Presidential Debate: Mar Roxas opening remarks

Posted by JoeAm on August 18, 2015 · 71 Comments 

 w By Popoy Del R. Cartanio This piece is like a skeleton key that can be delivered fittingly as opening remarks by any or all of the Presidential Wannabes except it will sound pricey and manufactured if the speaker is not of the caliber, the competence and integrity of Mar Roxas for whom the piece … Continue reading →

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

The 2016 election is about Philippine character, and China

Posted by JoeAm on August 13, 2015 · 413 Comments 

I’ve come to understand that the Philippines is the center of the world. It is the pivot around which the fate of the planet revolves. Now you may pretend some false modesty and say, “Oh, Joe, you kidder you!”  I’m not kidding. Consider the weather patterns. The Philippines wobbles between northern and southern, eastern and … Continue reading →

Category China, Crime/Corruption, Culture and Arts, Economy, Foreign Affairs and Defense, Philippine Government, USA/Americans

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