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President Arroyo’s got up to the podium, delivered her State of the Nation Address (SONA), and then stepped down from the podium. That backgrounder out of the way, I can then say that it is quite heartening that within FilipinoVoices.com, at least, some of the usual suspects had the decency to see beyond their almost [...]
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 [...]
Over a hundred years ago, a Republic was born. It was born amidst a era of nationalism. It wasn’t a unique idea. It was borrowed from Western thought. And a people, like many across the world wanted to self-govern. That Republic was short-lived and it became a Commonwealth of the Americans. But the dream never [...]
There are few hackers here. And most soldiers are ordinary people running on social media. So when, BreakingTweets reported CNN was quoting the Iranian Government as saying that the “West is engaged in a Cyber War against Iran,” it does beg that question: “Are we engaged in Cyber War?” Go around the Interwebs and Boing [...]
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, [...]
“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 [...]
Yesterday, different sectors of Davao City and nearby cities and provinces converged at Freedom Park and marched to Rizal Park in order to protest the passage of HR 1109 and the so-called Constitutional Assembly of the Congress. And like a slap on the face, one of the battlecries during the rally was this… SHAME ON [...]
It’s ocho-ocho rally time again! Over at the big like-minded love-in known as Ellenville a call that is sure to challenge the higher thinking faculties of the masses has been issued: Dahil mukhang pursigido talagang itulak ang kanilang maitim na balak, siguradong magiging matindi ang protesta sa susunod na mga linggo. Nababahala ang mga lider [...]
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 [...]
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