By Estanislao Albano, Jr.
Black Nazarene devotees leave heaps of garbage in Manila.
Who said that Black Nazarene devotees are not Filipinos?
This is one area where Catholics could learn from the Iglesia ni Cristo. They cleaned up the trash generated during their Walk Against Poverty.
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Trash from South Korea sent to the country will be shipped back to that country.
Other countries should be told we do not need help to drown our country in garbage. We are extremely successful in the mission.
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The decision of Makati Regional Trial Court Branch 150 to sustain its earlier ruling to have Senator Antonio Trillanes III arrested for the old rebellion case against him is double jeopardy, according to the Integrated Bar of the Philippines (IBP).
The IBP should expel all of its members who do not know the meaning of double jeopardy including those who know its meaning but chose to pretend they don’t.
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Chinese fishing vessels comprise the largest number of ships operating in the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea or West Philippine Sea so far based on satellite imagery.
We now call the place West Philippine Xi.
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Duterte threatens to kill loan sharks to end ‘5-6’ lending scheme which he said puts people in perpetual bondage.
He should include China which is lending funds to other countries at exorbitant interest rates.
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Last year, the President said that Commission on Audit (COA) auditors should be pushed down the stairs for hampering government operations with their regulations. This year, he said COA people should be kidnapped and tortured for the same offense.
Could one hate corruption and at the same time want the COA immobilized and toothless?
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If some people will take the President’s suggested actions against the COA seriously, what will happen?
Maging COAOA ang COA.
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According to Forbes magazine, Vietnam, unlike the Philippines, is daring to “challenge China’s mission to turn the vast waterway into its own sea.”
The leaders of Vietnam as well as Indonesia do not harbour any desire for their countries to be reduced to a provinces of China.
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In another article, Forbes also alleged that Duterte has opened the country up to Chinese workers “as Filipinos seek jobs overseas.”
What does Forbes want a provincial governor to do?
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President Duterte threatens to slit the throats of drug lords.
This is not going to be bloody because imaginary drug lords have no blood.
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A 100-year old Cordillera man credits his long life and health to eating camote, banana and squash.
That would mean 100 years of farting.
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I passed through the Burnham Park during my last trip to Baguio City and it looked to me they stopped maintaining it when Burnham died. Unlike some years ago, I did not see human excreta this time but still the place is so unkempt it would make one yearn for the time Americans were still running the city.**
