Lolo bought an electric rice drier a few years ago but I now hear is has been broken for awhile and not yet fixed. WTF? Don't ask me: I'm a doctor, not a mechanic.
Duterte is going after politicians, (link2) so expect more cries of "look at all those innocent people he killed" stuff in the news.
The ombudsman is crooked? Who wudda thot (I wonder if I could post one rumor about this that I know about but the libel law keeps me quiet).
#Lenileaks scandal: No, she is not behind those baaaad folks trying to remove Duterte (history lesson for non Pinoys: This is how we got Gloria, who overthrew populist Erap a couple years ago: our President and VP can come from different parties). (history lesson 2: Leni's husband was a popular guy who died in a plane crash, so she got the sympathy vote. Unlike him, she came from a rich family).
However, Trillianes, who once tried to pull a military coup against Gloria, is probably behind the movement.
a lot of the drugs are from Chinese gangsters, not just in China but from Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Duterte dared to mention Taiwan as allowing illegal drugs to be sent here, and boy did they get mad...(and has since pulled back on his accusation).
Wikipedia page on the "14K bamboo triad".
| Founding location | Guangzhou, Guangdong, China[1]Mainland China, Taiwan, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and South Africa |
|---|---|
| Territory | Los Angeles, California, Santa Ana, California, Southern California |
| Ethnicity | Chinese ethnic groups[2] |
| Membership (est.) | 20.000-25.000 |
| Criminal activities | Drug trafficking, counterfeiting, arms trafficking, arson, fraud, prostitution, human trafficking, identity theft, money laundering, extortion, murder, illegal immigration, kidnapping, hacking,racketeering, home invasion robberies[3] |
Ya think? Backstory: Chinese run the economy here, either immigrants or the descendents of immigrants. Lolo and many Pinoys hate Chinese, because they run the place, and non relations can't succeed or get ahead. So many of our best people emigrate.
Finally, StrategyPage reports on China's banking problem. for later reading, but this part about the Philippines (and the US defending the West Philippine Sea from China's territorial grab).
The growing bad debt problem, more than the South China Sea dispute, is what keeps Chinese leaders up at night. GDP growth is slowing, it was down to 6.7 percent in 2016 and the new American government is openly discussing economic retaliation against China. That is scarier than the American military because it can be more safely used by the Americans and the Chinese government refuses to discuss this vulnerability for obvious reasons. It is believed that nearly $600 billion worth of these loans are uncollectable.
Italics mine.
Heh. Trumpie boy is doing something. Don't expect the press to notice...
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