Ukraine

Its Kerch Strait is becoming crooked by intrusion and dominance of Russia.

PH vs China Part ll.

Chinese Gene-Edited Twins

It seems editing is alive and well in China. Now a scientist has edited genes of twins to make them resistant to HIV.

Omg!

Mediating Medical Practice

In a feature, Netflix focused on Roosevelt's medical condition. His official physician, Dr. McIntire was not entirely dedicated to his duty. Daily he sat with FDR for breakfast and discussed the news, not checking on his health. A much later check-up at Bethesada under Dr. Bruenn led to a diagnosis of hypertension and enlarged heart. He was told to limit intake of rich food and use of tobacco. To which Dr. McIntire said, "You do not tell that to the President of the United States."

Mediators have to tell the painful truth to disputants too.

Store Games

CNN lists how stores entice us to buy more: good scent, mood music and grouping into sets.

No mind games in mediation.

ESA ka pa

The European Space Agency continues the fascination with the moon, while looking into the possibility of setting up a long-term structure there for more observation, as featured by CNN.

Mediation looks into various options too.

Covered Heads

Suspects caught on camera most often hide their faces. Truly, they are considered innocent until proven otherwise. That is why news reporters have no business interviewing them contrary to their Miranda rights.

Mediation likewise lays accountability on the proper person/s.

Stones

Someone has said that if one gets stones thrown at him, it is up to him to build a wall or bridge with them.

Mediation is a bridge.

Open Sesame

Finally DFA unfurls the MOU with China! Hopefully in English

The Compromise Agreement is open, especially to the two disputants.

Eat Bullaga

Tito Sotto and Gloria Arroyo meeting with Xi Jinping is a study in contrast. A comic and a strategist up against the conqueror.

Credibility is an essential element in mediation.

Draftster

It now appears that China drafted the Joint Agreement between her and PH.

A no-no in mediation. Both parties have to craft it

Protest season

With the Chinese invasion, out come the rallyists again. And the policemen though we don't know whom they are protecting.

Empowerment

EWTN featured an addict who found his way back after meeting an accepting and forgiving priest who led him to recovery.

Mediators are like that priest

Not my will

The mediator's i.e., but that of disputants is to be followed in the Compromise Agreement. For they are the ones to comply with it.

People are puny

Today's Our Daily Bread reminds us of motives for good and charitable acts.

Court-annexed mediators are not well-paid and are on success rate. We bank on our "out-of-this-world" reward.

Imelda on Bail

We would have wanted her on bale in jail but perish the thought!

The judge has intervened. 

Tell us how to behave

DU30 asks China, or should it be the other way around!

Not mediation behavior. The Arbitral Tribunal has spoken on their dispute.

Annulled Certificates of Candidacy

That's what Taguig constituents want to do to the Cayetano couple. These two are running in two districts covering their city, aside from lil brother for mayor.

Strictly speaking?

Amnesty National

With the possibility of Imelda being pardoned by DU30 of her graft conviction, she should be wary of the document being lost by the next administration. A la Trillanes case

Mediation precisely avoids repetition of the conflict.

TNVS Drivers

They are the current knights in shining armor who save paasengers in distress.  Three of them have recently been acknowledged.

Mediation likewise focuses on the positive present and future more than the negative past.

Sandiganbayan

Truly living up to its name, this court convicted Imelda of 7 counts of graft.

Hopefully, the Supreme Court does not intervene, as it had recently let her go of dollar-salting crimes. Thank God, the Chief Justice then has retired.

Military Overload

There is martial law in the DU30 cabinet. Latest is Gringo at the DICT.

Sure is a lot of com-promise.

Benny and Joon

Not the usual love story but of a brother taking care of his special sister. Enter the illiterate character of Johnny Depp who irons bread into toast! In the end, the sympathetic hostel manager sets up the sister and Depp in one of her rooms, instead of a state home.

Music Mediation

Classica featured a group of 12 cellists going to perform in the Chinese Egg for the first time. While they found the building amazing, the musicians wondered what kind of music to perform. In the end, they just went by gut feel, even adding the Birthday Song for one of the cellists.

Humanity is universal, so does mediation find out too.

Election Mediation

The warring Trump and his opponents are going to be mediated by the electorate. Vox populi, vox Dei in deed!

3rd Telco

In making decisions, always felt that if one or the other does not seem to work, the third option could be it.

That is mediation, finding the middle ground.

Value

What we give others above ourselves in humility (Phil 2:3) especially when we serve.

Such is mediation when the disputants can take the credit for crafting their own compromise agreement.

Motivation

A Sunday homilist listed the lowest motivation as deficiency.

Good enough for mediation.

Foreign Employment and Business

As if Filipinos do not have enough trouble finding jobs, DU30 now opens the floodgates to foreign employment and business.

How do you mediate a muddled mind?

Social Dumping

This is the case of sending Pinoy truck drivers to Denmark for lesser pay than the locals.

Another labor pollutant that needs to be exterminated.

Crime and Punishment ll

Saw a rerun and caught some more insights. The criminal gets bothered by his conscience and accuses the police officer of tormenting him.  Then, a hooker friend, of all people, encourages him to turn himself in and stays by his side till Siberia!

Successful mediation and marriage!

Triumvirate of Evil

With Brazil recently having a "Tropical Trump" in President Bolsonaso, it now joins US' Trump and PH's DU30 in questionable leadership.

Mediation dim.