Category: Government

Addressing poverty from the ground up should be central issue in Philippine elections

August 8, 2015 Add 69 Comments

The political mudslinging that is being amplified with gusto by headline news is good for the rating wars of media. It may be a whole class of unavoidable news they have to report. However, if the intent is the beguilement of the public to desensitize same to the real problems of the country, media is being stonyhearted…

Development, Education, Government, Media, Politics, Society

The Filipino Obsession With Self-Destruction

August 7, 2015 Grimwald 16 Comments

Before I begin, I would like to apologize if my previous article, The Rape Of The Philippines: A Vicious Cycle, offended anyone. It was not my intention to trivialize rape nor create misleading ideas about it. I merely wanted to create a good metaphor for the kind of trouble the Philippines is in. Unfortunately, it seems…

Crime, Culture, Development, Government, Politics, Religion, Society

Alam Pa Ba Ng Mamamayang Pinoy Ang Kahulugan Ng Salitang “Kabayanihan”?

August 6, 2015 Grimwald 19 Comments

NOTE: Ladies and gentlemen, I find myself writing another Tagalized article here not because I want to leave out our foreign readers but simply because I want this particular message to reach out to more locals who have some difficulty reading English. It is imperative for many of my countrymen to at least get the…

Culture, Development, Education, Government, Media, Politics, Religion, Society

Philippine elections: perpetually about the ‘least unacceptable’

August 4, 2015 FallenAngel 17 Comments

Do Filipinos want to be represented by the best of their own, rather than the least bad? No, they don’t. Elections in the Philippines are rarely about the “most acceptable”, if at all. They are, more often than not, about the “least unacceptable”. What is the difference, you may ask? Well, common sense tells us…

Civics, Culture, Government

The Rape Of The Philippines: A Vicious Cycle

August 3, 2015 Grimwald 36 Comments

Before we begin, let me repost here a very intriguing question I found on the Get Real Philippines community page, all credit goes to Mr. Jakeson Lloyd Eudela and his sources: SCENARIO: A woman who was wearing just a sando and short shorts (w/out bra) was walking across a dark alley in the middle of night….

Civics, Crime, Culture, Development, Government, Religion, Society, The South

Mar Roxas And People Like Him: Why I Think They Make Poor Leaders

August 2, 2015 Grimwald 9 Comments

Okay, I think something needs to be said now, considering what’s happening on a national scale. The thing is, I still believe in the idea of freedom and people have a right to choose what leaders they want. However, what I do not agree with is the way the media seems to cover up everything…

Culture, Development, Government, Media, Politics, Society

On Senator Bongbong Marcos’s alternative State of the Nation Address

August 2, 2015August 2, 2015 Add 45 Comments

I have just finished reading Senator Bongbong Marcos’s A second opinion on the state of our nation published on the Manila Times, and I have chills in my body, and my eyes are misty. I never thought I would be able to see such a thing again in this land of ours, but there it…

Development, Economy, Government, Society

Is “Nice” Necessarily “Good”? My Question To Common Pinoys

August 1, 2015August 19, 2015 Grimwald 11 Comments

During my teenage days, I took a liking for superheroes for a slightly darker bend. I never really liked Superman since I can’t really bring myself to find anything interesting in the life of a “perfect” person and I lost interest in Spider-Man when he became the posterboy for good-looking pretty boys at least here…

Crime, Culture, Development, Government, Media, Politics, Society