Sep 30, 2007

 

Centro revives consumer interest for Palm

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Sep 29, 2007

 

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, friend and partner of the Myanmar military junta

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Freedom and democracy for Burma!

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Sep 26, 2007

 

Achieving Happiness is liveblogging the Senate hearing on NBN-ZTE scam; Observations on the Senate probe

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Abalos to Neri: "Sec, may 200 ka dito"

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Sep 23, 2007

 

Download the new protest ringtone! AB-ZTE-FG!

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In Burma, monks lead pro-democracy protests; Military junta's days now numbered?

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Manila Met to be restored; Street art goes 3-D

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Sep 22, 2007

 

GMA suspends ZTE deal -- 11 days after SC issues a TRO against contract

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Sep 21, 2007

 

Philippine military won't say sorry for martial law atrocities

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Today's Oddities: Sued in court, "God" responds with a motion

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MTRCB-censored film "Rights!" now showing on YouTube

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NBN-ZTE cannot be THE national broadband we need

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Sep 20, 2007

 

MTRCB gives X rating to compilation of human rights ads

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Dateline: Senate -- Arroyo regime exploding from within

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Sep 18, 2007

 

Today's Oddities: Belgium on sale, suing God, FG's sudden overseas trip

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Sep 17, 2007

 

Today's Roundup: Politics, Tech and Art

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Sep 16, 2007

 

Sarah and Nato perform at Backdoor Blues Cafe: Encore!

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Online reader on mobile phones and activism #1

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Sep 15, 2007

 

Today's Roundup

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Sep 14, 2007

 

Joma: Solitary confinement extremely painful, humiliating

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Post-mortem on Jose Maria Sison's arrest, detention and release



As I write this, scores of supporters of Jose Maria Sison are assembling in Manila for a "victory march and rally" to celebrate the leftist leader's release from prison after Dutch judges found the evidence him "insufficient" to cause his continued detention.

There it is -- (1) after all the exaltation and credit-grabbing over Sison's arrest, (2) after speaking as if they gave the goods, (3) after proclaiming for the nth time the impending doom of the movement Sison founded in 1964, (4) after spreading rumors of New People's Army regulars supposedly fleeing camps nationwide due to demoralization, and (5) after foisting war or fake amnesty on NPA -- the plot to pin down Sison failed.

Norberto Manero, er, Gonzales was surprised to receive the news last night. Actually, he was shamed by the news. His "kuryente" stories -- all the fake, manufactured, concocted cases against the Left -- starting with the "killing fields" in Bukidnon, the omnibus rebellion case, the arrest and detention of Satur Ocampo, and the ongoing legal campaign to file cases across the country against both legal and underground leftists -- have all miserably failed. The Sison case is his latest and hopefully the last "kuryente" story.

This time, Gonzales' kuryente reached the Dutch courts who yesterday discovered the lie about "compelling and strong evidence" of Sison's "crimes against humanity", and caused the most decent and just thing to happen -- to release Sison.

Gonzales, the military and police and President Arroyo have gone around town proclaiming the guilt of Sison -- only to be rebuffed big time by the Dutch court they thought will play footsie with them. Sa likod ng sobrang kayabangan, wala naman pala silang ebidensya.

The pundits and bloggers who worship these demigods are of course silent. Pahiya eh. They won't even acknowledge the fact that they were wrong. Their brains are too fucked up with irrational and mindless anti-communism to understand fairplay and due process even for communists, socialists and national democrats.

The liberal papers which played up Sison's arrest with banner stories did not even bother to give Sison a commensurate treatment on his release. Talk about fairness. Ok lang i-headline ang komunista basta inaaresto o kinukulong sila.

And so movements inspired by Sison are set to march moments later in Manila, proclaiming the good news of Sison's release and the major setback given to the Philippine government which persecutes him no end.

Sison remains a suspect and the "case" has not been dismissed -- and so we must

And so we continue to defend Sison not because we are part of a cult, but because the intolerance of the state for the likes of Sison -- to the extent that the state invents false charges against him and charges him on foreign soil -- is a danger to free expression, free speech, free thought and free assembly. If they can do this to Sison and to other leftists, they can do it to anyone.

And so we continue to champion Sison's cause because despite the ongoing, triumphalist march of world capitalism and local semifeudalism, there remains a glimmer of hope offered in the movement for national democracy and socialism which Sison started some four decades ago in the face of its slanderers' failure to provide the Filipino people prosperity and peace.

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Sep 13, 2007

 

iPhone to be launched in UK on Sept. 18

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Congratulations, Prof. Sison

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Arroyo declares war

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TXTPower on the guilty verdict: Erap today, GMA tomorrow

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Today's Roundup: Politics, Tech and Art

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Sep 12, 2007

 

Video review: Treo 500v

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Visit Treo 500v website; new smartphone available Oct. 1

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Palm launches Treo 500v in Europe

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Official Palm Blog bares Treo 500v

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Progressives welcome Estrada guilty verdict, warn Gloria over similar fate

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Download full text of Estrada guilty verdict

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Honesto General: Twisted, dishonest opinion

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Opportunist view of Estrada guilty verdict

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Estrada to stay in Tanay until further orders of Sandiganbayan

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Live coverage continues at Estrada verdict

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Estrada found guilty of plunder

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Estrada not guilty of perjury

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Sep 11, 2007

 

Reports: Palm to introduce Treo 500

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Supreme Court stops foul-smelling NBN

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Reply to Alexander R. Magno: Jose Maria Sison's academic and literary record

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Sep 10, 2007

 

Eudora, RP's erstwhile favorite email software, to be reborn

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Palm to unveil new smartphone on Sept. 12

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iPhone alert: iPhones, turbo SIMs now sold openly in RP websites

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Sep 9, 2007

 

"Wet dream of a cellphone bill"

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Sep 8, 2007

 

Blogs are media, says US elections commission

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Sept. 15 is Software Freedom Day; See you at UP

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Sep 7, 2007

 

Smart, Globe deny role in Hello Garci caper; AFP hit over cellphone signal jamming

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Arroyo's amnesty, a farce

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Philippines' TXTPower turns 7

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Comic books now available -- on cellphones!

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Sep 6, 2007

 

Come to the Bloggers' Kapihan!

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Julie de Lima-Sison speaks; Romy Capulong clarifies

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UK telcos mimic Smart Money, GCash

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Apple cuts iPhone price to 399 USD, debuts new iPods

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Sep 5, 2007

 

Cellphone snatcher kills victim in Tondo

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Today's internet find: Uncyclopedia

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TipidPC sires TipidCP

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Buencamino's fairy tale about Joma Sison; Kudos to Montemayor

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Remembering my first blog

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Sep 4, 2007

 

Justice and fairness for Jose Maria Sison

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Sep 3, 2007

 

Mack is okay!

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