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NCDs focus, measles outbreak and public health
This is one of the news reports yesterday,DOH: 55 children dead in Metro Manila measles outbreakSan Lazaro Hospital had admitted over 1,500 patients since start of the yearBy: Jovic Yee - Reporter /...
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BWorld 291, Mining, tobacco tax hikes, MACR and PSA liberalization
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last Monday, February 4, 2019.The Senate is once again the battleground of public debates on many issues. This is because it is still deliberating its own versions...
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SOTU 2019 and reaffirmation to defend capitalism
The US President's State of the Union (SOTU) address yesterday was good and for me, the most important part there is the reaffirmation by President Trump,"Tonight, we renew our resolve that America...
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BWorld 292, Inflation and the Transportation sector
* This is my column today in BusinessWorld.The Philippines registered a 4.4% inflation rate for January 2019. The good news is that it is a lot lower than the past four months’ average of 6.1%, but the...
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Pol Ideology 75, Green New Deal and ecological socialism
If people have doubts that Ocasio-Cortez and the new group of 'democratic socialists' (an oxymoron) in the US are not gunning for large-scale dictatorship, see their advocacies. The Trump derangement...
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Tobacco tax hikes and tobacco smuggling
Last week February 06, I posted this note in my fb wall then tag several friends active in the tax hikes campaign:To the advocates of #Taxtobaccotothemax -- why not advocate ban tobacco, prohibit...
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Trump-Russia collusion debunked, next Trump-Timbuktu collusion?
Gullibles (and liars) of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your emotionalism :-) Even the Democrats in the Senate Committee concur with the findings. Now we expect another drama and lies?...
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BWorld 293, Solar para sa pulitika, Rice Tariffication para sa masa
* This is my column in BusinessWorld yesterday, February 12, 2019.The cronyist “Solar para sa Bayan Corporation” (SPBC) franchise bill (HB 8179) was magically passed by the House of Representatives...
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LGU bureaucratism, Guimaras restrictions on mango harvest and selling
An Iloilo-based American friend, Bruce Hall, posted this photo in my fb wall the other day with this note:"Nonoy, as I departed Guimaras yesterday, I saw this sign at the ferry terminal, very...
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Trump-Kim 2, the second summit in Vietnam
Vietnam as venue of the second Trump-Kim summit next week is perfect, good model for N.Korea transition: (1) VN is politically socialist but economically capitalist, (2) VN has no nukes yet politically...
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BWorld 294, The freedom to fly
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last February 15, 2019. “Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will...
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Energy 121, US oil and natgas production
US crude oil production: (1) End of Bush Jr's term 5.0 million barrels per day (mbpd), (2) End of Obama 1st term 7.0 mbpd, (3) End of Obama 2nd term 8.8 mbpd, (4) Trump 2+ years 12.0 mbpd. Or an...
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Plunderers are above the law
Senators Jinggoy Estrada, Juan Ponce Enrile, and Ramon "Bong" Revilla Jr. are convicted plunderers in connection with the Napoles pork barrel scam, were put to jail in the previous administration....
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BWorld 295, Growth and electric cooperatives
* This is my column in BusinessWorld last February 19, 2019.On the Philippines’ GDP growth rates, the good news is that from 2010 to 2018, the Philippines has been growing above 6% yearly except in...
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ALF 12, Conference 2019 at Hilton Colombo, Sri Lanka
The Asia Liberty Forum (ALF) started yesterday at Hilton Colombo, Sri Lanka. Packed ballroom at the opening ceremony. Some tweets below, lifted from #AsiaLF19:“In a short space of time @advocatalk has...
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BWorld 296, Mandatory fare discount as socialistic policy
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last Friday, February 22, 2019.“Socialist governments make a financial mess. They always run out of other people’s money. They then start to nationalise...
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ALF 13, Some presentations in conf 2019
Unlike the EFN conferences that were focused on many public policy issues, ALF conferences don't have much on public policy as many panels are on fund-raising, setting up a new think tank,...
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BWorld 297, The economics of coal
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last February 25, 2019.Most anti-coal activists would resort to disinformation and deception to advance their ecological leftist agenda and in the process, deprive...
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Inequality 37, Freebies forever
Free education until university, free healthcare via UHC, free cash transfer, free condoms and pills, free housing for the poor, wow. Next will be free iPads, free flat tv, free cars for the poor. The...
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BWorld 298, Trump-Kim summit, implications for ASEAN and China
* This is my column in BusinessWorld last February 27, 2019.The second Trump-Kim Summit in Vietnam this week, February 27-28, points to many good and optimistic scenarios not only for both US and N....
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