By Danton Remoto REMOTE CONTROL Views and analysis www.abs-cbnnews.com 1st of September 2009 (Excerpt from Wings of Desire, a novel) The Bank for International Reconstruction and Development (BIRD) based in Washington, D.C., held their XXth Annual Meeting in Manila. "This historical event," crowed the President that night on all the TV stations (which again zapped Wonder Woman off the screen, she who pilots an invisible plane) "proves that the bankers of the world agree that we have indeed marshaled our resources very well and turned our history of defeat into a future of hope." From that point, a flurry of questions had to be answered. How to house the world’s bankers in the luxury they had been accustomed to? Faster than Harry Houdini, the money from the Development and Aid Package of BIRD was diverted to the construction of seven new five-star hotels. And so the commuters and office workers from Manila to Makati had to suffer monstrous traffic jams as one hotel r...