The Philippines is reverting back to an agrarian economy thanks to COVID-19

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Nothing necessarily bad about agrarian societies though these get their bad rep from their association with the Third World and “underdevelopment”. Some “economists” would measure “modernisation” in terms of the proportion of the workforce employed in agriculture. As the thinking goes, a progressive shift in the workforce from farming to manufacturing and services and, therefore,…

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Business, Development, Economy

PhilHealth corruption no different to COMELEC corruption under Aquino’s watch!

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Corruption is so endemic to Philippine society that it still boggles the mind as to why Filipino regulators and investigators remain so inept at detecting and prosecuting it. The recent corruption scandals surrounding the Philippine Health (PhilHealth) Insurance Corporation follow a template oft-repeated in the country. One such approach seemingly taken by crooks to siphon…

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Crime

FREE: the National Word of the Philippines

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How many words are there in existence?  Webster’s Third New International Dictionary (2005) contains more than 476,000 vocabulary entries. And each word opens an entirely new world in itself. Take the word justice for example, which opens up the complex concept of receiving what one deserves. Or look into words like peace, socialism, or even…

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Culture

COVID-19 economic collapse is the crisis the Philippines had to have!

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Filipinos can no longer rely on their traditional gravy trains — OFWism, work outsourced from the First World, foreign investment, and foreign aid — to prop up their labour-added-value economy. Foreign workers are coming “home” by the droves, the First World is rapidly repatriating its offshore work, and governments all over the world are diverting…

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Business, Economy, Government

The DISHONEST blame-Duterte-for-the-COVID-19-pandemic platform of the Philippine Opposition

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The most overused “dissent” template of the Philippine Opposition is that the “(insert issue name here) issue” is the fault of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Because this has been used over and over again and applied to just about every problem besetting the Philippines, it has become less and less effective. If the Opposition hadn’t…

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Politics

Staying True to their Calling, Wokes and Yellows Remain Consistent with Their Inconsistencies

Posted on By Moduli 2 Comments on Staying True to their Calling, Wokes and Yellows Remain Consistent with Their Inconsistencies

In engineering, the way to assure that the design or the system works is through consistency. If the desired outcomes are consistently observed, the designer is assured of a peaceful night’s sleep. At the start of the design process, it is expected that the output will be random and all over the place. That’s normal….

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Culture, Politics

Instead of blaming the gov’t for the rise in COVID-19 cases, people should take responsibility for keeping their communities safe

Posted on By Ilda 37 Comments on Instead of blaming the gov’t for the rise in COVID-19 cases, people should take responsibility for keeping their communities safe

I was having a conversation with a friend about the COVID-19 pandemic the other day. I asked him why people around the world, not just in the Philippines, blame their governments for the spread of the virus? I mean, people don’t blame their governments when they get a cold or a flu so why blame…

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Society

Leni Robredo and other Opposition leaders’ statements hinder efforts to manage the COVID-19 pandemic

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Now that the number of COVID-19 cases has breached the 100,000 mark and calls for a renewed lockdown coming from the Philippines’ frontline healthcare workers (HCWs) are being amplified by Opposition “thought leaders”, “vice president” Leni Robredo chimes in on cue. Rappler now “reports” that Robredo “urges the government to heed the medical community’s plea…

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Politics, Society