Tag: antonio trillanes

Noynoy’s 2016 presidential promise to Mar Roxas is destroying the Philippines

February 4, 2014 benign0 7 Comments

Time and again, Filipinos and their government (which, in a democracy, reflects its citizens’ character) have proven a lack of ability to step back and manage their affairs to a level of competence befitting a modern 21st Century state. In key occasions when it was a national imperative to exhibit a collective resolve to squarely…

Development, Government, Politics

Pork ‘realignment’: Ph Senators will continue to kiss Malacanang’s ass to get their pork

January 10, 2014 benign0 40 Comments

Members of Philippine Congress are proving yet again that they will not be divested of billions of pesos in “discretionary” funds without putting up a fight. The most recent sleight of hand is coming in the form of “realignments” of some senators’ Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) allocations. According to Neal Cruz in his Inquirer.net…

Crime, Government, Politics

Is Janet Lim Napoles worth killing?

November 9, 2013 benign0 18 Comments

Murderous senators? That, according to Senator Miriam Santiago, is what alleged pork barrel scam mastermind Janet Lim Napoles should really be worried about. Napoles told: Talk or die, screams the Inquirer.net headline. You wonder if this is a scene in the police interrogation room from an old 1970’s police drama, before the suspect “lawyer’s up”,…

Crime, Government, Politics

The DAP is a product of PNoy’s flawed understanding of the government’s financial position in 2010

October 14, 2013 benign0 6 Comments

The thing with trying to pitch purported good intentions is that once the resources and the means to deliver those intentions have been tainted in the public eye, there is little hope for redemption. Malacañang, true to form always five steps behind when it comes to justifying its position on many matters of national consequence,…

Crime, Development, Environment, Government, Politics

The Philippines cannot progress while public servants are distracted by personal vendetta

September 28, 2013November 14, 2014 Ilda 54 Comments

One major problem in Philippine society is not so much the flawed system like what some have claimed. It is actually the fact that most Filipinos don’t have foresight or are unable to see problems that might arise in the future as a result of their actions. It most likely has something to do with…

Crime, Government, Politics

Now that Senator Enrile has resigned, should the ‘Christmas bonus’ controversy die?

June 6, 2013 Ilda 8 Comments

After months of speculating on a supposed “plot” to oust him, Senator Juan Ponce Enrile has finally resigned as Senate President. We can only hope that the drama in the senate halls will go along with his resignation or at least simmer down a little bit. As Senator Antonio Trillanes correctly pointed out, Senator Enrile…

Politics

Senator Enrile accuses Senator Cayetano of having no ‘utang na loob’

January 24, 2013June 5, 2013 Ilda 74 Comments

Is there any politician who is not indebted to Philippine Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile? Okay, let us limit it to the Senate. Is there any senator who is not indebted to him? It seems Enrile has the goods on every Senator and he appears to be in the habit of using personal information against…

Government, Politics

Antonio Trillanes outclassed as Enrile retains Senate Presidency

January 22, 2013 benign0 63 Comments

For me, the only person who is coming out the usual chump (that he really is) in the on-going circus in the Senate is none other than “senator” Antonio Trillanes. He is, after all, the guy who led a failed military rebellion in the early- to mid-2000s, got convicted and imprisoned, then was pardoned by…

Politics