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As President Duterte Heads For Exit, Bongbong and Pacman Set to Challenge His Daughter in 2022 Poll

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Rodrigo Duterte, a political maverick whose image has echoes of Donald Trump, was elected President of the Philippines in May 2016. But under the country’s constitution he cannot stand for re-election next year.

The President of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, appears to be lining up his daughter Sara to bid to succeed him in next year’s election.

Sara, known to Filipinos as Inday Sara, looks likely to have some interesting and tough opponents in her fight to get into the Malacañang Palace.

On Friday, 23 July, a spokesman for the most famous Filipino on the planet - boxer Manny Pacquiao - confirmed he would be throwing his hat in the ring.

​Former Congressman Monico Puentevella told CNN: “It doesn't matter who else are running but Manny ‘Pacman’ Pacquiao is going to run for President. He will file his candidacy.”

But before announcing his candidacy Pacquiao, 42, has the small matter of a fight with Errol Spence, in Las Vegas on 21 August.

Spence, 31, is unbeaten in 27 fights and will be the bookmakers’ favourite going into the fight for the WBC and IBF world welterweight titles.

Whatever the result, it is likely to be Pacquiao’s last fight, and Puentevella said he is set to talk to a number of political parties when he returns to Manila at the end of the month.

She said: "Everybody's waiting to sit down with him and then we will discuss, who will be vice president, who will be senators." 

Pacquiao - known to fight fans as Pacman - was elected to the House of Representatives in the Philippines in 2010, re-elected in 2013 and then became a Senator three years later.

In the Senate he has strongly supported Duterte’s tough line on crime and has even gone further, co-signing a bill to bring back capital punishment which failed to get passed.

​But it will not be a straight contest between Pacquiao and Sara Duterte, whose 76-year-old father will probably stand as her Vice President, and the third candidate is a blast from the past.

The constitution of the Philippines - which was drawn up in 1987 - bars Presidents from running for re-election.

It was drawn up specifically to thwart a repetition of the dictatorship of President Ferdinand Marcos, a close ally of the United States, who was re-elected in a rigged vote in 1969 and then held onto power, largely under martial law, until finally being ousted by a People’s Power revolution in 1986.

​Marcos died in exile in Hawaii in 1989, having stolen millions of dollars from government funds, but his son Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, returned to the Philippines and was elected to the House of Representatives in 1992 and to the Senate in 2010.

Bongbong ran unsuccessfully for Vice President in 2016, narrowly losing out to Leni Robredo, and this time is going for the top job.

Despite his own lack of clear policies, his family’s huge wealth and allegations of corruption, Bongbong retains a personal following which could see him reclaim a position which his father was forced to give up due to street protests 35 years ago.

​But a poll last month by Pulse Asia put Sara Duterte well ahead - on 28 percent, compared with Bongbong on 13 and Pacman on eight percent.

​Grace Poe, who came third in the 2016 election, was on 10 percent and Francisco Domagoso, a former actor who is now Mayor of Metro Manila, was on 14 percent.

Duterte, who led the Pulse Asia poll for vice president, made his last State of the Nation address on Monday, 26 July.

He frequently went off script during a three-hour diatribe against communists, corrupt officials and paedophiles.

Duterte defended his handling of the pandemic - 1.5 million Filipinos have been infected and 27,000 have died and the economy has been hit hard.

He also defended his brutal crackdown on drug dealers: "While we have made great strides in ending rebellion and insurgency in various parts of the country, we still have a long way in our fight against the proliferation of drugs.”

​Only five percent of Filipinos have been fully vaccinated and Duterte urged people to get inoculated, but added: “We cannot afford more lockdowns lest our economy bleed to the point of irreversible damage."


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UK VUOLE ESCLUDERE LA CINA DAL MERCATO DELL'ENERGIA NUCLEARE: ORAMAI E' TARDI.

 

UK Reportedly Wants to Oust China From British Nuclear Energy Market

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The Financial Times has suggested that Downing Street wants to remove China's state-owned nuclear energy company from all future power projects in the UK. The report comes as there has been a cooling of relations between London and Beijing.

After a number of fall-outs between the two countries over political and economic issues, including the decision to force Huawei out of UK auction for the 5G network and London’s move to offer citizenship to Hong Kong protesters, Britain is increasingly unwilling to let China in on its home affairs.

Although China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN) already owns 33 percent of the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station in Somerset, England, the company’s future involvement in Britain's nuclear energy projects will be restricted, according to reports.

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The restrictions could affect plans for building the £20bn Sizewell nuclear power station in Suffolk. Also, the newly proposed nuclear power station at Bradwell-on-Sea in Essex - proposed by joint partners CGN and EDF Energy – will reportedly no longer get the green light from the UK government.

“There isn’t a chance in hell that CGN will build Bradwell. Given the approach we’ve seen to Huawei, [Downing Street] isn’t going to be letting a Chinese company build a new nuclear power station," a source close to the deal has been reported as saying.

The source has also suggested that talks were underway with the lead developer of Sizewell C about replacing CGN with a different partner.  

The change in mood in Westminster has been reflected in statements made by Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, who in 2020 said UK could no longer conduct “business as usual” with China because of the way COVID-19 had spread.

MI5 Director General Ken McCallum warned in July that Britons should be on the alert over spying and hostile state attacks from such countries as China and Russia in the same way they are on guard about terrorism. 

The Hinkley Point C nuclear power station is expected to be built by 2025, having an estimated cost of between £19.6 billion and £20.3 billion.

France’s EDF is said to be using the technical input of CGN engineers at Hinkley Point C, which will operate using European Pressurised Reactor technology. However, Downing Street is reported to have hoped that China would remove itself from the project without confrontation.

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HAITI? Q.E.D.

 

US Uses Slaying of Haitian President as Pretext for Further Occupation of the Country, Observers Say

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At least seven of the 25 alleged Colombian mercenaries involved in the killing of Haitian President Jovenel Moise received US military training between 2001 and 2015 while serving in the Colombian armed forces, The Intercept reported last Saturday, citing a US government official.

Last week, the Pentagon confirmed to the Washington Post that a "small number" of suspected Colombian assassins had been trained by the US military. The DoD fell short of specifying how many, or when, or what type of training was provided. However, Adam Isacson, director of the Defense Oversight programme at the Washington Office on Latin America, revealed in an interview with The Intercept that between 2000 and 2018, the US administered the training of more than 107,640 Colombian security personnel, substantially exceeding any other military collaboration the US maintains in the region.

'Moise Used to be a US Puppet'

Although the operation resembled a US-backed "coup d'etat" or high-profile assassination fomented via proxy mercenaries, it appears highly unlikely that Washington is behind it, according to Tamanisha John of Florida International University (FIU).

"I think right now, if anyone can say that there was a definite role that the US played, they would be speculating, because Moise was backed by the Biden administration and also by the Trump administration," she explains. "Under Trump, he recognised Juan Guaido as the president of Venezuela and under Biden – Biden actually did agree with Moise that his term would not end until 2022."

Moreover, Moise was very friendly to the US and could be de facto called a part of the US puppet regime in the country, according to the journalist: "He was able to become president because the Clintons actually went to Haiti under the former president, Michel Martelly, and picked Martelly, who then picked Moise." On the other hand, the press never adequately covered anti-Moise protests in the country, she notes, stressing that his rule had all the earmarks of "dictatorship".

At the same time, it appears that the Moise assassination is being used as a convenient pretext to step up the foreign presence in the region, although the US, France and Canada are already heavily involved in Haiti, according to the journalist.

"I honestly foresee more foreign intervention into the country," John says. "I think that overall, media coverage, especially in the US and also in the UK, tends to have a very biased slant towards being pro-war and pro-intervention."

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People attend a vigil in honor of Haiti's slain president Jovenel Moise, in Little Haiti neighborhood, Miami, Florida, on July 16, 2021.

'US, UN & OAN Can't Fix the Problem They Created'

Moise was "a brutal and oppressive enemy of the Haitian people", says Professor Danny Shaw, author, activist, and professor of Latin American studies: "So we're really talking about the death of a dictator, of a neoliberal puppet, to quote the popular movements in Haiti".

The leftist movements in the country clearly wanted his ouster but they would not seek to assassinate him this way, the professor believes.

However, Moise's death is unlikely to change the deplorable situation in Haiti, according to the academic.

"This is a completely neglected, oppressed, exploited people," Shaw says. "The US sweatshops and US agribusiness continue to churn out their production, paying Haitians an average wage of about five US dollars per day – if that. So to quote the Haitian people, they woke up with hunger on Tuesday, the day before Jovenel Moise’s assassination, and they woke up with hunger on Wednesday just the same."

The further involvement of the US, the Organisation of American States (OAS), and the UN won't fix the situation, according to the professor: "Those responsible for the disease surely cannot also pretend to bring the cure." What they're going to try to do is use this as their rationale for the next US, UN and OAS invasion and occupation of Haiti, as they've done so many times in the past, he believes.

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Collapsed buildings following earthquake, in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince. (File)

'International Community Should Step Back'

Haiti is the poorest country in the Americas, and has sustained serious political, economic and humanitarian challenges in recent years. Hundreds of thousands of households still need decent shelter following the 2016 Hurricane Matthew as well as the 2018 and 2010 earthquakes, according to a 2020 Human Rights Watch report. The government's failure to tackle the nation's socio-economic problems resulted in mass protests against Moise in 2019 which prompted a police response which some claimed constituted excessive force.

Amid the ongoing political crisis, the Haitian people do not need more interventions but a national dialogue where they can come together as a nation to facilitate the country's development, believes Jean Kinsley, a Haitian youth leader and political activist.

"I certainly hope that we will make the right decision, and the right decision is to have a national dialogue where we can pick a new leader and a new government that can tackle the most urgent issues that we are facing and especially the safety of the Haitian people, security problem," Kinsley says. "And the international community should be willing to accept the decision of the Haitian people."

Monique Clesca, a Haitian journalist, international development consultant and retired UN official echoes Kinsley: "I think a lot of people wish that the international community would step back and not tell us what to do and when to do it," she underscores. "And I think that is the sentiment. We have to try to get back to the Constitution, get back to some normal justice, normal law, something that everyone agrees to. When I say everyone, I mean the various political parties as well as civil society."

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Activists rally outside the US State Department against US involvement in Haiti, including the potential deployment of US troops after the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise

Meanwhile, it was reported on Monday that Claude Joseph, who has led Haiti as acting prime minister since 7 July, would hand power to Ariel Henry, a 71-year-old neurosurgeon and public official as soon as Tuesday. Henry was appointed by Moïse to the prime minister post two days before the assassination. The former president dissolved parliament in January 2020 and got a free rein to appoint ministers while ruling by decree.

The Moise appointee and Joseph have been engaged in political struggle since the former president's death. However, Henry managed to draw support from the "Core Group", a collection of ambassadors to Haiti, including the US diplomat as well as representatives from the UN and OAS.

Earlier, on Friday, Colombian police officials announced that former Haitian justice ministry official Joseph Felix Badio may have ordered the assassination of Moise, citing preliminary investigation into the murder. Badio has not responded to the accusations so far, his whereabouts are unclear.

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SEMPRE PIU' MISSIONI DI BOMBARDIERI RUSSI SULLE COSTE DELL'ALASKA

 

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US Air Force Says It’s Intercepting ‘More Russian Jets Near Alaska Than Ever Since Cold War’

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The Russian Aerospace Forces is known to occasionally send missile-carrying strategic bombers on patrols in neutral waters near Alaska, with the Pentagon maintaining a large garrison in the northernmost US-state.

S. Clinton Hinote, US Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff for Strategy, Integration and Requirements, has complained that Russia has dramatically ramped up the flights of military aircraft near Alaska last year as climate change continues to provide new opportunities for operations in the Arctic region.

“Not only is there a warming trend, but that’s allowing more activity. Interestingly, all that activity is not benign. So as an example last year, we intercepted more Russian military flights near Alaska than we have ever since the Cold War. So there is a trend not only of competition, but competition in the military realm,” Hinote said, speaking at a webinar hosted by the Woodrow Wilson Center, a Washington-based security-related think tank, on Tuesday.

Pointing to a series of wargames his department has been conducting to determine “strategic threats” and how the US can “adopt to those threats,” the commander warned that America’s position in the Arctic leaves something to be desired at the moment.

“We’ve been [wargaming] with the Arctic and we’ve found something interesting, and that is that we’re not nearly as secure and safe as we may be thinking we are, especially in the avenues of approaches over the Arctic,” Hinote said.
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The commander added that the Pentagon was using wargaming to try to better understand how great power competition in Europe or the Asia Pacific region could “spill over into the Arctic, how our competitors could use the Arctic in a way of doing something strategically bad for the United States and for our allies and partners.”

As far as Alaska is concerned, the general admitted that in addition to its use as a defensive base of operations, the strategic territory could also be used for offensive operations in Europe and Asia. “In essence you could conceivably do power projection sorties out of Alaska to both of those areas, and what we have seen in our wargaming is that it’s an incredibly effective place to base air operations out of.” This, he said, is why the US has been pouring in additional billions in defence dollars to beef up the Pentagon’s footprint in Alaska.

‘New Theatre of Conflict’

Hinote’s remarks about the supposed growing Russian threat to the Arctic comes amid growing concerns in Washington over Russia’s plan to develop its Arctic resources, to create a new Arctic trade route between Asia and Europe, and to improve security.

In April, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken suggested that Russia’s sailing of a natural gas tanker through its Northern Sea Route and the construction of new military bases on Russian territory constituted evidence of a Russian plot to “exploit [climate] change to try to exert control over new spaces” in the Arctic.

In January of this year, outgoing Navy Secretary Kenneth Braithwaite announced that the US would seek to carry out South China Sea-style ‘freedom of navigation operations’ in Russia’s Arctic maritime zones in an attempt to challenge Moscow’s claims to the region.

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The US Air Force deployment in Alaska is one of the largest contingents of US airpower globally. Last year, the Pentagon approved the deployment of 150 F-22 Raptors and F-35s to new and refurbished facilities at Eiselon Air Force Base. Alaska is also home to the Eleventh Air Force, operating-16 fighter jets, bombers and support planes out of Elmendorf-Richardson Joint Base Anchorage, Eiselon and Guam. The Eleventh Air Force is the US’s largest air contingent in the Northern Pacific region, operates several hundred planes total. The US is also beefing up its ground-based military presence in Alaska, building and expanding port facilities and constructing new icebreakers.

By comparison, Russia’s military footprint in the Russian Far East and near Alaska is comparably modest, with its aircraft contingent consisting of interceptors based in Kamchatka, Sakhalin and the Naval Aviation component of the North Fleet, with a combined strength of about 60-63 planes. Last year, commenting on US plans to further beef up their Alaska deployment, Aerospace Forces Maj. Gen. Vladimir Popov told Sputnik that Russia’s strategy was defensive, and limited mostly to air defence and radar control systems.

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The pre-flight preparation of the Mikoyan MIG-31, a supersonic all-weather long-range interceptor jet, before an exercize of a MIG-31 flight, which is part of the aviation regiment of the Pacific Fleet's Kamchatka air base in Prymorye Territory

While it has accused Russia of an unprecedented escalation of bomber patrols near Alaska, the US military itself has dramatically expanded its ground, air and naval operations near Russia’s borders in Eastern Europe, the Black, Baltic, and Barents Seas, as well as the Sea of Japan. The Russian military has reported literally thousands of flights of bombers, fighters and reconnaissance drones in these areas in recent years, and performed hundreds of interceptions of aircraft when they approach to closely to Russian airspace.

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    kidacom
    dont complain about the black sea. and what is that flying relic? a bomber with propellers?
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    mandrake
    Yeah but alaska is sort of in the russian sphere whereas the morons jets are intercepted in areas where they sure as a clucking bell have no reason to be, the baltics, tha black sea, south china sea and so on. Whiny bitches in the white house/pentagon!
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    far.bot
    russia doesnt like to lose to china yet china is already there and russia isnt XD
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    far.botin reply tokidacom(Show comment)
    kidacom, hahahaha sure and your scrap metal is much better?
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    far.botin reply tokidacom(Show comment)
    kidacom, you are clueless how vulnerable you are in truth XD

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CACCIA RUSSI SCORTANO VIA SUL BALTICO TYPHOON TEDESCO

 

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Defense Ministry: Russia's Su-27 Escorts Germany's FGR.4 Typhoon Over Baltic Sea

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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russian fighter Su-27 was scrambled to intercept the FGR.4 Typhoon fighter of the German Air Force and to escorted over the Baltic Sea, preventing it from reaching the Russian border, the Russian Defense Ministry's National Defense Control Center (NDCC) said on Thursday.

On July 22, an air target approaching the Russian state border was detected over the Baltic Sea, it said.

"To identify the air target and prevent it from reaching the Russian state border, a Su-27 fighter from the air defense duty of the Baltic Fleet was scrambled. The crew of the Russian fighter identified the air target as the FGR.4 Typhoon multirole fighter of the German Air Force and escorted it over the Baltic Sea," the statement says.

After the turn of the foreign military aircraft from the Russian state border, the Russian fighter safely returned to the home airfield, the NDCC said.

"The flight of the Russian fighter was carried out in strict accordance with international rules for the use of airspace. No violations of the Russian state border were allowed," it added.

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    Slave of the capitalists
    So many countries around the world do exactly what the US tell them for good reason. When the US is spent as a global power which is close it will be like the British, not missed.
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    LUCIAN-ION COJOCARU
    Unfortunately, the provocations of NATO terrorists on Russia's borders continue.

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