Category: Solidarity for Sovereignty
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Toying with DDR: Bong Go’s Bridge to Nowhere
Senator Christopher “Bong” Go has joined Senate President Jose Miguel Zubiri in the latter’s soapbox for a Department of Disaster Resilience (DDR) by filing Senate Bill 188 in the 19th Congress which is just a renumbering of Senate Bill 205 that did not pass the last Congress. Their only rationale – the…
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Toying with DDR: Zubiri must not fix what ain’t broke
Solidarity for Sovereignty By Ado Paglinawan Senate President Juan Miguel Zubiri’s insistence on an “office with cabinet rank” to take over the idea of a Department of Disaster Resilience is proof positive that the upper house of the Philippine legislature has already outlived its usefulness. The Senate must be abolished. If…
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Rightsizing of Government Must Start with Abolition of the Senate
By Ado Paglinawan The President’s push for the rightsizing of all agencies, departments, and government-owned or controlled corporations, with no exemptions, must start with our fat legislature that has been the worst source of gridlock in governance. I recently almost fell of my chair when presumptive Senate president Juan Miguel Zubiri said that a charter…
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Sinophobic Locsin mothballs oil, gas deal
By Ado Paglinawan, journalist, book author and director of the Asian Century Philippines Institute and the Philippine BRICS Society On July 7, 2019, Teodoro Locsin Jr as secretary of foreign affairs, tweeted, “…There is no deadline on the brilliant oil and gas MOU (memorandum of understanding) I wrote & China & PH signed. It is…