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Sydney, Australia
Joined January 2011
@benign0 At least Millennial-aged and (increasingly) Zoomer-aged Filipino parents are starting to reject the Catholic Church's "family planting" ideal - based on what I am observing among my age peers and people younger than myself (I'm speaking as a dude currently in his late 30s)! 🤣
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Damn straight! This lady belongs in our Parliament! We need less liars & more blatant truths 👊🇦🇺
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"From P10 billion in stolen PDAF funds, the loot is now in the trillions of pesos—for why would the unscrupulous stop their greed at some point when the authorities and the courts are expected to fail to catch up once again?"
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"...but as time has shown, successfully prosecuting even one high-profile suspect in such cases has been, by any measure, a stark failure."
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"The PDAF scam may have been the biggest political storm to hit the country before the raging public works controversy that now buffets the government..." https://t.co/Lsw0iMCmnD
opinion.inquirer.net
Against the stupefying sums now routinely being mentioned in connection with anomalous flood control and other infrastructure projects—P1 trillion
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"Chinese cutters rammed and water cannoned two Philippine fishery vessels near Sandy Cay and Thitu Island over the weekend in the latest spat between the two countries in the South China Sea." https://t.co/ZgL4XKyqH1
news.usni.org
Chinese cutters rammed and water cannoned two Philippine fishery vessels near Sandy Cay and Thitu Island over the weekend in the latest spat between the two countries in the South China Sea. The...
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"The World Bank declared that the Philippines’ learning poverty rate is at an alarming 91 percent. This means nine out of ten 10-year-olds cannot read and understand a simple text."
philstar.com
Bansot is a Tagalog word that means stunted, often used to describe a person, animal or plant whose growth or development has been arrested. It can refer to being physically short, but it can also...
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Hamas executes 'collaborators and lawbreakers' in graphic scenes in Gaza https://t.co/u5dhrwY0qP
abc.net.au
Masked gunmen have carried out "extrajudicial executions" in the streets of Gaza City as an expert claims the terror group is trying to regain control of the destroyed enclave.
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Who executes seven people with a bullet to the head? Who films it on their phone? Who cries “Allahu Akbar” while the atrocity is happening? Who marched in Sydney & Melbourne each week on the side of these people?
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VIDEO: Former Israeli hostage Omri Miran reunites with his wife https://t.co/ta5fYrYPo5
abc.net.au
Follow the latest news headlines from Australia's most trusted source. Read in-depth expert analysis and watch live coverage on ABC News.
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"In footage shared by the Israeli military, 24-year-old Guy Gilboa-Dalal, who was kidnapped from the Nova music festival, was met by his parents and siblings. His family cried and embraced him in a large hug." https://t.co/LMnK5VyI80
edition.cnn.com
The last 20 living hostages held in Gaza were released on Monday, reuniting with their families in jubilant scenes as world leaders gathered in Egypt to discuss the future of Gaza and the next phases...
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Talk is cheap...
We condemn in the strongest possible terms the illegal and reckless actions of the China Coast Guard (CCG) and its maritime militia on October 12, 2025, off Pag-asa Island in the West Philippine Sea. The deliberate firing of a water cannon and ramming of the Bureau of Fisheries
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"Campos fell into the trap of regarding Lee through the lens of a typical way Filipinos communicate with celebrities or people of stature. Rather than step up to speak at their level, it seems a common approach Filipinos take is to try to bring the level of the dialogue down..."
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Recall... Filipino student shut down and dismissed by Lee Kuan Yew for asking irrelevant question 😮
getrealphilippines.com
In this profoundly cringe-inducing video, Filipino student Harvey Campos suffers an epic smacking down by Singapore Elder Statesman and former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. During the question-and-a...
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"We are a society imprisoned in a mindset that is grounded on the notions that we cannot influence our own destinies, that employment is owed to us by Government, and that those who have more have in some way deprived us of opportunity simply by being 'more fortunate'."
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Recall... 'Awareness' of poverty is just a fashion statement 😮
getrealphilippines.com
It is interesting the way messages that aim to make one "aware" about the "plight" of the poor proliferate. In many countries, such awareness does not come at much of an effort as it is
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Recall: "Philippine TV shows and movies often show this: poor=good, rich=evil. This is clearly wrong. Even poor people commit crimes & can themselves be corrupt. And when they get into a position of power, they are likely to become corrupt themselves." 😮 https://t.co/qsPp9UFcdA
getrealphilippines.com
An Inquirer article regarding a certain bishop's statement raised again the issue of poverty as a problem in the Philippines. Bishop Garcera of Daet is quoted to have said "poverty is not a problem."...
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"Whereas 'well-to-do' people are expected to compete and account for their own success or failure, poor people are considered to be people who need to be given a break — given a break from taxes, given a break from complying with the law, and even given a break for being stupid."
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