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Marcos administration should keep above rabid politicking and focus on good governance

November 19, 2023 Ramon Ortoll 3 Comments

Here’s the thing. If House Speaker Martin Romualdez (SMR) isn’t interested in the presidency, then why has he been seen pointing at sacks of rice in a warehouse? The demolition job on Vice President Inday Sara Duterte continues with the Makabayan bloc continuing to follow through with their threat of impeachment. Yellowidiot lawyers filed a…

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Makapili or Makabayan Part 2: The lies that brought the US military back to the Philippines

November 18, 2023 Ramon Ortoll No Comments

Philippine President Bongbong Marcos has adopted a pro-America foreign policy that was reportedly at the insistence of his cousin, Philippine Ambassador to the US, Jose Manuel “Babe” Romualdez. This has resulted in Marcos being received warmly in the US after he allowed American access to additional bases under the Enhanced Cooperation Defense Agreement (EDCA), all…

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Rape of the Philippines AGAIN!!! Politicians Using Makapili Whitewash Japan’s Abuses

November 10, 2023November 10, 2023 Ramon Ortoll 28 Comments

Sen. Joseph Victor “JV” Ejercito has labeled Filipinos who are pushing for a diplomatic solution to the South China Sea disputes as Makapili, the term coined for Filipinos who collaborated with the Japanese, when it occupied the country in World War II. Did Senator JV forget that it was the Japanese and Americans that massacred…

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Demolishing Inday Sara Duterte: the VP needs a more competent comms team and smarter “influencers”

November 5, 2023 Ramon Ortoll No Comments

I’m now 50% convinced that there’s an active effort to undermine not only the Vice-President but the Duterte brand in an effort to ensure that their political brand is rendered inutile by painting them as corrupt and traitors to the country. I was wondering how and why Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief of…

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Bongbong Marcos has pulled the neoliberal narrative rug from under the Philippine Opposition

August 6, 2023 Ramon Ortoll No Comments

Filipino neoliberals seem to be obsessed with the victim mindset. In his recent Inquirer column, Randy David describes Americans voting for former President Donald Trump as flirting with one-man rule because of the possibility that Trump might win again in 2024. “This,” David writes to punctuate his point, “is how dictatorships are born—often on the…

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Repivot of Philippine foreign policy back to the US under BBM steals thunder from traditional anti-China Opposition rhetoric

July 23, 2023 Ramon Ortoll 1 Comment

The tone Inquirer columnist Randy David himself takes in his piece “Foreign policy in [Marcos’s SONA]” likely mirrors the conundrum he and members of his camp find themselves in today. President Bongbong Marcos is the archenemy of the Opposition and yet he has co-opted their agenda of bringing the Philippines back into America’s arms. This…

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On Afghan refugees: Philippines bending so far backwards for the US it risks breaking its back

June 19, 2023 Ramon Ortoll 1 Comment

In his Manila Standard column today, Lito Banayo beseeches the President, “Please listen to your sister”. Banayo refers to the issue of the Afghan refugees that the United States are suggesting should be temporarily accommodated in the Philippines while they are being cleared for resettlement in the US. Banayo credits said sister, Senator Imee Marcos,…

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Did Babe Romualdez forget that the US Killed Millions of Filipinos?

May 10, 2023 Ramon Ortoll 2 Comments

In less than a year, Philippine Ambassador to the United States Jose Manuel “Babe” Romualdez has achieved most of what was on Uncle Sam’s laundry list of to-do’s for US Interests to be pursued in the Philippines. These pursuits had been in the dumps since former President Rodrigo Duterte won the Presidency in 2016 and…

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