OpenTalk by Carlos Conde

OpenTalk by Carlos Conde

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OpenTalk by Carlos Conde episodes

  • The Method to the Madness of SARA DUTERTE

    In this episode, we touch on :

    • What Sara Duterte seeks to achieve?
    • 2 objectives: 1) Rile up Duterte base 2) distract people from corruption issues she’s facing in Congress
    • This spectacle is about political dynasties but nothing like this has happened before
    • Bakit ang mga iniimbestigahan, laging nagkakasakit?
    • An insult to the oversight process of Congress
    • Classic gaslighting by Sara and her camp
    • This is a battle between two giant political clans
    • Both clans have the WORST record in terms of corruption and abuses
    • Marcoses are thieves
    • The Dutertes are blood-thirsty
    • Connivance between the Dutertes and the Marcos
    • It began with burial of the dictator Ferdinand Marcos in Libingan ng mga Bayani
    • “An Anarchy of Familes,” an important book on political dynasties in the Philippines
    • The history of Philippine politics is a history of violence
    • “Utak Ampatuan “ si Sara
    • But was it just a character issue concerning Sara Duterte?
    • Nababaliw lang ba talaga?
    • The Duterte’s performative politics
    • Intel and confi funds are Sara’s vulnerability that Marcoses are exploiting
    • Sara claims political persecution, with some basis, and that is her ammunition
    • 2028 presidential election promises to be bloody

    31 min
  • PRESS FREEDOM: "No More Red-Tagging of Journalists"

    Joe Torres, the new chief of the Presidential Task Force on Media Security (PTFoMS), vows changes in an agency that’s supposed to protect journalists. For one, he says the task force will end the practice by his predecessors to red-tag journalists. Red-tagging puts journalists and activists in danger.

    43 min
  • JOURNOS ON WHEELS

    When not chasing deadlines, these journalists chase trails.

    In this episode, journalists Jes Aznar, JB Deveza, Bobby Lagsa, and Cong Corrales talk to us about the joys -- and hazards -- of biking. It gives them a high and they can get lost in it but they are fully aware of the risks involved, including bad roads, bad drivers, and bad people with guns (yikes!).


    Language: English, Cebuano, Tagalog

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    Thanks to Top-Flow for the music ("Twilight Hustle").
    https://pixabay.com/users/top-flow-28521292/

    1 hr 7 min

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Podcasts on politics, human rights, social justice, civil liberties, freedom of expression in the Philippines