Tag: iron-fisted leadership

Yellow lives matter, but Duterte-styled Iron-Fisted Visionaries (IFVs) matter more

November 30, 2017 zaxx 41 Comments

The Yellows are struggling to survive these days, and the fact they need to face is the enormous capital flight that’s taking place in the form of lost market share. Much of the attention, clout and following they used to enjoy and thought to be their birthright have steadily dwindled away like the vital signs…

Culture, Government, Politics

Duterte has won Filipinos so much respect that the Yellows can no longer hope for reelection

November 16, 2017 zaxx 12 Comments

The recent media attention on the APEC and ASEAN summits has been a welcome reprieve from all the relentless energy- and time-wasting Senate investigations and hearings that front-page-hungry grandstanding lawmakers and politicians have been battering us with all year round. At least we get a break to see our president with the biggest who’s who…

Culture, Politics

Ironic Rody: the Iron Rod of the Philippines

December 17, 2015 zaxx 13 Comments

The Philippines – it’s not just home to Fe-rich malunggay and kamote leaves, it’s also the birthplace of a similar breed of leaders: iron-class. How did it come to this – a time and place where “kamay na bakal” has now become fashionable (again)? Apparently, three decades of mis-encountering, mishandling, lousy and incompetent “bakla” politics…

Crime, Government, Politics

Can Iron-fisted Leadership Turn the Philippines into a Major World Power?

November 8, 2015 zaxx 86 Comments

Flipping through the pages of world history, we can in fascination observe how the great empires of the past have in their heydays taken turns standing on the world’s pedestal, with the fall of one succeeded by the rise of another: from the ancient times with Egypt, Babylon (Iraq), Persia (Iran), Greece, & Rome, and…

Development, Government, Politics, Society, Technology