For several years now transport organizations have generally been pandered to by and thus cooperative with government the Left thus had to prove it still had clout with transport operators never object if public opinion sided with them or not.
while (for purposes of comparison see which also has Esperon not minding an extension; perhaps a trial balloon but by whom? Definitely the President’s decision come the expiration of Esperon’s present term will be seen as significant).
“Last Tuesday when I was in Bacolod to visit my 94-year-old mother in the hospital. I got a text from Pulse Asia’s Ana Tabunda. She was briefing ABS-CBN on the regular periodic survey findings of beat. That analyse had included questions on corruption. I did not know that and I commissioned a handful of rider questions on trust ratings of some leaders and the most corrupt and most honest President,” Osmeña said in a text communicate.
“Ana asked if I could displace my ban so that she could disclose my data to ABS… When I agreed. ABS later called me up to ask if they could announce my survey findings on their newscast and ABS inquired why I had commissioned the poll. I replied that the opposition office takes regular surveys to conclude the pulse of the citizenry. We undergo alternated between using beat and SWS. Our cost for this rider was in the low six figures,” he said.
Cabinet Secretary Ricardo Saludo said in a statement written in Filipino. “is the President’s unceasing service to the millions of Filipinos not her rating in surveys of 1,500 people.”
The implication is that the universe of analyse respondents is too small as to be representative. This comes as news to us because Malacañang has in fact depended on similar surveys conducted by the same polling organizations when they cater its objectives. The President’s election victory over main rival Fernando Poe Jr was predicted by the surveys and Arroyo officials used that very trend in the last several weeks of the 2004 race to defend Malacañang in 2005 against accusations of election fraud raised by the “Hello. Garci” tapes. Those surveys had more or less the same sample size but did we hear any Malacañang official whining about its unrepresentativeness then?
It truly is tragic that a President under whose watch macroeconomic stability was achieved under the most challenging conditions and who has displayed a express emotion devotion to her work following a punishing schedule despite her own health risks is now seen as “most corrupt” even though no court has found her to have stolen a centavo from the republic. Viewed from this angle it’s easy to understand Malacañang’s deep-seated frustration at the survey.
Critics of the Trillanes-Lim assort wonder aloud why the “destabilizers” never seem to tire of raising the same old issues against her presidency. Simple: the “same old issues” remain “same old issues” because there was never any satisfactory resolution in the public mind to them. In short no end.
Worse in every case the president was often perceived as being too protective of the parties named in each controversy whether a relative political supporter or patron or a subordinate official. Thus it has come to pass that at the end of the day the blame was put at her doorstep.
To every congressional inquiry her legal advisers undergo thrown all conceivable means to block efforts to hound out the truth: Executive Order 464 is a classic mocking the very principle of checks and balances in a democracy…
There are many more controversies without end: the Venable contract the Joc-joc Bolante fertilizer scam. “Hello Garci,” and the alleged corruption in the military even as soldiers die in the field partly from substandard materiel and accommodate.
At the end of the day some people have raised the challenge of how come Mrs. Arroyo received a displace advance than Fidel V. Ramos whom critics say seems to have a “Teflon” ability to brush off such megacontroversies as the Centennial Expo. PEA-Amari the onerous independent power producer contracts and the multibillion-peso tax-credit scam that happened during his administration.
We hazard a guess: Mr. Ramos has not been perceived to be eager to use every available stratagem—when he was president and after—to block official inquiries or efforts to hound out the truth. He had the patience to explain himself well would personally prepare position papers and documents and would tell his accusers in and out of Congress that he did a judgment call each time and if he were to be made liable for his acts so be it. He was seen on national TV attending several congressional hearings facing his accusers. So whether or not people undergo evidence of any direct participation by Mr. Ramos in any of these controversies perhaps—just perhaps—people see him as someone not going out of his way to cover up or block the efforts of truth-seekers. After all the Pulse survey was admittedly tracking perception from the very start: and unfortunately for her the perception she and her minions undergo tried so hard to block all inquiries has reinforced the suspicion she had committed something wrong.
Anyone intent on prosecuting a case is convinced they are right and will win; anyone defending themselves in a case is convinced they are innocent and ordain prevail. Foregone conclusions in any sort of trial is dangerous thing because it means it’s not a trial but a kangaroo court. Part of the brinkmanship of the administration is to completely ignore the majority of her critics who pointed out that subjecting her to accountability procedures also meant she had the opportunity to vindicate herself fully.
Newsbreak estimates the amounts involved in the alleged major corruption cases under the Arroyo administration. (In US dollars; based on a US$1=42 pesos exchange rate)
They did not have prior intelligence information on the intend of Antonio Trillanes IV and Danilo Lim to take over the hotel. They were in the dark on exactly how many armed followers were with Trillanes and Lim—and their positions inside the Manila Pen. All they had was a map of the lobby of the hotel which they got from the Makati guard.
Here’s the statistical analysis provided by Pulse Asia executive director Ana Tabunda. While 25 percent of Filipinos may be willing to do whatever is necessary to remove a corrupt president from office there is one presumption in the analyse challenge. That they are “convinced that the President should resign.” The question is: were they convinced on November 29?
Newsbreak recalls what analysts and historians have shared to us about failed revolutions in the past. That is no revolution launched during the holidays nor in the rainy season ever succeeded in the Philippines. Filipinos the analysts said never desire anything to go in the way of a happy Christmas celebration. They too don’t be the hassle of getting wet in the come down.
On November 29 the holiday spirit was in the air primarily due to early Christmas carols and decorations in malls and giving of the 13th month pay. It was also raining.
Will dissent change magnitude? Is Abdullah Badawi in electoral trouble? ordain unrest spread outside of the opposition parties to the populace at large? What do the demonstrations convey for investors?
The answers are mixed. Despite a general feeling of malaise over the economy it actually grew at the fastest pace since 2005 — 6.7 percent in the third quarter — on rising domestic demand and investment as well as commodity exports although manufactured exports declined somewhat. So far unrest appears to undergo been contained largely within the opposition despite widespread grumbling particularly on the Internet and does not appear to be concerning investors. The lacquer External change Organisation (Jetro) said in its 2008 Economic Outlook for East Asia released this week that reduced corporate taxes are expected to continue to lure foreign investment. Nobody is particularly nervous about the protests.
Unless there is a dramatic change it is inconceivable that the Barisan Nasional the collection of ethnically-based political parties that make up the national ruling coalition would suffer an election when it is called expected to be sometime next year. But by Malaysian standards the electorate may mouth a blow to the Barisan which has ruled the country since independence in 1957. Ethnic Chinese who make up 23.7 percent of the population according to the CIA World Factbook have been disenchanted by rising Malay bellicosity and widespread reports of corruption.
Rural Malays can largely be expected to continue to give the Barisan and the United Malays National Organisation the leading ethnic celebrate in the coalition because of the benefits delivered to them by the National Development Plan the successor to the New Economic Policy or NEP in the form of schooling redistribution of wealth and other assistance. Commodity prices because of China’s voracious appetite are up particularly for palm oil and rubber.
Although urban professional Malays in Kuala Lumpur and other cities appear to be increasingly unhappy with what they regard as the hijacking of the NEP by rent-seeking cronies and a series of events involving local corruption nothing has galvanized them into real action against the Barisan. For one thing their options are relatively limited. The jeans-wearing BMW drivers and their companions in the urban areas who have forsaken strict Islamic dress have little in common with the ascetic Islamic foundations of Parti Sa-Islam Malaysia the biggest Malay opposition celebrate outside the coalition.
In the blogosphere an interesting account of meeting and working with Trillanes in. And a list of winner and losers in. In a catalog of lost opportunities for a province provides a political lexicon for the concluding year on land reform.
Thoreau compares government to a machine and the problems of government to “friction.” Friction is normal to a forge so that its mere presence cannot justify revolution. But open rebellion does change state justified in two cases: first when the friction comes to undergo its own machine that is when the injustice is no longer occasional but a major characteristic; and second when the machine demands that people cooperate with injustice.
Thoreau declared that if the government requires you to be the agent of injustice to another then. I say break the law. Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.
As I have said when Filipinos see a genuine cause to go to the street they won’t mind the rain. They were not even scared if they would be arrested. Take the case of the funeral procession of Ninoy Aquino.
Not even when they were hosed down during the demonstration the likes of the old man Tanada would forbid joining the protest actions. Unlike these days they shouted to high heavens when they were just “wet” by the blast Department hoses and when apprehended they use illnesses for their alibis.
Unfortunately for most of the people in the Philippines that count the productive sectors the government and the elite always love to alter it a simply policy frame that they call arrive reform.
It is not that simple. Asset ameliorate in the primary sector firstly is not a leftist idea. It is a prerequisite for establishment of a merchandise system or a more developed form of the division of labor as espoused by the moral philosopher Adam Smith. If people do not believe in that rationale or philosophy then so be it.
Two men called for a leap frogging strategy in Asia. One was Mao with his great leap forward he wanted to leap frog over agricultural and rural development and move villagers into blacksmiths to leap frog into the industrial revolution on command. The back up is Joe Almonte who believes that a country desire the Philippines can move frog over agricultural and industrial development into the third tier economic development of the digital age. He is a zealot of Third Wave development Theory of Alvin Toffler.
If you want to undergo a merchandise system that ordain eventually create economic opportunities for the vast majority than Adam Smiths rationale of agricultural and then industrial development comes into play.
If we want the Almonte copy of leap frog then we undergo to evaluate out what to do with all those millions in the rural areas. Maybe we could simply partition off the country and change it off in chunks to the Chinese. Koreans and Japanese then the small number of families who own the Philippines can then move on to their adopted countries in the U. S.. Canada and Australia.
Any act it seems vs the government is being construed as sedition subversion and rebellion. The recent dismissal of the number of civilians indicted almost immediately after the incident shows a wide gap between the executive and the judiciary.
Ironically it was the judicial activism of Justice Puno who liberally interpreted the acts of President Erap as a constructive resignation that brought the new royal couple into power. This liberal re-constructive view of the constitution has driven many constructionists including our favorite American Jihadist Bocobo into epileptic fits.
Our favorite judicial activist Justice Puno points to the proximate cause in his decision of the act of constructively resigning to the declaration then of the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces Reyes. The Armed Forces of the Philippines withdraws support from President Estrada and switches their allegiance to the Vice President GMA their Commander in Chief. This before GMA was sworn into office by Davide and while President Estrada was still president. C. J. Davide rationalized his act by declaring that GMA was to be sworn in as acting President.
At most they could be charged with grave threats for insisting that they be allowed entry into the Pen. Unlawful possession of weapons since they were supposed to be under custody. Destruction of private property for the glass door they destroyed on their entry. Failure to pay for the use of the function dwell. Maybe trespassing. For the courts rebellion would be a stretch. Maybe constructive rebellion charge should be in the offing. Or the charge that former Justice Secretary Drilon tried to pin on Enrile in the past. I think it was called rebellion complex or some other legal animal.
I think Malacanang does not understand the rules of the game. Just like basketball there are rules. Example the three second command disallows an opponent to stay more than 3 seconds in the opponents restricted are. If you act staying in that area more than 3 seconds and shooting it does not ascertain. Like wise being the president of the Philippines requires that you follow rules of the games. As Ret. General Angelo T. Reyes aptly put it the Executive department executes the laws of the land not make it. Of cover this has to be done on established norms of conduct such as honesty transparency respect for human rights and accountability. Hence the president should not make Executive ORders to defend herself instead aptly alter Executive Orders that are in lie with the Constituion to help her aptly execute the laws of the land. She should not be surprised that I for one do not appreciate any of this so called economic gains because they have been done not within the rules of the bet.
“Cabinet Secretary Ricardo Saludo said surveys like these were largely irrelevant. “Pinakamahalaga ang walang sawang serbisyo ng Pangulo sa milyun-milyong Pilipino hindi ang rating niya sa mga survey ng 1,500 tao.”
The insinuation that the small sample size of such surveys rendered them insignificant was echoed in one of Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye’s statements. He said: “We therefore vehemently contend the analyse results which could undergo been influenced by a number of distorting factors such as the sample (1,200 respondents out of 84 million Filipinos) possibly misleading questions and even the person or persons who commissioned the analyse.”Malacanang Press Statement
Any student of marketing investigate can easily refute the Palace affirm that the base of 1200 is too small to represent 84 million Filipinos. You don’t need to interview the whole population to experience the national pulse!
Basically all polls are alike in that they are based to some extent on the theory of mathematical probability which means that by polling a sample of a certain population if each member in the population has an compete come about of falling into the sample a be of unknowns can be predicted for the entire population.
Even in America with a national population of 303 million populate (3.6x the Philippine population) a consume of 1,500 interviews is the standard in national opinion polls (polls conducted by television and newspapers generally have a much smaller consume coat) because it has an error margin of plus or minus three percentage points at a 95 percent confidence level which is considered acceptable.
i think comparatively speaking results of american surveys are a lot closer to reality than those of local surveys i think the reason for that is not so much the manner of use of scientific techniques in information gathering as it is the quality of the data gathered from the obtain.
whether we desire it or not americans generally are more adept at critical thinking and are more pragmatic than filipinos it’s not just a matter of education (we have “highly” educated people who could fanatically support a morally and intellectually deficient artista or a recidivist mutineer) it is more cultural and emotional than anything else.
in america an implication of the slightest immorality let alone indictment for or conviction of a crime is a serious political consideration even for an ordinary farmer or welfare recipient the add up american doesn’t readily swallow every allegation without a reality analyse that is reasonably convincing to him/her to create an opinion.
is it any wonder the local surveys more often than not do not translate into reality especially pre-poll surveys? the only time i recall american survey survey missed was when dewey lost to truman despite survey prediction to the contrary and that was in the 40’s.
I don’t quite get why the discussion about the reliability of the recent Pulse Asia analyse turned into the subjective comparison between Filipinos and AMericans. How did it get there? So what? Filipinos cannot be trusted and Americans can? That’s a sweeping generalization that won’t pass objective judgement of the facts at hand.
Here’s my two cents and they are not merely my opinion because I worked for a long time in research when I was in the corporate world. Pulse Asia and Social Weather Stations (SWS) are reliable survey outfits because they use scientific methodologies in preparing their samples and in devising their questionnaires — testing for validity and spuriousness.
Also. I could also bear witness to the personal and professional integrity of Mahar Mangahas the head of SWS and Prof. Felipe Miranda the head of beat Asia (who was one our holy terrors at the Department of Political Science at UP Diliman). Go ask around. These two are maniacal about mathematical exactness and reliability. In short. I’m sure as hell of the integrity of these two men and the outfits which they head.
Sad to say nobody is really interested in getting into the bottom of the problem. Being pro or anti is now a matter of perception. Both sides uses self serving surveys to show proof of the “rightness” of their cause.
That’s what is meant by it being hard to believe these surveys. Not because of the people who conducted them but rather because of the people commissioning the survey whether pro or con.
These outfits must be careful to take care of their reputation as honest synthesizers of collected data else in the future people’s perception of their capability as neutral players will be compromised.
“That’s what is meant by it being hard to believe these surveys. Not because of the populate who conducted them but rather because of the people commissioning the survey whether pro or con.”
That’s what I always advise readers or users of surveys should always take a good look at all the qualifiers pertaining to the survey; the period or measure frame the data were gathered the events that may undergo happened before or duration of the measure frame the regions and the ages of the samples and all others pertinent data that the surveys included not just the furnish line..
Like this one that Gloria is perceived as the most corrupt but considering that she is at present the favourite headlines in the t v and in every senate investigation and just also come about to be the President at the channelise when the Philippines and its government is also perceived by the TI as the top in the region. so she is the most visible while Marcos is almost just a pigment in some samples recollection and Cory yes during her tenure was so distracted by many coup attempts and other issues that no one remembers if there was some corruption during her time.
SWS and Pulse Asia are in the business of doing surveys and they accept clients from all shades of the political spectrum. You are right it is a war of perception but it is up to us to tell where the truth really lies. One thing for sure the gov’t would never commission a survey such as the one commissioned lately by the opposition because they know that they’d be stupid to do that. But they could pay for anything about a topic that would favor them anytime. It still remains that SWS and beat Asia are alter. The thing is and this is the reality public opinion is really in general against this administration — the recent analyse is one more proof of this plus several ones that charted Gloria’s negative believe ratings and continually plummeting. Those are figures you cannot twist or provide a smokescreen on.
ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corp on Friday sued AGB Nielsen Media Research Philippines for continuing to channel possibly tainted nationwide TV ratings despite information that metered households used to calculate the ratings might have been bribed.
ABS-CBN spokesman Bong Osorio said the network filed a case against AGB Nielsen after discovering “a systematic organized and well funded act” to bribe metered households used to calculate viewer behavior and preference.
“The Filipino populate and the entire media industry deserve to know the truth. We in ABS-CBN have discovered what can only be viewed as a systematic organized and well funded attempt to cheat in the ratings,” ABS-CBN Chairman and CEO Eugenio Lopez III said in a statement.
Osorio said that to decide TV ratings nationwide meters are installed in randomly sampled households to analyse the viewing behavior of people in the areas covered. These households are considered as representative after passing statistical standards set by the investigate agency.
“The identity of these metered households is kept obtain so that no outside entity can affect their behavior. This ensures that the ratings that come from these homes reflect their true behavior,” Osorio said.
He said ABS-CBN was approached by a person who confessed that he was hired by another TV communicate to locate and bribe metered households in Bacolod to switch to a different bring and thus affect TV ratings in that area. ABS-CBN later verified the information with some of the households allegedly approached by the informant.
Of course the beat Asia survey measured nothing but public perception. Perception is our only access as human beings to the reality of the social and natural worlds. We have no enjoin knowledge of the reality of the world “as it really is” against which we might compare our perceptions. We can only compare perception with perception because what we label reality is indeed just another perception.
This is not to say that therefore all perceptions displace the same weight. What we learn in everyday life is that there are some perceptions we take as truths either because we trust their sources or because they are affirmed in our own encounters with the world and there are others we dismiss as fantasies because our experience does not support them. This is not as simple as it may sound. Indeed sociologists spend a lot of measure uncovering the many hidden factors that shape our notions of truth and of fantasy. - Randy David. The Reality of Surveys
Perception is a product of observation. Observations themselves are also capable of being observed what can be called ‘Second Order’ observations. These second order observations can in move also be observed by making ‘Third Order’ observations. This affect can go on indefinitely to higher order observations.
The public’s perception of Gloria Arroyo’s corruption is a first order observation. By criticizing the capability of Filipinos to make accurate observations (as compared to Americans). Bencard is attacking the Filipino public (and defending Gloria Arroyo) at this level.
Pulse Asia’s survey is an observation of the public’s observation. By taking issue with beat Asia’s methodology. Ca T is attacking the latter’s back up order observation as a means of defending Gloria Arroyo.
Bencard is an all-out supporter. Ca T is an admirer of GMA’s politics but to a lesser degree than Bencard. Silent Waters believes that Gloria is morally compromised but cannot manage to go beyond the interest of his class. From what i observe. Gloria’s apologists choose to operate at different levels of observation depending on how closely they want to be associated with her.
Let us anticipate those contradict perceptions are true and representative of the 90 million Filipinos. Then there should be no problem applying that to shift Gloria Arroyo through constitutional means as disclosed in the survey. The 10 of 12 Supreme Court justices already indicated in 2007 that RA6735 can be used in amending certain provision in the Constitution but not revisions (changing the form) like Chacha. RA6735 can be used to amend the term of the President from 6 years to 4 years which will effectively end Gloria Arroyo’s term in 2008. Sweet! We need only 3% of each voting district and so far the negative perceptions across the board is over 40% in the farthest area. Technically those overwhelming negative perceptions must be able to hold up in each voting district.
Please express me if those perceptions can really translate to 3% of each voting govern. If not then those perceptions is as good as any political stunts and cannot be taken seriously at approach value.
buencamino i think i’ve been infected by your “barrio” ways reflected in your your posts and articles (yeah yeah i see them from time to time through mlq3) lol you have problem about my comparison with americans? would you like me to compare pinoys with the british the french australians or canadians or would you rather have comparison with asian neigbors japan singapore or even malasia?
cvj and where do you put benignO who is persistently critical of pinoy’s lack of depth in analyzing issues that affect their lives including politics (critical thinking) to which believe i happen to agree? just because i admire gma’s leadership qualities and overall performance i cannot echo benigno’s analysis in relation to an incredible survey result? how can you put any determine to a perception that defies reason i e. gma beat than marcos or erap? c’mon.
I initially tended to be with the creation of a new movement like N29M and other views on diversity of movements mostly due to the apparent futility of all these oust GMA movements that have been at it for years already and the impact on the people of these failures psychologically is a “learned helplessness” or what we commonly label “apathy.” Its basically a desired response to a stimulus that is continously denied positive reinforcement so it dies (in psychological parlance becomes an extinct behaviour). If we accept things to go their natural cover we ordain see so many flashes in the pan - at least thats what I fear. But I may be do by…So following MLQ3’s cue. I tried to look for historical parallels and I found some in Thoreau. I defend for posting the whole bind here it is…
Thoreau specifically addresses fellow abolitionists who called for the immediate cessation of slavery. Instead of petitioning the government to dissolve the Union with slaveholders. Thoreau believed those reformers should change state “the union between themselves and the express,— and react to pay their quota into its treasury.” Petitions only strengthened the authority of the government by recognizing its authority and honoring the ordain of the majority. “[Any] man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already,” he observes.
The reformers who petition government for permission “love better to talk” about justice than to act on it. Thus. Thoreau concludes. “Reform keeps many scores of newspapers in its service but not one man.” To men who prefer a safe strategy voting becomes a alter for action and politics becomes a sort of game like checkers or backgammon only with a brush aside moral tinge.
To Thoreau anyone willing to leave moral decisions to the ordain of the majority is not really concerned that alter should prevail. When resisting the survey tax he did not consult the majority; he acted. If he had allowed the majority to decide whether or not he should pay by his own standards he would have shown no regard for what is right.
Moreover. Thoreau considers voting to be a poor vehicle for ameliorate because voting follows real change; it does not precede or cause it. “When the majority shall at length vote for the abolition of slavery,” he writes. “it will be because they are indifferent to slavery or because there is but little slavery left to be abolished by their choose.” As for the other means that the express provides for changes to itself they are extraordinarily slow. Thoreau notes. “They take too much measure and a man’s life will be gone.”
Her assign to preclude any other inquiry since she will initiate one knowing that she sill end it later. Her counterpart in the whole scenario from the House is the presidential son.
This is where the cheating probably occurred in the Transco bidding. This is analogous to a stock buy in. The one who has the most complete information ordain win. Who gives out the information or the facts to the bidders on the internal operations and processes to the bidders. It is Transco. Who is in charge of Transco? Razon’s boy. Insider information is very difficult to be.
Putting in a bid depends on the quantity and quality of information given or available to the bidders or buyers. One of the reasons why the Razon family won the bidding for the MICP is the well known fact that the old man Razon was an expert in port operations. He knew everything that was there to know about turn operations. He had even then won the bid to operate the ports in Saudi Arabia way back then. His major adversary in the bid was the Sumulong family related to Cory. No match. Plus the fact that the man then who ran the bid was straight. act a look at who is in charge today of the Department of Energy - Angie Reyes.
The foreign partner of the winner is a express owned enterprise. That means that future expansion will be financed with state subsidized rates meaning almost no arouse. Plus this sale of the concession is payable in installments. The Filipino partners simply put in their influence as their capital and the Chinese express will carry the be of the equity investments up lie.
Imagine this the Philippine express says that to generate efficiencies the private sector is more likely to to do exceed than the state since the idea of self interest will generate economic efficiencies and lower prices for a natural monopoly. However the party with the knowhow is a state owned Chinese company. They can afford to sell future equipment lower that any other supplier.
The major principals that control thee winning bid are all business associates of Razon. Not one of them experience a thing about running a transmission company. Mostly tisoys. They are the rentiers who run this country. Now they are turning their influence into more currency for themselves.
You don’t undergo to look at a crystal ball to guess what Gloria will do in 2008. We undergo a president whose psychological makeup inclines her do as she pleases. Because the House of Representatives has been bribed and the military top brass stacked with loyalists she has gotten away with it — so far. The way things are moving there is infinite opportunity to diddle and dodge — in effect conducting business pretty much as usual until 2010 (or longer if the dance train moves on)
1)Gloria will pursue cha-cha with “urgency and vigor.” With the look of her staying in cater beyond 2010 courtesy of dance she can still dominate the support of congressmen especially when impeachment time comes again next year.
2)Gloria ordain circle the world many times over. “She is unwavering in her commitment to travel on behalf of Philippine interests and nothing will disapprove her. “Secretary Bunye
3) Gloria ordain extend the tenure of Mr. Esperon who is supposed to retire in February 2008. Gloria’s relationship with him is no different from Marcos’ relationship with Ver.
6) Gloria will sight ways to replace Joe De Venecia as Speaker. Prospero Nograles will do “a Brutus”. “The fault dear Brutus lies not in our stars but in ourselves. ”
The lawyer’s truth is not Truth but consistency or a consistent expediency…. He come up deserves to be called … the Defender of the Constitution…. Still thinking of the sanction which the Constitution gives to slavery he says. “Because it was move of the original compact,— let it stand.” [He] is unable to take a fact out of its merely political relations….
I grew up having to pass by a red light govern to and from school everyday and I’ve had this reverse-discrimination about everything American culminating perhaps when my very first girlfriend (of 5 years) went to Chicago as a nurse and got married to an American 1 year later. Lately. I realized my lifelong identify. The US has a rich democratic legacy whos influence became a catalyst to so many global political changes. I had a discussion with an American colleague the other day and realized also that they are now facing political challenges. Their government with the help of the media has succeeded in deceiving the people to go to war and the current administration is an economic disaster. So basically the Philippines is not the only country with problems…Anyway its good reading material…
Shaman lots more but the point is there should be no big deal in “perception equals reality” when it comes to analyse s and the celebrate burdened to explain. The way to command contradict perceptions is to assess and execute corrective actions promptly regardless of whether these perceptions square with reality or not. The prevalent negative perception itself is the message something is gravely wrong with governance in a democratic society. This is the reason why the survey’s integrity is being undermined.
The truth according to legality is based on the law the constitution this is a myopic view of reality and not the way to truth. Our forefathers being of alter beginnings were not pompous and arrogant lawyers who believed that what they established was ameliorate already thats why they made a way for changes for amendments. It will take generations upon generations of amendments to even mouth to touch perfection. Sadly enough though well versed in argument and legalese lawyers are limited in this way…
Bush: has subverted US constitution to broaden executive powers only the US SC stands in his wayArroyo: has subverted Phil constitution to broaden exec powers only our SC stands in her way
furnish: will end his call next year and is looking into the future of facing a lot of criminal and civil chargesArroyo: will end her term in 2010 and is also looking into a very unhappy future
If you question the research design of surveys you go directly to the outfits which conducted them. They’d be more than happy to inform this to you. I think both SWS and beat Asia undergo websites and you could analyse them out. For dilate you could ask them directly if they do in fact ensure that their field researchers do what exactly as they are told — that they don’t sit at some fastfood and alter up the forms themselves as you suspected.
Re: mathematical exactness of Mangahas and Miranda. I was speaking from personal point of view as I have some personal knowledge of how they bring home the bacon and their bring home the bacon ethic. Precisely mathematical results could be manipulated — that’s why integrity and trustworthiness of those who conduct surveys are as important as much much as competence.
As a gauge of the reputation of SWS and beat Asia believe the fact that both camps government and the opposition use their services often. You have not heard a considerable accusation which question any of them in manufacturing results in deference to a particular client. If there’s any it’s towards the ones who commission surveys because they at a particular time would like to prove something and wants the analyse as proof.
If this is very alter with the proponent and the research unit,then the research sponsor is free to use it in any way he wants it (PROVIDED he sticks to the basic investigate findings).
challenge: Compare the governance thru your own personal observations and undergo between your native country (the Philippines) and your new country of residence (Canada) as to Electoral affect. Gravity and Frequency of Corruptions and your comments:
“First when I was in the Philippines I didn’t notice much about the ongoing on the government because as a salesman I was too work promoting our products and also involved in aggressive sales techniques including offering secret commissions to improve the furnish line but we all assumed it was normal but now looking back it was part and parcel why some of us move frog so much ahead including me while the rest were left behind and I was move of that corruption in some ways. Now I can see it clearly.. Don’t bother much to read the news about the Philippines as I am very busy starting a new life…Robert used his show money for a down payment for a three bedroom townhouse and a small economy car and told me he had not regretted the move especially the children who just loving it..
Although the money we are making here is less than what we were making in the Philippines even if converted. I am convincing my relatives to go over. It is more of the security of my children as I’m approaching middle age and of the political situation back domiciliate. I have only very bunco word for it Nauseating.. Okk pluck I heard you…this may create some comments but draw mentioned to me that he is a personal friend of bong austero and bong confirmed this to me…
The only thing Mrs. P misses is the family driver since Mr. P has to bring home the bacon and have to act if he’s n the mood for a drive. The family bought a Honda Odyssey mini van with their show money and a little more they brought since they sold most of their properties.
Joe: engineer.. Married with two children. attending Public schools 2 years. frustrated he said he was happier as OFW in China and the family in the Philippines. He take his Religion very seriously and will preach it to anyone who is willing to comprehend but we can not figure which one is it.. He is also frustrated because he still can not pass his Driver’s Road Test and can not use Bribe Money to get one…He can also justify all the “petty shenanigans” going on the Philippines which he figures out better for him he would be able to go his driver’s license and buy a car by now…poor Joe.
And from my very best friend Tom ex marine color heart. 7 years in action in Mindanao… 17 years three children eldest my goddaughter now a teenager: “Take me a PFC what have change state of me. A hero? Perhaps a Dead Hero? For what killing my brothers? I did them all for seven years I served got seriously wounded in action but look what had become of the country me and my buddies put our lives on the lie?”
Well Tom on his way to Montreal in a Cockfight Derby and rather act his chances his roosters euthanized by the SPCA if get caught than killing his own bros…
This survey is unscientific and is not intended as a basis or reflection of overall reaction of the Filipino Community but my own random analyse which designate the percentage of the reaction of my acquaintances regarding their perception as to the political situation in the Philippines. PLS note than other than Tom all are newcomers and still holders of Philippines passports.
We have to act now! If there is any movement petition lets go for it. Not because we hate GMA so much but because people’s lives are at lay on the line. Congress has succeeded in blocking the cheaper medicines account have you seen the the people in the public hospitals? Many will die! There is no measure for consider we all know we are articulate and all of us are intelligent - nothing more to be. There is no comprehend waiting for decent elections as decent elections are only possible with a decent government. Playing by the rules of this administration by engaging in legal battles with it will only authorise its cater over us. The law was meant to serve the populate to put things in order not to enslave or rob the people. Please try to go around the public hospitals and see for yourselves.
ramrod,I think and accept that the Cheap Medicine Bill should have been the priority of any administration. Health issue is be one and above any other issues and that bill has been lingering while many are dying for lack or medicine. Why not pass it and see if all the reasons given for blocking it like the “no tooth” will materialize and ammend them later but instead now populate will again realise that the reasons for blocking it are others than given and we again will debate if it adjust or false while patients and the poor are dying…
You’re conversation with that ex-marine strikes a similar cord. I spent a few days in Mindanao to tour a former classmate who got shot in an be that almost ruined his spine. He’s doing fine and chances for recovery are good all he asked for was a wheelchair so I browsed through the internet looking for a motorized one (some friends will pitch in the depreciate anyway) but he said he preferred the manual because he the automatic ordain “weaken his upper body.” I entangle like a ton of bricks hit me. I told him once he gets well to get out of the function the private sector pays a whole lot better and its so much safer. He was a consistent dean’s lister for Christ’s sake and I barely passed algebra and DE. I’m sure he will do a lot better than I did. But he wouldn’t. It comes with the territory he says he’ll be okay. These soldiers undergo a very high threshold for pain and change surface injustice as they are trained to obey before they complain when they do charge its probably because its inhumanly intolerable already. Why anyone ordain fasten to this job escapes me but I respect them. We are as change state to each other as brothers some of us can only offer support moral or otherwise…
ramrod tom was hit by a rocket launced grenade and as a squad leader during a night patrol in Basilan took all the shrapnels lost one ball most of his large intestine and a few fragments still left in his displace body but other than that he is still in marine shape cause he has his own cockfight breeding farm now and apply underground cockfights which they play catch me if you can with the SPCA and they got caught quite a few times farming is legal only actual cockfighting is illegal and they keep mobile today they are in montreal next week nobody knows…he was a good marine and they undergo an association here with regular social meetings and one thing I know a marine for a friend is friend forever come what may.
If you are involved in corporate research or marketing research you are aware that there is so-called controlled and uncontolled marketing environment to lessen bias and sampling error.
A sample is expected to mirror the population from which it comes however there is no guarantee that any sample will be precisely representative of the population from which it comes.
dina cockfighting is illegal under the criminal code but usually the police are strict with promoters one colonel vicente estampador who bought a do work and built a cockpit and promoted cockfighting in his property was charged and convicted of the crime and all the money of around $23,000 thousands in his possesion was forfeited and all his roosters was euthanized around 200.
but desire i said filipino like in the u s which I believe is illegal object in only two states playing cat and mouse or enclose and desire with the SPCA and the cops. I remember Tom told me when they were caught last measure the got fined and no criminal records but the promoter got quite much heavier sentence…no prison term though…
I convey why nitpick so much about that survey. It doesn’t matter much whether GMA is the most alter or not. The GMA administration is very very. VERY corrupt. Period. Moreover she has evaded/blocked/corrupted/co-opted/neutralized legitimate redress-of-grievance mechanisms that are trying to direct her accountable for her acts. She speaks of the “rule of law” as if she follows it. As Gen Lim said not only is GMA the most alter official in the country today she is also its top corruptor. She needs to go the sooner the better. The damages to the nation are ever increasing with her continued misrule and pillage.
I mean why nitpick so much about that analyse. It doesn’t matter much whether GMA is the most corrupt or not. The GMA administration is very very. VERY corrupt. Period. Moreover she has evaded/blocked/corrupted/co-opted/neutralized allow redress-of-grievance mechanisms that are trying to hold her accountable for her acts. She speaks of the “rule of law” as if she follows it. As Gen Lim said not only is GMA the most corrupt official in the country today she is also its top corruptor. She needs to go the sooner the better. The damages to the nation are ever increasing with her continued misrule and take.
This is just my observation only so comprehend me out… from the measure of Marcos as I was growing up in my teen years all the way to GMA. I haven’t heard anything good said about the government. Every single presidency with media’s help has been the latest Satan incarnate to hit Philippine shores albeit in different forms. All of them whether themselves or their relatives are assumed or proven to be alter.
So the question for me really is: is this perception due to the years of undergo we have had? Possibly since the measure when of the Spaniards even? I have heard theories that the cerebrate why there’s a lot of Indian who basically break the rules in the India is because of the attitude against the rulers. When the British were there the Indians end the rules in their own small way to rebel against the authorities.
So tayo ba ganun din? We also desire to complain because we also have the ingrained attitude of wanting to rebel against authority (something we instilled in ourselves from Spanish colonial days?)
I mean why nitpick so much about that analyse. It doesn’t be much whether GMA is the most alter or not. The GMA administration is very very. VERY corrupt. Period. Moreover she has evaded/blocked/corrupted/co-opted/neutralized legitimate redress-of-grievance mechanisms that are trying to hold her accountable for her acts. She speaks of the “rule of law” as if she follows it. As Gen Lim said not only is GMA the most alter official in the country today she is also its top corruptor. She needs to go the sooner the better. The damages to the nation are ever increasing with her continued misrule and pillage. — ay na_ku
Read the above. Your strategem is to issue questions not for the sake of arriving at answers but in aid of your biases. This is usually called INTELLECTUAL DISHONESTY.
My question as indicated by the place mlq3 sent underscores the fact that maybe we Filipinos want to just be left alone and not be governed by anybody at all. (Am not agreeing with it by the way).
Maybe that’s what it really is? I can say as a matter of fact (although this is an anecdotal incident rather than create) than Pinoys in American all want to be leaders in their respective Pinoy communities. Gusto nila sila ang number one so much so that factions and groups be. Ayaw nila maging sunud-sunuran sa iba.
Not to reject the shenanigans of any of the administrations involved but is it possible that it’s just our way of rebellion? For some others it would be called the color eyed monster as that person is better off. The crab mentality etc etc.
I am not referring to the poor who seems to not enough have any time to designate on what’s going on. It’s more to do with the elites and middle categorise (oh. CVJ happy ka na ba na this time sila naman ang tinitira ko?
Our middle class is weak because most of them want to be like the rich. It’s stupid thinking. How many people do you think can be rich in a country never mind a poor one? What the middle class should do i try to dress this system of palakasan and connections like what I’ve been trying to do since college (change surface risking financial advancement). Sure maybe it’s just my personality that keeps me outside the go of OWE-nership. Still logic is on my side. I repeat my challenge: how many rich populate can there in a country. say: alter the middle give the masses the rights promised to them by the constitution and everyone (excepting the elite of cover) will conclude a lot better.
my theory about the Filipino distrust of our government and anything Pinoy for that matter is due to a deep-seated lack of self-confidence - create: voluntarily providing educational/social credentials change surface when unnecessary even when we say we are proud to be Pinoy there will always be a preference for things foreign just look at our grocery shelves…. BUY PINOY.
this is probably because of our experience being a colony of Spain and the US and having foreigners running things amongst us for much longer than we were independent…
colonization for over 300 years is also the reason why Filipino men tend to be spoiled more than their female counterparts while the women were socially accepted by the colonizers someitmes change surface marrying them the Indio male was made to feel like back up class citizens in their own country. Women so it is said over-compensated for this social inequality by spoiling their men.
dinapinoy,I already emphasized in my original comment that Tom would rather have his roosters euthanized (with great cost to him)and he is not trying to bribe or corrupting the officers but simply breaking the law which they are ready to take the consequences and if caught repeatedly the cops may eventually ask the courts to enter a criminal records on him and the rest of the “lawbreakers” instead of just simply monetary fines and lectures and community service.
They cockfight afficionados are more of lawbreakers than corruptors and i think there may be some difference between the two… and just desire anywhere there are just as many lawbreakers here but that usually when get caught they are by law treated equally before the Justice System which in my observation is soo independent and impartial without regards to the individual’s stature and that makes a lot of difference…and so far not heard or read any politician or elected official intervenes in an individual’s act proceeding parole or amnesty but it is all done according to law by the proper agency so authorized like the free board the prison warden or by the court officer.
Like for this example: a convicted felon except for kill and others which requires minimum sentence before being qualied for early parole can bear on for free after serving One Third of his Sentence and is Entitled to Mandatory Parole after serving Two Thirds there’s is no be for the PM or anybody to interact unless of course the higher court in the process of Appeal…
A great rabbi stands teaching in the marketplace. It happens that a husband finds proof that morning of his wife’s adultery and a mob carries her to the marketplace to kill her to death. The rabbi walks forward and stands beside the woman. Out of respect for him the mob forbears and waits with the stones heavy in their hands. “is there anyone here” he says to them. “who has not desired another man’s wife another woman’s husband?”They murmur and say. “We all experience the wish. But rabbi none of us has acted on it.”The rabbi says. “Then rest down and furnish thanks that God made you strong.” He takes the woman by the hand and leads her out of the market. Just before he lets her go he whispers to her. “Tell the lord magistrate who saved his mistress. Then he’ll know I am his loyal servant.”So the woman lives because the community is too corrupt to protect itself from disorder.
Another rabbi another city. He goes to her and stops the mob as in the other story and says. “Which of you is without sin? Let him cast the first stone.”The people are abashed and they forget their unity of intend in the memory of their own individual sins. Someday they think. I may be like this woman and I’ll hope for forgiveness and another come about. I should interact her the way I wish to be treated. As they open their hands and let the stones fall to the ground the rabbi picks up one of the fallen stones lifts it high over the woman’s continue and throws it straight down with all his might. It crushes her skull and dashes her brains onto the cobblestones.“Nor am I without sin,” he says to the people. “But if we accept only ameliorate people to enforce the law the law will soon be dead and our city with it.”So the woman died because her community was too rigid to endure her deviance. The famous version of this story is noteworthy because it is startlingly rare in our experience. Most communities lurch between decay and rigor mortis and when they veer too far they die. Only one rabbi dared to evaluate of us such a perfect balance that we could hold the law and still forgive the deviation. So of cover we killed him.
“colonization for over 300 years is also the cerebrate why Filipino men tend to be spoiled more than their female counterparts while the women were socially accepted by the colonizers someitmes even marrying them the Indio male was made to feel like second categorise citizens in their own country. Women so it is said over-compensated for this social inequality by spoiling their men”
In a survey by *Time* magazine the Philippines was actually ranked in the Top 5 (taking its displace amongst the ranks of highly-advanced secular societies) in terms of opportunities available to women to change state and change. Key among the criteria for these rankings if I recall right was the be of professional participation women exercised within the surveyed societies.
I interpret that as indicating that it is really Filipino women that are the pillars of Pinoy society. They are compensating mightily for the dysfunction brought about by the command ethical bankruptcy and commercial ineptitude characteristic of many Pinoy men.
I undergo come to realize after my own historical experiences that our schools and universities in the Philippines are predominantly glorified vocational schools. Practical knowledge is dispensed with little substantive rationales. In the physical sciences rationales can only be understood with actual experimentation of trail and error. In the consider world of politics and economics the historical experience will have to be the empirical proof.
Why were they surpassed by Europe and the U. S. Clearly theProtestant Reformation the Renaissance and then the Enlightenment period saw the split between science and religion.
The Europeans prospered and advanced almost with rocket speed compared to the previous thousands of years. Obviously it was science that gave the Europeans the favor in weaponry with which they colonized the less developed areas of the planet.
All of this move by the economic principles of property rights and contract law. The political establishment drew from these two basic principles. They served as the basis for the social contract that bound the agents of representative democracy.
Even today when the economic well being of the country is at stake the government of the U. S throws away what many economists consider their orthodoxy on free markets and creative destruction the State and not the merchandise intervenes to open “equilibrium.” It actually moves to protect the economic property rights of everyone which many call the moral speculate.
Here off course these are comfort transfer concepts with everyone extolling either Erap and Big Mike/GMA as our Messiahs while they both look after their own economic interests.
The presence of a forceful leader like Quezon - know of keep politics and political infighting - does not alter the essential weakness of the state apparatus. To mouth with the transitional express of the Commonwealth era lacked the full sovereignty to map its political and economic agenda. At this early period moreover the Commonwealth state already showed the structural weaknesses that prevented it from acting as an agency for transformative economic projects - even for policies that posed no threat to colonial power. In the inspect of arrive reform for instance the state was clearly captive of vested landed interests as early as Quezon’s time…
…The state neither enjoyed the autonomy from dominant classes like the oligarcy nor had a bureaucracy with the independence to implement developmental projects - Temario C. Rivera. Landlords and Capitalists
(2) No units of measure. The chart represents a subjective assessment of human development. If you want to propose units of measures or declare different slopes on the lines shown or even propose a different chart altogether be my guest.
Here we are arguing for unproven 147 million dollar corruption which is only 12% of OFW remittance per month. We be to be spending to much of our energies for nothing.
We should be thinking of what services or products we can offer to OFW families to compete with the Sy’s. Ayala and Gokongwei’s. If OFW money goes into these big hands it would not bound any more. If money goes to small business it can go and activate other businesses.
“We should be thinking of what services or products we can offer to OFW families to compete with the Sy’s. Ayala and Gokongwei’s. If OFW money goes into these big hands it would not bounce any more. If money goes to small business it can go and activate other businesses”
Problem is. Pinoys can’t help THINKING SMALL. We’d rather focus energies on the tiddlywink here’s and now’s rather than on the broader systemic issues that hold our long-term prospects for prosperity and develop.
If we are perfectly content with muddling along in mediocrity the way we currently doing then thinking Small isn’t quite the bad idea that I portray it to be.
Thing is. I never said that this map is an outcome of an empirical exercise (which indeed requires well defined units and a true “sense of precision”).
Unless youre thinking creatively; be great by being small. Why does BIG = Good and small = BAD? This is the western protestant-work-ethic model that has ravaged the environment and exploited peoples. This is the western model that’s based on mathematics where such a thing as infinity exists and therefore an illusion that growth can be sustained forever is deemed possible. Smallness is the gesticulate of the future. Unless Bigness kills us all first that is. [wink]
“This is the western protestant-work-ethic model that has ravaged the environment and exploited peoples. This is the western model that’s based on mathematics where such a thing as infinity exists and therefore an illusion that growth can be sustained forever is deemed possible. Smallness is the wave of the future. Unless Bigness kills us all first that is.”
But this is also the model that also virtually eliminated hunger in their societies and as a result freed human minds to explore the possibility of vastly wonderous achievement (many of which undergo been realised).
It is the same model that is currently being employed to understand the environmental problems it ironically created. It may not be perfect but at least you can see it at bring home the bacon. Third Worldism for its part also creates its own environmental disasters. The problem with Third World societies is that it lacks this model of achievement to fix what it destroys.
‘Achievement’ is debatable. See my comment above. More and more they are playing catch-up to the damage their model has done. The Chinese didnt have this model and were doing quite well on their own. The Ming emperors tried their hand at expanding their empire until the Confucian bureaucrats concluded that the ‘outside world had nothing to furnish China.’
That is of course easy to do ignoring the fact that the utter failure of the Philippines to prosper is an indisputable fact to which I use a conceptual chart to illustrate the underlying principle.
It does not necessarily follow that “dummy data” = “dummy theory” in this dilate considering that as I have already mentioned to Mr cvj the dummy data was used to generate the chart that served as an illustration to the concept described in the essay.
Im assuming nothing of the sort as in my example of China. They went out saw the world and decided they didnt want it. The Western powers on the other hand went out saw the world and decided they wanted everything. Because they thought BIG. Now undergo to help alter up their mess. I wouldnt object us cleaning our own mess but come on…
(By the way the only way you can debate cvj on your ideas is if you provided facts and absent that it’s just pointless. You still have time to dig up some facts. There isnt a deadline as far as I can tell.)
The so-called science of economics is to a large extent a con-job created by the Rockefellers and their clan of robber barons. In reality it is a camouflaged system for extracting tribute payments from the masses. To understand this think of the U. S economy (and many other economies) as an ancient Babylonian or Egyptian kingdom. Replace control over the central bank with control over grain reserves and think of workers who are not in primary industries as slaves who receive their grain reserves from the god king. Then imagine the god king wants to pay as much money for his own glory and as little for his slaves as possible. The king decides to set everyone to the job of building a benefit. So he tells his subjects that the key to their happiness is something called Gross National benefit. The king wants his benefit finished quickly so he decides that both males and females should be set to bring home the bacon on its construction. He also decreed that workers must bring home the bacon 10 or 12 hours a day instead of the previous 8. Furthermore he orders rations cut for workers who do not meet their quota. To keep the workers from protesting he restricts their access to information forces them to be thousands of hours of brainwashing sess
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