Category: Society

Search for Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo after plane crash continues

August 19, 2012 benign0 46 Comments

As of this writing the search continues for Local Government Secretary Jesse Robredo who remains missing along with two pilots after the Piper Seneca plane they were on crashed somewhere in Masbate Bay on Saturday, the 18th of August. A large search and rescue effort is currently underway involving the Philippine Air Force, Navy, Coast…

Government, Society

App.net: Would you pay to be social online?

August 17, 2012 benign0 3 Comments

Tech entrepeneur Dalton Caldwell is betting that after free social networking services like Friendster, MySpace, then Facebook and Twitter had succeeded in turning social media into something as essential to the 21st Century human being as air, people will now be willing to pay for it. Nothing shocking about the concept. Think bottled water. So…

Society, Tech Talk

Robert Carabuena versus the MMDA: Who’s gonna win?

August 15, 2012August 15, 2012 Kate Natividad 87 Comments

What is it about guys and their cars? The moment guys get behind the wheel, they turn into Mr Hyde. What I thought were mild-mannered Clark Kent types suddenly start acting like they are flying down EDSA (whenever they could) wearing a blue suit, red boots, and a cape. What’s up with that? It’s not…

Civics, Crime, Culture, Education, Society

It’s about time the Philippine government blasts squatters out of the water

August 14, 2012June 13, 2013 benign0 44 Comments

Apparently emboldened by the rising anger over the man-made nature of the massive floods that devastated much of Metro Manila last week and increasingly loud calls to rectify the problems related to it that politicians had allowed to fester for decades, President Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino III has issued a strong mandate for decisive action…

Development, Environment, Government, Society

Overpopulation Atheism

August 13, 2012 Hector Gamboa 29 Comments

A couple of weeks ago when I visited Washington, DC, I came across an article by John Feehery in The Hill that used â€œPascalâ€™s Wagerâ€ in proving his point on the virtues of supporting environmental policy reforms to combat the global warming phenomenon. I think the very same line of thought can apply to the…

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Economy, Politics, Society

Rainy season proves Filipinos are stuck in a time loop

August 9, 2012 a 37 Comments

â€œFilipinos are very adaptable.â€ â€œEven storms canâ€™t deter their will to survive.â€ â€œIâ€™m so proud to be a Filipino.â€ â€œBaha ka lang, Pilipino ako.â€ (Youâ€™re only a flood; Iâ€™m a Filipino.) The torrent of praises aimed towards Filipinos isnâ€™t likely to end after braving fierce winds of the southwest monsoon that ravaged the Philippines these…

Featured, Society

Pinoys give SOS another meaning

August 9, 2012 FallenAngel 87 Comments

Haring habagat – this is the name that some people on Facebook are throwing around to call the latest series of torrential rains that has besieged Metro Manila. Habagat refers to the southwest monsoon experienced by the Philippines every year. The total volume of rainfall from this incidence has seemingly exceeded that of Ondoy in…

Culture, Government, Politics, Society

Metro Manila had long ago set itself up for its own destruction by flooding

August 8, 2012 benign0 54 Comments

According to Mark McDonald in a New York Times blog post, the recent floods that hit Metro Manila this week “seem to have caused little public anger over further municipal dysfunction in the densely populated capital of more than 10 million” and that, instead, “Filipinos demonstrated a remarkable civic spirit as they shared news of…

Culture, Development, Government, Society