Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made
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The National Museum of American History has an exhibit right now on Filipino American history. It includes the suits that Filipino immigrants bought using the money they earned as agricultural laborers. Photos from Mina Roces's article "These Guys Came Out Looking Like Movie Actors': Filipino Dress and Consumer Practices in the United States, 1920s-1930s"
Jesus Christ
Japanese cities can disappoint. Visitors stroll around hoping to be awe-struck by the dreamy spectacle of clip-clopping Geisha in their wooden geita, or barreling sumo wrestlers, or high-stockinged ninja girls (à la Kill Bill), and all against a Blade Runner backdrop, only to be confronted with mostly unremitting blandness.
The constants are these: concrete, plastic, more concrete, more plastic, endless construction (one crappy shopping complex or mansion block replacing another), confusion, and noise. It can all seem dizzyingly homogenous.
✍️ Philip Patrick
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UA SC Case sidelines. Amici curiae Ben Diokno (78), Butch Abad (71) and Joey Salceda (65) are having lunch together. Winnie Monsod (85) comes in and says “Hello Babies!”
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A major beef between two Hungarians is truly a colossal force to reckon with: György Soros and Viktor Orbán moved mountains and involved most of the world in their civilizational struggle, only for the winner to come out with a cozy couch photograph to try to mentally destroy the losing party.
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The leaders of post-Mao China greatly admired Singapore,we can speak "Singaporean fever"
It’s quite funny to see people pitting Lee against China as if he embodied anti-authoritarianism, when the CCP has long viewed Singapore as proof that it’s possible to modernize, enrich the country, and govern firmly without copying Western liberal democracy.
Reddit libtards have no cool leaders so they have to shill some guy who figured out tiny states with 5 people can get money by being offshore banking hubs. Sorry, we like REAL leaders like Stalin who turned 200 million peasants spanning 2 continents into rivaling the US in 3 decades. Gtfo with this shit
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Taking off from what Randy David pointed out years ago, the focus on antidynasty means all the oxygen was taken out of the room as far as campaign finance reform and reforming the party list system are concerned.
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Which Asian countries are the most exposed to rising oil prices?
Oil prices rising from $70 to $85 reduces Singapore's real GDP growth by -1.5 percentage points, the largest hit in the region.
Taiwan follows closely at -1.2 percentage points.
Hong Kong, Korea, and India would see a reduction of -0.5 to -0.7 percentage points each.
The Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia face a hit of -0.3 to -0.5 percentage points.
Meanwhile, China is the least exposed at -0.1 percentage points, as its oil imports are better diversified than those of its neighbors.
With oil now at ~$100, far above the $85 modeled here, the real GDP impact across Asia is significantly larger.
Most major Asian economies are highly exposed to oil price swings.
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harvard can't figure out why ice cream eaters are healthier. it's because ice cream is the only food nobody eats out of obligation or guilt. the food diary is an accidental personality test and "eats ice cream on purpose, reports it honestly" is just measuring internal locus of control
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List of capable global militaries:
1 - America
*giant gulf*
2 - Israel
*Another giant gulf*
3 - me and my retarded buddies drunk in the woods with old surplus rifles
*You guessed it, another giant gulf*
4 - France?
5 - everyone else
900 - Russia
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The Philippines has a long and winding history with elections.
Now, for the first time, the very first direct national election in the Philippines has been mapped in detail never seen before 🗺️
In collaboration with @Isayaaaah, let's make history come alive tomorrow. Abangan!
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Tu certainly deserves the prize, especially because the new malaria medication is so valuable.
Further she did something Western academics are loathe to do, taking a look at ancient sources (300s AD!) as epistemic equals. I wish our academics were less arrogant and took approaches like this.
Senator Dillon, whom I admire greatly on other issues, might want to sit this one out, especially after having been the most effective legislative oppositor to relaxation of absolute bank secrecy
IF YOU CANNOT EVEN FREEZE THE ACCOUNTS OF THE CROOKS, HOW DO YOU PROPOSE TO SOLVE THIS ISSUE?
Former Senate President Franklin Drilon, author of the Anti-Money Laundering Act, challenged the AMLC to disclose to the public the number of suspicious and frozen accounts, as well as the value of funds covered.
Full #AtTheForefront interview with Atty. Karen Jimeno: youtube.com/watch?v=BiaXwqn6…
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Hamas is trying to win this war by fighting like the Taliban while have neither mountains nor the caves to retreat to. They can only hide amongst civilians in the most densely populated region in the planet who they are seemingly willing to sacrifice until it’s all destroyed.
