Coronavirus Lockdown: Prolonged ECQ Did Not Work, Cemetery for COVID-19 Victims, and More!

More news about how the COVID-19 pandemic in the Philippines is being handled by the public and the government.

If you are wearing a cloth face mask the DOH says they don't offer any protection against COVID-19.

https://www.philstar.com/lifestyle/health-and-family/2021/08/18/2120867/doh-avoid-cloth-mask-no-face-mask-kids-below-2

Department of Health (DOH) Undersecretary Maria Rosette Vergeire advised the public today to avoid using cloth face masks in view of rising cases of COVID-19 in the country.

DOH-TAG (Technical Advisory Group) member Dr. Anna Lisa Ong-Lim, however, said that if there is no medical grade mask or surgical mask, wearing two cloth masks could be a an option.

Meanwhile, DOH also advised parents not to put face masks on children younger than two years old, citing a possible choking hazard. 

In a Palace briefing, Vergeire yesterday that a face shield will do if there is a need to go outside. 

Now the DOH is advising us to wear two masks if we cannot avail of a surgical mask? The fact is masks don't really protect one from the virus either. 

The rotating lockdowns continue in the Philippines to the detriment of the economy. One American credit rating system says the Philippines needs to address this problem.

https://www.panaynews.net/ph-told-to-address-cycle-of-lockdowns-to-boost-recovery/

The cycle of lockdowns in the Philippines remains a threat to its economic recovery, Fitch Solutions said Tuesday, after it lowered its outlook for the country this year. 

Fitch Solutions is monitoring the government’s response to the pandemic, Senior Country Risk analyst Michael Langham told ANC. 

“In early 2022 I think the situation will remain broadly similar to this year until the Philippines can come out of this cycle of lockdowns and coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreaks, the economy isn’t really going to get on track,” Langham said. 

“That’s something we’re watching, how quickly the authorities can get out of this cycle,” he added.

Metro Manila is currently under its third lockdown since the pandemic due to the recent surge and the emergence of the more contagious COVID-19 Delta variant. The restriction is in place until Aug. 20. 

Experts have earlier flagged possible extensions that could be detrimental to recovery.

It likely will not be the case that the cycle of lockdowns ends anytime soon. Sure Manila is reverting to MECQ but that does not mean the lockdown is over.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1151178

The Philippine National Police is prepared to help local government units implement granular lockdowns as the National Capital Region (NCR) has been placed under modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ) from Aug. 21 to 31.

PNP Chief Gen. Guillermo Eleazar urged the public not to let their guard down as the threat of coronavirus disease 2019(Covid-19), especially its more infectious variants, is still present.

“I have tasked police chiefs to prepare their men for this (granular lockdowns),” he said in a statement.

Granular lockdown calls for a particular establishment, street, or barangay with a high incidence of infection to be placed under lockdown instead of a region- or city-wide clamp.

Now lockdowns will be on a street by street or brandy by barangay basis. Meanwhile Mandaue has enacted stricter lockdown rules until the Mayor decides to lift them.

https://cebudailynews.inquirer.net/395178/mandaue-adopts-stricter-protocols-in-bid-to-curve-covid-19-transmissions

The Mandaue City Government has implemented stricter protocols in a bid to slow down the spread of COVID-19. 

Mayor Jonas Cortes on Tuesday, August 17, 2021, issued Executive Order no. 27 series of 2021 enforcing a heightened state of modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ).

The EO took effect immediately and will be in place until such time a new EO is released.

This EO limits people's movements and restricts those who would enter the city. 

With the hysteria surrounding the Delta variant and its official arrival and local transmission future lockdowns are a given.

https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2021/08/21/2121624/doh-finally-concedes-there-may-be-community-transmission-delta-variant

After weeks of denying that there is community transmission of the Delta variant in the country, the Department of Health finally conceded Saturday that the more infectious coronavirus variant may have reached that level of transmission. 

(Based on the samples that we see and the results coming from the Philippine Genome Center, it looks like community transmission is there.)

This is a marked departure from the DOH’s previous statements that tend to reject notions that there is community transmission of the Delta variant, as there was supposedly not enough evidence to prove this.

It really should not come as a surprise that the DOH now affirms what it t first denied. That is how the entire "pandemic" has been happening around the world.

The pandemic continues to breed fraud. From "pandemic aid fixers" to fake COVID-19 testing labs.

https://www.philstar.com/nation/2021/08/22/2121700/3-caught-illegal-covid-19-test-lab

Three persons were arrested for allegedly running an illegal COVID-19 testing laboratory in Manila, police said yesterday. 

Agents of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group raided Swab Express Medical Health Services in Sampaloc at around 10:15 a.m. on Thursday, according to CIDG director Maj Gen. Albert Ignatius Ferro. 

Dave Robles, 28; Chinky Robles, 26, and Alma Consuelo, 51 were arrested and are being held on charges of violating Republic Act 4688 or the  Clinical Laboratory Law.

Ferro said they received information the suspects were involved in the unauthorized administration of reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction tests. 

Verification with the Department of Health revealed Swab Express is not an authorized testing laboratory.

Policemen posing as customers who were swabbed at the laboratory arrested the suspects. 

The suspects yielded 11 boxes of COVID-19 rapid antigen test kits from Sansure Biotech and Joinstar, two consent forms, an official receipt and two laptops.

Ferro said the suspects are said to be members of a group involved in illegal COVID-19 testing.

A group of people doing illegal testing? Why? And how are they obtaining the test kits? Maybe the government should make testing free in order to stop this problem.

Lockdowns have been rotating all across the nation for over a year now. Health Secretary Duque says the recent prolonged lockdowns in certain regions "did not work."

https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/news/nation/800420/duque-prolonged-ecq-in-regions-7-10-did-not-work/story/

Health Secretary Francisco Duque III on Monday said the prolonged lockdown or enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in certain areas are not working.

Duque made the disclosure when he said that he had to leave the Go Negosyo forum earlier than the rest of the participants due to an emergency meeting.

"I have an emergency meeting with DOH (Department of Health) regional directors of Region 7 (Central Visayas) and Northern Mindanao because despite the prolonged ECQ, there seems to be no improvement," Duque said

"It is really troubling, to say the least," Duque added.

Iloilo City, Iloilo province, Cagayan de Oro City and Gingoog in Misamis Oriental have been placed under ECQ from July 16 to August 7.

In an interview on ANC, COVID-19 treatment czar Health Undersecretary Leopoldo Vega said cases have been increasing in several regions, including Regions 7 and 10.

"I think we have seen a general trend across the country in terms of the increase in the number of active and new cases and this is very specific for Region 1, 2, and most in Region 3, 4A, and the NCR and Region 7 and Region 10," he said.

You know waht's really troubling? Is that this admission came out incidentally. Why can't the DOH be truthful with the public about the lockdowns? Why keep lying to the public?

You know what else they are lying about? That there is an actual pandemic with a deadly virus floating around. The statistics do not bear that out.

https://news.abs-cbn.com/video/news/08/23/21/98-pct-of-covid-cases-mild-moderate-asymptomatic

About 98 percent of COVID-19 cases in the country are either asymptomatic or only show mild and moderate symptoms, Health Undersecretary Leopoldo Vega said Monday. 

“We’re seeing roughly about almost 98 percent mild moderate and asymptomatics for these COVID cases. We’d seen the numbers of about 1.86 percent for the severe and critical [cases],” he said.

“This is kinda different from what we saw in April and last year when it was hovering about three percent for the severe and the critical,” he added. 

This is great news that belies the fear mongering of not only the administration of the Philippines but every other government including the USA and Australia. It also seems taht the Delta variant is not as deadly as we are being told.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1151335

Health authorities have detected 466 additional cases of the more transmissible Delta variant for a total tally of 1,273, the Department of Health (DOH) reported on Monday. 

One is still active, eight cases have died, while 457 cases are tagged as recovered. 

Of the additional variant cases, 442 are local cases, 14 are returning overseas Filipino (ROF), and 10 cases are currently being verified if local or ROF cases. 

In a statement, the DOH said that aside from the Delta variant, there were also new confirmed cases of the Alpha variant (90), Beta (105), and Theta (41), based on the latest whole-genome sequencing report by the University of the Philippines-Philippine Genome Center and the University of the Philippines-National Institutes of Health. 

Of the 442 local cases, 201 cases had indicated addresses in the National Capital Region (NCR), while 69 cases are from Central Luzon, seven in Cagayan Valley, 49 in Calabarzon, 14 in Mimaropa, four in the Bicol Region, 52 in Western Visayas, 19 in Central Visayas, six in Northern Mindanao, 11 in Davao Region, seven in Soccsksargen, and three in the Ilocos Region.

The fact is as of this writing there have been only 32,264 deaths with 1.87 million cases.  With 108 million people that is .02% of the population dead and 1.7% of the population infected with only 1.7% of those infected dying. Yet we are told this its a very deadly pandemic and we must all be afraid. One town in Antique is taking the fear to the next level by building a cemetery exclusively for those who have died of COVID-19.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1151487

This capital town is ready to accommodate the interment of those who died of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) at its new memorial cemetery being constructed at the Binirayan Hills in Barangay 8.

The construction of the PHP34.8 million memorial cemetery is still ongoing but the remains of four Covid-19 victims have already been interred in the completed niches last month.

“Because of the urgent request of families whose loved ones had died due to Covid-19, we already allowed the entombment on the finished niches,” said Darcy Bungay, Municipal Economic Enterprise and Development Officer (MEEDO), in an interview on Tuesday.

Once completed, the cemetery, which is constructed in the 6,000-square meter lot owned by the local government, will have a chapel, 59 mausoleum lots, 97 family plots or below the ground burial plots, and 1,446 niches.

It started construction in February 2021 and is expected to be completed next year.

A few things to note here. This cemetery began construction in February 2021 and but it was not until March 3rd 2021 that the second death from COVID-19 was recorded with the first death being in September 2020. So far, as of this writing, a grand total of 32 people have died from the disease out of 830 cases. Yet here they are building a cemetery for COVID-19 victims and saying it won't be completed until next year. Just how long do they expect to keep this pandmeic nonsense going? With the spaces for 1,602 corpses and the slow rate of deaths it's going to take decades for this place to fill up.

Furniture Delivery

Oh, look it's an overloaded tricycle delivering furniture.

I'll never understand why these guys can't just buy a truck. It's much less dangerous and it cannot be prohibitively expensive. It's the kind of thing that pays for itself. One of these days I'm going to see an accident scene where there is furniture all over the road because somebody thought overloading their tricycle was convenient as well as safe.

Insurgency: Eastern Samar Clash

Despite the fact that the AFP, Duterte, and the NTF-ELCAC would rather have every terrorist surrender this has been a rather bloody week. In Eastern Samar one clash with the NPA resulted in 19 dead rebels.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1150939

The Philippine Army has recovered three more bodies of New People’s Army (NPA) rebels after an intense firefight with soldiers on Aug. 16 at the outskirts of Dolores, Eastern Samar, bringing the number of fatalities to 19, a top military official said on Thursday.

Maj. Gen. Pio Diñoso, commander of the 8th Infantry Division, said two more bodies were found on Tuesday while another body was retrieved on Wednesday through the help of K9 units.

“After scouring the encounter site for days, we don’t expect to find more dead bodies, but we are sure that some of those wounded NPA fighters fleeing from government troops also died along the escape route,” Diñoso said in a phone interview.

At least 18 corpses were airlifted and brought to the headquarters of the 52nd Infantry Battalion in Dau village, Oras, Eastern Samar for proper disposition.

Soldiers also recovered three more firearms in the past two days, bringing to 32 the total weapons seized after the clash.

The armed confrontation on Aug. 16 is considered one of the most successful operations of government forces against the communist terrorist group.

About 50 rebels were hiding in a big lair in Osmeña village in Dolores town when the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) launched an attack early Monday.

The AFP used its air assets as the rebels set up anti-personnel mines near the lair that serves as a hideout for its leaders and fighters.

The firefight started at 4 a.m. and ended at 5 p.m. before the rebels abandoned the lair.

The military described the lair as a big encampment, which had been maintained by rebels for several months. It has a multi-purpose hall for training and a bomb-making facility.

Government troops launched an intense attack acting on tips from villagers about the existence of NPA lair in the jungles, located just three kilometers away from the community.

In what is being considered one of the most successful operations against the NPA the AFP fought 50 rebels holed up in a lair for 13 hours. This lair was also a bomb making facility. They were alerted to its presence by the local villagers. It was also local villagers whose tips led to successful operations against the NPA in Agusan del Sur.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1150683

The Army’s 65th Infantry Battalion (65IB) has recognized the vital support of civilians in military operations in the hinterlands of Sibagat, Agusan del Sur and in remote areas here.

In a press statement issued on Tuesday, 65IB commander, Lt. Col. Emerson de Vera, said they have engaged the New People’s Army (NPA) in four armed encounters this month.

“The series of encounters are the results of the persistent reports from the residents in the area who are being terrorized by the communist NPA terrorists,” De Vera stated.

On Aug. 8, the 65IB troopers were dispatched to the boundary of Barangay Anticala here and Barangay Kulambogan in Sibagat after civilians reported the presence of NPA insurgents.

The AFP needs the help of civilians in fighting the insurgency. That is why they are urging villagers to help them dismantle the NPA.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1151061

The local government of Dolores in Eastern Samar has called on residents to help put an end to the insurgency problem after the recent fierce encounter in their town with 19 New People's Army (NPA) rebels killed.

Mayor Shonny Niño Carpeso said in a statement on Thursday the locals play a very important role in driving out the communist terrorist group from their villages.

“The successful operation of the military is of big help to our town, making our people more alert and conscious on (the) movement of these communist groups and ensure (the) safety of communities,” Carpeso said.

Earlier, Eastern Samar Governor Ben Evardone lauded the military and villagers of Dolores who provided information about the presence of rebel groups near a community.

“Had it not (been) for the close cooperation between the military and the local population, the campaign against the communists would not have been successful. I hope that this kind of close collaboration will continue so that we can attain peace and development in our province and country,” Evardone said in a statement.

The AFP says the success of this recent operation in E. Samar is a big blow to the NPA.

 

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1150695

The death of 16 armed rebels and recovery of several firearms in Dolores, Eastern Samar on Aug. 16 is a “big blow” to the New People’s Army (NPA) in Eastern Samar, a top military official said on Tuesday.

Maj. Gen. Pio Diñoso III, commander of the Philippine Army’s 8th Infantry Division, said the intense firefight that destroyed a major NPA lair and a bomb-making facility is the biggest accomplishment of the government since the creation of the national and local task forces on ending local communist armed conflict in 2019.

“The recovery of several firearms means that many fighters were wounded as they abandoned their firearms to flee from our troops. This will further weaken the NPA organization in Samar Island,” Diñoso said in a virtual press briefing.

“Maybe the NPA stayed as they fought to protect their leader. They kept coming back to the encampment probably to secure their laptops and other sensitive materials,” he added.

Diñoso described the lair as a big encampment, which had been maintained by rebels for several months. It has a multi-purpose hall for training and a bomb-making facility.

“We verified if it’s really accurate. We planned carefully and involved all AFP assets available,” he added.

The military official is optimistic that more rebels will surrender after the incident as they would realize that the government has all the resources needed to dismantle the communist terrorist group.

“If they won’t choose the path for peace, they will face the same plight. This is to show that the Philippine Army is strong and has the capability to end this armed conflict,” Diñoso told reporters.

It's good that the AFP has disabled this bomb making facility but why was it able to operate for months? How many bombs were made which ended up killing people? It's funny that despite knowing that there are terrorists out there making bombs and planning mischief and some who have actually killed people the government hopes more rebels will surrender to avail of the nice bribery package being offered. The government claims that the NPA is collapsing in Caraga due to all the surrenders.

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1151067

As more members of the communist terrorist New People’s Army (NPA) in Caraga return to the fold of the law, the rebel stronghold in the region begins to collapse, a ranking police official said Friday.

“The NPA in Caraga is now collapsing and are looming their total destruction, as more of their members realize the deceptions and manipulative schemes of their leaders who recruited them and used them to further their personal agenda,” said Brig. Gen. Romeo Caramat Jr., the director of Police Regional Office in Caraga (PRO-13).

Records from the police regional office showed that from January until July this year, a total of 624 NPA fighters and supporters have surrendered to the different units and police stations in the region.

In the same period, 201 NPA insurgents and supporters also surrendered to PRO-13.

A total of 243 high-powered firearms were also seized and surrendered during the period.

“The surrender of the three former rebels is due to the relentless anti-insurgency drive of the government with the goal of achieving peaceful and more prosperous communities in the region,” Caramat said.

He said the three wanted to end their violent lives and go back to their families and communities.

“The lies, hardship, and hunger inflicted on these former rebels were the reasons they shunned the NPA movement,” he said.

He urged the remaining insurgents in the region to abandon their false beliefs and doctrines and to return to the fold of the law.

How are NPA fighters supposed to "abandon their false beliefs and doctrines" when the AFP says they have no ideology? They have labelled the NPA as basically robbers with no redeeming qualities such as having a concern for the people. In another clash this week the AFP laid out two "notorious extortionists."

https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1151255

The Philippine Army’s 3rd Infantry Division (3ID) described as “notorious terrorists” the two Communist Party of the Philippines-New People’s Army (CPP-NPA) rebels killed during a clash with government troops in Silay City, Negros Occidental on Aug. 20.

They were identified as Kerima Lorena Tariman (alias Ella/Em-em), 42, and a certain Pabling, who both belonged to the Northern Negros Front (NNF) of the NPA’s Komite Rehiyon-Negros, Cebu, Bohol, and Siquijor.

“[They] are not just headaches of the people. They are responsible for the fear and terror that ordinary people are experiencing in Negros,” said Maj. Cenon Pancito III, 3ID public affairs chief, in a statement on Sunday.

“No matter who they are in their personal capacity, they are enemies of the state. They are notorious terrorists operating in northern Negros,” he added.

Pancito said the duo were part of the group “responsible for a series of extortion and intimidation activities” in the area, including the burning of construction equipment in a community between Silay City and E.B. Magalona in April.

"NO matter who they are in their personal capacity, there are enemies of the state." What an admission. And not just enemies of the sate but enemies of the people too. If only EVERY terrorist were thought of and treated in that same way instead of the state of which they are enemies bribing them to surrender with enormous benefits packages paid for by the people.

The God Culture: Little Lies

Titling an article about Timothy Jay Schwab and The God Culture "Little Lies" is an understatement. Basically everything they say is a lie. From big lies like Greeks and Filipinos were trading with one another by circumnavigating Africa as far back 800 B.C. to little lies like, well isn't every lie ultimately a big lie? Nevertheless, in this article I want to take a look at a few of Timothy's smaller lies. That is, things that don't affect the foundation of his case positively or negatively but which are wholly untrue. 

Let's start this off with a little lie Tim has recently spewed forth against two high-schoolers. It concerns a map of the pre-colonial Philippines which was drawn up by two friends, posted to Reddit, and then profiled in Esquire.

https://www.esquiremag.ph/long-reads/features/pre-colonial-map-philippines-a00225-20210809-lfrm

The map was posted on Reddit by Maharlikan_, who has just graduated from senior high school and will be taking a history-related course in college. He and his friend DeliriumMaps—an incoming Grade 12 student—have been working together on the map since February. While still young, the two have a passion for history and did the legwork of researching on their own. 

“Pre-colonial history is something that has interested both me and Delirium as so much of it is not even taught in our schools,” Maharlikan_ explains. “It is what drove me to become a ‘cartographer’ in the first place. On the other hand, Delirium just told me that he was bored because of quarantine so he decided to do some reading.”  

Part of Maharlikan_’s motivation for making a pre-colonial map is to dispel hoaxes and myths like the kingdoms of Maharlika and Ophir. The former involves claims by Marcos loyalists that before the arrival of the Spaniards, Filipinos were already united under a nation called Maharlika. Marcos’s ill-gotten wealth was supposedly earned when he provided legal services for the royal family of this fictional country.   

“There’s a document in a Spanish archive in Sevilla, Mexico that describes how to get to the land of Ophir. Surprise surprise, it leads to the Philippine Islands (despite going through the islands towards China then back for some bizarre reason),” Maharlikan_ explains. “Certain groups of Filipinos discovered this and somehow located it in Northern Samar and [it] was called the ‘Lakanate of Lawan.’ At this point, the myth starts diverging into several versions, from the Lakanate somehow unifying the islands under the guidance of God/Bathala/Yahweh (enforcing the idea that we are God’s Chosen people) or that the Lakanate was established by Jews, which makes Judaism the first religion to ever land in the islands.”

“Of course, all of these are made up,” he continues. “There’s no archaeological [or] historical records ever mentioning some large unified kingdom in the islands, let alone a Jewish one. Although, there is a ‘Lakanate’ in Northern Samar named the Lakanate of Makarato, and they’re not some superpower empire that was worth coveting by the Kingdom of Solomon. Delirium’s grandmother even said she has never heard of this story despite being a Samar native, which shows that ‘Ophir’ is a modern conspiracy theory.” 

While making the map, Maharlikan_ and DeliriumMaps referred to JSTOR and Academia articles, Wikipedia article sources, and government and municipal websites and archives. However, they do note on the map itself that new information has come to light that shows that some parts of the map may be inaccurate. 

In this day and age in which facts are often twisted and social media users would rather dig in their heels than admit that they’re wrong, it’s nice to see senior high students practicing intellectual honesty and humility. Even if it’s not 100 percent accurate, the map makes a good jump-off point for learning more about pre-colonial Philippine society. 

What does Tim have to say about this interesting article? That it is a hit piece written by a Chinese communist!

28:15 Esquire magazine in the Philippines just did a hit piece, in fact, on the Philippines as well because, well, a senior in high school, uh, created a map. Oh, that's historical right? I mean he's the source of all history don't you know? And he says well, the Philippines cannot be Ophir. Oop it's settled, that's it folks. It's over! Based on nothing credible not a single fact. Written by likely a Chinese uh Filipina or at least sympathizing communist if nothing else yet, an unacademic unscholarly article. It's trash. They just keep coming and we will keep coming back.

WIVES OF THE PATRIARCHS. No Cain There. Answers In Jubilees Part 26

Wow. Who knew that Esquire was an academic and scholarly magazine? I thought Esquire was all about culture and fashion. Note that instead of engaging with the article and telling us why the map is wrong Tim smears the author as a being either Chinese or a "sympathizing communist" and calumniates the two who created the map by claiming it is based on nothing credible. I wonder if Tim took the time to reach out to those students and asked to see their sources, which are briefly listed in the article, and maybe send them a copy of his book or links to his videos. Probably not. Instead of engaging anyone in discussion he gets angry and makes it appear as if this article was written and the map drawn up in direct response to his videos by saying, "They just keep coming and we will keep coming back." 

A closer look reveals this article is not a hit piece. It's a report on a detailed map of the pre-colonial Philippines posted by high schoolers on Reddit. It is a soft news human interest story. Tim is taking this magazine article way too personally. It has nothing to do with him and it is certainly not targeted towards anyone in a negative way, especially the Philippines and Filipinos. If anyone is writing against the Philippines being Ophir and Mahralika it is not the author of the article but the creator of this map who writes:

This is a project that me and a user named DeliriumMaps worked on since February of this year. It is meant to somewhat create an accurate depiction to counter the pseudohistorical myths such as the Kingdom of Maharlika, Ophir, and some cases like polities being larger than they really are.

https://www.deviantart.com/tondoempireball/art/Pre-Colonial-Philippines-886069591

The cold, hard fact is that this high school student is correct. There is NO archaeological or historical evidence that there was ever a unified kingdom in the Philippines named Ophir. Tim admits this fact in his book and videos by declaring that to ask for such evidence is to be in a false occult paradigm. 

Many seek this architecture in demand to prove this narrative and they are stuck in a false paradigm. There is none to be expected nor has any other nation on earth produced such nor will they.

Ancient Ophir is never described as having temples at all whether alone ones of gold, it is never recored to have great infrastructure in any sense just a mega-abundance of resources. The humble lifestyle of the Filipino even fits the oath of a Rechabite as Farrisol said.

https://philippinefails.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-god-culture-search-for-king.html 

What is Tim upset about since both he and the creators of this map agree that there is no archaeological evidence that the Philippines is Ophir or Maharlika?

Everything Tim has to say about this Esquire article is a lie. It's not a hit piece, the maps are not based on nothing credible, and it was not written to push a Communist agenda. It's funny that Tim always bring up communism when someone kicks back against his lies or contradicts him in any way. Communism is by its very nature atheistic and no communist would care what Tim has to teach except to call it all lies. A communist would not offer an alternative religious explanation. They would stick to a strictly materialistic one. That makes Tim's comments about communists just another lie.

Tim is also very reactionary which makes his knee-jerk responses quite dumb. Here is his response to a comment he did not like:

This comment is now deleted!

Amon one Noah(Untafishtim) had three wives Naama, Waala, and Mubiyna. When Noah was 500 Naama, he went into Naama, his wife, and she bore him three sons at once triplets Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Waala gave birth to a son named Raya, and they both died in flood. Mubiyna was killed by the ruler Zuhaks men; they were looking for Noah and found her in a field, and they tried to rape her; she killed 2 of them before she died.

The God Culture So where did Noah's wives come from? The Bible says only 1 wife was with him on the ark. Illiterate as usual. Would you look at that? These idiots at the communist channel dare set up a troll name as Amon one because they illiterately claim Native Americans descend from Amon because they can't read nor reason. After having their illiterate nonsense obliterated, they actually comment using the Epic of Gilgamesh as scripture above Genesis and Jubilees. Noah has 1 wife and only 1. Her name was Emzara. Certainly not Namaah the Nephilim breeder from Cain. They even throw in Waala which in Tagalog means not or NOT Noah's wife. Indeed Noah's supposed 2nd wife was NOT. He did not have one. See the way they just agitate and agitate in demonic form. They are the dumbest channel on YouTube and they mix the occult and the profane with the Word. They are liars. Of course, any can watch Nephilim Heritage Conservatory if they wish. What illiterate trash... No thank you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6xzz3IkRVs&lc=UgwcfzMD-3tRPpp04xt4AaABAg

Someone comments that Noah had three wives and gives their names sending Tim into a real hissy fit. If Tim had bothered to take the time to look up the names this commenter mentioned he would see that they come from the Holy Tablets.

https://archive.org/details/HolyTablets/page/n1209/mode/2up?q=waala

He would also have learned that the Holy Tablets is the Holy Book of  strange cult called the Nuwaubian Nation. But instead of taking the time to learn what this commenter meant he accuses the man of being a Communist and an agent of the Ophirian Heritage Conservatory. "Waala" is also not a Tagalog word meaning "not." Wala is but waala is not and that extra "a" makes all the difference because in Tagalog there are no silent letters. It's more fake etymology from a guy who falsely claims there is residual ancient Hebrew in Tagalog and in Philippine place names. Again there are multiple lies here just as in his criticism of the Esquire article and map. But Tim's ignorant response in the comment section is not enough because he actually mentions this in a newer video:

2:49 There were eight total on the ark, right? Isn't that what the bible says multiple times actually? Or, well, if you watch a certain communist channel who counts somehow uh ten well, because they claimed Noah had three wives on the ark. Illiterate! One, by the way, named Waala and that one they they actually are right on. Yep they sure are because “Waala” in Tagalog means NOOOOOT! Indeed, for Noah's second wife was not,

First Cities After Flood. First Wives Club. Answers In Jubilees: Part 27

Listen closely and you will hear that Tim does not even pronounce the second "a" in "Waala." Yet we are supposed to buy that it's a Tagalog word. What an idiot. I think we all know by now that Tim is no linguist. HE himself admits it! Listen to him butcher the meaning of Sherpa.

First Cities After Flood. First Wives Club. Answers In Jubilees: Part 27

20:58 While we're here another observation. There are a people who live on Mount Everest. Let's just go there. And, around the area, called the Sherpa people. Very famous today. Uh, it was actually a Sherpa with Hillary who first climbed Mount Everest though you hardly hear his name you always hear, you know the, the white dudes, right? Looking at the Hebrew word "shir" means to sing. That's interesting. And "paam" means beat also perhaps music like a drum beat perhaps. In fact when you look at their music, so let's just go there, oh, wait what do they call it? Shebru. Now that is interesting. Can't connect it but again fascinating and something to think about.

This is totally stupid. The word "Sherpa" is not Hebrew in origin. Why does he assume it is?  He does not explain. Why is Tim so eager to shoehorn Hebrew etymologies into every world he finds? If we were to take Tim seriously they would be the "Shirpaam" people! 

The term sherpa or sherwa derives from the Sherpa language words ཤར shar ("east") and པ pa ("people"), which refer to their geographical origin of eastern Tibet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherpa_people 

It's just more fake Hebrew etymology from a man who admits he is not a linguist. In this video Tim also says that he cannot prove anything he is saying but it "makes sense and that's what we're going for." What an admission! He is not going for something that is actually true but only what SEEMS to be true.

Let's continue with the video, WIVES OF THE PATRIARCHS. There is one more little lie Tim makes that is very noteworthy. Now, the subject of this video is the name of Noahs's wife. Since Genesis does not tell us her name there has been much speculation over the years. In fact there are 103 recorded names of Noah's wife. Here are the first 9:

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2852842

Tim, of course, picks the name and lineage given in Jubilees which is Noah's cousin Emzara. The Rabbis have traditionally gone with Naamah. Why is that? Well, Tim says they just made it up. 

WIVES OF THE PATRIARCHS. No Cain There. Answers In Jubilees Part 26

14:42 So what is the origin of this claim many of you may have heard that Noah married someone from Cain? Well once again it's illiterate. It comes from the writings of the Pharisees who, well, made it up. The Midrash Rabbah on Genesis, Rabbi Abba Kahana said, well who really cares because that ain’t scripture is it? I mean that's that's the Midrash, that's the talmud. Well Rabbi ho ho says… so what? So what? They weren't prophets they weren't even serving the same god. Now, he said “Naamah was Noah's wife.” Based on? Well, fiction of course! He made it up. It's rabbi babel. See, that's what rabbis do, they just say whatever comes to mind and it gets printed and oh, that's called the Talmud and it's illiterate, absolutely complete nonsense many times. They lead you in directions away from scripture.

That is another lie. The identification of Naamah as Noah's wife is not made-up nor is it based on fiction. It is based on a close reading of the text and an attempt to understand why she and the rest of Cain's descendants are named at all.

From a paper titled "THE BOOK OF JUBILEES AND THE MIDRASH PART 2: NOAH AND THE FLOOD" we read the following:

In the Bible it is not unusual for wives not to be mentioned and, if mentioned, not to be named. By contrast, Jubilees commonly gives the names of the wives of biblical personalities: one of the characteristics of Jubilees is the large number of proper names it supplies, particularly of women. In the case of Noah's wife, in Jubilees it is given as Emzara, his cousin (Jub. 4:33). 

Genesis Rabbah 23:3 identifies Naamah, the daughter of Lemech and sister of Tubal-cain (Gen. 4:22), as Noah's wife. This is consistent with the rabbinic approach to identify unnamed biblical characters with pre-existing, named biblical characters. Since it is rare for the Bible to mention daughters by name, it was understood that Naamah must be significant. Additionally, since her name implies "pleasantness", and perhaps because her father had the same name as Noah's father Lemech, she was deemed an appropriate wife for Noah. Identifying Naamah as Noah's wife also serves to give purpose to the detailed list of Cain's offspring in Genesis 4:17-22, particularly since Naamah is the very last person mentioned in the genealogy, hinting that in some sense she is the culmination of the offspring of Cain. Also, it was important to find a name for Noah's wife to parallel the original first man and woman, Adam  and Eve, who were both named. 

Based on the different identifications of Noah's wife, we have two different views of the current ancestry of mankind. According to Jubilees, all of humanity is now descended only from Seth, Cain's offspring having been completely obliterated in the Flood. From the rabbinic perspective, humanity is descended from both Seth (on Noah's side) and Cain (his wife's side), and some Cain element still exists in the world. R. Naftali Zvi Yehudah Berlin, in his commentary Ha'amek Davar (Gen. 4:22), states that Naamah represents any good attributes in Cain that were considered important to preserve and contribute to the future of humanity. It is also worth noting that in the older amoraic literature of the Midrash (Gen. Rabbah 22:13, Lev. Rabbah 10:5) Cain is portrayed as a penitent, who then inspired his father Adam to repent as well. Thus, in the rabbinic view, there was some redemptive feature in Cain which may have been preserved through Naamah as Noah's wife. 

https://jbqnew.jewishbible.org/assets/Uploads/422/jbq_422_5_zvironjubileesnoach.pdf

Here we see that the Rabbis did in fact NOT simply make up their interpretation that Naamah is Noah's wife. There is a very good reason for it. But Tim does not care. He does not care to actually interact with and understand the information he "researches." Instead he mocks and ridicules the Midrash without actually comprehending what it means. His critique is therefore ill-informed, illiterate, and ignorant. There is actually a lot more commentary about why Naamah is identified as Noah's wife but this is no place for that. However, I will leave this here:

The extraneous information about the family of Cain, and the missing information about that of Noah raise a question. If all the descendants of Cain perished in the flood why do we need to know their names? In contrast, the wife of Noah is the mother of mankind - a second Eve - mother of all who live - surely, we, her descendants should learn who she was and why she deserved to be saved from the curse of the flood ? Is she mentioned in the flood narrative and saved solely because she was "a part of the body" of Noah and therefore remains anonymous, without identity?

The identification of Na'amah, a descendant of Cain, as the wife of Noah, solves the structural flaw in Genesis as well as the above mentioned theological problem. The family of Cain is described at length in order to reveal the identity of the second mother of mankind.

http://web.archive.org/web/20040221180454/https://www.biu.ac.il/JH/Parasha/eng/noah/enoach1.html

Again, the point is not that the Rabbis are right and that Noah's wife name is Naamah. I don't know what her name is. No one does. The point is Tim has no idea what he is talking about. It is also Tim who is making up stuff when he claims that Naamah was a "Nephilim breeder" and that the whole of Cain's lineage was evil. The text simply does not tell us that. 

As you can see each lie leads into other lies and creates a tangled web. While these lies do not affect his overall thesis they do indicate a pattern of how Timothy Jay Schwab works. In his books and his videos we see an unwillingness to thoroughly interact with the sources he cites. He will either twist them to fit his views or ignore them altogether except to dismiss them with ridicule. Anyone who comes to a different conclusion than him is either illiterate, stupid, a communist, or all those and more. Timothy Jay Schwab, the adman, is a horrible and dishonest researcher. The fact that he has a 300 page sourcebook is meaningless in light of the way he conducts his research. His sourcebook is also riddled with errors and lies as I have proven elsewhere.

However, there is one final lie from the comments of this video that I must bring up and I am sorry to say that at the time of this writing The God Culture has deleted it. Perhaps Tim realized how stupid it was. Someone posted a comment asking how Noah built the ark without using metal and Timothy responded with the comment that he could have used fire to cut the wood. That is an OUTRAGEOUS lie and I regret I did not take a screenshot before he deleted it. But he knows it was there. 

You could possibly fell a tree using fire but you can't plane the wood and make precise measurements using fire. You need a sharp metal instrument to cut wood and build a ship. And pray tell if Noah did not use metal then how does its use survive the flood? Tim is on record many times saying Noah used no metal (this includes rivets as well as any sharp cutting instruments) in building the ark because the instructions from God mention only gopher word and pitch. It is such a ridiculous lie and bad argument but I will have to leave it here for now.