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Opposition coalition @1Sambayan’s REAL agenda: oil, gas, and Manny Pangilinan’s wealth

June 20, 2021June 20, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 2 Comments

Artemio Panganiban in his Inquirer piece today “Knowing what drives China in SCS” provides an informative summary of the historical background of the claims by parties in the South China Sea. He sets the theme with a very important context… To begin with, China avows a long and glorious history that rivals Egypt and its…

Business, Government

Opposition will have to ditch its FAKERY to beat “Dutertismo” in 2022

June 20, 2021June 20, 2021 Ramon Ortoll No Comments

Dutertismo. Coined by Randy David. Preached by Richard Heydarian. What is it exactly? The proper definition would be Duterte being Duterte. David, in his Inquirer piece “The opposition’s dilemma” today characterizes it as politically dysfunctional decision-making with policy thrown out the window. He writes… Dutertismo is primarily defined by its open disregard of a society’s…

Politics

An Open Letter (of Apology) to My Toddler

June 20, 2021June 20, 2021 Vincent 5 Comments

On the occasion of “Fathers’ day”, while some dads are going to be receiving gifts or having dinners arranged for them, I opted to write my child an open letter that I hope she will read in the future. Here goes… Dear child, It is 2021. It has been quite a number of years since…

Education, Government, Society

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….

Politics

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…

Politics

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…

Crime