ONE FOR THE ROAD James Deakin So that’s it then. Another milestone in Philippine democracy is in the history books. By the time you read this, or sometime in the next few days, we should already know who will be succeeding the Duterte administration. As of this writing—which is happening on the...
ONE FOR THE ROAD James Deakin So we have two weeks or so left before we elect a new administration. No doubt you’ve seen the hysteria on the streets — and of course on social media — with each camp pumping one fist in the air claiming to be the saviors of our nation, while the other hand...
ONE FOR THE ROAD James Deakin So a leaked infographic from the MMDA proposing a radical new coding scheme has been making the rounds on social media and other messaging groups this last week, with some versions claiming the draconian measures will be implemented on May 16. MMDA denies this, of...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye (Last March 1, Muntinlupa City celebrated its 27th anniversary as a city. The author, who served as Muntinlupa mayor from 1986 to 1998, relives Muntinlupa’s journey to cityhood in this three-part article.) With the significant inflow of money into the...
ONE FOR THE ROAD James Deakin For two whole years, all we’ve heard about was what to wear on our faces, what to think, where we could and couldn’t go, and how scared we should be at any given moment. Now that Putin miraculously cured Covid by giving the mainstream media and governments around...
SPEAKING OUT Ignacio R. Bunye (On March 1, 2022, Muntinlupa City observed its 27th anniversary as a highly urbanized city. In this 3-part article, the author, who served as Muntinlupa Mayor from 1986 to 1998, relives Muntinlupa’s journey to cityhood.) I grew up in the ‘50s when Muntinlupa was...
ONE FOR THE ROAD James Deakin As we slowly crawl out of our caves and begin to feel the first rays of normalcy in two years, many are now waking up to the sobering reality here, which is: the damage created by the pandemic response may turn out to be an even bigger killer than the actual pandemic....
ONE FOR THE ROAD James Deakin Well that was sudden. After two years of draconian lockdowns and mandates, it took less than 24 hours for the global narrative to fall apart and even less time for every internet epidemiologist to become an expert in foreign policy and war. RIP COVID; long live...
ONE FOR THE ROAD James Deakin Three words that recently broke the internet. So much so, that even Google, the self proclaimed arbiters of truth and default online moral compass of the World Wide Web, couldn’t censor it fast enough. It all started after Dr. Robert Malone, one of the inventors of...
ONE FOR THE ROAD James Deakin 2021 started out quite hopeful for me. Despite nine months of hard lockdown and massive financial losses, restrictions had eased a little, businesses and tourist spots were slowly opening their doors to a weary and beaten public looking to welcome in a new year, and...
ONE FOR THE ROAD James Deakin Yes there are private islands and private beach resorts –– Jeffrey Epsiten and his cohorts famously showed the world that –– but the question that keeps coming up, especially as we start to travel again and people head out to get some much-needed Vitamin Sea,...
ONE FOR THE ROAD James Deakin Last September, El Salvador became the first country in the world to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender; two months later, just last Friday, their president, Nayib Bukele, shocked the world once again with the announcement of Bitcoin City –– a digital investor’s...
