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Fojar38 posted:What was the most recent CIA backed coup out of curiosity Haiti in 2005 or thereabouts
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That was more of a State Dept thing I thought.
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# ? Oct 1, 2016 20:44 |
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The President's press team continue to triple-down on the Hitlerian remarks:quote:MANILA, Philippines – Malacañang on Saturday, October 1, sought to snuff out the outrage sparked by President Rodrigo Duterte's reference to Adolf Hitler in the context of the Philippine leader's war on drugs. I also want to bring up that "actually, Aquino was the first person to compare Duterte to Hitler" was a talking point that was written-about on the afternoon of the same day as this news story breaking, by a popular pro-Duterte Facebook blogger. I posted about it on the Crazy Forwards thread. This smacks me as being similar to the Trump campaign lifting their talking points from /pol/
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# ? Oct 2, 2016 03:56 |
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Another news story from this morning is with regards to "Operation Tokhang", which is our national police's on-going campaign to do door-to-door searches of houses for drugs, drug-users and drug paraphernalia. The police has been doing this since the President has assumed office, and have been able to do it pretty much at-will in slum areas and the provinces. Where it started to meet blowback is when the police wanted to move into middle- and upper-class suburban gated communities, where there are enough rich-rear end people with awareness of their rights and a desire for privacy that the police couldn't just barge into peoples's houses. For gated village, cops modify antidrug drive Ayala Alabang to let antidrug campaign in PNP takes anti-drug war to posh Muntinlupa village The latest development is that for the next phase of the campaign, the police are planning to issue "stickers" certifying certain houses as drug-free, if the homeowners undergo drug testing and allow the police to search their homes, which is an incredibly naked step towards "name-shaming" and ostracizing people into giving up their civil liberties if I ever saw one.
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# ? Oct 2, 2016 04:20 |
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TROIKA CURES GREEK posted:It's not the 50s anymore, get over it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Syria And thats just what those spergs over there are willing to put on the page
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# ? Oct 2, 2016 06:25 |
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Mr.Unique-Name posted:I'm really curious about the reproductive health bill. Okay I'm awake now; in case you couldn't be arsed to find it, here's all the stuff I posted about the reproductive health bill. It starts a few posts down and goes on for quite a while.
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# ? Oct 2, 2016 07:58 |
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Here's Duterte's "apology, which I'll translate. Enjoy!quote:I apologize profoundly and deeply to the Jewish [mumbling]. It was never my intention but the problem was I was criticized using Hitler comparing to me. But I was very emphatic [I said] I would kill 3 million addicts. It had nothing to do with the... but perchance, if there was something really... a bad taste in the mouth to say it. But this is only to the Jewish community. [Not these *censored* in the EU or these human rights people]. [mumbling] [I'll kick you]. [My statement was, well these people were saying, "this Duterte guy is a killer, he's Hitler." So I said fine, I'm Duterte, I'm a killer. The Jewish community all over the world reacted.] I would like to make it clear here and now that there was never an intention on my part to derogate the memory of the 6 million Jews murdered by the Germans. [The reference they keep using is that I'm Hitler, who killed so many. But the number of drug pushers, I'm saying to you, is 3 million. And that's all I wanted to say. Fine, then I'm Hitler, but I'll only kill these...] But anyhow, it's not really actually that I said something wrong, but rather that they do not want you to tinker with the memory. Yep, so he has managed to somehow create a quantum state where he both denies the Hitler analogy and doubles down on it.
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# ? Oct 2, 2016 11:27 |
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Well yes I want to kill 3 million people but they are all addicts. Initially when I first read this thread, I thought it was just drug dealers he was killing but apparently he means to kill basically everyone using drugs. What you just posted singles both of them out.
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# ? Oct 2, 2016 11:43 |
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blackguy32 posted:I thought it was just drug dealers he was killing but apparently he means to kill basically everyone using drugs. Only the ones they call 'illegal drugs'.
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# ? Oct 2, 2016 12:50 |
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Argue posted:Here's Duterte's "apology, which I'll translate. Enjoy! The only honest thing in that incoherent mess is" I'm a killer"
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# ? Oct 2, 2016 13:34 |
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"You tryin' to say I ain't harder than Hitler?!"
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# ? Oct 2, 2016 14:59 |
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That's an apology? I'm starting to feel like I'm going to need to unplug from social media for a while. With this whole Hitler thing, it's exhausting to try to keep up with news. CronoGamer posted:At this point I would not be shocked to see him abrogate the EDCA or the VFA, to be honest. When you're right, you're right http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/10/02/16/duterte-questions-edca-aquino-did-not-sign-it quote:MANILA - President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday said he will ask for a review of the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA), noting that the document does not bear the signature of former president Benigno Aquino III.
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# ? Oct 2, 2016 16:15 |
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Oh for gently caress's sake
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# ? Oct 2, 2016 17:56 |
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Argue posted:Okay I'm awake now; in case you couldn't be arsed to find it, here's all the stuff I posted about the reproductive health bill. It starts a few posts down and goes on for quite a while. Okay, thanks for that. I wasn't able to find the thread when I was looking for it last night. I didn't realize it hadn't had a post in almost a month. gradenko_2000 posted:When you're right, you're right So does he plan on just rescinding any claims that the Philippines has on the South China Sea to get China to act as a partner, or what? Because I don't see China saying "Yes, we'll step in and take the US's place," for pretty much no return. I'm not sure why he thinks Russia would make a good partner but eh.
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# ? Oct 2, 2016 23:28 |
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Mr.Unique-Name posted:Okay, thanks for that. I wasn't able to find the thread when I was looking for it last night. I didn't realize it hadn't had a post in almost a month. To me it seems like a pretty open offer to expand China's sphere of influence in the SCS for almost no work at all from China's side. I'd be cautiously optimistic about Duterte's US hatred if I was China.
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# ? Oct 3, 2016 09:15 |
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Curious to know, what is it actually like in the Philippines with all this going on? I'm flying in for a holiday tomorrow visiting Boracay, Manila and north Luzon, maybe Bohol and then Palawan - how cautious do I need to be here? Obviously i won't be having any political discussions with locals, but is there anything I should be aware of? It's hard to find decent up to date info on the situation. And one last question - is pseudo ephedrine something that can get me in trouble? I've got a sleeve of cold & flu tablets containing it...
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# ? Oct 3, 2016 13:13 |
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webmeister posted:Curious to know, what is it actually like in the Philippines with all this going on? I'm flying in for a holiday tomorrow visiting Boracay, Manila and north Luzon, maybe Bohol and then Palawan - how cautious do I need to be here? You should be fine as far as I know, just bring bug spray because sand flies suck. I sure hope you're going to El Nido because that place is seriously amazing.
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# ? Oct 3, 2016 13:33 |
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If you're a tourist going to all the usual tourist places, you should be fine. Scammers and petty thieves are still [things that can happen], but that's not anything that was specifically changed by the new administration.
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webmeister posted:Curious to know, what is it actually like in the Philippines with all this going on? I'm flying in for a holiday tomorrow visiting Boracay, Manila and north Luzon, maybe Bohol and then Palawan - how cautious do I need to be here? chami posted:You should be fine as far as I know, just bring bug spray because sand flies suck. I sure hope you're going to El Nido because that place is seriously amazing. Depending on where in Palawan you'll be going, the WHO also recommends taking anti-malarial prophylaxis like malarone because there's a risk of getting malaria, mostly in southern Palawan. Also, having been to both in the last year, I think Coron is better than El Nido nowadays. El Nido's starting to get the problem of Boracay where everything has become too touristy, with locals approaching you non stop trying to sell souvenirs, boat rides or other things. When island hopping from Coron, you can visit Malcapuya Island which, imo might be the best beach in the Philippines. Also, Coron has the Maquinit hot springs, which are one of the few salt water hot springs in the entire world.
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# ? Oct 3, 2016 17:21 |
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so apparently huffpo is publishing duterte propoganda machine stuff now http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/an-open-letter-to-dutertes-first-world-critics_us_57ef8575e4b07f20daa10ad7?timestamp=1475317724455 quote:Duterte Voices: “An Open Letter to Duterte’s First-World Critics”
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# ? Oct 3, 2016 18:01 |
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webmeister posted:Curious to know, what is it actually like in the Philippines with all this going on? I'm flying in for a holiday tomorrow visiting Boracay, Manila and north Luzon, maybe Bohol and then Palawan - how cautious do I need to be here? I talk daily to my GF in Cebu, and my friend has just been there for 3 weeks, and nothing negative to report at all since Dutertegeddon began.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:so apparently huffpo is publishing duterte propoganda machine stuff now They have been for a while, although I'm not sure why. There have been at least two or three other pro-Duterte articles on huffpo, most of them criticizing the people who criticize him.
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Hypothetically what if we just shot a cruise missile into the presidential palace one night and then pulled a Russia and deny all involvement whatsoever no matter what anyone says?
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# ? Oct 3, 2016 21:51 |
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The Saddest Rhino posted:so apparently huffpo is publishing duterte propoganda machine stuff now quote:Mr. Ruther M. Urquia was a contract artist of Star Magic ABS-CBN from 2010-2013 and a former president of The Magicians’ Foundation Inc.
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# ? Oct 3, 2016 22:33 |
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Thanks for the responses all, that makes me a lot better! We're sticking to tourist spots, and we've been travelling around SEA for months now so we're well used to the issues (bugs, scammers, touts etc).
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# ? Oct 4, 2016 00:32 |
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I spent a whole month in Palawan a few years after those missionaries got killed, hitchin on jeepneys further down the island when I got bored (started at PP). Just beautiful.
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The Saddest Rhino posted:so apparently huffpo is publishing duterte propoganda machine stuff now ihatepants posted:They have been for a while, although I'm not sure why. There have been at least two or three other pro-Duterte articles on huffpo, most of them criticizing the people who criticize him. And on that note, Rappler began a series on the social media landscape in 2016: Propaganda war: Weaponizing the internet quote:MANILA, Philippines – On Saturday, September 3, 2016, the day after the Davao bombing, at least one anonymous Facebook account began to share a March 26, 2016 Rappler story, "Man with bomb nabbed at Davao checkpoint." quote:Take another example: a post by Peter Tiu Lavina, Duterte's campaign spokesman, who attacked critics of the government's "war on drugs" with his statement about a 9-year-old girl who was raped and murdered. quote:A small group of 3 operators, a source tells Rappler, can earn as much as P5 million a month. quote:Social media came of age for politics during the election campaign for the May 2016 elections. quote:Social media was a crucial factor in electing this president. quote:The day after he won, Duterte called for healing and his campaign team supported and trended his message using the hashtag #HealingStartsNow. quote:On September 19, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines called on the government to investigate social media attacks against journalists Gretchen Malalad and Jamela Alindogan-Caudron. quote:These all impact public perception. Fallacious reasoning, leaps in logic, poisoning the well – these are only some of the propaganda techniques that have helped shift public opinion on key issues.
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# ? Oct 4, 2016 03:11 |
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Huffington Post and its lookalikes have hosted propaganda for lovely governments for a long time, including Russia and China, so it isn't surprising they'd do the same for Duterte.
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# ? Oct 4, 2016 03:14 |
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I feel like I could use a lecture on Philippine society, culture, media and so on.
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# ? Oct 4, 2016 04:04 |
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Grouchio posted:I feel like I could use a lecture on Philippine society, culture, media and so on. Philippine society, culture, and media are all cool and good and magnificant and amazing and if anyone says otherwise we will shoot them or get them literally banned from the country; is there anything else you wanted to know specifically?
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# ? Oct 4, 2016 05:24 |
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Argue posted:Philippine society, culture, and media are all cool and good and magnificant and amazing and if anyone says otherwise we will shoot them or get them literally banned from the country; is there anything else you wanted to know specifically?
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# ? Oct 4, 2016 05:42 |
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Countdown to every cop with a "red sports shirt" being found with a cardboard tag begins now. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/04/philippines-secret-death-squads-police-officer-teams-behind-killings quote:The team investigates the individuals to determine whether they are involved in drug dealing or other illegal activities, whether they are “God-fearing” or a “parasite”, and then acts accordingly.
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# ? Oct 4, 2016 06:07 |
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Time finally picked up on Teddy Locsin Jr.'s twitter account
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# ? Oct 4, 2016 06:10 |
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"Try concentration camps" - Unironic suggestion from an ambassador to the UN. What a time to be alive.
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# ? Oct 4, 2016 06:15 |
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also lol the sex video of de lima? is of a black man and a woman who looks nothing like her and obviously super fake but the duterte supporters are saying the media has photoshopped the video
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# ? Oct 4, 2016 07:04 |
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Did it leak?
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# ? Oct 4, 2016 07:08 |
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http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/820579/sex-video-fake-say-viewersquote:A Filipino-American woman residing in the United States has sent the Philippine Daily Inquirer a copy of a video showing a couple engaged in the sex act—and asked the question: “Is Sen. Leila de Lima the female in the video?”
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# ? Oct 4, 2016 07:31 |
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It's the same crap people pulled with Alicia Machado where they renamed any sex video that kinda sorta looks like the woman to have the name of their target, and let peoples's confirmation bias take them the rest of the way.
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# ? Oct 4, 2016 08:01 |
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The Saddest Rhino posted:so apparently huffpo is publishing duterte propoganda machine stuff now I have to think the Alliance is going to frown on this
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