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ramoncortoll
Jul 16, 20232 min read
Vested and Other Interests
There appears to be an emerging pattern of corrupt in the Marcos administration as early it as it took power after the May 2022 election,...
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ramoncortoll
May 8, 20236 min read
Did Babe Romualdez forget that the US Killed Millions of Filipinos?
In less than a year, Romualdez has achieved most of what was on Uncle Sam’s laundry list of to-do’s for US Interests to be pursued in the...
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ramoncortoll
Apr 24, 20234 min read
CIA Hijacks PH Foreign Policy
The Philippines is now focused on EDCA, with the expanded agreement covering access to an additional four AFP facilities and the...
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ramoncortoll
Mar 12, 20236 min read
Budol-Budol
I had high expectations for the 2022 election. Deep inside my gut, I knew the Yellowidiots were finished no matter who candidate they ran...
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ramoncortoll
Feb 19, 20235 min read
Hopeless
I'm turning 57 this year. I don't think my mind agrees with my chronological age because I still can't get a grip on it. Three years...
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ramoncortoll
Jan 22, 20234 min read
The more things change, The more they stay the same
A friend invited me on a road trip to Magalang, Pampanga yesterday. He wanted to take a look at a duje buggy fiberglass body that was...
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ramoncortoll
Jan 16, 20233 min read
Food Security
Marcos is being blamed for the sugar fiasco and the onion shortage and that's so because he took on the agriculture portfolio at the...
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ramoncortoll
Jan 1, 20234 min read
It Can't Be More of the Same
Since 1986, the Philippines has been undergoing six-year cycles as embodied in the 1987 Constitution. There is no long-term continuity of...
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ramoncortoll
Dec 24, 20224 min read
A Sense of Community
A lot has changed over the years. My generation is the boomers. We were the yuppies of the 90s. We witnessed the transition from Marcos...
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ramoncortoll
Dec 18, 20224 min read
Joma Sison is Dead
It finally happened just before the CPP-NPA-NDF celebrated another anniversary of their revolt this month. Joma Sison died in a hospital...
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ramoncortoll
Dec 17, 20224 min read
The Jeepney as a Symbol of All That's Wrong with the Philippines
I was on my usual thirty-minute walk the other day when a jeepney roared by again. In eastern Metro Manila, jeepneys are former Fuso or...
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ramoncortoll
Dec 6, 20227 min read
Maharlika Part Two
Retired investment banker Leo Alejandrino writing in his blog: Heneral LunacyThe Maharlika Fund: A Pricey Stud Or A Milking Cow?...
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ramoncortoll
Dec 4, 20226 min read
Maharlika Sovereign Wealth Fund
I thought the second Marcos administration would be more organized and efficient than the Duterte administration. My logic was based on...
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ramoncortoll
Dec 1, 20224 min read
The Joke's on Us
From the time we were discovered by the Spaniards up to the present, we have been stuck in a rut, constantly being betrayed by our...
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ramoncortoll
Nov 13, 20223 min read
Major, Major Problem - The Public Discourse
You're probably wondering what the hell major, major is. This is what "major" pro-Duterte bloggers were described as in 2017 as they...
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ramoncortoll
Nov 9, 20224 min read
Vietnam's IUU Activities Continues in EEZs
Vietnam continues to lead in incidents of illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing incidents in the Asia-Pacific region, despite...
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ramoncortoll
Nov 6, 20227 min read
Living to Survive or Surviving to Live?
Sounds much like the cliche' living to eat or eat to live right? What I've thought about is more towards how I seem to have lost the hope...
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ramoncortoll
Oct 31, 20223 min read
Marcos and China
https://opinion.inquirer.net/158265/china-modernization-and-the-west-ph-sea BBM has committed to an "independent" foreign policy but in...
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ramoncortoll
Oct 13, 20226 min read
Grab the Bull by the Horns
Retired investment banker and opposition pundit Leo Alejandrino has wise advice for BBM. He’s essentially saying that Marcos should grab...
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ramoncortoll
Oct 9, 20225 min read
Social Media versus Social Life
The toxicity of social media got me thinking how good it was in the old days when there were no smartphone or dumbphones. You had to...
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