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Duterte Harry, Part 3:

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Thousands rally in Philippines, warn of Duterte 'dictatorship'
By Manuel Mogato, Roli Ng | Sept 21, 2017

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MANILA (Reuters) - Thousands of Filipinos rallied on Thursday to denounce Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte and warn of what they called an emerging dictatorship, in a major show of dissent against the controversial but hugely popular leader.

Politicians, indigenous people, priests, businessmen, and left-wing activists held marches and church masses accusing Duterte of authoritarianism and protesting at policies including a ferocious war on drugs that has killed thousands.

Signs saying “Stop The Killings” and “No To Martial Rule” reflected fears that Duterte would one day deliver on his threat to declare nationwide military rule like that imposed by late dictator Ferdinand Marcos.

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The rallies marked the 45th anniversary of the start of that era, remembered by many Filipinos as brutal and oppressive.

Effigies of Duterte were burned, including one which bore both his face and that of late Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.

A protester with a toy gun played dead on the ground in a reenactment of one of a spree of drug-related killings that activists say are executions staged by police. Police reject those allegations.

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Anti-Duterte Senator Risa Hontiveros said democracy was under threat by a “Dutertatorship” with a “policy of killing”.

Vice President Leni Robredo, who was not Duterte’s running mate, said Filipinos should recognize signs of “rising tyranny”.

“It’s sad that we seemed to have not learned our lessons,” Robredro said. “There’s a culture of violence around us.”

Marcos declared martial law in 1972 and held power for 14 years until his removal in a bloodless, army-backed “people’s power” uprising. He abolished democratic institutions and was accused of killing, torturing and “disappearing” thousands of opponents.

‘JUST GRIPING’

Duterte has expressed admiration for Marcos. His critics are alarmed by his autocratic rhetoric and a vicious disdain for his detractors.

But he won last year’s election by a big margin and has maintained one of the highest public approval ratings of a Philippines president.

Several thousand turned out on Thursday to show their support for Duterte at a rival rally that entertained crowds with live music, dancing and food.

“This is to tell the people that ‘here we are, we are the majority who are happy with the government and not those few who are just griping’,” said rally organizer Benny Antiporda, a former journalist.

Millions of Filipinos admire Duterte’s down-to-earth style, his decisiveness and even his imperfections.

His supporters at home and among the diaspora see him as a champion of ordinary people and the best hope for change that presidents from the political elite failed to bring.

The anti-Duterte demonstrators criticized his pro-China stance and the destruction in southern Marawi City by military air strikes targeting Islamist militants.

Others decried what they see as his cozy relationship with the still-powerful Marcos family.

“It seems that what we fought for in 1972, is again back. The total disrespect for human life, dignity, human rights. And that was how we started,” said Rene Saguisag, a former senator and human rights lawyer.

“In some ways, it may be worse.”

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-p...es-warn-of-duterte-dictatorship-idUSKCN1BW0YA
 
I was waiting for your update. Did everyone discuss Duterte's public remark that the police should kill his son (and he will protect those police) if his son is indeed guilty of drug trafficking?

I don't believe him. I think his son is probably safely squirreled away with his Chinese friends, and of course he has to say this. He also promised to resign if his kids got caught in any sort of illegal activity, but mum's the word on that.
 
I was waiting for your update. Did everyone discuss Duterte's public remark that the police should kill his son (and he will protect those police) if his son is indeed guilty of drug trafficking?

I don't believe him. I think his son is probably safely squirreled away with his Chinese friends, and of course he has to say this. He also promised to resign if his kids got caught in any sort of illegal activity, but mum's the word on that.


Only his Duterturd followers will believe those that have drank the cool aid.

Duterte will just say anything just check my post about him addmiting "inventing" bank account numbers to throw corruption allegations againts an opposition senator.
 
I was waiting for your update. Did everyone discuss Duterte's public remark that the police should kill his son (and he will protect those police) if his son is indeed guilty of drug trafficking?

I don't believe him. I think his son is probably safely squirreled away with his Chinese friends, and of course he has to say this. He also promised to resign if his kids got caught in any sort of illegal activity, but mum's the word on that.

Heh, people who believe that claim probably also believed his previous pledge to voluntarily step down after 3 months.

 
Philippine presidential guard shot dead

MANILA (Reuters) - A member of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s guard unit was shot dead on Tuesday, but the president was far away at the time of the incident and the head of his security team ruled out foul play.

Tuesday morning’s mysterious shooting in Malacanang Park, the Manila base of the Presidential Security Group (PSG), is being treated as an isolated incident and terrorism has been ruled out, PSG commander Lope Dagoy said.

The body of the 37-year-old PSG guard was discovered by his wife in his quarters at 0850 a.m. ET. He died from a single gunshot wound to the chest.

“We are ruling out foul play,” Dagoy told reporters. “Certainly no foul play.”

Duterte’s whereabouts had not been known for several hours prior to Dagoy’s remarks. The mercurial president was not seen in public on Monday and prior to that had been in his southern home city of Davao, for several days.

Asked during a regular briefing about Duterte’s whereabouts at the time of the shooting, his spokesman Ernesto Abella said: “We don’t have any information regarding that.”

Duterte is notoriously unpredictable and often causes confusion with sudden changes to his crowded public schedules, which typically start in the afternoon and can run as much as four hours late, often because of his long, unscripted speeches.

He usually spends his weekends in Davao City, sometimes starting as early as Thursday and not returning to Manila until Monday or later.

He was due to attend several public events in Manila on Tuesday evening.

Malacanang Park is close to Duterte’s Bahay ng Pagbabago residence, separated from his Malacanang palace by the Pasig river.

Dagoy said police were now investigating the shooting and the PSG did not want to speculate about the circumstances. He condoled with the guard’s family on behalf of the unit.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-p...rd-shot-dead-duterte-not-nearby-idUSKCN1C10BG
 
Cool. Mendiola. I went to 3 schools around that area. Classes suspended regularly due to these rallies.
 
“We are ruling out foul play,” Dagoy told reporters. “Certainly no foul play.”

Just your typical murder of a Presidential guard, in close proximity to the president...nothing to see here.

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New investments fell 90%! After repeatedly bad mouthing America and Americans, Duterte sends economic team to America to plead for investments.


This figure loomed large as the Duterte administration prepared to send off an economic team to attract US businessmen to the Philippines — new investments declined by 90.3 percent in the first half of 2017.



90% investment fall looms large for finance team


The gloomy picture, presented at a Senate budget hearing and cited by Senate Minority Leader Franklin Drilon, cast a long shadow over an announcement by the Department of Finance (DOF) about sending an economic team to the United States to present the administration’s “Build, Build, Build” infrastructure plan and a blueprint for tax reforms.

Drilon had expressed alarm at the figures presented at a hearing last week on the budget of the National Economic and Development Authority (Neda).

In a statement, Drilon said data from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas on the latest Foreign Direct Investment showed a “significant deceleration” in new investments.

The entry of new investments, not money reinvested in existing businesses, went down by 90.3 percent in the first six months of 2017 — $141 million — compared to the same period last year — $1.448 billion.


Read more: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/936520/90-investment-fall-looms-large-for-finance-team#ixzz4v0W7R3Nt
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Duterte is doing such a great Job that the Philippines is expected an increase in commodities next year as Fuel tax takes effect by 2018.


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Diesel tax, fuel levy hike to take effect in 2018


MANILA, Philippines - If passed by Congress, the tax on diesel and higher taxes on other oil products that members of the House committee on ways and means approved on Wednesday will take effect next year, Albay Rep. Joey Salceda said yesterday.

The Department of Finance (DOF) lauded the move, expressing hope that the chamber would be able to approve the bill by June.

The Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI), the country’s largest business organization, expressed support for the bill and expects it to be passed soon after hurdling the committee level.


http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2017/05/05/1696914/diesel-tax-fuel-levy-hike-take-effect-2018




 
Oh wow Duterte now has a Gestapo!
Why the Citizen National Guard should be taken seriously
http://verafiles.org/articles/why-citizen-national-guard-should-be-taken-seriously


Their Website is now up!

https://citizennationalguard.com



While purportedly out to protect President Duterte against possible coups and assassination attempts -- a counter-coup force -- it is also by definition a potential coup force. Its lack of distinction between constitutional and unconstitutional threats to the President makes it a private army in the contemplation of the 1987 Constitution.

That it calls on active military personnel to join their forces is an incitement to a potential "extra-constitutional military exercise." It induces the military and the police in active service to operate outside the chain of command, for private purposes.

It is clear that the CNG is designed to bear arms. Their pledge reads: "We, who have sworn to defend our country, as fighting men, once and forever more, pledge to continue to support and follow the lead of our President Rodrigo Roa Duterte, and will gladly offer, to our last breaths, our lives for our country and people, SO HELP US GOD."

The CNG is designed to organize and deploy Soldiers of Duterte, not Soldiers of the Republic. The CNG's subversive inclination is clear from its recruitment strategy: "We, now, call on all soldiers of the republic from the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Marine Corps, the Philippine National Police, the Philippine Coast Guard, the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology, the Bureau of Fire Protection, all Reservists, and all who are members of the militia, formal or informal, from all corners of the country, regardless of age, sex, and creed, to close ranks, and rally behind the flag of our country, and our duly elected leader and president, RODRIGO ROA DUTERTE!"

Reserve and retired military officers that are signatory of this manifesto are not simply exercising their freedom of expression. They deliberately misuse and sport their reserve and retired ranks in their declarations and subsequent actions.



Watch out CIA opperatives Citizen National guard is out to get you!
 
Puta. No hope in sight. Gg philippines. You deserved it. Sucks that I'd be singking with this bitchass country. Fuck you all philippians.
 
“We are ruling out foul play,” Dagoy told reporters. “Certainly no foul play.”

Just your typical murder of a Presidential guard, in close proximity to the president...nothing to see here.

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I mean if it's suicide I guess, but who shoots themselves in the chest? And if it's not suicide, isn't it foul play by definition?
 
Puta. No hope in sight. Gg philippines. You deserved it. Sucks that I'd be singking with this bitchass country. Fuck you all philippians.


Puta talaga pre... I hope the tax increase will not really drive the cost of goods that high.


It really sucks ass that the country now only have two choices the corrupt political dynasty of Dilawan Aquino or the Corrupt and even murderous govertment of the emmerging Duterte/ Marcos dictatorship.

It seems all the nasty politicians came out of the woodwork when D30 rise to power.
 
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