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		<title>Dancing prisoners</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When the Michael Jackson single “They don’t care about us” was released fourteen years ago, it immediately generated controversy after Jewish groups pointed out that the lyrics of the song (“Jew me, sue me”) has a tinge of racism in it. The pop superstar was forced to apologize by removing the controversial lines in a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mongpalatino.com/2010/07/dancing-prisoners/</link>
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		<title>Sona 2010: Notes from the plenary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Speech delivered at the UP College of Law. President Noynoy Aquino or PNoy spoke in Filipino. He addressed the people inside the plenary as “my fellow government workers.” He immediately tackled what everybody wanted to hear from him: the anomalies of his predecessor. He cited the depleted calamity funds, rising budget deficit, and bloated benefits [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mongpalatino.com/2010/07/sona-2010-notes-from-the-plenary/</link>
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		<title>Filipino youth, HIV/AIDS and reproductive health</title>
		<description><![CDATA[* Speech during the Parliamentary Side Event on the Integration of Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights and HIV/AIDS at the eve of XVIII World AIDS Conference 2010 in Vienna, Austria Access to Sexuality and Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) services: Are youth programs meeting the needs of young people? Let me immediately answer the question with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mongpalatino.com/2010/07/filipino-youth-hivaids-and-reproductive-health/</link>
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		<title>Sex and the Censors in Asia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Part 1: Politics and immorality in Southeast Asia written for The Diplomat South-east Asian governments are increasingly censoring ‘immoral’ web content. Do they have political motivations as well? Last February, the Indonesian government dropped plans to filter ‘bad’ content through its Multimedia Content Screening team after the plan met with strong public opposition. Yet, undeterred, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mongpalatino.com/2010/07/sex-and-the-censors-in-asia/</link>
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		<title>Noynoy Aquino and ‘impossible reformism’</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“When I was still in the Guest House, I asked for the logs which listed those who had visited President Marcos. I compared them with those visiting President Aquino. They were the same people – they came from the same companies, shared the same business views, the same mindset, and they went to the same [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mongpalatino.com/2010/07/noynoy-aquino-and-%e2%80%98impossible-reformism%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<title>Mensahe ng pasasalamat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Batay sa talumpating binigkas sa anibersaryo ng Kabataan Partylist, Hunyo 19, 2010 na ginanap sa UP Diliman Kolehiyo ng Edukasyon Maraming salamat sa ating dalawang emcee. Si Lee, mga kaibigan, ang nagdisenyo, naglay-out ng ating mga logo at iba pang animasyon na ginamit noong kampamya. Salamat Lee at Mabuhay ka! Sa lahat ng fans ng [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mongpalatino.com/2010/07/mensahe-ng-pasasalamat/</link>
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		<title>Seeing and politics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Part 1: postblogism To see is no longer to believe. There was a time when people had to look up into the sky to search for answers about the mysteries of life. We raise our eyes to the heavens looking for clues about our existence. Astronomers and astrologers gaze at the stars and planets to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mongpalatino.com/2010/06/seeing-and-politics/</link>
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		<title>Youth, Employment, Migration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[*Keynote speech delivered at Mandarin Oriental last June 23 during the launching of the YOUthink session of the Department of Labor and Employment and the National Youth Commission Good morning, honorable speakers and resource persons, colleagues, ladies and gentlemen. I would first like to congratulate the Department of Labor and Employment, the National Youth Commission, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mongpalatino.com/2010/06/youth-employment-migration/</link>
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		<title>Red, Yellow Blur in Thailand</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;written for The Diplomat. The Red Shirts’ campaign to force the resignation of Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva got as bloody as it could last month—what could be bloodier than protesters donating 1000 litres of their own blood to splatter on government offices? The protests, by the United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship, established protest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mongpalatino.com/2010/06/red-yellow-blur-in-thailand/</link>
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		<title>No to another Mendiola gate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Malacanang Palace, supposedly the palace of the people, is now the fortress of a paranoid president. It is already reinforced with defenses that prevent ordinary Filipinos and foreign tourists alike from visiting or even taking a glimpse of the official residence of the most important public official of the land. Gate 7 of the palace [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mongpalatino.com/2010/06/no-to-another-mendiola-gate/</link>
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