Saw this post from Antonette Aquino on Facebook - sharing it here. This is what she said:
No, I did not leave the aircon running 24/7.
My Meralco bill came in at ₱9,791.78. So let me break it down because nobody else will.
Generation charge alone is ₱5,266.66. That’s 54% of my entire bill. Meralco’s actual cut? ₱1,730.98. And that number hasn’t moved since 2022. What keeps going up is everything sitting on top of it.
Here’s what’s actually eating your money:
System Loss — ₱486.83
You are paying for stolen electricity. Illegal connections, meter tampering, jumpers. Republic Act 7832 lets Meralco pass the cost of electricity theft straight to paying customers.
Universal Charges — ₱201.96
Part of this goes toward paying off the National Power Corporation’s debts. Old debts. From decisions made before most of us were even working.
Government Taxes — ₱989.81
The 12% VAT is not just on what you consumed. It’s stacked on top of every other charge, including the subsidies you’re already paying for. So yes, you are paying tax on stolen electricity. Tax on an old government debt. Tax on a subsidy you do not even benefit from.
FiT-All and GEA-All — ₱149.59 combined
Two separate renewable energy levies running at the same time. The second one was quietly added to bills in February 2026. Both government-mandated. Neither one is optional.
FYI..none of this is illegal. It’s all backed by law. But legal and fair are not the same thing.
The middle class does not steal electricity. We do not qualify for lifeline rates. We do not get 4Ps. We just pay full VAT, fund everyone else’s discounts, and absorb costs that should never have been ours to begin with. Every month. Without relief.
What actually needs to change:
1. Reform the generation charge. One line item cannot be more than half your bill and go unchallenged.
2. Stop passing system loss to consumers. Other countries make the utility absorb it. We should demand the same.
3. Move faster on renewables. Lower generation costs long-term. That transition is already overdue.
📸 CTTO
We are told that security in the Middle East requires defeating Iran, security in East Asia requires defeating China, and security in Europe requires defeating Russia. We never discuss security in terms of how to learn to live together by harmonising interests and managing competition. This is by design. This is hegemonic peace, in which security depends on defeating rivals rather than managing a balance of power.
Subsequently, security relies solely on deterrence rather than reassurance; diplomacy is dismissed as appeasement; peace agreements are temporary and deceptive; and war is peace. Our rivals do not have legitimate security concerns, as their policies are allegedly always motivated by aggressive, irrational, or expansionist behaviour.
We have convinced ourselves that our liberal hegemony is a force for good, and that our opponents oppose our dominance because they reject our benign values of freedom. Discussing the security concerns of adversaries is believed to “legitimise” their policies, which is treasonous. The world is divided into good guys (liberal democracies) and bad guys (autocracies). We should not ask how defeating Russia, as the world's largest nuclear power, is a rational security strategy, or why our governments refuse to even speak with Moscow to discuss the European security architecture and end the war. Our governments have relabelled nuclear deterrence as nuclear blackmail to signal that there can be no more constraints.
All empires can become irrational during decline. Leaders take greater risks to avoid decline, legitimacy crises at home must be distracted with enemies abroad, outdated strategies from a bygone era of strength are still embraced, and there is a tendency to double down on narratives of being indispensable, representing universal values, and dismissing all opposition as illegitimate and dangerous. Are we the fanatics?
BOOKMARK, COPY OR DOWNLOAD THIS. Every time someone says “but the Iranians massacred 30,000 or 50,000 of their own peaceful protesters”, just share these 10 facts and/or the video.
1. In early January, Mossad and CIA assets armed radical opposition members in Iran to undertake an armed insurrection in which 3,000 people (on all sides) lost their lives. There’s plenty of video evidence for that.
2. That was turned into a fake massacre story of 30,000 or 50,000 or 70,000 victims, by so called “activist groups”, widely quoted, as fact, by the western mainstream media—although no evidence was provided. A simple investigation shows that every single one of these groups can be traced back to the US or its “five eyes” partners, the UK and Canada.
3. The western mainstream started pushing the fake story by quoting from a group called Human Rights in Iran, which is not in Iran—it’s from Virginia, home of the CIA, and is financed by the NED, the CIA’s soft-power spin off.
4. The fake news was backed up by a group called the Center for Human Rights in Iran, which is also NOT in Iran, and is also in the US.
5. Another group, Iran International, can be traced back to the UK.
6. Then there was the International Center for Human Rights, which turned out to be in Canada.
7. Still other sources backing the fake massacre turned out to be supporters of America’s Reza Pahlava (Juan Guaido II), such as the one quoted by Time magazine.
8. The most quoted person on western mainstream television is Masih Alinejad, who said “millions” were massacred. She worked for many years as a full-time anti-Iran propagandist, with financing from the NED and a salary from Voice of America.
9. The fake tale was further pushed by the Bouramond Center for Human Rights, another group financed by the NED, and
10. Tavaana, started by the US State Department and financed by USAID, a notorious group that disguises CIA politicking as aid.
Those are the facts.
Now here’s the key question: why does every western mainstream media group, not most, but…
Every.
Single.
One.
hide the above facts from their audiences?
Delete the western mainstream media.
Find out the truth for yourself.
Professor Marandi says Iran deployed tens of thousands of advanced heat-producing decoys, which the US and Israelis struck, wasting billions of dollars
What did ancient Persia sound like around 1400 BC? 🎶 Hear it here! 🔊
Sarah Parsaei performs on the Arjan harp — a historic instrument with roots going back nearly 3,400 years — in Tehran, Iran.
🇮🇶🇮🇷 IRAQIS GATHER OUTSIDE SISTANI'S HOME DEMANDING A FATWA
Crowds flood the streets outside the home of Grand Ayatollah al-Sistani in Iraq chanting "Soldiers of al-Sistani!" in a direct appeal for a religious decree to join the fight alongside Iran.
Sistani's 2014 fatwa mobilized hundreds of thousands of Iraqis against ISIS, forming the Popular Mobilization Forces. Today's crowds are sending the same message, answer the call.
"Iraq today is the brother of the Iranian! No negotiations! Don't give it up!"
Under Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution, only Congress has the power to declare war, as well as to raise and support armies, provide and maintain a navy, and fund and regulate the military.
Impeach the SOB.
LOOK: Former President Quezon's grandson lashes against producers and actors of the 'Quezon' film during a Q&A session in the Rockwell Power Plant Cinema.
I love how Merkel asked her advisor to fact-check Xi when this is common sense: people (even world leaders apparently) don't understand that in the long arc of history Western supremacy was an aberration brought about by temporary technological superiority, which is coming to an end.
The normal order of things is that countries with the most people are the most powerful.