Best Posts in Thread: Duterte says goodbye to the u.s whilst in China

If they are then Aquino invited them in. Geological survey, securing the rights, moving in a rig, wildcat drilling of a well where you drill, stop, analyze, drill more, plug back, fracture or other completion technique, bring in storage tanks for oil and salt water, doesn't happen in just a few months. Totally leaving aside other logistical needs like disposal of drilling waste and disposal of the waste water. I never looked into whether the Philippines has refineries, from all I've ever heard they import refined fuels. The joke would be on whoever drilled an oil well. Natural gas would need to go to a gas plant to strip out the various parts, propane, butane, pentane, hexane, ethane and their iso counterparts.

Next thing that comes to mind is which senator is partner in this well?

 

The new Siri, Cortana, type technology has always been meant to replace humans at call centers. Once they get that perfected the human call centers go away

 

From reading all the posts here about the various options and possibilities of outcomes for Duterte. All of these outcomes appear to result in us getting screwed and ending up with the shitty end of the stick that was used to stir up this mess.
One good result from all this is it has gotten my wife interested in the way the Government works. She wanted Duterte elected but now is afraid that was a bad idea.

 

Is any one looking at Chiang Ma Thailand as part of their exit plan. I have a few friends that moved there. First comment is that internet works. Does anyone else have other informtion. If Duterte continues in his anti US positions as noted in thread main post, whether it is just his ranting or real, is just seems necessary to do more research and preparation for an exit plan of the Philippines. Yesterday demonstrations in front of the US Embassy in Manila turned violet... PNP against Filipinos but soon the US will get the blame. It does not seem like many of Deturte's domestic enemies have fare well lately My concern is how long will it take to have individual American Citizens pinpointed as enemies of the Philippines or Filipino people?

 

I was talking all aid....still not close to your numbers though. Odd that the Philippines gov't would so grossly inflate things. Assuming the PI gov't doesn't know what its talking about and using your numbers, $220M is still a lot of money in my book. I'm happy to take your numbers, which still makes the point.

 

Hey Cabb, military aid to the Philippines from the US from the below website.. Current figure is probably significantly different, hopefully much higher. And of course we realize that the internet information is always accurate, un-biased, never skewed, never spun.....

My figure was, i now realize, from 2012, the website: http://us-foreign-aid.insidegov.com/q/139/1590/How-much-money-does-the-U-S-give-to-Philippines

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How much money does the U.S. give to Philippines?
According to our research engine:
The U.S. Government gave a total of $197,036,510 to Philippines in 2012:

The aid was broken down in the following manner:
Economic

• Child Survival and Health: $-420

• Department of Defense Security Assistance: $75,490

• Development Assistance: $79,721,515

• Economic Support Fund/Security Support Assistance: $456,217

• Global Health and Child Survival: $34,153,032

• Millennium Challenge Corporation: $4,439,091

• Narcotics Control: $4,286,840

• Nonproliferation, Anti-Terrorism, Demining and Related: $9,549,582

• Other Active Grant Programs: $6,403,834

• Other Food Aid Programs: $11,824,000

• Other State Assistance: $2,746,441

• Other USAID Assistance: $8,619,065

• Peace Corps: $3,388,723

Military

• Military Assistance, Total: $31,373,100

 

I think he did what he needed to do for the Filipino people. He negotiated with China on a deal that would have ended with huge tragedy if he had followed thru with the US and pursued the use of force which is the only thing the US was offering. His choice was war or negotiation, I think he did what was best for everyone concerned. The US does not have a very good record of standing by its allies or winning wars which, in spite of it's superior forces, has not won a war since WWII. They have however started quite a few and even want to get involved where they don't have a dog in the fight, Syria. Where you need a scorecard to keep up with all the players for several different teams. All fighting for what? The spread of democracy? National Security? Sorry, I no longer buy those lines of BS.
Duterte could be at risk of assassination from US.

 

If Duterte thinks American are "loud and discourtiious" he has never eaten at a Dumaguete Restaurant with other Filipino families there also. He has never noticed how people yell to communicate across a restaurant table or to the person siting next to them, or let their children run wild through out the restaurant. With Filipino families present it is usually hard for me to carry on a conversation across the table because of the loud conversations, and children running around screaming at each other. Filipinos seldom are courteous enough to be aware of other people being present in a public place. It is all part of their culture and I have learned to live with it, but I will not deny that being loud and discourteous to others is not present with in the Filipino culture.