Monday, June 30, 2003

Since I have added Bravenet Stats on this page, I understand better the difference between real bloggers' visits and monitoring robots tracking down fresh blogs.

In case you didn't know, Userland's Weblog.com monitors over a thousand fresh blogs and have them listed on their site. You see, if you're a blogger who is feeling bored and lost, why don't visit other interesting fresh blogs at Weblog.com?

Ah! So many things to discover, so little time..

Sunday, June 29, 2003

Blogs and Bloggers...

I have encountered today a very interesting ratings about blogging while browsing The Technorati's Top 100 ranks based on a linear relationship of the incoming links to a blog.

The Blogcount Estimate that there are about 2.4 to 2.9 million weblogs on the net. As of Jun 9, 2003, Blogger got 1.5 million registrations and about 705,000 are active. See the complete figures at blogcount!

Through Technorati's site, I discovered interesting works of other bloggers...

How Many Are Connected Online?

According to NUA Survey, "The art of estimating how many are online throughout the world is an inexact one at best. Surveys abound, using all sorts of measurement parameters."

How many are online worldwide as of September 2002, the number is 605.60 million. Source: NUA Survey

• Africa : 6.31 million
• Asia/Pacific : 187.24 million
• Europe : 190.91 million
• Middle East : 5.12 million
• Canada and USA : 182.67 million
• Latin America : 33.35 million

Saturday, June 28, 2003

In case you're too busy to think, just read it at alternet.org. Be the judge... your guess is as good as mine...

Meanwhile, on The Agonist Friday article (June 27, 2003), it says "U.S. military commanders have ordered a halt to local elections and self-rule in provincial cities and towns across Iraq, choosing instead to install their own handpicked mayors and administrators, many of whom are former Iraqi military leaders." Full Story.

Friday, June 27, 2003

The 21st century global citizen or worker

"The 21st century global citizen or worker will have to keep up with this evolution of current times. He must be a citizen of the world because companies and brands are global. He must, therefore, be a global consumer," said STI Education Services Group chairman Felipe Alfonso. "It's going to be one world, one market, one consumer, where boundaries, citizenships, ideologies, economies and businesses will blur. How we live, how we relate with each other, how we buy, how we sell and how we make things will change." Full Story on Developing a world-class workforce

6th Philippine Web Awards nominations on

To be eligible for nomination, websites must meet three requirements:

• They should be developed and owned primarily by Filipinos;
• They should not contain illegal or offensive material, for example, pornography, violence, plagiarized or "hate" content; and
• They must be accessible to the general public.

The Web Awards was conceived and organized by Media G8way Corp. (formerly WS Computer Publishing Corp.), the exclusive Philippine licensee of the US-based International Data Group (IDG) and publisher of Computerworld Phils., PC World Phils. and Enterprise.

The nomination period ends on July 15, at exactly 11:59 p.m. Full Details Here.

Mobile phone users in RP seen to hit 20M in December

MOBILE phone subscribers in the Philippines are expected to grow to 20 million by the year's end, up from 18 million currently. Smart Communications Inc., a unit of telecom giant Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co., is the leading mobile phone firm, accounting for over 10 million subscribers, followed by Globe Telecom with seven million. And the rest are accounted for by fringe mobile phone service providers. Source: Inq7.net

New airport scans could expose travelers

A scanner the government is testing for airport screening reveals too much more than meets the eye to be comfortable for most passengers. Full Story.

Publishing to BlogSpot

I was having difficulty synchorinizing my blog entries between BlogSpot and Geocities FTP since old users were moved to the new.blogger.com server. If you will check my BlogSpot Blog, it is no longer updated simply because I could not make a connection with the new server settings. It always redirected me to FTP even I already selected BlogSpot to publish my work. Anyway, I hope this bug will be fixed soon...

My background image on BlogSpot is not working with Netscape and Mozilla FireBird. Please check out my Geocities Blog for more updated news...

I found this while browsing and had thought it might interest you, for fun..

It says, "Tree types are based on the relation of certain trees to certain dates. Each tree has specific personality traits and people born on certain dates take on these traits. To be honest, we really have no clue about it, but it does have fascinating results!". Try it!

If you wish to know mine, here's the result:

Of cool beauty
cares for its looks and condition
good taste
tends to egoism
makes life as comfortable as possible
leads reasonable
disciplined life
looks for kindness
an emotional partner and acknowledgment
dreams of unusual lovers
is seldom happy with her feelings
mistrusts most people
is never sure of its decisions
very conscientious.

Thursday, June 26, 2003

I prefer to make things easier and have not blog lately, not only to relax my mind but, also to think very carefully whether to continue blogging or not.

Everyday is a new learning experience and I had been exposed to many new stunning bloggers' works everyday. Some were funny, some were very creative, some were informative and, some aired warnings. Blogging has its advantages and disadvantages but, definitely, as a blogger, I have been exposing not only my thoughts but also my day-to-day activities which someday might affect my family, my work, my relationship with friends and most of all, my happiness!

I encountered a blogger's site, Don't Blog, and here are some of the reasons not to blog if you wish not to expose your privacy to the world.

Somehow, blogging saved me from chatting too much while keeping friends informed about the latest happenings in my life without directly communicating with them. Imagined repeating the same story to many people everyday just to satisfy their interest of knowing how are things with me... But, of course, I am not trying to avoid chatting with close friends, but, I just want to have a peaceful time with the kids while doing my soul-searching. It's a normal thing that we seek some quiet time, apart from pressures or influence of people close to us.

I'd like to thank all my sincere friends for regularly visiting this site... I hope everything is running smoothly and well with you and may God bless us all!

Friday, June 20, 2003

Knowing how to avoid these e-mail scams will save you
from being victimized by these hackers.

Meanwhile, the co-founder of a free Filipino web-based PinoyMail e-mail service in 1998, Dominic Danao, has moved on to startup mobile phone operator Sun Cellular, dropping his job of running Pinoymail's day-to-day operations. Full story

TGIF, and today is a big day for me! Lord God, you know my prayers and wishes are, make them happen... today! Amen!

Thursday, June 19, 2003

One night there was a woman at the airport who had to wait for several hours before catching her next flight.

While she waited she bought a book and a pack of biscuits to spend the time. She looked for a place to sit and waited.

She was deep into her book, when suddenly she realized that there was a young man sitting next to her who was stretching his hand, with no concern whatsoever, and grabbing the pack of cookies lying between them. He started to eat them one by one. Not wanting to make a fuss about it, she decided to ignore him. The woman, slightly bothered, ate the cookies and watched the clock, while the young and shameless thief of biscuits was also finishing them.

The woman started to get really angry at this point and thought "If I wasn't such a good and educated person, I would have given this daring man a black eye by now."

Every time she ate a biscuit, he had one too. The dialogue between their eyes continued and when only one biscuit was left, she wondered what was he going to do. Softly and with a nervous smile, the young man grabbed the last biscuit and broke it in two. He offered one half to the woman while he ate the other half.

Briskly she took the biscuit and thought, "What an insolent man! How uneducated! He didn't even thank me!"

She had never met anybody so fresh and sighed relieved to hear her flight announced. She grabbed her bags and went towards the boarding gate refusing to look back to where that insolent thief was seated.

After boarding the plane and nicely seated, she looked for her book which was nearly finished by now. While looking into her bag she was totally surprised to find her pack of biscuits nearly intact. If my biscuits are here, she thought feeling terribly, "those others were his and he tried to share them with me."

Too late to apologize to the young man, she realized with pain, that it was she who had been insolent, uneducated and a thief, and not him.


How many times in our lives, had we known with certainty that something happened in a certain way, only to discover later that it wasn't true?

How many times has our lack of trust within us made us judge other people unfairly with our conceited ideas, often far away from reality.

That is why we have to think twice before we judge others.

Let's always give others the benefit of the doubt before we think badly of them.

Accept what you cannot change and change what you cannot accept...

Many thanks to Bilal B. for sending in this story.

Wednesday, June 18, 2003

I am currently editing this blogspot trying to make archives work both on geo blog and blogspot sites... will tell my news later on. cya!

Tuesday, June 17, 2003

I finally got my annotated BC this morning in spite of being ill. Twice I almost collapsed while in line claiming my BC in window 12 and while talking with Statistician when authenticating it.

I personally thanked Mr. Matabang once again for the big help and he taught me what to do next with my document. But, I cut the conversation short because I cannot talk longer, I was real dizzy and feel like collapsing.

I hurriedly went home and thanked God, I reached home safely, it's raining heavily outside and windy...

Meanwhile, tropical storm "Egay" (international name: Soudelor) whipped the Philippines

• a mother, her two young sons and a man drowned before dawn Sunday in Catbalogan town in the province of Samar;
• a total of 11,524 people, including 8,960 in the Bicol region and 2,564 in Eastern Visayas, were stranded due to the foul weather;
• a tornado destroyed some 20 houses in coastal village of Buenavista in Castilla town in the province of Sorsogon on Saturday;
• Classes in all levels in the provinces of Albay, Cagayan and Isabela were suspended Monday, the first day of classes for public elementary and high schools, because of heavy rains and strong winds;
• storm downs power lines

Angel of God
My guardian dear
To Whom His love
Commits me here
Ever this day
Be at my side
To light and guard
To rule and guide. Amen

I was bedridden since Saturday night suffering from influenza, diarrhea, low BP (due to PMS) and had no appetite to eat. I am calling all the nearest angels of God to please strengthen me and help me recover - I need to complete my documents prior to my interview on Friday.

Lord God, you're always there for me, please be with me...

Saturday, June 14, 2003

This weekend is a pretty busy one for all of us.

Have you noticed a very slow internet connection today? My cable has intermittent connection and same thing with my dsl, I wonder what's going on.

Blogging with blogspot and synchronizing my entry to my geo blog had not been easier - archives failed to load sometimes. I still have to learn something new each day.

Ah! Where is my mother to teach me all these things? I missed her terribly...

Friday, June 13, 2003

Paraskevidekatriaphobics - these are the people afflicted with a morbid, irrational fear of Friday the 13th! Throughout history we seem to have disliked the number thirteen (the Devil's Dozen), even more so when this date falls on a Friday and this 'unlucky' day has entered into popular myth and legend. However bear in mind that to the ancient Vikings Friday was one of the very best days of the week to get married as the Godess of Love and Fertility was believed to be most active on this particuliar day! Source: Astro Tip

On BBC News newsletter:

[TODAY] "The UN Security Council has granted US peacekeepers another year of immunity from prosecution by the International Criminal Court (ICC) by 12 votes to none."

[3 DAYS AGO] "In the aftermath of the Iraq war, you can almost hear the buck being passed between political leaders and their intelligence advisers.

There are two main issues.

1. The first is whether the British and US Governments exaggerated ("sexed up" in the words of one unnamed source) the basic intelligence on Iraq weapons in order to justify a war.
2. The second is whether the intelligence was wrong in itself.

Iraq weapons: Where does the buck stop?

Here in the Philippines, Filipino lands second place in World MS Office Olympics.. Inquirer says, "A THIRD-YEAR student of the De La Salle College of St. Benilde bagged the second place in the international finals of the Microsoft Office Olympics, according to officials of Microsoft Philippines. Efren Andrew Abueg, the country's representative in both the Microsoft Word 2002 and Microsoft Excel 2002 categories, won over 33 national champions from 17 countries."

Congratulations Efren Andrew Abueg!!!

On Infotech Mobility news, "Nokia is also expecting growth to come from the imaging market. The company has also entered the WCDMA market (a third generation mobile phone technology standard), shipping its first WCDMA phone and would be selling the Nokia 6650 GSM/WCDMA mobile phone to selected operators this June. It said that the company is on track to achieving its targeted 35 percent market share in WCDMA networks."

Meanwhile, the countdown begins prior to my interview next Friday. Since I will be away for two years, the kids and I are busy coordinating fixing things here at home, raising issues that need to deal with while I am away, who will be in charge of finances and bills, and so on. I know they are very excited to live on their own without me nagging them instructions on what to do on their everyday lives but, let me see if they can handle the household without me.

Happy Friday, the 13th to all!!! TGIF...

Thursday, June 12, 2003

Your utmost and sincere prayers are earnestly solicited at this point. 'Though Heaven has been granting most of my wishes, let God knows how much you care for me...

The Philippines is making history today, on the 105th anniversary of the proclamation of our independence, courtesy of Macapagal-Arroyo's father who changed the day from July 4 to June 12. [July 4th is America's Independence Day]

"No other nation on earth considers its independence or national day a 'movable feast'; and no other nation has turned the most solemn of national holidays into a celebration of the degradation of love of country." [Full Editorial: Contempt]

The Independence Day That Wasn't

"The Bell Trade Act prohibited the Philippines from manufacturing or selling any products that might "come into substantial competition" with U.S.-made goods and required that the Philippine constitution be revised to grant U.S. citizens and corporations equal access to Philippine minerals, forests and other natural resources. As Americans relax around their barbecues this Independence Day, we might consider how our own forefathers would have reacted had such a provision been demanded by Britain as part of the Treaty of Paris ending the Revolutionary War." Source

"The idea that American rule introduced freedom and democracy in these islands in fact insults not just the dead in Balangiga but the country's heroes, Jose Rizal, Andres Bonifacio, Apolinario Mabini, Makario Sakay et al. who fought tyranny, including the American Occupation, and bequeathed to us a true understanding of freedom and democracy. We did fight side by side with the Americans in Bataan and Corregidor, and succored those who hid from the Japanese, for which pains we had postwar rehabilitation funds tied down to parity rights." [excerpts from Editorial of Conrado de Quiros]

Wednesday, June 11, 2003

I am having difficulty lately configuring this blogspot page. I suggest you bookmark my geocities blog page in case this site is not working, you can still find my news. I removed squawkbox comment bcoz it slows down loading of my page. I hope I already fix the problem...

I found this site about Seksi Filipina Celebrities (SFC) - a directory of Filipina actresses and models for 2003 while browsing the web...

Monday, June 09, 2003

[The following message herebelow was posted by a fellow 500 netizen named Julie and I find this very informative, if not interesting though. I have posted it here to know what the future holds not only for me but, for the whole world and entire humanity as well. One thing is for sure, do not let anyone control our lives, no one, not even God wants us to be a dummy... it is our birth right to have freewill, and our future should not lie in the hands of any political leader of any nation...]

Articles of Impeachment of
President George W. Bush
and
Vice President Richard B. Cheney,
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, and
Attorney General John David Ashcroft

The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. - - ARTICLE II, SECTION 4 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard B. Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, and Attorney General John David Ashcroft have committed violations and subversions of the Constitution of the United States of America in an attempt to carry out with impunity crimes against peace and humanity and war crimes and deprivations of the civil rights of the people of the United States and other nations, by assuming powers of an imperial executive unaccountable to law and usurping powers of the Congress, the Judiciary and those reserved to the people of the United States, by the following acts:

1. Threatening Iraq with a first-strike war of aggression by overwhelming and indiscriminate force including specific threats to use nuclear weapons while engaged in a massive military build-up in surrounding nations and waters.
2. Authorizing, ordering and condoning direct attacks on civilians, civilian facilities and locations where civilian casualties are unavoidable.
3. Threatening the independence and sovereignty of Iraq by belligerently proclaiming anintention to change its government by force while preparing to assault Iraq in a war of aggression.
4. Authorizing, ordering and condoning assassinations, summary executions, kidnappings, secret and other illegal detentions of individuals, torture and physical and psychological coercion of prisoners to obtain false statements concerning acts and intentions of governments and individuals and violating within the United States, and by authorizing U.S. forces and agents elsewhere, the rights of individuals under the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Eighth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
5. Making, ordering and condoning false statements and propaganda about the conduct of foreign governments and individuals and acts by U.S. government personnel; manipulating the media and foreign governments with false information; concealing information vital to public discussion and informed judgment concerning acts, intentions and possession, or efforts to obtain weapons of mass destruction in order to falsely create a climate of fear and destroy opposition to U.S. wars of aggression and first strike attacks.
6. Violations and subversions of the Charter of the United Nations and international law, both a part of the "Supreme Law of the land" under Article VI, paragraph 2, of the Constitution, in an attempt to commit with impunity crimes against peace and humanity and war crimes in wars and threats of aggression against Afghanistan, Iraq and others and usurping powers of the United Nations and the peoples of its nations by bribery, coercion and other corrupt acts and by rejecting treaties, committing treaty violations, and frustrating compliance with treaties in order to destroy any means by which international law and institutions can prevent, affect, or adjudicate the exercise of U.S. military and economic power against the international community.
7. Acting to strip United States citizens of their constitutional and human rights, ordering indefinite detention of citizens, without access to counsel, without charge, and without opportunity to appear before a civil judicial officer to challenge the detention, based solely on the discretionary designation by the Executive of a citizen as an "enemy combatant."
8. Ordering indefinite detention of non-citizens in the United States and elsewhere, and without charge, at the discretionary designation of the Attorney General or the Secretary of Defense.
9. Ordering and authorizing the Attorney General to override judicial orders of release of detainees under INS jurisdiction, even where the judicial officer after full hearing determines a detainee is wrongfully held by the government.
10. Authorizing secret military tribunals and summary execution of persons who are not citizens who are designated solely at the discretion of the Executive who acts as indicting official, prosecutor and as the only avenue of appellate relief.
11. Refusing to provide public disclosure of the identities and locations of persons who have been arrested, detained and imprisoned by the U.S. government in the United States, including in response to Congressional inquiry.
12. Use of secret arrests of persons within the United States and elsewhere and denial of the right to public trials.
13. Authorizing the monitoring of confidential attorney-client privileged communications by the government, even in the absence of a court order and even where an incarcerated person has not been charged with a crime.
14. Ordering and authorizing the seizure of assets of persons in the United States, prior to hearing or trial, for lawful or innocent association with any entity that at the discretionary designation of the Executive has been deemed "terrorist."
15. Institutionalization of racial and religious profiling and authorization of domestic spying by federal law enforcement on persons based on their engagement in noncriminal religious and political activity.
16. Refusal to provide information and records necessary and appropriate for the constitutional right of legislative oversight of executive functions.
17. Rejecting treaties protective of peace and human rights and abrogation of the obligations of the United States under, and withdrawal from, international treaties and obligations without consent of the legislative branch, and including termination of the ABM treaty between the United States and Russia, and recission of the authorizing signature from the Treaty of Rome which served as the basis for the International Criminal Court.

Meanwhile, Human parasites in the Philippines are pressuring our Lady president, Macapagal, to run in 2004.

• WHY are so many people trying to substitute their minds with that of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo?
• Why are George W. Bush and Mahathir Mohamad meddling in our political affairs?
• Why are her advisers and hangers-on telling the press that this or that foreign head of state is urging her to run?

Read more of Neil H. Cruz's (Inquirer) opinion

My contract arrived today but unfortunately, I am unable to amend my passport yet.

I'd thought I am done with my BC but I was wrong: I received the duplicate copies of documents submitted for correction of clerical error on my BC (petition took me 2 months), they had annotated it and I got certificate of its Finality. I requested for a copy of my BC in security paper (SECPA) and will be released on the 17th of this month, processing is about 8 days. Then, once released, I still have to authenticate its copy for embassy purposes. I'd like to thank Dir. Ramon Matabang, the Registrar Director in Quezon City Hall, and also, Mr. Cariño who annotated my BC, and all the friendly staffs at the QC Registrar Office in assisting me with my petition - "..thank you and more power to all of you!!!"

On the other hand, sometimes I could not stop myself hating those people who made fraud documents. Living in this country of over 82 million population and full of fake and illegal documents, the foreign embassies demand legitimacy of these papers needed which consumed too much of applicant's money and time... ah!

If you have noticed delayed posting here, it's because I was unable to login lately to this site... Blogger's parent company, Pyra Labs, was purchased by Google and they are currently fixing remaining issues and will then begin the migration of blogs to the new version.

Sunday, June 08, 2003

I moved and FTPed most files of lady_laila home page to the new Yahoo! Pro Account. Many thanks to the generosity of Michael - nice birthday gift! I didn't make redirection because geocities will delete my entire site. It's good somehow to have a backup...

It's kind of late here now... Ah! so many things to do, got so little time!

I appreciate those friends who patiently visiting this blog to know my latest news... keep in touch and may God bless us all... :-)

Friday, June 06, 2003

And I am a little bit busy completing my other journal rushing things to get it done on the right time... time is running out.

I have a new domain name - http://lady-laila.biz/ today! as the registered domain name of my geocities personal home page.

I received a good news from the registrar office today, my petition for clerical error on my birth certificate has been approved and ready for release.

Monday. June 9th will be a busy day for me, I have to pick up my BC and need to amend my passport.

Wednesday, June 04, 2003

The Summer Solstice on the eve of June 22nd 2003

From Astro tip: "The Summer Solstice is the time when the Sun begins its tropical journey south, towards the equator. This is the shortest night of the year and occurs on the eve of the 22nd of June. This major calendrical event is the focus of religious and social festivities in all cultures; Christian society marks the event with St John the Baptist's Day. Astrologically, the Summer Solstice marks the entry of the Sun into the Cardinal Water Sign of Cancer."

Tuesday, June 03, 2003

Airborne Access has 18 wireless hotspots in Metro Manila, namely:
Seattle's Best branches in Eastwood
E. Rodriguez Sr. St.
Mobile 1 branches in Greenbelt 1 and Park Square
Restaurant 12 in Greenbelt 2
Melange on Bohol Ave
Netopia branches in Ayala Town Center
Greenbelt 1
SM Megamall
Netopia
University Mall (De La Salle University)
Robinson's Place Manila
Cathay Pacific Lounge
Club Manila Lounge
Hariraya Restaurant
PAGStop Lounge
Korean Airlines Lounge
and the BA/Qantas Lounge at the NAIA Terminal 1

The company would be setting up more hotspots in the Philippines in the next few weeks, as the company integrates its own network with ePLDT's WiFi hotspots.

The "Philippines has signed an agreement with the United States giving US citizens in the Philippines immunity from prosecution by the International Criminal Court (ICC). Foreign Secretary Blas Ople entered into the executive agreement in an exchange of notes with US Secretary of State Colin Powell..."

Inquirer says, "Washington refuses to support the ICC, arguing it could become a forum for politically motivated prosecutions of US citizens including civilian military contractors and former officials, and has been on a worldwide campaign to sign immunity deals since the court came into being last July."

"Others have suggested the agreement was a requirement for the Philippines to qualify for inclusion in the multi-billion-dollar US Millenium Fund to combat terrorism."

Hey, patriots, the USA never gives something for free... a security-related assistance in exchange of immunity, what a deal???

Click here for Full Story of Immunity Agreement

Being in a third-world country, we cannot avoid situations like this... and, it's really sad :-(

Monday, June 02, 2003

I have posted this message on 500 Citizens of the World Network when someone addressed me to reply to her question:

Should the United Nations be scrapped, let's look back what's the history of the United Nations:

• The name "United Nations", coined by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, was first used in the "Declaration by United Nations" of 1 January 1942, during the Second World War, when representatives of 26 nations pledged their Governments to continue fighting together against the Axis Powers.
• The forerunner of the United Nations was the League of Nations, an organization conceived in similar circumstances during the first World War, and established in 1919 under the Treaty of Versailles "to promote international cooperation and to achieve peace and security."
• In 1945, representatives of 50 countries met in San Francisco at the United Nations Conference on International Organization to draw up the United Nations Charter. Those delegates deliberated on the basis of proposals worked out by the representatives of China, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States at Dumbarton Oaks, United States in August-October 1944. The Charter was signed on 26 June 1945 by the representatives of the 50 countries. Poland, which was not represented at the Conference, signed it later and became one of the original 51 Member States.
• The League of Nations ceased its activities after failing to prevent the Second World War.
• The United Nations officially came into existence on 24 October 1945, when the Charter had been ratified by China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, the United States and by a majority of other signatories.

If you have time, please visit also these related sites:
- Milestones in United Nations History
- Major Achievements of the United Nations

I am not aware if you have encountered the United Nations Intellectual History Project (UNIHP) site, where it says:

"Ideas and concepts are a main driving force in human progress, and they are arguably the most important contribution of the United Nations. Yet, there is no adequate historical study of the origins and evolution of the history of ideas cultivated within the United Nations and of their impact on wider thinking and international action. The United Nations Intellectual History Project (UNIHP) is filling this gap by tracing the origin and analyzing the evolution of key ideas and concepts about international economic and social development born or nurtured under UN auspices. The motivations behind these ideas, as well as their relevance, influence, and impact are being assessed against the backdrop of the socio-economic situations of individual countries, the global economy, and major international developments."

"The second main activity of the project is conducting oral history interviews with key participants in the evolution of UN ideas; Oral histories are essential, both to inform the various publications of the project and to provide a key historical resource for future generations of scholars."

The International Advisory Council for the UN Intellectual History Project was established in July 1999 and is composed of eleven distinguished individuals from around the world who have a variety of practical and scholarly backgrounds. Those whose advice and leadership bestow enhanced credibility for the project are:

Galal Amin
Margaret Joan Anstee
Lourdes Arizpe 
Eveline Herfkens
Enrique Iglesias
András Inotai
Thandika Mkandawire
Gert Rosenthal
John G. Ruggie
Makoto Taniguchi
Ramesh Thakur

The creation of Global Policy Forum monitors policy making at the United Nations, promotes accountability of global decisions, educates and mobilizes for global citizen participation, and advocates on vital issues of international peace and justice.

If you believe it's time to renounce the United Nations, especially when President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair slammed shut the window of diplomacy on the United Nations on March 17 and went forth with a "coalition of the willing" to occupy Iraq, who is then behind the New World Re-Order ???

Sunday, June 01, 2003

Ah! First day of June... whatever this month has in store for me, I am definitely sure I have to make a major change in my life...

I have no doubts God will be there for me always. My heart will guide me through... I can feel it!