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Kudos to fellow blogger Tony Ramos for raising awareness on the dearth of help and services for people with mental conditions and disabilities in this country. This follows the recent fracas involving a blogger group, a member of which described a known personality with autism as “walang kwenta.” Another recent issue is the reported proliferation…
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Last July 24, Filipinos woke up to the sound of heavy and widespread rain and raging flood all over Manila. Typhoon Carina was worse than what Metro Manila suffered during Typhoon Ondoy in 2009. Mother nature appeared to disprove the claim made by President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr., in his State of the Nation Address…
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Our Signal group was having discussions about the looming jeepney strike and the talk eventually reached the point that my economist friend proposed that they cancel all the franchises and award them to private groups who can provide the better, if not the best service. He’s definitely on to something. Part of the reason why…
I recall an address some years back by a Philippine military or police spokesperson to discourage youth from joining the New People’s Army where he advised them to stop dreaming of a perfect world. I find that sound advice that I hope many people will listen to. As I have written, many ideologies and philosophies…
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Critical Race Theory is a hot topic these days because its purveyors claim that it is good, but we critics of it (pun not intended) say otherwise. CRT claims to address the problem of racial prejudice, which indeed is still a problem in the world. But it uses the wrong approach and in fact is…
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History points out how human civilizations and societies have evolved. From the simple hunter-gatherer groups of peoples to the extremely complicated and interconnected relationships built through globalization, humans have definitely found ways to persevere and achieve greater human development that would even leave our ancestors astonished. However, beyond these marvelous achievements of the human race,…
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Days after news of Leni Robredo’s statement encouraging her kasambahay audience in a household servants’ forum to take bribe money from politicians exploded in her face, Opposition partisans continue to defend their “leader”. James Jimenez, spokesperson of the Philippines’ Commission on Elections (COMELEC) had already issued a statement on the matter confirming that vote buying…
For anyone who has been observing the Philippine political scene long enough, it is not hard to come to the conclusion that regardless of who wins the presidential election, Filipinos will remain the same mediocre, divided, and self-interested collection of disjoint tribes that they’ve always been. The term of Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino was marked…
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