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Transport Econ 13: On Prohibiting S. Luzon Provincial Buses to Enter M.Manila
The Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) will soon prohibit buses from southern provinces to enter Metro Manila. Their analysis says that these provincial buses contribute significantly to...
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Energy Econ 25: Coal Use and GDP Expansion, Is There a Correlation?
* This is my article in thelobbyist.biz last Friday.-----------Energy is development. The more energy and electricity that an economy can provide for its citizens and private enterprises at low price...
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Inequality 20: The Top 50 Richest Filipinos
Forbes has released the 50 richest families in the Philippines. This should be for 2014, or 2013. I copy-paste the list here. Please note that this is for the entire family, not just by one person or...
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My Second Book: Liberalism, Rule of Law and Civil Society
My second book has been published, finally. It is an ebook freely available at http://fnf.org.ph/epub/I copy-paste here these 3 short sections.Table of ContentsForeword...
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MERS-CoV and OFWs, Part 3
Four months after she died in Riyadh, my sister in law, a former nurse in a Saudi government hospital, is finally home in our province in Negros Occ. Welcome home, Gemma. Lois, their only child, 13 yo,...
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Citizen Watch 3: Political and Economic Reforms After SONA 2014
Yesterday, I participated in Round 3 of Citizen Watch's Roundtable Discussion, on political and economic reforms after the 5th State of the Nation Address (SONA) of President Aquino last August. The...
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Free Trade 37: Multiple Concerns and Regulations in the ASEAN
The next and 25th Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit will be held this coming November 12-13 in Myanmar. Among the preparations for this, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA)...
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Drug Price Control 40: CWF Wants Price Dictatorship for Lipitor
Last Wednesday, an email from James Auste (below), founder and Executive Director of Cancer Warriors Foundation (CWF) was forwarded by email by the Secretary General MeTA Philippines, Ms. Cecile Sison,...
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Rule of Law 24: Policemen as Violators of Traffic Rules
This photo is circulated in facebook today, should have been taken recently. Can you count the violations? (1) no helmet, (2) no plate, (3) no side mirrors, what else.The same three (at least)...
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Climate Tricks 32: Yeb Sano and CCC to Save the Arctic
Melting of ice at the Arctic is among the favorite "proof" by the climate alarmists of alarming, catastrophic "man-made climate change" (CC). They are joking, or lying, of course. Arctic ice, and...
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Anti Smoke Belching Racket, Part 6
My friend from UP, Rad Basa, was stopped yesterday by the Anti Smoke Belching Unit (ASBU) of Pasay City while driving his diesel engine car. As in almost all stories of private motorists, his car...
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Drug Price Control 41: Exchanges with Joey Ochave at MeTA PH
After my discussion on CWF Wants Price Dictatorship for Lipitor, Joey Ochave, SVP of Unilab and Vice-Chairman of MeTA Philippines, reacted to it. We have a nice, friendly and civil discourse and...
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Energy Econ 26: Dealing with Power Deficit in 2015
Independent think tank, Stratbase Research Institute (SRI) published yesterday my paper, "Energy and Rice Deficiency: Reform Challenges for the Last Quarter of the Aquino Administration."I uploaded the...
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Emotionalism, Violence and Stupidity: the Attack by UP Student Activists on...
I am not exactly a fan of DBM Secretary Butch Abad. If I have the chance to question him face to face, I will come prepared with lots of numbers and data, but will never do or plan any physical harm....
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UP Hooligans, Part 2
This is a continuation of Emotionalism, Violence and Stupidity: the Attack by UP Student Activists on Sec. Abad earlier.From the Inquirer, Palace, Abad blast UP campus mob, September 19th, 2014,“Once...
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Mining 41: Presentation at the UP MINERS Forum
The UP Mining Engineering Society (UP MINERS), an organization of BS Mining Eng'g majors in UP Diliman, organized a forum on "Enlight EM Up" last Thursday, September 18, 2014. Thanks to Neil Esber, a...
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UP Hooligans, Part 3
Below is a statement released today.---------Statement of UP President Alfredo E. Pascual on the incident involving DBM Secretary FlorencioB. Abad in UP DilimanPosted on September 22, 2014 by...
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Hong Kong Democracy vs. China Dictatorship
I am reposting some interesting reports and opinons here about the ugly turn of events in Hong Kong recently where the China Communist Party in Beijing has put its heavy feet on HK people's...
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Drug Price Control 42: New Round of India Price Caps
Another round of drug price control in India.Lessons for the Philippines?Discussion below, after the news report.---------India caps prices of 36 more drugs to improve access - government officialBY...
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Climate Tricks 33: UN Fooling Government Leaders to Accept Expensive Energy
Reposting here a good article written by a friend, Dr. Willie Soon, a Malaysian-American astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Boston, and Lord Christopher Moncton....
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