Sunday, August 23, 2009

random points

  • media and academe = have the highest intolerance to falsehood (Chief Justice Reynato Puno)
  • patronage politics = politics of the worst kind precisely because it exploits the material deprivation of the many (Prof. Randy David)
  • charity politics = a variant of patronage politics where politicians provide gifts in cash or in kind to the marginalized (in our case, the majority) in order to widen and deepen his/her base of support, and generate votes in the process; such brand of politics doesn't empower, it emasculates

DS 141 test B

1. going beyond the six building blocks of health 2. trust research 3. care 4. Fatima Castillo 5. Master of Arts in Health Policy Studies (M...