QB's & Sangga

The musings and wonderings of my selves (QBs, Sangga, delunna, timi) about family, friends, media, passions, politics, cooking and all in between, above and below...

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Name: Timi Stoop-Alcala
Location: heart in the philippines, resident worlds within, Netherlands

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Thursday, June 29, 2006

Irrepressible Info

"Chat rooms monitored. Blogs deleted. Websites blocked. Search engines restricted. People imprisoned for simply posting and sharing information.

The Internet is a new frontier in the struggle for human rights. Governments – with the help of some of the biggest IT companies in the world – are cracking down on freedom of expression.
Amnesty International, with the support of The Observer, is launching a campaign to show that online or offline the human voice and human rights are impossible to repress. "


Check out more at:
http://irrepressible.info/

Oh, and in the Philippines you can get arrested if you join Flash Mobs against the president.

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Thursday, June 22, 2006

3 more weeks

Nope, no blogs about media and its implications and all that shit. Sangga is busy making sure the QB's stay their course and graduate in time this July. Sangga has to whip the QB's good to prevent them from daydreaming and believing they already finished all the requirements, when in fact, they haven't!

Now, let's give credit where credit is due. The QB's have endured staying inside the house, seated behind the monitor while outside, glorious sunshine blanketed the skies. They haven't played any games the past month -- not even minesweeper -- much less Oblivion. It pains them, but they know they have to focus on internship and graduation project (otherwise Sangga will be very disappointed in them, and they don't want that ever! They love Sangga! Sangga is their hero, their only friend!) Anyways, it's more out of respect for Oblivion that they're not playing it, because if you can't give 200% of yourself totally to Oblivion, it doesn't matter then. Then they wouldn't be worth it!

So, we will all be back after 3 weeks...3 more weeks of hell and we will be liberated from all these reports, and thesis and presentations. Soon...we will be free!!!

All (evil laughter): Mwahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!

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on a serious note: leftists are being killed in the philippines! almost weekly, i read about new victims. recently, the government allocated a billion pesos to wage an all-out war against the leftist rebels. but those being assasinated are legal left personalities. and what does government say about the killings? unavoidable, they say. mere casualties of war.
more about these next month...

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