Seems Duterte means business.

Is it normal for underlings to control their bosses?

This thread contains 820 messages thus far, 821 including this one. Are you going to continue with your pro-Liberal-anti-everyone-else missives for the next five and a bit years? Enquiring minds wish to know!

http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/10/27/16/commission-on-appointments-bypasses-15-duterte-appointees

All that is needed for evil to triumph is for good men to remain silent.

I am by no means "anti everyone else". I am opposed to a brutal and corrupt murderer who has been elected President of the Philippines and I am opposed to his apologists, particularly those who ought to know better. I look forward to his day in court at the ICC and I hope that the Chinese take over of the Philippines which he is attempting to engineer will not prosper.

http://www.theatlantic.com/internat...es-manila-drugs-davao/500756/?utm_source=fbia

Taking your message postings as a whole, that's an impression a man on the Clapham omnibus might hold.

But the more than 16 million who voted him into office are certainly not opposed to him and the overwhelming adult population approve of him and hold him in high regard.

Ask yourself this, Andrew, did Aquino do anything to tackle the growing drugs problem during his presidency? Did his mother, did Arroyo or Estrada seek to put an end to this trade? What about your man, Roxas, did he promise to tackle this issue, if elected? No, no, no, no and no. Roxas was offering much of the same whilst the electorate clamoured for change. But Duterte did promise, many times, that if elected he would tackle the drugs problem head on and stamp out corruption. He's carrying-out his manifesto commitment.

As for the Chinese investment and Duterte's severance from the US. The US has been involved in the Philippines as both the colonial power and, more latterly, has treated the country as an annoying little distant cousin Has, at any time, the US offered to invest in the country's infrastructure to anything approaching $24 billion? From time to time, the US throws a few "scraps" at the country usually following some disaster or other - but if memory serves, US' donation following Yolanda was less than the UK's DECC appeals'. (And, by the way, what did Roxas spend all that lovely money on? Not on rebuilding Tacloban or Bohol, that's for sure.) For the first time in many a long year, the country has a President who recognises that the country doesn't just consist of Metro Manila and actively seeks to attract investment for infrastructure projects elsewhere in the country. Hence, for example, the Mindanao rail project which will, when complete, move a lot of (export) freight from convoys of lorries trundling along single carriageway roads onto fast rail links to the ports of Cagayan de Oro and Davao. Both Japan and South Korea would be capable of such a project and would undoubtedly prove a better partner but neither offered the investment. China stepped up to the plate.

I hope you're not classifying me as an apologist for the President; I am not. I am simply someone who spent seven years living in his city having spent the previous three years in Cebu City. During those earlier years, I became very aware of vigilante killings - street "justice" as it was known - but those frequent killings weren't taking place in Davao but in Cebu. They were happening so often that the press didn't bother reporting all of them. Davao was very peaceful by comparison.

Life is good here...As good as it ever was...Just less criminals,no doubt about it
From my perspective,criminality is just not as popular as it was before...They seem a lot more scared then they did before and a lot less motivated..
WTF is going on with this country??

Defense chief: Chinese vessels have left Scarborough Shoal



CHINESE vessels have already left the disputed Scarborough Shoal off Zambales, more than four years after gaining control of the rich fishing ground, Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenza said Friday.

"That's the report we got from our Coast Guard. Since three days ago, there are no longer Chinese ships, Coast Guard or Navy, in the Scarborough area," said Lorenzana.

Lorenzana said Filipino fishermen can now resume fishing activities at the shoal, also known as Panatag Shoal, which is about 124 nautical miles from Iba, Zambales.

"If the Chinese ships have left, then it means our fishermen can resume fishing in the area. We welcome this development. Our fishermen have not been fishing there since 2012. This will return to them their traditional source of livelihood," said Lorenzana.

Chinese ships have been driving away Filipino fishermen from the shoal after gaining control of the shoal in April 2012, following a standoff with Filipino vessels.

Around three to four Chinese ships regularly stayed at the shoal over the past three years.

AFP spokesman Brigadier General Restituto Padilla said the Philippine Coast Guard has been "closely following and monitoring developments in the area."

"The AFP though is glad and welcomes this current development that will definitely benefit our fishermen," said Padilla. (VR/Sunnex)

http://www.sunstar.c...gh-shoal-506334

http://www.gulf-times.com/story/520986/Duterte-threatens-arrests-without-warrant-over-dru

Ah, yes, "Don't make me do this..." the words used by every abusive husband before he beats up his wife...

2 of our construction workers surrendered a few months ago..They have given up Shabu and work harder than ever to avoid distraction..One of them was asked to report 2 weeks ago for a drug test..He was clean..Whew!
We asked them if they have been tempted to buy shabu since..They say the only people selling Shabu anywhere are cops in sting operations..
"Never again" they said..
Looks like the war on drugs really is working in our province.

Good result