Rights groups slam dismissal of ill-gotten wealth case vs Marcos family
"An enraged Filipino people can also come full circle in their ability to oust this kleptocratic clique from power."
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RAPPLER | Philippine & World News | Investigative Journalism | Data | Civic Engagement | Public Interest [Unofficial]Apr 5[Rear View] What were you doing in the 90s? Sweating, grumbling, and watching the start of the Marcos Restoration
Today in Labor History February 25, 1986: As a result of ongoing protests, Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos begged President Ronald Reagan for advice. Reagan told him to “cut and cut cleanly.” That evening, Marcos and his wife Imelda fled the nation aboard a U.S. air force plane, after 20 years of rule. He and his family, and an entourage of 90 people (mostly servants), arrived in Hawaii the next day. They brought 22 crates of cash valued at $717 million, 300 crates of jewelry of unknown value, $4 million worth of unset precious gems, $200,000 in gold bullion, $1 million in Philippine pesos and deposit slips for $124 million in banks in the Cayman Islands. Plus, countless crates of shoes. The Marcos’s hold the Guinness record for the largest ever theft from a government, but Trump will likely smash this record, if he hasn't already. Their son, Bong Bong Marcos, is the current president of the Philippines. His vice president is Sara Duterte, daughter of the Philippines last president, the violently repressive Rodrigo Duterte, who oversaw the assassinations of well over 1,000 street children and alleged drug dealers. Under Ferdinand Marcos, there were over 3,000 documented extrajudicial murders, 35,000 documented victims of torture and tens of thousands of people imprisoned.
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RAPPLER | Philippine & World News | Investigative Journalism | Data | Civic Engagement | Public Interest [Unofficial]Feb 21The curse of repeat presidential candidates: Why Leni perhaps shouldn’t run again
The world's prior experience in this area is with the likes of #FerdinandMarcos and #ImeldaMarcos. Although Imelda claimed to have been reduced to pauperhood at one point, by no reasonable standard was that true.
And xe had the same level of fanatical popular support despite everything that #DonaldJTrump has. As well as the #EdificeComplex.
The Marcos model seems likely to be followed here, the one possible fly in the ointment being #PresidentVance.
If you've not encountered the idea of an 'edifice complex', applied to #ImeldaMarcos back in the 1970s, then you might find it an interesting idea to think about in conjunction with the #EppsteinBallroom, that Golden Arch proposal, and all of #DonaldJTrump's other grandiosities that are doomed (either way that the future turns out) to be defaced and have the name Trump torn off them as soon as xe is gone.
How much of the #history of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos is repeating with #DonaldJTrump and #MelaniaTrump ?
A quick bit of research reveals that almost no-one has yet picked up the idea of "edifice complex" and applied it to Trump.
Yet we have everything from a gilded Lincoln toilet through this recently proposed Golden Arch to the Eppstein Memorial Ballroom.
And it's hats instead of shoes.
#USPolitics #EdificeComplex #ImeldaMarcos #FerdinandMarcos #EppsteinBallroom
RAPPLER | Philippine & World News | Investigative Journalism | Data | Civic Engagement | Public Interest [Unofficial]Oct 17, 2025[The Explainer] Heart Attack: Mrs. Escudero skips Paris Fashion Week
Imelda Marcos, la donna che fece tremare persino i Beatles
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https://boomerissimo.it/2025/03/02/imelda-marcos-contro-i-beatles-terrore-e-vendetta/
Today in Labor History February 25, 1986: As a result of ongoing protests, Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos begged President Ronald Reagan for advice. Reagan told him to “cut and cut cleanly.” That evening, Marcos and his wife Imelda fled the nation aboard a U.S. air force plane, after 20 years of rule. He and his family, and an entourage of 90 people (mostly servants), arrived in Hawaii the next day. They brought 22 crates of cash valued at $717 million, 300 crates of jewelry of unknown value, $4 million worth of unset precious gems, $200,000 in gold bullion, $1 million in Philippine pesos and deposit slips for $124 million in banks in the Cayman Islands. Plus, countless crates of shoes. The Marcos’s hold the Guinness record for the largest ever theft from a government. Their son, Bong Bong Marcos, is the current president of the Philippines. His vice president is Sara Duterte, daughter of the Philippines last president, the violently repressive Rodrigo Duterte, who oversaw the assassinations of well over 1,000 street children and alleged drug dealers. Under Ferdinand Marcos, there were over 3,000 documented extrajudicial murders, 35,000 documented victims of torture and tens of thousands of people imprisoned.
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