the latter that actually happened. Just check out the facial expressions of the people gathered around “Digong”.This was in fact taken during a high-level meeting among key peace process personalities, which included National Democratic Front (NDF) peace panel chair Luis Jalandoni, Government of the Philippines chief negotiator Silvestre Bello III and Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Jesus Dureza.

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2017-12-28 19:55:49+00:00

http://www.pilipinasonlineupdates.com/2016/09/look-duterte-cracks-joke-room-bursts.html#comment-form

Pilipinas Online Updates

Leni’s Possible Defense: Strike down SOCE laws

The Antecedent FactsRA 7166 does not allow candidates “to enter upon the duties of her office” until her SOCE and her political party’s SOCE have both been filed. VP-elect Leni Robredo filed her SOCE within the 08 June 2016 deadline. The Liberal Party, Robredo’s nominator, failed to file its SOCE on time. Comelec Resolution 9991 set the non-extendible deadline for SOCE filing at 08 June 2016 and that all SOCEs submitted beyond that date shall not be accepted.Leni’s first stepLate Filer vs Non-Filer“Every candidate and treasurer of the political party shall, within thirty (30) days after the day of the election, file [a]… statement of all contributions and expenditure…No person elected to any public offices shall enter upon the duties of his office until he has filed the statement of contributions and expenditures herein required....Failure to file the statements or reports in connection with electoral contributions and expenditures are required herein shall constitute an administrative offense for which the offenders shall be liable to pay an administrative fine ranging from One thousand pesos (P1,000.00) to Thirty thousand pesos (P30,000.00), in the discretion of the Commission.”Non-acceptance of late SOCEs as unlawfulRA 7166, Sec. 35. Rules and Regulations. - The Commission shall issue rules and regulations to implement this Act. Said rules shall be published in at least two (2) national newspapers of general circulation.The decision to extend being ultra vires (beyond one’s legal authority), as RA 7166 clearly does not provide extensions, so providing extensions is a de facto amendment to RA 7166. The decision being clearly erroneous as there is no ambiguity in ComRes 9991 with respect to deadline extensions.Comelec's Double WhammyIf Comelec accepts Liberal's late SOCE, it will look like they are giving special favors.If they don't, it will look like they are going against the people's will.Another Legal Grey AreaOn one hand, Leni’s inability “to enter upon the duties of her office” prevents her from becoming the Vice-president in the fullest sense. The main duty of her office is to become president if and when the need arises, a duty that she cannot perform because of RA 7166 plus ComRes 9991.On the other hand, the constitution clearly states that upon proclamation, all she needs is to take an oath on 30 June 2016 and that’s it.How about the others?First, Leni can argue about the legal definition of “deadline” vis-à-vis RA 7166. She can argue that RA 7166 in fact allows acceptance of late SOCEs and that “deadline” is only for determination of fines, implying that Comelec misunderstood the law.Second, Leni can assail the unconstitutionality of a clause in ComRes 9991 Rule X that states, “Submissions beyond (08 June 2016) shall not be accepted,” as it goes beyond the provisions of RA 7166 Sections 14 and 35 upon which ComRes 9991 Rule X is based.Third, Leni can argue that RA 7166, when applied to Presidents-elect or VPs-elect, de facto amends the Constitution as it introduces a new requirement, which, in this case, is SOCE filing.If the SC agrees with Leni on the validity or unconstitutionality of RA 7166 and/or ComRes 9991, then all Liberal Party officials are safe.If the SC affirms the third defense, but denies the first two, then LP has a problemYesterday, ThinkingPinoy explained how the Liberal Party’s (LP) non-filing of the its Statement of Campaign Contributions and Expenditures (SOCE) will result in the disqualification of all winning LP-nominated candidates starting from Vice-president Leni Robredo down to municipal or city councilors [ TP: No VP Leni ].In reply, Robredo insisted that Comelec Rules allow LP to file its SOCE until June 30th. However, TP showed that Robredo was in fact referring 2014 Comelec Resolution 9873 that has already been repealed by 2015 Comelec Resolution 9991, essentially implying that Robredo’s June 30 claim has no legal basis [ TP: Obsolete Law ].Attorney Maria Leonor Robredo’s poorly constructed "June 30 deadline" legal argument will not hold water in the court of law. However, she may still have other ways to get out of this LP-initiated legal mess. And that’s what we will be talking about.In this article, TP consulted with a seasoned election lawyer-slash-amiga (ELSA) who also teaches in a prominent law school in Metro Manila. The lawyer requested her identity to be concealed for lack of official authority to comment on the matter.Before we talk about the legalese, let’s list down the antecedent facts:Discounting the Supreme Court, Comelec has the sole to accept SOCEs. Because Comelec shall not accept LP’s late SOCE per ComRes 9991, LP shall be deemed a non-filer, implying that Leni is deficient in the two-fold requirement set by RA 7166.That is, per RA 7166 in tandem with ComRes9991, Leni shall not be allowed “to enter upon the duties of her office” because her nominator LP, de facto, has not filed its SOCE.The argument against Leni seems airtight. However, ThinkingPinoy is all too familiar with how lawyer can find needles in haystacks, so he consulted his trusty election-lawyer-slash-amiga (ELSA).In particular, TP asked ELSA, "Mamser, what would you if you were Leni?"ELSA said, “If I were Leni, the first thing I’ll do is request a temporary restraining order (TRO) from the Supreme Court right away, especially since Lim is on leave. Besides, the urgency of the issue may allow Robredo to bypass Comelec and go straight to the Supreme Court.”Comelec Commissioner Christian Robert Lim, head of the election steering committee, is on leave [ MS ], which may delay the resolution of LP’s request for a two-week extension on the SOCE filing deadline.“The issuance of a TRO or preliminary injunction is just the first part. Leni also needs a good legal defense,” ELSA added.The SOCE issue is purely procedural in nature and is well within the Comelec’s mandate. The question, however, is if the procedure – in this case ComRes 9991 – is with sound legal basis.ELSA said, “RA 7166 is expressly against non-filing, but it is more lenient to late filing. The problem here is that ComRes 9991 redefined late filing to mean non-filing.”RA 7166 clearly prohibits Leni from taking office until LP has filed its SOCE.The pertinent section of RA 7166 states:“On one hand, this section may be interpreted as ‘If you don’t file within 30 days then it’s over’. On the other hand, the fact that penalties exist for late filers may imply that SOCE filed past the deadline are still acceptable, in as far as RA 7166,” ELSA said.ComRes 9991, however, renders late SOCEs invalid, essentially turning “late filers” into “non-filers”.“ComRes 9991 is valid in the sense that it passes the twin tests of completeness and sufficiency of standards. Comelec in fact stayed within its constitutional limits by disallowing SOCE deadline extensions.” ELSA said.Comelec can argue that it merely implemented RA 7166 Sec 14 using the authority vested upon it by RA 7166 Sec 35 , to wit:“The SOCE is a procedural requirement to be able to take office. It is ministerial upon Comelec to receive it as the law provides. The law is complete and they already provided guidelines on how it should be received. The only problem is that LP didn’t comply,” ELSA said.Comelec en banc can decide to extend the deadline, but SC can reverse that decision on any of at least two grounds:“I think it’s too harsh not to make them sit but to give them extension is also bastardizing the law,” ELSA said.“However, Leni can argue that ComRes 9991 clause that states ‘Submissions beyond (08 June 2016) shall not be accepted’ is actually goes well beyond the provisions of RA 7166,” ELSA said.Robredo’s legal team can argue that the SOCE deadline’s sole purpose is to determine liability for fines and nothing more, as RA 7166 can be interpreted to deem late SOCEs valid despite fines levied. That is, the Comelec’s rule of non-acceptance of late SOCEs as an amendment to RA 7166.Simply put, Comelec can argue that it defined ComRes 9991 within the limits of its authority and in compliance with RA 7166. On the flip side, Leni can argue that Comelec overstepped boundaries in one particular pertinent clause of ComRes 9991, which is its refusal to accept late SOCEs.Note, however, that the Comelec is just doing its job."However, it is within the rule making power of Comelec to make the call not to accept late SOCEs. It's not the issue of validity. It's the issue of timeliness. In law, we have deadlines. If we don't follow those deadlines, then there will be endless litigation. Any lawyer knows that," ELSA said.ELSA added, "The rule does not say late SOCEs are invalid. They just repeated the law's deadline na 30 days after election.That's why the Supreme Court needs to rule on the validity of RA 7166 Sec 14 as well as the ComRes 9991." This is a double whammy for the Comelec:Hence, SC is the best arbiter because there is a gap in the law that now leads to a very difficult situation.“This will go to the Supreme Court either way. There is no one else to blame but LP. It’s their fault for not filing it on time. The question here is not eligibility of the winners: it's compliance with the law,” ELSA said.For the sake argument, TP asked what would happen if there’s no SOCE deadline extension and VP-elect Leni is not allowed “to enter upon the duties of her office”.“She is always VP, but she lacks a requirement (LP’s SOCE) to take office and the deadline for that requirement has already lapsed. Actually, she can take her oath but not assume office on June 30.”TP asked what if no one assumes VP office by July 1st.“There’s the gap in the law. The issue falls into legal limbo so the SC has to decide on that,” ELSA said.Here are competing arguments:“No one can introduce, remove, or modify constitutional requirements except through a constitutional amendment. Leni can argue that adding the SOCE requirement is basically adding an extra requirement for VPs,” ELSA said.“Again, the Supreme Court is the authority on this,” ELSA said.Let’s recap what we have discussed so far. After Leni successfully requests for a temporary restraining order from the Supreme Court, her potential defenses would be:The Supreme Court will eventually decide on the merits of each, and the SC has the option to affirm one, two, or all of these three.Given this, ThinkingPinoy looked for potential repercussions to the rest of the LP-nominated candidates.The third defense has nothing to do with other LP-nominated officials.That is, if SC okays the third defense, but rejects the first and second defenses, then VP Leni is safe, but everyone else, from Drilon down to the LP councilor, will be prevented from entering the duties of their respective offices."Chances are, SC will brand this case as(unique) and allow all of them to sit, upon filing of SOCE of LP and paying of fine. After all, they can always argue that a procedural requirement cannot have more value than sovereign will," ELSA said."That assumes, however, that LP will be able to submit its SOCE. Scanning receipts, pointed out as the main cause of delay, is not really a valid alibi. It's more likely that they still need 'simulated donors' but there are no willing individuals," ELDSA said."Simulated Donors" are persons whose names are used in place of original donors' because the latter refuses to have his or her name published."But at the end of the day, LP has no due regard for the law. That's how arrogant that party is," ELSA said.But of course, unless the SC decides with finality, we'll never know. After all, "predictability" and "consistency" are qualities that the Philippine Justice System sorely lacks. (Did you like this post? Help ThinkingPinoy stay up! Even as little as 50 pesos will be a great help!

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2017-12-28 19:55:49+00:00

http://www.thinkingpinoy.net/2016/06/lenis-possible-defense-strike-down-soce.html

Thinking Pinoy

Rappler CEO Maria Ressa claims that 90 duterte supporters wanted to rape and kill her per minute

That’s 129,600 a day!Jojo Robles a columnist shared on his Facebook account that his friend living abroad heard the CEO of the number one social news website Maria Ressa being interviewed in a local radio program in Vancouver, Canada.In his post, Jojo Robles shared the information gave to him by his friend and he said that Ressa shared in the local radio program how hard to become the target of the pro-duterte supporters.In the radio program, Ressa narrated how Senator Leila De Lima was stripped by dignity and how the pro duterte blogger Mocha Uson spread hate speech and threats against her.Because of the power of Mocha Uson on social media Ressa said that she received ninety rape and death threats per minute on the internet, thats 129,600 a day.But several Pro-Duterte bloggers said that the claims of Ressa is impossible.The claims of the friend of Robles is not yet verified.Maria Ressa is not yet giving any statement on the post of Jojo Robles

['View All Posts Pinoytrending']

2017-04-27 23:30:40+08:00

https://pinoytrending.altervista.org/maria-ressa-claims-90-duterte-supporters-threatened-per-minute/

Pinoytrending Altervista

Wrong Queen Crowned, But Steve Harvey Had Nothing To Do With It

One would think it would never happen again — the wrong pageant winner being crowned.But it did, just like it happened in the Miss Universe Pageant when host Steve Harvey announced the wrong winner (Miss Colombia instead of Miss Philippines.)Well, that’s now behind us, and the real winner, Pia Wurtzbach has completed her reign and has passed on the crown to her successor.In San Francisco, the wrong queen was crowned Miss GAPA (Gay Asian Pacific Alliance) this weekend, but Steve Harvey had nothing to do with it.Organizers of the popular pageant announced that due to a tabulation error, the crown was awarded to the wrong contestant.But the organizers decided that the wrong winner can keep the crown, and they’re awarding a second crown to the real winner. So for 2017, there will be two Miss GAPAs.It will be recalled that former Miss Universe owner Donald Trump had suggested that both Miss Philippines and Miss Colombia be declared co-winners after that Steve Harvey fiasco, but that didn’t happen.Hmmm, did Trump have anything to do with the Miss GAPA decision?

['Pol Pinoy']

28/08/2017 0:00

https://adobochronicles.com/2017/08/28/wrong-queen-crowned-but-steve-harvey-had-nothing-to-do-with-it/

Adobo Chronicles

Karen Davila Loves Royal Weddings, Admires The Dutch and Duchess of Sussex

Remember in 2017, when broadcast journalist Karen Davila reportedly referred to Prince William and Princess Kate as the “Dutch and Duchess of Cambridge?”Since Rappler and Vera Files were not yet designated at that time as Facebook’s partners in fact-checking, there was no way of verifying if Davila really said what she supposedly said.But as they say, history repeats itself.Davila, tweeted today that she loves watching royal weddings and expressed her admiration for Prince William and Meghan Markle whom she referred to as the Dutch and Duchess of Sussex.Luckily we now have the Internet police in place, so Rappler and Vera Files can fact-check this report.Stay tuned!

['Pol Pinoy']

19/05/2018 0:00

https://adobochronicles.com/2018/05/19/karen-davila-loves-royal-weddings-admires-the-dutch-and-duchess-of-sussex/

Adobo Chronicles

BREAKING: President Obama Hints At A Michelle Vice Presidency

For the first time since the start of the 2016 U.S. presidential election campaign, President Obama hinted that his wife, First Lady Michelle Obama, is running for Vice President.Obama made the revelation during Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner.Looking directly at the stunning First Lady, Obama said “Next year at this time, someone else will be standing here in this very spot, and it’s anyone’s guess who SHE will be…”Michelle just flashed her usual dazzling smile, as she winked at Senator Bernie Sanders, Democratic candidate for president who happened to be in the audience.

['Pol Pinoy']

30/04/2016 0:00

https://adobochronicles.com/2016/04/30/breaking-president-obama-hints-at-a-michelle-vice-presidency/?share=email

Adobo Chronicles

LOOK: The men behind Davao Bombing

CASE CLOSED. This is according to Department of Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana after they have finally captured the men behind the bloody bombing in Davao City. The suspects were nabbed in Cotabato City on Friday.According to Lorenzana that they have recovered bombing paraphernalia and cellphone which has a video of the actual bombing.In the video, the suspect was heard shouting “Allahu Akbar” while people are seen running around shouting for help.The suspects are identified as TJ Tagadaya Makabalang, Wendel Facturan, and Musalli Mustapha. The three are members of the Maute Group, a terrorist group that has a close link with the Abu Sayyaf Group.Lorenzana said that the bombing was made in retaliation with the heavy forces sent by the government in Sulu to combat Abu Sayyaf.Meanwhile, Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte commended the success of the operation but warned the dabawenyos to remain vigilant.The Davao blast left 15 dead and 69 injured.Any words on this? Leave your comments below!

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2016-10-07 17:36:00+08:00

http://duterte.today/look-men-behind-davao-bombing/

Duterte Daily Stories

Grocery Pun Girls making waves on social media

How many puns can two seemingly perfectly normal girls come up with when they got bored while shopping for groceries at the supermarket? Well, it appears they could easily turn from zero to too much. But that's not an understatement because their video that is now making rounds in social media is quite entertaining.They drop puns like they are dads except that they are not because these persons are students and are both girls just having too much fun with the groceries.The duo was identified as Lanirie Caudal and Mariella Ramos but we have now baptized them with the name. Watch them have their pun-tastic time at some supermarket making fun with the names of various products.

['Vic Patnugot']

2017-06-22 13:13:47+08:00

http://pinoynewsblogger.blogspot.com/2016/02/grocery-pun-girls-making-waves-on.html#more

Pinoy News Blogger

WATCH: BBC Host looks at Trillanes background: “You mounted 2 failed coup attempt that only lasted a day”

“You are bashing your head against a brick wall”This is what BBC’s HARDtalk host Stephen Sackur thinks senator Antonio Trillanes IV did when he to stood up against President Rodrigo Duterte who considered as a popular president despite of his admissions that he really wanted to kill criminals and the alleged human rights abuses that accused by his critics against him.Senator Trillanes faced a literal hard talk from the BBC Host and he wondered why the comments of senator Antonio Trillanes was ‘out of tune’ to the comments of the most Filipino people.“Its not easy for me to judge but looking at the comments made by the members of the public in Manila to news agencies they saying things like: The streets are safer now, here in the Philippines we needed a ruler with an iron fist.. These are quotes from the general public, that seems to be the mood, the ratings for Duterte still remain high 75% approval rating. I’m just wondering whether your comment which are constantly negative are out of tune with ordinary Filipino opinion.” Stephen Sackur asked Trillanes.Trillanes said that the rating that Sackur mentioned was the approval rating of President Duterte way back in March, but he explained that it would continue to go down,”But Sackur interrupted Trillanes and he said that 75% approval was considered in the western politics is a big achievement for a western politician.“Believe me senator, if a western politician receives a 75% approval rating they will regard that as the happiest day of their life” Sackur told Trillanes.After that senator Trillanes only smiled on what Sackur told to him.Sackur also wondered why the people of the Philippines voted for President Duterte despite of his admission that he really wants to kill criminals and discussing about his alleged death squads during the campaign period.“In May 2015, he [Duterte] said, am I the deathsquad? It’s true, that is true. So again he put his own record in front of the Filipino public even to the point of discussing his association with death squads and the Filipino public decided that this was the man to clean up your country” Stephen Sackur told Trillanes.“So in political terms, it seems to be your bashing your head against a brick wall,” the BBC host added.Senator Trillanes responded and he said that he would not give up in his fight against President Duterte. He also said that ‘it will take time’ to convince the public to stood up against the Filipino President and he believed that Duterte’s rating would continue to go down.“I’m quite confident towards the end of the year, his numbers will be way below 50,” Trillanes said.After that, Sackur looked at the track record of Trillanes and it seems that the BBC Host giggled before he narrated the past of the senator.“You twice tried to mount a coup against an elected Filipino president and in that case that is Mrs. Arroyo back in 2003 you have an aborted coup attempt which lasted, well let’s face it only a day,” The BBC host told Trillanes“You made another attempt to Gloria Arroyo in 2007 and you ended up in prison for seven years, do you think a coup is a legitimate responsive gain to the Philippines current political situation,” Sackur asked Trillanes.Trillanes responded and he said that they do not need a coup attempt to resolve a ‘problem like duterte’During the last part of the interview, Stephen Lackur wondered why Trillanes criticized President Duterte while the normal Filipino people believed that the current leader of the Philippines was doing a ‘decent job’“As a final point, for all the fears of what Duterte means for the Philippines, right now viewed by made by many ordinary Filipinos this guy is doing a decent job,” Sackur told Trillanes.But Trillanes said that the Filipino would change their views to President Duterte. He said that ‘it may take a little while but it does happen.

['View All Posts Pinoytrending']

2017-06-22 13:13:47+08:00

https://pinoytrending.altervista.org/bbc-host-looks-trillanes-background-mounted-2-failed-coup-attempt-lasted-day/

Pinoytrending Altervista

Are UP students suffering from a failure of thinking?

Interesting how just as the government of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is unveiling a massive programme of infrastructure spend of unprecedented proportions, the prevailing online chatter amongst would-be and wannabe “activists” had so far been centred around the proposed honorary degree to be conferred by the University of the Philippines on the president. The sheer waste of headspace devoted to this “issue” came to full light following a statement from Duterte himself declaring that he would decline the offer. Right there and then, by that simple act, the rug upon which this latest outrage fad had festered was pulled from right under these “activists'” feet.Most notable is the way the development of this issue was reported in media. UP community slams honorary degree for Duterte screamed the token ABS-CBN News report on the matter. The UP community? Really? As a grad of this excellent institution of higher learning, I can, hand on heart, attest to the fact that this caricature of the “typical UP student” in protest rally regalia — t-shirt, sandals and jeans, with the customary rolled up blue book stuffed in its back pocket — pumping fists backdropped by the Oblation is no more than a quaint urban myth.In reality, this persistent stereotype more befits the typical comrade within the University Student Council (USC) clique and the community of “socially aware” maakabayans who orbit them. These are the sorts who simply have too much time on their hands in between Palma Hall classes and enough vacant space in their heads to soak up Joma Sison’s old Cold War drivel about the struggle of the lumpen proletariat.But the UP being the UP, most students there are smart enough to grasp what a rare privilege its is to be part of the country’s premiere student body. Everyone who passes the UPCAT, after all, opts to enroll. The UP is never the second choice to a better offer. For the average Filipino high school grad, there is no better offer to a stint in the University of the Philippines.What to make of those bozos who fit that tubao-sporting UP student archetype portrayed in pop culture? Well, one just needs to closely observe what goes on on campus during the campaign periods leading to the USC elections every year. Because the campus paper, the venerable Philippine Collegian, is also controlled by these makabayan dweebs, outsiders –which include all these lazy “professional” journalists and the bevy of pedestrian social media “activists” who shriek about “human rights” on Facebook and Twitter everyday — are easily led to believe that student activism is the be-all-end-all most important student concern in UP. The truth of the matter is that most UP students just want to get on with the task of graduating on time. UP activists have become a mere tourist attraction — side shows that occasionally make enough noise to attract students to look over the rail guards of Melchor Hall out of curiosity.Unfortunately, the cry to makibaka no longer rings across as the serious call for a protest against the “evil” status quo — not when three decades of Yellowtardism had turned the notion of Laban into the sad punchline that it is today.

['Oratio Imperata']

2017-04-20 03:39:12+00:00

https://www.getrealphilippines.com/2017/04/students-suffering-failure-thinking/

Get Real Philippines

Breaking News! UBER Suspension Is Now Ober

The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) has lifted its one-month suspension on UBER after the ride-hailing firm paid almost $10 million in fine and financial aid to its drivers affected by the halted operations.LTFRB had halted UBER’s operations for a month from Aug. 14 for violating an order to stop accepting new driver applications.In effect, UBER’s suspension is now ober!

['Pol Pinoy']

29/08/2017 0:00

https://adobochronicles.com/2017/08/29/breaking-news-uber-suspension-is-now-ober/?share=email

Adobo Chronicles

Marcos burial at the LNMB was part of the Duterte package. Deal with it!

It's not fair daw to blame Duterte supporters for the Marcos burial at LNMB. Many of them are anti-Marcos, but they voted for Duterte because they want "peace and order" and/or believe in the "war on drugs" and/or are just fed up with the status quo and want "change".Here's there thing though. You voted for Duterte knowing full well the esteem in which he held the Marcos family, and he spoke plainly about his intentions to bury Marcos at LNMB. And you said, ok, we can accept that. It's like American voters who voted for Trump who say but we're not sexist/homophobic/racist/xenophobic! Yes, but they knew he represented all those things, and they said, ok, we can accept that. To me, that is unacceptable. Your vote has consequences, and you need to accept THAT.There is plenty of blame to go around. We as a society have failed to learn the lessons from Martial Law and we are all partly at fault. I only point out the complicity of Duterte supporters to call out the ridiculous hand-washing of the pro-Duterte-anti-Marcos, because you can't have it both ways. This is a direct consequence of your votes. And this is precisely why you can't be a single issue voter, focused on a very narrow set of personal qualities/policy pronouncements. Because you didn't just vote for those, you voted for the entire package. And Marcos was part of the package. You don't get to absolve yourself of this.----------------------Aissa Ereneta as posted on Facebook

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17/09/2018 0:00

https://grpshorts.blogspot.com/2016/11/marcos-burial-at-lnmb-was-part-of.html#comments

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[GOOD NEWS] FoI Launched! It's payback time: now, ANYBODY can investigate corruption

Duterte’s Workaround“Access to Information. Every Filipino shall have access to information, official records, public records and to documents and papers pertaining to official acts, transactions or decisions, as well as to government research data used as basis for policy development.”FoI LaunchedOFFTOPIC 1: I was actually invited to attend the event but I was too exhausted with TP-related stuff, so I asked PCOO to send me a copy of Andanar’s speech plus the reading materials they gave away during the event.OFFTOPIC 2: And by the way, I also heard rumors that traditional media outfits ranting because they weren’t invited and I told myself, “Buti nga sa kanila! (Serves them right!). The entire ceremony was livestreamed anyway, so why would they need to be there? It’s not like the ceremony in itself is controversial. Their rant stems not from not being invited: it stems from their bruised bloated egos.How to use FoISTEP 1: Create an eFOI AccountSTEP 2: Click “Make a Request”STEP 3: Fill in details."Title of Document" doesn’t have to be very exact, but it should be descriptive enough to allow the agency to understand what exactly you’re looking for."Coverage or Time Period" refers to the dates covered by the document requested."Intended Purpose" can simply be “Research” or if you want to be more specific, feel free to write whatever you want."Personal Message" may be instructions or additional information that can help the agency process your request more quickly.STEP 4: Wait for a ReplySTEP 5: Get DataWhat specific documents can I request?First, on the DAP ControversySecond, the Mamasapano MassacreThird, the Kidapawan CarnageDONT FORGET TO SHARE!RELATED POSTS:When I wrote “[ TP: Oplan Lambat-Sibat: PNP admits ‘doctored’ crime stats ]”, I showed how the Aquino-era police force fudges crime statistics to make it look our streets are safer, despite the contrary. In the last part of the article, I lamented, “To verify Oplan Lambat-Sibat’s ‘scientific reports’, we need raw, unadulterated data that cover months’ worth of crime reports. Perhaps, that’s something that only (Former DILG Sec.) Mar Roxas knows.”Since god-knows-when, secrecy and inaccessibility of government information has been a source of frustration for investigative bloggers like me. So just imagine my delight when then-Camarines Sur Rep. Leni Robredo filed a powerful Freedom of Information Bill, which would afford any citizen access to government records. Unfortunately, fortitude is not one of Leni’s virtues, as she [ TP: crippled her own bill to satisfy her Liberal Party overlords ], led by then-President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino.With Freedom of Information (FoI), regular citizens can request for government documents, allowing them to learn more deeply about how the government works. Unfortunately, FoI has been stuck in the legislature since time immemorial, and despite President Rodrigo Duterte’s May 2016 win, the best he can do is certify the bill as urgent, but the buck stops at the Senate and the Lower House.But that didn’t stop the current administration to finding a way to get around it.Duterte, being the Dyosa of Finding Ways to Move Forward, managed to get around this legislative issue. As Chief Executive, he issued Executive Order No. 2 [ EO 2 s. 2016 ], which is basically a Freedom of Information Law that covers the entire Executive Branch.Per EO 2 Section 3:Note, however, that EO 2 is not absolute, as it comes with several exceptions, per EO 2 Section 4. These exceptions usually affect documents whose public release will affect national security, or the effectiveness of government policy, among others.Duterte issued EO 2 in the first month of his presidency, and compiling the exceptions took a few months. Fair enough, I said, so I waited.But the (relatively) long wait is over!In a formal ceremony held yesterday, Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Sec. Martin Andanar finally launched the Freedom of Information Portal, called eFoI , which makes it easier for regular citizens like us to access government information.Andanar said, “Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, is doubly dangerous. The Freedom of Information is the key to a balance of power between the government and its citizens.”While the Executive FoI is limited to the executive branch, Andanar noted that the Legislature is already working on it.Andanar said, “The Senate… has passed the FoI at the 17th Congress… The House of Representatives (is now conducting) committee hearings... We look towards a day where the Freedom of Information will be an Act and not just an Executive Order.”.The “old-school” way of using FoI is messy because it involves paperwork. With eFoI, however, we can invoke FoI and request documents online.This is not very different from creating an email account, except that you’ll be required to a upload a proof of identification. A photo of any government-issued ID will do.You’ll be asked to select an agency that will respond your FoI request. Currently, there are 15 agencies to choose from but this list will be expanded. If the desired agency is unavailable and you can’t wait, you can file a paper-based FoI request at the PCOO office in the New Executive Building within the Malacanang Compound (Gate 2).You’ll be asked for the “Title of Document”, “Coverage or Time period”, “Intended Purpose”, and an optional “Personal Message”:All replies shall be sent fifteen (15) working days after the receipt of the request. The agency will be sending a response, informing of an extension of processing period no longer than twenty (20) working days, should the need arise [ FoI Manual ]. For eFoI requests (online requests), the government will reply via email.Duterte requires executive agencies to comply with FoI requests. Violators will be suspended on the 2nd offense, dismissed on the 3rd [ FoI Manual ]. Moreover, Duterte also ordered that there shall be “a legal presumption in favor of access to information”, so it is the government agency’s responsibility to prove that you are not entitled to the requested data, as opposed to you having to prove that you are entitled to it [ EO 2 s. 2016, Sec 7 ].After approval, the government will give you a link that leads to the information you requested. You can share the link, including the document, to anyone. Isn’t that neat?!With that said, I think it’s important that you check pending requests before sending a request of your own, because we do not want the government to get swamped with multiple requests for the same thing, as one approved request is enough for everyone to access the same piece information.You can check the list of pending, approved and denied requests at the Requests Tab of the eFoI site.Oh, here’s where things get REALLY pretty! Here are some examples where FoI can be used.You can request for the cash releases made under the Aquino administration’s unconstitutional Disbursement Acceleration Program.From what I know, Aquino signed almost 2,000 Special Allotment Release Orders (SAROs) [ MT ] so we can’t really expect the government to give us each one of them. However, we can simply ask for an MS Excel file listing each SAROs control number, beneficiary, purpose, date of release, etc. Afterwards, you can send a supplementary request for specific SAROs that looks particularly fishy.You can also request for the release of records of conversations that ensued during the Mamasapano massacre. I am not sure of the government will grant such a request as it may fall under the exceptions, but it is worth a try. This way, we can get a better idea of how PNoy exactly bungled the operation that led to the deaths of 44 policemen.Remember 01 April 2016 when the government opened fire on starving farmers in [ TP: Kidapawan ]? I plan to use the eFoI portal to access not only the Department of Agriculture documents related to the bungled El Niño efforts, but also the President’s itinerary for the week immediately following that fateful day. I want to understand why Noynoy failed to immediately issue a statement, i.e. why Noynoy Noynoy-ed. I will also want to know why the PNP awarded the policemen involved in the incident, despite the incident still being under investigation.Ah! My heart is racing! I cannnnnot!These are just some three of the potential applications of the new eFoI portal.Oh, wait! We can also request for NBI’s records during Matobato’s stay in the Witness Protection Program. Let’s see what he told the NBI back then, then compare his statements what he said during the recent Senate Hearings. Wouldn’t that be awesome?Oh, and the Yolanda Funds. Oh my god, I can’t breathe with all this excitement!Do you have a particular issue that you want to investigate? Leave a comment on my Facebook Page at Facebook.com/TheThinkingPinoy !You can also check the FoI portal at Foi.gov.ph Did you like this post? Help ThinkingPinoy stay up! Even as little as 50 pesos will be a great help!

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17/09/2018 0:00

http://www.thinkingpinoy.net/2016/11/good-news-foi-freedom-of-information-launched-its-payback-time.html

Thinking Pinoy

FOX NEWS BUYS THE WASHINGTON POST FOR $500 MILLION

$500 Million.Fox News Channel president Roger Eugene Ailes announced the purchase today, describing the move as “creating a print version of Fox News.”Ailes also announced the appointment of Frederick J. Ryan, a former Reagan administration official, as new publisher of The Post.In talking to reporters this evening, Bezos said that he will use the $500 Million to purchase a fleet of drones which will become the new mode of shipping and delivery for online orders on Amazon.com.

['Pol Pinoy']

02/09/2017 0:00

https://adobochronicles.com/2014/09/02/fox-news-buys-the-washington-post-for-500-million/#comments

Adobo Chronicles

Philippine Government To Offer Full Scholarships To Aspiring Journalists

As if the recent announcements that beginning next year, students will no longer pay tuition at state universities and colleges (SUCs) in the Philippines weren’t enough, the Duterte administration today revealed that aspiring Filipino journalists will be provided full scholarships at private institutions.The free tuition at SUCs is made possible following the realignment of P8.3 billion in the 2017 budget of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED). The Senate realigned the P8.3-billion allocation to cover tuition of students in SUCs during the Senate deliberations on the 2017 budget. It reportedly came from the infrastructure budget for the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao, which was questioned by Sen. Panfilo Lacson and dubbed as a form of pork barrel.It wasn’t clear where the scholarship funds for journalists will come from, but the Presidential Communications Office said that they will be available beginning in the next school semester.The idea of journalism scholarships came from ordinary citizens after they complained to Malacañang (presidential palace) that they can no longer rely on media like ABS-CBN, GMA-7, Inquirer, Rappler as well as other “news blogs” like that of Raissa Robles for unbiased and accurate news. The citizens also said that they are sick and tired of insignificant and sensational news headlines directed at the Duterte administration as well as the members of the opposition. They added that many local media outlets are responsible for feeding false information to international news media.In order to qualify for the four-year journalism scholarships, the applicants must be high school graduates, Filipino or dual citizens, and must write a 300-word essay listing the accomplishments of the Duterte administration since the president took over on June 30 this year.A second essay, which will help determine the final list of scholarship recipients, must be submitted along with the application. The second essay should deal on the topic, “Why the Previous Aquino Administration Failed the Filipino People.” There is no word limit for the second essay.Reacting to the good news, popular bloggers Mocha Uson, Thinking Pinoy and Sass Rogando Sasot promised that once the first batch of journalism scholars finish their course, they will cease publishing their blogs.

['Pol Pinoy']

18/12/2016 0:00

https://adobochronicles.com/2016/12/18/philippine-government-to-offer-full-scholarships-to-aspiring-journalists/#comments

Adobo Chronicles

First World observers criticise the Philippines and its police thru the lens of an alien cultural context

To our 1st-World Critics:A few days ago, one of our youngest police officers at age 23 was shot dead while trying to serve a warrant of arrest. He wasn't just a Police officer, he was also a Christian youth minister. He was shot to death by the drug peddler before he could even speak. He was laid to his final resting place last Sunday, leaving a wife and family. We have lost many good men in this fight.The context of drug addiction in a 1st world country is a far cry from a country like ours. Most substance dependents in a first world country become depressed, most substance dependents in our country become destructive criminals, raping even infants, killing even their own kins in ways you would not think a human being is capable of, shooting and stabbing passersby in broad day light.Allow us to remind you too that we have 700,000-plus ALIVE drug related surrenders and arrests. Let me reiterate... they're all ALIVE. Why? They didn't try to kill the arresting officer.As to these cardboards, if you so easily bought the idea that our police force who studied 8 years to be in the service are extremely stupid to kill people and implicate themselves by putting a tag on their victims, you are way too gullible. These are the drug cartels cleaning up their own ranks of possible squealers. And the police force are after them too. As for corrupt policemen, many of them including high ranking generals have been relieved from service and are now under trial.While your intention and concern is appreciated, all you are truly doing is supporting the corrupt career politicians here who are working to oust the only Filipino President who goes against the tide of this corrupt and drug-coddling system.Watch the movie, it shows you that people who claim to be experts on something but don't really go to ground operations have a tendency to get it wrong when trying to interpret the reality of these human encounters.Plus our culture in speaking is different from each other. If you measure everything you hear by your own culture, you'd be like measuring heat using a ruler.Thank you for your concern. But we understand our own problem better than most of you onlookers do. Salamat po.------------------------Ruther M. Urquia as posted on Facebook

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09/06/2016 0:00

https://grpshorts.blogspot.com/2016/10/first-world-observers-criticise.html#comments

GRPundit

Mar Roxas, Liberal Party Fail To File Statement Of Contributions And Expenses, Blame Defective Scanners

Mar Roxas failed to file his Statement of Contributions and Expenses (SOCE) in connection with his failed bid for the Philippine presidency. The filing of SOCE is required by the rules of the Commission on Elections. Roxas is the lone presidential candidate that failed to submit his SOCE.Roxas’ party, the Liberal Party (LP) also failed to meet the filing deadline. Both Roxas and LP campaigned on the theme of ‘Daang Matuwid’ (straight path) which adheres to the rule of law.In requesting for a 14-day extension to file the SOCE, Roxas blamed his party’s defective scanners which he needed to scan what he and LP described as “voluminous number of receipts.” “How can we scan those receipts and other required documents if our scanners are not working?” Roxas said.Meanwhile, Vice President-elect Leni Robredo, also of the Liberal Party, did file her SOCE on time, showing that she outspent all her VP rivals. “That’s why I will have to take the bus instead of the airplane for the next 6 years because I am out of funds,” Robredo told The Adobo Chronicles.According to the SOCE filings, the following were the total amounts raised and spent by the VP candidates:Robredo, P418.6 MilionEscudero, P322.5 MillionCayetano, P189.1 MillionMarcos, P140.5 MillionTrillanes, P61.8 MillionHonasan, P26.2 Million

['Pol Pinoy']

09/06/2016 0:00

https://adobochronicles.com/2016/06/09/mar-roxas-liberal-party-fail-to-file-statement-of-contributions-and-expenses-blame-defective-scanners/?share=email

Adobo Chronicles

George Takei Wants John Cho To Stay In The Closet

Openly-gay actor George Takei wants John Cho to stay in the closet!Well, John Cho’s Star Trek character, Sulu, that is.Speaking exclusively to The Hollywood Reporter, Takei who originally played Sulu in the popular series, says the ‘Star Trek Beyond’ development for his character is out of step with what creator Gene Roddenberry would have wanted.The 79-year-old LGBT activist says he’s not happy with Cho’s character coming out as gay in the upcoming sequel to the space classic.

['Pol Pinoy']

08/07/2016 0:00

https://adobochronicles.com/2016/07/08/george-takei-wants-john-cho-to-stay-in-the-closet/

Adobo Chronicles

OBAMA VOWS TO REDUCE PORK BARREL SPENDING

Facing criticism for the country’s turtle-paced recovery from the recession and continued budget woes that put him in a never-ending fierce battle with Republican legislators, President Barack Obama today vowed to use all available powers bestowed upon the presidency to significantly reduce pork barrel spending. U.S. legislators have consistently used pet projects in their constituent areas as a negotiating tool in federal budget battles. The most memorable pork barrel projects were Alaska’s “Bridge to Nowhere,” and Boston’s Big Dig (Central Artery/Tunnel Project).Asked by members of the White House Press Corps about specifics of his plan, President Obama said he will propose to Congress a new legislation that would limit the U.S. government’s importation of Ibérico pork. The Ibérico pig is an indigenous species that is only found in the Iberian peninsula. The superb quality of the meat from the Ibérico pig is brought about by the climate, its freedom to roam outdoors and its diet. It is often fed on acorns which gives the meat its wonderful nutty flavor. The price of Ibérico pork commands a very high price in the world market, costing as much as $100 per pound, or approximately $20,000 per barrel. The U.S. Department of Agriculture did not return calls from The Adobo Chronicles seeking information on how many barrels of the pork the country imports each year from Spain.Apparently, only Ibérico pork is served in the basement cafeterias of the Senate and House of Representatives Buildings on Capitol Hill, as well as during state banquets hosted by the White House. President Obama urged Congress to swiftly pass his proposed legislation cutting down on pork barrel importation. “I am confident we can pass this legislation in a bi-partisan manner,” the President added.

['Pol Pinoy']

22/07/2016 0:00

https://adobochronicles.com/2013/07/22/obama-vows-to-reduce-pork-barrel-spending/

Adobo Chronicles

NEXT SEASON OF “ASIA’S GOT TALENT” WILL BE OFF LIMITS TO FILIPINOS

A total of 14 countries were represented in the just-concluded first season of “demanding that the next season of “Asia’s Got Talent” be made off limits to Filipino contestants.The petitioners stated that their respective countries were put at a serious disadvantage in the competition because of the number of amazing acts that represented the Philippines in the first season. “We just cannot compete with the Filipinos,” they added.The petitioners concluded by threatening to pull out of the competition next year if the Philippines were not excluded.In order to save the extremely popular show, the producers agreed to ban Filipino talents from competing, at least for the next season. The ban will be revisited in 2017.

['Pol Pinoy']

14/05/2018 0:00

https://adobochronicles.com/2015/05/14/next-season-of-asias-got-talent-will-be-off-limits-to-filipinos/

Adobo Chronicles

Ronald Bato Dela Rosa to help President Duterte to eliminate criminals in “Duterte Fighting Crime 2”

Photo Credits: Tatay GamesPresident Duterte has now a partner to eliminate all the criminals in “Duterte Fighting Crime 2” an android game made by TATAY Games.Current PNP Chief Ronald Bato Dela Rosa was added to the game as a special skill that can be use by President Duterte to eliminate the target immediately, the PNP Chief will assist the President using a heavy machine gun.Miriam Defensor Santiago is also added in the game and her skill is “Miriam Jutsu” or Fire breath.Fans of Duterte Fighting Crime 2 are very happy that the developer added Bato Dela Rosa in the game. Miriam Defensor Santiago supporters are also happy that the ex-Senator was added also.You can download “Duterte Fighting Crime 2” on your android devices

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2016-07-29 00:22:16+08:00

https://pinoytrending.altervista.org/ronald-dela-rosa-game-available-android-devices/

Pinoytrending Altervista

Outrage over Leni Robredo's fraudulent Vice Presidency prevails among ordinary Filipinos!

To those who say Leni Robredo is the legally recognized VP, please think about this — legally recognized by whom? By the yellow officials who installed her through illicit means? By the dwindling band of yellow fanatics who turned up at Luneta last weekend? Go out to the streets. Talk to the jeepney drivers, taxi drivers, vendors, commuters, etc. Talk to the real people expressing their disgust and disbelief in forums, facebook, etc. The outrage is everywhere, expressed several times a day, everyday, in the Philippines and among the OFWs. Robredo can be sworn in a thousand times by Drilon and Belmonte, declared "winner" a million times by Andres Bautista, "legalized" a billion times by Sereno, and congratulated a trillion times by the US and other ambassadors, but majority of the Filipino people STILL won't believe she's legit.Also, think about this: had Escudero or Cayetano been declared winner for VP, do you think there would be this kind of outrage? No. Not even from Marcos loyalists. People would be okay with it. Why? Because this is not about the Marcoses. It's about THE CHEATING. The cheating that was done to install a fake VP so that Plan B vs Duterte could be put into action.Now, was Robredo an innocent pawn in all this? At first, I thought she was. I thought she was just a clueless neophyte probinsyana politico who got plucked out of nowhere because the LP needed someone who could be packaged into a pseudo-Grace Poe after Poe refused to run for VP under LP. But look at Robredo now, how she keeps dismissing all the election anomalies like they were nothing. Like it doesn't matter that there was a fourth server that no one knew about. Like it doesn't matter that she got way more than 50% of the votes in places where most people had never heard of her just 3-4 months before the election. If she was a true selfless, honorable person who cared about the greater good of the Filipino nation, she would be lobbying for an audit as much as the Marcos camp.This is beyond Marcos and Robredo. The integrity of our electoral process is at stake here. Plus, nakakahiya di ba, para sa taong may hiya, to occupy a position that you may not actually be entitled to, especially with all the irregularities that have come out. But no. Robredo is totally caught up in her newfound fame, strutting around in fancy clothes and holding press conferences right and left with an official seal and Philippine flag like she is more important than the president himself. She even looks different from how she looked two months ago. Her hair and face look like they've been lightened. She looks more and more like Vicki Belo everyday because of the makeup and hair. I suppose this is what happens when a person who is nothing more than a media creation spends too much time with socialites, preening for the cameras.It is so ironic, because the real socialite, Gina Lopez, the one who doesn't even have to try, is just in jeans most of the time and has been working much harder than Robredo, and has delivered far better results. Also, Gina Lopez, whose father directly suffered under Marcos, has done the proper thing as a Cabinet member and kept silent about the burial (non)-issue because, whether we agree with it or not, this is the president's prerogative and it has basis in law and all the people who voted for Duterte already knew that he was willing to bury Marcos in LNB when they voted for him.There you go. I would like you to know that I normally do not comment on blogs and articles like this. But, just like many others, Robredo's fakery has disgusted me to a point where I feel like I'm going to burst if I don't say something.---------------------http://www.getrealphilippines.com/blog/2016/08/marcoss-burial-lnmb-proves-point-ouster-1986-law/#comment-1711471

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2016-08-24 16:32:25+08:00

https://grpshorts.blogspot.com/2016/08/outrage-over-leni-robredos-fraudulent.html#comments

GRPundit

PNP Chief Bato Dela Rosa to Policemen: “Pag kayo ay namatay walang taga-human rights na magpapakain sa mga anak ninyo”

Philippine National Police Chief Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa said on Monday that policemen should think of their safety during dangerous operations and not get distracted by the cases that can be filed against them for killing resisting criminals.He also said that no CHR will help their children if ever there’s something bad happens to them:“Next time ayoko ng pulis na namamatay. Dapat ang kriminal ang mamatay, hindi tayo. ‘Pag kayo ay namatay walang taga-human rights na magpapakain sa mga anak ninyo, walang taga-human rights na magpapaaral sa mga anak ninyo,” Bato said in his speech in Camp Vicente Lim in laguna.He also encouraged the policemen to stay alive and avoid any deaths from the side of the law-enforcers even there’s a human rights case filed against them.“Kaya you better stay alive. Bahala na ang kaso afterwards. Harapin n’yo ang kaso kung magkakakaso kayo pero ang mahalaga buhay kayo,”Dela Rosa believes that the life of the policemen are more important than the human rights cases that his men may face for doing their duty to defend theirselves from the resisting criminals.Yesterday, the PNP Chief faced the senators for a two day investigation about the alleged vigilante killings happening during the watch of Bato and Duterte.

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2016-08-24 16:32:25+08:00

https://pinoytrending.altervista.org/pnp-chief-bato-dela-rosa-policemen-pag-kayo-ay-namatay-walang-taga-human-rights-na-magpapakain-sa-mga-anak-ninyo/

Pinoytrending Altervista

Updated Anti-Film Piracy Video Debuts In Metro Manila Theaters, Features VP Leni Robredo

Filipino theater-goers are quite familiar with the anti-film piracy video shown along with movie trailers, depicting thieves being jailed for various offenses: stealing a motorbike, stealing kisses, stealing from the government treasury, and stealing films.Beginning this weekend, an updated version of the public service video will debut in theaters throughout Metro Manila.The update is a direct result of Philippine Vice President Leni Robredo’s recent visit to the victims of a fire that gutted houses along NIA Road in Quezon City. During that visit, Robredo issued a statement saying that she will be coordinating relief and rehabilitation efforts, promising residents that she would let them stay put in the fire-ravaged neighborhood.Her statement is directly in contrast to that of Quezon City Mayor Herbert Bautista who said he’d rather relocate the victims to a safer neighborhood.Many political analysts accused Robredo of dipping her fingers in a job that she had nothing to do with. Some have said that she stole the job that really belongs to Mayor Bautista and other local and national housing agencies. (Robredo was appointed by President Duterte as housing czar but the vice president resigned her Cabinet position late last year.)The updated video shows the vice president behind bars, accused of stealing Bautista’s job.

['Pol Pinoy']

03/01/2017 0:00

https://adobochronicles.com/2017/01/03/updated-anti-film-piracy-video-debuts-in-metro-manila-theaters-fetures-vp-leni-robredo/#respond

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AFTER JUST 15 DAYS, PHILIPPINES ‘ROYAL’ COUPLE WILL RENEW WEDDING VOWS BEFORE POPE FRANCIS

was officiated by eight bishops and seven priests. Apparently, that wasn’t enough.The couple wanted to take advantage of the papal visit to renew their wedding vows before Pope Francis. The private ceremony will be held in the presidential palace (Malacañang). President NoyNoy Aquino will reprise his role as Best Man.It will be a low-key wedding this time around. No Two Million Peso wedding gown or 12-ft. wedding cake. No other guests will be invited other than the president and his sister, Kris Aquino.

['Pol Pinoy']

12/01/2018 0:00

https://adobochronicles.com/2015/01/12/after-just-15-days-philippines-royal-couple-will-renew-wedding-vows-before-pope-francis/

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‘Wow mali?’ Doctor reveals that the forensic expert who allegedly insulted by Noynoy Aquino is the one who investigated Ninoy’s body

The statements of Aquino against a ‘forensic expert’ who investigated the Dengvaxia mess catches the attention of the netizens, even his former workers in the government.A doctor who formerly work for the Aquino administration revealed that the one who allegedly attacked by the former President during the House hearing on Dengvaxia is the one who investigated his father remains, the late senator Ninoy Aquino.According to Dr. Sam Zacate, his friend Dr. Erwin Erfe, the forensic expert who led the investigation of PAO on dengvaxia was also the same person who conducted the medicolegal on Ninoy’s death.“No offense but I humbly tell you that my brod, and co consultant erwin erfe a man of integrity, honor and honesty, solved and became an expert witness who conduct a medicolegal investigation on your father’s death.. for everyone’s information, yes the NINOY-GALMAN’S CASE.” Zacate wrote in his Facebook post.Dr. Zacate believed that Ninoy’s denunciation against Dr. Erfe was also a slap to the investigation on the death of Ninoy Aquino.Photo: Medicus El Legem Facebook account.“Discediting him is tantamount on discrediting his investigation on your father also.. that one credential can’t be bought in recto and its not even a fake news. How would you cope up with that.. sir?” he wrote.The post of Zacate shocked the netizens and even asked if the former President was aware that the one the he insulted is the doctor who handled the case of Ninoy.However, Doctor still believed that former President Aquino is one of the greatest President that the Philippines ever had.In another post, Zacate shared the educational background and achievements of Erfe:Erwin is a physician and lawyer with expertise in forensics (Forensic and Medical Evidence Analysis and Criminal Event Reconstruction), hospital risk management and medical data privacy. He holds degrees in psychology, medicine and law. A Senior Executive Fellow of the Harvard University, he obtained a Professional Certificate in International Management and Leadership from ICPS, London, Certificate in Public Financial Management at the Harvard John F. Kennedy School, a Diploma in National Security from GIMI Center for Strategic Studies, Israel and Certificate in Corporate Risk Management from Harvard Business School. He completed trainings at the Virginia Institute of Forensic Science and Medicine, William M. Bass Forensic Anthropology Center, Laboratory of Forensic Science in New York, University of Tennessee, the Anthropological Research Facility in Knoxville, TN, International Center for Parliamentary Studies (London), GIMI Center for Strategic Studies (Israel), Goethe Institut Berlin (Germany) and at the John F. Kennedy School of Government in Harvard University in Cambridge, MA. He was awarded Most Outstanding Forensics Expert in 2010, 2012 and 2013. Recently, he was awarded Most Outstanding Alumnus from the College of Medicine 2017 by the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila. Erwin is a Certified Forensic Physician and a Fellow of the American College of Forensic Examiners Inst. He is a Life Member of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP) and the International Association for Identification (IAI). He was formerly an active member of the International Association of Bloodstain Pattern Analysts (IABPA), International Academy of Legal Medicine (IALM), Evidence Photographers International Council (EPIC) and a founding member of the Forensic Association of the Carolinas (FACS). Areas of Professional Consultancy Practice: • Forensics: Forensic and Medical Evidence Analysis (Forensic Medicine, Forensic Osteology, Bloodstain Pattern Analysis, Forensic & Evidence Photography) and Criminal Event Reconstruction• Law: Medical and Hospital Law; Medical and Hospital Malpractice Current Affiliation: • Forensic Consultant and designated Director of Forensic Laboratory, Public Attorney’s Office, Department of Justice, Philippines, December 2004-Present• Head, Legal and Medico-Legal Department- various private hospitalsPublications: Co-Author, Death on the Tarmac: Forensic Analysis of the Assassination of Senator Benigno Aquino, Jr., The Manila Times Publishing Corp., Manila, August 2009. ISBN 978-971-94535-0-5 Author, Forensic Analysis of the Vizconde Massacre Case, submitted to the Supreme Court in December 2010.Dr. Erwin Erfe (rightmost) holding the book about Ninoy Aquino’s assassination which he co-authored.Dr. Erfe co-authored the Death on the Tarmac: Forensic Analysis of the Assassination of Senator Benigno Aquino, Jr. together with other three experts.According to the article wrote by PEP in 2009, Dr. Erfe is one of the doctors who called for the re investigation of the killing of Ninoy Aquino.They also challenged Noynoy who’s still a senator at that time to include in his platform for government the reinvestigation of the killing, noting that the Aquino family always protest any move to open the already resolved case.Meanwhile, Dr. Efe itself said that he felt humiliated by what former President Aquino and Congressman Edcel Lagman said against him.Because of that, he thought that he was the one who’s under investigation.“They humiliated me several times today-by Pres Aquino & Cong Lagman. For a moment I thought I was the one under investigation.” Dr. Erfe wrote in his Facebook post.During the House investigation on the controversial vaccine Dengvaxia on Monday, former President Benigno Aquino III threw against a forensic expert who slammed his vaccination program.Aquno said that the forensic expert hired by Public Attorney’s Office (PAO) is ‘unqualified’ and having a certification similar to those from Recto, a street infamous for the sale of fake documents, mostly diplomas.“Lahat na lang po may opinyon, kuwalipikado man o hindi — lalo na po may isang maingay na ang certification ay tila isang antas lang sa nabibiling diploma sa Recto,” Aquino said.“May nagsiyasat sa certification niya at nagsulat ng artikulo. Galing po ang certification ng maingay na ito sa kuwestyonableng kurso kung saan manonood ka lang daw ng video nang 1 oras at kalahati saka mag-exam nang open book at matapos mong magbayad ng $660 ay certified ka na sa forensics,” he added.The former President didn’t drop the name of the said person, however Aquino’s spokesperson Abigail Valte recently wrote an article against the forensic expert Doctor Erwin Erfe, who led the PAO’s examination.“I looked up Dr. Erfe on LinkedIn and found that his profile lists him as a ‘Fellow of and Certified Forensic Physician of the American College of Forensic Examiners Inst,” Valte said in a Malaya article.Dr. Erfe became one of the critics of the controversial immunization program implemented by the Aquino administration.The forensic expert also revealed the pattern in the dengue deaths of vaccinated children.“Ang tingin namin doon, there is a very strong link with Dengvaxia. Consistent ‘yung findings eh, across seven patients,” Erfe told CNN Philippines.

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2018-02-27 02:22:21+08:00

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Manny Pacquiao Not Happy As A Senator, Will Return To Boxing

Newly-installed Philippine Senator Manny Pacquiao regrets having been elected by 16 million Filipinos and wants to return to his boxing career as early as this fall.The Philippines Daily Inquirer is reporting that Top Rank CEO Bob Arum told Boxingscene.com that Pacquiao is looking for another opponent for a possible return fight and is working with Senate President Franklin Drilon to figure out how to go on a leave of absence to train.The champion boxer and former top absentee congressman was originally slated to fight Adrien Broner but the American asked for a price Arum can’t afford.Top Rank has made a pencil reservation for October 15 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas for Pacquiao’s possible return.The Adobo Chronicles caught up with Pacquiao while he was jogging around the Elliptical Circle in Quezon City and asked him what his longer term plans were.The senator said that because he was elected by the people, it would not be kosher for him to voluntarily step down. “I’m meeting with Senator (and former Aquino administration Justice Secretary) Leila de Lima who promised to help by initiating impeachment proceedings against me. Until such time, I will have to be absent from my senate duties to train and prepare for my next fight,” Pacquiao said.

['Pol Pinoy']

12/07/2016 0:00

https://adobochronicles.com/2016/07/12/manny-pacquiao-not-happy-as-a-senator-will-return-to-boxing/

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except in the #Philippines it seems

I wish the girl that I really liked in U.P. Diliman had read this and paid attention to me. I devoured books in the Philippines. True, it was difficult to find books prior to U.P. (my town’s public library was a joke; it was tough to convince parents to buy books not needed for school; there were no book-exchange clubs or anything). But when I got to U.P., the library was well stocked and I met friends and profs who were readers themselves. I read the classics and the best of English and Russian writers. This habit continues today. My work in the U.S. is essentially to think and write and I can’t believe I’m being paid to do just that. (I would have done it gratis with food and lodging.)I remember that time the best way to get a date in U.P. was to have a car. Nope, Pinays ain’t into brainiacs. They’re into dudes who smoked and always into inuman.Fast forward 25 years and on my visit back, I was horrified to see my peers who were hotsies in AS101 in their 20s become pot belied and fat and really looking old. The women who looked hot then have doubled in size and looked like they’ve accepted their fates that they are in mid-life and are therefore physically weak (they’re only in their late 40s!)I did find a pinay date, got married, and now that I have a daughter, I am teaching her by example that character and intellect are foremost.Funny, there are many many pinoys in pinas that are anti-intellectual, yet we are the brainiac family in my U.S. town. Both parents have PhDs Our pinoy friends, kids ninangs, titos and titas are PhDs as well.Smart pinoys are out there. Just check the company you keep.Source:http://getrealphilippines.com/blog/2014/01/how-filipino-women-can-strongly-contribute-to-building-a-more-intelligent-philippines/comment-page-2/#comment-208363

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27/09/2018 0:00

https://grpshorts.blogspot.com/2014/02/smart-pinoys-are-everywhere-except-in.html

GRPundit

Ghost Hand in a Photo From Police Buy Bust Operation Scares The Internet

This brought back the chills and even heightened goosebumps of the netizens. How about you? Who's standing behind you right now? I mean, what do you think of the ghost hand in this photo? Share us your thoughts in the comments.A Camarines Sur news organization, affiliated with GMA News and Public Affairs, recently reported a news of the arrest of a man nabbed in a buy-bust operation at Brgy. Ayugan Ocampo. The news was posted along with a photo showing the suspect, the arresting officers, bystanders and more subtly a hand that seems to have no owner.It can be seen in the photograph that an onlooking man wearing a long-sleeved gray shirt got a hand placed on his shoulder although it seems he isn't standing next to anyone. His own arms crossed suggesting that the lone hand on his shoulder is someone else's. But who could it be?After some netizens noticed the strange hand, the comments section exploded as expected. One side saying it was a ghost while the other side saying it was just photoshopped. The ghost believers even posted their own photographs showing similar creepiness. See below:This prompted one of the unbelievers to try to debunk once and for all the mysterious photo, saying that there was actually someone - a living person standing next to the man but was blocked from camera view by the standing policeman. The unbeliever referenced the photograph below which was shot from a different angle and pointed out that other people's feet can be seen standing behind the standing policeman.The debate was about to die down when another netizen who claimed to be the man with the hand on his shoulder in the picture came forward and said in a chat conversation with his friend that he doesn't remember someone standing next to him at that time.

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04/09/2018 0:00

http://pinoynewsblogger.blogspot.com/2017/07/ghost-hand-in-photo-from-police-buy.html

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#Philippines politics: A culture of mooching freebies from politicians

Filipinos still don't know the main functions and responsibilities of their leaders both in national and local level. This is the reason why they keep putting those undeserving politicians into office just because they are giving alms to the poor or simply by having a smooth eloquent warm conversation with them while smiling as a simple pseudo sign of being a good managers.Since not all Filipinos are aware of the local government code and the mandates of constitution, it is now time to educate the electorates about the role of their leaders. A policy which authorizes the duty of the public officials to be strictly plastered within their place outside the public offices in a vernacular words would greatly help to enlightening the minds of masses and this must be adhered definitely. This will be the basis to overseeing the duties of their leaders while they are in office. Also, it would serve as the main source of complaints from their constituents if failure arises on the side of officials while performing their duties aside from the promises they harped about before elections.Perchance, this is a better way of making the voters make wise of their own choosing during elections. Would result in being ashamed of continuously asking freebees from their leaders. The politicians would also end this long tradition that markedly portrays outside of their main functions.The main point here is being transparent and accountable in the execution of duties and responsibilities vital to the relationship between leaders and followers for the greater good of the nation. A form of spoon-feeding if strictly followed may be a good start for a critical analysis needed to be installed in the minds of uninformed Filipino citizens.----------------This is a GRP Featured Comment. Join the discussion!http://getrealphilippines.com/blog/2014/08/why-do-filipinos-keep-voting-for-crooks/comment-page-1/#comment-659487

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04/09/2018 0:00

https://grpshorts.blogspot.com/2014/08/philippines-politics-culture-of.html

GRPundit

BINIBINING PILIPINAS CHARITIES CAN’T DECIDE ON MISS PHILIPINES PIA WURTZBACH’S NATIONAL COSTUME FOR MISS UNIVERSE

are based on the traditional Filipino terno, considered the national dress for women featuring the familiar butterfly sleeves.So, BPCI has sought the help of The Adobo Chronicles® and its followers to decide on the final gown for Ms. Wurtzbach.Help BPCI by voting in the poll below. Should it be the gold, blue or beige gown?

['Pol Pinoy']

04/09/2018 0:00

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Donald Trump Is Booed At Miss U.S.A. Pageant

It would never have happened if Donald Trump still owned the Miss U.S.A. Pageant — being booed by thousands of members of the live audience and millions more watching the televised show in Las Vegas.During the question-and-answer session at Sunday night’s pageant, one of the five finalists, Miss Hawaii Chelsea Keolahni Hardin, was asked which of the presumptive U.S. presidential nominees she would vote for.As soon as Trump’s name was mentioned by the hosts, the crowd erupted into loud boos. Then, when Hillary Clinton’s name came up, there were loud cheers and applause.Many analysts said that the jeering that met the mention of Trump could be the result of misogynistic comments by the presumptive Republican nominee at various occasions during the primaries and debates, including his comments against fellow candidate Carly Fiorina and FOX news anchor Megyn Kelly.The Adobo Chronicles caught up with Trump while watching the pageant at his penthouse suite at the Trump Towers in Las Vegas. He told us that the crowd was actually booing Clinton. “I love women and women love me,” he said. “There is no way anyone would boo me especially in a pageant that I created.”Miss District of Columbia Deshauna Barber won the title. Miss Hawaii was first runner-up.

['Pol Pinoy']

05/06/2016 0:00

https://adobochronicles.com/2016/06/05/donald-trump-is-booed-at-miss-u-s-a-pageant/?share=email

Adobo Chronicles

OBAMA SEQUESTERS U.S. CONGRESS

With no apparent compromise surrounding the two-day old government shutdown, President Barack Obama today signed an executive order to sequester the entire U.S. Congress. Emerging from a meeting with top congressional leaders at The White House, Obama said the order is the last remaining option to end the Washington impasse.As soon as the congress leaders returned to the U.S. Capitol, Obama ordered the National Guard to put up a barbed wire fence around the Capitol building, practically locking in the legislators and their staff. Minority leader Nancy Pelosi delivered a signed copy of the executive order to Speaker John Boehner as he banged the gavel to resume the legislative session early Thursday.“The sequestration order will only be lifted after both the Senate and House of Representatives pass a budget bill to end the government shutdown, ” The White House said.All the cafeterias within the Capitol Building have been locked down, but the National Guard will make daily deliveries of McDonald’s burgers and fries to feed the legislators and staff for the duration of the sequester.

['Pol Pinoy']

03/10/2016 0:00

https://adobochronicles.com/2013/10/03/obama-sequesters-u-s-congress/

Adobo Chronicles

Netizens who shared the video of “Daisy’s Destruction” may face the same fate as Scully and Margallo

After pedophile Peter Scully and Liezyl Margallo were successfully arrested by the authorities, many Netizens became curious of the video “Daisy’s Destruction” and some of them already searched it on the internet.Fortunately, the video is impossible to be searched on google and other visible websites on the internet. But some people used the curiosity of the Netizens to gain attention on social media by allegedly distributing the illegal video on the internet.Some Netizen even intendedly shared the exact video on their social media groups.According to Anti-Child Pornography Act of 2009 Section 4 , Netizens who also distributed the video of the crimes that Scully and Margallo made would also be punished by the law.Section 4.Unlawful or Prohibited Acts. – It shall be unlawful for any person: (d) To possess any form of child pornography with the intent to sell, distribute, publish, or broadcast: Provided. That possession of three (3) or more articles of child pornography of the same form shall be prima facie evidence of the intent to sell, distribute, publish or broadcast; (l) To possess any form of child pornography.Any person found guilty in violating section 4 D shall suffer the penalty of reclusion temporal and a fine of not less than 750,000 pesos but not more than One million pesos.According to Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 Section 4, when the Anti-Child Pornography Act of 2009 Section 4 was committed through a computer system, the penalty to be imposed shall be one degree higher than that provided for in Republic Act No. 9775.People who knew common sense warned their friends to avoid sharing or watching the video because Scully and Liezyl made it to be watched by their heartless customers.But some Netizens defended their “rights” to watch the video, saying that the authorities must only punish the producer of the video and not the distributors.Authorities even warned the Netizens who saved the video on their computers and distributed it to their friends that they may face the penalty gave to Scully and Margallo.They also encouraged the public to report anyone who distributed the video on the internet.

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2017-02-16 01:12:41+08:00

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The Disgusting Business Of Philippine Politics And How The Dumb Masses Allow For It

People keep asking me why I seem to have chosen to keep quiet about politics save for the occasional spoof article and instead focus on smaller issues in our country. Well, the thing is, as I’ve come to discover, politics isn’t really what’s wrong with the Philippines. No, the real problem in the Philippines isn’t them; the real problem here is us, the common people and how we choose to perceive the world around us and how we choose to think given what we sense. See, I remember the great Chinese philosopher Confucius mentioning something about culture being the root or source of one’s morality. When you look at the various dysfunctions in Philippine society, you can trace just about all of them to a facet of our culture that is deeply flawed or outright malignant.Okay, here are two scenarios in movies I’ve watched:The Hobbit: An Unexpected JourneyGaladriel, the elf queen from Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit asks Gandalf the wizard why he has so much faith in the character of Bilbo Baggins, the hobbit. Gandalf’s reply is both simple and heartwarming at the same time: Bilbo, while small and seemingly insignificant in the grand scheme of things, has goodness in his heart and even a small ounce of goodness can mean a lot in a world saturated with evil and, indeed, it is Bilbo’s innate goodness, especially his courage, that allows him and his friends to succeed in their quest.This Is The EndA film about the apocalypse that features celebrities portraying themselves of all things. Anyway, in the film proper, James Franco almost goes to heaven thanks to making an act of self-sacrifice. Note almost. What happens is that he becomes too smug and decides to make an act of pettiness that gets him a gruesome death instead of the salvation he was hoping for. If he had only stayed good, perhaps, things would’ve been very different for him.So what’s my point, you may ask?Well, in both films you’ll notice that it’s not just the big things that really count in our lives and determine who we are as a people. The little things, no matter how tiny or inimical, count also. You might be able to save a woman from a burning building but if you’re still mean to people and treat, say for instance your house staff poorly, then you’re still a bad person.So, at the end of the day, while we may vote for good political candidates who have the potential to change the country yet are not willing to change ourselves, then it’s all for nothings. As long as our dysfunctions as a people remain intact and unchanged, then our country will always be dysfunctional. No politician or leader can ever really change us if we refuse to mend our ways to become better people.And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why I find it futile writing about politics in the Philippines since, so few even care to read the thing and understand its true meaning or even bother reading it at all. What’s really sad is that while people bravely clamor for “change” this election, I sense very strongly that they will be the first people to start crying bloody murder once that “change” is forced upon them and they are no longer allowed the luxuries and comforts allotted to them by our dysfunctional system. Change begins internally just as you can’t build a house from the top-down but instead from the bottom-upward.

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2016-05-09 22:30:40+00:00

https://www.getrealphilippines.com/2016/05/disgusting-business-philippine-politics-dumb-masses-allow/#comments

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#BuildBuildBuild! LOOK: List of big projects that Duterte administration planned to build

BUILD,BUILD,BUILD!Presidential Communications (PCO) Secretary Martin Andanar, Transportation (DOTr) Secretary Arthur Tugade, Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Secretary Mark Villar, Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Ernesto Pernia, Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella, and Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) President and CEO Vince Dizon held a press briefing at the New Executive Building in Malacañang on November 3, 2016.They said that the Duterte administration is keen in resolving the traffic, unemployment and increasing price of food by building many infrastructures in different places of the Philippines. Prioritizing infrastructure would also boost the economy of the country.The government expected to spend trillions of pesos for infrastructure from 2016 to 2022.DPWH Secretary Mark Villar showcased the planned major projects of President Duterte administration that expected to be finished within six years.1. Sta Monica-Lawton-BGC Link Bridge: It will allow cars to enter BGC from Ortigas. They believe that 100,000 cars would reduce in EDSA when the project finished.2. UP – MIRIAM – ATENEO Viaduct in Quezon City: It will decrease travel time in Katipunan and CP Garcia by 80%3. Iloilo-Guimaras-Negros-Cebu Link Bridge: This project cost $1B. When this project finished, people can now travel in Iloilo, Guimaras,Negros and Cebu via land transportation.4. Davao City Bypass Construction Project: When this project finished, the travel time in Digos, Davao Del Sur from Panabo, Davao Del Norte would be lessen by 1 and a half hour.5. North Luzon Expressway – South Luzon Expressway Connector Road: This will lessen the travel time from Alabang to BalintawakDPWH is determined to finish all this projects before President Duterte term ends.DOT Secretary Arthur Tugade also showcased the planned projects of the Duterte administration to boost the transportation via land, air and sea.1.Manila-Clark Airway: 35km railway that will fasten the transportation from Manila to Clark, Pampanga. According to Tugade, it will guaranteed 1 hour travel from Metro Manila to Clark International airport.2. Mindanao Railway: 2000km railway in Mindanao Island. The travel time from Davao to Surigao and Cagayan De Oro would become 2 hours. It will help goods to be transported faster and cheaper in different parts of Mindanao.According to Tugade, President Duterte is hopeful that even the 200KM phase 1 of Mindanao Railway Project would be completed.3. Metro Manila Rapid Train System: It will result to a faster and more scheduled bus along EDSA and other major roads in Metro Manila.4. Regional Airport Development: This project is focused in rehabilitating and improving the facilities of Regional Airports in Visayas and Mindanao to give more flight schedule in regional airports.The project also targeted the improving air conditioning facilities, improving toilet comfort facilities and to widen the approaches.5. RoRo Ports Development: The project focused for improving the facilities of the RoRo ports.(BCDA) President and CEO Vince Dizon also showed the planned project of BCDA during the Press Conference.1. Clark International Airport New Terminal Building: The first world-class airport in the Philippines. It will also decongest the traffic in NAIA in Manila.2. Clark Green City: A long term solution to reduce traffic and congestion in Metro Manila. They believe that Manila don’t have any space left in Metro Manila so they planned to build an alternative place in Clark City.3. BGC to NAIA Bus Rapid Transit System: it will guaranteed the travel time from Fort Bonifacio to NAIA without traffic or delay within 15 minutes.4. Subic-Clark Cargo Railway Project: It will connect Subic Port and Clark Airport to lessen the trucks in Metro Manila and cheapen the price of the transported goods.The Emergency Powers of President Duterte would fasten the development of this infrastructure project, but according to Sec. Tugade, even without the Emergency Powers, all projects that the Duterte administration planned is going to continue.

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2016-11-03 14:51:23+08:00

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Congressman Vicente Belmonte Jr. and Mayor Lawrence Cruz named by Duterte as politicians who allegedly involved in illegal drugs

President Rodrigo Duterte named another politicians who were allegedly involved in illegal drugs on December Presidential Awards for Filipino Individuals and Organizations Overseas in Malacañang Palace.He showed to the guest the thick list of the politicians who allegedly involved in illegal drugs that made the President cry every night.He named Iligan Representative Vicente Belmonte and Iligan Mayor Lawrence Cruz in his list of narco-politicians who protected the illegal drug trade in the Philippines.Vicente Belmonte survived an ambush on 2014 and according to some news, drugs may be behind the assassination attempt. His bodyguards and driver was killed during the ambush.Iligan Mayor Lawrence Cruz also faced controversy and found guilty by the Ombudsman of grave misconduct and conduct prejudicial to the best interest of the service. But he didn’t faced any illegal drug related controversy.Source:

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2016-12-19 17:35:22+08:00

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The Philippines’ social media ‘influencers’ are mentally ill-equipped to tackle national issues

The Philippine political “debate” remains as confused as ever because partisans across the spectrum cannot agree on who or which administration is at fault for the persistence of a number of problems. Many of these problems are big ones: Manila’s traffic and public transport woes, foreign policy around which bloc of superpowers the Philippines should be in bed with, the scourge of illegal drugs and crime, etc. The fact that they are big and have been problems across decades and across multiple administrations seems to escape the small minds that contribute to the Philippines’ dysfunctional political chatter.Public transport, for example, is a long-standing national problem. No one government can solve this problem because agencies that are critical to overseeing these across governments have been hopelessly politicised to the core. Instead, public transport is regarded from the perspective of short-term political agendas — like how politicians routinely use the massive base of warm bodies that operate the Philippines’ vast fleet of buses, jeepneys, tricyles, pedicabs, and kuligligs as vote farms. There really is no incentive for government officials to get on board on any strategic initiative to replace this disease with modern mass transit systems.Big problems require long-term solutions across multiple governments. Thus it is an abject exercise in futility to be focusing a “debate” on who did what when it comes to big and hard problems like these. And so the Philippines’ ability to deal with such problems remains stubbornly problematic at several levels.For one thing, each administration is limited to only one six-year term with no possibility of re-election. Thus big problems that require big strategic solutions (hard enough to implement under more ideal conditions) are already at risk at inception thanks to the six-year cycle of disruption caused by expensive national elections.For another, Philippine political parties are mere election winning machines. They are not true parties that are guided by a stable ideology or set of principles. So even within partisan blocs, continuity in vision and execution is already a huge challenge. Thus, political parties consistently fail to be stable foundations for national vision.And third (but likely not the last), is the tendency of the national “debate” to become polarised into camps loyal to people rather than ideologies and principles. And, as we are seeing today as in the past, the sorts of “thought leaders” that emerge out of this landscape are as mentally bipolar as the discourse itself. Social media may have democratised national chatter, but has not, in any way, uplifted the quality of said chatter. Rather, it has created an epidemic of narcissism that emanates from cliques of celebrity social media personalities chronically enamored to their massive followings and their power to harness the herd behaviours of their million-strong disciples to further their holier-than-thou agendas or, worse, their own personal aggrandisement. Organised religion once held a monopoly over such power. Not anymore.Seen under this light, it becomes easy to understand what a massive disappointment the country’s “thought leaders”, “activists”, and social media “influencers” are. They quibble over the people who did this and that in one administration or another but utterly fail at connecting the dots across governments and across time to appreciate the underlying common denominators that make up the foundation of dysfunction that account for the consistent failure of many initiatives to deliver results.In short, it is that same old intellectual bankruptcy of Philippine society that is at work yet again — thinking faculties even amongst the supposed “best and brightest” that make up the noisiest cliques in the national discourse quite simply are not up to the grade required to tackle these big national issues.

['Oratio Imperata']

2017-11-22 07:25:01+00:00

https://www.getrealphilippines.com/2017/11/the-philippines-social-media-influencers-are-mentally-ill-equipped-to-tackle-national-issues/

Get Real Philippines

Political Asylum In The Philippines Offered To Americans Wanting To Escape A Donald Trump Presidency

Many Americans are starting to make plans to move to other countries in the event that Donald Trump is elected president of the United States on Tuesday.Canada and countries in Europe are among the more popular choices for a new life for Americans.But Philippine President Rodrigo Roa Duterte has laid out an offer that’s hard to refuse. He is offering Americans wanting to escape a Trump presidency a hassle-free political asylum status. No questions asked.“Despite my rhetoric against the U.S., I have a soft spot in my heart for Americans — including Filipino Americans — who are fearful of Donald Trump as president of the most powerful country on earth,” Duterte said.“We’ve been a colony of America for many decades, we speak English, and we love Hollywood movies, so Americans will not have a difficult time adjusting to life in the Philippines, the president pointed out.

['Pol Pinoy']

02/11/2016 0:00

https://adobochronicles.com/2016/11/02/political-asylum-in-the-philippines-offered-to-americans-wanting-to-escape-a-donald-trump-presidency/#respond

Adobo Chronicles

Duterte Got It All Wrong: It’s 72, not 42 Virgins

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is being called out for his remarks at a speech in India, supposedly promising visitors and investors 42 virgins.The remarks were in obvious reference to a belief that has been floated that martyrs will be rewarded with virgins in Paradise.But the criticism is much ado about nothing.Duterte didn’t even get the number right. It’s 72, not 42 virgins.Where did the 30 go?

['Pol Pinoy']

29/01/2018 0:00

https://adobochronicles.com/2018/01/29/duterte-got-it-all-wrong-its-72-not-42-virgins/#respond

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WATCH:Pacquiao to Trillanes : Good thing I have Jesus in my life or else I will punch Trillanes

Senator Manny Pacquiao took offense to the statement of senator Antonio Trillanes IV against the other senators who lectured retired SPO3 Arturo Lascañas about spiritual renewal during the hearing of the Senate committee on public order and dngerous drugs last monday.In his speech on Wednesday, senator Pacquiao said he was offended by the statement of senator Trillanes that like some of the other senator, the retired cop did not also become a saint after his spiritual renewal.He believed that Trillanes has the right to give his opinion, but he asked to not give a bad name to his colleagues.“As senators, we are not imposing our morals on our resource persons. And for the record, I’m not imposing my morals on SPO3 Lascañas. I (was) just offended, Madam President, by the statement of my colleague, Senator Trillanes.” Pacquiao said.“Wala naman talagang Santo dito. We all commit sins. Wala ni isa sa ating gumawa ng kasalanan at walang kasalan. For the record, I did not become a saint after my spiritual renewal…,” Pacquiao addedPacquiao was insulted by the statement of Senator Antonio Trillanes, because it appeared that he was a “fake” christian.He even said that if he was not a christian, he may already assaulted Trillanes inside the senate hall.“Para bang hindi ako totoong tao, para bang yung pagiging Christian ko e fake. That’s my understanding, Madam President, and that’s very offended to me. Good thing that I have Jesus in my life or else I will run to his chair and then hit him right away …,” Pacquiao said.Trillanes stood up on the floor after the speech of Pacquiao and clarified that his recent statements were not for the boxing champ turned senator.“Dun sa article na ‘yun, walang pangalan doon eh kasi marami, hindi lang naman si Senator Pacquiao ang nagmention about spiritual renewal,” he said.Trillanes then apologized to senator Pacquiao for his remarks.Let me apologize to Senator Pacquiao if he was offended by the statements I made to the media but let me assure you, hindi talaga ganun ang intensyon,” Trillanes said.Lascañas, during the senate inquiry was lectured by the other senators about the spiritual renewal after the retired cop claimed that a child-like image appeared in his dream and saved him from the devil.One of the senators who questioned the legitimacy of the spiritual renewal of Lascañas was senator Pacquiao.

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2017-03-09 08:59:32+08:00

https://pinoytrending.altervista.org/watchpacquiao-trillanes-good-thing-jesus-life-else-will-punch-trillanes/

Pinoytrending Altervista

The Lies about God

“The message that the Church receives from this account of the life of Christ is very clear. God did not send his Son into the world to punish sinners, nor to destroy the wicked,” he continued. “They are instead addressed the invitation to conversion so that, seeing the signs of divine goodness, they can find their way back.”The Pope concluded his catechesis by urging those present to not place themselves above the mercy of Christ by believing in a false image of the Messiah.“We Christians believe in the God of Jesus Christ, and our desire is to grow in the living experience of the mystery of love,” he said. “We commit ourselves, therefore, to not place any obstacle in the way of the action of the merciful Father, but we ask the gift of a great faith to become ourselves signs and instruments of mercy.”

['Hot News Philippines']

02/12/2017 0:00

http://hotnewsphil.blogspot.com/2016_10_09_archive.html

Hot News Philippines

Crime-fighting Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte A Myth?

Philippine presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte is running on a campaign platform of peace and order, projecting himself as the crime-fighting mayor of Davao City. His supporters often highlight the low crime rate in Davao as proof of his abilities to tackle crime.But a recent report released by the Philippine National Police shows Davao as the fourth among chartered cities with the highest crime rate from 2010 to 2015. Worse, Davao had the highest number of murders.So now begs the question: Are the mayor’s supporters supporting a myth?The other question in people’s minds: Did the Aquino administration have anything to do with the release of this report — just a little over a month before the May 9 elections — in order to boost the low ratings of its anointed candidate Mar Roxas? Just asking.

['Pol Pinoy']

02/04/2016 0:00

https://adobochronicles.com/2016/04/02/crime-fighting-davao-city-mayor-rodrigo-duterte-a-myth/

Adobo Chronicles

Former DILG Sec. Rafael Alunan III: Duterte is God’s answered prayers for Filipinos

Former Interior and Local Government Secretary Rafael Alunan III said on his Facebook post on Thursday that God has already gave President Duterte as the answer for the Filipino prayers.He recalled that since former President Fidel V. Ramos Era, he and his family and friends would ask questions on when change will come for the Philippines.They always asked why people in the Philippines are not acting together, why there’s no good leaders and public servants etc.But now, Alunan believes that the prayers of the Filipino are already answered and God gave President Rodrigo Duterte to fix the country.“Well, now we have what we wished for. God heard our prayers and gave us PRRD, who says what he means and does what he says, with the flag wrapped around his heart. “He said that President Duterte only cursed because he saw many problems in the Philippines.“And he’s cursing at the mess he’s seen, at those who cause it by taking advantage of our weaknesses, and what he’s gotta do to fix things and make life better for the Filiipino – over 100-m of us. “He also called the people who wants to oust President Duterte as “anti-Filipino”“Now, calling for his ouster 4 months into his job when he’s still settling down, deserves push back. It’s anti-Filipino. Treachery at its best. It only serves to obstruct the effort to make things right for the nation.”He urged everyone to become a pro-Filipino and asked them to thank the lord for the blessings instead of trying to pull the president down.Now, calling for his ouster 4 months into his job when he’s still settling down, deserves push back. It’s anti-Filipino. Treachery at its best. It only serves to obstruct the effort to make things right for the nation.The post already got 2.5k reactions and 700+ shares from the Netizens.

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2016-11-04 18:45:50+08:00

https://pinoytrending.altervista.org/former-dilg-sec-rafael-alunan-iii-duterte-gods-answered-prayers-filipinos/

Pinoytrending Altervista

Filipino journalism and its tradition of idiocy

Philippine "journalists" will never be taken seriously by people who actually think. 3 strikes already proved it:1. Manila Peninsula "Media Kami!" fiasco ("journalists" openly siding with criminals).2. Quirino Tour Bus foul-up ("journalists" ensuring that they had right-of-way, not the police).3. This whole piss-wad impeachment "trial". It's more of a pillory now with the way the "journalists" cover it."Journalists" are no different from pimps: they're more than willing to whore out the innocent facts to people willing to be taken for a ride, at the right price. ABS-CBN, the Inquirer, Philstar, and GMA already proved that – profit above all, no questions asked.------------Comment on Get Real Post athttp://getrealphilippines.com/blog/2012/01/medias-role-in-philippine-society-undermines-rather-than-strengthens-the-process-of-seeking-truth/comment-page-1/#comment-21298

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08/05/2017 0:00

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BREAKING: BIR Goes After Pinoy Ako Blog For Fraud And Back Taxes

The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has summoned Jover Laurio, a.k.a. Pinoy Ako Blog (PAB) in connection with charges of unpaid back taxes.BIR told The Adobo Chronicles that Laurio has been issuing receipts that are not official and have not been registered with the tax agency.”It is tantamount to tax evasion and fraud to issue fake receipts,” the BIR said.Many who follow PAB know that Laurio has been issuing resibo (receipts) to those who visit her blog.Time for reckoning.

['Pol Pinoy']

02/11/2017 0:00

https://adobochronicles.com/2017/11/02/breaking-bir-goes-after-pinoy-ako-blog-for-fraud-and-back-taxes/

Adobo Chronicles

Supporters of Leni Robredo dumbfounded by 11 percent fall in trust ratings!

A report published by Pulse Asia on the 5th of April showed that Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s “performance ratings” declined by five percentage points and his “trust ratings” by seven percentage points. As expected, the Yellow camp and Duterte’s critics were ecstatic.The eminent former “journalist” and Human Rights Watch research person Caloy Conde was quick to draw the “obvious” conclusion from these survey results which he issued in a tweet where he asserts “As I keep telling people, there’s no other way for Duterte’s trust ratings to go but down.”We have to give credit to singer and die-hard Yellowtard Leah Navarro. Perhaps not as bright a bulb as Conde and yet, amazingly, she independently arrived at the same Vulcan-like conclusion crowing even louder than Conde on Twitter…Thank you, there is good news to enjoy today. Duterte trust ratings fall by 7 percentage points. That’s “yuuuuuge!”Funny enough a survey issued by SWS today reported an even larger drop in satisfaction stats for “vice president” Leni Robredo.Robredo’s net satisfaction rating among the public declined for a second consecutive quarter, dropping by 11 percentage points to a “moderate” +26 in the first three months of the year compared to a “good” +37 in December 2016. Robredo’s December rating was also lower by 12 percentage points from her “very good” +49 in September 2016, when SWS first conducted a survey on her performance as vice president. She assumed office on June 30, 2016.This presents the sort of dilemma only Yellowtards seem to habitually fall into. If they were quick to pop champagne over Duterte’s “yuuuge” fall in trust ratings, would they be as quick to interpret in the same way Robredo’s even “yuuuug-er” fall in ratings as reported by SWS (credit for this quip goes to the Daily Duterte people)?Using the logic of these brilliant representatives of the Philippines’ brains trust, we can now safely conclude that Duterte is falling and that Robredo is falling even faster.Bam Aquino for his part did not lose time making excuses about his failure as Robredo’s top PR mouthpiece in Congress reportedly blaming this plunge in her stats as the result of “black propaganda”. It seems, using Aquino’s logic in this instance, the mysterious agents behind this “black propaganda” were a lot more effective than the awesome colonial might of the world’s corporate media giants who had, for many months now, been spreading fake news about Duterte’s “murderous” war on drugs. As one prominent twitter handle goes, what a waste of ad money.Logic is a bitch when you are habitually inconsistent, ain’t it?

['Oratio Imperata']

2017-04-11 13:52:40+00:00

https://www.getrealphilippines.com/2017/04/supporters-leni-robredo-dumbfounded-11-percent-fall-trust-ratings/

Get Real Philippines

3 Big Reasons ‘Tuwid Na Daan’ Will Probably Win The 2016 Election Anyway

There was quite a bit of excitement over the second presidential debates not long ago. Indeed, I found it both fun and thought-provoking how some of the candidates, namely Rodrigo Duterte and Grace Poe, jostled against one another’s intellect and wit. It was also quite amusing and somewhat sad to see Jejomar Binay insisting that he had a right to bring notes to the debate because the TV station staff gave him permission to do so. Lastly, yeah, I’d be lying if I say that I didn’t enjoy watching Mar Roxas squirm on the podium when he was asked pointed questions by the other candidates.Of course, truth be told, while I dread the possibility of Mar Roxas winning the presidential election and continuing President Aquino’s “Tuwid na Daan”, it will more likely than not happen anyway. With the way things are now, I really thing that the Liberal Party’s candidates, especially Mar Roxas and his new minion Leni Robredo are certainly bound to win the elections and give Filipinos six more years of suffering and unhappiness if not forever. Considering how they seem to put so much effort on their numerous publicity stunts, it’s not that far-fetched to think that they’ve already won this election hands down.I’m not saying this out of hand though. To be honest, this isn’t just me being pessimistic. If you take into account how the typical Pinoy thinks, how they see the world around them and how they make decisions, you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about. It’s a no-brainer that the LP, their nonsensical slogan and their pompous, aristocratic and vindictive candidates will continue to be in-charge of our already dying nation for decades or perhaps even centuries to come. If you have trouble believing me, below is all I have to say about the issue.Pinoys Are Fixated To Superficial IssuesAs I’ve mentioned before, Pinoys usually care more about what is superficial and insignificant rather than the important issues at hand. Take for instance that the party slogan “Daang Matuwid” barely makes any real sense in context as the current administration had done so very little to actually improve the lives of our countrymen. As a matter of fact, whatever achievements it claims to have can all too often be credited to previous administrations who were the ones who were at least a little more sincere about improving the country than the current administration.But of course, we all know how the typical Pinoy thinks, don’t we? As long as it sounds cool, they’ll eat it hook, line and sinker. As long as it holds some kind of emotional or sexual (there, I said it) titillation for them, they’ll go with it regardless whether or not it has any actual significance or practicality. Take for instance the previous APEC meeting wherein it seems that a lot more Pinoys were concerned about the more attractive members of the meeting (also, the idea that President Aquino ranks among them is still well beyond me) than what their meeting actually entailed. Like children, Pinoys are more into stuff that’s “shiny” rather than things that really matter.Another annoying thing about Pinoys and their annoying habits is that they are usually more than willing to base their opinions, and subsequently decisions, on a single, superficial tidbit rather than something that can be taken as a whole. No wonder “Tuwid na Daan” works so well with a lot of Pinoys. Even a single paragraph or sentence is enough for them to base their decisions on without reading a whole document, let alone read between the lines or think of an alternate interpretation. Then, when things don’t turn out the way they want things to be, they cry bloody murder and blame others for their trouble.Pinoys Don’t Like To ThinkTying in with the above, another problem with Pinoys is their refusal or outright inability to think. When offered a valid point or argument, most would rather let their emotions get the better of them and go into full-on rant mode instead of reading the whole thing and thinking about it. Whether or not they agree with the statement and sentiment isn’t the point but a lot of them can’t even be bothered to give an argument a second glance or even read it all. Indeed, for some or even a lot of Pinoys apparently, merely thinking is painful and they go out of their way to avoid pointed questions.Pinoys prefer to emote rather than to think, to react the way a mutt in the street reacts to stimuli rather than make a thought-out response like a logical human being. They are always more about emotional investment and “kilig” factor rather than thinking things through. As long as the LP and their allies make the voters feel “good”, even if they’re secretly killing them, people will still put them in power.Pinoys Aren’t Willing To Uphold JusticeThey say that after everything the LP has done over the years, people will no longer vote for Mar Roxas unless he cheats. Truth be told though, that will likely be the case in this year’s election. However, the question here is what are people going to do about it.Over the years, the LP has committed act after act of injustice against the Filipino people. From the Luneta hostage crisis, the neglect of Yolanda survivors, the Mamasapano massacre, the killing of the Lumads, the SSS funds scandal to the inappropriate twerking at an LP candidates birthday, you name it. However, was anything ever really done about these issues? Was anyone willing to make a stand to address these problems and bring those responsible for them to justice?The answer rhymes with “so”…Whether we accept it or not, in the Philippines, we’d rather wait for “heroes” to come and save us from our problems rather than collectively get our shit together and become our own heroes. Like the princesses in fairy tales, a lot of us still seem to believe that our problems will sort themselves out rather than taking an active stance and doing something about them. So even if the LP is guilty of everything they’re accused of, if no one will take action, they will win the day yet again.***Don’t agree?Prove me wrong!

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03/03/2016 0:00

https://www.getrealphilippines.com/2016/03/3-big-reasons-tuwid-na-daan-will-probably-win-2016-election-anyway/#comments

Get Real Philippines

DOCTORS: POPE FRANCIS NOW SELFITIS-FREE

Soon after Pope Francis’ first-ever selfie was posted on The Vatican’s Instagram account, a team of Italian doctors comfirmed that the leader of the Roman Catholic Church indeed caught the selfitis bug.The medical team immediately prescribed a high dosage of antibiotics to the Pontiff, and enrolled him in a Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) class in Rome.Today, the doctors announced that the medication and therapy worked very well. Pope Francis is now selfitis-free.Learn more about selfitis, a mental disorder, as defined by the American Psychiatric Association.

['Pol Pinoy']

18/12/2017 0:00

https://adobochronicles.com/2015/12/18/doctors-pope-francis-now-selfitis-free/?share=email

Adobo Chronicles

Donald Trump Violates His Own Immigration Policy

North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, has invited President Trump to meet for negotiations over its nuclear program, a diplomatic overture that would bring together two strong-willed, idiosyncratic leaders who have traded threats of war.The White House said that Mr. Trump had accepted the invitation.For security reasons, The White House said that the meeting will take place in the U.S., not in North Korea — which means that Mr. Trump will be violating his own immigration policy which bars foreigners with ties to terrorism to enter the country.Trump instructed the State Department to issue a non-immigrant visa to Kim so that he could enter America.Immigration adovcates have criticized Mr. Trump for reneging on his immigration promise.”It is hypocritical for Trump to issue a visa to Kim when the American president has denied legalization to Dreamers — foreign nationals who have been brought to the U.S. by their undocumented parents,” the advocates said.The Adobo Chronicles reached out to The White House for comment, but we have not yet received any response.

['Pol Pinoy']

09/03/2018 0:00

https://adobochronicles.com/2018/03/09/donald-trump-violates-his-own-immigration-policy/#respond

Adobo Chronicles

Duterte declares Martial Law in Mindanao

President Rody Duterte declared martial law in Mindanao as of 10 p.m. Manila time following the clashes in Marawi City, presidential spokesperson Ernesto Abella said in Moscow.The declaration is good for 60 days only.Chaos and panic are now covering Marawi City as netizens shared photos of the city being burned down by the Maute Group.Stay tuned for more updates.

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2017-05-23 23:48:17+08:00

http://duterte.today/duterte-declares-martial-law-in-mindanao/

Duterte Daily Stories

The Duterte-Trillanes #BangkoSerye – Libel vs Perjury – Ep. 3, Apr. 29

April 28 Episode 2 RecapDuterte confirmed existence of BPI account in Julia Vargas. Duterte will sign waiver if Trillanes will provide sworn affidavit. Grace Poe adviser said this can become a potential ground for impeachment.Feature Image (left to right): Senator Sonny Trillanes, PDP Laban Spokesperson Atty. Paula Alvarez, Davao City Mayor Rodrigo DuterteMorning, April 29: PDP-Laban and Trillanes Face-offAlvarez: “Bubuksan po [ni Mayor Duterte] ang kanyang bank accounts pero dapat po, lahat ng statements at alegasyon po ni Senator Trillanes ay ilagay niya sa isang affidavit… dahil ayaw po naming naga-allege siya ng haka-haka, tapos sa huli ay hindi niya paninindigan.”Failon: Payag daw po si Mayor Digong sa inyong hamon, mayroon lang silang hinihiling sa inyo…kung ito daw ay maibibigay ho n’yo… all set for Monday [na]. Are you ok [with that], Senator?Trillanes: Ano po daw ang hinihingi nila?Alvarez: Sabi po ni Mayor Duterte, for him to open the bank accounts, you should execute an affidavit attesting to all your claims, how you got them, and your sources, just so we can verify that they are true.Trillanes: Okay, alam niyo yung hinihingi niyo, mga drama yan. Kahit ibigay ko yan, hindi niya bubuksan yan… Yung ating mga impormate, I will protect them. Kaya lumalabas ang impormasyon na ito ay alam nilang kaya ko silang proteksiyonan so hindi ko gagawin yan[g affidavit].Alvarez: ….ang hindi po naming maintindihan ay kung bakit kayo takot mag-execute ng affidavit. Mabilis lang naman po iyan. You only type it down, swear an oath, go to a notary… para lang po na ma-verify na totoo. Yung sinasabi niyo po na kaya niyong proteksiyonan ang inyong mga tao, opo naniniwala po kami, wala naman pong harm na pupunta sa kanila. Hindi po nag-eexist ang million-peso account, iyon po an aming sinasabi… Bakit po natin ito-tolerate… [Bakit hindi po natin sundin ang batas?].Trillanes: (reiterates accusations)Alvarez: You are going after our heads with unverified information. Yung sa amin po, iyong paghingi naming ng affidavit, ito ay para magkaroon kayo ng imprimatur ng law, kung mayroon kayong sabihing hindi totoo under oath, mayroon pong repercussions yan under sa batas kasi po yung sinasabi niyo… pag hindi ka under oath, wala pong consequences…kaya kailangan po naming malamang na sumusumpa kayo sa batas na totoo ang inyong sinasabi.Late Morning, April 29: Libel vs PerjuryScenario A: If Duterte sues Trillanes for libel There are 4 essential elements of libel [SC GR 172203]The imputation must be defamatory The imputation must be made publicly The person defamed must be identifiable The imputation must be malicious In a prospective Duterte vs. Trillanes libel case, the first three elements are easily met. The fourth element, however, is a bit tricky. The law presumes malice is present in every defamatory imputation [AbogadoMo], however, this does not exactly apply if the plaintiff is a public official or public figure which, in this case, is Duterte.For libel cases where plaintiffs are public officials, the law requires the prosecution to prove actual malice, or “[Trillanes] must have known that the speech was false, or he must have been recklessly indifferent to its truth or falsity [SC GR 128959]”.But this may easily be denied by Trillanes because he regularly points to his “secret sources”. That is, Trillanes may say that the accusations are true to the best of his knowledge, even if they are, in fact, false.In short, Trillanes will most likely be acquitted if sued for libel.Scenario B: If Duterte sues Trillanes for perjury Meanwhile, the 4 essential elements of perjury are [SC GR 192565]:That the accused made a statement under oath or executed an affidavit upon a material matter. That the statement or affidavit was made before a competent officer, authorized to receive and administer oath. That the sworn statement or affidavit containing the falsity is required by law or made for a legal purpose. That in that statement or affidavit, the accused made a willful and deliberate assertion of a falsehood. The first three elements are a given, as we have assumed the execution of Trillanes affidavit, with the legal purpose being the verification of bank transactions. Now, we have earlier assumed, for the sake of argument, that Trillanes’ accusations are false, so that may automatically trigger the fourth element.Basically, it’s a lot easier for Duterte to send Trillanes to prison if the charge is perjury.Early Afternoon, April 29: More AccusationsEvening, April 29: BPI speaks upFinal NoteUPDATE:With no affidavit, Duterte sue Trillanes for libel. With affidavit, Duterte can sue for perjury. What’s the difference?Previously, on the Duterte-Trillanes #BangkoSerye [ TP: Episode 2 – April 28 ]:Ted Failon interviewed PDP-Laban spokesperson Atty. Paula Alvarez and Senator Sonny Trillanes.Part of the conversation is as follows:PDP-Laban confirmed March was addressed only to the Central Bank and not BPI, confirmed that it may not have been applicable to the BPI account.At this point, it’s pretty clear that Trillanes violated the Bank Secrecy Law (RA 1045), especially since he admitted that he did not use a waiver to gather data, and that he publicly disseminated the data while not under parliamentary immunity.Thus, TP is curious as to why Duterte camp insists that Trillanes execute an affidavit. Hindi ba pwedeng mag waive na lang agad para tapos na? But then, on the flip side, executing an affidavit isn’t very difficult, so TP doesn’t understand why Trillanes won’t do it either.Investigating further, however, it appears that there’s a reason behind it for both parties. But before I explain, let me clarify that it’s over if Trillanes accusations are true, i.e. that affidavit won’t matter.With no sworn affidavit, the best that Duterte can do is sue Trillanes for libel. With an affidavit, Duterte can sue Trillanes for perjury.Now the question is... what’s the difference?But then again, this assumes that Trillanes’ accusations are false. What TP does not understand, however, is why Trillanes remains stubborn despite his claim that his accusations are verified and true.The Inquirer reports that Trillanes called for a press conference. Trillanes showed the media a brown envelope that purportedly contains details of bank accounts that belong to Duterte and his three children. The transactions, totaling P2.4 billion and involving 17 bank accounts in 3 banks, were recorded over a 9-year period, according to the Senator [ ABSCBN ].As a regular Filipino, TP’s automatic reaction was “Okay wow ang laki ng P2.4 billion, pero wait muna Trillanes, patunayan mo muna ‘yong una mong bintang.”Late Afternoon, April 29: Duterte shows bank balanceTV5 reporter Jun Loyola showed a copy of Duterte’s BPI bank statement, showing a balance of P 27,000 and that the account had no transactions since December 2015.Duterte supporters were quick to rejoice over this development. However, the fact remains that Trillanes’ accusations involved transactions 2014. Thus, this piece of evidence hardly says anything.Duterte agreed to bare details of his BPI-Julia Vargas bank account on Monday, 02 May 2016, on the condition that Trillanes brings with him a sworn affidavit [ ABSCBN ].“Sana po panindigan din po ni Senator Trillanes na ilagay niya po lahat yung kanyang accusations sa affidavit para pag nakita po niya na hindi yun totoo, harapin po niya yung legal repercussions," Alvarez said.Alvarez also finds it odd that the alleged massive transactions, if real, did not trigger an AMLC investigation."Kasi sobrang laki nung sinasabi niyang allegation, dapat po ni-report yan ng BPI sa AMLC," Alvarez said.Please note that TP is not quoting Trillanes as heavily because his accusations and statements pretty much remain the same, i.e. no new information.Some Duterte supporters called for a bank run after fears that their confidential bank data may be leaked in the same way [ Rappler ].In response, Jose Teodoro Limcaoco, managing director and chief financial officer of Ayala Corporation, said BPI did not violate any laws. Ayala Corporation owns BPI [ Rappler ]."I don't know where Sen. Trillanes got his information, but the graphic posted by the [Philippine Daily] Inquirer showing alleged credits, that is not a BPI document," Limcaoco, who used to serve as the president of BPI Family Savings Bank, said in a mobile phone reply.At this point, I see it as a virtual tie. Other than that, there’s nothing we can do right now except to wait for Monday when the banks re-open. That’s it.Abangan ang susunod na kabanata.At dahil sadya akong usisero, heto ang April 30 update sa Libel vs Perjury:(TP)Did you like this post? Help ThinkingPinoy.com stay up! Even as little as 50 pesos will be a great help!_____

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Adobo Chronicles Guide: What To Do If Arrested For Being A ‘Tambay’

Philstar has just published a citizen guide on what to do if ever one is arrested by police under the Duterte Administration’s crackdown on tambays.As a public service to its readers and followers, The Adobo Chronicles has put together its own advisory. Please help spread the word.Everyone is entitled to an attorney. If picked up by police for tambaying (the new term for Noynoying), ask to speak to your attorney. If police ask for the name of your attorney, tell them her name is Atty. Leni Robredo. Or Atty. Lourdes Sereno.(the new term for ask to speak to your attorney. If police ask for the name of your attorney, tell them her name is Atty. Leni Robredo. Or Atty. Lourdes Sereno. DO NOT RESIST ARREST. Stay calm and give the arresting office a high five.If asked why you are half-naked, tell the officer that you only have one shirt and it is still drying in the sampayan.YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT. You do not have to answer any questions by the police without the presence of an attorney. Just smile. If the police officer is good-looking, give him or her a wink.If the police officer tries to handcuff you, tell him or her that you’re allergic to metal.If the police officer handcuffs you in plastic, tell him or her that you’re allergic to plastic as well.BE HUMBLE, NOT HAMBOG. Calmly ask the officer for forgiveness in the hope that he or she will just give you a verbal warning. If he or she lets you go, thank him or her and make the sign of the cross. (If the officer is cute, ask for his or her phone number. You never know this could be the start of a great friendship or romantic relationship.)Calmly ask the officer for forgiveness in the hope that he or she will just give you a verbal warning. If he or she lets you go, thank him or her and make the sign of the cross. (If the officer is cute, ask for his or her phone number. You never know this could be the start of a great friendship or romantic relationship.) If all else fails, shout “Darna!” and fly out of there instantly.

['Pol Pinoy']

25/06/2018 0:00

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