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My heart goes out to all our Jewish brethren and all men and women of goodwill, who felt offended by President Duterte’s comparison of drug users and dealers (junkies) to Holocaust victims. I begin by saying that Adolf Hitler became Europe’s mad scientist whose Frankenstein monster was Nazism and the first victims were the Jews. It was a cruel time when Hitler played God without divine permission, like President Duterte who is considered by many to be playing God by deciding who dies and and who lives. The Nazi regime became Germany’s unstoppable monster, animated by Adolf Hitler’s ideology of Aryan supremacy, a racial theory that told the world: “All Jews were untermenschen (subhuman).” It was the basis for the murder of Jews, defective children in the womb, the comatose, inutile grandparents in the home of the aged, prisoners in the death row, etc. Maybe, just maybe, this sort of subconscious philosophy was in the President’s mind when he said that junkies were not humans. Charismatic, populist In Nazi Germany, it all began in 1935 when the Nuremberg Laws defined Jews by race and mandated the total separation of “Aryans from non-Aryans,” the social segregation of Germans and Austrians from the Jews. World War II then came rumbling. It marked the beginning of genocide in many parts of Europe. And in order to justify the mass murder of the Jews, the Nazis used both logical arguments and stereotypes. Jews “are disloyal citizens and a danger to internal security,” Nazis perpetually announced in public address systems. Evil genius Hitler gave birth to Nazism and Nazism gave birth to the xenophobic “voelkisch (people’s) movement.” Almost similar to Duterte’s mass support, the movement was made up of German scholars, thinkers and artists who viewed the Jewish spirit as alien to Germandom. I quote the Führer in his own words (from his Read More …

SAN FRANCISCO – Digital payments company PayPal has announced its partnership with Philippines’ leading outsourced payment provider Bayad Center to enable overseas Filipinos to pay the utility bills of their loved ones online. Customers can now access Bayad Center’s online platform to pay their electricity, water and phone bills through PayPal. This expands PayPal’s cross-border bill pay offering to the Philippines, which is also available through Xoom, a PayPal service. An estimated 10.23 million Filipinos, or approximately 10 percent of the population, currently work overseas. Most of these workers send remittances back to the Philippines to help their families pay the bills. This is typically a complicated two-step process – first send money to Philippines, then ask the beneficiary to pick up the money transfer and use that cash to pay the biller. Loved ones in the Philippines would have to make trips to both the remittance center and a bill pay location to pay the bill. With this partnership, overseas Filipinos now have a quicker, convenient, and more secure way of paying their loved ones’ bills. They are also assured that payments are posted to the specified account with the correct amount. To pay bills through Bayad Center, new customers will need to create a PayPal account and enroll a bank account, debit card or credit card as their payment source. “I am really pleased to announce the partnership with Bayad Center. Bayad Center has always been a convenient tool for local Filipinos to pay their bills. With this Read More …