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This article should make any Filipino's stomach churn. The recent bombings by the Abu Sayyaf is here connected with indirect CIA influence, the Oakwood mutiny which revealed corruption in AFP high places, the Balikatan exercises and the interests of the Bush government on Mindanao's natural... Sign in to see full entry.

1-4-3 means "I love you." But 1-4-3 can also mean "I hate you." "Love" and "hate" are both four letter words but with opposite meanings. Valentine's day, the day for "1-4-3" in the Philippines was also the day the Abu Sayyaf terrorists decided to explode three bombs in three different places,... Sign in to see full entry.

No to Value Added Tax Backgrounder: The 12% Increase in VAT Sign in to see full entry.

Following the brief victory in the ongoing battle for the transfer of the Marcos loot to the Philippine government, we now have people questioning how the latter has been using the wealth acquired. Link: Sun.Star Network Online - Government denies misuse of Marcos money. Government admitted Thursday... Sign in to see full entry.

I need a confirmation of this. Mexicans masterminded the poll cheating in Iraq? I thought they were Filipinos! Link: John Ross: Mexico and the Iraqi Elections. Mexico, where electoral fraud is a high art form, played a key role in crafting George Bush's bloody January 30th electoral farce in Iraq.... Sign in to see full entry.

Robert Tarongoy left the Philippines to work elsewhere so that he could give his family a better future. While at work, he was caught in the middle of a war. He was abducted and a ransom is being asked for his release. This is the catch, however: his abductors are holding him against the US -- a... Sign in to see full entry.

Origen, a third century Christian apologist did it for the same reason: to lower his libido. Now he can't be canonized. Some people still do it. In this day and age, truth can be stranger than fiction, littlemspicles. Link: Reno man castrates self; learned procedure on Internet. A 50-year-old Reno... Sign in to see full entry.

... but it is going to be short-lived. Our President is excited about the 6.+ Gross Domestic Product growth in 2004. Our current problems in labor is going to have an impact on those same figures by the end of 2005. The problem with OPA's in Japan (our Overseas Performing Artists, also known as "... Sign in to see full entry.

Yahoo News reports: WARSAW, Poland - A court Tuesday convicted the publisher of a satirical magazine of insulting Polish-born Pope John Paul II and fined him $6,500. Jerzy Urban, founder and publisher of the weekly magazine "NIE" — Polish for "no" — illegally insulted the pope when he printed an... Sign in to see full entry.

It is bigger and fattier than the Big Mac... and it just makes me drool! St. Louis-based Hardee’s Food Systems Inc. Monday rolled out its Monster Thickburger — two one-third-pound slabs of Angus beef, four strips of bacon, three slices of cheese and mayonnaise on a buttered sesame seed bun. The... Sign in to see full entry.