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Today's forecast for Marcos loyalist intelligence: howling, gusty, shrieking with zero intelligibility
Here is hideous irony: many Marcos loyalists are OFWs - resentful, uninformed, seeking hope in the family of a dictator who pillaged and tortured the country. And they don't even seem to know that it was Marcos' economic policies that drove Filipinos to look for jobs abroad, and it was Marcos who asked foreign countries to impose visa restrictions on Filipinos.
A cunning lawyer, stern defense minister and powerful crony, he was one of the regime's mailed fists. Now he's the meek, obedient tuta taking orders from the semi-educated, unqualified, incoherent, lazy bubbleheaded son of the dictator he betrayed. That's some story there.
Today in history: Frustrations of reform

An intimate look at what Filipinos said off the record in 1950

Manolo Quezon is #TheExplainer
Thank you OSCA of Muntinlupa City.
An unhappy former loyalist complains: Marcos trolls and vloggers were invited to the palace where they were served ensaymada, brownies and orange juice, which soon ran out. Meanwhile, totoy entertained the mainstream media in a Xmas bash that included a fancy dinner and a raffle of iPhones. What are the trolls bitching about? just accept that you're low-life orcs and menials and move on. Unity lang mga busabos.
Listen to WW2 as Filipinos here and abroad experienced it, through radio and audio recordings from the era in this special podcast episode I recorded last year. https://anchor.fm/mlq3/episodes/Manolo-Quezon-is-TheExplainer-Podcast-Episode-20-I-Can-Hear-It-Now-e1bphs3 #TheExplainer
Manolo Quezon is #TheExplainer Podcast: Episode 20: I Can Hear It Now by Manolo Quezon is #TheExplainer Podcast

For the 80th Anniversary of WW2 in the PH, a homage to the "Hear It Now" audio documentaries of Edward R. Murrow. Audio extracts are from Philippines on the Potomac/Library of Congress and History on the Net, Hoover Institiution, Past Daily, and audio from newsreels (for ex.):  1. 1/1/1940, March of Time  2. 9/20/41 Paramount 3. 7/7/41(?) Paramount 4. 7/7/41(?) Paramount 5. 5/4/41(?) Paramount 6. Parada ng Japanese Imperial Army sa Maynila 7. The Japanese Army parades in victory through Manila 8. 4/1/42 Paramount 9. 5/1/42 Paramount 10. Soldier catches two thieves in Manila 11. March of Time 12. 6/13/42 Paramount 13. 6/14/42 Paramount 14. 5/11/43 NHK 15. 9/29/43 NHK 16. 10/19/43 NHK 17. 9/21/44 NHK 18. 9/21/44 NHK 19. 10/5/44 NHK 20. 8/11/45 Paramount

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Melon Husk is what Tony Stark would be if Tony Stark couldn't actually invent anything if his life depended on it, if he was a fraud, and he was a fascist.
It's officially the season of advent. Time flies so fast. Wonder what's in store for us this 2023.