Yup. they take care of their own

Here, President Aquino aka Mr Clean, tried to prosecute our lovely ex president Gloria, for somehow getting wealthy in office (not to mention the Hello Garci vote stealing scandal and the ZTE bribe from China which was stopped when the press found out about it).

She promptly said she needed to leave the country for neck surgery, (a common way to flee justice here) and when they stopped her, let her stay in house arrest for a couple of years. Lot of other corrupt stuff happened on her watch, too many for me to keep up with. 

ah, but then the UN intervened and the Supreme court let her case disappear.

Of course, here everyone is related to everyone else, which is why all the big shots get away with corrupt practises, and when they are indicted, they usually get off scot free. One result is economic stagnation so that our hard working middle class emigrates overseas for jobs.

But in Arroyo's case, the "friends" who got her out went beyond the usual family connections in the Philippines:

Wikipedia:

In a case filed by human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, the UN Working Group decided Arroyo's hospital detention arbitrary and violative of the international law on human rights.

Let me count the links.

Mrs. Arroyo was a classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown.
Amal Clooney, is the wife of actor George, a huge Clinton backer.
and Arroyo got into office by a coup against Erap, a popular president, ex movie star, who didn't know you didn't take gifts and locals think he was removed by the global elite for not cooperating with their schemes; the elites merely said he was removed because he was corrupt. (he was arrested, and years later pardoned, and then became Mayor of Manila... no one ever seems to go away they just get recycled)

my point is that the elites take care of their own, and one reason I can't do a good job reporting on such things is that I don't really know who is related to whom, which is usually the key to knowing why people get away with this.

In the USA, one does not expect such things to happen, but you know, there are a lot of people in Congress who got rich somehow, and others whose spouses or family got great deals that would not be available to ordinary folks.

So when an unknown "whistleblower" who did not have direct access to a telephone call (i.e. was reporting a rumor), why did everyone in the MSM and Democratic party say impeachment before there was any real evidence?

Maybe because it's common knowledge that Joe Biden bragged about pressuring the Ukraine to fire a certain prosecutor or else. 




or, if you really want your head to spin, maybe it's not about Biden but Crowdstrike.

and you can go and read all about it there, because I have a life to live, but in a nutshell, Crowdstrike claimed the DNC server was hacked by Russia, so is the key behind the Russia conspiracy.

and if I didn't live in the Philippines and know the depth of corruption can stop criminal charges because friends help friends I would be like most Americans and just wonder why the hysterical twitterverse and other activists are so intent on pushing this thru.

and the news is full of this hysteria, but on CTH, they have the reports of all the presidents Trump met at the UN, with summaries of trade deals and new alliances being done. LINK LINK LINK LINK LINK LINK

But I guess just doing presidential things is not newsworthy.

and the winners? Grannie Warren, of course: And probably Trumpieboy, since most of us have had it with all the manipulative hysteria thrown at us by the MSM.