Marduk

the law of nature is relatively proportional to the law of life. my view to life depends on my degree of understanding to philosophy and psychology.

[Sonny Trillanes IV @TrillanesSonny]

Sa mga nakapanood ng mga video ng pagpiyansa ni Sara sa QC RTC, sana naman maliwanag sa inyo na wala talaga sya sa tamang pag-iisip. Hindi ito pwedeng maging presidente o manatili bilang bise presidente. Alang-alang sa ating bayan at sa ating mga kapwa Pilipino, pumili naman tayo ng maayos.

[Marduk @aristosocrato89]

@FIBA Kudos to Kai’s block. KQ is also one of the unsung hero here.

[Marduk @aristosocrato89]

@_MIGZ29 Her logic is always a sharp logic.

[Chel Diokno @ChelDiokno]

With all due respect to the Senator-Judge at para hindi maligaw ang publiko, ito po ang konteksto at kumpleto na sinabi ko:

“(Ang fishing expedition) ay maaaring sabihin nating nangyari kung only if the party requesting the evidence or documents ay nagbabakasakali lang, baka may makuha tayo dito.”

Linawin ko po: Hindi tayo nagbabakasakali lang. May probable cause o sapat na dahilan na nakita sa mga record ng Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) tungkol sa bilyun-bilyong dumaan sa accounts ng VP at kanyang asawa.

Hiningi natin ang bank records para makita kung tugma ito sa sinasabi ng AMLC reports. Tandaan: Ang bank records ay maaari lang mailabas kapag may utos o subpoena mula sa korte. Ibig sabihin, kung nabuksan ng Kamara ang mismong bank records bago ang trial, paglabag yan sa karapatan at due process ni VP Sara Duterte.

Ngayong may subpoena na para sa bank records ng Bise Presidente, magagamit ito ng magkabilang panig para patunayan ang kanilang kaso.

Sa ganitong paraan, makakapagpasya ang mga Senator-Judges batay sa kabuuan ng ebidensya.

[PING LACSON @iampinglacson]

Memories bring me back to 2001 when then newly installed President GMA unleashed the massive resources of her administration to accuse me, a newly-elected senator, of amassing ill-gotten wealth from illegal drugs and stashing unimaginable amounts of money in some foreign banks.

I didn’t back down and proved them wrong - going as far as publicly challenging my accusers by signing a formal waiver to open my bank accounts.

Long and short, the main characters - the late BGen Victor Corpus, Ador Mawanay, etc. retracted and even publicly apologized.

Integrity is my most precious inheritance from my late parents, despite our poverty - not through lectures and reminders, but by the power of their own examples.

[SportsCenter @SportsCenter]

WHAT IT MEANS 😤

No. 29 Alexandra Eala was emotional after defeating defending Wimbledon Champion Iga Swiatek 👏

[Marduk @aristosocrato89]

@joketerte30 Hindi ibig sabihin na may karanasan ka sa kalsada ay mas may alam ka na Robin. Yung kitid ng utak mo, kahit may karanasan ka ay makitid parin ang pag unawa mo sa iyong karanasan.

[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

[Marduk @aristosocrato89]

@MinhDr18 The war is not in plain sight, rather in the narrative.

[Marduk @aristosocrato89]

@flixrhidalgo @BRPSierraMadre @isabelmerana It di not flow to my feed that Tony Yang was related to May 15 ops. I just found it in this video. The pattern makes sense.

[Nacho @nachomiranda14]

Mike Brown dropped a definition about winning in life.

“If you get knocked down in life and you’re able to get back up and keep fighting - that’s a fricking win.”

You need to hear this.

Success isn’t always winning.

Sometimes it’s refusing to stay down

[Alan Stein, Jr. @AlanSteinJr]

The highest performers don’t waste energy on things they can’t control.

They focus on two things: their effort and their attitude.

When adversity hits, don’t look for a shortcut back. Just keep chipping away. One play. One response. One step at a time.

[Marduk @aristosocrato89]

@newswatchplusph Oxymoronic moron

[Jay Tarriela @jaytaryela]

Beijing accuses us of “hyping.” Let us be precise about what actually happened. We observed a structure inside Bajo de Masinloc. We documented it, dated it, geolocated it, and released the aerial imagery to the public. That is not hype — that is transparency. And transparency is only threatening to the party that has something to hide.

To “hype” something is to exaggerate or invent it. We did neither. The imagery speaks for itself, and we put it in front of the Filipino people, the region, and the international community precisely so that no one has to take our word for it — or Beijing’s. The fact that China’s instinct is to attack the reporting rather than explain the structure tells you everything. What is irresponsible is not a coast guard doing its job and informing the public. What is irresponsible is the unilateral placement of structures in another country’s exclusive economic zone, in open defiance of the 2016 Arbitral Award — and then calling the act of documenting it a provocation.

And there is a reason we cannot simply accept Beijing’s description of these as “normal activities.” We have heard this before. When the People’s Republic of China first occupied Mischief Reef in 1995, it assured the world that the structures it was putting up were nothing more than shelters for its fishermen. Today, Mischief Reef is a fully militarized artificial island — runway, hangars, radar, missile capabilities — sitting squarely inside the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone. The “fishermen’s shelter” was the cover story.

So when China waves away the structure at Bajo de Masinloc as “normal,” it is asking the region to forget its own record. That is precisely why these actions cannot be taken at face value.

If China genuinely wants to be believed, there is a simple way to show it: pull out. Remove the platform, halt the installation of buoys/communication towers, and respect the 2016 Arbitral Award and waters that are legally ours. Anything less only confirms the pattern — that China’s assurances at Bajo de Masinloc today are worth exactly what its word at Mischief Reef proved to be three decades ago.

The choice belongs to Beijing. It can preserve what little good faith the region and the international community still extend to it, or it can keep proving why that trust was misplaced to begin with.

[Mark Manson @Markmanson]

Maturity is the ability to prioritize values before feelings. The child does what feels right, the adult does what is right.

[Marduk @aristosocrato89]

@JRDCastillo30 @BrujaDelDemonio Gigantic difference

[Inquirer @inquirerdotnet]

'LOGISTICAL NIGHTMARE'

Sen. Panfilo Lacson questioned the logistics behind the P805-billion flood control kickback allegations by 18 alleged former Marines.

The ex-Marines, who claimed they delivered flood control "kickbacks" to several politicians, appeared at a Senate inquiry led by the Cayetano bloc on Thursday, amid allegations that each received P5 million in exchange for their testimony.

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[… @johnat143]

We MUST ensure that no Cayetanos, Villars, Padillas, Marcoletas, Marcoses, and Legardas will win in the 2028 elections.

We have seen firsthand how political dynasties stunt our political development, deprive us of any meaningful change.

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. HINDI NA PWEDE ‘TO.