A timely reminder for me to dig deeper into my research on the Philippines’ maritime militia, the PERA Act folded into the latest NDAA, and the SeaLight Foundation.
The Philippines’ Fishermen Front Line: the KBBM Program Exposed
Previously:
Read More »Oh, look — Ray Powel, again, the CIA operative messing around the SCS dispute???
Apparently, I’m living rent-free in the head of a retired U.S. Air Force colonel turned “maritime gray-zone investigator” who thinks the Philippines, China, ASEAN, and the entire South China Sea revolve around his newly invented fantasy threat matrix. Let me make this absolutely clear:
Ray Powell mentioning me — twice now — is A BADGE OF HONOR!! Because if a CIA-adjacent operative (yes, Ray, we all know how “Air Force Attachés” function abroad), working hand-in-hand with Washington’s geopolitical machinery, has me on his radar, it only means one thing:
I’m saying something true enough, loud enough, and inconvenient enough to rattle him.
Imagine Being Ray Powell (CIA), Terrified of Peace, Diplomacy, and a Filipina
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Read More »Black Ops 7 campaign review: Maybe the worst Call of Duty campaign ever
I had to check and see what country it targeted this time.
The country that represents the Mediterranean city of Avalon in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 is the fictional nation of Avalon, which is depicted as a city-state and a former crime syndicate based in the Mediterranean region. While it is a fictional location, the city’s in-game storyline and characteristics, particularly its former criminal organization, are inspired by real-world locations like Monaco, and it has historical ties to France and Italy.
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The document has been updated, but not the below information.
Document: War of Ideas in the Indo-Pacific document
YouTube: Senate Hearing on China’s Behavior in the Indo-Pacific
Read More »Note that Scarborough Shoal is in disputed territory: What’s Really Going On In the South China Sea Between the Philippines and China.
Scarborough Shoal Incident 2.0: The PLAN Inches Closer to War (archived)
A Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) destroyer and China Coast Guard (CCG) cutter collided 10.5 nautical miles east of Scarborough Shoal in the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone (EEZ) on the morning of 11 August. It marked the second time China has been embarrassed by the Philippines in these waters. This time, the results appear to have been deadly, as at least four members of the CCG were either severely injured or killed during the violent collision.
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The latest incident appears to have been set in motion by an order from a Chinese higher authority, most likely the Central Military Commission’s (CMC’s) Joint Operations Center (JOC), to disrupt the Philippine Coast Guard’s “Kadiwa ng Bagong Bayaning Mangingisda (KBBM)” program. The KBBM initiative was unveiled in May 2025 with the intent to provide Philippine fishermen with food security and resupply at sea [See KBBM, below]. Analysis of Automatic Identification System (AIS) data indicates many CCG cutters were arrayed around Scarborough Shoal on 11 August, and as Philippine CG cutters entered waters 20–30 nm around the shoal, CCG and PLAN ships converged on the Philippine cutters to disrupt their food supply operations.
For more than an hour, PLAN guided-missile destroyer Guilin and CCG cutter 3104 conducted a high-speed pursuit of the Philippine Coast Guard cutter BRP Suluan. Based on the events during this pursuit, it appears the CMC JOC ordered the use of physical force to stop the Philippine Coast Guard from their mission. According to Armed Forces of the Philippines Chief of Staff General Romeo Brawner, “Our assessment is that the real objective of the PLA Navy ship is to ram our Philippine Coast Guard (vessel). That is also (the) assessment of our Philippine Coast Guard.”
FYI, the author of the above article is one of the founding members of the hawkish Committee on the Present Danger: China. You’ll also find information on the first Scarborough Shoal incident in here, also known as the Scarborough Shoal standoff: August 11 SCS – James E. Fanell – SeaLight.
Background:
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Got this link in an email and couldn’t resist tracing the operatives. But the trail was already mapped—someone beat me to the punch. Read: Twitter thread
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Read More »An investigation by West Africa Weekly’s Editor-in-Chief, David Hundeyin, has raised serious concerns about foreign interference in Nigeria’s media landscape, particularly surrounding a popular emigration-themed content series published by Zikoko Citizen, a civic-focused vertical of the youth culture platform Zikoko.
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