Topic: Oligarchy
THE G8 ENVIRONMENTAL REPORT SAYS COAL PLANTS ARE THE WORST OF ALL
June 7, 2013 ·
By Fr. Shay Cullen Dublin and Northern Ireland. The shocking revelation that environmental damages caused by economic activities like coal plant electrical generation and mining is costing the global economy as much as US$4.7 trillion a year. The report released last 15 April was commissioned by the Group of Eight economic powers and the United Nation’s Environmental Programme. […]
Read More...Wealthy Ruling elites grab the congressional seats reserved for the poor
June 4, 2013 ·
At least 29 out of 53 party list reps proclaimed by Comelec are from political clans, former government officials, multi-millionaires by Arnold Padilla (Radical’s Nut) More than two weeks after the May 2013 polls, the Commission on Elections (Comelec) has finally proclaimed, albeit still incomplete, the winning party list groups. Looking at the composition of […]
Read More...Monopoly of Political power
December 31, 2012 ·
FR. JUN MERCADO OMI (Oblates of Mary Immaculate) November 6, 2012 5:33pm 131 3 5 276 We are about seven months from the May 2013 mid-term elections, but the early filing of certificates of candidacy has exposed in an “indecent” way the political families that continue to dominate Philippine politics since World War II. Beginning […]
Read More...The Rich Grow Richer, the Poor Poorer
August 3, 2012 · By Fr. Shay Cullen
Margie was just a young woman, about 23, freshly trafficked and lured from the province to the Philippine sex industry in Angeles city with the promise of earning money as a waitress to help her family. Still innocent in the ways of the lustful officials, sex tourists and bar operators, she applied last 25th June for a work […]
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