Tag: poverty

Addressing poverty from the ground up should be central issue in Philippine elections

August 8, 2015 Add 69 Comments

The political mudslinging that is being amplified with gusto by headline news is good for the rating wars of media. It may be a whole class of unavoidable news they have to report. However, if the intent is the beguilement of the public to desensitize same to the real problems of the country, media is being stonyhearted…

Development, Education, Government, Media, Politics, Society

The Filipino Obsession With Self-Destruction

August 7, 2015 Grimwald 16 Comments

Before I begin, I would like to apologize if my previous article, The Rape Of The Philippines: A Vicious Cycle, offended anyone. It was not my intention to trivialize rape nor create misleading ideas about it. I merely wanted to create a good metaphor for the kind of trouble the Philippines is in. Unfortunately, it seems…

Crime, Culture, Development, Government, Politics, Religion, Society

A Decent Choice for President in the 2016 Philippine Elections…

July 30, 2015July 30, 2015 P. Farol 16 Comments

You know what? I’d really like to call myself a political pundit or political analyst, but I know I am not. I’d like to kid myself now and then just because I think it’s funny as well as harmless anyway. We all play games with ourselves and being aware that one is yanking his or…

Politics

Filipinos would rather be butthurt about the past than gung-ho about the future

July 30, 2015 benign0 25 Comments

The intellectual DNA of Philippine society is flawed at its most fundamental level. The trouble with the approach to thinking in the Philippines is, more often than not, this activity is retrospective rather than prospective in nature. The word BUTTHURT encapsulates that society-wide malaise. And the sixth and last State of the Nation Address (SONA)…

Culture, Development, Government, Society

President Aquino’s Sixth And Final SONA: Just Another Sign Of Pinoy Immaturity

July 28, 2015July 28, 2015 Grimwald 23 Comments

Okay, President Aquino’s fifth and final SONA is over, thank goodness. Hopefully, we won’t have to listen to any more of his lies in the next few months leading up to the 2016 presidential election, the day when we can finally give the guy the boot for good. However, I tend to think that his…

Crime, Culture, Development, Economy, Government, Media, Politics, Religion, Society, The South

The Greek financial crisis is really a simple issue

July 7, 2015 benign0 62 Comments

The financial crisis gripping Greece is really not that complicated. Greece opted to join the Eurozone and replace its local currency, the drachma, with the euro in 2001. Its government then started tapping the Eurozone financial market taking out euro-denominated loans as part of its normal course of doing business. However, underneath all that, Greece’s…

Development, Economy

Pinoy Culture and a Nation Gone Mad

July 3, 2015 Grimwald 23 Comments

“Insanity is repeating the same action while expecting a different result.” ~Albert Einstein During my days as a student nurse, I was once forced to work at a mental hospital somewhere in Manila. For the sake of privacy, I’ll hide the identities of the personnel involved, including mine of course. Anyway, one of the clients…

Culture, Development, Education, Government, Media, Politics, Society

Speech delivered by Vice President Jejomar Binay after quitting PNoy Cabinet

June 25, 2015 benign0 19 Comments

[The following speech was delivered in Tagalog by Philippine Vice President Jejomar Binay at the Coconut Palace, Manila, Philippines today and, here, translated into English by the author of this post.] My countrymen: Now is the new beginning of our fight against poverty. I resigned from the Cabinet because I cannot accept the way my…

Crime, Development, Economy, Education, Government, Politics