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Terrific Shit (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
1981: Citing their socially destructive effects, Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos bans videogames in his country. Filipinos are given two weeks to hand over or destroy their game consoles. Marcos was no stranger to imposing draconian solutions. The Philippines lived under martial law throughout the 1970s, Marcos' way of dealing with the increasingly radical elements...
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Wired (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
1981: Citing their socially destructive effects, Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos bans videogames in his country. Filipinos are given two weeks to hand over or destroy their game consoles. Marcos was no stranger to imposing draconian solutions. The Philippines lived under martial law throughout the 1970s, Marcos' way of dealing with the increasingly radical elements...
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Daily Star (Free subscription) | 27/10/2008
Rocker DAVID BYRNE and DJ FATBOY SLIM are collaborating on a new album, inspired by flamboyant former Philippines first lady IMELDA MARCOS.
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Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 27/10/2008
Rocker DAVID BYRNE and DJ FATBOY SLIM are collaborating on a new album, inspired by flamboyant former Philippines first lady IMELDA MARCOS. Byrne reveals the LP will be ...
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 23/10/2008
ATHENS.- The Alexander S. Onassis foundation has returned a painting made by El Greco and once owned by Ferdinand Marcos to Greece. "The Crowning of the Virgin," an early 17th century draft for a larger work by El Greco was bought from an unidentified US art dealer in the summer, said Alexander S. Onassis foundation chairman Anthony Papadimitriou.
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Travelblog (Free subscription) | 24/11/2008
... 2001. Philippines once had the second largest economy in Asia after Japan, but since dictator Ferdinand Marcos came to power in mid 1960’s the economy only went worse and worse. Today it’s growing at a fast pace again and belongs to one of the NIC’s (Newly Industrialized Countries). Ninoy Aquino, a politician (opposition) was killed at the Manila Airport in 1983 when he was coming...
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The Greenpeace weblog (Free subscription) | 21/11/2008
Regular readers of Nuclear Reaction may be familiar with the Philippineâs Bataan nuclear reactor. Taking eight years to build between 1976 and 1984, and in a deal that gave $80 million in kickbacks to the then president Ferdinand Marcos, the...
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The Hot Joints (Free subscription) | 22/11/2008
The Times Online has an interesting article about the 10 most decadent dictators in the world. The list is a veritable who’s who of all encompassing tyranny and brutal oppression. Click through to the article to see who has a so-called “pleasure brigade.” Kim Jong-il — Leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) Ferdinand [...]
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 15/11/2008
... earlier of one of two fellow union officers. They opposed the regime of Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos, whom Baruso supported.Baruso, of Tacoma, was convicted in King County Superior Court of aggravated first-degree murder in the death of Gene Viernes. He was acquitted of a similar charge in the death of Silme Domingo.Viernes and Domingo were leaders in the Alaska Cannery...
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Snowflakes in Hell (Free subscription) | 08/11/2008
... to do with the time that is given us.” Wretchard is speaking from experience organizing against Ferdinand Marcos. We don’t have tinpot dictators to topple, just minds to change, and allies to make. What opportunities the Obama administration will give us we don’t know yet, but we should be prepared for strange bedfellows. As I’ve said before, I don’t need someone to have 100% buy...
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ChooseTheHero.com (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
... experience in civic participation in the Philippines came at little risk; after the overthrow of Ferdinand Marcos, political dissent was a fashionable thing there, considering that it didn’t require the kind of bravery one would ascribe to Aung San Suu Kyi (her politics aside and all). I am glad that ours is unlike Zimbabwe, where Mugabe’s opponents seek asylum from other countries....
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Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
... corner team, who recall the almost unbearable tension before and during the fight. Imelda Marcos, whose husband the dictator Ferdinand Marcos is thought to have paid $10 million for the Philippines - then under martial law - to host the fight recalls, almost flirtatiously, encountering Ali at a reception in the presidential palace.The Thrilla in Manila took place on 1 October...
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Mayor Sam's Sister City (Free subscription) | 31/10/2008
Imagine a country where when a citizen has the nerve to question it's leaders and the government investigages you. No, we're not talking the old Soviet Union, nor the right-wing dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos nor even Castro's Cuba. It happened in Ohio, United States of America. We... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 29/10/2008
... went on to a long lobbying career representing disgraced foreign dictators like the Philippines' Ferdinand Marcos and Mobuto Sese Seko of Zaire. Black currently serves as a senior advisor to John McCain's presidential campaign, and the results of his most recent handiwork have become evident as the McCain-Palin message has shamefully swerved hard into the gutter. McCain and Black...
