Category: Politics

Filipinos have to WANT a better Philippines badly enough to abolish the pork barrel

October 7, 2013 benign0 15 Comments

I realise now after having read an amusing article recently published by one of the staunch apologists of President Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino III that there is a fundamental assumption that needs to be questioned — the notion that Filipinos actually want a “better country”. Indeed; Can Filipinos be considered to be a people who…

Crime, Government, Politics, Society

Pork barrel thievery going unpunished as traditional Philippine activism fails

October 6, 2013 benign0 13 Comments

If the Philippines were a normal country, its government would be paralysed by now. We have a President who’s ability to govern fairly is complicated by his being part of a feudal clan that owns a vast northern Luzon plantation that is on the brink of insolvency and was found to have likely performed accounting…

Crime, Government, Politics, Society

Military Unrest Under The Shadow of DAP Bribery

October 4, 2013 P. Farol 48 Comments

Those two words and what they signify at this point is giving me the jitters. Because, if you add those two words to these: Thousands of people massing almost at EDSA and other public spaces condemning the corruption of the pork barrel system. Law experts and two senators saying that the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP)…

Crime, Development, Environment, Government, Politics

US government has no choice but to shut down; Philippine government needs to shut up

October 3, 2013 FallenAngel 25 Comments

For those following events in the United States, their federal government is in the midst of a shutdown. This follows a period of time wherein lawmakers in both the House and the Senate were unable to agree on the national budget. The main point of contention, it seems, is US president Barack Obama’s signature piece…

Development, Government, Politics

Resign Pnoy! (Para Na Sa Daang Matuwid)

October 3, 2013 P. Farol 47 Comments

If you didn’t get the point of my last post on President BS Aquino III daring his critics to impeach him, it is this: I think the Pnoy Administration should just save us the drama of another impeachment and just resign before the year ends. Moreover, President Pnoy should stop it with his patented paawa effect….

Crime, Government, Politics

Pnoy Dares Critics To Impeach Him

October 3, 2013 P. Farol 53 Comments

As of this writing, an article titled “PNoy challenges critics to impeach him” which appeared on the ABS-CBN News website can’t be opened and if you really want to bother with reading this latest Presidential brain-fart, you’d have to go to retrieve it from Google Cache. Given the run of things (a number of web-pages…

Government, Politics

It is time take Noynoy Aquino and his mob to task for their role in the pork barrel scam!

October 2, 2013October 2, 2013 benign0 13 Comments

Former Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno today confirmed policy surrounding the way Malacanang can allocate discretionary “development” funds reportedly saying that; […] Malacañang cannot augment funding for new projects but can only add funds to existing programs. “The constitution is very clear that no law shall be passed authorizing any transfer of appropriation. They allow augmentation…

Crime, Government, Politics

Thievery in Philippine government: The many creative ways of naming pork

October 2, 2013 benign0 4 Comments

The acronyms may change, but the principles remain the same: Executives execute, and legislators legislate. Senators who were allegedly “rewarded” by President Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino III were supposedly given additional “appropriations” on top of their pork barrel allocations through a Malacañang appropriations mechanism called the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP). Why did legislators need to…

Crime, Government, Politics