MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – While international news media scrambled to obtain a video of President Rodrigo Duterte singing a love song during the gala dinner for heads of state attending the ASEAN Summit in Manila, American singer-actress Bette Midler meddled in Philippine affairs through a nasty tweet.
Midler called Duterte a “murderous dictator.”
Duterte is known for his extreme tolerance for criticism, but he has had enough.
Today, the popular Filipino leader said he has instructed his attorney general to file a libel case against Midler.
Although Midler is in the United States, Duterte said he is filing the case “from a distance.”
Incidentally, “From a Distance” is one of Midler’s hit songs.
How appropriate!
MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Latest statistics place the total population of the Philippines at 103 Million.
But thanks to President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs, the number of Filipinos has declined by 13 percent, to about 90 Million.
The latest stats were confirmed by Amnesty International Philippines through a post on its website. In that post, it said that 13M people have been killed under the drug war — that 2M more than were killed during the Holocaust.
So that leaves 90M Filipinos still alive and kicking.
The Adobo Chronicles 
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