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I hope someone can find some solid evidence that conclusively links Duterte to one of these major crimes so he can be slung in jail and we can all get on with our lives. The inquiries broadcast on TV never seem to have any hard evidence and end up being he-said-she-said or discussions on competely irrelevant topics for political brownie points. However, I feel if Duterte just came out and said "yeah I ordered the killing of that dude but I had some proof he was a drug kingpin, honest, also he was having an affair" most of the populace would still blindly support him. ____ In other news, you might remember the Cebu port bidding fiasco, where the Cebu Port Authority (CPO) had a 9bn port ready to build but were blindsided by the Mayor and Duterte who surprise announced a Chinese company had got a contract instead for a private port owned by the Chinese company, costing 18bn. It was super fishy, with the Mayor acting really suspect. The CPO held their ground despite the pressure, and the 9bn port will go ahead. The head of the CPO, a retired coast guard, was however yesterday fired by Duterte personally, presumably as punishment for not towing the line.
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Our vice president has just resigned from her position as housing secretary in the president's cabinet. She did so after being instructed by the president to desist from attending future cabinet meetings.quote:MANILA -- (UPDATED) Vice President Leni Robredo will tender her resignation as Housing Secretary from the Cabinet of President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday.
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chird posted:In other news, you might remember the Cebu port bidding fiasco, where the Cebu Port Authority (CPO) had a 9bn port ready to build but were blindsided by the Mayor and Duterte who surprise announced a Chinese company had got a contract instead for a private port owned by the Chinese company, costing 18bn. It was super fishy, with the Mayor acting really suspect. e: also good odds on that guy being extrajudicially killed for the usual cover reason Anime Schoolgirl fucked around with this message at 11:44 on Dec 4, 2016 |
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So one thing I want to know is what happens to the Philippines and Duterte once China's economy implodes?
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# ? Dec 4, 2016 23:17 |
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I've got a dumb Duterte loving relative constantly posting Duterte memes but I don't know enough about Filipino history to get what this is about or recognize the other people in the picture. Wait I know one of them is Ferdinand Marcos...what does he or Duterte have to do with those specific priests? What is this all about? Isn't one of the dudes a screencap from a movie or something? It looks like it https://www.facebook.com/PresidentDuterteSupportersWorldwide/photos/a.655994071235887.1073741828.655634921271802/685747078260586/
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Punkin Spunkin posted:I've got a dumb Duterte loving relative constantly posting Duterte memes but I don't know enough about Filipino history to get what this is about or recognize the other people in the picture. Wait I know one of them is Ferdinand Marcos...what does he or Duterte have to do with those specific priests? What is this all about? Isn't one of the dudes a screencap from a movie or something? It looks like it The top pair looks like Jose Rizal and a movie depiction of some priest
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# ? Dec 5, 2016 00:05 |
Clearly this means Duterte needs to form his own church.
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Punkin Spunkin posted:I've got a dumb Duterte loving relative constantly posting Duterte memes but I don't know enough about Filipino history to get what this is about or recognize the other people in the picture. Wait I know one of them is Ferdinand Marcos...what does he or Duterte have to do with those specific priests? What is this all about? Isn't one of the dudes a screencap from a movie or something? It looks like it Top-left is Jose Rizal. Top-right is a lazy caricature of a old-timey priest. It's saying that Jose Rizal was killed by the Spanish colonial establishment, which is inextricably intertwined with the Catholic Church. Middle-left is Ferdinand Marcos. Middle-right is Jaime Cardinal Sin, Archbishop of Manila from 1974 to 2003. It's saying that the Catholic Church was responsible for Marcos's ouster, given that he was an outspoken critic of the Marcos regime and that he organized popular resistance that would eventually lead to the EDSA Revolution. Bottom-left is, of course, Duterte. Bottom-right is Socrates Villegas, Archbishop of Lingayen-Dagupan and President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines. Villegas, through the CBCP, has been a critic of the administration's human rights record. More recently, he has also criticized the move to bury Ferdinand Marcos Sr. in the National Heroes' Cemetery. The image is basically saying: Rizal was a great man (this is widely-accepted history), Marcos was a great man (this is revisionist bullshit), and by comparison Duterte is also a great man (this is propaganda). The first two of them were brought down by the Catholic Church working against their interests, and we should reject the statements of the CBCP and the Catholic Church lest we also see a third great man fall to Catholicism's dastardly undermining. In some contexts, it's a bit clever because the modern Catholic Church's rejection of progressive measures on reproductive health, and their image as a money-grubbing, out-of-touch organization with lots of olds, combined with their history of being enablers of Spanish oppression, means that you couldn't easily say that the Church has universal approval among Filipinos, either.
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# ? Dec 5, 2016 03:09 |
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Here's a nice, long article on Crony Capitalism: The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism reports that 89.28% of Rodrigo Duterte's campaign funding came from just 13 people. Half a dozen of these folks are now cabinet appointees, and the rest are directly profiting from their companies benefiting from the administration's policies or contract awards.
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why are there so many large shopping Malls in the Philippines?
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People love their free air conditioning.
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# ? Dec 5, 2016 08:47 |
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Seriously, it's November and still hot as gently caress outside.
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Malls are: 1) clean 2) cooled 3) safe I always end up staying wayyyy more time in malls in Asia than when I'm in a European city based on this. Also you can get tasty spiked fruit milkshakes in the Ph malls, so no need to go anywhere else.
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halokiller posted:People love their free air conditioning. No wonder filling people full of holes is so popular in the Philippines.
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# ? Dec 5, 2016 09:32 |
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I thought American malls would look like these futuristic sci fi malls with screens everywhere and people demonstrating incredible new products all over the place, but I was shocked when I went to America and realized the malls were actually pathetic. I was like, "this is the 'Great Mall'? What the hell, I can think of some garbage Philippine malls better than this."Homeless Friend posted:No wonder filling people full of holes is so popular in the Philippines.
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I'd bet cash money the overwhelming majority of Americans have no idea where the Great Mall is located. Giving a poo poo about something like that would be inexplicable.
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What kind of cheap rear end "National Mall" do you yankees think you're fooling anyway. No air-conditioning at all.
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Argue posted:I thought American malls would look like these futuristic sci fi malls with screens everywhere and people demonstrating incredible new products all over the place, but I was shocked when I went to America and realized the malls were actually pathetic. I was like, "this is the 'Great Mall'? What the hell, I can think of some garbage Philippine malls better than this." Easily the most impressive malls I've been in have all been in Asia. I think mainly because they're newer, but also with the heat, the noise and the traffic there's big incentives to get people comfortable and indoors away from that.
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caps on caps on caps posted:why are there so many large shopping Malls in the Philippines? Probably for the same reason there are so many malls in America: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omVHP35La9c
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Draft Senate report on killings: Oplan TokHang unconstitutional Senator Richard Gordon also cites the 'very bad behavior' of his colleagues Leila de Lima and Antonio Trillanes IV during the hearings quote:MANILA, Philippines – Oplan TokHang violates people's constitutional rights.
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The House justice committee just approved the reimposition of death penalty, with a vote of 12-6-1.http://interaksyon.com/article/135027/house-justice-committee-approves-death-penalty-bill posted:“If the one in front of you is Satan, what can the courts do? Oh my God, bigyan mo naman ang gobyerno ng option na patayin na ‘yan (give the government the option of killing them),” he said. Duterte says that there is no way he'll allow the cops who killed Mayor Espinosa in prison go to jail. http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/12/07/16/police-in-espinosa-rubout-wont-go-to-prison-duterte posted:(I will not allow these guys to go to prison., even if the NBI says it was murder. After all, the NBI is under me, the Department of Justice.) Then there's this little beauty, which I get the feeling is illegal: A notice from the police to business establishment owners in a particular "barangay" (similar to a village or ward), telling them that all employees must go mandatory drug testing for renewal of business licenses. Failure to comply means inclusion on their drug watchlist. There have been similar reports in other barangays of families receiving notices of mandatory attendance at anti-drug briefings.
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New York Times: ‘They Are Slaughtering Us Like Animals’quote:YOU HEAR A MURDER SCENE before you see it: The desperate cries of a new widow. The piercing sirens of approaching police cars. The thud, thud, thud of the rain drumming on the pavement of a Manila alleyway — and on the back of Romeo Torres Fontanilla.
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Scaramouche posted:It's from the documentary called "Imelda" and the best part is the ending "see, it's a happy face!" Found it, and that wasn't the ending! She goes on to explain her portals to peace after that! It starts here and goes on until around 1:04:10 when Fr. Reuter finishes talking about how bored she made him. Everyone watch that segment I marked out to see how looney she is.
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# ? Dec 8, 2016 09:51 |
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Here's Duterte doing an impression of Donald Trump. Didn't believe it until he mentioned the Mexican border. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHX8dYprN90 I wonder if Donald Trump will call for the cancellation of Duterte too
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# ? Dec 9, 2016 13:18 |
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Gentlemen, rejoice! For we are first in line for Trump's fantastic array of conflicts of interest! http://europe.newsweek.com/donald-trump-foreign-business-deals-jeopardize-us-531140?rm=eu seriously though goddammit americans can't you get your poo poo together even when you're loving up in the global hegemony game you're still loving us third-worlders at the same time
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# ? Dec 13, 2016 17:46 |
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Duterte has admitted to personally executing drug suspects.
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# ? Dec 14, 2016 12:41 |
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Meanwhile, the Senate is also pretty much ready to give Duterte emergency powers so that he can "fix" our traffic crisis.
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# ? Dec 14, 2016 12:45 |
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I also liked in that particular speech how he admitted to abusing painkillers against his doctor's orders
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# ? Dec 15, 2016 06:11 |
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quote:"And I'd go around in Davao with a motorcycle, with a big bike around, and I would just patrol the streets, looking for trouble also. I was really looking for a confrontation so I could kill." I have never seen a head of state so openly encourage random violence in the streets what the gently caress am I reading. This is crazy. This is like a 13 year old's power fantasy after watching a bad action film. And they're going to give him a state of emergency over some traffic.
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reuters.com/article/idUSKBN1431GMquote:The Philippines has canceled a trip next year by the U.N. special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings to look into the rising death toll in its war on drugs, the country's foreign minister said on Wednesday. Hope someone leaks the terms.
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No need to leak them, Duterte announced them (of course). They had to accept his offer of a public debate. The person coming here would also have had to "take an oath on their statements", whatever that means. He also made some vague reference to the investigations being conducted "under Philippine jurisdiction". quote:In his invitation, Duterte specifically indicated that Callamard's public presentation of her investigation on the Philippiness should be made in the presence of the president. http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2016/11/08/1641738/un-special-rapporteur-mum-duterte-invitation http://www.rappler.com/nation/143711-duterte-un-expert-summary-executions-debate http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/09/26/16/duterte-sets-conditions-for-un-drug-killings-probe So basically, "yes detective, I will let you investigate my house for clues about the murders I'm suspected of... but you have to agree to let me debate you about whether or not the victims had it coming."
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Argue posted:No need to leak them, Duterte announced them (of course). The "under Philippine jurisdiction" thing might also mean that any physical evidence gathered might be put into the hands of the Philippines for "safekeeping" and other such things that would likely aid in undermining the investiagtion.
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http://edition.cnn.com/2016/12/15/world/philippines-duterte-killings/index.html i'd like to see how they spin it into "a 6 year old drug dealer"
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Argue posted:No need to leak them, Duterte announced them (of course). I would assume take an oath means they'll be threatened with imprisonment for lying about human rights abuses (it's all lies obviously).
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# ? Dec 16, 2016 03:50 |
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Duterte spokesman 6 hours ago: 'Don't be silly, of course the President didn't mean he literally killed people!' Duterte just now: 'Yup, I killed them. Three of them. I shot them with bullets. From my gun. They died. That's a thing that happened.' I'm trying to think of something intelligent to say about this, but nope, nothing suggests itself.
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Bye-bye, America! ... The Philippines does not need your money. China will provide so many!
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ComradeCosmobot posted:Bye-bye, America! ... The Philippines does not need your money. China will provide so many! He's been saying this for like half a year now
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Apraxin posted:Duterte spokesman 6 hours ago: 'Don't be silly, of course the President didn't mean he literally killed people!'
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# ? Dec 16, 2016 23:47 |
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Fojar38 posted:He's been saying this for like half a year now He also says he hopes to get along with Trump since they're "birds of a feather."
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I like how he was going around on his motorcycle murdering those evil drug users with extra fentanyl patches stuck to him.
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