Category: Government

Freedom from Democracy: Is it Time for Duterte to Abolish Congress?

August 19, 2017 zaxx 73 Comments

Democracy stands for freedom. So essentially, “freedom from democracy” entails liberation from the clutches of freedom. Now why has freedom become fetters that keep the Philippines a struggling third-rate dirt-poor country amidst economic tigers in the region? Well democracy is actually a double-edged sword. While it gives us the benefit of that cool ecstatic feeling…

Development, Government, Politics

Hey #CarlosConde ! Who Did You Say Was DOING LITTLE To Keep Journos Safe?

August 17, 2017August 17, 2017 P. Farol 6 Comments

A friend warned me that calling you out on your unfair treatment of the Presidential Task Force on Media Security (PTFoMS) would encourage your meal ticket, the Human Rights Watch organization, to increase funding for your operations as its Asia Division researcher. I told them that I’ll risk it and make you appear to be…

Government, Media

Andres Bautista’s unexplained wealth is the issue, not his wife’s character

August 8, 2017 benign0 19 Comments

The most baffling thing about this latest circus surrounding revelations that Commission on Elections (COMELEC) Chairman Andres Bautista may have amassed a fortune through “unexplained” means is the muted — and, in some cases, even defensive — response of certain camps in the Opposition. The way the Opposition has rallied around Bautista is not without…

Crime, Government

COMELEC Chairman Bautista’s alleged “unexplained wealth” key to exposing 2016 electoral fraud

August 8, 2017May 8, 2022 Ilda 13 Comments

A key to uncovering the alleged election fraud during the Philippine 2016 Presidential Elections is now in the hands of the National Bureau of Investigations (NBI). Patricia Bautista, the estranged wife of the Chairman of the Commission on Elections Andres Bautista, has submitted an affidavit disclosing evidence against the COMELEC chief that he has a…

Crime, Government

From First World to Third: The Philippine Story

August 6, 2017 zaxx 10 Comments

The Philippine case of reverse-transformation from a former colony of first-world USA that was only 2nd to Japan and burgeoning with potential in the middle of the last century into the foremost basket case among emerging tigers serves as a prima facie model example in the world’s handbook on “How NOT to run a country”. As…

Culture, Development, Government

Sustaining change is more important than sustaining Duterte’s popularity

August 3, 2017 benign0 31 Comments

As many Philippine History teachers and Rizalistas will attest to, the 19th Century writings of “national hero” Jose Rizal still resonate strongly today in the 21st Century. If true that in more than a century, the Philippines has hardly changed, then, indeed, the confronting question is raised: How much change could any one president actually…

Crime, Government, Politics

The fuzzy math of Rodrigo Duterte’s critics

July 31, 2017August 1, 2017 FallenAngel 14 Comments

Coming from a Mathematics intensive background, I always try to know as much as I can about, and contribute if possible, the local state of science education. Mathematics is a science too, you know. And mathematics and logic often go together. Back then in the lead up to the 2016 elections, I did call out…

Education, Government, Politics, Science

Duterte reminded Filipinos who they REALLY are during his #SONA2017 address

July 27, 2017 benign0 6 Comments

Self-anointed disente Filipinos were aghast with what they described as the balasubas (uncouth) behaviour of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte as he delivered his second State of the Nation Address (SONA) last Monday. The alluring Senator Risa Hontiveros, one of Duterte’s chief critics in the Senate sported her hottest resting bitch face (RBF) which she kept…

Culture, Government