Duterte Abolishes PCUP, Creates PCUP-2

December 12, 2017 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – President Rodrigo Duterte announced today that he was abolishing the Presidential Commision on Urban Poor (PCUP), a taxpayer-funded agency created in 1986 by then President Corazon Aquino. Duterte cited corruption for his decision.

In place of the PCUP, Duterte created a new commission, the PCUP-2: Presidential Commission on (the closure) of the University of the Philippines.

”It is my intention to abolish government agencies and institutions that are either corrupt or are a waste of taxpayer money,” Duterte said. “U.P. is one of those institutions milking the Filipino people for funding,” he added.

Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque told The Adobo Chronicles that Duterte’s decision to create the new commission was based on recent developments where U.P students wasted taxpayer money by walking out of their classes to protest against the Duterte administration.

Roque was specifically referring to U.P. Diliman’s annual Oblation Run — a naked protest by students. “While I enjoy seeing all the naked men, I think that their protest against Duterte is out of place,” Roque said.

Arts, Entertainment, Film and TV, Government, Media, Politics, Social Media

‘LODI’ Group Of Artists, Writers, Journalists and Media Workers Accused Of Plagiarism

December 11, 2017 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Citing threats to freedom of expression and the “disinformation campaigns” waged by forces funded by taxpayer money, a group of artists, writers, journalists and media workers has served notice to the Duterte administration of their plan to be a “Lodi.”

This six-member group is tagging itself as an alliance that is expected to scrutinize or fact-check pronouncements from Mr. Duterte, his aides or his supporters who command an online following.

LODI stands for “Let’s Organize for Democracy and Integrity.” Members include Joel Lamangan, Sari Dalena, Inday Espina Varona, Tonyo Cruz, Bonifacio Ilagan and Juana Change.

Today, however, LODI faces a backlash — and a class-action lawsuit — from Filipino netizens who originally came up with the term “lodi.”

Unless you’ve been hibernating, you know that “lodi” in social media parlance means ‘idol’ (spelled backwards).

The lawsuit charges that the group of artists and media personalities committed an act of plagiarism when they chose to name their group LODI.

One netizen commented that the group capitalized on the term so that they would look ‘young and cool’ contrary to their more senior persona. “By filing this class-action lawsuit, we hope to take back the word ‘lodi’ from these opportunists,” he said.

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Leni Robredo On Human Rights: It Knows No Color Other Than Yellow

December 11, 2017 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

D9B46FE6-BA2B-4A6F-944B-0E0848719CA9 QUEZON CITY, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Quezon City Bureau) – The protection of human rights must know no political color and it is everyone’s role to stand up against all forms of human rights abuses, Vice President Ma. Leonor “Leni” Robredo said on Sunday.

The Adobo Chronicles caught up with Robredo on a bus en route to Naga City, and we asked her to elaborate on her statement.

She replied:

”Human rights protection in our country has come under attack lately, especially from the pro-administration and anti-church factions. They have even used the Dengue vaccine program mess to criticize human rights advocates.”

”Let be known that human rights knows no color other than yellow. Kaming mga dilawan ang tunay na nagmamalasakit sa katarungang pantao ng mga Pilipino.” (We, the yellows are the true vanguards of the human rights of the Filipinos.)

Well, at least, the VP is not afraid to show her true color.