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    Ferdinand "Bong Bong" Marcos Jr. to be Inaugurated President of Philippines on June 30th

    https://www.cnnphilippines.com/news/2022/5/25/Bongbong-Marcos-proclaimed-Philippines-president-2022.html His family still owes 3.9 billion in taxes to the country and they are banned from traveling to the US and Switzerland. Here's a pretty good documentary called The Kingmaker that sums up...
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    Duterte orders the arrest of Sen. Leila de Lima, his fiercest critic, on drug charges

    :dwillhuh: I was in the Philippines earlier this month and my friends there say it's as bad as the media reports. It's not just drugs either. A friend who does church work in a slum says that one of his neighbors got arrested for breaking-and-entering (he doesn't know if the charges were...
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    Philippines President calls Americans monkeys

    https://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2016/11/03/philippines-duterte-us-gun-sale/?source=dam Here's Why Philippine President Duterte Is Now Calling Americans 'Monkeys' Philippines' President Rodrigo Duterte delivers a speech at the Philippines' Economic Forum in Tokyo on Oct. 26...
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