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Antonio Trillanes’s beef with Angelo Reyes: a case of professional jealousy?

February 13, 2011May 24, 2016 benign0 41 Comments

Former Secretary and retired General Angelo Reyes was instrumental in driving the final nail into the coffin of former President Joseph “Erap” Estrada in the 2001 “Edsa 2” “Revolution”. He was also instrumental in having mutineer-turned-“senator” Antonio Trillanes jailed for seven years for his alleged role in various rebellions against the Philippine Government between 2003…

Crime, Government, Politics

Philippine military: Does PNoy know who the bad guys really are?

February 12, 2011July 8, 2020 Ilda 87 Comments

As I was reading about the suicide of former Secretary and retired General Angelo Reyes, my curiosity led me to little snippets of the history of military coup attempts in the Philippines. As I dug further on, a few names kept popping up and a pattern slowly revealed itself. It is a fact that the…

Crime, Featured

National comb-over

February 6, 2011January 22, 2020 benign0 14 Comments

I’m sure most of us here not only knows what a comb-over is, chances are we actually personally know at least one person who sports a comb over. I once had a science teacher who had one in a pretty advanced stage. The strands of hair he used for the job originated from the right…

A Lexus to drive and God on his side – Noynoy’s got it made

February 1, 2011 benign0 36 Comments

Philippine President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III needs to get a few tips from President Hosni Mubarak on how to shut down the Internet. Lately he’s been feeling “exasperated” by all the unfair treatment he’s been getting from the Philippine Media — you know, the one that his mommy set free back in 1986… Poor little…

Government, Lifestyle, Media

PNoy is Inquirer’s Filipino of the Year

January 30, 2011 Ilda 208 Comments

Media outlet Inquirer.net was obviously scraping the bottom of the barrel when they named Philippine President Noynoy Aquino (PNoy) “Filipino of the Year” for 2010. The timing is off considering the country is still reeling from a recent terror attack with the bombing of a public transport bus and a perceived rise in overall crime…

Culture, Government, Lifestyle, Media, Politics

Reform by mob: does it always work?

January 29, 2011 benign0 20 Comments

Some recent events in Egypt and Tunisia illustrate the whole trouble with street mobs supposedly calling for “reform” – that in a situation described more by anarchy than any sort of clear higher purpose, it becomes difficult to sort the devils from the angels. Reports of looters vandalising ancient Egyptian artifacts and of Tunisian shopkeepers…

Culture, Featured, Media, Politics, Religion

What a big difference six months had wrought

January 26, 2011 benign0 38 Comments

The past events have shown just how unstable a country the Philippines is. With most unstable systems, even a slight relaxing of vital control functions results in a rapid unraveling or degeneration of its structure. In the last several months, the relatively robust administrative regime of MalacaÃ±ang under former President Gloria Arroyo had become the…

Crime, Development, Featured, Government

Bus bombing on EDSA: PNoy Government under threat?

January 25, 2011 Ilda 185 Comments

Who would have thought that the Year 2011 would start out with a bang? The smoke from the illegal firecrackers from the New Year’s eve celebrations haven’t even dissipated yet; now we have smoke billowing from public transport explosions, adding to the haze that an already dazed and confused Philippine population is struggling to see…

Crime, Culture, Government