There is nothing “so-called” about the 2016 Arbitral Award. It is final and legally binding under UNCLOS — the treaty Beijing itself ratified and now spends every July trying to make the world forget.
If commemorating it were merely “symbolic,” China wouldn’t work this hard to discredit it. The reaction gives away the significance.
And the warning that we would “bear the cost” of escalation? A threat aimed at a smaller neighbor for lawfully asserting its rights is not a deterrent. It is a confession.
𝐖𝐀𝐓𝐂𝐇: Rear Admiral Jay Tarriela speaks at the Atlantic Council stage.
“Pointing out a crime while it is being committed is not a crime.”
Silence protects those who violate the law.
Transparency protects those who stand for truth. He explains that transparency is the duty to reveal to the world what is truly happening in the West Philippine Sea through factual reporting, verified evidence, and real-time disclosures.
In the battle for truth, transparency is strength.
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44 CHINESE VESSELS IN JUST ONE WEEK. THIS IS NOT PRESENCE — THIS IS PRESSURE. | While Beijing talks about “peace and stability,” the reality in the West Philippine Sea tells a different story: swarming Philippine waters with coast guard ships and warships as part of its calculated gray zone strategy — coercion without declaring conflict.
China calls it patrols. The region calls it intimidation. The world sees it for what it is: expansion disguised as diplomacy.
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China’s Maritime Militia is a deceptive weapon of hybrid warfare and state-sponsored piracy. Thousands of supposedly “civilian” fishing boats are actually armed, trained, and directed by the CCP and PLA to advance illegal territorial claims across the South China Sea and beyond.
In 1947, a young shepherd threw a stone into a cave near the Dead Sea and heard pottery shatter. Inside those clay jars, sealed for nearly two thousand years, were the oldest copies of the Hebrew Scriptures ever found.
Before this discovery, the earliest complete Hebrew text of the Old Testament dated to around 1,000 years after Christ. Skeptics argued that over so many centuries, scribes copying by hand must have changed, corrupted, and rewritten the text beyond recognition. Then the scrolls were dated. Some went back to the second and third centuries before Christ. Among them was a complete scroll of Isaiah, more than a thousand years older than any copy previously known.
So scholars laid them side by side. The ancient Isaiah scroll against the medieval text, a millennium younger. And what they found astonished them. The two were virtually identical. Word for word, line for line, across a thousand years of copying, the message had not changed. The few differences were spelling variations and slips of the pen that altered nothing of meaning.
Think about what that means. The prophecies of Isaiah, written centuries before Jesus was born, describing a suffering servant pierced for our transgressions and crushed for our iniquities, were preserved exactly as they are read today. No one tampered with them after the fact. No one inserted the predictions later. They were already ancient, already settled, already waiting, when Jesus walked to the cross and fulfilled them.
To the world, the Bible is just a book passed through too many hands to trust. They assume it must have drifted from its source. But God said His Word would stand forever, and He preserved it in a sealed jar in a desert cave for two thousand years to prove it.
The same Word that has not failed across millennia will not fail in your life either. It is living. It is true. It endures. Hold fast to it. Build your life on it. Heaven and earth will pass away, but His words never will.
Jesus is the Word made flesh.
Kung layunin natin ang pagbabago, sana magsimula ito sa simpleng disiplina—ang paglilinis ng sariling kalat at pagrespeto sa pampublikong lugar. Doon nagsisimula ang tunay na malasakit sa bayan.
Sa daming nyong bus bakit hindi nyo dinala pauwi ang basura nyo 🤮
Caolan is a real fucking reporter. Missiles exploding behind him, and he keeps filming, while the entire Western media hides, closes its eyes, and pretends the war in Ukraine isn’t even happening.
Fucking thank you, @CaolanReports, for doing what the world won’t.
Slava Ukraini
No religious organisation, political party, or powerful institution—regardless of its influence or following— has the right to dictate how the Republic administers justice. The rule of law belongs to the Filipino people, not to any organisation that believes its political weight entitles it to special treatment.
By publicly rallying behind Senator Rodante Marcoleta while the Ombudsman and the Department of Justice move towards filing plunder and indirect bribery charges, the Iglesia ni Cristo has chosen institutional loyalty over accountability. Instead of affirming that the law should take its course, it has created the unmistakable impression that one of its own should be shielded from the full force of the justice system.
This is not an isolated matter. Senator Marcoleta has repeatedly attracted controversy—from his conduct during the Senate’s flood control inquiry, where he was accused of diverting scrutiny from key personalities and relying on discredited testimony, to serious questions surrounding undeclared campaign funds and other matters now under official investigation and an impending indictment for plunder and bribery. These allegations deserve to be tested in court, free from political or religious pressure.
That is why the INC’s intervention is so troubling. A religious institution that deploys its influence to defend a politician facing grave criminal allegations, rather than insisting that justice be allowed to run its course, abandons the moral ground from which it claims to speak. It ceases to be merely a religious body and becomes a political actor seeking to influence the administration of justice.
Where was this moral outrage when thousands of Filipinos died during the previous administration’s bloody drug war? Where was the INC when the Vice President was accused, replete with evidences, of corruption in office and threatened the life of a sitting President and his family? Where was this uncompromising defence of righteousness when corruption, abuse of power, and the erosion of democratic institutions demanded moral courage? Silence then, followed by political mobilisation now, is not righteousness. It is selective morality.
If the INC truly believes in justice, it should welcome an independent investigation, not to resist it. Senator Marcoleta deserves due process—not immunity. He deserves a fair trial— not institutional protection.
No one is above the law. Not a senator. Not a religious organisation. Not anyone who believes influence is a substitute for accountability. The rule of law must prevail over political pressure, religious influence, and institutional loyalty—every single time.
Should the INC be allowed to dictate upon the government under threat of weaponising its people if their capricious objectives are not met? The INC was gifted with free expression and was put under no obligations to pay taxes for the exercise of its purpose. But the same INC is now threatening to rupture the nation into another decade of chaos and destruction.
Let the INC and its leaders be warned— you have the right to choose what you want to do, but you have no right to choose the consequences of those actions.
KENGKOY NA PULIS SA EDSA RALLY?
WATCH: Sen. Raffy Tulfo called out the response of a police officer during a viral EDSA rally incident, saying he should be retrained after allegedly scolding the motorcycle rider instead of addressing the rallyists.
Tulfo: Overwhelmed yung taong yon ng mga rallyista, tapos siya pa pagagalitan ng pulis? I want that police identified. | via @hannaaahty, https://t.co/9R0Mcay5im
KAYA NA-CANCEL ANG KANILANG EXTENSION REQUEST SA QC: MGA KAGULUHAN, PAGBABANTA, AT HINDI MAKA-DIYOS NA GAWAIN NG MGA INC/DDS CULT PROTESTERS...
Una, isang rider na napadaan sa lugar na ninakaw ang susi ng motor at pinagbantaan pang i-UNALIVE sa mismong harap ng pulis.
Pangalawa, ISANG SIKLISTANG NAPADAAN SA INC RALLY, MUNTIK NANG KUYUGIN NG MGA NAGPOPROTESTA... "NAGPO-PROVOKE" AT "NANGGUGULO" DAW!
Hindi lang matinding perwisyo sa mga motorista ang idinulot ng rally na ito. Lumalabas din sa mga video ang mga insidente ng pananakot, komprontasyon, at tensyon laban sa mga ordinaryong mamamayan.
Ang mas nakababahala, may iba pang mga insidente ng pagbabanta at pananakit na nasaksihan mismo ng mga pulis, ngunit ayon sa mga video at ulat na kumakalat online, wala umanong naging agarang aksyon.
The Church dedicates the month of July to the Precious Blood of Jesus Christ, a devotion that invites the faithful to reflect on the profound mystery of Christ’s sacrifice. This devotion centers on the Blood Jesus shed during His Passion and Crucifixion, revered as the price of humanity’s redemption.
The shedding of the Precious Blood is a manifestation of God’s boundless love, the forgiveness of sins, and the life-giving grace offered through the Holy Eucharist. For Catholics, July becomes a time to deepen their spiritual connection to this sacred mystery through prayer, penance, and adoration.
The origins of this devotion trace back to early Christianity, with a significant revival in the 19th century when Pope Pius IX extended the Feast of the Precious Blood to the universal Church in 1849, initially celebrated on the first Sunday of July. Although the modern liturgical calendar after Vatican II integrated elements of this feast into Corpus Christi or suppressed it in some places, the month-long dedication persists in popular piety. The devotion underscores the belief that Christ’s Blood, shed on the cross, objectively cleanses humanity of sin and restores communion with God.
The devotion to the Precious Blood of Jesus Christ in July, however, is more than a tradition; it is a call to live in gratitude for Christ’s sacrifice. By meditating on the Blood poured out for humanity, Catholics are inspired to offer their own lives in reparation for sin, and the pursuit of holiness. This month-long focus strengthens faith, drawing believers closer to the heart of the Gospel—the selfless, sacrificing love of Jesus Christ, Whose Blood continues to bring life to the world.
For too long now, the IGLESIA NI CRISTO has used religion to play king-maker in this country. They have used the free exercise clause of the Constitution to undermine the very presupposition of a democracy -- the freedom to elect those who govern.
Muhammad came to Medina as religious refugee. The Jewish tribes took them in. Within 5 years the 3 clans that hosted them were gone: EXPELLED, BEHEADED, ENSLAVED.
Their land and wealth seized. This isn’t immigration. It’s the master plan: arrive weak, grow your numbers in the host country, then conquer from within.
Lebanon fell the same way. Europe is repeating it right now. AMERICA, Wake up!!
Maganda ang explanation ni Atty Ybañez about what THE CULT is trying to tell all of us: (1) “This (the rally) is not a call for accountability, but a WARNING!” (2) Huwag niyo kaming galawin, kung hindi, guguluhin namin kayo. (3) In effect, INC is saying that “THEY ARE ABOVE THE LAW.” “Basta gusto naming mag-rally, wala kayong magagawa.” (4) “Pananakot ito sa institusyon. Pananakot sa peace of our society. (5) In effect, this is plain and simple “BULLYING” from THE CULT!