Tag: antonio contreras

Attention Ph Opposition: Show us INTELLIGENT alternatives, or LOSE in 2022

July 10, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 1 Comment

The nitty-gritty. Voter preference can be broken down extensively now because the technology is there. But it does not make much sense to do so because it all boils down to no-brainer hot-button issues that the majority of the public is concerned about. In a pandemic environment, it is about survival. When in survival mode,…

Education, Politics

Candidates wanting to mount a CREDIBLE challenge to Duterte should avoid fake campaign “consultants”

July 3, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 1 Comment

The now self-appointed “Chief Political Analyst” and Dr La Salle University professor Antonio Contreras details in his Manila Times piece “Surveying beyond who is leading: Looking into the minds of voters” a survey on “what drives voters to make certain preferences and choices”. The survey, Contreras writes, aims to inform candidates making a bid for…

Business, Politics

Senate composition post-2022 election key to crucial admin agendas – including Charter Change

June 24, 2021June 24, 2021 Ramon Ortoll No Comments

Self-described “Chief Political Analyst”. “CPA”. De La Salle University professor Antonio Contreras won’t even endorse former Senator Bongbong Marcos whom he fought hard for in 2016. Contreras was actually a Jojo Binay – Marcos cheerleader in that election cycle. Back then, he was a critical collaborator of Duterte he said while fully-embracing the label of…

Politics

WANTED: A new, better, and SMARTER Philippine Opposition

June 15, 2021 Ramon Ortoll No Comments

We need a new opposition. One that is constructive and puts partisanship behind after an election to work with the administration for the people. This is what the then opposition did when Noynoy Aquino came to power in 2010 but look at what happened. The typical Yellowidiot attitude of vengeance reared its ugly head again…

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GRAVITAS is what makes Philippine presidents. Not popularity. And certainly NOT PA-CUTE.

June 12, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 2 Comments

And we come down to this? Does De La Salle University (DLSU) professor and Manila Times columnist Antonio Contreras even have a realistic point of view of how politicians come into power? Doesn’t look like it when one considers this post of his on Facebook where he practically endorses boxer-turned-senator Manny “Pac-Man” Pacquiao’s bid for…

Business, Politics

Attenion learning institutions: Digitization puts big demands on quality of and approach to education

June 6, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 3 Comments

Manila Times columnist and De La Salle University (DLSU) professor Antonio Contreras is talking like the union leader he has just become. In his piece “The fourth industrial revolution and the challenges of a corporatized higher education”, he writes about “the drive associated with the Fourth Industrial Revolution, where employability becomes the driving force and…

Business, Education, Tech Talk

Lack of a strong national identity makes for dog-eat-dog Philippine politics

May 29, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 8 Comments

For a political and social scientist, Professor Antonio Contreras surely is naive. But he can also be pragmatic when it comes to his own self-promotion. Borderline personality disorder? Maybe. In his Manila Times piece he rails against the “dirty politics” of these times… Popular culture has reinforced the image of politics as devoid of virtue….

History, Politics

VERA Files dishonestly blocked a #GetRealPhilippines article about Senator Franklin Drilon on Facebook!

April 26, 2021August 6, 2021 benign0 8 Comments

It’s come to my attention that one of our blog posts on our short-article site Get Real Pundit, “Senator Franklin Drilon momentarily asleep during CNN interview with Pinky Webb” was flagged as “false information” by the Facebook “fact check” Taliban. As shown in the above screenshot, the article was “checked by independent fact-checkers”, in this…

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