Amy

Ordinaryong tao na naghahangad ng malinis na halalan para makapili ng mga tunay na maglilingkod sa bayan, hindi ng mga magiging mga amo ng mamamayan.

[Amy @BirdsBeesFriend]

Is the Senate still about Law or Purely about Power? | Prof. Malou Tiquia https://t.co/Tr1ZoTbQmo via @YouTube 👊🏼❤️💚🦅🇵🇭🌻 #NoToImpeachment #SaraDuterte2028 #SaraDuterteIsMyPresident #StopCorruption #Brave13 🌻

[Dalagang Pilipina 🇵🇭 @fierceLady08]

LOUDER

[Lakay @LakasNgTimog]

This is what LOYALISTAS, KKMPNKS, DILAWANS, and everyone else in between still don’t realize:

It DOESN’T MATTER if Inday gets convicted. We’ll just vote who she endorses next.

It’s actually THAT simple. We vote for the principles they stand for. NOT names. NOT personalities.

[SMNI News @smninews]

VP SARA, NAGBABALA SA BANTA NG STUNTING SA MGA BATA

Nagbabala si Vice President Sara Duterte ukol sa matinding banta at permanenteng epekto ng stunting o pagkabansot sa mga batang Pilipino, kasabay ng panawagan sa mga pamilya, lokal na pamahalaan,

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[SMNI News @smninews]

POOR JOURNALISM?

Binatikos ni Vice President Sara Duterte ang kalidad ng journalism sa Pilipinas at sinabing malayo ito kumpara sa kalidad ng pagbabalita ng international media.

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[Amy @BirdsBeesFriend]

DE LIMA SNEAKY STATEMENT SA IMPEACHMENT NI VP SARA, PINIGILAN NI CHIZ ESCUDERO DAHIL SA OBJECTION - BATASnatin (Atty. Libayan) https://t.co/XPIDFmp7Gm via @YouTube

[Amy @BirdsBeesFriend]

PLEASE MAKI DEBATE KAYO SA AKIN PAG PRO KAYO SA PAX SILICA- AMERICA SINUSUKA NA - BATASnatin (Atty. Libayan) https://t.co/kJGjFB8M1j via @YouTube

[Amy @BirdsBeesFriend]

SONA NI PBBM, KAILANGANG I-FACT CHECK? https://t.co/Nfdcmj91o6 via @YouTube

[Anna Malindog-Uy @AnnaMalindogUy]

Pax Silica - Industrial Promise or Strategic Dependency?: The Dangerous Price of Borrowed Industrialization
By Anna Malindog-Uy
July29, 2026

Pax Silica is being promoted as a major opportunity to transform the Philippines into a center for semiconductors, artificial intelligence, critical-mineral processing, and advanced manufacturing. Its principal Philippine project—a proposed 4,000-acre industrial and technological zone in New Clark City—is marketed as a “Golden Node” that could attract tens of billions of dollars in investment and create more than 100,000 high-quality jobs.

The initiative deserves serious consideration because the Philippines urgently needs industrial upgrading. Although the country has long participated in the global electronics and semiconductor industry, much of its role remains concentrated in assembly, testing and other lower-value activities. The greater profits—from research, design, patents, intellectual property and strategic control—are largely retained abroad.

Pax Silica could help change that. It may create opportunities in chip design, advanced packaging, robotics, mineral refining, data infrastructure and scientific research. It could generate better-paying careers for Filipino engineers, programmers, technicians and researchers while strengthening local suppliers and reducing brain drain.

But these benefits remain promises, not achievements.

Expressions of corporate interest are not binding investments. Government projections are not actual factories, jobs or export orders. The headline figures depend on future investors, market conditions, energy costs, automation levels and the extent to which local industries are included. The Philippines must therefore avoid offering major incentives, public land and strategic concessions in exchange for optimistic forecasts that may never fully materialize.

The central economic question is whether Pax Silica will build Filipino industrial capacity or merely use the Philippines as a convenient production site. Success should not be measured by the number of foreign-owned factories built in New Clark City. It should be measured by whether Filipino companies gain technology, ownership, intellectual property, research capabilities and management roles.

This requires binding commitments on technology transfer, Filipino hiring, wage standards, local sourcing, supplier development, scholarships and research partnerships. Incentives should be tied to actual capital deployment and permanent employment, with clawback provisions when investors fail to deliver.

The legal and sovereignty concerns are equally important. Reports that extraordinary protections—such as diplomatic-style immunity or the application of foreign legal principles—were discussed should trigger serious public scrutiny, even if Philippine officials later rejected them. An economic zone may receive tax incentives and simplified regulations, but it must remain fully under Philippine law and jurisdiction. New Clark City cannot become a legal island beyond the reach of Philippine courts, labor laws, environmental regulations or criminal authority.

The framework agreement, leases, tax concessions, environmental studies, data rules and jurisdictional arrangements must therefore be publicly disclosed. Transparency is not an obstacle to investment; it is a constitutional and democratic requirement when public land and national interests are involved.
Pax Silica also carries an unavoidable geopolitical dimension. It is part of Washington’s effort to create trusted supply chains, reduce dependence on China and secure technologies with both civilian and national-security applications. For the United States, this is rational strategic policy. The challenge is whether Philippine leaders are defending Philippine interests with the same clarity.

Economic diversification should expand the country’s choices, not force it into another form of dependence. Cooperation with the United States must not require the Philippines to exclude productive economic relations with China, ASEAN, or other partners. Replacing one dependency with another is not strategic autonomy.

Conclusion
Ultimately, Pax Silica is neither automatically an industrial miracle nor necessarily a surrender of sovereignty. It is a high-risk, high-reward bargain.

The decisive test is simple: Will it strengthen Filipino technological power, ownership, and freedom of action, or will the Philippines provide the land, labor, minerals, water, electricity, and geopolitical exposure while foreign corporations retain the profits, patents, and strategic control?

A golden node can connect the Philippines to the future. But without transparency, enforceable safeguards and genuine national ownership, it could just as easily become a silicon collar.

[⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖Eliza Duterte ⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪艾丽莎·杜特尔特 @ElizaX11235813]

𝗗𝗘 𝗟𝗜𝗠𝗔 𝗪𝗔𝗦 𝗦𝗧𝗢𝗣𝗣𝗘𝗗 𝗗𝗨𝗥𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗛𝗘𝗥 𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗡𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗧𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧
By Anthony Ludalvi A. Vista

One of the most significant moments in today’s Senate impeachment trial happened during the opening statement of Leila de Lima.

While presenting the prosecution’s case, defense counsel Atty. Michael Wesley Poa objected, arguing that she was already making conclusions of fact and law. The Presiding Officer Escudero sustained the objection, instructed the prosecution to stay within the proper scope of an opening statement, and the defense later made a continuing objection.

This was an embarrassing moment for Prosecutor De Lima. Instead of continuing her opening statement uninterrupted, she was stopped after the Presiding Officer agreed with the defense’s objection.

𝗔𝗻 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗜𝘀 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗖𝗮𝘀𝗲
An opening statement is only an introduction. It tells the Impeachment Court what the evidence is expected to show. It is not the time to argue that certain facts have already been proven or that the law has already been violated.

Those questions can only be answered after the witnesses have testified, the documents have been presented, and both sides have completed their cases.

𝗔 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗧𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗳𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀
When a prosecutor starts making conclusions of fact before any witness has testified, the prosecutor begins speaking for the witnesses instead of allowing them to speak for themselves.

The witnesses are the ones who should establish the facts under oath. The prosecutor’s duty is to present those witnesses, not to replace them.

𝗔 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗡𝗼𝘁 𝗕𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗝𝘂𝗱𝗴𝗲
The objection was not only about conclusions of fact. It also involved conclusions of law.
Deciding what facts have been proven and what the law requires is the job of the Senate sitting as the Impeachment Court. A prosecutor should not make those decisions before the evidence has even been presented.

𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗦𝗵𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗢𝗻𝗲-𝗦𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗰𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
Today’s incident also shows the one-sided nature of the prosecution. A prosecutor naturally presents only one side of the case. However, that does not mean the prosecutor may make conclusions of fact and law before the evidence has been presented.

When De Lima insisted on making those conclusions during her opening statement, the defense objected, and the Presiding Officer sustained the objection. That ruling reminded everyone that the prosecution must prove its case through witnesses and evidence—not through the prosecutor’s own conclusions.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗠𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲
The Senate, sitting as the Impeachment Court, has the exclusive duty to determine what facts have been established and what legal conclusions should follow. That responsibility belongs to the Court, not to the prosecutor.

Today’s proceedings served as an important reminder that every participant has a separate role. The witnesses testify. The prosecutor presents the evidence. The defense challenges it. The Senate decides the facts and applies the law.

[SMNI News @smninews]

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kasama ang iba pang opisyal ng DepEd upang ihanay ang mga prayoridad at proyekto para sa mga mag-aaral at paaralan sa lungsod.

📷 Mayor Sebastian "Baste" Duterte/Facebook

[iSabongera 🇵🇭 @iSabongera]

Statement of Rep. Paolo Duterte

Tama ka, Vince Dizon. Nakakagalit talaga.

Nakakagalit na ang mga taga-Talomo had to endure another devastating flood seven years after 2019. Nakakagalit na despite the existence of a JICA Davao Flood Control Master Plan submitted to the national government as early as 2023, it remained unacted upon.

At mas nakakagalit na ikaw mismo ang umamin na ngayon mo lang nalaman ang tungkol dito at funding will only be proposed under the 2027 GAA.

So ang tanong, asa man diay ang plano sa tulo ka tuig? Natulog? O gipatulog?

You asked why nothing substantial was done after 2019. That's a fair question. But the answer is not outside the DPWH. Naa mismo sa inyong opisina.

Naa diha ang libro sa DPWH, ayaw ibutang sa kilid ug patulga. The records will tell you everything—who prepared the projects, who approved them, who failed to fund them, and who allowed a completed master plan to gather dust while Dabawenyos continued living in danger.

Kung tinuod nga nakakagalit, then don't stop at expressing anger. Open the books. Name names. File cases.

Kay dili pwede nga kada naay baha, ang response kay press conference ug pangutana. Ang kinahanglan sa mga tao kay tubag ug aksyon.

Ug di pud nato himuong sayon ang problema. Flood control is not just about dredging. It requires funding, river improvements, dikes, drainage systems, watershed management, and implementation of a long-term master plan.

The blueprint already existed. What was missing was political urgency.

Mao nang lisod sabton nga karon pa ta moingon ug "mag-budget pa ta sa 2027." Ang baha wala man naghulat sa budget cycle. Ang tubig wala man naghulat nga mahuman ang paperwork.

So yes, Vince Dizon, nakakagalit.

Pero ang mas nakakagalit kay human sa tulo ka tuig nga naa na ang solusyon, ang giingon karon sa mga Dabawenyo kay... hulat na pud mo.

The people of Davao deserve better than delayed promises. They deserve accountability, decisive leadership, and the immediate implementation of a flood control plan that should have started years ago.

Enough with the finger-pointing. Panahon na nga ang DPWH motan-aw sa kaugalingon niyang records before pointing fingers at everyone else.

https://t.co/aqpMqMKIHq

[Dalagang Pilipina 🇵🇭 @fierceLady08]

I came to see her in the Hague. She is just so magnetic. Pair that magnetism and charisma with honest service, she‘s unbeatable. There is something mysterious in her. 💚

[Anna Malindog-Uy @AnnaMalindogUy]

Folks, for your reference, see below 👇

[Dalagang Pilipina 🇵🇭 @fierceLady08]

No, script, no cue. Just a warm WELCOME from London's Filipino Community. Despite the criticism, the support from those who came was evident.

SALAMAT MGA KABABAYAN! 💚👊🏻

[Anna Malindog-Uy @AnnaMalindogUy]

The Golden Node or the Silicon Collar?
The High Stakes of Pax Silica in the Philippines
By: Anna Malindog-Uy
HEADSIGHT, The Manila Times

PAX Silica is not a pipeline in the conventional sense. What it proposes to carry is far more valuable and potentially far more dangerous: critical minerals, semiconductors, artificial intelligence infrastructure, industrial data, advanced manufacturing and, inevitably, geopolitical influence.

To read more, please click the link below:

TMT Link: https://t.co/ffO7lL6L7B

[Amy @BirdsBeesFriend]

Ayaw pakainin sa Senado? - Joie Cruz https://t.co/nRZDw1W3nb via @YouTube

[Anna Malindog-Uy @AnnaMalindogUy]

OFFICE OF THE VICE PRESIDENT Sara Duterte

MEDIA RELEASE
14 July 2026

STATEMENT

Mga kababayan,

On Day 4 of the impeachment trial, the country witnessed what I have been saying all along: the complaint is not supported by evidence.

Repeatedly claiming that there were threats when none existed, inventing an assassin where there was none, and fabricating evidence to support those claims does not transform fiction into fact. Instead, such actions undermine the integrity of public institutions, erode public trust, waste public resources, and corrupt the search for truth.

An impeachment proceeding should be grounded in credible evidence, not speculation, manufactured narratives, or unsupported allegations. The rule of law depends on facts, not fiction.

Thank you.

SARA Z. DUTERTE
Vice President of the Philippines
#Duterte #SaraDuterte #VPSaraDuterte #vicepresidentsaraduterte #VPSara

[Amy @BirdsBeesFriend]

LIVE MAY 30, 2026 - Office of Senator Alan Peter Cayetano https://t.co/NyMXjXME6A via @YouTube

[Evoree💚👊🦅🟢 @chanchi_evo1]

TAMA!