Barbers said that the LRA and OSG committed to this action during Wednesday’s House Dangerous Drugs Committee hearing. The committee found that Ong and his associates, who failed to attend the hearing, were likely #ChineseNationals posing as #Filipinos. #Philippines
Well #Trillanes isn't really wrong. #Duterte and his gang of #drugwar criminals are perhaps the most dangerous #fifthcolumn the #Philippines has faced yet since #WW2. Worse than the Japanese #fifthcolumnists in #Davao (which funnily enough is the same territory the Duterte clan has firm control of, like a fiefdom). But instead of working for the Japanese invaders they're working for the #Chinese communists this time.
The main collaborators being officials within #PNP leadership isn't really surprising either, because Duterte pampered the #police so hard (for example promising not to hold them accountable for clear-cut abuses of power in the drug war) during his 6-year rule.
It seems like #Marcos' strengthening of the alliance with the #US has convinced the #AFP not to defect to the Dutertes though. The Philippine #military is rabidly pro-American and Duterte had a hard time trying to balance having a pro-#China policy and appeasing the soldiers. :seija_coffee:
Today in Labor History February 25, 1986: As a result of ongoing protests, Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos begged President Ronald Reagan for advice. Reagan told him to “cut and cut cleanly.” That evening, Marcos and his wife Imelda fled the nation aboard a U.S. air force plane, after 20 years of rule. He and his family, and an entourage of 90 people (mostly servants), arrived in Hawaii the next day. They brought 22 crates of cash valued at $717 million, 300 crates of jewelry of unknown value, $4 million worth of unset precious gems, $200,000 in gold bullion, $1 million in Philippine pesos and deposit slips for $124 million in banks in the Cayman Islands. Plus, countless crates of shoes. The Marcos’s hold the Guinness record for the largest ever theft from a government. Their son, Bong Bong Marcos, is the current president of the Philippines. His vice president is Sara Duterte, daughter of the Philippines last president, the violently repressive Rodrigo Duterte, who oversaw the assassinations of well over 1,000 street children and alleged drug dealers. Under Ferdinand Marcos, there were over 3,000 documented extrajudicial murders, 35,000 documented victims of torture and tens of thousands of people imprisoned.
"Former president has called for his home region, Mindanao, to split from the Philippines as his alliance with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr crumbles"
Two despots at one another's throats.
🇵🇭 After a months' long wait on my library's waitlist, I am finally able to listen to the audio book version of @patevangelista#SomePeopleNeedKilling about the #ExtrajudicialKillings under the #Duterte administration in the #Philippines. Though I was living and working in Manila during the first 3 years of Duterte's term and was reading about this in the media as it was happening, this telling of those #EJK in her memoir really brought back to me the flagrant, horrific cruelty. #TootSEA
#Marcos, if he was serious, should have explicitly vowed to give justice to #Duterte’s victims even at the start of his presidency in 2022. Right now, Lina and other widows feel like pawns in a chess game dominated by politicians who are trying to survive until the next elections. #Philippines
"Deliberately grounded on a tiny reef in the #SouthChinaSea, part of an island chain claimed by the two Asian countries, the #BRPSierraMadre is now the unlikely base for a detachment of Filipino marines who stand guard over the atoll, scanning the turquoise waters for Chinese ships." #AyunginShoal#SecondThomasShoal#Philippines
"#Locsin, who filed numerous diplomatic protests and sometimes tweeted expletives against #China, led the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) at a time when the Philippine leader, #Duterte, sought closer ties with Beijing. He was Duterte’s third and longest-serving foreign secretary, steering the DFA from October 17, 2018, until Duterte’s term ended on June 30, 2022." #Philippines#ForeignAffairs
#Duterte’s silence over the issue amid the #Marcos administration’s strong condemnation of a series of Chinese actions in the #WestPhilippineSea has further fueled the observed split of the #Uniteam, the 2022 election coalition that led the Marcos-Duterte tandem to victory.
“We are ready to strengthen the cooperation with the #Philippines on #MaritimeSecurity in the region by sharing information, conducting threat assessment and building the capacity of your national #CoastWatch center and your #CoastGuard,” #vonDerLeyen told Marcos as she read a joint press statement. #SouthChinaSea
"#VonDerLeyen is the first #EU president to pay an official visit to #Manila...The EU has strong ties to the #Philippines despite a delicate six years under #Duterte. The EU is a major player in the #Bangsamoro Peace Process and is the Philippines’ fourth-largest trading partner."
"#LONDON, #England – The International Criminal Court (#ICC) on Tuesday, July 18, junked the appeal of the #Marcos government, essentially allowing the continuation of investigations into #DrugWar-related killings in the country and the alleged #deathsquad in #DavaoCity under the leadership of former president Rodrigo #Duterte." #Philippines#EJK
"The channel of Quiboloy, who is on the wanted list of the United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation, has been used as a platform to attack and red-tag #journalists and #activists, especially under the previous #Duterte administration. Quiboloy is a friend and ally of former president Rodrigo Duterte. " #ApolloQuiboloy#SexTrafficking#CashSmuggling