For four years, I saw dozens of people enslaved, several of whom traffickers like Benavil actually offered to sell to me. I did not pay for a human life anywhere. And, with one exception, I always withheld action to save any one person, in the hope that my research would later help to save many [...]
Though the financial crisis may mean less foreign tourist hope articles like this helps our tourism industry!
I’ve only eaten in one of the establishments mentioned but that list will be one less a month I think!
Trip Planner
If you plan to be moving about Manila most of the day, renting a car and driver is more [...]
sad to say this is quite revealing, (of how little I know)
from mark thoma here:
September 07, 2008
On Dividend Taxes…
Greg Mankiw says that if your goal is to keep dividend taxes low, you should vote for Obama:
On Dividend Taxes, It’s a Post-Partisan Race, by N, Gregory Mankiw, Economic View, NY Times: …Before 2003, [...]
Think that people should face up to the harsh realities that act as game changers. This is for Music Executives, Oil Company Heads, Newspaper Editors and the like. There are some things that
“You have to attack the future before it attacks you,” said James Hankla, one of the visiting port officials.
from here the Curious [...]
Reading this I felt I believe the same way the emperor Shih Huang Ti felt in Jet Li’s movie Hero.
from here:
Alone on the path
from Paulo Coelho’s Blog by Paulo Coelho
By Paulo Coelho
Life is like a great bicycle race, whose aim is to fulfill one’s Personal Legend - that which, according to the ancient alchemists, is [...]
Ginebra looses amid spirited play of Air21. Series is tied 1 all
Need to lighten things up:, the champions from the Philippines:
from here:
(emphasis is mine)
Puno also said the occupying forces had been involved in the burning of houses, destruction of plantations, looting, and cattle rustling, and had forced civilians to leave area. MILF attacks have also been recently reported in the towns of Pigkawayan and Northern Kabuntalan, he said.
More than 1,500 families or over 6,500 [...]
The MILF another secessionist group that would like to create an Islamic State are back to their old ways.
THIS IS WRONG!!!
FROM HERE:
Gov’t gives MILF 24 hours to move out of NCotabato areas
08/07/2008 | 10:51 AM
Memorandum of Agreement on the Ancestral Domain Aspect of the GRP-MILF Tripoli Agreement on Peace of 2001
(Updated 2:05 p.m.) MANILA, Philippines [...]
This post on the meeting of Curtis and Michael as part of Michael’s yearlong research with Sudhir
Our journey begins with Michael and Curtis sharing a weekend together in Chicago. Each year I spend several continuous days with squatters to understand how they live on the streets. In Chicago public housing, squatters survive because some housing [...]
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