What Good Is A Filipino College Education?

What good is a Filipino college education? It's plenty good. In fact without a college education you are going to be hard up finding a job in the Philippines. Lawyer, doctor, nurse, architect, teacher, you simply cannot land a job if you have not sloughed your way through a proper four year course. Don't believe me? Take a look at these Now Hiring posters. Each job requires a college education.

You want to pump gas for a living? Then you need to be college educated.

Time to make the donuts!  But only with at least 2nd year college. High school graduate can be considered but you better have a pleasing personality and look cute in that uniform.

A cashier or a salesclerk at Kmart! This would be the bootleg Kmart and not a genuine Philippine branch of this American tradition. This picture is a little old. I wonder if they ever found 12 female college graduates between 18-25 years old and at least 5ft tall to hire as cashiers and salesclerks. What do you think?

A visual merchandiser.

Time to deliver the donuts! But only if you have at least 2nd year college.

The market is obviously flooded with tourism graduates so why not put that degree to use and be a Lady Sales Assistant/Cashier at the local vet! Men need not apply.

Finally you can be a Robinson's Supermarket Associate. They have many available job opportunities. However if you just want to be a cashier you only need a 2 year associate degree instead of a 4 year course What a relief, eh? Receiver/Receiving Clerk still requires four years of study. Can't have stupid and uneducated people running the backroom.

So you see having a college education is very important in the Philippines. Everyone you see working at a job has a four or two year degree. Filipino employers demand intelligent and hardworking employees. That is why this country runs so smoothly. You really can't be employed without possessing a 4 year degree. I mean you can but then you'd be like a freelance pedicurist looking for toes to pick clean at the park. Or a washerwoman looking for laundry to scrub. Is that the kind of life you want to live? Stay in school!

Retards in the Government 125

It's your weekly compendium of foolishness and corruption and murder in Philippine politics. 

https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2019/10/19/1961520/duterte-tells-espenido-kill-everybody-bacolod

“Bacolod is badly hit now and I placed Espenido there because he is the only police official feared the most. And I told him to go there and you are free to kill everybody. 

‘Go, start killing them’,” Duterte said.
Asked for comment on Duterte’s instruction, Espenido said it was just the President’s manner of talking.

Obviously by everybody he means drug dealers and users but that only means Duterte is giving the ok to kill drug dealers and users. EJK's? Will the body count being to soar?

https://politics.com.ph/will-blood-flow-in-bacolod-its-gods-will-espenido/

Just days after President Rodrigo Duterte to be “free to kill everybody” in Bacolod City, Lt. Col. Jovie Espenido obliged by declaring it’s God’s plan. 

“It’s God’s will. [We] will follow the rule of law,” Espenido told reporters when asked if Bacolod City would turn bloody under his watch.

It seems that it will!

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1178892/40-rizal-cops-sued-over-slay-of-3-yr-old

The police chief of Rodriguez, Rizal, and 39 others are facing charges of murder and obstruction of justice over the June 29 killing of 3-year-old Myca Ulpina in the government’s antidrug war. 

“I hope Myca is the last victim of this drug war. She was only 3 years old, she was very young,” Ulpiana’s mother, who used the alias “Tess” for her own security, told reporters. 

Tess filed charges of murder against Lt. Col. Resty Damaso, chief of the Rodriguez town police, and 13 of his men; and Lt. Col. Noel Campos, chief of the Rizal provincial police’s Intelligence Branch, and six of his men, in the Office of the Ombudsman. 

She also filed separate charges of obstruction of justice against 19 other police officers from the Rodriguez municipal station, Police Regional Office 4-A Scene of the Crime Operations, Regional Investigation and Detective Management Division, and Philippine National Police Internal Affairs Service. 

Myca was killed with a bullet to her neck while policemen were chasing her father, Renato, following a failed drug bust in Rodriguez on June 29. 

While fleeing, Renato picked up Myca, who was then hit by a bullet. She died in the hospital the next day.  Renato, his alleged cohort Enrique Cawilig and a police officer were also killed in the operation. 

Former PNP chief and now Sen. Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa then remarked that while Myca’s death was unfortunate, “shit happens.”

I am sure filing these charges made her feel better about her daughter's tragic death but who knows if the charges will stick? 

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1179341/ninja-cops-probe-senate-panels-push-raps-vs-albayalde

Police Gen. Oscar Albayalde, who stepped down as Philippine National Police chief early this week, and 13 of his subordinates should face life imprisonment for the alleged recycling of some 162 kilograms of “shabu” (crystal meth) seized in a purported drug sting in Pampanga six years ago, according to recommendations by a Senate inquiry that Sen. Richard Gordon cited to reporters on Friday. 

“When you misappropriate the drugs [you confiscated] and you sell it, that’s life imprisonment. When you failed to account confiscated drugs, that’s punished under this law,” the senator said. 

He cited Section 27 of Republic Act No. 9165, or the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002, which imposes life term on a government official who “misappropriates, misapplies or fails to account for confiscated, seized or surrendered dangerous drugs.”

It appears things went south rather quickly for Albayalde. The PNP is blabbing about due process and being innocent until proved guilty which is quite ironic seeing how they conduct their drug war. DeLima has sat in jail for almost 3 years now with no trial. How long will it take for Albayalde and his men to face a trial?

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1180278/pnp-files-criminal-raps-vs-albayalde

Former Philippine National Police chief Oscar Albayalde now has to face criminal investigation along with 13 of his former officers in Pampanga province who have been accused of letting a drug lord escape in exchange for P55 million and selling a large amount of seized “shabu” (crystal meth) six years ago. 

The PNP Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) charged Albayalde and the 13 officers in an amended complaint filed with the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Monday. 

Police Lt. Col. Joseph Orsos, lawyer for the CIDG, told reporters that Albayalde was included as respondent based on “old evidence and the Senate transcript,” referring to the 2013 complaint and the testimonies during the legislative inquiry. 

“The totality of the evidence shows that he (Albayalde) is probably liable, just the probability,” Orsos said, adding that Albayalde’s call to the CIDG was “somehow [an] indication of liability” because “somehow he’s trying to persuade in behalf of the other respondents.”

The probability of liability or a crime is indicative of their liability for that crime? Due process in the Philippines is quite strange!

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1179587/nupl-will-file-cases-vs-duterte-in-2022

During its fifth Congress, NUPL also agreed to sue “state security forces” for the extrajudicial killings (EJKs) and other human rights violations. 

“The justice system in the Philippines is unable to provide legal remedies to victims of EJK and other human rights violations because as President Duterte claims, he is immune from suit,” Colmenares said.“That is why we will pursue more cases against him in the UN and other international mechanisms for now.” 

He added that more charges would be filed before international bodies such as the United Nations. 

Such charges are “preparations” for more cases to be filed domestically once the President’sterm ends in 2022, Colmenares added. 

“President Duterte cannot even promise members of the police and military that they will not go to prison because even President Duterte himself cannot escape criminal accountability once he steps down from office,” Colmenares said. 

In an interview with INQUIRER.net, Colmenares said that aside for being charged with crimes against humanity, Duterte would also face raps for grave threats. 

“That’s why I’m very surprised when he always says: ‘Is it a crime to threaten to kill people?’ Of course, it’s a crime. You cannot threaten to kill people and you don’t commit a crime,” he said. 

According to Colmenares, the President will also face civil cases for damages for the EJK victims.

The Duterte administration has denied again and again that there are any EJKs while Duterte himself has said his only sin is EJKs.  Will be fun to watch how this plays out and how the online trolls will toss mud at the NUPL calling them traitors and destabilisers and what not.

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1179612/ph-still-among-global-laggards-in-fight-vs-tb

Apart from coping with a surge in measles and dengue cases, as well as the reemergence of polio after almost two decades, the Philippines  ranks fourth among countries with the highest incidence of tuberculosis (TB), according to the World Health Organization (WHO). 

With a population of 107 million, the country’s tuberculosis incidence rate stands at 554 per 100,000 persons, which is four times higher than the global average of 130 per 100,000. 

The report also pointed out that allocating funds to address tuberculosis should improve, given that the pace of progress “is not yet fast enough.” 

In the case of the Philippines, WHO said that of the $205-million (P10.5-billion) budget needed for an efficient tuberculosis program, 63 percent remains unfunded, while 25 percent is shouldered by international organizations. Only 12 percent of the budget is shouldered by the government.

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1179316/ph-in-midst-of-health-care-crisis

Health workers’ groups warned on Friday that the government’s health programs are bound to falter if it fails to address the “health crisis” besetting the country. 

In addition to outbreaks of infectious diseases, the groups said the health sector remains grossly underfunded with hospitals still understaffed and personnel still underpaid. 

Nurses are no longer willing to work in the country’s hospitals because, aside from being unprotected by law, they are also overworked and underpaid, Abenojar said. 

“Why did we come to this situation? Because there’s a lack of plantilla positions. Understaffing persists. There is no shortage of nurses. There is only a need to improve their working conditions,” Abenojar said. 

“Health workers have been unhealthy and uncared for despite [sometimes] enduring 16 hours of duty. We have seen a historical increase in the number of contractual health workers receiving floor wages without security of tenure, few or absent benefits but with huge workloads,” Mendoza said. 

The realities in the health sector, Abenojar said, should make the government rethink its priorities because the situation is nothing short of a crisis. 

Although administration lawmakers promised to restore the budget cuts, the All UP Workers Union-Mania (AUPWU) argued a 2020 budget without cuts would still be way off the P10 billion it needs to “render quality health care for all its patients.”

Both of these news items go together. A lack of nurses, many refusing to work in the Philippines because of the low pay and long hours, plus a lack of funding for health programs and hospitals make for the "health care crisis" which is sweeping the nation.

https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/265419/454-personnel-linked-to-drugs-dismissed-from-pnp

Even as the Philippine National Police (PNP) takes the forefront of the government’s drug war, some 454 of its own personnel who were found guilty of involvement in the drug trade have been dismissed from service, Lt. Gen. Archie Gamboa, officer-in-charge of the PNP, said Monday. 

Gamboa said that the data covering July 2016 until September 20, 2019 shows that 352 personnel tested positive for drug use, while another 102 were involved in other drug-related activities including coddling drug lords. 

According to Gamboa, the 454 personnel are among the 9,172 officers and staff who have been penalized with administrative charges due to involvement in criminal activities and violation of rules and regulations of the PNP. 

He said this figure is roughly 4.7 percent of the total number of PNP personnel currently in service. 

In total, there were 2,806 personnel dismissed from the service during the period; 535 were demoted in rank; 4,721 were suspended; 762 were reprimanded; 60 were restricted to quarters; 208 were forfeited of salary; and 80 were withheld of privileges. 

Gamboa said that in 2019 alone, 2,286 personnel were slapped with penalties for administrative cases.

The PNP regularly releases this same info over and over again which is the number of cops dismissed or penalised since Duterte took the reigns in July 2016. Then they add a little update. The numbers never go down. And no one, it seems, is facing criminal charges. Only administrative charges!

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1179839/2-cops-caught-smuggling-contraband-into-bilibid

The Philippine National Police said on Sunday that it would keep a close eye on the policemen assigned at the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) after two of them were reportedly caught trying to sneak liquor and tobacco into the national penitentiary. 

In a radio interview, Brig. Gen. Bernard Banac, the PNP spokesperson, said that two members of the National Capital Region Police Office’s Special Weapons and Tactics (NCRPO-SWAT) unit were under investigation. 

While conceding that there were still some rogue members in the PNP, Banac assured the public that efforts to cleanse their ranks would continue until the scalawags were weeded out of the service. “They have no place in the PNP,” he said.

So what happened to these SWAT officers? Have they been charged with a crime and placed in jail? There are more than "some rogue members in the PNP."  Way more!

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1180389/ncrpo-probes-16-cops-nabbed-for-smuggling-contraband-inside-nbp

The National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) said Tuesday that it is currently investigating the case of 16 policemen guarding the New Bilibid Prison (NBP), after they were caught reportedly smuggling contraband inside the national penitentiary. 

The NCRPO said confiscated from the uniformed personnel were liquor, gadgets and tobacco leaves.

Are the two mentioned above part of this group of 16 or are they separate? What do they mean by tobacco leaves?  Loose tobacco or actual uncut leaves?

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1179894/pnp-dismisses-4-ninja-cops

Six police officers or “ninja cops” allegedly involved in the questionable anti-drug operation in Antipolo City in May this year were dismissed from service, Lt. Gen. Archie Gamboa, Philippine National Police (PNP) officer-in-charge revealed on Monday. 

Gamboa said the dismissed officers are MSgt. Donald Roque, MSgt. Rommel Vital, Cpl. Romeo Encarnacion Guerrero Jr., SSgt. Stephen Domingo, Pat. Lester Velasco, and Pat. Eduardo Soriano II. 

Roque, Vital, and Guerrero were also involved in the controversial drug raid in Pampanga in 2013.

Only dismissed? What about charged with a crime? What about arrested and sitting jail until trial? It's no good to simply dismiss these men.

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1180434/ex-zambales-mayor-nabbed-for-guns

Authorities on Tuesday arrested a former mayor of this town for alleged illegal possession of firearms and ammunition. 

Police Captain Marvin Domacena, chief of this town’s police, said the farm of Romeo Lonzanida, 85, at Sitio Nangalisan in Barangay Burgos here yielded two unregistered firearms with ammunition during the operation about 3 a.m. 

Lonzanida has standing warrants of arrest for other cases, including graft charges, police said.

Another former politician arrested on weapons charges.  And he was wanted for other crimes as well.

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1180369/ombudsman-suspends-cheds-vitriolo-for-misconduct

The Office of the Ombudsman has ordered a three-month suspension of Commission on Higher Education (CHED) executive director Julito Vitriolo after finding him guilty of simple misconduct. 

The suspension order stemmed from a complaint filed by former CHED chairperson Patricia Licuanan. 

Licuanan alleged in her complaint that Vitriolo issued a memorandum recommending to CHED Regional Office the issuance of a provisional permit in favor of one private school in contravention of Commission en Banc Resolution, which disapproved said school’s application. 

According to the order signed by Ombudsman Samuel Martires on October 4 but was released to the media on Tuesday, Vitriolo “issued the Memorandum without due regard to the policies and guidelines of CHED.” 

Vitriolo was previously dismissed by the Ombudsman after he was found guilty of grave misconduct and gross neglect of duty in a complaint filed by a former faculty member of the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (PLM). 

But last September, a Supreme Court ruling affirmed the Court of Appeals’ decision to reinstate Vitriolo to his post as CHED executive director.

This was dismissed after being found guilty of grave misconduct but was reinstated to his post as CHED executive director last month and now he is being suspended for 3 months for simple misconduct because he issued a memorandum improperly. Sounds like he is not the man for the job.

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1180372/186-govt-agencies-now-on-foi-website-dutertes-office-not-one-of-them

One hundred eighty six government agencies are already enrolled  in the electronic Freedom of Information (eFOI) portal since it was launched in November 25, 2016. But the Office of the President (OP) is not one of them. 

On July 23, 2016, Duterte issued Executive Order No. 2, which laid down a policy of full public disclosure and transparency in public service to promote accountability, and set the guidelines for requesting and releasing information from offices under the executive branch. 

The passage of an FOI bill was a campaign promise of President Rodrigo Duterte, but halfway through his six-year term as President, the Chief Executive has not seen Congress pass any FOI bill.

Duterte issues an EO in 2016 laying down a policy of transparency in government and an FOI bill was part of his camping promise but his office is not participating in the FOI website.  Why not?

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1180511/bulacan-village-chief-gunned-down

Unidentified motorcycle-riding assailants killed a village chief in this town on Tuesday morning. 

Police Col. Chito Bersaluna, Bulacan police director, said Felimon Lazaro, 52, barangay captain of Malipampang, succumbed to bullet wounds while his companion, Richard Del Rosario, from Barangay Pala-pala, was hit by a stray bullet. 

Investigators said the victims were standing outside Lazaro’s house about 7 a.m. when the gunmen approached them and fired shots.

Another local official assassinated by motorcycle gunmen right in front of his own house!

https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/265804/cdo-ex-vice-mayor-four-others-linked-to-a-p400-million-investment-scam-nabbed-in-cebu

The former vice mayor of Cagayan de Oro City and four other individuals were arrested inside a  cafe in Mandaue City, Cebu for running off with P400 million in investments to their double-your-money scheme company. 

(Their modus is to offer a scheme, details on how to grow an investor’s money so they invest P5,000 or P20,000 up to a maximum of P500,000. They said the money will grow double, or at a rate of 15 to 20 percent a month. They were able to fool many investors in Mindanao.)

How do people keep falling for these scams? A former Vice Mayor is involved in this one. Vice indeed!

https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/265660/lack-of-incinerator-delays-destruction-of-shabu-now-stored-at-pdea-7-repository-getalla

The Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency in Central Visayas (PDEA-7) does not have an allocation to pay for the destruction of illegal drugs that are now kept at their repository. 

PDEA-7 Director Wardley Getalla said that incineration would cost at least P16, 000 per session irregardless of the volume of drugs for destruction. 

Getalla said this was the reason why they had to wait for evidence to accumulate at their repository before they start to make arrangements for its destruction. 

“We cannot afford to destroy just small amounts of drugs so we need to consolidate the drugs to reach the desired amount (for  destruction),” said Getalla. 

He said that they now have at least 35 kilos of shabu at their repository while 19 kilos remain in court for use as evidences in cases filed against different drug users and peddlers. 

The PDEA director said that it was still in 2017 when they last incinerated shabu.  They made arrangements with the Cosmopolitan Funeral Homes to avail of free incineration.  But Getalla said that they cannot avail of the same service on a regular basis because it was costly. 

Getalla said that allocation for drugs incineration is not also included in their annual budget because the offender is supposed to shoulder the expense. 

But since no offender has so far offered to destroy evidences that were used in court against him/her, PDEA-7 is left with no other choice but to find means to ensure the proper disposal of the illegal substance.

Unbelievable. Totally unbelievable. You would think they would put it in the budget. As if anyone is going to volunteer to pay the expenses to destroy the drugs especially at P16,000 per session.

https://cnnphilippines.com/news/2019/10/23/ncrpo-bilibid-contraband-smuggling.html

There's another change of guards in the New Bilibid Prison as the National Capital Region Police Office recalled 551 of its men. 

These 551 police personnel will be replaced by members of the Regional Public Safety Battalion. 

According to the Bureau of Corrections, the replacement was made to address an issue where 15 police personnel were caught sneaking into the prison contraband items including cellphones, cigarettes and alcohol. 

It was also made to prevent policemen from getting too familiar with the inmates and the prison.

551 men dismissed from New Bilibid. Will their replacements also be dismissed?

https://news.mb.com.ph/2019/10/22/101-lgus-fell-short-in-complying-with-road-clearing-ops-dilg/

“The Department of Interior and Local Government has already issued the show cause orders to these 101 LGUs and we are awaiting their replies on why they were not able to comply with the President’s directive and why they should not be suspended,” DILG Undersecretary Jonathan Malaya said during Tuesday’s press briefing.

https://news.mb.com.ph/2019/10/22/show-cause-orders-to-be-issued-to-99-barangays-for-failing-to-enforce-road-clearing-ops/

The Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) confirmed on Tuesday that 99 barangays in Manila will be issued show-cause orders for supposedly failing to dutifully enforce their road clearing operations.

101 LGUs nationwide and 99 barangays in Manila failed to clean up their streets. Maybe they are getting too many kickbacks?

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1180589/porsche-cayenne-hummers-other-cars-given-to-pnp-lgu-afp

The Cagayan Economic Zone Authority on Monday, Oct. 21,  turned over at least 50 government-sequestered vehicles to the Santa Ana local government, the Philippine National Police and the Armed Forces of the Philippines. 

Cagayan Economic Zone Authority administrator Raul Lambino said the ecozone would also donate 350 other cars to other national agencies and local government units in Cagayan Valley region and other nearby regions.

Are these confiscated vehicles? I thought the government ran over them with bulldozers?

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1180249/3-cops-in-slay-of-mayors-son-sacked

Three policemen, including a senior officer, have been dismissed from the Philippine National Police over the killing of the son of Mayor Marcelo Gayeta of Sariaya, Quezon, and his companion in an alleged shootout in Tayabas City in March. 

In an Oct. 17 ruling, Brig. Gen. Edward Carranza, outgoing regional police director of Calabarzon (Cavite, Laguna, Batangas, Rizal and Quezon), removed from the police service former Tayabas police chief, Lt. Col. Mark Joseph Laygo, Cpl. Lonald Sumalpong and Pat. Robert Legaspi after results of administrative charges filed against them were released. 

“Under the qualifying circumstances of evident premeditation, treachery and abuse of superior strength attended by aggravating circumstances of grave irregularity in the performance of duty, grave dishonesty and conduct unbecoming of a police officer with no mitigating circumstance to consider … they are hereby meted the commensurate penalty in its maximum period of dismissal from the police service,” Carranza said. 

Carranza said they were found guilty of two counts of grave misconduct. 

But a report by the National Bureau of Investigation, in a probe which was sought by the Gayeta family, showed that the younger Gayeta and Manalo were murdered by policemen. 

The NBI had obtained the testimonies of four other policemen who were allegedly involved in the supposed shootout, which prompted the filing of double murder charges against Laygo, Sumalpong and Legaspi. The three policemen are detained at the Quezon provincial jail.

It seems rather silly to dismiss them only now after they have been charged with double murder and are being held in jail awaiting trial. This incident happened months ago in March.

https://globalnation.inquirer.net/181386/inday-sara-represents-duterte-in-japan-emperors-banquet

Davao City Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio represented her father, President Rodrigo Duterte, during Japan Emperor Naruhito’s banquet in Tokyo on Tuesday night. 

The President had to cut short his trip to Japan “due to unbearable pain in his spinal column.” 

Sara was among the “lean” delegation of Duterte to witness the enthronement of Emperor Naruhito. 

“According to Mayor Duterte, she was able to leave the event at 11:00 p.m. as she spent time to chat with other world leaders, assessing the event as an opportune time to network and mingle with them,” Panelo added.

There are a lot of problems here.  First of all she is only the Mayor of Davao and not a part of the national government. As such she doe snot represent the nation. In fact they are bold to say she was representing her father and not that she represented the nation. Why was she tagging along anyway? The ambassador could have filled in or the VP.  Why does she tag along on the taxpayers dime on so many of her father's trips?

Is Duterte really the Superhero Icon of the Hong Kong Action Film "White Storm 2?"

Time for a mother movie review! Ths time it's a Hong Kong action film titled "White Snow 2: Drug Lords" starring Andy Lau.

What does a Hong Kong action film have to do with the Philippines you ask? Because DFA Secretary Teddyboy Locsin has tweeted to the whole world that this movie is a vindication of Duterte's war on drugs and that Duterte is the movie's SUPERHERO icon for the fight against drugs.

Is this true? Does the hero of the movie "White Snow 2" dedicate himself to Duterte's war against drugs? Does he really donate tens of millions of dollars to Duterte's war on drugs?  There is only one way to find out and that is to watch the movie.

"White Snow 2" is a tale of two friends, Tin and Dizang, who drift apart. Tin leaves his drug and gangster lifestyle to become an obscenely wealthy broker. Dizang works his way up the chain and becomes a big time drug dealer. Both are number one in their respective trades.

Tin's past comes back to haunt him as receives a letter from an ex-girlfreind who is dying of terminal cancer in the Philippines. She tells him she was pregnant with their son Danny before she left him and that know he is a drug addict and she wants Tin to look after him. Feeling the burden of this knowledge he immediately books a flight to the Philippines.

Tin is so wealthy he is able to bribe the PNP  to take him to a drug den where his son lives. 

Wow so much danger that they actually pull into a drug area in a limo!

"Where there are drugs, there's gonna be danger," says the PNP officer to Tin. Amazingly enough these officers, with no gear or masks like in On the President's Men, bust into the drug den and shout, "Where's Danny!" An incredible rooftop chase follows. Danny slips and dies.

In the next scene we see Tin at a drug rehab centre for youth. Along the way the man in charge leading him around says:

Drug is a very big problem in the Philippines. Our President claims that 75% of crimes are drug related. 

Tin is shown a large cell where people are writhing on the ground as they experience the pain of withdrawal.

At the end of Tin's tour of this rehab centre he gives his tour guide a check of an undetermined amount as a donation. How do I know that he is giving a donation to a drug rehab centre?  Because at 22:36 we see him leave the building and it clearly says Drug Addict Centre on the big sign out front. Also later on in the film at the 1 hour and 4 minute mark we learn this fact explicitly.

Next we see Tin sitting in his hotel room watching TV.  He is listening to somebody on TV talk about his war on drugs.

"You can hit 7 or maybe 10 and yet the people are wallowing in agony and suffering. My war against drugs will not stop until the end of my term. Until the last pusher, or drug lord, are killed. You know what? For those who are listening simultaneously, the bad people, just stop if you are doing bad things. I will not let you succeed." 

Ok there is a Philippine flag standing next to the podium so I guess this is supposed to be the President of the Philippines.

Looks more like Moe from the Three Stooges than Duterte!

Oh a wise guy eh!?

Tin is very inspired by this speech.  The camera pans on his face as he watches and we can see his thoughts working. What will he do?  Without giving too much away Tin goes back to Hong Kong and starts killing drug lords! 

But note that. He starts killing DRUG LORDS! At 1 hour and 10 minutes Tin is confronted by the media and he says:

"I sympathise with drug addicts. The problem with drugs is not their fault. The root problem is the drug lords. Without drug lords there'll be no drug problem." 

Everyone shouts, "What can we do!?"

Tin says:

"I hereby announce I'll pay a $100M bounty if anyone can kill the biggest drug lord."

At the end of the film a police officer and Tin have the following exchange:

Tin: The law can't punish him. Let me kill him.
Officer: That's enough. You can't kill all the drug lords in the world. Leave him to me.
Tin: I don't care! I'll kill as many as I can!

The movie concludes with Tin dead in his pursuit of killing Hong Kong's biggest drug dealer which just happens to be his old partner in crime Dizang.

So was Teddyboy right?  Was this movie a vindication of Duterte's war on drugs? Is Duterte the superhero icon of the film? The answer is a big NO!!!

First of all Teddyboy can't even get the plot right as Tin does not go to the Philippines AFTER his son dies but in order to find his son who is living in the Philippines as a drug addict.  Second of all Tin does not donate tens of millions to Duterte's war on drugs.  He makes out a check of unspecified amount to a drug rehab centre! That is because in Hong Kong Tin is involved in funding many anti-drug programs.

The speech of the fictional Philippine president appears to be copied from a speech Duterte gave in Singapore in December 2016. Watch the video here.

My campaign against drug will not stop until the, until the end of my term. That will be six years from now. Until the last pusher and the last drug lord are...

https://pcoo.gov.ph/dec-16-2016-speech-of-president-rodrigo-duterte-during-the-meeting-with-the-filipino-community-in-singapore-the-max-pavilion-and-hall-9/

After the word "are" Duterte then drags his finger across his neck and makes a noise like he is cutting off someone's head. The fictional president in this movie makes the same gesture. But take note again in this fictional speech the president says he will go after pushers and drug lords.  This is what Tin does. He kills drug lords. He sympathises with addicts.  The real president of the Philippines, Duterte, has no sympathy for addicts.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/30/rodrigo-duterte-vows-to-kill-3-million-drug-addicts-and-likens-himself-to-hitler

“Hitler massacred three million Jews ... there’s three million drug addicts. There are. I’d be happy to slaughter them.”

Tin does not go after addicts.  He only goes after drug lords. He sympathises with addicts. He funds programs to help them.  That is the complete opposite of the real Duterte. It is only after his son dies and he hears the speech of President Moe Howard that Tin decides violence might be the best way to solve the problem.

Tin's attempt to put into practice the fictional Philippine President's kill all the drug lords rhetoric ends with his own death!  

There are two morals to this movie. The first is that you cannot get rid of your past.  The second is violence is not the answer. Killing everyone will not solve the drug problem even if those you kill are all drug lords. You live by the gun, you die by the gun. A basic Christian principle from the lips of Jesus in Matthew 26:52. Violence is not the answer to the drug war. "White Snow 2" is a stunning rebuke to Duterte's war on drugs! Duterte is no superhero icon.  He is a warning sign to those who think violence can solve anything.

The message and the moral of "White Snow 2" are the exact opposite of what Teddyboy would have you believe.  Why does he constantly lie?

I Used to Think the Philippines was a Tragedy, Now I realise It's a Comedy

The title of this post is taken from a line in the new movie Joker. One possible interpretation of the movie is that it is about a man coming to terms with himself. He embraces his insanity with gusto. It's key to note that in the movie we do not witness a downward spiral into madness.  The man has been mad from the get-go. It is part of who he is. His insanity is innate. Putting on the clown mask allows Arthur Fleck to hide his identity and become the Joker.

You could say Arthur Fleck's insanity is part of his own personal culture. In the same way the culture of the Philippines is also innately insane. Foisting a foreign culture upon the Philippines only exacerbates this insanity by allowing their true identity to be masked.

To adapt another line from the movie:

What do you get when you cross Western culture with a society that has no idea how it works in spirit and treats it like trash?  You get what you deserve!

Ever since the Americans came and left the Philippines has tried its hardest to mimic a modern republican state with free democratic values but this is absolutely impossible because Western culture is completely alien to the Philippines. Here is a very relevant quote from Imperium by Francis Parker Yockey.

A central point when thinking about this subject is the growth and now the total supremacy of the Western idea of technics. The entire world of science is a reflection of Western man and no other, and we have seen Western technics conquer the world. We see our science being appropriated to varying degrees and in varying manners by every simian Culture on the planet which has advanced beyond the arboreal stage. The stone age Negro denizens of Africa, Haiti, New Guinea and the southern Philippines are fascinated by clocks, radios and even sails. When an American city wants to get rid of its old street cars, it sells them to Amerindian Mexico. The Semitic Arabs ride their Cadillacs and use rifles made in Belgium; both of which are bought with the gold of oil royalties from Wall Street, Dallas or London. The Oriental Chinese have learned well, and are expected to explode an atomic bomb at any moment. And even the half-Western Russians, from the days of Peter the Great, or even Rurik, have constructed their ships, cannon and rockets with European engineers. But does this mass appropriation of Western technics have the slightest effect on the inner and distinctive soul of the culture which appropriates? The answer is no, and we should not allow our foolish pride to think otherwise.

https://www.solargeneral.org/wp-content/uploads/library/imperium-ulick-varange-francis-parker-yockey.pdf

The "this subject" Yockey is referring to is the idea of the universality of all cultures and all men. The fact is all men are not created equal nor are all cultures men create equal. That is why a society like the Philippines appropriating Western culture and completely failing is not a tragedy but a comedy. What else could one expect? So let's have a laugh.

The Philippines finally has universal healthcare. Signed into law this year. But guess who's going to be running it?  The corrupt PhilHealth!

https://tribune.net.ph/index.php/2019/08/18/philhealth-corruption-incurable/

Hoo-hoo-haaaaaaa!!!! Top level PhilHealth executives allegedly run a mafia where they file fake claims and rake in millions in a race to see who can steal the most from fake dialysis patients. Surely they are the best group to run the new Universal Health Care system.

Universal healthcare no doubt means the government want's their citizens to be healthy right? I guess that's why they cut the budget of the DOH and the PGH!

https://www.philstar.com/nation/2019/10/01/1956333/pgh-budget-cut-p456-million

“The PGH is often the first option and the last resort of the poor and middle class families to get the best medical treatment,” he said.

https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/09/24/19/doh-budget-for-2020-cut-by-p166-b-amid-measles-polio-rise-garin

Hoo-hoo-haaaaa!!! Cutting the budget to the hospital all the poor use and cutting funds to the DOH in the midst of two serious epidemics! What's even funnier is the budgets for the PGH and DOH have been restored but with one caveat; more pork for Duterte!

Let's just get straight to the punchlines and avoid all these long articles shall we?

Ferdinand Marcos plundered this country with one had and handed out bread and circuses with the other to placate the people and many believe his time of dictatorship is the golden days of the Philippines!

Cops bust drug suspects but keep the drugs to resell them in order to bust suspects but keep the drugs to resell them in order to.....!

During every election season scores die at the hands of motorcycle assassins!

Every year scores of politicians die at the hands of motorcycle assassins!

The Department of Tourism is so desperate for tourists they are marketing malls as tourist attractions!

The world's first anti-corruption court is the Philippines' very own Sandiganbayan and ever since it's founding has been backlogged for years!

The Philippines' Constitution, rather then being merely a set of rules for how each branch of government should function, sets forth a broad social program that has not and cannot be implemented!

The Philippines has had several constitutions over the years, casting them aside and rewriting them as they see fit which shows they do not know how a Republic should function nor can they enter into the genius of such a government. In contrast the USA has had one constitution for 230 years!

OFW culture has created a subculture of leeches who wait around at home for their remittances and without the remittances from abroad a large part of the economy would collapse!

Though these leeches spend their remittances and prop up the economy the nation still has an underclass of do-nothings lazing about who contribute nothing of substance to the nation or their community!

OFW culture only exists because all the jobs in the Philippines pay little and so many people remain without training or education and are forced to be maids to rich Arabs and Chinese!

Those OFWs who do have training such as nurses and engineers take their skills out of the country causing a massive brain drain and leaving the Philippines the worse off!

The greatest technological feat of the past 50 years is the internet where all human knowledge is stored and accessible but Filipinos only use the internet for social media and to play League of Legends!

Those who do know how to use the internet use it to dupe their fellow citizens into swallowing propaganda which is why many people believe Marcos' time of dictatorship is the golden days of the Philippines!

Every service both in the private and public sector in the Philippines has a black market and politicians are very willing to let those markets flourish so long as they get their kickbacks and votes!

Laws are written and passed with no way to implement them or if they are implemented are done in a manner contrary to what is stated in the law!  (See the GCTA law and RA 9003)

The PNP is tasked with enforcing traffic laws but nobody is monitoring the roads for overloaded motorcycles, overload tricycles, speeding vehicles, vehicles not using headlights at night, vehicles not staying in their lanes, and vehicles not obeying the laws in general!

The Philippines is a society where no one trusts anyone else which is why every business has an armed guard and every house is surrounded by a fence topped with barbed wire with several dogs roaming both inside and outside the premises!

A culture that values surface over substance!

A culture that professes to be Christian but remains aloof from the solemn mysteries of the Trinity and God manifested in the flesh instead clinging ferociously to the pomp and idolatry of the Catholic church and the excesses of the Protestant church!

The only Christian nation in Asia which is also among the most corrupt in the world because the tenets of the Gospel have not penetrated into the souls of the people!

When the Americans set up shop the nation gradually accepted American jurisprudence practices but to this day there are no jury trials, the presumption of innocence is scoffed at as suspects are paraded before cameras like big game caught on the savannah, lawyers are regularly murdered, the right to a speedy trial is in word only as some trials take decades to reach a verdict, heinous crimes such as murder are settled financially, the PNP dissuades victims from filing charges against those who have harmed them, and many crimes only go to trial with assistance of private prosecutors!

Whoo-Hoo-Hoo-Hoo-Ha-Ha!!!!!

Laughter is the only appropriate response when contemplating the Philippines

In short in the Philippines we live in a society which is quite miraculous in that there is complete anarchy but somehow it doesn't all fall to pieces. What would have happened had the Spanish never landed on the shores of these islands? What would have happened had the US never taken possession of this nation? Would they still be living in bamboo huts and wearing loincloths like any other tropical tribe? Just as the Joker wears his mask of clown paint Filipinos wear the mask of Western Civilisation pretending they are modern men because they have cell phones. Wash away that mask and strip off that suit and what is left? The emaciated body of an insane man.