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Recently I went to a conference and met an awe-inspiring Thai pharmacologist, Dr. Krisana Kraisintu. For the last eight years she has been helping peoples all over Africa to produce and distribute essential medicines that would combat Malaria and HIV/AIDS. Without a doubt, of all regions of the world, Africa is devastated the most by [...]
Do you hear the bell toll? Clang! Clang! Clang! Women wailing, Children moaning, The noise! the noise! Do you hear the bell toll? Clang! Clang! Clang! Can you not survey the field of battle? There! Dancing in the field, Opportunities Hidden in the Numbers! Can you not see the the starving and the dying? the poaching [...]
Why is the reproduction of life political? Fundamentalists rest easy on grounding reality on something solid, eternal, unchanging. There is security in anchoring one’s view of the world on basic principles from which spring beliefs about who we are and what we ought and ought not to do. Once these fundamentals become shaky, it is [...]
It has been argued here and here that we the people must live with consequences of our vote, as if our duty as citizens begins and ends with casting the ballot. Some call this ‘electoral’ even ‘procedural’ democracy. Elections, along with an elaborate government bureaucracy, are taken as indicators of a democratic society. Our republican [...]
Well this is a cheap shot. The kind of argument made by men in skirts and funny hats sequestered in Intramuros. The kind of argument made by oldies, who, because of their chosen profession, have (officially) sworn off having marital relations and children. Again, let me reiterate, the RH bill and sex videos? WTF?!?!?!? The [...]
I ran across this while looking for something else and I remembered that Health bill the church wants squashed. It is a video blog by American blogger Lindsay Campbell several months back. She talked about Abortion and the Right to Choose. Yes, she’s a feminist but listen to her argument. She makes a whole lot [...]
It’s frustrating! The divisiveness, the single-minded nature of this country and how often our leadership’s decisions are idiotic, self-centered, often indecisive, and self-defeating— it baffles the imagination, you know? Did I mention, frustrating? Not just our politics, even our local church is so frustratingly stultifying you have to wonder, if this is the same Church [...]
The following was originally a comment to the article, “The Redundancy of The RH Bill“, penned by Primer C. Pagunuran. It challenges reflection that a lawyer, instead of a doctor, is the chief architect and single strong advocate of House Bill 5043 which actually consolidated into one, House Bills 17, 812, 2753 and 3920 in [...]
Take it apart and we can quite easily see the primary layers of indoctrination each corresponding to market verticals that vary in the sophistication of their respective thinking faculties: :D Theology (the “scholarly” layer) — voluminous body of text that appeal to those who make a serious career out of backward-engineering substance from established-by-edict “truths”. [...]
There are historical patterns that if we care to seriously reflect on would inform us of certain repeated forces known to have driven great events, among which is this: That history is often made by people and institutions in power and by how their power is employed by them to produce goods and services for [...]
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