SEGURADO:  The certainties desired of Mar Roxas

Posted by JoeAm on August 11, 2015 · 113 Comments 

  By  Popoy  Del. R.  Cartanio Sidestepping the clichéd “Political promises are made to be broken”, one can risk pretentiousness and be presumptuous to postulate:  if A then B in series. If Mar Roxas becomes the President then its Tuwid na Daan in series. To be the A as a person, Mar Roxas, or PresMar, … Continue reading →

Category Citizenship/Patriotism, Crime/Corruption, Economy, Philippine Government, Philippine Politics

Did Filipinos help build the Chinese islands?

Posted by JoeAm on August 9, 2015 · 240 Comments 

Let us imagine the worst of the worst of those amongst us, those Filipinos who are in business, not for the betterment of mankind, or even Filipino-kind, but for themselves. Who are a few of these despicables? Soldiers who sell arms to rebels. Filipinos who traffic in Filipino women and children. Mayors who sell their civic oath to a Binay … Continue reading →

Category China, Citizenship/Patriotism, Crime/Corruption, Laws and Ethics, Philippine Government

LGUs on the front lines: Binay by land, China by sea

Posted by JoeAm on August 5, 2015 · 121 Comments 

The leaders of Philippine Local Government Units (LGUs) are the generals in two slow-motion battles now being waged, one by land and the other by sea. The two forces they face are the Binay election campaign, and the Chinese occupation of Philippine waters. Now you may see these as very different forces,  one a political ambition, … Continue reading →

Category China, Citizenship/Patriotism, Crime/Corruption, Foreign Affairs and Defense, Philippine Government, USA/Americans

“Hey, you don’t care, Philippines, I don’t care!”

Posted by JoeAm on July 21, 2015 · 93 Comments 

The “I” is not a personal “I”, but a collective “I” representing any outsider who has a decision to make, do I want to have anything to do with the Philippines or not? Do I want to travel there? Invest there? Live there? Send my sons and daughters to fight there? Let me walk a … Continue reading →

Category China, Citizenship/Patriotism, Crime/Corruption, Foreign Affairs and Defense, Laws and Ethics, USA/Americans

It’s all about Escudero: the future of the Philippines

Posted by JoeAm on July 12, 2015 · 542 Comments 

It has became strikingly clear to me how things fit together regarding the future of the Philippines. It’s all about Senator Escudero. Now Senator Escudero inadvertently got us into this mess by supporting Jejomar Binay over Mar Roxas for the vice presidency in 2010. We know how that went. It fed the ambition of the … Continue reading →

Category Citizenship/Patriotism, Crime/Corruption, Philippine Politics