Tag: fidel ramos

SSS pension debacle: President Aquino’s failure of leadership at work again!

January 20, 2016January 20, 2016 benign0 9 Comments

Over the last couple of years, January seems to have emerged as the setting for a tradition in which Philippine President Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III exhibits his renowned abject lack of leadership qualities. Last year, in the same month, he oversaw the appalling cold-blooded massacre of 44 Special Action Force (SAF) police officers in…

Civics, Government

Preparation for #APEC2015 should have included fixing the Philippines’ infrastructure

November 14, 2015November 14, 2015 Ilda 11 Comments

The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit is a major event, which strangely enough, will be held in the Philippines, a country with poor facilities and infrastructure. About twenty world leaders are said to be attending including US President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping. The latter requested talks about the ongoing dispute between China…

Development, Economy, Government

Why the #NeverAgain slogan reflects Filipinos’ total failure of imagination

October 19, 2015October 19, 2015 benign0 60 Comments

The onus on building a clear vision of what lies ahead for the Philippines during the euphoric months following the 1986 “People Power” EDSA “revolution” was on the victors. What did we get instead? Nothing more than a vacuous excuse of a roadmap to prosperity. The Yellow emotionalist rhetoric that dominated the national political “debate”…

Crime, Culture, Government, Politics, Society

Revising the revisionist Philippine history as told by the ‘victors’

October 18, 2015 Add 80 Comments

“History is written by the victors.” ― Walter Benjamin The quote is commonly misattributed to Winston Churchill. Maybe it wasn’t even a quote by Benjamin, but by a loser smoking a Marlboro, who knows? Who cares? In the Philippines, where poverty rules, history has hardly a room. There are victims, rather than victors. There are…

Culture, Politics, Society

Why indeed should we not bury former President Ferdinand Marcos at the Fort McKinley Libingan ng mga Bayani?

September 11, 2015December 7, 2021 benign0 106 Comments

Why not bury former President Ferdinand E. Marcos at the Libingan ng mga Bayani (Filipino Heroes’ Cemetery)? That is the question that came to light in the wake of the burial there of former Secretary and retired General Angelo Reyes, who was in the middle of being implicated in a big-time corruption scandal at the…

Crime, Politics, Society

Bangsamoro Basic Law not a peace agreement but a SURRENDER agreement!

April 4, 2015April 4, 2015 Rafael Alunan III 20 Comments

After reading the comments about the Comprehensive Agreement on Bangsamoro (CAB) and the Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL), and connecting it to what I personally know about the Moro Islamic Liberation Front’s behavior from the era of former President Fidel Ramos to the present and the history of Malaysia’s long-term involvement in supporting secession in Mindanao,…

Culture, Government, Politics, Society

Five Inaccuracies Still Accepted as “Philippine History”

March 20, 2015 MidwayHaven 101 Comments

Some time ago I watched a local documentary that dramatized Ferdinand Magellan’s visit to Mactan Island in 1521. Most Filipinos are aware of the events here: Mactan’s chieftain Lapu-Lapu kills Magellan, and the rest of the natives drive the rest of the Spanish back to their boats. What irked me however was what the actor…

Civics, Culture, Education, Society

All-out war: Philippine Army now fighting for the Moro Islamic Liberation Front!

March 2, 2015March 2, 2015 benign0 24 Comments

The only real winner coming out of the Philippine and Malaysian governments’ Bangsamoro Basic Law (BBL) scam is the terrorist Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). It is pure genius. The MILF has locked itself in a ceasefire deal with the government of Philippine President Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III effectively hog-tying the Armed Forces of…

Crime, Government, Politics, Religion, The South