Gloria Arroyo

Let’s start with Sarah Palin. Not that I care about the U.S. elections. I just needed a laugh on a Monday morning.
Here’s a video of Sarah Palin’s interview with Katie Couric on CBS. And it really is Sarah Palin, not Tina Fey.

I got the link from Dooce and if you’re going to click the [...]

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A hungry mob is an angry mob and no one will care if we’re just one of the many Asian countries with this food problem.

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From A twist to the usual tale of street protests in The Economist, an article that analyzes why the Senate with its 2010 “presidentiables” is lukewarm over another People Power.
ON FEBRUARY 29th several thousand anti-government demonstrators gathered in Manila to demand the resignation of President Gloria Arroyo. So far, so usual…
But this was only a [...]

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An editorial that draws a parallel between the Philippines’ People Power phenomenon and the dismantling of the communist states in Eastern Europe.
While the countries of the former Soviet bloc have settled down to democracy, the mass protest has become dangerously embedded in Philippine politics…
The editorial’s conclusion is that ending a corrupt government should be done [...]

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From the Financial Times:
The Philippines’ poverty rate has risen for the first time since the Asian financial crisis, according to a new government report that deals a blow to Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s plans to halve the ranks of the country’s poor.
At the rate that the poor reproduce, and I’m talking about non-stop child births, that [...]

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Executive officials are no longer barred from testifying in legislative inquiries.
Opposition Sen. Jamby Madrigal said President Arroyo abolished the controversial order for her “political survival.”
For his part, administration Sen. Juan Miguel Zubiri said the President’s decision “shows her sincerity to let the truth come out.”
Personally, I think it’s simply kowtowing to the Catholic Church (as [...]

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