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Senate hearings, De Lima press conference, Duterte’s speech. Almost simultaneous events happened Thursday, September 22, all competing for national attention and sympathy. They sure kept the media busy and shifting from one coverage to another, as these news events also competed for the top stories.
Elsewhere, the ice on Greenland is melting faster than originally thought, prompting experts to describe the ice sheet there as the world’s “most unstable.”
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His mouth, President Rodrigo Duterte said, surely can’t bring down a country. Not his crude curses, slurs, slang, or epithets. “Do not keep complaining about my mouth because my mouth is not the problem,” the president, known for his colorful language, said. Nervous foreign investors? He doesn’t give a sh…
Who’d ever think a hitman who has admitted to killing people upon orders of higher-ups would break down in the Senate? That’s exactly what Edgar Matobato did on September 22 when he recounted seeing his father beheaded before him in 1977. Ordered to keep on killing, the self-professed hitman told senators he will not run away, he just wants to tell the truth, and is just seeking justice.
Justice Secretary Leila de Lima called for a press conference on Thursday, September 22, and told reporters she’s had to leave her house, fearing for her security. This was after the House committee on justice publicized her mobile number and address during its probe into illegal drugs at the New Bilibid Prison. The feisty lawyer is contemplating her next legal steps.
Come on over and do your own investigation into supposed extrajudicial killings. This is the message of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (whom he also jokingly referred to as Ban Ki-sun) and European Union officials who have been critical of his war against illegal drugs. But there’s a hitch: Duterte said he should be allowed to ask them questions too in an open forum.
The political heat may be melting even the Greenland ice sheet, the 2nd largest in the world. Experts said the “highly unstable” ice sheet is melting more than 7% faster than they originally thought. From 2003 to 2013, Greenland lost 2,700 gigatons of ice, about 2,700 billion metric tons. Imagine the rise in sea levels.
Official requests to put down posts in the first half of 2016 are higher by 13%, with the bulk coming from Turkey and Russia. Twitter announced this on September 21, US time, saying that the removal requests mainly involved content that supposedly violated local laws. In terms of government requests for information about Twitter accounts, the US came in first, followed by Japan, Britain, France, and Turkey.
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