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Warning: Manny Pacquiao COULD beat Inday Sara Duterte in 2022!

June 1, 2021June 1, 2021 benign0 5 Comments

With boxing-champ-turned-Senator Manny Pacquiao now getting more aggressive in his bid for the Philippine Government’s top job in 2022, the political landscape gets more fluid. The administration camp of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and its bid for continuity beyond 2022 in fielding Inday Sara “Daughterte” is at stake despite Pacquiao being a member — and…

Politics

United or divided, the Opposition will lose in 2022 — unless they get back to basics and learn how to WIN an election

May 31, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 2 Comments

I hate Mondays. This what beloved 1980s comic strip character Garfield declared. The first half of 2021 is about to end. It will be June by Wednesday and the last half of the year begins. 2021 is our first full year in the pandemic environment. It’s also an election year. The jockeying should’ve begun in…

Politics

Doubtfully Legal Takeover of Dampa sa Greenhills

May 31, 2021May 31, 2021 P. Farol 3 Comments

Over the course of the past two years, I’ve become somewhat of a regular customer of Dampa sa Greenhills, an Ilonggo restaurant and bar just across the corner of Col. Bonny Serrano and Jose Abad Stantos Street in San Juan City, Metro Manila. It’s an airy, sunlit place where the food is good and the…

Business, Politics

Cory Aquino and the dumbing down of Philippine Media the root cause of decline in quality of Filipino legislators

May 31, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 1 Comment

Harry Roque’s law partner Joel Ruiz Butuyan complains about the quality of Senators but doesn’t put the finer on who should be blamed. Butuyan writes in his Inquirer column “Comparing past and present senators” today of “the faces of senators of the past renowned for their brilliance, juxtaposed with pictures of senators of the present…

History, Media, Politics

News of a meeting between Inday Sara Duterte and Bongbong Marcos has chilling effect on Opposition

May 30, 2021May 30, 2021 benign0 No Comments

Talk of a “meeting” between Davao City Mayor Inday Sara Duterte and former Senator and 2016 vice presidential candidate Bongbong Marcos is raging across social media. This follows a tweet issued by a media organisation known as SMNI News Channel. According to SMNI News as indicated in the above tweet, the meeting occurred Sunday, the…

Media, Politics

A crisis of existentialism in a time of COVID-19 pandemic

May 30, 2021 Ramon Ortoll No Comments

It’s June already next week. The first half of the year went by like a snap of the fingers. The last half will be a race to December and before you know it, 2021 is over and marks out first full year in the pandemic. Meanwhile, an eminent sociologist appears to be having an existential…

Lifestyle, Religion, Society

Lack of a strong national identity makes for dog-eat-dog Philippine politics

May 29, 2021 Ramon Ortoll 8 Comments

For a political and social scientist, Professor Antonio Contreras surely is naive. But he can also be pragmatic when it comes to his own self-promotion. Borderline personality disorder? Maybe. In his Manila Times piece he rails against the “dirty politics” of these times… Popular culture has reinforced the image of politics as devoid of virtue….

History, Politics

China is the “bad guy” whether it is about tobacco or the virus

May 29, 2021 Ramon Ortoll No Comments

Sinophobia and tobacco. Mareng Winnie throws everything at China. In her Inquirer column today “A victory for tobacco, a defeat for our children”, Monsod writes… Wasn’t China the source of the virus in the first place? Not only that, didn’t China try to cover up its virus situation in the second place? The virus, indeed,…

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