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http://ca.news.yahoo.com/photos/miss-ph ... 45854.html

As I have been the the Philippines, speak tagalog ,have many filipinos friends and generally like filipinos, learned their history etc.... I do believe that there should be a thread on The Philippines on Gary Oaks Forum


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They all look pretty in that photo :)
My brothers girlfriend is from there right from outside Manila I believe, sweet person she is.
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Here is one of the most impressive sights in the Philippines :flower:
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LOL
The one in the blue strap dress he has a lot of Spanish in her.
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And yet another of the most beautiful sights in the Philippines

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My brothers Philippine girlfriend years back made her look like a dog
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Take a look at this map. Who is in the right here ?

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The Spanish American War

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One doesn't see any movies about this Spanish American war that brought about the American annexation of the Philippines. in the Marcos Dynasty by Sterling Seagrave the letters of soldiers are printed telling of their experiences alaughtering entire villages including all women and children.

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The Philippines Allied With Japan

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Japan also has islands that China is trying hard to steal from Japan. China will take what they can. China would take Canadian islands to if they believed that they would get away with it. I believe that many Chinese nationals who have immigrated to Canada would back these Chinese ambitions too.

http://sputniknews.com/asia/20150606/1023006919.html

WWII Forgotten? Philippines President Wants Japanese Troops in His Country

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While comparing China to Nazi Germany earlier this week, the Philippine president is now seeking a military alliance with Japan, a former Axis power which occupied his nation 70 years ago.



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Check out these 21 pictures of tagabanua tribespeople in Palawan. This looks like a very stress free lifestyle. They live in a different world.

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Another place I wanted to go, but will never get to :(
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I do find certain Filipino girls to be very cute. Registered Guest's wife is Filipino.
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Many are very cute, and some gorgeous even, Beantheres wife is Filipino also i believe, and Asia is also
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Oh right. It was be beanthere's wife who is Filipino not registered guest. I was trying to chase after a Filipino. The one and only girl who I ever bought flowers for. The one and only girl who I told that I like her and she was the one and only who I ever asked out. She's the single cutest and most adorable girl that I have ever met and everything about her is beautiful. Her cute cute voice, her sweet sweet smile, and her crazy laugher. I haven't seen her in a long time. Since late August I believe. She'll be there this Friday when I work. I have a lot to make up for.
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:( Sorry it hasn't worked out RF, i have to wonder if shes scared or something more than you where.

My brothers girl is from there also, when she was young she was really pretty.
Shes been really loyal to him, and always took care of him, Ill worry about my brother when shes gone.
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Pia Wurtsbach Miss Universe 2015 is more proof how beautiful Filipinas can be.

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I saw a cut of that today, it was sad Steve Harvey messed up after giving her the crown. :( i felt for both woman.
He messed up bad.
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This is alarming for me as Marcos was a disaster for the Philippines. Marcos was 3/4 Chinese and his real dad Judge Chua scammed him out of jail for his murder of the winner of the election where his fake dad lost. You would think that Canadians would not vote for another Trudeau but we did.

Tough-talking Philippine mayor looks set to be new president

MANILA, Philippines - A brash and tough-talking mayor who has pledged to kill suspected criminals and end crime within six months looked set to become the next president of the Philippines after taking an unassailable lead in an unofficial vote count in Monday's elections.

The son of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos had a narrow lead in the vice-presidential race.

Rodrigo Duterte, the mayor of southern Davao city, had secured more than 14.4 million votes, according to a count of 87 per cent of precincts nationwide. The closest of his four main rivals, former Interior Secretary Mar Roxas, had 8.6 million votes. Final results are expected Tuesday.

"We can call it now because the gap got so big relative to the maximum the No. 2 can get" of the remaining votes, said William Yu of the Parish Pastoral Council for Responsible Voting. The group is accredited by the Commission on Elections to conduct the unofficial "quick count."

A victory by Duterte would amount to a massive political shift in the Philippines. Starting as an outsider, Duterte built his popularity with radical pledges to eliminate poverty and end corruption and crime. He has a reputation for fighting crime as mayor of Davao for 22 years, but has been accused of ordering extrajudicial killings to achieve that.

On the last day of campaigning Saturday, he made clear he intends to continue his hard-line approach.

"All of you who are into drugs, you sons of bitches, I will really kill you," Duterte, 71, a former prosecutor, told a rally. "I have no patience, I have no middle ground, either you kill me or I will kill you idiots."

Statements such as that have won him the nickname "Duterte Harry," a reference to the Clint Eastwood movie character "Dirty Harry" who had little regard for rules. He has also been compared to Donald Trump, the U.S. Republican presumptive presidential nominee.

Duterte is known for jokes about sex and rape, talking often about his Viagra-fueled sexual escapades, and for undiplomatic remarks about Australia, the United States and China, all key players in the country's politics. He has threatened to dismiss the Philippine Congress and form a revolutionary government if he is confronted with unco-operative legislators.

Outgoing President Benigno Aquino III tried to discourage Filipinos from voting for Duterte over fears the mayor may endanger the country's hard-fought democracy and squander economic gains of the last six years, when the Philippine economy grew at an average of 6.2 per cent, one of the best rates in Asia.

But on election day, with opinion polls giving him the best chance to win, Duterte reached out to his opponents.

"Let us be friends," he said at a news conference after voting in Davao. "Let us begin the process of healing."

Among the other presidential candidates, Sen. Grace Poe had 8.1 million votes and Vice-President Jejomar Binay had 4.8 million, according to the partial unofficial results. Poe conceded defeat early Tuesday.

In the vice-presidential race, Sen. Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the son of the former dictator who ruled the Philippines from 1972 until he was ousted in 1986 in a "people power" revolt, led with 12.6 million votes in the unofficial count. He was followed closely by Rep. Leni Robredo, who had 12.5 million votes.

Vice presidents are elected separately from presidents in the Philippines.

"I am feeling that by all indications we should be successful today," Marcos said in a statement.

Aquino, whose parents were democracy champions who helped topple the senior Marcos, also campaigned against Marcos Jr., who has never clearly apologized for economic plunder and widespread human rights abuses under his father.

Aquino warned that Duterte could be a dictator in the making and urged voters not to support him. Filipinos have been hypersensitive to potential threats to democracy since they ousted the elder Marcos.

Aside from the presidential and vice-presidential races, more than 45,000 candidates contested 18,000 national, congressional and local positions in elections that have traditionally been tainted by violence and accusations of cheating.

About 55 million Filipinos registered to vote at 36,000 polling places across the archipelago of more than 7,100 islands, including in a small fishing village in a Philippine-occupied island in the disputed South China Sea.

Weary of poverty, poor public services, crime, corruption and insurgencies in the hinterlands, voters in the nation of 100 million people looked for radical change at the top.

Duterte tapped into that discontent, pledging to end crime in half a year, even though police said it was impossible. The other candidates stuck to less audacious reforms.

He has not articulated an overall foreign policy, but has described himself as a socialist wary of the U.S.-Philippine security alliance. He has worried members of the armed forces by saying that communist rebels could play a role in his government.

When the Australian and U.S. ambassadors criticized a joke he made about wanting to be the first to have raped an Australian missionary who was gang-raped and killed by inmates in a 1989 jail riot, he told them to shut up.

He said he would talk with China about territorial disputes in the South China Sea but if nothing happened, he would sail to an artificial island newly created by China and plant the Philippine flag there. China, he said, could shoot him and turn him into a national hero.

All of Duterte's opponents have accused him of making remarks that threaten the rule of law and democracy.

Analysts predicted that a Duterte win would weaken the Philippine peso, given his uncertain economic platform. The jitters have affected the Philippine stock market, which fell Friday — the last day of trading before Monday's election holiday — for the 10th time in 11 days.

"The market is obviously emotional and the stronger emotion is usually fear rather than hope," said Jose Vistan, research head at AB Capital Securities Inc. "A big chunk of the reason why we're behaving the way we are is obviously because of the elections."

"Duterte is completely out of the system, he's out of the box," said political science professor Richard Heydarian of De La Salle University in Manila, adding that in the mayor's portrayal of social problems, "there is a gap between the rhetoric and reality but it's working, it's creating panic among a lot of people and rallying them behind Duterte."

Associated Press photographer Alberto "Bullit" Marquez in Davao, Philippines, contributed to this report.

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Crazy, and sounds like a dictator to me, but for some reason people want that now days. Crime lords in charge all over.
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I believe that Filipinos are fed up with basket case leaders as so many Americans also are. Hopefully Duterte and Trump will turn things around. Hopefully they neither of them will be a disaster.


Hope and fear as combative president takes over Philippines

MANILA, Philippines - Rodrigo Duterte was sworn in Thursday as president of the Philippines, with many hoping his maverick style will energize the country but others fearing he could undercut one of Asia's liveliest democracies amid his threats to kill criminals en masse.

The 71-year-old former prosecutor and longtime mayor of southern Davao city won a resounding victory in May's elections in his first foray into national politics. He has described himself as the country's first leftist president and said his foreign policy will not be dependent on the United States, a longtime ally.

The frugal noontime ceremony at Malacanan, the Spanish colonial- era presidential palace by Manila's murky Pasig River, was a break from tradition sought by Duterte to press the need for austerity amid the country's grinding poverty. In the past, the oath-taking has mostly been held at a grandstand in a historic park by Manila Bay, followed by a grand reception.

Vice-President Leni Robredo, a human rights lawyer who comes from a rival political party, was sworn in earlier in a separate ceremony in her office compound. Vice presidents are separately elected in the Philippines, and in a sign of Duterte's go-it-alone style, he has not met her since the May 9 vote.

Duterte, who began a six-year term, captured attention with promises to cleanse his poor Southeast Asian nation of criminals and government crooks within six months — an audacious pledge that was welcomed by many crime-weary Filipinos but alarmed human rights watchdogs and the dominant Roman Catholic Church.

Duterte's inauguration address, before a crowd of more than 600 relatives, officials and diplomats, was markedly bereft of the profanities, sex jokes and curses that were a trademark of his campaign speeches. There were no menacing death threats against criminals, but he pressed the urgency of battling crime and graft, promised to stay within the bounds of the law and appealed to Congress and the Commission on Human Rights "to mind your work and I will mind mine."

"There are those who do not approve of my methods of fighting criminality, the sale and use of illegal drugs and corruption. They say that my methods are unorthodox and verge on the illegal," Duterte said.

He added: "The fight will be relentless and it will be sustained."

"As a lawyer and a former prosecutor, I know the limits of the power and authority of the president. I know what is legal and what is not. My adherence to the due process and the rule of law is uncompromising," he said to loud applause.

Appearing Thursday night at a Manila slum to thank his poor voters, Duterte was soon back to his old form, calling on parents to kill the children of other families if they're drug addicts "so it wouldn't be that painful." He thanked the crowd and gave a livelihood tip in line with his anti-crime campaign.

"I'll tell you in the coming days, if you have a funeral parlour, you will earn a lot," he said, sparking laughter.

Shortly after Duterte's election victory, police launched an anti-drug crackdown under his name, leaving dozens of mostly poor drug-dealing suspects dead in gunfights or in mysterious circumstances. The killings provided a fearsome backdrop to Duterte's rise.

After his resounding victory, he promised to mellow down on the vulgarity and promised Filipinos will witness a "metamorphosis" once he becomes president. Days before his swearing in, however, he was still warning "If you destroy my country, I will kill you," in a speech this week.

In a country long ruled by wealthy political clans, Duterte rose from middle-class roots. His brash style has been likened to that of presumptive U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, although he detests the comparison and says the American billionaire is a bigot and he's not.

Duterte is also the first president to come from the country's volatile south, scene of a decades-long separatist insurgency by minority Muslims. He has said he would direct security forces to refocus on fighting Muslim and Maoist insurgents — a reversal from his predecessor, Benigno Aquino III, who shifted the military to take charge of territorial defence while police handle the insurgencies.

Duterte's initial foreign policy pronouncements point to potential problems for Washington at a crucial time for the region. An arbitration tribunal in The Hague is scheduled to rule July 12 on a case in which the Philippine government questioned the validity of China's vast territorial claims in the South China Sea. China has refused to join the arbitration.

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