Matt Taibbi’s GRIFTOPIA, a book from the best selling author is about the political and economic life of America being hijacked by politicians. It is an interesting read. Is America about to join the third world countries across the globe in their over-borrowing spree? Welcome America! Here is part of the book: “Here is the big…
Planned Parenthood Inc., (PPI) in the U.S. A. gestated under the very concept outlined in the Reproductive Health Bill (RHB): to address maternal health, poor sexual education among Filipinos and uncontrolled childbirth. PPI is now the number one abortion provider in the U.S. RHB is a ‘Trojan’ horse that will morph into a full-pledge PPI once approved in…
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“The devil can cite the Scripture for his purpose.” (Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice). It was in the case of Navy Colonel Generoso Mariano, who wanted President Noynoy Aquino replaced through extra-constitutional process by quoting the near “scriptural bidding” of Rizal: “If we have had bad leaders today and in the past , it is not the…
This is an excerpt from Chapter 18, Building Ties with Thailand, the Philippines, and Brunei, of Lee Kuan Yew’s Book, “From Third World To First” which I copied from the blogsite of AntiPinoy.com. AP offers this as a bible for Filipino administrators/politicians which only highlights our favorable disposition towards viewpoints that are foreign when the…
“MASS” is a novel written in 1976 by F. Sionil Jose which won the 1980 ‘Ramon Magsasay’s Journalism, Literature and Creative Communicattion Arts’ Award. The title, contrary to what it connotes, is not about a religious Sunday ritual which one can easily disrupt to highlight his displeasure against the church. It is mass as in…
November 14, 2010 Westland MI.– Early Sunday morning after Manny Pacquiao pummeled the oversized Mexican slugger, Antonio Margarito, at Dallas Cowboy stadium to a pulp, I brought my wife to work, a ten minute drive from the house because she had a swollen right ankle caused by stepping on a piece of rock at a mall parking lot while…
The country was poor during the Spanish colonial years; during the Japanese war; immediately thereafter; and years after she has achieved independence from the Americans in 1946. The recorded population of the country in 1941 was 17 million and it did not balloon to a staggering 98 million until 2010. It is a myth to…
“If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people—including me—would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.” ( Hunter Thompson, 1937 – 2005 U.S. writer and journalist). The Anti-Pinoy is a blog site which is…
Filipino Voices, is in disarray if not dead. What used to be a collective voice of well-minded Filipinos embracing the new media and the digital space is now hobbled on a sickbed about to fold. Nick Cugtas owns the blog and for a couple of years or three, it has attracted a power-pack writers that…
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