Category: Government

Nothing’s changed: The Bangsamoro Basic Law is still an illegal fantasy

April 13, 2015October 1, 2022 benign0 13 Comments

From Day One: The only thing getting in the way of President BS Aquino’s personal agenda is the Philippine Constitution. The flawed-by-design Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) fiasco is but the most recent example. Negotiating with terrorists is one thing, allowing a top representative — the Man Formerly Known as Mohagher Iqbal — to sign legal…

Crime, Government, Politics, Religion, The South

Starting From Scratch: A Possible Solution

April 12, 2015 Grimwald 10 Comments

I am a big fan of RPG games, you know, the ones wherein you play the role of a certain character and you progress through the game in an adventurous manner. It’s like reading a good adventure book wherein you yourself are the hero and how you save the princess/prince/kingdom/world/universe is entirely up to you….

Crime, Culture, Development, Economy, Education, Environment, Government, Lifestyle, Media, Politics, Society

So-called peace advocates Ferrer and Deles betrayed Filipinos by supporting a violent rebel group

April 12, 2015January 23, 2019 Ilda 28 Comments

Government chief peace negotiator Miriam Coronel-Ferrer and Presidential Adviser on the Peace Process Secretary Teresita Quintos Deles are doing more harm than good in promoting the passage of the proposed Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) – the so-called “peace” deal between the Philippine government and the Muslim rebel group Moro Islamic Liberation Front. This is evident…

Crime, Development, Government, Technology

Will Bongbong Marcos replace Noynoy Aquino?

April 10, 2015November 16, 2021 Celestino Manrique II 103 Comments

Aquino, Marcos. These are the two surnames in which Philippine politics is (perhaps blindly) divided into. A failure of the Marcos family puts the Aquino supporters on a feast, and vice versa. With the presidential election looming, the term of President BS Aquino III is drawing to a close. His endorsement power was affected by…

Government, Politics

Why Good Guys Rarely Win in Philippine Elections…

April 10, 2015April 10, 2015 P. Farol 15 Comments

In 2009, I was pretty sure that if anyone should win in the 2010 national elections, it should be (then) Senator Dick Gordon and being in the middle of so many activities aimed at securing his victory, I couldn’t help but buy into the campaign propaganda we had crafted during those many long nights at…

Civics, Development, Government, Politics

Why It Sucks to be a Get Realist

April 10, 2015April 10, 2015 Hector Gamboa 29 Comments

So this is my 35th article at Get Real Philippines (GRP). Not only do I enjoy being in the company of great minds, I love being a part of a community where critical thinking is encouraged, views are challenged, and groupthink is eschewed. Unlike some communities where articles get filtered to fit some sort of…

Culture, Education, Government, Politics, Religion, Society

In Mother Philippines, the Joke Is On You

April 9, 2015 Grimwald 7 Comments

This article is dedicated to this latest article by Mike Portes and is an expansion on this article that few people ever really understood… Look guys, whether we like it or not, the Philippines is now in dire straits because of the choices of the generations that preceded us. We don’t want to blame them…

Crime, Culture, Government, Lifestyle, Media, Politics, Society

And the prostitution just goes on and on…

April 9, 2015April 9, 2015 Ms. Mike Portes 17 Comments

The futility of demanding an apology and justice mounted, as soon as a fall guy was thrown in the Mamasapano “mis-encounter” script during the February 2015 Senate hearing. I was given no other choice but to take consolation in History, that History will eventually testify unkindly to those who hide the truth, much like how Aguinaldo…

Culture, Government, Politics, Society, The South

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