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Posts Tagged ‘Government’
The violence inherent in the system
14 Dec 2009
“Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I’m being repressed!” -Dennis
Hmm… An anarcho-syndicalist commune? In a republic where the elections might as well be a “farcical aquatic ceremony,” even that sounds good.
At least the [...]
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- Tags: Government, Monty Python, Movies, Politics
Zombied
17 Sep 2009The bad thing about living next to the main road is that noise from traffic never ceases. In an area where the tricycle is king, one rarely gets used to the annoying two-stroke whine. A couple of months into my lease and I somehow did, sleeping soundly despite the noise.
Found out that some other noises [...]
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- Tags: Construction, Government
Kings of the road
6 Apr 2009One of the things that I would enjoy living in a place where I’m practically near the places I frequent is that I would now rarely see politicians (or their relatives, pañeros, and their posse) on the road. They surely are one of my most hated sights in the metro.
I used to drive on Commonwealth [...]
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- Tags: Cars, driving, Government, Politics and Society
Oh come on, Mr. MMDA Chairman. You know what happens on these streets. I’d have to applaud Mayor Binay for pointing this out for everyone. I have seen those anti-Cory posters along Commonwealth and I wondered how they came to be. I rarely get the opportunity to take snapshots of these since I usually drive [...]
On health and safety warning labels
27 Jul 2008I find it quite interesting that our “first-world” counterparts are so obsessed with health and safety regulations even to the point of absurdity (and stupidity, in some arguments). There are just so many things you can’t do in those parts of the world and practically everything needs to have a warning sticker label slapped on [...]
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- Tags: Government, Labels, MMDA, Warning
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