HeyJaredMarlen V. Ronquillo
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A world roiled by... diesel (opens the original)
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TO borrow a sports metaphor, the government’s decision to lift its idiotic freeze on land transport fares was a “Hail Mary” pass that saved most modes of land transport — jeepneys, provincial and city buses, etc. — from sure bankruptcy. The provincial bus operators who sent an SOS to the national government via an urgent appeal for fare adjustment were not exaggerating when they claimed that they will not survive without a fare hike. “When the cost of the state-regulated revenue (meaning the far
The powerful already broke CARP long before odious DOJ opinion (opens the original)
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MORE than 20 years ago, powerful lawmakers with interests in real estate development started directing pork barrel funds into massive roadbuilding projects along prime agricultural lands. Using local agents and intermediaries, these politicians-cum-developers then acquired those prime lands along the new road networks from the owners, mostly agrarian reform beneficiaries. The local agents fronting for the oligarchs would often lure these farmer-beneficiaries into selling their lands by telling t
Conquest of Mars; death by leptospirosis (opens the original)
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Read this in The Manila Times digital edition. THE tech bros, the new masters of the universe, define civilization in stasis as one confined to the surly bounds of earth. That is driving the plan — it has moved from an idea to an action plan — to conquer the planet Mars and build a new civilization there. The main competitors in the race to conquer Mars are Elon Musk, the world’s richest person and the first dollar trillionaire, and Jeff Bezos, who is the third richest. The two have space explor
NLEX and PrimeWater: Brutal wages of oligarchic power (opens the original)
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THE growth philosophy of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s administration is a 21st century version of South Korea’s strongman Park Chung Hee, who ruled that nation from 1961 to 1979. Park sponsored and vigorously promoted the rise of the conglomerates, the likes of Samsung, LG and Hyundai, to forcefully push for quantum leaps in South Korea’s development. Sacrificed in the process were human and labor rights. Collectively, these conglomerates were — and are still — called chaebols. There was no
Time for a class suit against NLEx operator (opens the original)
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CARDINAL Pablo Virgilio “Ambo” David’s recent post, titled “Enough of this yearly NLEX ordeal,” summed up the mounting public outrage over the fundamental failure of the Metro Pacific Tollways Corp. (MPTC), the Northern Luzon Expressway’s operator, to fulfill its mandate to operate an all-weather expressway. As the holder of a government-granted franchise with the authority to impose toll fees and amass profits, then enrich its shareholders — which, by themselves, are extraordinary privileges th
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