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    Maybe it's about time the media started reporting all the good he's done in his very short term as President

    I've heard nothing but good since I've been here, less corruption and bureaucracy. There again good news doesn't sell papers or make for good tv


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    Since you have been there simon,i understand that,but please remember pinas was and maybe still is in the top four countries where journalism is or was an extremely risky profession,i dont know how much of the negative aspect they would be allowed to report,remember the pope said pinas is a democracy with limited freedom of speech.



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    I'm not talking about journalism, but the word on the street. Actual people I talk to on a daily basis, although I admit this is only a very small demographic


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    Quote Originally Posted by Tawi2 View Post
    One guy wearing a mask said EXACTLY what i have said from the begining the biggest crims arent being touched,its small fry barrio guys,the biggest crims in the country are in the political arena and arent shot,its smoke and mirrors
    I live in both Marikina City and Cubao (Quezon City)
    There's no doubt in my mind (based on my experience living in QC) that the above statement is true.
    Let's be honest the ONLY way a drug user can get money to live is by selling drugs (pusher)
    Almost all users are pushers and are very very small fry. Living in poverty.
    Just users trying to get enough money to buy their next fix. They believe Shabu will give them extra strength to work longer hours and work harder to put food on the table and secure their next fix.
    I'm just an observer, but it seems that almost all the 'big fry' drig lords are receiving imdemnity for one reason or another.

    It's not right IMHO.

    I'm certainly not intent on running this country down, especially when I read what is going on in the USA and the involvement of specific US agencies in the supply of arms and support of so many organisations in genocide, mass murder and cyber-hacking.

    Rant over


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    Your right about greasing palms, when I was living in Angeles some years ago there were 2 x guys who came out at night from jail to party.....


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    Quote Originally Posted by fred View Post
    I think everyone that voted for him knew about the famous rumours of death squads in Davao long before voting for him..
    Where we live,drug crime has gone down big time..Only people selling drugs here are Police in buy bust operations.. No ride in tandem shootings since he was elected in our area.. Corruption is being addressed..Never actively seen that happen before.

    In regards possible impeachment instigated by corrupt Yellow Senators ..The reality.

    Justice minister Vitaliano Aguirre waved away Duterte’s comments as “hyperbole”.
    “He always exaggerates just to put his message across,” Aguirre said, adding that even if Duterte had killed, he did not necessarily break the law.
    “It could be done with a justifiable cause and justified circumstances as a public officer in order to arrest but if they resisted. He must have been forced,” he said.
    Any move to impeach Duterte is unlikely to succeed. Not only does he command huge domestic support for his bloody war on drugs, the firebrand nicknamed “the Punisher” also has allies in the lower and upper house of congress.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ing-confession
    Thanks for your valued support, Fred. Living in the Phils as you do ... you've summed up its current political climate much better than I ever could've done!

    ... 'fraid efforts to give you well~deserved rep have met with the message saying I needed to "spread it around" first.

    However, I'll try again whenever the opportunity arises.


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    Thanks Art....
    Good,bad or indifferent.. I just say what I see.


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    Now that the drug issue is getting under control, maybe it's time to tackle the biggest killer over here, pollution.

    The amount of jeepneys and trucks belching out black exhaust fumes is unbelievable, I think they're missing a trick here by not imposing fines or just taking the offending vehicles off the road.


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    And he should sort out the nepotism,that cronyism rubbish,and the corruption levels must be reaching critical mass and sort out those manila taxi's.



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    Quote Originally Posted by SimonH View Post
    Now that the drug issue is getting under control, maybe it's time to tackle the biggest killer over here, pollution.

    The amount of jeepneys and trucks belching out black exhaust fumes is unbelievable, I think they're missing a trick here by not imposing fines or just taking the offending vehicles off the road.
    That goes back to corruption Simon..Or kind of..
    3 years ago I went in for a smoke emissions test with the Mrs.. They stuck the probe up the pipe and left it there for about 3/4 minutes whilst the Mrs paid at the window..(I sat in the car at all times)
    They took the probe out,the Mrs got in and I asked her what the result was..She said it passed so we drove off..
    About a minute later I remembered that the end of the cars exhaust was hanging off and still swinging around after I backed into a high curb 2 weeks before and just held on by a piece of wire that my BIL had fixed it with temporarily..
    My point is that not one bit of smoke reached that damned probe and I passed.
    500.00 smoke test fee well spent.
    When they say its more fun in the R.P they aint ....... joking!!


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    Hahaha... got to laugh though Fred.


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    Quote Originally Posted by SimonH View Post
    Now that the drug issue is getting under control, maybe it's time to tackle the biggest killer over here, pollution.

    The amount of jeepneys and trucks belching out black exhaust fumes is unbelievable, I think they're missing a trick here by not imposing fines or just taking the offending vehicles off the road.
    Agree, dont know how they get away with it. We only have a scooter to potter around the barangay, but we have to have an emission test every year when we tax the scooter. The test computer takes a date stamped photo of the engineer doing the test.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Tawi2 View Post
    Its ok,its nearly christmas,peace and goodwill and suchlike i did read it as arthur didn't believe me,but i am in phone contact with davao several times a week with lola,she always gives me the gossip,and her brother was very high up in davao police,wveryone in davao knows the family for certain reasons,his son was one of dutertes bodyguards,maybe still is,lots of relatives in law enforcement,i keep my finger on the pulse so to speak,it would have been easy enough to verify what i was saying with google rather than question in a condescending way.
    I just chatted to my sons uncle,he knows duterte very well personally,duterte and ping lacson used to visit him often when duterte was mayor,ping lacson once came to the house in his helicopter,i dont get my news from the "Largely biased media" arthur its a little more first hand than that,i have a long history with davao and built up a network of reliable contacts



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    Quote Originally Posted by Tawi2 View Post
    I just chatted to my sons uncle,he knows duterte very well personally,duterte and ping lacson used to visit him often when duterte was mayor,ping lacson once came to the house in his helicopter,i dont get my news from the "Largely biased media" arthur its a little more first hand than that,i have a long history with davao and built up a network of reliable contacts
    OK ... ... fair enough, I don't have 'Sky' and the like, seldom ever watch BBC 24 hours' news and receive the information I post on here about Duterte from my wife, who (as a Davoan) tunes into what's happening politically in the Pinas on a daily basis.


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    Tunes in?On largely biased media



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    Quote Originally Posted by Tawi2 View Post
    Tunes in?On largely biased media
    The local biased liberal,lefty media spout all kinds of ..... since their sponsors lost the popular vote..
    The world media pick up a lot of this crap and pass it on as fact... No idea what he said or didn't say because I wasn't there when he said it.. No idea if they obliterated the context of his speech or not??
    If they reported accurately (which I doubt) then they may have grounds for impeachment..
    They all know the process pretty well enough so GO FOR IT I say!!
    As usual..Lots of worthless spiel and bile from the left...No action.


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    He doesnt have a very high regard for Kano's
    NewsWorldAsia
    Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte says most Americans are idiots
    US citizen's 'should just shut up', flamboyant leader tells an audience

    Harriet Agerholm @HarrietAgerholm Friday 23 December 201612

    Philippines' independent rights watchdog says it will investigate Mr Rodrigo's claims of killing people reuters
    President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte has declared “for every five Americans, three are idiots".

    The flamboyant leader made the comments after receiving international condemnation for his claims that he enjoyed driving around killing people during his term as mayor of Davao City.

    “The problem with these white people,” Mr Duterte told an audience in mixed English and Tagalog on Thursday, “these American blockheads, is that for every five Americans, three out of five are idiots, and only two are in their right minds".


    “You Americans should just shut up,” he added, according to Philippine TV outlet ABS-CBN.

    The US has threatened to halt a major aid package to the country over concerns about extrajudicial killings in the leader’s war on drugs, which has left at least 6,000 dead.

    In response, the leader threatened to tear up an agreement that allowed US troops to visit the Philippines.

    On Thursday the Philippine independent rights watchdog said it will begin a probe into Mr Rodrigo's claims of personally killing people. It comes after the UN human rights chief called for an official investigation.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Tawi2 View Post
    US citizen's 'should just shut up', flamboyant leader tells an audience



    The flamboyant leader made the comments after receiving international condemnation for his claims that he enjoyed driving around killing people during his term as mayor of Davao City.
    Well, that's one word for it.


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    The problem with these white people i am surprised he didnt conclude the 2 out of 5 americans who arent idiots are 2 fil-ams



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    Er yes.... and then there are the (30 million ?) African Americans.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Arthur Little View Post
    Thanks for your valued support, Fred. Living in the Phils as you do ... you've summed up its current political climate much better than I ever could've done!

    ... 'fraid efforts to give you well~deserved rep have met with the message saying I needed to "spread it around" first.

    However, I'll try again whenever the opportunity arises.
    Fred, ... I've finally been able to give you the rep I'd promised!


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    Quote Originally Posted by Arthur Little View Post
    Fred, ... I've finally been able to give you the rep I'd promised!
    Thank you!!


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