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Part one discussed the way the Philippines went along with American pressure to pass a US style family planning program whose aim (denied by the president) is to limit population control. Reality check: every “discussion” of the bill by the Manila elites includes lamentations about the high population growth, and even a few politicians have […]
Neocolonialism anyone? The Philippines passed an RH bill, a “Reproductive Health Bill” that requires medical personnel to push birth control on their patients, and all the US newspapers are rejoicing. The bill had the opposition of the powerful Catholic church, but in a country where the average number of kids per woman has fell from […]
The Dec. 17, 2012 issue of Newsweek Magazine published a cover story titled “Who Was Jesus?” Instead of providing a balanced perspective on this topic, editors instead allowed the topic to be addressed by Bart Ehrman. Bart Ehrman’s claim to fame is essentially undermining every tenet of orthodox Christianity by casting doubt on the sources […]
The deepest schism in British politics at the moment is not between the governing Coalition and the official Opposition, the Labour Party, nor even between the occasionally warring Coalition partners (Conservatives and Liberal Democrats) themselves. It is within the Conservative Party itself where a large group of Members of Parliament, backed by much if not […]
We live in the rural Philippines, so the nearest IMax and 3 D movie theatres are a 2-3 hour drive to Manila. But for the past 5 years we have a theatre, and the Hobbit is playing. Not the super duper 3D fast film one, but the ordinary one. So the film has to stand […]
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