By Alex P. Vidal “To avoid a blackout, electricity generating companies must lower generation in line with low demand.”—Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia FOR the first time since after the May 13, 2019 elections, the Iloilo City council or the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP), will finally hog headlines when the inquiry on the frequent power blackouts
June 29, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.” —Baltasar Gracian THE book that makes some of us feel embarrassed about our animal selves rolled
June 27, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “The next time you experience a blackout, take some solace by looking at the sky. You will not recognize it.”—Nassim Nicholas Taleb MORE Electric and Power Corporation (MORE Power) might walk into an ambush site when they attend the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) committee investigation spearheaded by the Committee on
June 26, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “Of the various branches of electrical investigation, perhaps the most interesting and immediately the most promising is that dealing with alternating currents.”—Nikola Tesla AT this early, we already anticipate what might happen on June 30, 2020 when the Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) in Iloilo City opens up an investigation “in
June 25, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.” – Benjamin Franklin BEFORE my father’s death in 1976, he was able to bring me to a popular movie house on J.M. Basa St. in Iloilo City in the Philippines to watch “Diamonds Are Forever”,
June 24, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’”—Fred Rogers THERE have only been three issues that “interrupted” the daily news headline dominated by coronavirus these past four
June 23, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.” —Ulysses S. Grant SOME New York-based Filipinos think most of their kababayans in the Philippines will side with India in the event a full-scale conflict with China will escalate into a major war. “It could even spark a third world
June 22, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “Every time I hear a politician mention the word ‘stimulus,’ my mind flashes back to high school biology class, when I touched battery wires to a dead frog to make it twitch.”—Robert Kiyosaki BACK in 2008, we helped encourage some kababayans who have overstayed their temporary visitor’s visa and
June 20, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.” —Simone Weil BECAUSE of the Internet, we can monitor what is happening in the Philippines and in other parts of the globe on
June 19, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted.”—Franz Kafka WE have now become a Babel, or a story about a city in Shinar where the building of a tower is held in Genesis to have been halted by the confusion
June 18, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the gods.”—Socrates IF I were a newspaper or magazine publisher, I would take good care of Herbert L. Vego in whatever means and in whatever capacity and circumstance. With his
June 17, 2020
By Alex P. Vidal “No solution can ever be found by running in three different directions.”—Deepak Chopra SOME of them have already died, and some have retired “but they have never enjoyed the fruits of their labor and loyalty to the Intercontinental Broadcasting Corporation (IBC).” Also, their dreams of seeing the once-splendid IBC managed by
June 16, 2020