Category: Government

President Noynoy Aquino’s extensive history of suppressing the Truth

September 19, 2013 benign0 21 Comments

My colleague Paul Farol, on the mark in his usual form, had earlier cited what is likely the most recent case of the underhanded manner with which the administration of Philippine President Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino III deals with revealing information circulating amongst its constituents. An article published by Francisco S. Tatad earlier this week…

Crime, Government, Media, Politics, Technology

MNLF head Nur Misuari is the Janet Lim Napoles of the Zamboanga crisis

September 18, 2013September 18, 2013 benign0 12 Comments

The root issue in the on-going trouble down under in Mindanao is the way the Philippine government has traditionally cozied up to even the meanest and baddest terrorist and rebel groups “for the sake of peace”. Currently, it is the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) that is being painted as the bad guy, and rightly…

Crime, Government, Politics

Did President Benigno S. Aquino meet with Janet Lim Napoles hours before her surrender?

September 16, 2013September 21, 2013 P. Farol 19 Comments

Facebook is abuzz about the supposed Manila Standard article by Francisco S. Tatad where it was claimed that Janet Lim Napoles had lunch with President Benigno S. Aquino hours before the supposed scripted and staged surrender of the supposed P10 Billion Pork Barrel Scam. A meme spreading wildly through the cyber mosquito network of sites…

Crime, Government, Politics

Zamboanga crisis: MNLF leader Nur Misuari not only lost his cause, he also lost the plot

September 16, 2013June 30, 2014 Ilda 39 Comments

The current clashes between Philippine government troops and members of a Muslim rebel group in Zamboanga City of Mindanao despite the 2012 Framework Agreement should be a lesson to all especially President Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino that one should never negotiate with terrorists. Obviously, the most recent peace agreement cooked up by the government with…

Development, Government, Politics, Religion

How About A P2 Billion Rice Scam To Go With Your Pork Barrel Fund Scam?

September 13, 2013September 19, 2018 P. Farol 7 Comments

While people are going agog about the P10 Billion Pork Barrel Scam, another scam is being perpetrated without an uproar, without crowds gathering at EDSA, and without pictures of different people posing with Jeane Lim Napoles. Not everybody in a country with over two thirds of its people groaning under the poverty line gets a…

Development, Economy, Government

The men and women behind Voyager 1 put to shame the iPhone generation of the 21st Century

September 13, 2013September 13, 2013 benign0 13 Comments

I read with wonder how Voyager 1, a little space probe launched by the United States in 1977 had “finally” left our solar system — “for real this time” according to a Scientific American report. What is really amazing about this spacecraft and the men and women who designed, built, launched, and worked with it…

Crime, Government, Society, Tech Talk

Zen and the Art of Noytard Maintenance.

September 13, 2013 Gogs 41 Comments

His lack of faith in reason was why he was so fanatically dedicated to it. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – Robert Pirsig The book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig was probably mandatory hippie reading when it first came out in 1974. I first read it…

Culture, Government, Politics, Society

The Philippines: An inherently unjust society where criminals big and small get away

September 12, 2013 benign0 17 Comments

Injustice pervades Filipino society from head to toe. Most recent is the exceedingly tragic fate that befell 25-year-old Kae Davantes whose hog-tied remains were found last Saturday after she went missing on Friday last week. The words “a parent’s worst nightmare” in no way comes close to describing the sort of grief that one can…

Crime, Culture, Government