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COVID-19 Delta Variant a bigger threat than “downgraded” credit ratings

July 14, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 3 Comments

The opposition will surely make a mountain out of a molehill about this issue of the Philippines’ “downgraded” credit rating again. https://twitter.com/PhilippineStar/status/1414713681485520896?s=19 There is, however, no basis for worry. The debt-to-GDP (gross domestic product) ratio is still manageable. The budget deficit increased but the gross international reserves of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) are…

Economy

What does it take to beat a massively-popular candidate in an election? Simple: a DISRUPTIVE campaign platform!

July 13, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 3 Comments

Glad to see Manila Standard columnist Lito Banayo share my opinion in his piece “The disruptor”. Anyone who wants to challenge the administration will have to be as disruptive as the incumbent. Banayo happily points out the winning formula at play again in these times of impending election campaign writing “[President Rodrigo] Duterte is once…

Politics

Legal fees incurred by Aquino gov’t in The Hague to “win” Ph-China arbitration case BLEW national budget

July 13, 2021 benign0 2 Comments

A source has provided us with the copies of what appear to be two collection letters sent by the US law firm of Foaley Hoag, counsel to the Government of the Republic of the Philippines in the arbitral case it filed before the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague. The letters clearly define the…

History

Philippines no longer a US lapdog, now a respectable ASEAN member and a REAL Asian nation

July 12, 2021 Ramon Ortoll No Comments

The national artist for literature F. Sionil Jose cites Richard Javad Heydarian in “Our foreign policy”, his PhilSTAR piece . That’s probably due to both of them being Ilocano. On Javad’s part, he’s only part Ilocano so he’s no GI, but I digress. Jose, delves into the wisdom and pitfalls of abandoning the cozy embrace…

Development, Economy

Dumaguete City Government To Sign Joint Venture for 174 Hectare Reclamation Amidst Raging Protests

July 12, 2021July 15, 2021 P. Farol 1 Comment

So-called Dumaguete Smart City Reclamation Threatens to Spread Devastation in Mindanao Sea Dumaguete City Mayor Felipe Antonio B. Remollo is grossly understating the devastation that his pet 174 hectare reclamation project will bring to the people of provinces surrounding the Bohol Sea — also called the Mindanao sea. This even as today Mayor Remollo and…

Development, Government, Politics

President Duterte running for VP is perfectly legal, Opposition fails to propose a BETTER option

July 12, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 1 Comment

I wonder what former Bayan Muna House Representative Teddy Casiño is describing as President Rodrigo Duterte’s “brand of authoritarianism” when what he has been ordering implemented is within the context of the 1987 Constitution. The rise of populism was fueled by neoliberal ideology to deliver on its promised gains in developed countries. The template is…

Politics

What REALLY happened in 2016: Why the proposed July 12 National West Philippine Sea Victory Day is based on LIES

July 12, 2021 benign0 No Comments

The South China Sea dispute has been in the news cycle ever since President Rodrigo Duterte announced a shift in Philippine foreign policy after he was sworn into office in 2016. It was one that would not be closely-aligned with the United States as the former colonial master but an independent foreign policy where the…

Business, Crime, Politics

ABS-CBN is the biggest TROLL FARM of them all: no place for it in Philippine democracy

July 11, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 4 Comments

In the dumbing down of the Filipino people. That is what ABS-CBN has been doing since its revival in 1986. No less than the national artist for literature, F. Sionil Jose, has written about the subject several times. It has also been described as the largest political party in the country for its ability to…

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