Mukhang hindi ito gawa-gawa. Hinalughog ko ang Aegle Wellness Center na nagbigay raw ng medical certificate kay Marcos para patunayan sa COMELEC na may sakit siya at hindi makaharap para sa pagdining ng mga kaso laban sa kanya.
Maraming mga serbisyong medical ang inaalok ng Aegle Wellness Center. Halatang isa sa mga serbisyo nila ay clinical intervention para sa mga adik at drug rehabilitation pero hindi nila lantarang sinasabi. Para sa mga mayayaman, dapat ngang itago ang pagkalulong ng mga kapamilya.
Sa Facebook post ng Aegle Wellness Center, klarong nag-aalok sila bilang kasama sa self-care at recovery na sa Medicine, may kinalaman ang mga 'yan sa addiction at mental health na pinagsabay bilang dual diagnosis. Psychologist o psychiatrist ang namamahala kahit sa drug rehab.
Si Dr. Ellen Agustin ang psychologist ng Aegle Wellness Center. Ang focus niya ay behavioral problems, emotional difficulties, stress-related issues, at psychological disorders. Ang mga 'yan ay mga isyung nilulunasan sa sa drug rehab gamit ang addiction counseling o talk therapy.
Mindfulness coach din si Dr. Ellen Agustin. Guess what, Ang mindfulness ay isang therapy na ginagamit sa drug addiction treatment. Isang uri siya ng cognitive behavioral therapy na ang pinagtutuunan ay ang pag-iisip, pag-uugali, kapaligiran, kasamahan, katotohanan, at reyalidad.
Sa Facebook posts ng Aegle Wellness Center, laging nababanggit ang lifestyle diseases. Kasama ang drug abuse o addiction sa lifestyle diseases. Hindi ako nagtataka kung bakit hindi lantarang sinasabi ang drug rehab kasi nga may nakakabit na kahihiyan. Ayaw ng mga mayayaman niyan.
Ang may-ari ng Aegle Wellness Center, Balesin Island Club, at Alphaland ay si Roberto Ongpin na dating minister at crony ni Pres. Marcos. Siya ang ama ni Julian Ongpin na nahulihan ng cocaine at nobyo ng isang artist na nagpakamatay. Sa Aegle ba nagpa-rehab ang anak ng diktador?
Heto ang cocaine na nakumpiska ng mga pulis kay Julian Ongpin. May paper bag pa ng Aegle Wellness Center. Nirehab din ba si Julian sa wellness center ng kanyang ama? Ano ang ginawa ng Aegle paper bag diyan? Labas-pasok ba si Julian sa rehab treatment ng Aegle Wellness Center?
Sa ganang akin, totoo ang patama ni Duterte na cocaine addict si Marcos. Tumama ang intel niya kasi nasa Pilipinas ang rehab center. Kung sa labas ng bansa nagparehab, maitatago sana. Kahit sa Balesin Island pa si marcos nagparehab, kaya pa rin kalkalin ng intel ni Duterte 'yan.
Importante na hindi na tayo maghalal ng adik. Tandaang adik si Duterte sa Fentanyl. Ang mga pag-uugali niya ay makikita sa mga adik. May mga adik na pumapatay. Karaniwan din sa mga adik ang pagsisinungaling at pagnanakaw. Magtanda na tayo kay Duterte. Huwag nang maghalal ng adik.
Done.
Additional info. Drug rehabilitation center din talaga ang Aegle Wellness Center.
It's a bad idea to place the socmed campaign at the bottom of our list. Considering the pandemic, the internet users in the Philippines, and the social media influence on the political choices of Filipinos, social media is where the battle is.
Yes, a lot of Filipinos don't have access to computers, mobile phones, the internet or a social media platform, but it's possible that most households have someone, probably a breadwinner, who has a gadget and a socmed account. That's enough to politically influence a household.
There are four kinds of trolls in the Philippines. Let me enumerate the bad ones first: paid trolls who only post scripted lies and manipulated images anywhere and loyalist trolls who aggressively argue using the same scripted lies and manipulated images against their targets.
This thread, perhaps my last, will be about motivating voters to take a political stand, campaign, and finally vote for Robredo. Voting motivators will make or break her in this election.
From January next year until election day, I'll be tempering my political criticism or restraining myself from expressing my views on campaign strategies. I'm already a pariah. I don't need more othering. Kakampinks should be focusing on the right people instead of attacking me.
Again, this thread is not about my opinions or ideas plucked out of thin air but the campaign facts and events in the past I have studied and analyzed. If you itch to describe me, "a decoder of signs and symbols" is apt. That's still anthropological--to study the ways and means.
Winning election campaigns are evidence-based, scientific, data-driven and cognitive. Cambridge Analytica has demonstrated to us many times that maskipaps, nakasanayans, and tsambas and their versions in other countries are things of the past.
Election campaigns in the Philippines today should be changed by what happened in 2016--the use of social media, manipulative political communication, and data analytics. The traditional strategies before that should be deemed archaic as far as our national politics is concerned.
Robredo's camp should use Laylo's demographically arranged survey results to restrategize its campaign. This thread will do just that. I will propose probable narratives based on the numbers and suggest solutions that may weaken or neutralize them. My intent, again, is to help.
We need to do this exercise in critical studies to unravel narratives, texts, and meanings embedded in images signs, and symbols to unmask the intent of artists, designers, or creatives. In the case of Marcos' TV ad, we will unearth motives.
Semiotics is the study of signs, symbols, their interpretations that influence perceptions and meanings that construct thoughts. Humans live or survive in the midst of signs and symbols--traffic lights, company logos, colored baby tags in birthing centers, danger warnings, etc.
In the Philippines, even the image of a black cat is a whole horror story. Because we are so used to signs and symbols, marketing specialists or TV ad makers use them subliminally or conspicuously to arouse our minds or stir our feelings. We relive the past or construct meanings.
It was around this time in 2015 when I wrote an open letter to Roxas that went viral. I suggested that he should change his campaign strategies and political messages. Unfortunately, I was attacked by his supporters, so I silenced myself.
This time, I won't be quiet. I'll be exhaustive. I'll make sure that this open letter won't be dismissed as a mere plethora of personal opinions. I'm doing this because I don't want another government of liars and thieves. My insistence is noble since all I want is a good leader.
First, your TV ad is awful. It's not inspiring. It's a trigger for depression. You want to fix the dying economy, but your hair looks dead. You want to save the hungry and the oppressed, but your face is ghostly. You look weak, sick, and tired. Our hope shouldn't look hopeless.
Now that we're talking about the Barangay Development Fund that eats up the entire budget of the NTF-ELCAC and is released to provincial and city governments, we should also raise the dying rural economy, the abandoned barangays and local development.
There should be a department for barangay affairs that will handle all barangay-related funds, programs, projects, plans, and policies. It doesn't make sense that the Barangay Development Fund is released to provincial and city governments, not to elected barangay governments.
Currently, elected barangay officials are election agents of mayors, governors, and representatives as though it is not their responsibility to develop their barangays. They are so used to barangay beautification, basketball tournaments, and other mundane tasks. Enough of that.