Pangalang Walang Tinta

Dahil, sa papel ng makapangyarihan, walang tinta ang kanyang pangalan./Ang iniwang ulat, pinunit bago pa mabasa ng karamihan./Sa pagitan ng mga pahina, may puwang na hindi na muling naisulat./At sa anino ng katotohanan, may isa na namang binura.

‘Overpaid Filipino workers’  

That is the farcical argument foisted by a gang that purports to be a think tank in viscerally opposing the proposed P200 legislated wage increase, along with columnists who think that the economic savior – foreign direct investment — would not touch the country with a ten-foot-pole because of its “astronomical” wage level.

Duterte gives Milosevic’s ghost company

All his braggadocio has evaporated, all the vicious slander against his political enemies reduced to a whimper. He must be comfortable with the wandering spirit of Slobodan Milosevic, who died at the Scheveningen prison in The Hague before his trial for the Srebrenica genocide was concluded. Well, misery loves company.

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