President Rodrigo Duterte read the names of judges, mayors, congressmen, PNP and AFP personnel suspected of having to do with what the President describes as a drug problem in the country which has reached "Pandemic" proportions in his speech delivered at the burial of soldiers killed in an ambush made by NPAs in Davao.
Amid the heightened tension at the South China Sea, which is now said to be patrolled by two (2) US Navy Battlegroups, it is heartening to know that one of the highest US Military commanders who may have her eyes on the Philippines is of Pilipino blood.
USN Admiral Babette Bolivar
Her name is Rear Admiral Babette “Bette” Bolivar, Commander of the joint US Naval Base in Guam which is home of Submarine Squadron 15, Coast Guard Sector Guam, Naval special Warfare Unit One, Pacific Command, the Seventh Fleet and the U.S. Pacific fleet.
She has just recently delivered a speech on Gender and Development Seminar in Legaspi City.
We lifted this story from the archive of Philippine Information Agency:
LEGAZPI CITY, July 7 (PIA) – US Navy Rear Admiral Babette “Bette” Bolivar, a Filipina-American commander of the Joint Region Marianas, delivered the keynote speech at the Gender and Development (GAD) Seminar held at the conference room of the Bicol Regional Teaching and Training Hospital which is part of the activities in the province of Albay of the Pacific Partnership 2016 in terms of development efforts for women in the Philippines and other partner nations.
Bolivar is born in Hawaii and was raised in a traditional Filipino family by his parents Ted Sereno Bolivar from Nabua, Camarines Sur in Bicol and Virginia Dolor Bolivar from Pangasinan with her two younger brothers also serving in the US Navy.
Note: We have started the habit of sharing selected speeches of President "Digong" Duterte here at RN Sorsogon website because we feel that we are going to learn more about what is going to happen in his administration from listening to him as he actually does as he says.
We are sharing the speech of President Rodrigo Duterte at the Mindanao Hariraya Eid'l Fit'r 2016
People in the media has a responsibility to inform the public. In reporting, the information should be neutral. Not necessarily positive. Not necessarily negative. NO biases. They should be reported as they happened or are happening. If the information favors the doer, it is probably because the doer did something positive. If it is against them, they probably did something wrong.
We hope to be able to do just that all the time at RN Sorsogon. Stories that are interpreted are not news. They are either commentaries or PR stories. We will strive hard to make the distinction all the time. And we will identify the sources whenever possible.
The Eid'l Fit'r 2016 speech of President Duterte below was sourced from Radio TV Malacanang (RTVM), government media production arm under the Office of the Press Secretary.
If you are into wildlife photography, you’d probably want a lens that can give you a shot at a good distance…
But if you are not making money out of it like I am not, you’d sometimes want to hold back on spending… like… well, me :-D
So, I got myself a mirror lens. It’s 500mm, and it is cheap. It was still very cheap after I added a teleconverter (or extender) which doubles my 500mm into a 1000mm.
But there are, of course a number of challenges to conquer…
The first one was how to make it work!
Well, I got all the adapters and connectors connected to the camera and the lens and I can see the subject thru the 500mm mirror lens but the shutter will not work. My aperture reads f-00. Other than that, I cannot tell me anything else: shutter speed has no reading and neither has ISO but more than that, the shutter will not fire...
Until someone told me about the setting that I would not have known without help.
After that, it was just a matter of the usual things like light, composition and the usual challenges in photography. :-D
[As delivered at the Rizal Hall, Malacañan Palace]
President Fidel Ramos, sir, salamat po sa tulong mo making me President; President Joseph Ejercito Estrada; Senate President Franklin Drilon and the members of the Senate; Speaker Feliciano Belmonte and the members of the House of Representatives; Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court; His Excellency Guiseppe Pinto and the members of the Diplomatic Corps; incoming members of the Cabinet; fellow workers in government; my fellow countrymen. [applause]
No leader, however strong, can succeed at anything of national importance or significance unless he has the support and cooperation of the people he is tasked to lead and sworn to serve.
It is the people from whom democratic governments draw strength and this administration is no exception. That is why we have to listen to the murmurings of the people, feel their pulse, supply their needs and fortify their faith and trust in us whom they elected to public office. [applause]
We are reposting an article about President Rodrigo Duterte who will be inaugurated as Philippines' 16th President on June 30, 2016.
I thought that after the May 2016 elections I was done writing about Mayor Rodrigo Duterte, the presumptive president. I thought my contributions, if they were any contribution at all, was just to help people see what to me is a natural characteristic of a candidate that the people may, or may not, want to vote into the highest office of the land. I don’t work for him or any of his friends.
However, stories about “Digong Duterte” continue to swirl everywhere and it is beginning to sound like a “never ending story...”
My recent posts were about less crowded places visitors in this country may want to see, but my recent conversations were about the man who will be sworn into office as the next president of the republic - and the tone of these conversations were rather stressful.
I mean, stressful on the part of the people I had conversations with because they still cannot see the “normal” president in “President Digong Duterte.”
Improprieties
One of these conversations was with a head of a department of a media organization who thinks that President-elect Duterte “is not acting like a normal president should.” Another conversation was with a priest who voted for one of Duterte’s rivals because he see’s Duterte as someone who is too reckless and too brutal to be president.
