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Claims that the Philippines is a “war zone” all DISCREDITED. So what’s next?

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Claims that the Philippines is a “war zone” all DISCREDITED. So what’s next?

Despite a vast international fear mongering initiative mounted by Rappler CEO Maria Ressa to paint the Philippines as a blood-soaked “war zone”, very few are convinced that the Philippines is a bloody mess. Indeed, what actually came out of all that are revelations that Ressa lied about her claim that she knew a thing or…

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Crime, Media

Firing of Leni Robredo as “Drug Czar” is the final nail in the Liberal Party coffin

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Firing of Leni Robredo as “Drug Czar” is the final nail in the Liberal Party coffin

Things have been moving too fast in Philippine politics lately that it’s hard to keep up. I have been promising myself I would write about current Vice President Leonor “Leni” Robredo’s relentless attacks on the government – a government she is a part of, but before I had a chance to do it, President Rodrigo…

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Crime, Government, Politics

Leni Robredo should set the record straight on the Philippines’ “War on Drugs” death toll

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Leni Robredo should set the record straight on the Philippines’ “War on Drugs” death toll

Having taken the job of co-chair of the Inter-Agency Committee on Anti-Illegal Drugs (ICAD), “vice president” Leni Robredo has vowed to “get the facts straight” on the actual situation of the Philippine Government’s on-going “War on Drugs”. Considering that this initiative is being criticised for what many describe as its unnecessarily “bloody” nature, part of…

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Crime

Robredo should set “human rights” guy Phelim Kine straight re his “recommendation” to ARREST Duterte

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Robredo should set “human rights” guy Phelim Kine straight re his “recommendation” to ARREST Duterte

Following news that Philippine “vice president” Leni Robredo had been appointed to lead the government’s War on Drugs, a certain Phelim Kine, who, according to his Twitter bio, is “Director of Research and Investigation at Physicians for Human Rights” is calling for the “arrest” of President Rodrigo Duterte. Dear VP @lenirobredo – my bags are…

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Crime

Leni Robredo’s MOUTH is her worst enemy

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Leni Robredo’s MOUTH is her worst enemy

Leni Robredo got herself into another embarassing pickle again. Back on the 23rd October, Reuters published the report “Philippine vice president says time for Duterte to halt failed drug war”. Most political observers would agree that this headline pretty much sums up Robredo’s position on the matter. In a subsequent statement translated to English by…

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Government, Media

Why Filipinos don’t need the UN to save them from Duterte’s war on drugs

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Why Filipinos don’t need the UN to save them from Duterte’s war on drugs

What’s tricky about the war on drugs that Pres. Rody Duterte has delivered as promised to the Filipino people is that each death can be either due to the usual nanlaban narrative or some other totally unrelated reason ranging from political vendetta to love-triangle marital infidelity, or from silencing of critics to failure to settle…

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Crime, Society

Why foreigners grieve more for the victims of the Philippines’ “war on drugs” than Filipinos do

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Why foreigners grieve more for the victims of the Philippines’ “war on drugs” than Filipinos do

It sounds baffling at first. The most shrill “activists” of the Philippine Opposition gnash their teeth about it and the “rest of the world” — the cadre of journalists and “human rights” activists putting in their two-cents on the matter — lament these “killings”. But the numbers seem to say that Filipinos don’t give a…

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Crime

What happens NEXT after Filipinos #StopTheKillings?

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What happens NEXT after Filipinos #StopTheKillings?

By now, most Filipinos will have been familiar with the Philippine Opposition led by the Liberal Party (a.k.a. the Yellowtards) slogan “Stop the Killings”. However, what would be interesting to get to the bottom of is how much Filipinos really understand what it means to “stop the killings”. But to get to that understanding there…

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Crime