Tag: Alex Magno

The sputtering anti-Duterte campaign of a dishonest Yellowtard-communist Axis

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The sputtering anti-Duterte campaign of a dishonest Yellowtard-communist Axis

Anti-Duterte propaganda is out in full force including that nefarious radio program Kuwatro Alas on what is the former DZMM now resurrected under a new owner. And then there is Senator Risa Hontiveros who figures prominently in defective impeachment complaints, this being but the most recent one. In his PhilStar piece “Diligence”, columnist Alex Magno…

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Politics

The 1987 Yellowtard Constitution is the foundation of everything wrong with the Philippines today

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The 1987 Yellowtard Constitution is the foundation of everything wrong with the Philippines today

What did we learn from the extra-judicial ouster of an elected president? The 1987 Constitution? Our generation was fooled into believing that the late former President Ferdinand E. Marcos was evil and the late former President Cory Aquino who seized power from him in 1986 was a saint. We were naive then but for those…

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Charter Change, Development

Runaway inflation highlights the Philippines’ fundamental weaknesses: addiction to imports and corrupt bureaucracy

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Runaway inflation highlights the Philippines’ fundamental weaknesses: addiction to imports and corrupt bureaucracy

It’s easy to blame higher rice prices on the previous administration for passing the rice tarrification law when one conveniently forgets the corruption that came with rice import permits. Importers were openly paying farmers’ cooperatives to apply for permits which they used to import rice. The cooperatives didn’t have the financial capacity to import which…

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Business, Economy

Administration split between Marcos, Duterte camps throw shade on US regional designs vs China

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Administration split between Marcos, Duterte camps throw shade on US regional designs vs China

Proof that all is not well within the ruling coalition? Columnist Alex Magno in his PhilStar piece “Overreach” today fearlessly forecasts that “personality clashes that surfaced the past few weeks will become more severe as realignments happen in preparation for the midterm elections.” At a recent event, Vice-President Sara Duterte professed support for President Marcos…

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The Philippine Opposition: A community of people incapable of reflection continue to deal with their post-traumatic stress

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The Philippine Opposition: A community of people incapable of reflection continue to deal with their post-traumatic stress

It’s not easy to see that the Philippine Opposition is effectively non-existent today. It suffered catastrophic losses over two national elections and was utterly buried in the third and most recent one last year. These losses were all a result of their top “thought leaders” doing the same thing over and over again and expecting…

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Politics, Society

Leni Robredo’s PHANTOM “voter base” that “won” her the VP seat in 2016 nowhere to be found today!

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Leni Robredo’s PHANTOM “voter base” that “won” her the VP seat in 2016 nowhere to be found today!

I don’t usually write about Leni Robredo. I have as much disdain for her as Mar Roxas because they are too plastic for my political taste. Robredo is the same as Isko Moreno Domagoso as they are packaged candidates for the Presidency. Their track record is hype and their experience forged on social media —…

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Survey and analytics firms set to make big bucks as 2022 election campaign goes digital

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Survey and analytics firms set to make big bucks as 2022 election campaign goes digital

What’s in an OCTA? The research group is in the headlines again and making enough waves that PhilSTAR columnist Alex Magno described them as “busy”… In the last OCTA Tugon ng Masa (TNM) survey, no surprising development was registered among those leading in the rankings. Sara Duterte pulled in 28 percent, Bongbong Marcos took 13…

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