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Sunday, July 13, 2008 |
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SPECIAL
REPORT: GAMBLING
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Bishops and church groups take “dirty-money”
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Philippines is gambling lords’ Eden
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The Philippines has become the gambling lords’
paradise. And the richest of these lords, albeit legal and
government-owned, the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (Pagcor),
is about to turn the most beautiful part of Metro Manila into the
Las Vegas of the Orient.
Most of the other gambling lords are operators
of illegal jueteng operations.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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What Catholic Church’s
doctrine on gambling says
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Unlike puritanical Protestant Christian sects that view games of
chance almost as something equal to embracing Satan, the Roman
Catholic Church’s doctrine on the subject is as tolerant as her
doctrine on everything in this world that only becomes evil when
used for evil ends.
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Comedy Central at Senate jueteng
hearings
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IN the Thirteenth Congress, the Senate decided
to conduct a full-blown inquiry into the prevalence of the illegal
numbers game jueteng. The senators were concerned that the
proliferation of jueteng had resulted in the increasing corruption
of policemen and local officials.
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Why jueteng can’t ever be killed
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Philippine society and government have been
involved in anti-gambling campaigns from as far back as can be
remembered. Advertorials have consistently been seen on television
and heard over the radio. Slogans were even devised against
gambling, and children parroted these in school and community
assemblies mandated during the Marcos years.
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US moralists losing war against
gambling
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WASHINGTON: The moral opposition to gambling
might be gasping its last breaths.
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