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Government, Immigration, International, Politics

Many Filipino Americans Are Now Without A President

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IMG_6926.PNGSAN FRANCISCO, California (The Adobo Chronicles, San Francisco Bureau) – We’ve heard about citizens without a country, but citizens without a president?  That’s what many Filipino Americans are facing right now after the election of Donald Trump as the 45th U.S. president.

Many Filipino Americans have been vocal about their opposition to duly-elected Philippine President Rodrigo Roa Duterte, known for his colorful language, controversial statements and actions in connection with his war on drugs.

Now, the same Filipino Americans are expressing their severe disappointment over Trump’s election, saying that he is not their president.

That leaves them without a president, come January 2017.

Truly unprecedented.

Government, Immigration, International, Politics

Canada To Build Wall Along Its Border With The U.S.

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img_6921TORONTO, Canada (The Adobo Chronicles, New York Bureau) – Donald Trump’s campaign promise of building a great wall along the U.S.-Mexican border is being matched by Justin Trudeau.  The Canadian prime minister today announced that Canada will build a wall along its southern border with the United States.

The Canadian government’s announcement came just a day after Tuesday’s U.S. elections in which Trump was elected the 45th president.

Since Trump was announced the winner in the presidential contest, tens of thousands of Americans have started to act on their promise to move to Canada if Trump were elected.  Last night, the Canadian immigration website crashed due to unprecedented visits, mostly from U.S. citizens.

Fearing that that Canada will be overwhelmed by Americans fleeing the U.S., Trudeau said that his government has decided to build a wall all along the U.S.-Canada border.

But unlike Trump’s plan, Trudeau said that Canada will pay for the building of the wall. (Trump has said that Mexico will pay for the southern border wall.)

Meanwhile, pro-Clinton Californians are pressuring Governor Jerry Brown to make good on his promise that if Trump is elected, he will build a wall around the entire state of California.

Diversity, Government, International, Politics, Social Media

Why The Alleged Plot Of FilAms Organizing To Unseat President Duterte Is Nothing But A Hollywood Myth

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img_6890HONOLULU, Hawaii (The Adobo Chronicles, Honolulu Bureau) – The latest bombshell announced by Philippine President Rodrigo Roa Dueterte was a supposed plot by Filipina American millionaire Loida Nicolas-Lewis and Hungarian American billionaire George Soros  to unseat him, a plan that was apparently being hatched  by Filipino Americans.

While the revelation was understandably upsetting to many Filipinos and Filipino Americans, an investigative research  by The Adobo Chronicles’ interns shows that the plan was more of a myth.

The investigation clearly showed that despite Nicolas-Lewis’ millions of dollars to possibly finance the plan,  it wasn’t enough  to stage the unseating of Duterte which could only come in the the form of a “coup” or an EDSA-style people power.

First of all, the alleged plan couldn’t be hatched or carried out in the U.S. since it would require an overwhelming, if not totally united,  support from the more than 3 Million Filipinos living in  America.

We can’t even count how many Filipino organizations there are in America, each having their own agenda, political leaning and what not.  Even coalitions of FilAm organizations are no where close to representing the majority of Filipinos in America.  We have women’s organizations, LGBT organizations, regional organizations, university alumni organizations and what not. They could never agree on anything.

And how exactly will FilAms launch a coup from the U.S. ?  A million march in Washington, D.C.?

More like several hundreds, our researchers pointed out.

And Duterte will be watching it live on CNN (assuming it’ll even cover it) from Davao City and saying to himself, ‘Those sons and daughters of a wh*res!”

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