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Continue reading →: Rebanse: LA Lakers vs. Boston Celtics
Folks at the Staples Center have been asking for it since more than three weeks ago. I have been wishing for it since Game 6 of the 2008 NBA Finals. Sportswriters call it redemption. In Pinoy street basketball, we call it rebanse. For the meantime, forget the raucous House probe…
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Continue reading →: Notes on the 7.3 percent GDP growth
The good news, according to Malacañang spokesperson Gary Olivar, is that Noynoy Aquino will be taking over a “booming economy”. “It’s obviously a great note to end the President’s term with”, Olivar said. The country’s chief statistician agrees. “This is a glorious ending for the Arroyo administration and a good…
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Continue reading →: Noynoy’s Cabinet of recycled bureaucrats
Based on stories coming out in the media, apparent President-elect Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III will likely have a recycled Cabinet. But Aquino will use a second-hand Cabinet not as a cost-cutting measure in anticipation of the gargantuan budget deficit to be left behind by now Pampanga Congresswoman-elect Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Aquino’s recycling…
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Continue reading →: Kung walang corrupt, walang mahirap: How Noynoy obscured the link between Hacienda Luisita and poverty
“The basic premise of Noynoy’s advocacy conceals the structural roots of poverty. It hides the universal truth that the working people are poor because a very small minority monopolizes ownership over production means and the wealth society produces.” Save for the official proclamation, the presidential elections is now over with…
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Continue reading →: Red-baiting: ang maruming laban ni Risa Hontiveros
Hindi naman daw red-baiting ang ginagawa ni Risa Hontiveros ng Akbayan/Liberal Party (LP) sa senatorial candidates na sina Satur Ocampo at Liza Maza ng Makabayan. “Nowhere in my press statement did I call them communist,” ani Hontiveros. Ano exactly ang sinabi ni Hontiveros? Nasa ibaba ang portion ng isang direct…
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