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One of my high school batchmates who’s a prominent leftist-liberal joined the Atin Ito resupply mission, if you want to call it that. Inquirer columnist Randy David touts it as “the birth of active citizenry” — if you want to believe that crap, that is. As Edicio dela Torre, one of the leaders of the…
Indeed. We’ve written so many of them already, and yet here I am writing yet another one. To be fair, writing anti-jeepney articles is one of the easiest things. For some background on our proud tradition of anti-jeepney, check out this little animated GIF… This animated GIF was hand-crafted by Yours Truly way back in…
Apparently the general public has several misconceptions about the current state of agriculture. In simple terms, we haven’t achieved food security because of our neglect of adoption of modern techniques and the absence of population control measures. We don’t produce enough food for domestic consumption. Each subsector in agriculture is also beset with problems. In…
Sure, it’s possible to boycott Chinese products. But you’d first need to invent a time machine. You’d have to bring the Philippines back to a time when it had no more than a third of its current population. You’d need to find the sweet spot in its history over which it mined, grew, and made…
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At first it seems baffling that the Philippines continues to suffer the same problems it had suffered over more than half a century after it was granted independence by the United States in 1946. The same inability to innovate, build industrial capacity that matches its enormous population, and move from labour-added-value up the food chain…
The President Wil deliver his second State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Monday July 24, 2023. The pre-SONA information drive of the Presidential Communications Office (PCO) has been harping on the positive gains since the first one last year. What has President Bongbong Marcos (BBM) achieved in his first year in office? The New…
On one of the iconic double-decker buses of Great Britain, an advertisement about the Philippines sending its best, caught the attention of Filipino netizens. The National Health Service (NHS), a globally-renowned British health institution, employs thousands of Filipino nurses who render valuable services in hospitals and clinics all over the United Kingdom. This is considered…
Back in the old days, televised news reporting used to be mostly done in English. The EDSA “revolution” changed all that. Practically overnight, Tagalog news shows such as pioneer shock “news” caster Noli de Castro’s TV Patrol turned what was once a public service into mass entertainment. Key to this was the pivoting of telejournalism…
