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[budge&nudge @budge_nudge]

Good day!

[Lysa TerKeurst @LysaTerKeurst]

What other people say is a reflection of their heart, not yours. Live in such a way that illuminates the beautiful reality of who you are.

Don’t fall into the trap of retaliation. Instead, take the higher ground & because you don’t have to live with reaction regret, celebrate.

[Mark Makalalad @MMakalalad]

Hindi bababa sa 3 truck ng basura, nahakot ng QC Department of Sanitation and Cleanup Works at MMDA sa lugar na pinagdausan ng pagtitipon ng INC @dzbb

[Rappler @rapplerdotcom]

A source tells Rappler that the Ombudsman found evidence of alleged conspiracy between Senator Rodante Marcoleta and his fellow respondents.

[Manila Standard @mnlstandardph]

SECOND STRAIGHT GOLD FOR EJ 🥇🇵🇭

#MSSports │Filipino pole vault star EJ Obiena captured a second consecutive gold medal in the outdoor season after topping the Raiffeisen Austrian Open Eisenstadt on Thursday (Philippine time).
Obiena tallied an outdoor season-best jump of 5.75 meters to emerge triumphant in the 10-strong World Athletics Continental Tour Silver tournament. │via Jeremiah Sevilla

📸: EJ Obiena - Ernest Obiena/IG

#ManilaStandard
#EJOBiena
#PoleVault
#TeamPhilippines

👉For more sports updates, visit: https://t.co/rmQCnNSOvI

[Rappler @rapplerdotcom]

EJ Obiena vaults to back-to-back golds after long layoff

After being away from competitive action for months, Filipino pole vaulter EJ Obiena is slowly getting his groove back with consecutive gold medals in Europe.

Full story:
https://t.co/PH99becq94

[Rappler @rapplerdotcom]

Alex Eala advances to the third round of a Grand Slam for the first time with a three-set win over Maya Joint as the Filipina redeems herself from a painful loss to the Australian in her first WTA Tour final https://t.co/pDQ58TVt76

[The Philippine Star @PhilippineStar]

The Quezon City council will be holding an inquiry regarding the viral incident involving Councilor Rannie Ludovica during the INC protest.

In the viral video, Ludovica was caught in the act heckling an LTO official. | @josiahvantonio

[budge&nudge @budge_nudge]

@coffeejal @stgatchalian @gtchsexyback Wala ring jowa ai Sec. Busy sa career 😍

[budge&nudge @budge_nudge]

@sashamirae Discussion ba ito kung bakit bachelor pa rin sina SP and Sec? 💓

[budge&nudge @budge_nudge]

Sobrang abala, pati basura iniwan.
Buwis pa rin ng bayan ang gamit sa paglinis ng kalat nila.

[DZBB Super Radyo @dzbb]

𝗕𝗔𝗦𝗨𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗚 𝗡𝗔𝗜𝗪𝗔𝗡 𝗦𝗔 𝗣𝗔𝗚𝗧𝗜𝗧𝗜𝗣𝗢𝗡 𝗡𝗚 𝗜𝗡𝗖

Hindi bababa sa 3 truck ng basura, nahakot ng Department of Sanitation and Cleanup Works of Quezon City (DSQC) at Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) sa lugar na pinagdausan ng pagtitipon ng Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC). | via @MMakalalad

[budge&nudge @budge_nudge]

@PhilippineStar Hiyang hiya naman mga taxpayers sa naghakot sa kanila papunta dyan, Manila social welfare dept pa nagpakain.

Sana sa legit homeless nagpakain.

[budge&nudge @budge_nudge]

@IsThisMean @newswatchplusph May pakain pa ang LGU sa nagrally.

[Gloria Rosario @GloriaRosa202]

A Philippines Coast Guard personnel removing underwater barriers installed by China Coast Guard at Bajo de Masinloc.

China has thousands of methods to harass, oppress, intimidate & coerce the Filipinos, inside their own territories. @RommelFLopez @supbrow @Jay83214566

[ABS-CBN News @ABSCBNNews]

‘TUMINGIN SILA SA SALAMIN.’

Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. on Wednesday brushed aside repeated criticisms from Chinese officials over his remarks against China’s actions, saying the public can judge for itself who is telling the truth.

“Taumbayan na ang maghuhusga. Wala naman akong sinabi na hindi totoo sa lahat ng sinasabi ko. Hindi ko problema kung walang naniniwala sa kanila. Problema nila iyon,” he said.

“Tumingin sila sa salamin. Hindi naman Chinese ang kalaban natin dito na tao. Communist Party ng China, tsaka gobyerno nila na nang-aagaw ng teritoryo at bumabaliktad ng istorya,” he added.

Teodoro’s remarks came after the Chinese Embassy in Manila again reiterated statements from Chinese government officials criticizing the defense chief over his comments on Beijing’s actions. | via @biancadava

[Rappler @rapplerdotcom]

Senator Rodante Marcoleta shows up at the Iglesia ni Cristo-led rally on Wednesday night, July 1, as he faces possible arrest and detention for plunder.

“Nakahanda po akong magpakulong. Kung kinakailangang maaresto po ako, wala pong problema,” he said.

There are 9,000 attendees as of 6:30 pm, according to the Quezon City government. | via Eirene Manatlao/Rappler

[Dino Singson de Leon @iamdinodeleon]

Nahuhuli ang isda sa sariling bibig.

[ABS-CBN News @ABSCBNNews]

Ateneo Blue Eagles player Divine Adili has been laid to rest in his hometown in Nigeria on Friday, according to his aunt.

Adili's aunt shared a livestream of his burial, as per the request of Divine's friends. (📸: Nwozor-Mabia Ogonna Grace/Facebook) | via @PaigeJavier

[News5 @News5PH]

SALAMAT SA KABAYANIHAN, CHRIS!

Ginawaran ng Boy Scouts of the Philippines ng pinakamataas nitong Gold Gallantry and Heroism Award si Scout Chris Lorenz Fabian bilang pagkilala sa kanyang kabayanihan, matapos siyang pumanaw sa gun incident sa Tacloban City.

Kinilala siya dahil sa kanyang sukdulang sakripisyo at katapangang inilaan upang mailigtas ang buhay ng iba.

Ayon sa BSP, mananatiling inspirasyon ang kanyang paglilingkod at kabayanihan sa mga susunod na henerasyon ng mga Scout.

📸: Boy Scouts of the Philippines (Facebook)

[Chel Diokno @ChelDiokno]

Tuloy na tuloy na po. Magsisimula ang impeachment trial sa July 6.

[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.

[Rappler @rapplerdotcom]

Rappler traces a multi-million-dollar US property linked to a company associated with Andrew Casiño, fraternity brother, and business associate of Martin Romualdez