Piercing Pens

President Arroyo turned down calls for ceasefire in Sulu. Hmm, Erap, ikaw ba ‘yan?

In relation to that, i just found Moslemen M. Macarambon Jr.‘s post entitled Blow-by-Blow Account of the Events that Lead to the Ongoing War in Sulu. It was originally posted at Bangsamoro.com. It might help us better understand what’s going on in the south.

(September 23, 2006 update: Fil.ph is gone already.)

If you need free hosting, you might want to give Fil.ph a try. It is a new site offering free webhosting and subdomain. Its site says “.FIL.PH Project was created to provide Free presence for your online business, weblog, educational, personal websites and online community. ”

A small Fil.ph logo and a banner is displayed on the bottom of every page hosted at Fil.ph.

Nina Lasala, former national treasurer who was forced to resigned for her opposition to the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas’ Third Party Custodian regulations, has turned to blogging to give her side on the issue. You may read her blog at http://lowerphildebt.blogspot.com/

Meanwhile, below is a copy of a manifesto by Bureau of Tresury officials and employees. sent to me by Ardythe :

While it is a pleasure to communicate various issues with the general public, it is unfortunate that this manifesto is about dissatisfaction and dismay. Much to our desire to avoid taking the subject of this humble piece to the attention of everybody, we, officials and employees of the Bureau of the Treasury (BTr) could not help submitting this due to the urgency of the matter and its serious effect on the capital market in particular and the whole national economy in general. (more…)