Trust and elections
Trust is supposed to be an essential element in an election.
Trust is supposed to be an essential element in an election.
Bluntly put, Filipino politicians tend to have very bad reputations. Greedy, thieving, dishonest, opportunistic, corrupt, callous, and self-interested are the adjectives that immediately come to mind.
Panelo should ask whoever gave him information which he used in his briefing last Wednesday to look for my column in Malaya on April 15 titled “Duterte regains upper hand in the battle of Narco lists.”
Nag-iba ng diskarte ang mga galamay ng Malacañang nang hindi kumagat ang kanilang palpak na “Oust Duterte plot”na may kasama pang katawa-tawa na matrix. Ang pinagdidiskitahan nila ngayon ay ang tulong na bigay ng mga mayayamang bansa o pribadong institusyon sa mga organisasyun sa mga bansa na hindi masyadong mayaman katulad ng Pilipinas.
As long as we have journalists like Felipe Salvosa II, the likes of Bobi Tiglao don’t matter.
A Filipino Consortium on Democracy and Information is holding its second national conference on April 22-23 at the University of the Philippines, BGC with the theme Disinformation and Democratic Decay:Why Deceptive Information Erodes Democratic Institutions.
After Bong Go, President Duterte’s former special assistant who is now one of the frontrunners
in the senatorial race, did the humiliating act of undressing in front of the media and under the
glare of TV cameras, to show his tattoo-less back, the question of those who were initially
impressed with the first three episodes of “Ang totoong Narco list” is, what’s Bikoy going to
say about this?
This is a classic case of Duterte getting a dose of his own medicine.
The Philippines has effectively occupied Pag-asa Island (international name:Thitu) since 1978 and has incorporated it as a municipality that is part of the Province of Palawan. There have been elections for the municipal officials of Pag-asa, and there will be elections there in May 2019 like in the rest of the archipelago. There are 400 voters in Pag-asa. Pag-asa has a land area of 37.2 hectares.
Graphika’s Melanie Smith also said the large majority of the content shared by pages taken down was political in nature. “. In our categorization of content and narratives shared by the network, we found that 46.2 % of the pages shared content explicitly supporting President Duterte as a politician, and the second largest category (27.7%) shared news articles that paint the Duterte administration and the government writ large in a positive light.”