Does Bongbong have his father’s balls?

We’re going to find out!

The Telegraph:

Ferdinand Marcos, the president of the Philippines, has said he will not allow his country to become a “staging post” for military action ahead of a four-day official visit to Washington DC for security talks.

Mr Marcos’s official visit will be the first by a Philippine president in more than 10 years and comes amid heightened tensions between the United States and China as they compete for strategic advantage in the Indo-Pacific.

Manila has recently faced Beijing’s ire after granting the US access to four additional Filipino military bases. The move gives American forces a stronger foothold in locations close to Taiwan and in the South China Sea, where China is making sweeping territorial claims.

Mr Marcos must also counter domestic disquiet about the risk of being drawn into a future US-China conflict.

“We will not encourage any provocative action that will involve the Philippines by any other country,” Marcos told local reporters on Sunday as he flew to Washington.

“We will not allow the Philippines to be used as a staging post for any kind of military action.”

It’s a bit late for that, bro.

Right now is the time to cancel the deals.

Tell the Yankees to go home.

Get Xi involved.

Say Philippines is not a war country and is sick of being used that way by Creepy Uncle Sam the child-mutilator.

The is decision time.

Four new US bases makes you a belligerent in the US war on China. Sorry, but that’s the facts. That will mean China will be well within its rights to just bomb the shit out of you, and the US is not going to care or do anything to help you.

We all know what your dad would have done.

Does Bongbong have his father’s balls?

We’re going to find out!

The Telegraph:

Ferdinand Marcos, the president of the Philippines, has said he will not allow his country to become a “staging post” for military action ahead of a four-day official visit to Washington DC for security talks.

Mr Marcos’s official visit will be the first by a Philippine president in more than 10 years and comes amid heightened tensions between the United States and China as they compete for strategic advantage in the Indo-Pacific.

Manila has recently faced Beijing’s ire after granting the US access to four additional Filipino military bases. The move gives American forces a stronger foothold in locations close to Taiwan and in the South China Sea, where China is making sweeping territorial claims.

Mr Marcos must also counter domestic disquiet about the risk of being drawn into a future US-China conflict.

“We will not encourage any provocative action that will involve the Philippines by any other country,” Marcos told local reporters on Sunday as he flew to Washington.

“We will not allow the Philippines to be used as a staging post for any kind of military action.”

It’s a bit late for that, bro.

Right now is the time to cancel the deals.

Tell the Yankees to go home.

Get Xi involved.

Say the Philippines is not a war country and is sick of being used that way by Creepy Uncle Sam the child mutilator.

This is decision time.

Four new US bases makes you a belligerent in the US war on China. Sorry, but that’s the facts. That will mean China will be well within its rights to just bomb the shit out of you, and the US is not going to care or do anything to help you.

We all know what your dad would have done.

I would assume that she paid for the baby. It probably cost several thousand dollars. She should have got some paperwork for it.

This just shows how stupid white women actually are.

USA Today:

An American woman who attempted to carry a 6-day-old baby out of the Philippines hidden inside a sling bag has been arrested at Manila’s airport and charged with human trafficking, officials said Thursday.

They said Jennifer Erin Talbot was able to pass through the airport immigration counter on Wednesday without declaring the baby boy but was intercepted at the boarding gate by airline personnel.

Talbot, from Ohio, was unable to produce any passport, boarding pass or government permits for the baby, airport officials said.

Clad in an orange detainee shirt and in handcuffs, Talbot, 43, was presented to reporters in Manila on Thursday. She kept her head low and appeared at times to be on the verge of tears. She did not issue any statement.

Talbot had planned to board a Delta Air Lines flight to the United States with the baby, airport officials said.

“There was really an intention to hide the baby,” immigration official Grifton Medina said by telephone.

After discovering the baby, airline staff called immigration personnel, who arrested Talbot at the airport. She was later turned over to the National Bureau of Investigation and the baby was given to government welfare personnel.

The investigation bureau said Talbot presented an affidavit at the airport, allegedly from the baby’s mother, giving consent for the baby to travel to the U.S., but it had not been signed by the mother.

Officials said no government travel approval had been issued for the baby, prompting them to file human trafficking charges against her. The charges carry a maximum penalty of life imprisonment.

This is a disgusting old woman, who was presumably childless after a life of sex and abortions.

This is a very standard story because white women are stupid, filthy whores who do nothing but get fucked and have abortions until they hit their thirties, at which point they freak the hell out.

She just wanted a baby, and they have plenty of babies in the Philippines.

But why not just get the papers, you stupid bitch? How retarded do you have to be to try to sneak a baby in luggage? Buying fake papers would have cost just a few hundred dollars.

Anyway.

Hope she rots.

We don’t need any more childless, infertile old white whores in America, nor do we need anymore adopted Asian children.

I’m not even trying to call out the Philippine government, but I do think – just between me and you – that this official story is made-up in order to try and protect that very small tourist industry in the country.

I think this was a Moslem, I think the cops killed him, then I think they made up a story to cover it.

I mean, I don’t know that. But I do think it is more likely than the official “crazed gambler” story.

ABC News:

The lone suspect who launched a deadly attack on a casino and shopping complex in the Philippine capital that left dozens dead was a heavily indebted Filipino who was hooked on gambling, police said Sunday.

Manila police chief Oscar Albayalde said the man’s immediate family confirmed his identity as Jessie Carlos – a married father of three and former Finance Department employee who owed more than $80,000 dollars.

The revelations confirm that “this is not an act of terrorism,” Albayalde told a news conference. “This incident is confined to the act of one man alone as we have always said.”

Yes, “always said.”

They said it very early, when it was too soon to know.

Authorities have repeatedly dismissed a claim of responsibility by the Islamic State group for Friday’s attack on Resorts World Manila.

The suspect’s distraught mother, Teodora, wept during the news briefing and asked for forgiveness. “We’re asking for your apology. We can’t accept ourselves that my son became like this, he was a very kind son,” she said. “He chose to end his life than kill and kill people.”

“The message of what happened to my son is people should not get hooked on gambling so their families won’t get destroyed,” she said.

The Philippines has faced Muslim insurgencies for decades, though much of the violence has occurred in the troubled south, where ongoing battles with Islamic militants are taking place in the southern city of Marawi.

Albayalde said the man had sold off property to support his gambling habit of at least several years, including a vehicle. His family had grown so concerned they had asked casinos in the capital to ban their husband since April 3.

The news came after authorities released security footage showing Carlos casually exiting a taxi just after midnight and walking calmly into a vast entertainment and gambling complex like any other visitor. Shortly afterward, he dons a black ski mask, slips on an ammunition vest and pulls an M4 carbine assault rifle out of his backpack.

What follows borders on the surreal: a slow-motion arson attack and robbery so methodical and unhurried, the gunman appears to walk much of the way – even as he exchanges fire with a security guard and flees, slightly wounded, up a stairwell.

At least 37 patrons and employees died, mostly from smoke inhalation as they tried to hide on the second floor, including one the casino’s VIP rooms, Albayalde said. The gunman fled to an adjoining hotel, where police say he killed himself.

The video footage shown to reporters Saturday appears to bolster the government’s case that this was a botched robbery by a lone attacker with no known link to terrorism. Police said that’s exactly why they wanted to release it.

In his first remarks on the assault, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Saturday that the attacker was simply “crazy.” He questioned what the gunman was going to do with the $2 million horde of poker chips he had tried to haul away. He also discounted any links to the Islamic State group, saying this “is not the work of ISIS. The work of the ISIS is more cruel and brutal.”

The fact it took Duterte so long to make a statement also speaks to the official story being questionable.

But yeah, I mean.

Who knows.

Definitely a weird coincidence though.

This would have to be one of the weirdest non-terrorist terrorist-like events I’ve ever heard of. But the fact that he didn’t actually shoot any civilians does speak to it maybe being real.

Very, very strange timing.

This is a good idea.

Though personally, I think martial law is always a good idea.

Here’s a map:

The red-highlighted area is where the main Moslem areas are. In fact, they’re pretty much entirely concentrated there.

The rest of the island of Mindanao is mainly Christian and various pre-Christian tribal religions. It’s just the parts right near Malaysia that are Islamic.

There used to be more Moslems on the island, but they did a pretty good job of marrying them out and urging conversion through social shaming. A lot of them also fled to Malaysia.

CNN:

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte said his martial law declaration for the country’s restive south was necessary in order to fight militants there.

“I had to declare martial law in the Mindanao group of islands,” Duterte said at a news conference Wednesday. “It is our constitutional duty to enforce the law and provide security.”

Duterte’s order — which covers both the city of Marawi and the wider island of Mindanao, of which Marawi is a part — came after deadly clashes broke out between Filipino government troops and Islamist militants Tuesday.

If the terror threat spreads, Duterte said he’s not afraid to go further.

“If I think that the ISIS has already taken foothold also in Luzon and terrorism is not really far behind, I might declare martial law throughout the country to protect the people,” said the President, who cut short a visit to Russia to come home to deal with the violence.

Here he is meeting Putin.

He was very excited to meet his “hero” Putin, so it says a lot he cut that trip short to deal with this issue.

But he did get the weapons he wanted.

Fighting between government forces and the Maute group, an Islamist militant organization based in Mindanao, began in Marawi, a city of about 200,000 people.

ISIS’ media wing, Amaq Agency, put out a statement announcing that “fighters of the Islamic State launch a wide-scale offensive on positions of Philippine troops in the city of Marawi.”

Presidential spokesman Ernesto Abella confirmed that the fighters had taken over several government buildings in the city, and had torched others, including a church, a school and the city jail. It was not clear from his statement how damaged the buildings were by the arson.

Marawi is right on the edge of Moslem territory.

Illigan City to the north of it is 95% Christian. The capital of Moslem Mindanao is Cotabato City, to the South. Below that is a mix of tribalists, Moslems and Catholics. The big peninsula to the West, Zamboanga, is mostly Islamic. It leads to a series of islands which provide a direct route to Malaysia.

It is relevant that the fighting is on a border of the Moslem area, as it implies a plan to expand territory.

I’ve personally been to all of these places. Even back in the 00s, there was a relevant amount of low-intensity conflict in Cotabato, though not really in the city itself.

Mindanao is home to a sizable Muslim population, in contrast to the remainder of the country, which is overwhelmingly Catholic.

The militants also reportedly took over a medical center and replaced the Philippines flag with a black, ISIS-style banner.

Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) spokesman Lt. Col. Jo-Ar Herrera said that Isnilon Hapilon, the leader of the Abu Sayyaf Group, which has pledged allegiance to ISIS, was among the armed men.

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Three government troops died in the fighting, said Abella, and 12 were injured. Martial law was declared about 10 p.m. Tuesday night, and reinforcements were expected.

“Our operation is still ongoing in Marawi City and sporadic fighting is still continuing,” a statement from the Armed Forces of the Philippines said.

“The joint AFP-PNP team that is after Isnilon Hapilon and his cohorts is determined to finish him off,” the statement said.

…The violence prompted Duterte to cut short a visit to Moscow, during which one of his top priorities was to acquire Russian-made precision armaments to use against the militants in the Southern Philippines. It’s highly unusual for a US ally to purchase arms from Russia, an adversary, though Duterte said in October he planned to “break up” with the United States and turn to Russia and China.

Speaking from Moscow, Philippines Foreign Secretary Alan Peter Cayetano said that the violence in Mindanao, one of the Philippines’ southernmost islands, was Duterte’s priority, despite the high-profile visit to Moscow and St. Petersburg.

“(The Russians) understand that the security of the Filipino people, especially in Marawi and in Mindanao, is a priority,” Cayetano said. “I will be staying behind. The agreements will be signed.”

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Martial law will be in effect on the Muslim-majority southern Philippines island for 60 days “to suppress lawless violence and rebellion and for public safety,” said Abella, according to PNA.

Under the 1987 constitution, the president has the ability to place the country under martial law, though Congress has the ability to revoke the proclamation. The period should not last more than two months.

However, Duterte says martial law in the southern Philippines could last a year.

“If it would take a year to do it, then we’ll do it. If it’s over within a month, then I’d be happy,” Duterte said in a video posted on Facebook by Mocha Uson, the assistant secretary to the Presidential Communications Operation Office.

Now let us allow CNN to tell us how evil martial law is – even when you’ve got a literal Islamic uprising taking over cities.

The country suffered 14 years of martial law under former dictator Ferdinand Marcos, who was ousted in a peaceful revolution in 1986.

During those 14 years, perceived opponents of Marcos were subjected to numerous human rights violations, including imprisonment, forced disappearances and torture. Extrajudicial killings carried out by Marcos’ secret police were also common.

Many young Filipinos have little or no knowledge of the period under Marcos, and of life under martial law.

Duterte praised the use of martial law by Marcos, calling it “really good” at his news conference.

Of course it was really good.

All martial law is really good.

Marcos was not overthrown by a “people’s revolution,” he was overthrown by a Jewish orchestrated “color” type revolution. Paul Wolfowitz was literally in Manila when Marcos was forced to flee.