The Philippines under China’s authority

Posted by JoeAm on April 29, 2019 · 73 Comments 

By JoeAm The past is dead. Those good old Western-inspired ideals featuring freedom and fairness, truth, compassion and honor have been supplanted by Chinese-inspired ideals featuring control and favor, lies, brutality and utility. This is not speculation. This is the real world in the Philippines, today. Press freedom? Dead. Freedom of speech? Dead. Fairness under … Continue reading →

Category Blogging/Journalism, China, Citizenship/Patriotism, Culture and Arts, Foreign Affairs and Defense, Laws and Ethics, Philippine Government, Technology/Internet

Ist Gott tot? (Is God dead?)

Posted by chemrock on April 24, 2019 · 664 Comments 

By Chemrock The madman ran through the marketplace shouting “Gott ist tot. Wir haben ihm getötet. (God is dead. We have killed him.)” German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche wrote in Zarathustra in the 1880s on the rise of the Rational Man. The invisible, all-powerful Divinity is just a figment of man’s imagination. God is killed in … Continue reading →

Category Blogging/Journalism, Culture and Arts, Economy, Education, Laws and Ethics, Philippine Politics, Religion, USA/Americans

National honor is not automatic. People have to want it, and work for it.

Posted by JoeAm on April 19, 2019 · 71 Comments 

By Joe Am The Philippines has been wracked by internal bickering since Aguinaldo had Bonaficio tried for treason. We see this ruthless style of political in-fighting in local elections. It is not unusual to have hundreds of casualties across the nation. We see it today when President Duterte’s spokesperson Sal Panelo lays blame for China’s … Continue reading →

Category Citizenship/Patriotism, Laws and Ethics, Philippine Government, Philippine Politics

Almost no one will read this article because it is long and contains the word ‘paucity’

Posted by JoeAm on April 4, 2019 · 245 Comments 

By JoeAm In the old days, when we received letters and picked up the ringing phone which had a wire attached, and read the newspaper or caught the news on the TV, we lived with simple understandings. One of them was that this is real. The letter is truly from Cousin Sylvia, the phone call … Continue reading →

Category Blogging/Journalism, China, Citizenship/Patriotism, Foreign Affairs and Defense, Laws and Ethics, Philippine Government

Yellow “elitism” is a myth created by trolls

Posted by JoeAm on March 28, 2019 · 55 Comments 

By JoeAm Former President Aquino, and Yellows in general . . . who today include any critic of the Duterte Administration, most of them being advocates of the Constitution, democracy, human rights, and civility . . . are often labeled as “elitist”. This is meant to suggest that they are arrogant and out of touch … Continue reading →

Category Citizenship/Patriotism, Ecology/Global Warming, Laws and Ethics, Philippine Government, Philippine Politics, Technology/Internet