Let Maria Ressa Go To Oslo! Plus+ Nobel Prize For THiNK! Journalism, What Do You Think!?

My unsolicited advice to my PH President Rodrigo Roa Duterte: See that Maria Ressa, CEO of Rappler, obtains her visa to travel to Oslo, Norway to personally receive her Nobel Peace Prize on 10 December 2021. A gift to us Filipinos!

The news by Lian Buanis, “Calida Blocks Maria Ressa’s Travel For Nobel Prize: She’s A ‘Flight Risk’” (25 Nov 2021, Rappler.com):

Calling the Rappler CEO a "flight risk," Solicitor General Jose Calida has filed an opposition with the Court of Appeals (CA) seeking to bar Maria Ressafrom traveling to Oslo, Norway, in December to personally receive her Nobel Peace Prize.

An unkind Christmas present! No, I do not approve of Maria Ressa’s Truth Journalism, but a world prize is a world prize! And this is the first for a Filipino.

I call mine “THiNK! Journalism.” Preferentially, my kind of journalism is derived from Zig Ziglar’s THINK advice, a very rich lesson from one of the world’s greatest motivational speaker, who said:

Think before you speak:
Is it True?
Is it Helpful?
Is it Inspiring?
Is it Necessary?
It is Kind?
(Above inset image[1] from Twitter.com)

I am a self-styled, self-taught journalist, formal education being a BSA major in Ag Edu  from UP Los Baños, ’65, with a Civil Service Professional eligibility, '64.

I have been browsing the world at leisure at home since the early 1990s when the Internet came to the Philippines. I am a work-from-home communicator. The creator and donor of the Nobel Prizes, Alfred Nobel said:

Home is where I work, and I work everywhere.

And so do I. Thank God for the Internet! And thank God for Agriculture, the biggest industry of our age.

Nobel also said, “Second to agriculture, humbug is the biggest industry of our age.” Humbug means deception, pretense – American Heritage Dictionary. In my self-imposed role as promoter of THiNK! journalism, the deceptions in agriculture may not be intentional but they must be pointed out necessarily – towards the adoption of Regenerative Agriculture (RA), thanks to Robert Rodale of the Rodale Institute for coming out with this concept.

Let me apply my journalism to Hilario’s regenerative agriculture, on field cultivation:

True?
I break the soil shallowly with a rotavator, blades cutting to pieces both soil and crop refuse and mixing them in one rotating motion, creating a surface mulch all over the field. (In contrast, a disc plow breaks the soil into clods that dry up easily.)

Helpful?
With the vegetative compost already applied on the field, I farmer already have an organic mulchautomatically applied on my farm! This will result in a bountiful harvest.

Inspiring?
Above, so much labor and so much organic fertilizer applied with little labor should be inspiring to any farmer.

Necessary?
The above steps are necessary for me the farmer to decrease costs and increasenet income!

Kind?
The above Hilario’s regenerative agriculture technique altogether is also kind to the environment as there is no chemical fertilizer or pesticide applied!

Give me regenerative agriculture anytime!@517


[1]https://twitter.com/TheZigZiglar/status/873283566163152896/photo/1

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Knorr Of Big Business Unilever Thinks Big Business Regenerative Agriculture – My Tiny Country PH Also Should!

Image
“Knorr’s plan for 50 regenerative agriculture projects is predicted to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and water use by an estimated 30% while improving biodiversity, soil health and livelihoods.” That is regenerative agriculture (RA) news by Julian Cirineo (05 Nov 2021, “Unilever Wants To Rethink How Farms Work To Secure Food And Resources For The Future,” Rappler , rappler.com ). Note: 50 (not 5 only) RA projects to improve greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) and water use by 30% – plus improving biodiversity, soil health and livelihoods. Note the last 7 words in the above paragraph. How can RA improve biodiversity? RA requires that the farmer practices multiculture (a few or many crops grown at the same time in the same place), where monoculture (such as rice-only or corn-only) is the practice – the biodiversity improves crop health because of the ensuing balance of nature, such as some organisms feed on other organisms that would otherwise become pests or cause diseases. RA is your
Read more

In Looking At The Crown Of Thorns, I Found The Clowns

Image
We could use a surprise sense of humor!  Yes, especially on the wide problematic fields of Agriculture. There was this news that some high PH government officials wanted to probe Vice President Leni Robredo for “competing against” PH agencies in providing much-needed assistances during this coronavirus lockdown, and Marigs Laririt shared a picture-story on Facebook quoting Ms Leni as saying, “I didn’t know it was competition. I didn’t see any competitors!” Ms Marigs says, “Ay, parang friends ko kung sumagot si Mam.” (Ay, with Mam, it’s just like my friends answering back.) That is a two-handed backslap, and you can imagine the lady laughing! She is the humor-monger; they are the clowns. Today is Friday, 03 April 2020 and in one account ( Wikipedia ), Friday the 3 rd of April was crucifixion of Jesus and his crowning of thorns [1] . (images: Crown of Thorns [2]  from St Anthony Messenger , 1 st clown [3]  from The Guardian , 2 nd clown [4]  from Shutterstock ) About the living clowns I
Read more

“Natural Farming” – Aggie Journalists, We Must Be Careful With The Terms We Use!

Image
Look at the contrasting images: Which one is correct in claiming what is being practiced is “natural farming”? Top Image: This one accompanies the Anonymous WWF-Philippines story, “Mindanao Farmers Start Off the Year with Natural Farming Systems Technology” published online December 2019 [1] . The World Wide Fund, WWF, is a very credible international source of knowledge on conservation, right? Not this time. Very clearly, you can see the white plastic mulch covering the furrows and bare soil in-between them. Mr or Ms Anonymous, the plastic mulch is not natural. The soil not covered in-between furrows is not natural. So much soil bare, not natural, allowing so much natural water wasted because it had evaporated from the unprotected, hot soil surface! That is not conservation; that is not natural. The term “natural” is used here very carelessly . Aggie journalists, wake up! How come I noticed all that immediately when I saw the photograph? Because I learned my organic farming more t
Read more