Ni Roland Tolentino Bulatlat.com Sa dami ng itinatayong bagong gusali, tila may nabubuong skyline ang Metro Manila. Maganda raw sa feng shui ang skyline dahil tulad ng Great Wall of China, kaya nitong I bloke ang negative energies. At tulad ng photogenic shots ng “great cities,” tulad ng Chicago, New York, Shanghai, Seoul at Tokyo,…
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Public urged to help hunt down Palparan
Public urged to help hunt down Palparan(Photos courtesy of Karapatan)
Street Shooter: Dawn Rider
The motorcyclist takes a ride at sunrise and is rewarded with an empty road and a wonderful mountain vista. (Sagada, Mountain Province)
Not a merry Christmas for Americans, Europeans
By Satur C. Ocampo At Ground Level | The Philippine Star As the Christmas and New Year holidays approach, the air of economic uncertainty dampens the traditionally anticipated spirit of merriment and hope among the people in the United States and Europe. Why? The financial and economic measures requiring more austerity instead of more spending,…
Prometheus Bound: Disastrous Neglect
By Jose Leon Dulce Bulatlat.com As the year comes to a close, it now appears that Typhoon Sendong (international name Washi) is the eadliest storm of 2011. It affected more than 27,000 families in around 190 barangays, in 24 municipalities and cities in the 13 provinces of Region VI, Region VII, Region IX, Region X,…
Heroes of Filipino migrant workers honored
By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – Then pastor of the United Methodist Church English Speaking (MCES) in Wanchai, Hong Kong, Bishop Solito Toquero witnessed the many hardships overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) faced in Hong Kong. “There was one domestic helper who suffered a nervous breakdown. We brought her to the psychiatric ward of the…
Urban poor slams Aquino veto of debt cap in 2012 budget
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO Bulatlat.com The country’s urban poor have one more reason to consider President Benigno S. Aquino III an enemy of the poor: he vetoed a provision inserted by the House of Representatives into the 2012 national budget that would have forced the government to put a limit on borrowing funds from…
Mothers of the disappeared call for people’s manhunt vs Palparan
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“We call on the Filipino people to help us prosecute Palparan for the crimes he did to our children and to other victims of enforced disappearances.” – Mrs. Concepcion Empeño, mother of missing UP student Karen.
Groups hit Aquino gov’t’s wrong priorities for disaster wrought by Typhoon Sendong
By INA ALLECO R. SILVERIO
In his veto message on the 2011 national budget, President Aquino said the P5 billion calamity fund should be mainly used by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) for “actual calamities”and not for “preparation of relocation sites/facilities, and training personnel engaged in direct disaster.”
Angry Birds at infantilisasyon ng anxiedad
Ni Roland Tolentino Bulatlat.com May 500 milyong downloads na ang online na game na ito, at may 300 milyong oras na paglalaro araw-araw. Ang pinaunlad ng isang Finnish computer game developer Rovio Mobile noon pang 2009 ay ngayon kabahagi na ng kulturang popular: bina-ban sa bansa na pirated toys dahil sa kanyang toxic content, may…
Palparan’s flee attempt indicates guilt – mothers of 2 missing UP students
By RONALYN V. OLEA
“He [Palparan] should be imprisoned immediately, along with GMA, Abalos, all of them who are shameless. They all should spend Christmas in jail.” – Mrs. Concepcion Empeño