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the joke is on the American people. our government sits back and watches as oil companies continue to make increased profits even while citizens are paying more than ever per gallon. militarism, imperialism and oligarchies. mean anything to you? if it doesn’t see if you can push the grey haze of brainwashing aside and become [...]

Driven: Shai Agassi’s Audacious Plan to Put Electric Cars on the Road

A few years ago, my husband asked me what I wanted for my birthday and I told him I wanted an electric car, solar panels, battery-backup and a rain water reservoir!! As we live in suburb with a homeowners association, we can’t get [...]

As is my usual habit, being the filipina anti-cybertyping advocate that I am, I was surfing around doing research for SEO on the keyword of “filipina” on google and found this poll and discussion on Western Men & Filipina Spouses Age Difference posted by Michael Rose.
It was funny, enraging, outrageous, honest, fair, unfair, loving, hateful, jaded, smart and [...]

This is a tongue in cheek, satire of the MOB industry and the men who patronize them.
Liberal Guilt Justified: 6 Creepy Mail Order Bride Websites
By Anthony Layser
Layser begins by writing: 
“No matter how you feel about globalization or free trade, something seems a bit off about importing people. Maybe it’s the whole slavery thing or [...]

Synopsis:
CALL+RESPONSE is a first of its kind feature documentary film that reveals the world’s 27 million dirtiest secrets: there are more slaves today than ever before in human history. CALL+RESPONSE goes deep undercover where slavery is thriving from the child brothels of Cambodia to the slave brick kilns of rural India to reveal that in [...]

Are you Ashamed to be a Filipina? You’ve been disempowered then. So take back your power, already!

I am glad to know that there are many, many Filipinos who are proud of being who they are. There is a little thrill within me when I see this in the Mother Land (Inang Bayan) and abroad. Filipino [...]

At times “feminist” is manipulated to be a pejorative word. Don’t you believe it!

2002 Interview with Joy Valdez, Former Mayor of Bacolod (4/4)

 
Synopsis:
Even after Corazon Aquino became the Philippine’s first woman president in 1986, it was still over a dozen years before a woman would became Mayor of the capitol city of the province of Negros Occidental. Woman’s advocacy in the Philippines, fueled by the realization of the power women [...]

2002 Interview with Joy Valdez, Former Mayor of Bacolod (3 of 4)
 

As the Mayor becomes more relaxed in the interview she also becomes more animated.
MV: And this is very true in the dynamics in Barangays. Why? If you look at the work load, the work assignments, if its the sound system, its the men. If its the stage, [...]

2002 Interview with Joy Valdez, Former Mayor of Bacolod (2 of 4)
 

As Joy answers my questions with depth, she shows a combination of grace and energy. She even shares her humor.
MV: Yes, I think… Actually when you look at the way I evolve myself in my career it just came to me. I didn’t expect that I’ll [...]