Showing posts with label Philippines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Philippines. Show all posts
Friday, June 21, 2024

Chicoms commit act of war against Philippines in Spratly Islands' Second Thomas Shoal, Biden sits idly by despite actual treaty of 1951 pledging mutual defense

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 ‘Only pirates do this’: Philippines accuses China of using bladed weapons in major South China Sea escalation  "They are Philippine Na...
Sunday, April 21, 2024

The $8.1 billion Indo-Pacific Security Supplemental Appropriation for Taiwan et alia passed yesterday 385-34-1-11, all the Nays being Republicans

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 The roll call vote is here . I would have reported in real time but Blogger had a major outage yesterday afternoon lasting several hours.
Thursday, August 17, 2023

Nine marines of the Philippines vs. The Chicoms

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Nine marines of the Philippines aboard this ship at Second Thomas Shoal contest ownership of the Spratly Islands against the Chicoms. It is ...
Thursday, August 10, 2023

Tell me again about your problems

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  This Navajo warrior, Joe Lee Kieyoomia, survived the battle for the Philippines, the Bataan Death March, prison camp torture, transport by...
Saturday, November 27, 2021

World Health Organization protects Xi Jinping's feelings, adopts Omicron for new South African variant B.1.1.529 instead of Nu or Xi

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alpha beta gamma delta epsilon zeta eta theta iota kappa lambda mu nu xi omicron pi  rho sigma tau upsilon phi chi psi omega   This is the f...
Wednesday, July 14, 2021

As China expands illegal military operations in the Spratly Islands, the Biden administration is reiterating strongly its support for the Philippines

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“The most significant change in military posture in 2021 is the appearance of Chinese special mission aircraft and helicopters at Subi and...
Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Update for COVID-19 English-speaking world case fatality rates as of 1/19/21

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 Per Johns Hopkins University (data changes slightly as we write): Global totals: deaths 2,044,445 / cases 95,703,104 Case fatality rate 2.1...
Sunday, January 10, 2021

For some reason Peter Meijer, Justin Amash's replacement, feels the need to parade his combat cred, basically admits to mental illness: "fully uniformed", "parachute in ... not literally", "a through and through combatant"

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Here , apparently because some people doubt it. He did, after all, bail out of West Point and will forever live with the stigma. Read the wh...
Wednesday, October 9, 2019

ESPN kowtows to China, reproduces China map with 9 dash line claim in South China Sea which International Court of Justice ruled against in July 2016

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An international tribunal in The Hague delivered a sweeping rebuke on Tuesday of China’s behavior in the South China Sea, including its ...
Friday, March 15, 2019

ISIS bomb blasts kill 20 celebrating mass at Cathedral of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Jolo, Philippines

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Jolo church attack: Many killed in Philippines BBC News 27 January 2019
Wednesday, May 2, 2018

China installs missiles in Spratly Islands, Admiral Harry Harris says China eroding the free and open international order

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China has no business annexing this territory, and the international court of The Hague has so ruled already in July 2016. Here : ...
Saturday, November 11, 2017

The weekend help at Drudge can't spell Philippines

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I admit it, I still have to look that one up myself even after all these years.
Thursday, October 5, 2017

Las Vegas shooter's girlfriend feared wired money to Philippines was his way of breaking up with her

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From the story here : “I was grateful, but honestly I was worried that first, the unexpected trip home and then the money, was a way o...
Saturday, December 3, 2016

Obama can negotiate with Iranian terrorists and visit the communist police state of Cuba . . .

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. . . but Trump can't talk to the president of independence-minded Taiwan or invite the pusher-killing president of the Philippines to...
Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Hague Tribunal rules in favor of Philippines in South China Sea, saying China has never exercised exclusive authority over the waters

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China doesn't give a damn. Story here .
Saturday, October 31, 2015

China's nine-dash-line claim in the South China Sea will finally get its day in court

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But China won't be there to defend it. From the story here in The Diplomat: On Thursday, October 29, the Permanent Court of...
Saturday, March 24, 2012

Obama's Lazy Mind At Work

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"Danes have punched above their weight in international affairs." "I've said this before, but I want to repeat: Norway pu...