Rogue Generals: A Different Post-EDSA Uno Philippines TL

Are Belarus and Ukraine still separate members of the UN?

In OTL they were even under Soviet control.

Chapter Fifty-One: A Second Beginning


Excerpts from “A Traveler’s Guide to British Columbia"
Courtesy of the Government of British Columbia, published 2015


SECTION FOUR – Whistler



No vacation in British Columbia is complete without a trip to Whistler, which is best known as BC’s best ski and snowboard destination. From skiing in Whistler Blackcomb, to leisure walks around Whistler Village, Whistler is the prime destination for both tourists and temporary seasonal workers on a work visa. Young people from across the world have called Whistler their home, while they work. In addition to all the various small-scale hotels that could be found throughout Whistler, no such hotel could match the exemplary customer service as the newly built Trump Tower Whistler. The construction of Trump Tower Whistler started back in 2011, and was complete in August of 2013, while tourism season was on its peak for summer. Trump Tower Whistler can be found right across from Whistler Village, and there are parking spots available for those guests who are driving into Whistler from either Vancouver, or even the interior. However, no customer service is complete in Trump Tower Whistler without the included train tickets that can be purchased, in addition to the booking of a room for the duration of the visitors’ stay in Whistler. To get to Whistler by train, one must take the Amtrak Cascades that was recently expanded northwards, from Vancouver, until its new northern terminus in Pemberton, BC. Amtrak Cascade’s parent company, Amtrak, had partnered with all levels of government in Canada and the United States, to help facilitate its operations, and given the resurgence of rail transport in North America, it will not be surprising for Amtrak to transition into magnet levitation railways, or MagLev, in the future!

For those certain tourists with political leanings, right across from Trump Tower in Whistler, is the privately owned Aquino Chalet, owned by the Aquino family whose late President Corazon Aquino, had died back in 2009. Aquino Chalet may be another small-scale hostel that is built in Whistler, but it is also owned by the exiled Gokongwei family, whose family head John, had rebuilt his lost fortunes after the dictatorship of Artemio Tadiar had confiscated most of his wealth back in 1996. The Aquino Chalet not only serves as the private residence of the Aquino family, but it is also the headquarters of the Philippine government-in-exile. Aquino Chalet boasts a small Cabinet room, where government-in-exile cabinet officials meet to discuss daily politics, as well as plans for a post-Tadiar government. However, a visitation to Aquino Chalet is impossible, as no public viewing is allowed at this point, unless you are a Filipino citizen who currently has a political refugee status. Filipino Canadians with Canadian citizenship are barred from entering Aquino Chalet, unless they are visiting for the purpose of regaining their Filipino citizenship. In essence, Aquino Chalet also serves as the de facto Philippine Consulate in all British Columbia, as the official location of the Philippine Consulate in downtown Vancouver is under the control of the Tadiar dictatorship, although rumors of the consul general’s defection are rife. All in all, Whistler has been given an unexpected jolt of energy, thanks to the competition between the Gokongwei family, and Donald Trump.

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“Iran in the 1990s had faced a series of challenges, both political and economic in nature. While the superpowers had been embroiled in their inner conflicts, Iran was busy trying to reshape the Middle East, with the unexpected explosion of the Kurdish uprising in Iraq. Matters came to a head with the arrest of Abdullah Ocalan by Syrian security forces, who extradited him to Turkey upon former President Kenan Evren’s request. The execution of Ocalan had resulted in a wider Kurdish revolt, which Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria had encouraged, as an excuse to initiate their own Final Solution to the Kurdish Question. However, only Turkey had changed its mind and switched to direct negotiations with the Iraqi Kurdish government on population exchanges, while Syria and Iran had gleefully shipped their Kurdish minority into Iraqi Kurdistan. The areas formerly known as Iranian Kurdistan were repopulated by Azerbaijani refugees who fled from Azerbaijan after the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict had ended in an Azeri victory, but the devastation of Azerbaijan had ensured that more Azeris would be forced to flee into Iran. In addition, Turkey and Iran had also negotiated a deal that could allow Azeri refugees to resettle in Turkey, in exchange for Turkish Alevis being allowed to resettle in Iran. While the current clerical dictatorship had resulted in more Iranians fleeing from their country, it also allowed a similar number of refugees arriving in Iran from places like Azerbaijan and Afghanistan, with the latter exporting the Hazara minority population. Although Afghanistan had since quieted down, with Al-Qaeda expanding their activities to Central Asia, Iran had sounded the alarm at the rise of Islamist terror attacks throughout the region and had even partnered with Russia on tackling the problem of Al-Qaeda. Indeed, while both Russia and the Union State of Ukraine and Belarus had started experiencing Islamist terror attacks on their soil as early as December of 1996, Iran had suffered only two terrorist attacks: a chain of car bombings in February of 1997, in the city of Mashhad, and a month later, a suicide bomber had blown himself up in the border town of Taybad. With Russia and Iran forming a closer partnership, they had also managed to trap the nominally pro-Chinese Armenian government into a no-win situation, forcing the weak regime of President Vazgen Manukyan into re-establishing diplomatic ties with them. However, Vazgen Manukyan had powerful allies in both Chinese Premiers Jiang Zemin, and after Wang Dongxing’s power play in the beginning of 2000, Bo Xilai. President Manukyan’s Chinese connections had enabled the weakened Armenian state to pry out concessions out of both Russia, and Iran, allowing them to continue with their independent foreign policy, in what outsiders’ call ‘complimentary politics’. However, the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh after the 1995 Azeri victory over the rebels there had shrunken to just 50,000 people, because the complete expulsion would have invited a Russian military intervention into the area, only months after the Second Russian Civil War had ended. Armenian refugees also arrived in Iran, albeit in smaller numbers, as they had to go through Iran, before immigrating into Western countries.

Ayatollah Khamenei had realized that if economic hardships enabled a trickle of defections from among young Iranians, the country would suffer from a massive brain drain. Thus, he reluctantly decided to pull back some hardline policies that hurt Iran’s national security overall. However, it was the demands of certain reformist clerics, most notably Mohammad Mousavi Khoeiniha, for the reformation of Iran’s legislature by changing it back to a bicameral system from the unicameral one, or even a tricameral one. The proposal for a tricameral legislature, as brought up by student activist Ali Afshari, would have consisted of both lower, and upper houses, and the Guardian Council would retain its power and authority, but integrated into a reformed Iranian Majlis. Yet, the economic reforms were slow in the making, primarily because of the brain drain. Iran’s partnership with Russia was crucial to the economic fortunes of both nations, as Russian manufacturing had to be rebuilt to help with the reconstruction process, and Iranian manufacturing needed to be rebuilt from scratch. Russian consumer goods were normally shipped to the Union State of Ukraine and Belarus for regular price, in exchange for goods coming from the Union State arriving in Russia at a slightly lower price. Thus, upon Russia’s recommendation, Iran would sign an economic trade deal with the Union State of Ukraine and Belarus on January 6, 1997, where Ukrainian and Belarusian heavy machinery would be shipped to Iran, in exchange for Iranian natural resources. After the reunification of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus in 2000, the trade deal was extended, with an additional segment on economic investments. Iranian firms would be allowed to invest in Russian businesses in parts of Russia where Muslims are a majority (albeit this was controversial, even within the governments of the Muslim-majority constituent republics, due to the religious differences), and in return, Russian businesses would be allowed to invest in Iran’s infrastructure. As a result of this, Iranian universities started to offer Russian language courses after 2001, while Russian universities started to sponsor the teaching of Farsi for Russian students. Luckily, Russian students were a bit familiar with Farsi, as it was related to Tajik, a language that was spoken in the former Soviet Union. In addition, the growing economic cooperation between Russia and Iran had forced Armenia to open its border to the increased volume of trade that often go through its territory, and it also allowed Georgia to offer its ports to help ship out Iranian goods. Surprisingly, President Kemp had allowed the Russians and Iranians to get closer towards each other, as it would relieve the United States from having to police the Middle East, in favor of increased involvement in Latin America. It was not until 2000 when Russia invaded Kazakhstan after the infamous airport bombings that struck targets throughout Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Georgia, that Iran had began to take the fight to Al-Qaeda. Iran would intervene in Afghanistan to help prop up the shaky coalition led by Ahmad Shah Massoud, who promptly took over the Afghan government and acted as a junior partner in the Russo-Iranian offensive against Al-Qaeda. From there, the Iranians and Afghans would invade Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan, to defeat and wipe out Al-Qaeda, while Russia would take care of Al-Qaeda that established itself in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. The campaign was long and brutal, but by 2005, Russia and Iran would be successful in eliminating much of Al-Qaeda’s presence in Central Asia, but not before moving its base to Iraq, to take advantage of the power vacuum that had emerged there.” From “The Honeymoon of Eurasia: Russia and Iran after the Cold War”, released by Russia Today, March 14, 2017.

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Excerpts from “Cue for Conspiracy: The Rise and Fall of Senator Alex Jones”
By: Isaac Feldman
University of California Berkley Printing Press

Chapter Nine: A Fateful Encounter


When Alex and I decided to officially join the Libertarian Party chapter in Austin, it was met with no fanfare. After we completed the paperwork for the membership, it was approved, and we became the newest members of the Libertarian Party. Of course, we were given access to the Libertarian Party’s libraries, where books on libertarianism were aplenty. We started to read some of the books there and watched as all the other members whispered amongst themselves. We were lost into our books when someone interrupted us from our reading session.

“Excuse me?”

We turned around to see what appeared to be a stunningly beautiful young woman, who looked like one of those office interns that we often encounter in our line of work. Alex was stunned, while I looked interested.

“How can we help you?” Alex asked, but he was stammering.

“I was just wondering if you were done with Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead. I wanted to read it, but I could not find the copy,” the intern-like lady asked us.

I showed her the book, to which she nodded. “We are just starting to read The Fountainhead though.”

“If I were you, I would brush up on Hobbes and maybe Murray Rothbard.” She grabbed a chair beside us and sat down. “I graduated in psychology, but I needed an internship. Luckily, one of my relatives had a friend who is connected to Bob Smither. Originally, I was going to be a junior intern to George Joulwan, but then Jack Kemp won the election.”

“Really? Are you allowed to get an internship in DC?” Alex asked curiously.

The young lady frowned. “That is only possibly if you have political connections. Here in Austin, I have no connections whatsoever.”

“Well, we are the newest members of the Texas chapter of the Libertarian Party,” I told the young lady. “By the way, we would like to introduce ourselves.”

“There is no need to. You’re Isaac Feldman, who is a student filmmaker, right?” The young lady pointed at me, before turning to Alex. “And you must be Alex Jones, creator of ‘Corporate America’s Dirty Little Secret’. I must admit, the title sounded like it was a smut movie.”

Alex laughed lightly. “Well, it is kind of a dirty little secret, and I am already ironing it out.”

“I see.” She shook our hands. “I’m Monica. Monica Lewinsky.”

“Lewinsky? It is a great name. Your family must be from Germany?” I asked.

Monica nodded. “My dad’s family fled from Germany after Hitler came to power, and my mom’s family were originally from the Pale of Settlement.”

“Wow! My family is from that area too. Ukraine, to be precise,” I told Monica, who was surprised at hearing my family’s place of origin. “I am an Orthodox Jew myself. Alex is my friend though, and I helped him pass his English exam back when we were in college, and he taught me how to play football.”

“That is nice! How about it? You two can come to my house for dinner, and we will chat some more, all right?” Monica got up from the desk and walked away, but not before turning around to face us. “Alex, isn’t it?”

“Yeah?” Alex asked back.

“Can I help you two with your documentaries? I know someone who could also be a great partner to your enterprise.” Monica handed us a business card with some name that we are not familiar with. “Linda Tripp is the new Press Secretary in the White House. She is salivating at the thought of working for Jack Kemp. I swear that she acts like a love-struck fan girl sometimes.”

Monica wrote something down on a piece of paper and handed it to us before she left the library. We were stunned to see her phone number, and names of the books that were written by Murray Rothbard, below her number. She also wrote in her note, ‘bring some fruits for dinner, and some kosher meat as well’.

“Where can I find some kosher meat?” Alex asked me curiously.

“In a special butcher shop that sells that kind of thing. Do not worry; I will buy the kosher meat. You just buy some fruits,” I advised him.

After a few hours of additional reading in the Libertarian Party headquarters’ library, we stepped outside and saw a small gathering. To our shock, we saw two groups of people chanting slogans across the street, but what made it weirder was that they were both carrying Philippine flags. There is one difference: one of the groups had flown the Philippine flag with a sky-blue color instead of the regular blue color flown by the opposite group. For some reason, they were not trading insults at each other, but rather, standing face to face with each other. We approached one of the protesters with the regular blue shade on the Philippine flag and began to talk.

“What is this gathering? Can you please tell us what is this all about?” Alex asked first.

One of the activists nodded and started to speak. “Do you see the group with the sky-blue shade on the Philippine flag over there?” The activist pointed at the opposite group. “They are a disgraceful bunch of fools who supported the previous dictator, Ferdinand Marcos.”

“I can see that, but what flag are they burning?” Alex pointed at what appeared to be a burning flag. To our surprise, the flag was red, with four black stripes and a slightly darker shade of the sky-blue hue on the triangle, with a different sun, surrounded by eighteen stars. “How come I have never seen that flag before?”

“That is because it is the newly adopted flag of Artemio Tadiar’s regime.” I stopped Alex from following me and approached the Marcos fan club with my hands raised.

“Were you talking to those Aquino supporters there just now?” One of the men asked me.

“Yes, because we wanted to know why your group is not fighting that other group there,” I replied. Surprisingly, the men in the Marcos fan club smiled.

“We decided that, in the best interests of the former political rivals, that we should set aside our differences, and join forces to oppose the bigger dictator. The Aquino supporters say that Tadiar is worse than our great former President but let us not forget that Corazon Aquino became politically weak after the civil war, that she inadvertently allowed Tadiar to gain power. Now that Tadiar is the new dictator, he has accomplished things that would make most of us here want to hack him to pieces,” the other Marcos fan member replied in a guttural tone.

“What kind of accomplishments?” I asked again. This time, another member answered.

“Tadiar is opening the doors for the Japanese to return to the Philippines. He has ditched the national anthem, ‘Lupang Hinirang’, in favor of a song that we did not know it existed, until we learned that it was the anthem of the Japanese-sponsored puppet Second Republic. He is flooding the Philippines with lots of Japanese, as if he forgot that we fought against them during the war.” I winced. “He is rehabilitating the Makapili. The collaborator group.”

I did not know what the Makapili was but judging by what I heard from the Marcos fan boys, the Makapili was like the WWII era collaboration groups that served the Nazis. The idea that a nation could rehabilitate a known collaborationist regime openly these days was shocking, and to make it worse, it was going to be done in the name of fighting Chinese communism. I wonder if what Madeleine Albright said about Tadiar becoming the new Hitler is true or not. To me, the signs point to the numerous concentration camps he has built, the number of known graduates of the infamous School of the Americas that he has employed, and the obviously fascistic tendencies of some of his younger followers. I did not know a lot about Philippine politics, but this is something that Alex and I must talk to Monica about when we meet her for dinner.

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NATIONAL BOLSHEVIK PARTY FOUNDED IN RUSSIA, DESPITE OFFICIAL BAN ON COMMUNIST MOVEMENTS BY BURBULIS GOVERNMENT
Moscow Times
November 7, 1996


Members of the newly created National Bolshevik Party march in procession throughout the streets of Moscow. 

(Moscow) – Several former Communist Party of the Soviet Union members have emerged from their self-imposed isolation to found and register a new political party, the National Bolshevik Party. The National Bolshevik Party had inaugurated its new members into its ranks, most notably former Liberal Democratic Party of the Soviet Union (now the LDPR) leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky, and Eduard Limonov, a writer who grew disillusioned from the administration of Gennady Burbulis. Zhirinovsky and Limonov had been sidelined by former LDPR members, many of whom were angry that they were being used as controlled opposition by the former ruling communist elite and has approached the current Russian President to help clean out the party of Zhirinovsky’s supporters. In addition, President Burbulis’s lustration imposed on former Soviet loyalists had frustrated efforts to heal the division within Russian society, between those who fought for the Soviet loyalist government, and those who sided with Alexander Lebed and the Russian National Redemption Army.

“It is a disgrace to see our beloved Motherland run by backstabbers who grovel before the Americans!” Zhirinovsky shouted in front of National Bolshevik Party supporters, at a small rally, just outside Manezhna Square. “It is also a travesty for Russia when the neo-Vlasovite Alexander Lebed is openly strutting around the capital, as if he were the Tsar! The Russian people must challenge President BUrbulis’s so-called lustration order and allow the true patriots to serve this government again!”

The Burbulis administration did not react to the presence of Zhirinovsky in Manezhna Square, but several reformist-leaning members of LDPR have come out in opposition to the National Bolshevik Party. Many of them had denounced Zhirinovsky’s attempt to return to politics, but they were fearful of the presence of a rival movement that was poised to clash with the National Bolshevik Party. The movement in question, was the Russian National Unity, of which Aleksander Barkashov was the leader, although the RNE members were outnumbered by the National Bolsheviks, although they were also clandestinely armed with knives as well in case a fight breaks out.

“Mother Russia does not need scoundrels who peddle the same garbage that condemned us to seventy years of anti-nationalist rhetoric and enforced solidarity with our natural enemies!” shouts Barkashov in front of his storm troopers, before finishing off the rally by shouting ‘Glory to Russia!’. “This damn clown will learn what real patriotism and nationalism is all about, when we introduce him to our knives!”

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KEMP ADMINISTRATION ESTABLISHES COMMITTEE FOR PEACE IN NORTHERN IRELAND, BILL CLINTON APPOINTED AS SPECIAL ENVOY
Washington Post
January 30, 1997



(Washington, DC) – The Kemp Administration has expressed its interest in resolving the conflict that has gone for a long time in Northern Ireland, as promised in his election campaign. To this end, President Kemp has announced the creation of the Committee for Peace in Northern Ireland, with the selection of former Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton as the Special Envoy working on behalf of the committee. Clinton, who had no foreign affairs experience, was chosen because of his ability to bring together two opposing groups to the negotiating table, but his trip to Northern Ireland will only be for mediation purposes, as President Kemp will also send Secretary of State Gary Bauer to make sure that Mr. Clinton does not make any mistakes on this important mission to bring peace in Northern Ireland. However, Mr. Clinton’s wife Hillary is skeptical of President Kemp’s decision to select her husband as Special Envoy.

“As far as I am concerned, there are a lot of qualified candidates with Irish background that are better suited for this special mission of President Kemp’s, and my husband is not remotely qualified,” comments Hillary Clinton, when asked about the diplomatic mission in Northern Ireland. “A member of the Kennedy family would have raised more prestige than Billy.”

Critics complained of President Kemp’s selection of Bill Clinton as mediator and Special Envoy for the Committee for Peace in Northern Ireland, as the candidate in question had no prior experience in the realm of foreign policy. In addition, his 1994 Presidential campaign had been suspended due to a lack of support for his candidacy, with many of his rivals preferring to back the incumbent President to letting the Republicans regain the White House. However, the selection of Bill Clinton was something that caused an uproar, even within the Kemp administration.

“President Kemp’s selection of Mr. Clinton is something random, and by sticking to this decision, we are coming off as a group that is more inept than the Jackson administration,” comments Secretary of State Gary Bauer. “For one thing, Mr. Clinton is not well known outside his home state of Arkansas.”

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SAN FRANCISCO PROTESTERS GATHER IN FRONT OF PHILIPPINE CONSULATE TO DENOUNCE BEHAVIOR OF EXILED COMEDIC GROUP
San Francisco Chronicle
January 27, 1997



(San Francisco) – Over 200 activists, mainly from the Filipino political exiles community, with the additional support coming from local feminist groups, have gathered in front of the Philippine Consulate in San Francisco, in solidarity with the two female victims of the prominent Filipino comedy group, Tito, Vic, and Joey. The activists have denounced the three comedians who are under police custody, and have demanded their immediate deportation from the United States. Some of the activists have also started a fundraising campaign to help offset any legal expenses that Angela O’Halloran, and Santana Madrigal, may occur, in their upcoming hearing that will take place later on next month. One of the activists, whose name was concealed for security purposes, had this to say.

“How can we trust our exiled politicians to behave like civilized beings, if they continue to pull off the same kind of crap as they did back in the Philippines, before Artemio Tadiar had built his own dictatorship?” the unnamed protester asked in front of foreign and local reporters. “The Sotto brothers do not have a stellar reputation as politicians, and as comedians. Ask the relatives of Pepsi Paloma about them.”

The infamous Pepsi Paloma rape case had been the talk of the Philippines, back when Ferdinand Marcos was still President. However, the suicide of the former actress and the murder of her case manager had aroused fury towards the convicted men, though the charges were dropped. However, the Tadiar regime has expressed an interest in reviving the case, and so far, they have approached President Kemp on a possible case in favor of extraditing them from the United States, to the Philippines. However, the Kemp administration has not yet ruled out the idea of deporting the convicted comedians, who would be sure to receive the death penalty, as a result of the recently passed Villanueva-Montes Act that the Tadiar regime had pushed forcefully. However the fear of extraditing the convicted comedians is legitimate, as evident by the extradition of a prominent former politician named Joseph Estrada after he was charged with public intoxication when he was dragged out of a local Los Angeles nightclub after an altercation with another patron and a bouncer. The Tadiar regime immediately arrested Estrada on charges of treason against the state for his defection, and there is a fear that Mr. Estrada would end up in one of Tadiar’s death camps.

“If we have to choose between enduring the embarrassment of the exiled politicians and living under Tadiar’s dictatorship, I would prefer Tadiar’s junta over those clowns,” another activist scowled. “The fact that I am forced to choose Tadiar over the likes of the Sotto brothers and Erap Estrada is an indication of how low the Filipino political elite has fallen.”

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ASSASINATION ATTEMPT AGAINST TADIAR FOILED, PERPETRATOR SHOT ON THE SPOT AS MINOR POLICE AGENT IS GIVEN NEWLY APPROVED ‘HERO OF THE NATIONAL ORDER” AWARD
Vancouver Sun
February 25, 1997



Manila, NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION – An assassination attempt on Artemio Tadiar was foiled, when an assassin tried to stab him with a butterfly knife, only to be tackled to the ground by a National Intelligence and Security Authority agent named Rolando Mendoza. The foiled attempt occurred during a patriotic rally held by Nicanor Faeldon, which commemorated the fall of Ferdinand Marcos’s dictatorship and the beginning of the short lived Fifth Philippine Republic. The rally also included a celebration of the Philippines’ continued defiance against China, with the two countries still technically considered at war with each other, as the late Foreign Minister Arturo Tolentino was posthumously awarded the new ‘Hero of the National Order’ award, which was recently approved by the Tadiar regime. In addition, Tadiar would later give the same award to Agent Mendoza, who was subsequently promoted to Chief Agent and was formally inducted into the Council for National Sovereignty, as the first non-military representative.

The failed assassin on the other hand, was a former Philippine Army soldier who was given a dishonorable discharge after a separate incident different from the infamous AWOLGate scandal had occurred, during the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Apparently, the soldier tried to desert his unit so he can surrender to Armenian soldiers, but was caught by the military police. The captured would-be deserter was shipped back to the Philippines in disgrace. Master Corporal Javier Libertad, the name of the failed assassin, was then demoted back to Private, and was sent to the brig, where he served his time for three years. When he was released, he was given a dishonorable discharge, and was blacklisted from future career opportunities, to the point where he was even barred from taking up employment as janitor in a state-run firm. His frustration would lead to the infamous event, and when he was asked how he would prefer his punishment, he only had this to say.

“I prefer to be shot than to live in chronic poverty, but that is the price I am willing to pay in exchange for freeing our beloved nation from a tyrant worse than Marcos and Jose P. Laurel combined!” Mr. Libertad shouted, before being lead by a procession of soldiers into the execution grounds. “Brigadier General Tadiar! You are the cancer that is destroying this nation! I have no regrets, and I apologize to the people of Armenia, for being forced to participate in a mission that was flawed to begin with. Long live the Republic of the Philippines!”

Several things:

- An earlier fall from grace on Erap’s part is more pronounced, when combined with the legal troubles that the Sotto brothers and Joey de Leon had gotten themselves into, would divide the political exile community. This kind of thing would make the government-in-exile’s credibility even shakier. Also, the world now knows the name Pepsi Paloma, and expect a harsher punishment for rape offenses, though only applied to civilians. Rapes committed against captured NPA female fighters would still go unpunished, sadly.

- I based the junta flag off the flag of Catalonia, except the colors used are almost the same as the ones used by Gregorio del Pilar, but the shade of sky blue is a bit darker. The eighteen stars were meant to represent the Prefectures that replaced the provinces. Expect to see more of Tadiar’s tricameral experiment to end in complete disaster in future.

- The OTL Bus Hostage actually occurred when I was on vacation, oddly enough, in the Philippines. I was visiting relatives somewhere in Santa Cruz when the hostage crisis happened. To make it worse, the bus hostage taker (Mendoza) came from Batangas, which is where half of my family came from. Batangas IOTL has produced Jose P. Laurel and Rolando Mendoza. TTL’s Prefecture where OTL La Union is located will be forever infamous for producing Artemio Tadiar. Remember the Japanese nurse that was taking care of Tadiar? She is the reason why Tadiar’s inter-cranial aneurysm is lessened and he lives long enough to resign in 2016. IOTL, Tadiar died in 1999 from the inter-cranial brain aneurysm.

For me, Jones is more a fringe comedian than a scumbag.

He will not get too far after he was banned in Facebook and Twitter.