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'YOUR MOVIE IS IN NO WAY ART' SAYS DIRECTOR TO GISELLE SANCHEZ

Director and playwright Floy Quintos blasted actress Giselle Sanchez's explanation of why she accepted to portray former president Cory Aquino in the controversial film “Maid in Malacañang.”

In a lengthy post posted on her Facebook account, Giselle said she accepted the role because she wanted to work with director Daryl Yap and that she also sees the film as art.

"How can a movie that is already condemned for falsification of history, for an overwhelming bias and for sheer bad taste, possibly be Art?," Quintos said in a lengthy reply to her post.

"Art has nothing to do with your choice. Just say you needed and wanted the work. At least, you will have maintained some integrity," he added.

via Philippine Star

Former Solicitor General Florin Hilbay, who ran for Senate in 2019 under the party, resigns from Isko Moreno's Aksyon Demokratiko to support the presidential bid of Leni Robredo. | via Marc Jayson Cayabyab

Pilipinas kasing lakas ang China at Amerika noong panahon ni Marcos?

HINDI TOTOO! Noong diktadurya ni Marcos, nasa 274,000 lang ang military personnel ng Pilipinas. Sa parehong panahon, hindi bababa sa 750,000 ang military personnel ng United States habang nasa 4.5 milyon-6 milyon ang military personnel ng China.

Lumaki ang budget at dumami ang bilang ng mga military noong panahon ni Marcos, pero hindi ito ang pinakamalaki at pinakamakapangyarihan. Sa ASEAN, kulelat ang bansa kung ikukumpara sa Thailand na may 104 units ng eroplano at 396,000 na military personnel noong panahon ni Marcos. Ang Pilipinas naman ay may 36 units ng eroplano lang at 274,000 military personnel.

Sources:
- - https://newslab.philstar.com/31-years-of-amnesia/strongest-military
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237402612_Assessing_the_Expanded_Role_of_the_Armed_Forces_of_the_Philippines_in_Nation-Building
- https://www.facebook.com/KnowledgeFactoryPH/posts/4510903358968244
- https://historyinpieces.com/research/us-military-personnel-1954-2014
- https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=g3yNDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT40&dq=1980+PLA+size&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj2r9Xku8nzAhWJQfUHHTKHBsUQ6AF6BAgHEAI =onepage&q=1980%20PLA%20size&f=false
- https://newslab.philstar.com/31-years-of-amnesia/strongest-military
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237402612_Assessing_the_Expanded_Role_of_the_Armed_Forces_of_the_Philippines_in_Nation-Building

Something to break up the weekend monotony

Good at the Chevron House project site! Let's dig up some dirt! 👷‍♀️

President Noynoy Aquino walang ginawa noong administrasyon niya?

FALSE! Bago bumaba sa pwesto, tatlong malalaking infrastructure projects (Muntinlupa-Cavite Expressway, 9,296 classrooms, at ang Beep card project) ang natapos habang 50 infrastructure projects ang naaprubahan at pinondohan ng kanyang pamhalaan. Ang mga 50 projects na ito ay pinagpatuloy at tinatapos sa ilalim ng pamamahala ni Pangulong Duterte.

Source:
- https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/fact-check/no-infrastructure-built-under-noynoy-aquino
- https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/lists/aquino-admin-tbc-projects/
- https://www.rappler.com/business/private-firms-on-ppp-nice-but-slow

ICYMI: Nutribun, isang epektibong programa na ginawa ng mga Marcos laban sa gutom?

FALSE! Ang Nutribun ay bunga ng USAID relief mula sa Amerika na nagsimula noong 1972 para tugunan ang matinding gutom sa ilalim ng administrasyong Marcos. Ito'y nirepackage at inangkin ng mga Marcos na programa nila laban sa gutom. Ayon sa mga pag-aaral, kadalasang hindi nakamit ng Nutribun ang layunin nitong tugunan at sugpuin ang gutom sa bansa.

Source: https://newslab.philstar.com/31-years-of-amnesia/nutribun

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ICYMI: Marcos 'Word's Most Brilliant President in History' ayon sa Guinness Book of World Record?

FALSE! Walang record sa ilalim ng Guinness Book of World Record na 'World's Most Brilliant President in History'. Ngunit may record ang pamahalaang Marcos sa Guinness Book of World para sa 'Greatest Robbery of a Government' dahil sa pagnanakaw ng $5-10 billion.

Ipinost ng isang Ronald 'Bato' Dela Rosa ang fake news na ito.

Source:
- https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/65607-greatest-robbery-of-a-government

After backlash over Marcos interview, Toni Gonzaga urged to speak to martial law victims FRONT PAGE news After backlash over Marcos interview, Toni Gonzaga urged to speak to martial law victims By Glee Jalea, CNN Philippines Published Sep 16, 2021 9:34:43 AM enablePagination: false maxItemsPerPage: 10 totalITemsFound: maxPaginationLinks: 10 maxPossiblePages: startIndex: endIndex: Metro....

LOOK: The Ateneo Martial Law Museum urges Toni Gonzaga to talk to Martial Law victims after her interview with Bongbong Marcos trended online.

“We really do hope that you will take this opportunity to talk and listen to the real heroes who suffered and fought against the Marcoses,” the Ateneo Martial Law Museum writes in an open letter to Gonzaga.

Gonzaga drew flak for interviewing the former senator and son of ex-president Ferdinand Marcos, saying it’s an insult to past human rights victims.

Here’s the full text of the open letter:

“Dear Ms. Gonzaga,

We are the Ateneo Martial Law Museum, a digital museum housed in the School of Social Sciences of the Ateneo de Manila University. Our mandate is to teach the public about our history under the Marcos regime, and to take a stand against attempts to undermine our democracy through the distortion of our dark past under the Marcos regime. Many of those working against these distortions have already expressed their disappointment and disdain over your decision to invite Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. to your show. Let us articulate where this disappointment comes from and what you can do about it.

Inviting the son of a murderous and corrupt dictator of our country to your show benefits no one and pushes back the struggle to gain justice from the atrocities committed by the Marcos regime and against historical revisionism running rampant amongst our people. Your show has contributed to the Marcos family’s attempts to whitewash their human rights violations and its proven historical record. Marcos is a lying clout chaser, desperate to change public opinion about historical facts as he has neither history nor truth to his side.

No amount of propaganda spewed by the Marcos family and their supporters can erase the factual and proven disastrous effects of the Marcos regime on our country. Your show presented Bongbong Marcos as an amiable and approachable figure. This is also an outright attempt at whitewashing. Mr. Marcos is not and will never be “ordinary” or “one with the people”. The Marcos family and their allies continue to benefit from the billions of Pesos stolen from public coffers during his father’s dictatorship and they continue to escape accountability for their actions. He continues to push a message and a political agenda that erodes efforts to exact justice from the atrocities committed during that period. He has no interest in the betterment of our society. His only interest lies in returning to the halls of power in order to whitewash his family’s disastrous legacy and to perpetuate themselves in power.

Celebrities should use their platforms, influence, and privilege in order to aid the progress of the common good. Helping build a more just society means that we hold the corrupt and the murderous to account and deprive them of the means and platforms that normalizes and whitewashes these figures and behaviors. The propagandistic lies peddled by Marcos on your show, and the lies peddled by those who had orchestrated the current shutdown of your own home network ABS-CBN, are fruits from the same tree. These falsehoods are designed to mislead and divide our people so that corruption and lust for power remain rampant and unchecked throughout our country.

May we invite you to instead talk to the victims and surviving families of the Martial Law regime? The Ateneo Martial Law Museum stands ready to facilitate your encounter with the victims of Martial Law and with the truth. In fact, we think that hearing their stories and struggles will be much more inspirational for your audience than talking to anyone from the Marcos family. These are the stories that celebrities and influencers should strive to popularize and disseminate as they are exemplary models of how we can strive to create a better country for everyone. In the first place, the only reason why we are able to pursue our creative pursuits in a free society today was because of their sacrifices. We owe a lot to those who sacrificed their lives in order to fight for our freedom and democracy.

We really do hope that you will take this opportunity to talk and listen to the real heroes who suffered and fought against the Marcoses. Our lines will remain open to you and your team should you choose to initiate this process. If other creators would also like to heed our call, our lines remain open to collaborate with you as well.

Sincerely,

The Ateneo Martial Law Museum
School of Social Sciences
Ateneo de Manila University
www.martiallawmuseum.ph
[email protected]”

📷 The Ateneo Martial Law Museum

Is the Duterte government entirely responsible for the Skyway 3?

False. This Build Build Build classified project started before the Duterte administration.