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DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
Fri Apr 25, 2014, 10:19 PM Apr 2014

Protests in Philippines, Malaysia Ahead of Obama's Visit



NTDTV · Published on Apr 25, 2014

Activists in the Philippines and Malaysia protest U.S. President Barack Obama's upcoming visit.

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Ahead of U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to the Philippines and Malaysia, protesters are saying they want the U.S. out.

In Manila, protesters burn a mock American flag with skulls instead of stars.

Obama is expected to sign a military agreement that would boost the U.S. presence American troops in the island nation.

BAGONG ALYANSANG MAKABAYAN (NEW PATRIOTIC ALLIANCE) METRO MANILA'S SECRETARY-GENERAL, MARK LOUIE AQUINO, SAYING:
"Our nation has been subjected to foreign domination for 116 years. And the United States has continued to drag us into its wars, greatly affecting the Filipino people."

Meanwhile in Malaysia, Obama is set to negotiate a TPPA, or Trans Pacific Partnership Alliance deal.

The deal would connect a dozen Asia-Pacific economies by eliminating trade barriers, covering two-fifths of the world economy.

Groups opposed to the TPPA took to the streets in Kuala Lumpur.

REPRESENTATIVE OF ANTI-TPPA GROUP HAJI ABDUL RAZAK SAYING:
"We are from the people of Malaysia to express our non-acceptance of Barack Obama in our country. To sign the TPPA is absolutely nonsense, our economic stability we should decide ourselves, not the west."

Obama's four-nation tour of U.S. allies in Asia, which has included stops in Japan and South Korea, aims to convince U.S. allies that the U.S. pivot of military and diplomatic assets to Asia is real.

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Protests in Philippines, Malaysia Ahead of Obama's Visit (Original Post) DeSwiss Apr 2014 OP
I say get the U.S. out of your country and maintain your indepenence and soverignty .We lost ours. geretogo Apr 2014 #1
''Independence and sovereignty.'' DeSwiss Apr 2014 #3
They should kick us out. We attract trouble for them. L0oniX Apr 2014 #7
I thought we were told the TPP was just a proposal zeemike Apr 2014 #2
A proposal is what they tell us over here..... DeSwiss Apr 2014 #4
Like ...asking them means anything. L0oniX Apr 2014 #6
Send in the drones? L0oniX Apr 2014 #5
That's the response...... DeSwiss Apr 2014 #8
 

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
3. ''Independence and sovereignty.''
Sat Apr 26, 2014, 12:51 AM
Apr 2014

Two words we can only imagine what they truly mean and how it actually feels to be free. Yet, there can be none of these as long as there is debt.

Debt is the new equal-opportunity slavery. The new chains of oppression.

And anyway, why do we have to pay to live on the planet we were born on? And who are we paying and why are we paying them?

- Capitalism's day are numbered. Small numbers.


''The only demand that property recognizes is its own gluttonous appetite for greater wealth, because wealth means power; the power to subdue, to crush, to exploit, the power to enslave, to outrage, to degrade.'' ~Emma Goldman

zeemike

(18,998 posts)
2. I thought we were told the TPP was just a proposal
Sat Apr 26, 2014, 12:03 AM
Apr 2014

So why is he going over there to talk them into it?

 

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
4. A proposal is what they tell us over here.....
Sat Apr 26, 2014, 12:59 AM
Apr 2014

...over there they tell them how they're trying to ''help'' and improve their quality of life.

Both are lies told by a liar (although most prefer not to be so blatant as I in saying so, but that's what it is). And both peoples know they're being lied to. The Awake ones anyways.

- What happens after the lies, is always left to us to decide......



"Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed." ~I.F. Stone

 

DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
8. That's the response......
Sat Apr 26, 2014, 04:47 PM
Apr 2014

...if we don't sign an agreement expanding our military presence. When you're a world's greatest military (greatest being defined here as the most deadly and least moral) it doesn't do for one not to throw one's weight around every so often.

- Keeps the natives in-line and you get the added benefit of blowing things up!


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