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Rodrigo Duterte’s promise to Filipinos in his bid for the presidency

November 23, 2015November 23, 2015 benign0 10 Comments

The return of former Davao City mayor Rodrigo Duterte to the Philippines’ 2016 presidential election race says a lot about how little of a foothold real “democracy” has made in Philippine society. Democracy is not just about “freedom” and “elections”. It is also about justice and discipline. Duterte’s main value proposition to Filipino voters addresses…

Crime, Culture, Government, Politics, Society

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

What Digong Duterte Could Teach Mar Roxas About Being A Presidential Candidate (Part Two)

October 27, 2015October 27, 2015 P. Farol 19 Comments

Before going through the couple hundred words on what Digong Duterte could teach Mar Roxas about being a Presidential candidate, I feel I have to ground the discussion on the words of David Deida from his book “The Way Of The Superior Man”: “Without a conscious life-purpose a man is totally lost, drifting, adapting to…

Government, Politics

What Digong Duterte Could Teach Mar Roxas About Being A Presidential Candidate

October 23, 2015October 23, 2015 P. Farol 15 Comments

Despite my misgivings about Davao City Mayor Rody Duterte as a presidential canidate, I think his communication campaign was among the strongest I have seen in a long time and spot on, reverberating among the masses in a way that somehow reminded me of Panfilo Lacson’s campaign way back. Unlike Lacson who was projected as…

Politics

Filipinos again left with a none-of-the-above vote

October 13, 2015 benign0 23 Comments

With Rodrigo Duterte dropping out of the presidential race (again), it’s back to a choice between the three early-announcers: current Vice President Jejomar Binay, former Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas, and Senator Grace Poe. Again a void is left where a differentiated candidate is desperately needed. An increasing number of Filipinos can no…

Politics

It’s time for the Philippines to be ruled with discipline and intelligence!

October 12, 2015November 9, 2021 benign0 78 Comments

Filipinos are coming to terms with the political reality underlying the presidential race today. Following the EDSA “revolution” in 1986, the pendulum had swung too far out the side of ultra-representative “democracy” in the Philippines. As a result, the deeply disturbing reality of the true nature of the way Filipinos have squandered their “freedom” has…

Crime, Culture, Politics

Why appeals for discipline and consideration is an exercise in futility in the Philippines’ current incarnation

September 12, 2015 rsurtida 15 Comments

So there you have it. Just a few days after the HPG’s handover of the traffic control of EDSA from the MMDA, one exasperated trooper blurted out what level-headed Pinoys have been complaining about their co-citizens since Day 1: Maraming pasaway. Granted that the monster EDSA had become has been the result of years of…

Civics, Culture, Development, Government, Politics, Society

Is “Nice” Necessarily “Good”? My Question To Common Pinoys

August 1, 2015August 19, 2015 Grimwald 11 Comments

During my teenage days, I took a liking for superheroes for a slightly darker bend. I never really liked Superman since I can’t really bring myself to find anything interesting in the life of a “perfect” person and I lost interest in Spider-Man when he became the posterboy for good-looking pretty boys at least here…

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