Laglagan

The Best Chance Yet for Legalizing Marijuana

2010-01-06T03:24:06Z

"It's Dec. 14 and news that the Regulate, Control and Tax Cannabis Act of 2010 has qualified for the California ballot next year has just exploded in time for the evening news cycle."

http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/144842/the_best_chance_yet_for_legalizing_marijuana?page=entire

Ladlad: Gay not immoral

2010-01-06T02:40:35Z

"“This court’s obligation is to define the liberty of all, not to mandate its own moral code,” Ang Ladlad quoted the US Supreme Court as saying."

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/nation/view/20100105-245569/Ladlad%3A_Gay_not_immoral

International airlines may move to Naia 3

2010-01-06T02:20:06Z

NexNote: Oh please.

"Four multinational airlines have expressed their interest to set up shop at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia) terminal 3, once all the facility’s legal issues have been sorted out"

http://business.inquirer.net/money/topstories/view/20100105-245688/International_airlines_may_move_to_Naia_3

Vietnam condemns China tourism plan for islands

2010-01-06T01:47:24Z

"Vietnam and China have a long-standing dispute over sovereignty of the Paracels and a more southerly archipelago, the Spratlys. Both are in the South China Sea, which Vietnam calls the East Sea."

http://globalnation.inquirer.net/news/breakingnews/view/20100105-245636/Vietnam-condemns-China-tourism-plan-for-islands

Slain journalists' widows hit VIP treatment for Ampatuans

2010-01-05T14:44:58Z

"Widows of murdered journalists on Tuesday decried the alleged special treatment being given to Ampatuan clan members detained in a police camp in General Santos City."

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view/20100105-245585/Slain-journalists-widows-hit-VIP-treatment-for-Ampatuans

The ship is sinking, why?

2010-01-05T14:36:29Z

"So why did we perform so poorly? It should be obvious, but let us emphasize it anyway: because our leaders, in all branches of government, put their welfare above that of the country. And because we, the people, allow them to."

http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view/20091120-237450/The-ship-is-sinking-why

UP Pres. Roman Denies Sarah's Tenure Appeal

2010-01-05T13:47:33Z

"U.P. President Emerlinda Roman's seven-page memo denying Prof. Sarah Raymundo's tenure appeal."

http://tenureforsarahraymundo.blogspot.com/2010/01/up-pres-roman-denies-sarahs-tenure.html

Ex-DoE chief elected to WWF body

2010-01-05T13:14:57Z

NexNote: Not about wrestling people!

"Perez obtained his Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1983 and a Bachelor's Degree in Business Economics from the University of the Philippines (UP). He was a 2005 World Fellow at Yale University, where he lectured an MBA class on renewable power in emerging countries."

http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/236827/exdoe-chief-elected-wwf-body

The Avatar Decade

2010-01-04T09:13:43Z

"The transformation is happening in Iran where a popular uprising — organized and multiplied through mobile technology — is working to to unseat a repressive regime. It is happening worldwide as scientists prevail in their warnings of global warming. It happened in the U.S. as the Obama campaign's use of technology enabled like-minded voters to connect with one another.

Nothing illustrates the shift more powerfully than "Avatar.""

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/worldview/091230/avatar-decade

Rethinking Education as the Practice of Freedom: Paulo Freire and the Promise of Critical Pedagogy

2010-01-04T09:11:23Z

"As the market-driven logic of neoliberal capitalism continues to devalue all aspects of the public good, one consequence has been that the educational concern with excellence has been removed from matters of equity, while the notion of schooling as a public good has largely been reduced to a private good."

http://www.truthout.org/10309_Giroux_Freire

TED Fellow Sean Gourley published in Nature

2010-01-04T08:12:48Z

"TED Fellow Sean Gourley spoke at TED University 2009 about the mathematics of war -- how he and his team of mathematicians, physicists and computer scientists uncovered a strong mathematical relationship linking the fatality and frequency of insurgent attacks."

http://blog.ted.com/2009/12/ted_fellow_sean.php

Common ecology quantifies human insurgency

2010-01-04T08:08:36Z

NexNote: Whoa! The mathematics of war!!!

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v462/n7275/full/nature08631.html

Will the Internet Run Out of IP Addresses in 2012?

2010-01-04T06:26:22Z

NexNote: Internet pala ang maliligwak sa 2012 e. Haha

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20100103/tc_nf/70830

UN food chief: Feed the world’s hungry billion

2010-01-03T11:57:30Z

"With the number of chronically hungry people topping one billion for the first time in history, a coordinated effort to feed the world is crucial for the coming year, the head of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said in a statement."

http://globalnation.inquirer.net/news/breakingnews/view/20100103-245236/UN-food-chief-Feed-the-worlds-hungry-billion

‘Special treatment’ for detained Ampatuans slammed

2010-01-03T11:55:22Z

"They have their mobile phones, catered meals and a helper who maintains the cleanliness of their cell everyday."

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/regions/view/20100103-245274/Special-treatment-for-detained-Ampatuans-slammed

NUJP to set up legal fund for media victims in massacre

2010-01-03T11:50:39Z

"The National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) is setting up a fund that will bankroll efforts to seek justice for victims of the November 23 massacre in Ampatuan, Maguindanao that killed at least 57 people, including 30 journalists and media workers."

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/regions/view/20100103-245286/NUJP-to-set-up-legal-fund-for-media-victims-in-massacre

Uganda's anti-homosexuality bill sparks hot debate

2010-01-03T11:05:58Z

"Death penalty for gay sex is included in proposed legislation."

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/africa/091223/uganda-anti-homosexuality-bill-debate

Politics in 2009: Arroyo Regime Brought Philippines Deeper Into Crisis

2010-01-03T10:46:19Z

"The Arroyo administration is, hopefully, about to end its term by the middle of next year. Lasting for nine years and a half, it is the longest-running presidency since the Marcos dictatorship. In fact, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is second only to Ferdinand E. Marcos who, for 20 years, held the reins of power the longest in the country’s history. But the similarities between the Marcos dictatorship and the Arroyo government do not end with them having the longest terms."

http://www.bulatlat.com/main/2009/12/31/politics-in-2009-arroyo-regime-brought-philippines-deeper-into-crisis/

A Decade in Cartoons

2010-01-03T10:16:01Z

http://www.theatlantic.com/slideshows/decadecartoons/

Are environmentalists an endangered species?

2009-12-31T09:35:39Z

"Way back during the first decade of this century, the Earth was roamed by a beast that will soon be extinct. Environmentalists, it seemed, were everywhere: at the supermarket, plucking at organic produce; at the stoplight, breaking in their hybrid cars; on your neighbor’s roof, putting up solar panels. Even oil companies got in on the action, smiling green from the pages of your magazine."

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/worldview/091229/-endangered-environmentalists

Metro Manila, green spaces, birds and our survival

2009-12-31T08:48:31Z

"Our research team of ornithologists, geographers, wildlife scientists and environmental scientists recently concluded the first phase of a three-year, metro-wide study on bird biodiversity, green spaces and people in the city."

http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=535287&publicationSubCategoryId=75

NEDA, UP formulate programs to assess, reduce climate change impact

2009-12-31T08:47:11Z

"Under an agreement, the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) and three University of the Philippines (UP) campuses will draw up projects that will provide sectoral climate change vulnerability and impact assessments, a climate change monitoring and evaluation system, and a collection of innovative climate change adaptation practices."

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/180173/neda-up-formulate-programs-to-assess-reduce-climate-change-impact

Christmas, the UP way

2009-12-31T08:45:16Z

"There’s something about Christmas in UP. Maybe it’s a scent that’s carried in the air, maybe it’s the cold December breeze; you walk in to the Diliman campus on the final school week of the year and you just know it. In fact, chances are, half the classes aren’t even meeting anymore. Why? Well, it’s Lantern Parade week."

http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/235728/christmas-up-way

When Lady Gaga Appears, So Do Her Many Influences

2009-12-31T08:30:12Z

"Whether clad in a dress of plastic spheres, a monstrous Dutch Boy wig with full S & M leathers; bodysuits and stilettos and a cage that caused her to resemble a walking armillary, Lady Gaga made better use of modern media than almost anybody except the current leader of the free world."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/fashion/27gaga.html?emc=tnt&tntemail1=y

Scientists aim for musical impact

2009-12-27T12:39:16Z

NexNote: Ano raw?

"The official choir of the European Organization for Nuclear Research (better known by its French acronym Cern) is to record a song dedicated to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8430362.stm