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EFN Asia 64, Day 2 of Conference 2016
Sorry readers, delayed posting of Day 2, EFN Asia Conference 2016 in Manila last November....New FNF-PH Country Director Wolfgang Heinze delivering the welcome remarks for Day 2.Below are some tweets...
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BWorld 109, Asians' march to liberty and progress
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last January 30, 2017.“Progress by its very nature cannot be planned. It is knowing what we have not known before that makes us wiser men... Progress is movement...
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Tax Cut 29, Culture of exemptions and culture of envy
An article by Dr. Ciel Habito last week was shared in fb by several friends yesterday. Ciel wrote,Why is it that we have a lower tax effort (tax revenues in proportion to gross domestic product) than...
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ALF 9, Conference 2017 in Mumbai, India
The Asia Liberty Forum (ALF) is an annual 2-days conference jointly sponsored by the Atlas Network (US), Center for Civil Society (CCS, India) and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (FNF,...
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BWorld 110, Should we go federal or not?
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last February 02, 2017.Whether to move from devolved unitary to a formal federal state, this is among the big political questions in the Philippines today. There...
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Free Trade 65, On the US withrawal from the TPP
Last month, US President Donald Trump issued this Memorandum to the US Trade Representative. Part of it said,“it is the intention of my Administration to deal directly with individual countries on a...
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Trump's Joint Address at US Congress today
I watched US President Donald Trump's Joint Address in the US Congress today. There were lots of applause and frequent standing ovations, mostly from the Republican legislators. I know that many...
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BWorld 111, Electric cooperatives and unstable power supply
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last February 08, 2017.Almost everything we do now requires energy and if we stay in non-mobile structures like buildings and houses, everything requires...
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Pol Ideology 69, Math can show that small or minimal government is optimal
As humanity modernizes further, complexity and diversity among people increases. Forcing a big number of people into a centrally-planned design to achieve social coherence will only mean more...
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Mining 47, JB Baylon on the DENR Secretary
I am reposting here two of JB Baylon's facebook postings about the new DENR Secretary Gina Lopez and the mining industry. These 2 papers were posted by JB last February 26. For me, there are two issues...
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BWorld 112, Asia Liberty Forum 2017 in Mumbai
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last February 15, 2017.Mumbai, India -- The title of this piece is from JP Narayan of the Lok Satta Party in India, who made that comment during the Asia Liberty...
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NO to the reimposition of death penalty in the PH
As I grow older, my patience for violence, especially state-sponsored or state-inspired murders, goes down to zero. Many state bureaucrats and officials are lousy at enforcing the rule of law even for...
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Energy 91, Thailand's bright nights (part 2)
My Mumbai-Bangkok flight (Jet Airways) was delayed last February 12 due to some mechanical problems, delayed by about 3+ hours, it landed at Suvarnabhumi/Bangkok airport evening already. My...
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BWorld 113, Peace talks with CPP-NDF for another 30 years?
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last February 17.After three decades (1987-2017) of peace talks between the Philippine government and the Communist Party of the Philippines-National Democratic...
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The Stockholm riots last February 21 and the refugees question
In 2003, I attended a 7-weeks training on sustainable agriculture in Sweden. We stayed in Lund most of the time but we also saw Stockholm, Uppsala, other cities for several days. Very peaceful country,...
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Earth Hour 8, Celebrate darkness vs modernization
Earth Hour 2017 by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is two days away and yet last night, while I was having dinner with my daughter at a resto at SM Mall of Asia (MOA), the waiter informed us that they...
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BWorld 114, Brownouts, ancillary services and transmission charge
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last February 23, 2017.Rotational and scheduled brownouts for several hours about once a month, then unscheduled short brownouts from time to time, have become a...
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Climate Tricks 60, Alarmism cannot produce data of "unprecedented warming"
One of the persistent but debunked claims by the climate alarmism movement is that the recent, modern warm period is "unprecedented warming", meaning there were no precedents in global warming. A...
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BWorld 115, Centralization and federalism
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last February 27, 2017.As the world modernizes and people’s productivity keeps rising with technology, the opportunity to escape poverty increases.But many...
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China Watch 23, Bernard Ong on Du30 defeatism with the China communist govt
I am reposting two good posts from a friend, Bernard Ong, posted yesterday and today. The news titles I just added here. Communists are communists, they are bullies, they hardly respect the rule of...
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