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08-05-18 14:47 #11792
Posts: 5Manila 5-20 Aug.
Have got membership and PM now.
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08-02-18 18:10 #11791
Posts: 13Well damn, I don't like the cash option. Takes freaking weeks to do? I read through the links and did not see another option. Someone else want to buy for me? That would be awesome; I will PayPal to get it done. Not supposed to put an email here, so hope I don't get my account canceled. But damn, I am trying to pay for my membership. [Email address deleted by Admin] Thanks.
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08-01-18 22:22 #11790
Posts: 6781Originally Posted by Jboon [View Original Post]
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08-01-18 03:04 #11789
Posts: 6781Originally Posted by Jboon [View Original Post]
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08-01-18 01:59 #11788
Posts: 13Fire and ice blowjob.
Anywhere to get a fire and ice blowjob in the Philippines? Massage or sauna girls? With hot tea and cool gel?
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07-31-18 23:14 #11787
Posts: 1562Warning: long commentary
Originally Posted by Hutsori [View Original Post]
Important to note that Park Chung-hee, trained in Japanese military officer schools, directed South Korea's economy much more successfully than its democracy. His methods were distinctly authoritarian. He also made enemies, one of whom assassinated him. Real democracy didn't really take hold until nearly a decade after his death. But on most measures, South Korea now has a lot more to recommend it than does the Philippines.
There's an old international studies guy at the University of Washington named Joel Migdal who wrote a book in the late 1980's entitled **Strong Societies and Weak States: State-Society Relations and State Capabilities in the Third World* he observed that there are many developing countries in which the balance of power is retained by elements of the society rather than in the state. Many of his examples are from Southeast Asia. The Philippines appears to fit this "weak state" mold, in that power is often described as being held by an "anarchy" of elite land-holding families, so that the state represents a formalistic set of institutions that operate at the behest of these (60 or so) families. Even Marcos, whose family was not among the most prominent elites, recognized that he needed to gain support from a critical balance of these families. Some now argue that the influence of land-holding provincial families is partially giving way to prominent elite families who dominate the commercial sector, especially in Metro Manila.
It could be argued that South Korea occupies the "strong state" end of Migdal's continuum. Koreans' deference to authority can be traced back through a succession of dynasties that dominated the Korean peninsula from at least 108 BC until the early 20th Century. Each of these dynasties owed its stability to protection from the more powerful Chinese dynasties, which considered the Korean dynasties to be subordinate but loyal to them. In the Korean empires the emperor held supreme authority. This hierarchical authority persists as a strong cultural element to the present day. Koreans have a saying that translates to "king, father, teacher," implying not only a deference to seniority and authority, but especially to the king, one's father, and one's guiding teacher. It makes sense, given the historical significance of the emperor's authority, that power In Korea is centered in the state rather than in external societal interests. Civil society organizing is not a prominent feature of Korean society, although Seoul's current Mayor, Park Wonsoon, is attempting to infuse community organizing within the cities' districts.
I have not read this anywhere, but perhaps a strong state configuration (example Korea) is more conducive to economic and social "progress" than is a weak state within a strong society (example Philippines). I don't know enough about Singapore's history to comment on where it fits in this model.
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07-31-18 09:25 #11786
Posts: 1459Originally Posted by SoapySmith [View Original Post]
There are so many sources. The reports of the Philippine Commission to the President and Congress are very good. You'll find them at U Penn, U Mich, HathiTrust; here are a few sample links.
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu...reportusphilip
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?...view=1up;seq=1
https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/003931771
Economic data such as post-Galleon trade exports and to where:
https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpress...&brand=ucpress . You'll learn a lot about the sugar industry. All the links therein are excellent to, such as the formation of the plantation society on Negros.
Friar lands:
https://archive.org/stream/jstor-194...45652_djvu.txt
Prof Julian Go at Boston U's Sociology Dept is excellent source about the power of the Ilustrados. He wrote American Empire and the Politics of Meaning and has a few papers online. Olivia Habana is a good source about Benguet's gold mining. Jennifer Conroy Franco's Elections and Democratization in the Philippines. William H. Scott's The Discovery of the Igorots. Good websites such as https://philippinediaryproject.wordpress.com.
I tend to do a lot of online research of a particular topic, such as "baknang Igorot" , "polo y servicio", "reduccion", etc. There's so much online that you'll find plenty to read. And you stumble across other topics and interesting characters, such as Otto Scheerer.
In a piece on "Historical Notes on Graft and Corruption" in the Philippines, Jose Endriga notes that in the Spanish system, "even well into the nineteenth century, there was no tradition of a salaried civil service and no recognized principle in the selection and promotion of officials. Offices were regarded as places of profit rather than posts of responsibilities."
Not only did the 500 odd Thomasite volunteers
American officials created health clinics and hospitals that ministered to the masses. Literacy rates and health outcomes improved dramatically. The Americans also built dams, irrigation systems, markets, mining and timber concessions, railways, roads, and ports. Americans were banned from acquiring large tracts of land. They created professional civil service systems populated largely by Filipinos and a taxation system designed to make government self-supporting. I think it's fair to say that the US invested in its colony, even if some of the missionary zeal was accompanied by ethnocentric ignorance.
Clearly there were chinks in the armor of the Philippine state, and some American intentions subsequently failed,
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07-29-18 03:52 #11785
Posts: 3230Originally Posted by Amore1973 [View Original Post]
We cannot share contact details on the board.
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07-28-18 20:25 #11784
Posts: 5Manila Aug. 5-20.
I'm in Manila on the captioned days. Happy to meet for a drink and shoot the breeze in anyone happens to be around.
Tx.
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07-28-18 05:48 #11783
Posts: 1562Originally Posted by MrEnternational [View Original Post]
https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/...xhtml?src=bkmk
Have you seen the scenes in the Bourne Legacy in the pretend pharmaceutical factory? Most of that was filmed in the off hours at the New York Times printing plant on Long Island. Must have been thousands of Filipino extras hired for those scenes. :)
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07-28-18 05:05 #11782
Posts: 451Well, I think a fair number of Filipinos live outside CA. However, JFK? I have not flown out of or into that sxxx hole in a quarter century.
Originally Posted by Simmer [View Original Post]Originally Posted by MrEnternational [View Original Post]
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07-27-18 20:40 #11781
Posts: 281Originally Posted by SaltyPete [View Original Post]
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07-27-18 19:13 #11780
Posts: 3474Originally Posted by MrEnternational [View Original Post]
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07-27-18 18:19 #11779
Posts: 760Originally Posted by MrEnternational [View Original Post]
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07-27-18 17:14 #11778
Posts: 15925Originally Posted by SaltyPete [View Original Post]