Many do not appreciate the extent of drug problem in the Philippines - drug trafficking still continues unabated despite the killing related to the campaign

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Rizal Philippines
9/9/2016

From CNN Philippines

The anti drug campaign is undergoing a severe test both locally and abroad for allegedly violating human rights and the killing as a sin.  The PNP maintained that the deaths attributed to PNP is as a result of encounters - the suspect resisting arrest and shooting the arresting team. All ready there are about 2,000 who died from the campaign, the bulk of them coming by way of unknown causes.

However despite this damage, the drug traffic continues.  More and more drug labs and factories are being discovered.(like the one beneath a piggery in Pampanga)  Pushers still abound  (example lady pushers, a lady plying her trade in a market in Laguna;  another lady tried to bribe the police with huge sums of pesos)

That means the illegal drug trade is really endemic, widespread, and deep seated and only draconian measures can stop it.  The measures do not seem to be enough

Incessant rain from Habagat causes flooding in QC, Marikina, EDSA, Pampanga and Pangasinan

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Rizal Philippines
August 14, 2016

TV news last night were filled of videos of areas being hit by floods:   QC Del Monte River Banks, Marikina River banks, Calasiao and Sta Barbara in Pangasinan,  San Fernando Pampanga, and areas along Tullahan river (due to La Mesa Dam water nearing critical level  -  this would flood Valenzuela, Navotas, Malabon, and Caloocan City)  Some comments are worth making:

The water level at Marikina river has reached and will breach the critical level

1.  While the flooding is from nature, the other part comes from:    inadequate flood control (despite billions having spent for them)

2.  Those who live near the river banks must be permanently evacuated.  They live in river banks and the danger will always be there when the rivers swell  (true for Marikina and del Monte and elsewhere)

3.  The rivers must be dredged and accretion titles revoked.  This post noted that in Pasig and Marikina, the LGU developed the accredtion (the silt that were deposited on the river banks) thus narrowing the rivers and lessening the carrying capacity of the Pasig River

Man.s greed is to be blamed for this flooding.  This is true for flooding in Cainta and  Marikina and Pasig.   We all know the cause and yet we do not act.  In Pasig near the Soldiers village, scavengers occupied the area near the creek.  We posted that picture several years ago.  No one has dared take action on this.  You cant see the bridge structure anymore