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‘SELFIES’ DOWNGRADED FROM MENTAL DISORDER TO POTENTIAL LIFE SAVER | Last year, the American Psychiatric Association (APA) officially declared ‘selfies’ as a mental disorder, calling it Selfitis, defined as the passive-aggressive urge to take a photo of one’s self and posting it on social media.Today, the APA downgraded Selfitis to a potential life saver, thanks to a news camerawoman who took the time to snap a selfie and, in the process, save a life.Dolores Gillham, a photographer for CBS2 and KCAL9, was taking a selfie when she heard a man cry our for help. As she took a second selfie, she heard another cry for help. She then contacted her TV station which in turn called for rescue help.The rest is history. The driver of a car that plunged off the the Angeles Crest Highway was rescued by helicopter and taken to a nearby hospital where he is now recovering.So the next time you’re driving through a national forest or enjoying the view at a ski resort, go ahead and take a selfie or two. You might end up saving a life.And no one will think of you as having a mental disorder. Not even the APA! | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 10/08/2018 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2015/08/10/selfies-downgraded-from-mental-disorder-to-potential-life-saver/#respond | Adobo Chronicles |
Internet Celebrity Sir Jack Shows Off Hidden Talent in Playing Piano, Goes Viral | Sir Jack is probably one the funniest internet celebrity this generation has ever seen. He is a natural when it comes to making people laugh with his short video sketches but nobody suspected that he also had a talent in playing the piano.The piano is probably one of the most difficult musical instrument to master but Sir Jack made it look like very easy in his latest video where he can be seen playing on a keyboard and putting together an unbelievable song medley.Who would have thought that his hands are lightning fast and very, very precise in hitting piano keys, huh?We already know that he is also an athlete - paddling for Philippine Titans dragon boat team and that he and his team has brought honors to the country many times from various competitions here and abroad. So it is totally unexpected that such a man with a masculine image also have graceful hands capable of producing sweet music on the piano that can put babies to sleep filled with dreams of butterflies, sparkling fairies and singing angels.According to one of our researcher here at Pinoy News Blogger, Sir Jack's style and technique is very unique. "His musicality is of a rare kind that even Pachelbel, Beethoven and Mozart cannot compare to", he suddenly said while we are on lunch break at the office.His piano song medley video has been viewed over a million times since it was uploaded Sunday August 6. Dancers and pet lovers flocked to the comment section and told him to never stop making such good music.All kidding aside, Sir Jack or Johnflorence Argota is one of the coolest social media personality out there. He doesn't let his being handicapped drag him down from doing what he loves to do. He wears his flaw like an armor and he wears it with pride. Just like our researcher we mentioned above who is also handicapped - he has hearing impairment.Here's internet celebrity Sir Jack playing the piano:(filed under satire) | ['Vic Patnugot'] | 16/07/2017 0:00 | http://pinoynewsblogger.blogspot.com/2017/08/internet-celebrity-sir-jack-shows-off.html | Pinoy News Blogger |
DOLE Issues Implementing Guidelines For Its Ban On Mandatory High Heels For Female Workers | The Department of Labor and Employment has banned the mandatory use of high-heeled shoes among female workers. The Department’s order all but bans shoes with heels that are higher than an inch.A DOLE (the Department, not the pineapple company) official said that the agency has issued implementing guidelines to implement its ban.Among the guidelines is a suggestion to allow female workers to use elevated flat shoes in lieu of high heels. (See photo.) | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 29/08/2017 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2017/08/29/dole-issues-implementing-guidelines-for-its-ban-on-mandatory-high-heels-for-female-workers/?share=email | Adobo Chronicles |
The Philippines: Product of a deliberate selection of faulty genes? | The Philippines is an academic case study in dysgenics. I spent perhaps my first year in the Philippines refusing to believe what my eyes told me: that a large fraction of the population are made up of borderline retards. It was just too frightening to admit the truth.The causes are quite obviously as you describe: a deliberate selection of faulty genes, coupled with all the best ones leaving the gene pool.I know we’re both going to get screamed at for these posts. In my defence, I’ll offer Exhibit A: a young lad in his 20s who is employed at the local DIY store to open and close the door. That’s his job: opening and closing the door. I’ve never seen him do anything else.Now, is he doing this because there is no other means for him to earn a living? Or could it be that, in fact, opening and closing a door is the only thing he’s capable of without messing it up?And it’s not just him.– Slack-jawed “assistants” in stores, who don’t know what products they sell or what those products are for;– Store managers who just don’t know how to avoid the perennial “out of stock sir” situation;– “Security guards” whose job is to stand around doing nothing all day, or prodding customers in the kidneys;– Banks that can’t carry out the most basic financial transactions, and whose ATMs are endlessly “offline” or empty;– Lawyers who don’t know the Law, or can’t perform the most basic legal tasks;– Engineers who would have failed high-school physics in any other country;The list is endless. I have met a few clever Filipinos. However, most of the people I interact with day-to-day are hopelessly incompetent.I feel terribly sad when I see people like the door-opening guy. I guess he wasn’t born the sharpest tool in the box, but no human being should be employed in a job that could be done equally well by a motion sensor and a motor. I wonder what he could have been if he hadn’t had been brought up by stupid parents and stupid teachers, on a diet of junk food? He wouldn’t have ever got his astrophysics PhD, I’m sure, but maybe he would have been a great mechanic, or plumber, or racecar driver. But nobody ever told him: “That’s not good enough. Do it again, better this time”.---------------------This is a GRP Featured Comment. Join the discussion Petapixel .] | [] | 26/09/2017 0:00 | https://grpshorts.blogspot.com/2016/09/the-philippines-product-of-deliberate.html | GRPundit |
Paredes tirades against Duterte | Paredes is a known anti-Duterte that has been involved in several controversies during the campaign period for the 2016 election.Meanwhile, the relatively new formed Duterte Youth and is also directly backed by the president has been aiming to recruit 1 million members across the country. The chairman of the group claims that the group's duties will include loyally defending the president from any political tirades and plot of ousting the administration.Back to video, it can be seen that Paredes is agitated by the youth group which and if not for the people intervening it would have bloody messy. Here's the 12 minute footage of Jim Paredes vs Duterte Youth showing how the incident went down. | ['Vic Patnugot'] | 26/09/2017 0:00 | http://pinoynewsblogger.blogspot.com/2017/02/ | Pinoy News Blogger |
Filipinos should choose REAL LEADERS, not mere products of propaganda and demagoguery | The problem with Filipino voters is that they get caught in the moment. Nabaril lang ng assassin, naging hero na. Widow lang ng nabaril, presidential candidate na. Anak ng nabaril at ng widow na namatay, naging presidential candidate na din at naging presidente.Voters should focus on the contribution of a presidential candidate rather than the personality. Obviously, the voters didn't really care if CC Aquino didn't contribute anything to the Philippines and focused more on her being the media darling and widow of an assassinated former senator who was romanticized by the media but who was also convicted and sentenced to death which makes him a criminal.In order for the Philippines to improve as a country, we must choose candidates who really did something for the country and not because they are romanticized by the media. As we speak, the closest politician who can approximate Duterte's compassion for the people is BBM. Don't take my word for it. Try researching on what BBM did for Ilocos Norte which helped it become a first-class province. The only first-class province in the Philippines if I am not mistaken.Take a look at what he championed when he was senator. We consistently need to vote for someone who has actually done something to better the lives of his constituents. Duterte made Davao what it is now and BBM helped make Ilocos Norte into what it is now. These are the leaders we need. Not the demagoguery of the "yellowtards" na puro satsat at walang binatbat. | [] | 26/09/2017 0:00 | https://grpshorts.blogspot.com/2017/08/filipinos-should-choose-real-leaders.html | GRPundit |
#Philippines tourism a tough sell due to low value proposition! | The country just really isn't competitive for tourism. I've experienced it when backpacking and taking holidays around Southeast Asia – for most people, it's one of the places they'll visit last, if at all, when they've already done the more convenient mainland and the more tempting and diverse islands of Indonesia.By the time you get here after all that, the beaches are worse, the taxi drivers ditto, the cities stink, value for money is MUCH worse on accommodation and food (say goodbye to cheap and cheerful street eats), and there's a noticeable lack of culture – instead of the appealing 'exotic,' you see cheap and nasty replicas of Spanish churches and American fast food.When researching and getting ideas for my trips along the way, the Philippines was hardly represented in books and websites I came across featuring the purported best sights/trips/foods of Asia / the world (a book of 1000 foods to eat before you die didn't even mention it. Quite an achievement!) Sometimes they'd give a shout-out to Taal volcano, the Chocolate Hills or the rice terraces, but it's mainly for variety.I've written literally thousands of web pages and articles for travel companies over the last six years, but never once have I been asked to write a single page on the Philippines. Some of those companies do offer Philippines packages, but presumably most customers know what they're going there for and the companies are a bit too respectable to promote *that.*Promoting the Philippines tourism industry helps the economy, but it does also mean fooling visitors into spending their holiday somewhere they might not enjoy that much.------------------This is a GRP Featured Comment. Join the discussion!http://getrealphilippines.com/blog/2015/06/filipino-greatness/#comment-1199715 | [] | 26/09/2017 0:00 | https://grpshorts.blogspot.com/2015/06/philippines-tourism-tough-sell-due-to.html | GRPundit |
NASA TO ANNOUNCE MONDAY: EARTHLY DEBRIS FOUND ON MARS | The National Aeoronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is expected to announce on Monday that scientists have discovered on the surface of the red planet what appears to be debris from earth.NASA is preparing to reveal the “major science finding” in a special news conference that will take place at 11.30 a.m. EDT (4.30 p.m. BST) on Monday to be broadcast live on NASA TV. Reporters will be onsite and asking questions by phone, while the public can get involved via #AskNASA.Because of the ground-breaking discovery, scientists are now speculating that human life could exist in Mars.The debris consist of rusty man-made equipment which resemble those of film cameras, recorders and lighting paraphernalia.In advance of the news conference, The Adobo Chronicles® interviewed key inside sources at NASA who spoke on the condition of anonymity. They confirmed that the debris were, indeed, equipment recently left behind by a film crew from earth.We contacted 20th Century Fox, distributors of the upcoming Matt Damon starrer, ‘The Martian,’ but executives refused to confirm or deny that the debris found in Mars had anything to do with their movie which is set to be released worldwide next week.We’ll just have to wait for the official NASA announcement on Monday. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 26/09/2017 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2015/09/26/nasa-to-announce-monday-earthly-debris-found-in-mars/?share=email | Adobo Chronicles |
MCWHOPPER JOY: MCDONALDS, BURGER KING AND JOLLIBEE JOIN HANDS ON INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE | On September 21, the world commemorates the International Day of Peace as designated by the United Nations General Assembly. It also marks the U.N. body’s opening day of its annual meeting.To create greater awareness of the occasion, Burger King has proposed opening up a pop-up store in a parking lot between McDonald’s and Burger King in Atlanta, Georgia.The goal? To operate one restaurant for one day staffed by employees of both companies and selling a burger called the McWhopper, a blend of the Big Mac and the Whopper, the best-selling burgers at McDonald’s and Burger King.Sales proceeds would be donated to Peace One Day, a nonprofit group seeking to raise awareness of the International Day of Peace.To make it a truly international event, the Philippines’ top fast food company, Jollibee, is joining the effort and will add its famous spaghetti to the day’s special meal package. Jollibee will even throw in a medium soda and a small cup of frozen yogurt.September 21 also happens to be the anniversary of the official proclamation of Martial Law by the late Ferdinand E. Marcos in 1972.“We’ll be hitting two birds with one stone,” said Ernesto Tan Mantiong, Chief Executive Officer of Jollibee. “It shows our commitment to world peace and the rule of law.”The McDonald’s-Burger King-Jollibee meal combo will be called McWhopper Joy. (Jollibee’s famous chicken is called ‘Chicken Joy.’) | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 26/08/2018 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2015/08/26/mcwhopper-joy-mcdonalds-burger-king-and-jollibee-join-hands-on-international-day-of-peace/ | Adobo Chronicles |
Like Rodrigo Duterte, Singapore’s late PM Lee Kuan Yew also spoke about Philippine media’s failures | It has been a busy few weeks for members of Philippine media. Their love affair with incoming President Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte seems to have ended abruptly. Some members of local and even foreign media have called on their colleagues to boycott covering Duterte until he apologises for his remarks about media killings. Apparently, some have interpreted what he said about media killings as “condoning” the murder of journalists. Of course asking Duterte to apologise is basically asking him to tell you to go to hell. True enough, calls to boycott him backfired. Duterte said he doesn’t really care if journalists boycott him.Those who called for boycotting Duterte didn’t think things through. They have no choice but to cover the activities of the office of the President so they obviously aren’t going to win this power struggle. Not covering Duterte will be their loss, not his.Duterte’s nightly press conferences in Davao City, where he prefers to stay instead of Manila, had become some kind of one-man show featuring the President-elect. Duterte loves going on these long monologues on topics he is passionate about. So when a journalist asked him about media killings, he had a lot to say. He enumerated three kinds of journalists. Before that, the first thing he said was, a lot of the murdered journalists were corrupt:Just because you’re a journalist you are not exempted from assassination, if you’re a son of a bitch…andMost of those killed, to be frank, have done something. You won’t be killed if you don’t do anything wrong…andThat can’t be just freedom of speech. The constitution can no longer help you if you disrespect a person…According to Duterte, the three kinds of journalists in the Philippines are: the crusaders – these journalists tell the truth, baring it all before the public. They seldom die because they are respected by the community. Then there are the mouthpieces of vested interests. They act as agents who defend businesses and enterprises. And lastly, the third kind are the vultures of journalism. These are the ones who extort from politicians and businessmen in exchange for keeping quiet about certain damning information. Some of them also engage in publishing malicious information against their sponsors’ rivals. We’ve seen a lot of those so-called “investigative” journalists in the last three decades especially during President Benigno Simeon Aquino’s term.This is not the first time I’ve heard about corrupt journalists. I don’t even know why some in the industry were outraged because, surely, they themselves know of “journalists” who do it for the love of money, not for the love of the truth. The first time someone told me journalists who get killed are corrupt, I was shocked at the thought of how someone could easily dismiss the killings. The second and third time I heard it, my reaction was like “Okay, it seems journalists in the Philippines have a really bad reputation”. It’s either that or the value of life is not really that high in the Philippines. Either way, the situation for Filipino media people isn’t too good. Members of Philippine media should accept the fact that they have a bad reputation. The public doesn’t see the industry as bastion of integrity & honesty. To fix this, they should start policing one another.The problem with some of the members of Philippine media is they engage in partisan politics. They put colour in the news. This was evident prior to the 2010 Presidential Elections when then candidate BS Aquino quite often occupied the front pages of the Philippine Daily Inquirer compared to his rivals. They helped condition the minds of the public that he was popular. Their alliances with the Aquinos were too obvious for some people to ignore. Other media outlets like ABS-CBN also have a reputation for being allied with the Liberal Party. The TV network even featured the life and times of then Vice Presidential candidate Leni Robredo in their popular show Maalaala mo kaya even before the official campaign period started.The Inquirer was also first to headline controversies involving BS Aquino’s rivals like the late former Chief Justice Renato Corona, outgoing Vice President Jejomar Binay and former President Gloria Arroyo. But they hardly reported on news about allegations of corruption involving BS Aquino’s allies like Budget Secretary Butch Abad and former Cabinet Secretary and losing Presidential candidate Mar Roxas. Likewise, The Inquirer didn’t seem to bother digging deeper into allegations of electoral fraud in the recent Presidential Elections, which some are alleging to have resulted in Senator Bongbong Marcos being cheated out of the Vice Presidency. The only publications that gave in-depth analysis about the electoral fraud are The Manila Times and The Standard.The late former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew also spoke about the divisiveness of Philippine media in a speech given during the annual convention of American Society of Newspaper Editors in 1998. According to Lee, “a wieldy partisan press helped Filipino politicians to flood the market place of ideas with junk”. Apparently, the Philippine press before Martial Law enjoyed all the freedom but failed the Filipino people. Lee added that the Philippine press “confused and befuddled the Filipino people so they could not see what their vital interests were in a developing country. And because basic issues like economic growth and equitable distribution was seldom discussed and were not tackled, the democratic system malfunctioned.”After the EDSA people power “revolution”, Philippine media promoted wholesale mediocrity. They were not interested in reporting the failures of the housewife who replaced the so-called “dictator”. Former President Cory Aquino got away with condoning corruption of the people allied with her. Even a letter written by her former Vice President Salvador Laurel expressing his disillusionment with the icon of democracy wasn’t highlighted by the media. They weren’t interested in exposing the truth because they probably didn’t want to taint the image of Cory as the “hero” of EDSA. Some excerpts from his letter are worth republishing here:“But the true state of the nation must be told. And the painful truth is that the nation has gone from bad to worse, while you choose to stand aside in the puerile hope that the problems would simply solve themselves. The ‘new moral order’ to which we were solemnly committed has been perverted. It has become a haven for assassins and a den of thieves. Corruption, betrayal of the public trust and other high crimes have been laid at your door, including a complaint for impeachment, which your chief ally in Congress has already consigned to the archives. “We promised our people morality and decency in government. What do we have instead? The very opposite. It is now openly admitted by many, including your former Solicitor-General and some of your own close relatives in Congress, that the stench of “accumulated garbage”—I’m quoting your own first cousin, Congressman Emigdio Tanjuatco, Jr. —rises to high heaven; that the past years of Marcos are now beginning to look no worse than your first two years in office. And the reported controversies and scandals involving your closest relatives have become the object of our people’s outrage.If only the Philippine media did not play partisan politics, the Filipino people would know the true state of the nation under the Aquinos and their allies. For thirty years, the public was duped into thinking that only former Ferdinand Marcos was the reason why the Philippines could not progress. Indeed, the Philippine media is responsible for the dumbing down of Philippine society in the last three decades especially with their moronic television programs.President-elect Duterte is right in calling out the hypocrisy of Philippine media. It’s about time someone stood up to them. The public will benefit from Duterte not being beholden to members of the media. Frankly, some of them are acting like a bunch of crybabies. Instead of acting like victims, journalists should help investigate the murders of their colleagues. It is sad that journalists get murdered, but a lot of ordinary Filipinos get murdered every day without being reported by the media. Every murder in the Philippines should be treated by the authorities with equal attention.I do not understand why some people are shocked by Duterte’s no-holds-barred speech. He has been talking the way he does even before announcing his candidacy and during the campaign period. Some members of the media simply need to act less emo and continue to cover real news instead of being part of the news. | [] | 2016-06-04 13:57:37+00:00 | https://www.getrealphilippines.com/2016/06/like-rodrigo-duterte-singapores-late-pm-lee-kuan-yew-also-spoke-philippine-medias-failures/ | Get Real Philippines |
Look: Kalibo rejoices for Duterte’s presence | After Mayor Rody Duterte rocked Bacolod and Iloilo yesterday, it’s time for Kalibo, Aklan. Thousands people in Kalibo braved the heat of the sun and the long hours of waiting for Duterte to appear on Wednesday.Sexy dance group Mocha Girls joined the rally and entertained the people. Mocha Girls has been performing in all of Duterte sorties free of charge.The photos will tell you how thirsty the people now for real CHANGE!Any thoughts about these photos? Leave your message below! | [] | 2016-04-20 07:30:26+08:00 | http://duterte.today/look-kalibo-rejoices-for-dutertes-presence/ | Duterte Daily Stories |
AFTERMATH OF ‘YELLOW FACE’ PRODUCTION OF ‘THE MIKADO’ : BLUE MEN PROTEST | for the tenth time in its 60-year history. Critics say having an all-white cast with faces painted yellow is not kosher.The Seattle controversy is reminiscent of Asian Americans protesting the initial Broadway production of the musical Miss Saigon, in which Caucasian actor Jonathan Pryce played the role of the Engineer.Inspired by the Seattle yellow face controversy, an obscure community of blue men and women living in the outskirts of Alaska has issued a statement criticizing the popular Blue Man Group.Blue Man Group is an organization founded in 1987 by Chris Wink, Matt Goldman and Phil Stanton. The organization produces theatrical shows and concerts featuring experimental music (with an emphasis on percussion), comedy and multimedia; recorded music and scores for film and television; numerous television appearances, and a children’s museum exhibit (“Making Waves”). All of the organization’s theatrical performances star a trio of humanoid characters called Blue Men, played by actor-musicians who wear bald caps and uniform blue makeup.The Alaska blue men community members seldom leave their commune for fear of discrimination because of their unusual skin color. In fact, they have diplomatically refused to grant an in-person interview request by The Adobo Chronicles. “We have never shown ourselves to anyone outside of our community,” they said. “But the growing popularity of the Blue Man Group could significantly threaten our peaceful existence and encourage impostors. That’s why we’ve chosen to finally speak out.” | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 21/07/2017 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2014/07/21/aftermath-of-yellow-face-production-of-the-mikado-blue-men-protest/#respond | Adobo Chronicles |
#SONA2017 proves that Duterte is LEGALLY popular! | The second State of the Nation Address (SONA) of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte was a hit. Short of trawling the technical report that underpins it, that’s really the only key takeaway from the show Duterte put on yesterday, the 24th July 2017. It was a speech validated by applause and social media engagement around the “worldwide-trending” hashtag #SONA2017.Like a good Game of Thrones episode, the Duterte Show delivered a media feast — content that appeals to every vestige of our reptilian complexes, sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll with a dash of the important issues as footnotes. The same formula that makes Thrones a hit is behind what makes Duterte a hit. Indeed, monitoring my social media timelines, I find it quite amusing to see Tweetizens who, on one hand, would be gushing about the latest Thrones episode and, on another, be gnashing their teeth in outrage over Duterte’s antics.Duterte is a product of the system enacted by the “revolutionary” government of President Cory Aquino in 1987. The 1987 Constitution was hurriedly ratified to legitimise what, until then, was an illegal government. So effective was this technique of siezing power that it was done again in 2001 (and attempted many times after). This Constitution put the “people’s will” on a pedestal so much so that there was conceptual room (with a bit of creative lawyering) to legalise anything given a stamp of approval by a critical mass of people shouting loud enough on any Manila street.Like any leader of any democracy, Duterte’s power — his ability to push things through Congress and influence the judiciary — comes from his popularity. But unlike the popularity of traditional Yellow leaders, his is a popularity legally channeled through institutions. He was elected fair-and-square (albeit likely with a big enough margin to mitigate the effects of alleged electoral fraud perpetrated by his main rival in the 2016 elections). And he sustained that popularity by simply being himself.To this day, Duterte’s popularity-enabled power manifests itself and is applied legally — channeled through the halls of Congress where, in a recent example, Martial Law, the erstwhile political bogeyman of yore, was given a renewed spot under a positive light as a way forward to building a strong nation. As far as we have observed, he has never hinted at extra-constitutional means to push his agenda through. This is in stark contrast with the way adherents of the Yellow Camp (a.k.a. the Philippines’ Liberal Party) think. To the Yellowtards, extra-constitutional means to get their way are always an option. They’ll “take to the streets” at the drop of a hat or, more specifically, at the slightest hint that they feel their self-bestowed entitlement to power is threatened.Former president Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III embodied this temperamental brattiness often mistakenly attributed only to young “millennials”. In the lead up to the 2016 presidential elections, BS Aquino threatened to launch ‘people power’ if Duterte and (then VP candidate) Bongbong Marcos won the election…But what is more worrisome now is that President Benigno Simeon Aquino III (PNoy) said he will lead a people power uprising if a DU30-BBM win happens. This is not an empty threat. He might not have people since his favorability rating is now zero in NCR and his Laglagan Party will no longer be there. Unfortunately, his core group remains. These bastards think the Philippines is all about them and all for them. They created a bubble economy to prop up their image, but really not to help the country. They will now incite havoc to burst that bubble. They can do that easily. PNoy has demonstrated his capability for treason just to advance themselves as he did in his now-infamous Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) project.The trouble with the Opposition is that they continue to latch on to the belief that what is “moral” is necessarily consistent with what the majority will choose. So the idea that the “people’s will” is sacred has, for 30 years, stood on a flawed understanding of its true nature. In actual fact, the true people’s will is amoral (not to be confused with immoral); that is, it makes no distinction between any society’s standard of “good” or “evil”. What is popular has no causal relationship with morality any more than the most popular celebrity has only a lose correlation with actual talent at best. This is the reason pollsters and election punters rely on data science (the same science behind weather forecasting and fashion marketing) to predict elections.This was the fatal error of the Liberal Party in 2016 and the reason they continue to languish in inutile chaos today. The current Opposition led by the Yellowtards’ “prayerful” lot continue to believe in an entitlement to win in a “democracy” premised on goodness as defined by religious scripture and dogma. They lack a scientific approach to winning elections and sustaining popularity. They would rather believe in hocus pocus ideas on why they ought to be in power rather than on sound reasons why they lost the Philippines and continue to fail today.This lesson should not be lost in Duterte’s government either. Rather than rest on their laurels, Team Duterte should step up and be better than they are today. For all the president’s men, the key challenge lies in becoming more organised, coherent, and scientific in a concerted effort to sustain and secure the enormous political capital their boss possesses today. Unlike the Yellowtards who failed to invest in getting to know and understand their enemy, it seems that Team Duterte have a clear picture of who their enemies are and what they are up against. That knowledge needs to be used wisely. | ['Oratio Imperata'] | 2017-07-25 02:00:42+00:00 | https://www.getrealphilippines.com/2017/07/whatever-his-critics-say-dutertes-popularity-was-acquired-through-legal-means/ | Get Real Philippines |
TOP TEN REASONS PRESIDENT AQUINO SNUBBED NORA AUNOR AS NATIONAL ARTIST | The exclusion of award-winning actress Nora Aunor from this year’s list of National Artists has created an uproar among many Filipinos here and abroad. All blame points to President NoyNoy Aquino.Here are the top ten reasons Aquino snubbed La Aunor:Nora Aunor has an uncanny resemblance to ex-President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo President Aquino is reserving a spot for his sister, Kris Aquino President Aquino received thousands of emails from Vilmanians opposing Aunor’s nomination President Aquino believes that Aunor is a Marcos Loyalist Aunor has won more awards and recognition than Aquino Aunor’s past drug problem might bring attention to Aquino’s own addiction President Aquino thinks that in order to be a National Artist, one must be able to paint In making his final choices for National Artist, Aquino played ‘jack n poy’ with Vice President Jejomar Binay President Aquino wanted a nominee from his home province of Tarlac. Aunor is Bicolana Aquino wants to live up to his reputation of being clueless.Bonus reason:11. “Aunor” sounds too close to Aquino’s nickname, “Abnoy” | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 24/06/2017 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2014/06/24/top-ten-reasons-president-aquino-snubbed-nora-aunor-as-national-artist/ | Adobo Chronicles |
A BOOST TO THE PHILIPPINE BEEF INDUSTRY | As calls for the scrapping of the Priority Development Assistance Fund, better known as pork barrel, escalated, Philippine Senate President Pro Tempore Ralph Recto has proposed that a good portion of P26-billion fund be realigned and spent on education—for more teachers, classrooms, science labs and even meals for malnourished children in public schools.“If plans to scrap the P26-bllion PDAF in the proposed 2014 national budget will push through, then a big portion of that amount must go to education,” Recto said . He has a new name for the pork barrel fund—Basic Education Enhancement Fund or BEEF.Recto’s proposal was immediated applauded by sectors of the Philippine beef industry. Commercial and backyard cattle raisers alike said that it is about time that the beef business be given a big boost. Consumption of pork in the Philippines far outnumbers that of beef, primarily because of the prohibitive prices of the latter.“Recto’s proposal, if approved by Congress, would be the best advertising for the beef industry,” cattle raisers said . “And thanks to the pork barrel scam, pork’s reputation has significant declined. Now it is beef’s time to stage a comeback,” they added.The total cattle inventory in the country as of January 1, 2013 was almost 2.50 million heads. This was 0.19 percent higher than last year’s record of 2.49 million heads. Of the total inventory, about 2.32 million heads or 93.00 percent were raised in backyard farms. The remaining 7.00 percent or about 0.17 million head were raised in commercial farms.As of press time, the Cattle Industry is finalizing a nationwide ad campaign and has come up with a catchy meme, “Butt out, pork. Here’s the beef!” | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 31/08/2016 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2013/08/31/a-boost-to-the-philippine-beef-industry/ | Adobo Chronicles |
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BREAKING:Muntinlupa RTC orders Senator De Lima to be arrested | Senator Leila De Lima was expected to be arrested anytime soon after the Regional Trial Court of Muntinlupa (RTC) Branch 204 issued the arrest warrant against the lady Senator.Judge Juanito Gerrerro, Judge Amelia Fabros-Corpuz and Judge Patria Manalastas-De Leon raffled off the case against Sen. De Lima who accused of being the protector of the Bilibid Prison Drug Trade.Last week, Department of Justice charged De Lima for violating the Republic Act 9165 or Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act.Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption, Bilibid inmates and former NBI Deputy Directors also filed a case against Senator Leila De Lima who allegedly ordered the inmates to sell illegal drugs to fund her Senatorial Campaign.The Lady Senator said before that she’s ready to face all the accusations against her, but she requested to be detained in a safe place where she can avoid being a victim of alleged extrajudicial killings.But the VACC and other lawmakers said that De Lima must not allowed to chose where she can be detained.This week, Senator Leila De Lima released tirades against the Duterte administration and labeled President Rodrigo Duterte a ‘sociopathic killer’. She also urged the Filipino people to join the People Power Revolution Anniversary Rally on February 25- 26 and stood up against the dictatorship of the current administration. | ['View All Posts Pinoytrending'] | 2017-02-23 16:37:36+08:00 | https://pinoytrending.altervista.org/breakingmuntinlupa-rtc-orders-senator-de-lima-arrested/ | Pinoytrending Altervista |
There are no solutions to the #Philippines' poverty... | Why? Because the basic core of the problem in the Philippine is this: Filipinos, as a nation, do NOT want to improve. In fact, most of them don't even comprehend what it is to improve.It's a bit like trying to cure an alcoholic. You can only cure them if THEY decide they WANT to change. Filipinos don't want to change. As irrational as it might sound to westerners, Filipinos are happy being poor, dishonest, corrupt, totally selfish, uncaring, inconsiderate, lazy, and a long list of negatives.There is no hope for the Philippines. And the only reason is because Filipinos don't want anything different.Sure, there's the small (10%) of Filipinos who decide to actually do some work and become OFW's, but the remainder of the population is happier to be poor and shiftless.I am convinced that there is no hope for the Philippines. It can never improve. Improvement is not something most Filipinos even comprehend or care about. Yeah, they want money, but not if it takes any effort or self discipline to obtain it.----------------This is a GRP Featured Comment. Join the discussion!http://getrealphilippines.com/blog/2016/01/landless-land-whats-solution-metro-manilas-squatter-menace/comment-page-1/#comment-1532477 | [] | 2016-08-31 11:54:08+08:00 | https://grpshorts.blogspot.com/2016/01/there-are-no-solutions-to-philippines.html | GRPundit |
LOOK: Mother contacts soldier son, Abu Sayyaf replies | In a text message, mother of Pfc, Jisun Falcasantos, texted her son’s phone to ask if how was he doing. Falcasantos is assigned in Sulu to combat Abu Sayyaf forces and of the 15 soldiers who died in an encounter in Sulu, Monday afternoon. President Rodrigo Duterte has declared an all out war against the terrorists.Shockingly, Falcasantos mother received a reply. It appeared to be from somebody else whom they believed a member of Abu Sayyaf.” Pinugutan na namin sya ng ulo” part of the terrorist reply. Look the screengrab below of the text messages.What can you say about it? Leave your comments below! | [] | 2016-08-31 11:54:08+08:00 | http://duterte.today/look-mother-contacts-soldier-son-abu-sayyaf-replies/ | Duterte Daily Stories |
BIR, Customs And DOTC Heads Cry Foul Over President Aquino’s Presidential Medals | the Order of Lakandula with the rank of Gold Cross Bayani on Cabinet secretaries and the Presidential Medal of Merit on other senior officials.The President personally thanked his Cabinet members for their service and sacrifices, praising some of them for giving up their jobs and personal time with their families to “bring change” to the country. “I couldn’t have done anything without you,” he said.But conspicuously missing from his honorees were three of the most popular agency heads of the Aquino administration — Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) Commissioner Kim Henares, Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) Secretary Emilio Abaya and Customs Commissioner Alberto Lina.All three protested their omission from the merit awards and went as far as calling Aquino persona non grata.Incidentally, the three agencies were named by Duterte as “the most corrupt” agencies in the country. (While the Land Transportation Office or LTO was the third agency mentioned by Duterte, it is under the jurisdiction of the DOTC headed by Abaya. The infamous Ninoy Aquino International Airport or NAIA, is also under his wing).By snubbing the three admninistration heads, political analysts have concluded that Aquino agrees with Duterte’s assessment on the three most corrupt agencies in the country. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 24/06/2016 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2016/06/24/bir-customs-and-dotc-heads-cry-foul-over-president-aquinos-presidential-medals/?share=email | Adobo Chronicles |
ADOBO CHRONICLES’ “NAME MARK ZUCKERBERG’S BABY” CONTEST | Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have announced that they are having a baby girl. This, after revealing that she has had several miscarriages.The proud parents posted a family photo with their dog Beast on Facebook.Zuckerberg even revealed that during an ultrasound, the baby gave him a thumbs up in the tradition of a Facebook ‘Like.’ “She is already part of our Facebook community,” he said.Today, Zuckerberg also announced that he has designated The Adobo Chronicles® to conduct an official worldwide contest to name the baby girl.“We are deeply indebted to the Facebook community and we would like our members and followers to be actively involved in our child’s life,” said Zuckerberg.The winner of the contest will have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be a godparent for the first Facebook baby.So put on your thinking caps and send us your suggested names through the comments section below.And make sure to ‘like’ the name you think should be chosen for baby Zuckerberg!The contest ends on Labor Day (the holiday, not the day Priscilla will go on labor). | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 01/08/2018 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2015/08/01/adobo-chronicles-name-mark-zuckerbergs-baby-contest/ | Adobo Chronicles |
PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT AQUINO DEMOTED TO POLICE CHIEF | One hundred million Filipinos woke up today to find that their president, Noynoy Aquino has been demoted to police chief of Metro Manila. His Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas was also demoted to deputy police chief.The good news is, both seem to be fit for, and doing great in their new jobs.Less than 24 hours after their demotion, both gentlemen were busy at work, responding to a jewelry robbery at a store inside SM, a popular shopping mall.Aquino went to the SM North Edsa Mall in Quezon City, more than two hours after members of the notorious Martilyo gang tried to rob a jewelry store. After 15 minutes of conferring with police officials and surveying the crime scene, he left the site just as Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas arrived.Roxas did not, however, linger long to allow Quezon City police investigators to conduct a probe on the robbery.Aquino and Roxas received praise for being efficient first responders to the crime. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 15/12/2016 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2013/12/15/philippine-president-aquino-demoted-to-police-chief/#respond | Adobo Chronicles |
PHILIPPINE AIRLINES LAUNCHES WORLD’S FIRST OPEN-DECK PASSENGER AIRCRAFT | farmers can ride on the open deck built on top of the aircraft, along with their agricultural produce not exceeding 10 kilos (22 pounds) per passenger. The only downside to what Philippine Airlines is calling the “deck class” is that there is no beverage service available. Asked by The Adobo Chronicles whether or not there is a lavatory on the open deck, a PAL spokesperson replied, “We don’t think anyone needs it up there.”The new open-deck aircraft is expected to serve other airports in the Visayas and Mindanao islands within the next year or so. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 19/08/2016 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2013/08/19/philippine-airlines-launches-worlds-first-open-deck-passenger-aircraft/?share=email | Adobo Chronicles |
U.S. Cancels Visa Of Philippines’ Senator Trillanes And Congressman Alejano | if the court formally proceeded with opening an investigation into alleged war crimes committed by US military and intelligence staff during the war in Afghanistan or pursued any investigation into Israel or other US allies.ICC is the International Criminal Court.Now, America has cancelled the U.S. visas of two Philippine legislators — Senator Antonio Trillanes and Representative Gay Alejano. The couple had previously filed a complaint before the ICC asking the International body to prosecute President Rodrigo Duterte for alleged crimes against humanity.This is a case of Uncle Sam coming to the aid of Juan dela Cruz — not Trillanes or Alejano — but Duterte and the 87% of Filipinos who support the President. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 12/09/2018 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2018/09/12/u-s-cancels-visa-of-philippines-senator-trillanes-and-congressman-alejano/ | Adobo Chronicles |
Philippines Aiming For Guinness Record As SPAM Capital Of The World | The Philippines already holds the record of social media capital and selfie capital of the world, and now it is aiming for yet another Guinness honor — that of SPAM capital of the world.Filipinos are using social media platforms 53 hours a week. That’s a whole 11 hours more than the global average of 42 hours according to a global study.Now, Filipinos want to be recognized for SPAM, not the annoying, unsolicited mail or posts one gets on email or social media accounts. Rather, the canned SPAM meat manufactured by Hormel Foods.Right now, the U.S. territory of Guam is recognized as the SPAM capital of the world, followed by the state of Hawaii (thanks to the enormous popularity of SPAM sushi). The Philippines is unofficially in third place. Filipinos want their SPAM for breakfast (with fried rice and eggs) and as special food fare when they have visitors.So, might as well aim to be No. 1 in SPAM consumption, right?In order to achieve this honor, the Philippines’ Department of Tourism and the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) have launched a joint program to encourage overseas Filipinos, especially those in the United States, to double or triple their SPAM shipment via Balikbayan boxes to their relatives in the Philippines.“If each overseas Filipino worker sends at least a case of SPAM to their Filipino relatives twice a year, we can easily break Guam’s and Hawaii’s records,” the POEA said.Oh, and make that SPAM Tocino, please! | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 29/04/2016 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2016/04/29/philippines-aiming-for-guinness-record-as-spam-capital-of-the-world/ | Adobo Chronicles |
Philippines Disqualified From Next Year’s Asia’s Got Talent | Fans and judges have spoken and the nine finalists in Season 2 of “Asia’s Got Talent” (AGT) have been named, three of them from the Philippines.After receiving angry complaints from all over Asia, producers of AGT have announced today that next year’s season will not have any Filipino contestants.”Filipinos are too talented and this creates an unfair advantage by Pinoys over talents from other Asian countries,” the producers said.”We will reassess the situation in the next few years to see if we can again accept talents from the Philippines,” they added. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 14/12/2017 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2017/12/14/philippines-disqualified-from-next-years-asias-got-talent/?share=email | Adobo Chronicles |
Philippine Catholic Bishops Ban Halloween Parties | The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) reminded the public to spend money on charity instead of going to costume parties.Ozamiz Bishop Martin Jumoad told Radyo Veritas that attending Halloween parties will not benefit a person’s faith. He said Filipinos should instead help typhoon survivors and other people who are in need.Jumaod said people should share their resources, especially since it is the Year of Mercy for those who are Catholic. “Cancel your Halloween parties and divert your money in helping the poor, those who are affected by the typhoon ‘Lawin’ and ‘Karen’ in Batanes and in Northern Luzon,” he said.Reacting to Jumaod’s statement, CBCP president Socrates Villegas said the Ozamiz bishop does not speak for the entire CBCP. “The Catholic bishops of the Philippines want to maintain our profitable investments in the stock market,” he said, ” charity can wait.” | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 28/10/2016 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2016/10/28/philippine-catholic-bishops-ban-halloween-parties/ | Adobo Chronicles |
OBAMA FACES DIPLOMATIC STANDOFF IN JAPAN | Barack Obama faced the most embarrassing diplomatic standoff to date in his years as U.S. President. It happened during his visit to Japan, the first leg of his multi-nation tour of Asia.Obama’s advisers sure did a good job in briefing him about Japanese culture and etiquette, so the president knew that a “bow” was the appropriate greeting when meeting with dignitaries and the Japanese people. So when he was introduced to Asimo, the robot at Miraikan, Japan’s major science center located in Daiba, Tokyo, he did what he was supposed to do: bow his head. To his surprise, Asimo didn’t return his bow, but instead offered its robotic arm looking for a handshake, the American way of greeting. Obama froze and didn’t know what to do. And neither did Asimo.The rest is history. The meeting has now been dubbed as the worst diplomatic standoff ever encountered by a sitting U.S. president.To diffuse the awkward situation, officials at Miraikan asked Asimo to demonstrate to the distinguished visitor its running and soccer skills, and Obama was quite impressed although he admitted he was a little “scared.”Want an oxygen mask? That would be $50 extra! | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 24/04/2017 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2014/04/24/obama-faces-diplomatic-standoff-in-japan/#respond | Adobo Chronicles |
‘GOOGLE VOICE’ FACES GENDER DISCRIMINATION LAWSUIT | The West Coast Division of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing Google for gender discrimination over its popular Google Voice smart phone app.Like Apple’s Siri, Google Voice is able to help smart phone users with questions or directions through its voice-activated feature. The problem is that Google Voice does not have an option for a male voice, unlike Siri.The class action suit alleges that Google discriminates against consumers who have specific gender preferences for their smart phone “assistants or concierge service” by not offering the option of a male voice, especially in a gay male-dominated place like the San Francisco Bay Area.Google has not returned calls from The Adobo Chronicles requesting for comment on the lawsuit. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 14/12/2016 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2013/12/14/google-voice-faces-class-action-suit/?share=email | Adobo Chronicles |
FIAT CAR SALES IN U.S. TRIPLE, THANKS TO POPE FRANCIS | Fiat, the Italian part of the global Fiat-Chrysler alliance, is having more and more trouble selling its small, inexpensive cars in America. Most recent data on “days to turn,” the average number of days dealers have cars in inventory before selling them, continues to rise for Fiat.But thanks to the U.S. visit of Pope Francis, Fiat sales in the U.S. have more than tripled in just the last two days. This, after Catholic car buyers watched media coverage of the Pontiff’s activities in Washington, D.C., during which he has been transported from the airport to The White House to the U.S. Capitol and other venues in a tiny Fiat instead of the usual Cadillac limousines afforded visiting dignitaries.Even in the Vatican, the Pope has traded his limousine and Popemobile in favor of a used Fiat.Since becoming pope, Francis has led an uncomplicated life, rejecting the pompous and ostentatious ways of The Vatican. From shoes to garments, from living quarters to automobiles, he has chosen the way of simplicity and poverty.Will this signal the end of Volkswagen’s and Toyota’s world dominance in automaking? | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 25/09/2017 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2015/09/25/fiat-car-sales-in-u-s-triple-thanks-to-pope-francis/?share=email | Adobo Chronicles |
On the sickening reaction of the Yellowtards to the Davao night market bombing... | As soon as news of the Davao blast came out, I knew it was only a matter of time before the smug, celebratory posts of the minions of the “disente” crowd would start coming out in social media.This is very consistent with their “us vs. them” mentality and total lack of empathy for people who do not subscribe to their yellow religion.They do not realize that this blast could have happened anywhere. It could have happened to any one of us, while sitting inside our cars in traffic, or while eating at a restaurant in a mall. Yellow or not, in Manila or in Cebu, in the Philippines or in Europe, we are all targets of terrorism, and we should all be mourning because it could just as easily have been us. It just so happened that Davao was the target this time because the president is from Davao.The sickening gleeful reaction of the yellow trolls is no different from the way the Liberal Party acted in the aftermath of Typhoon Yolanda. It is the same yellow beast rearing its ugly head. Recall how, in the midst of panic and total devastation in Tacloban, the yellows still could not get past their politics and show humanity. They witheld relief goods from barangay captains who were not on their side, and they witheld sending resources of the national government because “the mayor is a Romualdez while the president is an Aquino”. Politics was more important than the suffering of the victims.This is not who we are as Filipinos. Filipinos do not take joy in the pain and suffering of their fellow human beings. Whatever political color you belong to, you must realize that terrorism is a common threat that targets us all, and we must all work together to help the Duterte government fight this threat.Tama na muna yang ambisyon niyo na mang-agaw ng pwesto. Baka kayo ang sunod na masabugan.-------------------This is a GRP Featured Comment. Join the discussion | [] | 26/07/2018 0:00 | https://grpshorts.blogspot.com/2016/09/on-sickening-reaction-of-yellowtards-to.html | GRPundit |
‘Nina,’ Starring Zoe Saldana: The First Contender For The 2017 Oscars | Now that the 2016 Oscars have been handed out, it’s time for film makers and moviegoers to look to next year’s contenders. Critics are already saying that ‘Nina,’ a biopic about the legendary troubled singer Nina Simone, is leading the pack.The new film stars actress Zoe Saldana and David Oyelowo (‘Selma,’ ‘The Brave One’).Saldana, a Latina, brings to life the blues legend who was a major figure during the civil rights movement.There was one problem when Saldana was cast. She wasn’t black enough. But make-up artists worked hard to make her light skin several shades darker. They even gave her a prosthetic nose.And so, the rest is history. ‘Nina’ is all but assured of a nomination, perhaps even an Oscar statuette for ‘Best Make-up’ come the 2017 Academy Awards.Is this the beginning of the end of #oscarssowhite?“Nina,” hits theaters and VOD on April 22. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 02/03/2016 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2016/03/02/nina-starring-zoe-saldana-the-first-contender-for-the-2017-oscars/ | Adobo Chronicles |
Fact Check: The True Meaning Of Yellow | For the longest time since Cory Aquino became President of the Philippines, the color yellow has been made to represent courage and opposition to the establishment.In fact, the yellow ribbon has replaced the tri-colors of the Philippine flag among NoyNoy Aquino and members of his Liberal Party.But a simple Internet search reveals that the true meaning of the yellow color is cowardice and deceit — both of which accurately describe Aquino and his minions. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 23/04/2018 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2018/04/23/fact-check-the-true-meaning-of-yellow/?share=email | Adobo Chronicles |
Guy Rips Sack in a Crazy Stunt After Tying Balls to Tree Before Jumping Off | In this world full of misery, stricken by war and hunger, one can easily go crazy. And believe it or not, there are lot of people that brings crazy to another level like this dude who tied a rope around his balls then jumped off the bleachers.The result is astonishing. He ripped it off because what do yo expect to happen? You tie a rope around your sack to a tree, sprint and then jump off a bleacher, you should expect to rip things off. And in this case, your reproductive organs which are extremely important if you want father children in the future.You see, this is not just some story I heard somewhere. We have video. It's actually one of the many crazy stunts that YouTube channel P. O. R. Stunts did. Go watch the ripping of the sack footage below: | ['Vic Patnugot'] | 26/06/2016 0:00 | http://pinoynewsblogger.blogspot.com/2017/05/guy-rips-sack-in-crazy-stunt-after.html | Pinoy News Blogger |
Philippine Beauty Pageant Bans Females Born In C-Section | It’s that time of the year again when the Philippines chooses its representatives to various international beauty pageants.As one can imagine, there is so much excitement following recent victories by Filipinas in bringing home prestigious titles like Miss Universe, Miss World and Miss International, among many others.One of the major Philippine pageants is the ‘Mutya Ng Pilipinas’ which currently holds franchises to international contests like Miss Asia Pacific International, Miss Tourism International, Miss Tourism Queen of trhe Year International, Top Model of the World and Miss Tourism Planet.However, ‘Mutya Ng Pilipinas’ faces charges of discrimination because of its screening process and candidate requirements. Among other qualifications to sign up as a pageant contestant, the applicant must be “a natural-born female.”Many believe that this requirement discriminates against females who were born in the Cesarean or C-Section. “Why limit the contest only to those born through natural delivery,” they ask. “What’s important is that they are of Philippine heritage and can represent the true beauty of the Filipina.”The Adobo Chronicles tried to reach pageant organizers for comment but they have not returned our calls. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 26/06/2016 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2016/06/26/philippine-beauty-pageant-bans-females-born-in-c-section/?share=email | Adobo Chronicles |
SPAM SHORTAGE HITS HAWAII | said: “secret service agents and journalists” accompaning President Barack Obama who is currently vacationing in Hawaii with the first family and first dog, Bo.Officials are also investigating reports that the shortage is further aggravated by Filipinos going home for the holidays with balikbayan boxes loaded with cans of spam purchased from Costco and other warehouse stores in the islands.Local merchants have sent urgent messages to Hormel Foods, makers of spam, to airlift several thousand cases of canned spam from its Minnesota headquarters to Hawaii. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 25/12/2016 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2013/12/25/spam-shortage-hits-hawaii/ | Adobo Chronicles |
Move Over TransAmerica Pyramid, Here Comes San Francisco’s Leaning Tower | For many decades, San Francisco’s skyline was ruled by the TransAmerica Building. No tourist will leave the City by the Bay without a selfie in front of the obelisk-shaped tower.Not anymore.Here comes San Francisco’s newest and future tourist attraction: The Millennium Condominium Tower. It’s the city’s modern version of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.At its current rate, the sinking Tower could tilt another 10 inches toward the Salesforce Tower in the next two years, lawyers for the homeowners warned in a legal filing.We asked our artist-in-residence to give us an idea what the Tower might look like in the future (see photo).While condominium residents will not be happy, world tourists will be, for sure! | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 05/09/2017 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2017/09/05/move-over-transamerica-pyramid-here-comes-san-franciscos-leaning-tower/?share=email | Adobo Chronicles |
Spoilt entitled brat #LabanLeni Robredo to lead spoilt entitled brat Opposition! | Leni Robredo’s tantrum over her termination from the Cabinet last weekend continued all the way up to the whole of Monday.To follow up her lengthy “I won’t let the Vice Presidency be stolen!” press statement last Sunday, she held a press conference on the same subject Monday afternoon. And, as if that STILL wasn’t enough, she went live on every major TV news program on Monday night to talk about the same subject, which in truth is not even an issue of national concern and matters only to her and her party. Her stamina for marathon back-to-back live interviews just might dethrone Leila de Lima as reigning queen of press conferences and media overkill.While Robredo was busy carping to the press about pro-Bongbong Marcos trolls tweeting her goodbye even before she received the “desist” text message last Saturday, President Duterte was in Malacanang trying to solve the country’s gargantuan problems with the other Cabinet members. He took a break for the Christmas tree lighting, then resumed the Cabinet meeting late into the night.Here’s the video of the short speech President Duterte gave at the Christmas tree ceremony.It's one of his best. Extemporaneous as always, and cuts straight to the heart.After watching this video, I felt really sorry for Leni Robredo, because she will NEVER, ever come anywhere near the depth, substance, and authenticity of this man. While Robredo, the wannabe faux Smartmagic VP, was crying “I won’t let the Vice Presidency be stolen!” like a spoiled, entitled brat, Duterte the historic President who won by a landslide with no machinery and no money, and whose popularity even the international media can’t break, was humbly saying, “If I’m only meant to be in office for two months or two years, then that is my destiny.”From these statements alone, the vast difference in character between these two is crystal clear.Now that she’s out of the Cabinet, Robredo announced that she will be the opposition leader. Good luck, Leni. You’re going to need it. If people like me who normally don’t give a sh*t about politics have been so infuriated by your pettiness and hypocrisy that they‘ve started spewing online, I can only imagine how the millions of rabid Die-Hard Duterte Supporters are feeling. I know their rage is real, because I feel it myself. And now, all that rage will be directed at you, since you’re too clueless to see that the old hats of the Liberal Party are merely using you as their dummy for attacking President Duterte. To them, you are disposable like toilet paper, while they want to preserve their ties with the President to survive this political sh*tstorm.Someday, Robredo is going to look back at the text messages asking her to stop attending Cabinet meetings and realize that President Duterte’s men showed more compassion for saving her reputation than her party bosses did. She will finally recognize what it means to be given the chance to make a graceful exit, but by then it will be too late.-----------------------This is a GRP Featured Comment. Join the discussion | [] | 12/12/2017 0:00 | https://grpshorts.blogspot.com/2016/12/spoilt-entitled-brat-labanleni-robredo.html | GRPundit |
POLLSTERS SHOCKED BY PROFILE OF DONALD TRUMP’S SUPPORTERS | whether it is about immigration or refugees or terrorism, his numbers would further go up.Intrigued by what is now being called ‘The Donald Phenomenon,’ a coalition of pollsters decided to revisit all the major polls they each have conducted in the last year. What they found shocked the hell out of them.The pollsters found that almost 90% of those who have voted for Trump in the polls belonged to the bottom half of the IQ spectrum.While the pollsters chose not to disclose how they determined the demographics and IQ scores of the poll respondents, they made it absolutely clear that Trump voters had IQ scores ranging from 55 to 85 (mentally inadequate to low intelligence). The average IQ scores of Americans range between 86 and 100.Finally, we know what’s causing ‘The Donald Phenomenon.’ | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 07/12/2017 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2015/12/07/pollsters-shocked-by-profile-of-donald-trumps-supporters/ | Adobo Chronicles |
MCDONALD’S TO INCREASE WORKERS’ MINIMUM WAGE, JOLLIBEE COUNTERS WITH ITS OWN EMPLOYEE PACKAGE | SAN JOSE, California (The Adobo Chronicles ) –The never-ending, ever-escalating fast food rivalry between McDonald’s and that fat stupid happy bee once again comes to the fore.McDonald’s has announced that it will increase its workers’ minimum wage by $1 above the locally -mandated minimum in 1,500 stores, starting July 1. That’s expected to lift the incomes of 90,000 workers, the company said in a press release. By the end of 2016, the average wage of McDonald’s workers should be $10, well above the federal minimum of $7.25, noted the company in the release.Additionally, McDonald’s announced it will allow workers who have a one-year tenure at the company to accrue paid vacation time of up to 20 hours per year.Today, McDonald’s arch enemy (get it? McDonald’s arch?), Jollibee, announced an employee package that puts the red-headed clown to shame.Jollibee announced that all workers in its U.S. and Canada stores will receive twice the locally-mandated minimum wage, plus a generous benefits package that would include two weeks of paid sick and two weeks of paid vacation; an employer-paid medical, vision and dental insurance; a 5% employer contribution toward employee 401K retirement funds; and housing rental allowance of $500 a month.This is over and above free employee meals during their work shifts of chicken joy, spaghetti and unlimited soda. Employees working the early morning shift will have free Jollibee breakfast of garlic fried rice, eggs and their choice of longganisa, tocino or bangus, with coffee or orange juice.Upon hearing of Jollibee’s announcement, the Filipino fast food restaurant’s website was inundated with job applications, with majority of resumes indicating that they are current employees of McDonald’s. There were a few resumes from Filipinos working at Google, Apple, Facebook, Twitter, eBay and Yahoo! The applicants were hoping to be employed in Jollibee’s San Jose, Milpitas, Daly City and Union City stores. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 02/04/2018 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2015/04/02/mcdonalds-to-increase-workers-minimum-wage-jollibee-counters-with-its-own-employee-package/#respond | Adobo Chronicles |
Palit-Presidente Rally Organizers Release Aerial Photo To Show They Had Thousands Of Attendees | While it has been reported that anywhere from 4,000 to 100,000 people attended the ‘Palit-Bise’ (change of Vice President) rally at Luneta last April 2, there has not been an aerial photo of the gathering of President Duterte’s supporters published in the news media.In contrast, anti-Duterte supporters who recently staged a ‘Palit-Presidente’ (change of President) rally released an aerial photo of their protest to counter reports that there were only a little over a dozen attendees.The Palit-Presidente released this photo on Palm Sunday. It does show a sea 🌊 of people brandishing the opposition’s familiar yellow color, reminding their supporters and others of the triumphant entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem: | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 10/04/2017 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2017/04/10/palit-presidente-rally-organizers-release-aerial-photo-to-show-they-had-thousands-of-attendees/#respond | Adobo Chronicles |
Florin Hilbay blocks people on social media because he cannot handle dissent | What kind of lawyer does not listen to dissenting or alternative opinion? Weren’t they trained to present sound and robust arguments in a logical manner? Well, it seems former Solicitor General Florin Hilbay is one such lawyer who does not like to listen to arguments and understand points of view that run counter to his.Indeed, Hilbay has made a name for himself on social media as a habitual blocker of anyone who even hints of some semblance of disagreement to what he evidently believes are the sacred views he upholds. The trouble with that is Hilbay is a self-described liberal. And last we recall, “liberals” are supposed to be “inclusive” and open to “diversity” in both points of view and ways of life.In a post on Facebook, Hilbay said…Empower people, not government; enable citizens, not politicians; strengthen institutions, not leaders; distribute, dont concentrate, power.Well, social media has done exactly that in the 21st Century. Unlike in the old days when Yellowtardism virtually monopolised the discourse thanks to those days being the days when only Big Media possessed the capability to broadcast and publish to a mass audience unchallenged, ordinary people today have access to mass communication platforms that are giving Big Media and their partners-in-propaganda a run for their money.For such a young guy, Hilbay behaves like the old farts who still believe they are entitled to a monopoly on the discourse based merely on who they are. This is, after all, the same guy who proposes that an “information police” be organised to serve as some kind of authority on what is “fake” or authentic information.As the old cliché question goes, however, who guards the Guardians?Hilbay, for example, was embroiled in controversy back in 2016 when a Commission on Audit (COA) report revealed that he received almost 5 million pesos in “excess allowances” before stepping down from his post…State auditors said the honoraria and allowances that Calida, Hilbay and other state lawyers received exceeded 50 percent of their annual basic salary, which is a violation of the COA Circular 85-25-E. Calida succeeded Hilbay on June 30, 2016. The report said Calida and Hilbay’s basic salary for 2016 amounted to P702,516 each, and that their allowances should only be P351,258 each. Calida and Hilbay received P1.48 million and P5.1 million in honoraria and allowances in 2016, respectively, the COA said.Imagine then if such an “information police” as Hilbay proposes existed to evaluate this kind of report. Will it pass the authenticity test? Or will it be labelled as “fake”? Politicians and government officials, after all, go by the motto “What are we in Power for?”. So facts tend not to get in the way of political agendas in the Philippines. Indeed, given Hilbay’s predisposition to blocking “undesirable” information, it does not give many too much comfort to see a proposal to control information proposed by him seeing the light of day.A red flag for self-appointed “thought leaders” is consistent inconsistency. Inconsistency is a symptom of such people who regard personal loyalties (and not first principles) as the key foundation of their advocacies. Hilbay, however, is a lawyer so one would expect a bit more of a person trained in Philosophy — a discipline where conclusions are mere derivatives of intellectual exploration on a landscape of competing ideas. As a serial blocker of dissent, Hilbay cannot be considered as someone who arrives at his conclusions systematically. Rather, he is likely to be more of an extremist — someone who latches on to a set of beliefs and cherry-picks information and points of view to enforce rather than validate those beliefs. | ['Oratio Imperata'] | 2017-11-04 01:29:00+00:00 | https://www.getrealphilippines.com/2017/11/florin-hilbay-blocks-people-social-media-cannot-handle-dissent/#comments | Get Real Philippines |
BREAKING: Claiming Massive Vote Fraud, Donald Trump Calls For New U.S. Presidential Election | After a series of Executive Orders ranging from repealing Obamacare to building a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border, Donald Trump today announced the most controversial act in his week-old presidency. He is calling for a new U.S. presidential election.Claiming that there had been massive fraud during last November’s election resulting in Hillary Clinton’s wide lead in the popular vote, Trump issued a new Executive Order for a repeat presidential election on March 1, 2017.Trump charged that Clinton’s lead in the popular vote came from millions of non-existent voters and “illegal immigrants.” He also pointed out that many voters were registered in two or more precints, including some of his top White House aides.“I will not settle for anything but a clean sweep of the elections, both the electoral and popular votes,” he said,”and I simply cannot accept that Hillary won the popular vote. Absolutely unbelievable!”Both Democratic and Republican leaders welcomed this latest announcement by the president. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 26/01/2017 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2017/01/26/breaking-claiming-massive-vote-fraud-donald-trump-calls-for-new-u-s-presidential-election/?share=email | Adobo Chronicles |
WATCH: Sen. Manny Pacquiao opposes Lascañas to testify in the senate:”Dapat mag dignidad tayo sa senado” | Senator Manny Pacquiao opposed the appearance of retired SPO3 Arthur Lascañas in the senate to testify his new story about the “Davao Death Squad”He urged the other senators to preserve the dignity of the senate and don’t let witnesses like Lascañas to testify again.Pacquiao said that if the senate allowed Lascañas to testify despite that he flip flopped his previous testimonies, it might affect the future senate investigations.“Kailangan nating ipakita na may dignidad tayo dito sa Senado. Dignity is the most important thing here in the Senate…Kung ako pala ay witness, pwede na pala akong mag sinungaling dahil pwede naman palang bawiin…Yan ang magiging basis sa susunod na mga hearing. Huwag nating paglaruan ang mga position natin bilang Senador.” Senator Manny Pacquiao said in his senate speech.In an interview, Manny Pacquiao also told the reporters that maybe some people who opposed President Rodrigo Duterte convinced SPO3 Lascañas to change his testimony to destroy the image of the President.“Paano mo paniniwaalan e nag statement na dito yun e? Tapos nag statement na naman” Pacquiao told the reportersSPO3 Lascañas appeared last year at the senate investigation on alleged extrajudicial killings happened during the Duterte administration, but last month he junked all his previous under-oath testimony.In his previous statements, Lascañas denied the existence of the Davao Death Squad and even debate with Senator Antonio Trillanes IV who’s now helping him to testify against President Duterte. | ['View All Posts Pinoytrending'] | 2017-03-02 00:09:37+08:00 | https://pinoytrending.altervista.org/watch-sen-manny-pacquiao-opposes-lascanas-testify-senatedapat-mag-dignidad-tayo-sa-senado/ | Pinoytrending Altervista |
China is Considering Hiring Filipino Household Workers with 50,000 Pesos Monthly Salary | China is considering hiring Filipino domestic helpers that will have a salary of least $1000 dollars or 50 thousand in pesos. The Economic and commercial Councilor from the Chinese embassy in Philippines requested a meeting with the Department of Labor and Employment regarding their plan for OFWs.According to Under Secretary Dominador Say, there's a new rising class in China that requires household services who specifically prefers to hire Filipinos.Currently, there are at least 5000 Filipino household workers in China. According to news reports, Filipino household workers are in-demand and that Chinese employers usually pays them 50,000 pesos as monthly salary.Religious, very neat and good speakers are the characteristics that made the Filipinos stand out, according to Usec. Dominador Say in an interview with GMA News.Meanwhile, Filipino netizens have differing opinions of the rather good news. Some say that it very unlikely and unrealistic that China will give 1000 dollar monthly salary to household workers as the current minimum wage for household workers is only 400 dollars or 20 thousand in pesos. | ['Vic Patnugot'] | 11/11/2017 0:00 | http://pinoynewsblogger.blogspot.com/2017/08/china-is-considering-hiring-filipino.html | Pinoy News Blogger |
#PNoy blames all #corruption and #porkbarrel thievery under his watch on #Arroyo | And now our much awaited “blame it on GMA” has just happened...“Press Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. dismissed the plunder complaint filed against President Aquino Budget Secretary Florencio Abad and Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala along with alleged pork barrel scam brains Janet Lim Napoles and other charges involving the unliquidated funds in Nabcor and the calamity funds of Social Work Secretary Dinky Soliman, saying that the anomalies were not the fault of the current administration but the one that preceded it.”http://www.tribune.net.ph/headlines/dinky-cleared-gma-blamed-on-gov-t-funds-misuse-rapsHe is not only an awful manager, he is also a liar (contrary to what Osmena is saying that the BS Aquino is an honest man), an utter hypocrite, and also a selfish bastard.Source:http://getrealphilippines.com/blog/2014/03/senator-sergio-osmena-is-right-pnoy-is-an-awful-manager-but-we-all-already-knew-that/comment-page-1/#comment-227800 | [] | 11/11/2017 0:00 | https://grpshorts.blogspot.com/2014/03/pnoy-blames-all-corruption-and.html#comments | GRPundit |
TEXAS TO BUILD IMMIGRATION WALL AROUND ITS ENTIRE PERIMETER | Emboldened by the recent ruling of the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court which upheld a lower court decision blocking the implementation of a series of President Obama’s executive orders on immigration, Texas today announced that it will build a wall around the state’s entire perimeter.A three-judge panel ruled against the Obama administration on a 2-1 vote in Texas v. United States, upholding a lower court’s injunction against two programs. Obama created one of the programs, called Deferred Action for Parents of Americans, or DAPA, and expanded another, called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA in a unilateral effort to reshape the U.S. immigration system after the 2014 midterm elections.Governor Greg Abbott said that the “great wall” will not only prevent Mexicans from illegally crossing the border but also keep undocumented immigrants already in the U.S. out of the Lone Star state. “This will mean millions of dollars in savings on the part of the state government which otherwise would be spent on providing services to undocumented immigrants, including health insurance, food stamps and and housing,” Abbott said.Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump says he fully supports the Texas move and promised to donate $1 Billion of his own money to help in the building of the great wall. He says all he wants in return are giant billboards along the wall with the message: “Built through the generosity of Donald Trump.”Meanwhile, the Obama administration says it will appeal the Circuit Court’s decision to the U.S. Supreme Court. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 11/11/2017 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2015/11/11/texas-to-build-immigration-wall-around-its-entire-perimeter/ | Adobo Chronicles |
DONALD TRUMP TO HOST FIRST DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE IN LAS VEGAS | While the current media focus is on the second Republican presidential debate happening this week on CNN, the election-weary U.S. population is eagerly anticipating the first Democratic presidential debate scheduled for October 13 in Las Vegas, Nevada.Earlier, the Democratic National Committee announced that there will only be six debates among the small field of presidential candidates (as opposed to the 36 declared Republican presidential aspirants).The first Democratic debate will air on CNN and will also be broadcast by Salem Radio. It will be held at the grand ballroom of the Trump Towers in Las Vegas.The Republican presidential candidate frontrunner has graciously offered the Trump Towers as the site the Democratic debate.It is no secret that Trump has a history of cordial relationship with the Clintons, so offering his Las Vegas landmark property comes as no surprise to many.In fact, one of the six Democratic debates is scheduled in Miami, Florida, and Trump has offered his golf resort in Doral, just a few miles from Miami, as the venue for that particular debate. It was the site for this year’s Miss Universe beauty pageant.There is a good side to Trump, after all. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 14/09/2018 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2015/09/14/donald-trump-to-host-first-democratic-presidential-debate-in-las-vegas/#respond | Adobo Chronicles |
But why Tagalog? @paulfarol | Chicken and egg situation. Perhaps there are more pressing needs to upgrade the impoverished physical facilities of the Philippine public school system - classroom shortages, books, etc. The poverty of the Philippine school system, however, is but a component of the broader impoverishment that crushes Philippine society overall at all fronts.Therefore, the more fundamental question is: What is at the very root of this pervasive and profound impoverishment of the Filipino?When I cite the example of Tagalog not having a single word that captures the meaning of "efficiency", I don't mean that it it impossible to articulate the concept of "efficiency" in Tagalog. Arguably, it's been demonstrated that it is possible...Efficiency can translate to pagiging masinop or matipid. Then again, the word can be rendered in tagalog phonetics, episyente....(although I'd question whether these examples actually do capture the essence of the concept).My point is that the absence of a single Tagalog word for "efficiency" illustrates that this concept is *alien* or *not native* to Pinoy culture. This points to a possible reason why doing things efficiently does not come naturally to Filipinos.We simply lack a *natural* ethic of efficiency in our undertakings. The road then leads back to the nature if the medium we choose to use to channel knowledge and ideas into the minds of our wretched compatriots. And again, I have to ask: Why Tagalog?---------------"paulfarol: But not before other deficiencies. RT @benign0: Medium of instruction in Ph public schools is a fundamental issue http://t.co/vS7VuU1"--http://twitter.com/paulfarol/status/106997415399260160 | [] | 22/12/2017 0:00 | https://grpshorts.blogspot.com/2011/08/but-why-tagalog-paulfarol.html | GRPundit |
Filipinos have Mocha Uson and the Yellowtards have Jover Laurio. Who’s gonna win? | Now that former Assistant Secretary Mocha Uson is a private citizen, she can start blogging. Like a real blogger. Just like that other one who’s been styled by no less than Rappler and its community of Jesuit- and nun-educated cheerleaders as the preeminent blogger of the Philippine Opposition led by the Liberal Party (a.k.a. the Yellowtards). The winner will be the Filipino audience who get front-row seats to a brilliant match of wits over the Net. Jover Laurio blogs and Mocha Uson blogs. Who’s gonna win? That remains to be seen. But the lines are drawn and pens and keyboards are locked and loaded.In an ambush interview following her resignation from government service, Uson issued the first battle cry. “Bakbakan na talaga ‘to!“. We still have to hear from The Yellowtard Blogger. Is she up to the challenge?The more interesting question is, how deep a bench of political bloggers do the Yellowtards wield. Is Jover all they’ve got? In basketball-crazy Philippines, depth of bench is an important factor to consider when placing bets. Even more interesting, the Yellowtards have designated Twitter as their battlefield…Is this a smart move? Compared to Twitter, Facebook, where Uson is queen, is the preferred platform for political discussion amongst Filipino Netizens. In terms of engagement and referral traffic, a Facebook post is at least ten times as valuable as a tweet byte-for-byte. Twitter is also known to be an echo chamber of the private school village-raised elite minority of Philippine society. This can be seen in the way elite stuff largely irrelevant to the masses (UAAP games, university rivalries, SJW causes, etc.) easily “trend”. As such, Twitter chatter has long proven to be an unreliable cross-section of the general sentiment of the Filipino public.This is the trouble with the Yellowtards and the broader Philippine Opposition that follows their lead like sheep. Rather than understand the enemy, they prefer to assure themselves in their quaint love-in soirees that theirs is the superior and morally-upstanding force and intent. In being so focused on the imagined ascendancy of their lot, they routinely underestimate who and what they’re up against — just like they did back in 2016 when then presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte came out of left field to seize Imperial Manila from the Liberal Party.The Opposition will do well to consider what their next move will be and not underestimate what Uson is now capable of now that she is free of the conventions demanded of her when she was part of the Malacanang team. One obvious step is to ditch the Yellowtards and the choir of fallen saints they habitually worship. In doing so, the Opposition will become less of an insult to the intelligence of the Philippine electorate and more of the respectable Opposition Filipinos deserve — one that is a productive part of the modern democracy Filipinos aspire to build. | ['Oratio Imperata'] | 2018-10-03 23:36:51+00:00 | https://www.getrealphilippines.com/2018/10/filipinos-have-mocha-uson-and-the-yellowtards-have-jover-laurio-whos-gonna-win/#comments | Get Real Philippines |
NoyNoy Aquino Returning To The Senate! | And you thought you were done with NoyNoy Aquino when he stepped down as President in 2016. Think again.Reliable sources have informed The Adobo Chronicles that the ex-President is indeed returning to the Senate.But not as a Senator. Rather, as a witness in the ongoing Senate investigation on the Dengue vaccine mess.Many will recall that it was during PNoy’s administration that the controversial (and now potentially unsafe) vaccine Dengvaxia was approved under the government’s Dengue immunization program without the appropriate recommendation of the World Health Organization (WHO)Aquino reportedly wants to tell the truth at the Senate investigation.But can he handle the truth? | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 12/12/2017 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2017/12/12/noynoy-aquino-returning-to-the-senate/?share=email | Adobo Chronicles |
BREAKING: Supreme Court Will Rule On Marcos Electoral Protest Via Lottery | For the millions of Filipinos waiting for a resolution to the Vice Presidential electoral protest filed by former Senator Bongbong Marcos against Leni Robredo, the wait is finally coming to an end.In an en banc resolution aimed at immediatley determining who among the two is the duly-elected VP, the Supreme Court, sitting as the Presidential Electoral Tribunal (PET), has set December 27, 2017 as the date in which the name of the true VP will be picked from a bowl.The PET adopted a similar move in the U.S., in which a tie in the race for the State of Virginia’s 94th District seat in the House of Delegates will result in a lottery. Republican incumbent David Yancey tied with Democratic challenger Shelly Simonds in a recount and a subsequent court decision declaring a “no winner.””If it can be done in the U.S., why not here in the Philippines,” Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno told The Adobo Chronicles. “The Filipino voters deserve to have a legitimate Vice President, whoever that may be,” she added.The drawing of the name of the VP winner will be open to the public and will be held at the EDSA Shrine. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 22/12/2017 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2017/12/22/breaking-supreme-court-will-rule-on-marcos-electoral-protest-via-lottery/ | Adobo Chronicles |
PACQUIAO FANS PROTEST BOXER’S ‘NO SELFIE’ POLICY | picketed blocks and blocks of the Pacific Coast Highway near Santa Monica where the boxer jogs most mornings as part of his training in preparation for his fight with American Floyd Mayweather.The “Fight of the Century” is scheduled on May 2, 2015 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.The reason for the picket?The Filipino fans are protesting a new ‘no selfie policy,’ promulgated by the boxer’s training camp.Each morning, hundreds of Pacquiao fans try to follow the boxer during his morning run in the hopes of taking a selfie with their hero.One of the protesters, a Filipino veteran who has lived in L.A. for almost 40 years, said that the ‘no selfie’ policy deprives the fans of the rare opportunity to have their photos taken with their boxing idol. “A selfie with Pacman is a treasure that I can proudly show to my grandchildren,” he said.The Pacquiao camp explained that the new policy is designed to ensure that the boxer will not come in contact with any fan who might be suffering from a cold or some other infection. “We can’t afford to have Manny get sick even for just a day. We need him every single day for his training until fight day,” a spokesman for Pacquiao said.A few disgruntled fans who were turned away after they attempted to take a selfie with Pacquiao said that they will now cheer for Mayweather instead.A little sour grapes there, eh?RELATED STORY: American Psychiatric Association Declares Taking Selfies A Mental Disorder (Selfitis) | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 10/04/2018 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2015/04/10/pacquiao-fans-protest-boxers-no-selfie-policy/?share=email | Adobo Chronicles |
Duterte: ‘I have to confront Abu Sayyaf’ | President-elect Rodrigo Duterte on Friday warned the bandit Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) against continuing its kidnapping activities, saying the day of reckoning is coming. His statement was issued after receiving kidnap victim Marites Flor from incoming Presidential Peace Adviser Jesus Dureza during the turnover of command at the Davao City Police Office (DCPO) on Friday afternoon.Duterte said these kidnappings “gave us a very bad image but there will be a time I have to confront Abu Sayyaf”.Dureza turned over to Duterte the Filipino woman abducted by the ASG along with three other foreign nationals from the high-end marina resort in the Island Garden City of Samal on September 21, 2015.Dureza and Flor arrived at DCPO at 2:22 p.m from Sulu where the victim was freed by the ASG. Flor was held by the ASG for nine months.Duterte thanked Dureza and Sulu Governor Abdusakur Tan for their help in the negotiations with the ASG.Dureza confirmed Flor’s release was made through the efforts of Duterte and it came with no precondition.According to Dureza, he had just come from Oslo when he was told that their efforts to recover Marites from the ASG yielded good results and he was tasked to pick her up from Sulu.With this development, Ronel Flor, the brother of Marites, said they were happy she was released.“Mao ra man gyud na among gihulat nga ma release siya (That is the only thing we have been waiting, that she will be released),” Ronel said in a phone interview.Ronel, who is in Valencia, Bukidnon, said the family never had the chance to speak to Marites even when she was in the hands of the ASG. He said they were neither contacted by ASG nor an emissary.He said he only knew about Marites’ release in the news but her mother was informed by the anti-kidnapping authorities in Davao City.On the other hand, Marites’ mother Flordeliza said the family was happy that she is now safe.Flordeliza was grateful that her daughter had been released and is now coming home. She also said she was sorry about Canadian Robert Hall, her daughter’s partner who was beheaded last June 13. Another Canadian national, John Ridsdel, was beheaded last April.Flordeliza thanked Duterte, adding that the family was sad he was not the president yet before Hall was killed.Meanwhile, Norwegian national Kjartan Sekkingstad still remains in the hands of the ASG.Dureza said they did not have any information yet on the fate of Sekkingstad but there are also efforts to save him.“No word for him yet. We only got Flor,” Dureza said.Flor was released on Thursday night by the ASG under Mujer Yadah and was turned over to Gov. Tan early Friday.Word has it that a Php20-million ransom was paid for Flor’s release.But Dureza said there was no ransom paid, adding that some of their long-time friends helped secure her release.He said they are exerting the same efforts for Sekkingstad’s release.Dureza recalled that when they were in Oslo, he had an audience with Foreign Minister Borge Brende of Norway and established a phonepatch between him and Duterte during which they mentioned efforts to recover Sekkingstad. (PNA)Any thought on this issue? Leave your comments below! | [] | 2016-06-25 15:52:01+08:00 | http://duterte.today/duterte-confront-abu-sayyaf/ | Duterte Daily Stories |
The Impeachment Gambit: Connecting Trillanes, Bautista, Sereno, Robredo, and Marcos | After gaining lots of very useful contacts from the House of Representatives, I have discovered that the much-touted supermajority has finally started flexing its legislative muscles. After gaining lots of very useful contacts from the House of Representatives, I have discovered that the much-touted supermajority has finally started flexing its legislative muscles.Inday, ilabas na ang chopping block!Yesterday, Senator Richard Gordon finally filed an ethics complaint against Senator Antonio “Sonny” Trillanes IV. Referring to the complaint, Gordon said in an ambush interview yesterday, “It’s going to be filed today... I don’t need signatories. I have the support of more than 10, more than 12, more than 14 [senators] [Yes, the wheels have started turning and the public is very happy with the development, but let’s not lose sight of the forest for trees, because it appears that Trillanes’ expulsion from the senate is just a small part of a series of moves in what appears to be a chess gambit.DEFINITION: A gambit (from ancient Italian gambetto, meaning "to trip") is a chess opening in which a player, more often White, sacrifices material, usually a pawn, with the hope of achieving a resulting advantageous position [Brace 1979] There are four key pieces involved in this gambit:Senator Antonio “Sonny” Trillanes Supreme Court Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno Commission on Elections (COMELEC) chair Andres “Andy” Bautista Vice-president Maria Leonor “Leni” Robredo That is, a series of events, starting with Trillanes expulsion, will lead to a political chain reaction that may virtually annihilate any significant level of power that the Liberal Party has today.Note that this will not be an article about what should happen. It is instead about what will likely happen in the Philippine political scene, an arena that’s has so far been more lively and exciting than even the sappiest Mexican telenovela.Let’s go.Move No. 1: “Impeach” Trillanes In Sunday’s “Gordon, however, said yesterday that he has the support of 14 or more senators, so it appears that Gordon may have secured the Gatchalian’s support.A highly-placed source from the senate independently confirmed that Sen. Gatchalian is very likely to support Gordon’s petition. So yeah, it seems that Gordon isn’t bluffing.While some netizens tell me that this should have been filed a long time ago. But then, remember that a certain Abelardo de Jesus filed an ethics complaint against Trillanes back in March 2017, and it didn’t gain any traction [As far as I am concerned, it’s just a matter of time before Trillanes, along with his horde of consultants, bids the Senate goodbye.Trillanes’ pending exit, along with Sen. Leila de Lima’s detention and Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano’s resignation, will put the total number of active senators to just 21. Thus, the original two-thirds majority from 16 (based on 24 senators) will be reduced to 14 (based on 21), making convictions in impeachment trials much easier to achieve.As I have explained in my 26 August 2017 article “Now, let's set that aside and talk about Andy. Yesterday, Senator Richard Gordon finally filed an ethics complaint against Senator Antonio “Sonny” Trillanes IV. Referring to the complaint, Gordon said in an ambush interview yesterday, “It’s going to be filed today... I don’t need signatories. I have the support of more than 10, more than 12, more than 14 [senators] [ GMA ].”Yes, the wheels have started turning and the public is very happy with the development, but let’s not lose sight of the forest for trees, because it appears that Trillanes’ expulsion from the senate is just a small part of a series of moves in what appears to be a chess gambit.There are four key pieces involved in this gambit:That is, a series of events, starting with Trillanes expulsion, will lead to a political chain reaction that may virtually annihilate any significant level of power that the Liberal Party has today.Note that this will not be an article about what should happen. It is instead about what will likely happen in the Philippine political scene, an arena that’s has so far been more lively and exciting than even the sappiest Mexican telenovela.Let’s go.In Sunday’s “ Gordon’s Ethics Complaint: Recent discoveries suggest Trillanes is toast ”, I explained how Gordon’s ethics complaint will have the support of a least 13 senators, with the vote of Senator Grace Poe OR Senator Win Gatchalian being the crucial 14th vote to complete the two-thirds majority required to expel Trillanes. There will only be 20 or 21 senators who will vote on the complaint.Gordon, however, said yesterday that he has the support of 14 or more senators, so it appears that Gordon may have secured the Gatchalian’s support.A highly-placed source from the senate independently confirmed that Sen. Gatchalian is very likely to support Gordon’s petition. So yeah, it seems that Gordon isn’t bluffing.While some netizens tell me that this should have been filed a long time ago. But then, remember that a certain Abelardo de Jesus filed an ethics complaint against Trillanes back in March 2017, and it didn’t gain any traction [ ABS ]. That is, I think Gordon’s complaint was filed at just about the right time because it gave Trillanes enough time to piss off a sufficient number of senators.As far as I am concerned, it’s just a matter of time before Trillanes, along with his horde of consultants, bids the Senate goodbye.Trillanes’ pending exit, along with Sen. Leila de Lima’s detention and Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano’s resignation, will put the total number of active senators to just 21. Thus, the original two-thirds majority from 16 (based on 24 senators) will be reduced to 14 (based on 21), making convictions in impeachment trials much easier to achieve.As I have explained in my 26 August 2017 article “ Andy Bautista exit more likely after Hontiveros kidnapping stunt ”, there are eight would-be senator-judges who are likely to vote “acquit” in a prospective impeachment trial and that one of them is Trillanes. If Trillanes exits the senate, the maximum number of “acquittal” votes will be 7. Adding the fact that only 21 will be voting, Trillanes’ exit makes a “sure acquittal” scenario impossible.Now, let's set that aside and talk about Andy.Move No. 2: Impeach Bautista There are several impeachment cases filed in the House of Representatives (HoR) today. They involve the following figures:Supreme Court Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno Commission on Elections (COMELEC) chair Andres “Andy” Bautista Vice-president Maria Leonor “Leni” Robredo Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales is set to retire in July 2018, or barely over ten months from now. Honestly speaking – and I believe most congressmen will agree with me – I think that impeaching Carpio-Morales will be a waste of time for the simple reason that she’s about to exit anyway. Meanwhile, I have read the verified complaint for the impeachment of Comelec chair Andy Bautista filed by Atty. Ferdie Topacio and former Negros Oriental Rep. Jacinto Paras. You can read for yourselfA source, who’s part of the HoR leadership, told me that Bautista has sent feelers to the office of House Speaker Pantaleon “Bebot” Alvarez. That is, Bautista supposedly informed the House leadership that he is intending to resign from his position soon.With that said, I believe that the Lower House is giving Bautista some time to do it, so that it can focus on the other pending impeachment complaints, one of which may be transmitted to the Senate sooner than expected, and I am referring to…Move No. 3: Impeach Sereno There are two verified complaints for the impeachment of Chief Justice Lourdes Sereno: one filed by Atty. Lorenzo “Larry” Gadon, and another by the non-government organization Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC). So far, Gadon’s complaint has been endorsed by 25 representatives [Interestingly, another senior HoR source told me that a large number of representatives have volunteered to endorse these complaints but the House Speaker told them not to sign them yet, and for good reason.You see, I checked the executive summary of Gadon’s complaint and the number of grounds cited is mind-boggling. For example, Topacio’s 22-page impeachment complaint against Bautista cites only four or five grounds, while Gadon cited TWENTY SEVEN. By simple ratio and proportion, Gadon’s actual complaint must’ve been almost a hundred pages long, and that’s not even counting the annexes!Among the grounds cited are the following:Falsifying two Supreme Court resolutions and a temporary restraining order, Delaying action on the retirement benefits of judicial personnel, Manipulating and delaying a resolution after she lost in the voting, Manipulating shortlists of judicial nominees in three different occasions, Manipulating the Judicial and Bar Council itself, Using public funds to finance an extravagant lifestyle, including booking opulent hotel rooms, flying on first class, and having large contingents during official foreign visits. Ordering Muntinlupa judges not to issue warrants of arrest against Sen. Leila de Lima The list goes on and on. There are several impeachment cases filed in the House of Representatives (HoR) today. They involve the following figures:Ombudsman Conchita Carpio-Morales is set to retire in July 2018, or barely over ten months from now. Honestly speaking – and I believe most congressmen will agree with me – I think that impeaching Carpio-Morales will be a waste of time for the simple reason that she’s about to exit anyway. Meanwhile, I have read the verified complaint for the impeachment of Comelec chair Andy Bautista filed by Atty. Ferdie Topacio and former Negros Oriental Rep. Jacinto Paras. You can read for yourself by clicking here . Among the four or so grounds for impeachment cited, I believe that the fourth ground – SALN misdeclaration – is more than enough to get Bautista convicted in a senate impeachment trial.A source, who’s part of the HoR leadership, told me that Bautista has sent feelers to the office of House Speaker Pantaleon “Bebot” Alvarez. That is, Bautista supposedly informed the House leadership that he is intending to resign from his position soon.With that said, I believe that the Lower House is giving Bautista some time to do it, so that it can focus on the other pending impeachment complaints, one of which may be transmitted to the Senate sooner than expected, and I am referring to…There are two verified complaints for the impeachment of Chief Justice Lourdes Sereno: one filed by Atty. Lorenzo “Larry” Gadon, and another by the non-government organization Volunteers Against Crime and Corruption (VACC). So far, Gadon’s complaint has been endorsed by 25 representatives [ GMA ] while 16 endorsed that of VACC [ Inq ].Interestingly, another senior HoR source told me that a large number of representatives have volunteered to endorse these complaints but the House Speaker told them not to sign them yet, and for good reason.You see, I checked the executive summary of Gadon’s complaint and the number of grounds cited is mind-boggling. For example, Topacio’s 22-page impeachment complaint against Bautista cites only four or five grounds, while Gadon cited TWENTY SEVEN. By simple ratio and proportion, Gadon’s actual complaint must’ve been almost a hundred pages long, and that’s not even counting the annexes!Among the grounds cited are the following:The list goes on and on.You can check the executive summary of the impeachment case against CJ SerenoThus, I agree with Speaker Alvarez when he said said, "Kung gusto lang namin na dumiretso sa impeachment court, kayang-kaya. Pwedeng gawin… Pero ayaw kong gawin. Kasi gusto ko, dito pa lang i-hearing muna natin. Para makita muna natin kung may ebidensya ba o wala, whether it can stand trial in an impeachment court.”Yeah, I appreciate Bebot’s prudence because there’s no point in hearing all twenty-seven grounds, as proving just one ground will be enough to remove Sereno from the judiciary.I find Gadon’s complaint exceptionally long and meaty, and it happens to be so because…According to another HoR source, Supreme Court associate justices who have grudges against Sereno very willingly provide the evidence for her impeachment case. The source even told me that one of the associate justices keeps on calling a senior congressman to ask the latter about the progress of the complaint.With that said, I am confident that the proponents of the impeachment case against Sereno will find no trouble in looking for evidence. Adding the fact that the pro-Sereno Senate minority bloc lacks numbers, I can confidently say that Sereno, like Trillanes, is toast. Suffice it to say, submitting this lengthy complaint as it is, may result in a senate trial that’ll last forever.You can check the executive summary of the impeachment case against CJ Sereno by clicking here Thus, I agree with Speaker Alvarez when he said said, "Kung gusto lang namin na dumiretso sa impeachment court, kayang-kaya. Pwedeng gawin… Pero ayaw kong gawin. Kasi gusto ko, dito pa lang i-hearing muna natin. Para makita muna natin kung may ebidensya ba o wala, whether it can stand trial in an impeachment court.”Yeah, I appreciate Bebot’s prudence because there’s no point in hearing all twenty-seven grounds, as proving just one ground will be enough to remove Sereno from the judiciary.I find Gadon’s complaint exceptionally long and meaty, and it happens to be so because…According to another HoR source, Supreme Court associate justices who have grudges against Sereno very willingly provide the evidence for her impeachment case. The source even told me that one of the associate justices keeps on calling a senior congressman to ask the latter about the progress of the complaint.With that said, I am confident that the proponents of the impeachment case against Sereno will find no trouble in looking for evidence. Adding the fact that the pro-Sereno Senate minority bloc lacks numbers, I can confidently say that Sereno, like Trillanes, is toast. | [] | 2016-11-30 12:59:17+00:00 | http://www.thinkingpinoy.net/2017/09/the-impeachment-gambit-connecting.html | Thinking Pinoy |
The unresolved issues with the Marcoses are strong indictments of Filipino cultural dysfunction | It is tempting to think of the unresolved issues with the Marcos family – their alleged ill-gotten wealth, the lack of compensation for all those who supposedly suffered during the Martial Law era, and now the purportedly “undeserved” burial of the late strongman Ferdinand Sr. at the Libingan ng mga Bayani (LNMB) – as political issues that the people should forever be reminded of. As long as there is even just one member of that Marcos clan remaining on God’s green earth, he/she, and all other Filipinos, should be constantly reminded that that family is tainted with original sin.Thirty years down the line, however, and with no settlement or resolution in sight, certain influential forces still insist on blaming only the Marcoses and those who show even the slightest bit of “support” for them. Current president Rodrigo Duterte has also copped his share of criticism for not stopping the burial. Critics of Duterte and the Marcoses claim that while no law stops the burial, no law compels him to proceed with it either. Duterte, however, true to his campaign promise, defended his decision not to change his mind on it.Things don’t work that way. Blaming the Marcoses for the lack of resolution has its limits. No doubt that certain powers-that-be would like to keep that from Filipinos in order to hide their own shortcomings in “doing their part.”Here in Get Real Post, we assert that the social, political, and economic issues that Filipinos face will always stem from the cultural issues that they have. The issues with the Marcoses – particularly the lack of resolution of them – are no exception. In fact, they present a strong indictment of certain cultural dysfunctions that Filipinos have refused to flush out of their systemsThere is a strong indictment of pwede-na-iyan. Those who opposed the burial, claim that Duterte is solely to blame for the “predicament” because he shouldn’t have rocked the boat. All the presidents who came after the Marcoses didn’t touch the issue. Ask, however, of a law that explicitly bars Ferdinand Sr. from being buried there, and you get…crickets.“But, but, the spirit of the 1987 Constitution was that it was a response to the Marcos excesses!”All the same, you cannot legislate what is not explicitly stated. Diba, lawyers and wannabe lawyers?Blaming Duterte for “rocking the boat”, because you didn’t plug the loopholes yourselves, is, quite simply, a loser’s retort. The bottom line is, 30 years of post-Marcos government, most of it still influenced by the LP and Yellowtardism, did nothing to prevent the burial.There is a strong indictment of bahala na. The way the Marcos issues have been handled, the burial being just one of them, remind me of the way Filipinos generally regard maintenance of equipment. Pwede na iyan, total tumatakbo pa. (That’ll do, it’s still running anyway.) But once it breaks down, however, they are usually panicky, helpless, and clueless as to why it did.In addition, as GRP webmaster benign0 has pointed out, the anti-Marcos movement has yet to articulate any sort of endgame. Ano ba gusto talaga nila mangyari? (What do the people really want to happen?) What is the plan to hold the Marcoses accountable, finally? What do people have to help them in their quest? What is the alternative if they do not get what they want?The answer to all those questions, so far, seems to be: nothing. Perhaps the anti-Marcos movement just wants Filipinos to keep on crying, “Never Forget”. Bahala na.Problem is, not everyone wants to keep on crying with them. Not because they believe Marcos was a saint, but simply because they don’t see the point in continuing to do so anymore.There is a strong indictment of Filipino-style democracy. Among those who are anti-Marcos, some say that their ongoing fight against that family should not be reduced to a family feud between the Aquinos and the Marcoses. Rather, it should be viewed as “people of the Philippines vs. the Marcoses”.The trouble with that statement is that, post-Marcos, the people chose the Aquinos and their ilk to represent their interests. Or maybe so they thought. Whatever the reason post-Marcos governments have (e.g. the Marcoses “were not cooperating”) for not being able to resolve the Marcos issues (e.g. throw them in jail), the net result is that the people have failed because their representatives have failed, despite the power of an entire legitimate government behind them.Filipinos, however, until now, fail to understand that in institutions like democracy, rights accorded have corresponding responsibilities. The biggest responsibility that they fall short in is to keep their leaders accountable. Filipinos have seemingly assumed that democracies run themselves, especially after the votes have been cast.Laws don’t implement themselves, and issues don’t solve themselves; it takes active deeds, active participation from all the people, to make these things happen.Remember that the anti-Marcos movement asked the Supreme Court (SC) to decide on the matter. The SC decision was one they didn’t like. What happened? They cried foul against the SC.They played by the rules of democracy. They played by the rules of the law. They didn’t get what they want, so no they cried foul, and persecution, and are currently trying to revive the extralegal “People Power” movement. “Getting what you want” is not always the outcome of “playing by the rules.”But the rules need to be followed nonetheless.It is becoming more and more preposterous, as time goes by, to hear Filipinos blame their misfortunes solely on one man or group of people.The underlying question that needs to be answered is: How long will it be until Filipinos get that their cultural dysfunctions are leading them to ruin? | ['Oratio Imperata'] | 2016-11-30 12:59:17+00:00 | https://www.getrealphilippines.com/2016/11/unresolved-issues-marcoses-strong-indictments-filipino-cultural-dysfunction/ | Get Real Philippines |
WATCH: Bongbong’s eulogy in father’s surprise Burial | Bongbong Marcos, the son of the late president Ferdinand Marcos, delivered an emotional eulogy. He thanked the Armed Forces of the Philippines and the members of the Philippine National Police for the full support in the burial.He also thanked President Rodrigo Duterte for realizing the dreams of the family.Bongbong said that they have been waiting for 27 years to bury the remains of FM in the Libingan ng mga Bayani. WATCH VIDEO BELOWWhat can you say about this? Leave your comments below! | [] | 2016-11-19 17:00:33+08:00 | http://duterte.today/watch-bongbongs-eulogy-fathers-surprise-burial/ | Duterte Daily Stories |
Senator Trillanes Files Bill To Change Philippine Flag | Arguing that the Philippines is a country for all — pro-Duterte, pro-Aquino and anti-Marcos alike — Senator Antonio Trillanes today filed a bill that would change the current flag of the republic.He unveiled the proposed new design at a press conference held at the Hyatt Hotel in Manila, the same hotel where a group of 10 Cabinet ministers held a news conference several years ago to announce their resignations in protest against alleged poll-rigging by Arroyo, and urged her to quit. They became to be known as the “Hyatt Ten.”The new design replaces the blue stripe of the existing Philippine flag with yellow, representing Filipinos who are pro-Aquino and pro-Liberal Party. The red stripe remains to represent the pro-Duterte and pro-Marcos supporters.Other senators have expressed their full support for Trillanes’ bill, among them, Senators Risa Hontiveros, Franklin Drilon, and Leila De Lima. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 30/11/2016 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2016/11/30/senator-trillanes-files-bill-to-change-philippine-flag/ | Adobo Chronicles |
MAYWEATHER STRIPPED OF WBO TITLE, FILIPINOS HAIL THEIR CHAMP PACQUIAO | the first runner-up is as important as the title holder. If for any reason, the reigning queen cannot fulfill her duties, the first runner-up automatically inherits the crown.If you don’t believe us, just ask Donald Trump. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 07/07/2018 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2015/07/07/mayweather-stripped-of-wbo-title-filipinos-hail-their-champ-pacquiao/ | Adobo Chronicles |
Fidel Ramos Explains Message On His Undershirt | This is not the first time that ex-President Fidel Ramos has worn an undershirt over his regular shirt which carries the message, “Better Than The Others.”The Adobo Chronicles finally caught up with Ramos today and we asked him what the significance is of the message on his undershirt.”It simply means I’m a better President than Cory Aquino and NoyNoy Aquino combined,” he said.Ramos’ statement didn’t sit well with NoyNoy. “I think at 90 years old, Ramos is already experiencing his second childhood,” he told The Adobo Chronicles. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 19/04/2018 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2018/04/19/fidel-ramos-explains-message-on-his-undershirt/#respond | Adobo Chronicles |
GOVERNOR BROWN ORDERS WATER RESTRICTIONS IN CALIFORNIA BUT NOBODY BELIEVES HIM | California Gov. Jerry Brown ordered officials Wednesday to impose statewide mandatory water restrictions for the first time in history as surveyors found the lowest snow level in the Sierra Nevada snowpack in 65 years of record-keeping.The problem is, no one in California believes him.Brown chose the wrong day to issue the order : April Fools’ Day.For many Californians, the news about Brown’s order was as believable as the news of Mike Pence resigning as governor of Indiana today.Perhaps Brown’s communications manager needs to be written up. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 01/04/2018 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2015/04/01/governor-brown-orders-water-restrictions-in-california-but-nobody-believes-him/#respond | Adobo Chronicles |
Baguio City Taxi Drivers: “We’re Being Robbed By Our Passengers!” | In most cities in the Philippines, taxi riders complain about drivers “robbing” them of hard-earned money, either by tampering with the fare meter or taking the long and winding road to the passengers’ destination.Not in Baguio City, the summer capital of the Philippines, which celebrates a huge cultural festival this entire month of February, the Panagbenga. The annual flower festival is expected to draw hundreds of thousands of tourists to this city which boasts of San Francisco-like weather.It is the other way around: passengers robbing taxi drivers, with the full blessing of the government’s transportation agency!It would have been a huge opportunity for taxi drivers to earn more income, except for one thing. They’re actually losing 5 pesos each time they take on passengers.Plastered on the windshield of all Baguio City taxis is a sign that says, “Taxi Fare, less 5 pesos.” So if your final fare as per the taxi meter is 100 pesos, you actually will only pay 95 pesos.There is a logical and legal explanation to all this, but it is of little concern to the taxi-riding public. What’s important is the 5-peso saving each time someone rides a cab. After 20 taxi rides, you’ll have enough money to buy you a Starbucks espresso! | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 09/02/2016 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2016/02/09/baguio-city-taxi-drivers-were-being-robbed-by-our-passengers/#respond | Adobo Chronicles |
Steve Harvey For U.S. Ambassador To The Philippines? | Sources close to the Donald Trump presidential transition team have secretly told The Adobo Chronicles that comedian and television host Steve Harvey is being groomed to be the next U.S. ambassador to the Philippines.Harvey, who is scheduled to be in Manila this month to host the Miss Universe Pageant, was photographed visiting with Trump at the Trump Tower in New York yesterday. He gained notoriety when he announced the wrong Miss Universe in last year’s pageant.Trump had asked all Obama-appointed U.S. ambassadors to leave their posts on the same day that he takes his oath as the 45th U.S. president.The incumbent U.S. ambassador to the Philippines, Sung Kim has just assumed his post in December following the conclusion of Philip Goldberg’s tenure.Does this mean that after the Miss Universe pageant concludes on January 29 (January 30 Philippine time), Harvey will stay put in Manila to assume his new duty? | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 15/01/2017 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2017/01/15/steve-harvey-for-u-s-ambassador-to-the-philippines/?share=email | Adobo Chronicles |
On The Eve Of Duterte’s SONA, Philippines’ Inflation Rate Drops To Historical Low | President Rodrigo Duterte will have a news headline when he delivers his third State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Monday. The Philippines’ inflation rate has just dropped from 5.2% to 0.1%!The good news was announced by the Central Bank of the Philippines in a hastily-called press conference at the Manila Peninsula Hotel.Central Bank Governor Nestor Espenilla, Jr. said that the primary factor that led to the decline of the inflation rate was the sudden influx of cash in the National Capital Region (NCR). This, in turn, resulted in greater demand for goods and services and increase in overall market productivity.Thanks to the organizers of the anti-SONA rallies for handing out cash — as much as P10,000 each — to those who agreed to attend tomorrow’s mass protests.To avail of the P10,000 payment, one must sign a notarized statement of intention to appear at the rallies. Fifty percent of the payment is payable upon submission of the statement and the other half is payable upon submission of a selfie photo showing the rallyist at the protest venue.The State of the Nation is strong! | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 21/07/2018 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2018/07/21/on-the-eve-of-dutertes-sona-philippines-inflation-rate-drops-to-historical-low/?share=email | Adobo Chronicles |
“Baguio on red alert?” Netizens worries after recent attacks of alleged NPA rebels in Benguet | Netizens worried on circulated rumors that Baguio City and other municipalities in Benguet was on red alert after alleged members of New People’s Army burned two trucks containing copper concentrate in Ampucao itogon, Benguet Thursday.An explosive was placed in the two vehicles but the operators of the trucks were safe after the suspected rebels allowed them to leave.According to the witnesses, the motives of the rebels in the arson incident was to give a lesson to Philex mines which owns the trucks.A Facebook page based on Baguio City named 9Baguio also posted an unconfirmed reports that the Abu Sayaff and NPA were plotting a terrorism activity in the crowded places of Baguio City and La Trinidad.The source of the information according to the page came from the Philippine Military Academy.A Netizen who works in Philex Mining expressed his sadness after the trucks were burned.“Walang puso ang my gawa nito… philex is a responsible mining dito kme kumukuha ng ikabubuhay nmin at png suporta sa pamilya nmin volvo 129 and volvo 127″ Netizen Reynaldo Tullao wrote in his post.But City Government of Baguio and the Philippine National Police is not yet confirming the rumors circulated on the internet.Last week, a fake intelligence report circulated on social media informing the Netizens that the Abu Sayaff already entered Baguio City and plotting to bomb a mall.The unconfirmed reports may possibly affect the tourist visits in the upcoming Panagbenga Festival next month in Baguio City because of being afraid to became a victim of terrorism. | ['View All Posts Pinoytrending'] | 2017-02-10 02:58:59+08:00 | https://pinoytrending.altervista.org/baguio-red-alert-netizens-worries-recent-attacks-alleged-npa-rebels-benguet/ | Pinoytrending Altervista |
We Are Four Years Old Today! | 25,149, 207 views3,193 stories15,698 active followers6,371 comments$15,000 donation to various charitiesWe were quoted and misquoted. We were translated into different languages. We received fan mail and hate mail. We rattled the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Embassy in the Philippines. We upset Hollywood. We even invented a new word: ‘ selfitis.’Four years and we’re still having so much fun.We hope you are, too, and if not, that’s perfectly fine as well.Here’s to the next four! | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 15/06/2017 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2017/06/15/we-are-four-years-old-today/ | Adobo Chronicles |
Duterte style: common-sense wisdom and bias towards ACTION | People who have seen enough in the business and corporate world know that sometimes the most effective performers are the ones who do not think or operate in the conventional, linear fashion that we have been trained to believe is the "right way".Recall how well-structured and well-oiled Noynoy Aquino's organization seemed to be. He had all these Ivy Leaguers working in his administration. Yet the bureaucracy grew so bad under Noynoy that we could not even get license plates for our cars or ID cards for our driver's licenses.Duterte, on the other hand, seems a lot less structured. But in 50 days, he, among other things, got rid of tanim-bala, rolled out the OFW one-stop shop, rolled out the 911 emergency hotline, reduced the processing time in several government offices, and brought the crime rate down by a significant percentage.Of course, his team is still a work in progress and I also hope they will address the administrative weaknesses you have pointed out, especially the communications group. (I think Martin Andanar is okay, he just needs to be supported by more people and maybe a senior strategist who can monitor the big picture while he looks after the day-to-day.)But I would like to note that Duterte's unconventional way of doing things may not necessarily be a negative. Judging from his track record in Davao, his non-linear approach may really just be matter of management style. For instance, how many "unstructured" college drop-outs have we seen who became very successful businessmen, and how many "structured" valedictorians and PhDs have we seen who simply failed to take off in life outside the academe?What Duterte has going for him is his common-sense wisdom and bias for action. Typical example of his common sense thinking vs. yellowtard thinking:The other day, Lourdes Sereno made another public statement that the police should under no circumstances make arrests without warrants. Duterte corrected Sereno by saying that the police can make arrests when a crime is being committed in their presence. He said, "If there is a terrorist na hawak na ang granada, tatakbo ka pa ba sa korte para kumuha ng warrant?"Pak!So my point is, in the end, it is not the style of doing things, but the results that matter. I'll take this streetsmart raging bull over the structured "disente" crowd any day, because he is practical and he gets things done.That said, I think it won't hurt Duterte if he had more people like Sec. Art Tugade in his team—streetsmart na, structured pa.As for Duterte's reforms being persona-based vs. institutionalized, I think there is no choice as of now. Given our current maturity level as a country, we are still a long way from being able to completely separate personality from principle. But there is consolation in knowing that at least our president today is not trying to paint every object in sight yellow, and not trying to name every road, school, building, airport, and holiday after his family to perpetuate their cult of personality.The shift to federalism and the current government's focus on systemic change will help institutionalize reforms in the future. What do I mean by systemic change? Let's take corruption as an example. Noynoy Aquino's idea of fighting corruption was selective prosecution of his political enemies, to satisfy his thirst for vengeance. Duterte's approach to fighting corruption is to clean up government agencies starting from the frontlines all the way to the heads, to make life smoother and more equitable for ordinary Filipinos. There lies the difference.---------------------This is a GRP Featured Comment. Join the discussion!http://www.getrealphilippines.com/blog/2016/08/three-fundamental-weaknesses-duterte-administration/#comment-1716034 | [] | 15/05/2016 0:00 | https://grpshorts.blogspot.com/2016/08/duterte-style-common-sense-wisdom-and.html#comments | GRPundit |
Philippine Government Officials Deny Plan To Round Up Gay Men | Government officials in Cotabato and other cites in the Philippines have categorically denied rumors that gay men will be rounded up following the May 9 presidential elections.The rumors started spreading on social media after Cotabato City local officials announced they were conducting ‘Oplan Baklas.’ (Operation Gay Men)It turns out that indeed, the plan did round up and rid the city not of gay men but of campaign posters and paraphernalia. It was part of a city-wide clean-up drive after the elections. Similar clean-up campaigns were launched in many parts of the country.‘Baklas’ which is plural for gay men also means to “remove” or “dismantle.”All’s well that ends well. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 15/05/2016 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2016/05/15/philippine-government-officials-deny-plan-to-round-up-gay-men/#respond | Adobo Chronicles |
Donald Trump Offers U.S. Citizenship To 71-Year-Old Nun Ordered Deported From The Philippines | Just days after a group of Philippine (Makabayan) legislators filed a bill to grant Philippine citizenship to 71-year-old Australian missionary Sr. Patricia Fox, President Donald Trump offered the nun U.S. citizenship.Fox was ordered deported following charges that she violated the terms of her temporary stay in the Philippines. She was accused of participating in political activities which is prohibited under the Constitution.The Adobo Chronicles spoke with Trump and asked him his rationale for the U.S. citizenship offer to Fox.The President said that this was consistent with his earlier pronouncement that he would welcome immigrants from white countries.Many will recall that Trump had questioned why the US would accept more immigrants from Haiti and “shithole countries” in Africa rather than places like Norway, as he rejected a bipartisan immigration deal.We could not get hold of Sr. Fox to ask her if she would accept Trump’s offer. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 01/06/2018 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2018/06/01/donald-trump-offers-u-s-citizenship-to-71-year-old-nun-ordered-deported-from-the-philippines/ | Adobo Chronicles |
Prof. Contreras to VP Leni: ‘Kung naniniwala kang ikaw ang nanalo bakit wala kang tiwala sa recount?’ | De La Salle University professor and political scientist Antonio Contreras questioned why the camp of Leni Robredo was so afraid of the recount requested by the defeated Vice Presidential Candidate Bongbong Marcos.“Leni Robredo ano ba problema mo. Kung naniniwala kang ikaw ang nanalo bakit wala kang tiwala sa recount?” Contreras wrote.He wrote that the Vice President must not worry about the expenses of the recount because Bongbong Marcos must the one who would shoulder all the expenses.“i naman ikaw ang gagastos at si Bongbong Marcos.At may karapatan ka namang makialam sa proseso ng recount bilang respondent. Andyan naman si Atty. Macalintal na abugado mo. Di naman siguro problema pera at andyan naman ang LP at si Loida Nicolas-Lewis.” He added.Contreras believe that Leni can participate in the recount because she’s a lawyer.In these past weeks, the camp of Vice President Leni Robredo expressed alarm over rumors that the ballots would be recounted even without the direction of the Presidential Electoral Tribunal which handling the election protest filed by Bongbong Marcos against Robredo.Source: | ['View All Posts Pinoytrending'] | 2016-12-11 16:09:33+08:00 | https://pinoytrending.altervista.org/prof-contreras-vp-leni-kung-naniniwala-kang-ikaw-ang-nanalo-bakit-wala-kang-tiwala-sa-recount/ | Pinoytrending Altervista |
Here's why Leni Robredo deserves all the vitriol the public has been throwing at her... | The disclaimer and the defense. What has she done? Nothing to begin with. She lobbied for a Cabinet post, got it and did nothing. She vowed to cooperate with the President but didn't.Attendant to the responsibility of being a Cabinet member is to stick to the policies laid down by the President. Yet she disagreed with the President in the manner in which the drug war is being conducted and the Marcos burial. As the President stated last night, the final straw came when she attended a anti-Marcos burial rally where calls for the ouster of Duterte were made. In her mind, she thought of herself as co-equal to the President. She's not. As a lawyer, she should be very familiar with the constitutional provisions on the duties and responsibilities of the Vice-President.There is no stipulation that she is entitled to a Cabinet post. She serves at the pleasure of the President and is bound to toe the administration line. Why does she deserve the vilification and pillory? Because she also employs the same tactics against the President. She has sold herself short to the public using the death of her husband and his track record as her track record as well. If she won the Vice-Presidency without any fraud being committed, do you think Marcos would've been idiotic enough to file an electoral protest like Mar Roxas did against Binay?Make no mistake about it Robredo is not a political virgin. Her face is thick enough to criticize the President in public and still sit in at Cabinet meetings as if she didn't do anything wrong. This is why she deserves the vitriol the public has been throwing at her.---------------------RG San Luis as posted on Facebook | [] | 28/12/2017 0:00 | https://grpshorts.blogspot.com/2016/12/heres-why-leni-robredo-deserves-all.html#comments | GRPundit |
POPE FRANCIS WILL VISIT ARROYO, JAILED SENATORS, NAPOLES DURING PHILIPPINES VISIT | all of whom are in prison in connection with the pork barrel scam.The revised papal schedule was finalized despite objections from President NoyNoy Aquino and the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines.Indeed, when he visits the Philippines in January, Pope Francis will clothe the naked, take care of the sick and visit those in prison, just like it says in the bible. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 28/12/2017 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2014/12/28/pope-francis-will-visit-arroyo-jailed-senators-napoles-during-philippines-visit/ | Adobo Chronicles |
Philippine Government To ‘Take Back The Internet’ From Maria Ressa And Rappler? | Rappler CEO Maria Ressa’s widely-quoted statement, “Time to take back the Internet” might just come back to haunt her. Just in time for Halloween.Ressa has been very vocal about the proliferation of “fake” news sites and trolls that have left her online news organization lagging behind in terms of followers and reader engagements. She was particularly critical of entertainer-turned-political blogger, Mocha Uson, who has more than 4 million followers, twice that of Rappler.Now, the Philippine government may soon ‘take back the Internet’ from Rappler because it appears it has violated the Philippine Constitution.Article XVI, Section 11 of the 1987 Philippine Constitution specifically states that the mass media must be wholly-owned and managed by citizens of the Philippines.But Rappler is partly-owned by a foreign company, Omidyar Network. How do we know? Rappler itself told us so way back on November 5, 2015:So, before Rappler can take back the Internet, it may first have to give it up! | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 01/11/2016 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2016/11/01/philippine-government-to-take-back-the-internet-from-maria-ressa-and-rappler/#comments | Adobo Chronicles |
Lack of an openness to discussing the deep confronting issues hinders #Philippines' self help | One precondition for seeking help is finding ways to be open and honest with oneself – something many of us Filipinos do NOT have.Nietzsche wrote that getting to know oneself can be the road to hell and that is very true.What forms of help can be appropriate depends on the person and situation – modern methods like behaviourism seem more promising than psychoanalysis, which often does not help and some doctors do foster dependency to earn…Germany had its postwar group therapy with a lot of Zeitzeugen = witnesses of the times – speaking up one by one. It did help finally, the openness about the Irrweg = wrong path the nation of poets and thinkers went led to a new nation that is more open than the USA.A lot of hangups the Philippines has now can be traced to a lack of true openness about the issues of the past years, that stuff is still there in the back of peoples heads and causes irrational reactions by many people. Well maybe it's just me and my delusions.------------------This is a GRP Featured Comment. Join the discussion!http://getrealphilippines.com/blog/2015/05/seeking-psychiatric-help-debunking-common-misconceptions/comment-page-1/#comment-1152145 | [] | 18/03/2018 0:00 | https://grpshorts.blogspot.com/2015/05/lack-of-openness-to-discussing-deep.html#comments | GRPundit |
The #Philippines explained using 2 cows #ASEAN | OLIGARCHYYou have no cows. Only oligarchs are allowed cows, and will sell you milk at monopoly prices, providing you are grateful and subservient.A POLITICAL DYNASTYYou breed cows. The constitution says nothing about not electing cows to office.THE PHILIPPINES GOVERNMENTYou have no cows, but lots of 'cash cows' to send abroad.A PHILIPPINES ENTREPRENEURYou have 2 cows, by copying someone elses business model.A PHILIPPINE LGUYou have 'ghost' cows, and claim grants and aid via a dummy NGO to help fund 'research'. All funds kept in offshore account, or used to buy house in Las Vegas.A PHILIPPINE POLITICIANYou have 2 cows - your wife knows, but turns a blind eye!A PHILIPPINE MAYORThreatens to shoot cattle rustlers, and dreams of being a sheriff.A PHILIPPINE NGOYou have no cows, but through a worldwide appeal, money to build a place to keep them, in Los Angeles.A PHILIPPINES FAMILYYou have 2 cows. You sell one to the bull farm to pay debts The other thinks the grass is greener on the other side of the fence and becomes a ladycow in thailand. You now have no cows, but are proud.A PHILIPPINES TOURISTDo you have 2 young cows to hire?And from Uncyclopedia: -DEMOCRACY - PhilippinesYou have two cows. The people are hungry. An election is held, and the cows win because their milk fed the people. The people go hungry again and take to the streets in People Power and demand the cows to be slaughtered. They are made into hamburgers. A few days later, the people are hungry again.DEMOCRACY - PhilippinesIf the cows hate their herder, they simply cause a stampede and dump their pies all over a field called EDSA to force him/her out. If that doesn't work, they try (and try, and try, and try, and try, and try and try, and try, and try---whew--but, hold on, I'm not done yet--and try and try and try...) again to impeach him/her. | [] | 2017-10-28 03:41:21+00:00 | https://grpshorts.blogspot.com/2014/06/the-philippines-explained-using-2-cows.html | GRPundit |
It’s time for Trillanes to seek political asylum in the United States to escape Duterte | It might be time for “senator” Antonio Trillanes to seek political asylum in the United States. After all, he sees himself as “persecuted” and the subject of attempts to “silence” him. In the West, that indeed constitutes “political persecution” and is enough grounds to consider providing refuge to the “senator”. But will Trillanes’s case meet the criteria sufficiently enough to enable such a hypothetical bid for asylum to prosper?That does not seem to be a promising prospect. There seems to be no real evidence that the Philippine government has mounted initiatives meant to impinge upon basic rights to personal expression and political dissent that Trillanes insists it is engaging in.Indeed, Trillanes himself has taken a lot of liberties speaking his mind at every forum willing to provide him a soapbox to stand on. He has also travelled extensively to meet with “sympathetic” patrons to his cause which include certain European rapporteurs and even US senators who were critical of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte in the past. Trillanes, it seems, has spent inordinate amounts of time and resources travelling overseas for various publicity stunts and to stir up support from foreign governments and non-government organisations for his “cause”. He seems to have forgotten that he is, first and foremost, a Philippine senator on paper and actually is in a solid position to address and act on his concerns within the immediate setting of his office. As such, one can’t help but wonder whether these overseas “projects” and schmoozefests with foreign honchos manifests a disturbing lack of confidence in his own country’s system of governance to provide sufficient venue to pursue his agenda.Rather, Trillanes has, instead, banked on what he sees to be a more influential backer — that of foreign interests — and, in the process, has relegated the true source of his mandate — that of the Filipino people closer to home — to validate the credibility of his vision (if it can even be called that) to a small footnote in his thesis. In short, Trillanes has, in the course of seeking endorsement from foreign entities, merely highlighted the bald reality that the Philippines remains a mere vassal state of its former Imperial masters — one that could not function without the tacit approval of their overlords.This is likely because, in reality, Trillanes lacks credibility before his own people. A video taken during a forum in which he spoke before the Filipino-American community during his recent visit to the US shows him facing a “hostile crowd”. It got to a point, during this forum, where the host had to tell a member of the audience to “shut up” and “get out”.There is, therefore, some evidence that Trillanes has stopped listening to his own constituents and has taken it upon himself to unhinge his agenda from any semblance of sensibility and fuel its pursuit mainly on the energy he derives from his own personal hubris and vindictive character.Recall that this is not the first time Trillanes was given a reality check by an observer not picked from within the little echo chamber he has cocooned himself within. Back in June, Trillanes was taken to task for the lack of coherence in his agenda in a confronting interview with BBC journalist Stephen Sackur.In that episode of his talk show HARDtalk, Sackur did not mince words. He first got Trillanes to confirm that he is an avowed democrat then proceeded to grill him on the matter further citing the inconsistency of this vow to uphold democratic rule with his track record of launching coup d’etats (notably described by Sackur as “pathetic” in the way they lasted for no more than a day or two) against a duly-elected president, then President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, through the 2000s.On that single point, Sackur built a consistently-themed conversation with Trillanes. He kept referring to the simple fact that Duterte had, during his campaign for the presidency, been fully up front about what he envisions his rule will be like, laying on the table every gory detail of the way he plans to make good on his promises to run roughshod over every obstacle — even over “human rights” — to fulfill his mandate to clean up his country. That he won the presidential election with all those ideas laid out before the public to digest is, as Sackur points out more than a few times during the interview, democracy at work.Today, “the majority of Filipinos seem to like his iron fist,” Sackur observes. From there, more pointed questions were fielded by Sackur in rapid succession. One of his most difficult questions to Trillanes was, around whether or not his efforts to take down the Duterte administration were in tune with ordinary Filipinos’ sentiments. Sackur even went as far as describing Trillanes’s comments on the Philippine government as “constantly negative” in that light. Trillanes could only stammer out a response that merely speculated about where Duterte’s numbers could go in the mid-term. Without any actual logic or facts to support or substantiate his claims that Duterte’s popularity cannot be sustained, Trillanes could only insist that he was “confident” that Duterte’s days are numbered.There is enough evidence to conclude that Trillanes’s actions and initiatives of late do not have the broader interests of his constituents in mind but more that of a small clique of groups who are threatened by the erosion of the status quo that they have long benefited from. Indeed, TIME “journalist” Joseph Hincks in a recent article described him as a “principal adversary” of Duterte which pretty much makes him the de facto Opposition leader of the moment and highlights the truth about the real motive behind his activities. But Trillanes is, supposedly, a “senator” — a role that requires that one do things primarily in aid of legislation. Filipinos need to ask this “senator” an important question in that light:What exactly is the legislative agenda that frames Trillanes’s recent activities?Simple answers should suffice. After all, it is often the simplest answers that make the most sense. Perhaps the real answer to that question as far as we have observed is just one word: Nothing. | ['Oratio Imperata'] | 2017-10-28 03:41:21+00:00 | https://www.getrealphilippines.com/2017/10/time-trillanes-seek-political-asylum-united-states-escape-duterte/#comments | Get Real Philippines |
CALIFORNIANS RELIEVED: NO 8.8 MAGNITUDE EARTHQUAKE ON THURSDAY | right where the San Andreas fault runs through.(Disclosure: The Adobo Chronicles did not receive any fee for promoting the movie ‘San Andreas,’ starring Wayne Johnson, in this news story.) | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 29/05/2018 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2015/05/29/californians-relieved-no-8-8-magnitude-earthquake-on-thursday/#respond | Adobo Chronicles |
Adobo Chronicles, Rappler Barred From Live Coverage Of Monday’s Senate Hearing On 2016 Electoral Fraud | Mainstream media companies are expected to show up in full force on Monday when the Senate hearing on the alleged 2016 Electoral Fraud continues.The last hearing, in which Atty. Glenn Chong questioned the Comelec and Smartmatic’s electronic transmissions a day before the actual May 9, 2016 elections, was not covered live by many Mainstream news outlets.However, The Adobo Chronicles and Rappler will be barred from covering Monday’s hearing.The Senate Secretariat explained the decision:”Adobo Chronicles is a satire news site while Rappler is a fake news site.”We at The Adobo Chronicles wholeheartedly accept the Senate decision. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 03/08/2018 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2018/08/03/adobo-chronicles-rappler-barred-from-live-coverage-of-mondays-senate-hearing-on-2016-electoral-fraud/?share=email | Adobo Chronicles |
The Curious Case Of Two ‘Natural-born Citizens’ Running For President: Grace Poe And Ted Cruz | So, who is considered a natural-born citizen? Well, it all depends on the country and the legal interpretation by constitutionalists.The Philippines and the United States have candidates running for president in their respective 2016 presidential elections. Both countries require presidential candidates to be “natural-born” citizens.The Philippines’ Senator Grace Poe faces legal qualification challenges by virtue of her being a foundling. The Philippine nationality law is based upon the principle of jus sanguinis (Latin: right of blood) and therefore descent from a parent who is a citizen or national of the Republic of the Philippines is the primary method of acquiring Philippine citizenship. Poe’s parents, and their citizenship, have not been ascertained to this moment.Ted Cruz, on the other hand, while having an American mother, was born of a Cuban father — in Canada. The constitutional text provides that a U.S. president, unlike other elected officials, must be a “natural born citizen.” Some say this language could not mean anyone born a citizen or else the text would have simply stated “born citizen.” The word “natural” is a limiting qualifier that indicates only some persons who are born citizens qualify. Moreover, when the Constitution was enacted, the word “natural” meant something not created by statute, as with natural rights or natural law, which instead were part of the common law.Both scenarios are curious cases that may or may not be resolved in this election year.So what happens if either Poe or Cruz is elected president remains the million dollar (and , in the case of the Philippines, peso) question.Our recommendation? Just vote your conscience. Just don’t ask Donald Trump. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 21/01/2016 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2016/01/21/the-curious-case-of-two-natural-born-citizens-running-for-president-grace-poe-and-ted-cruz/?share=email | Adobo Chronicles |
IT’S SHAPING UP TO BE MARCOS VS. AQUINO IN THE PHILIPPINES’ 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS | In the U.S., presidential politics is shaping up to be a Clinton-Bush-Clinton-Bush affair. In the Philippines, it’s likely to be Marcos-Aquino-Marcos-Aquino. After four years of the older Bush (George H.W.) and eight years of the younger Bush (George W.); and after eight years of Bill Clinton, the 2016 U.S. presidential elections is likely to be a contest between another Bush and another Clinton – Jeb and Hillary. The Philippines seems to be mimicking its former colonial master. After twenty years of Marcos’ rule (Ferdinand, Sr.) and six years a piece for the older Aquino (Cory) and her son (NoyNoy), the 2016 presidential elections could possibly be a contest between another Marcos and another Aquino – Bongbong (Ferdinand, Jr.) and Kris (NoyNoy’s sister). It will be up to the intelligent Filipino voter to make the difficult choice between matuwid na daan (straight path), and baluktot na daan (crooked path). Matuwid na daan is the NoyNoy administration’s battle cry. The question is, who — between Bongbong and Kris — will follow which path? What color will the voters choose? Red (Marcos loyalists) or yellow (Aquino fanatics)? Let the games begin! (Actually, the games have begun. Marcos’ resume is now being scrutinized as far as his Oxford and Wharton degrees are concerned, while Aquino’s love life is taking center stage — largely through her own doing). | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 03/03/2018 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2015/03/03/its-shaping-up-to-be-marcos-vs-aquino-in-the-philippines-2016-presidential-elections/?share=email | Adobo Chronicles |
Sign From Heaven? Filipinos Flock To Jollibee After Sky Phonomenon Over Manila | Filipinos are known to be devout Catholics and they look to the sky for divine intervention.On a clear, warm Sunday, as people were coming out of church services, a sign from the heavens appeared in the sky over most of Metro Manila.It was a cloud formation never before seen anywhere in the world — that of a chicken leg, presumably fried chicken leg.That was enough to create a mad rush to Jollibee restaurants across the metropolis, and by 10 a.m., every single Jollibee’s was sold out of the Chicken Joy.But unknown to many, something had terribly gone wrong. The “miracle” was actually a promo gimmick by McDonald’s, which paid hundreds of thousands of pesos to rent a plane that would release a smoke formation resembling a chicken leg.Jollibee’s, McDonald’s number one competitor in the fried chicken business in the Philippines, was truly blessed with free advertising! | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 23/04/2016 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2016/04/23/sign-from-heaven-filipinos-flock-to-jollibee-after-sky-phonomenon-over-manila/?share=email | Adobo Chronicles |
Philippine Senate inquiry on ‘fake news’ reveals how little people understand about REAL blogging | Another non-surprise today. Cocoy Dayao, the man seemingly at the centre of a vast network of anti-government websites and blogs was a no-show at today’s Senate inquiry into “fake news”. Instead of Dayao, it was Malacanang bloggers RJ “Thinking Pinoy” Nieto and Assistant Secretary for Communications Mocha Uson who had to stand under the harsh light of the senators’ wrath.The trouble with the Malacanang troops is that they didn’t keep their noses clean enough to evade the potshots of the media-hungry senators they faced today. The house of cards that was effectively taken apart in the Senate today was the rickety edifice of ambiguity both Nieto and Uson had built to justify being both government officials and “bloggers” and their insistence that they could continue to wear the latter hat and remain entitled to the right to speak their minds on that platform the way ordinary private citizens are allowed to do.That’s a difficult balancing act and a position virtually impossible to rationalise when your every move and utterance is seen to be made on the taxpayer’s dime. Indeed, the key takeaway was more around a confirmation that, really, none of the parties in this “debate” actually understood what blogging is really all about. That much was clear seeing that the exchange was still peppered with notions of authorities on “credibility”, credentials or the lack of these thereof that determines what one can or cannot publish on mass media platforms, and other such high-horsed concepts that, in reality, are ultimately irrelevant to real bloggers.Real bloggers owe nobody nothing, see. They owe respect only to their readers’ intelligence. And that, alone, is what keeps real bloggers intellectually honest. The minute you are seen to be blogging on someone else’s dime or under someone’s guidance or editorial oversight, you cease to be the stuff that is made for the jungle that is the blogosphere in its true and original sense. In that context, only the free market of ideas and its Darwinian governance over memetic dominance is what determines who is truly credible and which player wins in the long run.At the core of the confusion on the “debate” on “fake news” is the runaway banalisation of the term “fake news” itself. No longer a word that describes a precise concept with clarity, it has become a mere buzzword used as a lame label by the numerous screeching shills that dominate the chatter that passes off as political discourse in the Philippines. For that we can heap much of the blame on mainstream news media which, rather than apply the professional discipline to remain precise in its choice of words, instead, also jumped on the “fake news” buzzword bandwagon. Rather than be precisely categorical in referring to specific types of fraudulent or misleading published content, it lazily and sloppily slapped the “fake news” label on everything it deemed to be of dubious or, worse, sub-journalistic quality. And in the process of arbitrarily dividing the memetic landscape between “authentic” and “fake” using this pedestrian buzzword, the whole industry eroded its own ascendancy to any perception of authority to proclaim any such.This again leaves the only playing field that matters to real bloggers. Try as much as they can, members of the Establishment cannot contain nor regulate those who are truly accountable only to the true free market of ideas. It’s sort of like the Observer Effect in particle physics. There is an effect caused by the act of observation that makes the true state of a system elusive to precise evaluation by observers. Real bloggers are kind of like that. The more you try to categorise them or reduce their work to governable artefacts, the more they slip right through the cracks in your theory. | ['Oratio Imperata'] | 2017-10-04 12:41:00+00:00 | https://www.getrealphilippines.com/2017/10/philippine-senate-inquiry-fake-news-reveals-little-people-understand-real-blogging/#comments | Get Real Philippines |
President Duterte eyes railway system in Mindanao | The incoming president is true to its previous words during the campaign period that he would put up a railway station in Mindanao and some parts in Luzon. He said in one of his interview that ‘a nation will not grow without a railway system’.Saturday night in a hotel in Davao, Duterte mounted another press conference reiterating his vision for a railway system that links Manila to Nueva Ecija in the north and Sorsogon and Batangas in the southern part of Luzon.Duterte is also eyeing for railway development in the entire Mindanao. He said that he has been studying the process of installation since it needs a partnership with other country to materialize the system because the government has no enough funds for it. Duterte added that the process would go through PPP (Public-Private-Partnership) program.Even before election, Duterte has been dreaming of a partnership with China who is capable enough to create one. Duterte also stressed that the project should not influence or compromise that stand of the Philippine government in the disputed islands in the west Philippine sea.“Just because you’re building me the railway does not mean to say that I am abandoning the Scarborough Shoal,” Duterte said.In his previous interview with reporters, Duterte was quoted by the Inquirer, he said that “I will just ask you to build a rail, just like what you did for Africa,” referring to the Chinese-funded high-speed railway line project of the Kenya Railways Corporation, which has cut travel time from Nairobi to Mombasa from 13 to three hours.Is change coming? Leave your thoughts below! | [] | 2016-05-29 23:36:40+08:00 | http://duterte.today/president-duterte-eyes-railway-system-mindanao/ | Duterte Daily Stories |
#Filipinos more interested in finding blame than on solving problems | It seems Filipinos are not really interested in solving problems. They are more interested in finding someone to blame. It's likely because blaming someone gives the illusion of moral high ground, and it feels like solving the problem when it really worsens it.In this case, for why the Philippines is so backward and dysfunctional, it is popular to blame Marcos. But that's actually the wrong answer. Blaming-addicted Filipinos fail to understand that the true reason behind the country's dysfunctions is the very attitude of Filipinos themselves. Indeed, a significant cause is their very culture, composed of their beliefs vis-a-vis their actions. The laziness, the "me-first" attitude, the parochiality, the victim mentality, the arrogance through "Pinoy Pride," and more. These are all part of what led to Marcos's regime after all.But when faced with the obvious solution, Filipinos refuse to do it. They refuse to admit their own faults and take responsibility to do the proper action. Because it is easier to pass the buck and avoid responsibility and accountability. They don't want to do anything! They want someone else to do it! They still wait for the Messiah who will spoil them rotten. But that will never come, since they are spoiled rotten anyway.--------------This is a GRP Featured Comment. Join the discussion!http://getrealphilippines.com/blog/2015/10/why-the-neveragain-slogan-reflects-filipinos-total-failure-of-imagination/#comment-1374764 | [] | 21/09/2018 0:00 | https://grpshorts.blogspot.com/2015/10/filipinos-more-interested-in-finding.html | GRPundit |
The bullshit of 'resilience': Disaster preparedness in the #Philippines politicised beyond recognition! | This lack of disaster preparedeness in a country that is the most disaster prone in the world highlights just how fucked up/utterly insane/inhumanely insensitive/ terminally stupid (pick one) generations of our leaders have been. That we allow them to grandstand after every disaster and bullshit us with the "Filipino is resilient" line instead of coming at them with fire. guns and pitchforks is equally a disaster makes us insane.I don't think the Philippines has had a year where no one has died due to a disaster. Our leaders lack of a clear disaster preparedness program is contributing to literally killing us.I don't know about you but one of the reasons why people agreed to be governed and go into a social contract is so that the government can protect the people, here lead disaster preparedness efforts. But yeah the Philippines is a society where it is a war of a person against every other person. In short, bahala na kayo dyan….kkb….ang mamatay ng dahil sayo, pwera ako.Just some suggestions:1. Stop politicizing disaster preparedness and response.2. Create a government agency specializing in disaster preparedness and response. Insulate this agency from politics by paying its members well, hiring the required experts, maybe even banning members of the disaster preparedness agency from running for office.3. Buy PAGASA and PHIVOCS state of the art shit that they need do get their job done. Pay them well too.4. Create shelters for each municipality/city.5. Educate people.Dammit, we're dying out here.------------------This is a GRP Featured Comment. Join the discussion!http://getrealphilippines.com/blog/2014/10/disaster-preparedness-has-become-an-oxymoron-in-the-philippines/comment-page-1/#comment-823656 | [] | 13/01/2017 0:00 | https://grpshorts.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-bullshit-of-resilience-disaster_9.html#comments | GRPundit |
WILL ROSE FOSTANES BE THE LAST FILIPINA STANDING? | from X Factor to American Idol to The Voice. The reason? Because Filipinos are such good musicians they have an “unfair advantage” over competitors of other nationalities, according to TV producers. Read the full story HERE. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 13/01/2017 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2014/01/13/will-rose-fostanes-be-the-last-filipina-standing/ | Adobo Chronicles |
Statement of 100 'data scientists' vs COMELEC electoral fraud allegations: Lazy and irresponsible! | Some trolls are pretty subtle. They start out innocuous then later they come out with their agenda and turn out to be a condescending apologist for the 100+ The moment this person said "with all due respect" and followed with some unsolicited advice, I deleted ALL her comments quickly,One person wrote a rant with some analysis on my wall and AFTER I debunked what they were saying, I deleted their rant and analysis.The first one said that the 100+ also has access to raw data and has published their analysis and I should take a look at it. If that's true, then why was that not referenced in the GMA story and the basic pdf announcement document that they all signed? Because in both those items, there was not even a HINT that they studied the totality of the RAW DATA. What the troll was saying was just hearsay. She didn't even place a link to any analysis based on raw data! Why make contrary statements and not back it up?When I say raw data, ALL OF IT, all available RAW DATA. I'm not going to make it my life's work to read their analysis and engage in debate. I already know that their analysis is just ALL ABOUT THE INVERTED V. But that's just one side of a coin, its an incomplete part of the picture! These 100+ are guilty of a logical fallacy. They are making a conclusion based on very incomplete information.They are also guilty of semantic manipulation because what they said is that the inverted V does not prove fraud. But that's not what Dr. Antonio P. Contreras said! He said that his analysis with David Yap could point to fraud NOT prove fraud. What the 100+ did not say is that NOTHING IN THEIR ANALYSIS DISPROVED FRAUD. Nothing they stated or put forth in the pdf document DISPROVED FRAUD. NOTHING. If all they are saying is that their analysis shows that the inverted V does not prove fraud, then that's called BEING LAZY. Because the real question, which they DID NOT answer was "COULD THERE HAVE BEEN FRAUD"?ANYONE observing the count at close range and studying every aspect of the TOTAL raw data will know FRAUD is not only possible but PROBABLE. We also take into consideration that SMARTMATIC has done similar documented FRAUD in PAST elections, notably Venezuela 2015. A basic analysis of undervotes in the RAW DATA SET corroborates probable fraud as had been done in the Venezuela 2015 elections, an analysis that has been widely disseminated and seems to be completely disregarded by these 100+The other troll wrote a rant and even included profanities, referenced an analysis by one of the 100. But he ADMITTED that they didn't look at the raw data!!! He even asked me to furnish him with the raw data because they haven't looked at it!! He also once again mentioned the BAILIWICK issue which has been debunked over and over!!!Seriously I think the 100+ are VERY IRRESPONSIBLE to en banc make a very strong implication that there is categorically no fraud in this elections. And yet, nothing they have put forth DISPROVES FRAUD. If anyone has done analysis on raw data, but with only a focus on the inverted V, that STILL constitutes an incomplete analysis and still DOES NOT DISPROVE FRAUD. I don't have to look at their numbers to know that!Once again, this is NOT Rocket Science. Just plain COMMON SENSE.-------------------Ma. Victoria V. Ferro as posted on Facebook:https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10154294853216495&id=522171494[Editor Note: Above photo is a publicly-accessible photo uploaded by Reinabelle Reyes ("Data Scientist & Astrophysicist") on her Facebook page. Reyes is one of the signatories to a statement signed by "over 100 data science professionals and academics" denouncing allegations of electoral fraud in the 2016 elections. The PDF file of this statement was first uploaded and made publicly available on Reyes's page.]-------------------Facebook page of Reina Reyes at:https://m.facebook.com/reinabelle-------------------GMA News story reporting names of all 100+ signatories denouncing the work of Antonio Contreras and David Yap:http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/567467/news/nation/over-100-data-scientists-see-no-fraud-in-pattern-of-votes-in-vp-race | [] | 2016-12-25 14:02:45+08:00 | https://grpshorts.blogspot.com/2016/05/statement-of-100-data-scientists-vs.html#comments | GRPundit |
Artist TJ Sarvida writes open-letter for Inquirer: “Pwede po bang humingi ng kunting pag galang sa papa ko?” | Bubot Sarvida, father of one of artist who supported the campaign of President Duterte, TJ Sarvida was shot dead on December 22, 2016.Inquirer covered the killings happened during that night and they included in their article how Bubot Sarvida was killed by the suspect.The two article from Inquirer and Radyo Inquirer claimed that Bubot Sarvida witnessed one of the killings of an alleged drug pusher during that night so the suspects followed Sarvida in his house and killed him.The article also said that Mr. Sarvida’s wife was on the watch list.After the article was published on the internet, some Netizens were confused and thought that Mr. Bubot Sarvida was a victim of extrajudicial killings or War on Drugs.Jimmy Bondoc, a friend of TJ Sarvida slammed inquirer for their report about Mr. Sarvida.According to Bondoc, the article wrote about Mr. Sarvida was false and they carried evidences that would prove that Sarvida was not a victim of vigilante groups like what the inquirer claimed.Bondoc also said that the top newspaper put his friend TJ Sarvida in danger because of their false and malicious report.He also asked the newspaper to withdraw the false information that they written about Mr. Sarvida.TJ Sarvida also wrote an open letter for Inquirer, he narrated the real story behind the killing of his father Bubot.He also asked the Inquirer to respect his father and stop politicizing the tradegy happened during that night.TJ also said that his father and mother is a god-fearing person so it’s impossible that his family is involved in illegal drugs.Even Mr. Daniel Sarvida, brother of the victim also slammed inquirer and others for destroying the image of his killed brother. He also thanked Bondoc for defending his brother from irresponsible journalism.“IN HIS INTERVIEW WITH THE ABS-CBN, JIMMY BONDOC HAD DEFENDED MY BROTHER’S VILIFIED NAME CAUSED BY THIS IRRESPONSIBLE REPORTING MADE BY RADIO.INQUIRER.NET AND OTHERS!I AM PERSONALLY THANKING SINGER-COMPOSER JIMMY BONDOC FOR DEFENDING MY BROTHER’S CLEAN REPUTATION BEING A LAW ABIDING CITIZEN AND GODLY SPIRITUAL PERSON!” Daniel Sarvida wrote on his Facebook account. | ['View All Posts Pinoytrending'] | 2016-12-25 14:02:45+08:00 | https://pinoytrending.altervista.org/artist-tj-sarvida-writes-open-letter-inquirer-pwede-po-bang-humingi-ng-kunting-pag-galang-sa-papa-ko/ | Pinoytrending Altervista |
Our future of groupthink on Facebook and social media | I read somewhere that nothing still beats music when it comes to efficiently bringing multiple human minds into natural brain sync. And the massively in-sync coming together with a hundred to a thousand others we experience in, say, rock concerts and dance clubs is perhaps as close as we get to non-technology enabled borgism.If you think about it, in the music business, elite musicians wield so much power over the minds of their fans. Perhaps social networking is the music of the Web and like the rock stars of the older medium, those who are most savvy at playing its features get to define the 'borg'. Those who aren't or who merely consume rather than produce meaningful content are doomed to be subject to its groupthink.I also read that there is strong evidence that the constant info updating of social media is the active ingredient in inducing the dopamine fix on the brain that makes it as pleasurable or addictive as music, sex, and eating. Considering how increasingly efficient these sites and the devices they run on get at harvesting data about our movements, thoughts, and moods from our day-to-day living activities, the future looks to be an interesting one in our evolution as a social species.Commented on Ben Kritz's "How Facebook is Turning Us into the Borg"http://weatheronneptune.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/how-facebook-is-turning-us-into-the-borg/ | [] | 23/07/2018 0:00 | https://grpshorts.blogspot.com/2011/09/our-future-of-groupthink-on-facebook.html#comments | GRPundit |
Abella slams Critics 'Use Your Creativity, Duterte’s Statements Are Just Expressions Of Frustration' | The Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto Abella reminds the public to use their creative imagination to understand Duterte’s statements. According to Abella, people should not only focus on the things they want to hear from President Duterte,Dapat intindihin natin yung word na ‘cut ng ties’ it’s a possibility. It’s not a definite yes, it’s not a definite no, he said he might.- Presidential Spokesperson Ernesto AbellaIn regards to the recent statement of President Duterte, Abella believes that it was just expressions of frustration that people, as well as the international media, failed to understand.He carefully calibrates his statements so along that line, if we follow his style, let us not simply just put a period at the end of Duterte’statements.People should also wait for our President to clarify his statement, instead of any informal conclusions.Let’s wait for his clarifications regarding the matter. Wag tayo masyadong literal. | [] | 23/07/2018 0:00 | http://www.pilipinasonlineupdates.com/2016/10/abella-slams-critics-use-your.html#comment-form | Pilipinas Online Updates |
Drug trafficking charges against De Lima, 7 others Filed Today! | Anti-crime advocates filed on Tuesday drug trafficking complaints with the Department of Justice (DOJ) against Senator Leila De Lima and seven other personalities allegedly involved in the illegal drug trade inside the New Bilibid Prison.Apart from De Lima, also charged by the Volunteer Against Crime and Corruption with sale of illegal drugs and conspiracy to commit drug trade under Republic Act 9165 were:Relying on the testimonies of former BuCor officer-in-charge Rafael Ragos and inmate Herbert Colanggo, the VACC said the respondents "acted in concerted effort, whose actions exhibited the display of uniform agreement to engage in illegal drug trade.""Each one of them had played significant roles in order to ensure the perpetuation of the illegal drug trade inside the Bilibid," stated the complaint, which was filed on behalf of VACC by its founding chairman Dante Jimenez.In De Lima's case, the VACC said she was able to put in position her cohorts at the BuCor to enable her to maneuver the drug trade."Her influence and power likewise offered respondents in this case shield and protection to ensure the invinsibility in the conduct of their illegal trade; in this same manner that she was also able to eliminate the competitors of Jaybee inside the prison by having them transferred to the NBI (National Bureau of Investigation) (in December 2014," the complaint stated.Baraan, on the other hand, according to Colanggo, allegedly earned from facilitating transfer of inmates from one compound to another in return for P500,000, or from one penal colony to another for a higher rate of P3 million.Ragos had said he delivered P5 million from drug payoffs in two instances to De Lima's house in Parañaque City in late 2012 while Colanggo said the former justice secretary got P3 million monthly from him in exchange for allowing the lavish lifestyle of some high profile inmates.The complaints, which were prepared by Colanggo's counsel, Ferdinand Topacio, will undergo preliminary investigation by DOJ prosecutors who will determine if there is probable cause to press charges in court.No documentary evidence yetBuilding an airtight case against De Lima, however, is not easy, according to Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II on Monday.He said they have yet to secure documentary evidence linking the bank deposits amounting to billions of pesos from the illegal transactions to De Lima and suspected drug lords inside the national penitentiary.As of posting time, GMA News Online has yet to receive a reply from De Lima's camp regarding the filing of complaint against the senator.But De Lima has repeatedly denied allegations that she had pooled campaign funds from tolerating drug syndicates during her term as justice secretary under the Aquino administration.The senator believes that she is being politically persecuted due to her decision to spearhead a Senate probe into President Rodrigo Duterte's brutal war on drugs.Immigration officers have also been directed to keep an eye on De Lima and eight other individuals in the wake of the controversy, which prompted the House of Representatives to hold marathon hearings which ended on Monday evening. | [] | 23/07/2018 0:00 | http://www.pilipinasonlineupdates.com/2016/10/drug-trafficking-charges-against-de.html | Pilipinas Online Updates |
Leila de Lima continues to use foreign media to ruin the Philippines' reputation | One prominent Philippine political figure, Leila de Lima, a senator and former justice minister, is already calling on the ICC to take action. Everyone around the world who is committed to due process and human rights should take up her plea. The fact that a popular head of state is trampling the rule of law in the Philippines makes a fast, decisive response all the more necessary.Another foreign know-it-all has been misled about the war on drugs and is trying to make Leila de Lima look like a saint.Check out what “Aryeh Neier, President Emeritus of the Open Society Foundations and a founder of Human Rights Watch” wrote Has Neier set foot on the Philippines since Duterte became president? Is he aware of the investigation on De Lima’s links to the drug lords? What right does Neier have to insult our country and our President when he doesn’t even know the real situation here? Does he presume to know better than 91% of Filipinos what is good for their country?To all Filipinos reading this, if you have time, please go to the comments section on the link to Neier’s article above and educate this guy on what is really happening here. Explain to him that Leila de Lima is under investigation for coddling drug lords and she is trying to get attention from the international community precisely because no one in the Philippines believes her anymore.Neier needs to know that:– During Leila de Lima’s term as secretary of the Department of Justice (DOJ) in the previous (Aquino) administration, the Bilibid national penitentiary, which was under her supervision, became the number one source of shabu (meth) in the Philippines.– It was also during De Lima’s term as DOJ secretary that the drug lords at Bilibid were able to turn their jail cells into luxury suites and do whatever they wanted, including hold lavish parties and concerts. She even attended their parties, and there are videos and pictures to prove this.– Leila de Lima had an intimate relationship with her driver whom witnesses have claimed was the fixer/middleman between the Bilibid drug lords and the prison guards and DOJ officials who accepted bribes so the drug lords could have free reign at the prison.Maybe Neier needs to see the videos and pictures of De Lima with the drug lords so he will learn to analyze her motives first before jumping to her defense.The woman is unbelievable. She really is willing to destroy our country’s reputation just to save herself. It is almost as if she’s thinking, “If I’m going down, I’ll take the whole country down with me.”---------------------This is a GRP Featured Comment. Join the discussion | [] | 2018-06-13 22:37:35+00:00 | https://grpshorts.blogspot.com/2016/09/leila-de-lima-continues-to-use-foreign.html#comments | GRPundit |
College Editors Rally Against Rappler’s Maria Ressa | Dozens of editors and staff of college newspapers across the country staged a rally in Mendiola yesterday to condemn Rappler’s Maria Ressa for giving the legitimate press a “bad name.”Members of the College Editors Guild of the Philippines criticized Ressa for using Press Freedom as an excuse to violate the fundamental law of the land. (The 1987 Philippine Constitution prohibits ownership of news media by non-Filipinos.)The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) recently revoked Rappler’s license because foreign investors have a stake in the company.In disowning Ressa and her battlecry of “suppression of Press Freedom,” the student journalists told The Adobo Chronicles that Ressa is giving the legitimate Press a “bad rap.” | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 17/01/2018 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2018/01/17/college-editors-rally-against-rapplers-maria-ressa/#respond | Adobo Chronicles |
Gina Lopez gave P9-B to USec Camara? Let's check. | Airboard Co. owner Manuel Galvez, a critic of Environment Secretary Gina Lopez, accused the latter of awarding a P9 billion charcoal making contract to BioChar, a company owned by Environment Usec. Philip Camara. Lopez issued DENR Administrative Order 2017-05, which orders all DENR offices to implement the BioChar project. Camara drafted the DENR A.O., where he was designated as head of the Biochar program. The “Biochar” mentioned in the DENR A.O. is not even a technology. That the contract is a clear case of Graft and Corruption. Camara has resigned on April 7 per the Civil Service Commission’s ruling that he was unqualified to become a Usec. Lopez said Biochar is has 52 known green uses, but Galvez challenged Lopez’ claims, arguing that he has yet to see a study showing Biochar helps mitigate climate change.That the biochar referred to in DENR AO 2017-05 is not even a technology. That there are no studies that suggests biochar mitigates climate change. That biochar, in reality, is a company owned by former DENR Usec. Camara. That Lopez committed graft and corruption by awarding a multi-billion peso contract to Camara’s Biochar. Let’s fact-check Galvez’s claims. To sum it up, the major issues against Lopez are:Let’s fact-check Galvez’s claims.1: “Biochar is not even a technology” According to [Biochar – a form of charcoal that is produced by exposing organic waste matter to heat in a low-oxygen environment. It can be used for a range of [sustainable] applications… The DENR AO usedThus, we ask, “Is biochar a real technology?”According to [ DENR AO 2017-05 ], entitled “Guidelines for the Implementation of the Biochar Program”:The DENR AO used Biochar.org as its reference for that definition. I admit that the site has a questionable reputation, as it appears to be a news aggregator about everything related to biochar, not some website by a well-known organization.Thus, we ask, “Is biochar a real technology?”Pyrolysis is the thermo-chemical conversion of dry organic materials (i.e. woody wastes) into bio-oil, syngas, and biochar. Biochar is being promoted for its potential to improve soil properties, fertility and carbon sequestration in soil while also producing renewable energy. Yes, biochar is a legitimate technology , as DENR’s definition sufficiently matches WSU’s, and there are many other university websites who use a definition similar to DENR’s [ According to Washington State University’s Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources [ WSU-CSANR ] on its article entitled “Biochar (Pyrolisis)”:, as DENR’s definition sufficiently matches WSU’s, and there are many other university websites who use a definition similar to DENR’s [ Google ].2: Biochar positive and climate change Galvez claimed that he has yet to see studies suggesting that biochar mitigates climate change, so I scoured the internet for such, and I have found several studies that corroborates DENR’s position.In his journal article “Bio-energy in the Black”, Lehmann wrote [Three environmental benefits (of biochar are): (1) mitigation of climate change, (2) improvement of soils, and (3) reduction of environmental pollution. Professor Johannes Lehmann is a multi-awarded Professor in Cornell University’s School of Integrative Plant Science, Soil and Crop Sciences Section [Aside from Lehmann, the many reputable studies also suggest biochar’s positive role in climate change, such as:Sohi et Al. (2009). Biochar, climate change and soil: A review to guide future research. CSIRO Land and Water Science Report. Retrieved from [Google Scholar].CSIRO Land and Water Science Report. Retrieved from [Google Scholar]. Swanson, J. (2013). Climate-Change Mitigation Potential of Biochar: A Review and Framework for Carbon Accounting. Duke University - Nicholas School of the Environment. Retrieved from [Duke University e-Library ].Duke University - Nicholas School of the Environment. Retrieved from [Duke University e-Library ]. Winsley, P. (2007). Biochar and bioenergy production for climate change mitigation. New Zealand Science Review. Vol 64. Retrieved from [Penn State U Citeseerx]. A simple [ Galvez claimed that he has yet to see studies suggesting that biochar mitigates climate change, so I scoured the internet for such, and I have found several studies that corroborates DENR’s position.In his journal article “Bio-energy in the Black”, Lehmann wrote [ Lehmann 2007 ]:Professor Johannes Lehmann is a multi-awarded Professor in Cornell University’s School of Integrative Plant Science, Soil and Crop Sciences Section [ Cornell ].Aside from Lehmann, the many reputable studies also suggest biochar’s positive role in climate change, such as:A simple [ Google ] search provides more scholarly articles showing biochar’s ability to help mitigate climate change. In short, biochar’s potential for mitigating climate change is well-established.3: USec. Camara owns a company named “Biochar”. DENR USec. Camara is the founder and CEO of the Philippine Biochar Association (PBiA). He is also the co-Founder and Chief Agriculturist of the Sambali Beach Farm, a demonstration farm for a sustainable biochar-based technology [The PBiA, in itself, is not a for-profit organization, as it merely serves as a facilitator of biochar companies all over the country [Basically, Galvez appears to be referring to PBiA, an association of biochar companies that, in itself, does not directly participate in biochar production. Instead, PBiA’s member-companies who do.4: Lopez awarded Camara a P9-billion biochar contract DENR USec for Field Operations Philip Camara indeed spearheaded the issuance of the February 2017 DENR AO, as shown by his signature at the end of the said document. However, Section 10 states that the order becomes effective only after it has been published in a newspaper, which happened only on 04 April 2017 [Yes, biochar helps mitigate climate change.DENR USec. Camara is the founder and CEO of the Philippine Biochar Association (PBiA). He is also the co-Founder and Chief Agriculturist of the Sambali Beach Farm, a demonstration farm for a sustainable biochar-based technology [ ResponsibleBusiness ].The PBiA, in itself, is not a for-profit organization, as it merely serves as a facilitator of biochar companies all over the country [ PBIA ]. Meanwhile, Camara’s Sambali Beach Farm is more of a small-to-medium scale organic farm with a resort on the side [ SBF FB ], and judging from the photos of the place, it is unlikely that this company can perform a biochar program on a massive scale [ SBF IG ]. I have searched online for any newly-formed, large scale, local biochar company, under Camara, and there aren’t any [ Google ].Basically, Galvez appears to be referring to PBiA, an association of biochar companies that, in itself, does not directly participate in biochar production. Instead, PBiA’s member-companies who do.DENR USec for Field Operations Philip Camara indeed spearheaded the issuance of the February 2017 DENR AO, as shown by his signature at the end of the said document. However, Section 10 states that the order becomes effective only after it has been published in a newspaper, which happened only on 04 April 2017 [ DENR ].Thus, if a P9-billion biochar contract was indeed issued, two things are clear: (1) that it was issued after 04 April 2017, and (2) Camara is probably out of it, as he was fired immediately after the AO was considered effective.Of course, that isn’t enough, so we ask the following question:Did Lopez really issue a P9-billion biochar contract and if so, to whom? Meanwhile, the Civil Service Commission, citing ineligibility, ordered Camara’s dismissal from service on 05 April 2017 [ BW ], which Camara considered effective and final on 07 April 2017 [ DENR ].Thus, if a P9-billion biochar contract was indeed issued, two things are clear: (1) that it was issued after 04 April 2017, and (2) Camara is probably out of it, as he was fired immediately after the AO was considered effective.Of course, that isn’t enough, so we ask the following question:DENR on BiocharMendoza categorically denied the existence of any P9-billion biochar contract.He said:There is no concession with Philip Camara. Camara has been (advocating) the use of biochar for how many years already. Biochar is a technology: it is not a brand. Mendoza explained that DENR’s biochar project is under the National Greening Program, so awarding a P9-billion contract is impossible. He said:Our budget for the National Greening Program is just P6.9 billion, and that’s for the entire program. Mendoza further stated that funding for DENR’s biochar program is small. He said:We allocated only P150,000 per people’s organization for use in buying equipment and supplies, capacity building, and training, and there’s an expected specific output. Asked on how many people’s organizations have been award DENR contracts, Mendoza said:Right now, a generous estimate would be 10 to 20 people’s organizations. Assuming 20 have been awarded contracts, that would amount to only P3 million pesos, a far cry from the alleged P9 billion contract. I contacted DENR Usec Marlo Mendoza earlier today to ask for answers. Mendoza is DENR's officer-in-charge for Field Operations, i.e. Camara’s replacement.Mendoza categorically denied the existence of any P9-billion biochar contract.He said:Mendoza explained that DENR’s biochar project is under the National Greening Program, so awarding a P9-billion contract is impossible. He said:Mendoza further stated that funding for DENR’s biochar program is small. He said:Asked on how many people’s organizations have been award DENR contracts, Mendoza said:Assuming 20 have been awarded contracts, that would amount to only P3 million pesos, a far cry from the alleged P9 billion contract.In short, the alleged contract in the MS article does not exist.The claims in the MS article are hogwash, and I respectfully encourage Ms. Herrera to perform due diligence before publishing articles. A simple call to DENR would have clarified the issue, a call that she regrettably failed to place [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:Mendoza clarified that all of these people's organizations are small groups. None of them has the capacity for large-scale biochar production, which would have been necessary to perform a P9 billion biochar production contract.In short, the alleged contract in the MS article does not exist.The claims in the MS article are hogwash, and I respectfully encourage Ms. Herrera to perform due diligence before publishing articles. A simple call to DENR would have clarified the issue, a call that she regrettably failed to place [ ThinkingPinoy ].Did you like this post? Help ThinkingPinoy stay up! Even as little as 50 pesos will be a great help!DONT FORGET TO SHARE!RELATED POSTS:Earlier today, Manila Standard (MS) published “ Lopez scored for charcoal making plan ”. Let's fact-check it.Here's a rundown of the article’s contents.Did you like this post? Help ThinkingPinoy stay up! Even as little as 50 pesos will be a great help! | [] | 14/02/2018 0:00 | http://www.thinkingpinoy.net/2017/04/gina-lopez-gave-p9-b-to-usec-camara.html#more | Thinking Pinoy |
BREAKING: Second U.S. Presidential Debate Rescheduled For Midnight | The Commission on Presidential Debates has announced a change of schedule for the second debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. It was originally scheduled at 9 p.m. Eastern on Sunday night.The debate in St. Louis, Missouri, will last 90 minutes and be conducted in a “town hall” format featuring questions from undecided voters, moderated by CNN’s Anderson Cooper and ABC’s Martha Raddatz.The commission told The Adobo Chronicles that the debate will be moved out of prime time and rescheduled for midnight the same day.The decision by the commission came after the explosive audio tape of Trump surfaced in which he bragged to TV host Billy Bush about kissing and groping women. In that audio tape, Trump actually mentioned the word “p*ssy.”Because the presidential debates are supposed to be rated G (for general audiences), the commission saw it fit to move it to midnight. It said that the Trump audio is sure to be brought up by Clinton and it would be unwise to allow minors to be listening to an exchange where “p*ssy” would constantly be mentioned.The commission advised parents to make sure that their children who are not yet of legal age be put to bed before the start of the midnight debate. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 08/10/2016 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2016/10/08/breaking-second-u-s-presidential-debate-rescheduled-for-midnight/#respond | Adobo Chronicles |
De La Salle Professor lectured Agot Isidro “countries do not behave like the soap opera characters you play” | A professor and political scientist of De La Salle University responded on Agot Isidro’s criticism against President Duterte.Professor Antonio Contreras of De La Salle University lectured the actress Agot Isidro on Facebook about international relations.“International relationsions is not simple as you think is. Countries do not behave like the soap opera characters you play” Antonio Contreras said to his post.The professor also offered a one-on-one political literacy lesson to the actress to gain more knowledge about politics and international relations.The post of Contreras got thousands of likes and shares from the Netizens.Agot Isidro on Friday slammed President Duterte for his anti-US, EU statements, believing that many Filipinos may suffer hunger and poverty if US and EU withdrawn their aid in the Philippines.As of now, the original post of Agot Isidro against President Duterte was removed in public. | ['View All Posts Pinoytrending'] | 2016-10-10 03:24:14+08:00 | https://pinoytrending.altervista.org/de-la-salle-professor-lectured-agot-isidro-countries-not-behave-like-soap-opera-characters-play/ | Pinoytrending Altervista |
WATCH: Fire in HTI Cavite Export Processing Zone in General Trias, 20 reported critical | Fire hits one of the biggest companies in Cavite and dozens were reportedly injured and brought to the hospital because of suffocation in the chemicals burned inside the Housing Technology Industries Building.Netizens in Cavite were alarmed and worried about their relatives and working in that company which considered as the best employer of General Trias Cavite.At the time of the accident, 300 employees were on duty.More than 100 employers were brought to Divine Grace Hospital and General Trias Maternity Hospital near EPZA.The factory is now closed and declared fire under control of BFP on 11:30PM Thursday.GoCavite also posted the names of the workers brought to Divine Grace Hospital in General Trias. But hundreds of victims were still not named as of today. | ['View All Posts Pinoytrending'] | 2017-02-02 02:41:23+08:00 | https://pinoytrending.altervista.org/watch-fire-hti-cavite-export-processing-zone-general-trias-20-reported-critical/ | Pinoytrending Altervista |
SHOCKER: JUSTIN BIEBER COMES OUT! | In a no-holds-barred interview with Men’s Health magazine, Canadian teenage singing idol came out to his fans and critics alike. Bieber’s coming of age is the cover story of the magazine’s new issue.Bieber, whose singing career in the United States has been marred by encounters with the law, now wants everyone to consider him a man, no longer a kid. “I’ve left the kid in me in the closet. I’m a new man,” he said.The singer turned 21 on March 1.Expect to see more of him in adult-only places. And who knows what troubles that would bring! | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 13/03/2018 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2015/03/13/shocker-justin-bieber-comes-out/#respond | Adobo Chronicles |
Erwin Tulfo dares Paredes to a fist fight after the artist calls for his suspension | TV and radio broadcaster Erwin Tulfo lashed out at Jim Paredes and dared him to a fist fight after the former member of APO Hiking Society cried foul over his previous statement against him.A few weeks ago, Tulfo gave a piece of advice to the family of Paredes, told them to protect the OPM artist because he might got struck by a car or stab by someone because of what he did to the Duterte youth during the EDSA anniversary rally.“Paliwanag niyo sa kanya [Jim Paredes] baka masaktan ka o masagasaan ka, mabundol ka o makalimutan mo ng umuwi o ang masakit pa baka masaksak ka sa ginagagawa mo,” Tulfo said.This statement angered Paredes and asked TV5 network for Erwin Tulfo's radio program suspension."This cretin threatened me on radio saying na mag-ingat daw ako kasi baka daw ako biglang masagasaan nalang, o masaksak, ma suntok, mabugbog, etc. He was full of malice and hate when he said it. It was almost like he was suggesting or inciting hate among his listeners to do it," Paredes wrote on his Facebook.On Monday, Erwin Tulfo responded to Jim Paredes' appeal against him and he challenged him to come over to his radio station.“Jim Paredes pumunta ka nga dito sa istasyon, matatapos itong programa ko alas dyes ng umaga. Antayin mo ko dyan sa labas, lalabasan kita... Tignan ko yang tikas mo, yang mga tirada mong look at me look at me ako ang look at me-hin mo mamaya dyan sa labas ng gate. Susundutin ko yang mata mong hinayupak ka,” he said.Tulfo even said that for the first time in his life, he would disrespect and show no mercy to an old man like Jim Paredes. | [] | 10/07/2017 0:00 | http://www.newsmediaph.com/2017/03/erwin-tulfo-dares-paredes-to-fist-fight.html | News Media PH |
CHURCH OFFICIAL IS ALL PRAISE FOR POPULATION EXPLOSION IN THE PHILIPPINES | In America, corporations are people. In the Philippines, people are money. That is, according to a ranking member of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP).Reacting to a new report that the population of the Philippines is about to officially reach 100 Million, Father Melvin Castro, executive secretary of the CBCP, said that this is good news. “It is a blessing and a demographic dividend,” he added.It is estimated that 75 percent of the Philippines’ total population are Catholic.In an interview on the Catholic Radio Station, Radio Veritas, Castro explained what he meant by “dividend” and discussed the great impact of the population explosion, especially on the country’s Roman Catholic Church.“Just imagine, even if only 50 Million Catholics will put one peso into the Sunday collection basket, that’s 50 Million pesos a week that will go to the coffers of the Catholic Church. Multiply that by 52 weeks, that’s 2.6 Billion pesos a year. Think of what all that money, plus the interest it will earn from the church’s stock investments, can do,” Castro argued.It is precisely the church’s wealth and influence that President NoyNoy Aquino had proposed a constitutional amendment to create four branches of government: executive, legislative, judicial and the Catholic Church. | ['Pol Pinoy'] | 24/07/2017 0:00 | https://adobochronicles.com/2014/07/24/church-official-is-all-praise-for-population-explosion-in-the-philippines/#respond | Adobo Chronicles |