Winners and Losers By Antonio C. Abaya Written on Aug. 25, 2008 Now that the Beijing 2008 Games are over, you and I can go back to our daily routines. I was spending four to five hours a day watching the Olympic action, from Day One to Day 16. I had no more time to [...]
PerryScope by Perry Diaz The ugly turn of events in Mindanao in the past several weeks makes me wonder if what happened was accidental or deliberate. It may seem accidental, but in politics events are sometimes programmed to make them look accidental but in reality were deliberately planned. After drafting a Memorandum of Agreement on [...]
Why the MILF? Landscapae Gemma Cruz Araneta This is all very confusing. Isn’t the MILF in the government’s short list of terrorist groups, a veritable public enemy number one blamed for the close to civil war conditions in Mindanao? Why is it now the representative of the the Bangsamoro in that controversial memorandum of agreement [...]
What is there to upset Gloria? AS I WRECK THIS CHAIR By William M. Esposo Sunday, August 24, 2008 It was recently admitted by the Palace that Madame Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA) suffered from an upset stomach. It was also one of the few times when a Palace statement was generally accepted to be true. [...]
Renegotiate By Antonio C. Abaya Written on Aug. 20, 2008 There seems to be only one way out of the impasse created by the Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain (MOA-AD), between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP) and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), and that is, to renegotiate it. But [...]
Write It, Walk It GLIMPSES Jose Ma. Montelibano There are some who have stood against powerful men and women for a number of years, oftentimes paying dearly for doing so. Those who speak against wrongdoing cannot but speak against wrongdoers every so often, and that is dangerous and expensive. Reeling against what powerful wrongdoers dish [...]
Dear Folks, Beleive it or not, the following article is quite interesting and intriguing. It says that World War III will erupt in the Spratly Islands in 2012. With what’s happening right now in Mindanao and in the Spratly Islands, this might just come true. About a year ago, I mentioned that Gloria and Miguel [...]
EXPAT DOCTOR RETURNS TO SAVE HYDROCEPHALUS VICTIMS By Ike Señeres They call him the “ShuntMan”, referring to “shunting”, the medical method of artificially creating a passage between two natural body channels such as blood vessels, to divert or permit flow from one pathway through another, often by way of a bypass. “Shunting” is the surgical [...]
Profiles of Three Pampango Revolutionary Generals By George Martinez Hizon General Mamerto Natividad ( 1871-1897 ) He was the youngest Filipino general when the Philippine Revolution against Spain broke out in 1896. Born on June 12, 1871 in Bacolor, Pampanga, Mamerto Natividad was only 25 years old, when he was appointed Lieutenant General and chief [...]
Ninoy may now be wondering if the Filipino was worth dying for AS I WRECK THIS CHAIR By William M. Esposo Thursday, August 21, 2008 The murder of Ninoy Aquino 25 years ago was supposed to silence the one Opposition leader then who was the thorn on the side of Dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos and [...]
