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Environment, Government

Thousands of Manila Bay Cleanup Volunteers Arrested

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MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Thousands of citizens who had volunteered to help in the cleanup of Manila Bay this weekend were arrested and jailed for violation of Manila City Hall’s permits rule.

None of the volunteers realized that City Hall required all volunteers who wanted to help in the cleanup to secure a permit to do so.

House Representatives belonging to the Makabayan Bloc praised City Hall’s rule.  The lawmakers earlier demanded for the suspension of the Bay cleanup until all interested parties have been consulted.

So before you  roll up your sleeves and put on your rubber boots to head for Manila Bay, make sure you first make a trip to Manila City Hall’s Permits Office..

 

Social Media

Rappler’s Maria Ressa Wants Total Facebook Ban In The Philippines

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MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Remember when Rappler CEO and crybaby Maria Ressa accused Facebook of failing to “moderate its greed?” She all but blamed the social media networking giant for sowing political divisions among the public and allowing the proliferation of online “trolls” and “fake news.” 

Well, Miss Crybaby is crying some more.  This time with a vengeance.

Despite being  designated as one of Facebook’s fact-checking partners in the Philippines, Ressa now wants a total ban on Facebook in the country, simply because Rappler has failed in its  self-imposed role as gatekeeper of accurate information on social media.

”We’ve tried our best to fact-check news and information on Facebook but fake news keeps on coming and coming,” she told The Adobo Chronicles.

Ressa said the Philippines should follow the good example of China which has banned Facebook since 2009.

“If there is no longer Facebook, there will also be no more fake news,” she added.

We tried to reach Mark Zuckerberg for comment, but he was offline,

Health & Medicine

Hawaii Wants To Raise Life Expectancy By 10 Years

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HONOLULU, Hawaii (The Adobo Chronicles, Honolulu Bureau) – Smoking cigarettes could reduce one’s life expectancy by 10 years, according to medical experts.  So the state of Hawaii wants to take back those 10 years.

How?

The Rainbow State wants to raise the legal smoking age to 100, effectively banning cigarettes for the vast majority of its residents. Thanks to a new bill proposed by Democrat Richard Creagan.

It will need to pass through the state legislature and weather a potentially strong backlash from tobacco companies in order to become state law.

Dr Creagan, who was an emergency room physician before he was elected as state representative in 2014, calls the cigarette “the deadliest artefact in human history” in the bill.

In January 2017, Hawaii became the first US state to raise its smoking age to 21. In other US states the legal age is usually 18 or 19.

So if you want to live and live long in Paradise, go Hawaii!!!