Habagat to dump rains over

western Luzon until Thursday

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Posted at Jul 30 2019 06:34 AM

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Japanese Meteorological Agency
MANILA— Pack an umbrella, Kapamilya! Monsoon rains are expected to affect the western section
of Luzon all day Tuesday until Thursday this week, state weather bureau PAGASA said.

PAGASA weather forecaster Lorie Dela Cruz said heavy rains are affecting Bataan, Pangasinan and
Zambales "and will likely continue tomorrow and Thursday.

Classes have been suspended in parts of these 3 provinces.

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Dela Cruz warned the intense rain could bring landslides especially in mountainous areas.
 Batanes, which was rocked by twin earthquakes over the weekend, is not affected by monsoon rains.

Weather specialist Meno Mendoza said light to moderate rains will affect Metro Manila, Mimaropa,
La Union, Benguet, Cavite, Batangas and the rest of Central Luzon for the rest of the day.

The rest of the country will have partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers due to
localized thunderstorms.

PAGASA had said that at least 2 storms are expected to enter the Philippine area of responsibility
(PAR) in August.

Visit the ABS-CBN Weather Center for the latest weather updates.

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Trump deepens war of words

with leftist black leaders
Sebastian Smith, Reuters
Posted at Jul 30 2019 06:19 AM

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WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump brushed off accusations of racism Monday to step up
his war of words with prominent black and minority left-leaning leaders, branding his latest target a
"con man."

Rejecting criticism that he is stoking America's smoldering racial divisions, Trump attacked African-
American civil rights activist Al Sharpton.

"Al is a con man, a troublemaker, always looking for a score. Just doing his thing," Trump tweeted,
adding that Sharpton "Hates Whites & Cops!"

Donald J. Trump
✔@realDonaldTrump

I have known Al for 25 years. Went to fights with him & Don King, always got along well.
He “loved Trump!” He would ask me for favors often. Al is a con man, a troublemaker,
always looking for a score. Just doing his thing. Must have intimidated Comcast/NBC.
Hates Whites & Cops! https://twitter.com/thereval/status/1155656396685357059 …

Reverend Al Sharpton
✔@TheRevAl
Arrived in DC from Atlanta, headed to Baltimore. Long day but can’t stop.
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He struck out after Sharpton -- one of the best known, if controversial, black figures in US politics --
expressed support for Baltimore, a majority black city near Washington that has also come in for a
presidential bashing.

Over the weekend, Trump described Baltimore as a "rat and rodent infested mess" unfit for humans
and blamed this on Elijah Cummings, the Democrat who represents much of the city in Congress.

 Trump tells black lawmaker to clean up 'disgusting, rat and rodent-infested' district

Cummings, who is black, heads the House Oversight committee, one of the powerful bodies
mounting politically sensitive probes into everything from Trump's Russia connections to tax
records.

Sharpton told reporters in Baltimore that Trump "has a particular venom for blacks and people of
color."

"He can say what he wants. Call me a troublemaker. Yes, I make trouble for bigots," Sharpton said.

Trump did not hold back, either.

"So tired of listening to the same old Bull...," he wrote, spicing up his tweet with an abbreviated
profanity.

"Next, Reverend Al will show up to complain & protest. Nothing will get done for the people in
need."

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Trump said earlier this month that he doesn't have "a racist bone in my body."

He routinely touts statistics showing low unemployment in the African-American community, as

well as a program designed to encourage investment in forgotten inner city neighborhoods.

On Monday he boosted that narrative by meeting at the White House with black pastors.

Donald J. Trump
✔@realDonaldTrump

Looking forward to my meeting at 2:00 P.M. with wonderful Inner City Pastors!
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"The president is concerned about the whole nation, about everybody in the nation," said Alveda
King, a niece of the slain civil rights icon Martin Luther King.

Bill Owens, a pastor who said that about 20 people attended the previously unannounced, closed-
door meeting with Trump, told reporters it was "hard to believe" that Trump is racist.

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The Baltimore feud comes less than two weeks after the House of Representatives -- in a rare vote --
condemned the president for "racist" comments targeting four first-term Democratic congresswomen
nicknamed the "Squad." All of them are from ethnic minorities.

"Why don't they go back and help fix the totally broken and crime infested places from which they
came," Trump asked about the women, only one of whom, Ilhan Omar, was born abroad, arriving
two decades ago as a refugee from Somalia.

The "go back" statement ignited a backlash from critics painting Trump as an open racist.

But each of the provocative statements, including the assault on Baltimore, appears to boost a
planned push to raise political temperatures ahead of the 2020 presidential election where Trump
wants to frame Democratic opponents as the real extremists -- on the left.

"If the Democrats are going to defend the Radical Left 'Squad' and King Elijah's Baltimore Fail, it
will be a long road to 2020," Trump tweeted Monday.

Cory Booker, an African-American running for the Democratic nomination, called the growing row
"painful."

"This is a moral, defining moment in America," he said.

Kamala Harris, another candidate who is also black, said she was "proud" to have her campaign
headquarters in Cummings' district and called Trump's attack "disgraceful."

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Opinion: Thank you, Mayor

Isko
Amir Mawallil
Posted at Jul 30 2019 05:27 AM

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Manila Mayor Isko Moreno recently said the capital city will open a Muslim cemetery. Thank you,
Mayor.

Isko knows what he is talking about: Muslims who have passed away need to be buried within 24
hours because embalming is forbidden to us, and we must bury our dead before the decay of their
cadavers seriously sets in.

The City of Manila hosts a significant number of Muslim population—you know this because the
capital hosts the Golden Mosque in Quiapo. Some of the Muslims living in the capital city were
displaced by the conflict and war in Mindanao who found refuge and, eventually, a new home in
Manila.

It looks like the new mayor of Manila understands how hard it is for Muslims to die in non-Muslim
areas like Metro Manila, where only the capital and Taguig City have large Muslim populations.

This mindful decision of Mayor Isko will benefit not only Manila's Muslim population, but also
Muslims from other part of Metro Manila.

This statement and the actions that will follow mean a lot to us Muslim Filipinos. Thank you, Mayor
Isko, we feel the sincerity and understanding in your gesture all the way to Muslim Mindanao. This
decision, once implemented, will contribute to much-needed healing between Muslim and non-
Muslim Filipinos nationwide, not just in the capital of our country.

Preparing and providing burial grounds for the deceased we love will provide more than just space
for our dearly departed. It gives those Muslim Filipinos who yet live a space where we can feel
acceptance as Filipinos who follow Islam. We hope that the other LGUs will follow suit, especially
those that have a large number of Muslim Filipinos among their constituency.

One friend told me that there are three things you don't delay if you are a Muslim: "Prayer, marriage,
and burying the dead."
 Your understanding of the urgency behind Islamic burial rites speaks very eloquently of your
compassion for us and it gives us heart.

Disclaimer: The views in this blog are those of the blogger and do not necessarily reflect the views
of ABS-CBN Corp.

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COMMENTARY

A need for unlearning

By: Gerald M. Nicolas - @inquirerdotnet
05:03 AM July 30, 2019

I recently obliged myself to respond to a request to support an online

petition directed at the Office of the President and the Department of
Environment and Natural Resources. It was a call to cancel the permit of
a large mining company that has been extracting gold and copper from a
small barangay in Nueva Vizcaya. Groups opposing what they claim as
irresponsible mining by the Australia-based firm said the project has
destroyed the environment and led to violations of human rights. For
example, in 2009 private security forces allegedly evicted local villagers
and burned their houses. Three years later, a community leader was
killed by unidentified gunmen. As of this writing, the campaign has
gathered at least 2,800 signatures out of its target of 5,000.
Intriguingly, another group was sponsoring a parallel petition on the
same platform, calling for at least 2,500 supporters for the renewal of the
same mining company’s contract. The petition comes with a photo and
list of (supposed) benefits of the mining activity, such as employment for
at least 800 locals, educational assistance for more than 300 students,
upgrading of roads and community facilities and financial assistance to
small enterprises and cooperatives. It boasts that the company has paid
almost P7 billion worth of taxes, fees and charges in the last five years.
The petition, as of this writing, needs only 200 signatures to hit its target.
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Although I doubt the impact of online petitions on the decision of the

President, I’d be curious to know which of the two petitions would get the
support of locals in the affected rural barangay. But the cynic in me
thinks many would size up the issue based on concrete benefits they see,
regardless of whether these came at the price of destroying a mountain,
polluting a river or taking the life of one fellow human being. The
“development” a mining project brings may, for them, compensate for
the government’s neglect in providing them the means for a better way of
life. Such reasoning (which needs to be proven empirically) is often
invoked if one is to understand where people are coming from when they
see no problem in things that have far-reaching consequences on the
environment.

Never has this kind of reckoning been most demanded as in the last three
years. I, for one, am perplexed by the high satisfaction and trust ratings of
President Duterte. Despite the killings happening left and right in urban
poor communities because of the government’s “war on drugs,” his net
satisfaction rating stayed “very good” for those belonging to Classes D and
E (+68 versus +58 among Classes ABC). More astonishing is his high
satisfaction rating among women which, despite his many sexist remarks
during his public speeches, has been increasing in the last two quarters
— from +57 in December 2018 to +65 in March 2019 and +69 in June 2019.
Per the latest Pulse Asia survey, he remains the most trusted national
government official (85 percent versus the Vice President’s 52 percent),
notwithstanding his disregard for human rights and his inability to assert
our rights and protect our territorial sovereignty in the West Philippine
Sea.

Convinced that local pollsters will not risk their reputation by

manipulating survey results, I want to understand the prevailing
narrative by reaching out to ordinary people among the 80 percent or so
who are satisfied with the way things are going — those who welcome
safety and security delivered to their communities through fear and
violence, those women who laugh at rape jokes, those Catholics who
follow God’s commandments but favor the death penalty and give their
quiet support to the drug-related killings, those parents who love their
children but also want offending children to be locked up in jail, those
who fall victim to fake news and disinformation and those who are poor
but continue to support a regime that is willing to sacrifice them in the
name of development and peace and order.

There is a lot of unlearning needed. Those who believe that there are
alternatives to the current narrative, and nongovernment organizations
like ours that have been trying to influence policies to make them work
for the poor, the marginalized and the vulnerable, are not getting certain
things right. They are confronted with the challenge of coming to terms
with the reality of those who, probably as a result of alienation from our
political and economic institutions and of social exclusion, have pinned
their hopes on “saviors” that can lift them out of their miserable situation.

Those “saviors” can be a large mining company that provides jobs and
improves roads, or a President who promises radical change, even if only
delivered in rhetoric and propaganda. People need to see working
alternatives to destructive livelihood, to the violent crime prevention, and
to silence in the face of fear and oppression. This is difficult to achieve,
given the prevalence of disinformation and the demonizing of a critical
civil society. But as Martin Luther King Jr. put it, “The arc of the moral
universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”

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