Naturally, millions of farmers are flabbergasted by Sendong So’s endorsement of Camille Villar and they are not following his lead and wondering aloud where he snatched the idea that Camille has consistently supported agricultural development.
CBC’s “Fifth Estate” series aired an episode, titled “Church of Secrets,” and published an article of the same title on Nov. 11, 2018 that detailed the controversies hounding INC, including accusations of financial irregularities, kidnapping and the murder of a Canadian man.
By rejecting the call of workers nationwide for Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to certify as urgent the proposed P200 legislated wage increase, he proved himself to be the chairman of the executive committee of the exploitative and oppressive ruling classes.
Now, politicians who have been seeking votes are eerily silent as to why no one among these bleeding hearts has offered any semblance of support to the already reed-thin demand for a P200 across-the-board wage increase, with Marcos Jr. refusing to declare the proposed pay hike as urgent.
Americans should be ashamed that their president, which the Electoral College elected, has inflicted a standard 10% tariff hike on all goods bound for the United States, which he falsely claimed would make the US wealthy and cause US manufacturers to return home. Donald Trump’s brag is a lot of crap for the simple reason that he is lying through his teeth when he claimed that poor US has been “raped, pillaged and abused by other economies.”
If Japan can ask farmers to raise their output, why can’t DA goad domestic rice farmers to raise theirs? The answer lies in the chronic failure of the department to protect them, guarantee higher farmgate prices and assure them that cheaper farm inputs will be available year-round.
By privatizing the determination of zonal values, Manny Villar and his executives can simply raise values, even if the market has been retreating, with the condo sellers facing a glut which compelled them to to cut prices by 25%.
The latest SWS survey revealed that 27.2% of Filipino families, which means 7.5 million households, experienced involuntary hunger in the past three months, the highest recorded hunger incidence since the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.
The issue isn’t just about the exact number of dead—it’s about a president openly ordering killings, police acting with impunity, and a justice system that failed victims. The ICC exists precisely because powerful figures like Duterte evade local accountability. Whether it’s 30 or 30,000, state-sponsored murder is a crime against humanity.
Voters erred in electing Rodrigo Duterte as president in 2016, voters were wrong in electing Bong Go and Bato de la Rosa to the Senate in 2019 and the electorate chose the wrong guys led by Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Sara Zimmerman Duterte Carpio in 2022. It would be a farce to elect the same clowns in 2025.
