Lore || NO TO PAX SILICA

NO TO PAX SILICA! WAKE UP PEOPLE!

cynical 10th man lol

[Lore || NO TO PAX SILICA @loreandliess]

Not 9-related, but hope it reaches filos

Wealth stays abroad; you're a CHEAP LABOR
Tech zones get green power; citizens get brownouts
US = supply chain safety; PH = geopolitical target
Temporary DIMINUTIVE profits vs permanent damage

#PaxSilica? Nope- PH what a joke you are

[radar PH @radarph_media]

Economist and IBON Foundation Executive Director Sonny Africa is warning that the proposed Pax Silica project could leave Filipinos competing with the massive investment for scarce resources while delivering little real industrial benefit to the country.

In a Facebook post, Africa argued that the project is being oversold as an economic game-changer, comparing the enthusiasm surrounding it to the decades-long presence of Intel in the Philippines, which he said failed to industrialize the country despite years of operations.

According to Africa, Pax Silica will consume limited public resources—including government support, infrastructure, utilities, and other strategic assets—while remaining a foreign-dominated enclave dependent on imported technology and capital.

He said this means ordinary Filipinos and local businesses could end up competing with the project for scarce resources instead of benefiting from it.

“Pax Silica won’t industrialize PH,” Africa wrote, arguing that the investment will only deepen the country’s dependence on foreign technology while preempting an independent industrial policy.

He also questioned the project’s governance framework, saying terms such as “joint governance,” “enhanced operational certainty,” and investor protections disguise what he believes is a deal designed primarily to serve US interests.

“The truth? Pax Silica is there to advance the US’s national security, economic security, and reindustrialization self-interest,” he wrote.

Africa said genuine industrialization should focus on building Filipino-owned industries capable of producing advanced technology using local labor, science, skills, and natural resources.

Instead, he accused the Marcos administration of providing the United States with a strategic location, labor, natural resources, and government support “without doing anything for Filipino industry.”

“Pax Silica isn’t about us—it’s all about the US,” he said.

Africa is one of the country’s best-known critics of foreign investment-led development. As executive director of the IBON Foundation, he has consistently advocated for national industrialization built around Filipino firms, technological self-reliance, and domestic productive capacity rather than dependence on multinational corporations.

(✍️: Top Dagohoy)

#radarPHBusiness #radarPH

[News5 @News5PH]

PILIPINAS ANG NANGHIHIMASOK? 😅

Kinuwestiyon ni PCG spokesperson for the West Philippine Sea Rear Admiral Jay Tarriela, ang paratang ng China na Pilipinas umano ang nanghihimasok sa Bajo de Masinloc.

Aniya, hindi maaaring manghimasok ang isang bansa sa sarili nitong karagatan dahil nasa loob ng Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) ng Pilipinas ang Bajo de Masinloc o Scarborough Shoal, batay sa 2016 Arbitral Award.

Dagdag pa niya, ang naturang pahayag ay wala umanong batayan sa umiiral na international law. Matatandaang ilang beses binomba ng tubig ng China Coast Guard (CCG) ang mga barko ng Pilipinas noong nakaraang linggo.

[The Philippine Star @PhilippineStar]

Agham spokesperson professor Giovanni Tapang said the Bases Conversion and Development Authority presented an incomplete picture of the potential impacts of the Pax Silica project. https://t.co/p3f8E9udVp | via ONE News

[Lore || NO TO PAX SILICA @loreandliess]

Wake up, people! Hindi partner ang tingin nila-- alipin! Clean and high paying IP for those 1st world countries and foreign investors, while it'll be cheap labor and deteriorated environment for Filipinos! And you honestly think that the government can protect us?

#NoToPaxSilica

[Klause @claus_klause]

See? What did I tell people from the Pax Silica bullshit? These developed countries will continue to offload the cost of THEIR industrial progress to developing countries. No difference between throwing their trash here and us bearing the environmental brunt of their AI facilites

[Lore || NO TO PAX SILICA @loreandliess]

Louder! IPAMANA WAG IPAMINA!

#SaveSibuyan
#NoToMininginSibuyan
#BanMining

[div #RisaNa @ayanghappy08]

if you haven't yet, watch KMJS' segment on Sibuyan. tlgng makikita mo what's at stake if Altai's mining project pushes through. its called the galapagos of asia for a reason. IPAMANA WAG IPAMINA

#SaveSibuyan
#NoToMininginSibuyan
#BanMining

[Lore || NO TO PAX SILICA @loreandliess]

dito pa lang alam mo nang hindi ikaw ang priority, lol

#NoToPaxSilica

[a y i s h ⁷ IS SEEING 𝑩𝑻𝑺 IN BULACAN 아포방포 @eirishlouise]

Pinagtitipid sa tubig dahil mababa ang water level ng Angat Dam tapos magtatayo pa kayo ng AI Data Center
#NoToPaxSilica

[a y i s h ⁷ IS SEEING 𝑩𝑻𝑺 IN BULACAN 아포방포 @eirishlouise]

Pinagtitipid sa tubig dahil mababa ang water level ng Angat Dam tapos magtatayo pa kayo ng AI Data Center
#NoToPaxSilica

[A'ngkol @JohnnyThorFish]

"Paano nyo masasabing pino-promote ninyo ang P-Pop..."

Ang maging PH Tourism Ambassadors po 😉

SB19 PH TOURISM AMBASSADORS
@SB19Official #SB19
@TourismPHL #UySB19 🐐
#SB19GalingBayan

[Lore || NO TO PAX SILICA @loreandliess]

@hoshiumitte lol these people don't even care! mag iingay lang nang konti, magsasayang ng oras at kuryente sa congressional hearings, magagalit ang gp saglit, then viola~ no real accountability, nandiyan pa rin yung malalaking isda. tho realizing na denr is not effective might be a good start

[A @whatever_airi]

Just saw this in Fairview. This is still under construction but damn, It is within the residential area.Ang lapit nito sa La Mesa Dam

[Lore || NO TO PAX SILICA @loreandliess]

Hayss, @SB19Official thank you! You are honestly the only good news in my algo these days

[The Philippine Star @PhilippineStar]

MAHALIMA AS PH TOURISM AMBASSADORS 🇵🇭🤍

The Department of Tourism has named P-pop boy group SB19 as its new ambassadors, "recognizing the group not only as a source of national pride, but as one of the country's finest representatives of Filipino culture." | via @josiahvantonio

[The Philippine Star @PhilippineStar]

MAHALIMA AS PH TOURISM AMBASSADORS 🇵🇭🤍

The Department of Tourism has named P-pop boy group SB19 as its new ambassadors, "recognizing the group not only as a source of national pride, but as one of the country's finest representatives of Filipino culture." | via @josiahvantonio

[♉ @outerkj]

DENR, DPWH, DEPED, DOJ officials running away from their responsibilities

[The Manila Times @TheManilaTimes]

IN a video widely circulated on social media, a sugarcane farmworker breaks down in tears from the sheer weight of injustice that he and hundreds of thousands of others like him have had to bear.

READ: https://t.co/QgS6mR6tUv

[Lore || NO TO PAX SILICA @loreandliess]

then some are still expecting these very same people to really defend our rights on our resources against foreign opportunists??

[Peachy @jailytaynew]

bobo ba kayo lahat dyan sa DENR or sadyang bayaran kayo lahat?? paanong nakakalagpas tong mga paninira sa ecosystems ng pilipinas??

[Lore || NO TO PAX SILICA @loreandliess]

huy, gising! di sila santo! pumapayag ka kaya patuloy kang tinatarantado!

[aris 😉 @ManalangAris]

Its about f*ckin time for stricter qualifications sa public office.

[Lore || NO TO PAX SILICA @loreandliess]

lol

[TV Patrol @TVPatrol]

Hinarang ng Bureau of Customs sa Port of Subic ang isang barko na galing ng Estados Unidos na may kargang tatlong container van na naglalaman umano ng hazardous e-waste.

Basahin: https://t.co/sZoYZWjM5P

[TV Patrol @TVPatrol]

Hinarang ng Bureau of Customs sa Port of Subic ang isang barko na galing ng Estados Unidos na may kargang tatlong container van na naglalaman umano ng hazardous e-waste.

Basahin: https://t.co/sZoYZWjM5P

[ABS-CBN News @ABSCBNNews]

Members of the August Twenty-One Movement (ATOM) and allied groups held a “ROAR! Against Corruption (Lakad para sa LABAN)” along Ayala Avenue in Makati City on Sunday during the city’s car-free Sunday program, Sunday, July 26, 2026. | via @eon_sanchez

(Courtesy: ATOM)

[Mega Kapamilya @MegaKapamilya]

WHATTTT!!! The @DENROfficial issued a permit for the CUTTING of NARRA AND MAHOGANY TREES in Bulacan to prevent obstruction during the N.I.A. slope protection project????