Category: Politics

Manny Pacquiao: do pro boxing and national politics mix?

December 14, 2012 benign0 21 Comments

Thanks to GR Post commenter ‘FelYounghusband’ for a comment she posted on my previous article “Where was Philippine Congressman Manny Pacquiao when Typhoon Pablo devastated Mindanao?” as it eloquently consolidates and summarises commentary posted by a few others. The following excerpt I believe encapsulates the point FelYounghusband and a few others were trying to bring…

Glitz and Glamour, Politics, Society

Should the State Pay for My Hooker Too?

December 14, 2012January 27, 2017 Hector Gamboa 28 Comments

So the very divisive Reproductive Health (RH) Bill finally got the OK at second reading in Congress and it looks like it is inches away from getting ratified. I have always been a supporter of the intent of the RH Bill. From what I know, the RH Bill mandates the State to uphold and promote:…

Government, Politics, Society

RH Bill Passes Second Reading… whoopee!

December 13, 2012December 13, 2012 P. Farol 22 Comments

BenignOÂ is right in a way that I cannot disagree with, but only particularly in the point where he refers to the Reproductive Health Bill as some form of population control. As a form of population control, if it can be called that, the RH bill isn’t exactly like controlling rampant pigeon populations by feeding them…

Politics

Passing on 2nd-reading of RH Bill brings population control in the Philippines closer to reality!

December 13, 2012 benign0 26 Comments

Finally, the third major excuse for the country not progressing is on the verge of being crossed out from the history of this sad Republic. The passing on second-reading of the controversial Reproductive Health Bill (RH Bill) in theory paves the way for measures to be put in place to control galloping population growth in…

Development, Economy, Politics, Religion, Society

Noynoy, Newton, Apples, and Giants

December 9, 2012August 14, 2013 FallenAngel 14 Comments

Whenever you write, whatever you write, it is but natural to draw influence and inspiration from one’s surroundings. Influence and inspiration can come from the most unexpected and most unlikely of things and times. I found myself thinking one night about random things once again, and surprise, Isaac Newton, popped up. For those to whom…

Economy, Government, Politics, Science

Experts say President Noynoy Aquino is part of the Philippines’ problem

December 7, 2012November 5, 2015 Ilda 309 Comments

Foreign and local experts in their studies of government and economy have confirmed what some of us have been saying all along: that President Benigno Simeon Aquino is part of Philippine society’s problem. In the gathering of intellectuals held recently, participants have agreed that the country’s weak institutions combined with public servants who act like…

Culture, Development, Featured, Government, Politics

Ph Government pats itself on the back for level of preparedness as Typhoon Pablo batters Mindanao

December 6, 2012 benign0 119 Comments

As bodies recovered in the aftermath of the devastation wrought by Typhoon Pablo (Bopha) in pile up in makeshift morgues all over Mindanao, the casualty statistics begin to approach the levels hit by Typhoon Ondoy’s flood waters which engulfed Metro Manila in 2009. However, the level of importance the Philippines’ seat of culture and governance…

Development, Environment, Government, Politics, The South

Death toll climbs as Typhoon Pablo (Bopha) tears through the Philippines

December 5, 2012 benign0 8 Comments

The death toll in the Philippines has skyrocketed as Typhoon Pablo (international code name “Bopha”) ravages the Philippine island of Mindanao and makes its way through the Visayas. Most tragic is the town of New Bataan in Compostela Valley province where 66 people have been confirmed dead and 230 people remain missing after a mudslide…

Development, Environment, Government, Politics, Society