Argue posted:

I can't believe this isn't a scene from a movie where the main character is connecting strings on a corkboard and it's ridiculous that people think this qualifies as evidence or even slightly damning



also lol "matrix" perhaps he meant an adjacency matrix?

EX250 Type R posted:

I saw this in the news this morning and one line stood out to me:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/19/asia/philippines-uk-baron-moynihan-daughter-killed/index.html


I guess I should not find it surprising that someone from that kind of family gets different/better treatment but at the same time, with all the other news coming from there, it feels out of place (to me.)

Argue posted:

Here's Duterte's "apology, which I'll translate. Enjoy!


Yep, so he has managed to somehow create a quantum state where he both denies the Hitler analogy and doubles down on it.

quote:

Duterte Voices: “An Open Letter to Duterte’s First-World Critics”

A few days ago, one of our youngest police officers at age 23 was shot dead while trying to serve a warrant of arrest.

He wasn’t just a police officer.

He was also a Christian youth minister. He was shot to death by the drug peddler before he could even speak. He was laid to his final resting place last Sunday, leaving a wife and family. We have lost many good men in this fight.

The context of drug addiction in a first-world country is a far cry from a country like ours. Most substance dependents in a first-world country become depressed. Most substance dependents in our country become destructive criminals — raping even infants, killing even their own kins in ways you would not think a human being is capable of, shooting and stabbing passersby in broad day light.

Allow us to remind you too that we have 700,000 plus alive drug related surrenders and arrests. Let me reiterate: they are all alive.

Why?

They didn’t try to kill the arresting officer.

As to these card boards, if you so easily bought the idea that our police force who studied eight years to be in the service are extremely stupid to kill people and implicate themselves by putting a tag on their victims, you are way too gullible. These are the drug cartels cleaning up their own ranks of possible squealers. And the police force are after them, too. As for corrupt policemen, many of them including high ranking generals have been relieved from service and are now under trial.

While your intention and concern is appreciated, all you are truly doing is supporting the corrupt career politicians here who are working to oust the only Filipino President who goes against the tide of this corrupt and drug-coddling system.

Watch the movie Sully, it shows you that people who claim to be experts on something but don’t really go to ground operations have a tendency to get it wrong when trying to interpret the reality of these human encounters.

Plus our culture in speaking is different from each other. If you measure everything you hear by your own culture, you’d be like measuring heat using a ruler.

Thank you for your concern. But we understand our own problem better than most of you onlookers do.

Salamat po.


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.

He is currently the president of Team Ruther (Ruther Urquia Ent. Center), Advisory Council of The Magicians Foundation Inc.-Int’l Brotherhood of Magicians Ring 322 and Papetirs Club Int’l Philippines.

He is also an Associate Minister in Faithlife Center Christian Church in Muntinlupa. He is best remembered as the Puppet Master from Pilipinas Got Talent Season 1.

Follow ‘Duterte Voices’ on Facebook.

quote:

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?”

Justice Secretary Vitaliano Aguirre II has threatened that he will show a purported sex video involving the beleaguered senator at the next House committee inquiry into her alleged connection to drug lords when she was the justice secretary.

The Inquirer sought people to watch the video sent by the Filipino-American and asked their comments and opinions.

The video, which runs for one minute and 54 seconds, shows a woman whose slight facial resemblance to De Lima is highlighted by her wearing eyeglasses while having sexual intercourse with a man with dark features that almost look like he’s black.

A dog makes its presence felt by walking away from the scene near the video’s end.

The curious thing is that the woman keeps looking at the camera all throughout—as if trying to make sure her face is seen by viewers.

Ironically, the people behind the making of the video intentionally blurred the woman’s face, making it virtually impossible to distinguish her identity.

“It’s blurred. You can’t see the face. Although she has a similar build, and I saw still photos in an online post showing the face of the woman, no doubt this is younger than De Lima. Only those with poor eyesight or dirty minds will say this is Leila. This video is fake,” a businessman said.

“My God, how fake. The woman doesn’t look like De Lima. And I doubt if the guy is (Ronnie) Dayan [De Lima’s alleged ex-boyfriend]. And the one who edited this video put a watermark of its supposed original site just when the woman turned her face to the camera,” a musician pointed out.

“Photoshopped or not, it can be someone else. There are lots of porn sites that feature people who look like other people. I even saw one who resembled Hillary Clinton,” explained a photographer.

“Undistinguishable. The woman was even made to wear glasses to make her look like De Lima,” said a businesswoman.



‘Hocus-pocus’

“It’s a big hoax … Hocus-pocus involved,” a theater lighting engineer noted.

“I really can’t say it’s her, even if she kept on looking at the camera. I think it’s staged,” said a club DJ.

“Is that it? Gosh, the extent of what people do … This is the worst kind of fakery,” another musician said.

“Anybody who watches it will say it’s fake!” exclaimed a housewife.

“It’s crazy. This is mudslinging at its lowest,” a female journalist declared.

What truly makes the whole exercise dubious is that the video is splattered with the watermark title, “Senator Leila de Lima Scandal Pak Ganern,” with the video’s website source pasted at the center.

As it turned out, the video’s source is a porn site.

Argue posted:

chird posted:

I'm confused why pinoys aren't out on the streets baying for his blood. He even secretly took Bongbong and Imes Marcos with him to China and said in a speech he hoped/expected Marcos to become his vice president.

Baron Corbyn posted:

Does the Philippines never get Chinese tourists or...?

CronoGamer posted:

Some incisive Taiwanese commentary on Duterte

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0_DLnyM3s0