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PHILIPPINE VP JOJO BINAY: I WILL DO TO THE ENTIRE COUNTRY WHAT I DID TO MAKATI CITY
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['Pol Pinoy']
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16/12/2017 0:00
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Presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte is running on a campaign promise to do to the entire Philippines what he did as mayor of Davao City: eliminate corruption and establish peace and order.Not to be outdone, Vice President Jejomar Binay told supporters today that if elected president, he will do to the entire country what he did to Makati City when he was mayor: give all senior citizens a cake on their birthday.With Binay’s latest pronouncement, he just won over 6 Million voters to his side. It is estimated that six percent of the country’s 100 Million population are seniors.Wise move, Mr. Vice President!
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2015/12/16/philippine-vp-jojo-binay-i-will-do-to-the-entire-country-what-i-did-to-makati-city/#respond
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Die-hard bloggers behaving badly: anti-‘disente’ taken too far
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['Oratio Imperata']
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2017-11-14 02:47:59+00:00
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The key to sustained consistency in media practice (whether in mainstream or otherwise) is to compete on content and quality — not on narcissistic stunts and attention-grabbing circuses. On the mainstream front, this is how Rappler did itself in — because it made itself the news rather than focusing on just reported it. Of course in the non-mainstream community (bloggers, Facebook posters, and the Twitterati), personal branding is more the rule than the exception and content producers who focus more on delivering important messages of substance and less on drawing attention to themselves constitute a tiny minority.That said, as the French would say, vive la différence. Presidential Communications Operation Office (PCOO) assistant secretary Mocha Uson may have had a point pushing for the re-classification of Rappler into a “social media entity” considering it behaves in much the same narcissistic way as most social media personalities. However, by-and-large, mainstream news media generally represent the sober adults in a party while the denizens of social media publishing represent the chattering kids pitterpattering about. Even then, as anyone who’s been to social gatherings will have observed, it’s usually the chattering kids who attract the bulk of the photo ops.As such, I wouldn’t go as far as dismissing mainstream media entirely. They are still a primary source of reliable facts gathered and vetted systematically and they possess the resources to do that properly. We just need to see them as part of a healthy ecosystem. For that matter, all of us are part of that ecosystem and we each just need to get over our predisposition to succumb to unfounded feelings of self-importance (perhaps, specially those enamored by their own quick rise to rock-star status) and come to terms with the reality that none of us are at the centre of this little universe.Indeed, when it is clear in your mind what your place is in this ecosystem, good work naturally follows over the long run and recognition of this work comes organically. When you take the easy path and make it all about your number of followers and amount of engagement you get, you lose the argument. You lose small arguments over a long stretch, and those little losses tend to add up and slowly chip away at the foundations of your lofty but fragile personal brand. And, at some point, you lose a really big one, like what we saw the other day when a verbal conflagration between a BBC journalist and a “major” pro-administration blogger erupted in the midst of an event that wasn’t, by a vast stretch of road, supposed to be about them.Suffice to say, the antagonist in that little drama lost big. Setting aside the abject lack of grace and breeding on exhibit on that occassion, what really did the job was the apparent lack of consideration for the overall importance of the event. Certain people, it seems, cannot help but presume to compete in importance with such events as individuals. We saw this behaviour in that instance, and we continue to see it in the way certain social media personalities presume to tell Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte how to manage his own staff, who he should hire, and who he should fire and even repeatedly remind him who supposedly accounts for his victory in the 2016 elections. As bloggers, we criticise the president. But we never presume to tell him what to do. We also quickly get over any imagined role we had in influencing a big outcome such as a national election and just focus on moving forward. A line was crossed a long time ago. It is only now that we are seeing the consequences of that. The lesson to be learnt here is quite simple:A person with a big social media following betrays his followers when he uses them to aggrandise himself.It is now evident that one virtue social media had driven pretty much to extinction is the virtue of quiet achievement. Indeed, in an age and industry where brand differentiation is a huge challenge for every player thanks to the low barriers for entry into social media publishing and broadcasting, it is quite remarkable how few appreciate how different one can be by simply behaving with a bit of grace and quiet fortitude. Everyone, it seems, has adopted the popular style of shrill sensationalism that once was the single biggest class of criticism mainstream media copped in the olden days. The difference is that shrill sensationalism is an even bigger cringe when one is able to put a specific face and personality to a particularly shrill outburst — or a sustained exhibition of unfounded arrogance and entitlement rolled up into a bundle of sad sense of self-importance.The campaign for the presidency is over. It is time for the Duterte administration to do the actual work of governing a country. Baby fat needs to be shed.
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Get Real Philippines
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https://www.getrealphilippines.com/2017/11/die-hard-bloggers-behaving-badly-anti-disente-taken-too-far/
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LOOK: Wounded soldiers from Marawi travels to Manila via President Duterte’s aircraft
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['View All Posts Pinoytrending']
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2017-06-20 21:42:17+08:00
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The Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) showed his love again to his soldiers.President Rodrigo Duterte brought his wounded soldiers from Camp Edilberto Evangelista Station Hospital in Cagayan De Oro City to Metro Manila to be treated in a still not yet known hospital.Nine out of 40 soldiers who sustained wounds after they fought the Maute Terrorist Group rode the Presidential Plane together with President Rodrigo Duterte, Special Assistant to the President Christopher Go and Presidential Communications assistant secretary Mocha Uson. The other wounded soldiers rode the C295 Aircraft.Wounded soldiers experienced flying via Presidential Plane and did a Duterte posetogether with Duterte, Go and UsonPhoto: Byron CristobalPresident Rodrigo Duterte, Special Assistant to the President Bong Go poses with the nine soldiers inside the Presidential planeLiterally, President Rodrigo Duterte made the Presidential Airplane as an ambulance for his wounded soldiers so they can be brought to Manila faster.President Rodrigo Duterte talks to the wounded SoldiersPhoto: Mocha UsonThis is the first time that the Presidential plane was used to brought wounded soldiers for medical treatment.Duterte together with other officials distributed relief goods for the Marawi Evacuees in Iligan City and after that they decided to brought the wounded soldiers to Manila to be get a better medical treatment.President Duterte was warmly welcomed by the evacuees in Iligan City National School of Fisheries.Duterte apologized to the Maranao people for the destruction of Marawi City because of the war between the government forces and Marawi Terrorist Group.“Hindi pa naman natapos ang Ramadan, I would like to say to the Maranao people that I am very, very, very sorry na nangyari ito sa atin. Sana kung madaling panahon you will find a new heart to forgive my soldiers, ang gobyerno, pati ako for declaring martial law,” he said during his visit to the National School of Fisheries in Iligan City.He also promised that he would help rebuild Marawi City.“Tutulungan ko kayo. Huwag kayong mag-alala. Tutulungan ko kayo hanggang relocation. And then, we will rehabilitate ang Marawi. Gaganda iyon ulit,” he said.The battle in Marawi City still ongoing as the AFP determined to wipe out every remaining members of Maute Terrorist Group.
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Pinoytrending Altervista
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https://pinoytrending.altervista.org/wounded-soldiers-marawi-travels-manila-via-president-dutertes-aircraft/
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“Na Duterte nanaman!” No long lines anymore during MRT3 rush hour
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['View All Posts Pinoytrending']
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2018-04-06 18:36:06+08:00
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In a rare occasion, people didn’t fall in line on riding buses or MRT during rush hour along EDSA North Avenue on April 6.Bernadette Reyes, journalist of GMA News took a photo of the situation along EDSA North Avenue and it was surprising that no long lines or traffic were seen during that time.“Friday rush hour but no lines at MRT3, no queue at special trip bus, fast moving traffic along EDSA North Ave. As of posting 13 trains are running with headway of 6 to 7 minutes.” Reyes said in her tweet.LOOK: Friday rush hour but no lines at MRT3, no queue at special trip bus, fast moving traffic along EDSA North Ave. As of posting 13 trains are running with headway of 6 to 7 minutes @gmanews @gmanewsbreaking #DOTrPH #MRT #traffic #rushhour pic.twitter.com/ooFylthEyC — Bernadette Reyes (@bernadettereyes) April 5, 2018Reyes said that she’s hoping that this improvement on MRT-3 continues to give more comfort to the people.https://twitter.com/bernadettereyes/status/982030992671035392?s=20The government also received praises from the netizens.https://twitter.com/pengkay/status/982072702352605184?s=20“Ang maganda dito makikita natin na umaaksyon ang gobyerno. Gaya ng airport natin. Sana I balita nyo rin na maganda na. May drinking fountain na nga rin. Pwede na mag refill ng drinking water. Bawas gastos. Let’s pray more that this government will succeed.” Rowena Cruz-Tolosa said.https://twitter.com/Chaedie12/status/982083485987778560?s=20“Anu ba yan puro n lang Good News kakaumay na ba…nasanay kasi kayo sa mga Bad News at Sablay sa dating Administrasyon…kaya naninibago kayo.” Anthrax_44 said.MRT3 management said more trains will be made available due to the arrival of spare parts that will replace wornout ones and following the five-day general maintenance work during the Holy Week.MRT-3 went infamous for its long lines and faulty trains, but because of the efforts of the Department of Transportation (DOTr) the problem was slowly being solved.Before, only 7 MRT-3 trains were running to transport 250,000 daily commuters, but now DOTR made it 15-16.People blamed the alleged corruption committed by the former administration that resulted to the problem on MRT-3.DOTr accused former transport Secretary Joseph Emilio Abaya and several ex-officials of conspiring to award the contract to the joint venture Busan Universal Rail Inc. (Buri) which cost 3.81 billion pesos.
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Pinoytrending Altervista
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https://pinoytrending.altervista.org/na-duterte-nanaman-no-long-lines-anymore-mrt3-rush-hour/
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TIMOTHY BRADLEY ACCUSES MANNY PACQUIAO’S MOM OF VOODOOISM
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['Pol Pinoy']
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13/04/2017 0:00
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Manny Pacquiao won a 12-round unanimous decision over Timothy Bradley on Saturday to avenge his controversial 2012 loss to the previously unbeaten American. But that was not the big news.Moments after losing the WBO welterweight crown to the Filipino boxer and congressman, Bradley accused Pacquiao’s mom Dionisia, popularly known as Mommy D, of voodooism. Bradley claims that Mommy D cast some witchcraft on him, causing him to be disoriented in the last few rounds of the title fight at the MGM arena in Las Vegas.Mommy D was caught on camera, clutching a rosary and a tiny missalette, uttering unintelligible words while pointing at the American boxer.It is believed that witchcraft is still practiced in parts of the Philippines and there still exist some occasional witches, locally known as mangkukulam.The Pacquiao camp, however, simply dismissed Bradley’s accusation as “sour grapes.”
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2014/04/13/timothy-bradley-accuses-manny-pacquiaos-mom-of-voodooism/
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Robredo: If Elected Vice President Of Duterte, I Will Immediately Resign My Post
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['Pol Pinoy']
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1/5/2016 0:00
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Vice presidential candidate and Camarines Sur 3rd district Representative Leni Robredo said that it would be difficult to work with presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte, the current survey front-runner for president, if he should win.“I accepted the Liberal Party’s vice presidential nomination because I was assured by President Aquino that Mar Roxas and myself will win as a tandem — as president and vice president, respectively.”“Duterte and I are the exact opposites and I don’t see working with him even remotely possible.”With those words, Robredo said that if Duterte becomes president and she is elected vice president, she would resign from her post on the first day in office.What happens if the office of the vice president is vacant?According to the 1987 constitution, the next in line to the vice president is the president of the Senate, followed by the speaker of the House of Representatives.The only way Senator Bongbong Marcos or any of the vice presidential losers can succeed Robredo is for them to become Senate president.All the vice presidential contenders, except Robredo, are incumbent senators.
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2016/05/01/robredo-if-elected-vice-president-of-duterte-i-will-immediately-resign-my-post/
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Columnist writes open letter for VP Robredo: “Pera naman namin ang binabayad sayo, Suklian mo naman ng konting trabaho”
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['View All Posts Pinoytrending']
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2016-12-27 12:45:07+08:00
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The Standard Columnist Jojo A. Robles writes an open letter in his Facebook account and slammed Vice President Leni Robredo’s alleged publicity stunts.The columnist was also not impressed by the performance of Leni Robredo as the Vice President of the Philippines.He said that Leni Robredo even trying to discuss the issues in Aleppo Syria, because she wanted to be always on the news everyday for publicity.“Dear Aling Leni: Dahil wala kang maibato nitong weekend kay Duterte kasi maganda ang ginawa niyang pagpondo sa college education at pagsibak sa dalawang taga-Immigration, nagkomento ka naman tungkol sa nagyayari sa Aleppo, Syria. Mahirap talaga ang may full-time PR campaign ka pero wala namang isyung masakyan. So kung anu-ano nalang ang naiisip ng mga propagandista mo na pakialaman. Palibhasa tuloy-tuloy ang sweldo ng mga iyan at kailangan nilang may maisubo sa mga media outlet na kausap mo sa pagpapalabas ng press release mo kaya, hayan, hanggang Syria nakakarating sila.”Robles also gave an advice to Robredo to focus in only one issue and avoid following the advice of the PR advisers that she allegedly hired. He believed that too much media exposure can even destroy her image.“Konting payo lang, libre, di tulad ng mamahaling bigay ng iyong mga PR advisers: Hindi lahat ng isyu ay dapat sinasakyan. Pumili ka lang ng advocacy mo at yun ang babalik-balikan mo. Kung walang balita, e di wala. Tahimik muna.Ang problema mo at ng mga PR strategist mo, naniniwala kayo na dapat araw-araw e nasa media ang pagmukukha mo. Hindi naman yun tama. Baka maumay ang mga tao. Wala namang election campaign. Hindi ka naman presidente pa. Baka lalo pang maasar ang tao sayo at sa mga media na kakampi mo. Wala ka naman talagang trabaho as VP na walang Cabinet post. Hindi kailangan sobrang exposed ka sa media.”Robles said that Robredo should travel in the remote areas and poor communities in the Philippines so she may know the real problems of the country, it may also improve her political skills.Mag-ikot ka na lang sa kanayunan. Alamin mo ang tunay na nagyayari doon at baka malaman mo pa kung ano talaga ang saloobin at pangangailangan ng mga kababayan natin doon. Baka maiprove mo pa ang political skills mo at tubuan ka ng malasakit na di nakita ng karamihan sa mga kasamahan mo sa elitistang haciendero party na sinaniban mo.Robles also included the alleged financier and adviser of Leni Robredo, Loida Nicolas Lewis and their alleged plan to steal the Presidency to Duterte in his open-letter.Malay mo? Baka biglang mawala si Digong, sang-ayon rin sa pangarap, schedule at plano ng grupo niyo nina Loida, ang iyong matagal nang financier at tagapayo. Mabuti na yung handa ka sa trabaho, hindi yung pa-Aleppo, Aleppo ka lang diyan sa Boracay Mansion.He reminded Leni that her budget came from the taxpayer’s money so she must exchange it with a very good performance in public service.Pera naman namin ang binabayad pa din sayo e, di ba? Suklian mo naman ng konting trabaho na totoo.Before he ended his open letter, Robles said that instead of trying to discuss the problems in Syria, Leni must discuss the problems in her own country first so more people may trust her.Yung mga Pilipinong abala diyan sa isyu ng Aleppo, mga ka-Dilaw mo yan at dati nang kapanalig. Wala kang bagong mare-recruit diyan dahil nga sayong-sayo na ang mga iyan.Subukan mong pakialaman ang mga problema ng Pilipinong nandito. Baka matuwa pa sila sayo ngayong Pasko, bigyan ka ng regalo: Ang kanilang tiwala at pagsuporta.Merry Christmas po, mula dito sa laylayan ng lipunan ng sarili mong bansa.
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Pinoytrending Altervista
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https://pinoytrending.altervista.org/columnist-writes-open-letter-vp-robredo-pera-naman-namin-ang-binabayad-sayo-suklian-mo-naman-ng-konting-trabaho/
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‘LAGLAG BALA’: GUCCI UNVEILS DESIGNER PLASTIC WRAP
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['Pol Pinoy']
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8/11/2017 0:00
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Many people want to travel in style, wearing designer clothes, accessories and bags to express their fashion flair. But travelers to the Philippines are frustrated that they can’t show off their Gucci and other designer luggage and purses because of the laglag bala scheme at Manila’s Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA).The scheme involves airport personnel allegedly ‘planting’ bullets in bags of unsuspecting passengers for the purpose of extorting money. This has prompted passengers to wrap their luggage in plastic, all but covering the designer logos that they paid lots of money for.There’s good news!Gucci has just unveiled its latest travel line consisting of designer plastic wrap that will keep luggage safe, secure but still fashionable (see photo).So the next time you fly in or out of NAIA, make sure to wrap your check-in and hand-carried bags or balikbayan boxes in Gucci plastic wrap. Don’t leave home without it!
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2015/11/08/laglag-bala-gucci-unveils-designer-plastic-wrap/
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“Tangkilikin ang sariling atin” Netizens amazed by Filipino-Made Weapons
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['View All Posts Pinoytrending']
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2016-11-02 01:24:04+08:00
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Netizens were amazed by Filipino Made weapons posted by Facebook Fan page Daily Duterte.Filipino made rifles and rifles was showed in an exhibit that PNP Director General Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa attended.Some Netizens also asked why Philippines is always buying weapons if Filipinos can create their own firearms.They are also hoping that the current government start to produce Filipino made weapons after US stopped selling firearms to Philippines because of the bloody war on drugs of President Duterte.Some government officials also believes that it’s already time that the country produce their produce their own weapons that would also give jobs to the Filipino.
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Pinoytrending Altervista
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https://pinoytrending.altervista.org/tangkilikin-ang-sariling-atin-netizens-amazed-filipino-made-weapons/
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VICE GANDA’S INTERVIEW WITH PRESIDENT AQUINO WILL NOT AIR AFTER ALL
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['Pol Pinoy']
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27/12/2017 0:00
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Malacañang (the presidential palace) announced that it was withdrawing permission to Vice Ganda to air the taped interview.“We don’t want the Filipino TV viewers to be reminded about the poor performance of the film,” said Kris Aquino.The taped interview was all about the film and how President Aquino feels about his actor nephew. No other topics or issues of national and international concern were discussed.The big winner in the MMFF was the film about one of the Philippines’ great heroes, ‘Bonifacio.’
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2014/12/27/vice-gandas-interview-with-president-aquino-will-not-air-after-all/
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SONA: No Cannes Moment For Director Brillante Mendoza
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['Pol Pinoy']
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25/07/2016 0:00
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The jury has delivered its verdict: there was no Cannes moment for film director Brillante Mendoza during President Rodrigo Roa Duterte’s first State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Monday.Mendoza, who won the Best Director award for his film ‘Kinatay’ at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival, was asked by Malacañang to direct the SONA, held at the Batasang Pambansa in Quezon City.Netizens were quick to question whether Mendoza’s “under-the-podium” and “under-Duterte’s nose” camera angles were necessary. Many said the shots were distracting at the most.But the biggest setback for the production was Duterte’s constant going off the script. What was advertised as a 30-minute speech ended up three times as lengthy.Members of the diplomatic corps ended up not understanding most of Duterte’s adlibs which he delivered in Tagalog and a sprinkling of Cebuano.Senator Manny Pacquiao repeatedly yawned during the speech.More importantly, many television viewers were disappointed that there was no “fish ball” moment, the scene that many say won for Jaclyn Jose the Best Actress award in the last Cannes Film Festival. She starred in Ma’Rosa, directed by Mendoza.Maybe, it’ll be better during Duterte’s second SONA.
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2016/07/25/sona-no-cannes-moment-for-director-brillante-mendoza/
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PHILIPPINES TO IMPORT 500 TONS OF PLASTIC WRAP TO KEEP UP WITH HIGH DEMAND AT MANILA’S AIRPORT
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['Pol Pinoy']
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3/11/2017 0:00
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The government of Philippines President NoyNoy Aquino has confirmed that it will be importing 500 tons (one million pounds) of plastic wrap from various international sources to keep up with increasing demand for the product at Manila’s Ninoy Aquino International Airport ( NAIA).NAIA has been in the headlines recently because of a scheme called laglag bala or tanim bala in which incoming and outgoing passengers at are being questioned and detained for bullets found in their luggage as they pass through airport security. It is alleged that the bullets are being planted by airport personnel with the intent of extorting money from the unsuspecting passengers.Passengers have resorted to wrapping their checked-in and carry-on luggage with plastic as a way of securing them from airport schemers.Some 33 Million passengers go through NAIA each year. With such high volume of passengers, local manufacturers of plastic wrap just can’t keep up with the increased demand.Plastic wrap imports from the U.S., Europe, Australia and Japan are expected to start arriving in the next two weeks, just in time for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit Meeting to be held in Manila.
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2015/11/03/philippines-to-import-500-tons-of-plastic-wrap-to-keep-up-with-high-demand-at-manilas-airport/
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STANFORD UNIVERSITY RESEARCHERS DISCOVER MUSIC GENE AMONG FILIPINOS
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['Pol Pinoy']
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23/04/2017 0:00
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It’s all in the genes. It has been long established that the genetic makeup in people determines not only the color of their skin, eyes and hair but also their susceptibility to certain diseases and conditions.Now researchers at the Department of Genetics of Stanford University School of Medicine have uncovered the gene responsible for making Filipinos such good singers and musicians. It’s called PH-13, found only among Filipinos.Researchers studied over 2,000 individuals, 500 of whom were of Filipino heritage with the rest equally divided among Whites, Blacks and Native Americans. All respondents were pre-screened and auditioned for their musical ability.At the conclusion of the six-month study which involved blood tests, MRIs of the vocal chords and eardrums, as well as invasive procedures to obtain genetic samples, the researchers announced the discovery of the gene responsible for musical talent. While a few African Americans exhibited an almost undetectable level of the music gene, 100% of the Filipinos in the study tested positive for PH-13.“We have finally found the answer to the nagging question on why Filipinos are always winning in music competitions,” the researchers said.Could this also be the reason why almost all Filipino households have a karaoke machine?
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2014/04/23/stanford-university-researchers-discover-music-gene-among-filipinos/#comments
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TEACHER BRANDISHES KNIFE AT STUDENTS TO GET A RIDE TO JACK IN THE BOX
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['Pol Pinoy']
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9/6/2017 0:00
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except for one thing. He said he never asked to be taken to Jack in the Box. “I don’t even like their burgers and fries,” he said. “I asked to be taken to In-N-Out Burgers. When it comes to burgers, I have class,” he added.
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2014/06/09/teacher-brandishes-knife-at-students-to-get-a-ride-to-jack-in-the-box/?share=email
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Leila De Lima Condemns Philippine Daily Inquirer For Naming Pinoy Ako Blog ‘Filipino Of The Year’
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['Pol Pinoy']
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7/1/2018 0:00
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Incarcerated Senator Leila De Lima has condemned the Philippine Daily Inquirer for its choice of the 2017 ‘Filipino of the Year.’The Inquirer recently announced that Pinoy Ako Blog’s (PAB) Jover Laurio is its choice for the notorious award, akin to TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year.”How dare The Inquirer choose someone who has done nothing to fight for freedom and justice for the Filipino people,” De Lima said from her jail cell at the PNP Headquarters in Quezon City.”After all I’ve done to fight the Duterte dictatorship, The Inquirer chose to give the recognition to some previously unknown, good-for-nothing blogger just because she was interviewed by BBC,” De Lima said.”This is not sour grapes,” the Senator added, “but common sense. What’s next, PAB will be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize? Come on!”The Inquirer has refused to comment on De Lima’s condemnation.
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2018/01/07/leila-de-lima-condemns-philippine-daily-inquirer-for-naming-pinoy-ako-blog-filipino-of-the-year/#respond
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Before Mocha Uson, there was Kris Aquino. Oh, and Jim Paredes
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['Oratio Imperata']
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2016-11-22 00:50:00+00:00
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The way all these crybabies are now blubbering about the rise of Mocha Uson to the top of the Philippines’ thought leadership hierarchy, you’d think celebrity endorsers had never existed before. Truth is, using glitz, glamour, and shock as a means to influence public sentiment is as old as prostitution itself.The Philippines’ now-ended 30-year Age of Yellow, was an experiment in the use of lies and half-truths as bases for governing an entire nation. Over that period, the idea that the “people’s will” represented the highest form of wisdom became the key pillar upon which Philippine-style “democracy” was built. Worse, even as we aspired to build true institutional democracy, the Old Guard of the Yellow Camp continued to insist that this “people’s will” can still manifest itself in unruly street parliamentarianism — which is why those last 30 years were marked by sporadic bursts of lame attempts to re-create that 1986 “revolution”.Indeed, the legacy of that idiotic thinking persists today — the idea that a ruling issued by an institution such as the Supreme Court can simply be shouted down by shrill voices gathering in large numbers around a statue.Step back and regard the bigger picture and the fundamental hypocrisy in the way these hipsters bag Mocha Uson will become a lot clearer. Under their preferred regime, it is clear as the day the way Kris Aquino was used for — and actually was a primary pillar in — the billion-peso propaganda machinery of the Aquino-Cojuangco clan and its circle of beneficiaries and patrons in the Philippines’ business oligarchy. Indeed, Kris Aquino had a lot more capital backing her ascent to the top of the food chain at the time — she was a contracted media star of big corporate media organisations and was, lest we forget, the daughter and sister of two former presidents.Seen from that perspective, we gain a better regard for just how inconsequential Mocha Uson really is — and how out-of-proportion the outrage fad the Yellow Camp had whipped up over her really is. Mocha Uson pulled herself up to where she is now by the bootstraps. In comparison, Kris Aquino had a lot of help — to the tune of billions of pesos in “investment” in the shaping of her celebrity.Perhaps one that can be better compared to Mocha Uson’s ascent to thought leadership is Yellow posterboy Jim Paredes. Jim Paredes was a performer before he became a “thought leader”. That fact did not seem to bother these hipsters who now denounce Mocha Uson. Instead, they lapped up all of the new-age BS that was peddled by Paredes by the crockload over the last 30 years since he supposedly “tore up” his Green Card shortly after the “revolution”. The trouble with Paredes is that he is inconsistent and this is a well-documented fact exhibted across various Get Real Post articles. Worse, he’s been, in many ocassions, caught lying.Stepping back even further, the more important message here is for all the self-righteous hipsters out there to first take stock of all the personalities, icons, and celebrities whose words they believe in unconditionally and uncritically. We will find that there are many — the local Catholic priest who teaches us that using condoms is “evil”, the televangelist who implores people to dig deep into their wallets to support his “humble” life of preaching “God’s word”, the school teacher who teaches kids what to think rather than how to think, celebrity endorsers — including Kris Aquino — who convince us that forking out the equivalent average annual income of a Filipino factory worker to buy the latest brand shoes is “cool”, and Jim Paredes, the “face” of the Yellow-style street parliamentarianism.The confronting truth about Filipinos is that we are not really a people renowed for our abilities for solving problems by thinking things through. Instead we are more inclined to tread the lazy path — by finding branded “thought leaders” and putting them on an altar to worship and seek “guidance” from.
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Get Real Philippines
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https://www.getrealphilippines.com/2016/11/mocha-uson-kris-aquino-oh-jim-paredes/#comments
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Why Duterte should step down to give way to Leni
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['Oratio Imperata']
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2018-04-30 21:48:58+00:00
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This post will be a bit shorter than usual. It’s quite noticeable that many people (esp. in Facebook) just read the title and hastily jump to react and issue comments without even bothering to read the actual article itself. Yes, that’s the sad reality (lack of time or sheer laziness) – and it’s quite easy to prove.For anyone who just reads the title without even peeping into the article content, you will readily notice their comments to this article will be in violent rabid protest – even branding the author to be a Yellow freak. But then the more disciplined minority will hopefully step in to rebuke these “fake readers”.The reason why many posts in Facebook are just meme posters with big bold letters is that it is increasingly difficult to get people’s attention nowadays. There are probably just too many ads, news feeds, faces and even garbage out there all crying out for the horde of potential traffic to click, like, love and share.So long for that long introduction. Now to the meat of the article. Well for most readers here at GRP who have gotten accustomed to anything issued by the Zaxx-man, things are not always what they seem. Yup, I did like watching the Transformers even in my younger days… esp. listening to the “more than meets the eye” line of the theme song.Why this seemingly sudden shift in tone? Well one thing’s for sure – I’m definitely not for allowing the incompetent Yellows having their cake. Duterte is a political strategist, and a cunning one at that – someone whose moves can hardly be anticipated by most people.While so many DDS and pro-Duterte supporters simply abhor Leni, the “fake VP”. Duterte actually shows respect for the lady – even addressing her “Ma’am”. That’s where the mystery kicks in.Why then in anyone’s wildest dreams will having Duterte step down to make way for Leni do any good for the country or his legacy as a president? Well for one, I really can’t imagine Congress to approve a bill calling for capital punishment for corrupt officials. Did you guys see that picture circulating in socmed about how in China, about two dozen corrupt officials were being lined up to be executed by firing squad? Well that’s never gonna happen in the Philippines simply because of some chicken-egg situation, UNLESS…The only real way to change the country from the top is by a complete overhaul of its laws. How long will it take for the guys in Congress to come up with a new Federal constitution which Duterte promised to the people? Probably as long as it took to give him emergency powers to solve traffic in Manila. Knowing the guy, he simply does not have the patience for long-playing dragging drama. He wants things done expediently. And when that wick runs out, we can expect something very drastic to take place – all to the surprise of unsuspecting Filipinos.Other than stamping out drugs, Duterte’s only other real agenda is Federalism. After almost 2 years, it’s still making its baby steps in the halls of Congress. Is Duterte really going to wait this out? So here’s the plan. There’s a high probability Duterte will suddenly step down one of these days, and all hell will break loose. Imagine the scenario that takes place…Duterte steps down. PET is not yet finished with the Bongbong vs. Leni electoral protest. Leni is about to get crowned (by virtue of the Cory constitution) as Yellow queen of the land Yellows rejoice in jubilant victory. Duterte supporters flood the streets in protest/rallies. The military sides with the people (as in EDSA I) We all wake up one morning under a new Federal Republic of the Philippines (with a brand new constitution). Duterte’s annointed sits to reign in his place.Well we’re not saying this is going to happen. It’s just that the probabilities are pretty high, considering the slow progress taking place in granting Mr. Daddy D’s promise of a Federal state to our Moro brothers in the South. Now just keep testing the guy’s patience and we’ll see.So does the article’s title still make this author a piece of Yellow crap in sheep’s clothing?
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Get Real Philippines
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https://www.getrealphilippines.com/2018/05/why-duterte-should-step-down-to-give-way-to-leni/
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ABC CANCELS SITCOM ‘FRESH OFF THE BOAT’ AFTER JUST FOUR EPISODES
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['Pol Pinoy']
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16/02/2018 0:00
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‘Fresh Off The Boat,’ the new prime-time television sitcom featuring an Asian American family, has just been cancelled by its home network, ABC. The news stunned millions of Asian Americans, many of whom have organized weekly viewing parties to show full support for this show which was based on a similarly-titled book authored by Eddie Huang. It airs Tuesday nights. In announcing that there will be no fifth episode this Tuesday night, ABC said that while the sitcom garnered solid viewing numbers for its first four episodes, the network had no other choice than to cancel the series because of mounting complaints that its title is racist and derogatory. (Fresh off the boat, or FOB, is used to refer to boat people, those who came to America on boats to escape persecution or repressive conditions in their home countries. The term had also evolved to mean newly-arrived foreign nationals trying to assimilate into mainstream American living.) ABC is reportedly considering replacing ‘Fresh Off The Boat’ with another sitcom that also features an Asian American family. FOB’s actor Hudson Yang, who plays the role of the young Eddie Huang, has been tapped to star in the new TV series. The title of the new sitcom? ‘ABC!’ As in American-Born Chinese. Tuesdays nights. On ABC. ‘ABC!’ On ABC – brilliant, effortless marketing for both the show and the network.
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2015/02/16/abc-cancels-sitcom-fresh-off-the-boat-after-just-four-episodes/
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Undocumented workers repatriated from UAE share tales of woe
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2018-08-21 05:05:02+08:00
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A hundred OFWs made it home on Thursday morning after they were granted amnesty by the United Arab Emirates government.Some of the stories behind the tearful reunions at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 2 were featured on Athena Imperial’s 24 Oras report.Amy Paz, one of the undocumented OFWs, was emotional as she is reunited with family after a long time.“Kasi salbahe ang amo ko. Salbahe. Umalis na lang ako, natrabaho-tabaho sa labas,” she said. “Eh kailangan ng pera gawa ng mga anak.”Lola Marilou, who works as a domestic helper in Dubai, was just thankful to be back home after 11 years. She no longer has a working visa.“Ngayon, wala na (working visa). May five years na may visa, tapos six years wala,” she said.Repatriation was also timely for Joel Catamora, who said the company he was working for had closed and he had no means to pay his absconding fees.“Siyempre, wala akong pambayad sa penalty. Ang mahal ng penalty…Nasa mga P16,000,” he said.According to the report, the UAE is third in the list of top destinations for OFWs.The DFA said a total of 626,389 Filipinos were in the UAE as of June 2017.In Dubai, there are 379, 285 documented or temporary migrants while there are 30,360 irregular or undocumented Pinoy migrants.The OFWs arrived past 10 a.m. on a plan trip sponsored by the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA). The same agency also distributed welfare assistance of up to $100.The DFA is looking to repatriate over a hundred more OFWs who took advantage of the three-month amnesty deal offered by the UAE for overstaying and absconding OFWs in July.
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Pinoytrending Altervista
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https://pinoytrending.altervista.org/undocumented-workers-repatriated-from-uae-share-tales-of-woe/
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JOLLIBEE SUES KFC OVER NEW COMMERCIAL
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['Pol Pinoy']
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11/8/2017 0:00
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In one of its giant marquee signs, McDonald’s admitted that the international fastfood burger chain is number one everywhere except in the Philippines where the fat stupid happy bee reigns supreme. McDonald’s, was, of course, referring to the uber famous Filipino fastfood chain, Jollibee.Now, another U.S.-based fastfood chain, Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) faces a multi-million dollar lawsuit after it released its latest commercial which pokes fun at Jollibee’s most popular menu item, chicken joy.The fat stupid happy bee has had it with unfair commercial practices by KFC and is suing Colonel Sanders for ads portrarying chicken joy as chicken sad (see photo of KFC ad).A spokesperson for Jollibee told The Adobo Chronicles that KFC went too far and hit below the belt by insulting its top menu seller. “Jollibee understands that it is operating in a free market society, but KFC needs to understand it won’t get away with unfair advertising ” the spokesperson said.In the law suit, Jollibee claims that the chicken joy photo used by KFC in its ad was clearly photoshopped to look bland, soggy and non-crispy.In addition to its hundreds of outlets in the Philippines, Jollibee has franchise stores in the U.S., including Hawaii, California, Washington, Nevada, New York, New Jersey and Chicago. Jollibee sells hamburgers, chicken, spaghetti and popular Filipino fare like lumpia, pancit and bangus (milk fish).
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2014/08/11/jollibee-sues-kfc-over-new-commercial/
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CATHOLIC CHURCH IN THE PHILIPPINES TO START COLLECTING ‘SIN TAX’
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['Pol Pinoy']
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21/08/2017 0:00
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The influential Catholic Church in the Philippines can learn a thing or two from the country’s civilian government, especially around taxes.The Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) is closely monitoring developments within the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) which recently announced that tax collection this year has increased because of the sin tax.The sin tax is collected from sales of alcohol and tobacco. According to BIR Commissioner Kim Jacinto-Henares, there has been a 29.7 percent increase in excise tax collections in just the first semester of the current fiscal year. This growth was driven by a 44.44 percent increase in collections from tobacco products and 11.62 percent increase from alcohol.In an emergency meeting convened last night by CBCP president Archbishop Socrates Villegas, the country’s top prelates strategized on how to deal with the declining church revenue from the Sunday collection baskets.Citing the success of the BIR’s sin tax collections, Villegas proposed that the church institute something similar. He proposed that instead of asking people to pray Hail Marys or the rosary as part of their penance when going to confession, priests will ask repentants to contribute money to the church, much like a sin tax. Priests will be given the authority to determine how much sin tax to impose, depending on whether the sins confessed are mortal or venial sins.Special collection boxes will be installed beside confessional boxes in all churches in the country for this purpose.The CBCP expects to increase its collections by 200 percent once this proposal is implemented. Villegas said CBCP will ask Pope Francis’ blessing for the sin tax when the head of the Roman Catholic Church visits the Philippines next January.
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2014/08/21/catholic-church-in-the-philippines-to-start-collecting-sin-tax/?share=email
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SPOTTED: Mayor Sara Duterte places bet for 800-Million PCSO Lotto Draw
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2018-10-02 17:32:54+08:00
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Davao City Mayor Inday Sara Duterte was spotted in one of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office outlets in Davao to place her 6-digit combination bet for 6/58 Lotto Draw with a Jackpot prize of P800 Million.Ronel Tenajeros Libradilla posted a series of photos on his facebook account showing him and the good Mayor in hope to win the biggest lotto prize ever in the country.Earlier, Inday Sara in her pink blouse delivered her State of City Address at the City Council of Davao delivering the city’s achievements and future plans.Photos:Ronel Tenajeros Libradilla
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Duterte Daily Stories
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http://duterte.today/spotted-mayor-sara-duterte-places-bet-for-800-million-pcso-lotto-draw/
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CALIFORNIA’S CHALLENGE TO THE ALS ICE BUCKET CHALLENGE
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['Pol Pinoy']
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17/08/2017 0:00
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In its current state, the Folsom Lake Reservoir, located northeast of Sacramento, best demonstrates the adverse effect of the drought in California. In just the last two and half years, the water level has gone from 97% capacity to just 17% (see photo).The state’s severe water shortage crisis has prompted California officials to put in place an ordinance that would fine residents who waste water through daily chores like watering the lawn, washing cars or hosing down sidewalks. Violation of the ordinance carries with it a fine of $500.But not even the threat of penalty or the grim photos of almost-empty reservoirs throughout the state has prevented Californians from taking up the Ice Bucket Challenge, the social media phenomenon that has taken the U.S. by storm. The challenge involves people dousing themselves with a bucket of ice, video-taping it and posting it on social media. In turn, they challenge two other people to do the same or donate $100 to the ALS Association. ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease is a paralyzing and sometimes fatal condition involving the degeneration of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. It is estimated that 30,000 Americans have ALS.In a change of heart, California officials said they would not be imposing the penalty for wasting water on those who choose to take up the Ice Bucket Challenge. Instead, the Watershed Conservation Authority (WCA) has posed its own challenge to the Ice Bucket Challenge.On September 1, Labor Day, WCA is challenging One Million Californians to gather at the Folsom Lake Reservoir and simultaneously douse themselves with iced water buckets, letting the water fill into the lake. “It’s a win-win situation,” a spokesperson for WCA said, “they can accept the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge while helping to solve the state’s water shortage crisis.Folsom Lake Reservoir has a surface area of 11,450 acres. The Adobo Chronicles did the math: An acre holds approximately 360,000 gallons of water. If One Million Californians poured a gallon of water each into the lake, that would be a total of 2.7 acres.Unfortunately, our calculator just ran out of battery, so we are asking the help of our readers to calculate how many Californians pouring a gallon of water each into the lake would fill 11,450 acres. Please use the comment section for your answers.
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2014/08/17/californias-challenge-to-the-als-ice-bucket-challenge/?share=email
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Is the Ateneo de Manila University engaging in patronage politics by siding with the Aquinos?
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2016-03-04 09:44:57+00:00
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Teachers should be teaching children how to think, not what to think. There is enough evidence to suggest that some teachers in the Philippines are not teaching children how to use their critical analysis faculties and are not nurturing them to become more independent thinkers. Recent statements made by the members of the Ateneo de Manila University faculty are proof of this.A news report says that “more than 400 faculty members and formators of the Ateneo de Manila University have signed a statement refusing the historical revisionism of the Martial Law years. The act is in response to Sen. Ferdinand Marcos, Jr.’s statement that history should be left to historians and those who study the country’s history.” Here are excerpts from their statement:“We vow as teachers and formators to continue to tell the stories of the brutality and corruption of the Marcos family, regime, and closest allies,” the statement reads. “For as long as we remember and share these stories, we believe that future generations of Filipinos will learn the lessons of the years of struggle leading to the overthrow of the dictatorship during those historic days of the People Power Revolution in 1986.”Before we dissect the above statements, first of all, I think the faculty members are overreacting. I searched the Net and did not find a statement from Senator Bongbong Marcos denying that the atrocities during the Martial Law years happened. Second, the so-called atrocities that transpired during his father’s term, the late former President Ferdinand Marcos, should not be blamed on the Marcos children. They were not in control of the Philippine military and the police then. To blame it on the Marcos children is tantamount to saying that children of criminals should be blamed for the atrocities their father or mother committed. As columnist Emil Jurado of the Manila Standard mentioned, Filipinos did not blame the late senator Ninoy Aquino for his father’s treacherous activities during the Japanese occupation in World War II:Santa Banana, I cannot believe that BS Aquino does not remember that his grandfather, Benigno Aquino Sr., father of Ninoy, was the head of the Makapili Movement during the almost four-year Japanese occupation of the Philippines. The Makapilis pointed to and turned over alleged collaborators for the Japanese Kempeitais to arrest, imprison, torture, and then killed. My family was afraid that we, too, would be pinpointed. Did we, as a people, take against the late Ninoy Aquino that fact that his late father headed the Makapili movement? We did not. In fact, we honor Ninoy as a political martyr when he was assassinated in 1983. And the Aquinos—the late Cory and her son, BS Aquino —became the beneficiaries of Edsa 1. I still recall when my family saw two well-known Abra personalities beheaded by the Japanese. Members of the dreaded Makapili Movement identified them as collaborators.Some people are saying the blood of a traitor runs through current President Benigno Simeon Aquino III’s veins. And this is evident in the way he negotiated with a Muslim terrorist group, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, without Congress’s approval. He almost got away with giving parts of Mindanao to a terror group allegedly as a front for a Malaysian takeover of the territory.Now let us begin to dissect the statement from the Ateneo faculty members. In their statement, they mentioned “brutality and corruption of the Marcos family, regime and closest allies.” Which family members are they talking about? Do they have proof that the children, Imee, Bongbong and Irene had something to do with the extra-judicial killings and thievery that happened during their father’s term? If they do, why can’t they bring them to court? Some of us are also curious to know if they should be held accountable once and for all.Otherwise, the Ateneo faculty members come across as a desperate group of people who do not know who to run to anymore. Their action says a lot about the lack of justice in the Philippines – lack of justice for both the victims and the accused.How can supposedly educated people like them go on and on accusing the Marcoses of atrocities when the latter haven’t been tried in court? I know what some of you are going to say. You’ll say that just because the court hasn’t found them guilty doesn’t mean they are not. But what has become of Philippine society when Filipinos are reduced to judging others based on hearsay? At least BS Aquino’s grandfather was actually tried and found guilty of treason. It is something that media owned and operated by Aquino allies do not want to highlight.And which closest Marcos allies are the Ateneo faculty members talking about? As far as I know, Senator Juan Ponce Enrile and former President Fidel Ramos were Marcos allies during the Martial Law years but both also became Aquino allies after Marcos, Sr was ousted. As Manila Times columnist Rigoberto Tiglao wrote, “Enrile served officially as Martial Law administrator and Defense Secretary in charge of all the armed forces’ services during that time. Fidel V. Ramos, who later became President of the Philippines, was director of both the Philippine Constabulary (PC) and Philippine Integrated Police (PIP) during the Martial Law days”.Suffice to say, the members of the Ateneo faculty are not using their critical analysis skills in dealing with the Marcoses. They are, instead, allowing their irrational bias towards the Aquinos to rule their thinking. A lot of people are baffled as to why they are not speaking out against the atrocities committed during the two Aquino regimes – Cory and BS Aquino’s term. It’s not like the extra-judicial killings had stopped after Martial Law. Military and police abuses still happened during Cory’s term and are still happening today during her son’s term.Again, media allied with the Aquinos do not highlight the atrocities enough for some reason we can only guess. Just recently, members of the indigenous group known as the Lumads in Mindanao have been crying out for help against abuses allegedly committed against them by groups said to be trained and armed by the military. The Lumads are being systematically forced out of their native lands allegedly to give way to a mining company.Make no mistake; there are a lot of Filipinos who are still struggling today. Unfortunately, we hardly hear from groups such as the faculty members of the Ateneo de Manila University speaking out against atrocities and methodical thievery by current public servants including BS Aquino’s own Cabinet members. They choose to advocate something they can’t do anything about. Some say they can’t speak ill of BS Aquino because he is an alumnus. That says a lot about the kind of people running the University – they are into patronage politics. In other words, they don’t seem to be fighting for the interests of Filipinos but only for the interests of their own kind. I would advise the students enrolled in that school to avoid taking what members of the faculty say seriously outside of their course curriculum. It’s not good for their own mental faculties.
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Get Real Philippines
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https://www.getrealphilippines.com/2016/03/ateneo-de-manila-university-engaging-patronage-politics-siding-aquinos/
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MASSIVE FLIGHT DELAYS AT MANILA’S INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT LEAVE THOUSANDS OF PASSENGERS STRANDED
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['Pol Pinoy']
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1/12/2017 0:00
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Manila’s main international airport has repeatedly been named among the worst airports in the world. This weekend, that reputation became even worse as thousands upon thousands of passengers were stranded and hundreds of incoming and outgoing flights were delayed or cancelled at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA).The reason? Ground personnel of Cathay Pacific Airlines, still in their official uniforms, left their posts, counters and stations to put up a show in the middle of the busy and crowded main airport terminal.It was meant as a ‘flash mob’ performance to welcome incoming passengers from Asia, Europe, America and other continents. The singing and dancing ground personnel delighted many onlookers who subsequently missed their flights and connections. Incoming flights were stranded at the runways because there was not a single ground staff person to assist the flight crew and passengers.While the flash mob involved only Cathay Pacific employees, other airlines were affected because their respective ground crew also left their stations to watch and videotape the impromptu dance performance.Did we already mention that “It’s More Fun in the Philippines?”
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2014/12/01/massive-flight-delays-at-manilas-international-airport-strands-thousands-of-passengers/
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POPE FRANCIS MET IN PRIVATE WITH GAY COUPLE, NOT WITH KIM DAVIS
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['Pol Pinoy']
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2/10/2017 0:00
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Pope Francis gave his blessing to Kim Davis during a brief meeting at The Vatican embassy in Washington, D.C. last week. But now, the Pope is taking back that blessing because Davis and her lawyers lied about the brief encounter.Davis, the Rowan (KY) county clerk who spent jail time for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples, was telling everybody that she had a “private audience” with Francis who thanked her for her “courage” and to “stay strong,” suggesting that the Pope had endorsed her defiance of civil law because of her religious belief.While The Vatican confirmed the meeting between the Pope and Davis, it clarified that it was far from being a “private audience.” Davis was just among the many individuals that were hustled in and out to greet the Pope during his downtime at the embassy.The Vatican said that the Pope didn’t even know who Davis was.But a real “private audience” happened the day before Davis met the Pope.It was a pre-arranged meeting with the Pope’s longtime friend from Argentina who has been in a same-sex relationship for 19 years.Yayo Grassi, an openly gay man, brought his partner, Iwan Bagus, as well several other friends to the Vatican Embassy on September 23 for a brief visit with the Pope. A video of the meeting shows Grassi and Francis greeting each other with a warm hug.In an exclusive interview with CNN, Grassi declined to disclose details about the short visit, but said it was arranged personally with the Pope via email in the weeks ahead of Francis’ highly anticipated visit to the United States.“Three weeks before the trip, he called me on the phone and said he would love to give me a hug,” Grassi said.So, while the Pope wasn’t endorsing same-sex relationships by meeting with his gay friend, neither was he endorsing Davis’ opposition to same-sex marriage just because of that brief, almost anonymous encounter.Now, Davis has to go to confession to ask pardon for lying about her encounter with the Pope!
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2015/10/02/pope-francis-met-in-private-with-gay-couple-not-with-kim-davis/?share=email
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‘INFERNO’ STARTS FILMING IN APRIL; FILM CREW BANNED IN MANILA
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['Pol Pinoy']
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27/08/2017 0:00
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It’s official. Filming for Dan Brown’s ‘Inferno’ begins in April next year and is expected to hit the theaters in December, 2015, according to an announcement by Sony Pictures.Actor Tom Hanks will be reunited with director Ron Howard in this movie version of the fourth installment of Brown’s blockbuster novel. David Koepp has been tapped to pen the script.Hanks will reprise his role as Professor Robert Langdon, a role he played in the ‘The Da Vinci Code.’Most of the new film will be shot in Italy, except for a few scenes which, in the book version, happens in Manila where the crowded metropolis was tagged by Brown as “the gates of hell.” He described Manila as a city riddled with poverty, crime and prostitution. And traffic.But there is a big problem. The Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) has said that it has refused to issue a permit to Sony Films to shoot scenes in Manila or its neighboring cities. “How can anyone expect us to be hospitable to a film crew of a movie that denigrates our reputation,” an MMDA spokesperson said.MMDA said that it will grant the filming permit only if scriptwriter Koepp will change the line “gates of hell” to “stairway to heaven.”Sony pictures has not returned calls from The Adobo Chronicles seeking comment on the MMDA statement.
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2014/08/27/inferno-starts-filming-in-april-film-crew-banned-in-manila/?share=email
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A ‘revolutionary government’ led by the incumbent president is an insane idea
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['Oratio Imperata']
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2017-11-30 12:47:38+00:00
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The trouble with Filipinos is they are shortsighted. They are focused on instant gratification and consistently fail to see the long view. This is evident today seeing all major political camps, the Yellowtards, the Dutertards, and the commies calling for measures that can only be implemented outside of the Constitution.The Yellowtards, of course, mount their traditional push towards their tired old “people power” uprising thing which involves middle class folk gathering in hordes on a street in Imperial Manila clutching rosaries while waving hands shaped in an “L”. The commies, like the Yellowtards also continue their Cold War era “armed revolution” of the “proletariat” also massing on streets sporting their tubaos, waving their fists in the air and chanting their overused anti “US Imperialist” slogans. Meanwhile, their terrorist comrades in the New People’s Army (NPA) roam the Philippines’ jungles terrorising farmers and killing Filipino soldiers.Now we are seeing a new third ocho-ocho camp doing the same song-and-dance. A faction of the Dutertard bloc is now calling for Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to declare a “revolutionary government”.Suffice to say, it seems the biggest noisiest blocs of Filipino “activists” are all advocating quck-and-dirty instantly-gratifying approaches to instigating change. That says something about the character of the Philippines’ cliques of politically-passionate “influencers”. Even taken together, they collectively fail to provide a true vision that encompasses a true strategic long-term horizon. Like much else in Philippine society, Filipino activism suffers from the infamous pwede na yan mentality. Just like the jeepneys which originally came into being as a short-term fix to a serious problem, these “solutions” advocated by the Philippines’ top cliques of “activists” are turning what are supposed to be temporary political fixes into permanently-recurring solutions.Even more interesting is how this third one — those calling for Duterte to form a “revolutionary government” — is evidently the most ludicrous advocacy among the three. Whilst the Yellowtards’ “people power” circus and the “dictatorship of the proletariat” being fought for by the commies are “revolutions” being fought against the incumbent, that of the Dutertards’ “#RevGov” faction are actually calling on the incumbent to declare his own government a “revolutionary” one. To regard this as an oxymoron is being kind. It flat out just does not make any sense.The minute Duterte makes such a declaration is the minute his “vice president” Leni Robredo gains a legitimate claim to the Philippine presidency. This is because a “revolutionary government” is one that necessarily lies outside the frame of the 1987 Yellowtard Constitution that currently lends Duterte’s government its legitimacy. And under that Yellowtard Constitution, Robredo becomes president when the incumbent president opts to leave his office to go “revolutionary”.(Note that the idea in the above paragraph is premised on the hypothetical scenario that Robredo actually is the Philippines’ legitimate VP.)It’s like half of a Mexican standoff. The #RevGov Dutertards have their fingers on the #RevGov trigger while the Yellowtards have their fingers on the Leni trigger. The commies for their part are more likely to shoot both blocs in the back given the chance and do away with the Yellowtard Constitution altogether.Those of us watching this quaint standoff armed with bags of popcorn can only laugh. Underneath these circuses lies a more fearsome common denominator — the vast foundation of Filipino cultural dysfunction that is likely to render any solution advocated by these three clownish movements inutile. Just about every political ideological edifice stood up on this quicksand-like socio-cultural foundation sinks and is eventually swallowed up in a society that, to begin with, is averse to self-improvement.Indeed, a key feature of this muck of cultural dysfunction that these movements hope to build upon is an entire people’s inability to collectively envision goals and run toward them over a long-term timeframe. That was just a long-winded way of saying Filipinos lack enough sense of nationalism to make any “revolution” work for them, much less the half-witted ones being proposed by these three blocs of “activists”.The foundation of nationalism must first be established before political solutions can even be considered. Without this binding sense of nationalism amongst Filipinos (one that goes beyond “solidarity” in winning international beauty pageants and basketball games), Philippine politics will continue to sustain the schizophrenic character it currently exhibits. My colleague Paul Farol’s recent quip encapsulates all this…The people are insane, changing the form of government is like changing mental asylums.Indeed, that is the truth about themselves Filipinos will ultimately need to confront. Progress requires time and consistency of vision. Only patience, perseverance, and quiet achievement — not shrill adolescent emotionalism — will deliver for the Filipino in the long run.
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Emirates To Allow Computer Desktops On Board Its Passenger Planes — For A Price.
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['Pol Pinoy']
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25/03/2017 0:00
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The United States has announced a ban on all electronics larger than a standard smartphone on board direct flights out of eight countries across the middle East.Dubai International Airport, the world’s busiest international airport, has begun implementing the ban which also covers all electronics sold at Dubai Duty Free, Dubai Airports CEO Paul Griffiths told local radio earlier this week.Governnment-owned Emirates operates 18 flights daily to the United States out of Dubai.But Emirates has set in a place a viable option for passengers who have to use their computers during flight.Since the U.S. ban only covers laptops and tablets, passengers can bring a desktop computer on board, but with additional cost.In order to be able to bring a desktop into the cabin, passengers must purchase two full-priced seats, one for themselves and the other to allow for space to set up their desktop.Up to four desktop pieces are allowed on board: a CPU, monitor, keyboard and mouse.The new option is available in the main cabin. The option will not cost extra for First Class passengers.
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2017/03/25/emirates-to-allow-computer-desktops-on-board-its-passenger-planes-for-a-price/#respond
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NBC TO REVIVE ‘THE GOLDEN GIRLS’ STARTING THIS FALL
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['Pol Pinoy']
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20/06/2018 0:00
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‘The Golden Girls’ is an American sitcom, created by Susan Harris, that originally aired on NBC from September 14, 1985, to May 9, 1992. Starring Beatrice Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, and Estelle Getty, the show centered on four older women sharing a home in Miami, Florida.Betty White is the only surviving cast member of the extremely popular show.Today, NBC announced that starting this fall, it will revive the television series with a power cast that includes, Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, Kathy Bates and Jane Fonda. The announcement did not disclose which character each of the actresses would be portraying.The series will be directed by no less than White.Which of these actresses would you like to play Blanch, Dorothy, Rose and Sophia?
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2015/06/20/nbc-to-revive-the-golden-girls-starting-this-fall/#respond
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Seriously Now: Will Filipino Voters Choose Duterte Over Their Catholic Faith?
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['Pol Pinoy']
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18/04/2016 0:00
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In just a little over three weeks, an estimated 54 Million Filipinos will go to the polls to elect their next president. That number is about half of the population of this predominantly Catholic country where close to two thirds pledge their allegiance to The Vatican.Five “presidentiables” as they are called in the Philippines, are in what many consider a tight race to succeed President Aquino who will be termed out as of June 30 this year.Among the presidential candidates is Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago who, despite her popularity especially among the younger generation, trails in the polls mostly because of the perception that her cancer diagnosis will get in the way of performing her duties as head of state.The administration’s candidate, former Interior Secretary Mar Roxas, who, six year years ago gave up his presidential aspiration to give way to then Senator Aquino whose ratings surged especially after the death of his mother, former President Cory, has remained steady at No. 4 in most national polls. He is Aquino’s anointed one.Incumbent Vice President Jejomar Binay, a logical successor to Aquino, is having the most difficult time climbing to the top of voter surveys, especially after the country’s Ombudsman has filed charges against him and his son, Junjun, for alleged illegal deals arising from the building of an overpriced Makati City Hall parking structure. Binay was former Makati mayor, and so was his son before he was removed from office by the judiciary.Senator Grace Poe, despite protracted challenges to her candidacy before the Commission on Elections and the Supreme Court, has consistently topped the polls. Poe’s opponents claim that she is unqualified to run for president because of questions regarding her Filipino citizenship and residency requirement.This brings us to Rodrigo Duterte, mayor of Davao City. There are claims that Davao is among the world’s safest cities, and many attribute this distinction to Duterte’s no nonsense, heavy-handed governance where criminals and those who violate the law are dealt with by the mayor himself — extra-judicially.As the May 9 elections draw closer, new polls show Duterte in a statistical tie with Poe, and in some cases, occupying the No. 1 spot.The extremely popular Duterte has all but been snubbed by Manila’s mainstream media which for the longest time ignored or downplayed the mayor’s packed campaign rallies and increasing popularity on social media.But the media were quick to herald controversial statements by Duterte, especially when he talked about abolishing congress, killing criminals and eradicating government corruption within 3-6 months of his presidency.Duterte has finally made it to the front pages of newspapers and broadcast news headlines. Thanks to the latest video which circulated on the Internet, in which the mayor joked about a female Australian missionary who was serially raped before being killed by lawless elements. The mayor was caught on camera saying that he was mad, not just because the woman was raped, but especially because he said, the mayor should have been first in line.Duterte supporters claim that the “joke” was taken out of context, and the mayor himself gave a lengthy interview during which he admitted to his “gutter language” while relating the background story about the incident.Enter the Catholic Church in the Philippines.No less than the head of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), Bishop Socrates Villegas, has called on Filipino Catholics to reject Duterte, citing the church’s teachings against killing people and “womanizing.” (Duterte, who is divorced from his wife, has always admitted having simultaneous relationships with “two wives and two girlfriends.”)While most Filipino Catholics openly display their devotion to their faith — praying to their favorite saints and Mary the mother of Jesus; religiously attending church services, pledging devotion to religious icons like the Black Nazarene or the Santo Niño and participating in penitential rites including self-flagellation in observance to Holy Week — it remains to be seen whether the CBCP’s call will be heeded come May 9.Will Catholic Filipino voters — tired of corruption, crime, poverty, unemployment, substandard public services, political dynasties — choose Duterte over their Catholic faith? Do they believe that the Almighty will give them a pass if they decide to vote for a president whose actions and pronouncements run counter to the teachings of The Vatican?We will find out. On May 9.
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2016/04/18/seriously-now-will-filipino-voters-choose-duterte-over-their-catholic-faith/#respond
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Tindig Pilipinas Wants Andy Bautista To Resign
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['Pol Pinoy']
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29/09/2017 0:00
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And all the while you thought Tindig Pilipinas was an anti-Duterte movement? Well, think again.Today, GMA News reported that Tindig Pilipinas has challenged COMELEC Commissioner Andy Bautista to sign a waiver to disclose his bank accounts to prove or disprove his wife’s allegations of his unexplained wealth. Otherwise, he needs to resign.We are all waiting for Bautista’s response and we thank GMA News for being fair, balanced and accurate in its reporting!
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2017/09/29/tindig-pilipinas-wants-andy-bautista-to-resign/
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Dynasty activism: Anti-Marcos ‘activists’ disqualify politicians on the basis of their bloodlines!
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2016-03-08 01:55:12+00:00
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Look no further than the venerable Fidel Ramos — former Philippine president and Army general extraordinaire. Today, nobody seems to remember him as one of the key implementors of former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos’s allegedly atrocious Martial Law regime. Why have people chosen to overlook Ramos’s past as a Martial Law chieftain? Simple. Because after the 1986 “revolution” he went on to become one of the Philippines’ better (if not the best of) presidents in the three decades that followed.Ramos and his pal Senator Juan Ponce Enrile are living proof that ex-Martial Law leaders not only still have careers in Philippine politics they actually excel in leadership and statesmanship. The form of government following the 1986 “revolution” is, after all, a democracy. Indeed, so-called “activists” in Yellow shirts keep reminding us of that quaint fact, as a matter of fact. In short, Ramos and Enrile — ex Martial Law chieftains extraordinaire — are, nonetheless, leaders who were chosen by the Filipino people in this here democracy.In that light, we can see the abject hollowness of the cornerstone argument applied by these “Never Again” bozos to the sorry excuse for “activism” they showcase to their cadre of lazy-brained sheep-like followers today. The object of their girly tantrums is centred around the the vice presidential candidacy of Senator Bongbong Marcos. According to those who chant the “Never Again” slogan ad infinitum, Senator Marcos has “no right” to be vice president of the Philippines — simply because “he is a Marcos”. And yet, these same activists call for an end to patronage and dynasty politics.Holy inconsistency, Batman!For these so-called “activists”, when it comes to “a Marcos”, blood is thicker than merit, apparently.So much for the modern meritocracy Filipinos as a people aspire to be.And that is where the moral ascendancy of these “Never Again” bozos comes apart. Their brand of activism is selective and, as such, medieval in nature. On one hand, they demonise certain candidates on the sole basis of their bloodlines but, on the other, decry the prevalence of dynastic power entrenched in Philippine society. Duh?!Consider, as an example, the esteemed philosophers and theologians of the Ateneo who have taken it upon themselves to publicly accuse the Marcos family of “brutality”. They seem to have failed to learn their expensive classroom lessons well and defer to the body of thinking skills that forms the foundation of their educational training — a sound systematic development of theses by applying a rules-based subjection of a variety counter-theses in a cyclic manner that sustains a forward trajectory in the evolution of human knowledge as a matter of routine.In their daft latching on to a flawed notion — that politicians are qualified or unqualified (or worse, forfeit their right) to run for public office on the basis of their bloodline — anti-Marcos “activists” have all but discredited their cause. Their argument against “a Marcos” crumbles thanks to this ill-conceived cornerstone in the conceptual framework of their “activism”.Whether it is Martial Law or any other scandal (pork, sex, abject incompetence, whatever), ultimately it is the legal framework that qualifies a politician to run for office and it is the Filipino vote that determines who wins or loses.It can’t be any simpler than that, really. Filipinos deserve a lot better than this sort of kiddie activism.[Thumbnail photo courtesy Manila Bulletin.]
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Get Real Philippines
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https://www.getrealphilippines.com/2016/03/dynasty-activism-anti-marcos-activists-disqualify-politicians-basis-bloodlines/#comments
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Trapped soldier calls airstrike: “Bombahin nyo na lang location ko sir”
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2017-06-09 22:42:07+08:00
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A different kind of Bayot“Just bomb my location, Sir!”These were the last words of 24-year old Private First Class Dhan Ryan Bayot when he called his commanding officer before he succumbed to death in the hands of the Maute-ISIS terrorists.Bayot’s team–consisting of 9 soldiers from the 51st Infantry Batallion—was stationed in a detachment in Barangay Lilod, Marawi City on n the 2nd day of the Marawi siege, May 24. They were dispatched to the said post upon the request of a town official for added security as his residence was just above the detachment.Moments later, they were attacked. A survivor said that aside from the shots from both sides of the road, gunfire also came from above. Apparently, the official’s house was already overtaken by the terrorists. The soldiers were too surprised that the volley of fire came from all directions.Not long enough, five of his companions were dead. For some reason, three soldiers managed to escape and abandoned the post. (It was only learned later that the three were shot just the same, killing one and wounding the two).Now alone and with nary a scratch, he radioed his commanding officer for reinforcement but no one came. A few hours later, he called again. The commanding officer told him that reinforcements attempted twice, but they couldn’t get through as the only passage to him was heavily entrenched by the enemies.This time, sensing that death was more imminent than being rescued, he then gave his coordinates, and requested his commander to bomb his location so the enemies surrounding him will get hit too. “Bombahin nalang ninyo ang location ko Sir!,”(Just bomb my location Sir!) he told his commanding officer.His dead body and of six of his comrades were retrieved on May 28—four days after they were killed.One of the retrievers of his dead body was his father, Sgt. Larry Bayot of the Division Reconnaissance Company of the 1st Infantry Division. His father said that it took four units from different battalions of the Philippine Army to retrieve their bodies given the difficult terrain. He understands now why it was really hard to rescue his son. Click Below to Watch Video:Surprisingly, the father saw no bullet wounds on his son’s body that might have caused his death. Instead, he saw his son’s heavily deformed face and a deep bolo cut around his neck. Presumably, when he ran out of bullets the terrorists might have taken turns of bashing his face before slashing his neck in an attempt to behead him.Although pained so much for the dastardly manner of his son’s death, he never showed it. To a soldier, it’s always a ‘do-or-die-but never-question-why’ attitude.The next day, the father brought his son’s body to bury him in the family’s hometown in Barangay Upper Pangi, Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay. On June 2, a day after the burial, President Rodrigo Duterte went to his barangay to personally console him on his loss.The president gave him the posthumous medal for his son, P250 thousand cash, and a pledge to fund for any young surviving family member’s education.“Unsa pa man akong matabang nimo?” (What else can I be of help?) the President asked Sergeant Bayot. Bayot replied that his 18 year-old youngest son, who is the late PFC Ryan’s younger brother, wants to join the Army too. Maybe you can help him enlist in the army, Bayot told the president.“No, not yet, he has to finish his college first, then after that maybe we can let him enter the army or even the police,” said Duterte.The sergeant relented to his commander-in-chief.Now, he is busy preparing the documents of his dead son while waiting to be called anytime for duty to the 1st infantry Division whose jurisdiction includes Marawi City. His younger children will be off to college.Ironically, the word bayot in Visayan means gay or coward.But for this particular family and for the neighbors who knew them in Upper Pangi, Ipil, the word now simply means valor and patriotism.*Send your salute to this fallen hero by leaving your message below!
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Duterte Daily Stories
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http://duterte.today/trapped-soldier-calls-airstrike-bombahin-nyo-na-lang-location-ko-sir/
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MAYOR RODRIGO DUTERTE’S “DON’T VOTE FOR ME” VIDEO OFFICIAL ENGLISH TRANSLATION
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['Pol Pinoy']
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29/11/2017 0:00
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A short video message posted by Philippine presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte asking Filipinos not to vote for him has gone viral. It was an attempt by the Davao City mayor to reach out to millennials and netizens, many of whom get their news from Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.International readers of The Adobo Chronicles have reached out to us to translate into English Duterte’s message which was entirely delivered in Tagalog.Here’s is the best attempt by our language experts:“My name is Rodrigo Duterte. I am ready to be of service to the Philippines and the Filipino people. This nation and our people can be great again. However, if you don’t want me to personally execute criminals, don’t vote for me. If you don’t want me to abolish Congress, don’t vote for me. If you don’t want me forcing smokers to swallow their cigarette butts, don’t vote for me. If you don’t want me forcing laglag bala (bullet planting) perpetrators at NAIA (Ninoy Aquino International Airport) to swallow the bullets, don’t vote for me. If you don’t want a president with a Visayan accent, don’t vote for me. If you want a beautiful and fashionable First Lady, vote for Mar Roxas. If you want to continue watching AlDub, don’t vote for me.”“If you decide to vote for me, I promise you that I will turn Manila from the “Gates of Hell” to “Stairway to Heaven.”Our translation has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percent.
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2015/11/29/mayor-rodrigo-dutertes-dont-vote-for-me-video-official-english-translation/?share=email
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Miss Universe: Two Years Later, Steve Harvey Corrects Himself
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['Pol Pinoy']
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26/11/2017 0:00
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Two years ago, host Steve Harvey announced the wrong winner in the Miss Universe Pageant, proclaiming Miss Philippines as first runner-up and Miss Colombia as the winner of the coveted crown.Well, the rest is history. We all know that the actual winner was Pia Wurtzbach of the Philippines.Tonight, after two long years, Harvey made it right, correctly announcing that Miss Colombia was first runner-up to Miss South Africa, the new Miss Universe.History repeats itself, but we can always correct history!
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2017/11/26/miss-universe-two-years-later-steve-harvey-corrects-himself/
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Look: Duterte bids goodbye to Davao gov’t employees with cash gift
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2016-06-27 17:35:20+08:00
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President-elect Rodrigo Duterte attended his last flag ceremony as Mayor along with the Davao City government employees, Monday morning with a cash gift called educational assistance.Duterte delivered another 1-hour speech filled with hopes and jokes. Digong reiterated that he will do what he promised during his campaign.“Mayroon akong kontrata sa mga tao, wala akong pakialam kung sino ang masagasaan ko” said Duterte.As he ended his speech, Duterte also made the local government employees delighted when he announced that he will give all regular employees P10,000 each while those under job order program will take home P4,000 each.An educational assistance that balloons to P65million. According to the outgoing city administrator Melchor Quitain, the money will be released soon.Mayor Rody also gave special recognition to City Administrator Jesus Melchor Quitain and Executive Assistant, now Presidential Management Staff Secretary Bong Go, for their exemplary public service to the City of Davao and its people.Look for more photos below by CIO and King Rodriguez:What can you say about this story? Leave your comments below!
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Duterte Daily Stories
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http://duterte.today/duterte-davao-goobye-cash-gift/
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READ: Palace formally invites UN Rapporteur
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2016-10-12 16:29:36+08:00
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Malacañang announced Wednesday that it has already formally sent an invitation to the United Nations Special Rapporteur to investigate the alleged extrajudicial killings of drug suspects in the Philippines.”Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea said the Palace has sent an invitation to the UN special rapporteur Agnes Callamard and he is awaiting her response,” Presidential Spokesman Ernesto Abella announced in a press briefing at the Palace.In the invitation, Abella said the Palace also urged the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary, or Arbitration Executions to include in her investigation the number of policemen killed while pursuing drugs suspects.”It is also an invitation urging the UN rapporteur to include in her invitation the killings of law enforcers and drug suspects so that she will obtain an accurate perspective of the drug problem in the country,” he said.Last month, the UN Special Rapporteur reportedly called on Philippine authorities to “adopt with immediate effect the necessary measures to protect all persons from targeted killings and extrajudicial executions”.President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs has so far led to the surrender of more than 700,000, the arrest of more than 22,000, the death of nearly 1,500 in legitimate police operations, and the seizure of PHP8 billion worth of shabu in the first three months of his administration.Abella said the invitation does not include the United States and European Union, which have also expressed concern over the alleged drug-related summary killings.According to media reports, more than 3,000 people have been killed by police and vigilantes in the Philippines as a result of the intensified campaign against narcotics. The country has reportedly nearly four million drug personalities. (PNA)Any thoughts on this? Leave your comments below!
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Duterte Daily Stories
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http://duterte.today/read-palace-formally-invites-un-rapporteur/
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Leni Robredo Prepares To Take Her Oath As President Of The Philippines
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['Pol Pinoy']
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25/12/2017 0:00
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The Office of the Vice President (OVP) is busy preparing for the oath-taking ceremony of Leni Robredo to succeed President Rodrigo Duterte.Champagne flowed at the OVP on Christmas Day after Robredo and her staff heard the news that Duterte has tendered his resignation.Little did they know that it was the younger Duterte — Paolo — who resigned as Vice Mayor of Davao City, and not the President.
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2017/12/25/leni-robredo-prepares-to-take-her-oath-as-president-of-the-philippines/?share=email
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Headline War Erupts In The Philippines
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['Pol Pinoy']
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20/12/2016 0:00
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MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau)- Forget about fake news. You should be more concerned about real, legitimate news. Which begs the question, which “real” news should you believe?The beacon, the light, the bearer of truth, the watchdog of government — otherwise known as the news media — is in shambles in the Philippines.If you’re not paying attention, you might think that you’re dealing with political parties, listening to or reading their ideological propaganda.Where before it was a battle of bloggers, i.e., Mocha Uson vs. Raissa Robles, it is now a war between what we know as legitimate media. They battle for your attention, and cater to your political leaning. How? Through their headlines.So fear not. Any news story — and we mean ANY news story — can be good news for you. Just pick the headline you wish to believe. You don’t have to read the full story. What for? The headlines tell it all.
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2016/12/20/headline-war-erupts-in-the-philippines/
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Breaking News: Official Ballot Shows New Names Of Candidates For Philippine President And Vice President
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['Pol Pinoy']
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10/4/2016 0:00
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When Filipino voters go to their polling places on May 9, 2016 to elect, among others, a new president and vice president, they will find two unfamiliar names on the official ballot.The new names are Daang Matuwid for president and Daang Matuwid for vice president, both running under the administration’s Liberal Party. It is unclear whether the candidates are brother and sister, or husband and wife, in which case, is in violation of the Philippine Constitution’s provision on nepotism and conflict of interest.Many Filipinos are also questioning the qualifications of the two candidates. The Constitution provides that candidates for president and vice president must be natural-born Filipinos. Voters are demanding to see the birth certificates of the Daang Matuwids.A call by The Adobo Chronicles to Commission on Elections Chairman Andres D. Bautista has not been returned as of press time.Stay tuned for more on this highly controversial, developing story.
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2016/04/10/breaking-news-official-ballot-shows-new-names-of-candidates-for-philippine-president-and-vice-president/
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Senator Leila De Lima’s Naming To Fortunate Magazine’s Top World Leaders Turns Out To Be An April Fool’s Joke!
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['Pol Pinoy']
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22/04/2018 0:00
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After all, that brouhaha regarding Philippine Leila De Lima being named among the Top 50 World Leaders by Fortune Magazine is just, well, a bruhaha (translation: witchity joke).Many Filipinos have criticized the inclusion of the lady Senator in its 2018 list despite her being charged with a drug crime, violations of law during her various tenures in government service, and other destabilization efforts against the Administration of President Rodrigo Duterte.Well, it turns out the May, 2018 issue of Fortune was actually printed on April 1, 2018 (see photo), leading people to believe that the whole thing was a hoad — an April Fool’s joke.It is turly, unFORTUNE-ate.
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2018/04/22/fortune-magazines-senator-leila-de-limas-naming-to-top-world-leaders-turns-out-to-be-an-april-fools-joke/#respond
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Mar Roxas will not allow divorce and does not favour same sex marriage
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2016-02-02 04:44:47+00:00
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Liberal Party candidate Mar Roxas is certainly in the habit of making not only unfounded statements, but incomplete ones. On his televised interview with veteran journalist Mel Tiangco, Roxas bared his opposition to legalising divorce and same-sex marriage. Although he quoted some cliché platitude about the family being the foundation of society to substantiate his position on divorce, he stopped short of articulating why exactly he is opposed to same sex marriage. Instead, he said this…Bilang public policy para sa akin ay hindi ako pabor dito. Subalit… may mga kamag-anak ako na close na close na have partners and nirerespeto ko sila, minamahal ko sila, tinatanggap ko sila, bukas-puso, bukas-loob kong ang aking pagtrato sa kanila…Translating the above into proper intelligible English…As far as public policy, I do not favour [same sex marriage]. But I have relatives who are very close who have partners whom I respect and love. I fully accept them open heartedly and am unreserved in my regard for them…In short, Mar Roxas selectively respects deviant lifestyles on the basis of whether or not he has personal or filial relationships with the “offending” parties.That figures. It sort of mirrors the way the law is applied in Philippine society.Filipino politicians will defend the right to steal from the public coffers on grounds that these benefit the special people in their lives. But when it comes to strangers and people who are not their kababayans, it becomes a lot simpler: the law applies in full force.So according to Roxas, “hindi ako papayag” he “will not allow” divorce to be legalised in the Philippines (as if that is his choice to make). He also “does not favour” same sex marriage, but tolerates homosexual relationships amongst his own kin.The challenge for Mar Roxas is to tell the Filipino why he takes these positions. It is important that leaders are able to articulate clearly the thinking process that leads them to take one position or the other.Are Roxas’s positions based on clear thinking that he actually took the time and effort to undertake? Or is he merely parroting some kind of party tagline or deferring lazily to the weight of culture and tradition? Only if voters ask their candidates the right questions and apply an intelligent mind to the process of evaluating how qualified they are will Filipinos get the leaders they feel they deserve.
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Get Real Philippines
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https://www.getrealphilippines.com/2016/02/mar-roxas-will-not-allow-divorce-and-does-not-favour-same-sex-marriage/
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Trump, Clinton Will Be Hooked To Polygraph Machine During Final Debate
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['Pol Pinoy']
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15/10/2016 0:00
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Upping his criticism of Hillary Clinton’s debate performances, Donald Trump suggested on Saturday that his opponent had been on drugs during their second debate.“I think we should take a drug test prior to the debate,” Mr. Trump told a crowd of thousands gathered at an event in Portsmouth.“We should take a drug test prior, because I don’t know what’s going on with her. But at the beginning of her last debate — she was all pumped up at the beginning, and at the end it was like, ‘Oh, take me down.’ She could barely reach her car, ” the Republican candidate said.In an exclusive interview with The Adobo Chronicles, Clinton said that she had accepted Trump’s challenge and both will undergo a drug test an hour before the start of the third and final presidential debate scheduled for October 19 at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas.But Clinton said she had one condition: that throughout the entire televised debate, both candidates will be hooked up to a polygraph machine, otherwise known as a lie-detector machine. Every time a candidate mentions a lie, a buzzer will sound, alerting the moderator as well as the live and television audience about the non-truth. The Trump campaign agreed, albeit hesitantly.The Commission on Presidential Debates welcomed the proposal and is considering making the polygraph a permanent feature of all future major political debates.
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2016/10/15/trump-clinton-will-be-hooked-to-polygraph-machine-during-final-debate/#respond
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U.P. Students Who Walk Out Will Be Charged Up to P37,000 Each
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['Pol Pinoy']
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5/2/2018 0:00
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As students threaten to stage more walk outs from their classes, the University of the Philippines in Diliman is preparing to implement a new policy that would penalize those who waste taxpayer money.Sources close to the Board of Regents say that a new memo is awaiting signature. It states that students who are caught walking out of their classes will be blacklisted and will be asked to refund the government-portion of their tuition and other fees.So, a student who is on full scholarship could be returning as much as P37,000 which represents tuition and other fees per semester.For those on partial scholarships or beneficiaries of socialized tuition, they will be asked for a reimbursement based on the percentage of taxpayer money spent on their education.Other U.P. campuses throughout the country are reportedly considering a similar move.
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2018/02/05/u-p-students-who-walk-out-will-be-charged-up-to-p37000-each/
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LOOK: 2014-2016 Bank history of Mayor Duterte
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['View All Posts Pinoytrending']
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2016-05-04 17:35:19+08:00
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Mayor Duterte can be now considered as an innocent after he finally shows the bank account history of his controversial BPI account in Julia Vargas Branch.Last week, his hidden wealth issue has made some noise in our country, some supporters of Mayor Duterte became neutral after one of the biggest test of the Davao Mayor challenged himOne of the netizen also explained that Duterte already showed his bank history.He also criticised the central bank and AMLC during his press conference.Many people believes that after the hidden wealth issue of Mayor Duterte that is ne resolved.
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Pinoytrending Altervista
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https://pinoytrending.altervista.org/look-2014-2016-bank-history-mayor-duterte/
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Filipinos Receive Emergency Alert On Their Smart Phones At Same Time As the Hawaii Missile Alert
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['Pol Pinoy']
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13/01/2018 0:00
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At about 8:07 pm, Hawaii Standard Time, resident of the Sunshine State received a shocking message on their smart phones.It was an emergency alert informing them that a missile was on its way to Hawaii and that they should take immediate shelter.Well, now we know the alert was sent in error and the U.S. Pacific Command did confirm that there was no impending danger.But on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, Filipinos also received an emergency alert on their cell phones, warning them that the Yellows (the spinkling of Oppositionists) have gone crazy and were on the loose. They were advised to be mindful of their surroundings.As of press time, there has not been any confirmation from Philippine authorities whether or not the alert message was sent in error.But Filipinos — especially the more than 80 percent who support the Duterte administration — took the alert seriously.“It’s better to be safe than sorry,” said one Dutertard who spoke on condition of anonymity.
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2018/01/13/filipinos-receive-emergency-alert-on-their-smart-phones-at-same-time-as-the-hawaii-missile-alert/#comments
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CNN WANTS TO HIRE RELIGIOUS SCHOLAR AFTER INFAMOUS BIGOTED SEGMENT
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['Pol Pinoy']
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7/10/2017 0:00
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After that embarrassing segment in which religious scholar Professor Reza Aslan slammed the bigoted questioning by anchors Don Lemon and Alysin Camerota, CNN says it wants to hire Aslan as a religious consultant.In that CNN segment, the anchors and Aslan were discussing earlier comments made by Bill Maher on another show criticizing Muslim extremism. Aslan all but lectured Lemon and Camerota who both wouldn’t budge on their line of questioning about whether or not Islam promotes violence.“It was a segment that we would rather forget,” CNN said, but only after video clips of the interview went viral on the Internet.CNN said it now acknowledges that Aslan’s breath of knowledge and expetise on the issue of Islam were no match to the limited and simplistic perspective of the anchors. The cable news network added it would like to make up for this gaffe by offering Aslan a consulant position to advise its newsroom about all issues relating to Islam and the Muslim world.Lemon and Camerota were not pleased with the network’s decision and are seriously considering jumping ship and moving over to FOX News.
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2014/10/07/cnn-wants-to-hire-religious-scholar-after-infamous-bigoted-segment/#comments
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MISS PHILIPPINES IS 2013 MISS INTERNATIONAL; BAN RE-IMPOSED
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['Pol Pinoy']
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17/12/2016 0:00
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Brazil and Venezuela.In re-imposing the ban, the ABPFH admitted that it spoke too soon when it lifted the Philippines’ earlier disqualification. “We should have waited for the results of Miss International 2013,” the association said.
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2013/12/17/miss-philippines-is-2013-miss-international-ban-re-imposed/
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Jover Laurio, a.k.a. @PinoyAkoBlog: Don’t be fooled by the victim card she now plays
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['Oratio Imperata']
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2017-10-13 06:30:33+00:00
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So now a certain Maria Josephina Vergina “Jover” Laurio has come out and revealed herself as the person behind the Yellowtard blog Pinoy Ako Blog (PAB). This is after a series of exposés published by blogger RJ Nieto (a.k.a. “Thinking Pinoy”) on the inner workings behind a vast network of anti-government blogs and fake news sites that ultimately led to emergence of strong evidence that Laurio is behind PAB.Now, in a post published on PAB today, Laurio declares Ako si PAB, Oh Eh Ano Ngayon? (“I am PAB, so what?”). Apparently, contrary to Laurio brushing this off as something that does not pass her So What? Test, the revelation is a big deal considering it is quite evident that Laurio would have preferred to remain anonymous had she not been outed by Nieto and his posse of Die-hard Duterte Supporters (DDS). As expected, the all-too-familiar victim card favoured by the Yellowtards is now in play in full force with Laurio describing a barrage of online harassment she had copped since being outed…Isa lang ordinaryong tao si PAB, na araw-araw binabash ngayon sa social media ni Thinking Pinoy a. k. a. RJ Nieto and his minions. Etong week na to was the hardest for me and my family. Nag file na ako ng leave of absence from work because of the threats and hate messages I have been receiving from my personal account both from Twitter and Facebook. I have filed a leave of absence from school too. These people are trying to destroy my life by exposing my picture, my real name and my school. Araw-araw the attacks are escalating. Siguro lahat ng klase ng pambabalahura naranasan ko na from DDS minions. Nanay ko naapektuhan na but she said “laban lang”. As Jover Laurio, I was crying everyday. As PAB I tried to be brave and continue blogging. But I think it is time for me to fight back. Lahat ng pambabastos nila need to stop. May hangganan pala ang lahat. Oras na para lumaban.This is, of course, a perfect recipe for the sort of victim-cum-hero that Yellowtards tend to rally around. Never mind that Laurio speaks and writes in a deeply jolog-accented Taglish sprinkled liberally with pedestrian jejemon-speak. Already, a who’s-who of the cream of Yellowtard society is now grooming Laurio to be the next Yellow Joan of Arc — one to be held up as the latest Opposition pin-up for their so-called “anti-tyranny” crusades. Ironic, considering members of this crème de la crème circle of the Yellowtard cliques are mostly made up of the private Catholic school set who, behind closed doors in their private soirées, routinely make people like Laurio the butt of jokes and the object of harsh grammar policing.Of course, Yellowtards will not let a bit of hypocrisy get in the way of a good “activist” circus.At the other side of the tracks, Laurio and her lot in the dark (and definitely less Jesuit-educated) underbelly of Yellowtard society, is not above making use of private information to harass their own adversaries. Back in the day, Laurio had, herself, dangled threats to make use of private information to elicit the same reaction from folks who dared challenge their divinely-endorsed positions on most political and social issues.One of the favourite lines of attack against Get Real Post (GRP) writers taken by Laurio and her ilk is ye ol’ “Marcos paid hack” accusation. Without a single shred of evidence, Yellowtards like Laurio had arbitrarily decided, for example, that some GRP writers are “paid” to write by the Marcoses. Funny the way things turn out seeing the trove of photos of Laurio hobnobbing with a who’s-who of Yellowtard top honchos now spreading like wildfire over the Net. Still quite circumstantial as evidence goes, of course, but still. If it poses like a toad, selfies like a toad, and looks like a toad, then it must be a toad.Nonetheless, she along with other Yellowtards have for some time been making it a contest for social media status amongst themselves to produce and exchange private information about people critical to the Yellowtard cause. The lengths to which they would bandy around their stolen trophies are legendary, making veiled threats about knowing family and friends, the whereabouts of one’s children, even exchanging factoids about the health and medical condition of some people.Indeed, in the case of the latter, one of the people in Laurio’s camp — a doctor — is the subject of a complaint filed with Davao Doctors’ Hospital where he is seemingly employed. Whoever is behind their Twitter account, @DvoDocHospital, promised to investigate the matter and update us on the results of that investigation by email. To date, we have not received the promised email.The bottomline is that Yellowtards have long been known to be acutely selective in the “virtues” they apply to their so-called “activism” and “advocacies”. They are selective in their feminism, selective in their anti-electoral-fraud advocacy, selective in their crusade against “fake news”, and selective in their “decency”. In the case of Laurio, she is el primo grade in her hypocrisy and does not exhibit the grace under fire that we in Get Real Post exhibited at a time when we were at the other end of a Yellowtard campaign to discredit and attract harassment to our persons.Not to put too fine a point to it, but Pinoy Ako Blog is a Yellowtard blog. It is presumptuous in naming itself in a manner that leads Filipinos to believe that Yellowtards hold a monopoly on being Pinoy. Yet, in reality, it is anything but representative of what the Pinoy aspires to be. We see it in the writing style Laurio applies to her work in PAB — incoherent, lacking in intelligence, lacking in grace, and totally bereft of intellectual integrity and honesty. It is nothing more than a screech site — an epicentre of intellectual bankruptcy that small minds gravitate to in order to assure themselves that there is social acceptance — even blessedness — in ignorance. Perhaps that is what makes Laurio’s “God” an “amazing” one (as she proudly proclaims on her now-locked Twitter profile). Indeed, Yellowtards worship an “amazing God” — one that is so infinite in forgiveness of ignorance, hypocrisy, and primitivism as to assure us that people like Laurio will persist in a society that true progress may for a long time elude.
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Get Real Philippines
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https://www.getrealphilippines.com/2017/10/jover-laurio-a-k-a-pinoyakoblog-dont-be-fooled-by-the-victim-card-she-now-plays/#comments
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STAGE MALFUNCTION SENDS SOUTH KOREAN GIRLBAND MEMBER TO THE FLOOR, EIGHT TIMES
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['Pol Pinoy']
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7/9/2018 0:00
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taking a fall on stage in front of millions of viewers.During a performance Saturday in South Korea, one of the members of girlband GFriend took a number of painful looking falls onstage.Yuju, easily identified by a white knee guard, fell eight times over the course of one song, and another member SinB took a big spill in the middle of the stage.To the girls’ credit, they managed to pick themselves up after each tumble and rejoin the others on cue pretty seamlessly.The girlband is reportedly considering filing a lawsuit for the stage debacle. However, it wasn’t clear whether it will be filing a lawsuit against the concert promoter for the stage malfunction, or the shoe manufacturer for wardrobe malfunction.Stay tuned!
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2015/09/07/stage-malfunction-sends-south-korean-girlband-member-to-the-floor-eight-times/?share=email
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FOLSOM STREET FAIR MAKES ITS PHILIPPINES DEBUT
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['Pol Pinoy']
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3/4/2018 0:00
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but no frontal or full nudity. Men were tied up, and tied down. But, unlike in San Francisco, there was no entrance fee or donation buckets to gain access to the festival.The Philippines Catholic Church, as expected, frowned on the festival and urged its followers to stick to the traditional, church-sanctioned Holy Week activities and ceremonies.The Philippine Folsom Festival coincided with Good Friday, the most solemn time in the Catholic Church’s calendar.
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2015/04/03/folsom-street-fair-makes-its-philippines-debut/
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OBAMAS’ DOG BO RELEASED FROM QUARANTINE AFTER MIX-UP
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['Pol Pinoy']
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24/12/2016 0:00
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Hawaii is the only rabies-free state in the nation, thanks to strict quarantine rules put in place by the Hawaii Department of Agriculture.State law requires dogs, cats and other animals to be quarantined for at least three months unless they qualify for the “5 days or less” quarantine program. The expedited program requires at least two rabies vaccinations, with the most recent being at least 90 days before the pet arrives in Hawaii. It also requires a blood test to show the rabies-free status of the pet. Owners who want to use the expedited method also need have to have have a microchip ID inserted into their pet.Bo Obama was very excited about his first trip to Hawaii, along with the first family . He had all the requirements and paperwork completed months in advance.However, there was a small glitch upon Bo’s arrival aboard Air Force One. He was met by a quarantine official to examine his vaccination and other records. But when Bo’s microchip was scanned, it showed that he was a chihuahua instead of a Portuguese water dog that he is. He was then put in immediate quarantine.Apparently, the quarantine official forgot to replace the batteries for his scanner so it was still showing the ID of the previous dog scanned which was indeed a chihuahua.Two days after the glitch was discovered, Bo was subsequently released to the Obamas, with lei and all, just in time to celebrate Christmas with his family.In the spirit of Aloha and the holidays, the Obamas did not file any formal complaint against the Agriculture official.
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2013/12/24/obamas-dog-bo-released-from-quarantine-after-mix-up/#respond
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Miss Philippines Rachel Peters a proud Dutertard?
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2017-11-27 15:19:19+08:00
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Out of 93 women attempting to get the prestigious Miss Universe crown, Rachel Peters was the 3rd candidate who was called to complete the Top 10. She may not have enough luck to be at the Top 5 but millions of Filipinos around the world were cheering behind her. But much more than this, Rachel is a proud Dutertard.Peters is a girlfriend of Camarines Sur Governor Migz Villafuerte (Liberal Party) but she is still vocal about supporting President Rody Duterte who she described as the ‘Best President ever in the country’.In her earlier interview before she flew to Las Vegas to compete, she told the media and her followers that we all should trust the President.“We should trust in our President and trust that it’s he (who) knows what is best for our country.” – Rachel said.She even defended Usec for Social Media Mocha Uson when asked about the former dancer’s performance as a government employee.“Well, she hasn’t started yet. And so, I believe everyone should be given a chance. You cannot judge a book by its cover, (That is) something my parents taught me that is still in my mind,” she said.Comedian Vice Ganda along with other celebrities have been calling their followers to show full support the journey of Rachel. Vice Ganda and his friends woke up early just to watch Miss Universe 2017 tweeting his support to Rachel.Being in the Top 10 is still an achievement. From all Dutertards out there, let’s congratulate Rachel Peters!Your thoughts on this? Leave your comments below!
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Duterte Daily Stories
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http://duterte.today/miss-philippines-rachel-peters-proud-dutertard/
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Bong Go Speaks To Adobo Chronicles: ‘It Was All Political Strategy’
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['Pol Pinoy']
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7/6/2018 0:00
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Special Assistant to the President Bong Go was the hot topic on social media this week after he apologized to entertainment personality Kris Aquino for Mocha Uson’s post featuring a video of Ninoy Aquino being kissed by two women.Go was widely criticized even by supporters of President Rodrigo Duterte for easily and quickly giving in to Aquino’s cry for help. Many of them even said they will not be voting for Go should he decide to run for Senator in 2019.The Adobo Chronicles spoke to Go for comment on the raging controversy. This is what he told us:”It was all political strategy that had the blessing of the President. It’s all about having name recognition in preparation for my Senate run. You see, unlike Kris, I’m a virtual unknown. By apologizing to Kris, I became the subject of news headlines and debate on social media. Now, people know me and they will remember the name Bong Go when they go to the election precints in 2019.”Now, we know. Go, Bong!
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2018/06/07/bong-go-speaks-to-adobo-chronicles-it-was-all-political-strategy/
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The Philippine Opposition needs to seriously prepare for the 2019 elections
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['Oratio Imperata']
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2018-09-12 01:42:17+00:00
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The campaign for the 2019 mid-term elections in the Philippines is about to kick off (if it hasn’t yet). It seems, however, that no political camp has really given much thought to what it is exactly they will be proposing to the Filipino voter. At the very least there’d be some form of vision being pitched — a “better” Philippines in one flavour or another. The vision proposed, say, by the incumbent administration of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is a drug-free and truly independent Philippines.The Opposition led by the Liberal Party (a.k.a. the Yellowtards), as we understand what they continue to be screeching about, espouses a return to the status quo. This status quo is guided by the “freedom” narrative that lorded over the Philippines’ political chatter for three decades with thinking that orbits the Western liberal platitudes of North America and Western Europe. This stubborn pitching of a tradition is what continues to serve as the pillar of the Opposition rhetoric. Rather than evolve to challenge a popular political brand, they continue flogging what is essentially a dead horse.Note that whilst the Duterte brand is, by most objective measures, popular, its quality and effectiveness is open to wide debate. The trouble with the Yellowtards is that their key strategy is to compete on popularity rather than on quality. They battle Duterte at the lowest common denominator. There is really no mystery around why they prefer this approach. Yellowtardism traces its roots to a “popular” revolt in 1986 and a reboot of this in 2001 when a legitimately-elected president was ousted in a similarly Manila-centred “people power” circus. In both instances, power was seized by the Yellowtards on the basis of a slanted display of mere popularity. To this day, they continue to pin their hopes for a return to power on “heroes” and “martyrs” around whom they could rally the next such circus. This is the core reason for why they now consistently fail.To the credit of non-Yellowtard commentators and pundits — even those squarely within the so-called “Die-hard Duterte Supporter” (DDS) cliques — there exists frank debate over the pros and cons of how Duterte is running things. Many commentators and observers even risk ostracisation by daring to be objectively critical of Duterte and his most revered social media “thought leaders”. The advantage of non-Yellowtard commentators is that they are not weighed down by the obsolete romanticism of “people power” rhetoric and neither are they loyal to a choir of Yellowtard heroes, martyrs, and saints. The Opposition will serve themselves best by keeping an ear extended to the chatter within non-Yellowtard cicles, because it is there where the most carefully-thought-out crticial, and data-driven reflection on how the Duterte administration is running things is being had. More importantly, it is within these communities of real thinkers where the roadmap ahead is being debated.Any advertising professional will tell you that it is very difficult, impossible in fact, to run an effective campaign around an unclear objective. To battle a popular incumbent requires brains. As such, the Opposition needs to take stock of its current brains trust. Its stakeholders need to ask: Who among the Yellowtards are smart enough to think outside the square? The most difficult intellectual exercise, after all, is coming up with a different approach to solving a problem — specially one that came about because of flawed thinking. What the Yellowtards are essentially doing is using the same flawed thinking to solve a problem that was created because of that very same flawed thinking.Trying to beat Duterte will require a lot of intelligence, creativity, and originality. Duterte is, after all, a politician who came out of nowhere and dismantled Imperial Manila’s monopoly over the Philippines’ national politics. Simply throwing a tantrum over lost power will not change the fortunes of the Philippines’ Opposition groups. What they need is to up their game and be more competitive and less beholden to relics of their discredited narrative.
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Get Real Philippines
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https://www.getrealphilippines.com/2018/09/the-philippine-opposition-needs-to-seriously-prepare-for-the-2019-elections/
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Philippines Now Has Fastest Internet In All Of Asia
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['Pol Pinoy']
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6/9/2016 0:00
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After many years of lagging behind its Asian counterparts, the Philippines has finally earned the reputation of having the fastest Internet.This is good news for local and international businesses, as well as the millions of Filipinos who depend on Internet connection for their daily personal communications, news and entertainment.The Philippines has gained two top Internet records: the fastest to drop and the fastest to eat up your pre-paid data.Change has indeed come.
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2016/09/06/philippines-now-has-fastest-internet-in-all-of-asia/?share=email
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CATHOLIC BISHOPS TO FILIPINO VOTERS: ‘CHOOSE HEAVEN OR HELL’
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['Pol Pinoy']
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18/04/2018 0:00
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The Philippines can be heaven- or hell-bound, depending on how Filipinos cast their votes in the 2016 presidential elections.Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) president Archbishop Socrates Villegas made this statement as he urged Filipino voters to make prayer and discernment the prerequisites in choosing their candidates.“Make your vote a product of your prayer and discernment…Remember, your vote can bring heaven to the Philippines. Your vote can also bring hell to the Philippines,” Villegas said in a video presentation during Thursday’s launch of “One Good Vote,” the voter education campaign of the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting (PPCRV).Asked by reporters what he meant by the choice of heaven or hell, The archbishop said: ‘Very simple. Filipinos can vote for Vice President Jejomar Binay, or Senator Grace Poe.’Anwering a follow-up question from The Adobo Chronicles about the possibility of Department of Interior and Local Governments Secretary Mar Roxas running for president in 2016, Villegas said, ‘That would be Purgatory.’
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2015/04/18/catholic-bishops-to-filipino-voters-choose-heaven-or-hell/
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Ill-mannered UPLB student cops online abuse from balasubas Durterte supporters!
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2016-03-15 03:39:04+00:00
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Again another outrage fad is erupting and this time it centres around a student of the University of the Philippines Los Banos campus (UPLB) confronting presidential candidate Rodrigo Duterte with some pointed questions recently. The media drama which climaxed with a spate of online bullying this student copped from furious Duterte supporters and the spectacular apology for mis-reporting the incident issued by “social news network” Rappler.com is now the stuff of legend and one for the “online journalism” textbooks.To be fair, the propriety (or impropriety) in the manner with which the UPLB student fielded his questions to Duterte is open to debate with Duterte’s supporters claiming it was bastos (rude) and showed little respect for a presidential candidate. Observers are, rightly so, left to render their own judgment over how rude or proper this student conducted himself.In terms of the actual content of the student’s address to Duterte, the phrase that attracted the most outrage and sparked the most debate was this snippet:Sir, sana pakisagot lang po ng diretso kasi nagtatanong po kami ng diretso dito para po makauwi na kayo.[Translated by Rappler.com: “Sir, I hope you will answer my question directly. I am asking it in a straightforward manner so you may be able to go already.”]Understandably, to some extent, some have empathised with possible offense Duterte could have taken to being addressed this way by a young person. In the Philippines, after all, there remains a deeply-ingrained culture of deference to the elderly. Needless to say, the sight of a young person addressing a significantly older person in a confronting manner still rubs most Filipinos the wrong way.Just the same, this does not excuse the orgy of online bullying allegedly perpetrated by Duterte’s supporters since. Some have decried the “biased” reporting Rappler reporter Pia Ranada was perceived to have applied to her original report. Duterte’s supporters insist that Ranada purposely painted Duterte in a bad light by highlighting the awkwardness of the situation and did not take into account the fuller context of what had transpired.Neither does it help that UPLB students (being part of an elite university) are perceived to be arrogant and elitist by the wider community of Filipino youth activists and campaign volunteers. Indeed, observers were quick to point out that the manner with which the student delivered his questions revealed a less-than-proficient command of the English language thanks to the evidently flawed grammar and sentence construction observed.This quickness to judge people on the basis of their school and English twang (or lack of it) is a broader and deeper malaise that plagues Philippine society and is a social monster that has a habit of rearing its ugly head in incidents like this. Perhaps what makes Duterte’s camp particularly sensitive when it comes to the reality of the Philippines’ profound cancer of social stratification and the elitism of Luzon’s Tagalog-speaking residents is that Duterte is a product and stalwart of the Philippines’ south which, historically, has long been derrided as provincianos by Filipinos hailing from the Philippines’ northern parts where its capital and commercial and business centre, Manila, is situated.Indeed, it is hardly surprising that Duterte’s Bisaya accent is a source of amusement for an influential circle of Filipinos who sustain a deliberate effort to see the deep cultural divide between north and south continue to fester in the national consciousness.Considering that at the epicentre of this circus is a UPLB student who, by most accounts, failed to behave to a standard an elite university like the UPLB is held to (fairly or unfairly) by the Philippine public at large, it may be worth Filipinos’ time to reflect on why eloquence, good manners, and proper breeding seem to be in increasingly short supply nowadays. Suffice to say, this bad breeding on the part of the UPLB student was, itself, met with even more appalling demonstrations of the savage and balasubas behaviour that Duterte supporters have come to be associated with.We could therefore conclude that the protagonists and antagonists in this latest spectacle are merely engaged in a tit for tat backdropped by a society not exactly renowned for a citizenry blessed with social grace.
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Get Real Philippines
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https://www.getrealphilippines.com/2016/03/ill-mannered-uplb-student-cops-online-abuse-balasubas-durterte-supporters/
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THE X FACTOR REALITY SHOW’S NEW RULES: ONLY NATIVE-BORN CITIZENS ALLOWED
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['Pol Pinoy']
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20/10/2017 0:00
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The producers of the internationally-syndicated reality show The X Factor have issued new rules on eligibility for contestants. Henceforth, only native-born citizens will be allowed to join the singing contest in the country in which the show is being held. Only native-born U.S. citizens for X Factor America, native-born Australian citizens for X Factor Australia, native-born Israeli citizens for X Factor Israel, and so on. The rules also state that both parents of the contestants must also be native-born citizens.The decision came immediately after 15-year-old Marlisa Punzalan won the grand finals in this season’s X Factor Australia, beating fellow Australians Dean Ray and Brothers 3. Although Marlisa was born in Australia, both her parents were born in the Philippines.Just months ago, a Filipina caregiver in Tel Aviv, Rose Fostanes, won the first X Factor Israel. Other Filipinos have figured prominently and became finalists in other reality singing competitions in the U.S., U.K., Bulgaria and other countries. Many will recall that Pinay singer Jessica Sanchez was runner-up in American Idol.“We know Filipinos are among the best singers in the world, but we wanted to showcase other world talents and that’s why we have established X Factor in different countries outside of the U.S. or the U.K.,” the producers said.The Philippines has its own X Factor syndicated show in Manila.
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2014/10/20/the-x-factor-reality-shows-new-rules-only-native-born-citizens-allowed/?share=email
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PHILIPPINES’ SHORT FILM ENTRY NOMINATED FOR AN OSCAR! (VIDEO)
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['Pol Pinoy']
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4/12/2017 0:00
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The first of a series of Oscar nominations were announced today by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.For the first time ever, a Filipino film was nominated to the prestigious award in the category of short film.The 57-second flick, “Flooded!” was filmed in San Francisco and Manila. It will compete against other nominations from France, Germany, U.S. and the U.K.The 87th Oscar Awards will be handed out on February 22, 2015 at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood.
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Adobo Chronicles
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ABS-CBN Renames Its New Prime-Time TV Series From “The Junketeers” To “The Apologists”
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['Pol Pinoy']
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17/04/2018 0:00
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ABS-CBN has just announced that it was renaming its new prime-time TV series, “The Junketeers.”The new show features Vice President Leni Robredo and other politicians and former government officials on their exciting journey through cities in Europe.The first episode of the series documents the group’s visit to the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, Germany. The group was, however, criticized for photos taken showing that they were all smiles, despite the Memorial’s supposedly somber mood.Robredo later apologized for the insensitivity of the photo shoot. And so did Ifugao Congressman Ted Baguilat Jr. who first posted the Holocaust Memorial photo on his social media account.Soon thereafter, ABS-CBN decided to rename the series, “The Apologists”
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2018/04/17/abs-cbn-renames-its-new-prime-time-tv-series-from-the-junketeers-to-the-apologists/#respond
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New Manila Airport Chief Wants To Rename NAIA After NoyNoy
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['Pol Pinoy']
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8/7/2016 0:00
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Newly-appointed Manila International Airport Authority (MIAA) General Manager Ed Monreal told reporters today that he will recommend to President Rod Duterte to rename the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) to NoyNoy Aquino International Airport — at least temporarily.Monreal toured NAIA yesterday and was briefed on the changes that need to happen in order to remove the airport from the list of the world’s worst.Among the fixes needed include collapsing ceilings, power outages, flooding, stinky bathrooms, long lines and overcrowding, extortion schemes like the ‘laglag bala’ and airport taxi problems.“It will take a several months before we can correct all these problems,” Monreal said, “but it can be done.”However, Monreal said that he didn’t want NAIA’s problems identified with the new administration of President Duterte, so he has recommended that the airport name be changed temporarily to that of the previous president. “After all, these problems started or became worse during the past administration,” he said.“Once NAIA is taken off the list of the world’s worst airports, the permanent name change (back) to Manila International Airport can be implemented,” the airport chief said.
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2016/07/08/new-manila-airports-chief-wants-to-rename-naia-after-noynoy/#respond
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KFC Launches Chicken Adobo-Scented Sunscreen
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['Pol Pinoy']
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22/08/2016 0:00
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I Kentucky Fried Chicken recently announced that it was launching an unexpected new product: fried chicken-scented sunscreen.Starting Monday, KFC is giving away 3,000 free bottles of Col. Sanders’ Extra Crispy Sunscreen. U.S. residents can receive the SPF 30 by visiting ExtraCrispySunscreen.com. “Suntan lotion always smells like lotion,” KFC CMO Kevin Hochman told Business Insider. “So we thought — why not make it smell like fried chicken?”Today, KFC Philippines announced a local version of the new chicken-scented sunscreen. It smells like the popular Filipino dish, chicken adobo.KFC officials are confident that the new product will do very well in the Philippine market considering the abundance of beach resorts in this country of more htan 7,000 islands.“The sunscreen will protect your skin while smelling like the mouth-watering aroma of soy sauce, vinegar and garlic,” the officials said.
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Adobo Chronicles
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REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES CONCEDE LATINO VOTE TO DONALD TRUMP
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['Pol Pinoy']
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9/7/2018 0:00
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A spokesperson for the National Council of La Raza, the biggest Latino advocacy group in the United States, says that the organization invited every current Republican and Democratic presidential candidate to their annual convention taking place in Kansas City, Mo., but only the Democrats agreed to come.That means that none of the GOP candidates, not even Latino candidates Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, will attend.The Adobo Chronicles® spoke with all declared Republican candidates, exempt Trump, and they were one in saying that they have all but conceded the Latino vote to The Donald.Despite his disparaging remarks about Mexicans (calling them “racists, drug addicts and criminals”), Trump, who leads in some new polls among the GOP presidential candidates, recently said that he will win the Latino vote.
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2015/07/09/republican-presidential-candidates-concede-latino-vote-to-donald-trump/#respond
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MAJORITY OF AMERICAN TEENS THINK THE G7 IS GOOGLE’S NEW SMART PHONE
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['Pol Pinoy']
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10/6/2018 0:00
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United States, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom. The G7 has just concluded its 2015 summit meeting in the Bavarian Alps in Germany.The remaining 10% of respondents did not venture to give any answer.Because of the overwhelming numbers, the poll has a zero percent margin of error.The last major poll of American teens was almost a decade ago. That survey found that as many as 70% of young adults could not locate Iran or Israel on the map.Remember this 2007 Miss Teen USA moment?
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2015/06/10/poll-majority-of-american-teens-think-the-g7-is-googles-new-smart-phone/#respond
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WHAT PRESIDENT OBAMA ACTUALLY SAID TO THE TRANSGENDER HECKLER AT THE WHITE HOUSE
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['Pol Pinoy']
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26/06/2018 0:00
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The mainstream media have a tendency to whitewash news events that happen in The White House. But not us. We report the news exactly the way it happened.When Obama was heckled during an LGBT event at The White House by a transgender Latina woman who admits being an undocumented immigrant, the news media quoted the president saying, “It’s my house …it’s disrespectful.’This is what Obama actually said to the heckler, Jennicet Gutiérrez:“‘Mi casa no es tu casa!”
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2015/06/26/what-president-obama-actually-said-to-the-transgender-heckler-at-the-white-house/?share=email
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PHILIPPINE SENATOR LEGISLATES FROM INSIDE HIS JAIL CELL
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['Pol Pinoy']
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6/5/2018 0:00
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It is often said that misery needs company and that corrupt officials want to flock together. Such seems to be the case with one Filipino senator who continues to legislate as a member of the Senate despite being in jail.Senator Jinggoy Estrada is in prison for charges of plunder and 11 counts of graft in connection with the alleged misuse of his Priority Development Assistance Fund, more popularly known as pork barrel.Estrada has called on the Senate Blue Ribbon committee to conduct an inquiry into the alleged anomalous activities at the Bureau of Customs (BOC), particularly efforts to raise P3 billion in campaign funds for the administration party for the elections next year.He filed Senate Resolution 1306, calling for the probe, after the opposition United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) alleged that the BOC was being forced to raise the amount for the Liberal Party’s campaign in 2016.Resigned Customs chief John Philip Sevilla, however, had denied the allegation.“There is a need to immediately investigate and address this matter to prevent the public money to be used for a particular person’s or group’s political agenda,” the resolution read.Estrada’s critics immediately reacted to the proposed legislation by asking, “What about the public money you pocketed, Mr. Senator?”The senator, who is the son of former president and now Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada, mainstains that his proposal shows his continuing commitment to public service and his oath of office as an elected official. (Joseph Estrada was, himself, convicted and imprisoned for corruption during his term as president, but was later pardoned by his successor President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.)It’s more fun in the Philippines.
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2015/05/06/philippine-senattor-legislates-from-inside-his-jail-cell/
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How Year Of The Monkey Can Make Senator Grace Poe The Next President Of The Philippines
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['Pol Pinoy']
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6/2/2016 0:00
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February 8 marks the Chinese New Year in the Philippines, where it is a national holiday. It ushers in the Year of the Monkey.Of the five major Philippine presidential candidates, one — Senator Grace Poe — was born in the Year of the Monkey (1968). Specifically, Poe is an Earth monkey whose qualities include being frank, optimistic and fearless — all great qualities for a Filipino head of state.But alas, the year 2016 — the year of the presidential elections — is believed by many to be an unlucky year for people born in a Monkey year like Poe.But there are things that Poe and her campaign can do to turn the year from unlucky to lucky, according to Chinese zodiac experts:1. Poe must always wear red. Luckily for her, she is not running under the banner of the Yellow Party. She may have already aborted a misfortune by declining President Aquino’s Liberal Party’s invitation for her to be the vice presidential running mate of former Interior Secretary Mar Roxas. Red is one of the lucky colors for people born in a Monkey year.2. Poe must always wear jade. We have seen her wear pearl jewelry and accessories on many occasions. She must now set aside all her pearl and other jewelry in favor of jade pendants, earrings, rings and bracelets. Jade is known to ward off bad luck.3. Poe must constantly face in the opposite direction that is dictated by Tai Sui. Tai Sui (Chinese: 太歲; pinyin: Tàisuì) refers to stars directly opposite to Jupiter. They influence the Chinese zodiac, and are involved in religious Taoism and Feng Shui. For those born in Monkey years, facing Southwest can bring them bad luck. So Poe must face in the Northeast direction which happens to be close to where Malacañang Palace is.So there you go, Madam Senator: three simple rules to follow that could lead you on the path to Malacañang.Already, Poe has regained the top spot among presidential contenders, based on the results of the latest survey conducted by Pulse Asia Research, Incorporated released on Saturday, February 6. A good omen?To all our readers, Gung Hay Fat Choy! Happy New Year!
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2016/02/06/how-year-of-the-monkey-can-make-senator-grace-poe-the-next-president-of-the-philippines/
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Obama Invites Philippine President Duterte For A White House Beer Summit
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['Pol Pinoy']
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20/10/2016 0:00
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President Barack Obama is not giving up America’s little brown that easily, despite pronouncements in China by President Rodrigo Roa Duterte that he wants to “separate” from the United States.In an effort to maintain the colonial and friendly relations between the two countries, Obama has invited Duterte to come to the White House for a “beer summit.”This is not the first time that Obama has used beer diplomacy in trying to resolve important issues.Many will recall that in 2009, Obama invited Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., who was arrested at his Cambridge, Massachusetts home by local police officer Sgt. James Crowley, who was responding to a 9-1-1 caller’s report of men breaking and entering the residence. The arrest initiated a series of events that unfolded under the spotlight of the international news media.The arrest occurred just after Gates returned home to Cambridge after a trip to China. Gates found the front door to his home jammed shut and, with the help of his driver, tried to force it open. A local witness reported their activity to the police as a potential burglary in progress.On July 22 that year, Obama invited both parties to the White House to discuss the issue over beer, and on July 30, Obama and Vice President Joe Biden joined Crowley and Gates in a private, cordial meeting in a courtyard near the White House Rose Garden; this became known colloquially as the “Beer Summit”.In a Skype call with Duterte who is still in China for an official state visit, The Adobo Chronicles asked for the Philippine president’s reaction to the Obama invitation.He said: “I am open to meeting with that ‘son of a whore’ over beer, but I must insist that only San Mig Light will be served.(San Mig Light is the most popular local light beer in the Philippines.)
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2016/10/20/obama-invites-philippine-president-duterte-for-a-white-house-beer-summit/
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Duterte Critic Vicky Garchitorena Freaks Out Over BBC-Sasot Confrontation In Front Of Men’s Restroom
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['Pol Pinoy']
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14/11/2017 0:00
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Duterte critic Vicky Garchitorena could not believe that pro-Duterte blogger Sass Rogando Sasot confronted a BBC journalist in front of a Men’s restroom during the ASEAN Summit.Sasot made a scene at the ASEAN Summit’s International Media Center at the World Trade Center in Pasay City when she questioned BBC over an interview with known Duterte critic Jover Laurio.Rogando claimed that Laurio, the person behind the website Pinoy Ako Blog, received support of a “powerful group” that enabled her to get the BBC interview last month.Garchitorena, in a retweet, questioned why Sasot would do such a thing in front of the PICC Media Center men’s restroom.”She should have at least done it INSIDE the restroom, away from public view,” Garchitorena told The Adobo Chronicles.Moral of the story: If you’re going to do an ambush interview, take it inside the restroom.
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2017/11/14/duterte-critic-vicky-garchitorena-freaks-out-over-bbc-sasot-confrontation-in-front-of-mens-restroom/#respond
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AUDIT: RED FLAGS OVER PHILIPPINES’ MALAMPAYA NATURAL GAS PROJECT
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['Pol Pinoy']
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2/12/2017 0:00
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was allotted for the rehabilitation of farms in 97 towns devastated by powerful storms. Instead, COA alleged that the amount was siphoned off and channeled to questionable non-governmental organizations (NGOs).(See full story here.)Well it turns out that even before COA began the audit, the operators of the project already had raised many red flags over the offshore rig (see photo) which led to the fund scam inquiry.Sometimes, banners do the trick!
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2014/12/02/audit-red-flags-over-philippines-malampaya-natural-gas-project/#respond
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SARAH PALIN THINKS ‘POLAR VORTEX’ IS AN ARCTIC ANIMAL
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['Pol Pinoy']
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8/1/2017 0:00
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Everybody is talking about “polar vortex,’ the weather phonomenon that has brought extreme frigid temperatures in the mid and eastern sections of the United States. So is Sarah Palin.In a townhall meeting aimed at debunking claims of global warming, the former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate said that the record winter weather currently being experienced by many Americans is proof that “the globe is not getting warmer as claimed by leftist environmentalists.” “As a matter of fact, the globe is becoming colder,” she added.When asked by an audience member what she thinks of the polar vortex, Palin said that environmentalists and citizens alike should do all they can to protect this endangered arctic animal.Apparently, Palin thought that polar vortex is one of the animals found in Alaska, Canada and other places in the arctic region like the polar bear, muskox, caribou and arctic fox.
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2014/01/08/sarah-palin-thinks-polar-vortex-is-an-arctic-animal/#respond
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FILIPINO AMERICAN LGBTs PROTEST NEW ‘HECHO’ NAME OF FORMER BANDIDOS MEXICAN RESTAURANT
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['Pol Pinoy']
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13/09/2017 0:00
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Yesterday, The Adobo Chronicles reported that the newly-opened Mexican restaurant in the Castro changed its name from Bandidos to Hecho.The name change came after a small group of Latino Americans headed by openly-gay Latina comedian Marga Gómez protested the name Bandidos which they said was offensive to Mexican Americans. It is a Spanish word for “criminal” or “outlaw.”Well, the name change didn’t put an end to the controversy. Now a group of Filipino Americans living and working in the Castro is protesting the new name. In Tagalog slang, the plural of Hecho sounds too close to a Filipino term, echos, which means “lie.” When someone is called echosero or echosera, it means he or she is a liar.“We are thrilled that a new Mexican restaurant has opened in the Castro,” the group said, “especially because Mexican cuisine is similar in many ways to Filipino food. But to name the restaurant Hecho is offensive to us, Pinoys (slang for Filipino).The group is headed by openly-gay Filipino American actor and comedian Alec Mapa, a San Francisco native. It is scheduled to meet with Hecho’s owners early next week.Will Bandidos, a.k.a. Hecho change its name yet again? How about just “The Mexican Restaurant?”
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2014/09/13/filipino-american-lgbts-protest-new-hecho-name-of-former-bandidos-mexican-restaurant/?share=email
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Noynoy Aquino contradicts experts’ claim that Dengvaxia procurement did not follow standard procedure
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['Oratio Imperata']
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2017-12-14 13:06:57+00:00
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Former Philippine President BS Aquino received praises from his supporters for showing up at the Senate investigation being conducted on the purchase of dengue vaccine Dengvaxia from French Pharmaceutical company Sanofi Pasteur. It was akin to a child receiving an award just for showing up in class. It’s as if Aquino had a choice whether to attend or not. Some were even saying he acted with dignity. I wish these people – those who act like cult followers – would give us a break. They are scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to save the Aquino image. He was only forced to attend because not showing up would be worse for his public relations.No, Aquino did not act with dignity. He read a prepared statement or, rather, a script insisting he did the right things in the procurement of the dengue vaccine. Watching the video of Noynoy speaking before the Senate committee reminds me of the reason why I started writing against the Liberal Party. I still cannot believe he became the President of the Philippines. He was struggling to read from a statement that somebody else obviously wrote for him.Aquino insisted that the purchase of Dengvaxia went through a process for “efficacy” and “safety” requirements. Oh really? What were those processes? I wish he was more specific. There are reports that came out recently saying a lot of experts warned against the risks of using Dengvaxia. One of them, a former Philippines health department undersecretary and former senior official at the World Health Organization (WHO) Susan Mercado, said that “the usual process for the DOH that has protected our children for so many decades was not followed”.A Reuters report revealed that “key recommendations made by a Philippines Department of Health (DOH) advisory body of doctors and pharmacologists were not heeded before the program was rolled out to 830,000 children”:After Garin’s announcement, the Formulary Executive Council (FEC) of advisers urged caution over the vaccine because it said its safety and cost-effectiveness had not been established. After twice meeting in January, the panel approved the state’s purchase of the vaccine on Feb 1, 2016 but recommended stringent conditions, minutes of all three meetings show. “Based on the available scientific evidence presented to the Council, there is still a need to establish long-term safety, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness,” the FEC told Garin in a letter on that day. The letter was reviewed by Reuters. The FEC said Dengvaxia should be introduced through small-scale pilot tests and phased implementation rather than across three regions in the country at the same time, and only after a detailed “baseline” study of the prevalence and strains of dengue in the targeted area, the FEC letter and minutes of the meetings said. The experts also recommended that Dengvaxia be bought in small batches so the price could be negotiated down. An economic evaluation report commissioned by Garin’s own department had found the proposed cost of 1,000 pesos ($21.29) per dose was “not cost-effective” from a public payer perspective, the minutes from the meetings reveal.”Whoever wrote Aquino’s script did not read the Reuters report or was hoping the public would not read it. Aquino’s insistence that the procurement of Dengvaxia went through a strict process is not true. As a matter of fact, Aquino would not be forced to attend the hearing and face an inquiry into the dengue fiasco if the program really did go through a rigorous process. One would think that since thousands of lives were at stake, Aquino would have given instructions to his then Department of Health Secretary Janette Garin not to cut corners in implementing the program.Aquino may not be a doctor and may have relied on Garin to brief him about the risks involved, but at the end of the day, Aquino called the shots and gave the go signal for the purchase of the vaccine. In other words, blood is in both Garin and Aquino’s hands.The truth is, Aquino could not wait to implement the program, perhaps wanting to add more to his so-called “legacy” and so approved the use of savings or “unutilised funds” that was not meant for the department of health to fast-track the purchase of the vaccine. He also defended this at the hearing saying “If by December 31, you do not utilize these unutilized funds, it reverts back to the national treasury, then how do you fund it?”He basically admitted to violating the 2015 Supreme Court ruling that the creation of savings from un-obligated allotments prior to the end of the fiscal year without complying with the statutory definition of savings under the General Appropriations Act (GAA) is unconstitutional. For that, Aquino and his then Budget Secretary Butch Abad has to be held accountable, definitely.Someone should investigate whether or not (and, if so, how much) bribes were given out by Sanofi and who were the recipients after the deal was made. Aquino and Garin were wined and dined by the Sanofi Pasteur officials in China and Paris on November 2014 and December 2015. The public was not privy to the deals made then. The public should be alarmed by the lack of transparency and the speed with which the deal was made.As usual, Aquino washed all this off his hands and insisted that “he was not informed of the company’s supposed involvement in bribery and false claims on their products.” That’s not something a person who follows strict guidelines would say. That’s not something a person with dignity would say. That’s something a person who tries to appear innocent would say. It’s something Aquino would say. He quite often used lame excuses to get away with violating the law. He’s doing it again.It was a shame to see the members of the Senate committee still deferential to Aquino during the hearing. It’s quite baffling why they still treat him with kids’ gloves. Senator Richard Gordon was disappointing when he apologised for asking “tough” questions. They were not even the right questions that could lead to the useful answers. It seems patronage politics is once again saving Aquino’s ass. It’s so obvious the senators were soft on him during the hearing. Patronage politics is the reason why public servants in the Philippines do not feel accountable for their actions. They know being well-connected and doing “favours” is enough to “get out of jail”.While it is good to see Aquino being made to respond to his failed and deadly policies during his term, the public still has to bear the chore of hearing him speak again. It was so annoying to hear him use terms such as “po” and “sa atin” just to sound humble and deferential. He was also trying to sound like he was very careful in assessing the risks involved. Only his rabid followers would believe him though.
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Manny Pacquiao Strikes A Deal With Timothy Bradley
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['Pol Pinoy']
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7/4/2016 0:00
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Filipino champion boxer Manny Pacquiao promised that he will allow Timothy Bradley to knock him out on April 9 if the American two-time former WBO welterwieght title holder campaigns for him on television.Pacquiao is running for a seat in the Philippine Senate in the May 9 elections, but strict rules from the elections body (Commission on Elections, or COMELEC) prohibit candidates from using television airtime to campaign if it creates an undue disadvantage to other candidates.So Pacquiao made a deal with Bradley, and Bradley agreed.During their televised pre-fight news conference on Wednesday, Bradley publicly voiced his support for Pacquiao’s senatorial bid. “He is truly, truly, to me, the only one out there that’s gonna do right for the Filipino people,” he told reporters.So, if you planning to watch Saturday night’s Pacquiao-Bradley fight in Las Vegas, we’re sorry to be a spoiler: Bradley will win by a knockout in the 7th round.A deal is a deal.
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2016/04/07/manny-pacquiao-strikes-a-deal-with-timothy-bradley/#respond
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Dying soldier who got cornered by Maute Terrorists called his commander to bomb his location:“Bombahin nalang ninyo ang location ko Sir!,”
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2017-06-08 22:44:48+08:00
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A story about the ultimate sacrifice of a Filipino soldier during war in Marawi City 11has gone viral on social media.Facebook fanpage Sibugay Express [SiBex], a local news outlet in Zamboanga Sibugay, shared the story of Private First Class Dhan Ryan Bayot, a 24 year old soldier who called his commander before he died in the hands of the Maute-ISIS terrorist in Marawi City on May 24.According to the story titled “A different kind of Bayot”, the team of the private first class consisting of nine soldiers from the 51st battalion was stationed in a Barangay in Marawi Cty on the second day of Marawi siege.They were ordered to be dispatched to the said position upon the request of a town mayor for security purposes as his residence was just above the detachment.Private First Clas Dhan Ryan BayotPhoto: SibExBut moments later, they were attacked by armed men and a survivor said that the team of private Bayot was ambushed. Several gunfire also came from the mayor’s house which allegedly occupied by the Maute terrorist or maybe some bodyguards of the mayor helped the attackers.Five of Private Bayot’s companions were dead as the result of the ambush conducted by the terrorist. Three soldiers managed to survive the ambush, but later three of them were shot, killing one and wounding the two.Private Bayot, who already cornered by the terrorist called his commanding officer to ask for reinforcement, but no one came to rescue him.A few hours later, he called again but unfortunately, Prvt Bayot has been told by his commanding officer that reinforcements attempted to enter his area twice, but they couldn’t get through as the way was already blocked by heavily armed terrorists.After he realized that he cannot survive the ambush anymore, Private Bayot gave his coordinates to the commanding officer and asked him to bomb his own location so the terrorists near his location would get hit.“Bombahin nalang ninyo ang location ko Sir!,”(Just bomb my location Sir!) he told his commanding officer.After the call ended and Private Bayot didn’t call his commanding officer anymore and the army assumed that the young soldier already sacrificed his life for the country.Four days later, his dead body, including the body of his comrades was retrieved by the army.One of the people who retrieved the body of Private Bayot is Sgt. Larry Bayot of the Division Reconnaissance Company of the 1st Infantry Division, the father of the Prvt. Ryan Bayot.Sgt. Larry Bayot saw no bullet wounds on his son’s body. Instead, he saw his son’s heavily deformed face and a deep bolo cut around his neck, a sign that the Maute terrorist group attempted to behead Private Ryan Bayot.Although pained so much for the dastardly manner of his son’s death, he never showed it. To a soldier, it’s always a ‘do-or-die-but never-question-why’ attitude.The next day, the father brought his son’s body to bury him in the Family’s hometime in Ipil Zamboanga Sibugay. On June 2, President Rodrigo Duterte visited the burial of the young soldier and personally give the posthumous medal to Prvt. Bayot’s father.The President also gave ₱250,000 to Bayot family and also pledged to support the education of any young surviving member of the family.President Rodrigo Duterte visited the burial of Prvt. Bayot and personally gave the posthumous medal to Sergeant Bayot.When President Duterte asked if Sgt. Bayot has additional request, he told his commander-in-chief that his other son, the younger brother of Private Bayot wanted to enter the Armed Forces of the Philippines.But the President gave an advice to the sergeant to let his remaining son finish college first.“Unsa pa man akong matabang nimo?” (What else can I be of help?) the President asked Sergeant Bayot. Bayot replied that his 18 year-old youngest son, who is the late PFC Ryan’s younger brother, wants to join the Army too. Maybe you can help him enlist in the army, Bayot told the president.“No, not yet, he has to finish his college first, then after that maybe we can let him enter the army or even the police,” said Duterte.Sergeant Bayot followed the advice of his commander-in-chief.Now, the younger brother of Prvt. Bayot will be off to college. His expenses will be shouldered by the government.“Ironically, the word bayot in Visayan means gay.But for this particular family and for the neighbors who knew them in Upper Pangi, Ipil, the word now simply means valor and patriotism.” SibEx wrote in the last part of their post.As of June 6, those killed include 134 terrorists, 38 government troops and 30 civilians, Brig. Gen. Restituto Padila, Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) spokesperson, told the reporters.The AFP wanted to finish the Maute Siege on June 12, so the celebration of the independence day for the Marawi residents will become memorable.
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Pinoytrending Altervista
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Change Is Coming: Move Over, Barong Tagalog
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['Pol Pinoy']
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11/5/2016 0:00
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The suit and tie is to America. The Barong Tagalog is to the Philippines.Since the time of the Spanish occupation of the Philippines, Filipino males have always donned the Barong Tagalog for formal and special occasions. Made of local transparent fabric, this official male Filipino attire has never failed to regale fashion experts and dignitaries like U.S. President Barack Obama who absolutely looks stunning in a barong.But with the election of a new president, change is coming.President-elect Rodrigo Duterte is known to be very uncomfortable in a barong. Photo after photo of Duterte during the campaign period shows him in his favorite, red, white and black checkered polo shirt.As he prepares to take office, the country’s clothing experts are predicting that in no time at all, the barong will go out of fashion. In its place will be Duterte’s trademark checkered shirt.So Filipino men, go get yours so that you won’t be left out of the “in crowd.”Would the checkered shirt eventually replace the barong as the Philippines’ national dress for men?Also, it’s time to retire the yellow t-shirt of the PNoy administration.
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2016/05/11/change-is-coming-move-over-barong-tagalog/
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A muslim student writes a touching open letter on Facebook after non-muslim in Marawi were held as hostages by Maute Group: “Burn your extremist false beliefs”
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2017-05-24 06:07:37+08:00
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A Muslim grew in Marawi City wrote an open letter in his social media account after he heard the news that Christians were allegedly persecuted by the Maute Group in Marawi City.Haron Ar-Rashid S. Dima, a muslim student expressed his sadness when he was told about the current situation of the city where he grew up.He received a news that the principal of his former school and the other non-muslims was taken as hostage.Dima, informed the netizens about the current situation of the city that captured by the Maute Terrorist group.He said that he received an information that the churches were torched by the Maute Group and he labeled it as an ‘ignorance of religious respect’Dima also recounted how important his non-muslim friends and educator in his life.The muslim student urged the extremists to burn down their beliefs instead of destroying homes, schools and hospitals in Marawi City.Dima also urged the religious leaders to negotiate with the terrorist group to surrender to the government and stop destroying the city where he grew up.This is his whole open letter:THEY DIMMED THE LIGHTS TO BURN US DOWN I was told my school is being burned to the ground. I was informed the city jail is on fire. I was messaged the local hospital is taken over by these men in black hoods. Roads were blocked, fire trucks were seized, and everyone is questioned of religion. If you can’t prove you are a Muslim, you are “taken care” of. I have received a message that my high school principal is taken as hostage. Along with her are many non-Muslims who strive to give education to young minds of Marawi. My sisters’ classmates and their families are on their way to our house; they are running away from the threat of fire and bullets. Black flags are raised to claim dominion of the city. Hope is frail as of the moment. I haven’t heard from the local government since the mayor’s interview with CNN where he is still yet to validate and collate information. “No casualties reported” he said. Churches are torched. This ignorance of religious respect is on an all time high. This is taking away the culture and the history of Marawi, or my memory of it at least. I grew up with non-Muslim friends and educators. I am where I am right now because of them. All the people who grew up from where I did are successful because of the community we were raised in. Instead of our homes, our schools, our hospital, and our jails, burn your ignorant and false extremist beliefs. We are being burned down. Help us. I stand with Marawi City and all of the people therein. Please stay strong. Lend a prayer if you can. Open your homes to those in need if you can. Religious leaders, Ulamas, and people of high regard and influence, step in and negotiate! Lock your doors. Keep your windows low. Stay strong. In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, and the Most Beneficent, light a candle and pray.The post of Dima has gone viral on Facebook and received thousands of reactions and shares from the Netizens.People were touched by the open letter of Dima and they said that he proves that Muslim and Non-Muslim can leave peacefully, not like what the extremists groups believes.On Tuesday, Maute Terrorist Group occupied Marawi City and several reports confirmed that several residents who proven to be non-muslim were ‘taken care of’ by the group.Some reports also said that women who didn’t wear veil were kidnapped by the terrorist group.The AFP said that the situation in Marawi City was already under control.Source:
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Pinoytrending Altervista
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https://pinoytrending.altervista.org/muslim-student-writes-touching-open-letter-facebook-non-muslim-marawi-held-hostages-maute-group-burn-extremist-false-beliefs/
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Here’s the real reason Donald Trump is now the 45th #POTUS following 2016 #ElectionDay
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['Oratio Imperata']
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2016-11-09 06:06:08+00:00
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It’s easy to make a fearless election forecast when the stats are already showing a “>95%” lean towards a particular candidate. As of this writing a kick-ass New York Times up-to-the-second election results monitoring board is showing a needle that has gone squarely into the “very likely” field in a speedometer-type widget labelled “Chances of Winning Presidency – Trump”.So Trumpocalypse is at hand. I heard that passenger jets will start dropping from the sky by the hundreds the minute after Donald Trump is proclaimed US President. Did Accenture come up with a Trumpocalypse Consulting Service in the lead up to US Election Day 2016? If not, too bad. They could’ve made a lot more money than they did during the Y2K panic attack that gripped the world back in the late 1990s.One questions why, in the age of ubiquitous technology, did America’s finest “experts” grossly underestimate Trump’s popularity. I think this reveals the big irony of social media and its much-touted ability to collect data that could be used to gauge the pulse of the land. While social media provided an awesome platform on which it became easy for hipsters to come together to both cheer on Clinton and demonise Trump, it also gave those cheerleaders a tool to shout down those who begged to differ to them. So, it seems, a whole swathe of people who harboured plans to vote for Trump held their tongue in polite company while the “decent” crowd, over tweets and Facebook posts, took their socially-safe position and incessantly crowed in unison about the noble liberal ideals they insisted were at stake in this year’s elections. In the process they encased themselves in a fatal echo chamber where they further inbred their mutual high-fiving shoutouts and isolated themselves from the real world beyond social media.And therein lies the problem in driving something underground using the sheer weight of a sentiment erroneously perceived to be the “righteous” one. You lose the ability to track something that’s gone under the radar under the sheer weight of a demonisation campaign coming from the so-called “decent” community. America’s liberal encampments at its hippest coastal cities were basically battling an ill-understood foe — one that was both invisible and had shape-shifting abilities lurking in the shadows watching and gathering low-hanging intel from the tweets and Facebook posts gleefully fielded by the latte-sipping classes.So here’s what really happened: Hipsters and their propensity for self-righteous chatter had overstepped the line and crossed into ill-thought-out condescencion towards people who harboured conservative and politically-incorrect views. The conservatives and un-PCs were driven underground where they regrouped and waited. They may have even convinced a critical mass of Americans who would normally not have gone out and voted to do so this year. Criticise the latter for being dumb and ill-bred, but the collective outcome of what may seem at first to be an anger-driven, disorganised, and chaotic coming-together under the Trump banner turned out to be an unprecedented emergent intelligence capable of acing an important election in the planet’s mightiest nation.The hipsters lost yet another continent to the conservatives.Poor Hillary Clinton. She should’ve taken election winning lessons from Philippine “vice president” Leni Robredo.
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Get Real Philippines
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https://www.getrealphilippines.com/2016/11/heres-real-reason-donald-trump-now-45th-potus-following-2016-electionday/
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MEXICAN BILLIONAIRE WANTS TO BUY MISS USA AND MISS UNIVERSE PAGEANTS FROM DONALD TRUMP
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['Pol Pinoy']
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29/06/2018 0:00
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from Miss USA, Miss Universe and from all other his other business holdings. I will continue to buy him out.”Both Univision and NBC Universal said that if Helú succeeds in buying the pageants from Trump, they would be happy to re-establish their partnership with the popular beauty contests.The Adobo Chronicles® was unsuccessful in reaching Trump for comment or reaction to the proposed purchase.
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2015/06/29/mexican-billionaire-wants-to-buy-miss-usa-and-miss-universe-pageants-from-donald-trump/#respond
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CONGRESSMAN CLAY AIKEN, CONGRESSWOMAN JESSICA SANCHEZ?
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['Pol Pinoy']
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12/5/2017 0:00
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in the recording business, stage, film, religious ministry, and politics.Season 2 runner-up Clay Aiken (who lost to Ruben Studdard) is now the presumptive Democratic nominee for North Carolina’s Second Congressional District seat. His Democratic opponent, Keith Crisco, unexpectedly died today.Meanwhile, The Adobo Chronicles learned that Season 11 runner-up Jessica Sanchez (she lost to Phillip Phillips) has filed her candidacy for the 51st Congressional District in Chula Vista, California. She has decided to run as an Independent.Political observers agree that Sanchez has the cards going in her favor because the district has a large Filipino and Latino population. Sanchez was born to a Filipina mother and Mexican father. The only odds against her is if the Filipinos and Mexicans do not go out and vote.Both Aiken and Sanchez have an enormous advantage over their opponents. They do not even have to give speeches at their campaign rallies. They just need to belt out a tune or two.Will the next Congress welcome Congressman Aiken and Congresswoman Sanchez?
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2014/05/12/congressman-clay-aiken-congresswoman-jessica-sanchez/#respond
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In Metro Manila, Grab And Uber Face Stiff Competition
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['Pol Pinoy']
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2/3/2018 0:00
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Uber and Grab have both revolutionalized public transportation, worldwide and in the Philippines.Nothing beats the convenience of booking a ride on a clean, airconditioned vehicle especially in hot and traffic-ridden Metro Manila.But regular taxi drivers are pushing back. They want their lucrative business back!So they formed a new company called “Grabe.”Basically, a commuter just hails a tax cab from anywhere and the Grabe taxi drivers will ask where one is going and dictates the flat rate without the use of the taxi’s meter.If the customer agrees to the price, then fine. If not, the customer needs to resort back to booking on Grab or Uber.Hey, a free enterprise is part of a capitalistic society, so deal with it!
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2018/03/02/in-metro-manila-grab-and-uber-face-stiff-competition/
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(First) Lady In Blue
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['Pol Pinoy']
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30/06/2016 0:00
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If there was one thing missing from the media coverage of Rod Duterte’s inauguration as the 16th president of the Philippines today, it was the mention of the First Lady.Sure, there was no First Lady in the last six years, thanks to the bachelorship of now former President NoyNoy Aquino.But the Philippines does have a new First Lady. Not Duterte’s ex-wife Elizabeth Abellana Zimmerman. Not his domestic partner Honeylet Avancena. Rather it’s Sara Duterte, the president’s daughter who also happens to be the mayor of Davao City. The president had said since his election that it was his wish to have his daughter be his First Lady.Prior to today’s inauguration, little has been said about Sara and her role as First Lady.But today, she definitely caught the attention of everyone, including the media. She was stunning in her blue gown and carried herself flawlessly on stage as she joined her father for the oath-taking.Many quickly remembered the most famous Filipina in blue — reigning Miss Universe Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach who captivated pageant judges and the world in her royal blue evening gown.So, move over Lady in Red , here comes the First Lady in blue!
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2016/06/30/first-lady-in-blue/?share=email
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Solicitor General Calida Will Sue Senator Trillanes For Calling Him Commander-in-Thief
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['Pol Pinoy']
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27/09/2018 0:00
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Solicitor General Jose Calida said on Wednesday that he would take Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV to court if the lawmaker would not apologize for his accusation that the solicitor general “stole” his amnesty papers.Trillanes, in a rant to the news media yesterday, called Calida a “Commander-in-Thief.”“The putschist Mr. Trillanes ranted to the media yesterday that I ‘stole’ his amnesty application document. In effect, Mr. Trillanes maliciously branded me as a thief, which I’m not,” the solicitor general said in a statement.The Adobo Chronicles went through scores of audio and video tapes of Trillanes’ conversations with the news media, but so far, we have not found any evidence that he, indeed, called the SolGen “Commander-in-Thief.”Or are the tapes now missing, just like Trillanes’ amnesty application?
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2018/09/27/solicitor-general-calida-will-sue-senator-trillanes-for-calling-him-commander-in-thief/
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Why lawyers will always be prominently necessary in the Philippines
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['Oratio Imperata']
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2017-06-04 13:47:03+00:00
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Congratulations are in order, of course, for those who passed the recently concluded Philippine Bar exams. This year’s passing rate is about 59%, apparently the highest in the last five years or so. This year’s Top 10 list of Bar examinees has attracted a bit of attention, as none among the prominent universities in Metro Manila (i.e., Ateneo de Manila University, University of the Philippines, University of Santo Tomas) has any examinee in it.And what was the reaction from some netizens?“Maybe the standards are getting lower.”“Maybe there was leakage in the exam questions.”“I didn’t know provincial schools could do so well.”“I didn’t know such a school like that existed.”But I digress…Based on its website, the mission and objectives of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines are the following:SEC. 2. Objectives and Purposes. – The following are the general objectives of the Integrated Bar: to elevate the standards of the legal profession, improve the administration of justice, and enable the Bar to discharge its public responsibility more effectively. The purposes of the Integrated Bar include, without being limited to, those specified in the per curiam Resolution of the Supreme Court dated January 9, 1973 ordaining the integration of the Philippine Bar, to wit:1. Assist in the administration of justice;2. Foster and maintain on the part of its members high ideals of integrity, learning, professional competence, public service and conduct;3. Safeguard the professional interest of its members;4. Cultivate among its members a spirit of cordiality and brotherhood;5. Provide a forum for the discussion of law, jurisprudence, law reform, pleading, practice and procedure, and the relations of the Bar to the Bench and to the public, and publish information relating thereto;6. Encourage and foster legal education; and7. Promote a continuing program of legal research in substantive and adjective law, and make reports and recommendations thereon.How does that work out, however, in the reality that is the Philippines?Associate Judge Presbitero Velasco’s message to 2016 Bar exam passers was, “lawyering is not a business.” But don’t lawyers, at their core, make a living out of milking other people for what they’re worth? Hint: next time you commission the services of an attorney here, take a good hard look at all the things you’re going to be billed for.One question has always come to mind regarding the legal profession in the Philippines:If there are so many lawyers in the Philippines, how come there are still so many Filipinos who aren’t law-abiding?Lawyers and the legal profession are necessary in any country; the Philippines is no exception. But they don’t seem necessary here in the Philippines in the way we would conventionally think.While the legal profession remains necessary for upholding the law, and for actually updating our body of laws, lawyers will always be prominently necessary in the Philippines, where laws are convoluted, and people like to argue their way (magpalusot) out of trouble.The legal profession likes to say that, “ignorance of the law excuses no one.” But ignorance is a catch-all excuse in Filipino society. Your average Filipino citizen can’t be bothered to read, much less read up on his basic rights under the law.Even if, for some miraculous reason, Filipinos become more curious about the law and their rights, there will always be a class of people who will discourage such discussion. Instead of focusing on the goal to enlighten more people, this class of people uses its “knowledge” to further entrench its exclusivity.“Di niyo alam pinagsasabi niyo. (You guys don’t know what you’re talking about.)“I have a degree. What do you have?”“Who are you to say such things?!?!”Filipinos can actually make their lives much simpler, and much more comfortable if they strove for a more open, more fair society which follows the rule of law. And yet they have preferred to make their lives so convoluted and so complicated.
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Get Real Philippines
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https://www.getrealphilippines.com/2017/06/lawyers-will-always-prominently-necessary-philippines/
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CNN ANCHOR DON LEMON COMES OUT : ‘I AM A WHITE GAY BOY’
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['Pol Pinoy']
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5/6/2017 0:00
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program on the 24-hour cable news network.It is no secret, however, that Lemon has been very critical of blacks in many of his opinionated on-air rants: admonishing blacks to pull up their pants, to no longer use the word “nigga,” to finish high school, no more make babies out of wedlock, and to not resort to littering. Three weeks ago, he told blacks to just “get out of the hood” to escape the violence and ongoing gang warfare. More recently, Lemon defended Justin Bieber’s racist comments against blacks and turned the heat back on the African American community, to the bewilderment of Lemon’s followers.Well, today, television viewers found the answer to their dilemma.As he concluded his broadcast tonight, Lemon said that he has decided to finally come out of the closet. “I’m gay, but everyone already knows that,” he said, with tears in his eyes. “I’m not what most of you think. I’m white, and if I offended anyone with my seemingly anti-black comments, I apologize,” he said.Both the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association could not be reached for comment. The Adobo Chronicles kept on getting the outgoing voicemail message at the CNN newsroom.There are rumors that Lemon is being courted by Fox News to join its prime-time news and pundit team.
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2014/06/05/cnn-anchor-don-lemon-comes-out-i-am-a-white-gay-boy/#respond
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ANOTHER COUP IN THE PHILIPPINES?
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['Pol Pinoy']
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29/12/2016 0:00
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have been staged against every Philippine president since the late Ferdinand Marcos fled to Hawaii following the EDSA People Power Revolution.What’s different about this latest coup is that the instigator is no less than Kris Aquino, the president’s sister, who, in addition to her career in television, reportedly has her own political ambitions.Upon further investigation of the report, military officials confirmed that they did intercept a cell phone message from Kris to NoyNoy. Apparently, the message said, “Mr. President, tomorrow morning, I will hand you a coup as my Christmas present to you. Please meet me at our hacienda in Tarlac.”What the static-ridden message actually said was, “Mr. President, tomorrow morning, I will hand you the keys to a 2014 Nissan Sports Coupe as my Christmas present to you. Please meet me at our hacienda in Tarlac.”
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2013/12/29/another-coup-in-the-philippines/?share=email
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Japanese News anchor lauds President Duterte “He knows what he have to do”
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2016-10-30 22:08:36+08:00
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Duterte supporters who lives in Japan claimed that Japanese Media praised Duterte for his strategy in fixing the dispute in West Philippine Sea.According to Grace Sangrio Rivera, one of the Japan News anchor praised President Duterte’s strategy for befriended China and asked them to talk about the West Philippine Dispute than engaging a violent move to defend the islands.Some anchors also said that President Duterte is a good and honest leader, but they didn’t like his foul mouth and his gum eating habit.“Sabi pa ng ibang anchor news HE IS A GOOD LEADER INDEED. maliban nga lang sa pagnguya ng gum at pagmumura nya ✌😂 pero indi naging issue iyon kasi he is just HONEST person daw. ” Grace Sangrio Rivera said in her post.President Duterte got a positive image in Japan and according to some Filipinos who works in the Land of the Rising Sun, the Japanese are really loves and curious about the President’s personality.Duterte also featured in some Entertainment and News Shows in Japan that made him familiar with the Japanese people.Hundreds of Japanese people also waited for the arrival of President Duterte in Japan last week.
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Pinoytrending Altervista
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https://pinoytrending.altervista.org/japanese-news-anchor-lauds-president-duterte-knows/
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NRA Accepts Obama’s Challenge, Urges Its Members To Rid Themselves Of Their Guns
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['Pol Pinoy']
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6/1/2016 0:00
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The National Rifle Association (NRA) — American’s powerful gun lobby –has accepted President Barack Obama’s challenge to put an end to gun violence in the country.Yesterday, a tearful Obama issued several executive orders that would, among other things, license gun sellers, strengthen background checks for buyers, better deal with mental health issues, and bringing gun safety technology to the 21st century.In response, the NRA, has issued an unusual, emotional plea to its more than 5 Million dues-paying members, to lay down their guns in favor of the less fatal pocket knife.In fact, in its membership recruitment drive, the NRA is offering a free pocket knife to anyone who signs up for al $25 annual fee.Will American finally see an end to gun violence?
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2016/01/06/nra-accepts-obamas-challenge-urges-its-members-to-rid-themselves-of-their-guns/
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1000 pesos is a princely sum for a non-value-adding agency like @CHRPhilippines
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['Oratio Imperata']
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10/9/2017 0:00
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It is really up to Chito Gascon, head of the Philippines’ Commission on Human Rights (CHR) to convince the Filipino people why his organisation deserves to be allotted more than 1,000 pesos this year. Congress, after all, are made up of popularly-elected representatives of the Filipino people. As such, their decision to grant this sum to the CHR is representative of what Filipinos want.If one considers what the CHR actually do, 1,000 pesos is a princely sum. The CHR is, essentially, a redundant organisation. A third wheel. Its presence alone reminds Filipinos that theirs is an inefficient Third World nation — a society where you need watchdogs to watch the watchdogs who watch the police. The issue of “human rights” cannot be solved by kluges such as the CHR, however. It should be addressed by fixing law enforcement and the criminal justice system. But rather than focus resources on the root causes of social injustice and developing systemic solutions, somebody came up with the bright idea of creating the CHR.We can thank Cory Aquino’s 1987 Yellowtard Constitution for the waste of space that is the CHR. Because Filipinos were so high on anti-police and anti-military opiates back in 1987 following their “people power revolution”, they regarded their police and military as the problems and not the potential solutions that they should have been regarded as. So, the geniuses of the time thought, well, let’s throw in a couple hundred million bucks to employ permanent “human rights advocates” to watch over the police and the army. Unfortunately, instead of an objective advocate, what they essentially created was a political animal.The CHR was, in short, born of politics and will, ultimately, die of politics.Indeed, in hindsight, it is now easy to see that hatred for the police and the army is primarily politically-motivated. It is an outcrop of Martial Law Crybabyism — because the “victors” of that 1986 coup d’etat built their slogans on a rebellion rhetoric that demonises the police and the military. It is on that hatred that the CHR built its brand and value proposition — that Filipinos can run and make sumbong to them if they are harassed by state forces. Like shamans, priests, and fortune tellers, the CHR thrives in a society that believes in ghosts and superstition. When a society matures into a more secular and level-headed one, religion and shamanism are out the door. When Filipinos build professional police and military forces, the CHR is out the door.Seeing that Filipinos are once again warming to the police and the army and are led by a president who puts their soldiers’ and policemen’s welfare above that of crooks and rebels, the CHR’s time to dismantle itself has come. If they don’t do it themselves, somebody will do it for them. It seems that Congress has taken that first step.That said, what is a professional CHR chief executive to do? Simple. Don’t do what Chito Gascon is doing by being a crybaby about the whole thing. Gascon is a relic of a time when the CHR was a successfully-manufactured beacon of morality and, as such, goes about his job with a sense of entitlement. Under his watch (and predecessors who carried with them that same sense of entitlement), the CHR became akin to the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) — an institution that remains too comfy with a sense of entitlement to a moral ascendancy they no longer possess. If the CHR is to regain its relevance, it needs to professionalise and disengage from politics. The police and army have done the same — perhaps not to the standards many of us would like to see it achieve, but are evolving nonetheless.The same cannot be said about the CHR and its cousin in self-entitlement, the CBCP both of which have yet to shed their organisational cultures of moral pomposity and evolve into modern institutions that do not insult the intelligence of the Filipino people as a matter of routine.
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Get Real Philippines
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https://www.getrealphilippines.com/2017/09/1000-pesos-is-a-princely-sum-for-a-non-value-adding-agency-like-chrphilippines/#comments
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NBA FINALS: TWO FILIPINOS ARE GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS’ LUCKY CHARM
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['Pol Pinoy']
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5/6/2018 0:00
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both Filipinos.The other charm is no other than Filipino boxing champion Manny Pacquiao, who last year, joined the Warriors in a practice session while they trained for this year’s NBA season. Since then, things have been turning up roses for the Warriors, whose last stint in an NBA finals was in 1975, when they won the championship.With two lucky charms, hopes are high that the Warriors will be this year’s NBA champions.Hey, they might even ask both Damasen and Pacquiao (who himself is a recording artist) to sing the national anthem as a duet for one of the six (or three) remaining finals games against the Cleveland .WATCH Damasen singing the national at this year’s Western Conference Finals between the Warriors and the Houston Rockets.
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2015/06/05/nba-finals-two-filipinos-are-golden-state-warriors-lucky-charm/
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Leaked: Donald Trump Poised To Quit Presidential Race
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['Pol Pinoy']
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2/8/2016 0:00
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Calling the general elections “rigged” and with support for his presidential bid fast eroding, Donald Trump is reportedly preparing to quit the race altogether, according to leaked emails obtained by The Adobo Chronicles.The confidential personal emails between Trump and two of his children, Ivanka and Donald Jr., clearly indicated his growing frustration over his failing campaign.In one of the emails, Trump complained that support for his campaign, including from high-ranking and well-respected leaders of his own party, is falling apart and could cause him the greatest embarrassment yet in his business and political career. “I can’t fathom losing the election to that woman,” he told his children, referring to his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton. He specifically mentioned Senator John McCain’s criticism of his comments against the mother of Muslim American Capt. Humayun Khan who was killed in Iraq trying to save the lives of his fellow soldiers.In another email exchange with Ivanka, Trump also lamented the fact that wife Melania has been unfairly dragged into negative campaign politics starting with her plagiarized speech at the Republican National Convention, and now with nude photos appearing in The New York Post and all over social media.The last straw for Trump seems to have been the early endorsement of Hillary Clinton by The Houston Chronicle, traditionally known for supporting Republican candidates, as well as President Barack Obama’s recent call for the GOP to withdraw its support for their presidential candidate.“I want to save whatever is left of my dignity and celebrity status by quitting the (presidential) race now before it becomes too late,” he wrote to his son and daughter.
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2016/08/02/leaked-donald-trump-poised-to-quit-presidential-race/#respond
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Leni Robredo is too incompetent to unite the Opposition against Duterte
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['Oratio Imperata']
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2018-07-11 13:53:20+00:00
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According to Vice President Ma. Leonor “Leni” Robredo, she would be willing to lead and unite the Opposition against President Rodrigo Duterte’s administration. In most progressive countries, Robredo’s move would be considered bizarre. But this is the Philippines where the President and Vice President are voted separately, which means both positions could end up being occupied by candidates from opposing parties. This is exactly the predicament the Philippines is in right now. It is something that needs to be addressed in the proposed amendment to the constitution. But I digress…The problem with Robredo’s announcement is she inadvertently revealed her desire to replace Duterte. Since she is willing to lead the Opposition, some of whom have been rabidly calling for Duterte’s ouster, that means she is willing to step into his role if they succeed in removing him.What possessed Robredo to formalise her intention to unite the Opposition? In the last two years, Robredo has been somewhat coy about it. It was as if she was leading a double life. She would be nice when Duterte is in the same room, but, behind his back, speak ill of him and his policies with the media. Robredo even went as far as creating a video for the United Nations against Duterte’s drug war.Some say that the emergence of Lourdes Sereno as an outspoken member of the Opposition after she was ousted from the Supreme Court may have pushed Robredo to own the title of “leader” of the Opposition, which could indicate there could be a silent battle for the “leadership”. The problem is, Robredo is only good at dividing, not uniting Filipinos. It does not help either that the Opposition does not have a solid platform. They do not have alternative solutions to Duterte’s policies. They complain but hardly offer something that the public would consider a viable and doable solution to the country’s problems.The Opposition is disorganised. They do not base their arguments on facts. They base them mostly on gut feel. They are an emotional lot. An example of this is how feminists in the Philippines cry foul against what they think are misogynist remarks made by the President. They accuse him of being mean to and rude to women. But there is little evidence of this since the President has a lot of women in his cabinet. These same feminists are also against the members of the Catholic Church – who are also against Duterte – because of the Church’s stand on other issues like birth control, LGTB rights and divorce.The point is, the members of the Opposition cannot even agree on common and consistent positions on issues they are advocating, so how can they unite against Duterte? Duterte actually supports some of the issues the feminists are for and agrees on some of the issues the Church stands for. Duterte does make it hard for the Opposition to be “united”.The question is, what is Robredo going to do differently from what she has been doing in the last two years to unite the Opposition? Is she going to go all-out in her criticism of the President? Will she adapt a “no-holds-barred” approach and let it all out? Unfortunately, that tactic will only make her look bad. It will backfire. Members of the public particularly those who support the President would consider that kind of act as being opportunistic and typical of a traditional politician or in the Filipino vernacular “trapo”.As early as now, Duterte’s supporters are already making fun of her ambitious announcement. She has done nothing in the last two years in office to prove that she can inspire and lead a group of people successfully.Robredo is not a leader. She’s just a puppet just like former President BS Aquino who will do whatever her handlers tell her. She has no choice because the Liberal Party had to do a lot for her before she could land her current post. First they had to convince her to run as Mar’s VP. Then they possibly had to arrange for Smartmatic personnel to introduce a script in the middle of vote canvassing that made her votes magically jump and overtake Vice Presidential candidate former Senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s lead. But despite all the efforts by her handlers to prop her up, Robredo is still viewed as a lame duck.To make matters even more interesting, Duterte made his own statement. He said he will not resign because doing so will make Robredo President. He doesn’t think Robredo is ready to govern a country and the reason he gave was because she is incompetent. In Duterte’s own words Robredo “is not capable of running a country like the Philippines.”There is something to be said about how the Opposition cannot find a more credible and competent leader. It says a lot about the type of people opposing Duterte. They come across as cowards. They seem to know deep inside that their arguments will not stand under scrutiny and would rather ask someone who is dumb enough to go into battle without any gear. That’s where Robredo comes in.
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Get Real Philippines
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https://www.getrealphilippines.com/2018/07/leni-robredo-is-too-incompetent-to-unite-the-opposition-against-duterte/
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Senators to file cybercrime libel against ‘SilentNoMorePh’ blog
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2017-09-27 22:13:20+08:00
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You might have probably read one of the posts of an Anti-government facebook page called Silent No More. A fakenews creator who managed to amass 300,000 followers shaming the Duterte government.On Wednesday, Senators Zubiri, Pacquiao, Sotto, Villar, and Gordon took the floor at the senate to deliver their speech condemning Silent No More Ph for tagging them as Malacanang Dogs in its blog post for not signing the resolution to stop the killings in the country.Sotto said that he would file a cybercrime libel case against SNM for maliciously spreading lies on facebook.” Otherwise masalubong ko ‘to sa daan (if I come across them in the street), I will not be able to help myself. I will scatter their brains.” Sotto said.While clenching his fist, Manny Pacquiao took the mic saying:“Sana hindi mangyari na mapatawag siya sa Senado kundi…. If I’m not spiritually renewed, ayaw ko na bumalik sa dati kong buhay. Pinipilit ko magpakabait at gawin ang tama pero kapag ganyang mga klaseng tao, hindi ako magdadalawang isip para…”As tension rose up, Villar named Bam Aquino and Hontiveros as the force behind the plan to destroy the senate majority. She said that somebody from her circle on social media warned her but the two minority senators categorically denied the accusation.Issues are coming from all directions, but President Rody Duterte, his politcal allies and supporters remained strong. The yellows stage several rallies lately but it wasn’t enough to move an entire country to revolt against the government.Silent No More will be silenced very soon.Any thought on this? Please leave your comments below!
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Duterte Daily Stories
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http://duterte.today/senators-file-cybercrime-libel-silentnomoreph-blog/
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Bullied Ex-President Noynoy: Not Handsome like Ninoy and called Panot and Abnoy
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['Oratio Imperata']
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2018-06-10 04:49:05+00:00
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Genetic regression in the Philippines is a reality. When parents look more handsome or prettier than their kids, it’s kind of sad to see those good chromosomes disappearing from the gene pool of the Philippine’s next generation. Noynoy/PNoy could have looked better or at least more presentable had Ninoy chosen to tie the knot with Imelda Romualdez. Instead, for some strategic (yet genetically tragic) political advantage, he ended up marrying the hacienda heiress: Corazon Cojuanco.The lesson here is – consider how your children will turn out to look when choosing a mate, especially if you have political ambitions. Had PNoy looked a bit more like his dad, people wouldn’t have been bullying him with all these condescending labels: Panot (receding hairline) and Abnoy (abnormal). In fairness, PNoy has not been rabid in fighting off all the negative comments and name-calling that he’s bombarded with – despite the fact that it was not really his choice to become a baldy or a “special child”.As a president, you need to project and emit and aura of confidence. You are “the face” of your people, representing them in the international arena. It’s possible PNoy goofed up a lot during his term (esp. in geopolitics) simply for lack of confidence. Recall how difficult it was to watch him slouching inside his big chair during his interview by Vice Ganda; a posture so unbecoming of an executive (royalty). Just do a mental juxtaposition of George Clooney and Noynoy for a second and you’ll get what I mean.By contrast, we see Rodrigo Duterte and Ferdinand Marcos Sr. generating a succeeding generation of politicians that can weather the harsh political landscape of needing to look pleasing to the Filipino critical “galing man-lait” eyes. These are the real political strategists that have left no stone (including the gene factor) unturned.The sad fact is: To be a politician in the Philippines requires popularity, with the need to have your face flashed on headline news on an almost daily basis. It will take much longer for Filipinos to see the merits of becoming a meritocracy. For the time being, as we still need to grow up from our overly entertainment-centric points of view, wanna-be politicos need to have the looks.Ninoy seems to have made many wrong moves. Becoming a celebrated “hero” for being in the right place at the right time (in the path of a kinetic projectile) may have served his family’s political dreams well. But the genes passed on to his son were not something Noynoy could really be grateful for. (This could be a clue to why Noynoy does not have a son.)Those early days just after Yolanda with Mar exploding with those painful words “You are a Romualdez and the president is an Aquino” would not have been that so politically charged and more lives could have been saved if only Ninoy married Imelda. Well that’s the butterfly effect. So choose your mate carefully, even scientifically (weighing all the pros and cons in a table).It’s probably time for Pinoys to stop jumping into a relationship just because of emotional highs or potential financial benefits, but rather with a good sense of genetic foresight included in the equation.By the way, why wasn’t Noynoy present in the recent Mactan-Cebu International Airport Terminal 2 inauguration (a project his admin was a part of). Is he too ashamed to show his face in public already? What a huge fall for a man who used to be the most powerful official in the land.
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Get Real Philippines
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https://www.getrealphilippines.com/2018/06/bullied-ex-president-noynoy-not-handsome-like-ninoy-and-called-panot-and-abnoy/
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Filipino Bishop Says Former President Aquino Should Have Fulfilled His Promise To Be Runover By A Train
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['Pol Pinoy']
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20/09/2016 0:00
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Auxiliary Bishop Broderick Pabillo had harsh words for Philippine President Rodrigo Roa Duterte regarding the latter’s recent statement asking for an extension of another six months for the government’s ongoing campaign against illegal drugs.According to Pabillo, Duterte’s call for an extension basically amounted to an admission that his strategy against drugs was ineffective. He also said it was Duterte’s way of reneging on his vow to resign after six months if his campaign did not succeed. “In the campaign, he categorically said the drug problem would be solved in six months or he would step down. But he is not a man of one word. His words cannot be trusted and he gives a lot of excuses,” the Philippine Star quoted him as saying.The Adobo Chronicles caught up with Pabillo on his way to presiding over a church service at the Manila Catherdral and we asked for his comment regarding a promise by former President NoyNoy Aquino that he and his Transportation Secretary will have themselves be run over by a train if the LRT (Light Rail Transit) Line 1 project from Baclaran to Bacoor will not be completed in two years. That deadline was in 2015.We asked the bishop if Aquino should also have fulfilled his promise.The bishop’s answer:“I’m late for the service, but yes!”
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2016/09/20/filipino-bishop-says-former-president-aquino-should-have-fulfilled-his-promise-to-be-runover-by-a-train/#respond
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JOHN BOEHNER DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH REPUBLICAN SUPPORT TO BE REELECTED HOUSE SPEAKER
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['Pol Pinoy']
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5/1/2018 0:00
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On Tuesday, January 6, the U.S. House of Representatives will formally elect the next speaker. Incumbent John Boehner may not be it.At least two conservative hard-liners are now offering themselves up as candidates to unseat Boehner.Rep. Ted Yoho, R-Florida, said this weekend that he won’t support Boehner as speaker when lawmakers vote Tuesday, and offered himself up as an alternative. Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, did the same thing on Fox News’ “Fox and Friends Sunday.”A poll conducted by The Adobo Chronicles shows that 60 percent of Republican congressmen are planning not to vote to reelect Boehner. Click on video for Boehner’s reaction to the poll.Determined to keep his post as the second in line in case the President of the United States dies or is incapacitated, Boehner intensified his reelection campaign by courting the House Democrats. He told reporters that based on his personal conversations with his Democratic colleagues in Congress, he has at least 40 percent support from those in the opposing party. “That means I am assured of being reelected speaker,” he said.Stats quo.
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2015/01/05/john-boeher-does-not-have-enough-republican-support-to-be-reelected-house-speaker/?share=email
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Leni Robredo Concedes!
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['Pol Pinoy']
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19/04/2018 0:00
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A lot can happen within just a few hours, including a complete turnaround in statements by Vice President Leni Robredo.At 8:21 PM on 4/19/18, Robredo tweeted that with truth on her side, she will overcome, referring to the ongoing recount of the 2016 Vice Presidential election ballots.Then, at 3:00 AM on 4/20/18, the VP tweeted it was imminent that Bongbong Marcos will triumph in his electoral protest.Robredo’s sudden change of heart is most likely part of damage control where the recount could potentially diminish her narrow lead in the 2016 elections. Already, her lead has been reduced by 5,000 votes. It’s called saving face.
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2018/04/19/leni-robredo-concedes/#respond
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RUSSIA’S CRACKDOWN ON TRANSSEXUAL MOTORISTS AND OTHER INDIVIDUALS WITH ‘MENTAL DISORDERS’
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['Pol Pinoy']
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8/1/2018 0:00
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have vowed to boycott travel to Russia and promised to refrain from buying goods and services that have the Russian label on them.This is not the first Russian boycott in San Francisco. In 2013, when the Putin Government made “promoting non-traditional lifestyles” illegal, many gay bars in San Francisco and elsewhere boycotted Russian vodka. That boycott quickly fizzled out mostly because the boycotted vodka that is sold in the West, Stoli, is made in Latvia, not Russia.Mikhail Strakhov, a Russian psychiatric expert, told the BBC that the definition of “mental disorders” was too vague and some disorders would not affect a person’s ability to drive a car safely.However, a Putin spokesperson said that transsexuals and transgenders cannot concentrate on their driving because their eyes are constantly wandering, looking out for cute Russian guys or gals on the road. He added that exhibitionists can distract other drivers, while those with fetishes are always dreaming about their previous or next encounters. “The roads are just not safe if we allow these people to drive cars,” the spokesperson said.
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Adobo Chronicles
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https://adobochronicles.com/2015/01/08/russias-crackdown-on-transsexual-motorists-and-other-individuals-with-mental-disorders/
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