Category: Politics

Facts and figures: President Noynoy Aquino’s promises by the numbers

July 24, 2011 benign0 6 Comments

Politicians are quick to grandstand about their achievements and their “contributions” to the development of our wretched land, the Philippines. Whenever statistics about the economy or survey results describing public sentiment is released, politicians will go on a media blitz to ensure that an association between these and themselves are implanted in the vacuous minds…

Development, Economy, Politics

Why re-opening the Hello Garci case is like the second invasion of Iraq

July 20, 2011 benign0 76 Comments

Making news today is another blast from the past — the re-opening of the 2004 election cheating scandal that engulfed most of former President Gloria Arroyo’s term from then ’til 2009 and a new investigation mounted on the back of a possible testimony from Zaldy Ampatuan and Lintang Bedong both of whom have admitted to…

Crime, Politics

An unsolicited draft of President Noynoy Aquino’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) for July 25, 2011

July 18, 2011June 8, 2012 benign0 5 Comments

My dear countrymen, members of Congress, honourable House Speaker, Senate President, and Chief Justice, ladies and gentlemen of the diplomatic corps: Today I stand before you, this 25th day of July 2011 to do three things: (1) report on what we had achieved in the last twelve months, (2) give you a summary of the…

Development, Economy, Government, Politics, Society

A call to President Noynoy Aquino to ditch the color yellow

July 16, 2011August 20, 2013 benign0 66 Comments

Tired, old, and quite frankly embarrassing. That’s what’s become of the whole yellow motif of the Aquino clan and its circle of business cronies, relatives, “shooting buddies”, lackeys, Media outlets, and cadre of bloggers, publicists, and “social media activists”. It was the primary colour of a successful propaganda campaign that started in 1983, peaked in…

Culture, Government, Politics, Society

OFW ‘exit permits’ make sense – because taxpayers’ funds are at stake

July 15, 2011July 15, 2011 benign0 14 Comments

Exit permits for OFWs? You gotta be kidding. That plus anecdotal evidence of all sorts of red tape before one can depart for a job overseas? An outrage! It sounds like something reminiscent of the Cold War when East German citizens would risk life and limb to make a dash across the border for a…

Economy, Lifestyle, Politics, Society

Do Filipinos need iron-fisted leadership?

July 8, 2011November 26, 2015 Ilda 103 Comments

Filipinos do not know what they want. In 1986, hundreds of thousands of Filipinos took to the streets to rally against the late strongman, former President Ferdinand Marcos. The three-day protest eventually led to the ousting of the so-called “dictator” and alleged human rights violator. Twenty five years later, Filipinos from the Mindanao region of…

Civics, Crime, Development, Government, Politics, Society

Should Mindanao secede from what could be turning into a failed state?

July 7, 2011June 16, 2013 benign0 37 Comments

Seems like the whole Media fiesta that is raging around the the Duterte’s of Davao City, specifically on-leave Mayor Sara’s fists and the Duterte father-and-son fingers is opening up old raw emotions about the subjugation of Mindanao to the 100-year-old elephant in the room — the legacy of colonial rule, Imperial Manila. Many Davao folk…

Government, Politics, Society

Law and Order – Philippine style

July 6, 2011December 4, 2015 Ilda 334 Comments

The longer I write about Philippine society and its politics, the more convinced I get that the country’s state of law and order is a joke. Take Davao City for instance. All this time I thought that the city was a model for what following the “rule of law” could do. It turns out, to…

Civics, Crime, Culture, Politics

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