Category: Government

Media storm raised on prospect of American military return to the Philippines!

April 29, 2011May 16, 2023 benign0 4 Comments

Don’t look now, but some people are getting a bit defensive soon after the Inquirer.net published reports of “high level visits” by American officials to meet with Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) and Olongapo City officials. Specifically US Senators Daniel Inouye and Thad Cochran who respectively chair and officiate the US Senate appropriations committee reportedly…

Economy, Government, Media, Politics

The Americans are back in Subic Bay and Olongapo City!

April 28, 2011 benign0 24 Comments

In a report published on the Inquirer.net, it was revealed that there have recently been some “high-level visits” by United States officials to meet with Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) and Olongapo officials. It seems that possible delays in a massive relocation of US military facilities from Okinawa in Japan to the US territory of…

Economy, Government, Society

Noynoy publicly criticizes his own speechwriting staff

April 12, 2011 benign0 17 Comments

In another demonstration of his lack of a deep understanding of the concept of command responsibility, Philippine President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino dissed his own speechwriting staff in public. Choosing instead to speak extemporaneously in front of an audience made up of participants in the 10th Student Catholic Action of the Philippines (SCAP) National Leadership Conference…

Government, Media

PNoy: being president is about hard work and not about popularity

April 7, 2011April 8, 2011 Ilda 24 Comments

They say love hurts. Or at least being rejected does. Whether it is a lover or a friend â€“ they say that being jilted is just like getting punched in the gut. Spare a thought for Philippine President Noynoy Aquino. PNoy and his team were left licking their wounds after their most recent approval rating…

Government, Media, Politics

Noynoy Aquino is on a war path against his critics

April 4, 2011 benign0 3 Comments

When asked by reporters what he was going to do about the dip in his administration’s approval ratings (which slipped several points to 75 percent in the latest survey), Philippine President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino’s reply was a classic: he said he would further intensify — and be even more “aggressive” with — trumpeting his “achievements”….

Government, Media

Dear President Noynoy, being average is NOT being resilient

March 27, 2011March 27, 2011 Ilda 53 Comments

According to Philippine President Noynoy Aquino (PNoy), Filipinos’ resilience will see us through any crisis. Here’s what he had to say as reported in a Philstar.com news item: “Resilient? Yes, I believe so. I always try to look at every problem as an opportunity,” he told Palace reporters. “We have industries that could recover after…

Culture, Development, Government

Somebody please tell Noynoy he is President of the Philippines!

March 25, 2011 benign0 7 Comments

Philippine President Benigno ‘Noynoy’ Aquino speaking as a ‘private citizen’? I’m no expert on protocol but in my book, when one assumes the office of head of state and government, one lives and breathes the role for the entire length of the term. So as far as Noynoy is concerned, I believe there is no…

Crime, Government, Politics

Case studies of irrelevance: Drug mules and Ombudsman Merci Gutierrez

March 24, 2011 benign0 3 Comments

According to the World Health Organisation (WHO) Country Fact Sheet for the Philippines published in 2006, 16,000 Filipinos died violently in 2002. This means that in the five hours it took for a Philippine Government delegate to travel from Manila to Beijing to plead for the life of three Filipino drug mules sentenced to death…

Civics, Culture, Government, Politics, Society