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Circus Time in the Filipino Legislature

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Oct 22, 2018
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There have now been two and a half years of President Rodrigo Duterte’s bloodthirsty rule in the name of fighting drugs – two and half profanity-filled years of insults of foreign leaders, contempt for legal procedures, patently ridiculous statements and wholehearted embrace of a China that has invaded Philippine seas and islands.

Can it get worse?

Given …

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