Category: state of the nation
Philippines wouldn’t mind some Chinese shell shocks
By W. Scott Thompson OVER the years I recall cartoonists — who always understand best — showing a globe with a bear behind it, his claws grasping more and more of the territory at the edge of his fingers. The … Continue reading
rizal, tagalog, nation
it’s really too bad that we haven’t tried hard enough as a people to develop tagalog into a national language. then maybe we would have a better sense of national interests as opposed to foreign interests, and we could be making … Continue reading
third world automation, way to go :(
kaya ba talaga ng comelec / smartmatic na i-replace ang flash cards ng bawat PCOS machine nationwide in the next two days, for testing and sealing immediately? that’s a big job, and with mercury still retrograde — paatras pa … Continue reading
environment & revolution
if junie kalaw were alive he’d be saying i-told-you-so, just like odette alcantara. junie and odette were our leading environmentalists, pioneers, who didn’t live to see the great floods wrought by ondoy & pepeng [and some dam(ned) officials] but … Continue reading
CAPITALISM
Satur Sulit This life we are cast into, I see is not meant by those who design it to be easy only to be liveable at best and exploitable at least. Modern life is founded, it seems, on catechism’s seven … Continue reading
CASABLANCA
Satur Sulit we must remember this a spin is just a spin a lie is still a lie our only consolation is that time goes by. for when the day is through we all know what is true no matter … Continue reading
LAW AND ORDER
Satur Sulit How truly remarkable that in this our great Anarchy there should reign a successful order in society to wit, an order not deriving from achievement of government enforcement of laws or performance of taxes but rooted in the … Continue reading
RICH MAN, POOR MAN
Satur Sulit it is government’s work to make wealthy the nation the rich who control it are to blame for the failure the poor are not poor because they gamble or drink or have too many children or are indolent as … Continue reading
STATE OF THE NATION
Satur Sulit (2009) We are missing the point, I fear going around in circles we are at systems failure but we act as if we weren’t it is a failure of government our democracy does not work. we prolong our … Continue reading