Heneral Luna Today

w by Irineo B. R. Salazar The focus in the Philippines is always, and too much, on the President. He or she is expected to be a paramount datu, rajah or barangay captain to deal with all problems in the Philippines, a country of nearly 100 million people, in an archipelago of over 7000 islands … Continue reading →

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China’s stealth invasion of the Philippines

China is the muscular underachiever out to prove a point, behavior we would normally associate with a teen-ager, but China has been around awhile. Indeed, China displays symptoms of emotional duressĀ born of centuries of playing second fiddle to smaller, stronger nations. Her leaders portray racial differenceĀ as racial superiority in order to get even, to compensate, … Continue reading →

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Google Trends and the Last Minute Voter

w by Giancarlo What is Google Trends? From wikipedia: “Google Trends is a public web facility of Google Inc., based on Google Search, that shows how often a particular search-term is entered relative to the total search-volume across various regions of the world, and in various languages. The horizontal axis of the main graph represents … Continue reading →

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Your Fitness Bank

w By Wilfredo G. Villanueva The following article is a perfect follow-up to Joe America’s humdinger of an article Greed in America, Joy in the Philippines. Why? Because I would suggest to JoeAm that another metric of progress in the Philippines is the percentage of ailing seniors. Who would be the best defenders of the … Continue reading →

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Seguridad ni Duterte

w By Irineo B. R. Salazar Maraming humahanga kay Rodrigo Duterte. Sa totoo lang, marami talaga siyang nagawa sa Davao, hindi mapagkakaila ito. Pero maraming gustong siya ang maging Presidente, para lumaki raw ang seguridad sa Pilipinas. Maraming krimen ngayon sa Pilipinas, maraming takot, at maraming sawang-sawa na. Pero siya ba ang solusyon? Tignan natin … Continue reading →

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