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Corruption: Our Bane, Her Legacy
As the controversy-riddled rule of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo winds down, corruption in sensitive and revenue generating agencies of government is the badge of dishonour.
Who will carry forward the project of ’86?
The Spirit of ’86 remains an unfinished project.
Take note for example the parallel in how easily the Nazis were de-Nazified and returned to business as usual in Germany and in how discretely the Marcos loyalists were de-Marcosified and allowed to restore themselves to their pre-EDSA statuses (think of Danding who fled with the dictator [...]
Funding Fudges
Among the kleptocratic absurdities inflicted in 2009 one that elicited the most responses was the existence of a corruption cartel involving our highest officials, their relatives and “relevant local media” as described by the World Bank’s Department of Institutional Integrity. Karl Garcia recalled in particular a judicial decision that unintentionally predicates perpetuation, providing as it [...]
The Challenge of the Next President of the Philippines
In Ham and Eggs, I wrote that the time for staying in the sidelines is over. That the choice shouldn’t be made on election day, but right now. That each Filipino must choose now, who their candidate is. I’ve also mentioned that my personal barometer for success– no matter who wins in next [...]
Corruption And The 2010 Elections
The weekend came and went almost uneventfully with coffee and barbershop talk of your everyday Pinoy scene watchers-cum-pundits-cum- doom-and-naysayers preoccupied with either the latest video sex scandals or their bets in the coming elections.
Is it really that hard?
I’ve been so busy extolling how so many of the issues that plague Philippine society are really so simple that it never occurred to me to ask another equally simple question:
Is it that hard?
That’s a question I credit to commenter BongV who asks in a recent comment:
For example, corruption. How hard is it not to [...]
World Bank Says Contractors Have Detailed Report
Senator Chiz Escudero wants documents from the 3 blacklisted contractors.
What’s Up For The Next Generation Of Filipinos?
Amidst the flurry of political and economic tsunamis besetting our country,we need to pause and think that what we do will benefit our children or the next generation of Filipinos. I do appreciate the flurry and confluence of ideas and views that somehow influence the readers of the FV articles but we need to do [...]
The pit of our own making
I first read about the story of textbook crusader Antonio Calipjo-Go when I was a PhD candidate in Australia, Apprently he had made an advocacy of detecting errors in basic education textbooks. I never saw anything wrong with that. All writers make errors textbook writers not excepted. That’s why publishing houses hire editors of all [...]
JPEPA: President Arroyo’s Coup d’Etat?
My favorite Fil-Aussie Benign0 subscribes to the notion that the specificities of those who occupy his former country’s positions of power do not matter. He writes:
If we are not able to prove that our prospects for prosperity are a function of who is sitting in Malacanang, then why bother even wasting precious bandwidth on any [...]
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