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Vernon Velasco

Vernon Velasco writes about power and its casualties and the bullshit people tell themselves to sleep at night.

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A year after Marcos went to India hunting for money and came home talking up $5.8 billion, the businessmen are still being asked to make the thing real.

INDIA CALLED. IT WANTS BUSINESS.

India wants to be developed by 2047. Its businessmen in Manila think some of that future can be built here.

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PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. formally opened the tour of a Trump appointee who takes over one of Washington’s most sensitive Asian posts as Manila leans harder on its only treaty ally.

WHAT DID TRUMP SEND?

Trump’s new ambassador in Manila arrived making the case that America’s next move in the Philippines is economic as much as military.

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When is a child a killer?

When is a child a killer?

How that must burn, Rod. How it must eat you alive in whatever dark corner they’ve stuck you. You were so close. Fifteen.

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Smile has a quorum

Smile has a quorum

The impeachment needs 16. The smile appears unconcerned.

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