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		<title>mediocre media</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 16:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angela</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stuartsantiago.com/?p=8246</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[and when the poll count stalled, the tv coverage stopped.  anywhere else in the world, a stalled automated election count would have been grist for the mill, something that would have excited, perked up, broadcast media, given them something to &#8230; <a href="http://stuartsantiago.com/mediocre-media/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>nothing brilliant about brillantes</title>
		<link>http://stuartsantiago.com/nothing-brilliant-about-brillantes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 13:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angela</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[so brillantes promises to resign, yet again ( the fourth time by sunstar&#8216;s account), this time over last night&#8217;s partial proclamation of the top six winning senators. There is no way the six candidates who were proclaimed as senators on &#8230; <a href="http://stuartsantiago.com/nothing-brilliant-about-brillantes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>didn&#8217;t vote</title>
		<link>http://stuartsantiago.com/didnt-vote/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 07:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angela</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[dynasty]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stuartsantiago.com/?p=8222</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[i had always voted, since the late 1960s when i came of age. never voted for marcos, but he kept winning.  voted for cory in 86 but she was cheated and had to mount the huge protest that led to &#8230; <a href="http://stuartsantiago.com/didnt-vote/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;junk the dynasts&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://stuartsantiago.com/junk-the-dynasts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 16:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angela</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[dynasty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stuartsantiago.com/?p=8213</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The case against political dynasties, after all, is very strong. First is the constitutional issue. Article II, Section 26 of the Constitution explicitly prohibits political dynasties. That Congress, as it provides, has not as yet defined what a political dynasty &#8230; <a href="http://stuartsantiago.com/junk-the-dynasts/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>cheating</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 11:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angela</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cheating]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stuartsantiago.com/?p=8203</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[i disagree with conrado de quiros that &#8230; something has changed, and that is the public expectation of cheating. Few now seriously consider we’d be back in Arroyo’s time when it could be expected as a matter of course. Though &#8230; <a href="http://stuartsantiago.com/cheatiing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>the horror</title>
		<link>http://stuartsantiago.com/the-horror/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 04:07:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angela</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[dynasty]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[kris]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stuartsantiago.com/?p=8198</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The only thing worse than Bam Aquino running on a lack of experience and no history of leadership —because his brand of microfinance doesn’t count—is Kris Aquino speaking about the Tarlac governorship like it’s already hers in 2016. Read on]]></description>
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		<title>poverty and elections</title>
		<link>http://stuartsantiago.com/poverty-and-elections/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 05:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angela</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poverty]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stuartsantiago.com/?p=8195</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; This is what has been largely missing in the campaign for the 2013 elections—a serious debate on desirable strategies for achieving national prosperity. We have been treated to endless mantras about free public education, stable jobs, lower prices, lower &#8230; <a href="http://stuartsantiago.com/poverty-and-elections/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>National industrialization is not passé!</title>
		<link>http://stuartsantiago.com/national-industrialization-is-not-passe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 10:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angela</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stuartsantiago.com/?p=8189</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Giovanni Tapang, Ph.D. It is disheartening to hear from the Presidential spokesperson, Edwin Lacierda, &#8230;that “national industrialization is passe.” He issued this statement as he announced the termination of the government’s negotiations with the National Democratic Front. It now appears &#8230; <a href="http://stuartsantiago.com/national-industrialization-is-not-passe/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>why teddy</title>
		<link>http://stuartsantiago.com/why-teddy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 06:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angela</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stuartsantiago.com/?p=8184</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; it is ideology that allows Teddy to have a clear sense of a framework for nation, one that allows him to actually run on a platform. And when I say that, I mean that there is an answer to &#8230; <a href="http://stuartsantiago.com/why-teddy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>automated garci</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 07:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angela</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stuartsantiago.com/?p=8176</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; all the hard work of the candidates and their supporters can be negated by what Information Technology people call the Automated Garci &#8211; or the automated dagdag-bawas operation. How dagdag-bawas operations can be pulled off with the automated electoral &#8230; <a href="http://stuartsantiago.com/automated-garci/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s time for Ladlad</title>
		<link>http://stuartsantiago.com/its-time-for-ladlad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 03:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angela</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been long in coming, but each lesbian, gay, bisexual and trangender Pinoy and Pinay would do themselves well to choose #28 on that long list made up of mostly bogus party-list organizations. It would do us all well &#8230; <a href="http://stuartsantiago.com/its-time-for-ladlad/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Philippines Failed?</title>
		<link>http://stuartsantiago.com/why-the-philippines-failed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angela</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stuartsantiago.com/?p=8159</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; In Why Nations Fail, economists Acemoglu and Robinson provide a brilliant explanation on how progress and development is largely a function of &#8216;inclusive&#8217; &#8212; as opposed to extractive &#8212; governance. Using their dichotomy, the Philippines clearly falls within the &#8230; <a href="http://stuartsantiago.com/why-the-philippines-failed/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>concepcion herrera-umali stuart (1913-2000)</title>
		<link>http://stuartsantiago.com/concepcion-herrera-umali-stuart-1913-2000/</link>
		<comments>http://stuartsantiago.com/concepcion-herrera-umali-stuart-1913-2000/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angela</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[today is the 100th birthday of my mother nena, and my sibs and i are throwing a party for her, like we did for papa two years ago, like mama and her sibs did for lola concha (of Revolutionary Routes) &#8230; <a href="http://stuartsantiago.com/concepcion-herrera-umali-stuart-1913-2000/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Paths to change</title>
		<link>http://stuartsantiago.com/paths-to-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 19:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angela</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[CHANGE]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stuartsantiago.com/?p=8141</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Calixto V. Chikiamco OUR CURRENT situation seems hopeless. Our economic oligarchy is powerful, rich beyond imagination. It controls conglomerates that reach into almost every aspect of Filipinos’ lives, its unassailable position protected by law or other barriers to entry. &#8230; <a href="http://stuartsantiago.com/paths-to-change/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Of Black Flags and Careless Connections</title>
		<link>http://stuartsantiago.com/of-black-flags-and-careless-connections/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 13:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angela</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[maria ressa]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stuartsantiago.com/?p=8134</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Marck Ronald Rimorin In her latest “Thought Leaders” piece for Rappler.com, Maria Ressa writes: Much like the Madrid bombings in 2004 that killed 191 people and the London bombings in 2005 that killed 52, the Boston bombings were carried &#8230; <a href="http://stuartsantiago.com/of-black-flags-and-careless-connections/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Pissing on the party-list</title>
		<link>http://stuartsantiago.com/pissing-on-the-party-list/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 04:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angela</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[supreme court]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Katrina Stuart Santiago &#8230; Because in whose crazy head does it make sense that Mikey Arroyo, former congressman, could stand as security guard representative in Congress? In what world can someone like convicted rapist Romeo Jalosjos run as representative &#8230; <a href="http://stuartsantiago.com/pissing-on-the-party-list/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>musical playwriting competition 2013: 1M in prizes</title>
		<link>http://stuartsantiago.com/musical-playwriting-competition-2013-1m-in-prizes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 06:39:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>angela</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[OPM]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[theater]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[via leo martinez who has been invited to be one of the judges: This year, Ignacio B. Gimenez Foundation, Inc. [IBGFI] is organizing a playwriting competition wherein entrants submit a musical play in English of approximately ninety [90] minutes in &#8230; <a href="http://stuartsantiago.com/musical-playwriting-competition-2013-1m-in-prizes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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