PDEG scores big in its anti-narcotics campaign in September

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00:00A wonderful Tuesday afternoon, everyone.

00:08William Theo here, homegrown, and happy to bring you PTV News Now.

00:12Tonight's top story, the illegal drugs campaign of the Marcos Jr. administration is a much

00:18less gory campaign, and yet just as effective than his predecessor's program, which was

00:24his centerpiece platform of government.

00:26In September alone, the Drug Enforcement Group of the PNP posted illegal drug seizures worth

00:32over three-quarters of a billion or eight hundred million pesos.

00:36In a statement earlier today, PNP Drug Enforcement Group Chief Brigadier General Eliezer Mata

00:42said September's narcotics haul was a result of 57 operations that included 38 sting and

00:49or by-bus setups, four search warrant activities, one weed air addiction mission, 13 arrest

00:57warrants served, and 77 personalities or suspects put on record.

01:02The illegal merchandise haul of 116.9 kilograms worth of crystal meth, otherwise known as

01:09shabu, 22,000 fully grown marijuana plants and approximately 7.5 grams of marijuana seeds,

01:16dried weed, and high-grade kush, all worth 799.3 million pesos.

01:22The PDEG chief commended his officers and operatives for their dedication to their mission

01:29and asserted his men remain steadfast to protecting the public and eliminating the scourge of

01:35illegal drugs.

01:39It has been dubbed the battle of the benchwarmers or wannabe spare tires, and their verbal joust

01:45or engagement is some 12 hours away or at 7 a.m. Wednesday Philippine time.

01:50Expect the junior senator from Ohio to come out guns blazing on the issues of inflation

01:55and immigration.

01:57A little over half of the voters see the Trump vans ticket as the much better choice given

02:03the pandemic economy the Biden government struggled to deal with, upping the cost of

02:08living that strangled Americans nationwide trying to make ends meet over the last three

02:14years.

02:15Meanwhile, Walz will try to counter by arguing the economic mess Trump left the country when

02:23he left the White House and for leading the GOP to kill a bipartisan deal to fix the immigration

02:30problem.

02:31Tuesday's debate will be the first debate between the two wannabe vice presidents and

02:35may well be the last between those up and down the ticket.

02:39The debate will be held in New York City and presided over by two moderator from CBS News.

02:47In other news, he will forever be known as a one-term president who lost to Ronald Reagan

02:51in a landslide over the issues of inflation, the oil embargo and his poor handling of the

02:56Iranian crisis that led to the extended captivity of American hostages in Tehran.

03:02Then again, the former peanut farmer from Plains, Georgia also helped pass one of the

03:07most significant pieces of legislation protecting the environment and was a champion of human

03:12rights and made it a core policy of his government.

03:16VOA's Cain Faribault tells us more.

03:18When he returned to Plains, Georgia in 1981, former Democratic President Jimmy Carter was

03:25defeated, rejected by voters in a landslide election to Republican Ronald Reagan.

03:30In office, he was a political failure, but he was a substantive and visionary success.

03:37Author and historian Jonathan Alter recognizes what many know Carter for today, humanitarian

03:43work with his Carter Center, waging peace, fighting disease and building hope around the world.

03:48He's done terrific work supervising elections in more than a hundred countries, but former

03:53presidents don't have as much power as presidents.

03:56And the list of his accomplishments as president that were ignored or minimized or forgotten

04:04entirely was very long.

04:07The Iran hostage crisis, rising inflation and oil embargoes of the 1970s doomed Carter's

04:13White House tenure, casting a long shadow over his legacy.

04:17However, Alter's Jimmy Carter biography, His Very Best, is among several that conclude

04:22his four years in the White House were anything but a failure.

04:26Not just Camp David Accords and opening diplomatic relations with China, but a long string of

04:31legislative accomplishments on the environment and many other issues.

04:35Carter signed the 1980 Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, protecting more than

04:4040.5 million hectares, which Alter says is now considered one of the most important pieces

04:46of environmental legislation ever passed.

04:49I think we'll remember President Carter as a president who served in enormously difficult

04:54times, who had to deal with circumstances that were far beyond his control.

04:59Joe Crespino, the Jimmy Carter professor of history at Emory University, says Carter

05:04routinely met with his students in Atlanta to discuss the good and bad decisions he made

05:10while president.

05:11Putting human rights front and center in American foreign policy.

05:16No president had done that in the way that Jimmy Carter had.

05:20And it was an important moment in kind of shifting the balance of power in the Cold

05:25War.

05:26Crespino says some of Carter's overlooked domestic accomplishments include reorganizing

05:31the federal government and deregulating the airline, trucking and beer industries.

05:37We oftentimes associate a kind of freeing up of the free enterprise economy with the

05:42conservative turn that came in with Ronald Reagan, when in fact Jimmy Carter, before

05:48Reagan, was already doing a lot of deregulatory work.

05:52Members of Carter's cabinet, including former United Nations ambassador Andrew Young, are

05:57grateful Carter lived long enough to witness kinder interpretations of his legacy.

06:02There's no place in the world I know where people don't have some good things to say

06:06about him, whether he succeeded or not.

06:10The world continues to benefit from the Carter Center's work, fighting diseases like guinea

06:15worm, which is down to a few cases in Africa and could become only the second disease ever

06:21eradicated.

06:22Gene Fairbaugh, VOA News, Atlanta.

06:28And that's all she wrote for this afternoon.

06:30Join us anew later on the evening news break edition.

06:33Make it a habit to always stay connected by catching the news right here.

06:37William Theo saying so long for now and thank you for watching PTV News Now.

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