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Re: Phillipines accuses China of building airstrip on their

Unread postby SeaGypsy » Sat 30 Jul 2016, 21:12:35

For those who don't know about the real situation in the ground in the Philippines ( a bunch of posters have Filipina partners to check if wiki isn't clear in the matter):

The country is at the basic political unit, divided into Barangays, which must consist of 2000 registered inhabitants in a cluster to register as an entity. A cluster of Barangays forming 15000 people can register as a Municipality in the Provinces, which were divided up under Spanish era rule.

For the Spanish period, the interests of elite families in each Province were cultivated, ruling class Spaniards married into ruling class local families, blending both genetically & in the culture of subjugation of the lesser classes.

The American period brought along both a cargo culture & the advent of entrepreneurial capitalism & democracy, which created gaps in the preexisting power structure, which was absolutely brutal, but never supplanted it. There are consistently a handful of Filipinos in the Forbes 200 from the same handful of families which ruled the richest provinces in the country during the entire Spanish era, these are 500+ year old power structures.

Duterte is of a Royal Moro line, the southern Mindanao ruling families go back well before the Spanish era.

Across most areas you will also find either NPA or pretenders, collecting revolutionary taxes, doing standover, managing the drugs & sex business.

To the ruling classes in the Philippines, Rody Digong Duterte is no more than a big mouth Southern upstart who has bitten off way more than anybody can ever chew. If he really messes with them, he is either dead meat or there will be civil war.
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Re: Phillipines accuses China of building airstrip on their

Unread postby Cid_Yama » Sat 30 Jul 2016, 21:23:34

President Rodrigo Duterte is starting his term on a high note as the results of the latest Pulse Asia poll showed that nearly all Filipinos place their trust on him.The results of the July 2 to 8 poll, which were released on Wednesday, showed that 91 per cent of Filipinos trust the President.

The pollster noted that "practically no one" distrusts Duterte as he only got a "small/no trust" rating of 0.02 per cent.

Meanwhile, only eight per cent of the respondents said that they were undecided if they would trust the President.

Duterte's 91 per cent rating is the highest trust grade achieved by any individual since Pulse Asia started its trust surveys in 1999.

Across socioeconomic classes, Duterte posted the highest trust rating among those who belong in Classes D and E (92 per cent), followed by Class ABC (89 per cent).

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Re: Phillipines accuses China of building airstrip on their

Unread postby SeaGypsy » Sat 30 Jul 2016, 21:39:01

Think you as you will. You seem to love anyone who is into killing lots of people with not too much discrimination. I'm not surprised you love this thug.
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Re: Phillipines accuses China of building airstrip on their

Unread postby SeaGypsy » Sat 30 Jul 2016, 21:58:44

I know precisely why the guy is popular, because most Pinoy would love to see the end of corruption, in broad terms. Digong is making it all about drugs. Cosying up with China & the warlords, murdering street addicts, calling it a revolution is what's happening.
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Re: Phillipines accuses China of building airstrip on their

Unread postby SeaGypsy » Mon 01 Aug 2016, 00:34:40

Every day more insanity.

On the weekend, the off duty soldier who picked a fight over a road incident, lost, then blew his opponents brains out & crippled a bystander, was arrested & I'm not joking, presented by the chief of the Police making jokes about his bad temper. Yesterday a young intern with a glowing record, no drug history, died while handcuffed in a police car, under arrest for whacking the good of a car which had run into him with his bike helmet.

Duterte declared an end the the 2 weeks old broken ceasefire with communist insurgents, who's leader, Sison, is calling Duterte insane & self contradictory, dragging the nation to war.

The naivety of Duterte & his Dutertards is nothing short of astounding. I predicted & still do, there is a very strong chance of civil war under his dictatorship, which it is in all but name already. The official numbers of NPA/ COP are grossly underestimated, they are in every city, town & village North of Zamboanga. They are used to shoot outs with government forces & they have deep local roots throughout the country, in most places the NPA are the real authority, not the Police or military. They rise up, with the tribal leaders of the north, Duterte will be in a world of trouble.
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Dutertards war on drugs death list

Unread postby SeaGypsy » Mon 01 Aug 2016, 00:51:41

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/794598/kil ... uterte/amp

Updated weekly. There is a murder frenzy going on.
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Re: Phillipines accuses China of building airstrip on their

Unread postby Tanada » Sun 28 Nov 2021, 23:23:05

South China Sea: Philippines Snubs 'Trespasser' China's Demand To Remove Grounded Vessel From Disputed Shoal

Philippine defense chief Delfin Lorenzana said there was no such commitment
The vessel has been serving as a military outpost in the shoal since 1999
China had recently blocked Manila's supply ships heading to the shoal

The Philippines has declined to remove its grounded naval vessel, BRP Sierra Madre, from the disputed Second Thomas Shoal in the South China Sea as demanded by China. This comes amid China's recent water cannon attack on Manila's supply ships heading for the disputed shoal.

China had recently demanded that the Philippines "honor its commitment and remove the grounded vessel" on the shoal, reported Manila-based newspaper Inquirer. Second Thomas Shoal is known in the Philippines as Ayungin Shoal while China calls it Ren'ai Jiao.

The statement came a day after the Filipino boats reached the grounded navy ship to complete their resupply mission, which was earlier blocked by Chinese coast guard ships.

"As far as I know there is no such commitment," Philippine defense chief Delfin Lorenzana was quoted by the news outlet. "That ship has been there since 1999. If there was a commitment it would have been removed a long time ago," he said.

The chief reiterated his statement in a Facebook post: "Ayungin Shoal lies within our EEZ where we have sovereign rights. Our EEZ was awarded to us by the 1982 UNCLOS which China ratified."

He added that the territorial claim of China has "no historic nor legal basis" and Manila can "do whatever we want there and it is they who are actually trespassing."

Lorenzana added in Filipino, "We have two documents that prove we have sovereign rights in our EEZ while they have none and their claim is baseless."

The Philippines also used the opportunity to warn China that "a public vessel is covered by the Philippines-United States Mutual Defense Treaty." According to former Foreign Secretary Albert Del Rosario, the Chinese attack on BRP Sierra Madre and the armed forces in Ayungin Shoal "would trigger the mutual defense commitments under the treaty where the U.S. and the Philippines will act to meet [such] common danger’ instigated by China."

BRP Sierra Madre was deliberately grounded at the shoal, which is claimed by various other nations, in 1999 in response to the Chinese reclamation of Mischief Reef. Manila has kept a small contingent of its navy personnel based on the ship ever since to underline its claim that the shoal is within its exclusive economic zone (EEZ).

In 2015, reports claimed the Philippines reinforced the rusting vessel's hull and deck of the ship using small fishing boats to slip "cement, steel, cabling, and welding equipment" past watchful Chinese coast guard vessels.


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