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So the propaganda machine around the world keeps rolling, as I find an example of a government taking advantage of their mis-educated citizens here in the Philippines.

On bridges around the country, a sign painted onto the side of the bridge walls...

"GMA Cares"
=
"Gloria -middlenameunpronouncable- Arroyo Cares"

Whatever. If she really cared, she would do something about the abundance of rubbish lining the rivers that the bridges cross. She would do something about the polluting fumes from the diesel fuelled Jeepneys that stain the bridge walls. She would do something to help the people living in houses made of corrogated iron on top of a pile of rubbish. But alas, the country is the same as I remember it back in 1993.

I guess the "GMA Cares" sign is better than the bridge signs found in Cambodia, as told to me by Au Maya who is accompanying me on my trip to the Philippines.

"This bridge is donated by the Government of Cambodia..."

and the small print following...

"...funded by a loan from the ADB."

The ADB being "Asian Development Bank". Tragic. The stupid buggers.

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