LANDBANK-UCPB merger clears way for further development of Philippine coconut industry

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The United Coconut Planters Bank (UCPB) was one of the largest unibanks in the country before the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) sunk its claws into it. After 1986, the bank continued its sterling performance until the old guard were replaced by executives who managed to weasel their way in through political godfathers. The…

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Business, Money Talks

Opposition “thought leaders” LIE to Filipinos whenever they insist that all trolls are pro-Duterte

Posted on By Ramon Ortoll No Comments on Opposition “thought leaders” LIE to Filipinos whenever they insist that all trolls are pro-Duterte

It’s easy to say that we’re influenced by trolls without understanding basic human psychology and sociology. These sciences focuses on human behavior and its patterns. There are a lot of factors that determine human behavior. But the irony is, now that we have more access to information, the less reliable these are. Disinformation has been…

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Media, Tech Talk

Duterte trolling the Opposition with VP run confirmation. Opposition react predictably!

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Trolling the opposition. I keep saying that any candidate who wants to have a chance at winning in 2022 should be as disruptive as he was in 2015. President Rodrigo Duterte is setting the narrative again and is on top of it. The pandemic has caused great disruption which needs an equal or greater appropriate…

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Politics

The Opposition’s futile milking of Noynoy Aquino’s death will destroy rather than build coalitions

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I keep wondering about which planet Inquirer columnist Manuel L Quezon III (MLQ3) is on. It’s definitely not earth given the analysis he lays out in his piece “‘Obosen’”. First, what administration coalition is he talking about during the Aquino administration? According to MLQ3, “it was the breakup of the former president’s coalition that allowed…

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Politics

Songs of praises to the glory of Noynoy Aquino will fail to move a politically-mature Filipino public

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Manila Standard columnist Banayo conspicuously leaves out former President Ferdinand “Apo Lakay” Marcos in the mention of Philippine Presidents in his piece “A stone for the edifice” where he shares his own version of Pantheon. The piece is obviously in praise of the recently departed former President Noynoy “PNoy” Aquino. It is easy for us…

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History, Politics

Lukewarm public regard for the death of Noynoy Aquino proves that Yellow necropolitics no longer works

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Last week, Filipinos woke up to rumors on social media that former President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III had died. Later in the morning, reporters and bystanders trooped to the Capitol Medical Center in Quezon City, where Aquino was rushed from his West Triangle home, as family members, former Aquino Cabinet officials and Liberal Party stalwarts…

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Politics

Yellowtards gaslighting Filipinos into believing Noynoy Aquino was a great man is EMOTIONAL ABUSE

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The edification of Noynoy Aquino continues. “Soul-searching” is often mentioned. Few of his faults are highlighted in death. It’s his achievements which are being bruited about along with the anecdotes about how “good” a person he was. I bought into all these in 1983 after his father former Senator Ninoy Aquino was assassinated. No Internet…

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Crime, Politics

Senate Bill No. 23 (BRAVE Bill) aims to make pork barrel corruption a thing of the past

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Probably unknown to many, Senator Panfilo Lacson filed Senate Bill No. 23 last July 2, 2019. The Budget Reform Advocacy for Village Empowerment (BRAVE) seeks to empower local government units throughout the country down to the barangay level by allocating development funds which cannot be impounded by the national government. In a speech delivered on…

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Development, Government