Category: Crime

2022 elections a chance for Filipinos to remove communist vermin from public office

October 24, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 5 Comments

Joel Pablo Salud is one of my “favorite” editors in-chief, the other being his mentor Inday Espina Varona. He is very proud of his lack of formal education, yet constantly on the prowl for validation with social media postings of his vast book collection. He asks in his latest PhilSTAR piece: What would you ask…

Crime, Politics

#Halalan2022, Leni Robredo’s so-called “crowdfunding”, and the COMELEC commissioners Duterte will appoint in Feb 2022

October 18, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 2 Comments

The camp of Vice-President Leni Robredo was warned by the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) about its crowdfunding drive for her upcoming campaign. Robredo made her announcement to run for president in the 2022 national elections last October 8. Diehard Robredo supporters have formed Team Leni Robredo as the campaign volunteer organization which runs parallel with…

Crime, Politics

Parties and politicians opposed to the Anti-Terror Bill put partisan agendas first before Filipinos’ safety and security

October 13, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 5 Comments

One of the issues being raised by the Opposition in the coming 2022 election is the enactment of the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020, which is an updated version of the Human Security Act of 2007. It has come under scrutiny because its main sponsors are Senate President Tito Sotto and Sen. Ping Lacson, who are…

Crime, Politics

Maria Ressa won her Nobel Peace Prize by being DISHONEST

October 11, 2021 Ilda 14 Comments

The news that Maria Ressa, CEO of Philippine online “news” site Rappler, has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize by the Norwegian Nobel Committee has been met with more disgust than kudos by Filipinos. Those who were disgusted could not fathom how someone who has been spreading fake news and is a convicted felon could…

Crime, Media

SHOCKING: Award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Ressa is an INSULT to the Filipino people!

October 8, 2021October 8, 2021 benign0 24 Comments

News just broke that Rappler CEO Maria Ressa was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. This is an astounding demonstration of the extent to which Ressa had managed to hoodwink an entire profession into lapping up her dishonest narrative of “attacks” on “press freedom” being supposedly perpetrated by the Philippine government. Al Jazeera reports that Ressa,…

Crime, Media

Dick Gordon’s blue ribbon “investigation” into DOH procurement: in “aid of legislation” or in aid of ELECTION CAMPAIGN?

September 9, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 15 Comments

The traditional sins of omission of Senate investigations “in aid of legislation” are on exhibit again this being the an election year. Politics is tough in the Philippines. It’s tough everywhere but it’s tougher here because there is no such thing as a principled stand. It is mostly the business of show as an entertainer…

Crime, Government, Politics

What REALLY happened in 2016: Why the proposed July 12 National West Philippine Sea Victory Day is based on LIES

July 12, 2021 benign0 No Comments

The South China Sea dispute has been in the news cycle ever since President Rodrigo Duterte announced a shift in Philippine foreign policy after he was sworn into office in 2016. It was one that would not be closely-aligned with the United States as the former colonial master but an independent foreign policy where the…

Business, Crime, Politics

Filipinos stuck in a country where divorce is illegal and bank secrecy allows crooks to stash dirty cash

July 6, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 2 Comments

Divorce and the Philippines again landing in the gray list of the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force (FATF) go hand in hand even if the issues are diametrically opposed. Why is this? Both issues involve the pockets of our honorable legislators in Congress. The Philippines is only one of two states in the world where…

Crime, Society