Tag: outsourcing

Labor Day serves as a reminder that Filipinos are workers and not much else

May 1, 2021 benign0 8 Comments

It’s Labour Day again and that time of the year when the familiar background din of poverty porn and rhetoric around the “victimisation” of workers is put front-and-centre and amplified to circus-grade. At the centre of all this noise is the idea that need determines pay and wealth obligates “giving”. Never mind, of course that…

Economy

Voting for Mar Roxas will result in continuation of the same inutile Aquino government

December 12, 2015 Ilda 24 Comments

Presidential Elections in the Philippines is ugly but never boring. It’s when you witness a lot of mudslinging between candidates and their supporters. It gets worse as Election Day approaches. Presidential bets use every negative piece of information against their opponents in an effort to beat them at popularity surveys or in some cases, disqualify…

Development, Government, Politics

Trump and Duterte: The rise of hugely-popular demagogues in America and its Philippine colony

December 10, 2015December 10, 2015 benign0 25 Comments

It is hardly surprising that demagogues have come to dominate national Americana politics on both sides of the globe. Funny enough, two such popular demagogues happen to be making waves on the East and West both in bastions of American values — in the United States itself where anti-immigrant Republican candidate Donald Trump is ruling…

Civics, Crime, Culture, Development, Economy, Environment, Media, Politics, Religion, Society

Our enemies want to win while we and our allies just want to get along with them

November 17, 2015 benign0 14 Comments

I wonder if people remember Pearl Harbor. I get the feeling not too many do. When Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Japanese Empire on the 7th December 1941, what did America do? They got together and bombed back — not just Imperial Japan but Nazi Germany as well. America set their entire military-industrial complex…

Religion, Society

Get Real Koko Narak

May 9, 2015May 9, 2015 Grimwald 21 Comments

I was thinking of taking a break on the weekend and keep off of writing for a while but certain things just can’t be put off so easily. One of these hotly debated topics center around the Thai national Prasertri Kosin or Koko Narak and the insults he threw at the Filipino people, describing them…

Does Prasertsri Kosin (a.k.a. ‘Koko Narak’) deserve to be deported from the Philippines?

May 7, 2015 benign0 60 Comments

There is some basis in what Thai national Prasertsri Kosin says about Filipinos, specially the part about the Philippines being home to a “dangerous” society and Filipinos being “afraid of one another” as well as the way his own Filipino friends are “also mistreated” presumably by other Filipinos. These were among observations Kosin (who has…

Culture, Government, Society

The #Philippines is guilty of the Mahatma Gandhi’s Seven Social Sins!

April 16, 2015January 6, 2023 benign0 8 Comments

The Mahatma Gandhi’s Seven Social Sins, sometimes called the Seven Blunders of the World, is a list that he published in his weekly newspaper Young India on October 22, 1925. Later he gave this same list to his grandson, Arun Gandhi, written on a piece of paper on their final day together shortly before his…

Crime, Culture, Economy, Education, Media, Politics, Religion, Society

The futility of begging for foreign investment when your country sucks

September 22, 2014 benign0 23 Comments

Recent events have, yet again, highlighted the embarrassing way with which Filipinos and the government they elected to lead them are desperately scrambling to extricate themselves from systemic poverty after decades of misguided “development” approaches and serial promise breaking. Like many many previous presidents before him, Philippine President Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III went on…

Culture, Development, Environment, Government, Politics, Society