random points

• GMA's US state visit (9th since 2001) =
  only favors US geopolitical and economic
  interests in the region as well as GMA’s
  desire of political survival (according to BAYAN)
• bureaucratic capitalism = use of political power
  in order to pursue one's or group's economic interest
• principle of subsidiarity = states that a task should only
  preoccupy the central or higher authority if and only if
  its local or lower counterpart cannot attend to it anymore
  due to financial, technical, administrative or other limitations
• Political economy of dole-outs =
  http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view/20080623-144203/Bloody-murder