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Mining 14: Teddy Casino's Environmentalism
Yesterday, Teddy Casino, Senatorial candidate of Bayan Muna/Makabayan Coalition, posted this in his facebook page,We recently challenged provisions of the Mining Act of 1995 in court.Ang pagmimina ay...
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Health Transparency 14: IMS-CHAT Meeting
The Coalition for Health Advocacy and Transparency (CHAT) is the umbrella organization of health and research NGOs and think tanks that gathered during the Medicines Transparency Alliance...
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Party List 6: Discourse with Luie Guia
Today, the President announced the appointment of two new Comelec Commissioners, lawyers Luie Tito F. Guia and Al Parreño to replace retiring Commissioners Rene Sarmiento and Armando Velasco.Luie Guia...
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EFN Asia 18: Jeju Forum's Economic Panels
* This is my guest post today in the EFN Asia website.---------In less than six weeks, I will fly to Seoul, then Jeju, S. Korea, to attend the Jeju Forum for Peace and Prosperity, May 29-31, 2013. The...
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Rule of Law 20: PNP and Rule of Men
The police -- like the Philippine National Police (PNP) -- is supposed to be the main implementer of many laws protecting the citizens' right to private property, right to life, right to liberty. Thus,...
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Boston, Sandy Hook, Economy, Cyprus
Below is a guest blog from a friend, Banner Conanan. I chose this guest blog than posting my own ideas as I have ambivalent opinion about the lockdown after the bombing of the Boston Marathon. I...
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Joshua Lipana, Filipino Objectivist and Free Marketer
A sad day for the free market movement in the Philippines. One of the youngest, most articulate, most promising leader among different shades of free marketers in the Philippines, Joshua Lipana, died...
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Mining 15: Geological Aspects of Mineral Extraction
The "non-renewable" nature of mineral products, oil and gas is among the central arguments by many groups that oppose commercial or large-scale mining, both metallic and non-metallic. I want to delve...
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Drug Innovation 10: Cancer, H7N9 and Government
Various types of cancer is among the leading causes of mortality (death) and morbidity (sickness) in the Philippines and around the world. It is a non-infectious or non-communicable disease (NCD) that...
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Labor Econ 11: Employees Forever vs. Entrepreneurship
Whenever I hear or read labor organizers and leaders complaining of how much businessmen and capitalism are "exploiting" and persecuting workers, I would reply that no one is putting a gun on their...
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Mining 16: CSR, WWF and Environmental Alarmism
The corporate social responsibility (CSR) of a company is to satisfy its (a) customers via good quality products and services at a good and competitive price, (b) workers via good pay and benefits and...
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Agri Econ 9: On Agrarian Reform and Agri Credit
Below are some exchanges that I and some friends made last January 18-20, 2013 in my facebook wall. Posting their comments with their permission.------------- Tibs Filbert Arsenal Arceño Hi noy, for me...
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Fat Free Econ 42: NSCB vs SWS Data on Poverty
* This is my article today in interaksyon.com, TV5's news portal.---------Last week, the country was bombarded with stories that carried descriptions such as “high poverty”, “poverty unchanged”, “more...
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Drug Innovation 11: They Create Cures or Customers?
The pharmaceutical industry -- mainly grouped between the innovators and the generic producers, but often associated with the former -- always evokes lots of emotive comments, factual or not. Like this...
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Labor Econ 12: Wallace, Lenin, Stalin, Mao
No, no, no. Peter Wallace does not advocate the same things as Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin and Mao Tse Tung. Peter of the Wallace Business Forum, is an Australian businessman and consultant who has...
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Mining 17: Palawan, Samar, Surigao and Mine Tailings
There is one lively exchange on mining in the facebook wall of a friend, JB Baylon. The original exchanges were made last February 19, 2013. Then the other day, one of JB's friends, that we will just...
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Tax Cut 15: Some Resistance to Reducing Personal Income Tax
My article last April 7, 2013, FAT-FREE ECONOMICS | Why not cut income taxes?has attracted some comments, mainly from those who resist this proposal. I am copy-pasting the more substantial comments,...
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FDA Watch 4: Dr. KH Go Lecture on Regulation and UHC
Last April 12, 2013, Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) Director, Dr. Kenneth Hartigan-Go gave a lecture at the AIM, part of the MeTA Philippines discussion series. I was not able to attend it as I...
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Election Watch 5: Sin Tax Law, Hospital Over-regulation and Senatoriables
The Senatorial and local elections are just six days away. Yesterday and today, two groups in the health sector released their own separate statements endorsing certain Senatorial candidates with their...
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Mining 18: Nickel, Copper, Gold Production
To analyze the country's mining industry and propose certain government regulations and taxation policy, it is important to compare the local industry with those at the international level. So that...
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