2008 November | Mindanao Writers' Blogs - Part 5
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a power game

Senator Miriam Defensor-Santiago lost her bid for a seat on the International Court of Justice and blamed what she called a 'power game' among rich and powerful nations.In a statement, Santiago took a swipe at the United Nations for advancing the interests of powerful nations in the ...

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Perpetual motion

DARN!" my braincells shouted as I checked on Sunday's newspaper last week and read my Spider's Web "Musings on power"...Background. I have this habit of tapping in disjointed thoughts in the computer in between writing an article, just to write them down before these thoughts disappear. In the middle of writing a ...

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The “Bukidnon Our Home” place blog

Since last month, I started publishing the Bukidnon Our Home blog (formerly Bukidnon My Home). So far I am enjoying it and slowly it has gained traffic. I was contemplating whether I should continue a strain of posts that offered only the good news. The reason of doubt is I feel that Bukidnon people from ...

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I joined RP2010 Election Watchblog

I just want to announce that I joined RP2010 The Election Watch Blog created recently by Davao blog icon Blogie Robillo. Here’s what I got from the new blog’s “About” page: The RP2010.com blog endeavors to be the poll watchdog for the Philippine Presidential Elections in the year 2010. As such, we, the bloggers ...

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separation anxiety

In five days the 2008 residency of the University of Iowa's International Writing Program will be over. The three-month program has been a most wonderful and productive experience. I can still recall that cold morning in June -a few days after my birthday- when I was awakened by a ...

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‘Humanity is really one’

Panel 1 of the ASEAN-Canada Dialogue on Interfaith Initiatives is going on here at the Majapahit Hotel in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia and Indonesia’s Prof. Dr. Ahmad Syafi’i’ Ma’arif has just finished delivering his paper on the panel theme: “Practices and Challenges on Building a Culture of Tolerance and Countering Violent Radical ...

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coffee chat

I have coffee with a friend at Java House in downtown Iowa City. We are reflecting on the bittersweet history that unfolded before our eyes a day earlier."Barack Obama, a black person, becomes the 44th president of the United States of America. It's unbelievable," Andrew declares. ...