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2016 MISS UNIVERSE PAGEANT TO BE TELECAST IN SPANISH ONLY

June 20, 2015 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

2016 Miss Universe Paulina Vega of Colombia — 2015 Miss Universe Paulina Vega of Colombia

MIAMI, Florida (The Adobo Chronicles®) – The 2016 Miss Universe Pageant will be telecast only in the Spanish language, according to a joint announcement today by Univision Communications Inc., Donald Trump and Miss Universe Organization President Paula Shugart.

Back in January, the Miss Universe Organization announced a long-term partnership that will bring the Spanish-language television and digital rights for the MISS UNIVERSE® and MISS USA® pageants to Univision Communications Inc. Univision will co-produce the MISS UNIVERSE® and MISS USA® pageants.

“The Miss Universe and Miss USA pageants consistently rank as the most watched, most-coveted properties and entertainment programs around the world,” said Trump. “Adding Univision as one of our leading media partners in addition to NBC could not be more exciting,” he added.

The venue for the 2016 Miss Universe Pageant has not het been decided but there is strong speculation that it will be held in one of rhe Spanish-speaking countries in South America. Univision is currently interviewing Spanish-speaking celebrities who will be named as hosts of the pageant.

Univision said that all the live pageant proceedings will be in Spanish and all contestants will be interviewed in Spanish as well, with interpreters if necessary.

As for the non Spanish-speaking television audience, the telecast will be subtitled in English, French and Tagalog. The latter is in recognition of the Philippines which has the world’s largest share of Miss Universe fans and viewers per capita.

International, Politics

DONALD TRUMP SAYS IRAQ WAR WAS AN ACCIDENT

June 19, 2015 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

LAS VEGAS, Nevada (The Adobo Chronicles®) – Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry characterized the recent shooting in Charleston as an “accident” during an interview on Friday, accusing President Obama of using the massacre, which claimed nine lives, as a pretext for pushing a gun control agenda.

“This is the MO of this administration anytime there is an accident like this,” Perry said during an appearance on Newsmax TV. The former Texas governor said the president “doesn’t like guns,” so “he uses every opportunity” to tighten restrictions on gun ownership.

Another Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, described the U.S. involvement in the Iraq war as an accident, saying that former President George W. Bush and his Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld accidentally believed that Saddam Hussein was concealing weapons of mass destruction.

It seems that Republicans have found the perfect excuse for everything that’s wrong with America and it’s a recurring theme that we will see throughout the presidential campaign season between now and the 2016 elections.

Senator Rand Paul is reportedly preparing a major speech this weekend in which he will describe the election of Barack Obama as an accident — twice over.

International

SOUTH KOREANS COULD FACE NATURAL EXTINCTION BY 2750; BY THEN, FILIPINOS WILL BE LIVING ON WATER

June 19, 2015 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

SEOUL, South Korea (The Adobo Chronicles®) – A 2014 study commissioned by the national legislature concluded that South Koreans could face natural extinction by the year 2750, if the birthrate were maintained at 1.19 children per woman.

Not only is the South Korean population aging (like in Japan and the US), but birthrates are also falling and women are increasingly less inclined to get married.

In 2013, the country’s birth rate plummeted to the lowest level on record: Only 8.6 babies per 1,000 South Koreans were born, and the total number of births fell by 9.9% to the second-lowest number on record.

Furthermore, a government survey of respondents aged 9 to 24 showed that only 45.6% of women “said marriage was something they should do in life,” considerably lower than the 62.9% of men.

Overall, the average South Korean woman is expected to give birth to 1.187 babies in her lifetime — the fifth lowest fertility in the world.

In contrast, neighboring country Philippines, with a current population of 100 Million (twice that of South Korea), has a birthrate of 24.4 babies per 1,000 Filipinos.

One of Metro Manila's cities, Pasig, from the air — One of Metro Manila’s cities, Pasig, from the air

Unless the Philippine government comes up with a solid plan to control population growth, there will not be enough land space to accommodate all Filipinos by the year 2750.

But controlling population is almost out of the question in this predominantly Catholic country, where church officials even encourage Filipinos to make more babies so that the Philippines will have enough workers in call centers as more foreign investors increasingly outsource their manpower requirements.

Urban areas like Metro Manila will be packed like sardines and the population will have to disperse to the rural areas.

Still, that would not be enough to house all Filipinos.

The only option is to build house boats and a good percentage of Filipinos will be living on water — which is plenty in this nation of 7,100 islands.

This dire prediction could only emphasize the need for the Philippines to aggressively defend its claim over islands and waters in the South China Sea — a hotbed of territorial conflict between China and the Philippines, along with other Southeast Asian nations.