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Manny Pacquiao at loggerheads with PDP-Laban leadership over 2022 bid

June 19, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 1 Comment

Someone please remind boxer-turned-senator Manny “Pac-Man” Pacquiao that politics is addition. PDP-Laban executive director Ron Munsayac’s claim that there are 100,000 card-carrying members of the PDP-Laban may be true for now. But these hundred thousand will not side in their favor for the simple reason the power and the money are still with the administration….

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Opposition “economists” like Winnie Monsod sow doom and gloom in lead up to 2022

June 19, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 1 Comment

If the fundamentals weren’t sound, as Winnie Monsod asserts in her Inquirer piece “So much for sound fundamentals”, we’d be worse off to begin with. Mareng Winnie attempts to dismiss even the smallest iota of optimism in the prognoses issued by the country’s economic managers saying these are all just coming from people whose job…

Business, Economy, Money Talks

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…

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Key 2022 election issue is opening the economy and breaking the oligarchs’ stranglehold on infrastructure

June 18, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 3 Comments

President Rodrigo Duterte hasn’t been able to make good on his promise of charter change but Congress is doing what it can in the time left before the President steps down on June 30, 2022. The Public Service Act is 85 years old. It is obsolete yet it is only now that this issue is…

Development, Economy, Money Talks

Opposition banking on ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda’s intervention due to hopeless 2022 prospects

June 18, 2021 Ramon Ortoll No Comments

I’d like to see the International Criminal Court (ICC) bring charges to Xi Jin Ping for what China is doing in Hong Kong. The ICC is supposed to be a court of last resort. But former Supreme Court Justice Antonio Carpio lists in his Inquirer column “The ICC Prosecutor’s submission” today why the complementarity principle…

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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….

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Lito Banayo fluff piece on Robredo reveals possible Isko-Leni tandem for 2022

June 17, 2021 Ramon Ortoll No Comments

Lito Banayo has been a political affairs adviser since before 1986. He began his political career with the later former Vice President (to former President Cory Aquino) Doy Laurel. To my best recollection, the only time he wasn’t given a government post was during the administration of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo (GMA). Banayo had this uncanny ability…

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Why does selecting a Philippine president have to be so hard?

June 16, 2021July 21, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 3 Comments

Who were our best President’s who never were. At the top of my list is Juan Ponce Enrile (JPE). To my mind, he is the only Filipino qualified to head all three branches of government. Next is former Ambassador Eduardo Cojuangco Jr (ECJ) for his business acumen and genuine devotion to agriculture. No one else…

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