Posted on December 7, 2008 by Ishmael Fischer Ahab
The Thais successfully ousted their prime minister by paralyzing the airports by going there en masse. The style used by the Thais is similar to the people power revolution staged by the Filipino to end the tyranny of Ferdinand Marcos. But instead of doing mass protests on the streets of Bangkok, the Thais went to [...]
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Posted on October 26, 2008 by Ishmael Fischer Ahab
It is a shame that in the Philippines, a country populated by more than a million poor people, government officials developed a penchant of spending taxpayer’s money in traveling in and out of the country.
In light of the scandal of the so-called PNP “euro general” Eliseo de la Paz, the travels made by government officials [...]
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