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It wasn’t the Davao blast on Friday night last week that prodded President Rodrigo Duterte to declare a state of lawlessness in the country. In fact, the declaration draft was already in the making before the Davao blast happened. This was what presidential legal counsel Chief Salvador Panelo insisted on Sunday, September 4. “Hindi na-trigger […] More
The signed proclamation of state of national emergency “shall remain in force until lifted or withdrawn by the President,” said Communications Assistant Secretary Chris Ablan. On Monday afternoon, September 5, before boarding the plane that would take him to the ASEAN meet in Laos, President Rodrigo Duterte signed the one-page proclamation. It was confirmed by […] More
President Rodrigo Duterte said he did not want to fight with US President Barrack Obama and blamed the US State Department for giving statements on the extrajudicial killings in the Philippines. “I do not want to quarrel with him. He’s the most powerful president of any country on the planet,” Duterte told reporter upon his […] More
President Rodrigo Duterte threatened to curse US President Barack Obama if he asks about the killings in the Philippines, adding that asking him such a question would be a sign of disrespect towards him and the Filipinos. “You must be respectful. You just don’t throw a question and statements. Putangina. Mumurahin kita sa forum na […] More
The PNP and AFP cannot run the country according to the chief executive’s wishes. This was Senator Risa Hontivero’s reaction to President Rodrigo Duterte’s statement about how he was “inviting now the Armed Forces of the Philippines, the military, and the police to run the country in accordance with [his] specifications.” The senator issued her […] More
Good news for fund raisers who have vital information leading to the arrest of the recent Davao bomb suspects. Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio is offering a P2-million reward for information leading to the arrest, plus the act itself of arresting the suspect, in the bombing of a night market in Davao Friday night. In […] More
Crush the Abu Sayyaf—this was Senator JV Ejercito’s urgent call to President Rodrigo Duterte on Sunday. The call was actually his voice of support for Duterte’s strong military campaign against the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG). “Kung kayang tapusin na tapusin na yan kasi hindi naman titigil yan eh. Kung kinakailangan mag-all out war, mag-all out […] More
“These people are like germs which must be eliminated,” Agriculture Secretary Emmanuel Piñol quoted President Rodrigo Duterte as saying about the Abu Sayyaf (ASG). And Duterte wants no less than total annihilation for ASG, even to the extent of hiring mercenaries like the Gurkhas of Nepal. In a Facebook post, Piñol said on Sunday that […] More
Netizens called out Peter Laviña for saying that the political opposition, referring to hecklers, colluded with the drug lords and Abu Sayyaf in bombing Davao City’s night market on September 2. While many of the commenters on Laviña’s conspiracy theory post, there were also netizens who slammed him for posting something that only served to […] More
After being slammed for a misleading post using the photo of a victim in Brazil who was raped and killed in 2014 and presenting it as though the incident happened in the Philippines, Peter Tiu Laviña is at it again. This time, his “extremely worrying” post, as how a journalist called it, was targeting the […] More
Senator Leila de Lima said she is not ‘second guessing’ President Rodrigo Duterte’s declaration of “state of lawlessness” but called on the people to be vigilant in making sure their rights are not violated. “I will not second guess the judgment of the President in declaring the existence of a state of lawless violence, when […] More
Senator Leila de Lima denied issuing a statement saying that the attack on Davao was President Rodrigo Duterte’s idea for him to have a reason to declare martial rule and that Davao City is not the safest city after all. This statement, which was attributed to de Lima, has been circulating in social media: “It […] More
