To this site’s owner,

kindly explain the ever obvious exclusion of Gibo Teodoro in all your articles such as this. Thanks

BongV, thank you for your blog. I know you are for Gordon and I respect that. Not to impose, share ko lang to sa lahat ng sumusubaybay sa blog na ito. mabuhay po kayo at salamat for being critical in your choices. This article is just to add information.

“The Riddle of Man and the Choice of Philippine President for 2010″

“The whole world except man is a riddle, the real universal riddle, and man himself is its only solution”
Rudolf Steiner (The Course of My Life)

The Filipino is at a crossroads. An opportunity awaits him to change his destiny. One that allows him to live with dignity and harness his fullest potential, after all, he has so much ingenuity that the rest of the world has seen in scant ways. This richly deserved destiny, though, is something he has to think through and act on, for the riddle of man, is central to the realization of this destiny.

This coming May elections, how can the Filipino distinguish the real presidential leader amongst the many who have stepped in, presenting themselves as the cure of a dying society?

Long suffering from a myriad of problems, the most obvious of which is the wholesale corruption that destroyed its structures and institutions and resultantly manifesting as massive poverty amongst its population, environmental degradation, and most sadly, moral erosion, the Filipino attributes these to the leaders who hastened the rape and plunder of this nation because of their own selfish interests.

The Filipino himself too, little does he know, played a significant part to the ensuing chaos that he is mired in. He has succumbed to a culture of impunity, became apathetic especially to the most relevant issues that affect him. He has joined the bandwagon that subscribes to the “that’s the way it is” mentality. He has resigned thinking that it is “impossible” to change the state of the nation. Due this, opportunistic leaders countenance a “status quo” in the pretense of bringing “change” and promises that are perpetually broken.

My own processes brought me to the following thoughts especially on the presidential candidates. The criteria by which I chose my president are as follows:

1. An all-encompassing vision and a deep understanding of the human riddle.
2. Qualifications – the candidate’s achievements
3. Practical Contributions to Phil. Society – whether or not these contributions are publicized by media.
4. Integrity, Honesty, and Non-corruptibility

These criteria formed out of a serious desire to contribute a most significant step into the birthing of a new Filipino and Philippines led me to only one answer, at least where the Presidency is concerned.

1. An all-encompassing understanding of the human riddle. To me this precedes all the rest. It brought me to a realization that all his qualification, direct contributions to Philippine and Global affairs, along with an unassailable character beyond can only be possible if the man were “enlightened”. Only a man who has a direct connection to this limitless source of ideas can produce such manifold practical implementations. Only a man who has found the answers to the human riddle can devise a framework to solve the crises that it faces.
In our country, most if not all, our politicians arbitrarily concoct “solutions” that have no basis on the nature of man. Their myopic “solutions”, like many of our modern allopathic medicines alleviate one symptom only to produce a whole range of adverse reactions. Only a holistic knowledge of the world can man be effective as a human being…or as a politician if it were to help its fellow citizens in the realm of politics.

2. His Qualifications:

This man has worked outside of government, reviewing, reframing, and re-casting societal policies towards a future sustainable development.

1. United Nations’ Technical Consultant – bodies such as UNDP, FAO, UNCSD, and UNICEF.
2. Government – served as consultant to the Office of the President, Senate, House of Representatives, NEDA, DSWD, DENR, and an official delegate to the U.N. and APEC.
3. Consultant to Donor Agencies such as Plan International, HEKS, NOVIB, CIDA, GTZ and many others.
4. A known Civil Society Leader fighting against unfair Trade practices from bodies like the WTO and represented in the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
5. A professor on the doctoral program on Applied Cosmic Anthropology at the Asian Social Institute and the Graduate program of the Southeast Asian Interdisciplinary Development institute (SAIDI).
6. Co-founder and Board Member of the Global Leadership Initiative and a steering-committee member of Mikhail Gorbachev’s Commission on Globalization.
7. Multi-Awarded: this man is the recipient of the following prestigious awards:
a. Alternative Nobel (Right Livelihood)
b. UN’s Global 500 Honor Roll
c. William Masterson Award
d. Top outstanding Filipino (TOPFIL) and many more
8. World-respected expert on Environment and Climate change.
9. International Best-selling author: Shaping Globalization.
10. Internationally-coveted Speaker on multidisciplinary issues.

In contrast to the rest of the Presidential Candidates, this man’s qualification for the Office of the President is unrivalled.

3. Practical Contributions to Philippine Society

My President, despite the lack of media popularity has already done so much for the country and for the Filipino without them knowing it. While the others are still promising, this man has already “saved” the Filipino from many past and present dangers dangers.

1. Successfully convinced the U.S. congress to withdraw the over $ 600 Million Import of the nuclear reactor for the Bataan Nuclear Power Plant during the Marcos regime. Under threat and blacklisted by the former despot, this man braved ridicule and sacrificed his own comforts in exile for the safety of his fellow Filipino in corruption-laden BNPP which would have killed millions of Luzonians and Manilans through a meltdown.

2. Convinced the Department of Agriculture to ban 32 pesticide formulations that made farmers all over the Philippines sick and a dead. This man proved that it is possible to grow crops in hundreds of hectares of contiguous farmlands in 25 provinces without the use of expensive and harmful pesticides where the continuous use of said formulations would have severely sickened many of us.
3. Articulated and framed one of the most respected documents on societal frameworks, the Philippine Agenda 21, which former President Ramos characterized as the highest government framework for sustainable development. The UN also cited PA 21 as one of the more promising examples of innovative approached to sustainable development. This document has inspired many government and civil society structures around the world.
4. Spared millions of Filipino farmers from the potentially disastrous trade liberalizations by convincing FVR to advance sustainable development as a third paradigm in the APEC 1996 summit attended by Clinton, China Premier, Japan and the rest of the 18 member states. This despite the strong resistance of the US government.
5. Provided livelihood to over 220,000 economically poor urban Filipinos through micro-financing. He served as chairman and co-founder of the Lifebank…a pro-poor bank.

These are just a few of the highlights of this man’s contribution to the Philippines and the world. The lack of awareness of the Filipino masses to this man’s effect on aspects of their lives does not change the fact that he has done so without fanfare and media sound bites.

4. His Integrity, Honesty, and Incorruptibility

His 40 years working at international stages has not changed the man one bit except that he becomes more sought-after. His comprehensive world-view has been utilized by leaders around. They call him a “sage”, a ‘practical visionary”. His knowledge about how governments work allows him to effect changes within it from the outside. His peers, even those who are now with the government, can attest to this man’s inability to sacrifice the ideal at the altars of corruption.

We now have this man, in our midst. It is our opportunity and best interest to advance the awareness of the Filipino about this man and the vision that he has for our country. Most importantly to bring to our consciousness, the message, that if we were to change the Philippines, it must first start with every Filipino.

This man, Mr., Nicanor Perlas, to me, is the Filipino’s idea of the ideal, made manifest. In many of the Impossibilities he proved to be possible, he said:

“When we say things are “impossible”, we have to understand from what aspect of our individuality and consciousness we are uttering this pronouncement. For if we do not understand the peculiarity of our inner condition from which such a statement comes, we may unwittingly trap ourselves in our own self-constructed prison where we can only (and automatically) deny future possibilities for ourselves and for our world.
What are we really saying when we say that something is “impossible”? In essence, we are simply saying that because a proposition about a future possibility does not align with our past experience, our prevailing belief system, our values, our habits, and our expectations about the future, then such a proposition is impossible. It cannot happen.”
This distortion in our programmed thinking placed against what the pioneers of the computer revolution that said: “You do not have to predict the future, the best way to predict the future is to create it” simply proves that the Impossible is simply in our thinking.
In the hands of the Filipino, now, is this enormous power to create its future…a new Philippines, The True Pearl of the Orient.

Note; this is the author’s first attempt at writing and he apologizes for the lack of literary skills. To know more about Nicanor Perlas and your relationship with the vision that he wishes us to engage in, please take a look at the links below:
(http://www.nicanor-perlas.com/2010/sci-of-impossible-p1.html);
(http://www.nicanor-perlas.com/2010/sci-of-impossible-p2.html);
(http://www.nicanor-perlas.com/2010/sci-of-impossible-p3.html)
http://www.nicanor-perlas.com/Nicanor/complete-platform2.html

here’s a newsflash for you:

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/185977/no-commitment-of-support-from-danding-despite-aquino-camps-attempts

yes, noynoy is courting DANDING to back his presidential bid, while gibo himself distanced from his uncle. let’s not forget that cory aquino hated danding’s guts because he was suspected to have ordered the killing of ninoy.

as for GMA, noynoy voted not to play the hello garci tapes. you can read about it here: http://www.gmanews.tv/video/56905/uh-hiritan-2010-with-noynoy-aquino-mar-roxas-part-2

so if the fact that gibo used to be danding’s favorite is the only reason he’s not being represented in this blog, then i enjoin the site owner to defend his exclusion of gibo.

gusto ko tong diagram na to ipopost ko to sa bulletin namin sa office, gibo ako the rest of them are noynoy fans. di na nga ako nagsasalita pinipilit pa nila ako sa abnoy noynoy na yun. sana kung boboto sila wag na nila akong idamay sa stupidity nila hehe.sa family namin iba iba kami ng pananaw pero walang villar at noynoy sa amin. thanks sa diagram pare very helpful to.

BongV,

You really nailed it in the head “to muddle” things.

DANDING AND GMA.

Why are you always not even recognizing Gibo Teodoro?

Great comparison and analysis, but where is Gibo in all of this?

He is one of the serious contenders for the presidency, and in the eyes of many, preferred over Gordon with whom he shares a good track record and potential as President. You ignored rael’s question about Gibo’s student loan program. He is not mentioned in this article at all and it’s unfair and misleading to us readers who likewise want to hear about all the candidates. Please give your readers a chance to have perfect information about their candidates – you went to so much trouble to do this, why present an incomplete comaprison? Gibo’s platform has been up on his site for some time already. If you held out because at the time, Gibo didn’t have a platform yet, then I hope you update this post. You can’t shut Gibo out just because you’re for Gordon. Thank you!

Perlas will protect our environment, our local industries and products so that it can be made globally competitive. If that is the protectionism then I am all for it.

The PANGMASA platform is more than 20 pages long because it is an in-depth analysis on our situation and an in-depth solution to our problems. Our problems are complex which therefore needs solutions at the root cause of the problem.

We have heard so much of the promises of politicians every elections yet we end up in the same problem again and again… the solution let us all work together under a government that believes in us.

I am for NICANOR PERLAS FOR PRESIDENT!

Hey Zadkiel,

Thanks so much for this new piece of info – we will do a second round of comparisons. See that’s the thing, why is it that, we the voters, have to to do the compilation.

In my ghetto, yung candidate makes it easy for the voters – siya na ang nagcompile at nagcompare ng platform nya sa platform ng opponent nya.
It saves you time and makes it easier to make up your mind. It also shows the the candidate is proactive and thoughtful. It implies that if given the chance, the candidate will have a thoughtful and proactive government.

In the Philippines, the contest seems to be to muddle the voters mind to mush so that they’ll just take their cue from a “well informed” individual – e paano nga kung yung individual is extremely misinformed – the voters will be making decisions based on flawed information – nabuntis sa maling akala

p.s. yang brownouts na yan – nakupow… ganyang ganyan noong panahon ni Cory Aquino.. sabay kanta…. sana wag maulit ..