UP Diliman Chancellor Fidel Nemenzo has NO RIGHT to speak for all UP students

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Students of the Philippines’ premiere state university, the University of the Philippines (UP), are always being styled in the mold of the iskolar ng bayan (the nation’s scholars) narrative propagated by its “activist” community. The subtext of this term suggests that UP grads are expected to be paragons of charity and altruism — folks who…

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Education

Is using “Madumb” to address Philippine “vice president” Leni Robredo justified?

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Normally, a top female official of the Philippine Government is addressed as “Madam” out of respect. Lately, however, we’ve been seeing current “vice president” Leni Robredo being addressed as “Madumb” — a play on the words “madam” and “dumb”. This is likely an outcome of some confusion on the part of many Filipinos as to…

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Politics

Is there no Opposition leader other than Leni Robredo?

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Tick tock tick tock. The 2022 elections are just around the corner and all the venerable “thought leaders” of the Opposition could do is gush about the latest PR stunt of “vice president” Leni Robredo and defend her pale spaghetti sensibilities. You’d think a country of more than 100 million could come up with even…

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Politics

China Bank-Primark-SM Investments Issue gets Interesting

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It’s not often that I take interest in business news. But someone drew my attention to the fracas involving retail giant SM’s investment arm, which has the potential to blow up into something more. The great Amir Al Bahr wrote a while back about how China Bank’s DOSRI loans problems were sort of shrugged off…

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Business, Crime

Joint Ateneo, DLSU, UST, FEU statement LIES about not tolerating communist INSURRECTION

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According to ABS-CBN News “correspondent” Chiara Zambrano, Philippine universities are “fighting back”. In a “joint statement”, the administrations of the Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU), De La Salle University (DLSU), the University of Santo Tomas (UST), and Far Eastern University (FEU) asserted that their respective institutions “neither promote nor condone recruitment activities of the New…

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Crime, Education

Pinky Webb was forcing Malacanang spox Harry Roque to answer Danny Arao’s “challenge”

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The latest flypaper “issue” currently keeping Yellowtards’ mouths flapping is a video featuring a spat between CNN tele-“journalist” Pinky Webb and Malacanang spokesman Harry Roque who she was interviewing. Webb was eliciting a reaction from Roque to a tweet fielded by University of the Philippines (UP) “journalism” professor Danilo Arao where he issues a challenge…

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Media

UP officials could be criminally liable for obstructing police investigations or harbouring terrorists

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Aren’t all Filipinos subject to laws regarding obstruction of police investigations? This means any “accord” that gives special treatment to officials of the University of the Philippines (UP) by giving them power to deny police access to their jurisdiction is unlawful by nature. Philippine law is quite clear about what constitutes obstruction of justice. Presidential…

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Crime, Education

Only criminals and terrorists benefited from the UP-DND military ban agreement

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What makes students of the University of the Philippines so special that they get to study in an exclusive sanctuary against state security forces that no other student bodies in the Philippines enjoy? The fact is, all Filipino students and all jurisdictions that are subject to Philippine law already protected by the Bill of Rights…

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Crime, Education