Otooku • 10 years ago
Don't forget this has been so for a long time..re: look at the pictures of General MacArthur"s residence he had to " abandon" when the Japanese Imperial Army invaded the Philippines..he too was living like an Oligarch .
To say nothing of the legacy of the Marcos family.
The veins of injustice and corruption run long and deep in the Philippines.
I feel sorry for the people that live their, they are at the mercy and " whim" of those in power.
Jason • 10 years ago
They sound almost as corrupt as US politicians.
gardenernorcal • 10 years ago
Many are probably being advised by US politicians.
Defenestrator • 10 years ago
Many people are concerned about which non-profits deserve support.
I was in Haiti after the earthquakes - a lot of aid groups were in Port-au-Prince, but I only saw 3 groups that were in the city of Leogan, where the epicenter actually was.
Oxfam, Doctors Without Borders, and the UN.
I would recommend donating to those 3 organizations.
Here's Oxfam:
https://secure.oxfamamerica...
jujubaby • 10 years ago
The world knows the system is rigged and people in any and all levels of power know so, they are out to get what they can for themselves. Wall Street and huge conglomerate monopoly corporations and media need to be stopped Now and a sense of morale obligation from all of us needs to be restored. This corruption has trickled down and is just as destructive as these typhoons.
gardenernorcal • 10 years ago
How quickly the world has learned from Clinton's model in Haiti. No wonder the US Marines were called in as policemen.
So how much actually made it into Haiti?
Even among the real money, if you look at what was labeled as humanitarian relief, in the months right after the quake, that amounts to about $2.5 billion.
Ninety-three percent of that money either went to United Nations agencies or international nongovernmental organizations, or it never left the donor government.
So you had the Pentagon writing bills to the State Department to get reimbursed for having sent troops down to respond to the disaster.
If we're talking about reconstruction, it's really a misnomer to think that relief aid was necessarily going to have the effect of rebuilding a country in any shape or form.
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People were just running around doing what they thought was best or what they thought was best for them. And it really created a mess.
This is the man who reorganized the communist party in the Philippines and has been fighting the government for decades. The government is an oligarchy, with the support of the catholic church, and the rich take unto themselves that which the deem theirs, which is a large piece of everything. The moneys for emergency support and the like are most often spent on companies that supply little or nothing, kind of like what happened in Iraq. Nothing will change. As it stands today supplies are piling up and can't get to the people. Doctors sit in Cebu with not way to get out. The oligarchs have not figured out yet how to take their share of the bounty.