30 Nov 2016

Tasmanian Forestry - The State of Play

Forico chipmill

20 Nov 2016

Tens Of Thousands Rally To End Najib Razak Kleptocracy

From SMH
Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of the Malaysian capital on Saturday, defying a police ban and crackdown on pro-democracy activists, to demand the resignation of scandal-hit Prime Minister Najib Razak.

Ninety-one-year-old former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, one of Mr Najib's fiercest critics, told a sea of protesters clad in yellow that it is time to topple the government.
"We are no longer a democracy, we are known as a kleptocracy – a nation run by thieves," he said.

The on-line portal Malaysiakini estimated that more than 40,000 protesters marched in the rally organised by Bersih, a coalition of almost 100 groups campaigning for electoral reform and against corruption amid allegations that a state fund embezzled billions of dollars in the country's biggest financial scandal.



Mr Najib set-up 1Malaysia Development Berhad, known as 1MDB, and oversaw the fund through chairmanship of an advisory committee.

Maria Chin Abdullah, the leader of Bersih, told Fairfax Media before being arrested on Friday she feared a counter pro-government "red shirt" group would disrupt the protest.
"We have security but it's insufficient when faced against gangsters," she said.

But Jamal Yunos, a red-shirt leader, was also arrested hours before the protest after earlier warning "anything can happen, including violence."
He has also made bizarre claims against Bersih, including that the coalition had been infiltrated by Islamic State terrorists.
The rival groups heckled each other but there were no serious clashes. Malaysiakini estimated the number at red-shirts who also took to the streets at around 4,000.

Ms Chin and 10 opposition figures and student leaders were arrested after Mr Najib uploaded a speech on his website declaring the Bersih protesters "a tool of the opposition".
Police banned Bersih supporters from taking to the streets despite Ms Chin declaring they would comply with rules of the Peaceful Assembly Act.
As investigations continue in at least five countries into 1MDB Mr Najib's government has become increasingly authoritarian. A Malaysian court last week sentenced an outspoken member of Malaysia's parliament to 18 months in prison for publicly disclosing information relating to the scandal.

The conviction of Rafizi Ramli was slammed by human rights groups who said Malaysians have a right to know about corruption.
"These arrests are the latest in a series of crude and heavy-handed attempts to intimidate Malaysian civil society activists and other human rights defenders," said Amnesty International's Josef Benedict.

Mr Najib, 62, has been under fire since July last year when the Wall Street Journal published documents showing that almost US$700 million turned up in his private bank accounts. He denies any wrongdoing.

The US Justice Department has said it is investigating US$1 billion of assets purchased in the US with funds that were allegedly embezzled from 1MDB. The department said a figure it called "Malaysian official 1" knowingly received huge sums from 1MDB.
A Malaysian cabinet official has since confirmed that official was Mr Najib.

However as Malaysia's biggest financial scandal unfolded Mr Najib has shut down his country's investigations into the fund, removed critics from government, closed several media outlets and enacted tough security laws in a sweeping crackdown that analysts say has endangered an already fragile democracy.
Mr Najib, who has had close ties to successive Australian governments, has in the meantime shored up support in his party, the long-ruling United Malays National Organisation, where officials have for decades benefited from money politics.

19 Nov 2016

How The Emirates Melbourne Cup Legalises Rape

G'day Aussies. Ever notice the 'Emirates Melbourne Cup' is never promoted by the Emirates rulers even though they own the airline and sponsor the race? The reason is they don't want dumb-as-a-brick Aussies to know this is another Moslem-Totalitarian-Sharia Law incursion into Australian culture. The Emirates usually hire a Brit front man to do the media. Fact is the Emirates is a Sharia Law dictatorship controlled by just one family.

 UK woman charged in Dubai after reporting her own rape

by Lin Taylor
London: The family of a British woman arrested in Dubai for reporting her own rape has launched an online appeal, urging the public and the UK government to help negotiate her release.
The British woman was charged for having extramarital sex after she reported her own rape to police, according to UK-based legal advocacy group Detained in Dubai.
The case has revealed a persistent and deep-rooted prejudice against women in the Gulf state, rights groups say.

"The authorities continue to fail survivors of such violence by treating women who have been raped as criminals, instead of investigating and prosecuting suspected perpetrators," Drewery Dyke, from Amnesty International, said on Friday.

He urged authorities to do more to eliminate violence against women across the United Arab Emirates (UAE), including among tourists and migrant workers.

The news has made the front pages and raised questions about the judicial system in the Gulf state, which lures large numbers of expatriates and tourists with a Western lifestyle.
Radha Stirling, founder and director of Detained in Dubai, said the treatment of rape victims in the UAE "tremendously disturbing".
"The UAE has a long history of penalising rape victims," she said.

"Victims go to (the police) expecting justice, and end up being prosecuted. They not only invalidate their victimisation, they actually punish them for it."
"It is still not safe for victims to report these crimes to the police without the risk of suffering a double punishment."

The woman's passport has been confiscated, Ms Stirling said, and she may face trial where punishments can include imprisonment and flogging.
The woman's family said she was on holiday at the time and had been planning to travel on to Australia when she was reportedly raped by two British men in Dubai, one of the seven emirates that make up the UAE.

"Please help my daughter, she is being held in a prison cell in a foreign country for up to one year if we can't bail her out," the family wrote on a fundraising website.
The family said they were targeting £25,000 ($41,600) to cover the woman's legal costs. As of Friday, they had raised more than £13,700 ($28,800).

The Britain's Foreign Office confirmed the incident and said they were "supporting a British woman in relation to this case and will remain in contact with her family."
Ms Stirling said the alleged attackers have since returned to the UK without any charges.

The victim's father said the two men accused of the rape filmed the incident – which took place in a hotel room – on a mobile phone.
In 2008, Australian woman Alicia Gali was charged after reporting her own rape. She served eight months of a one-year prison sentence. 

Thomson Reuters Foundation, PA, Fairfax Media

5 Nov 2016

Pilger Interviews Assange - Saudis, Qatar Funding IS

Great to see an Aussie interviewing an Aussie. Seems the Islamic State funding secret has been revealed. Qatar and the Saudis both fund IS because they all share the same brainwash. The Clintons got donations as well because they enabled the largest arms deals in the history of the planet with Saudi Arabia.
Christians to vote for Trump because he said a woman was not attractive enough for him to sexually assault WTF?
From RT
 In the second excerpt from the John Pilger Special, to be exclusively broadcast by RT on Saturday, courtesy of Dartmouth Films, Julian Assange accuses Hillary Clinton of misleading Americans about the true scope of Islamic State’s support from Washington’s Middle East allies.

In a 2014 email made public by Assange’s WikiLeaks last month, Hillary Clinton, who had served as secretary of state until the year before, urges John Podesta, then an advisor to Barack Obama, to “bring pressure” on Qatar and Saudi Arabia, “which are providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL [Islamic State, IS, ISIS] and other radical Sunni groups.”
“I think this is the most significant email in the whole collection,” Assange, whose whistleblowing site released three tranches of Clinton-related emails over the past year, told Pilger in an exclusive interview, courtesy of Dartmouth Films.



“All serious analysts know, and even the US government has agreed, that some Saudi figures have been supporting ISIS and funding ISIS, but the dodge has always been that it is some “rogue” princes using their oil money to do whatever they like, but actually the government disapproves. But that email says that it is the government of Saudi Arabia, and the government of Qatar that have been funding ISIS.”

Assange and Pilger, who sat down for their 25-minute interview at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where the whistleblower has been a refugee since 2012, then talk about the conflict of interest between Clinton’s official post, which held throughout Obama’s first term, her husband’s nonprofit, and the Middle East officials, whose stated desire to fight terrorism may not have been sincere.

John Pilger: The Saudis, the Qataris, the Moroccans, the Bahrainis, particularly the first two, are giving all this money to the Clinton Foundation, while Hillary Clinton is secretary of state, and the State Department is approving massive arms sales, particularly Saudi Arabia.

Julian Assange: Under Hillary Clinton – and the Clinton emails reveal a significant discussion of it – the biggest-ever arms deal in the world was made with Saudi Arabia: more than $80 billion. During her tenure, the total arms exports from the US doubled in dollar value.

JP: Of course, the consequence of that is that this notorious jihadist group, called ISIL or ISIS, is created largely with money from people who are giving money to the Clinton Foundation?

JA: Yes.

Pilger also questioned Assange over increasingly frequent accusations from the Clinton camp, and Western media, that WikiLeaks is looking to swing next week’s US presidential election in favor of Donald Trump – perhaps at Russia’s behest.

But Assange dismissed the prospect of Trump, who is behind in the polls, winning as unlikely – and not necessarily due to his standing with the electorate.

“My analysis is that Trump would not be permitted to win. Why do I say that? Because he has had every establishment off his side. Trump does not have one establishment, maybe with the exception of the Evangelicals, if you can call them an establishment,” said Assange. “Banks, intelligence, arms companies, foreign money, etc. are all united behind Hillary Clinton. And the media as well. Media owners, and the journalists themselves.”

31 Oct 2016

Andrew Robb Goes Maoist

Comment. Does ex-trade minister Andrew Robb really think Landbridge is not a front for the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China?
Wakey-wakey Robb, you have been bought by the Communists which proves you were a compromised trade minister all along. Now you are just a commie asset which makes you worse than Sam Dastyari.


from SMH

Former trade minister Andrew Robb has accepted a job with the Chinese company that has a 99-year lease of the Darwin Port.
Mr Robb was appointed to the role – described as a "high-level economic consultant" – in a ceremony in September.

However, his job only came to light on Sunday when the ABC commissioned a translation of a September 2 statement by the Landbridge Group.
According to the ABC, the translated statement reads: "The process of internationalisation of the Landbridge Group and the results achieved had greatly impressed him [Mr Robb]."

Chairman Ye Cheng is quoted as saying that, for Landbridge to achieve its goals, "it will be necessary to draw on experts such as Mr Andrew Robb who have global vision and global influence."

A ceremony celebrating Mr Robb's appointment was described as "auspicious" and included a floor-to-ceiling banner reading: "Appointment ceremony of Senior Economic Adviser Mr Andrew Robb of Landbridge Group".

Landbridge Group paid $506m for the 99-year Darwin Port lease, which began in November 2015. The deal was seen as an attempt to expand trade between Australia and China.

At the time, Mr Robb welcomed the deal, lauding it as a "wonderful outcome for the Northern Territory, and for Australia as a whole."
In his time as trade minister, Mr Robb negotiated four trade agreements, including the Free Trade Agreement between Australia and China.

When the 65-year-old announced his resignation in February, he said he wanted to have one more career before he turned 68. His career move has already been criticised.

Peter Jennings, the executive director of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, told The Australian Mr Robb needed to explain his "cosy" appointment.
"It is appropriate that we get an explanation about when he was approached by the company to take on this role," Mr Jennings said.

"He has to be very careful to make sure he can explain if there is a conflict of interest or why there isn't a conflict of interest in this appointment, based on his obvious involvement in the free trade agreement arrangements when he was the minister for trade."
On Sunday night, shortly after the announcement was made, Mr Robb's Wikipedia page was changed anonymously to read that his appointment continued "a proud tradition in Australian conservative politics of plunging their snouts firmly in the trough for the purposes of personal enrichment at the expense of the Australian voter".

The altered text remained online for several hours.
Under the Statement of Ministerial Standards, ministers are not allowed to lobby the Australian government for 18 months from the date they resign their ministry.

25 Oct 2016

Duterte Imitates Addict While Visiting Crystal Meth Supplier

Duterte imitating a drug addict
Tasmania is far enough away from Rodrigo Duterte to see him as he really is. The problem for Australia is we have a democratically-elected nut-job in the region. After once being in a sexual relationship with a priest, Duterte slaughtered 3,800 people in his first 3 months in office because they may have had a drug problem.
And this could just be the beginning of Duterte's bloodbath. He claims there are 3 million more addicts for him to kill.

Is Duterte a drug user himself? At right we see Duterte imitating an addict while on his China trip. How does Duterte know what addicts look like and why does he need to personally demonstrate this to China while on a diplomatic mission? It's not unusual for people who have been sexually abused by priests to later develop serious drug and alcohol problems. Is it time Duterte turned the gun on himself? China is the world's largest supplier of crystal methamphetamine or 'ice'. China is also a communist dictatorship so the ruling regime must be involved in trafficking ice somewhere along the supply chain. Is Rodrigo Duterte a crystal meth addict?

22 Oct 2016

Tasmanian Liberals Go Wild Over Burning Wood

The Tasmanian Liberals are going gaga over New Forests plan to build a $145 million wood pellet plant in Tasmania. The Lib government thought it was such a great idea they funded another 13 ventures to do similar things with pellets.


Unfortunately for Tas Forestry Minister (and lawyer) Guy Barnett, burning wood pellets produce almost the same emissions as burning coal. That is not surprising - coal is just a geologically buried forest so what is the difference?

Coal Mining Is Subterranean Forestry.
Quoting Wikipedia 'in the geologic past, the Earth had dense forests in low-lying wetland areas. Due to natural processes such as flooding, these forests were buried underneath soil'. That means mining coal is actually 'harvesting' an ancient forest. That is never mentioned by FSC or the Institute of Foresters Australia. In fact, coal mining is so close to forestry that the Institute of Foresters and FSC could call it 'Earth-managed subterranean forestry'.

The big FSC lie 
The main assumption buried under mountains of FSC verbiage is 'the best managed forests were not managed at all'. Without forests that evolved by natural evolutionary forces over a billion years, there would be no forests to be managed by humans or FSC.
FSC needs to declare this fact. They also need baseline data as a starting point to measure their progress at saving the Earths forests. The primordial forests that once covered the Earth were managed by nature not humans, and these are the same forests FSC attempts to certify today. Those ancient forests must have been managed very well without human managers, and if you accept that fact then coal must be a downstream 'chain of custody' product of ancient forests.

The economics.
If wood pellet manufacturing is financially viable then why can't the economic rationalist Liberals allow us to have an auto industry as well? Why can't we manufacture electric cars or thousands of other consumer products right here in Australia? Why do the Liberals want us to buy products only produced by low paid workers mostly from Communist China?

15 Oct 2016

Turnbull Helping Najib Launder Million$

From Sarawak Report
Read about the Swiss proceedings against Falcon Bank and the laundering of stolen funds from 1 Malaysia Development Bank or 1MDB. It leads all the way to ANZ subsidiary AmBank. And guess who is intently looking the other way? Our own tax haven user, ex-merchant banker and Solomon Islands logger Malcolm Turnbull. Earlier this year Razak cracked-down on people depicting him as a clown. That convinced us that he really is a corrupt clown.

Swiss Start Criminal Proceedings Against Falcon Bank

On Wednesday the Swiss financial regulator FINMA announced that it had recommended prosecutions against at least two senior former executive officials of Falcon Bank as part of the actions taken over 1MDB.
Yesterday, the Attorney General’s Office went a considerable step further than that and declared that it is opening criminal proceedings against the entire Abu Dhabi-owned bank!
The implication of the shocking announcement is that the Swiss law enforcers suspect that the entire operation of the private bank was flawed from top to bottom, making it effectively a criminal enterprise.
“The OAG [Office of the Attorney General] suspects deficiencies in the internal organisation of the Falcon Private Bank Ltd. It is believed that due to these deficiencies, the bank was unable to prevent the commission of the offences currently under investigation in the criminal proceedings relating to 1MDB.
Swiss law .. allows the prosecution of a legal entity that is suspected of not taking all the reasonable organisational measures that are required to prevent natural persons from committing offences, in particular money laundering or corruption offences.”
The Attorney General’s Office points out that this is the second Swiss private bank against whom such radical measures have been taken, all relating to money laundering of money at 1MDB.  The first, of course, was BSI closed in May.
Falcon transferred no less than $3.8 billion related to 1MDB’s sovereign wealth transactions, highly unusual for a small private bank. However, the regulators focused on one blatant transaction of 21st March 2013, where Falcon acted as an intermediary for $681 million dollars from 1MDB, passed into Prime Minister Najib Razak’s AmBank account in KL.
In the course of just that one day the money was passed from BSI Bank in Lugano, filtered through three private ‘investment funds’, passed to an account at Falcon Singapore named Tanore Finance Corporation and then on to Najib’s personal account.  FINMA described the Tanore account owner, Eric Tan, as a young Malaysian businessman with known political connections.


11 Oct 2016

Father of Permaculture Bill Mollison Dies At 88

By Matt Dunwell at the Guardian
Bill Mollison, who has died aged 88, was one of the co-creators of permaculture, an agricultural system that works with, rather than against, nature, on the basis that the natural world holds the key to stable and productive systems. Having developed the concept, he then travelled from his native Tasmania for 30 years to embed his approach worldwide. His ideas have spread widely – permaculture is practised in more than 140 countries and by more than 3 million people – even though in the 1970s the idea was considered, in Mollison’s words, “the highest form of sedition”.


Much of what he espoused was based on his great respect for the wisdom of subsistence farmers around the world, who have long used sustainable methods to grow their crops. In agricultural terms, this means planting diverse sets of crops, using perennial species to form productive stable systems, and ensuring the conditions for soils to be regenerated.

Other characteristics that he observed in the Tasmanian wilderness informed permaculture, for instance that the interfaces between different habitats are the most productive and that elements such as plants and animals need to be placed together so they are mutually beneficial – as once when he pointed out: “You don’t have a slug problem, you have a duck deficiency!”

Mollison pointed to further beneficial ecological consequences: “The only safe energy systems are those derived from biological systems. A New Guinea gardener can walk through the gates of his garden taking one unit of energy and hand out 70. A modern farmer who drives a tractor through the gate takes 1,000 units of energy in and gives one back. Who is the most sophisticated agriculturalist?” He held that “although the problems of the world are increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple”. Ecological systems would enable people to meet their own needs, take back control of their lives and reinforce nature rather than deplete it.

Born in the fishing village of Stanley, on the north-west coast of Tasmania, Bill (whose given name was actually Bruce), was the son of Roland Mollison and his wife, Amy (nee Harmon). His parents ran a butter factory, and later built the village bakehouse that Bill took over at the age of 14 when his father died, delivering bread with a horse called Topsy.

In his 20s, he worked as a fisherman, forester and trapper. He understood and celebrated the self-reliance of rural life in the 1930s and 40s, and his love of the natural world led him to join the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in 1954, working in agricultural research for 10 years before leaving to study biogeography, the study of the distribution of plants and animals, at Hobart University.

He was appointed a lecturer at Hobart in 1968, and some years later developed a new discipline, environmental psychology. At this stage he could have settled into a comfortable academic life. However, he felt increasingly trapped by traditional academia and sought instead to marry his studies in psychology with the natural world, seeking an elusive operating system that would inspire people through a systematic design process to build abundant and resilient lifestyles.
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At the age of 50, after his university peers had roundly rejected his plea for a cross-disciplinary holistic approach to their work, he turned his back on formal education. Joined by an environmental design student, David Holmgren, Mollison started to sketch out the origins of what we now know as permaculture. Nobody had put together the architecture for a regenerative design approach that drew on knowledge of traditional cultures while adapting to the opportunities of new technologies and systems thinking. It simply did not exist.

Into this framework they introduced concepts from other ecological pioneers, indigenous cultures and peasant farmers, combining them with a keen observation of the natural world. In 1978 Mollison and Holmgren published Permaculture One, the precursor of Mollison’s more detailed Permaculture – A Designers’ Manual (1988). This was to become the “permaculture bible”, and is still used as a reference text for teachers. It expands the concepts at the heart of agroecology, agroforestry, carbon farming, regenerative agriculture, sustainable architecture and local money systems, providing the intellectual framework that supports the continuing evolution of his ideas.

Thereafter Mollison wanted to spread his ideas, and decided to teach an informal two-week course in permaculture, operating from what he dubbed “The People’s Republic of Strickland Avenue”, the street in Hobart where he and Holmgren lived. He devised a curriculum and shared it with anyone who might turn up – a move so audacious that it was laughable. As his students grew in confidence they taught similar 72-hour courses, and after 10 years of continuous touring and teaching, Mollison – with the help of his network of loosely affiliated teachers – had spread his ideas across five continents. In 1981 he received the Right Livelihood award.
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Although his original principles remain in place, the courses have evolved to expand beyond agriculture and into areas such as design, engineering, construction and architecture, all based on an ecological approach, and his ideas have been taken up by the international Transition Town movement.

Mollison had a brilliant mind. He observed, he catalogued, and his systematic approach helped him to weave seemingly disparate ideas into the most detailed tapestry. In this sense he was a true visionary. He was also challenging, angry, driven by a deep sense of injustice, and merciless if crossed. He used to say: “First feel fear, then get angry. Then go with your life into the fight.”

He is survived by his fifth wife, Lisa, four daughters and two sons.

• Bill (Bruce Charles) Mollison, ecologist, born 4 May 1928; died 24 September 2016

6 Oct 2016

If Malaysians Are So 'Culturally Sensitive' Why Host The Grand Prix?

Australians spend 4 days in jail and then acquitted. Totalitarian Malaysians over-react again.
There is a huge contradiction with the corrupt nation of Malaysia arresting 9 Australians for celebrating Daniel Ricciardos' Malaysian GP win last week.


Free The Budgie Nine
They were promoting the Malaysian GP by wearing swimwear with the national flag. So what? This is just diversionary rubbish from Malaysia in our view. They don't have an issue with corrupt dictator Najib siphoning billions of 1MDB cash into his own filthy bank account, or blowing up a pregnant foreign national with plastic explosives do they?
Wake-up Malaysia. The rest of the World doesn't care about your state-sponsored pilgrimages, your environmental ecocide or you rampant corruption.
If you don't like Formula 1 then take-up camel racing with your extremist Saudi friends.
In our opinion, Malaysia is a dysfunctional, quasi religious state that must be avoided at all costs by civilised visitors.
The contradiction is that inward-looking Malaysians want to maintain some vague Malay national identity while slavishly imitating the Riviera F1 lifestyle on stolen taxpayers money.
The message in Australia is clear. 'Don't ever set foot in Malaysia. Avoid Malaysia'.

30 Sept 2016

Mass Murderer Duterte Calls Himself Hitler And Was Molested By A Priest


From Lindsay Murdoch SMH
Manila: Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte has likened himself to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler in the latest of a series of rash outbursts that are alarming his country's allies in Asia, including the United States.

In a rambling speech in his hometown of Davao, Duterte told reporters that he had been "portrayed to be some cousin of Hitler" by critics.
Noting that Hitler had murdered millions of Jews, Duterte said: "There are three million drug addicts (in the Philippines). I'd be happy to slaughter them."
The 71 year-old firebrand president then said "if Germany had Hitler, the Philippines would have…" before pausing and pointing to himself.

Mr Duterte has previously likened himself to the late dictator Idi Amin who was accused of gross human rights violations and killings while ruling Uganda.
The comments came after two of the US's most powerful politicians told the US Senate that Mr Duterte is "advocating and endorsing" mass murder and stoking instability in his war on drugs as more than 6000 Filipinos are expected to be executed by the end this year.

Duterte Sexually Abused By A Priest 

Duterte's unbalanced mental condition may be the result of sexual abuse at the hands of Jesuit priest  Father Paul Falvey.

"DAVAO CITY, Philippines — It involved mere touching and it contributed to his sexual awakening, but the memory of being fondled against his wish when he was a high school freshman is vivid enough for Mayor Rodrigo Duterte to remember the identity of the sexual molester.

Duterte was quick to point out that Falvey died many years ago and that he had already forgiven the priest.
The ex-mayor identified the priest after some sectors challenged him to name the priest he said molested him during his younger years at the Ateneo de Davao.
(ADDU, A Jesuit University)

Duterte stressed that it was more of fondling that the late priest did to him.
Duterte also shrugged off suggestions that he file charges against the Church, because that would be like hauling Catholics to court.
Duterte also explained that he has not changed religion.

I am a member of His flock. I have not changed religion, still a Christian, and I have this deep and abiding faith in God. I only have one God,” he added."
Duterte was once enrolled at the ADDU before he transferred to the Holy Cross of Digos College in Digos City, Davao del Sur after being expelled twice from previous schools, including one involving alleged misconduct.

Duterte later graduated high school at Holy Cross of Digos College.

Duterte spent his elementary years at the Sta. Ana Elementary School in Davao City, where he graduated in 1956.

Duterte finished his Bachelor of Arts degree at the Lyceum of the Philippines University in Manila, where he graduated in 1968. He also obtained a law degree from San Beda College Manila in 1972.

'The truth is, I'm used to shooting people' Rodrigo Duterte.

'Duterte stated at a rally in April 2016 that he shot a fellow student who had teased him about his racial origin, while at San Beda law college: "But the truth is, I'm used to shooting people. When we were about to graduate from San Beda, I shot a person." Duterte said that he shot the student in a corridor, which led to his expulsion from the college. The story was received with laughter and applause by the thousands of supporters at the rally. After the rally, Duterte told a reporter that the student survived the incident'.