Emil**125M(SWOH), 51B(POLONG), 203B(BBM)**

Nerd, likes BarDA

[Ojike Uzoma @Xtopher_Uzo]

Dear SSPX and other "Trad Catholics",

Disobeying the Pope is anti-Trad.

Don't take my word for it.

"We do not set above the authority of the Pope that of other persons, however learned, who dissent from the Pope, who, even though learned, are not holy, because whoever is holy cannot dissent from the Pope."

~ Pope Pius X

[Jo ⚓ @iamjogarzola]

ang ingay ni Robin sa mga gantong issue no? Kapag kabataan gusto agad ikulong pero pag si Bato papatakasin?

[Krusty Friendly @Friendlykrusty]

@jomsksk ang bilis nyo makalimot. he voted to send PRRD home, he voted to dismiss the first impeachment. DONT BE STUPID.

[Jo March @jomsksk]

yikes! yung pagka DDS phase nya hindi pa rin nya nakakalimutan. Nakakahiya ginagawan nyo pa ng love team kay Sen. Risa

[Roentgen @ronaldgem]

Alam niyo ba that in Kiko's bill, the minimum age of criminal liability was 12, not 15.

Hindi ba kayo naiinsulto na noon pa man, inuuto na kayo nina Duterte, Robin, etc. tungkol sa usapin ng JJWA?!

[Rommel Lopez @RommelFLopez]

China, spewing lies ang stupidity once again.

[Pope Respecter @poperespecter1]

Many trads will happily side with Orthodox and protestants to attack the church.

They are already in schism, even if they don’t admit it.

[Emil**125M(SWOH), 51B(POLONG), 203B(BBM)** @EmilSra99]

@CullumSmith don't use quantity over quality

[michael fajatin @michaelfajatin]

Mga pulitiko tutukan nyo na ang labis na singil sa kuryente.
Hindi na lang ito dahil tag-init.
Tag-ganid na ito! Magmalasakit naman kayo.

[BRP Sierra Madre @BRPSierraMadre]

China’s latest move to send Coast Guard vessel 5304 loitering just 27–45 nautical miles off Luzon is a brazen insult to the 2016 Arbitral Award and a slap in the face of every Filipino whose waters Beijing still treats as its own backyard.

By silently tracing an illegal nine‑ and ten‑dash line inside the Philippine EEZ and ignoring repeated, lawful radio challenges from BRP MALABRIGO, China is not “maintaining peace” — it is openly mocking international law and daring Manila to look away.

In contrast, under Admiral Ronnie Gil Gavan, the Philippine Coast Guard is acting with professionalism, protecting Filipino fisherfolk, and exposing to the world every quiet act of aggression that China hopes will go unanswered.

If Beijing wants respect as a great power, it can start by respecting the ruling it lost in The Hague — and stop behaving like the Philippine EEZ is its private swimming pool.

#BRPSierraMadre #DefendTheTruth #WestPhilippineSea #WPS #PhilippineSovereignty #NotOneMore

[Jay Tarriela @jaytaryela]

China can repeat the words “inherent territory” as often as it likes, but repetition is not law. On 12 July 2016, an Arbitral Tribunal constituted under Annex VII of UNCLOS — the very Convention China has ratified — ruled that there is no legal basis for China to claim historic rights within the so-called nine-dash line. That ruling is final and binding. China’s refusal to participate in the proceedings does not exempt it from the outcome.

The Tribunal specifically found that Mischief Reef (Panganiban) is a low-tide elevation lying within the exclusive economic zone and continental shelf of the Philippines. As a matter of international law, a low-tide elevation is incapable of appropriation — it cannot be the “territory” of any state, China included. The Tribunal further found that China’s artificial-island construction there violated the sovereign rights of the Philippines and caused severe and lasting harm to the marine environment. So let us be clear: China did not build “national defense facilities within its own territory.” It built a military outpost inside another country’s EEZ, on a feature it seized in 1995.

This is also why the “militarization” label fits. In 2015, President Xi Jinping stood in the White House Rose Garden and pledged that China had no intention to militarize the Spratlys. Today those features carry runways, hangars, radar, and missile platforms. The world has eyes. The contradiction is China’s, not ours.

As for Typhon, HIMARS, Balikatan, and our cooperative activities with allies and partners — these take place on sovereign Philippine soil and within waters that are indisputably ours, in the lawful exercise of self-defense and our treaty rights. There is a fundamental difference between a nation arming itself within its own borders and a foreign power building fortresses 800 to 1,000 kilometers from its coastline inside a neighbor’s maritime zone. Inviting partners to train with us is the sovereign choice of an independent state. The “root cause” of tension in this sea is not Philippine self-defense; it is China’s expansive claim, invalidated in 2016, and the coercion it deploys to enforce it — water cannons, military-grade lasers, ramming, and dangerous maneuvers against civilian and lawful government vessels.

On history, the Embassy offers a familiar deflection. The Tribunal did not need to settle every question of sovereignty to dismantle the foundation of China’s case: whatever historical activity it cites, those rights were extinguished where they exceed what UNCLOS permits.

And if the Embassy truly wants to talk about “occupation by force,” it should start by looking in the mirror. In March 1988, at Johnson South Reef in these very Spratlys, Chinese forces opened fire on lightly armed Vietnamese soldiers standing in the shallows — 64 of them were killed, many cut down where they stood. Fourteen years earlier, in 1974, China seized the Paracels from Vietnam by armed assault, costing dozens more Vietnamese lives. That is what occupation by force actually looks like: not resupply runs to a grounded ship, but live fire and body counts to plant a flag on someone else’s reef. It is rather bold for the party that gunned down its neighbors and seized Mischief Reef by stealth in 1995 to lecture anyone about aggression.

If there is a guilty conscience anywhere in this exchange, it belongs to the state that refused to show up to the arbitration, rejects a binding ruling it cannot legally escape, and conducts its expansion behind organized activities that are illegal, coercive, agressive and deceptive actions. The Philippines does not need to vilify China. We simply document what China does — and let the facts, the law, and the world judge.

The 2016 Award is final. It is binding. And it is not going away.

[Nguyen Ho @NguyenHo1096438]

China doesn't want ASEAN nations to unite against China's harassment.

We should prove that wrong.

We should together keep exposing what China is doing in the South China Sea.

[Michael Turner @Michael71T]

A China Coast Guard ship tried to hit a Filipino vessel, but ended up hitting it's own naval ship!

I just can't hold my laughter watching this video again & again!😂😂

[Mac Zamora @MackinleyZamora]

Let's use our common sense and recite this 13 times:

Pia Cayetano is The Pogo Queen.

Never. Ever. Forget.

[Emil**125M(SWOH), 51B(POLONG), 203B(BBM)** @EmilSra99]

@Gm45Alex @johnat143 @piacayetano @risahontiveros iyakin dw shunga kayo lng mga p. gutom ang inyakin

[Michael Ron Bowling @mrbcyber]

China is poisoning the planet to control rare earth production and this is just one of the many ways they are damaging the environment. The Chinese government is subsidizing huge fishing fleet's that are decimating sea life. Yet they are never held accountable for the damage.

[Michael Turner @Michael71T]

China is a serial aggressor & a chronic liar!

In 1995, China told the world that the structures it built on Mischief Reef were temporary shelters for fishermen.

In just few years, Mischief Reef was transformed into a military base with, airfields, ports, missile silos etc.

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

Most Americans have never heard of this war. That is not an accident. It is a choice — and it is a choice that erased the story of over 200,000 Filipino lives.

In 1898, Spain lost the Spanish-American War and signed the Treaty of Paris. Without a single Filipino in the room, the United States paid Spain $20 million and took the Philippines as a territory — as if the islands were an empty piece of real estate and not a nation of people who had just spent years fighting for their own independence. Emilio Aguinaldo and the Filipino revolutionaries had believed America was an ally. They had fought alongside American forces against Spain. They had already declared Philippine independence on June 12, 1898. And then they watched as America decided that independence was not theirs to keep. On February 4, 1899, the first shots of the Philippine-American War were fired — and what followed was one of the most brutal and deliberately forgotten conflicts in the history of the Pacific.

The war lasted officially until 1902, but resistance continued for years beyond that. Conservative estimates place Filipino deaths — civilian and military combined — at over 200,000. Some historians put the number closer to one million when famine and disease caused by the war are counted. American troops used waterboarding, burned villages, and forced civilians into concentration camps — tactics that would not be acknowledged or discussed in American classrooms for a century. The Philippines did not gain full independence until 1946. This is not ancient history. It is living memory.

The Philippine-American War is so absent from American history textbooks that a 2022 survey found the majority of American adults had never heard of it — despite the fact that it resulted in more American military casualties than the Spanish-American War that directly preceded it. Tag someone who needs to know this history today.

© The Philippines

#drthehistories

[BRP Sierra Madre @BRPSierraMadre]

Four warships against one patrol ship. Yet what mattered most was not the numbers.
The world saw what happened.
Transparency turns encounters into evidence.
Evidence turns facts into accountability.

#BRPSierraMadre #DefendTheTruth #WestPhilippineSea #WPS #BajodeMasinloc #PhilippineSovereignty #NotOneMore