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Philippine News Blog Rappler Accuses Facebook Of Being Undemocratic, Picks A Fight With Mocha Uson

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Uson, left, and Ressa

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – If you can’t lick Mocha Uson, blame Facebook.  This seems to be the expert opinion of Maria Ressa, CEO of the Philippine news blog Rappler.

Uson, for those who don’t know her, is a performer and member of the group Mocha Girls. In recent months she has turned political blogger, gaining the attention of millions of Filipino netizens and the Duterte administration.  She actively campaigned to elect Duterte and remains an avid defender of the president’s policies and actions.

Rappler, on the other hand, is a leading news blog. Many have accused it, however, as among among the biased news media in the country.   We’ll not mention the other since this is about Rappler.

But Uson seems to have overtaken Rappler in terms of “likes” and following, and Ressa is not happy.

In an opinion piece published in her own news blog, Ressa berates what she calls Facebook’s “black box” algorithm which has resulted in Uson’s popularity and Rappler’s continuing decline.

Because we are not a biased outlet, we have taken the liberty of posting in full Ressa’s attack on Facebook.

You be the judge.

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Beauty, Government, International, Politics, Social Media, Tourism

Filipina Group Wants Miss Universe Pageant In The Philippines Cancelled

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MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – An elite group of Filipina women has asked the Miss Universe Organization to cancel the January 2017 beauty pageant scheduled to be held in the Philippines.

The letter signed by more than 150 individuals (as of press time) claims that the current political atmosphere in the country is not conducive to holding a prestigious international beauty contest like Miss Universe.

The co-signers of the letter-petition are the very same people who celebrated the crowning less than a year ago of Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach, the reigning Miss Universe who is from the Philippines. It is rumored that majority of them were first runners-up or  “thank you girls” in various local beauty pageants.

All of the netizen comments on the Facebook page which posted the letter to the Miss Universe Organization were critical of the group and accused the co-signers of having the so-called crab mentality, referring to people who want to denigrate and pull down their own group or country.

Some netizens questioned the group if they would discourage their own relatives from visiting the Philippines as balikbayans or encourage women-owned businesses in the country to take their companies elsewhere.

Ironically, the petitioners are quiet about another international beauty pageant, Miss Earth, which will be held in the Philippines this month.

That’s right, pick and choose.

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Health & Medicine, Politics, Social Media, Technology, The Media

Wikileaks: Trump’s Medical Condition Revealed

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IMG_6279.PNGSTOCKHOLM, Sweden (The Adobo Chronicles, Berlin Bureau) – Who would have thought that there could be anything more damaging  to Donald Trump than the explosive audio tape in which he is heard bragging about kissing and groping women?  Well, there is.

The Sweden-based Wikileaks today released a document which apparently confirms a rare medical condition with which the Republican presidential candidate was diagnosed more than 10 years ago.

The document, a certification from Trump’s personal physician, shows that he is suffering from psychosinusitis-XL. There are only about three hundred people worldwide suffering from this condition.

Psychosinusitis-XL is a mental condition which affects a person’s brain. It alters the normal function which allows a person to determine right from wrong, truth from falsehood and childhood vs. adulthood.  The illness manifests itself through the sinuses — the reason it is called psychosinusitis.

Now we know the reason for that constant sniffling we’ve seen and heard from Trump in the last two presidential debates.

CNN’s chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta told The Adobo Chronicles that the sinus infection itself is benign but the mental condition is malignant.

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