DIE HARD III / Herman Tiu Laurel / March 31, 2014
Reading the official propaganda from several of the BS Aquino government’s mouthpieces, i.e. Edwin Lacierda, Voltaire Gazmin, and Albert del Rosario, as well as a host of “experts” on the China Sea dispute, one gets the distinct impression that all these voices are making a big deal out of the so-called support of Malaysia, Vietnam, and the West for the Philippines’ filing of a “memorial” on March 30 before the International Tribunal on the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea at The Hague.
What saps they are making of Filipinos, especially the youngish “social media” crowd swallowing the bluff. Malaysia and Vietnam are getting billions of dollars in benefits from their dialogs with China (while egging RP’s adversarial position) while the West and its allies rake it in from arms sales to the Philippines.
The three years of disinformation, misinformation, strategy-of-tension propaganda, and provocations to create news media and social media stories have laid the ground for the brainwashing of many segments of the Philippine populace to accept whatever the ruling powers want to happen — from creating widespread myopia to gloss over US imperialism’s plot to create tension via its Asia “pivot,” disrupting Asian prosperity, to distracting from China’s “dialog” overtures by instilling an adversarial mood in the Filipino mind in order to prepare RP as eventual cannon fodder in the US’ strategy of “Offshore Control” to cut China’s freedom of navigation and trade routes. The US, its lackeys, and the controlled mainstream media have so far been very successful.
Just to recap the three years of “pivot” and its attendant propaganda and mass brainwashing campaign, recall all the contrived situations that have constituted the provocations from the Philippine government, particularly its Defense and Foreign Affairs chiefs: April 2012 — Philippine Navy arrest of eight Chinese fishing vessels provoked China’s maritime ships to intervene and not vice-versa; October 2012 — Secretary Gazmin accuses China of installing “concrete blocks” to construct a new base which was debunked by his own Armed Forces of the Philippines investigation that these are actually US target practice anchors; January 2014 — Hysteria over non-existent Chinese demand for all fishing vessels plying disputed China Sea areas to register with Hainan, with the Philippine Star triggering a baseless report of China invading Pag-asa within the year.
More recently, the scion of a World War II former Japanese puppet Agriculture and Commerce minister raised the bogeyman of China sabotaging by remote control the National Grid Corp. that controls the 19,500-circuit-kilometer of the country’s electricity backbone; not mentioning that the US Carlyle Group was key to the corporate takeover or that US-British control of Malampaya may have been deliberately planned to allow the market manipulation of electricity prices by the players last Dec. 2013 and Jan. 2014 that saw an overprice.
All these have been abetted by US and local PR trolls in social media (see Infowars: “Yes, there are paid government trolls on social media, blogs, forums and Web sites thanks to documents leaked by Edward Snowden”).
So, now, Philippine officials are “commissioning” the purchase of P20 billion worth of FA-50 fighter jets, which, according to aviation expert, US Marine combined services specialist Jorge Rillona, have the “capability in terms of performance and weaponry of a genuine multirole jet fighter plane that the Philippine Air Force badly needs to defend the country’s airspace in light of rising tensions in the region.”
On the other hand, China and its first aircraft carrier will rely on the SU-30MKK/MK2 Flander-G, which RHK 111’s Military and Arms page compares with the FA-50 in terms of: “Payload difference: Favor the Flanker-G as it can carry 117 percent (4,320 kg) more load. It can travel much further as it carries more internal fuel (9,400 kg versus 2,150 kg)… more equipment and arms (8,000 kg vs 3,680 kg). The Flanker-G is a much better offensive weapon… the capability of both aircraft in terms of Within Visual Range sand Beyond Visual Range… enables the Flanker-G to have a lot more opportunities to fire its weapons first. It (FA-50) also is no match against the Flanker-G in BVR combat as it is not yet certified to carry medium range air-to-air missiles as… it would be nothing short of suicide to ask our Geagle (FA-50) pilots to try to engage the Flanker-G in any sort of air combat given its deficiencies against that aircraft.”
PAF pilots will thus be made braver than the Japanese Kamikazes, with the former ready for suicide even without targets. With the FA-50, Philippine Air Force pilots will have the distinction of being target practice magnets of “over the horizon” radars and missiles of the Flanker-G, which will make them face their martyrdom even before they realize it is coming. Philippine government officials, who pushed the deal, will only send lavish wreaths afforded by their lifetime sinecures from “commissioning” such flying coffins.
(Tune in to “Sulo ng Pilipino” on 1098 AM, dwAD, Tuesday to Friday, 5 p.m.; catch GNN’s Talk News TV with HTL on Destiny Cable Channel 8, SkyCable Channel 213, and www.gnntv-asia.com, Saturday, 8:00 p.m. and replay Sunday, 8 a.m., this week on “Fascism on the rise?” with Satur Ocampo and “From truck ban to market clean-up” with Councilors Let-Let Zarcal and Dennis Alcoreza; visit http://newkatipunero.blogspot.com; and text reactions to 0917-8658664)
Reading the official propaganda from several of the BS Aquino government’s mouthpieces, i.e. Edwin Lacierda, Voltaire Gazmin, and Albert del Rosario, as well as a host of “experts” on the China Sea dispute, one gets the distinct impression that all these voices are making a big deal out of the so-called support of Malaysia, Vietnam, and the West for the Philippines’ filing of a “memorial” on March 30 before the International Tribunal on the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea at The Hague.
What saps they are making of Filipinos, especially the youngish “social media” crowd swallowing the bluff. Malaysia and Vietnam are getting billions of dollars in benefits from their dialogs with China (while egging RP’s adversarial position) while the West and its allies rake it in from arms sales to the Philippines.
The three years of disinformation, misinformation, strategy-of-tension propaganda, and provocations to create news media and social media stories have laid the ground for the brainwashing of many segments of the Philippine populace to accept whatever the ruling powers want to happen — from creating widespread myopia to gloss over US imperialism’s plot to create tension via its Asia “pivot,” disrupting Asian prosperity, to distracting from China’s “dialog” overtures by instilling an adversarial mood in the Filipino mind in order to prepare RP as eventual cannon fodder in the US’ strategy of “Offshore Control” to cut China’s freedom of navigation and trade routes. The US, its lackeys, and the controlled mainstream media have so far been very successful.
Just to recap the three years of “pivot” and its attendant propaganda and mass brainwashing campaign, recall all the contrived situations that have constituted the provocations from the Philippine government, particularly its Defense and Foreign Affairs chiefs: April 2012 — Philippine Navy arrest of eight Chinese fishing vessels provoked China’s maritime ships to intervene and not vice-versa; October 2012 — Secretary Gazmin accuses China of installing “concrete blocks” to construct a new base which was debunked by his own Armed Forces of the Philippines investigation that these are actually US target practice anchors; January 2014 — Hysteria over non-existent Chinese demand for all fishing vessels plying disputed China Sea areas to register with Hainan, with the Philippine Star triggering a baseless report of China invading Pag-asa within the year.
More recently, the scion of a World War II former Japanese puppet Agriculture and Commerce minister raised the bogeyman of China sabotaging by remote control the National Grid Corp. that controls the 19,500-circuit-kilometer of the country’s electricity backbone; not mentioning that the US Carlyle Group was key to the corporate takeover or that US-British control of Malampaya may have been deliberately planned to allow the market manipulation of electricity prices by the players last Dec. 2013 and Jan. 2014 that saw an overprice.
All these have been abetted by US and local PR trolls in social media (see Infowars: “Yes, there are paid government trolls on social media, blogs, forums and Web sites thanks to documents leaked by Edward Snowden”).
So, now, Philippine officials are “commissioning” the purchase of P20 billion worth of FA-50 fighter jets, which, according to aviation expert, US Marine combined services specialist Jorge Rillona, have the “capability in terms of performance and weaponry of a genuine multirole jet fighter plane that the Philippine Air Force badly needs to defend the country’s airspace in light of rising tensions in the region.”
On the other hand, China and its first aircraft carrier will rely on the SU-30MKK/MK2 Flander-G, which RHK 111’s Military and Arms page compares with the FA-50 in terms of: “Payload difference: Favor the Flanker-G as it can carry 117 percent (4,320 kg) more load. It can travel much further as it carries more internal fuel (9,400 kg versus 2,150 kg)… more equipment and arms (8,000 kg vs 3,680 kg). The Flanker-G is a much better offensive weapon… the capability of both aircraft in terms of Within Visual Range sand Beyond Visual Range… enables the Flanker-G to have a lot more opportunities to fire its weapons first. It (FA-50) also is no match against the Flanker-G in BVR combat as it is not yet certified to carry medium range air-to-air missiles as… it would be nothing short of suicide to ask our Geagle (FA-50) pilots to try to engage the Flanker-G in any sort of air combat given its deficiencies against that aircraft.”
PAF pilots will thus be made braver than the Japanese Kamikazes, with the former ready for suicide even without targets. With the FA-50, Philippine Air Force pilots will have the distinction of being target practice magnets of “over the horizon” radars and missiles of the Flanker-G, which will make them face their martyrdom even before they realize it is coming. Philippine government officials, who pushed the deal, will only send lavish wreaths afforded by their lifetime sinecures from “commissioning” such flying coffins.
(Tune in to “Sulo ng Pilipino” on 1098 AM, dwAD, Tuesday to Friday, 5 p.m.; catch GNN’s Talk News TV with HTL on Destiny Cable Channel 8, SkyCable Channel 213, and www.gnntv-asia.com, Saturday, 8:00 p.m. and replay Sunday, 8 a.m., this week on “Fascism on the rise?” with Satur Ocampo and “From truck ban to market clean-up” with Councilors Let-Let Zarcal and Dennis Alcoreza; visit http://newkatipunero.blogspot.com; and text reactions to 0917-8658664)
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