arasan

What other Nation has 400,000 metric tons of goldin its vaults? What other Nation has more energy
(clean hydrogen from deuterium [“heavy water”])
under its seas than could be available from all of the
hydrocarbons (including coal)
in all of the rest of the world?
Most of “history”, as we get to see it published,
has suffered some interpretation, stylizing, modernizing,
and even outright “revision”. What the reader is about
to find is a mode of history that has suffered no
change, even though preserving it has cost many lives
while those seeking to change (or hide) it have made
themselves rich and powerful.
The Philippines uses the “Torrens title system” for
registering titles to land. In this system, the Original
Certificate of Title (OCT No. T-01-4) applies to the
whole archipelago and Transfer Certificates of Title
(TCT) subtract a given, surveyed and described parcel
from the OCT. The record of such a transaction is
written as an “annotation” on the reverse of the DEED,
or an attached parchment. These annotations plus the
court orders, writs, and decisions tell a real history, even
if unromantic in spots. We hope you enjoy reading it as
much as we enjoyed getting it together.
—E.J. Ekker and Cenon C. Marcos