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LATEST FROM GLOBAL BALITA
PerryScope: The Presidential Musical Chairs Game
by Perry Diaz
With just a little over a year to the 2010 general elections, the presidential musical chairs game has started in earnest. And there are several games going all at once by groups called “political parties.”
To start with, these political parties are not ideological parties like what you’d see in the United States and other countries. The Philippines’ political parties are just vehicles — like the country’s unique colorful jeepneys — where politicians can take a ride hoping that it would bring them to their destination. However, if the …
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Opinion » The Dangers of 2010 Minority Philippine President
by Ben Serrano
My paternal grandma, a Boholana by spirit and blood having hailed from Loay, Bohol had typical saying “ija-ija, aho-aho,” literally, this means in English “to each his/her own” in Tagalog they call it “Kanya-kanya.”
This is actually what is happening now in our Philippine society thus it reflect widespread to our political system, ergo, the opposition cannot come up with a single slate thus it will be clear advantage of the administration presidential bet because they have their local political back ups which are al incumbents which means holding …
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Opinion » World renowned success guru reveals what real talent is
AS I WRECK THIS CHAIR
by William M. Esposo
from Philstar
World renowned success guru Malcolm Gladwell is the author of several bestsellers. Among these bestsellers are The Tipping Point, Blink and Outliers which is the current conversation piece of the corporate world.
Recently, Gladwell was a featured guest on GPS, Fareed Zakaria’s weekly show on CNN. Gladwell underscored during the interview that talent is not the ability you are born with but the ability you develop to want to practice. To illustrate his point, Gladwell, cited the example of the legendary Beatles ...
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Opinion » The politics of conscience
by Reginald Tamayo
We have come to live in a society where conscience is a stranger. Instead of having a society ruled by people with conscience, we have a society that is governed by dishonorable men and women who don’t seem to have conscience. They rule our society with arrogance and deceit and they supplant our individual consciences with their own rules and interests. Unfortunately, we also have some of our people who make moral choices independent of conscience and the teachings of the Church such that their moral choices are …
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Opinion » “Let the lying lips be put to silence”
by Reginald B. Tamayo
For some obvious reasons, many lies are told by ruthless politicians before, during, and after elections. Politicians who are only concerned about winning in the elections do not mind telling lies. We are sometimes not even bothered by this at all. We usually choose to remain silent and enjoy hearing these politicians as they peddle lies. Worse, sometimes we even repeat these lies ourselves. This is a kind of disease known in the medical community as pathological lying. Any person who cannot control his telling of …
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Opinion » The chaff from the grain
by Herman Tiu Laurel
from The Daily Tribune
Gen. Alexander Yano’s retirement as Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (CS-AFP) seems to be overdramatized by some opposition quarters these days. They believe that Yano is being retired a month early because he declined to give support to any Cha-cha moves by telling Gloria Arroyo’s representative that he would only follow what is legal and wouldn’t fire upon the Filipino people if ordered. The other story, however, which I think is more credible is that this is merely part …
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Politics & Government »
Beleaguered Abra Mayor Linked to Grizzly Shooting Again
by Artemio A. Dumlao
Bangued, Abra (April 24, 2009) – Beleaguered Tineg, Abra mayor Edwin Crisologo has been linked again by Abra policemen in the recent grizzly shooting of a 42 year old woman and her two grandsons in Bangued, Abra’s capital town on April 13.
Bangued town policemen who wasted no time to dig into the massacre, said
Abra police director Sr. Supt. Charlo Collado, unmasked the gunmen wherein Mayor Crisologo was also included in the complaint “as principal by inducement.”
Gina Langgi, 42 years old, single, manicurist, and her two grandsons identified …
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Opinion » Palawan’s crocs
by Lito Banayo
from MALAYA
Once, while en route to the Underground River, part of what was then known as the St. Paul’s Subterranean National Park, the tour guide made mention of the crocodile farm in the suburbs of Puerto Princesa. He gave us the scientific name of the crocs that were multiplying in that park – crocodilus mindorensis. These are really the Philippine variety, he explained, small but vicious, quick to the kill even. I chucked that into my memory stock of “useless trivia”.
As I am not particularly fond of …
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Opinion » Face it
by Lito Banayo
from MALAYA
Livid with rage, Manuel Villar sprang to the floor of the Senate and hurled ad hominems against his “tormentors” last Monday. Although he did not mention their names, he raged against a fellow senator, a lady who has been a “defender of human rights” (“tagapagtanggol ng human rights na ang bukang bibig ay puro human rights”), but, “when someone here was accused of murder, she was silent” (noong may inaakusahan na murder ay hindi makakibo”). That of course is a non sequitur, because the alleged case …
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