Tag: Renato Corona

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

July 5, 2025 Ramon Ortoll 32 Comments

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…

Politics

Astounding double standard: Mainstream media mum over government intimidation of political bloggers

March 24, 2025March 24, 2025 benign0 4 Comments

Chalk another one up for the double standard of the Philippines’ mainstream media. On one hand, they would be up in arms over even the slightest hint of government and powerful politicians’ influence — much more suppression — of citizens’ rights to express themselves in a public forum. On the other, and in today’s case,…

Media, Politics

Mistakes, miscalculations, and mismanagement summarize the Liberal Party’s leadership

March 30, 2022March 30, 2022 The Unpopular Opinion 5 Comments

The signing of Imperial Japan’s instrument of surrender on the USS Missouri officially created a deadline for the Philippine commonwealth to transition herself to the third republic. The Nacionalista party, a political party established by Presidents Manuel Quezon and Sergio Osmena, was dominating the legislature with their numbers. With President Quezon succumbing to tuberculosis during…

History, Politics

Hard habit to break: The Philippine Opposition’s FAILED five-year effort to paint Duterte as a “tyrant”

September 5, 2021September 5, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 4 Comments

The other day, we heard the incumbent Vice-President Leni Robredo make a statement about her being tempted to ask for blanket authority to be the head the government’s pandemic response. Just when you think that was too funny, here comes Randy David trying to top the VP’s idiotic rant in his Inquirer piece today “The…

Politics, Society

Martial Law is a hopeless he-said-she-said “issue” that only wastes our time

September 7, 2020 benign0 5 Comments

I just have to agree with what Kay Rivera wrote in her Inquirer column today… It frustrates me that we must continue to turn martial law into a he-said-she-said game of history of Marcos vs Aquino camps, a game of fallacies where condemning one must be tantamount to glorifying the other. As she asserts and…

Politics

Maria Ressa’s criminal conviction is a victory for the Filipino people

June 16, 2020June 16, 2020 Ilda 58 Comments

They said the whole world was watching. If that was the case, then the whole world knows Rappler CEO Maria Ressa and her former writer Reynaldo Santos Jr are now convicted criminals. This was after a Manila court judge found both of them guilty of violating the cyber libel law. The question is, are members…

Crime, Media

Nobel + Corona + Virus: The best way to remember PNoy’s twisted legacy

February 6, 2020 zaxx 2 Comments

January 25 is a day that’s indelibly seared like that by a branding iron into the brain of former President Noynoy/Pnoy Aquino. It was the special day of his mother Cory (born on Jan 25, 1933) who then passed away at just the right moment in time for him to be catapulted via Yellow necro-political…

Government, Politics

Foreign media have become victims of Maria Ressa’s lies

February 16, 2019February 18, 2019 Ilda 42 Comments

Contrary to reports being disseminated by foreign media, the arrest of Philippine online news site Rappler’s Chief Executive Officer Maria Ressa has been welcomed by many people, not condemned. It seems a lot of Foreign media outlets are getting fed the wrong information about Ressa’s problems with the law. The Associated Press was even forced…

Crime, Media