22 July 2019

• Fake SWS poll stokes anti-China sentiments

  THE Social Weather Stations’ (SWS) recent poll, one of whose results an anti-Duterte media outfit headlined as “93 percent of Filipinos want PH to regain China-occupied islands” is a patently fake survey. This SWS poll is the worst kind of push poll, or one disguised as a survey but which actually is intended to mold […]

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• Fake news? No such ‘PCA decision’ on suit vs China

  NOT exactly fake news. But certainly a variation of it. This particular deception has been spread mainly by the Yellows, helped by mercenary academics and uncritical media. For some reason, they are doing this to make Filipinos hate China and pressure President Duterte to take a belligerent stand against the emerging superpower. This version of […]

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• Colossal blowback: PH arbitration suit prodded, justified China’s island-building blitz

  THREE years after the five-man arbitral tribunal ruled almost entirely in favor of the Aquino government’s maritime claims against China that invoked the Unclos provisions, its real impact has become so crystal clear, yet hardly talked about by US as well as our mainstream media and academe. Totally unenforceable, the suit only helped China emerge […]

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• Imbecilic kalikasan writ suit will result in political chaos and economic collapse

  THE so-called writ of kalikasan suit asking the Supreme Court to compel government to enforce our environmental laws in the Spratlys and Scarborough Shoal is a cheap, despicable and stupid political plot by the Yellows and Reds. If it wins, it will result in political chaos and economic ruin, at a level worse than we’ve […]

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• Duterte enfeebles oligarch-owned and US media’s power

  BASED on the latest Social Weather Stations’ poll, President Duterte has emerged as the most popular president in our post-EDSA history, with a remarkable 80 percent of Filipinos satisfied with his leadership. SWS data show that for the three years that he has been power, Duterte’s net satisfaction rating (percent satisfied minus dissatisfied) averaged 59 […]

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