Liberal Party Won't Back Impeach Bids vs Duterte, Robredo

MANILA - The Liberal Party will not be backing impeachment cases filed against President Rodrigo Duterte or Vice-President Leni Robredo, according to House Deputy Speaker and LP stalwart Miro Quimbo. 

Robredo met with other members of the Liberal Party amid a looming impeachment case against her, but her party-mates in the supermajority still won't bolt the administration fold.

House Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez had raised the specter of impeaching Robredo following her statement to theUnited Nations criticizing the alleged extra judicial killings in the Philippines. President Duterte is himself facing animpeachment case.

Quimbo confirmed the meeting took place on Wednesday and they agreed not to support any impeachment complaints.

"We eventually discussed the issue of impeachment. We came to a common consensus on the following matters: we strongly believe that the taking up by the [House of Representatives] of any impeachment complaint today will only be divisive as well as polarizing," he said in a statement.

"It will only serve to distract us from the many important matters that Congress should be giving priority to. For these very imperative reasons, the LP House majority caucus members present categorically took a position that we will not support any of the impeachment complaints filed against the leaders of the land."

Likewise, Quimbo revealed that they are standing by Robredo, the highest-ranking elected member of their party. 

"We likewise reiterated our strongest commitment of support to the Vice President, our party leader. We will have subsequent meetings before congress opens in May to update LP members who were out of town and thus could not attend the meeting," he said.

The Deputy Speaker made it clear that they are sticking with the supermajority.

Quimbo added: "The statement is made in response to queries regarding the LP meeting yesterday, 20 April 2017, with Vice President Leni Robredo. I confirm that around 15 LP members belonging to the HOR majority caucus met with the Vice President today."

The lawmaker said the meeting with Robredo was originally scheduled to take place during the second week of March before Congress went on break on March 15. He said the meeting was moved due to schedule conflicts.

He said the LP discussed administrative party matters including payment of party dues and proposed schedules for the second half of the year.

The former administration party has seen most of its members leave for the President's PDP-Laban after the loss of their standard bearer in the last elections.\

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MUST READ: LEAKED NEWS

Edward Snowden
Edward Joseph Snowden or simply Edward snowden, is an American computer professional, former CIA(central Inteligence Agency), a former NSA(National Security Agency) contractor, former US army reserved and the man behind the massive leakage of sensitive NSA files which contains massive surveillance of the American people. No, not just the USA but the surveillance is globally done.
By the way…what is the NSA?
NSA(national security agency) is an intelligence organization of the US government responsible for global monitoring,collection and processing of informations and datas for foreign intelligence and and counter intelligence purposes, a discipline known as signal intelligence.
So what about the NSA leaks? What are they? What do they contains?
NSA leaks is all about massive surveillance of the whole population through phones, computers and more gadgets we use nowadays. some programs that have been leaked by snowden are the X Key stone and PRISM.
X Key stone
X Key stone is a program that sees everything, it is a tool the NSA uses to search nearly everything a user does on the internet. X key stone is also described as the widest reaching system to reach through internet data.
PRISM
Another program that was leaked by snowden is the prism, it is a surveillance program that can directly access tech giants like google, facebook, Microsoft and apple.
NSA collects text messages and intercepts phone calls on some places like Bahamas, Afghanistan,metadata mexico, Kenya and Philippines.
Edward snowden is a man who left a high paying job, a rich life, his fiancé, his own country, his family and a lot more that he sacrificed to create a massive leaks about global surveillance that limits our freedom. Yet some call him a traitor to his country, but whom did he betrayed? Hes a man who left everything  then went to Hawaii,fled to hong-kong then to Russia just to tell the people about a terrifying corruption that stole our freedom for “thinking”.
Snowden is now charged on a lot of violations against the law,but despite all the charges against him , Edward snowden also won numerous rewards like the IQ award,Ridenhour truth-telling prize, german whistle blower prize and more. Edward snowden is a great man who woke up a lot of subconscious minds about the reality were living.


Chelsea manning
Bradley Edward manning or Chelsea manning(a name he used after he became a trans woman) is a US army soldier who was convicted by court-martial back in july 2013 of violations of the espionage act and other offences after disclosing nearly three quarters of a million classified or unclassified but sensitive military and diplomatic documents to wikileaks.
Some leakage that have been made by manning were the war logs and collateral murder.
War logs
War logs states that there were much larger numbers of civilian casualties on wars led by the United states like in Iraq and Afghanistan than what the US previously reported.
Colateral murder
Colateral murder is an unsettling video that shows a US army apache helicopter in Iraq firing on a group of people who turned out to include journalists for reuters.
There are a lot more revelations manning did through those thousand documents. Sadly, manning is now currently serving 35 years in a male prison which is the worst thing when you are a trans-woman.

Julian Assange
Julian Paul Assange is an Australian computer programmer,publisher, a journalist, the founder and editor-in-chief of the wiki leaks.
 Wikileaks is an international non-profit organization that publishes secret informations, new leaks and classified media from different anonymous sources.wiki leaks have already leaked millions of sensitive secret documents from different intelligence agencies like the CIA, NSA and other agencies from EU.One recent leaks are the Hillary emails.
Hillary emails
Wiki leaks leaked thousands of Hillary emails to the public which contains informations that showed the true intententions and identity of Hillary Clinton.the Hillary leaks holds informations like rigging an election in Palestine back in 2006, Clinton donors funding ISIS where in an email between Hillary Clinton and her campaign manager john Podesta, the former first lady and secretary of the region “to accuse quatar and saudi arabia of providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIS or ISIL and other radical sunni groups in the region”.                               The next one is my favorite because it is a clear and brilliant piece of evidence that almost all wars are only for corporate interests. It was first claimed by conspiracy theorist then exposed from the Hillary emails leaks which gave it a higher percentage to be legit.

“France’s client and qaddafi’s gold”
Out of all the thousand Hillary emails, this is what actually took my interests. The email identifies French president Nicholas Sarkozy as leading the attack on Libya with 5 specific purposes in mind : to obtain Libyan oil, ensure French influence in the region, increase sarkozy’s reputation domestically, assert French military power nad to prevent ghaddafi’s  influence in what is considered the “Francophone Africa”. The email stated that ghaddafi had 143 tons of gold, which could be used for a currency that will liberate Africa from being an economically enslaved land through money and capitalism.                              
“John Doe”
John Doe is the pseudonym used by the anonymous whistleblower in the Panama Papers leak this 2016, who turned over 11.5 million documents from the law firm Mossack Fonseca to German journalist Bastian Obermayer of the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper . On May 5, 2016, John Doe published a statement The Revolution Will Be Digitised; Doe explained he made the files from Mossack Fonseca public to underline growing income inequality and financial corruption globally. The whistleblower has offered to help prosecutors build their cases, on condition of legal protection.
Panama Papers leaks
The leaked documents illustrate how wealthy individuals and public officials are able to keep personal financial information private. While offshore business entities are legal, reporters found that some of the Mossack Fonseca shell corporations were used for illegal purposes, including fraud, kleptocracy, tax evasion, and evading international sanctions.
The Panama papers leaks were the biggest leaks in history. In the documents which ranged from 1970’s to 2015, Mossack Fonseca came to function, as the german paper notes, “as a hub of a global industry led by major banks, legal firms and asset management companies”, secretly stewarding the estates of the world’s rich and famous, from politicians, FIFA officials, fraudsters and drug smugglers, to celebrities and professional athletes.” In short, to hide, transfer and in some cases, to clean dirty money. By april 3rd 2016, the news had reached numerous populations in countries around the planet. Heads of state and industry were implicated, as well as kings. Many of these individuals worked through their relatives, hiding away cash and in some cases circumventing sanctions. Notable persons who were exposed on this leaks were Vladimir Putin,Bashar Assad, Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson(prime minister of Iceland), heads of Chinese government, middle eastern royalty,celebrities in india and even jackie chan. These people worked with mossack fonseca to create shell companies in other countries informally known as tax havens, an act which, in itself is not inherently illegal. However, journalists have noted the majority of these operations were made or designed to hide the identity of the actual owners or in other words, the people who are hiding the money. Some of the clients are big time criminals like mafiosos and bank robbers. The leaks are  a major proof of illegal financial activity by some of the world’s wealthiest groups and individuals.

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SOUTH KOREA PREPARES FOR WAR

PREPARING FOR WAR: South Korea conducts defence drills in face of Kim's provocation

THE United States is flexing its military muscle in South Korea amid growing tensions with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un after the dictator promised an “annihilating strike” if it was attacked by the United States.

The threat to “defeat enemies with nuclear justice” was issued during the country’s 105th Day of the Sun parade, in which the socialist state celebrated the anniversary of its founder Kim Il-Sung’s birth.

North Korea has repeatedly accused President Trump of provoking armed conflict and has issued multiple threats of retaliation.

The latest outburst comes after Mr Trump send an aircraft carrier-led strike group to the Korean Peninsula, as US officials feared Kim would mark the national holiday by launching its sixth nuclear weapons test.US Army troops and Air Force conducted military defence exercises on Saturday in Paju, near the border between the Koreas.

Soldiers with M1A2 tanks participated in the emergency drills, conducted to simulate responses to a possible North Korean attack.

According to reports from Fox News, the military exercises in South Korea come just days after the US launched a similar surprise military drill at the Kadena Air Base in Japan, using HH-60 Pave Hawks, F-15 Eagles, E-3 Sentries and KC-135 Stratotankers.

North Korea has shown off its strength by testing two nuclear bombs and multiple missile tests in the last year.

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US Army and Air Force conduct defence exercises

Addressing crowds at the Day of the Sun parade, Kim Jong-un said: “If the United States wages reckless provocation against us, our revolutionary power will instantly counter with annihilating strike, and we will respond to full-out war with full-out war and to nuclear war with our style of nuclear strike warfare.”

During the parade, North Korea displayed what appeared to be new long-range and submarine-based missiles.

Missiles seem to have been the main theme of the giant parade, with Kim Jong-un taking time to greet the commander of the Strategic Forces - the branch of North Korea's military that oversees the military arsenal.

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Soldiers with M1A2 tanks participated in the emergency drills

Weapons analysts say some of the missiles on display were new types of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM).

The Pukkuksong submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBM) were also on parade.

It was the first time North Korea had shown the missiles, which have a range of more than 1,000 km (600 miles), at a military parade.

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Jamaican Woman now OLDEST PERSON ALIVE

                                                       117-year-old Violet Mosse Brown is the world's oldest person. 

ROME, Italy (AFP) — According to the US-based Gerontology Research Group (GRG), the world's oldest human is Jamaican Violet Brown, who was born on March 10, 1900.

Brown became the eldest person alive after the passing of Italian Emma Morano. 

Morano, believed to have been the oldest person alive and the last survivor of the 19th century, died Saturday at the age of 117, Italian media reported.

Morano, born on November 29, 1899, died at her home in Verbania, in northern Italy, the report said. 

"She had an extraordinary life, and we will always remember her strength to move forward in life," the mayor of Verbania was quoted as saying.

Morano's death means there is no one living known to have been born before 1900. 

According to the report, her first love died in World War I, but she married later and left her violent husband just before the Second World War and shortly after the death in infancy of her only son.

She had clung to her independence, only taking on a full-time career a couple of years ago, though she had not left her small two-room apartment for 20 years.

She had been bed-bound during her later years. 

In an interview with AFP last year, she put her longevity down to her diet. 

"I eat two eggs a day, and that's it. And cookies. But I do not eat much because I have no teeth," she said in her home at the time, where the Guinness World Records certificate declaring her to be the oldest person alive held pride of place on a marble-topped chest-of-drawers.

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North Korean Missile Launch Fails

North Korea has defied Donald Trump’s demands for it to abandon its nuclear and missile programs, launching a missile from an eastern port city on Sunday morning.

However, the test appeared to fail. “The missile blew up almost immediately,” the United States Pacific Command said in a statement. “The type of missile is still being assessed.”

North Korea parades military might and warns US amid nuclear test fears

 

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The attempt came hours before US vice-president Mike Pence was due to arrive in Seoul at the start of a 10-day trip to Asia in what his aides said was a sign of the US commitment to its ally in the face of rising tension over North Korea. Both Pence and President Donald Trump have been notified. The president had no further comment, said defence secretary Jim Mattis.

The missile was launched from the eastern coastal city of Sinpo, which is the site of a submarine base and where the North has tested the submarine-launched ballistic missile it is developing. Weapons on submarines are much harder to track and destroy, and would make it far more challenging for the US and its allies to mount a pre-emptive strike.

A spokesman for the UK Foreign Office said: “We are concerned by reports of a missile test by North Korea and are monitoring the situation closely.”

The move comes a day after a giant military parade in North Korea’s capital and exactly one year after a similar failure, when Pyongyang attempted to mark the anniversary of its founder’s birth, Kim Il-sung, on 15 April, by launching a Musudan missile.

On Saturday at a vast military parade, North Korea displayed new long-range missiles that could one day threaten continental America, showcasing the isolated nation’s defiance as a US aircraft carrier group headed to the region.

Kim Jong-un has overseen three nuclear tests and a string of missile and rocket launches since taking over after the death of his father, dictator Kim Jong-il, in late 2011.

Another missile test from Sinpo ended in failured earlier this month, when the rocket spun out of control and plunged into the ocean. That launch came shortly before Trump’s first meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping. China is North Korea’s only major ally.

Despite Sunday’s failure, the North’s previous claim to have used “standardised” warheads has led to worries that it was making headway in its push to develop small and sophisticated warheads to be topped on long-range missiles.

China offered no immediate reaction to the missile launch. But in a commentaryreleased after Saturday’s military demonstration, Beijing’s official news agency, Xinhua, said the region had reached “a critical moment in history” and warned that a pre-emptive US strike could trigger full-scale war.

It was now time for Despite Sunday’s failure, the North’s previous claim to have used “standardised” warheads has led to worries that it was making headway in its push to develop small and sophisticated warheads to be topped on long-range missiles.

China offered no immediate reaction to the missile launch. But in a commentaryreleased after Saturday’s military demonstration, Beijing’s official news agency, Xinhua, said the region had reached “a critical moment in history” and warned that a pre-emptive US strike could trigger full-scale war.

It was now time for North Korea and the US to strike a “grand bargain,” Xinhua said.North 

Despite Sunday’s failure, the North’s previous claim to have used “standardised” warheads has led to worries that it was making headway in its push to develop small and sophisticated warheads to be topped on long-range missiles.

China offered no immediate reaction to the missile launch. But in a commentaryreleased after Saturday’s military demonstration, Beijing’s official news agency, Xinhua, said the region had reached “a critical moment in history” and warned that a pre-emptive US strike could trigger full-scale war.

It was now time for North Korea and the US to strike a “grand bargain,” Xinhua said.

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NORTH KOREA CONDEMNS US FOR BRINGING NUKES

North Korea denounced the United States on Friday for bringing "huge nuclear strategic assets" to the Korean peninsula as a U.S. aircraft carrier group headed for the region amid concerns the North may conduct a sixth nuclear weapon test.

Tension has risen since the U.S. Navy fired 59 Tomahawk missiles at a Syrian airfield last week in response to a deadly gas attack, raising concerns about U.S. President Donald Trump's plans for North Korea, which has conducted missile and nuclear tests in defiance of U.N. and unilateral sanctions.

The United States has warned that its policy of "strategic patience" is over. U.S. Vice President Mike Pence travels to South Korea on Sunday on a long-planned 10-day trip to Asia.

A spokesman for the North Korean Foreign Ministry's Institute for Disarmament and Peace issued a statement condemning the United States for the attack on Syria, while also calling for "peace by strength".

"The U.S. introduces into the Korean peninsula, the world's biggest hotspot, huge nuclear strategic assets, seriously threatening peace and security of the peninsula and pushing the situation there to the brink of a war," the North's KCNA news agency said on Friday, citing the statement.

"This has created a dangerous situation in which a thermo-nuclear war may break out any moment on the peninsula and posed serious threat to the world peace and security, to say nothing of those in Northeast Asia," it said.

North Korea, still technically at war with the South after their 1950-53 conflict ended in a truce, not a treaty, has on occasion conducted missile or nuclear tests to coincide with big political events and often threatens the United States, South Korea and Japan.

On Saturday, it marks the "Day of the Sun", the 105th anniversary of the birth of state founder Kim Il Sung.

The dollar fell on Friday against a basket of currencies, on track for a losing week as tension over North Korea underpinned the perceived safe-haven Japanese yen.

                       "OPPORTUNITY TO TALK"

China, North Korea's sole major ally and neighbour, which nevertheless opposes Pyongyang's weapons programme, has called for talks leading to a peaceful resolution and the denuclearization of the peninsula.

"Military force cannot resolve the issue," Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told reporters in Beijing on Thursday. "Amid tensions we will also find a kind of opportunity to return to talks."

While Trump has put North Korea on notice that he will not tolerate any more provocation, U.S. officials have said his administration is focusing its strategy on tougher economic sanctions.

Trump said on Thursday Pyongyang was a problem that "will be taken care of" and that he believed Chinese President Xi Jinping would "work very hard" to help resolve the challenge.

Trump has also said the United States is prepared to tackle the crisis without China, if necessary.

He diverted the nuclear-powered USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier and its strike group towards the Korean peninsula last weekend in a show of force.

Another U.S. official also dismissed the report, calling it "speculative at best"

Pence's trip to South Korea was a sign of the U.S. commitment to its ally in the face of rising tension, aides said.

"We're going to consult with the Republic of Korea on North Korea's efforts to advance its ballistic missile and its nuclear programme," a White House foreign policy adviser, previewing Pence's trip, told reporters.

Media in Japan said the government confirmed it would take all precautions regarding possible fresh North Korean provocations.

The Nikkei business daily said government discussions included how to rescue the estimated 57,000 Japanese citizens in South Korea as well as how to cope with a possible flood of North Korean refugees coming to Japan, among whom might be North Korean spies and agents.

Kyodo news agency said separately Japan had begun working on plans to respond to a potential crisis on the Korean peninsula in February, after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met Trump for a summit in the United States.

"The government has great interest in North Korea's nuclear and missile moves and is collecting and analysing information," Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, the government's top spokesman, told a news conference.

"I will refrain from commenting on individual specific content or situations. At present, we are in close contact with the United States and South Korea and in addition to urging (the North) to refrain from provocative actions and observe relevant U.N. Security Council resolutions," he said.

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BREAKING NEWS: MAN FLEW TO IRELAND FROM CANADA TO HAVE SEX WITH GIRL

Tuesday, April 11, 2017 - 09:00 am

A father is due to be sentenced in Canada today for grooming and having sex with an underage Irish girl during two trips here in 2013.The Canadian national, Jashua Robert Tremblay, 33, has pleaded guilty to three charges under Canadian child sex tourism legislation.

The prosecution is the result of a highly unusual joint Canadian-Irish police investigation. Under Canadian law, its citizens can be prosecuted for certain sexual offences committed against children abroad.

Tremblay’s victim was aged 13 when the online grooming began in late 2012 and 14 when the sexual activity occurred the following year. Tremblay pretended he was 16 when the contact started and later said he was 19. Before he travelled to Ireland, he told the girl his real age.

Tremblay visited the south-west of the country twice, in 2013.

Concerns were raised by locals in November 2013 after Tremblay and the girl were noticed at a rental accommodation.

By the time gardaí were informed, Tremblay had returned to Canada. A major investigation began.

Gardaí interviewed the girl and examined her electronic devices. Gardaí discovered Tremblay used his real name in the social media platforms. Explicit sexual images were shared, something Tremblay initiated. Gardaí conducted a forensic examination at the rental property.

They contacted Interpol who informed the Canadian authorities.

The Garda file was transmitted to Canada.

Tremblay pleaded guilty last December on three counts:

Online luring to facilitate the making of child pornography;
Online luring to facilitate sexual contact with a person under the age of 16;
Sexual contact with someone under the age of 16.

When contacted by the Irish Examiner, Supt Flor Murphy of Killarney Garda Station said: “The case highlights the very obvious dangers of the internet.

“In this incident, a 30-year-old father living thousands of miles away in a different continent, groomed a 13-year-old vulnerable schoolgirl online and then sexually exploited her during the course of two visits to Ireland in 2013.

“The case also highlights the extensive engagement and co-operation by An Garda Síochána with police forces throughout the world.

“International borders did not deter or hinder An Garda Síochána in bringing to justice an international sex predator who committed very serious offences in this jurisdiction on a young person.”

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