Filipinos have more important things to worry about than woke “issues”

Posted on By benign0 5 Comments on Filipinos have more important things to worry about than woke “issues”

If we are to believe our top “activists” and “thought leaders”, it would appear that the Philippines’ most pressing problems are the ABS-CBN broadcast franchise, the Anti-Terrorism Bill (which is now a law), and “gender issues”. Perhaps this is because the voices that dominate the discourse happen to be the ones who command strong followings…

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Politics, Society

BSP Continues to Help Conceal China Bank’s Illegal DOSRI Transaction

Posted on By Amir Al Bahr 1 Comment on BSP Continues to Help Conceal China Bank’s Illegal DOSRI Transaction

What do banking and logistics (delivery) companies have in common? It ain’t easily obvious for sure, but essentially both are business services that specialize in the temporary keeping, care, and transport of resources. Money in the case of banks and physical goods in the case of logistics. Both types of businesses are supposed to be…

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Business

Bonifacio Boots Out Aguinaldo in the Battle for 5-Peso Coin Supremacy

Posted on By zaxx 8 Comments on Bonifacio Boots Out Aguinaldo in the Battle for 5-Peso Coin Supremacy

Philippine Peso bills and coins and their evolution (if not devolution) through the years are an interesting subject as they silently tell our nation’s revolution-filled story each time a new design comes out. Even the dead still play politics (albeit the Yellow necro type) up to this day with how they try to usurp one…

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Money Talks, Politics

Introverts Win in the time of Covid-19

Posted on By ChinoF 3 Comments on Introverts Win in the time of Covid-19

I now realize how lucky I am being an introvert, as I could take staying alone in a house (although I am actually not) for a long time. The recent article about Lea Salonga, as well as the many celebrities pontificating on several issues, seemed to confirm my idea that people who seek adulation and…

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Culture

Kakie Pangilinan needs to check her privilege

Posted on By benign0 10 Comments on Kakie Pangilinan needs to check her privilege

Indeed it really does suck to be anyone who is not Kakie Pangilinan. The chi chi daughter of The Megastar Sharon Cuneta and so-so legislator Kiko Pangilinan is seen to be a deity of the “feminist” cause by Filipino wokedom. Even her opinion as an eleven-year-old on the impeachment trial of the late former Chief…

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Glitz and Glamour, Society

@StephenSackur HardTalks Maria Ressa, tells her to GET REAL!

Posted on By benign0 14 Comments on @StephenSackur HardTalks Maria Ressa, tells her to GET REAL!

Rappler CEO Maria Ressa may have suckered an entire Western news media industry into spreading her lies, but not Stephen Sackur, renowned hard-hitting investigative journalist and host of the BBC’s show Hard Talk. Cornering Ressa for such a talk, Sackur asks all the hard questions of Ressa; how, despite all her claims that a climate…

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Media

Reliable COVID-19 Rapid Testing Kits Needed For Philippine Economic Recovery

Posted on By P. Farol 4 Comments on Reliable COVID-19 Rapid Testing Kits Needed For Philippine Economic Recovery

The Philippine response to the COVID-19 pandemic has already been described as one of the slowest, longest, and least effective in the world by public health experts who based their observations on corrected COVID-19 data. Yesterday, we hit a new all time single day high of 1,150 confirmed COVID 19 cases. That’s 789 fresh cases…

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Government

Philippine FDA Should Move Quicker to Recall Rapid Testing Kits Already Rejected by China

Posted on By P. Farol 1 Comment on Philippine FDA Should Move Quicker to Recall Rapid Testing Kits Already Rejected by China

Amidst calls for the resignation of Health Secretary Francisco Duque and some controversy surrounding the firing or resignation of IATF special consultant Dr. Tony Leachon, it looks like the country is being flooded with inferior Covid-19 Rapid Testing Kits. Lower House Health Committee Vice Chairman Cong. Michael T. Defensor is at a loss over the…

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Government