Ruben Carranza
@RCarranza_
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Works @theICTJ . Sued by Imelda Marcos for calling her husband a thief & dictator. Said sorry, corrected myself & said her husband is a dead thief & dictator.
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19 YEARS AGO THIS MONTH, in a case that I personally helped litigate, the Philippines Supreme Court described that P36 billion as “money stolen by the Marcos spouses from the Republic of the Philippines.” | |
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The only PH presidential candidate who really wants to withdraw
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Q: Can we call the Marcoses thieves?
A: Yes. It’s not libelous & it’s the truth.
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In his first 100 days, Marcos Jr. has spent more tax money on himself than all the taxes he has ever paid.
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You can have many reasons not to vote for anyone belonging to the wealthiest Filipino family. Here’s mine:
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Question for
@mlq3
: was this the first presidential inauguration in PH history in which at least two convicted criminals were on stage?
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The last time the commemoration of Philippine independence was led by someone who has never murdered Filipinos or plundered the Philippines
Vice President
@lenirobredo
led the
#IndependenceDay
flag raising ceremony at Luneta Park amid the rainy weather
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20M Filipinos living in poverty line. $109B in foreign debt. Those are at least 2 reasons why the Philippines president shouldn’t stay at the Carlyle Hotel, where suites can cost between $10k-15k a night. So why are Marcos Jr. and his entourage staying there? 1/5
LOOK: President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr., House Speaker Martin Romualdez, and presidential son Ferdinand Alexander "Sandro" Marcos III are on their way to attend the bilateral meeting with Us President Joe Biden in New York City.
📸 Office of Speaker Martin Romualdez
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Desmond Tutu: “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.” 🇺🇦
Marcos/Duterte: “We ❤️ oppression.”
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Another Marcos lie. It wasn’t “for whatever reason” that he couldn’t come to any part of the U.S. for over 17 years. He was afraid of being arrested for NOT paying $2B his family owes 10,000 victims of the Marcos dictatorship. His immunity is temporary. His liability is forever.
@AsiaSociety
@beacupin
@rapplerdotcom
Marcos Jr.: "Being in NY is always fun. I haven't been to NY in a long time for whatever reason."
He & his family banned from coming to the US. The reason he is allowed to be in NY is because he became the PH president/head of state.
#RejectBidenBBM
#NeverAgaintoMartialLaw
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Lino Brocka, 1st Filipino director to win at Cannes, called your experimental cinema “a mockery of filmmaking” while “censorship exists in regular theaters.” Your father jailed Brocka & banned his anti-dictatorship film. You did nothing for the film industry.
#IMEESinungaling
THROWBACK: Senator Imee Marcos served as the Director General of the Experimental Cinema of the Philippines (ECP) which was created to promote the growth and development of the local film industry.
#IMEESolusyon
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In March 1986, Marcos Jr. drove to Honolulu airport to make a secret call on a payphone. He called a Swiss banker to instruct him to hide ill-gotten Marcos funds before they could be frozen. Some were frozen. Some were not. Remember: money-laundering is only a phone call away.
Thank you to leaders around the world who have extended their congratulations following our country’s historic elections.
I look forward with great enthusiasm to working with the international community as the 17th President of the Republic of the Philippines.
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HISTORY SHOWS A NAZI GAVE IRENE MARCOS HER WEDDING RIDE: The Marcoses spent at least $10.3M in 1983 for Irene Marcos’ pretend-royal wedding. That silver carriage that Marcos Sr. & his daughter rode in? As told in Carmen Navarro-Pedrosa’s “The Rise and Fall of Imelda Marcos” …
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THE WORLD REMEMBERS what many Filipinos have been made to forget: “The Greediest Dynasty in the World is Back.”
#NeverForget
#MarcosStoleMyCountry
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18 years ago this month, just after we recovered $683M of her family’s ill-gotten Swiss funds, she sued me for calling her husband ‘a thief and a dictator.’ So I said sorry, I was wrong, and the correction is now on my Twitter profile. We have to be truthful about Marcos, right?
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Duterte’s 2021 budget in a pandemic shows Filipinos how much he cares about killing vs healing:
Military ₱203B
Police ₱190B
Health ₱131B
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19 years ago this month, she sued me for libel for calling her husband a “thief and dictator.” I said sorry, I was wrong and … ah, the rest is on my profile :) 1/2
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When you go from memorializing those who were tortured and killed to hanging out with those who tortured and killed
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“The peso is weak and that’s why our family’s ill-gotten wealth is in dollars.”
Right?
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"S.O.B. What did you accomplish?"
1. Defeated Marcoses in court
2. Recovered $680M they stole
3. $200M for dictator's victims
4. Shookt u
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In 1987, Marcos Sr. was asked in a US court if he & Imelda used the names ‘William Saunders’ & ‘Jane Ryan’ to open Swiss accounts. He invoked his right vs self-incrimination. Because it’s true: he stole WW2 reparations money & opened the accounts. Still a beneficiary: Marcos Jr.
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WHY MARCOS JR DOESN’T CARE about reparations for Filipina comfort women: From 1966-1981, his father already took $47M in ‘kickbacks’ from Japanese WWII reparations-funded projects — “equivalent to 15.9 percent of the $300M reparations” from Japan.
Malacañang has turned down the appeal of a comfort women’s group for President Marcos to take up the cause of World War II sexual slavery victims in his upcoming visit to Japan this week. | via
@onenewsph
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The one who never wanted to be president but served honorably will always stand taller than anyone who stole and lied his way to power.
Remembering
@noynoyaquino
, who passed away on 24 June 2021
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“Trajano went to an open forum at which Imee Marcos was speaking. When [he] asked about her appointment as director of [the State youth] organization, he was kidnapped, interrogated, and tortured to death.” — US COURT OF APPEALS [1992]
#HistoryVsMarcos
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Well …
@RCarranza_
Baka gusto nyo ring isisi sa pamilya Marcos kung bakit yung iba walang jowa 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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A MAID AND MALACAÑANG: During the dictatorship, the Marcoses ordered the arrest and detention of a pregnant ‘maid’ and her driver-husband. Why? To try and force them to testify against their former employer: the Aquino family.
#MaidInMalaca
ñang
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FORCIBLY DISAPPEARED in my hometown 37 years ago this week by the dictatorship of the same family that now wants to say this never happened: my friend Fr. Rudy Romano and my fellow then student activist Levi Ybañez. 1/3
#NeverForget
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HIS CHURCH, HIS TV NETWORK, HIS PRIVATE JET: “As a result of today’s action, all (his) property in the US are blocked (and) the provision of funds, goods, or services (to him) are blocked.” It will be unlawful for any US company to do business with anything he owns or controls.
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If Marcos Jr ‘donates’ P2M [$40,000] every time a typhoon hits the Philippines, Filipinos will have to suffer at least 62,000 more typhoons before they can get all of the remaining P125B [$2.5B] ill-gotten wealth still to be recovered from his family.
#OdettePH
#MarcosMagnanakaw
LOOK: Pres’l aspirant Bongbong Marcos is in Southern Leyte today to turn over P2 M cash and P2.5M of relief goods to the provincial gov’t as assistance to those affected by Typhoon Odette. 📸: UniTeam |
@mbseppedrajas
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Google “Shinzo Abe comfort women”. And then mourn — for them.
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@sonnyangara
@jvejercito
From my armchair & expertise in fighting plunderers & dictators, I see sons who're sitting where they are thanks to plunder & dictatorship.
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20 years ago this week, she sued me for libel. She said I libeled the dictator by calling him a thief in a press conference. So I called another press con. I said: “Sorry. I was wrong. I should not have said Marcos was a thief. I should have said: “Marcos is a dead thief.”
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WHO GOES TO JAIL IN THE PHILIPPINES: the airport guard who allegedly stole a passenger’s ‘smartwatch’ OR a former gov’t official, who in 21 years in power with her husband only had $304,000 in legal income but wears a $15,000 Bulgari watch, one of many she bought from that store?
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The only way is to confront them with the truth. As PCGG commissioner, I had a list of their pending ill-gotten wealth cases published in a newspaper. Then Rep. Imee Marcos demanded I go to her office to explain why I did. I said no: “I have an office , too. Come see me there.”
WATCH: As Imee Marcos poses with her family, Martial Law victims in the crowd shout "Never again to Martial Law!" Asked for comment, Marcos says she only hears them chant "Imee, solusyon" as she "always has solutions." Related story:
#PHVote
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54 years ago this week, US forces killed, and raped over 300 men, women and children in
#MyLai
Vietnam. 26 soldiers were charged. Only one was convicted but was pardoned after 3 years. Still no US apology or reparations. Remember this when the US demands accountability elsewhere.
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HOW TO RUIN A MARCOS HOLIDAY: A Marcos hometown official ‘declared’ the dictator's birthday a school holiday. I drafted a protest letter as PCGG commissioner. PCGG chair Haydee Yorac signed. Education Secretary Raul Roco acted. Because corrupt dictators don’t deserve the honor.
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TRUE STORY: in 2003, after we recovered $680M from the Marcoses, then Finance Secretary Sid Camacho asked the PCGG: “Can we park this money in our dollar reserves? It’s been a long time since we’ve had more dollars coming in than going out. It will boost our economy.” We agreed.
@IanEsguerra
@RCarranza_
Ang tindi nung may nabawi na nakaw, “pwede ibahin ang ekonomiya” Ganun kalaki ang ninakaw
#MarcosMagnanakaw
talaga!
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“Final na ha”
Final na ha. Supreme Court na ang may sabi nyan.
WALANG ILL-GOTTEN WEALTH ANG MGA MARCOS.
Anything said other than that is Fake News.
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You can ‘retire from politics.’ You cannot retire from accountability.
‘Today, I announce my retirement from politics’: A shock announcement, as Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte called time on his career in politics
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When you offer one “hand of reconciliation” but your other hand is still counting the money your family stole, what exactly are you offering?
I once again offer my hand of reconciliation to those with different political persuasions to come together as one in forging a better society — one that will pursue progress and peace and a better life for all Filipinos.
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But
@AsiaSociety
is it true that you forced an employee to resign because they internally asked why you were giving a platform for Marcos to lie about the massive corruption and human rights abuses of the Marcos dictatorship?
We commend the esteemed members of the Asia Society whom we met in New York.
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I have a better
#tbt
: your father made an illegal $250,000 contribution to Nixon’s 1972 campaign, in exchange for the US looking away while your family stole billions & killed thousands. We all know how it ended: two corrupt presidents were kicked out in shame.
#NeverForget
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“A country is only as strong as her people’s memory.” — Gémino H. Abad, 2022 National Artist for Literature
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In 2021, it will be 53 years since your family first opened an ill-gotten wealth Swiss bank account
Let 2021 find us a more united nation, working together with renewed hope urged on by the unflagging drive of the great Filipino spirit!
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“20 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK, the Supreme Court ruled that Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos had stolen billions from the Filipino people.” Because the Marcoses have lied their way back to power, I wrote this for
@rapplerdotcom
so that the truth isn’t forgotten: 1/3
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“Pinilit kong iahon ka
Ngunit ayaw mo namang sumama
Huwag mong hayaang ganito
Bigyan ang sarili ng respeto.”
— Eraserheads, “Para sa Masa
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The best birthday gift Imelda Marcos ever got was from me
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Mga batas na pirmado ni Duterte:
1. Extension ng RA 10368 o Marcos victims reparations law na pinondohan sa nabawing $680M Marcos ill-gotten wealth sa Swiss banks
2. Ang Coconut Industry Trust Fund Act RA 11524 na pinondohan ng coco levy nabawi mula kay Marcos at Cojuangco
Duterte on the ill-gotten wealth of the Marcoses: Iyong pera ninakaw eh hanggang ngayon, wala naman silang nakita. Ito kung maniwala kayo, kung hindi, okay lang. Marcos, may kaunting perang naiwan, na-sequester lahat eh, pati iyong sa Switzerland. |
@pia_gutierrez
#Halalan2022
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Kasama ba diyan sa “pang mayaman” ang mga pamilyang taga-Cavite na nakinabang sa korupsyon ni Marcos at panunupil sa mga manggagawang nagtatayo ng unyon sa export processing zone?
Methinks this is one of the reasons why the Leni campaign projects an elitist image. The “pang mayaman” reputation is only further reinforced. Disclosure: I studied both at the Ateneo and De la Salle.
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The Philippines showed other countries that the ill-gotten wealth of ex-dictators can be recovered. Now, some of those other countries are showing Filipinos that no matter how long it takes or how powerful they are, corrupt ex-dictators and politicians can be held accountable.
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UPDATE: It wasn’t. Not one country nor an ‘avalanche of withdrawals’ followed the Philippines. It did not stop the Prosecutor. It did not end her investigation. It did not accomplish anything. Except expose the ignorance, mediocrity and hypocrisy of Duterte and his lawyers.
"This is the beginning of the end of ICC." Sec. Harry Roque believes the Philippines' decision to quit the International Criminal Court will start an avalanche of withdrawals from other countries.
#ANCHeadstart
#ANCRecap
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SA LAHAT NG KASO tungkol sa kanilang nakaw na yaman, wala maski isang dokumento maipakita ang mga Marcos na nagsasabing dati na silang mayaman o meron silang ginto.
WALA.
PERO ITO MERON: Ayon sa Korte Suprema, P16M lang ang ‘total income’ ng mga Marcos mula 1965-1984
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38 YEARS AGO TODAY, said Marcos Jr. in a speech last year, the Marcoses fled and landed in Hawaii “with nothing.” Here’s a list of “nothing”and a video of them landing with
@Pampers
boxes containing $30M in jewelry that I later helped recover for the poorest of my people.
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Our dear and deeply-missed comrade
@carlosceldran
made the old proverb even truer: “No prophet is believed in their own country.”
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Samtang gigamit ni Bongbong Marcos ang ilang kinawat para ipadala si Sandro Marcos sa $40,000+ kada semester nga eskuylahan sa England, ingon ni-ini ang kahimtang sa mga kabus nga bata sa Pilipinas. Kini nga bata naningkamot intawon mag-tuon sa Cebu, akong lungsod nga natawhan.
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THE SAME ONE WHO WON’T REJOIN THE ICC VOTED TO JOIN THE ICC BECAUSE: “Ratification of [the ICC treaty] signifies Philippine commitment to human rights and is our contribution to an effective international criminal justice system” — Marcos Jr., in 2011
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For thousands of poor Filipino families victimized by Duterte's drug war , you can now submit to the ICC your 'views, concerns and expectations' about the Prosecutor's request to begin an investigation. Use the form in the link or screenshot the QR code:
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WRONG: The PH Supreme Court overturned that ‘conviction’ by the Marcos-created Military Commission: “Any judgment rendered by such a body [over] a civilian is null and void for lack of jurisdiction.”
Be cocky, who cares but don’t be an ignorant liar.
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Duterte: “We planted evidence and intrigues.”
This was Duterte in 2016, brazenly admitting his own crimes as a prosecutor before intriguing against
@AttyLeiladeLima
.
6 months later, she is arrested on these made-up charges. She should now be set free.
@jairojourno
BREAKING NEWS: Muntinlupa City Regional Trial Court Branch 204 acquits former senator Leila de Lima in one of her remaining drug charges. She is now free from two out of three cases.
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The “comfort women” story that needs telling too: stories of women like Nieves Fernandez who fought Japanese imperialism and saved other women from sexual slavery by the Japanese military AND of women like the late Nelia Sancho who fought Japan again by demanding reparations.
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Among millions who idolize murderers and elect plunderers, we should celebrate the few who hold on to their compassion and humanity. Thank you
@ejobiena
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I’m writing about what Marcos Jr will do as president and I already have a title:
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@bongbongmarcos
When you try to be woke but instead show the hypocrite you are: it was your family that plundered Philippine forests: “From 1965 to 1986, 7M hectares of forests were lost because of Marcos' timber licensing agreements,” reducing nearly 50% of forest cover.
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He tried. He failed. Because all along he was the problem.
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When you pretend they can’t smell the stink your family left behind.
STORY: In 2003, we got back $680M in ill-gotten Marcos Swiss bank funds — except $23M ‘frozen’ by a Swiss bank in Singapore. I initiated the PCGG case to get the $23M back. In 2014, the PH won. Marcos lost.
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THE WORST PART OF IRENE MARCOS’ WEDDING: when the Marcoses spent at least $10.3M from ill-gotten wealth for that wedding, the Philippines foreign debt stood at $20 billion owed to some 300 banks. The country was broke. The people were suffering. The Marcoses were celebrating.
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If
@luminoustrix
says everything is "open to debate," then why is Marcos Jr. afraid of debating?
Amid public fears that the return of the Marcos family to Malacañang would lead to historical distortion, the newly appointed press secretary Trixie Cruz Angeles thinks that the issue of martial law should be “open to debate.”
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Duterte: “This ICC is bullshit. Why should I face an accusation before white people?”
The 18 ICC judges:
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The U.S. newspaper of record makes it clear no one is taking him seriously by calling him by the only thing he’s known for: “the son and namesake of the former dictator.”
Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the son and namesake of the former dictator, on Tuesday became the first leader of the Philippines to address the United Nations General Assembly in person in nearly a decade.
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After the Marcoses jailed the son of
@meralco
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Duterte did in 4 years what took Marcos 14 years to do: kill thousands, steal billions.
#SONAgKAISA
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42 years ago this week, the indigenous
#Igorot
people lost a leader who was killed for resisting the
@WorldBank
-funded, Marcos dictatorship-imposed drowning of Igorot land and legacy. Why would Igorots who respect themselves vote for the killers of
#MacliingDulag
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The one who never wanted to be president but served honorably will always stand taller than anyone who stole and lied his way to power.
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That time I gave Imelda Marcos a birthday gift she won’t forget
[Let’s make her birthday even more memorable: use the hashtag
#RobThePhilippines
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WHAT THE RESULTS LOOK LIKE when a "survey" firm that only surveys those who download their app to join a raffle partners with a newspaper that the Marcos family secretly co-owned until we recovered their ill-gotten shares only a few years ago
LOOK: Manila Bulletin-Tangere Presidential Survey Results from April 20-22.
READ:
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The Marcoses did something about climate change: they made it worse.
@bongbongmarcos
When you try to be woke but instead show the hypocrite you are: it was your family that plundered Philippine forests: “From 1965 to 1986, 7M hectares of forests were lost because of Marcos' timber licensing agreements,” reducing nearly 50% of forest cover.
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Imelda, before you die, can we go to trial in that libel case you filed against me?
#MarcosMagnanakaw
Senator Imee Marcos told reporters that former first lady Imelda Marcos, aged 94, was brought to the hospital after bouts of coughs and feverishness. Imee said the family would prefer to “take precautions.”
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On 29 May 1986, the US District Court of Hawaii ruled that "Archimedes
#Trajano
was tortured and his death was caused by
#ImeeMarcos
." It ordered her to pay $4.16M in damages to his mother. Because she hasn't paid,
@ManangImee
can't go to the US. She can't move on.
#NeverForget
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PAALALA SA NAWAWALA: 1,147 na pamilya ang walang madadalaw sa sementeryo dahil iwinala ni Marcos ang mga kamaganak nila. Magnanakaw ng buhay at nakaw na yaman, hindi multo, ang nasa Malacañang.
Photo: Memorial for the disappeared at Baclaran Church, Manila.
BBM VLOG 251: Mga Multo sa Malacañang
Isang taimtim at payapang Undas sa ating lahat!
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One imposed martial law and the other carried out his orders to massacre hundreds of protesters in Gwangju. Both stole over $700M. This is how South Korea dealt with their corrupt, brutal dictators 26 years ago today:
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Is this the same Teddy “the Nazis were not all wrong” Locsin who now thinks “Marcos was a hero” after being appointed Marcos Jr ambassador to the UK? We spoke at the airport once in which he confessed the real reason why he once opposed the dictator:
@RCarranza_
@HRVVMC
Hey
@teddyboylocsin
, please acknowledge the valiant effort of your boss for fighting to keep this part of his inheritance even if it was unsuccessful. Cmon boy.
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I’m sure
@bongbongmarcos
will be happy to know the PH
@FIFAWWC
team includes a woman whose family remembers the corruption and abuses of the dictatorship.
Congratulations to our Philippine Women’s National Football Team on their historic triumph against New Zealand at the FIFA Women's World Cup! A momentous first-ever world cup win for the Philippines!
Mabuhay ang Filipinas! 🇵🇭
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While Marcos Jr eats what his family stole, does he starve his own trolls? This
@bongbi05
alias
@ruiz_boi
alias
@MKnihgts
alias
@philipines_
aka “Stephanie Lewis” had to create all of those accounts just to follow me or post nonsense replies to anti-Marcos tweets. May quota yata.
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PH VP
@lenirobredo
can travel to the US for official & personal visits. Marcos Jr. and the rest of his corrupt family won’t: they have arrest warrants from a US District Court for their failure to pay the $2B judgment against them obtained by victims of the Marcos dictatorship.
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HUNGER
“When I was in the UK I couldn’t eat out every day — ang mahal! [so expensive!]” — Sandro Marcos, son of Marcos Jr.
“When you’re trembling from hunger, you can’t even speak.” — Leia Samlasan, 16-years old
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