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Dec 1 to 6 2021 Pulse Asia Survey affirms grim prospects for Leni Robredo campaign

December 22, 2021 benign0 96 Comments

Same result different survey. The most recent Pulse Asia survey on voter preference had yet again shown Bongbong Marcos as the top preferred presidential candidate of a majority (53 percent) of respondents. Opposition “leader” Leni Robredo is a far second with just 20 percent. The results are consistent to two previous recent reports (Publicus Asia…

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John Nery defends his new boss Maria Ressa against national artist F Sionil Jose’s opinion about her Nobel “Peace Prize”

October 13, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 5 Comments

A writer’s problem is to find a topic and effectively convey the message he wants to impart to his audience. Substance comes first then style. The subtlety or the loudness of the prose, depends on the subject in relation to the audience. It is for this reason that it is hard for any writer to…

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Impeccably-timed Nobel “Peace Prize” award to Maria Ressa as Philippine national elections approach!

October 9, 2021October 9, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 3 Comments

“The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments (military weapons and equipment) manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature. Due to its political nature, the Nobel Peace Prize has, for most of its history,…

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Former Ambassador and Manila Times columnist Bobi Tiglao banned by Facebook after criticising Ateneo Martial Law Museum!

September 18, 2021September 20, 2021 benign0 9 Comments

Is the Ateneo de Manila Martial Law Museum so sacred as to be above any challenge to its legitimacy as an authority on what really happened over the period the late Ferdinand Marcos was president of the Philippines? Apparently so. In a tweet issued today, Manila Times columnist and former ambassador Bobi Tiglao, revealed that…

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Traditional Opposition REALLY worried as disastrous fiascos under Leni Robredo leadership strengthen’s Lacson-Sotto 2022 bid

August 10, 2021August 10, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 1 Comment

The Opposition appears egregiously divided among the ideological purists and the political pragmatists. Amang Rodriguez said politics is addition. How can the opposition win if they do not know how to add? John Nery’s column today, “Warning: Lacson”, comes on the heels of the latest public relations fiasco of Vice-President Leni Robredo which she herself…

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TRADITIONAL Opposition make desperate calls for “unity”, ask Lacson-Sotto tandem to make way for Poe-Moreno tandem!

August 4, 2021August 4, 2021 Ramon Ortoll No Comments

To first give a bit of credit, blogger Katrina Stuart Santiago wields a pretty good portfolio of blog posts that lay out an intelligent critique of the state of the Philippine Opposition these days. In her particularly-cluey piece posted in March this year, she admits that, in this Game of Thrones that is Philippine politics,…

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Opposition in DISARRAY as Trillanes slams Robredo and Liberal Party loses leadership clout

August 3, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 1 Comment

The public intellectuals who form part of the Opposition’s think-tank groups are so out of touch with reality. Even they aren’t aware of such a reality as evidenced by Inquirer columnist John Nery’s piece today “Warning: Trillanes”. Nery laments the “hysterical activism” of former Senator Antonio Trillanes that, he writes, is “undermining” both the leadership…

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ABS-CBN is not worth being made into an election issue because Filipinos couldn’t care less about it

July 14, 2021July 14, 2021 Ramon Ortoll No Comments

Talk about much entitlement! All these actions just for ABS-CBN to be granted a new franchise? It should be an election issue? Former Inquirer editor John Nery is surely earning his keep as a mouthpiece of the Lopezes. In his piece “ABS-CBN is a campaign issue”, Nery continues to harp about how the ABS-CBN’s franchise…

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