Tag: gloria arroyo

Meeting between Marcos and Arroyo camps has chilling effect on Yellowtards and Reds!

June 18, 2021June 18, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 7 Comments

Former President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (GMA) will always be a kingmaker in Philippine politics. Why? Because she has gravitas. It took balls to oust President Joseph “Erap” Estrada in 2001. It took even more balls to run again in 2004 despite the agreement with Cory that she would only serve the unexpired term of Estrada. She…

Politics

Desperate Philippine Opposition weaponises Fatou Bensouda’s International Criminal Court “ruling”

June 17, 2021 Ramon Ortoll No Comments

International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor Fatou Bensouda’s ruling has been weaponized by the Yellowidiots and their allies again. The rub here is they claim they’re patriotic in resisting Chinese agression in the South China Sea on the issue of sovereignty. But when it comes to a cause where they’re desperate, they’re willing to sacrifice sovereignty….

Politics

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

The Opposition wastes time lying to themselves and to Filipinos about history and about Duterte

May 21, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 1 Comment

The Opposition can’t disabuse themselves of the notion that Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte is a Chinese puppet. PhilSTAR columnist Boo Chanco, for example, is fixated on the concept as is evident in yet another one of his pieces, today’s “Is China losing Duterte” where he suggests that “China will likely finance a candidate next year….

History, Politics

Liza Soberano “red-tagged” because she consorts with COMMUNIST front group GABRIELA

October 24, 2020October 24, 2020 benign0 5 Comments

You can tell the Philippines’ communists are getting desperate. They now ally themselves with the Yellowtards (the bloc of partisans rabidly loyal to the Aquino-Cojuangco feudal clan) and their capitalist cohorts in Big Corporate Media. The most loyal of these corporate behemoths, ABS-CBN, now deploy their most bankable talent to the “cause”. The recent circus…

Crime, Glitz and Glamour

Philippine Opposition relying on foreigners for help to free De Lima and bring Duterte down

October 3, 2019 Ilda 17 Comments

Members of the Philippine Opposition especially those from the Liberal Party are still clinging to whatever glimmer of hope they see of a chance of bringing the current government down. Some of them have expressed support for the proposed bill by two US lawmakers to ban from entering the US Philippine government officials who are…

Government, Politics

Maria Ressa is being the quintessential ARROGANT American

July 9, 2019 benign0 7 Comments

Who does she think she is? It seems Rappler CEO Maria Ressa believes (1) she is above Philippine law, (2) that she can simply reframe several charges against her into a single “press freedom” crusade, and (3) that engaging the services of an “intrnational human rights lawyer” will make her position before any Philippine court…

Crime, Media

Opposition candidates should distance themselves from the International Criminal Court intervention in the Philippines

March 19, 2019November 22, 2021 benign0 23 Comments

If this year’s crop of candidates vying for seats in Congress know what is good for them, they should avoid the “issue” of the intervention in the Philippines being mounted by the International Criminal Court (ICC). The ICC has indicated a resolve to continue to pursue an investigation into allegations that the government of Philippine…

Government, Society