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Endemic corruption in Philippine society stems from a national Trust Deficit Disorder!

August 13, 2014 benign0 9 Comments

The public puts its trust in government officials to look after the best interests of the public. A very simple tenet. Yet it is one that seems to elude the fundamental sensibilities of Philippine society. When was the last time we rested assured that a Philippine government bureaucracy, bureaucrat, or official is doing its, his…

Civics, Crime, Culture, Government, Lifestyle, Politics, Society

PNoy’s endorsement of a 2016 presidentiable: important because Filipinos are too lazy to think

August 12, 2014December 17, 2015 benign0 41 Comments

According to presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda, the biggest boost a presidential candidate can get in the 2016 elections is an endorsement from current President Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III. “Everyone wants his anointment,” Lacierda reportedly said. Indeed, so important is this “anointment” that even presidential nemesis Vice President Jejomar Binay is willing to sellout to…

Politics, Society

Another Aquino Legacy: The Death of Manila Bay Reclamation By Religion and Pseudo-Environmentalism?

August 12, 2014 P. Farol 14 Comments

A Fitting Testament To Myopic, Parochial, and Political Economy Based National Planning According to the grape vine, all plans to add to or expand the reclaimed area in Manila Bay seems to be ‘dead in the water’ — literally. I didn’t believe the pronouncements of the demise of any and all Manila Bay reclamation projects…

Development, Economy, Environment

Why the UP bonfire celebration was truly a microcosm of Filipino society

August 11, 2014August 11, 2014 FallenAngel 43 Comments

As team manager Dan Palami had promised, the University of the Philippines (UP) basketball team held a “bonfire celebration” last Saturday, August 9, because the Fighting Maroons won against Adamson University (AdU) in a game from this year’s University Athletics Association of the Philippines (UAAP) season. Now, this is an especially big thing to the…

Society

Second term for President Noynoy Aquino? Anything’s possible!

August 10, 2014 benign0 20 Comments

I could take the easy path and highlight the irony (which likely flies over most Filipinos’ pointed heads) in how Philippine President Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III and his supporters are now taking a position similar to the one his predecessor, former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo was reviled for in the closing days of her administration…

Charter Change, Government, Politics, Society

PNoy’s supporters are preventing the Philippines from moving forward

August 9, 2014August 10, 2014 Ilda 25 Comments

Sometimes talking to some people is like talking to a brick wall. Wait…I take that statement back. Sometimes talking to a brick wall is better than talking to some people. At least you don’t expect anything from a brick wall. Take the case of some staunch Aquino supporters. They are calling for an extension on…

Development, Government, Politics

Will Pope Francis’s prayers make a difference to Typhoon Haiyan’s victims in the Philippines?

August 8, 2014 benign0 31 Comments

There is a world of difference between (1) making a quick visit to the Philippines, and beholding all the usual stock-standard confronting sights of impoverished Filipinos “bravely” scraping together a living and (2) growing up in the Philippines, and experiencing that poverty (either as a part of it or as an observer) everyday for many…

Civics, Culture, Development, Lifestyle, Media, Religion

Why a Bongbong Marcos presidency in 2016 is unlikely

August 7, 2014August 7, 2014 benign0 76 Comments

Many Filipinos will not vote for Bongbong Marcos for the same reason they voted for President BS Aquino back in 2010 — because of who their parents are. Whatever people of any camp say, that sort of thinking pretty much makes most Filipinos of the same ilk as far as thinking faculties go. That pretty…

Culture, Politics, Society