TOPECA, Kansas (The Adobo Chronicles) – The hate group, Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), will picket the funeral of Leonard Nimoy, a.k.a. Spock of ‘Star Trek’ who died today at age 83.
WBC didn’t give any reasons for planning to picket. They just want to. You know, publicity.
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MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles) – In The Philippine Star (TPS), one of the leading national dailies, a full page is devoted to China, the People’s Republic of China — the same China that is engaged in a tense territorial dispute with the Philippines over islands in the South China Sea.
TPS describes the page as “weekly updates and other relevant information on the People’s Republic of China.”
Apparently, Freedom of Information abounds in the Philippines, except when it comes to government information. Congress has yet to pass a Freedom of Information (FOI) Bill.
The China page on TPS is obviously funded by the Chinese Embassy in the Philippines.
But why, you might ask, does China need weekly news updates in the Philippines? And why would TPS publish such a supplement other than for the adverstising revenue? Would The New York Times or Washington Post publish a similar weekly supplement funded by the North Korean Government or Iraq?
Some political observers are saying that this could be a ‘dress rehearsal’ for when China eventually takes over not just the disputed Spratly Islands, but perhaps the entire Philippines.
Of course, that’s just conjecture, but we’ve seen too many speculations come to fruition.
MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles) – From underwear to nail polish, from wart removal to skin whitening, from the latest teleserye to the next movie box office hopeful, giant billboards as tall as the high-rise buildings and condos line both sides of Metro Manila’s major thoroughfares.
Whether they are an unnecessary distraction for motorists is debatable, given that road traffic is almost always at a stand still anyway. And this, perhaps, is the reason companies and advertisers cough up big bucks to claim their spot in billboard city.
We don’t need a scientific survey to determine which major city is considered the billboard capital of the world. Manila wins the title. Hands down!
Billboards are a sure way to get advertising messages across to their intended audiences in Manila, so much so that even God bought a giant billboard that greets commuters as they enter the city from the North Luzon expressway.
The billboard, painted in black, has this powerful message written in bold, white letters:
“We need to talk.
-God”
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