HTTP/2 301 server: nginx date: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:20:09 GMT content-type: application/rss+xml; charset=UTF-8 location: https://johnnery.wordpress.com/comments/feed/ x-hacker: Want root? Visit join.a8c.com/hacker and mention this header. host-header: WordPress.com link: ; rel="https://api.w.org/" vary: accept, content-type, cookie last-modified: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:20:09 GMT etag: "b5b93c31010a8a1e1d516bf6e4436f2b" x-redirect-by: WordPress x-ac: 1.bom _dca MISS alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400 strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000 server-timing: a8c-cdn, dc;desc=bom, cache;desc=MISS;dur=413.0 HTTP/2 200 server: nginx date: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:20:09 GMT content-type: application/rss+xml; charset=UTF-8 vary: Accept-Encoding x-hacker: Want root? Visit join.a8c.com/hacker and mention this header. host-header: WordPress.com link: ; rel="https://api.w.org/" vary: accept, content-type, cookie last-modified: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:20:09 GMT etag: W/"b5b93c31010a8a1e1d516bf6e4436f2b" content-encoding: gzip x-ac: 3.bom _dca MISS alt-svc: h3=":443"; ma=86400 strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000 server-timing: a8c-cdn, dc;desc=bom, cache;desc=MISS;dur=417.0 https://johnnery.wordpress.com A Journalist in the Philippines Sun, 15 Jun 2025 09:37:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.com/ https://johnnery.wordpress.com/2020/06/28/column-teo-acosta-and-the-degeneration-of-the-elites/#comment-2189 Sun, 15 Jun 2025 09:37:49 +0000 https://johnnery.wordpress.com/?p=3142#comment-2189 […] the degeneration of the elites (the Italian thinker Vilfredo Pareto’s theory of elite deterioration) has infected the United […]

]]> https://johnnery.wordpress.com/2020/07/08/column-surveys-in-a-time-of-fear/#comment-2188 Sat, 07 Jun 2025 09:18:18 +0000 https://johnnery.wordpress.com/?p=3305#comment-2188 […] I wrote then: “That is an extraordinary index of anxiety: Three-fourths of adult Filipinos say they worry that they or someone they know might be killed as the next victim of the President’s rampaging war on drugs. When we consider that, even using the President’s most risibly inflated estimates of the number of drug users, not more than 7 percent of the population is on drugs; when we consider further that, according to the December 2018 SWS survey, only 12 percent of adult Filipinos personally know an EJK victim—then the fact that 78 percent of survey respondents say they or someone they know might be the next EJK victim is an indictment of the fundamental unfairness of the President’s personal war. It is proof that the war on drugs that claims thousands of lives is perceived by the people as essentially unjust, almost random, and a sign that the public labors under cover of fear. The people themselves say so.” […]

]]> https://johnnery.wordpress.com/2025/04/02/column-whats-next-for-vp-sara-go-macapagal-or-go-arroyo/#comment-2187 Tue, 08 Apr 2025 12:29:34 +0000 https://johnnery.wordpress.com/?p=4301#comment-2187 resplendent! Breaking: Significant Investment Announced in [Renewable Energy Sector] 2025 adorable

]]> https://johnnery.wordpress.com/2020/07/08/column-surveys-in-a-time-of-fear/#comment-2186 Thu, 27 Mar 2025 01:54:06 +0000 https://johnnery.wordpress.com/?p=3305#comment-2186 […] wrote then: “That is an extraordinary index of anxiety: Three-fourths of adult Filipinos say they worry that […]

]]> https://johnnery.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/column-pope-father-general-and-farmer-leader/#comment-2184 Sun, 16 Jun 2024 05:31:19 +0000 https://johnnery.wordpress.com/?p=973#comment-2184 […] Benedict’s principle of “gratuitousness”Notes on Benedict’s gloss on Pope John Paul II’s trinity of market, state, and civil society. […]

]]> https://johnnery.wordpress.com/2013/08/20/column-tagles-pope-benedict-vs-the-media/#comment-2183 Sun, 16 Jun 2024 05:31:16 +0000 https://johnnery.wordpress.com/?p=1646#comment-2183 […] Benedict vs the mediaA first look at Benedict’s worryingly reductive view of the media coverage of Vatican II. […]

]]> https://johnnery.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/column-pope-benedict-regrets/#comment-2182 Sun, 16 Jun 2024 05:31:14 +0000 https://johnnery.wordpress.com/?p=827#comment-2182 […] Pope Benedict regretsNotes on an extraordinary letter from the Pope […]

]]> https://johnnery.wordpress.com/2013/08/19/column-a-small-pope/#comment-2181 Sun, 16 Jun 2024 05:31:11 +0000 https://johnnery.wordpress.com/?p=1639#comment-2181 […] A small popeA reflection on his historic decision to resign from the See of Peter. […]

]]> https://johnnery.wordpress.com/2021/01/19/column-the-public-rotting-of-harry-roque/#comment-2180 Fri, 25 Aug 2023 12:59:14 +0000 https://johnnery.wordpress.com/?p=3695#comment-2180 Look Like Korean/Japanese Newspapers

]]> https://johnnery.wordpress.com/2021/09/05/leadership-legacies-from-fidel-ramos/#comment-2179 Tue, 31 Jan 2023 19:38:38 +0000 https://johnnery.wordpress.com/2021/09/05/leadership-legacies-from-fidel-ramos/#comment-2179 […] Joseph Estrada, was later ousted in a second People Power revolution amid corruption issues.In a forum covering Ramos’s legacy last year, political columnist and veteran journalist John Nery said the […]

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