Manila Standard - 2016 October 2 - Sunday

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'Narco-judge' identified By Funny Pearl A. Gajunera and John Paolo Bencito DAVAO CITY—President Rodrigo Duterte said Agusan del Sur Judge Hector Salise had illegal drug connections

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and Salise’s name was on the narco-list he is revising. But Duterte on Friday said the interior department will revalidate his ‘narco-list’ before he will make it public following public criticism of its supposed lapses. Next page

MAKATI IN MOTION. This dance of headlights show the weekend volume of vehicular traffic at the corner of Epifanio delos Santos Avenue and Ayala Avenue. Sonny Espiritu

UN slams Hitler gaffe LP, Trillanes plotting vs Duterte By John Paolo Bencito THE Liberal Party is plotting with unidentified businessmen to oust President Rodrigo Duterte, according to long-time Duterte ally and Cabinet Secretary Leoncio Evasco. “They are convincing the military and police, [particularly] Senator Antonio Trillanes IV, to join in their cause to

topple Duterte,” Evasco told journalists in Dapitan City on Friday. “They will fail,” Evasco said, explaining that the businessmen are associated with the Liberal Party who cannot not accept that they were defeated by somebody from Mindanao. “That’s because they look down on us,” Evasco said. “They did not know that our minds were molded by our

experiences, our studies, and our outlook of life that the elite don’t have.” Evasco said the businessmen are paying off media men to play up the issues of summary and extrajudicial killings and the burial of former President Ferdinand Marcos to encourage people to oppose the Duterte adminisration. Next page

Rody: Palace life makes me suicidal

GAY WONDER WOMAN. Israeli actress Gal Gadot portrays the Wonder Woman character that was introduced early this year. The writer of the series revealed Saturday that the character is bisexual.

By John Paolo Bencito PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte jested that he may be the first President to commit suicide as he lamented the strict and rigid Palace life. “If I were to go back in time, I wouldn’t want [to be President] anymore. You know my work is to give you hope in Malacañang. But I might be the first President to commit suicide,” Duterte said in his speech before female cops at Davao City. “Susmaryosep, you know, everyone thinks the Palace is all glamour, with security who will follow you. But I cannot go to my other businesses, I cannot go there because they will know,” Duterte said, referring to the Presidential Security Group (PSG). “That’s why, you Presidential Security, if I find out my girlfriend answered you, I’ll kill you all,” he jested. Next page

Wonder Woman is bisexual, comic series writer confirms LOS ANGELES—The writer of the Wonder Woman comic series has confirmed the superhero is bisexual, putting an end to a long held debate on whether she’d had relationships with other women. Speculation has been rife for many years over the sexuality of the Amazonian princess, who hails from the island Themyscira, which is populated solely by female warriors. Although she becomes romantically involved with a man who washes up on the island, storylines over the years have

implied, if not explicitly stated, that she has also been in love with women. Greg Rucka, who returned to DC Comics this year to craft the “Rebirth” series commemorating Wonder Woman’s 75th year in print, told the Comicosity news website Wonder Woman was “queer.” The word—which has several definitions—was defined by the interviewer as “involving, although not necessarily exclusively, romantic and/or sexual interest toward persons of the same gender.” Next page

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Govt urged not to stop war games

Holocaust comparison ‘deeply disrespectful’ By John Paolo Bencito and Sara Susanne Fabunan

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HE United Nations on Saturday called out President Rodrigo Duterte for likening his war on drugs to Adolf Hitler’s efforts to exterminate Jews, calling them “inappropriate” and “deeply disrespectful.” But Malacañang, responding to criticisms against the President, explained Duterte was merely “addressing the negative comparison that people made between him and Hitler.” “I think any use of the Holocaust and the suffering of the Holocaust in comparison to anything else frankly is inappropriate and is to be rejected,” said Stéphane Dujaric, spokesperson for United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon. The Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Adama Dieng, was

also alarmed by public comments by Duterte, in which he reinforced a campaign to kill millions of drug addicts in the Philippines and compared it to the massacre of millions of Jews by Hitler during the Holocaust in Nazi Germany during World War II. “Such a statement is deeply disrespectful of the right to life of all human beings,” Dieng said. “The Holocaust was one of the darkest periods of the history of humankind and that any glorification of the cruel Next page

Palace to probe local execs' financing of personal armies By John Paolo Bencito PRESIDENT Rodrigo Duterte wants to look into how mayors and other local chief executives are spending their discretionary and intelligence funds, which he believes were being used to fund “private armies.” Speaking before policewomen in his hometown Davao City, Duterte said many public funds were being stolen from coffers by some local chief executives.

“Look, when I came, I said, p****** i** ninyo. All the policemen should return to (their) mother unit. The Army should go home to their camps. I told the mayors [keeping private armies] I’ll give you 24 hours or I will kill you. They (policemen) returned to Crame. There. They lost their super-star status, the p****** i**, b******.” “I said no more army army. Now they don’t have protection. Now they feel Next page

HARVEST TIME. Two vegetable farmers rush to harvest their crop of eggplants before possible bad weather brought about by the monsoon season. Sonny Espiritu

By Sara Susanne D. Fabunan FORMER foreign secretary Albert del Rosario said there is no need for the Philippines to stop the joint military exercise with the United States just to appease China, pointing out Beijing has been conducting naval exercises with the US and Russia in the contested South China Sea. In his statement, Del Rosario said the administration should not underestimate the benefits and importance of joint war games with other countries, stressing the military exercises are not just for security concerns but to Next page

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