follow the money

The CIA destablized the Ukraine helped by an American businessman who funded propaganda of the so called opposition.

The result wax to replace a pro russian president with an antirussian president who was corrupt. Both Oliver Stone and other left wing sites discuss this, and of course, Alex Jones has had several programs about the back story of Hunter Biden's scandal

So a couple years later, that same American businessman funded a reporter from CNN to start an anti Duterte news site. 

Full story here by a writer who used to work at Rappler (2015 story) 

Philippine online news site Rappler announced today it raised an undisclosed amount from Omidyar Network, a fund created by eBay founder and entrepreneur Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam. The fund invests in “entrepreneurs who share our commitment to advancing social good at the pace and scale the world needs today.”....The funding follows an investment made by North Base Media (NBM) in Rappler last May. NBM is a fund for independent journalism founded by three prominent journalists: Marcus Brauchli, who headed the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post newsrooms; Sasa Vucinic, founder and former head of the Soros-backed Media Development Investment Fund; and Stuart Karle, former Reuters COO.

then you have this report about who is this guy:

Alexander Rubinstein and Max Blumenthal write about eBay founder Pierre Omidyar, in “How One of America’s Premier Data Monarchs is Funding a Global Information War and Shaping the Media Landscape”. 

 With offices in Washington, Silicon Valley, and six foreign countries, the Omidyar Network propagates the neoliberal ideology of its billionaire namesake through “impact investing” and a “property rights” initiative. Outside the U.S., the Omidyar Network funds an array of foreign media outlets, like Ukraine’s Hromadske and the Philippines-based Rappler, that have participated in pro-Western information warfare-style campaigns against rogue governments... 

This February 12, Rappler editor-in-chief Maria Ressa was arrested as well, accused of “cyber-libel” by the Filipino government for a 2012 article. 

The Omidyar Network and the Omidyar-funded Committee to Protect Journalists have set up a $500,000 legal defense fund for Ressa. It’s no wonder then that Ressa is able to continue with Rappler‘s operations despite its inability to turn a profit and is now expanding in the digital realm through livestreaming.

The Rappler news site is in English, so the elites and overseas readers could be influenced to hate Duterte, whose main sin is to hate the CiA for some of their shenanigans in Davao and try to make nice with China, who is on our doorstep thanks to PNoy and Obama not stopping their aggression in the west Philippine sea.

nor was this the only anti Duterte news site funded by CIA fronts, as this Manila Times article notes.

Source: USAid website. NED (National Endowment for Democracy) itself in its arrogance, however, doesn’t even bother about such legalities, and said in its report that the money given to the “institute” is to set up a media enterprise: “To provide the public with a credible source of independent news reporting. The organization will publish an online daily newspaper that covers critical and under-reported issues in the southern region of the country, including the peace process, governance, business, and the environment. The publication will feature articles and reports that examine in more depth the impacts of local- and national-level policies on communities in the region.” Neither the NED nor the US State Department obviously respects our Constitution. MindaNews is cross-linked to the other news sites funded by the NED: the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, Rappler, the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility, and Vera Files, which have received $2 million (P100 million) in funds since 2016, or when Duterte assumed power. This means that each of these anti-Duterte US-funded media entities routinely post on their websites the reports of the other websites. This has the effect of increasing the readership of their websites and putting their articles high in google and yahoo’s search results. poster The US-government’s funding of MindaNews is a very bad precedent that threatens our sovereignty. Any foreign government or a mammoth media enterprise can simply go into Philippine internet media by coursing its money through a “fake institute.” What would be next? A US-government funded VisayasNews and LuzonNews? Will our people’s opinions be molded by the US state?

Duterte entered the election late, and as the late Marian Santiago quipped, the choice was between the CIA candidate and the Communist one. The CIA candidate was an American citizen who lived in the WashingtonDC area for years and returned ten years before the election and reclaimed her citizenship...meaning she barely was eligible to run for office. There were of course other candidates, most of whom were well known politicians.

Duterte however as a populist tried to make nice with the NPA and Islamic rebels in Davao so was not reliable, so the CIA opposed him.

Back to Rappler and the nobel prize.

The international news laments the government was out to shut her down but it was more complicated.

Filippinos are very proud and oppose outsiders telling them what to do.

So when an American businessman suspected of being a CIA front gave the reporter money for her news site, the government objected. The story then changed to 'it was a gift to her, not to the website", at which point the government asked so why didn't you pay taxes.

So is this persecution? Only if you realize that the VIPS would have gotten away with it.

so poor lady will paint herself a martyr.

Finally, the background of this is that the Philippines was being groomed to be a narco state. We have millions of folks coming to and fro because they work or live overseas but visit home all the time. Many are not rich, and vulnerable to bribery to carry drugs.

So drug cartels saw this as a way to distribute drugs.

Duterte has been charged with ten thousand deaths, but what happened was that it was never said out loud but implied that if you wanted to kill your enemy, you could probably get away with it (as the rich get away with it all the time)..So a lot of the deaths were rogue cops killing criminals, some of the deaths were personal payback by people who could not get justice in the courts, and some of the deaths were drug dealers killing each other.

The dirty little secret is that Duterte's drug war was popular, since the average person who doesn't live in the elite gated communities were now safer.

We had four neighbors killed in home invasion robberies in the last couple of years, and they aren't counted. Nor are the political hits by the ex mayor's clan against our present mayor counted, even though these hits killed his brother and bystanders both times (including our nephew).

So cry me a river about giving a nobel peace prize to someone who was funded by outside interests to destroy Duterte because of his attempt to clean up the Philippines.

Like the BLM in the USA, they love civil rights for thugs but don't see the innocent people killed by thugs as a problem.