M.D | Conservative, Catholic, free market enjoyer | BizDev & Policy @cirrolytix | Editor-in-Chief @ChristNewsline | Host @SITREPph
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11 Jun 2025
It's amazing how so much of this play is still relevant. The idea of honor, dignity, culture and tradition being sold for profit by schemers in grey suits. Men who would squander the family's priceless heirlooms to satisfy their base desires.
Many of our politicians would rather sell this country's dignity for profit, folks. They would sell Don Lorenzo's house for self-serving interests as the Virgin Queen of these Islands watches in horror. You've seen such things just this week. They sell out our country to cheap warlords.
So much has been lost. So much has changed - for the worse. The nobility and virtues of Old Manila are long past us, mga kababayan.
Que horror!
πΆ"Hindi pera ang problema
Bagaman iyon ang sabi nila
Nagtatapon sila ng pera
Sa mahjong, sa karera
Ikinakaila nila ang totoo kahit sa kanilang sarili
(Candida! Paula!)
Sinusumbatan sila ng bahay na ito
Nasisira ang kanilang pagsasaya
Habang nakikipagtsismisan
Habang nakikipagsugal
Habang nasa karerahan o jai-alai
O habang hindi sila makatulog." πΆ
11 Jun 2025
If anyone wants to know my views on Philippine politics and culture, read Nick Joaquin's "A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino" and its adaptation on stage and on film, "Ang Larawan."
It's one of the most moving works of art I've ever encountered. I recall reading it out of curiosity when I was in high-school abroad, a way to connect with my Filipino identity, and it totally captivated me, Its haunting story still sticks with me to this day and I often find myself rereading or rewatching it.
The play touches on so many themes; loss, regret, change, idealism. It always gets me emotional reflecting on it, especially seen recent events in our country's history. So much has been lost.
For me, nothing encapsulates what it means to be "Filipino" more than the fate of Candida and Paula, the tragedy that befell their family and the loss of the dignity of their old city. My entire view of this country was shaped by it, my politics' guided by a desire to return of what was taken from the sisters by uncaring fate and wicked men.
I hope everyone can give it a read or at least watch since the full movie is on YouTube at the moment, with English subtitles. I hope it touches you the way it continues to touch me.
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The freak Senator Estrada (imprisoned for PLUNDER CHARGES) still thinks he can attend the Estrada impeachment trial as a judge when PRISONERS aren't allowed to have electronic gadgets in jail! The Duterte crew didn't allow this for De Lima when they wrongfully persecuted her and they won't get it now that the shoe is on the other foot.
Zoom Senate Session? Zoom Impeachment Trial? Are you people fucking deranged? NO!
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You know who didn't sign the Senate resolution condemning China? Senators Alan Peter Cayetano, Rodante Marcoleta, Joel Villanueva, Francis Escudero, Imee Marcos, Ronald dela Rosa, Robin Padilla, Bong Go and Pia Cayetano.
These people claim to be "patriots" who support an independent foreign policy but when push comes to shove and the security forces needs their support, our government institutions need their backing and a foreign aggressor - they are nowhere to be found. Shameful! They speak of institutions that they refuse to defend. How can you trust these people?
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VANCE ON IRAN: LOTS OF DETAILS STILL TO SORT OUT
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NYP: Iran would be required to take concrete steps toward denuclearization in exchange for phased sanctions relief from the U.S.
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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said the EU will not lift sanctions against Iran until it changes its behavior.
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This is thirdworldism and it is only solved with arrest and prison.
Civilized people shouldn't have to live like this because we let animals walk among us.
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It's funny to watch leftists argue that hosting the UFC in front of the White House is un-American
President Teddy Roosevelt went blind in his left eye after hosting a personal boxing match at the White House in 1905
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The Left mythologizes the White House and Congress as sacred places, not as holy sites for a civil religion, but so they can debase the whole nation with Sorkinite piety and sternness. To turn it into a place of delight and popular spectacle strips away the myth of coldness leftists have used for so long as a vehicle for cruel communism, and reminds the American people that this house belongs to them.
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Smoke and flames rise from the Dormition Cathedral in the Orthodox complex of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra following a Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian capital
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That US-Iran βpeace dealβ in full:
No list of specific, agreed-upon details has yet been provided by either side.
Wonβt be signed til Friday (June 19)
Work still being done on βfinal detailsβ.
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Louis Prevost, Pope Leoβs Trump supporting brother, attends the UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House.
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JUST IN: President @bongbongmarcos calls the Congress of the Philippines for a special session on June 17, 2026. @ABSCBNNews
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Russia unleashes a barrage of missiles on the historic Kyiv Cathedral.
This needs to stop.
RUSSIAN MISSILE STRIKE SETS HISTORIC KYIV CATHEDRAL ABLAZE, KILLING AT LEAST 4 AND WOUNDING 23
A barrage of ballistic missiles and drones hit Ukraine's capital overnight, damaging the Assumption Cathedral at the UNESCO-listed Kyiv Pechersk Lavra monastery complex, setting its roof on fire. The assault killed at least four people and wounded 23 others in the capital, including a child and a pregnant woman.
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I assure my closeness to the people of the Philippines, struck a few days ago by a powerful earthquake. I pray for the deceased and their families, for the wounded, and for all those suffering because of this disaster.
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Vibe shift, none of this happens without Trump
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We are deeply saddened by the Cleveland Clinicβs $2 million settlement with the Department of Justice (DOJ), the result being that the Clinic will withhold, for at least the next 20 years, science-based, gender-affirming care to children and families in need.
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I just watched priests trying to save crucifixes from a burning monastery.
This is what russia is destroying.
The Kyiv Lavra is one of the holiest Orthodox sites on earth. A UNESCO World Heritage site.
Moscow calls itself βChristian civilisation.β
Itβs literally barbarism.
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This is a wicked crime that should be condemned by all Christians vehemently.
RUSSIAN MISSILE STRIKE SETS HISTORIC KYIV CATHEDRAL ABLAZE, KILLING AT LEAST 4 AND WOUNDING 23
A barrage of ballistic missiles and drones hit Ukraine's capital overnight, damaging the Assumption Cathedral at the UNESCO-listed Kyiv Pechersk Lavra monastery complex, setting its roof on fire. The assault killed at least four people and wounded 23 others in the capital, including a child and a pregnant woman.
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Telling the truth once it's too late to do anything about it is a cruel CNN specialty.
π₯NEW: CNNβs Fareed Zakaria *DELIVERS BRUTAL TAKEDOWN* of Californiaβs βFAILING MODEL OF GOVERNANCEβπ₯
βThe frustration is real and JUSTIFIEDβ¦ it is a case study in how a rich society can spend more and more β while producing less and less of what its ordinary citizens need.β
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For nearly a millennium, Christians have prayed at the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra.
Empires rose and fell. Wars came and went. The monastery endured.
Tonight, flames rise over one of Christianityβs holiest sites after a Russian strike.
This is not a war over territory - Russia is assaulting memory, identity, faith, and civilization.
Russia just targeted and heavily damaged one of the most religiously significant sites in Eastern Orthodoxy.
Remember that the next time some pro-Russian simpleton blathers on about "Putin protecting Ukrainian Christians".
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