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ASEAN neighbors watching PH closely

ASEAN Neighbors Watch Philippine Turmoil with Concern, Caution… and maybe a little Schadenfreude

Embarrassing political chaos, Duterte’s imprisonment, elite squabbles, and an economic slowdown are causing concern and skepticism after Manila assumed ASEAN chairmanship in January of this year. Malaysian and Indonesian figures are criticizing the Philippine legal system for appearing either unwilling or unable to arrest and prosecute erring fat cats domestically,

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Bato, Oh Bato….

Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa dramatically returned to the Philippine Senate after six months in hiding to evade ICC arrest in a chaotic hallway chase, later crying in front of reporters and comically singing his old college hymn. As he burst upon the scene, he and other Duterte allies voted

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Rice Is Soma In The Philippines

In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, Soma is the ultimate tool of social control. A government-issued drug that delivers instant euphoria, erases unhappiness, and prevents citizens from questioning their engineered reality, Soma is the lynchpin of future society. Citizens pop it like candy – “a gramme is better than a

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What’s Wrong With the Philippines?

After “pacifying” the islands (except the hinterlands of Muslim Mindanao), America set out to refashion the Filipino. In this there was method as well as design. American teachers came first, followed by American missionaries, then by American public officials. So successful were they that the Filipinos were soon thinking, acting

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What’s Wrong With the Philippines?

A diplomat, after a seven-year tour of duty in the Philippines, once christened the islands an “enchanting archipelago.” Whether he was merely being polite, or had succumbed to government pitchmen, or had himself become enchanted by the lush tropical beauty of the islands, he should also have seen a country

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The exploitation fo the Philippines

Pig Butchering for China in The Philippines

Contrary to assertions of brotherly love made by the Philippine Council for the Promotion of Peaceful Reunification of China (PCPPRC) toward citizens of the Orient Pearl Archipelago, it seems that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been making great strides in fraudulently extracting huge sums of money on the backs

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