Philippine Political Opinions

Let's face it. Media is the most powerful, easiest, fastest and efficient way of spreading information. Tv and radio are the most good example of it because we may consider that the internet is not available for all the people around the world (specially to those who live in a third world country). Advertisements (or ads in short), according to some psychologists, greatly influences our "taste" of choices. That's why some companies invest a large fraction of their money to advertising and they benefit from it. Some uses celebrities and personalities to endorse their product. Some also uses all sorts of techniques (even not relevant to their products) with one goal: to increase their sales. Here in the Philippines, it's approximately ten months to go before our national election. But even that time is far, politicians are very excited with it. Why did I say that they are very excited with it? Because of their premature political ads. In fact, some of them uses...

Politics nowadays is parallel with the term government. Is it true? Is the word politics really parallel with the word government? Before anything else, let us first know what politics is in its rawest form. The word politics when traced to its root came from the Greek word "polis " or translated as city or state; " politikos "describes anything that concerns about the city or state. A democratic government is the most common type of government of the different states (country) in the world. It came from the "demos " and " kratos" . Where the former means common people; and the latter is rule, strength. From these etymologies, the "polis" is also a homonym to our Filipino "pulis" which is in English police or cops. While the "politikos" sounds and spells just a bit different from our Filipino "pulitiko" which is a person who influences the public in making decision. If he is in the government, he makes...