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It feels like a life time ago when I greeted you, “Good Morning Manila: The Assess Have it!” You know, that was nearly two months ago. In that span of time, the world was asked, if Neda fell in a desert, would we hear her? Not long after that Michael Jackson was doing the Thriller [...]
This is probably the most idiotic political proposal ever dished out in this whole talk of constitutional amendments. Norberto Gonzalez, a key Arroyo adviser suggests that his employer establish a revolutionary government in the likes of what Mrs Aquino did post EDSA. This government then shall have all powers to revise the constitution. Well we have [...]
The world is at a crossroad. Increasingly, (most especially in the last six months alone) we’ve seen an explosion of how the Internet has become a vector to spread information that governments prefer to be suppressed or mainstream media deem unworthy to be aired. Social Networks— particularly Facebook and Twitter have become a communications platform [...]
In the early 1960s the eminent technocrat Henry Kissinger was said to have almost single-handedly pioneered the doctrine of détente on the premise of a “mutually-assured destruction” in the event of a nuclear war. This doctrine, adopted by several U.S. administrations, would go on to characterise the geo-politics of much of the Cold War era. [...]
He ate his ice cream with a bun while I had mine in a sugar cone, Ricky, a would-be law enforcer. While I agonized over the dilemma of a choice between langka or macapuno, he asked an innocuous question, “Anong meron?” I struggled over how best to explain what last Sunday’s silent protest was for, [...]
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Indeed, the politics of the “power elite” (as many self-described “activists” call our society’s leaders) do reflect the character of our society. Take for instance this snippet of wisdom dished out by the esteemed Inquirer editor today: The congressmen who voted for Con-ass think they know the real-world answer: Freedom is doing as you please. [...]
“I do not know if we can convene immediately even if the resolution is approved today.” – Hon. Prospero Nograles, Speaker, House of Representatives The approval of House Resolution No. 1109 (ConAss) has been met with everything but sobriety – even the very leadership of the House of Representative has failed to comprehend its approval in [...]
In computing parlance, threads are like concurrent trains of thought that a piece of software has spawned and all those result lead to a particular action whether it is opening your email client or browsing the web or displaying a particular image on your computer screen. Imagine to make your windows operating system work, or [...]
GabbyD makes it sound like some heinously horrific calamity waiting to happen: [...] my response to mr [benign0] is that term extension for GMA will result in a weakening of filipino institutions — using filipino institutions to perpetuate power. that will bring about huge problems. But, dude, isn’t that the whole point of on-going routine [...]
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