Medium Rare jullie Jullie Y. Daza All in one day, June 26, police and PDEA agents had their hands full and blotters bleeding with the ink of arrests and apprehensions of smalltime and “high-value” targets. By no means complete, media accounts mentioned the seizure of P9 million worth or 1 kg of...
Medium Rare Jullie Y. Daza A few things the then president, PNoy, told me face to face, not from the long lens of current events becoming history, but from the short distance of a casual conversation: 1. “What are you doing there?” I was taking pictures of his leather slippers,...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza A proliferation of candidates for vice president in 2022. And not a single brave soul other than Antonio Trillanes IV proclaiming his readiness for the presidency (though also for VP). A political analyst says it’s the smart thing to do, for a probable candidate not to...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza When it rains, it pours. Then it floods, an ocean of problems. Babies are being born smaller, many of them to girls hardly out of puberty. The IQ of Filipino teenagers has been dropping, until it hit rock bottom in a survey of 600,000 15-year-olds from 79 countries. God...
Medium Rare Jullie Y. Daza On Independence weekend, no less. Time to snap the chains and proclaim liberation from the illegal imposition of indefinite prison terms on persons whose only crime is their age. The sky was blue, alternating with clouds of medium and opaque thicknesses, the simplicity of...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Robredo/Trillanes/Poe/Villanueva/Diokno/Santos-Recto. No Pacquiao. A let-down! 1Sambayan’s list of nominees for the presidential and senatorial elections next year is, to put it kindly, totally unexciting. Pacman, the most famous Filipino in the world, hurt by his...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Until the pandemic came along, who knew how a great many of us suffered from one type or another of allergies? The most asked question being “Have you been vaccinated?” followed by the second most asked, “What brand?”, it stands to reason that the next question...
Medium Rare Jullie Y. Daza Senator Cynthia Villar says it’s “unfair” to keep senior citizens locked up in their homes even after they’ve had their second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. What’s the vaccination for if not for their protection outside the four walls of their home? The good...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Then there’s a suggestion of sabotage, too, which senators are eager to confirm or deny. Meanwhile, Laban Konsyumer’s Vic Dimagiba has written lawmakers in both Houses of Congress to advise them on how to lower the prices of electricity, our rates being higher than...
Medium Rare Jullie Y. Daza President Duterte waiting for a sign before he agrees to run for vice president. Vice President Robredo continues to play the guessing game, but it’s very possible she’ll be a candidate for president. What if they both win? In the middle of the year 2022, VP Robredo...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Three times during the year, Mercury goes into retrograde, sowing a world of confusion, delays, and deception among earthlings. Based on readings shared by a believer whose astrologer uses the Ephemeris, charts, compasses and past events (collectively called history), one...
Medium Rare Jullie Y. Daza IATF Secretary Galvez reporting on how vaccinations brought down COVID-19 transmissions: In the US, after 30 percent of the population got their jabs. In Israel, after 50 percent were vaccinated. President Biden to the American people: “More vaccinations mean more...
