{"id":739,"date":"2006-02-24T03:58:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-24T03:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/wp\/?p=739"},"modified":"2006-10-09T18:17:09","modified_gmt":"2006-10-09T10:17:09","slug":"737-of-trouble-to-the-northeast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=739","title":{"rendered":"[737] Of trouble to the northeast"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filipino President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (tag)<\/a> has officially declared a state of emergency<\/a> in the Philippines after a coup plot was uncovered:<\/p>\n

MANILA (Reuters) – President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo invoked emergency rule in the Philippines on Friday after security forces said they had foiled a coup attempt, shocking analysts and driving down the country’s currency.<\/p>\n

Talk of plots against Arroyo, who survived a crisis last year over allegations of vote-rigging and corruption, has been running high around this week’s anniversary of a “people power” revolt that toppled dictator Ferdinand Marcos in 1986.<\/p>\n

“I have declared a state of emergency,” Arroyo said in a taped address on television and radio, adding she had authorized the military and police “to take ample measures”.<\/p>\n

“This is my warning to those who are attempting anything against the government.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I say, Arroyo needs to step down already. It’s becoming more apparent each day that Arroyo has little popular support from the masses. With all the controversies centered around her, I bet the Philippines would solve a lot of problem with her stepping down.<\/p>\n

With there’s already trouble to the north of Malaysia (read, Thailand), Malaysia doesn’t need another unstable neighbor.<\/p>\n

p\/s – remember the great flood of Pasir Kumpal<\/a>? Well, some people got back there and Pelf has some pictures<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Filipino President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (tag) has officially declared a state of emergency in the Philippines after a coup plot was uncovered: MANILA (Reuters) – President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo invoked emergency rule in the Philippines on Friday after security forces said they had foiled a coup attempt, shocking analysts and driving down the country’s currency. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,22,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-asean","category-politics-government","category-travels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}