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A confused Nobel Peace Prize Committee
Nobel Peace Prize was traditionally given to leaders who contributed to preventing wars, or ending ongoing wars, and expand international cooperation, not conflagration. Very good award then.For...
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BWorld 517, Economic forum and COVID summit (part 2)
* My column in BusinessWorld last November 29.-----------------This is a follow up to last week’s piece, https://www.bworldonline.com/economic-forum-and-covid-summit/, with special reference to the...
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Covid 62, CDC Ph longer draft for the full-page ad
This is the longer draft (2,500+ words, 5 pages) that the Concerned Doctors and Citizens of the Philippines (CDC Ph) wanted to put up as its full-page ad last week December 10, this draft made in...
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BWorld 518, Kill coal is kill growth agenda
* My article in BusinessWorld, December 6, 2021.--------------When the “phase out” of coal power became “phase down” at the recent United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow (COP26), the...
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Energy 157, Blackout-friendly RE, Europe experience and lessons for the PH
This is my presentation in an energy forum by Stratbase last month.-------------See also:Energy 154, Europe rising energy prices, blackout threats, 31 reports, September 21, 2021Energy 155, IEA...
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Pol Ideology 82, Reflections of a former Marxist on property
I just rediscovered this, my presentation in one FNF PH event 12 years ago, September 2009, http://www.fnf.org.ph/downloadables/Reflection-of-a-former-Marxist.ppt.pdf.Shrinking the slides and reposting...
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BWorld 519, Tax pressure and motorcycle taxis
* My column in BusinessWorld, December 13, 2021.-------------The Philippines’ growth scenario has somehow turned optimistic, with the belief that we can probably return to the 2019 level of Gross...
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Covid 63, No Tricks Zone on vaccine and medical tyranny
This is a continuation of Covid 57, No Tricks Zone on vaccine mandates (October 10, 2021). Thanks again to Pierre Gosselin of NTZ for these updates in Germany and other European countries....
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Energy 158, Europe rolling blackout, Germany's anti-nuke anti-coal policy
The other day, rolling blackout in Europe has already started, first in Kosovo, next in Serbia, and power supply warnings in UK, and France experienced tight supply with nuke power outages. When people...
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BWorld 520, Seven trends in COVID cases, vaccination, and causes of death
* My article in BusinessWorld, December 20, 2021.-----------In discussing the chart accompanying this piece, here is the data on vaccination rates as a percentage of population, as of Dec. 18: 81-84%...
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Covid 64, All-time high new Covid cases in high-vax countries
Yesterday Dec. 29, all-time high single day Covid cases were recorded in many high-vaxxed countries:World 1.61M, US 465.7k, France 208.1k, UK 183.0k, Spain 100.8k, Italy 98.0k, Greece 28.8k, Portugal...
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BWorld 521, Europe’s blackout economics and the Philippines’ path to brownouts
* My column in BusinessWorld, December 27, 2021.--------------Rolling blackout due to the tight power supply started already in Europe on Dec. 23, in Kosovo then Serbia. There were also power supply...
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Covid 65, CDC Ph Statement on MMDA lockdown of unvaxxed, New all-time high cases
CDCPh calls MMDA lockdown of unvaxxed Filipinos unconstitutional, oppressive07 January 2022The Concerned Doctors and Citizens of the Philippines (CDC Ph) expressed its vehement opposition against the...
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Mining 62, Open pit mining should continue and expand
I still believe that the mining industry is among the Philippines' biggest economic potentials. Just a small share of the total land area to be mined vertically downwards, create lots of jobs, earn...
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BWorld 522, Top 10 economic news of 2021
* My article in BusinessWorld, January 3, 2022.-------------This column is a list of the significant economic events of last year.1. In the top 50 largest economies in the world by GDP size, the five...
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Weekend Fun 81, Sic o'clock News - Rewind
A beautiful article was published today, thank you, Jerome.----------Inside Sic O’ Clock News: ‘Crazy was not enough. We had to be weird too’JEROME GOMEZ | Jan 10...
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Covid 66, CDC Ph Press Statement on SP Sotto and PAO Chief Acosta defense of...
CDC Ph lauds SP Sotto, PAO chief for defending rights of unvaccinated individualsJanuary 20, 2021The Concerned Doctors and Citizens of the Philippines recently praised Senate President Vicente “Tito”...
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BWorld 523, Philippines’ monthly birth and death data show that indefinite...
* My column in BusinessWorld last January 10.-----------The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) released the updated monthly vital statistics last week, on Jan. 6, and many numbers are interesting or...
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Agri Econ 36, High beef, wheat, coffee, ammonia and fertilizer prices
Beef prices now at all-time high. Wheat also at 9-years high, and coffee at 10+ years high.https://tradingeconomics.com/commoditiesConsider ammonia, a key ingredient of fertilizer. Natural gas is...
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The PH econ contraction of the mid-80s, Marcos govt, and UPSE batch 1984
It is campaign period and the son of former President Ferdinand "Macoy" Marcos, Bongbong Marcos (BBM) is running for President in the coming May 2022 elections. Marcos was PH President from 1965 to...
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