Author: Ramon Ortoll

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Filipinos will not progress if we keep electing puppets of the elite and the oligarchy

May 17, 2021 Ramon Ortoll No Comments

Former Customs Commissioner Ramon Farolan has a good memory recalling how former President Fidel V. Ramos (FVR) addressed the Chinese “occupation” of Mischief Reef. In his Inquirer piece today “Mischief Reef – where it all started”, Farolan writes… For what has happened, there is enough blame to be shared by everyone, not just President Duterte….

Business, Politics

Manolo Quezon criticises “New Middle Class” OFWs as lacking in “civic consciousness”

May 15, 2021 Ramon Ortoll No Comments

In a recent Facebook post, Inquirer columnist and former Undersecretary of Communications Manolo Quezon claims that an “Old Middle Class” that was “formed” by “Churches, Clubs, and Schools” had been supplanted by a “New Middle Class” that harbors a “great anxiety” and “votes accordingly, but without the civic engagement”. If we have 70 million voters,…

Politics, Society & Culture

Dysfunctional Philippine bureaucracy cannot be solved by one president in just 6 years

May 15, 2021 Ramon Ortoll No Comments

The raging debate since the first lockdown has been about social amelioration. Having first-hand experience in government at the local government unit (LGU) level, I’ve seen the inefficiencies in its operations and the policy disconnect unless the two top officials work together for the benefit of their constituents. Tax the rich to give to the…

Business, Economy

Brouhaha over Nayong Pilipino mega vax center fueled by dishonest journalism and Karen Davila’s DUMB interview questions

May 14, 2021 Ramon Ortoll No Comments

Why can’t Duterte fix this simple problem within his own turf? That critical projects to build large vaccination facilities got this far and became an unncessary PR problem explains why we are in this mess. Sheer incompetence! Do you think government officials actually use their heads? Nope. The default mindset of the bureaucrats is they…

Environment, Government, Health

PhilSTAR writer Joel Pablo Salud BUTTHURT by his failed tiff with F Sionil Jose

May 12, 2021May 12, 2021 Ramon Ortoll No Comments

So they do read sometimes… (He refers to my earlier piece, “F Sionil Jose likens Duterte to Magsaysay, Philippine Opposition OFFENDED!”.) For the information of Philippine Star writer Joel Pablo Salud, I’m not a blogger to begin with. I’m just a pundit. I don’t even think of myself as a good writer. But what do…

Media

Opposition seeks to destabilise rather than contribute constructively to Ph gov’t fiscal response to pandemic

May 12, 2021May 12, 2021 Ramon Ortoll No Comments

What will we do about the opposition? They seem to have shit for brains. Five consecutive quarters of recession and Inquirer columnist Manuel L Quezon III (MLQ3), former Communications Undersecretary of the Aquino administration, fallaciously follows the line of Financial journalist Prinz Magtulis by declaring we are officially in stagflation territory. In his piece “Welcome…

Economy

The Opposition LIE to Filipinos whenever they blame Duterte for the loss of Scarborough Shoal

May 12, 2021 Ramon Ortoll No Comments

What is really needed is an executive summary of the arbitral ruling, with a comparative analysis of what what status was before and after. One also needs to take into account US foreign policy under former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, or was it the toner way around? In his Manila Times piece “Not…

Economy, Politics

While Duterte busy with leading a people, Opposition dishonestly weaponise inconsequential idealism

May 11, 2021 Ramon Ortoll No Comments

As a political scientist and supposedly a self-styled political operator, Manila Times columnist and De La Salle University (DLSU) professor Antonio Contreras lacks one essential element, which is political pragmatism. In his piece “Fit to be thrown out as trash” he writes… No wonder it is easy for Duterte to throw to waste an important…

Politics

Admin 2022 Senate ticket should include Mark Cojuangco to push nuclear power development

May 10, 2021 Ramon Ortoll No Comments

Carpio’s statements about the service contract for the Reed/Recto Bank dovetails with the analysis presented by former Ambassador Bobi Tiglao in his Manila Times column “Salim (aka MVP), Razon, Ongpin’s project behind Aquino’s discord with China” today. Retired Supreme Court Justice Antonio Carpio is clearly lawyering for the oligarchs who hold the service contract for…

Business

Duterte disrupted the cronyism that continued under the Aquinos, Cojuangcos, and Lopezes after 1986

May 10, 2021May 10, 2021 Ramon Ortoll No Comments

It’s obvious that ABS-CBN is biased against Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. This is evident in the way it publishes a “report” with a headline like “Duterte sees Xi as ‘personal protector’ vs mutiny – Carpio”. Note that there is no author named for this “report”. It essentially just quotes retired Supreme Court Justice Antonio Carpio…

Business, Politics

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