‘Non-trapos like Robredo
and Ping Lacson should be willing to boldly confront the globalization of poverty and its huge impact on our country.’
ISKO Moreno has taken a swipe at public officials seeking reelection who had not been visible at the height of the pandemic, which include several senators and a throng of congressmen. Yorme likes to think that he is made of sterner stuff as he plunges into his daily affairs and activities with little concern for his safety against the still persistent virus.
Vice President Leni Robredo also seems unmindful of the danger of virus infection as she takes her campaign to numerous cities and provinces. Those who like to take a dig at Robredo for allegedly doing nothing but to quarrel with President Duterte is way off and exhibits a shallow political foray that can only come from fabricated sources. Yorme should know better that it does him no good at all when he trashes the widespread and zealous efforts of the Vice President.
The next president should break political, social, and economic boundaries to vigorously pursue the downgrade, if not the elimination, of poverty. Non-trapos like Robredo and Ping Lacson should be willing to boldly confront the globalization of poverty and its huge impact on our country.
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Michael Chossudovsky writes: “The ideology of the ‘free’ market upholds a novel and brutal form of state intervention predicated on the deliberate tampering of market forces.
Derogating the rights of citizens, ‘free trade’ under the world Trade Organization (WTO) grants ‘entrenched rights’ to the world’s largest banks and global corporations. The process of enforcing international agreements by the WTO at national and international levels has invariably bypassed the democratic process. The WTO articles threaten to lead to the disempowerment of national societies as it hands over extensive powers to the financial establishment. Beneath the rhetoric on the so-called ‘governance’ and the ‘free market,’ neoliberalism has provided a shaky legitimacy to those in the seat of political power. The insidiousness of politicians and international officials to powerful financial interests must be unveiled.” (Chossudovsky is professor of Economics at the University of Ottawa and Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization which hosts the critically-acclaimed website, http://www.globalresearch.ca ).
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Erwin Lutzer, senior pastor of Moody Church in Chicago, writes, “We cannot explain how the God of The Bible became a man, The best minds cannot understand how Jesus had both a human and a divine nature, united in one person. The Biblical text does not say that the Word was united alongside of flesh, but that ‘the Word became flesh.’ We simply cannot grasp it.”
The distinguished Christian writer, C.S. Lewis. agrees that the birth of Christ was the greatest miracle. “Every other miracle prepares for this, or exhibits this, or results from this. If the thing happened, it was the central event in the history of the earth – the very thing that the whole story has been about.”
Lewis continues: “In the Christian story, God descends to re-ascend. He comes down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity; down further still, if embryologists are right, to recapitulate in the womb ancient and pre-human phases of life; down to the very roots and sea-bed of the Nature He has created.”
