I see nothing, nothing...

When the Philippine military had to do urban fighting against the Islamic terrorists who took over Marawi, they filmed what was going on, so that the people knew what they were doing. Of course, in Marawi, the local Muslims didn't want the crazies and often hid their Christian neighbors. 

One does wish the Israeli defense forces would do the same (or are they doing this, but their side of the story is just being ignored in the name of left who hates Israel?)

so in Gaza, what is happening is that Hamas is using violence porn to change the minds of the world, and in a world of sentimentality over hard facts, it seems to be working.

So is Israel killing innocent medical personnel and patients, or is Hamas hiding in a hospital to get maximum propaganda out to the world.

and of course, no one seems to want to discuss what will happen if Iran's proxies in Gaza win: The war has already spread and the West Bank

 

add to this the Houthis who are attacking everyone, even Chinese ships, pretending this is about Israel when it is about just hatred of civilization, sort of like the Boko Harum and Fulani in Nigeria, the Somalis, etc.

Nothing I can do about it.

Of course, we are vulnerable to ISIS working in the Moros in the South, but there is also fear of attacks by the returning workers who converted to Islam in the Middle East.

but of course our real danger is China keeps attacking Philippine islands and fishermen and now the Coast Guard, saying hey they owned the West Philippine sea in the past so get out. Never mind that in the days of the Ming dynasty, it was Chinese pirates who terrorized the place and tried to conquer Luzon, but got their puits kicked because locals hated them more than the Spanish.

Oh well: just ignore those 20 thousand Chinese citizens of military age working in our casinos.

The latest hysteria from the Darien gap is all those military age Chinese men who are joining the economic refugees seeking illegal admittance to the USA.

The buzz on the right wing conspiracy sites is to keep their power dry and get ready for a black swan attack.

Don't ask me. Since Lolo died, we no longer have any guns on premise...China has my OPM file, and probably knows where I am living, as if an aging grandmom (who had a waiver not to carry a gun) might shoot back.

Sigh

never mind.

The staff is busy with the winter harvest right now, so if the world ends, well, we are packing up our gourmet brown rice.

Lolo, who as a young teen fled to the farm with his mom and cousin when the Japanese invaded, assured me that if we retired here, I'd always have rice to eat.

And this week is Holy week. Florinda always had a small chapel for the locals to sing the Pasyon, but she died so the nearest singing is in the regular barangay chapel. The ladies sing, but the locals also come in and say a prayer or two, and people donate money for food for the singers and the neighborhood folk.

for those who think that the mess in the Middle East is due to religion, well, it was going on 2000 years ago, when Jesus was falsely accused of being a rebely by the locals who were scamming the pilgrims to the Temple. But of course, the Battle of Meggido happened 1500 years earlier.