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- gradenko_2000
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HELL SERPENT
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Lipstick Apathy
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https://manilastandard.net/opinion/columns/citizen-barok-by-louis-biraogo/366868/the-ngcp-controversy-should-be-an-election-issue.html
quote:To all intents and purposes, the election season has begun. Sadly, the campaigning has been relegated to personality politics.
My intention in this column is to remind the electorate about the the alarming problem of the country involving the National Grid Corporation of the Philippines (NGCP), its ties to the Communist Party of China, and the need for the electorate to ask what candidates for president, senator and congressional representatives intend to do about the NGCP mess.
Last June 18, I wrote an essay under this column entitled “Communist China controls the nation’s electricity supply.”
In that essay, I pointed out that back in 2008, Congress enacted Republic Act No. 9511, the franchise of the NGCP, a private consortium composed of three corporations -- the Monte Oro Grid Resources Corporation, the Calaca High Power Corporation, and the State Grid Corporation of China. The latter is completely owned by the Communist Party of China and is reported to be the largest utility company in the world.
That legislative franchise gives the NGCP a monopoly in the management of the national electricity grid of the Philippines, but its operations must be in accord with implementing directives issued by the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC).
The national electricity grid is a computerized system of inter-connected power plants and power distribution outlets all over the Philippines. It is supposed to be closely monitored by the NGCP to determine and predict where and when electricity is most needed.
To assure an uninterrupted supply of electricity at any given area where the demand for it is very high, the NGCP adjusts the grid so that its affiliated power plants, which are mandated by law to be ready at all times, can supply the increased demand for electricity in that particular area. The grid also rechannels electricity from areas where the demand is less to places where the demand is great.
Under that arrangement, unplanned power failures anywhere are not supposed to take place.
In sum, the NGCP controls the supply of electricity throughout the Philippines, and the DOE and the ERC monitor its operations in accordance with applicable Philippine laws and administrative regulations.
The applicable law is Republic Act No. 9136, or the Electric Power Industry Reform Act (EPIRA), enacted by Congress in 2001 to ensure a continuous supply of electricity in the country at reasonable cost to residential and industrial consumers.
As to the pertinent administrative regulations, they are the Philippine Grid Code promulgated by the ERC, and a circular on ancillary services issued by the DOE. The Code and the circular implement the EPIRA.
In June 2021, the NGCP announced on social media that it is not bound by the Code and the circular.
Because the NGCP refuses to obey the Code and the circular, unannounced power outages plagued the entire Philippines during this year’s hot and dry summer months. Worse, those “brownouts” will continue intermittently next year if the NGCP continues to ignore the Code and the circular.
In manifest violation of its legislative franchise, the NGCP also allowed several of the power plants affiliated with the national electricity grid to stop operating, supposedly because it is expensive to keep them running continuously.
To keep the supply of electricity continuous, the NGCP told the government that the NGCP will have to buy electricity from power plants that are not affiliated with the national electricity grid. Because those power plants are free to quote spot prices, the purchase price of the electricity they sell is very expensive. This translates to higher electricity bills for all of the country’s consumers.
Adding insult to injury, the NGCP threatened to increase the cost of electricity to be paid by consumers if the NGCP is required to comply with the Philippine Grid Code and the DOE circular.
Simply stated, the NGCP made hostages of both the Philippine government and the Filipino people by declaring that there will be no hikes in electricity bills if the NGCP is allowed to violate its franchise and to ignore the EPIRA.
Obviously, the Communist Party of China, which controls the NGCP, is using our nation’s demand for electricity as a weapon against the Filipino people.
It was also discovered that the NGCP has been hiring Chinese nationals for its management posts. This is a violation of the constitutional provisions on alien involvement in public utilities, as well as the Anti-Dummy Law.
In short, Congress has valid reasons to cancel the NGCP franchise.
Accordingly, I urged Congress to cancel the NGCP franchise. Unfortunately, any congressional action in that direction may not be forthcoming in view of the coming elections.
What is important now is that voters are informed about the NGCP controversy. I will see to it that this controversy will be a hot issue in the coming elections.
https://opinion.inquirer.net/145590/china-and-our-next-president
quote:[F]rom the 1970s to the present, China’s strategy in the SCS has been to push for an expansionist policy. China first employs military aggression, and when it has succeeded in grabbing territory or body of water, it then insists on a diplomatic solution to the conflict, but no diplomatic solution ever takes place. This has been consistently shown when it grabbed the Paracel Islands and Fiery Cross Reef from Vietnam, and in its occupation or effective control of Mischief Reef, Reed Bank, Scarborough Shoal, and Ayungin Shoal from the Philippines.
The Duterte administration has either closed its eyes or has played along with China’s insistence on a diplomatic solution, even when China has forcibly occupied or imposed control on an area over which we have exclusive rights. Even when our fishermen have repeatedly complained of China’s bullying maneuvers, our government has chosen to sweep the complaints under the rug, repeatedly touting instead the supposed benefits we gain from Chinese loans and investments.
What have we heard from the presidential candidates so far on the issue of China and the Arbitral Award? Sen. Ronald dela Rosa and Sen. Manuel Pacquiao have not spoken on the issue. (In June, Pacquiao said he found President Duterte’s actions on the WPS lacking) Former senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has stated that President Duterte is employing “the right way” in his dealings with China and in his rejection of the arbitral ruling. Mayor Isko Moreno would allow a joint exploration of our EEZ between the Philippines and China.
Sen. Panfilo Lacson declared that we need to align ourselves with foreign powers who share our interest in stopping China’s aggression. Vice President Leni Robredo said that she intends to collaborate with China in the areas of trade and investments, but “when it comes to the West Philippine Sea, we cannot deal with them without their recognition of the arbitral ruling.”
China has been able to advance its policy of creeping aggression in our EEZ with mere tokens of complaint from the Duterte administration. Will China’s luck continue with our next president? Our votes will provide the answer.
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Oct 25, 2021 10:51
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- gradenko_2000
- Oct 5, 2010
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HELL SERPENT
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Lipstick Apathy
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https://www.philstar.com/opinion/2021/10/27/2136925/manchurian-candidates-imperil-phl-sea-patrols
quote:Air and sea patrols secure the vast Philippine waters. Filipino fishermen, merchants and surveyors need their protection.
China aggresses such deterrents. In February 2020, a Chinese warship aimed its gun control director at a Philippine Navy patrol near Malampaya gas field, 36 miles from Palawan. A control director readies all weapons to fire instantly at a pinpointed target. The Filipino sailors were unfazed.
Manchurian Candidates in Election 2022 scorn the patrols. Parroting Communist China, the collaborators propagandize that any Filipino defense buildup incites war. Supposedly, the jets and fastcraft will be crushed within days of battle, so why waste money. If elected they will deprive Filipino flyboys and sailors of equipment and supplies. China can then complete its occupation of the West Philippine Sea.
Beijing mocks Manila’s diplomatic calls to leave the WPS. Two hundred-forty Chinese militia trawlers at first swarmed Julian Felipe (Whitsun) Reef in March-May, then spread out to the Kalayaan Isles and Recto Bank. Reinforced by a hundred more, they each poached 12,000 kilos of fish a day till August. Foreign Secretary Teddy Locsin fired off 153 protests, nearly one a day. Satellite images show 30 trawlers till today at Del Pilar (Iroquois) Reef, 150 miles off Palawan. All are within the Philippines’ 200-mile exclusive economic zone.
Chinese Navy and Coast Guard gunboats escort the fish thieves. President Rodrigo Duterte’s actions embolden them. He set aside the 2016 Hague ruling against China’s trespass in Philippine EEZ. He verbally agreed with President Xi Jinping for Chinese to fish there, no limits on area, duration and tonnage. He withdrew the Philippine military from joint patrols and drills with allies.
The People’s Liberation Army-Navy reports directly to the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Military Commission. So do the China Coast Guard and the People’s Armed Forces Maritime Militia. As CCP general-secretary, Xi Jinping heads the CMC.
China’s more than 500 “civilian” Coast Guard ships are equipped with cannons. Fifty have missiles. Two are extra-large, at 12,000-ton displacement, dwarfing the 8,000-ton destroyers of Asian navies. Filipinos are shooed away from traditional fishing grounds with machine guns.
The 6,000 militia trawlers are 60-meters long, the size of two basketball courts. The CCP equips them with light arms, communications and spyware. Steel hulls are reinforced for ramming. At Recto Bank in 2019, one such steel trawler rammed an anchored wooden fishing boat, then abandoned the 26 Filipinos thrown overboard.
The largest Philippine Coast Guard and fisheries craft are 40 meters long. The PNP-Maritime Command assists with rubber boats. Chinese trespassers have the temerity to radio them to leave Philippine waters.
Still, Filipino patrols go on, assures Vice Admiral Ramil Roberto Enriquez, AFP Western Command chief. He does not expect Chinese warships to stop radio challenges and other harassments to justify their intrusion. “What we’ll do is continue reporting and continue telling the world that we do not recognize their authority over the area,” he says. “We will not stop.”
Philippine patrols are outgunned. Manchurian Candidates will disarm them further. The traitors’ loyalty is to the CCP, not to Filipino servicemen.
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How do the presidential candidates stand on China?
Panfilo Lacson has warned about 3,000 Chinese army spies on “immersion mission” in Filipino communities and organizations. He wants alignment with world powers that are against China’s aggression.
Bongbong Marcos declared: “There are those who say that we should buy patrol boats and jets just in case we get to fight. Why would we think we will fight? That war will be over in less than a week. We’re defeated already.” He was special guest at a Chinese embassy event last week. In a 2018 Facebook post, he hails the CCP delegation that he and his mother hosted for lunch at their home.
Isko Moreno favors joint oil and gas development with China – under Philippine service contracts; that is, within Philippine laws. “What matters most to me is that the existing resources be utilized as soon as possible,” he said the other week. “[If there is oil, then I can make electricity cheaper for everyone]”
Manny Pacquiao finds wanting Duterte’s China policy. He says the President should toughen up like in the 2016 election campaign to gain Beijing’s respect.
Vice President Leni Robredo is open to cooperation with China on trade and investment. On the WPS, she says, “We cannot deal with them without their recognition of the arbitral ruling.”
https://news.abs-cbn.com/blogs/opinions/10/27/21/sold-down-the-yangtze-dutertes-pro-china-foreign-policy
quote:Our constitution vests in the president the prerogative to determine foreign policy but where these involve treaties, or declarations of martial law and war, critical checks and balances are provided by the legislature. This follows pretty much the American model, but beyond adherence to parental DNA, our compatibility is also a consequence of the society we developed over time. Our shared history, values, principles, our common ideologies, even our faith link us closer than any constitutional umbilical can.
History can however be rewritten, and it often is. The public interest is not always the impetus. Much less is the truth. We have seen that under Rodrigo Duterte, and we stand to see more whimsical revisionism if we do not remember the past and learn from it.
For politicians, the truth is not inviolate, much less sacred. Treaties and contracts can be abrogated, and trade and commerce can shift poles where the global marketplace provides sellers and buyers from all points of the compass. Political systems, while not as supple, can shift, skew, and slant towards one versus another. While the foregoing provides examples of changeability, whether demanded by the times or as personal presidential penchants, these cannot occur without attendant friction.
When Duterte extrapolated his decidedly violent anti-drug campaign in Davao and nationalized it, rather than treat the problem as a health issue, he implemented it with a blunt instrument — deadly police powers. “Kill” was constantly on his lips. That immediately placed him on the radar of global human rights advocates from western democracies. From both hemispheres, the Americans across the Pacific and the European Union on the opposite were not simply critical of human rights abuses but their economic and military support hinged on good behavior.
We had the goons, but where would we go for the guns and the gold? From the opposite end of these democracies, Duterte sought warm and fuzzy comfort from autocratic regimes where the violation of human rights was directly antithetical to values we historically held dear.
Hence the pivot towards China and Russia.
Cuddling close to Communist China, ruled by Xi Jinping, the Chinese Communist Party’s hegemonic dictator for life, the benefits to Duterte and those close to him are undeniable.
Of Communist China’s leaders since 1949, Xi mirrors Mao Zedong’s pre and post Cultural Revolution but globalized through an expansionist agenda employing cleverly camouflaged albeit weaponized infrastructure debt traps, migrant invasion, captive markets, and overwhelming military might. Like Mao who ensured constant struggle to perpetuate his hold on power, Xi seeks global domination under a one-party Social Fascism paradigm — the worst governance model for Duterte to pivot towards.
Under Duterte’s infrastructure program, whether railway, public works, or telecommunications expansion, Xi provided cheap Chinese labor, equipment and debt funding. In the energy sector, on the pretext of exploiting submarine resources now under the military control of the Chinese, such possibility is facilitated by an ally who controls 90% of the offshore gas fields through leveraged equity. Never mind concealed creditor conditionalities, cut corners and a negatively capitalized vehicle.
Before the pandemic, we saw the meteoric rise in gambling and the unmitigated flow of armies of undocumented Chinese invading and infesting everything from the property sector to organized crime, to human trafficking and prostitution. Under the pandemic, it was business as usual. Duterte’s pivot to Xi remains a constant.
We purchased and continue to purchase from China the least effective albeit the most expensive vaccine in terms of efficacy even as others have shifted to higher quality brands or completely stopped vaccine importations from China.
Employing deceit and subterfuge, we re-channeled billions to a minor purchasing office so that an undercapitalized start-up with fraudulent credentials can earn quadruple-digit returns on equity while enriching blacklisted foreign nationals wanted for international fraud.
For 2022, we awarded a P1.6 billion election logistics contract to a Duterte ally with close links to the Chinese.
The pivot to China as an exercise of independence is a lie. It initiated our imminent vassalage. The bigger lie is that it was for the public good. It was for private gain. It enriched peddlers and personal allies and endangers public health and economic sovereignty in our waters and inland in the transportation, telecommunications, electricity, labor, and infrastructure sectors.
On the pretext of an independent foreign policy, we were sold down the Yangtze.
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Oct 27, 2021 11:09
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- Palladium
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My big brain can't fathom why communism kept capitalism a lot more honest
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- i am harry
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the banner image on this persons twitter account shows a forest, with a little stream idling through it, and amongst the banks of the stream are massive smashed chunks of concrete scattered everywhere. idyllic...
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Nov 14, 2021 06:07
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- jpmeyer
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parody image of che
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i keep forgetting which one of those "i hate russia because they were mean to my nazi grandfather, who the allies smuggled back to america to do gladio" figures she is
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Nov 14, 2021 18:37
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- gradenko_2000
- Oct 5, 2010
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HELL SERPENT
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https://www.philstar.com/opinion/2021/11/16/2141530/need-unite-against-manchurian-candidates
quote:For this 2022 elections, the Filipino people cannot afford to elect another set of candidates beholden to China. For the past six years, President Duterte, under the influence of China, has squandered the 2016 Hague ruling won by our country in the West Philippine Sea and, as in the case of Pharmally, allowed his Chinese friends to profit from the sufferings of our fellow countrymen amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
There is no doubt that these callous actions have prejudiced our countrymen.
Another six years of our country run by a set of candidates under the thumb of China would be incomprehensibly catastrophic.
It would be catastrophic not only for us, but for our children and grandchildren who have no choice but to bear the terrible burden of our benighted decisions. Another six years led by Manchurian candidates would be enough to give away our West Philippine Sea to a foreign aggressor and to callously forsake the livelihoods of our fishermen.
We are grimly aware of President Duterte’s self-professed love for Chinese President Xi Jinping, his devil’s pact with China for loans and investments that never materialized until today, and the reliable information that high officials from China are bragging that they have been able to influence the 2016 Philippine elections so that President Duterte won.
The above information about Beijing officials was based on personal knowledge from a source in The New York Times.
We should also view with grave concern the fact that candidate Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. has been visiting Chinese Ambassador Huang Xilian around the time that Marcos Jr. filed his certificate of candidacy for President in October 2021.
Based on press releases, Marcos Jr. and the Chinese ambassador are not hiding this fact.
We should also equally view with grave concern the fact that President Duterte’s daughter, Sara Duterte-Carpio, is being supported by former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. In 2004, former president Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo illegitimately allowed China to explore the West Philippine Sea through the Joint Marine Seismic Undertaking (JMSU) in exchange for Chinese funds for the NorthRail and the ZTE National Broadband projects, in violation of the Philippine Constitution.
To paraphrase the American writer Taylor Caldwell, our country can survive its fools and even the ambitious, but it cannot survive treason from within. These Manchurian candidates will deploy full power and money for the 2022 elections. If elected, they will rot the soul of our nation and undermine its pillars, leading to a bleak and tragic future for our countrymen.
When will we fully realize that our future is at stake?
We are in a crisis – a crisis fueled by disloyal Filipinos who will bring our country down for the benefit of an encroaching and powerful neighbor. If we elect Manchurian candidates again in May 2022, then we open our gates for our collective self-destruction.
We, therefore, make this personal and urgent call to all those who love their country, their children and grandchildren, to strongly unite against Manchurian candidates who do not have our country’s interests at heart.
If there is a time for us to set aside differences to unite and help our country, that time is now and the upcoming 2022 elections. We should unite and vote for candidates with integrity, those who genuinely care for our countrymen and those who will protect the territorial integrity and sovereignty of our country.
Candidates often claim that they are running to help our countrymen and to uphold our country’s interests. However, these candidates should be judged not only by their words and social media marketing, but more so by their actions.
Are they giving up our lands and waters in exchange for money from China?
Did they commit or benefit from corruption in the past?
Will they bring justice to the criminals and the corrupt or will they shield them and maintain them as friends or allies?
We can obtain much needed clarity by examining the actions of candidates.
Each of us does not need vast resources in order to help. Each person’s full commitment to help is the most valuable of all, whatever resources a person may have at his or her disposal. Our strength will come from our unity, which we should all strive to achieve at all costs.
The anti-apartheid and human rights activist Desmond Tutu said: “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”
We are currently in a situation of injustice with China influencing our country’s affairs, with all the corruption being done at expense of our countrymen during a harrowing pandemic.
We must fight, as never before, for our country.
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Albert del Rosario is a former ambassador and secretary of foreign affairs.
note that the executives of this Pharmally group that del Rosario wants to tie back to the PRC are from Singapore and Taiwan
and that this claim of "Chinese officials bragging about influencing the 2016 elections" is hearsay that only he overheard and has never managed to substantiate
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Nov 16, 2021 10:39
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- is pepsi ok
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This is probably the closest we're going to get for a mea culpa from the media on Russiagate. The article pretty much boils down to "the journalists should have been more patient with the story".
https://twitter.com/gpaddymanning/status/1460663815088099334
And with that it goes down the memory hole.
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Nov 16, 2021 23:25
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- gradenko_2000
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HELL SERPENT
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https://www.philstar.com/opinion/2021/11/17/2141795/manchurian-candidates-targeting-four-highest-posts
quote:China’s communist rulers must be pleased. Manchurian candidates are gunning for the Philippines’ four highest positions. The collaborators squabble, usual in clan politics. If elected, they will do Beijing’s bidding – surrender Filipino resources. A united Opposition can thwart China agents.
Successor wannabe Bongbong Marcos hails President Duterte’s China appeasement as “the right way.” He will disarm the Navy and Air Force. Supposedly futile is to buy sea and aircraft because China can crush those in a week’s war. Defeatist, he will deprive sailors and airmen the means to patrol Philippine waters and airspace – the easier for China to steal fish, reefs, oil and gas.
Treason is in the Marcos blood. Guerrillas executed his grandfather for colluding with Japanese invaders. After fighting in Bataan, his father sold scrap metal to the enemy, and after Liberation tried to collect war reparations from America. Marcos Sr.’s war medals are bogus, wangled from President Diosdado Macapagal as political quid pro quo. (“Endless Journey: A Memoir,” Jose T. Almonte as told to Marites D. Vitug, Cleverheads) No records exist of Marcos’ “heroism” in the annals of the United States Armed Forces in the Far East.
Bongbong has special ties to the Chinese embassy. He was the only presidential candidate invited to its recent photo exhibit. He hosted in a home luncheon a huge delegation of the Chinese Communist Party. Fujian-based troll farms propagandize his election campaign online.
Bong Go is Duterte’s clone. He will only continue his boss’ “verbal pact” with Xi Jinping for Chinese to poach in the West Philippine Sea, unlimited extent, duration and tonnage.
The fruit does not fall far from the tree. Sara Duterte was mesmerized by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to slide down to VP. Blood will rebond Daughterte with the father who needs protecting from the ICC hangman’s noose for “mass murder.”
Duterte’s trillion-peso resources as President can win a Senate seat. As Senate president, he not only can retain crony deals but also facilitate treaty ratifications for China.
GMA is the original China stooge as president in 2001-2010. She broke the Constitution five ways for the 2004 Joint Marine Seismic Undertaking with Beijing. Then she took dirty Chinese loans for the North Rail and NBN-ZTE (exposed in Gotcha in 2007). One-sixth of the seabed survey was in the Palawan territorial sea; the rest in the exclusive economic zone. She conceded those as “disputed waters.” With the JMSU findings, Beijing in 2009 filed a claim with the United Nations over the entire South China Sea. Manila never got a copy of the report despite its $5-million contribution.
Lusting to retake the House speakership, GMA can revive sleaze. The ZTE scam contained a P10-billion kickback, higher than the P7-billion national broadband network. In exchange, GMA unconstitutionally granted shell ZTE Intl Corp. gold mining rights in Mount Diwalwal and North Davao. (Her environment secretary then is now the Manchurian candidate for Quezon City mayor, with a wealthy Manchurian candidate for congresswoman, the wife of a Chinese online gambling operator.)
Wrangling is normal among collaborators. During the Japanese Occupation, they fought each other for General Yamashita’s favors.
In the first post-War Philippine election, repackaged puppets did not intend to lift the country from the ashes. Two moneyed presidential-senatorial tickets of traitors slugged it out for the blessings of the returned General MacArthur. Marginalized were guerrillas who sought national and local offices. (“Kulaboretor! The Issue of Political Collaboration During World War II,” Prof. Augusto V. de Viana, UST Publishing)
No different was the indio factionalism for gobernadorcillo (town mayor) in the last two decades of Spanish rule. (“A Past Recovered,” Glenn Anthony May, New Day) As well, the shifting loyalties of mestizo lackeys from Spain to the Katipunan then to America, 1896-1902.
Today, Beijing’s commissars brag to have influenced the 2016 Philippine election, former foreign secretary Albert del Rosario quotes a New York Times source. He says: “Another six years of our country run by candidates under the thumb of China would be catastrophic. These Manchurian Candidates will deploy full power and money for the 2022 elections. If elected, they will rot the soul of our nation and undermine its pilars.”
As patriotic duty, Opposition candidates must discard personal ambition and unite to avert that.
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https://mobile.twitter.com/anneapplebaum/status/1460951783359102984
when you have a very good understanding of cause and effect
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This post is dedicated to the brave Mujahideen fighters of Afghanistan
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Everything was going great in the harmonious and not-racist land of America until Russia invented the meme in 2016.
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Nov 25, 2021 10:47
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Imagine how funny this must be for the Russians.
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Nov 25, 2021 22:48
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- christmas boots
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To these sing-alongs 🎤of siren 🧜🏻♀️songs
To oohs😮 to ahhs😱 to 👏big👏applause👏
With all of my 😡anger I scream🤬 and shout📢
🇺🇸America🦅, I love you 🥰but you're freaking 💦me 😳out
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Guys it's worse than we thought. Apparently the Russians can even attack us in the past
https://twitter.com/SashaIngber/status/1463672478274887684
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You know he's the villain, because he's got shifty eyes.
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every symptom i have indicates a hangover but no, i assure you, it was done by a cyber russian ray gun
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Tune into the fireplace channel, you absolute buffoon
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Russian operatives travel back in time to give fetal alcohol syndrome to are boys in intelligence
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- gradenko_2000
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https://www.philstar.com/opinion/2021/11/26/2143846/tit-tat-defend-ayungin-against-china
quote:Match China with water cannon. Get US military air cover. Renew joint patrols with other allies. Call international attention to China’s escalating harassment. Those are among many creative ways to defend resupply missions to Philippine Marines in Ayungin Shoal.
“The Philippines can resort to nonlethal means” against China’s water-cannoning of civilian wooden boats, retired general Edilberto Adan said Tuesday. “Japan did it. They were hosed by the China Coast Guard and they fired back using water cannons as well. No shots were fired (in the Senkaku Isles). That is what we should do.”
The CCG’s water-cannoning of two Filipino boats Nov. 16 is graduated aggression. Breaking one boat’s outrigger calculatedly aborted the delivery of water, food and medicines to eight Marines in the beached BRP Sierra Madre. Delayed by a week, the reprovisioning was completed under a new Chinese condition of no Philippine Coast Guard escorts.
“The mere act of allowing but under conditions shows that China is still assertive over the area,” noted Adan, a trustee of the Philippine Council for Foreign Relations. “China is showing it is still in control; it will probably do it again (water cannon).”
The foreign office immediately protested the Chinese bullying, and President Duterte a week late called it “abhorrent”. Only 100 nautical miles from Palawan, Ayungin (Second Thomas) Shoal is within the Philippines’ 200-mile exclusive economic zone, well outside China’s own EEZ. Twenty miles farther China grabbed Panganiban (Mischief) Reef in 1995 and concreted it into an island-fortress. From there the CCG intimidates Filipino fishermen and oil surveyors in the Recto (Reed) Bank and nearby Escoda (Sabina) Shoal.
As China used nonlethal water cannons, “the PH-US Mutual Defense Treaty cannot be implemented. It is short of an armed attack but it is not an armed attack,” Adan said.
China’s “cabbage strategy” includes wearing down Philippine resistance. “Its objective is to starve our Marines into leaving Ayungin,” international maritime lawyer Jay Batongbacal, PhD, told Sapol-dwIZ Saturday.
As counter-measure, Batongbacal suggested replicating supply runs protected by US aircraft. In 2013 CCG combat helicopters repeatedly splashed seawater into Filipino rubber and wooden boats approaching Ayungin. Airdrops were attempted. When provocations persisted the following year, the Philippines dispatched sailboats – with a US Navy P-8 surveillance plane circling overhead.
Batongbacal said steel vessels of the Philippine Coast Guard or the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources should escort the civilian outriggers. “Steel craft can better withstand water cannon.” Chinese bullying must be video-ed and presented to international bodies, including the United Nations.
Former foreign secretary Albert del Rosario proposed direct talks with the US. “The matter of Ayungin Shoal as a proper subject of the MDT should be seriously considered – including the necessity of joint patrol.”
The 1951 MDT will activate in case of armed attack against Philippine or US public vessels or territory. Washington reiterated this in warning Beijing against bellicosity in Ayungin. It reminded that the 2016 international arbitral ruling upheld Philippine sovereign rights in its EEZ in the West Philippine Sea.
Japan, Australia, Canada, Germany, France and the European Union also denounced Beijing’s harassment of a humanitarian resupply mission. Like America, Britain conducts naval drills and patrols in the WPS and the rest of the South China Sea.
Del Rosario criticized the Duterte administration limiting itself to bilateral diplomacy with China, “neglecting the other tools in our box which [can] enable us to move the tribunal’s ruling to the next level.”
Talking solely with Beijing does not keep it at bay. “After more than several years, the Philippine approach of focusing solely on bilateral diplomacy to the exclusion of other policy tools, including internationalization and multilateral diplomacy, has failed to convince China to abandon its expansionism.”
Former Supreme Court justice Antonio Carpio has been seeking revival of joint patrols with the US, UK, Japan, Australia and other allies. Duterte had withdrawn Philippine forces from joint air and naval exercises in the WPS.
“No country will enter into a mutual defense treaty with another that does not take its self-defense seriously,” Carpio wrote. “For a non-nuclear armed state like the Philippines facing aggression by nuclear-armed China, the only recourse to deter China in the WPS is to maintain an MDT with nuclear-armed United States. Maintenance of such MDT requires taking our self-defense capability seriously.”
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is this supposed to make me think the russians are bad it seems like a mixed message
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Vladimir Putin your balls in his mouth
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I like that that all boiled down to 'a woman with fake tits liked a CRIPPLE??? FUCKIN RUSSIAN PLANT I SAY!'
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why would anyone go to florida to gently caress a crossfit athlete with fake boobs that's just crazy
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somehow i wouldnt peg crossfit fans for getting boob jobs seems like that would interfere with the crossfit
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