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Our book Marcos Martial Law: Never Again is back in National Book Store.

NBS Trinoma now has copies of the Third Printing of our book.

To make the process even faster, I would like to ask all those who had placed orders with particular National Book Store branches  to please call these stores and tell them to pick up copies of the books from the NBS warehouse.

I know my request sounds a bit strange, but given that the NBS chain is so huge and it’s nationwide, it’s hard to disseminate one particular title to many outlets all at once. It would be a big help if those with pending orders would tell the branches themselves to request the books from the warehouse.

Thanks.

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The book is also still available at the following outlets:

Bookmark The Filipino Bookstore – at 264 Pablo Ocampo Sr. Avenue, San Antonio Village, 1203 Makati City, Philippines.

La Solidaridad book shop – 531 Padre Faura St, Manila, 1000 Metro Manila

Popular Bookstore – 305 FLP Building, Tomas Morato Avenue. Quezon City

UP Third World Studies Center – Palma Hall, College of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Roxas Avenue, University of the Philippines-Diliman

 Bantayog ng mga Bayani – Bantayog Center, Quezon Ave, Diliman, 1109 Quezon City (near Centris)

To all those who have bought copies, my deep thanks. – Raissa

Comments

  1. Ano kaya ang magiging saloobin at mararamdam ng sandatahang lakas na loyal sa konstitusyon kung bibigyan ng pardon at palayain ang higit 300 “enemy of the state/npa/Communist” pagkatapos magpakahirap hulihin at mamatayan ng mga kasama sa pagtugis sa mga ito?

    • commies will change our constitution, that’s for sure. sila na ang mamumuno, at ang army natin ay magbabago rin. changed and re-oriented to communist manifesto. complete turn around ito.

      ngayong inaaway ni digong ang europeans with the french calling him serial killer, I think, the norwegian govt ought to think twice about hosting the communists pretend peace talks. all smiles sila but their agenda is not to be smiled about.

      if the communists succeeds in changing our constitution, bringing chaos to the country, causing more killings and subjugation of peace loving citizens, we only have the norwegian govt to blame. na-duped ang govt ng norway with the promise of peace in pinas, when in fact, the communists are not for peace but land grab and more money for themselves. communists impose their will on the people, and those that go against will be killed, na naman! as if we dont have enough of killings already.

      communism always looks good on paper, never in practice.

      wake up, norwegian govt. you’re hosting a bunch of malingerers and cutthroats. dont get sucked in by peaceful looking old men. that’s just their front; inside, they’re worst than jack the ripper out to rip pinas from top to bottom.

      • Communism is all about envy and hypocricy.
        Communists want to get rich, but without working.
        Nowhere is there more corruption or inequality than in china and russia, and you never see a poor politician, just poor people.

        Duterte is a traditional politician from a dynasty and chinese roots. The worst of all worlds, and will never support an anti-dynasty bill, which alone exposes his hypocricy.

  2. Latest News
    “American Chamber of Commerce Senior Adviser John Forbes said that investors put on hold their plans to put up BPO centers in the Philippines after Duterte announced his disdain for the United States” Forbes did not name the firms withdrawing their investment plans but the uncertainty of the business with Duterte’s anti American policy played a key role in their decisions, he says.

    Truth is Obama boys had issued warnings to american investors in the Philippines that their new investments in the Philippines might become subject of new tariffs and taxes being planned by US govt to punish Duterte!

    Where will Digong get new employment for BPO? Chinese, Russian languages are not spoken in BPO centers. It’s English,Digong! See what you have done to the number one foreign employment source in the Philippines now. No BPO a, no young college graduates local foreign owned employment leading to no money to buy goods in malls, riding jeepneys, buses and UVs, no money in bars and restaurants frequented by BPO employees in the mornings.

    Duterte is a psychopath and MORON at the same time!
    he he he

    Johnny Lin

    • Dagdag ko lang J Lin

      WHAT EXACTLY DID FVR WROTE AGAINST DU30?

      Here is the article from Manila Bulettin october 8, 2016 (ALL CAPS BY FVR)

      DU30s’ first 100 days – Team Philippines losing
      by Former Philippine President Fidel V. Ramos October 8, 2016

      Last Friday (07 October 2016) marked President Rodrigo Roa Duterte’s first 100 days in the highest public office in our beloved Philippines. With a resounding victory over four other worthy presidential opponents (who were all probably better funded than him), Du30 won the people’s mandate to govern by an unprecedented margin of more than 6,600,000 votes out of an electorate of over 55,000,000.

      PEOPLE’S EXPECTATIONS
      At the outset, much was expected of our new President Du30 – principally in the:
      •Alleviation of mass poverty by providing wider openings for poor people to earn from new livelihood opportunities and/or find better-paying
      jobs at home.
      •Relief from the escalating costs of living, in particular, food, fuel, transportation, education and housing.
      •Improvement of people’s quality of life, better governance and a happier outlook for the future which is being experienced by our Southeast Asian neighbors – for example, in the new Myanmar.
      •Enhancement of public safety and national security in terms of the reduction of threats and risks arising out of the common, universal dangers of climate change, pandemic diseases, hunger and international terrorism, among others.
      •Resumption of the Mindanao Peace Process particularly with the maintenance of an effective ceasefire, collection of a greater number of loose firearms, and removal of socio-economic-political barriers to a final peace agreement.
      •Beginning of Charter change and legislative reforms represented by the FOI bill, climate change adaptations and reduction of taxes, among others.
      •Upliftment of the morale of people and prospects for a higher position of respect and dignity within the community of nations (In 2015, the Philippines ranked in the bottom half at 115th, lower than Samoa, out of 195 countries in the UN Human Development Index).

      OF COURSE, WE ARE TALKING ONLY OF THE FIRST 100 DAYS. WE DO NOT INDICATE HERE A WISH-LIST OF OUR HIGHEST ASPIRATIONS TO BE ACHIEVED IN THE 6 YEARS OF THE PRESIDENT’S TERM – BUT ONLY WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN DO-ABLE BY P. DIGONG, IF HE HAD HIT THE GROUND RUNNING INSTEAD OF BEING STUCK IN UNENDING CONTROVERSIES ABOUT EXTRA-JUDICIAL KILLINGS OF DRUG SUSPECTS AND IN HIS ABILITY AT USING CUSS-WORDS AND INSULTS INSTEAD OF CIVILIZED LANGUAGE.

      TEAM PHILIPPINES LOSING BADLY

      IN THE OVERALL ASSESSMENT BY THIS WRITER, WE FIND OUR TEAM PHILIPPINES LOSING IN THE FIRST 100 DAYS OF DU30’S ADMINISTRATION –AND LOSING BADLY. THIS IS A HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT AND LET-DOWN TO MANY OF US.

      Looking, however, at just the first year of P.Du30’s 6-year term, there is still enough time to correct the most serious flaws in both our national leadership and national team so that in the end, the Filipino people and the Republic of the Philippines as a competitive country in our part of the world might still regain its rightful reputation as a vigorous and rising competitor in the family of nations – as we used
      to be known for in earlier days.

      FVR’s focus regarding this assessment of Du30’s first 100 days is based simply on two concepts of primordial importance – LEADERSHIP and TEAMWORK – because that is where the obvious failures have emerged at this point in time.

      In terms of leadership, Senator Dick Gordon has said it so truthfully and directly: “Du30 Is Falling On His Own Sword” (The Manila Times, 04 Oct), adding that the President is too noisy, and should stop saying repetitively: “I’ll will kill you.” (Is this the norm in Presidential public relations??). Ours is not to heap more brickbats on P. Du30 – because he has had more than enough already – but to help enable him to
      transform (thru his own efforts) from a mere provincial official to a capable international player at the head of 101,000,000 multicultured Filipinos.

      THE OUTCOME ASPIRED FOR BY THE MAJORITY OF US IS TO INSURE THE BETTER FUTURE OF OUR YOUNGER GENERATIONS WHO, IN DUE TIME – WILL ASSUME THE MANTLE OF LEADERSHIP OVER OUR NATION’S POLITICAL, SECURITY, CULTURAL, ECONOMIC AND OTHER INTERESTS.

      HISTORICAL RELATIONS OF FILIPINOS AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE

      Among the most unfortunate gaffes of P. Du30 was headlined thus “Duterte Gets Global Rebuke for Hitler Quip” (Daily Tribune, 02 October).

      The timing of this unnecessary outburst took place almost to the very moment, of the burial of the great Jewish leader, the late President Shimon Peres – known more famously as a co-founder of the State of Israel and Nobel Peace Prize winner in December 1994. The world’s eminents – old friends and foes alike – came to honor Peres at his final resting place.
      IN 1938, IT WILL BE RECALLED PRESIDENT QUEZON AGREED TO ALLOW 30,000 JEWISH FAMILIES – OR MORE THAN 100,000 JEWS – TO SETTLE IN THE PHILIPPINES. THE IDEA WAS FOR MOST OF THEM TO RESETTLE IN MINDANAO, PARTICULARLY IN BUKIDNON, TO BE INVOLVED IN FARMING.
      Last year, FVR had the opportunity to meet some of the children of these families at a reception for them by the Alumni Association of the International School of Manila who were here for their Homecoming. They are now in their 80s like FVR.
      THEIR STORIES OF REMEMBRANCE ABOUT OUR GOVERNMENT’S CARE FOR THEM AND THE SAFE UPBRINGING OF THEIR CHILDREN IN THE PHILIPPINES IS HEART-WARMING
      INDEED.

      FILIPINO HOSPITALITY AND HUMANITARIANISM

      THE PHILIPPINES HAS A RICH HISTORY AND TRADITION OF HOSTING REFUGEES FROM ALL AROUND THE WORLD. FIRST, THE JEWISH PEOPLE TO WHOM OUR COUNTRY GAVE SANCTUARY IN THE LATE 1930S AND EARLY 1940S.

      During the Spanish Civil War from 1936 to 1939, droves of Spanish Republicans fleeing the fascist Falange Española of General Francisco Franco came here.

      Then came the “White Russians” when they fled from Shanghai in 1949 as the Communist Red Army was about to lay siege. Some 6,000 of our Russian guests lived in Guiuan, Eastern Samar, for 27 months. Many later relocated to America, Canada, and Australia. Others opted to remain in the Philippines.

      Twice, Chinese mainlanders were given refuge and the opportunity to prosper is the Philippines. First in 1940, when Chinese refugees fled to the Philippines thru Hong Kong to escape the atrocities of the invading Imperial Japanese forces. Second in 1949, when some 30,000 Chinese mainlanders belonging to the Kuomintang also sought sanctuary in the Philippines to avoid capture by Communist Chinese forces. Here, like all foreign refugees that we had welcomed with open arms, they nurtured their families and businesses to prosperity.

      From 1975 to 1995, the Philippines, in cooperation with the U.N., provided food, healthcare, education and safety to 400,000 Indochinese “boat-people” (Vietnamese, Cambodians and Laotians) in Morong, Bataan and Puerto Princesa, Palawan prior to their relocation to other countries.

      During FVR’s Administration in 1996, after the U.N. refugee programs had ended, some 3,000 Vietnamese refugees were allowed “indefinite stay” in “Viet Ville” settlements in Palawan and elsewhere, supported by the CBCP’s Center for Assistance to Displaced Persons (CADP).

      IN MAY 2011, THEN PRESIDENT BENIGNO S. AQUINO III SIGNED THE INSTRUMENT OF RATIFICATION TO THE 1954 U.N. CONVENTION RELATING TO STATELESS PERSONS. THUS, THE PHILIPPINES CONTINUES TO PROVIDE HUMANITARIAN AID AND SANCTUARY TO REFUGEES AND STATELESS MIGRANTS.

      The importance of the humanitarian values of our Cultural Legacy cannot be overemphasized. And part of that Legacy are our Virtues of Hospitality and Compassion that we readily extend not only to fellow Filipinos, but also to foreigners like the Jewish people who lived on the other side of the world during the time of President Manuel L. Quezon.

      IN THE CASE OF HIS RECENT “HITLER QUIP” NO AMOUNT OF APOLOGY COULD MOLLIFY THE LONG-SUFFERING JEWS WHO HAVE DONE WELL FOR THE PHILIPPINES.

      THE PUZZLES ABOUT U.S.-PHILIPPINE RELATIONS

      EQUALLY DISCOMBOBULATING ARE THE MIX OF “OFF-AND-ON” STATEMENTS BY P. DIGONG ON PHILIPPINES-U.S. RELATIONS, PARTICULARLY ON SECURITY AND ECONOMIC MATTERS.
      AT THE TIME WHEN
      (1) DFA SECRETARY JUN YASAY WAS ADDRESSING THE U.N. IN NEW YORK;
      (2) DOF SECRETARY SONNY DOMINGUEZ WAS LEADING A TRADE DELEGATION TO THE U.S. AND
      (3) DND SECRETARY DEL LORENZANA WAS HUDDLING ON SOUTH CHINA SEA/WEST PHILIPPINE SEA CONCERNS WITH U.S. DEFENSE CHIEF ASH CARTER AND THE OTHER ASEAN DEFENSE MINISTERS IN HONOLULU,
      OUR PRESIDENT CONTINUED TO BERATE OUTGOING PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, OUTGOING U.N. SECRETARY GENERAL BAN KI-MOON, AND TERMINATED RP-U.S. MILITARY EXERCISES BY END-2016.

      SO, WHAT GIVES?? ARE WE THROWING AWAY DECADES OF MILITARY PARTNERSHIP, TACTICAL PROFICIENCY, COMPATIBLE WEAPONRY, PREDICTABLE LOGISTICS, AND
      SOLDIER-TO-SOLDIER CAMARADERIE JUST LIKE THAT?? ON P. DU30’S SAY-SO???

      LET ALL DO-GOODERS, P. DIGONG INCLUDED, PLEASE HELP JUN YASAY, DEL LORENZANA, ERNIE ABELLA AND OTHERS CLARIFY, CONTEXTUALIZE, DISBEWILDER,
      SOOTHE, DETOXIFY AND OTHERWISE ENLIGHTEN MOST OF US WHO BELIEVE THAT – IN THE 21ST CENTURY – HARMONY, PEACE, INCLUSIVENESS, CONNECTIVITY,
      AND MUTUAL BENEFIT, ETC. ARE PEOPLES’ HIGHEST ASPIRATIONS.

      WE HOPE P. DIGONG’S NEXT 100 DAYS WILL BE MUCH, MUCH BETTER, CONSIDERING THE ENTIRE GAMUT OF PHILIPPINE PROBLEMS, STARTING WITH POVERTY.
      KAYA NATIN ITO!!!!

      Abangan Part II, Next Week.

      • Thanks for posting entirety @canadadry
        Bold letters are warning signs! Will Du30 listen?

        No, he is stubborn, hates to be criticized. Could hear many put angina hurled against FVR?
        Of course, official Palace response would be meek and tame, most probably more of hearing the message.

        Question is?
        How come, no one,repeat NO ONE from his cabinet members would dare to contradict and indict him publicly like FVR a when it’s obvious Du30 caused all the problems we are besetting us now due to his bad mouth. Are these cabinet members so callous and piwer hungry to lick his ass, despite?

        When are you FILIPINOS going to wake up?
        Post Christmas is a long time to wait out. Forget the holidays, think of the future! Start rebelling against Du30 before it’s too late. Meaning, Philippines will become poorer and last in economic development in Asia, lower than Bangladesh!
        He he ge

        Johnny Lin

      • Dagdag ulit J.Lin

        WALL STRRET JOURNAL PICKS UP RAMOS CRITICISMS ON DU30

        “Duterte Ally Criticizes Philippine President’s Early Leadership
        Ex-President Ramos cites controversies over killings, foul language”

        By CRIS LARANO Updated Oct. 10, 2016 4:04 a.m. ET

        MANILA—An elder statesmen who helped persuade Rodrigo Duterte to launch his successful bid for the Philippine presidency expressed disappointment over the new leader’s performance in his first 100 days in office.

        “Team Philippines [is] losing…and losing badly,” former President Fidel Ramos, who served six years in the 1990s, wrote in an essay published in the Manila Bulletin over the weekend. “This is huge disappointment and letdown to many of us.”

        Mr. Ramos’s critique is an early sign of fractures in Mr. Duterte’s coalition of supporters, despite strong poll numbers, amid a barrage of bad press over the president’s deadly “war on drugs” and the obscenities and insults he has repeatedly directed at foreign critics who express concerns about human rights and due process.

        In one of his strongest attacks against the U.S., Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte told President Barack Obama to “go to hell.”

        Ernesto Abella, spokesman for Mr. Duterte, said the administration respected Mr. Ramos and viewed his comments as fatherly advice. But he said the comments were more about “the president’s language” than “actual actions” he made. “While there may be some concerns..the president is a man of action and really we need to appreciate that more,” Mr. Abella said.

        While noting that Mr. Duterte’s six-year term had just started, Mr. Ramos said there were “obvious failures” at this early stage “on two concepts of primordial importance—leadership and teamwork.”
        He said more could have been done if Mr. Duterte had “hit the ground running instead of being stuck in unending controversies about extrajudicial killings of drug suspects and in his ability at using cusswords and insults instead of civilized language.”

        Mr. Ramos, 88 years old, was among the few big-name politicians who helped persuade the longtime mayor of the southern city of Davao to run for president. In his inaugural speech, Mr. Duterte thanked Mr. Ramos profusely for his help and appointed him as special envoy to Beijing to help repair relations strained by territorial disputes in the South China Sea.

        Mr. Duterte, who won by a landslide in the May presidential elections, celebrated his first 100 days in office on Friday.

        Since then, Mr. Duterte has become notorious for his outbursts. U.S. President Barack Obama canceled a meeting with him in September after Mr. Duterte appeared to call him a “son of a whore” during a press conference….

        for more:
        http://www.wsj.com/articles/duterte-ally-criticizes-philippine-presidents-early-leadership-1476083073

        • remember during Martial Law, the first to be tapped by US speaking against Marcis was an Amboy too, a CIA asset. RM!

          Deja Vu, Du30 time
          Another Amboy, CIA asset too, FVR

          Predictions a month ago filling up the puzzles faster than anticipated.

        • @J Lin dagdag ulit

          A friend from New York (Wall Street worker) sent me this on what they are reading on our beloved P.Digong from New York Times. Could US/Europe BPO’s in Pinas about to exit?

          NEW YORK TIMES
          Behind Duterte’s Bluster, a Philippine Shift Away From the U.S.
          By RICHARD C. PADDOCK OCT. 9, 2016

          MANILA — President Rodrigo Duterte has vowed to expel American troops from the Philippines, accused the C.I.A. of plotting to kill him and insulted President Obama with an obscenity.

          But beyond the blasts of hyperbole — he recently compared himself to Hitler — lies a real and potentially historic shift in Philippines foreign policy.

          In public statements and interviews during the past week, Mr. Duterte’s top foreign policy advisers said he was seeking to break the Philippines out of the United States’ orbit and signal to China that he is ready to negotiate closer ties after years of wrangling over its military presence in the South China Sea.

          The move is a radical departure for a country that has historically been the most dependable American ally in Southeast Asia, and could undermine Mr. Obama’s so-called pivot to Asia, a keystone of his foreign policy. That strategy depends on American allies to counter China’s
          increasing power in the region.

          On the South China Sea, Mr. Duterte’s move has already tilted the balance of power, said Richard Javad Heydarian, a political scientist at De La Salle University in Manila. By declining to press claims against China over disputed territory there, despite a favorable ruling
          by a United Nations tribunal, Mr. Duterte has made it hard for the United States to galvanize international pressure on China over the issue.

          “Almost single-handedly Duterte has reshaped the regional strategic dynamics, with both Beijing and Washington recalibrating their next move in the South China Sea as they try to anticipate the Filipino strongman’s foreign policy trajectory,” Mr. Heydarian said.

          Mr. Duterte, who is expected to visit Beijing this month, has made no secret of his worldview.

          “I will be reconfiguring my foreign policy,” he said in a speech last week. And at some point, “I will break up with America.”….

          For more:
          http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/10/world/asia/philippines-rodrigo-duterte-obama.html?_r=

  3. Latest News:
    “Senators say: Unfair tagging Duterte a serial killer by French paper”

    Bobo talaga mga senador natin, kahit nag aral sila mahina kukote sa pag intindi. Si Sotto bobo talaga Pero si Pimentel at Lacson halatang halata na lintang sumisupsip kay Du30.

    Serial killer Si Du30 dahil siya Mismo nagsabi at nag yabang sa interview ” I will kill all criminals”. Sinsundan pa ni Gen Bato na pinaguutos daw ni Pangilong Duterte na barilin ang KRIMINAL Pag na labas. Pagtapos headline sa dyaryo sa Pilipinas na maraming arestadong kriminal na bi aril dahil daw nanlaban pero May retrato oo pruweba at witnesses na nakaposas ang preso kaya paano nanlaban at ang pulis walang proof na retrato na nanlaban ang preso. Wala rin solusyun yung vigilante killing na ang istorya mga Pulis din yung nagsalvage.

    Sino ang pagbitangan ng foreign media na serial killer? Sino pa di Si Duterte dahil Sita ang nagyabang na Papatay siya ng tao na pareho ni Hitler.

    Kaya DUTERTE IS A SERIAL KILLER!

    Simple, he he he

    Johnny Lin

    • NEW ZEALAND HERALD HEADLINES DU30 AS LABELED PSYCHOPATH AND SERIAL KILLER

      Philippine President Duterte labelled ‘serial killer’ and ‘psychopath’ as drug crackdown death toll exceeds 3600
      By Marnie O’Neill 5:50 AM Tuesday Oct 11, 2016

      Philippine President Rodrigo “The Punisher” Duterte has been labelled a “psychopath” and a “serial killer” by critics as the death toll in his murderous drugs crackdown hurtles towards 4000.

      Actress Agot Isidro has sparked a national debate on the state of Duterte’s mental health after urging the 71-year-old to seek psychiatric treatment in a Facebook post that has been shared nearly 11,000 times and received more than 28,000 “likes”.

      “I know a psychiatrist. Get yourself checked. You’re not bipolar, You’re a psychopath,” Isidro wrote after a week which saw Duterte call Barack Obama the “son of a whore”, embrace comparisons to Hilter and dare the world to withdraw foreign aid “crumbs” allocated to his nation.

      No one’s trying to fight you. As a matter of fact, you’re the one who’s picking a fight,” she continued.”The country where you are elected as President by 16 million out of 100+ million is Third World. You talk as if the Philippines is a superpower. Excuse me, we don’t want to go hungry. If you want, you do it yourself. Leave us out of it. So many people have nothing to eat, and yet you’ll starve us even further.” Isidro’s reference to bipolar disorder stemmed from a May press conference in which Duterte jokingly told reporters not to believe his “preposterous statements” because he was bipolar.

      However, the surging death toll from his ongoing war on drugs is no laughing matter, with more than 3600 people killed by vigilantes and police since his government came to power. Isidro’s post prompted an explosion of comments from politicians, fellow celebrities and ordinary citizens, many of them supportive, others not so much.

      Presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella said that while the actress was entitled to her own opinion, “we need to really hear what the president is calling on Filipinos to do, which is be free from dependence on foreign aid, which is what the lady is fearful we will lose.

      “The president is calling for Filipinos to be truly independent economically and mentally and psychologically,” Abella said, according to the Philippine Inquirer….

      Meanwhile, French daily Liberation has described Duterte as a “serial killer” in a front-page story detailing the vigilante killings allegedly carried out at his behest during three decades in politics. Human rights groups have claimed hundreds, possibly thousands, of drug addicts and dealers were murdered by Duterte’s notorious Death Squads during his 20-year reign as mayor of Davao.More than 3600 people have been killed, including 1700 in police shootouts, since Duterte took office on June 30 as part of his brutal
      crackdown on drugs, …..

      For more….
      http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11726447

      • the french speaks the truth, digong is indeed a serial killer. the truth hurts talaga.

        digong is running over to china at iiyak duon, hating the west, the americans and the europeans. he is in for easy plucking of the chinese. bet, fvr will tag along, emissary yan ni digong. both of them will soon be dancing like dancing chinese pandas, digong and fvr bringing thier own grass skirts.

        • FVR’s size up as reported in the news papers is – right.

          But, watch the last phrase also as reported – ‘ [ But ] Let us continue to support Du30.’

          Disapprove and Approve? Urong-sulong and Abante? ANO ITO?

          Playing for a divine intervention? [ acc to one here who said this ]

          It won’t happen. Pres. Du30 will steadfast make his stand against anyone, friend or even his foes.

          The Possibility: Since it was about 16 million that catapulted Du30 to the Office, only the rest of those 30 million plus voters and a portion of the former 16M can do the intervention, that is if other forces do not do it ahead.

  4. I think our problem is not so much that we have a bad leader but that we do not have a good one. We have martyrs but being a martyr is different from being a leader.

    We spend so much time and energy excoriating the president now but what we neglect to do is find an alternative or option around which to rally the people.

    It is easy for evil to dominate because its members very easily consolidate and conspire. On the other hand, the voices of the principled dissenters tend to be fragmented and scattered – at least in the beginning.

    • I think, it’s too early to be looking for a leader when we have one already. we can’t have too many leaders glaring at each other, seizing and contradicting each other, much to everyone’s amusement.

      bringing new leader to supplant the other, only for the new leader to be killed, we’ll end up forever looking for new leaders. solves the problem 1st that is digong, that’s number one priority. leaders can be found, but 1st the position must be vacant.

      sickness ng pinoy yan, good leaders are killed, some are ridiculed and made redundant.

  5. I got this feeling that Do Dirty will be saying now we can export banana again to china
    He might even brag about it making that as his accomplishment.

    But!!!! … diba most of these exporters are from davao? like Dizon Farm .. remember one of Do Dirty’s election contributor?

    It is only but davao that will take advantage of this.. only a selected few actually

    • funny thing is, china is fond of recycling imported goods, making it their own and then reselling them at much higher prices. bet, our exported bananas will be made into banana flour in china, the new age flour so enamored of health fanatics around the world, good for those with glutten intolerance. and then the healthy banana flour sold back to to us, in pinas, at exuberant prices. halos hindi abot kaya ng karamihan.

      I hate to think the chinese bought our bananas for next to nothing, and then, once made into flour, the chinese command much higher prices.

      I’ve heard about the banana flour while browsing health shops.

  6. “Talk is cheap” is common saying.
    Duterte upgraded the saying to “Talk is prostituting”

    He says “Philippines does not need foreign aid, would rather be hungry than being dependent on aid”

    Sabi ni Ms Agot,” kung gusto mong magutom magisa ka na lang, mandadamay ka pa. Third world country ang Pilipinas pero ang tikas mo pang first world country. Hindi ka bipolar psychopath ka”

    Sec Abella replied to Agot by saying “She is entitled to her own opinion but the Filipinos should hear what the president is saying that we should be free from being dependent from foreign aid”

    Duterte and Abella are no longer engaging in “cheap talk”, they are daydreaming! What does Duterte suggest or what are his blueprint plans that we could act like a first world country without dependency on our trade and economic policies from US and Europe? He was only talking bullshit without presenting specific plans to support his rhetorics. Ms Cherrie Pie Picache was right in supporting Ms Agot by saying that “we in the movie industry are not that dumb to support the idea to reject dependency on foreign aid to boost Philippine economy”

    Fidel Ramos was succinct in stating that the first 100 days of Duterte made Philippine team a loser. He should know the ins and outs, being a former president.

    Digong is the star player in an interbarangay basketball league. He is telling the entire participants of the league ” to hell with this interbarangay, we should be playing in the NBA, we won’t accept free basketball clinics from NBA players anymore”. This is as simple is the idiocy of Duterte and he wants the Filipinos to listen to him.

    Hindi lamang sira ulo ni Duterte, daig pa ang buwang na aso siya!

    He he he

    Johnny Lin

    • sagot ni vp leni: PH int’l ties not a ‘beggar-donor’ relationship—Robredo

      “I like to think that it’s a human response to show mercy, compassion, regardless of our nationalities, our race, our religion, and even our political beliefs,” Robredo added.

      She said the country’s relationship with other countries is “not a one-way street, where we are the only one on the receiving end.”

      But it is about “human beings who recognize each other’s limitations, and their need to harness their unique gifts and strengths, for the benefit of the greatest number who remain vulnerable.”

      The Vice President then emphasized anew her call for inclusiveness. “The problems we face require building bridges, not walls,” Robredo said.

      • continuation:
        Dealing with the country’s problems “requires collaboration, not polarization.”

        “We will succeed faster if we include, not exclude,” she stressed.

        And despite the diplomatic row that followed after President Rodrigo Duterte made harsh remarks against the United States and US President Barack Obama, the European Union (EU) and the United Nations, Robredo said this did not stop foreign countries from pledging support to the government’s anti-poverty programs.

        “[D]espite the noise out there, the truth is, many are willing to come together and build these bridges. Many have come to the Office of the Vice President offering help, and I believe it is borne out of a sincere and unconditional desire to help,” she said.

        READ: Int’l aid agencies back Robredo’s antipoverty program

        “I have also come to discover that giving aid is not just about a donor and a donee, and that the donee is not the only party benefitting from such an arrangement,’ Robredo said.

        “For me, it is also a partnership of two parties, finding ways and means to find the best solutions to the complex problems of the world,” she added.

        The EU, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and World Bank have all committed to provide support to the 50 poor communities the Office of the Vice President has chosen.

        from: http://globalnation.inquirer.net/146498/ph-intl-ties-not-only-beggar-donor-relationship-robredo

        • sabi ni digong he would rather be hungry than be dependent on aid. well, kung matino siya at nagtanong, he would have known its not just food aid that is being given. we received educational aid, pabahay, engineering aids, agricultural aids, etc. we are being helped to become self sufficient, upang makaahon tayo sa kahirapan.

          we are part of international exchange program where foreign professionals come to pinas and impart modern knowledge at kaalaman, teaching and training pinoys newer and better methods of doing things. and in return, those trained pinoys go out into far flung villages and impart the knowledge gained also to other pinoys, and so on.

          digong’s mind is too narrow. he ought to spend time reading the sangkatutak na correspondence that arrived on his presidential desk, understand what they all meant ,and learn more about the art of being president.

        • world health org (who) give us free medicines, health aids and equipment, its doctors liaise with our own local doctors as regards disease prevention. world health org does not only help us, we also help them in return by providing them with epidemiological data. they help us, we help them.

        • Leni is receiving encrypted messages daily from 2 sources.
          she is abreast on the situations every minute. Her talking points make sense compared to Duterte’s rhetorics lacking substantive values.

          Philippine Stocks today down again to 7535 points,
          Peso exchange today up by 5 pesos to 48.35/$1.

          Duterte economic team still on denial that their boss is the cause of sliding down conomy.
          DOJ Aguirre is fixated at DeLima with his obsession to manufacture documents pinning DeLima from exploited witnesses.
          DND is busy fixing evidence pinning Maute boys as the culprit of Davao bombing but nobody is listening to them. It’s iterrorism but foreign country is disregarding their revelations by not mentioning their discovery of evidence in foreign news. Of course, foreign intelligence knew the evidence was planted on the Maute boys.
          PNP General Bato is stretching his mileage to fame by putting news everyday the success of the fight against drugs by pointing to celebrity addicts without mentioning their names. Why protect their names if they are bad role models? Bato is more primarily interested in his personal publicity which was his main agenda and the fight on drugs is only secondary to his personal motive.
          DFA Sec Yasay is up to his neck kissing the ass of Du30 on his lies against America since he only has until May to go as DFA Sec. since Digong promised to appoint Alan Cayetano after his one year ban on appointments.
          Communication Sec Andanar is busy correcting his blunder of announcing a imaginary coup against Du30 by foreigners, FilAms.
          Spokesman Abella is busy defending the rhetorics of his boss making a fool of himself explaining nonsense.

          FVR was absolutely right. On the spot, team Duterte lacked focus and confused resulting to damage to the Philippines. FVR knows when to choose sides. He betrayed Marcos when he sensed people power would force his way out. Deja Vu! FVR is sensing again that Digong is digging his own grave that’s why FVR is speaking out again. Remember he is a military man. Old soldiers never die, they don’t even fade in their secretive works for a coup. Bribe of increase pay and frequent camp/precinct visits to the military and PNP men will not save Du30 with his unprovoked attack on America.

          Du30’s belting his “My Way or The Highway” is coming through, anybody singing My Way off tune leads to “dead end”……. And Now the end is near and so I face the final curtain… FVR started dropping the stage curtain

          He he he

          Johnny Lin

        • FVR is a graduate of West Point Military Academy.

          Btw, ‘Pinas’ plans to buy China or Russian arms better be good;

          A need for TRANSLATION ‘How To Operate and Fire’;

          If in Chinese, watch the SPELLING (Bee). Same with Russian;

          The guns like Mortars, Cannons, Machine guns, Rocket Launchers, atbpa, be misunderstood by Filipino soldiers.

          Field Manuals is good in English like USA;

          Baka ma puntariya yun Palasyo sa firing adjustments. . . wrong target.

          Most of all, the BOMBS on fuse adjustments. Ingat.

    • There was this frog who after annihilating some ants thought he could huff and puff to make himself as big as a cow. So he huffed and he puffed until he burst. :-/

      There was this mentally deranged bully who walked around the neighborhood thumping his chest while wailing, “Respect me! I need respect! Why don’t you respect me?” And as no one in the neighborhood seemed to humor him, he became more violent and started kicking anything including his mango tree.

  7. The truth, if many Adm supporters wants to know. . . at GMA news ONLINE, former Pres. Ramos’ thumbs down the first 100 days.

    – LEADERSHIT and TEAMWRECKS –

    . . . that what is meant.

    The supporters stubbornly ignores the killing – EJK. It is a growing concern.

    ‘So, what gives?’ says Mr. Ramos. Nothing except how to survive.

    ‘Too noisy’ says Sen. Gordon. Noisy as can be. Echoed Mr. Ramos.

    ‘Hara-Kiri’ nga like a done Japanese general after losing an island ‘Pikinawa.’

    The majority of us Filipinos should ensure the better future and not just to survive.

    Link

    http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/584394/news/nation/fvr-on-duterte-s-first-100-days-team-philippines-losing

    • Not too fast.

      Ramos’ pronouncement purportedly expressing disappointment over Duterte’s first 100 days is part of the SACRIFICE THE QUEEN gambit.

      The big question to ask is: who is pulling the strings on Duterte?

      • Zhao Jianhua ? or Xi Jinping. . .the former always loves to wear that BLUE tiled shirt style everywhere!

        Possible Mate na ang KING? Who’s the QUEEN to be sacrificed?

        FVR might try to pull the ROPES! He gave him those for the presidency?

        :-)

  9. Nakaschedule na naman ngayong Monday ang resumption ng hearing tungkol sa droga sa House of Representatives. Diumano ay dadalo sa nasabing hearing ang mga drug lords na involved sa “riot” kabilang si JB Sebastian.

    Nagtatanong lang ako, bakit ang dating spokesperson at chaplain ng NBP, si Fr. Olaguer, ay hindi naanyayahan sa nasabing hearing. Si Fr. Olaguer ay host ng prison cable TV na produced ni JB Sebastian.

    I’m sure marami syang alam.

    • FVR must be punching his breast!

      ‘Why ‘Oh Y did I choose Du30!’

      ‘di ko nakita ‘O na ramdaman yun killing spree na plano nya!’

      Too late. Its waters over the bridge.

      :-(

  11. http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/10/10/16/de-lima-5-others-on-immigration-lookout-doj

    Did I miss something?

    Has DeLima been charged of any case? Why is there a memo released putting her on the lookout list? I thought I read somewhere that Aguirre admitted that there is no airtight case against DeLima yet. And my humble understanding is that Without any charges, one cannot be put on the lookout or hold order list. Or, is this within the scope of lawless violence emergency state?

    Btw, two of the main reasons why the state of lawless violence were the “seriousness” of the drug problem and another stemming from Davao explosion too. Now that have apprehended the 3 suspects for the explosion and that the war on drugs has been verY successful, significantlY reduced, accordingg to Bato, does that mean that the emergency state of lawless violence is about to be lifted soon? Who has some good insight!/info on this? Thank you.

    • Aguirre – “Hindi ako nagfafile ng “hao shao” na kaso (kay de lima). Kelangan airtight, sigurado. Don’t rush me.”

      I guess the manufacturing of evidence is not yet finished. ;)

      • Sa Lower House, baka magawa nya yun. . . virus-tight.

        But before the courts, that’s another story.

        What court kaya? Ombudsman muna, then Sandiganbayan or RTC court?

        Baka at Ombudsman Office will say ‘DON’T RUST US.’

        :-)

        • Yep….!

          And Lower House may finish their establishing ‘reasonable cause’ to file a case vs Sen. De Lima.

          Wala silang PROBABLE CAUSE contents to file before any judicial office or OMB office.

          All affidavits of polluted witnesses at LH are suspects coming from tainted sources.

          Sample na lang: the Australian drug case here against the Australia guy was dismissed by the Trial Court.

          Reason: Policemen statement/testimony did not jibe with what was shown on the CCTV.

          The acquitted is now back in Australia. Now, just imagine how PNP cops will try to sustain 3000 EJK as justified killing before the courts.

          Can anyone expect there will be 500 criminal cases filed vs The Cops?

          Remains to be remembered he he

  13. True story:

    There was an adopted child on infancy, plucked from a poor locale, by a rich powerful man. He gave the child good education, shelter and clothing aside from generous allowance. Child finished college, acquired master’s
    and doctorate degrees. He became famous and powerful in his professional career. People admired him due to his charisma and tenacious drive for discipline by all means. His adopted father did not interfere at all with his quest. Child became so powerful, he thought he is becoming more powerful than God, in fact asking question if there is God. Not only he hallucinated with his demigod stature, he started to malign his adopted father claiming that he did not give him much financial support all the time he was under his care despite the enormous wealth the benefactor held. Adopted son cursed and shamed the father publicly without provocation. Notwithstanding, the father continued to deliver supporting messages to the son. People started to think that the son is a very ungrateful adoptee. He is becoming the eternal ingrate, an inglorious bastard.

    Think of Duterte as the adopted son and USA as the adopting father!
    DO YOU THINK ALL FILIPINOS ARE INGRATES BECAUSE OF DUTERTE?

    Spread on Facebook and Twitter
    He he he!

    Johnny Lin

    • I once adopted a mongrel.

      The son of a bitch would go around shitting everywhere, and annoying the neighbors by barking loudly. The dirty dog would also try, unsuccessfully, to mount anything that moved.
      No amount of training could improve its manners. In the end it had to be put in an old dog’s home, which was more humane than killing the animal, or it ending up as dish of the day in the local chinese restaurant.

      “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks”.
      And they just become a shit processor, wanting constant attention, and needing some-one to clean up the mess they make.

      • At least, the mongrel is not an ingrate. It did not bite you back!

        Lesson:
        Duterte is more shiiiiit than a mongrel
        He he he

        Johnny Lin

  14. Selfish Bastard!

    Here we go again, Wrong Priorities:

    1. Kill drug users and petty pushers.

    2. Push for Marcos burial in Libingan ng mga Bayani.

    3. Release the enemies of the State.

    4. Declare State of Lawlessness which DU30 made himself.

    5. Unprovoked tirades against the US and EU.

    6. Zero in against D5 and use the might of the State for personal vendetta.

    7. Kiss China’s and Russia’s ass for what? To pursue the revival  of  the lost cause of Communism?

    and now…

    Monitor Showbiz Personalities for Drug Use?

    For a selfish bastard like DU30 who is willing to  sacrifice the economic well-being of 100 million Filipinos, why is he ignorant of this truism…

    What is in it for me?

    While we are in to this, maybe DU30’s supporters could still ponder on the above saying on what they can get from continuing support to this Selfish Bastard?

    Parekoy
    10-10-2016

    • “What is in it for me?”

      ano pa nga ba?

      imo, as simple as what the cronies gained during the dark ml era.

      they are all learned na. got that lesson 101 from the dictator.

      we are now entering the copied 2nd stage of the greatest phl thief master plan.

  15. US, EU investors put Philippine plans on hold
    By Richmond Mercurio (The Philippine Star) | Updated October 10, 2016 – 12:00am

    “The anti-American comments are beginning to harm some new opportunities for the Philippines, as we know several trade missions and BPO investment plans have been cancelled. This is regrettable,” John Forbes, American Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines senior advisor, said.



    “We do have information on cases of local European companies (in) manufacturing who put expansion on hold. We also sense hesitation from European firms to consider the Philippines as investment destination at this point,” European Chamber of Commerce of the Philippines president Guenter Taus, for his part, said. 



    Taus said based on information the group received, several trade and investment visits from Europe to the Philippines were also under consideration of cancellation.


    “So unfortunate for all the work the entire world initiates just to go to waste,” Taus said.



    • Honeymoon period of Duterte is stinky as a latrine.

      Foreign selling of philippine stocks at record level of more than 30 days.

      Stocks dropped below 7600 points.
      48.30/$1 exchange rate.

      Domestic goods prices are going up despite no increase price policy issued by DTI.
      Small business owners are hurting, malls are empty, store shelves are half empty due to hoarding by traders waiting for prices to increase due to weak peso. Importers pay more interest from dollar bank loans forcing them to increase prices passed to third parties selling to public. Filipino consumers with local income from private and government employers are the final victims. Foreigners will not become victims because their income is in dollar currency, which increased in value due to weak peso.

      Duterte is happy to kill criminals, according to him. He does not care that the other victims of his crusade and destructive foreign policy against America and Europe are the working Filipinos. Why should he care since he is fulfilling only the promise he made before his election. He says he was not asked about the collateral damage to working class that’s why he should not be faulted for the high prices of commodities.

      He he he

      Johnny Lin