QUESTION EVERYTHING Mong Palatino Bulatlat.com Last part of four series First part | 13 natural and man-made disasters of 2013 Second part | ‘We Should Legalize Everything’ and Other Shocking Sound Bites of 2013 Third part | ‘Wrecking Ball’ and other objects that made news in 2013 Despite the calamities that brought unprecedented devastation in…
Day: January 13, 2014
3 farmers shot at in Porac, Pampanga
At around 4 a.m., Jan. 12, father and son Noel and Reynold Tumali and Arman Pardino were on their way to the farm when they were shot at by suspected security guards and goons of Leonardo-Lachenal Holdings, Inc. (LHI), FL Property Management Corp. (FL PMC).
Activist couple nabbed
Joel Amonte, 56, and his wife, Gloria Pritargue Almonte, 52 , were forcibly taken from an apartment in Valenzuela City. By RONALYN V. OLEA Bulatlat.com MANILA – An ailing activist and his wife were arrested by state agents, at around 7 p.m. January 9. Joel Amonte, 56, and his wife, Gloria Pritargue Almonte, 52 ,…
Floods affect Caraga, Davao regions
Floods worsened in Davao region and Caraga region (Davao del Norte, Davao Oriental and Compostela Valley) since this weekend following days of continuous rains.
Yellow tape
By RAYMUND B. VILLANUEVA
Life in the electronic concentration camp: the many ways that you’re being tracked and controlled
[A security camera] doesn’t respond to complaint, threats, or insults. Instead, it just watches you in a forbidding manner. Today, the surveillance state is so deeply enmeshed in our data devices that we don’t even scream back because technology companies have convinced us that we need to be connected to them to be happy.