Americans’ Sense of Superiority Takes a Beating in Iraq: is my Arab News column for this week. My PDI column for today is Diplomats under fire. You may have noticed that Inq7.net’s providing the controversial tapes for listening has been suspended due to legal reasons, probably advice that providing them to the public may not [...]
INQ7 10 most-read stories from May 29 to June 4 – INQ7.net: displays, for all the world to see, what really matters to readers.
Events at Vargas Museum: Designing Diliman Plans,Scale Models and Photographs of UP Diliman Campus 18 June to 3 August 2005, The Lobby UP Vargas Museum To celebrate the 97th year of the University of the Philippines’ founding, the Vargas Museum and the Office of the Campus Architect will show the plans and design of the [...]
Download recordings of alleged destabilization tape – INQ7.net: lets you download both alleged versions (allegedly altered and allegedly unaltered). Listen and compare for yourself. The PCIJ blog gives the skinny on the recordings. The first of their conclusions is that for the Palace, the best defense is a good offense. The second is that this [...]
Jove Francisco provides the transcript of the Palace-approved “real” phone conversation of the President. He gives the Palace press corps’s reaction, as well. Read his additional comments, they make for interesting reading. I disagree with some of Joves’s points, mainly with regards to his surprise over how the President seems to have micromanaged the past [...]
‘Jueteng’ since time immemorial – INQ7.net: is my Inquirer column for today. Newsbreak has an issue focusing on Chavit Singson, political kingpin of the Ilocos, and has a strong message from the editor (click on this: Newsbreak). Manuel Buencamino, who’s trenchant opinion pieces used to appear in the defunct Today newspaper and in Businessworld, writes [...]
A handy resource on the internet is Flags Of The World: which, long before sites such as Wikepedia, was an exponent of collective learning and the sharing of expertise. I have been on and off again, active on the site and its mailing list. The debate over the colors of the Philippine flag has been [...]
Talk:President of the Philippines – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: has an interesting question, the “Fourth/New Republic Problem.” In January, 1973, realizing that a plebiscite to ratify the 1973 Constitution might fail, President Marcos seized on the novel idea of summoning impromptu barrio meetings to ratify the new constitution via a viva voce vote. This led [...]
Journalist Teodoro Benigno Jr. passes away – INQ7.net: I’d heard the news that TeddyMan Benigno was in a bad way two months ago. Now, he is gone. Perhaps it’s a generational thing, but his massive popularity among older folks wasn’t shared by people closer to my age. I recall that one of the more enjoyable [...]
Japan Today – News – 95-year-old inventor of instant noodles to finally retire – Japan’s Leading International News Network: who would’ve thought this man would’ve changed people’s lives so much? Nissin Foods | Meet the Inventor: has his official story. Other news from Japan are, Japan Today – News – 19th case of mad cow [...]
