The @1Sambayan June 12 fiasco was a validation of Duterte and a vindication of Marcos

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I was thinking of an epitaph piece for 1Sampayan yesterday after that fiasco of a launch. It seems the universe read my thoughts and here’s Randy David with his weekly Inquirer column. In today’s “Making the republic work”, David laments how “supposedly responsible and educated Filipinos” find appealing the idea “that a Sara Duterte-Rodrigo Duterte…

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History, Politics

June 12 “Freedom Day” marks the ironic end of @1Sambayan

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Hare-brained 1Sampayan. Supposed democracy advocates actually killed democracy today. Why? The holier-than-thou attitude was disastrous. It wasn’t even long before the named candidates were declining their “nominations.” It was supposed to be a “democratic” process but as it turned out the convenors made the decision without even bothering to consult the personalities on their list….

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Politics

GRAVITAS is what makes Philippine presidents. Not popularity. And certainly NOT PA-CUTE.

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And we come down to this? Does De La Salle University (DLSU) professor and Manila Times columnist Antonio Contreras even have a realistic point of view of how politicians come into power? Doesn’t look like it when one considers this post of his on Facebook where he practically endorses boxer-turned-senator Manny “Pac-Man” Pacquiao’s bid for…

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Business, Politics

The UP School of Economics was USELESS when Filipinos needed its “expertise” the most

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Here we go again — the infamous “sick man of Asia” label. A throwback to the Marcos era is all “economist” Winnie Monsod could come up with in her Inquirer piece “Why we are again the sick man of Asia”. You would think that the Opposition would be creative enough to come up with a…

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Business, Economy

Kiko Pangilinan ABANDONING Opposition to focus on his own re-election!

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You know the Opposition is in trouble when the President of the Liberal Party claims he is busy with his reelection campaign. Ana Marie Pamintuan in her PhilSTAR piece today “First, get out the vote” writes how “Sen. Francis Pangilinan has his mind on Sept. 30, 2021, the deadline for the registration of new voters.”…

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Would a Ping Lacson – Tito Sotto tandem for 2022 win if Inday Sara Duterte does not run for president?

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It was then Col. Gringo Honasan who first shot to fame post-Marcos in 1986 because Lacson found himself on the wrong side of the political divide in the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) during the coup d’etat against then President Ferdinand “Apo Lakay” Marcos. Lacson joined the Philippine Constabulary (PC) after graduation from the…

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Politics

“Old normal” NEVER coming back, industrial-scale digitisation critical

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The US reopening is a gamble that probably won’t pay off — not with the Indian variant becoming the dominant one soon enough. For one, it’s been confirmed that the virus is airborne. Second vaccines don’t prevent infection but mitigate a severe case of infection leading to hospitalization or death. Business Insider reports on “The…

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