20 years ago, the country seemed to have successfully thrown off the corruption of a decades old dictatorship.
Still, the Philippines finds itself in the same predicament after staging another "successful" people power revolution.
What makes it worse is the current administration seems to have learned from the past & will not allow history to repeat itself yet again.
The people feel it was all just a waste and are not too keen on putting themselves in harm's way again so that a different set of politicians can
fleece them. But they are seething.
They are being fed the line that the economy is getting better all the while inflation is quite tangible. The true backbone of the economy, the
overseas workforce, is under unbelievable pressure from the falling US dollar.
The masses, though too jaded to act, is like a volcano building up pressure all the while "doming" but not erupting.
They see the evidence of corruption from the lowest rung all the way to the top of the government. Bribery is everywhere. Its their sick culture.
They are resigned to its acceptance. The 9/11 terrorists probably decided to learn to fly in the philippines precisely because of the state of
affairs.
Poverty is the norm. Crime rate is high. They hear news of corruption that would've netted a couple elites $137 million dollars in just one single
deal.
The top brass of police & military further demoralizing the masses by their unwavering pledge to "uphold the constitution," i.e. keep the current
administration in power at all costs.
Soon the rising dome of this volcano will begin to show cracks from the pressure build up inside it; the seething angst of its exploited masses. Its
the immovable object destined to meet the irresistible force.
The situation in the Philippines is a tinderbox sitting on an enormous amount of inflammable mass.
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reply to post by reject
It's a shame because Phillipinos are some of the nicest people I've met in Hong Kong and the Philippines is beautiful, but money talks...
Viva la revolution!
MonKey
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you said and i quote
"The 9/11 terrorists probably decided to learn to fly in the philippines precisely because of the state of affairs. "
didn't they learned to fly in the US flight schools as corroborated by the evidences gathered after the fact?
but the plot for 9/11 might have been planned in the philippines and it was unearthed in a raid there in 1995. the planned airplane attack to hit
major US cities from international flights was intriguingly hatched by the now convicted 1st world trade centers bomber, which are also bin laden men.
here's the news article.
www.webcom.com...
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The wife of a freind at work is from the Phillipines, and she is afraid for her family there.
The status of the government there can also be seen in other nations of the world. Crumbling and rotting from the inside out. I've been to the
Phillipines and it is a very beautiful country, but also extremely poor.
The situation of the government there can be seen as a reflection to a degree in other countries. In the U.S. it does not matter who gets into
office, democrats or republicans. Once they get into office, we have the same thing again.
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Dear all,
I live in the Philippines, and all you say is true. Or at least I feel it is true. Last time I went and rant about this, MODs penalized me, but
that's just me. Probably because I was too emotional?
We have a lot of educated people here and most of my people are linguists, musicians, and jack-of-all-trades and masters of some. Let me try to
describe how we are in my own words/analogy.
Here in the Phils., we feed pigs with what we call "kanin baboy" and it's basically a mixture of left-overs. So suffice it to say that a Filipino
individual in another country is stunning and impressive like a creme brule or an exotic fruit or a pancake... but put together and all mashed up - we
are kanin baboy.
We are plagued by secret societies and the ruling elite. We are intelligent, but we dare not think for we are religious. We believe in so many things
but never ourselves. It may be because of our history?
Unlike other countries/regimes, we never really paid blood for our "freedom". Questions like, "Why are the Japanese rich and affluent when they
fought our allies (US and the Allied Forces) and raped our women and plundered our lands?" arise and so do, "Why is God punishing us when we're the
only ones worshiping Him hereabouts?" [then sometimes, "Why is Vietnam ahead of us when they looked like us in the 60's just 10years ago? Isn't
Vietnam an enemy of the US? Did I not kiss the @$$ of Spain and the US?"].
Yes, we did have the KKK, and it does have the same initials as the KKK of another country. but those were our rebel heroes back then, who also
operated with the pyramid stucture and used the all seeing eye as a logo so GO FIGURE!!!
That was then, so is it still today... [ramblings and rants!]
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The Philippines is an amazing contradiction, even more if you consider that it was one of the top economies in the Asia Pacific Region during the
60's, even above Korea.
It has a very well educated bureaucracy and business community but the over-population and corruption are big obstacles for a fair development. And
since the export of workers is the biggest source of income for the country, that together with religion promotes the constant high growth of the
population, which is probably one of the main issues against any economic improvement of the population.
At the end, probably is the religion what contains them. And of course, don't forget that most of the "values" affecting the Philippine government
and culture were seeded by the Spaniards ... divide and conquer.
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reply to post by ocelote
I agree with you totally my friend. But common folk do not understand this. People are distracted from learning about their true history by the
amazing contraption called the TV. If students do pick up an interest on history, it would be for all the wrong reasons. Religion does hinder them
from thinking otherwise.
[It's funny how a lot of people here get cable and just watch one channel - a local channel. Sheesh.]
YOu wouldn't believe how many people, friends and relatives, have come and told me that only God can take lives, not people. I suppose they're
talking about the past natural disasters among other things. But they don't have a clue about HAARP.
It is such a TABOO! They download so much porn but never think about this - NEVER.
edit: addendum: As for the recent devastating calamities - extremely unnatural in our POV, google or youtube ONDOY and PEPENG.
[edit on 25-12-2009 by headb]
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