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joeytrenas77
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Makati City, National Capital Region Katılım Temmuz 2017
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Corruption in our nation feels like a wound that never heals. Each headline—like the Court of Appeals freezing the assets of former DPWH Secretary Manuel Bonoan and his daughter—reminds us that accountability is always delayed, never decisive.
Why do the powerful walk free while ordinary citizens suffer the consequences of broken roads, failed flood control, and stolen futures?
Asset freezes are not justice; they are only the beginning. Justice must mean jail time, restitution, and reform. Until then, corruption remains a cycle without end, eroding trust and mocking the sacrifices of honest Filipinos.
We must demand more than headlines—we must demand truth, courage, and real accountability.
Tony Leachon


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The Philippines grows 87% of the world’s abaca fiber. China turns it into textiles. Guess who keeps the margin.
About 200,000 Filipino farming families harvest these stalks by hand. The entire country earns roughly $100M a year from abaca exports, raw fiber and finished products combined. That’s $500 per farming family per year from the strongest natural fiber on earth.
Meanwhile, Chinese textile manufacturers sell finished abaca fabric to Levi’s, Calvin Klein, GAP, and dozens of global brands at markups that make the raw material cost a rounding error. The abaca fiber market is growing at ~8% annually toward $150M by 2029, but that growth is almost entirely in processing and finished goods, not in what farmers earn.
The Philippines actually has a competitive edge here. Nine commercial fiber grades versus Ecuador’s five. High genetic diversity. Centuries of cultivation expertise. PhilFIDA has been trying to move the industry up the value chain for decades. But processing requires capital infrastructure and direct relationships with Western brands that Chinese factories locked up years ago.
This is the same pattern playing out across Southeast Asian commodities. The country with the resource exports raw material. The country with the factories captures the spread. You’re watching a video of Philippine agricultural wealth being converted into Chinese manufacturing margin in real time.
That $100M in Filipino export earnings? A single Chinese denim manufacturer like Black Peony does more than that serving just one brand account.
Juanita Broaddrick@atensnut
I could not stop watching this. In China they make denim from Abaca banana stalks from the Philippines. Whole Process was mesmerizing! 😳
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BREAKING: @RoKhanna just said there is a new precedent set which means Donald Trump has to testify before Congress about the Epstein files.
"A new precedent has been set in America today. Before this, we had the ‘Trump rule.’ Trump defied, as all of you know, a congressional subpoena with the January 6 committee. He said presidents don’t have to testify. Now we have the ‘Clinton rule,’ which is Presidents and their family have to testify when Congress issues a subpoena. And that means that Donald Trump needs to come before our committee and explain what he knew about Epstein and explain why we have not had a full release of the documents."
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#BREAKING: Lawrence: “There is exactly one First Lady in history who met sex trafficker and raper of children and good friend of Donald Trump, Jeffrey #Epstein, and today, Republicans on the House Oversight Committee decided to question a former First Lady who NEVER MET Jeffrey Epstein instead of the First Lady currently occupying the White House, who was friends with Jeffrey Epstein and his convicted sex trafficking co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell. Donald Trump’s third wife was friends with BOTH of them. The Epstein files contain emails from Melania Trump to Ghislaine Maxwell complimenting Ghislaine Maxwell. The Epstein files contain NO communication at all between Hillary Clinton and Jeffrey Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell but Republicans on the committee decided they wanted to subpoena Hillary Clinton. Where is their subpoena for Melania Trump who actually knew Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell? Why aren’t they asking Nekania Trump: Did Donald Trump introduce you to Jeffrey Epstein or did Jeffrey Epstein introduce you to Donald Trump?”😳
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ICC PRE-TRIAL CHAMBER EXPLAINS REDACTIONS DURING HEARING
WATCH: ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I Presiding Judge Iulia Motoc says redacted statements in the defense team's arguments during former President Rodrigo Duterte's confirmation of charges hearing are identifying information of witnesses and victims.
Some parts of Thursday's sessions are seen with an image bearing the text "no broadcast." The ICC livestream has a 30-minute delay for security reasons.
Speaking in French and translated to English in broadcast, Presiding Judge Motoc reminds the parties to carefully word their submissions during the court sessions.
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🇺🇸 A Democratic congressman just said Epstein files involving a Trump accuser have gone missing.
Not unreleased. Missing.
He's seen the archive manifest. The files were there. Now they're not.
Someone removed them.
Mario Nawfal@MarioNawfal
🚨🇺🇸 The House Oversight Committee just opened the door to subpoenaing Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick over Epstein. A sitting cabinet member. Confirmed by the committee chairman: "Very possible."
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