The Philippines

The Philippines   (Nation)
Location	Pacific Ocean, Asia, South East Asia
Leader	President of the Philippines
Type	nation state
Member of	APEC, ASEAN, UN
Country in Asia with great soil for making amphetamines. It was a sex trafficking hub in the 2000s. It suffered a drug war similar to Mexico in the 2010s.

The Philippines is a group of islands in the Pacific Ocean. It was termed by the former president Rodrigo Duterte as "narco state", known for human trafficking and kid organ trafficking hub by Asian and American media such as ChannelNewsAsia and ABC reported by the UN in the 2010s , with the president promoting the ad-hoc killing of children in the streets for suspected, minor drug offences.

Deep State

Full article: The Philippines/Deep state

Formerly a US Colony. Yamashita's gold is alleged to have been an important factor in the evolution of the US and supranational deep states. The top drug lord in the country have been exporting amphetamines since the early 1990s. Over 40% of convicted drug criminals in the country were government officials in 2010s, with government agencies running a "kill list" against individuals suspected or playing double agent. The DEA ran multiple operations, suspected of trying to take over the country's trafficking hub, often losing multiple agents in ambushes in the 1990s.

CIA Coup?

ISGP points out General John Kirk Singlaub, an OSS veteran, CIA founder and Iran-Contra participant, has a long list of accusations against him of involvement in coups around the world, including one where he in 1985 and 1986 was accused of running a CIA coup in the Philippines.

Presidential Assassination?

According to ISGP, the perpetrator of the assassination of Thomas Willhite also was connected to the death of President Ferdinand Marcos. Two lawyers were killed in Washington as they searched for evidence linking BBRDW's client, President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines to the CIA.

“1995, Catholics for a Free Choice, 'Opus Dei: The Pope's Right Arm in Europe': "The Hanns-Seidel Foundation, based in Germany, is accredited with and receives funding from the European Union. The foundation is linked with the CSU (the Bavarian Christian Democrat) party of the late Fritz Pirkl, who was in the European Parliament and served on the boards of directors of Hanns-Seidel and the Rhine-Danube Foundation. Together with Limmat, Hanns-Seidel has funded Opus Dei’s extensive operations in the Philippines, including the Centre for Research and Communication. The centre’s "self-declared task is to form the future economic and political elite of the country," writes Opus Dei critic Peter Hertel. "Under President Corazon Aquino, Opus members have put a decisive stamp on the country’s Constitution."”
JVDH,  ISGP (20) 

Sexual Blackmail

Apart from mail-order brides that appeared to be kidnapped and sold, people selling their kids to foreign men that build up "ghost debt" called debt bondage was an increasing part of the Filipino sex industry during the 2000s. The women often need to import their own familly members that get sold as prostitutes as well to pay off the increased debts.

Kid sex trafficking

CNN stated in 2010 that "Pagsanjan, located about 60 miles south of Manila, became known as a popular location for men seeking homosexual sex and attracting an increasing number of child molesters." In the '80s, Pagsanjan was declared by international gay publications as a paradise for them, a gay paradise, a haven for homosexuals. In 2001, it was estimated there were 10,000 young girls trafficked into sex slavery in Cebu. The US Department of State in 2001, estimated that about 40,000 Filipino women were trafficked into the entertainment industry in Japan using entertainment visas ending as sex slaves. In 2007, reports by CBC News estimated the number of Filipinas trafficked into Japan for prostitution to be as high as 150,000. Biggest demand appeared to be coming from the Japanese mafia groups knows as the Yakuza selling kids for as low as $2400. Unicef called The Philippines in 2016 "sex trafficking capital" of the world and "unstoppable".

Murdered and dissected children

The World Health Organization called the Philippines as one of the five organ trafficking hotpots of the world. Instances include abducting and killing kids of people in debt to sell them.

Nurses Trafficking

In 2021, Bloomberg reported a nursing agency that brought Filipino nurses to the U.S. and promised them jobs, but threatened them with large fines if they left those jobs prematurely, was to pay $1.56 million to the nurses, plus interest, following a New York trial. The court said that "Prompt Nursing Employment Agency LLC" doing business as Sentosa Services, had violated the Trafficking Victims Protection Act and was conducting human trafficking.

Drug War

In the 2010s, Rodrigo Duterte declared a "War on Drugs" in the country, which turned the cities and south of the country into the worst parts of Mexico, with full blown wars between drug cartels and the Filipino Army.

Duterte's Drug War- PBS FRONTLINE

 

An event carried out

Event	Location	Description
Evacuation from Afghanistan	Afghanistan	The evacuation of foreigners from Afghanistan, one of the largest airlifts in history

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Rodrigo Duterte	“If they are there in your neighbourhood, feel free to call us, the police or do it yourself if you have the gun. You have my support. If he fights and fights to the death, you can kill him. I will give you a medal... If you are involved in drugs, I will kill you. You son of a whore, I will really kill you.”	Rodrigo Duterte Wikiquote	2016
Rodrigo Duterte	“Just because you’re a journalist you are not exempted from assassination, if you’re a son of a bitch. Freedom of expression cannot help you if you have done something wrong...The constitution can no longer help you if you disrespect a person.”	Rodrigo Duterte Wikiquote	2016
Rodrigo Duterte	“I'm not claiming to be clean. I also stole a lot, but it's all used up. So, it's gone. ...corruption is really out during my term.”	Rodrigo Duterte Wikiquote	2017

 

Groups Headquartered Here

Group	Start	Description
Ateneo de Manila University	1859	Prestigious Philippine university
Lyceum of the Philippines University	1952	International relations (diplomacy, international trade), business, communication and International Hospitality (hotel and restaurant management, tourism) are the university's flagship courses.
Rappler	2012	Filipino online news website and "fact checker" largely funded by CIA or other deep-state run foundations.

 

Jobs here

Event	Job	Appointed	End	Description
Desmond FitzGerald	Manila Chief of Station	1955	1956
John H. Richardson Sr	Manila Chief of Station	1958	1962	Dates not confirmed

 

Citizens of The Philippines on Wikispooks

Title	Born	Died	Description
Michael Ray Aquino			Filipino spy
Jaime Augusto Miranda Zóbel de Ayala	6 March 1959		Filipino businessman from the prominent Zóbel de Ayala family and a WEF stalwart.
Walden Bello	11 November 1945		Filipino activist, academic and politician who has proposed a deglobalization instead of globalization, where the economy is locally based.
Clarissa Delgado			Selected an Obama Foundation Fellow in 2018 and a WEF Young Global Leader in 2022.
Mahal	29 December 1974	31 August 2021	Famous Filipino actress and comedienne who had dwarfism. She died from COVID-19 in August 2021.
Ferdinand Marcos	11 September 1917	28 September 1989
Maria Ressa	2 October 1963		Founder of the Philippine news website and "fact checker" Rappler. 'Author-in-Residence at the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research.

 

Event Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bandung Conference	1955	1955	Indonesia	Important conference for the global south; participants soon became prime targets for US foreign policy

 

Related Document

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Bloody US-Directed Raid Destabilizes Philippine Politics	article	1 March 2015	Walden Bello	American fingerprints are all over a botched commando raid in the southern Philippines that left dozens dead and shocked the country.

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