Category: Politics

SC upholds candidates’ freedom to air as much TV and radio political ads as they want!

April 17, 2013April 17, 2013 benign0 21 Comments

Perhaps if our “activists” focused more on creating buzzes around real issues rather than on presuming to police the campaign tactics of our politicians and auditing their token fly-by-night “platforms” we’d gain more traction around creating a more issues-based political discourse. Indeed, unless you are as brilliant as Lee Kuan Yew, there is little point…

Media, Politics

Kris Aquino pays top tax dollar in the spirit of Daang Matuwid!

April 17, 2013April 17, 2013 benign0 11 Comments

Funny the way presidential sister and Queen of All Philippine Media Kris Aquino comes into the fore whenever Filipino pep for the “right” people needs to be pump primed. Most recently the buzz is her emerging as “top Filipino taxpayer” paying a whopping (by Philippine standards) 49.87 million pesos (USD1.2 million) to the Philippine government….

Media, Money Talks, Politics

Wikileaks exposé: Philippine military generals allegedly in drag during Marcos ‘secret’ party!

April 15, 2013June 6, 2013 benign0 24 Comments

More leaked “secret cables” are coming out revealing more about the underbelly of Philippine society in the 1970s under the rule of then President Ferdinand Marcos. Even as the camp of former Defense Minister, now Senate President, Juan Ponce Enrile battle the re-emergence of anecdotal evidence surrounding the allegedly homicidal past of scion and Senatorial…

Culture, Politics, Society

Noynoy Aquino’s greatest accomplishments: campaigning against his enemies and campaigning for his allies

April 13, 2013July 22, 2013 Ilda 120 Comments

Philippine President Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino is one dedicated man. His passion and commitment to following through his support for the Liberal Party’s senatorial bets is unmatched and unprecedented. Despite all the problems facing the nation, he still finds the time to travel around the country campaigning for his “Team PNoy” in the lead up…

Government, Politics

Speculation surrounding Jack Enrile’s allegedly homicidal past rage as more Wikileaks cables emerge

April 12, 2013June 5, 2013 benign0 11 Comments

As expected, Cagayan Congressman Jack Enrile who is running for a Senate seat in the coming elections is “vehemently” denying his role in the shooting of Ernest Lucas Jr during a soiree (a party organised between classes in exclusive private gorls’ and boys’ high schools) in San Lorenzo Village in Makati back in 1975. The…

Crime, Media, Politics

Congressman Jack Enrile complicit in 1975 shootings according to Wikileaks revelation

April 10, 2013June 2, 2014 benign0 55 Comments

Jack Enrile is the legendary “spoiled brat” who was “once suspected of having his bodyguards shoot down a guy who stared at him in a nightclub.” (Domini M. Torrevillas, Demythologizing Jack Enrile Philippine Star) and is allegedly linked to a “number of ‘incidents’, ranging from the supposed suicide of his sister’s boyfriend, to the shooting…

Crime, Politics

The Iron Lady: Could Filipinos have handled a leader like Margaret Thatcher?

April 9, 2013 benign0 90 Comments

Filipinos can only make wistful remarks about the greatness of the late former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher who died yesterday aged 87. This is a lady who busted Britain’s paralysing unions, sent Her Majesty’s warships sailing thousands of miles south to take back the Falkland Islands from the Argentines, and stared down scores of…

Culture, Politics, Society

Why Nancy Binay’s campaign is really no different to Noynoy Aquino’s 2010 presidential campaign

April 8, 2013 benign0 37 Comments

Well, ok, so lots of people are up in arms about the candidacy of Nancy Binay who, as the consensus amongst the chattering classes goes, has been deemed lacking in the needed chops to fill a Philippine senator’s seat. I wonder though how many of these armchair “activists” voted for current President Benigno Simeon “BS”…

Media, Politics