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PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT AQUINO INSULTS A KENNEDY DURING A MEETING IN BOSTON | President NoyNoy Aquino shared a pepperoni pizza with U.S. Representative Joseph Kennedy III at a pizzeria that was one of the Philippine leader’s favorites when his family lived in exile in Boston.Aquino met with the grandnephew of U.S. President John F. Kennedy at Bill’s Pizzeria in Newton on Monday morning, prior to his scheduled policy speech at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.Except for a photo coverage, reporters were not allowed at the meeting between the two scions of their countries’ most influential political families. At press time, details of their 30-minute meeting have yet to be released.However, sources close to Kennedy said that the congressman was extremely upset and insulted when the Philippine president asked for a knife and fork for his pizza slice. “Over here in Massachusetts, or anywhere in the U.S., we eat pizza with our hands, never with any utensil,” Kennedy reportedly told Aquino. Apparently, Aquino wanted to impress upon Kennedy that while Filipinos are known for eating their food with their hands, they also know how to use utensils.The sources also said that while Kennedy was pleased to meet with Aquino, he was disgusted that the breakfast meeting was held at a pizzeria. “In America, we don’t eat pizza for breakfast. We eat pancakes, bacon and eggs,” Kennedy said. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 23/09/2017 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2014/09/23/philippine-president-aquino-insults-a-kennedy-during-a-meeting-in-boston/ | Adobo Chronicles |
JUST IN:5 LALAKI NA UMANO’Y NAGMOMONITOR SA GALAW NG MGA SUNDALO, NAHULI! | Huli ang ibang residente na tumutulong umano sa mga Maute Group para makatakas at nagmomonitor sa galaw ng mga Sundalo.Todo tanggi pa ang limang lalaki na ang sabi ay natatakot daw sila kaya sila nagtago sa bahay.May nakuha pang isang radio device na ginagamit nilang komunikasyon para matulungan ang mga bandidong grupo.So what can you say about this one? Let us know your thoughts in the comment section below, and don't forget to share this post to your family and friends online. And also, visit our website more often for more updates. | [] | 13/06/2018 0:00 | http://www.newsmediaph.com/2017/05/just-in5-lalaki-na-umanoy-nagmomonitor.html | News Media PH |
REPUBLICANS, DEMOCRATS TRY MUSIC DIPLOMACY IN GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN STANDOFF | to settle their differences, especially those that are entrenched along party lines. This time, Republicans and Democrats are trying something different, weeks after negotiations continue to fail over ending the government shutdown. They are using music!At its caucus meeting this morning, the Republican Party invited Grammy Award-winner Carrie Underwood, a registered Republican, to open their session with the song “Amazing Grace.” The Republicans skipped the usual prayer invocation. A source who was present at the closed-door meeting told The Adobo Chronicles that Carrie’s rendition of this religious classic seemed to have greatly inspired the caucus members to keep on fighting to advance their anti-Obamacare agenda as the primary negotiating point in the budget battle.On the other side of the aisle, the Democrats, meeting at the Rose Garden of The White House to strategize their next move on the government shutdown, invited the Dixie Chicks to open their meeting. The Grammy Award-winning trio gained notoriety when they criticized George W. Bush during a 2003 concert in London. At the concert, they said they were “ashamed” that the President was from Texas. The trio also hails from the Lone Star State. As soon as the Dixie Chicks began their opening hit song, Democrats roared in approval and applause. The song? “Not Ready to Make Nice.”Judging from the musical strategies of either party, there seems to be no immediate end in sight for the government shutdown. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 15/10/2016 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2013/10/15/republicans-democrats-try-music-diplomacy-in-government-shutdown-standoff/#respond | Adobo Chronicles |
President Duterte orders Asec. Mocha to “report” to Malacanang | President Rodrigo Duterte wanted Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) Assistant Secretary Mocha Uson to report to her office immediately.Well, sorry to the critics of Uson, but Duterte wanted Mocha to appear in Malacanang not because he’s going to fire her for corruption, but the President urged the communications assistant secretary to treat the workers of the Palace because it’s her birthday today!“Wag ka ng mag tago, kasi birthday mo.. mag report ka at gumastos ka sa blowout, mag sakripisyo ka sa bulsa mo…” Duterte said in his birthday greeting video to Mocha.Duterte also thanked Mocha for her service to the people and for her unending support to the President.“Maraming salamat sa serbisyo mo sa gobyerno at para sa tao at yung tulong mo sa akin, hindi ko nakakalimutan,” he said.“Happy Birthday and again, may you live for a thousand years, sayang ang ganda mo alagaan mo yan” he added.Uson is one of the loyal supporter of President Rodrigo Duterte and her social media page helped a lot to promote the former Mayor of Davao City during the last presidential elections. | ['View All Posts Pinoytrending'] | 2018-05-17 06:56:19+08:00 | https://pinoytrending.altervista.org/president-duterte-orders-asec-mocha-report-malacanang/ | Pinoytrending Altervista |
BREAKING: VP Leni Robredo Back In Duterte Cabinet As Mendicant-in-Chief | After Vice President Leni Robredo publicly supported the declaration of Martial Law in Mindanao, she seems to have earned back the trust and confidence of President Rodrigo Duterte.Robredo is back in the Cabinet as the new Mendicant-in-Chief. As the “donation czar,” the VP’s main responsibility is to solicit donations for and on behalf of the government and the Filipino people.In a statement released by Malacañang, Duterte said he was very impressed with Robredo’s recent calls for donations for all sorts of causes — from relief for natural calamity victims to help for those caught in the crossfire between government troops and the terrorist group Maute in Marawi City. “She even has a call for donations for a defense fund to help with the electoral protest filed against her by former Senator Bongbong Marcos. She is clearly the most qualified person for the job,” Duterte said. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 29/05/2017 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2017/05/29/breaking-vp-leni-robredo-back-in-duterte-cabinet-as-mendicant-in-chief/ | Adobo Chronicles |
Senate Slaps Leila De Lima With Salary Deductions For Her Walkouts (Video) | An elected member of the Philippine Senate or House of Representatives is expected to attend all regular sessions and committee hearings in accordance with congressional schedule. Each member of Congress currently receives P204,000 per year as compensation.Today, the Senate punished Senator Leila De Lima for walking out again from the committee hearing investigating the alleged extra-judicial killings in connection with the Duterte administration’s war on drugs.De Lima walked out yesterday because Justice Committee Chair Senator Dick Gordon refused to apologize for accusing her of hiding the fact that her witness, Edgar Matobato, had faced a kidnapping case.This was the second time in several weeks that De Lima walked out. The first was during a privilege speech by her nemesis, Senator Alan Cayetano.The Senate leadership has had it with De Lima’s walkouts, so it imposed a punishment of salary deduction, equivalent to 5% of the lady senator’s annual salary. That salary deduction would amount to about P10,000. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 03/10/2016 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2016/10/03/senate-slaps-leila-de-lima-with-salary-deductions-for-her-walkouts-video/?share=email | Adobo Chronicles |
The far-right rises in the Philippines | Nationalism has been reborn in the Philippines, and the yellows and liberals have failed to realize what is going on.One of my criticisms of Philippine politics has always been the lack of party principles, as all our political parties are on the center of the traditional left-right political spectrum. This is largely because the political parties have all gravitated towards the center, trying to pander to voters election in and election out.We’re not like the United States where the Republican and Democratic parties offer different platforms, the former focusing on the free market while the latter on imposing regulations and redistribution of wealth. The same can be said for the United Kingdom, where the Tory Party and the Labour Party also offer different platforms (though one could argue that they’ve been the same as of late because of the Blair Rights in Labour). We’re not like our former colonial masters or their former colonial masters when speaking of political dynamics.Then again, we’re also not like our Asian neighbors. Japan and China have more powerful executives compared to the Philippines, and the latter is far more authoritarian, carrying over the strongman leadership established in the time of Mao even after reforms by the Xiaoping administration. The Filipino system is quite unique compared to our more prosperous neighbors or our wealthier allies in the West.One would notice that parties and politicians offer practically the same platform: free and cheaper healthcare, free fertilizers for farmers, dole outs for those in poverty, and free tuition for students in state universities. Such platforms seem socialist. But instead of socialism’s goal of fair redistribution, the end goal of our politicians’ platforms is to pander to people and get their votes for the next election. (Not that socialism is a good and practical system in the first place, for everywhere it was tried, it runs the country’s economy into the ground.)In one province, Family A would rule for a few decades. They offer Platform 1. Then, Family B would eliminate Family A, sweep into power but also offer Platform 1. Passing the political dynasty bill in this case would be useless. There is only a change in the name of the ruler but not in the ruling system. In other words, our system is not broken but rather, it is inherently corrupt.A broken system can be fixed. But an inherently corrupt system like what we’ve had cannot be fixed, it must be burned to the ground and completely eradicated. In 2010, Noynoy Aquino sold himself as a holier than thou candidate who could do no wrong and who was out to fix the system that was broken during the Arroyo administration. But the system remained in place.Aquino simply replaced Arroyo’s corrupt personnel with his own set of corrupt personnel. His refusal to hold Budget Secretary Butch Abad liable for the DAP scandal is proof of this. The same way he refused to hold his men accountable for the botched anti-terror operation in Mamasapano, Maguindanao on January 25, 2015, Aquino did not fix the broken system, he simply (and clumsily) showed our people how it really works.The early candidates for the presidency (Mar Roxas, Jejomar Binay, and Grace Poe) all ran on the same pandering platform. These candidates offered no palpable change whatsoever. As Jonathan Pie described Hillary Clinton’s offer to the American people, “Same old shit.” But then lo and behold, the unorthodox Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte declared his run for the presidency.Duterte offered a radical platform of using force to eradicate corruption and drugs. As the campaign started, Duterte led the opinion polls outright and cruised to a victory in the presidential election last May. His message resonated with the clamor for change. Duterte vowed to take the country back from the corrupt oligarchs and prevent the Philippines from descending into what he called a “narco state” or a state run by drug money.Sure enough, unlike most politicians, Duterte delivered on his message. In his young presidency, Duterte took on the Obama administration in the United States, supranational organizations like the United Nations and the European Union, the Roman Catholic Church, and the political and economic establishment put in place in 1986. His approval ratings are high as he took on the bodies that our typical corrupt politicians would bow down to.And in the war on drugs, criminality, and corruption, Duterte has employed a Machiavellian “by all means necessary” approach. He has empowered the police to an extent not seen since the martial law era of Marcos. In fact, he cancelled the 2016 Barangay Election just so the Philippine National Police can focus on its war on illegal drugs. The president has not hesitated to name Mayors, Governors, Congressmen, and even a lady Senator who are involved in drugs.Despite the so-called extrajudicial killings which has numbered over 7,000, the president remains very popular. His supporters are all over social media, they have complete control of Congress, and they recently held a show of force in Luneta in response to the politicians who tried to use the 31st anniversary of EDSA 1986 to score political points against President Duterte. Such is the Duterte effect.Usually, support bases of politicians quiet down after the election. Not with President Duterte. As the days pass, the Duterte support base becomes even more energized. Amidst a destabilization plot by the Liberal Party, the Duterte supporters have become even more eager to defend their president and to keep the country from being taken away once more by the corrupt oligarchs.“Tama yang kay Duterte. Hindi tayo magbabago kung hindi maubos mga kurakot at mga kriminal” a barangay official in my province told me before Christmas when we were out drinking.A charismatic leader representing the will of his people, running the country with an iron hand, and taking the country back from the traditional elites and saving the country from destruction. Such is how the President’s strongest supporters see him. In fact, they have even pledged to support him if he places the country under martial law.“Di bale na mag-martial law si Presidente. Mas pipiliin ko naman martial law kesa magkalat mga adik sa kalye” one taxi driver told me when I was on my way to the apartment after returning from Quezon province.The President has not espoused any ideological leaning except that one time when he called himself a ‘socialist’. However, the activities of his allies like Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez (in threatening to remove from key House positions those who voted against the death penalty bill) and most especially his supporters who continue to push for the continuity of the President’s iron-fist method show tenets of far-right politics.The critics are wrong in labeling the Duterte supporters as fanatics. They are not. These are people who have grown tired of the corrupt system in the country. These are people that want change and want it fast. It so happens that they feel that it is President Duterte who would bring the country back to life. We are seeing not fanaticism, but nationalism reborn.This desire to take the Philippines back is unprecedented. The President’s supporters want change, and they want it by any means necessary, even it means supporting an authoritarian way of doing things. Even with all the executions in the midst of the drug war, in the end, what matters to them is the benefit of the nation. Nationalism has been reborn, and has already likely evolved further into extreme nationalism.Our people could not care less about ideology. But the failure of promised change three decades ago has made the rebirth of Filipino nationalism inevitable. And an inevitable consequence of this rebirth of nationalism is the birth of extreme forms of nationalism, as we have seen as of late.The far-right has risen in the Philippines. They want change, they want their country back, they want to usher in an era of Filipino greatness, and they want it done by any means necessary. | ['Oratio Imperata'] | 2017-03-09 10:17:47+00:00 | https://www.getrealphilippines.com/2017/03/far-right-rises-philippines/ | Get Real Philippines |
SF GIANTS QUARANTINED FOR 21 DAYS; FRIDAY’S VICTORY PARADE CANCELLED | developed overnight but strangely enough, only the Royals fans are exhibiting it.Upon consultation with the Feds, notably the Centers for Disease Control, Kansas imposed a mandatory 21-day quarantine on all who attended Games 6 and 7 of the Word Series at the Kauffman stadium. Unfortunately, that includes the Giants team.Mayor Lee asked for calm in San Francisco and promised that the victory parade will be rescheduled immediately after the Giants are released from quarantine.Madison Bumgarner, who is widely credited for his role in clinching the World Series title for the Giants, tweeted from Kansas: ‘Bummer!’ | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 30/10/2017 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2014/10/30/sf-giants-quarantined-for-21-days-fridays-victory-parade-cancelled/ | Adobo Chronicles |
The ‘debate’ over a ‘revolutionary government’ is a complete waste of time | Back in 1986 following the EDSA “people power revolution”, Cory Aquino, who was crowned leader of this “revolution” by the Imperial Manila “activists” of the time, was installed as president of the Yellowtards’ “revolutionary government”. Legitimisation of Aquino’s government was easy, thanks to the Philippines’ being a predominantly starstruck “God-fearing” Roman Catholic society. All the late Jaime Cardinal Sin needed to do was wave his wand and Filipinos would bow en masse to their new leader — or at least Filipinos who were part of this Imperial Manila spectacle would.In hindsight, this “revolution” was a missed opportunity for other large social and cultural blocs in the Philippiens also vying for autonomy or even independence from Manila’s grip over the archipelago. Had Filipinos not been so spellbound by Cardinal Sin’s star power and cognitively crippled by the manufactured disgust for the now-deposed Ferdinand Marcos taking up much of the space in their brains, they may have seized the opportunity to set up other revolutionary governments within their own lands.Much could have been done while Imperial Manila was in turmoil in those crucial months after Cory Aquino seized power. Perhaps another “revolutionary government” could have been set up in Davao and hastened the establishment of the envisioned “second Singapore” over there. The Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) could have reached out to Kuala Lumpur to invite Malaysian troops into their own space and finally set true secession from the Infidel Government in Manila in motion. The “solid north” could have secured their territory and established Laoag or even Baguio City as the capital of a prosperous and infrastructure-rich Ilocandia Republic. The sizes of the prizes of these wasted opportunities boggle the mind. It illustrates the whole trouble with the sort of bipolar politics we see today and the way it stunts imagination and allows ripe opportunities to fall to the ground to rot (ironic for a people renowned for waiting for proverbial fruits to fall off trees).30 years would pass before true clarity in hindsight would emerge from the mass cognitive paralysis that would grip the Philippines over that period thanks to effective Yellowtard propaganda backed by corporate media lackeys. A Federal Republic of the Philippines could have been a reality just several years after the “EDSA Revolution”. Instead, here it is today, still a pipe dream with this new but merely-quaint reboot of the idea of “revolutionary government” standing in the way.True revolutionary governments are not engineered from the top by the characters who inhabit the Establishment. They are not voted into existence by legitimate legislative bodies nor ratified by institutionally-governed referenda. They will certainly not be outcomes of today’s limpdicked “activist” movements which are led by obsolete leaders who are better known for being Starbucks barnacles than the socio-political innovators that drive real change. Most important of all, real revolutionary governments are not won in pissing wars waged over Facebook and Twitter by cliques led by narcissistic “influencers” obsessed with their numbers of followers and engagement statistics.Those involved in the “debate” over so-called “revolutionary governments” may as well just shut up. Revolutionary governments are not “debated”. They just happen. Cory Aquino and her merry band of Yellowtards seized power in 1987 right under the noses of bozos who also “debated” back then. That’s the real lesson here — one that took 30 years for people — including both former and current Yellowtards — to learn. | ['Oratio Imperata'] | 2017-11-26 23:49:34+00:00 | https://www.getrealphilippines.com/2017/11/the-debate-over-a-revolutionary-government-is-a-complete-waste-of-time/ | Get Real Philippines |
Adobo Chronicles Survey: 16 Out Of 100 Million Filipinos Oppose Duterte’s Declaration Of Martial Law In Mindanao | It is the first survey ever conducted since President Rodrigo Duterte declared Martial Law in Mindanao. It is also the first survey that included 100 Million respondents — that’s almost the entire population of the Philippines.The single-question survey asked if respondents supported or opposed the Martial Law proclamation.The results, with a plus or minus 3% margin of error, showed that 16 out of 100 Million Filipinos oppose Martial Law in Mindanao. Not 16 million. Sixteen Filipinos.The 16 self-identified non-supporters of the Mindanao declaration are pictured above.One other survey respondent opposed Duterte’s declaration, but her response was invalidated because she’s a psychopath: | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 29/05/2017 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2017/05/29/adobo-chronicles-survey-16-out-of-100-million-filipinos-oppose-dutertes-declaration-of-martial-law-in-mindanao/ | Adobo Chronicles |
#Bangsamoro swindle: #PNoy gave away to #MILF most resource-rich parts of #Mindanao | Rigoberto Tiglao writes in his latest *Manila Times* article how, under the current agreement, the Philippines essentially loses sovereign control over the Bangsamoro region..."In the case of the two existing autonomous regions—in Muslim Mindanao and in the Cordilleras—which the Constitution authorized, its Section 16 specifies; 'The President shall exercise general supervision over autonomous regions to ensure that laws are faithfully executed.'"Nowhere in the entire pact and its annexes is there such a provision.In fact, nowhere in those documents is even a mention of the Philippine President — the symbol of the Republic, the head of state and government — except in the CAB, as being one of the four people in whose “presence” the pact was signed."The Bangsamoro Government is clearly a parliamentary system for the Bangsamoro — which the Constitution does not provide for."Full article:http://www.manilatimes.net/aquino-pact-violates-constitution-betrays-nation/86454/ | [] | 13/02/2017 0:00 | https://grpshorts.blogspot.com/2014/04/bangsamoro-swindle-pnoy-gave-away-to.html | GRPundit |
Manny Pacquiao Quits Senatorial Race, Will Become A Church Pastor Instead | Facing mounting criticism and loss of product endorsement revenue from companies like Nike, Filipino boxing champion today announced that he was suspending his campaign to become senator.Earlier this week, Pacquiao received tremendous flak because of his comments comparing gay men and lesbians to (worse than) animals. He was responding to a question about same-sex marriage.Pacquiao made the announcement during a telephone interview with broadcaster Karen Davila who pressed him on his constant bible-quoting to respond to issues on same-sex marriage.The congressman from Sarangani, a devout Catholic, said that effectively immediately, he will quit the senatorial race and focus on his upcoming re-match with Timothy Bradley for the welterweight boxing title scheduled April 9 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.“Win or lose,” Pacquiao said, “I will pursue the priesthood and hopefully become the pastor of my local church in Sarangani. “I believe it is the Lord’s calling for me to pursue this religious path,” he added. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 17/02/2016 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2016/02/17/manny-pacquiao-quits-senatorial-race-will-become-a-church-pastor-instead/#respond | Adobo Chronicles |
Philexit: Yellow Celebrities Launch Petition To Secede From The Philippines | First, there was Brexit — the United Kingdom voting to leave the European Union (EU). Then, there’s Texit — conservative Texans plotting to secede from the United States. Now, there’s Philexit.Loyal followers of outgoing President NoyNoy Aquino and the Yellow Party (Liberal Party) can’t fathom their devastating defeat in the May presidential elections that saw a landslide victory for Davao City Mayor Rod Duterte. So they’re plotting to separate themselves from the incoming government.While defeated LP presidential candidate Mar Roxas has been quiet since the elections, celebrity fans led by Cynthia Patag, Jim Paredes, Carlos Celdran and Leah Navarro have drafted a petition seeking to leave the Philippine Republic and form their own autonomous government. They will soon post the petition and are asking concerned Filipinos to sign online.The quartet was encouraged by Duterte’s decision to make Davao City the seat of his administration. “We can then make Manila the seat of the Yellow government,” they said.The Philexit was obviously inspired by this week’s historic referendum in the United Kingdom in which majority voted to leave the 26-member EU.Philexit’s goal is to gather 25 million signatures, after which the petition will be submitted to Congress to pass a law approving the secession. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 25/06/2016 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2016/06/25/philexit-yellow-celebrities-launch-petition-to-secede-from-the-philippines/?share=email | Adobo Chronicles |
BREAKING: Suspects behind Davao Night Market Bombing arrested by the authorities | Suspects in the tragic Roxas Night Market blast who killed many people were arrested by the authorities in Cotabato City.Talitay, Maguindanao Vice Mayor Abdul Wahad Sabal and his brother Montasir Sabal were the alleged brains behind the Roxas Night Market Blast in Davao City on September 2.According to the source, the two were arrested in Cotabato City and brought to Camp Crame for interrogation.The bomb maker who got arrested recently revealed the names of the Talitay Vice mayor and his brother to the authorities.Abdul Wahad Sabal also belonged to the narco-list of President Duterte.The two were arrested because of illegal drugs, but the bomb maker that arrested recently said that the two are the alleged brains of the Davao Attack.Meanwhile, President Duterte believes that the “day of the reckoning” of the suspects behind the tragic bombing will come.Davao City Mayor Inday Sara Duterte and other officials of Davao City are still not giving any statements about the arrest of the suspects.source: Bombo Radyo KoronadalUpdate: Camp of Talitay, Maguindanao Vice Mayor Abdul Wahad Sabal denies his involvement to the Roxas Night Market Bombing, PNP also clarifies that the arrest of Sabal is not connected to PNP’s operation to catch the suspect behind Davao Bombing.But reports confirmed that the authorities were seized Improvised Explosive Device and heavy firearms from the Talitay Vice Mayor.Read more: Talitay Vice Mayor Abdul Wahad Sabal denies involvement in Davao Night Market Bombin | ['View All Posts Pinoytrending'] | 2016-09-10 10:49:57+08:00 | https://pinoytrending.altervista.org/suspects-davao-night-market-bombing-arrested-authorities/ | Pinoytrending Altervista |
WEINER AND SPITZER APPLY FOR PHILIPPINE CITIZENSHIP | Following their defeat in the New York Democratic primary elections, Anthony Weiner and Eliot Spitzer both announced that they have applied for Philippine citizenship in order to salvage their severely damaged political careers. Weiner lost his bid to become mayor of New York City, while Spitzer failed in his quest to become city comptroller.Weiner had been in political exile since he resigned from Congress in 2011 for sending women lewd online messages and pictures. He got into the mayor’s race in May, and aside from a few dust-ups with hecklers, was largely well-received at first, holding the lead for most of June and July. Spitzer resigned as governor in 2008 and admitted he paid for sex with call girls. In exile, he bounced around television as a pundit. Then, just four days before the deadline, he announced he was running for comptroller.The disgraced American politicians apparently saw light at the end of the tunnel after being briefed by their political advisers that in the Philippines, politicians get elected and re-elected regardless of scandals or even conviction and imprisonment. Their advisers pointed to the case of former Philippine President Joseph Estrada, who even after being convicted and jailed for corruption, ran and won the race for mayor of Manila, the Philippine capital. They also cited the case of another former Philippine President, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, who despite being charged with plunder and is currently under hospital arrest, won a seat in the House of Representatives. They added, “This is not to mention the family of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos whose wife Imelda has been elected to Congress and son Bongbong who won a Senate seat. Daughter Imee is governor of Marcos’ home province of Ilocos Norte.”The Adobo Chronicles has learned that Philippine immigration officials have offered to expedite the immigration and citizenship process for both Weiner and Spitzer while Mayor Joseph Estrada indicated he will roll the red carpet for the Americans when they arrive at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport. Asked to comment about the American politicians’ plan to move to the Philippines, President NoyNoy Aquino said, “They would be a welcome addition to the Philippine political circus, I mean circuit.”The next scheduled national elections in the Philippines is in 2016. Will the Filipino electorate see a Weiner and a Spitzer for Congress? | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 11/09/2016 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2013/09/11/weiner-and-spitzer-apply-for-philippine-citizenship/#comments | Adobo Chronicles |
the Lantern Parade is NOT an occasion for political activism | Indeed, one’s gotta agree that “everything is political” as far as students of the University of the Philippines’ (UP) College of Social Sciences and Philosophy (CSSP) are concerned. So political, in fact, that they’d politicise everything — including the Lantern Parade. As expected, mainstream media picked up their float (above all else) which merited a full feature on it in a 15th December “report” with the title “UP community takes stand vs. killings in Lantern Parade 2017”.The title, however, is misleading. The term “UP community” implies most UP students. But can “activism” really be considered a general passion of the average UP student? (NB: This is where one would normally sound the “Fake News” alarm — if you are so inclined in that sissy way.) Perhaps it may be true that “everything is political” — when you are part of the CSSP student body, that is. The broader reality, however, is quite different. Most UP students come to school to study and learn stuff that is expected to be useful in their chosen fields of endeavour. “Activism” to most UP students is a merely quaint distraction — even an annoyance, specially for those with a full load of math and physics units to worry about.Happily, the winner of this year’s Lantern Parade is, again, the UP College of Engineering which, it is important to point out, is the most politically-apathetic community of students in the university. Indeed, the College of Engineering is the biggest college in the university in terms of population and a perennial source of anxiety for “activists” who have consistently been frustrated by this apathy. As freshmen there, the first thing we were told was that, in UP, there are only two colleges: Engineering and all the rest. Not surprising, therefore, that Engineering is where student “activism” comes to die and gets buried under a mountain of derision — because the average “Eng’g” student really can’t be bothered to give a shit about the political views of “all the rest” of them.More to the point, the fact that the College of Engineering won the Lantern Parade for the fourth time in a row says a lot about what the Lantern Parade is really all about.The bigger point to be made here is that the habit of politicising everything is one of the biggest cancers afflicting Philippine society. Therefore, it is quite disturbing to note how students of the CSSP believe in the supremacy of politics above all else and in seeing themselves as evangelists of extreme politicisation of all they could point their megaphones at. It indicates that the root of the Philippines political dysfunction, perhaps, originates at the UP CSSP which, it seems, has become a cesspool in which moronic political views that hobble the Philippines’ march to prosperity breed. | ['Oratio Imperata'] | 2017-12-18 07:10:25+00:00 | https://www.getrealphilippines.com/2017/12/up-activists-are-wrong-the-lantern-parade-is-not-an-occasion-for-political-activism/ | Get Real Philippines |
TP to Stranger: Duterte does not inspire me | Duterte and the OligarchyDUTERTE IN ALABANGAerial View from ALABANG.. Mayor Duterte Sortie :-)Aerial Pilot by Jj MaghirangPosted by CinEmotion Digital Films on Saturday, April 9, 2016after rally po yan sa filinvest alabang ngayon gabi bawal po daw magkalat sabi ni mayor duterte.Posted by The amazing rody duterte on Friday, April 8, 2016BRIEF: The French Revolution was a period of far-reaching social and political upheaval in France that lasted from 1789 until 1799. The Revolution overthrew the French monarchy, established a republic, experienced violent periods of political turmoil, and finally culminated in a dictatorship under Napoleon that rapidly brought many of its principles to Western Europe and beyond. Inspired by liberal and radical ideas, the Revolution profoundly altered the course of modern history, triggering the global decline of absolute monarchies while replacing them with republics and liberal democracies [Livesey 2001].Les Miserables: Do you hear the people sing? Singing the song of angry men?Alan Peter Cayetano and Leni RobredoShit like these.Corporate AltruismSubprime Mortgage Crisis Explained in 11 minutes.Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks about sustainable technology.Ano ang Federalismo?Ang plano ni Rody Duterte : Federalismo*This is not a paid advertisementNote: By default, facebook turns on the subtitles. If you don't like having the subs you can just turn it offPosted by Plainly Simple Studios on Thursday, April 7, 2016Manuel Roxas’ TechnocracyThinking Pinoy wrote in a old article:"My only issue is this: I see Roxas as someone who can “refine” and “enhance” our institutions pero the public will not be able to appreciate it because they don’t understand what Roxas is doing and Roxas is incapable of making them understand."That notorious Roxas 4Ps ad."I feel that Rody is in a better position to unite this country because people look up to him. Yung technocrats, maa-appreciate yan siguro by the next generation. Mar, I feel, is ahead of our time. Too ahead. Kasi teh, si Mar, parang magulang na nagpapainom sa anak ng Tempra. Gagaling ang lagnat pero mapait. Si Rody, yung taho vendor na tatay na kahit nahihirapan ang anak, inspired ang anak na mag-aral. Why? Because Roxas is a genius, but he fails to inspire."Rodrigo DutertePrisoners' Dilemma Explained in Two MinutesDUTERTE CAYETANO MOTORCADE SUCAT PARAñAQUE TO CAA LAS PIñAS"MAYOR DUTERTE HINARANGAN SA DAAN"Ito ang traffic na madaming natuwa..Napatigil ang lahat at mainit na sinalubong ang Agila ng Davao.Isang buwan na lang Election na sa Pilipinas kabahan na mga kalaban ni Duterte sa Pagka Presidente..Subukan nyong mandaya makikita nyo ang rebulusyon sa Pilipinas..Note:17 minutes running time motorcade lang ito..I share natin ito at paabutin ng million views..Videographer Sahad Andal JrRhonel Christian Aerial Pilot Michael Andres SubidoPosted by CinEmotion Digital Films on Saturday, April 9, 2016A stranger told me, "I wish I had your courage. I want to write the same things you do - about how, in society in general, our country in particular - has two types of people. A ruling elite who can change things but won't, and a working class who want things changed, but can't do so. Hmm....maybe that's why I can't write - because I feel I have everything to lose. They say 'give a man a mask, and they'll show you their true face.' That's why you started TP?"TP: Don’t be. I have nothing but time to lose. I started TP with my real-life identity concealed because I want people to read my articles and focus on them, not on who wrote them.Stranger: I see.TP: Hence the meticulous citations in every TP article.Stranger: Message over the messenger.TP: Yup. I even listen to Binay every now and then. Kahit baliw siya.Stranger: Hehe. Part of me feels, if he can do the best job, even he takes a few millions, parang ok lang.TP: But he won’t be contented with just a few million, so meh.Stranger: Poe will win methinks.TP: It's 50-50 at the moment.Stranger: With Duterte?TP: Duterte has the people, Poe has the power. He's broke while she's got the richest man in PH to back her up.Stranger: Wow. This may be the last chance we truly get to elect someone worthy.TP: Yes, actually. There's only 1 in those 4 who’s not part of the oligarchy. Only one in 4 who's not politically corrupt [ READ: Corruption and the Presidentiables ].Stranger: I read your posts haha - I absolutely agree. But Symantec will rig the elections.TP: That's possible, but yesterday's Alabang is a bad omen for them. Like a seriously, terrifyingly, disconcertingly bad omen.Stranger: I have to read up on that... one sec please.TP: LOL ok.Stranger: All I'm getting is drug news.TP: There's a media blackout of course.Stranger: Or are you talking about the rally?TP: Yeah. There were around half a million in EDSA 2. Duterte has at least 30% of NCR's 11 million.Stranger: And yesterday?TP: There were about 20000 yesterday, it’s not even the center of NCR. It was not a dress rehearsal, but it sure was a sign. If people are that passionate and they realize they got cheated, their numbers will exceed Edsa 2. Considering there's legal precedent for "People Power" [ SC GRs 146710 et Al: Estrada vs Arroyo ], this will be fun if Duterte is cheated.Stranger: Ninoy won’t make Marcos' mistake. Unlike Marcos, he can actually order people shot.TP: Well, interestingly, I was thinking of that. Plaza Miranda, Hacienda Luisita. But Kidapawan makes it more difficult for him. He's already on the international non-profit HRW's radar [ Human Rights Watch ].Stranger: Hmm.TP: He got away with lumad killings because nobody cared. Now, people do [ READ: AFP Kills Lumads ].Stranger: I hope people aren't...desensitized. So the question now is… will it be cheaper for the oligarchs to *silence* du30 - or work with him for the next couple of years?TP: That assumes they can. The problem is that Duterte can inspire the common people, unlike the other 3.Stranger: So if he goes Ninoy-mode...TP: Nah...I think Duterte is not stupid, there's might be reason why he said 3-6 months. He won't go down without a fight. If I were in his shoes, I will eliminate all the corrupt oligarchs in that timeframe, so they can't do what you said.Stranger: Hmm…that's a lot of chaos.TP: Yes. but wouldnt that be fun? That is, speaking from the POV of a political observer.Stranger: Yes it would. :-)TP: Basically, we will have our French Revolution. How fitting is it that Les Miz is in Solaire right now?Stranger: Hahah! You're in Davao though (allegedly). I’ve never been there.TP: Nah, I am somewhere else. Davao is just too inconvenient and laging brownout per Mindanao Power Crisis [ MB ] so why the fuck would I wanna stay there right now. LOL.Stranger: Is it? I didn't know hehe. Hmm.Stranger: VP debates tomorrow. Any comment?TP: Yeah, but not really interested. To be honest, the VP’s only real job is wait for president to drop dead.Stranger: Ah, then that's the deal.TP: Lahat ng sasabihin nila don, drawing. VPs have no real executive powers to begin with.Stranger: Leni will win.TP: Well, in an ideal world I'll go Cayetano. Leni lost me with the "Pineda Defense"[ Rappler ]. But she's my 2nd choice… still a lesser evil when compared to Marcos and Escudero. My final choice depends on interpolated survey results right before exit polls, for the lack of any other metric.Stranger: But if LP can't win with Roxas, they'll just seat Leni, then...TP: Leni is too nice, she refuses to say no. Even if injustice is happening in front of her.Stranger: Hmm. I think her husband was on to something.TP: #TsinelasLeadership? Her reputation is from sacrifices na pinahihirapan lang ang sarili niya.Stranger: Haha. True that.TP: But in as far as going against the corrupt and the powerful, her record is blank. The problem with the Filipino is that he's so fixated at the trees, he fails to see the forest.Stranger: So, you're saying her sacrifices are from turning down luxuries, not from exerting effort doing something...inconvenient.TP: What she's doing is inconvenient for her, kudos to her on that. But she hasn’t shown anything that suggest she's capable of making zero-sum decisions. Like, this over that when the choices involve opposing parties. At first, I didn't blame her because politically speaking, she was born yesterday.But when the opportunity to do so came (Pinedas), she failed. On Pineda vs Panlilio, we all know Panlilio is the good man. Leni sided with Pineda.Stranger: Well, that was probably the smartest choice. Or at least, the safest.TP: Yes, I agree. But that's not a leader. That's a political chameleon. We already got enough of them in government. At this rate, Leni is morphing into a Loren Legarda [ Luntiang Pilipinas ].Noong una, Loren chose environment as focus because it’s safe. Lumads and mining weren't big issues in 1998. Then came the Lumad killings, and she suddenly fell silent.Stranger: Haha. Hmm…TP: Ewan ko kung saan nang committee sya ngayon. Remember those cheesy street signs na "I think I shall never see..."?Stranger: That was hers? The ones along SLEX?TP: Those were hers. Luntiang Pilipinas. Where are they now? Wala na yata. Meron pa siguro, pero wala na yatang Legarda na epal sign.Stranger: I have more faith in corporations to do good, actually. In the sense that, they're almost sub-contracting government work.TP: This is probably true if you are talking about rich corporations, but not if you’re referring to wealthy corporations. Wealthy and Rich are two very different adjectives. Have you not learned anything from the Subprime Mortgage Crisis [ Wharton ]?TP: Elon Musk's companies do good. Seems, however, that everyone bigger than it doesn't.Stranger: I remember - but that was runaway greed bought on by banks, methinks. The PLDT group for example, provides something along 20-30% of tax revenue to government - in return for providing water, electricity, and date to people.TP: How about Monsanto [ BC.edu ]? Philip Morris congressional Lobby [ Rappler ]? San Fucking Miguel Corporation [ TP: Coco Levy ]?Stranger: Ok, I rescind that to - "more faith in corporations to effect CHANGE" then. Hahaha.TP: PLDT? At the cost of monopolizing PH Internet. Sued SMC for 700mhz band [ News5 ] that eventually scared Telstra away [ Rappler ].Stranger: Ah, yes, well. Profit margins. Hehe.TP: PLDT is doing what Rockefeller did 100+ years ago… underselling to kill competition, then putting things back to the way then were [ History ].Stranger: well, Rockefeller was kind of merciless at absorbing anything...TP: Ugh.Stranger: Politicos need corporate money. Else, they'd be more vulnerable to crime lords, religious groups - or their political rivals.TP: Politicos are already are vulnerable to those, just look at Mar Roxas [ TP: Campaign Planes ]. Or even Grace Poe, whose life is so intertwined with San Miguel that her husband works in it, and she even owns shares of that goddamn company [ TP: Poe Connections Stranger: Wouldn't corporate cash help them fend of undue influence?TP: *sigh* how? Money is like sex. There’s never enough of it.Stranger: Let's say a religious group wants a bill passed, they pay the candidate that supports them.TP: Corporate $$$ to fend off corruption is just like a band aid to help heal a torn limb. Or maybe worse. It may even accelerate necrotizing [ TP: Miner Crony ].Stranger: But a rich candidate wouldn't be as...cheap?TP: No. Corporations today are already bribing politicians via corporate lobbying. What is your proposal but a legitimized out-in-the-open version of what's already there.Stranger: Wouldn't that make things more transparent? Hmm. Let’s say you get elected to office. Mayor, of a province. Jueteng lord approaches you, gives you a bag of money. You say “no.” If you don’t take it, he’ll kill you though. What do you say to thatTP: Or why don't we eliminate that culture altogether by redistributing political power? What you're suggesting is overhauling a 50 year old car. It's time to buy a new car.Stranger: Ah there. I agree. But changing the ENTIRE power structure is a question of capability, more than sincerity - how, in the world, are people already accustomed to power, going to just "give it up?"Although yes - Du30 can start the process… with federalism, maybe…TP: Or by death. Or by banishment. Whichever works. And why not accelerate the process? LOL.Stranger: They have successors. Haha…TP: There are ways.Stranger: This is brilliant…You still wouldn't mind Roxas winning?TP: That was in November before I discovered everything else...So sorry, not anymore.Stranger: Gotcha. You still think he's the technocrat for the next generation, though?TP: What is a technocrat?Stranger: You used that word before…TP: Yes I know. Rhetorical question yon. Kukurutin kita e.Stranger: LOL. Sorry, missed your inflection please use #rheto.TP: A technocrat is someone who has a habit of appointing people to positions based on their relevant technical/technological competence. But Mar recommended MRT's Vitangcol [ Spot.ph ]. He also okayed Abaya, [ Rappler ]. Mar also asked support from various pol dynasties [ TP: Corruption ] but that implies he supports them too. Quid pro quo. Q.E.D.Stranger: Ahahah.TP: So no, Mar Roxas isn't a technocrat.Stranger: Ahh… trapo then.TP: Yes. Essentially a trapo with better packaging. Some people say his PR team is shit, but it’s actually decent. Given everything he did, Roxas still manages to put up a façade. So kudos to his publicists.His major 'accomplishments' are: BPO, Cheaper Meds, Wharton, Economic Growth. I have debunked Cheaper Meds [ TP: Cheaper Meds ], same with Wharton [ TP:Ambassador ], same with Economic Growth [ TP: Economic Growth ].Stranger: I've also heard that the BPO wasn't to his credit.TP: Only BPO is left. But BPO boomed when he's already a senator. Even if I hate PGMA, It was Gloria who made BPO happen [ MB ]. Besides, BPO will inevitably happen even without government incentives. Cheap labor and more-tolerable-than-bumbay-accent English are incentive enough.Essentially, all he’s done in the past 2 decades is piggybacking. Duterte was actually right when he said Roxas is a pretentious credit grabber, too bad 3 minutes in a debate ain’t enough to explain why.Stranger: HmmStranger: You've met Duterte? In person? Is he really that inspiring?TP: Once in 2010. He doesn’t inspire me. I am brutally immune to emo shit. Instead, the people of Davao inspired me. Not the city, but the culture that developed among its people. I lived there for a couple of years or so. Living there literally restored my faith in humanity.Stranger: I read they're good people - the kind that "help" each other? But why? Was it through fear?TP: They are a people who trust each other.Stranger: Huh? Maybe I should visit.TP: Duterte made it possible.Stranger: But you lived there "for a couple of years," meaning it takes that long. Hmm…TP: It took me a week to realize that. Two years is too long. Have you heard about the "The Prisoner's Dilemma"? The crux is that a sub-optimal scenario happens because of lack of communication, bututerte became the link with Davao's residents as the actors. You get what I mean?The Prisoner's dilemma forces you to choose between what's best for you as an individual, and what's best you as a part of a group. Because of lack of trust, you choose selfishly. But in Davao City's case, Duterte served as the catalyst for trust.In Davao, ‘wag magtapon sa kalye kasi alam mong hindi nagtatapon ang iba, wag magyosi sa kalye kasi alam mong hindi rin magyoyosi ang iba. Etc. Etc.In Manila, magtatapon ka kasi hassle maghanap sa basurahan at magtatapon lang rin naman iba.Stranger: He's the exemplar?TP: Yes, but that's just one. As I've said, he inspires trust. He can make people believe in him. So when he asks something from someone, people trust that he will require the same thing from everyone else, i.e. naniniwala ang sinabihan niya na hindi siya malalamangan. He even lets cops pull over his daughter Inday for overspeeding.Stranger: Thank you for the chat.TP: Duterte's style is anchored on the concept of absolute equality. Duterte doesn't inspire me, but I am inspired by the fact that he can inspire the common Filipino.Stranger: It was deeply enlightening.TP: You’re welcome._____Did you like this post? Help ThinkingPinoy.com stay up! 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DONALD TRUMP COMES CLEAN ABOUT HIS HAIR, BUT WHAT ABOUT HIS MAKEUP? | Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump finally came clean about his hair today during a campaign speech in Greenville, South Carolina.He put to rest rumors that he wears a toupee. He called on a woman in the audience and asked her to touch his hair to prove that it was all au naturel. The woman did confirm that it was.Now that that’s settled, the new rumor is that The Donald wears makeup to conceal his eye bags.Many in the media have long noticed that Trump’s photos and videos always showed what seemed to be a white patch of cream or powder underneath his eyes.Not that it makes any difference. Media interest was more focused on which brand of concealer he uses: Mac or Clinique? | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 27/08/2018 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2015/08/27/donald-trump-comes-clean-about-his-hair-but-how-about-his-makeup/ | Adobo Chronicles |
#Filipino activists routinely miss the deeper and broader rot in #Philippines society | Olongapo and Angeles are in reality nothing but municipal whore houses. Always have been and, sadly, always will be.And now Boracay. Yes, Boracay is starting to get polluted with whores of all varieties. It used to be the ideal spot for a family vacation, but now is little more than an X-rated freak show.It's not a question of "if" another incident happens; it will happen. There is no doubt about it. We are now the number two sex-tour destination in Asia and, unlike Thailand, we have police that are little more than bumbling ass-wipe retards. It probably will never change. If those chimps jumping up and down about tranny Laude wanted to do something productive, they could find real issues that would improve the Philippines to protest about.Why don't they protest about the Philippines having one of the highest percentages of unwed mothers on the planet? Why not protest about the very significant percentage of children who have no idea even who their father is?You know, maybe we would be better off under the Chinese. Maybe they could eventually turn this country into something other than an impoverished, corrupt, Catholic Pacific Island zoo.---------------------This is a GRP Featured Comment. Join the discussion!http://getrealphilippines.com/blog/2014/10/the-hypocrisy-in-filipinos-anger-towards-us-marine-joseph-scott-pemberton/comment-page-3/#comment-860884 | [] | 28/09/2016 0:00 | https://grpshorts.blogspot.com/2014/10/filipino-activists-routinely-miss.html#comments | GRPundit |
DONALD TRUMP BUYS TIME MAGAZINE FOR $2.5 BILLION | After losing the title ‘Person of the Year’ to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Republican Candidate Donald Trump bought Time magazine for a whopping $ 2.5 Billion. That’s almost a quarter of the billionaire’s net worth.Trump was in the short list of contenders for the title, but magazine editors chose to name Merkel.Trump’s first move after buying Time was to halt the printing of the magazine’s Person of the Year issue and replacing the cover and cover story, featuring himself of course( see photo).He also announced that going forward, Time will be available free of charge at all Safeway, Target, Walmart and Walgreens stores. It will also be complimentary for those who stay at any of Trump’s hotels and resorts. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 10/12/2017 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2015/12/10/donald-trump-buys-time-magazine-for-2-5-billion/?share=email | Adobo Chronicles |
SINGER CHRIS BROWN INVITED BACK TO THE PHILIPPINES | After just ten days since his sold-out concert in Manila, Grammy Award-winning singer Chris Brown has been invited back to the Philippines. Brown is currently in Israel as part of his concert tour.The unprecedented invitation came from no less than Leila De Lima, Secretary of the Philippines’ Department of Justice (DOJ). It came in the form of a subpoena.DOJ has issued a subpoena against Brown for allegedly defrauding a Christian church out of $1 million after he canceled a performance at a New Years Eve event and failed to return the money.Brown’s name appears on the subpoena along with Canadian promoter John Michael Pio Roda after a $1 million estafa complaint was filed due to the singer skipping a scheduled musical performance for the Church of Christ in the Philippines, which is called Iglesia ni Cristo, on Dec. 31, 2014, at the Philippine Arena. Brown and Roda were reportedly paid $1 million in advance and canceled without paying any of the money back.Ahead of the subpoena being issued, Brown, 26, was performing in Manila and was initially barred from leaving the Philippines on July 21 because of the complaint that was filed. While he was finally cleared to leave the country by the Bureau of Immigration on July 24, Roda was not.Roda is planning a return concert for Brown as soon as he arrives back in Manila. The concert will be held at the Philippine Arena. Concert proceeds will help fund the court case that will ensue as a result of the DOJ invitation.It remains to be seen whether or not the upcoming concert will be able to raise the $1 Million that Brown owes Iglesia Ni Cristo, and then some. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 30/07/2018 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2015/07/30/singer-chris-brown-invited-back-to-the-philippines/#respond | Adobo Chronicles |
Senator Chiz Escudero Quitting Politics To Pursue New Career As Makeup Artist | It’s official : Senator Chiz Escudero is stepping down to pursue his newly-found career as a celebrity makeup artist.Escudero, who unsuccessfully ran for vice president of the Philippines in the last elections, made his announcement on GMA-7. The television network is reportedly helping promote his career by launching a new prime-time show called ‘Beauty Tips Ni Chiz.’A preview of the upcoming show was recently aired on GMA, featuring Chiz and his celebrity wife Heart Evangelista.This is the first time in Philippine political history that an elected official is giving up politics in favor of a professional career in private life. It is usually the other way around: actors, journalists and champion boxers quit their career to enter politics.There is always a first time for everything. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 17/08/2016 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2016/08/17/senator-chiz-escudero-quitting-politics-to-pursue-new-career-as-makeup-artist/#respond | Adobo Chronicles |
14 NPA rebels killed by military in Nasugbu, Batangas firefights | Fourteen rebels from New People’s Army were confirmed killed by the military during a firefight between the government forces in Nasugbu, Batangas on Tuesday, the AFP and PNP confirmed.Five of the rebels were killed while two others were survived the firefight in Sitio Panamuntasan, Barangay Aga.Nine other communist rebels were killed in a separate clash in Sitio Batulao, Barangay Kaylaway, the authorities said.Two soldiers were injured during the firefight according to the military. The injured rebels and soldiers were brought to the hospital to receive medical treatment.Authorities recovered high powered firearms and ammunition from the rebels.The clash started when armed men fired upon the members of Air Force’s 730th Combat Group and the Nasugbu Municipal Police who’s going to respond in a report that several armed men where spotted in the area.Batangas City Provincial Director Senior Superintendent Alden Delvo said that they were trying their best to maintain peace and order in the whole Batangas province amid the ongoing battle between the AFP and NPA.Civilian motorist also urged to be vigilant and find a safe place if they are near the battle area.This was the bloodiest encounter between the communist rebels and members of AFP.The firefight happened several days after President Rodrigo Duterte signed the cancellation of peace talks between the government and CPP-NPA-NDF.Duterte also said that he’s going to sign a proclamation that would label the communist group as ‘terrorists’ for their violent activities conducted despite of the ongoing peace talks in Europe.Communist leader Joma Sison was also threatened that he would get arrested once he attempted to visit the Philippines.The President also promised to give livelihood to all communist rebels who wanted to surrender themselves to the authorities. | ['View All Posts Pinoytrending'] | 2017-11-28 23:30:29+08:00 | https://pinoytrending.altervista.org/14-npa-rebels-killed-military-nasugbu-batangas-firefight/ | Pinoytrending Altervista |
Why the Yellows are Speechless (Nganga) about Duterte’s Nation-Building Strategy | It’s a masterpiece of a masterplan in nation building that one could never in one’s wildest dreams ever imagine coming out of a Yellow Cult leader’s pointed head.Yet it only took the basic common sense of a lowly unrefined mayor from the country’s marginalized South to get the country back on its rail tracks again – well positioned to take on the challenge of hiking up its daunting socioeconomic Mt. Everest – the top of which the rest of the East Asia gang (Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore and mainland China) are already all partying on.TRAIN Law – It’s a brilliant tax scheme that cuts deep into the heart of the Pinoy’s deeply ingrained tax-evading culture. Considering Filipinos’ propensity to under-declare or not declare their actual income, there’s simply no escaping getting taxed – now that even basic Coca Cola, Marlboro and petroleum are the government’s way of getting back at you. A massive BUILD BUILD BUILD program needs deep pockets to draw from. A fundamental in starting to build anything is that Jerry Maguire line… “Show me the money!”.Train our Youth – Free college education is a privilege only those in an elite group of mostly Northern European nations could afford to provide. The administration’s priority in beefing up the country’s human intellectual capital takes center stage, realizing from the last Aquino term that we cannot afford stupid incompetent people manning our stations and ships anymore.Train Systems – All you have to see is GRP’s classic juxtapositional article: Manila’s primitive public transport system: A national embarrassment! to convince yourself we have a lot of catching up to do in getting the blood arteries of the country flowing healthily again. It’s basic common sense for any decently functional country or emerging power aspirant: a smooth flow of goods, workers and tourists is fundamental to a buzzing economy- not something that should be fooled around with (like how incompetently managed the system was under Mar Roxas, Joseph Abaya, and PNoy, making them all worthy of getting run over a train for).Why the opposition is making so much noise about “fake news”, “human rights”, and “press freedom” is simply because they are rendered speechless on the weightier topics that really matter in the debate – those on the subject of strategies and visions the Duterte administration is hell bent on pursuing.The Silence of Yellowtard Lambs in more important topics is really due to the fact that affirming Duterte’s strategy means admitting 30 years of Yellow rule was an utter failure – nothing but a sinister power- and wealth-grabbing scam. Millions of brainwashed Filipinos simply all got duped for that long guys!We all know it’s culture that’s got to change, but you have to admit this time: Changing the top politician in the land does work wonders once in a super blue blood moon. 10-year-valid passports, 5-year-valid driver’s licenses, a third Telco coming in, subway to Manila’s airport, no more tax evasion, IS rebellion crushed, Reds finally labelled as terrorists, no more laglag bala, Federal setup to usher in peace in the South, MM to be replaced by clean-and-green New Clark City (ZaZoZon expanding!), friends with China again, Cha-cha wheels finally rolling,… we simply can’t list them all.Can things be moving any better? What have you guys in Yellow shirts gotta say?All together stupefied now… NGANGA | ['Oratio Imperata'] | 2018-02-03 10:14:22+00:00 | https://www.getrealphilippines.com/2018/02/train-train-train-yellows-speechless-nganga-dutertes-nation-building-strategy/ | Get Real Philippines |
Top Reasons Why President Duterte Is A Dictator/Tyrant | Not since Ferdinand E. Marcos have Filipinos been ruled by a dictator. Make that tyrant. Here are the top reasons why Rodrigo Duterte perfectly fits into the dictator/tyrant profile.Filipinos should be afraid. Very afraid.He has said many times: “I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend your right to say it.”Incarcerated Senator Leila De Lima is free to use Senate stationery to criticize him.There have not been any departure hold orders for the likes of VP Leni Robredo, Senators Trillanes and Hontiveros, Edgar Matobato.That woman Agnes Callamard was not barred from entering (or leaving) the PhilippinesCommission on Human Rights Chair Chito Gascon continues to be a free man.Malacañang doors remain open to all, including rebels and communists.He has accepted the rejection by the Commission on Appointments of his Cabinet appointees.Inquirer, Rappler, ABS-CBN and GMA News remain open.Australian Jim Paredes is free to travel back and forth to the PhilippinesRaissa Robles’ Twitter Account has not been shut down. Her one and only book has not been banned.He has declared a ‘National Day Of Protest’ so that his critics can hold rallies and burn his effigy.He has not defied any Supreme Court decisions or Congressional actions.He just laughs off references to him as a psychopath, murderer, mad man. And yes, dictator and tyrant. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 21/09/2017 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2017/09/21/top-reasons-why-president-duterte-is-a-dictatortyrant/?share=email | Adobo Chronicles |
Leni Robredo is undermining the integrity of the VP vote recount with her baseless complaints | As predicted, current Vice President Leni Robredo and her supporters are crying foul over the initial results of the manual recount of the Vice Presidential votes. The Presidential Electoral Tribunal has discarded some of her votes due to invalidity. The protest case filed by former Senator Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr in June 2016 is now underway and is already showing signs Robredo will lose votes. Obviously, Robredo’s camp is going to continue complaining for as long as the results don’t go her way. What did they expect? Did they actually think the manual recount will prove she won? That’s quite naïve of them.Robredo and her supporters are already acting like sore losers this early. They are already suggesting that Marcos is influencing the results. They can’t deny the fact that irregularities keep coming up and they seem to support the allegation Robredo was a beneficiary of electoral fraud during the May 2016 Presidential Elections:During the first two weeks of recount, several irregularities were raised over the discovery of wet ballot boxes, unused or excess ballots with shaded votes for Robredo, missing audit logs and missing voters’ receipts in Camarines Sur’s Bato, Baao, Balatan, Bula and Sagñay towns.Instead of showing concern, Robredo’s lawyer Romulo Macalintal dismissed them as nothing of consequence and said they are not proof of irregularities. He spoke like he doesn’t treat the ballot as a sacred document — as if seeing ballots discarded and missing audit logs and voter’s receipts is a normal occurrence in a Third World country like the Philippines and shouldn’t raise eyebrows. With Filipinos like Macalintal helping cover up signs of mismanagement and possible electoral fraud during the Presidential Elections, it’s no surprise the country remains backward.Macalintal should be as appalled as the rest of us that ballot boxes were not stored properly and protected from tampering and environmental elements. Even if the damaged ballots have nothing to do with Robredo’s win, he should still show concern over how they were mishandled. It goes to show Robredo’s camp is always on the defence mode. This is why the public thinks they are not after the truth, only to keep Robredo in her post.After causing the delay of the start of the recount for months, Robredo now seems to be hinting that the recount process is rigged. She’s got a lot of nerve considering it was her (alleged) fraudulent win that is in question and the reason why the country has to go through this daunting process. Complaining is her only recourse because she is losing votes after the electoral tribunal denied her request to consider as valid the ballots with at least 25 percent of its oval space shaded in the “revision, recount, and re-appreciation” of votes.The tribunal insists there is no resolution that states “the applicability of a 25% threshold; and the Tribunal cannot treat the Random Manual Audit Guidelines and Report as proof of the threshold used by the COMELEC.” The tribunal is therefore sticking to the 50% threshold. This doesn’t seem to be a problem for the Marcos camp and it is becoming apparent that only Robredo is losing votes because of the rule. This says something. It could mean that the ballots showing Robredo as chosen candidate could have been pre-shaded in a rush before the actual election started by people other than the actual voters themselves.Again, Robredo seems unconcerned that the ballots are showing irregularities as long as it is all in her favour. Robredo is now appealing to change the rules. She’s also trying to make it look like the electoral tribunal only recently changed the rules when the rules were established way before the start of the recount as stated in the PET revisors’ guide issued by the Supreme Court on February 2018, the 2010 PET rules of procedure, and the Constitutional mandate of the tribunal. Robredo is quoting from a manual not recognised by the tribunal.This has to be highlighted: if the 50% threshold applies to both Robredo and Marcos, then it is not favouring one party over the other. Neither camp should complain.In their efforts to paint Marcos as manipulating the VP vote recount, Robredo’s camp is inadvertently damaging the integrity of the SC sitting as Presidential Electoral Tribunal. She should be held in contempt for doing a press conference accusing the agency of changing the rules to favour Marcos.The PET or electoral tribunal should put a lid on Robredo and her lawyers. They should shut up and let the process continue without further delay. She is trying to undermine the result of the VP vote recount. As long as she is talking to the media, the outcome of the recount will not be respected and accepted by her rabid supporters. They seem to be glad Marcos was cheated out of the VP post anyway.Is it enough to unseat Leni from the VP post if proven there was electoral fraud or should she be prosecuted as well? The public has the right to know the extent of her role in the alleged electoral fraud. We cannot let the perpetrators get away with their crimes. It will happen again if they do.I don’t believe Robredo was aware of the lengths her allies went to to make her win. She is clueless. She will be shocked once proven she benefited from electoral fraud. But the problem with her is she is in denial there was electoral fraud. In a country where cheating during elections has become a tradition, it’s baffling she actually thinks she won the VP post considering popularity surveys before the elections showed Marcos was likely to win. One can be forgiven for saying she is too full of herself.The people drumming up support for Robredo are ignoring the fact that the VP vote recount under the election tribunal is a legal process. They should respect the outcome. Just because it is emerging that Leni’s votes show a lot of irregularities doesn’t mean Marcos is manipulating it. As sure as the sun rises, Robredo and her supporters will go out on the streets as usual to protest the result. It’s as if showing she has supporters will change the outcome. We should give them the freedom to think and behave the way they want to if it helps them cope with their loss. | ['Oratio Imperata'] | 2018-04-20 10:06:00+00:00 | https://www.getrealphilippines.com/2018/04/leni-robredo-is-undermining-the-integrity-the-vp-vote-recount-with-her-baseless-complaints/#comments | Get Real Philippines |
Donald Trump Says He Will Dissolve His Foundation | In order to address any issue of conflict of interest between his personal business and the presidency, Donald Trump has just announced that he will dissolve his foundation.This means that beginning at his January 20 presidential inauguration, Trump will no longer be seen in public wearing the orange-color makeup foundation and the white eye bag concealer cream that he has been known to wear.What you see is what you get. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 25/12/2016 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2016/12/25/donald-trumps-says-he-will-dissolve-his-foundation/#respond | Adobo Chronicles |
Police Brutality caught on cam! Two policemen beaten civilians using arnis stick | A video of a police brutality caught on cam has gone viral on social mediaSuspects identified as Police Officers Jose Tandog and Chito EnriquezThe video shows Police Officer Tandog repeatedly beat one of the victims with arnis stickWARNING GRAPHIC:A police brutality video taken in a Barangay Hall has gone viral on social media.Fortunately, a man named “Marvin” who’s present during the incident recorded the police brutality committed by two police officers.The video of the police brutality which recorded and uploaded by the brother of one of the victims showed two policemen beat and threatened two men identified as Marvin Calda and Macmac Villanueva who got arrested because of not yet known violations.Iris Calda, narrated the incident in a post on social media:Hindi na po dapat ako magpopost Pero SOBRA na po talaga ang ginagawa ninyong pananakit, pangaabuso, pananakot. Kagabi hinuli ni JOSE TANDOG at CHITO ENRIQUEZ, parehong PO1 ang aking kapatid na si Marvin Calda at kumpare nyang si Mac2 Villanueva kahit walang nagawang kamalian. Dinala sila sa Brgy dahil wala silang dalang pangticket at doon naganap ang malahayop na pananakit at pagbunot at pagtutok ng baril. Ma buti nlng at mabilis na naisip ni Marvin na mavideohan ang mga pangyayari. Nasaan si Ron2 at kanyang mga tanod? Bakit wala kayong naging aksyon. Pasensya npo sir Ubina, yung pakiusap mo na huwag ipost ang pangyayari ay Hindi ko po mapagbibigyan.Martial law na ba sa atin? Diba mission ng mga police to “serve and protect”? May karapatan kami ipaglalaban namin. Lalaban po kami, Hindi ko palalampasin ang pangaabuso ninyo . Sa mga inabuso at sinaktan ng mga police sa ating barangay, hinihikayat ko kayong magsalita at magreklamo. Sa video makikita ninyo kung paano sinaktan at halos patayin na ang walang kalabanlaban nating kabarangay. Maraming salamat po.The victims were brought to the Barangay Hall in Brgy. San Jose where the beatings happened because they could not pay for a ticket for their violation.(via Iris Calda)Victims were threatened by two policemen identified according to the source as Police Officers 1 Jose Tandog and Chito Enriquez while being pointed by a loaded gun and an arnis stick.(via Iris Calda)It can be heard in the beginning of the video posted on social media that a young man heard pleading to the police officers ““hindi ako nagmamalaki sa inyo sir!”That’s when the police officer identified as PO1 Jose Tandog started to point his arnis stick to the victim.(via Iris Calda)Then the two men had asked if they had any “rules and regulations” (referring to their maltreatment) in the barangay. Both officers mockingly responded with “ang dami niyong alam!” and “marami kayong alam noh?Afterwards, the police officer holding the arnis attempted to put handcuffs to the victims. But the victims asked not to be handcuffed because there was no case being filed against them.That’s when the police officer Tandog struck the victim on his stomach and then right on his face. PO1 Tandog seemed started to lose control in his anger and repeatedly beaten and cursed the victim.“Sige laban! P*tang ina! Puputukan ko kayo!” The police officer said.(via Iris Calda)The victim tried to defend himself, but the police officer continued striking him that made him thrown outside the Barangay Hall.Relatives of the victims, criticized the Barangay officers and tanods present in the Barangay Hall during that time for doing nothing to defend the victims against the police officers.According to the source, someone also asked them not to upload the video, but they decided to expose the brutality committed by the police officers to attain the justice that they wanted.Melfe Cloa Calda, one of the relatives of the victim also wrote an open letter to PO1 Tandog in his social media account and she hopes that the video of their brutality reached their families.She also exposed the social media account of the police officer and posted some of his pic together with his wife.Photo of PO1 Tandog via https://www.facebook.com/mcclda“To your wife, I hope he never does this to you. You married a monster. A loser. A Cancer of the society,” Calda said in his post.(via https://www.facebook.com/mcclda)He also urged the Philippine National Police to investigate the police brutality and how another police officer ruined the reputation of the organization.Netizens criticised the police officer committed the brutality and they believed that PO1 Tandog and Enriquez must be held accountable for what they did to the victims.Philippine National Police and Commission on Human Rights is not yet releasing an statement on the viral video.The two police officers are also not yet giving an explanation why they did the brutality.You can watch the video here: | ['View All Posts Pinoytrending'] | 2017-06-28 19:38:02+08:00 | https://pinoytrending.altervista.org/police-brutality-caught-cam-two-policemen-beaten-civilians-using-arnis-stick/ | Pinoytrending Altervista |
RUSSIA’S PUTIN AND INDONESIA’S WIDODO WILL SKIP APEC SUMMIT IN MANILA | Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indonesian President Joko Widodo will not attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Economic Leaders’ meeting in Manila next week.According to the Russian news agency RBC, Putin suddenly refused to participate in the APEC summit in the Philippines but will send Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev instead.Meanwhile, during the press briefing at the International Media Center on Thursday afternoon, Foreign Affairs Undersecretary Laura del Rosario confirmed Widodo’s absence from APEC.“I just got a verbal message that there are things in Jakarta that need the attention of Pres. Widodo,” Del Rosario said, citing domestic concerns as reason for Widodo’s sudden non-attendance.Widodo will be represented by Indonesian Trade Minister Thomas Lembong.Although the Russian and Indonesian govenments did not give specific reasons for their heads of state’s decision to skip the Manila summit, many are speculating that Putin and Widodo are scared of being victimized by the laglag bala extortion scheme at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport.President Aquino expressed frustration especially over Putin’s decision since the Manila government even set aside an exclusive lane for the Russian leader along EDSA (Metro Manila’s main thoroughfare) so that he does not encounter any traffic to and from the meeting site. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 12/11/2017 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2015/11/12/russias-putin-and-indonesias-widodo-will-skip-apec-summit-in-manila/#respond | Adobo Chronicles |
Did Mar Roxas cheat in the final debate? | There was something that made me feel uneasy over the way administration presidential candidate Manuel Roxas III answered questions posed during the Dagupan City debate with admirable ease.In fact, Roxas did not only submit his answers quickly, he also cited specific case studies like the story of an OFW from Pangasinan who is now a successful owner of a chain of spas.There could only be one explanation, I told myself, and it is that Roxas was given a leak of the questions which would be asked during the debate.A video clip of the question and answer portion posted on youtube.com by a nylede flores showed that the character generation used in flashing on screen salient points of Roxas’ answer was posted at almost the same time the LP standard bearer was pointing it out.What is irregular about this?Well, the chargen crawler is supposed to appear a few seconds after the speaker has made his statement as it obviously would need the chargen operator sometime to capture the thought and type it to be displayed on screen.In the video shown on youtube.com, Roxas was staying “Sa karanasan, binabangga ko ang mga malalaking interes…” at almost the same time, the chargen crawler showed this caption: “Roxas: Binangga ko ang mga malalaking interes.”This could only be possible if the chargen operator had an advance copy of Roxas’ answers to the questions.So, what possibly happened was 1.) the Roxas camp was given a leak of the questions to be asked; 2) the Roxas camp prepared answers to the questions; 3) the prepared answers were given to the technical group handling the coverage thus allowing the chargen operator to type the blurbs and post these almost simultaneously with Roxas’ answers.This could only be possible if there was collaboration from top people of ABS-CBN who were handling the Pilipinas Debate 2016 coverage.Actually, I was not the only person who noticed the apparently staged managed Q and A for Roxas.While Roxas’ chances of winning the Presidency ranges from nil to zero, this obvious cheating is a proof of a pattern of dishonest actions by a party which rides on the slogan “Daang Matuwid” whose standard bearer has been bragging about his decency and honesty.Last night’s deceitful action by Roxas followed other questionable activities by the Liberal Party ranging from the use of government vehicles to campaign, flooding the on-line survey of Rappler with votes from fictitious accounts to make it appear that the LP candidate was No. 1 after the first debate, riding on activities of the Department of Agriculture to promote Roxas, distributing envelopes to participants in a rally in Pikit, North Cotabato, distribution of P5,000 to barangay chairmen and P50,000 to P200,000 to town mayors and the controversial use of government helicopters to ferry presidential sister Kris Aquino to an LP rally.The greatest irony of it all is the fact that in spite of these acts of cheating and dishonesty, Roxas has not moved up from 4th place.In the last ABS-CBN/Pulse Asia survey, Roxas was ranked 4th with 18%.The same survey showed PDP Laban standard bearer Rody Duterte leading with 34%, followed by Grace Poe with 22% and Jejomar Binay with 19%. | Manny PiñolAny thoughts? Leave your comments below! | [] | 2016-04-27 01:05:38+08:00 | http://duterte.today/mar-roxas-cheat-final-debate/ | Duterte Daily Stories |
Student who disrespects the Filipino Flag to be arrest and imprison | Photo Credits: Pinoy NetizensDid his teacher forgot that our flag is one of the most important thing that must be respect all the time?This student who recorded himself mopping the floor using our flag criticised by the Filipino Netizens worldwide. According to the National Historical Commision of the Philippines or NHCP, disrespecting the flag is a big violation to our constitution.The student is now searched by the authorities but some news circulated that the suspect is now in the custody of the authorities and already paying for his bad acts.According to REPUBLIC ACT NO. 8491 or “AN ACT PRESCRIBING THE CODE OF THE NATIONAL FLAG, ANTHEM, MOTTO, COAT-OF-ARMS AND OTHER HERALDIC ITEMS AND DEVICES OF THE PHILIPPINE,” “reverence and respect shall at all times be accorded the flag, the anthem and other national symbols which embody the national ideals and traditions and which express the principles of sovereignty and national solidarity.”Anyone found guilty of violating provisions in said act will “be punished by a fine of not less than Five thousand pesos (5,000.00) not more than Twenty thousand pesos (P20,000.00), or by imprisonment for not more than one (1) year, or both such fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court.”Watch the full video below: | ['View All Posts Pinoytrending'] | 2016-02-10 19:11:06+08:00 | https://pinoytrending.altervista.org/student-who-disrespects-the-filipino-flag-to-be-imprisoned/ | Pinoytrending Altervista |
Here’s What Senator De Lima Wanted To Write About Lascañas And Matobato | Only in the Philippines can a criminally-charged and incarcerated senator continue to use official stationery to criticize political opponents and enjoy media attention on a daily basis.Today, Senator Leila De Lima released yet another handwritten note, this time urging the Filipino people to listen to what self-confessed murderers had said in their testimonies before the Senate.Edgard Matobato and retired police officer Arthur Lascañas had both testified at Senate hearings about the alleged Davao Death Squad (DDS) during the time that President Rodrigo Duterte was city mayor. Both men had admitted to taking part in the DDS. For Lascañas, he denied the existence of the DDS in his first testimony, but later recanted his sworn statement in a second hearing last week.It appears, however, that De Lima had written a different version of her letter published in the news media. What was published was a revised version upon the urging of her legal counsel.In the first version, a photocopy of which was obtained by The Adobo Chronicles, the senator called Matobato and Lascañas “murderers, liars and perjurers.” She also urged her supporters to listen to her “lying colleagues in the Senate,” although she didn’t mention any senators by name. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 12/03/2017 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2017/03/12/heres-what-senator-de-lima-wanted-to-write-about-lascanas-and-matobato/?share=email | Adobo Chronicles |
COMPLETE LIST: State Universities and Colleges with free tuition fee starting 2018 | President Rodrigo Duterte signed the bill that granting free tuition fee in all state universities and colleges (SUCs) in the Philippines on July 5.The Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education Act, gives full tuition subsidy for students in State Universities and Colleges (SUCs), state-run technical-vocational schools and local universities and colleges.According to the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) there are eight SUCs in National Capital Region (NCR), 49 in Luzon, 26 in Visayas and 31 in Mindanao that would enjoy the free tuition fee starting this year.On March 15, Commission on Higher Education (CHED) released an additional list of 78 local universities and colleges (LUCs) established by LGUs who were eligible to provide free higher education.While several politicians wanted to took the credit on the free tuition bill, CHED officer-in-charge Prospero De Vera said that President Rodrigo Duterte should be the one who must credited for pushing the free education for college students.He explained that former administrations failed to push the free tuition bill while President Duterte did it in his first year in office.These are the list of the SUCs that will be covered by the free tuition law:National Capital RegionEulogio ‘Amang’ Rodriguez Institute of Science and TechnologyMarikina Polytechnic CollegePhilippine Normal UniversityPhilippine State College of AeronauticsPolytechnic University of the PhilippinesRizal Technological UniversityTechnological University of the PhilippinesUniversity of the Philippines SystemPamantasan ng Lungsod ng MaynilaPamantasan ng Lungsod ng MuntinlupaRegion I – Ilocos RegionDon Mariano Marcos Memorial State UniversityIlocos Sur Polytechnic State CollegeMariano Marcos State UniversityNorth Luzon Philippines State CollegePangasinan State UniversityUniversity of Northern PhilippinesIlocos Sur Community CollegeUniversity of Eastern PangasinanBinalatongan Community CollegeUrdaneta City UniversityCordillera Administrative RegionAbra State Institute of Science and TechnologyApayao State CollegeBenguet State UniversityIfugao State UniversityKalinga State UniversityMountain Province State UniversityRegion II – Cagayan ValleyBatanes State CollegeCagayan State UniversityIsabela State UniversityNueva Vizcaya State UniversityQuirino State UniversityRegion III – Central LuzonAurora State College of TechnologyBataan Peninsula State UniversityBulacan Agricultural State CollegeBulacan State UniversityCentral Luzon State UniversityDon Honorio Ventura Technological State UniversityNueva Ecija University of Science and TechnologyPampanga State Agricultural UniversityPhilippine Merchant Marine AcademyRamon Magsaysay Technological UniversityTarlac College of AgricultureTarlac State UniversityMabalacat CollegeBaliuag Polytechnic CollegeBulacan Polytechnic CollegeCity College of AngelesCity College of San Fernando, PampangaEduardo L. Joson Memorial CollegeGuagua Community CollegeKolehiyo ng GuiguintoKolehiyo ng SubicLimay Polytechnic CollegeNorzagaray CollegePambayang Dalubhasaan ng MarilaoPolytechnic College of BotolanPolytechnic College of the City of MeycauayanRegion IV-A – CALABARZONBatangas State UniversityCavite State UniversityLaguna State Polytechnic University (Laguna State Polytechnic College)Southern Luzon State UniversityUniversity of Rizal SystemBalian Community CollegeCity College of CalambaColegio de MontalbanColegio ng Lungsod ng BatangasDalubhasaan ng Lungsod ng LucenaKolehiyo ng Lungsod ng LipaLaguna UniversityPambayang Kolehiyo ng MaubanSan Mateo Municipal CollegeTrece Martires City CollegeAntipolo Institute of Technology (AiTech)Tanauan City College (TCC)Pamantasan ng Cabuyao (PNC)Dalubhasaan ng Lungsod ng San PabloCity College of Tagaytay (CCT)Region IV-B – MIMAROPAMarinduque State CollegeMindoro State College of Agriculture and TechnologyOccidental Mindoro State CollegePalawan State UniversityRomblon State UniversityWestern Philippines UniversityBaco Community CollegeMIMAROPA City College of CalapanRegion V – Bicol RegionBicol UniversityBicol State College of Applied Sciences and TechnologyCamarines Norte State CollegeCamarines Sur Polytechnic CollegesCatanduanes State UniversityCentral Bicol State University of AgricultureDr. Emilio B. Espinosa, Sr. Memorial State College of Agriculture and TechnologyPartido State UniversitySorsogon State CollegeCommunity College of ManitoLigao Community CollegeBaao Community CollegeCalabanga Community CollegeCaramoan Community CollegeCity College of NagaDaraga Community CollegeLibon Community CollegeOas Community CollegePolangui Community CollegeRapu-Rapu Community CollegeSan Jose Community CollegeSorsogon Community CollegeDonsol Community College (DCC)San Pascual Polytechnic College (SPPC)Aroroy Municipal College (AMC)Governor Mariano E. Villafuerte Community CollegesRegion VI – Western VisayasAklan State UniversityCapiz State UniversityCarlos C. Hilado Memorial State CollegeGuimaras State CollegeIloilo State College of FisheriesCentral Philippines State UniversityNorthern Iloilo Polytechnic State CollegeNorthern Negros State College of Science and TechnologyUniversity of AntiqueIloilo Science and Technology UniversityWest Visayas State UniversityIloilo City Community College (ICCC)Passi City CollegeLibacao College of Science and TechnologyBago City CollegeRegion VII – Central VisayasBohol Island State UniversityCebu Normal UniversityCebu Technological UniversityNegros Oriental State UniversitySiquijor State CollegeBuenavista Community collegeCarcar City CollegeSibonga Community CollegeTrinidad Municipal CollegeRegion VIII – Eastern VisayasEastern Samar State UniversityEastern Visayas State UniversityLeyte Normal UniversityNaval State UniversityNorthwest Samar State UniversityPalompom Polytechnic State UniversitySamar State UniversitySouthern Leyte State UniversityUniversity of Eastern PhilippinesVisayas State UniversityMaasin City CollegeRegion IX – Zamboanga PeninsulaJ.H Cerilles State CollegeJose Rizal Memorial State UniversityWestern Mindanao State UniversityZamboanga City State Polytechnic CollegeZamboanga State College of Marine Sciences and TechnologyZamboanga del Sur Provincial Government College (ZdSPGC)Region X – Northern MindanaoBukidnon State UniversityCamiguin Polytechnic State CollegeCentral Mindanao UniversityUniversity of Science and Technology of Southern Philippines – Cagayan De Oro CampusMSU – Iligan Institute of TechnologyUniversity of Science and Technology of Southern Philippines – Claveria CampusNorthwestern Mindanao State College of Science and TechnologyPangantucan Bukidnon Community College (PBCC)Magsaysay CollegeInitao CollegeGov. Alfonso D. Tan CollegeNorthern Bukidnon Community CollegeOpol Community CollegeTagoloan Community CollegeRegion XI – Davao RegionCompostela Valley State CollegeDavao Del Norte State CollegeDavao Oriental State College of Science and TechnologySouthern Philippines Agri-Business and Marine and Aquatic School of TechnologyUniversity of Southern PhilippinesKapalong College of Agriculture, Sciences and Technology (KCAST)Governor Generoso College of Arts, Sciences and Technology (GGCAST)Monkayo College of Arts, Sciences and TechnologyKolehiyo ng Pantukan (KNP)Region XII – Main SOCCSKSARGENCotabato State UniversityCotabato Foundation College of Science and TechnologySultan Kudarat State UniversityUniversity of Southern MindanaoGlan Institute of TechnologyMakilala Insitute of Science and TechnologyAutonomous Region in Muslim MindanaoAdiong Memorial Polytechnic State CollegeBasilan State CollegeMindanao State UniversityMSU-Tawi-Tawi College of Technology and OceanographySulu State CollegeTawi-Tawi Regional Agricultural CollegeRegion XIII – Caraga Administrative RegionAgusan del Sur State College of Agriculture and TechnologyCaraga State University (Northern Mindanao State Institute of Science and Technology)Surigao del Sur State UniversitySurigao State College of TechnologyHinatuan Southern College | ['View All Posts Pinoytrending'] | 2018-04-01 07:02:01+08:00 | https://pinoytrending.altervista.org/complete-list-state-universities-colleges-free-tuition-fee-starting-2018/ | Pinoytrending Altervista |
JOINT CNN-FOX NEWS POLL SHOWS ALL-WOMEN FIELD FOR 2016 U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS | A joint CNN and FOX News poll shows a sharp shift in American voter preference for the 2016 presidential elections. A huge majority of the 10,000 likely voters polled from acoss the 50 states are now gravitating towards women. Republicans and Democrats alike have chosen an all-women field for their top three choices for the next U.S. president. While the 4th and 5th places on both the Republican and Democrat sides were men, the poll numbers were too insignificant and way below the 3% margin of error. CNN and Fox chose not to reveal the names of the potential male candidates because the networks would not want to embarrass them. Not surprisingly, there was a 3-way tie in the Republican poll. Here are the poll results:DEMOCRATS: REPUBLICANS:1. Hillary Clinton, 45% 1. Sarah Palin, 33.33%2. Elizabeth Warren, 40%. 2. Michelle Bachmann, 33.33%3. Caroline Kennedy, 14.9 %. 3. Jan Brewer, 33.33 %The CNN-FOX News poll did not pit the Republican and Democrat candidates against each other. “That will be for the next poll,” a joint statement from the two networks said. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 27/07/2016 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2013/07/27/joint-cnn-fox-news-poll-shows-all-women-field-for-2016-u-s-presidential-elections/ | Adobo Chronicles |
Duterte reveals the main problem with PH-US ties | The Philippines might have signed a mutual defense treaty with the United States in 1951, but it doesn’t automatically mean that Washington will come to the rescue when there’s an attack on Philippine shores.In an interview with reporters in Malacañang Monday (Sept. 26), Duterte revealed the complication in the two countries’ agreement: the US needs its Congress’ approval before going to war for an ally.“[T]here is a RP-US Pact that was in the ‘50s. It says that an attack on the Philippines would be an attack of the United States. But in the United States Constitution, it says that before a President can declare war, with anybody in defense of an ally, he has to Congress for permission to go to war,” he said.“That’s the problem. So if Congress will not give him that authority, what will happen to us? America is, I said, it does not know what the left hand is—the right hand is doing,” Duterte added.The President has hinted that he is “about to cross a Rubicon” with regard to the Philippines’ relationship with the US, while at the same time expressing openness to forging stronger alliances with China and Russia. | [] | 24/05/2018 0:00 | http://www.pilipinasonlineupdates.com/2016/10/duterte-reveals-main-problem-with-ph-us.html#comment-form | Pilipinas Online Updates |
TAIWAN’S TOFU, DURIAN EXPORTS SUDDENLY SKYROCKET | from The Netherlands to Australia.What was more puzzling is the fact that importers are flying into Taiwan to personally pick up their shipment. In addition, they were buying the tofu and durian only from specific vendors.After an extensive market analysis and investigation, Taiwan’s Ministry of Trade and Commerce traced the sudden export surge to these two vendors (see photo).Both the tofu and durian vendors told The Adobo Chronicles® that their goods are all on backorder at the moment. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 15/07/2018 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2015/07/15/taiwans-tofu-durian-exports-suddenly-skyrocket/#respond | Adobo Chronicles |
WHITE HOUSE RELEASES NEW PRESS BRIEFING ROOM SEATING CHART | While FOX News and its loyal viewers are extremely devastated, Filipino Americans are ecstatic over the new seating chart that The White House has released for the press briefing room on 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.President Barack Obama has decided to de-commission FOX News and replace the conservative news network with The Adobo Chronicles.The publisher of The Adobo Chronicles said : “We are very honored for this rare opportunity and we promise to ask the right intelligent questions during all White House Briefings.” | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 26/03/2018 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2015/03/26/white-house-releases-new-press-briefing-room-seating-chart/?share=email | Adobo Chronicles |
GEORGE W. BUSH: ‘OBAMA PLAGIARIZED MY 2006 SPEECH ON IMMIGRATION’ | George W. Bush today accused Barack of Obama of plagiarizing the Republican president’s May 15, 2006 speech on immigration.Last night, Obama delivered a prime-time speech to announce executive actions he was taking to provide deportation relief to some 5 Million undocumented immigrants.Bush said, “if you listened very closely to what Obama said, he practically copied my speech from the Oval Office which I made in 2006”Both speeches touched on exactly the same themes: that the U.S. is a nation of laws and a nation of immigrants; that we need to secure our borders; that Congress needs to pass an immigration reform bill; and that what they were proposing was not amnesty.Speaking from the Bush family ranch in Houston, George W. demanded that Obama apologize to him and the nation for stealing his words and for his lack of original ideas on immigration.The White House has refused to comment on Bush’s allegation.Here’s Obama’s and Bush’s speech, courtesy of CNN | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 21/11/2017 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2014/11/21/george-w-bush-obama-plagiarized-my-2006-speech-on-immigration/?share=email | Adobo Chronicles |
Duterte Special Assistant Bong Go Interested In Being President, Not Senator | Special Assistant to the President Secretary Bong Go on Wednesday said President Rodrigo Duterte was only joking that his appearance at the proposed legislative inquiry on the controversial P15.5-billion frigate acquisition project of the Philippine Navy can be his ticket to a Senate seat.“I would like to publicly state that I am not interested in running for a Senate seat,” Go said in a statement.Go said Duterte only mentioned the matter “in jest” during the 116th anniversary celebration of the Bureau of Customs (BOC) “in view of my demand to the Senate to conduct a full blown public hearing and get to the bottom of the frigate controversy.”But in an exclusive interview with The Adobo Chronicles, Go clarified that while he wasn’t interested in being a Senator, he’s seriously considering becoming President when Duterte’s term expires in 2022.”By then, I would have mastered the ins and outs of being President. I’m practically being groomed for the job by Duterte,” he said.We’d like to suggest a campaign meme for Duterte’s right-hand man:”Go, Bong!” | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 08/02/2018 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2018/02/08/duterte-special-assistant-bong-go-interested-in-being-president-not-senator/ | Adobo Chronicles |
Finally, Secretary Martin Andanar Sanctions Asec Mocha Uson | PCOO Secretary Martin Andanar has had it with Asec Mocha Uson. He is finally putting his foot down to silence the once untouchable blogger-turned government official.Andanar issued a memorandum to Uson following the latter’s latest foul-up in which she and Drew Olivar posted a video making fun of the sign language. The video episode was highly criticized by the deaf commnity as well as many netizens, including pro-Duterte bloggers who had the b*lls to speak up.Previously, Uson was called out because of the ‘Pepedederalismo’ dance routine performed by Olivar during the couple’s Internet game show.In his memo, Andanar ordered Uson to remain silent for the next 60 days, including in her Facebook and other live videos.But in speaking with The Adobo Chronicles, Andanar said this doesn’t mean Uson cannot resort to other means of communicating with her followers. “She may communicate via sign language,” Andanar pointed out.Well, good thing Uson has signer Olivar as part of her social media team. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 16/09/2018 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2018/09/16/finally-secretary-martin-andanar-sanctions-asec-mocha-uson/#respond | Adobo Chronicles |
#PNoy has no need for emergency powers to solve power crisis in the #Philippines | What is needed is a special law suspending procurement laws for the purpose of renting generators and buying oil and maintenance for such generators; as well as a request for supplemental budget for such purpose.Safety measures to prevent supplier price fixing, collusion and transferring costs to consumers, should be indicated in the special law. Budget should come from the presidential special purpose funds i.e., need tap the Malampaya funds.The legislative branch should strike down any request for emergency powers as regular powers are available to the president and the energy secretary were they competent enough to handle the issue. If not, they should step aside and let more competent technocrats do it.--------------This is a GRP Featured Comment. Join the discussion!http://getrealphilippines.com/blog/2014/09/the-philippines-power-crisis-and-noynoy-aquinos-lame-bid-for-emergency-powers/comment-page-1/#comment-709690 | [] | 2016-09-09 02:24:14+08:00 | https://grpshorts.blogspot.com/2014/09/pnoy-has-no-need-for-emergency-powers.html | GRPundit |
WATCH: President Duterte got a red carpet welcome in Indonesia. | After the ASEAN Summits in Lao PDR, President Rodrigo Roa Duterte traveled to Indonesia to discuss bilateral matter and strengthen ties with Indonesia and to meet the Filipino community in Indonesia.The President of the Philippines also received a red carpet welcome in Halim Perdanakusuma International Airport in Jakarta, Indonesia, he was welcomed by the Indonesian government officialsThere was also a special car was also prepared to be use by Duterte while he is in Indonesia.After being welcomed in the airport, the President talked with Indonesian Minister of Law and Human Rights Yasonna H. Laoly in a high class hotel in Indonesia.Tomorrow President Duterte was scheduled to meet the Filipino community in Indonesia and he was also planning save Mary Jane Veloso the Filipina death-row that still detained in Yogyakarta Prison.Indonesia’s anti-drug chief Budi Waseso also proposed to copy President Duterte’s style in fighting illegal drugs, there was still no news if he was planning to see Duterte in personal. | ['View All Posts Pinoytrending'] | 2016-09-09 02:24:14+08:00 | https://pinoytrending.altervista.org/watch-president-duterte-got-red-carpet-welcome-indonesia/ | Pinoytrending Altervista |
Ban Ki Moon on the true evil in World Leadership in his farewell address to the UN | Ban Ki Moon has blasted some world leaders in his farewell address (yes, he is leaving the UN), and we can consider it a small triumph (and mercy) that despite President Duterte's fuck yous, Ban Ki Moon didn't consider him a real danger to the world. This is because unlike many, Ban Ki Moon knows what true evil is.“In too many places, we see leaders rewriting constitutions, manipulating elections, and taking other desperate steps to cling to power,” he said. “My message to all is clear: serve your people. Do not subvert democracy; do not pilfer your country’s resources; do not imprison and torture your critics." (Duterte did not manipulate elections, has not made desperate attempts to cling to power, did not subvert democracy,. did not pilfer our resources, and did not torture and imprison his critics. BUT WE KNOW WHO DID. BWAHAHA.We know who manipulated elections, is still trying hard to cling to power, imprisoned his enemies illegally, and pilfered our resources.Israel's UN ambassador delivered a major clapback. He didn't say FUCK YOU like Duterte. He just said, like the diplomat that he is, "The real madness belongs to the UN... It needs to stop obsessing about Israel."Ban Ki Moon also apologized for the UN's many shortcomings, including UN peacekeepers' exploitation of women and children in Central Africa, and the abandoning of responsibility in Haiti.. Remove his fuck yous and that guy is just telling the damn truth. Hypocrisy and sustaining self-interests, and the interference of world powers, have hindered the UN from fulfilling its original mandate. Ban Ki Moon is a good guy and recognizes these, at least.------------------------Krizette Laureta Chu as posted on Facebook | [] | 07/10/2017 0:00 | https://grpshorts.blogspot.com/2016/09/ban-ki-moon-on-true-evil-in-world.html | GRPundit |
Islamic terrorists under the guise of '#Bangsamoro' want ALL of #Mindanao | In 1976, there was a treaty (the Tripoli Agreement) negotiated in Libya with MNLF under Nur Misuari; now, there is another proposed treaty, this time around with MILF, scheduled to be signed this year 2015.But PEACE may not be guaranteed to ensue immediately, for there's still another group in the offing — BIFF. I'm sure there's going to be another treaty to be inked with this third group soon.And so, expect more treaties with the fourth, the fifth and perhaps hundreds of other alphabet soup acronyms or abbreviations of Muslim groups that will once again emerge from time to time, claiming to own a territory until the whole island of Mindanao will be ceded — if only to give PEACE a chance to flourish there.So, I think the ultimate (but still hidden) target is, after all, the whole island of Mindanao.Regarding this matter, I refer you to the Official Statement of the MILF by Al Haj Murad Ebrahim on the massacre last 25th January 2015 as follows:http://www.interaksyon.com/assets/documents/official%20statement.pdfTake careful note that the topmost right side portion of the MILF letterhead above is the Star and Crescent Islamic symbol.What is strange and disconcerting is that, inside the space within the Islamic symbol, there is a MAP of the whole island of Mindanao along with the island provinces of Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi.But, take careful note that, "The Envisioned Territory of the Bangsamoro" — as defined in the 2012 Framework Agreement between the Philippine government and the MILF signed on October 07, 2014 — includes only a SMALL portion of Mindanao as indicated in the official map:http://moneypolitics.pcij.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Bangsamoro-map.pngSo, if the Bangsamoro territory is envisioned to constitute only a SMALL portion of Mindanao, why is the ENTIRE island included in the MILF Islamic Logo design?And even granting that MILF merely wanted to include the whole island of Mindanao solely for reference purposes, the spot where the actual "envisioned territory of the Bangsamoro" in Mindanao is located should have been indicated with, perhaps, a different color so as not to provoke confusion and trigger doubts that the entire island is the pursued goal.Even then, is there a possibility that the MILF (and other similar groups) may later on grab ALL the other regions in Mindanao to become "part of" its so-called Bangsamoro "contiguous territory" later?Legally, MILF can grab all the others. Under Sec. 3, ART. III (TERRITORY) of the Bantsamoro Basic Law, the Bangsamoro "may opt at anytime" to expand and thereby increase the extent of its territory by adding "contiguous territory," in this manner:"Section 3. Contiguous Territory – The areas which are contiguous and outside the core territory may opt at anytime to be part of the territory upon petition of at) least ten percent (10%) of the registered voters and approved by a majority of qualified votes cast in a plebiscite."http://www.manilatimes.net/enginex/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/DRAFT-Bangsamoro-Basic-Law-opt.pdfAnd this territorial expansion can even be accomplished slowly — piecemeal, barangay by barangay. In fact, as it is now, the "core territory" now includes "the 39 barangays in the 6 municipalities of North Cotabato that also voted for inclusion in the 2001 plebiscite" as shown in the Bangsamoro map earlier cited here.In light of all these glaring deceptions, will the duped Filipinos be crooning Sinatra's "Fools Rush In" (1940) soon?------------------This is a GRP Featured Comment. Join the discussion!http://getrealphilippines.com/blog/2015/02/as-manila-debates-bangsamoro-there-are-bad-men-with-guns-on-the-loose-killing-cops-in-mindanao/comment-page-1/#comment-1096821 | [] | 2017-01-06 00:43:46+08:00 | https://grpshorts.blogspot.com/2015/02/islamic-terrorists-under-guise-of.html#comments | GRPundit |
WATCH: Artist Jhong Hilario personally helps an injured old man | “GOOD SAMARITAN”It’s Showtime host Jhong Hilario personally helped an old man who got hit by a fast motorcycle on January 3.The Netizens praised Hilario for sacrificing his time to help other people.The old man was given first aid and already recovering right now.Facebook user Richard Brocoy Gapasin uploaded the video of Hilario and the actor don’t know that someone recorded what he did during that day.PART 1:PART 2: | ['View All Posts Pinoytrending'] | 2017-01-06 00:43:46+08:00 | https://pinoytrending.altervista.org/watch-artist-jhong-hilario-personally-helps-injured-old-man/ | Pinoytrending Altervista |
Senate Witness Says Richard King Was Gunned Down At McDonald’s, Jollibee Cries ‘Foul’ | Confessed “Davao Death Squad” member Edgar Matobato testified at the Philippine Senate Thursday that Davao City Vice Mayor Paolo Duterte ordered to have Cebuano businessman Richard King killed in 2014. He said that King was gunned down inside a fastfood chain, McDonald’s.Matobato’s testimony was part of the Senate’s hearing on extra-judicial killings, called by Senator Leila De Lima.Today, Jollibee, McDonald’s main competition in the Philippines, accused Matobato of lying in his testimony, claiming that McDonald’s may have paid him as a way to promote the American fastfood chain.“McDonald’s is freaking out because its popularity has been eclipsed by Jollibee,” a spokesperson for the Filipino-owned fast food chain said. “What could be a better way to get free publicity and advertising than to have a Senate witness mention McDonald’s in his televised testimony?” | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 16/09/2016 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2016/09/16/senate-witness-says-richard-king-was-gunned-down-at-mcdonalds-jollibee-cries-foul/#respond | Adobo Chronicles |
A Permanent Lock Down For U.P. Diliman | In the U.S., a lock down is implemented when a mass shooter is on campus. It is a standard procedure aimed at ensuring the safety of students, teachers and staff.Yesterday, there was a lock down at the University of the Philippines, Diliman campus. As students walked out of their classes, the doors and gates of the university were put on a lock down.Today, The Adobo Chronicles learned that the lock down is permanent. U.P. Diliman will be closed permanently.It was welcome news for millions of Filipino taxpayers who have always complained that the taxes imposed on their hard-earned income are not being put to good use.Imagine the savings on the government’s coffers! | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 23/02/2018 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2018/02/23/a-permanent-lock-down-for-u-p-diliman/?share=email | Adobo Chronicles |
Potential Suspects: Who bombed Davao City? | Potential SuspectsDuterte Administration The Liberal Party Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) Drug Cartels The United States China1st Suspect: Duterte Administration2nd Suspect: The Liberal Party3rd Suspect: Abu Sayyaf Group4th Suspect: Drug Cartels5th Suspect: United States GovernmentMichael Terrence MeiringMeiring, a US citizen, was sharing a hotel room in Davao City with his ammonium nitrate bomb, which exploded on May 16, 2002. Meiring was severely injured; nevertheless, US government agents appeared at the hospital and spirited him away, first to Manila and then to the United States [AsiaTimes].The Davao City Prosecution Office alleged that Meiring was a terrorist bomber [MindaNews], but the courts weren’t able to proceed with the case because Meiring has already been whisked out of the country by the US government itself before he can be arraigned."It was early in the morning when (then-US Amb.) Ricciardone flew here and met with me in a hotel here. He assured me then that they will conduct an investigation regarding the Meiring incident. Yet since then, the US government failed to fully explain to me how come they violated our sovereign right to prosecute Meiring who committed a crime here in our city," Duterte said in 2011 [Tesiorna].6th Suspect: Chinese GovernmentThinkingPinoy’s TakeawaysDONT FORGET TO SHARE!RELATED POSTS:The Roxas Night Market is an extremely popular hangout place for Davaoeños. Located at the heart of downtown Davao, locals flock the place to find cheap and delicious eats, oftentimes in the company of family and friends. Its setup is similar to the Banchetto in Mandaluyong’s Ortigas Center and the Midnight Mercato in Taguig’s Bonifacio Global City.September 2nd, a Friday, was another fun-filled day for Roxas Night Market regulars. That is, until around 10:00 PM when a bomb exploded, killing at least 14 people and injuring at least 60 others [ ABS ]. The entire nation was in shock. How can something like this happen in no less than the President’s home town?Davao City is close to my heart, and I have been grieving for two days. While I was born and raised in Luzon, it was my three years in Davao City that taught me how to be human. While I was born Tagalog, my heart is totally Bisaya.But now that the smoke has slightly cleared, it is time to analyze the fateful incident and see what can be done about it. At this point, I will set aside everything I feel about the incident and examine the situation using nothing but logic and history. Specifically, I will list down all the potential suspects, and examine, based on past news articles, the probability of each entity on the list being the actual culprit. Note that this is just a tentative list, but any investigation needs a starting point, and this is it.This bears repeating: I will set aside all my emotions for now and I will evaluate the list as objectively as I can. Now, let’s tentatively list down the possible suspects.This is a pretty diverse list, right?Let's start.This is the Yellow Fan Favorite.Some members of the opposition would expectedly try to pin this incident on Duterte, as it can be compared to the August 1971 Plaza Miranda Bombing that killed nine and injured 95, mostly oppositionist Liberal Party supporters [ LP ]. The Liberal Party blamed then-President Ferdinand Marcos for the incident, alleging that the latter used it to justify the imposition of Martial Law [ MT ].Incidentally, it’s also the Liberal Party who’s in the opposition today. And this is what they would like us to believe this angle, especially since they are fond of painting Duterte as a megalomaniacal dictator-wannabe.But there’s a problem.Duterte has been offered the DILG post by former presidents Ramos, Estrada, Aquino, and Arroyo, and he declined all of them [ AC Inq ], despite his full knowledge that the DILG post is the perfect springboard for running for higher office.Duterte was also offered to be the 2016 vice-presidential running mate of Roxas [ GMA ] and Binay [ GMA ], but he declined. He was continuously pushed to run for president, but he declined every time, even going as far as saying only an alien abduction of Roxas, Binay, and Poe, will force to make him run [ Inq ], and it was only a last-minute large-scale, grassroots call for him to run [ GMA ] that finally changed his mind.No, these are not the deeds of someone who’s hungry for power.The man spent thirty years transforming an economic backwater into a booming cosmopolitan city. With Duterte’s leadership, what was once a killing field in the late ‘80s turned into a safe and secure city with a vibrant economy [ Edge ].At 71, it’s unlikely that he can leave a legacy more prominent than that, so why would he mess it up?Why would he bomb a city where his children and grandchildren live? Why would he turn it into a hell-hole? It does not make sense.If he really wanted to bomb a city for his alleged political motives, he would’ve bombed NCR cities instead. If I were Duterte and I wanted to a sequel to the Plaza Miranda Bombing, I would’ve bombed the Araneta Center, where the Liberal Party Headquarters is. But it isn’t the case.So no, Duterte probably didn’t do it.Many Duterte Die-hard Supporters say the Liberal Party did it. After all, the bombing fits perfectly into their plan. Despite the lack of evidence [ TP: Gascon ], the Liberal Party has managed to convince the international community that Duterte is a megalomaniac. With the bombing, and assuming that Duterte will declare Martial Law as a result, then LP would have succeeded in making him look not only megalomaniacal, but also dictatorial.From the LP's point of view, this also happens to be the perfect diversion. The public has been feasting on LP Senator Leila de Lima and her alleged drug links, so the LP could have possibly copied former Senator Juan Ponce Enrile’s alleged Zamboanga Siege Tactic [ Inq ].There is one major issue with this theory, however.There is no evidence so far that suggests LP’s complicity in the Davao City bombing incident. I am not Leila de Lima, so I do not like accusing without sufficient evidence. Yes, the motives are there, but motives alone are not enough to prove criminal liability.LP as a potential suspect? Yes.LP as the most probable suspect? No, not yet.Prior to the incident, Duterte said the government has received threats from the IS-linked terrorist Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) [ TP: Video ]. The Philippine National Police (PNP) also blamed ASG for the bombing incident [ AlJazeera ].Yesterday, ABS-CBN reported that ASG owned up to the Davao blast [ ABS ]. The problem, however, is the fact that ABS-CBN failed to include a direct quote from ASG’s spokesman categorically saying that ASG did it. Not surprisingly, CNN reported this morning that ASG’s spokesman categorically denied ASG alleged involvement in the bombing incident [ CNN ].I hate to admit it, but ASG’s denial makes some sense. Let me explain why., shrapnel found in the blast site are similar to ones found after the 2003 Sasa Wharf and Davao Airport Bombings [ Sun.Star ]. While this may qualify as circumstantial evidence, improvised explosive devices (IEDs) are relatively low-tech bombs so the technology used in them is hardly proprietary. That is, even if the ASG can create such an IED, other groups can create similarly-designed IEDs too., ThinkingPinoy received a PNP internal memo dated 26 August 2016 that warns local police stations of a possible ASG bomb plot in Davao or Metro Manila. The memo is shown below:The memo mentions suicide bombers. However, Davao was bombed using a standalone IED. That is, the PNP may be talking about a bomb threat that’s totally separate from whatever happened last Friday.and most importantly, Abu Sayyaf has never denied involvement with terrorist activities before.Terrorists feed on terrifying the populace, so it’s just logical for them to own up to any successfully perpetrated terrorists attack. After all, that’s just like getting extra street cred for free. I searched for any page published before 01 September 2016 that contains “Abu Sayyaf denies” [ Google ], and not a single article showed such an ASG denial in the past.What’s the point? If ASG denied involvement, then it may actually be, at least partially, true.The Duterte government has already been waging war on ASG for several weeks now, with Duterte reportedly planning to ramp up troops two days before the bombing incident [ WSJ ].If I were the ASG, I would prefer a long protracted guerrilla war where troops trickle in, instead of an all-out government offensive that may overwhelm my terrorist forces. If I were ASG, I can more manageably resist government forces that way.What would bombing Davao City do? That may just coax Duterte on going full-force against ASG, and that’s the last thing ASG wants, and that’s exactly what happened when Duterte announced Saturday – a few hours after the Davao bombing – that he will send 7,000 troops to eradicate ASG.While I cannot totally discount ASG’s involvement, the latter’s spokesterrorist actually makes at least a little sense when he denied the group’s involvement.Regardless of whether you’re for or against Duterte’s war on drugs, the fact remains that it has yielded very tangible results, one of which is decreasing profit margins for drug syndicates [ TP: PH Drug Industry ].Some may argue that bombings is not the style of drug cartels but the US military says otherwise [ US Mil ].Now, Duterte is pretty difficult to assassinate, having survived terrorist-infested Mindanao for over 70 years. Thus, drug cartels can, at least for now, attempt to destabilize his government by bombing no less than his home town.This is a very interesting angle given that three inmates bolted a North Cotabato prison just two weeks ago. These inmates were facing charges of illegal possession of explosives and illegal drugs [ Inq ].Three drug dealers who happen to know something about explosives magically escaped prison. Two weeks later, an IED blast rocks Davao city, home of the president who’s in the middle of the war against drugs.Go figure.The United States has been very critical of the Duterte Administration’s war on drugs, going as far as insinuating that Duterte has a hand in the vigilante killings that has plagued the latter’s government for the past couple of months.Just last week, its pro-war Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power tweeted, “Alarming reports of ongoing extrajudicial killings in #Philippines; government must respect human rights and rule of law [ Power ]”.Duterte is the first president since God-knows-when who took a neutral stance on the US-China rift. Since the South China Sea ruling, we have seen how Duterte chronically refused to definitively side with either. This is a welcome development for China in light of the severely antagonistic Aquino Administration.But this is alarming for the US, as it has always been used to having Philippine presidents who are willing to kiss its ass on command. Vice-president Leni Robredo along with her political party is very much pro-US, and it would be theoretically more convenient for the Americans to have Robredo as president instead.So why not do something to catalyze Duterte’s political demise?The communist New People’s Army also blames the US for the Davao Bombings [ Inq ], but I do not want to give much credence to them, because the communists love to blame the US for everything. Besides, many Filipinos would scream, “But the US is not a terrorist!”However, an incident from the relatively recent past suggests otherwise.Basically, in 2002, the US government coddled a terrorist who actually attempted to terrorize Davao City. So yes, the idea of US involvement in the 2016 Davao City Bombing is not far-fetched.Another angle would be planted evidence, an angle that the opposition oh-so-gloriously loves to ignore when it’s convenient for them. This theory is pretty simple: the Chinese Government bombs Davao City and make it appear as if the United States did it, thereby tilting Duterte’s stance on the China-US spat.The problem with this theory, however, is that it's unlikely., because China is not widely-known for state-sponsored terrorism. Aside from a CATO Institute article insinuating otherwise, there’s little documented evidence that China actually does that., because if it backfires, then China is toast. That is, the risks outweigh the benefits. If China indeed bombed Davao City and local investigators confirm this, then it’s over for PH-China relations for the foreseeable future, and it may even be used as a justification for a more decisive Western military presence in the South China Sea.That’s something that China doesn’t want, especially since they see Duterte as a bright spot for often-strained PH-China ties. I cannot imagine how China can be desperate enough to do it, so they probably didn’t.These six potential suspects listed in this article are just theories and this article does not, in any way, definitively blame any of these six. Instead, I wrote this article to help you understand that the situation is not as simple as “De Lima did it!”. In as much as I want that woman to burn in hell, hasty generalizations are not my cup of tea.So, who do you think did it?[ ThinkingPinoy Did you like this post? Help ThinkingPinoy stay up! 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Disney Sues Nike Over ‘Cinderella’ Shoes | Nike is in big trouble. The Walt Disney Company is suing the shoe and apparel giant over one of the latter’s shoe designs which it has labeled as the ‘Cinderella Shoe.’Disney claims that it owns the rights and patent of the word ‘Cinderella’ by virtue of its film versions of the fairy tale classic of the same title.When contacted by The Adobo Chronicles, Walt Disney could not produce evidence of its copyright or patent of the word ‘Cinderella.’While there many versions of the Cinderella story, the first known published version was that of Charles Perrault in 1697.Fortunately, or unfortunately, there is no known estate of Perrault that could claim copyright violations of ‘Cinderella,’ so Disney may be the only outfit that can do so.The lawsuit is being dubbed the “Clash of Two Giants.” It sounds like a great title for another Disney classic. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 15/08/2016 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2016/08/15/disney-sues-nike-over-cinderella-shoes/ | Adobo Chronicles |
Rapper Gloc 9 performed for Binay, drew flak from netizens | Filipino rapper Gloc-9 who's famous for his anti corrupt songs is now under fire from netizens after his performance at Jejomar Binay's campaign event. He performed a couple of songs on a stage in front of hundreds of Binay supporters.The said performance was photographed and recorded and shared on social media which quickly spread and drew political comments and opinions mostly from supporters of the other presidential candidates. Some people stated their dismay and even vowed to delete their pirated copies of Gloc-9 songs from their phones while some defended the rapper saying that he was just doing his job.After his FB page has been swarmed by bashful comments, the artist posted this quote:Here'scampaign event. | ['Vic Patnugot'] | 2017-02-04 01:10:33+00:00 | http://pinoynewsblogger.blogspot.com/2016/03/rapper-gloc-9-performed-for-binay-drew.html | Pinoy News Blogger |
WATCH: Duterte talks with Trump over the phone | Christopher Bong Go, a longtime aide revealed that President Rodrigo Duterte made a congratulatory phone call to US President-elect Donald Trump.Go said that Trump invited the Duterte to visit the white house next year. Go described the conversation as ‘engaging’ and ‘animated’.WATCH THE VIDEO BELOWIn the video, Pres Rody is seen smiling and delighted. Watch the video below:What can you say about this? Leave your comments below! | [] | 2016-12-03 12:23:09+08:00 | http://duterte.today/watch-duterte-talks-trump-phone/ | Duterte Daily Stories |
Compromise Reached: Controversial Torre De Manila Construction Resumes | No conflict is without a resolution.On Monday, the Philippines’ Supreme Court, with a vote of 8-5, issued a restraining order against the construction of the 46-storey Torre de Manila. A temporary restraining order immediately went into effect enjoining respondent DMCI Project Developers Inc. from continuing with the construction and development of the condominium project.Petitioner Knights of Rizal said the building mars the view of the Rizal Monument in Luneta Park and would completely dominate the vista, substantially diminishing in scale and importance the most cherished monument of the country’s national hero.On Tuesday, the high court ruled the construction can resume after the developer submitted a new plan that was immediately accepted by the petitioner.The new plan calls for the draping of the front facade of the condominium building with a giant Philippine flag. The flag, which would be the size of 40 floors of the building, will drape the building for 24 hours, 365 days a year. The developer will also ensure that the giant flag will immediately be replaced with a new one if torn or damaged by Manila’s weather conditions.“We actually love the idea,” the Knights of Rizal said, “because the giant flag provides a very appropriate backdrop for the monument. After all, Rizal is our national hero and he deserves to be honored as such.”Conflict resolved! | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 16/06/2018 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2015/06/16/compromise-reached-controversial-torre-de-manila-construction-resumes/#comments | Adobo Chronicles |
JUSTIN BIEBER ARRESTED YET AGAIN, THIS TIME FOR INDECENT EXPOSURE (PARENTAL GUIDANCE) | ranging from peeing into a restaurant mop bucket in New York to failure to pay a $1,600 bill he owed an indoor skydiving facility.In a statement issued to the press, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) said that the singer exposed himself without the required band aid cover for his nipples and for having exceeded the limit for the amount of body tattoos one can display in public.A spokesperson for the NYPD said that Bieber is extremely lucky that his latest arrest happened in New York instead of in another state where there is a “Three Strikes and You’re Out” law. “Otherwise, he would have been locked in jail for life,” the spokesperson said.Texas, Washington, California, Arkansas, Arizona and Massachusetts have all adopted the “Three Strikes” law. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 10/09/2017 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2014/09/10/justin-bieber-arrested-yet-again-this-time-for-indecent-exposure-parental-guidance/ | Adobo Chronicles |
Leni Robredo’s Advice To the Bar Flunkers | Vice President Leni Robredo has a message to the 75% or so Bar examinees who flunked this year.Robredo failed the bar exams on her first try in 1992.”Don’t lose hope. Learn to rise from failures,” she told the flunkers, echoing what she said when she spoke at the commencement rites of Sacred Heart College in Lucena City last March.“Flunkers can be Vice Presidents, or even Presidents,” she said during an interview with The Adobo Chronicles.“The 25% passing rate this year is but a reflection of reality,” she said, obviously referring the to 25% shading of ballots which she is contesting in the ongoing recount of the VP elections of 2016. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 28/04/2018 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2018/04/28/leni-robredos-advice-to-the-bar-flunkers/#respond | Adobo Chronicles |
Caught On Tape: Conversation Between President Duterte And VP Robredo During The PNPA Commencement Ceremonies | President Rodrigo Duterte was the guest of honor and speaker at the 38th commencement exercises for the 2017 Masidlak class of the Philippine National Police Academy (PNPA) at Camp Gen. Mariano Castaneda, Silang, Cavite, today.Vice President Leni Robredo, who has spent the last couple of weeks criticizing Duterte before local and international groups and the media, was also invited to the event.The planned seating arrangement on stage was for another VIP guest to sit between Duterte and Robredo. But as Robredo was about to take her assigned seat, Duterte himself moved the VP to sit right next to him. Of course, Duterte can do anything he wants. He is also the Commander-in-Chief of the Philippine National Police.The Adobo Chronicles planted a secret microphone underneath the President’s chair, and so we caught part of the conversation that happened between Duterte and Robredo.Here’s a transcript:Duterte: Good morning Madam. Dito rin pala kayo.Robredo: Siyempre naman, Sir. After all, ako ang VP.Duterte: That’s true. Wala pa kasing decision ang Supreme Court sa election protest ni Bongbong Marcos.Robredo: Sana naman, manalo ako sa kaso.Duterte: Eh kumusta naman yung kasong gusto mong isampa laban sa akin sa United Nations.Robredo: Naku Sir, hindi naman po ako ang may pakana niyan.Duterte: Kung hindi ikaw, eh sino?Robredo: Mahirap na hong magsalita. Kasi I might incriminate myself.Duterte: Kahit clue man lang?Robredo: Sa atin atin na lang ito Sir, ha? Clue: mga miyembro ng partidong kalaban niyo noong nakaraang eleksiyon.Duterte: Eh di kasama ka doon?Robredo: Sir, promise to God, ginagamit lang ako nila.Duterte: Eh saan kayo kumukuha ng pera para pondohan ang kampanya niyo laban sa akin?Robredo: Kayo naman Sir, parang hindi niyo alam. Siyempre si Loida Nicolas-Lewis.Duterte: Uy, sorry nawala sa isip ko. Kulang kasi ako sa tulog eh. Kumusta naman ang laylayan?Robredo: Hindi ko po alam ang latest, Sir. Kasi busy ako sa kamo-model sa front page ng mga fashion magazines. Alam niyo na, para may trabaho naman ako pag na-impeach ako.Duterte: Siyanga pala, bakit ba puro ka na lang batikos sa akin sa media at social media? Halos araw araw, mayroong kang sinasabi laban sa akin!Robredo: Sir, sa totoo lang. Wala akong kinalaman diyan. Paki tanong niyo na lang kay Georgina Hernandez.Duterte: Between you and me, totoo ba yung tsismis tungkol sa iyo at yung Congressman na bigotilyo?(Conversation interrupted by announcement from the Master of Ceremonies) | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 24/03/2017 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2017/03/24/caught-on-tape-conversation-between-president-duterte-and-vp-robredo-during-the-pnpa-commencement-ceremonies/?share=email | Adobo Chronicles |
First step towards erasing the #Muslim stigma in the #Philippines: See them as equals! | I'm a Filipino, baptized Catholic, turned atheist.I was really touched with the #illridewithyou gesture that came out after the hostage crisis in Sydney. A friend of mine who'd migrated to Sydney said that it was pretty much unbelievable when he saw it for himself.A good deal of the population of the Philippines (non-Muslims) do think that all Muslims = terrorists. Only those who'd actually known, and have Muslims around them, say as co-workers, friends and neighbors may have a better opinion of them.What made me say that, a lot may ask.We think badly of Muslims, we crack jokes at them, our best mental image of Muslims is synonymous with DVD, and recently, Bluray. We think they all have a harem at home, we cradle the thought that they are all traitors, subhuman etc.Our Muslim countrymen had long been denied services befitting a good government (heck, we're also in that bucket mostly) which makes it really easy for a bunch of disgruntled dudes with guns to scrounge up a flag, and start shooting at everything in sight, in the name of discontent and Allah.If we, as a people, are to do something, let's start by looking at our Muslim countrymen in the south as equals, treat them well and respect, then maybe the common Muslim man and woman, will step in to do something about these secessionists, enabling the country to march on as one, and finally eradicate this problem.------------------This is a GRP Featured Comment. Join the discussion!http://getrealphilippines.com/blog/2015/01/to-all-muslims-who-may-want-to-read-this/comment-page-1/#comment-1079413 | [] | 01/01/2018 0:00 | https://grpshorts.blogspot.com/2015/01/first-step-towards-erasing-muslim.html | GRPundit |
#NinaPH: When Leni left us “like a thief in the night” | The First Red FlagLeni’s ContradictionsLeni used the backdoor entrance to avoid the attention usually accorded to politicians and celebrities attending the annual State of the Nation address. I can only surmise that Leni didn’t like the attention, the pomp, and the pageantry, and that she attended the SONA with a sincere objective of being the representative of the People and nothing more.Hates the attention, then craved for the attention?Robredo’s own office bragged about her humility.Wow! that’s so humble of her.Photo Courtesy of Leni Robredo's Chief of Staff (she literally took the photo)See no Evil in Roxas' Campaign PlanesLeni’s SOCELeni’s Knee“Tasteless remarks and inappropriate advances against women should have no place in our society. We should expect that most of all from our leaders,” Robredo told [ CNN ] a day after the November incident.Robredo (L) with QC Rep. BanalEJKs and HUDCC“You can ask even one [of the government forces] if I ordered them to kill a person whose body was in a kneeling position and hands were tied at the back. Ask one of them. If someone says Duterte [ordered that], I will resign. I will resign tomorrow [ SunStar ].”What’s NATO?It’s a colloquial acronym for “No Action, Talk Only”.Nina and the "Mother of the Nation"“Devastating damage will occur: Well-built framed homes may incur major damage or removal of roof decking and gable ends. Many trees will be snapped or uprooted, blocking numerous roads. Electricity and water will be unavailable for several days to weeks after the storm passes [ NHC ].”Bon Voyage!Like a thief in the night“Most of our local officials… look at disaster risk management as mere(ly) being ready with relief goods when a disaster strikes. I painstakingly told them that this is so much more than this… The thing we’re doing now is more of a symbol than anything else. It is giving a message to the people that the government is there for them. I’ve been in the local scene for so long, my husband was mayor for so long, it is very important for local folks to see their government officials during and right after a disaster .”DONT FORGET TO SHARE!RELATED POSTS:My friends and I have talked about Leni Robredo since the time she rose to national fame after the death in 2012 of her husband, the late Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo. For the next couple of years, she established a reputation for having a modest lifestyle. Do you still remember the time when she ditched the SONA Red Carpet and used the Batasan Pambansa backdoor entrance instead?Yes, she's the simple and meek widow that is Leni Robredo. For years, I had a positive opinion of her. That is, until I started my blog ThinkingPinoy, until I started looking harder into what have transpired in the past several years.I started having suspicions about Leni’s qualifications as a government official when I first heard the rumor that she flunked her bar exams, a rumor that was later verified when Leni admitted it herself [ Inq ].While failing the bar is not the end of the world, I was never able to wrap my head around the idea that someone who aspires to be the second most powerful person in the Philippines is not the sharpest tool in the shed.When I chat with friends, I often explain my position on that matter by using an analogy.I ask them, “If you need to undergo a major surgery, would you be okay with having a surgeon who flunked the medical board?”They answer back, “Of course, not!”Then I ask, “If we need new and better legislation, would you be okay with having a legislator who flunked the bar exams?”They answer back, “Of course, not!”Then I ask, "And what if that legislator wanted to be vice-president?"Then an eerie silence.Yup, there’s something wrong somewhere in this equation.Yes, I started to have my doubts about the Leni Robredo as painted by the media, so I revisited the SONA Red Carpet Incident that basically transformed a simple widow into a national symbol of humility.The story goes something like this:She purportedly didn’t like the attention, but she publicized a photo of the incident herself [ FB ].Oh, and do you remember the viral 2014 Leni-taking-a-bus PR stunt?The Inquirer described the photo (shown below) as “taken by the lawmaker’s friend Keisha del Castillo last December 4, showed a woman waiting alone at a gas station in Magallanes, Makati City, donned in a striped shirt and denim pants and carrying two bags [ Inq ].”As it turns out, this Keisha del Castillo is not only Robredo’s friend, but also her long-time staffer. Based on her [ LinkedIn ] account, del Castillo was Leni’s “Head Executive Assistant” at the time the photo was taken.She then became Robredo’s Chief of Staff and eventually, the head of Private and Ceremonial Affairs Office under the Office of the Vice-president.In short, Robredo’s own office bragged again about her humility, even going as far as creating a video about it two years later, for use as 2016 campaign material.And do you still remember the Liberal Party’s campaign planes?For someone who allegedly espouses good governance, I cannot, for the life of me, understand how she could stomach riding Roxas’s campaign planes when they were owned and funded by illegal miner Eric Guttierez, the same illegal miner who cheated on his taxes, destroyed an entire town, and terrorized its townsfolk [ TP: Campaign Planes ].But I am a political realist, so I have resigned myself to the idea that every politician lies and cheats… and the only thing that varies is the degree in which they do it. Thus, until election election day, Robredo was my Number 2 pick. That is, if my primary bet Alan Peter Cayetano loses, I sincerely wished that she win instead.And she won, and she got worse.Leni managed to raise my eyebrows when I found out that she spent P418 million during the 2016 campaign, or about 30% more than the second-biggest VP spender Chiz Escudero [ CNN ].And where did she get the money? She said she got it from “creative” volunteers, including a Lugawan [ ABS ].That’s one hell of lugaw vendor if you ask me.From that ABS-CBN report, it appears that she has a very good idea as to where her campaign money came from, yet she still failed to file her Statements of Campaign Expenditures on time. To make matters worse, she even cited an obsolete Comelec resolution to justify the tardiness [ TP: SOCE ].Yes, here’s a lawyer who doesn’t know the laws that apply to her.But it still gets worse.Then came the Le-Knee incident, where she blasted the President for commenting about her knees.Yes, the humble and meek widow has metamorphosed into Our Lady of Naga.But what I still fail to understand is how Leni could find a joke about knees anti-woman, when she finds physical contact with a married man acceptable?The man closest to her at the moment, Quezon City Representative Bolet Banal, is married.This also begs the question, “Why still capitalize on the legacy of your dead husband when you seem to have a suitable replacement already?”There’s a word for it: Hypocrisy.But it gets worse.Just three weeks into the vice-presidency, Robredo started to decry extrajudicial killings allegedly committed by the Duterte Administration [ Star ]. She yakked about it month after month, and she still yaks about it up to this day [ CNN ]. Five months have passed since she first mentioned EJKs, yet she still fails to provide even an iota of evidence showing that these killings were state-sponsored.President Duterte, probably out of exasperation, even went as far telling her on 17 December 2016:It has been ten days since Duterte unleashed that dare, yet Leni has yet to respond.After her much-publicized resignation from the Duterte Cabinet, many of her critics (and there are lots of them) see Robredo as a NATO leader.Why so?Because a closer look at her purported achievements shows that it's mostly made up of meetings, conferences, paperwork, and little else. Even the implementing rules and regulations of a small section of a 1992 Republic Act took her five months to draft [ CNN ].Yes, it appears that Robredo suffers from the same illness Roxas had: Analysis Paralysis [ IBTimes ].But then, there still was a small part of me that wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt. After all, she’s been in office of just five months.Leni just had to have the right opportunity to show her capacity for action.And that opportunity came. And the opportunity’s name is Nina.On 22 December 2016, [ GMA ] reported that Typhoon Nina (International Name: Nock-ten) was about to hit the Philippines, and that it was expected to make landfall on the Bicol Region – Leni’s own bailiwick – on Christmas Day. According to the report, Nina was anticipated to become a Category 3 Hurricane.The United States National Hurricane Center describes a Category 3 Hurricane as:By 23 December 2016 (Manila), NASA’s Aqua Satellite showed Nina has intensified [ Phys ].In preparation, the Duterte Government has evacuated hundreds of thousands of Bicolanos to safer areas. The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) is on heightened alert, while Social Welfare Sec. Judy Taguiwalo has activated response clusters to ensure close coordination and quick mobilization of assistance for communities likely to be affected by the typhoon [ Star ].Yes, even on Christmas Day, the Duterte Government is at work: no vacations, no days off, no R and R... while Leni did the exact opposite.Despite all that’s happening, Robredo still decided to leave the country for a US vacation. Take a look at the following image taken at NAIA at 4:40 PM Friday, 23 December 2016.This is the problem when a politician conducts too many press conferences: people notice bouts of deafening silence.No, the US-bound flight was not part of an official trip, as Robredo’s official trips are very well-publicized ahead of time. This is a personal trip that Robredo herself knows is ill-timed.This woman, my friends, is part of the group that calls for Duterte's resignation, the same group who's plotting his ouster [ TP: Plan 0117 ]. The same woman who will become President should that call be heeded.The same woman who loves to contradict herself.Let’s recall a 20 October 2015 interview where she herself said:Now, Robredo herself said “it is very important for local folks to see their government officials during and right after a disaster”.Straight from the horse’s mouth, and where was she while Nina was pummeling her hometown in Bicol?Vacationing in the United States.Leni left the Philippines last Friday knowing full well that she’s badly needed by Bicolandia. She left despite her full knowledge that she must stay.In short, she left the Philippines for the United States… “like a thief in the night.” [ ThinkingPinoy Did you like this post? Help ThinkingPinoy stay up! Even as little as 50 pesos will be a great help! | [] | 01/01/2018 0:00 | http://www.thinkingpinoy.net/2016/12/ninaph-when-leni-robredo-left-us-like-thief-in.html | Thinking Pinoy |
PRICE OF BALUT IN CALIFORNIA TO INCREASE 100% | in a manner that does not allow them to turn around freely, lie down, stand up, and fully extend their limbs.Duck raisers in California had to expand their farms and cages to comply with the new law, costing them an arm and a leg, and then some, to maintain their business.“We have no choice but increase our balut prices in order to recover our additional investments,” said one duck raiser and balut supplier.So balut lovers should be prepared to pay an average price of $6 per egg beginning in 2015. In Philippine pesos, that’s P260! | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 01/01/2018 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2015/01/01/price-of-balut-in-california-to-increase-100/#respond | Adobo Chronicles |
BROWNOUT HELPS FILIPINOS NAVIGATE FLOODED STREETS | Philippine President NoyNoy Aquino, who is in Europe enjoying fall weather, has praised the Manila Electric Company (MERALCO) for cutting off power in flooded Metro Manila.In the last two days, half a month’s worth of heavy rains inundated most streets in the Metropolis, stranding thousands and thousands of commuters who had no way of getting back to their homes.To enable commuters to navigate the floods and find alternative ways to get back to their homes, MERALCO announced a 48-hour brownout in all of Metro Manila. Soon after electricity was cut off, people started climbing up electric posts and used disabled electric wires to get from point A to point B to point C.Filipinos praised the electric company for being responsive to the needs of the flood victims.Meanwhile, The Adobo Chronicles learned that MERALCO will extend rebates to all power customers for the 48-hour brownout. So, who’s going to pay for the loss of power and its impact on homes and businesses? A MERALCO spokesperson said the company will bill the Aquino Administration, charged to the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) funds which had recently been declared unconstitutional by the country’s Supreme Court.We say yet again: It’s More Fun in the Philippines. Hell or high water! | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 19/09/2017 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2014/09/19/brownout-helps-filipinos-navigate-flooded-streets/ | Adobo Chronicles |
Comparative Politics: Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, Rodrigo Duterte and the rise of populist leaders | Yesterday, Mayor Rodrigo Duterte was officially proclaimed as the duly elected 16th President of the Philippines after defeating administration candidate ex-DILG Secretary Manuel “Mar” Araneta Roxas II. This, despite the administration’s clear and obvious attempt to cheat Duterte. Vice presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos was not lucky enough to get through the cheating by the administration. Fortunately, Duterte’s support was too strong and his lead was too huge to overcome.What happened? It was simply the post-Marcos administration’s failures that led the Filipino people to elect another seemingly authoritarian leader. The failures were exacerbated by the current government of Benigno Aquino III. His lack of leadership after the Luneta Hostage Crisis, the Al-Barka Massacre in 2011, and last year’s Mamasapano Massacre highlighted the impotence of his administration. Then, DILG Secretary Mar Roxas, who Aquino ignored in the Mamasapano administration blew his last chance to bolt the administration in an honorable statesman fashion. Roxas chose to stay, and eventually, it cost him the election.If you look at it, the three candidates critical of the Aquino administration –Rodrigo Duterte, Jejomar Binay, and Miriam Defensor Santiago- combined for majority of the votes cast for president. In other words, Aquino has no one but himself to blame for the Duterte victory and perhaps what is actually a Marcos victory. Duterte, a candidate running against the political and economic establishment, overwhelmingly defeated Roxas who was running for the establishment while being backed by 55 provincial governors and over 800 town and city mayors. Not to mention, Duterte won in Quezon City, which is the home turf of Roxas’ family.Such results show the wide dissatisfaction with the establishment. As mentioned earlier, had they not failed, Duterte would not stand a chance of winning. The victory of Duterte represents a radical change in the political system in the Philippines due to huge public anger. Coincidentally, the rise of new radical leaders is not only happening in the Philippines.In the United States, we have two. First, there is Democratic Party presidential candidate and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. Like Duterte, Sanders is an anti-establishment candidate. When he announced his presidential run last year, most analysts said that Sanders’ campaign was dead in the water. Hardly anyone could blame them, as Sanders trailed party favorite and establishment candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton by 60 points in the national polls. Then came the primary season. Sanders would pull a tie with Clinton in Iowa. Then, he scored a blowout victory in New Hampshire. To this day the Sanders campaign, although trailing, remains standing and is looking for an improbable comeback against Clinton.Another is Donald Trump of the Republican Party. The real estate magnate from New York is also running on an anti-establishment platform. Not to mention, his brash and politically incorrect tone is similar to Duterte’s. Trump is more fortunate than Sanders, however. Trump had recently clinched the Republican Party nomination and based on the trends of the latest national polls, is actually poised to defeat Hillary Clinton in November. The Donald ran over 16 other candidates for the Republican nomination which had a good mix of up and coming leaders like Sen. Ted Cruz and Sen. Marco Rubio and traditional neoconservatives like Gov. Jeb Bush and Sen. Lindsey Graham.If Bernie Sanders manages to get the Democratic nomination, then the United States is in for a radical change regardless of who wins between him and Trump. And it is not only in the US where this is happening. Notably, it is currently occurring in Europe amid the rise of radical Islam in the region. Austria a few days ago almost elected a far-right leader to their presidency. Norbert Hofer missed out by just 31,000 votes.Additionally, nationalist leaders are also in power in Poland and Hungary. Besides Hofer, there is France’s Marine Le Pen. In the United Kingdom, there is Boris Johnson. In Norway, you have Sylvi Listhaug, Kristian Thulesen Dahl in Denmark, and Geert Wilders of the Netherlands. These right-wing populist leaders along with Trump actually differ from Sanders in some respects because they ride on anti-Islamic sentiment. To their credit, however, tolerance has allowed massive Islamic immigration to Europe and assimilation has become difficult. Thus, many sectors of the Islamic population in Europe have called for the Islamization of the region.All these circumstances were products of the policies of the mainstream political establishment in Europe. Like in the Philippines, the political establishment in the West has shown its failure and that it only seeks to represent the elites. This is where Sanders, Duterte, Trump and Europe’s right-wing populists agree on. It does not necessarily mean that all these people have to win. What’s important is the trends. And the trend is that all over the world, the people are shouting. The world will never accept globalism and elite rule. | [] | 2016-05-31 06:49:40+00:00 | https://www.getrealphilippines.com/2016/05/comparative-politics-donald-trump-bernie-sanders-rodrigo-duterte-rise-populist-leaders/#comments | Get Real Philippines |
Bringing Down or Ousting People never Solved Anything | It’s clear that the so-called “opposition” is in favor of “bringing down” President Rodrigo Duterte more than anything else. They want him ousted, continuing that long cherished but flawed belief that ousting people will lead to improvement in the country’s situation. The problem is, ousting people is anything but a solution, and it reflects lack of understanding of the related issues and a knee-jerk reaction mentality.Replacing the person will not remove corruption. People thought that after bringing down a dictator, someone incorruptible would magically appear and set things rights. Sadly, the reality that so many other people are corrupt and that they are the ones that replaced the dictator. Put away Ali baba, and 40 thieves come to take his place. It’s so easy for a hanky-panky-filled politician to claim to be “uncorrupt” and take the place of whoever they bumped off.Look at Tunisia. Hosni Kaliya, one of the people who set himself on fire in protest (but survived), spurring the Arab Spring revolts and the ouster of Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, regretted his action. He says while they seem freer, life remains difficult. He probably hoped that life would be more comfortable (for others, at least) after a protest, but it was the same. As for the other guy who self-immolated and died, Mohamed Bouazizi, his family has been on the receiving end of harassment from people who blame their dead relative for making things worse. On relative even said life was better under the term of the now-ousted president. Ousting Ben Ali did not make life easier. Apply that to the local situation, many people now believe we are worse off after the EDSA Revolution.Sure, removal from a position is needed when the rules call for it. But that should be done because it’s the rule, not because you just want it. There are times when ousting is not possible; sometimes, you have to accept it. A better measure would be to keep holding people in that position accountable, making more demands and doing the check-and-balance work. That is what citizens should actually be doing. Then there are laws to enforce, some to change, business environments to make better for people, freeloading to rebuff, and more.Here’s a moot point, but worth mentioning here: you know what has been said about putting people in jail, such as a murderer. Justice has been served. A criminal has been put away to prevent him from committing any crime while incarcerated. But you can’t bring back the dead, and restitution and recovery make up a different thing. For example, for example, if a breadwinner was killed, those he left either scramble for “assistance” or will have to move on with life and support themselves. The latter is always the better option.Why Shaming of People FailsBut let’s say, you have a situation where ousting someone is out of the question. It’s not just about people in power; let’s say you have this annoying neighbor you hate, he may be homophobic, has strong opinions you hate, has a hobby you detest, etc. Unless he’s proven to be a threat to you, you can’t have him removed. It’s frustrating, and you hate it. So what do you resort to? Shaming the person.Trolling, insulting and badmouthing people online or offline has been the resort of some of the “opposition.” Jover Laurio has been cited often here as an example. But it hasn’t helped. It has only deepened conflict and actually brought more people against them. In fact, a lot of the shaming methods used are even based on falsehoods – the real “fake news.”Shaming people never solved anything long-term. Todd Leopold on CNN says some shaming campaigns reduced homophobia, but that seems only an illusion to me. He does admit online shaming has done more harm than good. As I mentioned before, one gay writer agrees that shaming homophobics is “no longer OK” – and it never was. Shaming campaigns may shut people up temporarily, but it can’t destroy one’s resolve to uphold what they believe.But let’s look at why shaming and hurting other people is so popular: because it sends dopamine to the brain. As Leopold wrote, “outrage and demonization can be more satisfying than compassion.” Perhaps it’s an attempt to get over the frustration that someone you dislike cannot be removed. Might as well try to make them feel miserable as a consolation. It may make one feel better, but that’s that. No other substantial results. And let me remind you, that “feeling better” can be ruined by the consequences, such as the one you are shaming getting back at you even better than you can. In this way, shaming is not a “brave attempt,” but an admission of failure.Perhaps activists resort to shaming because they are unable to support their advocacy thoroughly. Or they don’t really support their advocacy at all, and are just pretending. All they know is attack other people – probably because they don’t know any better thing to do in life.Calls for ousting and shaming are now futile and irrelevant. Instead of ousting and attacking people, people should just hold their representatives responsible. Mechanisms are in place for this, but it needs work. We need to participate in the process rather than just insult them on Facebook. And if ever we are to participate in discourse, political or otherwise, we should stop letting our basic instincts take over us and we should apply careful, sober thinking in it.And at times, who you want to oust is never meant to be ousted. In fact, instead of people, we must oust our bad habits and wrong beliefs. Many things that we cherish are among the practices that bring us down, and these are the real contributors to our societal maladies. Removal of these continues to be the thrust of this blog. This is also a more long-term solution, as ousting someone is only for the short-term. | ['Oratio Imperata'] | 2018-01-28 15:08:51+00:00 | https://www.getrealphilippines.com/2018/01/ousting-never-solved-anything/#comments | Get Real Philippines |
PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT AQUINO APPOINTS SISTER KRIS ACTING PRESIDENT | In the Philippines, the Vice President is but a titular figure, especially if his name is Jejomar Binay.As if Binay doesn’t already have enough headache facing multiple charges and investigations on unexplained wealth and alleged corruption while he was mayor of the City of Makati, he has just been totally snubbed by President NoyNoy Aquino.Aquino, who is currently out of the country attending a summit meeting of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Myanmar, appointed his sister, actress and TV host Kris, as acting president.In her first official act as acting president, Kris welcomed the charismatic President of Mexico Enrique Peña Nieto to the Philippines at the Villamor Airbase on Thursday night. Nieto was on his way to Australia but had to make a two-hour layover in Manila for his plane’s refueling.Kris posted on her Instagram account a photo of her short encounter with Nieto, whose movie star-like appeal made him a favorite politician in his home country. Along with Kris was her friend and TV co-host Boy Abunda.Kris said they had an “informative conversation” with Nieto.Kris wore a strapless, low-cut black cocktail dress, hoping to impress the 48-year-old good-looking Nieto. She was visibly disappointed when Nieto emerged from his plane with his wife, First Lady Angelica Rivera.The openly-gay Boy Abunda’s reaction upon seeing Nieto was the exact opposite to that of Aquino. Think about eye candy! | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 18/11/2017 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2014/11/18/philippine-president-aquino-appoints-sister-kris-acting-president/#comments | Adobo Chronicles |
Creating (not sharing) wealth is the solution to #poverty | It is generally accepted that socioeconomic problems and a host of social dysfunctions that persist in human society are "evils" which need to be addressed. In the Philippines and Latin America, we have some of the highest levels of economic inequality. Persistent poverty has in turn bred other kinds of social dysfunctions — organised crime, pervasive violence, narco-trafficking, and on a more individualised level, mental illness, imprisonment, teenage pregnancy, obesity, drug abuse, and poor education.But these "evils" persist not because society has failed to ensure equality of outcomes where the "haves" are made to share their wealth with the "have nots" to make everything simple and fair. Rather, we have poor people in the world because WE FAIL TO PROVIDE THE EQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY TO BECOME WEALTHY.Every economic success story since the 1950s — from South Korea and Singapore in East Asia to Europe, and more recently, in Latin America — has shown a significant correlation between economic growth, the reduction of poverty, the development of a democratic society and free markets. Free societies/markets have allowed for the transformation of even backward agricultural societies into major industrial powers within the comparatively short period of a generation. Democratic institutions help strengthen the legitimacy of those countries' political systems and allowed for the moblilisation of various social groups — students, trade unions, church groups, civil society, etc. Something unheard of in socialist (and socialist leaning) societies.On the other hand, the thinking that wealthy people need to "share" their wealth only created a "Robin Hood mentality" where the state undertakes policies to redistribute wealth through various channels — excessive taxation, welfare, subsidies, etc. This in turn has proven to be terribly destructive, resulting in a massive, unsustainable DEBT and a polarised, antagonistic society. In fact it was the desire to redistribute and share wealth that created the financial crisis of 2008-2009.History has shown us that if we want to eliminate society's "evils" and put an end to poverty, we need to CREATE MORE OPPORTUNITIES FOR WEALTH. We shouldn't be thinking up ways to take wealth away from one segment of society in order to give it away to another. That will only result in EVERYONE being EQUALLY POOR.Source:http://getrealphilippines.com/blog/2014/01/china-outsourced-air-pollution-now-reaching-us-mainland/comment-page-1/#comment-206083 | [] | 12/05/2017 0:00 | https://grpshorts.blogspot.com/2014/01/creating-not-sharing-wealth-is-solution.html | GRPundit |
MERYL STREEP TO PLAY LEILA DE LIMA IN NEW HOLLYWOOD FILM, ‘THE DE LIMA LIST’ | Hollywood Productions announced today that it has begun filming its latest blockbuster movie, ‘The De Lima List,’ based on the true story of Philippine Secretary of Justice Leila de Lima, considered the country’s ‘Iron Lady.’De Lima is known to be holding a signed affidavit from suspected pork barrel scandal mastermind Janet Lim-Napoles, containing a list of Philippine senators and other high-ranking politicians who have participated in the ten billion-peso scheme to divert taxpayer money to ghost projects and unsuspecting nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Allegedly, the funds eventually went into the pockets of the politicians. To this day, de Lima has refused to make the list public and many suspect that more than half of the sitting senators are on that list.The Hollywood film is directed by Steven Spielberg, the same Academy Award winning director responsible for the 1993 film ‘The Schindler’s List.’ Multi Oscar Award winner Meryl Streep, best known for her role as Margaret Thatcher in ‘Iron Lady,’ will play de Lima.Streep, Spielberg and the production crew arrived in Manila Sunday. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 12/05/2017 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2014/05/12/meryl-streep-to-play-leila-de-lima-in-new-hollywood-film-the-de-lima-list/?share=email | Adobo Chronicles |
Pasay prosecutor’s office finds probable cause to charge Trillanes for ‘inciting to sedition’ | The prosecutor’s office of Pasay City found a probable cause to charge Senator Antonio Trillanes IV of inciting to sedition.According to the office, the statement of the fiercest critic of President Rodrigo Duterte had been suggested to fall within the scope of inciting to sedition.“That the within attached information for inciting to sedition (Article 142, Revised Penal Code, as amended) against respondents Senator Antonio F. Trillanes IV, John and Jane does be approved and filed in court,” the prosecutor’s office recommended.However, the two other complaint filed by the plaintiffs was junked because ‘it is not sufficient to engender a well-founded belief that he directly proposes to others a swift attack accompanied by violence, intimidation, threat, strategy, or stealth against the government.JUST IN: Pasay prosecutor's office finds probable cause to charge Senator Antonio Trillanes IV for inciting to sedition. | via @raffsantos pic.twitter.com/br5CUrZygQ — ABS-CBN News Channel (@ANCALERTS) March 15, 2018The other complaint filed against Trillanes are proposal to commit coup d’ etat and violation of the anti graft and practices act which both junked by the Pasay prosecutors.According to the counsel for the complainants, Atty Manuelito Luna, the charges filed against Trillanes was not made to harass the Senator.“With his speeches and media interviews, he’s undermined the government of President Rodrigo Duterte, and he’s tried to destabilize the government.” Luna told the press.Meanwhile, Senator Antonio Trillanes said in a statement that the case filed against him wasan act of ‘harassment’ but he would bravely face the charges against him.He pointed out that he had a ‘constitutionally guaranteed immunity from suit.’The senator attacked President Duterte and called him a ‘coward’ for allegedly trying to escape the investigation of the International Criminal Court.“Kung ang pakay nito ay takutin ako para umatras ako sa pagpuna kay Duterte, well, sabi ko nga dati pa, lalo pa akong ginaganahan tumayo laban sa mali at masama.” Trillanes said.Trillanes attacked Duterte several times since the election period, accusing the President of being corrupt, murderer and even suspected one of the presidential son of being a member of a drug syndicate. | ['View All Posts Pinoytrending'] | 2018-03-15 14:49:14+08:00 | https://pinoytrending.altervista.org/pasay-prosecutors-office-finds-probable-cause-charge-trillanes-inciting-sedition/ | Pinoytrending Altervista |
PHILIPPINE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES MAR ROXAS AND RODRIGO DUTERTE FACE POSSIBLE IMPRISONMENT | MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles) –The word war between Philippine presidential candidates Mar Roxas and Rodrigo Duterte continues unabated. First, the Davao City mayor challenged the former Interior Secretary to a slapping match. Then Roxas challenged Duterte to a fistfight. Now, Duterte is challenging Roxas to a gun battle.It looks like a scene from a country western film, but in reality, the back and forth jabs may end up with both candidates behind bars.Challenging anyone to a duel is illegal in the Philippines.Article 261 of the Revised Penal Code of the Philippines makes it a crime for any person “to challenge another or incite another to give or accept a challenge to a duel, or scoff at or decry another publicly for having refused to accept a challenge to fight a duel.” The crime is punishable with imprisonment of four months and one day to two years and four months.So it looks like Roxas and Duterte will be campaigning from inside their jail cells, and if one of them wins in the May 2016 presidential elections, he will be spending the first two of his six-year term as president not in Malacañang Palace but inside the National Penitentiary.It’s more fun in the Philippines. We told you so! | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 16/12/2017 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2015/12/16/philippine-presidential-candidates-mar-roxas-and-rodrigo-duterte-face-possible-imprisonment/ | Adobo Chronicles |
President Aquino Devastated Over News That Pia Wurtzbach Is Dating The Sexiest Doctor Alive | Gossip tabloids and social media are going crazy over news that Miss Universe Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach from the Philippines is dating Mikhail Varshavski, the “Sexiest Doctor Alive.”Twenty-six-year-old Varshavski is a New Jersey-based doctor who was awarded People Magazine’s coveted title last fall.Wurtzbach has posted a photo of herself with Varshavski in what appeared to be a gym date.Upon hearing the news, Philippine President NoyNoy Aquino and his sister, actress and TV host Kris, were reportedly very upset and devastated.The president was rumored to have dated Wurtzbach before she became Miss Universe, and Kris had publicly stated that she would be happy to be Wurtzbach’s sister-in-law.Truth hurts, but it’s time for both Aquinos to move on. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 02/03/2016 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2016/03/02/president-aquino-devasted-over-news-that-pia-wurtzbach-is-dating-the-sexiest-doctor-alive/?share=email | Adobo Chronicles |
PHILIPPINE BEER COMPANY TO BUILD AND MANAGE NEW TOLL ROAD IN MANILA | Southeast Asia’s largest publicly listed food, beverage and packaging company, San Miguel Corporation, is slated in January to start construction work on a Fifteen Billion Peso toll road that would connect Manila’s Ninoy Aquino International Airport to existing expressways in the metropolis. The project , when completed, is expected to greatly ease traffic gridlock which is an everyday occurrence leading to and from the airport. It will also serve as a short cut to the gambling casinos along Manila Bay.This project is part of President Noynoy Aquino Administration’s public-private partnership, where public projects such as these are funded wholly, or in part, by private corporations, with strings attached of course.Established in 1890 as a brewery, San Miguel Corporation has some 17,000 employees in over 100 major facilities throughout the Asia-Pacific region. It carries many brand names in the Philippine food and beverage industry, including San Miguel Pale Pilsen, Ginebra San Miguel, Monterey, Magnolia, and Purefoods. San Miguel Beer is one of the largest selling beers and among the top ten selling beer brands in the world.Return on InvestmentAs part of the signed agreement, San Miguel Corporation will invest P11 Billion in the project. The company’s return on investment will come when it starts collecting toll along the completed sky way. It wasn’t clear whether any portion of the toll fees will go to the government.Almost BotchedInformed sources who spoke on condition of anonymity said that there was one major roadblock to the signing of the agreement. San Miguel Corporation wanted to sell its premiere product, San Miguel Beer, at the toll booths leading up to the expressway. Initially, the Aquino Administration objected to the idea because this would be in violation of the country’s DUI regulations. After weeks of negotiation, however, the Aquino Administration relented, on the condition that only San Miguel Lite Beer, not the regular beer, will be sold at the toll booths. The government also sought a concession from San Miguel Corporation which agreed to share 10% of all beer sales at the toll booths with the government. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 09/07/2016 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2013/07/09/philippine-beer-company-to-build-and-manage-new-toll-road-in-manila/ | Adobo Chronicles |
#Islam is a faith of peace and love and not of #terrorism | Islam, a religion of mercy, does not permit terrorism. In the Quran, God has said:"God does not forbid you from showing kindness and dealing justly with those who have not fought you about religion and have not driven you out of your homes. God loves just dealers." (Quran 60:8)The Prophet Muhammad, may the mercy and blessings of God be upon him, used to prohibit soldiers from killing women and children,[1] and he would advise them: "…Do not betray, do not be excessive, do not kill a newborn child."[2] And he also said: "Whoever has killed a person having a treaty with the Muslims shall not smell the fragrance of Paradise, though its fragrance is found for a span of forty years."[3]Also, the Prophet Muhammad has forbidden punishment with fire.[4]He once listed murder as the second of the major sins,[5] and he even warned that on the Day of Judgment, "The first cases to be adjudicated between people on the Day of Judgment will be those of bloodshed.[6]"[7]Muslims are even encouraged to be kind to animals and are forbidden to hurt them. Once the Prophet Muhammad said: "A woman was punished because she imprisoned a cat until it died. On account of this, she was doomed to Hell. While she imprisoned it, she did not give the cat food or drink, nor did she free it to eat the insects of the earth."[8]He also said that a man gave a very thirsty dog a drink, so God forgave his sins for this action. The Prophet, may the mercy and blessings of God be upon him, was asked, "Messenger of God, are we rewarded for kindness towards animals?" He said: "There is a reward for kindness to every living animal or human."[9]Additionally, while taking the life of an animal for food, Muslims are commanded to do so in a manner that causes the least amount of fright and suffering possible. The Prophet Muhammad said: "When you slaughter an animal, do so in the best way. One should sharpen his knife to reduce the suffering of the animal."[10]In light of these and other Islamic texts, the act of inciting terror in the hearts of defenseless civilians, the wholesale destruction of buildings and properties, the bombing and maiming of innocent men, women, and children are all forbidden and detestable acts according to Islam and the Muslims. Muslims follow a religion of peace, mercy, and forgiveness, and the vast majority have nothing to do with the violent events some have associated with Muslims. If an individual Muslim were to commit an act of terrorism, this person would be guilty of violating the laws of Islam.-------------------This is a GRP Featured Comment. Join the discussion!http://getrealphilippines.com/blog/2015/01/to-all-muslims-who-may-want-to-read-this/comment-page-2/#comment-1115378 | [] | 2018-04-22 00:07:25+00:00 | https://grpshorts.blogspot.com/2015/03/islam-is-faith-of-peace-and-love-and.html | GRPundit |
WATCH: Cayetano strikes back at Trillanes Privilege Speech | President Rodrigo Duterte is not just currently at war against drugs but also in word war at the Senate. Through Senator Alan Cayetano, the voice of Digong at the Senate, he counters any attack from the opposition. This time, in a short debate with Senator Antonio Trillanes.Earlier today, Trillanes delivered a privilege speech hitting the President for being the man behind all the killings. He pointed out that witness Edgar Matobato is a credible witness against the President. Watch the video below.Cayetano didn’t allow to end the day without grilling Trillanes. The two set on fire as they were exchanging words. WATCH their arguments below!What can you say about this debate? Leave your comments below! | [] | 2016-09-26 21:42:15+08:00 | http://duterte.today/watch-cayetano-strikes-back-trillanes-privilege-speech/ | Duterte Daily Stories |
Reason Why Sen. Miriam Defensor Died | Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago passed away on Thursday morning at the age of 71, according to her husband Atty. Jun Santiago.He said she "died peacefully in her sleep".The former lawyer said that she had stage 4 lung cancer.No further details have been given by the family as of press time. MJM | ['Hot News Philippines'] | 14/05/2017 0:00 | http://hotnewsphil.blogspot.com/2016/09/reason-why-sen-miriam-defensor-died_28.html | Hot News Philippines |
Is it about time Filipinos stop making throwbacks to Noynoy Aquino’s administration? | At the start of every new administration, inescapably, someone always harks back to the previous one. The reasons for doing so usually fall into these common categories:1) The predecessor is blamed for an inherited problem;2) Credit is taken for something started in the previous term;3) The successor wants to express gratitude for his/her predecessor’s service;4) People want to go back to “the good ol’ days”, or;5) The basis for a better-off comparison, in favor of the successor, is being established.All of which have seemingly become second nature in humanity as we know it.In most recent memory, harking back to the predecessor became in vogue during the administration of former president Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino. Critic or supporter alike, Filipinos will remember very well how BS Aquino incessantly mentioned his predecessor Gloria Arroyo, primarily for reason number 1 above. This continued, of course, well until the end of the six years.In the current administration, under Rodrigo Duterte, the president has rarely mentioned his predecessor. He had made it seemingly clear, in his inaugural address and first State of the Nation Address, that he does not intend to blame BS Aquino for the problems he inherited. It is no small feat, given that Duterte has got his work cut out for him in fixing the mess left behind.Duterte’s supporters, however, are a different story.The question then arises on how appropriate it is to keep bringing up the past administration, if only to explain, more likely justify, the gravity of the problems that the current one is contending with.When is enough, enough?The honeymoon period of any new administration – arbitrarily set at three months – has long been over in Duterte’s case. As of this writing – almost seven months into the Duterte administration – it should be well-established enough to be evaluated based on its own merits, and how well it has responded to the needs of the current situation.No doubt, there are noteworthy officials in the current government. Just to name a few, Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) head Judy Taguiwalo is by no means a dinky player; she makes recognizing the good work and able relief that her office has delivered so far easy.. Department of Agriculture (DA) head Manny Pinol is also garnering brownie points for demonstrating the common-sense governance that Duterte wants to emphasize, and by not merely copying a flawed and corrupt process. Presidential Communications Operations Office (PCOO) head Martin Andanar could still do better, but he seems to be (finally) growing into his role as the official Duterte mouthpiece. Inevitably, regardless of the spokesperson, and most especially if you had three of them, the bullshit meter tends to go off the charts.Which leads us to Philippine National Police (PNP) head, Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa. No one can deny Bato has presided over milestones in the anti-crime and anti-drug drive, but it would be dishonest not to mention, that he blew it big time with the death of the South Korean businessman. To defend Bato’s shortcomings so far in cleaning up the ranks of the corrupt PNP, and allowing this corrupt PNP to jack up the body count of the anti-crime/anti-drug drive, by repeatedly harking back to Alan Purisima’s, and the Aquino administration’s neglect, quickly becomes tired, old, and frankly, embarrassing. It comes out as a case of “hey, my awfulness is ok, because someone else is/was worse!”, which is no surprise; we’ve seen this before with how Filipinos react to criticism of their culture and society.Duterte’s decision to keep Bato does not come entirely as a surprise, as there seem very few people whom the outsider president (outsider, meaning not from the usual political clans within Luzon) can or will trust. It goes without saying that Bato better not screw up this chance at a second chance, and thus should show more seriousness, resolve, and less of the goofball antics.One must appreciate, however, the perception that the gains of Duterte’s government can seem magnified. Things appear that way because Aquino’s administration set such a low bar for quality of public service.Which, then, makes all an underlying point more poignant; if Liberal Party (LP) and Aquino supporters want to reminisce their good ol’ days and make a case of how much better it was before Duterte, they have a lot of convincing to do. They better not forget, it is exactly the crap coming out of the current crop of LP members, and Aquino’s time at the helm, that made people want to dump them.The Duterte administration, overall, is something many Filipinos feel optimistic about, to this day. Those who did vote for him have decided that a status quo, defined by the LP, is no longer acceptable. Duterte’s support base, however, has to avoid becoming complacent, and falling into the very same trap that the incumbent LP did; that party defined itself until the end as simply “not the others”.Filipinos need to learn to define what they stand for by its own merits, and not what others are or are not. Change is coming? Make sure that one is included. | ['Oratio Imperata'] | 2017-01-23 16:28:25+00:00 | https://www.getrealphilippines.com/2017/01/time-filipinos-stop-making-throwbacks-noynoy-aquinos-administration/ | Get Real Philippines |
BOEING TO START BUILDING TIME TRAVEL JETS | Boeing, the American multinational aerospace and defense corporation that manufactures a good chunk of the world’s passenger aircraft has announced that it will start building jets capable of transporting passengers to the future.The announcement came just days after particle physicist Brian Cox, in a presentation at the British Science Festival, said that time travel is possible but only in one direction.“The central question is, can you build a time machine? The answer is yes, you can go into the future,” the University of Manchester professor told the audience during his hour-long speech on Tuesday. “You’ve got almost total freedom of movement in the future.”Cox detailed how time travel to the future is possible under Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity. Traveling hundreds, or even thousands of years into the future, could be accomplished if someone was traveling at an incredibly fast pace, close to the speed of light.Boeing said that it is working on a prototype model aircraft that would travel at, or faster than, the speed of light. Company officials however acknowledged that the cost of building the aircraft will be enormous considering that each flight of the time-travel jet will be one way. This would mean that the cost of airfare on these jets will also be monumental since the airlines will never see their jets again after take off. “In effect, passengers will be paying not only for the opportunity to travel to the future but also for their prorated share of the total cost of the aircraft, ” Boeing said.Boeing however sees this project as a gold mine, since airlines will constantly be ordering new aircraft for every flight to the future that they will be scheduling. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 20/09/2016 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2013/09/20/boeing-to-start-building-time-travel-jets/#respond | Adobo Chronicles |
Suggestions to organizers of rallies against #Philippines president BS Aquino #PNoyGameOver | 1. Agree you now have the crtical mass. The Manila Times survey showing 48% blaming Aquino directly for the SAF 44 is clear majority since the 52% breaks down to small percentages blaming the army, milf, napeñas, the situation, etc. Strike now while iron is hot.2. Agree with your argument that even if P-Noy's term has one-week to go, he still has to resign if only for symbolism so that never again should anybody run for that office if he/she is a nincompoop or has no solid qualification to show. Palace repeated call that people have to consider that P-Noy has only a year left anyway is sending a totally immoral or unethical message.3. Please ask the following not to participate:3.1 Norberto Gonzales (and all the other Cabinet members of Gloria.) They represent a cure worse than the disease.3.2 Peping and Tingting Cojuangco (and all other personalities that are well-known Trapos) That is not moving forward. They represent retrogression, and worse for these two, they are washing the dirty laundry within their family, and that just makes us vomit.3.3 the Lefties or the permanent fixture of street rallies. ..ah maybe, not possible. Ah well, maybe we just have to accept we will always have leeches in the society.These are okay:3,4 Fidel Ramos is okay for he is the last one that did not bastardize the dignity of the office. He just retired and didn't run anymore for any lower public office. Important that office gets back the dignity it used to have before Erap, Gloria, and P-Noy.3. 5 Boy Saycon is okay too for he is very good in mobilizing the upper echelon, military and civilian. I like that he goes back to his private life once he has done his job.3.6 Cdl Vidal is okay to show Church is supporting it and to neutralize the current president of CBCP who is becoming the spokesman of PNoy.3.7 Get more young faces. If you get Grace Poe, then that rally will indeed end P-Noy because then you have the masa support.4. Call it semi-coup, transformation, or whatever. Anything that will invalidate Binay's right to succession.#PNoyGameOver---------------This is a GRP Featured Comment. Join the discussion!http://getrealphilippines.com/blog/2015/02/bbl-an-agreement-with-just-one-muslim-rebel-group-will-not-bring-peace-to-mindanao/comment-page-2/#comment-1100312 | [] | 30/04/2018 0:00 | https://grpshorts.blogspot.com/2015/02/suggestions-to-organizers-of-rallies.html#comments | GRPundit |
Duterte Closes University Of The Philippines For Rehabilitation | Now that the closure of Boracay Beach Resort has come and rehabilitation has begun, Philippine President Rodrigo Dutete has focused his attention on the University of the Philippines, the state-funded learning institution.Duterte issued Executive Order No. 69, ordering the immediate closure of the Diliman and other campuses of U.P.The order states that U.P. will be closed for two semesters and will reopen upon completition of a total overhaul of the U.P system.”We owe it to the Filipino taxpayers to have a state-funded learning institution that can produce responsible, law-abiding citizens and productive members of our society,” Duterte told The Adobo Chronicles.U.P. has recently caught the ire of the President as well as ordinary Filipino citizens for the students’ participation in walk-outs, protests and rallies, putting to waste hard-earned taxpayer money.The news comes as a big disappointment to students who recently passed the U.P. College Admission Test (UPCAT). Now they will have to ask their parents for financial assistance so they could instead attend Ateneo or De La Salle. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 30/04/2018 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2018/04/30/duterte-closes-university-of-the-philippines-for-rehabilitation/#respond | Adobo Chronicles |
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Asian Americans Protest Casting Of Michelle Yeoh On Star Trek: Discovery | Asian Americans have long criticized the lack of Asian American lead actors and actresses in Hollywood films and on prime time television.They protested when Emma Stone was cast in the role of a quarter Hawaiian in the film, ‘Aloha.’ With the release of the new Disney film, ‘Moana,’ they are not happy about how Polynesia was portrayed as an encompassing race. They are angry that in the film, ‘Doctor Strange,’ a character that had originated in comic books as a Tibetan monk was reimagined as a Celtic mystic played by Tilda Swinton.When “Fresh Off The Boat” made it to prime time TV, they said, “it was about time.” When a Filipino American became the love interest of a white womn in “My Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, they were titillated.Now, Asian Americans are again complaining after Michelle Yeoh was cast in ‘Star Trek: Discovery.’‘Discovery,’ the name of the show’s main ship, marks the franchise’s return to the small screen since ‘Star Trek: Enterprise’ concluded in 2005.Yeoh is best known for her role in ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.’In in new upcoming series, Yeoh is set to play the character of Han Bo, Captain of the USS Shenzhou.In criticizing Yeoh’s casting, Asian American activists said that they are unhappy about her role as the captain of a ship other than Discovery. “It seems the show’s producers think the seasoned Asian actress is not capable of being the captain of the main ship, and that’s why they cast her to be the leader of a lesser ship,” they said.Damned if you do. Damned if you don’t. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 26/11/2016 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2016/11/26/asian-americans-protest-casting-of-michelle-yeoh-on-star-trek-discovery/?share=email | Adobo Chronicles |
#Davao still very provincial compared to other #Philippines cities! | You've painted an overly idyllic picture of Davao's melting pot here. It may be 'peaceful,' but as a foreigner I can't walk down the street without getting a load of 'hey, Joe' cat-calls from all ages and made to feel like an alien in their city.I haven't experienced that level of harassment (however benign, it's a constant annoyance) in any other country in Asia, not even elsewhere in the Philippines, urban or rural. Foreigners are still something of a novel concept in Davao and they are extremely provincial even when comparing themselves to their countryfolk from Manila and Cebu who they have clear stereotypical views about.----------------This is a GRP Featured Comment. Join the discussion!http://getrealphilippines.com/blog/2014/08/ramon-bautistas-hipon-joke-davao-women-should-lighten-up/comment-page-1/#comment-643419 | [] | 2018-07-22 00:02:39+00:00 | https://grpshorts.blogspot.com/2014/08/davao-still-very-provincial-compared-to.html#comments | GRPundit |
On the crybaby response of mainstream “journalists” to online trolls | You’d think the way this cadre of “journalists” now “come together” to comfort one another “in a time of trolls” that trolling is such a new and unprecedented scourge in the business of online content production.“I still think that journalists who think themselves worth their profession should come together and look at this as a professional problem, as an even moral problem, as something that does not help the profession or the society. This is something that goes beyond the natural sense of competition that journalists have among journalists,” said [Vergel O. Santos of the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility].Long before these crybabies formed these quaint support groups to deal with this “crisis” of trolls, we at Get Real Philippines have been battling trolls. Because GRP is in the business of begging to differ, the positions taken by many of our writers on the pertinent issues of the day are unpopular. Back in 2001, amidst the euphoria of the “Edsa 2” uprising that illegally unseated then President Joseph “Erap” Estrada, GRP was one of a few online publications to question the wisdom of this circus. I wrote back then…My contribution to the discussions focused mainly on attempting to put into perspective the vicious attacks made on a handful of participants who provided counter-insights to the general euphoric and sometimes militant sentiment of the group. Although good rebuttals were posted, the exchange of opinion along these discrussion threads was dominated by shallow and crude remarks. However, no generalisations can be made as to how much of middle-class opinion they accounted for. The fact remains that these people had access to the Internet (which is a luxury for the average Filipino) which speaks of the supposed educational level of Filipino middle class.Even back then, the attacks lobbed by those who sought to silence unpopular points of view were vicious and, as is the situation today, the popular sentiment was rather hollow-headed as this sampling of the “debate” of the time makes evident.So consider how Rappler reporter Pia Ranada laments the trolling she copped following her calling out President Rodrigo Duterte’s cat-calling ways…After that, people were really harassing me online for what I did. They were saying how I disrespectful I was to the president-elect. Saying how biased I was and I should be more respectful when I asked the incoming president…The trouble with these “journalists” is that they came of age cocooned in a cushy environment rich in emotional and motivational support provided within cliques populated by like-minded members. I would have said came of age and “honed their craft” as writers, except that I wouldn’t call consorting exclusively with folk who hold the same opinion an exercise in honing one’s writing skills much more one’s overall character.That dullness in the craft of the mainstream brought about by years of inbreeding and being part of the camp that upholds the popular and “decent” view can be seen today in this crybaby response to online trolling. Unable to cope with diversity they excuse their being ill-equipped to face the challenge of vicious trolling by playing that all-too-familiar victim card.GRP, on the other hand, sought dissent and conflict and never aspired to create an inbred community of like-minded mutual-back-patting folk. Our character was shaped in the jungle which welcomed us in its Darwinian crucible that forges steely consistency in conviction in those that survive its fires.None such fire shaped today’s crybaby journalists who, for years, basked in their employers’ establishmentist brand equity as guardians of the Philippines’ “restored democracy”.It takes consistency and foresight to crystallise one’s vision over the long term and across the ebbs and flows of outrage fads and small-minded short-term activism. GRP saw through the phoniness of “people power” and Yellowist rhetoric back in the early 2000’s — long long before it was fashionable to see one’s self as “anti-Yellowtard” (for that matter, long before the term “Yellowtard” was even coined!). Underpinning that was the foundation of GRP philosophy — that the Philippines suffered from a profound cultural dysfunction that accounts for much of the surface issues that ordinary pundits and activists build their positions around.So let us make a slight correction in an earlier statement. GRP did not battle trolls. We embraced trolls as a necessary part of the ecosystem in which we chose to be a part of. And that is what accounts for our strength and resilience today.Therefore, somebody needs to tell “investigative journalist” Raissa Robles to man up to online trolls. It seems she is unaccustomed to finding herself situated on the side of the unpopular sentiment and besieged by the armies of the popular camp of the moment. Robles posts her lament on this matter on Facebook…It’s sociologically interesting that many Filipinos applaud President Duterte when he says the most outrageous things but when I point out that Senator Miriam Santiago used to work as Ferdinand Marcos’ speech writer and was an assistant to Imelda’s brother Ambassador Benjamin “Kokoy” Romualdez, and got Bongbong Marcos as her running mate, they dogpile me and accuse me of having no respect for the dead.Ms. Robles, welcome to our world back when we were a small unfashionable voice going up against the popular and trendy but, now, discredited and embarrassing Yellowist rhetoric that dominated much of the three decades following the 1986 “revolution”. The same goes out to those who now make like trolls are an unprecedented social problem that they need to “come together” to combat. Trolling is not new. It only seems new and made out to be demonic because it is now the Establishment and the Mainstream that is under attack. Whereas, in the past, under the disente (now discredited) banner of Yellowism, trolls were actually esteemed members of the Establishment who fancied themselves crusaders of everything “holy” and “civil” about the Philippines.“I think the challenge now is for journalists is to prove that despite the fact that what we say may not please you, it’s something you need to listen to. There’s still value in the truth. And there’s still value in being objective,” said Ranada…But of course. However, one does not need to be a credentialed “journalist” to be saying and publishing things people “need to listen to”. GRP is proof of that. | ['Oratio Imperata'] | 2016-09-29 14:11:04+00:00 | https://www.getrealphilippines.com/2016/09/crybaby-response-mainstream-journalists-online-trolls/#comments | Get Real Philippines |
Malacañang Palace Launches ‘Pushermon Go’ | As part of its ongoing war on drugs in the Philippines, the Duterte administration today announced that it will soon launch the “Pushermon Go” app for Apple and Android phones.Patterned after the mobile game sensation, “Pokéman Go,” the Malacañang app will be rolled out for free to all Filipino mobile phone users who are 21 years old and above. Duterte hopes that this will help his administration to weed out undesirable Filipino and other citizens who are involved in the illegal drug trade.“Be a pushermon hunter and ‘killect’ them all,” the app promo says.App users who kill pushermons will earn Digong coins which can be traded for checkered polo shirts in participating outlets. Consolation prices and points can also be earned to redeem for free tsinelas (flip flops), courtesy of Vice President Leni Robredo.For more details on the new app and how to redeem coins and points, please go to: http://www.Pushermon.go.ph. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 15/07/2016 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2016/07/15/malacanang-palace-launches-pushermon-go/#respond | Adobo Chronicles |
IF ELECTED PRESIDENT, DONALD TRUMP WILL AUCTION OFF AIR FORCE ONE ON EBAY | During her acceptance speech for the Republican vice presidential nomination in 2008, Sarah Palin said that she put the jet purchased by Alaska’s former governor up for sale on eBay as an example of her attempts at ethics reform.Following in her footsteps, presidential candidate Donald Trump is doing the same but upping the ante.Speaking with reporters on board his private jumbo jet, Trump said that if elected president of the United States, he will auction off Air Force One, the presidential plane, on eBay.“I will have no need for Air Force One. I have my own plane. Think of the millions of taxpayer dollars that would save our government,” he said.Asked about Marine One, the presidential helicopter, Trump said he will raffle off it off among county firefighting units across the country to help them put out forest fires or use for emergency rescue.What about the White House?“I will make it part of the group of museums in the National Mall on Washington D.C. I will live in one of the Trump Towers.”Is it any wonder that Trump is surging in the polls? | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 24/07/2018 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2015/07/24/if-elected-president-donald-trump-will-auction-off-air-force-one-on-ebay/?share=email | Adobo Chronicles |
Anime version of President Duterte, PNP Chief Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa etc. has gone viral on the internet | A video of an anime version of President Duterte together with PNP Chief Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa etc. was published by Davao Nikkei Jin Anime Club and Bisayaball Community on Facebook.The video shows an anime version of President Duterte’s house, his big bike and some of the highlights of his campaign.It also shows the animated version of President Duterte’s SONA and bilateral meeting with Japan Prime Minister Shizo Abe. There are also some fictional villains showed in the video.The animators used the song “Silhouette (シルエット)” by KANA-BOON.The video has gone viral on the internet, reaching thousands of shares from the Netizens and they are hoping that Davao Nikkei Jin Anime Club would make another anime version of President Duterte. | ['View All Posts Pinoytrending'] | 2016-09-19 10:09:59+08:00 | https://pinoytrending.altervista.org/anime-version-president-duterte-pnp-chief-ronald-bato-dela-rosa-etc-gone-viral-internet/ | Pinoytrending Altervista |
November 28: Donald Trump’s Electiongate | Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump refuses to drop out of the race, despite the growing clamor for him to do so from top GOP leaders.Trump knows he’s going to lose this election, but quitting is not something that can ever be expected of him.When he smelled trouble with his Miss Universe Organization, he sold it. When his business enterprise was in the red, he filed from bankruptcy — several times. When he was caught by his own mouth bragging about kissing and groping women, he said it was mere “locker room talk.”So his way out of an embarrassing election loss to a woman? Mislead his supporters by urging them to go out and vote on November 28.Election Day of course is on November 8, but Trump’s brilliance is at play here.As soon as Hillary Clinton is proclaimed the presidential-elect, Trump is going to blame the voters who will be trooping to the polls on November 28.It’s Electiongate in the works. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 12/10/2016 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2016/10/12/november-28-donald-trumps-electiongate/?share=email | Adobo Chronicles |
CALIFORNIA’S MANDATORY WATER CONSERVATION: WHY YOUR STARBUCKS COFFEE TASTES DIFFERENT | If you live in California and are a certified Starbucks fan, you may have noticed that your tall, grande or venti coffee and latte have been tasting different lately. You are not imagining things.Blame it on Governor Jerry Brown who has instituted a mandatory 25% reduction in the state’s water consumption as a way to deal with the worsening California drought.As a law-abiding, socially and environmentally-conscious company, the Seattle-based Starbucks has implemented a no-nonsense water conservation measure in all its stores, at least in the state of California.The measure involves a 25% reduction in the water content of every cup sold at its California stores. This means that your brewed coffee tastes stronger but at the same time, you get 25% less in liquid volume. Stores now also use 25% less ice cubes in their iced coffee.Many Starbucks coffee fans we talked to didn’t seem to mind the change, but at the same time noticed that they have increased the number of visits to their neigborhood Starbucks store from three to five times daily.It’s a win-win situation. It helps with the state’s water conservation, it’s good for (Starbucks) business, and consumers get better-tasting coffee.Click HERE to find out more about Starbucks’ water and energy conservation program. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 24/04/2018 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2015/04/24/californias-mandatory-water-conservation-why-your-starbucks-coffee-tastes-different/#comments | Adobo Chronicles |
FILIPINA WINNER STRIPPED OF X FACTOR TITLE | On Tuesday night, Rose Fostanes, a Filipina caregiver working in Tel Aviv, was named winner in the first-ever X Factor Israel, the local version of the popular reality TV singing competiton originated by Simon Cowell in Great Britain. She won the most number of viewer votes in the finals, besting three other contestants. Fostanes was the only non Israeli.But just minutes after the telecast, producers of the show stripped Fostanes of the winner’s title, citing widespread nationwide protests. Producers said their television network was deluged with angry calls insisting that a foreigner should not be declared winner of what was obviously a contest for Israeli nationals. “There is a reason the show is called X Factor Israel, ” the protesters complained, “in the same way as other shows are called American Idol or Britain’s Got Talent.”While producers acknowledged that talent-wise, Fostanes truly deserved the title, they understood the sentiments of the complaining viewers. They said they wished her well and are confident that if she joined X Factor Philippines in her home country, she would handily win the title.Fostanes’ winning song was Frank Sinatra’s “My Way.” | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 14/01/2017 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2014/01/14/filipina-winner-stripped-of-x-factor-title/#comments | Adobo Chronicles |
Duterte Won’t Bring Home The Bacon From Middle East State Visit | Malacañang has announced that Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte will embark on a three-nation state visit to the Middle East this coming Holy Week.It is expected that Duterte will discuss various issues that concern Filipino overseas workers in the Muslim countries while seeking to attract more investments in the Philippines just like he did in his previous state visits to various countries in the Asian region.However, Duterte critics are already saying that this time, the president will not “bring home the bacon 🥓 ”Which is true, because Muslims don’t eat pork. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 06/04/2017 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2017/04/06/duterte-wont-bring-home-the-bacon-from-middle-east-state-visit/#respond | Adobo Chronicles |
Senator Manny Pacquiao Just Dealt Senator Leila De Lima With A One-Two-Three Punch! | Once a boxer, always a boxer. That’s what boxing champion and Philippine Senator Manny Pacquiao proved to the world today when he dealt fellow Senator Leila De Lima with a one-two-three punch.At a Senate session, Pacquiao moved to declare the chairmanship of the Senate Committee on Justice vacant. That chairman is Senator Leila De Lima.Pacquiao’s motion came immediately after Senator Alan Peter Cayetano delivered a privilege speech critical of how De Lima conducted last week’s Senate hearing on the alleged extra-judicial killings where she presented a lone witness claiming he was a member of the Davao Death Squad. In his testimony, the witness claimed that President Duterte, then mayor of Davao City, had participated in executing citizens.Pacquiao’s motion caught the entire Senate by surprise, prompting the upper chamber to suspend its session and go into a secret caucus.As of press time, the Filipino people are still waiting for the resumption of the live TV coverage of the Senate session.Will De Lima survive the knock-out?UPDATE: De Lima was ousted as chair of the Senate committee on justice, replaced by Senator Dick Gordon | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 19/09/2016 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2016/09/19/senator-manny-pacquiao-just-dealt-senator-leila-de-lima-with-a-one-two-three-punch/#respond | Adobo Chronicles |
DONALD TRUMP’S STUNNING MAKEOVER! | Money, they say, can buy anything. Including elections. And looks. That’s exactly what billionaire Donald Trump is doing in pursuit of his presidential ambition.Unfazed by widespread outrage over his latest tirade against Muslims — calling for shutting them out of the United States — Trump has come to the realization that it is not just his politics that’s getting in the way of his road to the Oval Office, but also his looks. He is sick and tired about nasty comments about his hair, among many other things.Inspired by House Speaker Paul Ryan’s new bearded look, Trump summoned the best plastic surgeons he could muster and underwent a quick but stunning makeover.Considering that oftentimes, looks and personality can spell success for an aspiring political candidate, Trump’s new persona could very well seal the deal and earn him the Republican nomination for president. Or even the U.S. presidency.Then, he would be joining an elite group of good looking heads of state, like Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, and the King of Bhutan.What do you think of the new and improved Donald Trump? Let us know through your comments. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 09/12/2017 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2015/12/09/donald-trumps-stunning-makeover/#respond | Adobo Chronicles |
Bye-bye LP? Political implications of the Duterte-Marcos negotiations | Rodrigo Duterte never fails to surprise me.Rodrigo Duterte never fails to surprise me.“The Marcoses – I will not name the spokesman – they said they’ll open everything and probably return those [assets] that were already found. They said, ‘You have a large [budget] deficit… maybe this year the projected deficit will be big,’ they said, ’ but [the amount to be returned] won’t be much. ‘But we are ready to open and bring back [the assets],’ they said, ‘including a few gold bars.’”Yes, the Marcoses has finally decided to reach out to the government to talk about their wealth. The announcement is so simple and straightforward, even I had to take a couple of days to digest what happened. Why? Because what may happen, the way the issue was announced, and the political and economic implications of this gesture are discombobulating, to the say the least.The AnnouncementFirst , Duterte clearly said that negotiations are ongoing, and probably without asking the Marcoses if he can make such announcement. Even if the talks are very preliminary, this puts major pressure on the Marcoses. After the surprise announcement will make backing out very politically costly because the public generally hates “#paasa” orSecond , Duterte, aware of the pressure on the Marcoses, apparently tried to decrease it by saying that the amount “won’t be much”. But “not much” is a very relative term, and I think he’s trying to flip the odds to the government’s favor. The Marcoses supposedly raised the idea to help Duterte respond to a looming massive budget deficit so it will be embarrassing for the Marcoses if the talks result to a very small amount.Third , Duterte said he will get impartial people to handle the negotiations: a former chief justice (probably the retired Chief Justice Renato Puno), a Certified Public Accountant, and a universally-recognized representative. This way, he can minimize suspicions by providing a considerable level of transparency.Fourth , Duterte never used the word “stolen”. Duterte used the word “found”, “return”, “help”, and the like, but he never used neither “ill-gotten” nor “stolen”, and here’s where his political realism clearly shows. By not using those two words, he is paving the way for the return of the wealth while at the same time providing the Marcoses some leeway for messaging. After all, they are already trying to return some money, so why do we need to humiliate them right now?Fifth , Duterte also said that he wants to do “something worthwhile for the Filipino”, and I think he’s on his way to doing that. The Philippine Commission on Good Government (PCGG) has been running after Marcos’ wealth for over 30 years with limited success, and here are the Marcoses intending to return money by their own initiative. Even if we’re just talking about a few tens or hundreds of billions, the amount will still go a long way in helping poor Filipinos.Political implications: The Marcos Family Duterte carefully chose his words when he spoke about the issue., Duterte clearly said that negotiations are ongoing, and probably without asking the Marcoses if he can make such announcement. Even if the talks are very preliminary, this puts major pressure on the Marcoses. After the surprise announcement will make backing out very politically costly because the public generally hates “#paasa” or flakers , Duterte, aware of the pressure on the Marcoses, apparently tried to decrease it by saying that the amount “won’t be much”. But “not much” is a very relative term, and I think he’s trying to flip the odds to the government’s favor. The Marcoses supposedly raised the idea to help Duterte respond to a looming massive budget deficit so it will be embarrassing for the Marcoses if the talks result to a very small amount., Duterte said he will get impartial people to handle the negotiations: a former chief justice (probably the retired Chief Justice Renato Puno), a Certified Public Accountant, and a universally-recognized representative. This way, he can minimize suspicions by providing a considerable level of transparency., Duterte never used the word “stolen”. Duterte used the word “found”, “return”, “help”, and the like, but he never used neither “ill-gotten” nor “stolen”, and here’s where his political realism clearly shows. By not using those two words, he is paving the way for the return of the wealth while at the same time providing the Marcoses some leeway for messaging. After all, they are already trying to return some money, so why do we need to humiliate them right now?, Duterte also said that he wants to do “something worthwhile for the Filipino”, and I think he’s on his way to doing that. The Philippine Commission on Good Government (PCGG) has been running after Marcos’ wealth for over 30 years with limited success, and here are the Marcoses intending to return money by their own initiative. Even if we’re just talking about a few tens or hundreds of billions, the amount will still go a long way in helping poor Filipinos.Many camps argue that whatever the Marcoses will return will just be a very small fraction of whatever they got. However, we need to keep two things in mind: [1] the fact that they will willingly return it and [2] the fact that they are confident that the amount will significantly help in reducing the budget deficit, which is expected to have reached P147 billion at the end of July 2017 [Yeah, that’s a LOT of money.But then, if there’s one thing that everybody – regardless of political color – will agree on, it’s that the Marcoses are not stupid, so they expect something in return.What do they expect?The Marcoses, I believe, expect political capital which translates to:1: A possibly softer anti-Marcos stance among the anti-Marcos publicThe Marcos Family may be expecting many anti-Marcos voters, many of whom were born after Martial Law, to soften their anti-Marcos stance even by a bit. While the staunchest Marcos critics probably will never forgive the Marcoses even when hell freezes over, the fact of the matter is that many voters today did not personally experience life under the dictatorship and thus do not hold much of a grudge against the former first family…. or have a favorable view of the Marcoses to begin with. Proof? Bongbong Marcos’ performance in the 2016 Presidential Elections.2: Greater bargaining power under the Duterte Administration The latest initiative of the Marcos’ family is really surprising, in that it totally came out from left field. Who among any of the family’s critics thought something like this can ever happen? Regardless of the amount that will be agreed upon, the mere fact that family is now willing to even talk about it is shocking, to say the least.Many camps argue that whatever the Marcoses will return will just be a very small fraction of whatever they got. However, we need to keep two things in mind: [1] the fact that they will willingly return it and [2] the fact that they are confident that the amount will significantly help in reducing the budget deficit, which is expected to have reached P147 billion at the end of July 2017 [ MT ].Yeah, that’s a LOT of money.But then, if there’s one thing that everybody – regardless of political color – will agree on, it’s that the Marcoses are not stupid, so they expect something in return.What do they expect?The Marcoses, I believe, expect political capital which translates to:The Marcos Family may be expecting many anti-Marcos voters, many of whom were born after Martial Law, to soften their anti-Marcos stance even by a bit. While the staunchest Marcos critics probably will never forgive the Marcoses even when hell freezes over, the fact of the matter is that many voters today did not personally experience life under the dictatorship and thus do not hold much of a grudge against the former first family…. or have a favorable view of the Marcoses to begin with. Proof? Bongbong Marcos’ performance in the 2016 Presidential Elections.I interviewed Ilocos Norte Governor Imee Marcos a couple of weeks ago and I asked her why Duterte doesn’t influence the House of Representatives regarding the Tobacco Excise Tax Hearing plaguing the Ilocos Norte Government, including the governor herself. She said she doesn’t want to impose on the president because “nahihiya”. I am not sure if she is not telling me something, but this may imply that the Marcoses, while influential in Duterte’s inner circle, is not as influential as we think. So how do the Marcoses enhance their influence? By doing the Duterte’s Government a favor.3: A possible “recalibration” of historyIn his speech, Duterte said the Marcos family’s liaison, whoever he or she is, claims that the Ferdinand Marcos took the money to protect the economy in the eventuality that he’s removed from power, in the hopes of regaining Malacañang.I am disinclined to buy this story but truth be told, such a narrative is not a hard sell among a Filipino public that are first hand witnesses to the incompetence and corruption of Marcos’ Archnemesis, the Aquinos, along with their Liberal Party cohorts.The Marcoses, for example, may ask the public, “What if we gave this much earlier and Mar Roxas got it?”.Note, however, that I used the term “recalibration” instead of “rewrite” because I doubt that anybody can drastically change what's already in history books with just one act.When I said “recalibration”, I mean a slightly less diabolical portrayal not necessarily of the Marcos Regime, but that of the living Marcoses who have been, for decades, at the receiving end of criticisms against the late president.With these said, I believe that the Marcos Family’s plans to return the wealth, if realized, will go a long way in making a prospective 2022 BBM presidency palatable for more people, and this will serve as a challenge to other presidential hopefuls to step up their game.Why? Because the Marcoses have already stepped up their game… BIG TIME.Political implications: The Liberal Party If there’s one camp that will be most adversely affected by this development, it’d be the Aquino-aligned Liberal Party of the Philippines, the main political party that cultivated anti-Marcos sentiment and benefitted the most from it.Let’s get a few quotes from senior Liberal Party politicians as they reacted to this news.From Senator and Liberal Party president Francis Pangilinan["There is no reason for us to believe in the sincerity of the Marcos family. They should return ill-gotten wealth and apologize for the sins of the dictatorship. Only then we would believe in their sincerity." From Senator and Ninoy cosplayer Bam Aquino [Dapat lang ibalik talaga `yan. Now ang tanong magkano po ang porsyentong ibabalik baka naman yung ibabalik po dyan kakarampot lang dun sa totoong ninakaw sa atin. TRANSLATION: It should really be returned. Now, the question is how much will be returned because they just be returning a very small fraction of what they really stole from us. From Vice-president and Liberal Party Chairman Leni Robredo ["If they are returning the wealth... they should return everything because this belongs to the Filipinos."What’s clear in these LP quotes is the party’s insistence on the Marcoses returning ALL of the money, despite them having no idea on how to go about that, while former President Corazon Aquino’s PCGG has been here since the mid-80s, yet it managed to recover nothing but scraps.I think LP’s fear is rooted on their very reason for existing in the first place. In the May 2016 ThinkingPinoy article “Batman once said, “A hero is only as good as his villain,” so what if, in the eyes of the public, the “ultimate” villain turns out to not be as evil as the people thought he was?I am not saying that Ferdie should be a saint... but he sure is not the devil incarnate.Yes, the Aquinos and LP will lose the justification for their existence. Yeah, their most ardent supporters will continue to support them, but I doubt if their numbers would even be enough to elect a provincial governor.The Liberal Party, which is already struggling for survival, will probably struggle even more. If there’s one camp that will be most adversely affected by this development, it’d be the Aquino-aligned Liberal Party of the Philippines, the main political party that cultivated anti-Marcos sentiment and benefitted the most from it.Let’s get a few quotes from senior Liberal Party politicians as they reacted to this news.From Senator and Liberal Party president Francis Pangilinan[ Malaya ]:From Senator and Ninoy cosplayer Bam Aquino [ Abante ]:From Vice-president and Liberal Party Chairman Leni Robredo [ Malaya ]:What’s clear in these LP quotes is the party’s insistence on the Marcoses returning ALL of the money, despite them having no idea on how to go about that, while former President Corazon Aquino’s PCGG has been here since the mid-80s, yet it managed to recover nothing but scraps.I think LP’s fear is rooted on their very reason for existing in the first place. In the May 2016 ThinkingPinoy article “ Quantifying Discontent: An Analysis of the Bongbong Marcos Phenomenon ”, I explained that for the past 30 years, the Aquinos and the Liberal Party painted themselves as the antithesis – the polar opposites – of the Marcoses. The Aquinos and the Liberal Party painted themselves as the ultimate hero as they painted the Marcos Family as the ultimate villain... and therein lies the problem.Batman once said, “A hero is only as good as his villain,” so what if, in the eyes of the public, the “ultimate” villain turns out to not be as evil as the people thought he was?I am not saying that Ferdie should be a saint... but he sure is not the devil incarnate.Yes, the Aquinos and LP will lose the justification for their existence. Yeah, their most ardent supporters will continue to support them, but I doubt if their numbers would even be enough to elect a provincial governor.The Liberal Party, which is already struggling for survival, will probably struggle even more.Political implications: The Duterte PresidencyThat is how a Political Realist thinks. That is how Duterte thinks. Duterte the President, more than anything, is a Political Realist.In the October 2016 ThinkingPinoy article “Duterte’s Political Realism has again become evident when, in response to Marcos’ offer to return some wealth, he said: Individuals and states, while both basing actions on morality, use a different hierarchy of moral principles. For example, the individual may subscribe to the saying “Fiat justitia, pereat mundus (Let justice be done, even if the world perish),” but the state can’t possibly do the same if it threatens the state’s very survival [ Morgenthau 1978 ].That is how a Political Realist thinks. That is how Duterte thinks. Duterte the President, more than anything, is a Political Realist.In the October 2016 ThinkingPinoy article “ Genius! The Method to Duterte’s Foreign Policy Madness ”, I explained how Duterte’s seemingly irrational, morally reprehensible action of cursing at then-US President Barack Obama, actually has a method to it. That is, “calling” Obama a “son of a bitch” made the Chinese public more receptive to Duterte and the Philippines, paving the way for a more independent Philippine foreign policy.Duterte’s Political Realism has again become evident when, in response to Marcos’ offer to return some wealth, he said:“I will accept that explanation (Marcos Family’s alibi), whether or not it is true, we can’t do much about it anyway and they’re ready to return the [the assets].”That is, while many camps would demand the Marcoses to return an arm and a leg, Duterte took into account the PCGG’s general inability to recover assets and the government’s immediate financial needs.Duterte was basically made to choose between:Accepting the alibi then accepting a massive injection into government coffers, and, Rejecting that alibi, which would make the Marcoses retract, as the PCGG spends another 30 years looking for crumbs, with no assurance of success. To Duterte, the choice was obvious: he picked the option that will translate to real improvements to Filipino lives.How many post-Yolanda houses will that build?How many hospitals will it fund?How many roads will that create? Duterte was basically made to choose between:If the negotiations translate to a final deal and the money changes hands, this will cement Duterte’s reputation for being a doer, starkly in contrast to Mar Roxas’ “Yes, there may still be many issues that the Filipino People must settle with the Marcoses. However, this development, if fully realized, will be a victory for all... except for the Liberal Party. All these questions would be useless to ask if Duterte insisted that the Marcoses return everything, whatever “everything” means.If the negotiations translate to a final deal and the money changes hands, this will cement Duterte’s reputation for being a doer, starkly in contrast to Mar Roxas’ “ analysis paralysis ”. This will enhance Duterte’s political capital and by extension, whoever he will endorse in the 2019 and 2022 elections.Yes, there may still be many issues that the Filipino People must settle with the Marcoses. However, this development, if fully realized, will be a victory for all... except for the Liberal Party.DONT FORGET TO SHARE!Did you like this post? Help ThinkingPinoy stay up!Even as little as 50 pesos will be a great help!Follow @iMthinkingPinoy RELATED POSTS:In a 29 August 2017 speech in Malacañang, President Rodrigo Duterte said [ Video ]: | [] | 10/01/2018 0:00 | http://www.thinkingpinoy.net/2017/09/bye-liberal-party-political-implications.html#more | Thinking Pinoy |
JUSTIN BIEBER SUING CALVIN KLEIN FOR PHOTOSHOPPED AD IMAGE | Teen idol Justin Bieber is suing Calvin Klein over a photoshopped image that the underwear company used in its most recent ad.Bieber’s image in the ad was photoshopped to make him bigger with his muscles and you know what else.“I’ve always been honest and straightforward with my fans,” Bieber said, “and to portray me in an underwear ad that’s not representative of the true me is just not kosher.”Bieber sued Calvin Klein for an undisclosed amount plus a one-year supply of CK underwear. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 10/01/2018 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2015/01/10/justin-bieber-suing-calvin-klein-for-photoshopped-ad-image/?share=email | Adobo Chronicles |
DC Comics Announces Sequel To Batman Vs Superman | The reviews are in! “Batman V Superman Is V Bad,” “Even Wonder Woman Can’t Save This Unholy Mess,” “This Movie Is A Crime Against Comic Book Fans.”Of course these are reviews from film critics. This latest DC Comics superhero movie hasn’t officially opened yet, so it remains to be seen how the moviegoers will judge what the producers hope would be a worldwide blockbuster.But already, DC Comics is looking ahead, hoping to rise from what seems to be a sure flop this summer. It has just announced a new, unprecedented sequel to “Batman vs. Superman.”The sequel, again to be distributed by Warner Bros., will introduce a new superhero, Pacman. The sequel will be titled “Superman Vs. Pacman.”The Adobo Chronicles learned that the Pacman character was inspired by no other than Filipino champion boxer Manny Pacquiao, a.k.a Pacman.DC Comics, however declined to reveal what super power Pacman will have, only to say it is not just boxing.Both DC Comics and Warner Bros. expect this sequel, to be released in 2017, to break all box-office records by previous superhero movies.The casting director for the film is now in Manila, searching for the one Pinoy actor who will play Pacman. Pacquiao is not being considered, especially after his comments about gay men and women, which have offended not just the LGBT community in the Philippines, but all of gay Hollywood. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 24/03/2016 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2016/03/24/dc-comics-announces-sequel-to-batman-vs-superman/ | Adobo Chronicles |
Senator JV Ejercito defends President Duterte: “Ang bintang ni Trillanes ay kalokohan, si President ang pinakasimpleng tao na nakilala ko” | Senator JV Ejercito reacted on the accusations of Senator Antonio Trillanes IV against President Rodrigo Duterte.On his twitter account, the Senator said that the accusations of his colleague that the President amassed billion on pesos in his bank accounts is not true because he personally witnessed how simple is the President.“Ang bintang ni Trillanes sa Pangulong Duterte ay isang malaking kalokohan. Bihira ang simpleng tao gaya ni Duterte sa mga nakilala ko.” Ejercito wrote in his tweet.Ang bintang ni Trillanes sa Pangulong Duterte ay isang malaking kalokohan. Bihira ang simpleng tao gaya ni Duterte sa mga nakilala ko. — JV Ejercito (@jvejercito) February 17, 2017He also lauded the simpleness of the President and said that he’s one of the most simple politicians that he met.Hindi sa pagsisipsip pero isa si Rody Duterte sa pinaka simpleng taong nakilala ko na nasa gobyerno. Magmula sasakyan, pananamit at pagkain. — JV Ejercito (@jvejercito) February 17, 2017JV Ejercito is one of the newest member of President Duterte’s political party PDP-Laban.This week, Senator Antonio Trillanes IV brought back the alleged undeclared wealth issue of President Rodrigo Duterte.The Senator said that the President is only pretending to be poor, but Duterte responded and he told Trillanes that they are not poor because his father who is an ex governor leave his wealth to his children. | ['View All Posts Pinoytrending'] | 2017-02-17 12:35:17+08:00 | https://pinoytrending.altervista.org/senator-jv-ejercito-defends-president-duterte-ang-bintang-ni-trillanes-ay-kalokohan-si-president-ang-pinakasimpleng-tao-na-nakilala-ko/ | Pinoytrending Altervista |
Foreign Journalist Thanks Philippine President Duterte For Pointed Lesson On Local And World History | A foreign journalist whose identity and country of origin we will keep secret, challenged Rodrigo Roa Duterte regarding the president’s war on drugs and the alleged spate of extra-judicial killings in the Philippines. What the journalist got was a quick and pointed lesson in local and world history.Duterte lectured the journalist on the unfavorable judicial system of the past that led to what he called a drug “pandemic” and the defenseless situations law enforcement personnel and their families have been put in.Then the president reminded the journalist about the murders of black people in communities in the United States as well as the killing of innocent civilians, including women and children in places where there is war participated in by the U.S. and the United Nations.After several attempts to try to pin down Duterte into admitting the politics of guns in the country, the journalist ended up being speechless, turning into a deer caught in the headlights. Then he finally thanked the president for the valuable lesson he received.You see, Duterte is not only a mayor and president. He’s a great teacher too!Watch the video of the exchange between Duterte and the journalist: | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 21/08/2016 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2016/08/21/foreign-journalist-thanks-philippine-president-duterte-for-pointed-lesson-on-local-and-world-history/ | Adobo Chronicles |
Grace Poe Calls For A Senate Hearing On Exhorbitant San Mig Light Prices | Senator Grace Poe is calling for a Senate Hearing on the exhorbitant prices of San Mig Light, particularly in bars, restaurants and hotels.Next to rice, San Mig Light is probably one of the most sought-after basic commodities among Filipinos.A bottle of the popular beer costs about P32 in groceries and retail stores. But San Mig Light costs as much as P60 in bars and restaurants, and we’re not even talking about 5-Star Hotels.”It is my duty to protect consumers, especially potential voters for my re-election, from price gauging and other unfair business practices. This must stop, and I pledge to take this all the way to the prosecution of the guilty parties,” Poe told The Adobo Chronicles.Well, we’ll drink to that! | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 30/08/2018 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2018/08/30/grace-poe-calls-for-a-senate-hearing-on-exhorbitant-san-mig-light-prices/#respond | Adobo Chronicles |
Jim Paredes Hurriedly Leaves The Philippines For Australia | Duterte critic and entertainer Jim Paredes hurriedly left for his second home Australia after two significant news developments reached his attention: the possible crash into earth of a Chinese space lab and North Korea’s statement regarding an imminent nuclear war.Paredes is a dual citizen of the Philippines and Australia.In a text message to The Adobo Chronicles, Paredes said he was very scared about the twin news and that his first impulse was to stay as far away as possible from harms way.“Unlike the Philippines, Australia is a remote pathway for either the space lab debris or the nuclear bomb because of its proximity from North Korea and the trajectory of the falling debris,” Paredes said.Well, we can’t blame him. Survival first before politics. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 17/10/2017 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2017/10/17/jim-paredes-hurriedly-leaves-the-philippines-for-australia/ | Adobo Chronicles |
FILIPINO SUPERMAN LOOK-ALIKE GETS THE CHANCE OF A LIFETIME IN HOLLYWOOD | Filipino Herbert Chavez from Calamba, Laguna in the Philippines has, in the last 18 years, undergone a total of 23 surgeries, including nose jobs, skin-whitening, liposuction and jaw realignment to look like his idol, Clark Kent, a.k.a. Superman.The 37-year-old fan also wears blue contact lens to reflect the blue shade of his superhero costume. To top it all off, he’s been injecting his abs and chest with a filler-type product called MesoLipo, which is illegal in the US.He has reportedly spent a whopping 300,000 Pesos (US $ 6,639) for his surgeries which is really a bargain compared to the amount of money Hollywood actors and actresses spend for facelifts and reconstructive surgery.Well, all those years and money have finally paid off.Today, Chavez received a phone call from Zack Snyder, director of the upcoming film, “Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice,” informing him that he has been cast for the next film in the Superman series. Chavez had sent Snyder an audition video and the Hollywood director was super impressed.The upcoming Superman film, which stars Henry Cavill and Ben Affleck is scheduled for release in March of 2016. The new film with Chavez starts shooting immediately after that.Chavez will go down in history as the very first full-blooded Filipino to be the lead star in a major Hollywood blockbuster film. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 02/07/2018 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2015/07/02/filipino-superman-look-alike-gets-the-chance-of-a-lifetime-in-hollywood/?share=email | Adobo Chronicles |
WATCH: Archishop Cruz blasts President Duterte “nag shabu ba siya kaya alam niya na masama ang droga?” | Archbishop of Lingayen Pangasinan and former head of Catholic Bishop’s Conference of the Philippines Oscar Cruz blasted President Rodrigo Duterte on his criticisms against the Catholic Church.During his speech at the oath taking of newly promoted officers of Philippine National Philippines in Malacañang Palace last week, President Rodrigo Duterte lambasted again the Catholic Church for only counting their donations while criticizing the government efforts against illegal drugs.Duterte also narrated again how some Catholic Priests are committing sins and having one to two wives.He also asked the Catholic Church to spend their money in building rehabs if they really wanted to help the people.Duterte also challenged the priests to try Shabu to realize how dangerous it is.After this statements, the Catholic Church already gave an statement on the criticisms that the President thrown against themIn an interview with DZRH News, Archbishop Oscar Cruz said that President Duterte’s statements and thoughts against the Catholic Church is very shallow.In response to the challenge of the President, Cruz asked if Duterte knows the bad effects of Shabu because he is also addicted to it.“Masyado pong mababaw yung kaisipan na yun. Ibig bang sabihin siya rin ang nag-shabu kaya niya alam na masama ang droga at ang isang bagay po ba [na] masama ay kailangan pagdanasan mo persoanlly to know what it is all about?”He also challenged the President to name who are the members of Catholic Church who are having wives. The Archbishop explains that the rules of the Church would not tolerate any sinful acts committed by their priests including having a relationship.“Kailangan lang po malaman kung sino, huwag lang pong salita ng salita, ganito-ganun, sino, ituro talaga at maimbestigahan na” Archbishop Cruz said.You can watch the video of the interview here. | ['View All Posts Pinoytrending'] | 2017-01-24 04:58:19+08:00 | https://pinoytrending.altervista.org/watch-archishop-cruz-blasts-president-duterte-nag-shabu-ba-siya-kaya-alam-niya-na-masama-ang-droga/ | Pinoytrending Altervista |
50 Shades of #Philippines Poverty | Christian understanding of the poor has more to do with the "poor in spirit", at least that is my understanding. It is the state of the mind more than anything else. There is an ocean of difference between the two. So, a bus driver, who is conscientious about driving well, courteous to the pasengers, demands the right salary so his family does not starve, is poor and poor in spirit - his only talent is driving, but gives his best to it as his contribution to society. But, a cashier in SM, who cheats, thinks all day about living in Ayala Alabang or Dasma and driving a Merc one day, is poor, but not poor in spirit.Remember Jesus was not dirt poor. His father, Joseph, was a carpenter; so he must be an equivalent of an SME entrepreneur today, more of the middle class. Why would the Roman soldiers in Calvary not spoil His outer garment; it must be of good quality. Even the Zebedee brothers, James and John, seem to own a fishing company, and Peter seems to be the same, at least that is what archeologists and bible scholars are beginning to conclude. They were more upper middle class. How could Peter enter the inner courtyard of the high priest during Jesus' trial if he looked squalid? They were definitely poor in spirit, though.To explain further, take Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and the Ayalas as an example. We call them the filthy rich or the 1% on the top. Bill, who must have been influenced by his wife, Melinda, a Catholic, are now giving a lot through their foundation. Warren has joined them and has already willed that upon his death, all his personal wealth, not the company's, go to charity; he does not believe in leaving this to his children, who, he say, should work for their own independence. The Ayalas, I know through the grapevine, own only one car each per family; mind you, not one car per member of the family. Sure, they are Audis and BMWs, but see, people will think they are eccentric if they drove Toyotas or Kias. They are also very frugal in their personal spending. The most luxurious thing they have are the cameras of Jaime for his hobby in photography, and the two off-road BMW motorcycles of Jaza and Fernando, when they go for a breather in the mountains. (Compare that with Hans Sy, son of Henry, who has 12 cars just for himself; and I am not making any critical judgement of him, but just driving a point. Plus, Henry Sy Sr. gives a lot to charity, and not just for tax deductions.) Would you consider Bill, Warren, and the Ayalas poor in spirit? I think they are.But you say these guys are still accumulating wealth. Sure they are. It is their job and responsibility as investor, chairman of the board, CEO. But it is just a job. They protect the companies. If something happened, how are they going to react. At that level, it is not just competition, it is a war in the marketplace, and they need money as their guns and bullets. The bigger the company, the bigger back-up or emergency fund is needed as there are so many unforseeable factors the bigger you go. How will they answer to employees, stockholders, banks and finance companies, if they renege on such responsibilities.So, there are (1) poor and poor in spirit, (2) poor, but not poor in spirit, (3) wealthy and not poor in spirit, and (4) wealthy, but poor in spirit.------------------------------This is a GRP Featured Comment. Join the discussion!http://getrealphilippines.com/blog/2014/12/it-is-not-poor-people-but-rich-people-who-have-a-big-problem-with-poverty/comment-page-1/#comment-961806 | [] | 05/12/2014 0:00 | https://grpshorts.blogspot.com/2014/12/50-shades-of-philippines-poverty.html#comments | GRPundit |
“THOR” GAY VERSION OPENS IN CHINA | “Thor: The Dark World,” is the latest of an American superhero film based on the comic book character of the same name published by Marvel Comics. The powerful but arrogant god Thor is cast out of Asgard to live amongst humans in Midgard (Earth), where he soon becomes one of their finest defenders. In this latest series directed by Alan Taylor, Thor (Chris Hemsworth) must face the enemy and embark on his most perilous and personal journey yet, one that will reunite him with Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) and force him to sacrifice everything to save the earth.But that is the film’s U.S. version.An international version, in Chinese with English subtitles, has a slightly different plot. Jane Foster is the enemy and Thor’s journey reunites him with Loki (Tom Hiddleston), his long-lost romantic interest. The international version opened to rave reviews in Shanghai, China. Since it opened last weekend, theaters have seen long lines of fans braving the cold weather and willing to fork out 40 Yuan to be among the first to see the film.Critics just love the the Chinese version of the character of Loki, the master of illusion. The New York Times says that Loki’s romantic link to Thor could only “help the medicine go down.” Whatever that means.Meanwhile, the newly-renovated Embarcadero theater in Dan Francisco, which features reclining lounge seats in several of its screening rooms, has reportedly bought the exclusive rights to show the Chinese version in city. “With its juicy gay theme, the film’s international version would definitely be a blockbuster in the gayest city in the world,” a spokesperson for the Embarcadero theater told The Adobo Chronicles. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 09/11/2016 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2013/11/09/thor-gay-version-opens-in-china/ | Adobo Chronicles |
‘Kill them all’ – Duterte orders to finish Abu Sayyaf | President Rodrigo Duterte on Friday night urged soldiers to increase their campaign against terrorism, including the immediate elimination of the Abu Sayyaf group.“There will be no peace agreement. Tapusin niyo na (Finish them) to the last man,” he said.Duterte issued the marching order during a talk with some 200 soldiers at the Bondad Hall of the Armed Forces of the Philippines Central Command (AFP-CentCom) headquarters in Barangay Lahug here shortly before 10 p.m. Friday.The president also reiterated his stand that there will be no coalition government with communist rebels.”I will never agree to a coalition government (with communist rebels),” he said.Duterte also vowed to increase the strength of the AFP by 10,000 soldiers next year and give the military and the police the best equipment.Headlines ( Article MRec ), pagematch: 1, sectionmatch: 1He said he prefers a negotiated contract in the purchase of military equipment to choose the “lowest bidder which results in the lowest quality”.The president added that the “lowest bidder process turned out to be the biggest source of corruption”.He further said that the greatest threat to the country in the next five to ten years is terrorism.”I want to prepare the country for this,” he said.What can you say about this order? Leave your comments below! | [] | 2016-08-13 16:45:57+08:00 | http://duterte.today/kill-duterte-orders-finish-abu-sayyaf/ | Duterte Daily Stories |