Nakakatawa itong si Ricardo Abcede, commissioner ng Presidential Commission on Good Government , na ngayon ay nagtatago dahil katulad ni dating Agriculture Undersecretary Jocelyn “Jocjoc” Bolante, takot siyang humarap sa Senado.
Ini-imbistigahan ng Senate Committee on Government Corporations and Public Enterprises na pinamumunuan ni Sen. Richard Gordon ang napabalitang pagwawaldas ng mga assets ng Philippine Communication Satellite Corporation.
Malaki kasi sa mga shares ng Philcomsat ay sequestered dahil ang suspetsa ay pag-aari raw ni dating Pangulong Marcos. Kaya ilan sa mga director doon ay nominee ng Malacañang katulad ng pinsan ni Mike Arroyo na si Benito “Bomboy”Araneta.
Itong si Araneta ay unang umupo sa Philcomsat noong panahon ni Joseph Estrada. Siyempre nanatili siya doon ng umupo na sa Malacañang ang kanyang pinsan.
Kasama si Arroyo sa biyahe ni Arroyo sa Europe. Kinukuhaan namin ng kumpirmasyon ang balita na humiwalay ang mag-pinsan na Mike at Bomboy sa presidential party at kasama ng isang opisyal ng Development Bank of the Philippines ay nagpunta na sa Munich, Germany. Misteryosong biyahe, di ba?
Uuwi kaya si Araneta kasama ni Arroyo at haharap sa Senado? O susundin niya ang ginawa ni Bolante iiwas at magliwaliw na sa ibang bansa?
Balik tayo kay Abcede. Siya ang PCGG commissioner for asset management o tigapag-alaga ng mga ari-arian ng PCGG na matuturng natin na pag-aari ng taumbayan kasi yan nabawi kina Marcos dahil ginamit nila ang pera ng taumbayan sa pagkamal nyan.
Itong si Abcede ang isa sa beneficiary ng pagwawaldas ng assets ng Philcomsat. May dalawang faction kasi sa board ng Philcomsat. Ang isang grupo ay nagbigay ng kotseng Toyota Camry na nagkakahalagang P1.6 milyon kay Abcede. Siyempre pera ng Philcomsat.
Sa papeles na winagayway ni Gordon, makita na ang pangalan ni Abcede ang nakalagay na recipient. Ngunit naala-ala nila yatang bawal kaya linagay sa pangalan ng Philcomsat ngunit doon pina-deliver sa bahay ni Abcede. At si Abcede ang gumagamit ng kotse.
Garapal talagang itong mga bata ni Arroyo.
Sa regulasyon ng PCGG, ang government nominee sa isang sequestered corporation ay tatanggap ng hindi susubra sa P10,000 sa isang buwan o P120,000 sa isang taon. Ang pagtanggap ni Abcede ng kotse mula sa Philcomsat ay maituturing na paglabag ng ganoong regulasyon.
Nagtatago ngayon si Abcede . Sabi niya hintayin raw ang desisyon ng Supreme Court sa sinampa na kaso ng Sendo tungkol sa Executive Order no. 1 na siyang pinanindigan ng PCGG opisyal na sila raw ay hindi sakop ng batas sa pag-iimbistiga.
Nagtatago rin ang ibang commissioner at ibang director ng Philcomsat. Anong klaseng opisina ito?
Ellen:
The first time I head of this PCGG, I thought and saw who was leading it, I could not help raising an eyebrow especially when they started sequestering properties that actually did not even belong to the Marcoses but to the Filipino people. One of them properties in fact was the Philippine House in SFO that the crooks (I understand Aquino’s sister was even part of the scam the way she now supports the scammers in the palace by the murky river.) There was also the house in New York that was bought during the Marcos regime to display Philippine products, and just because the contracts bore the signature of the late president, the properties were sequestered and sold without a national referendum.
Then came the time to sell the properties acquired through reparations that they also pretended to be parts of the Marcos loots until my group, composed of scholars and journalists in Japan, andI exposed them for fraud. Then, we got the usual excuses until some members of the media in Japan and the Philippine took up our story and the attempt to sell the properties became an issue worth debating on at the Senate.
Senator Enrile took up our cause and fight he did for it, while we try to discourage the Japanese wannabe bidders to buy even just one of the 5 properties located in prime areas in Japan for sale. Then the corrupt government even under Cory changed tactics by saying that it was for CARP, but who would believe them. “Manigas kayo!,” so we insisted especially when we found out about the 15% customary commission to the middleman in the sale that is also still the rule of the game in real estates dealing in Japan plus the other pakipkip.
We owe a lot to Senator Enrile in fact for introducing the motion to make those properties Philippine patrimonies and have the Supreme Court declare them to be so in order that no one can easily sell them without passing through a national referendum and the people of the Philippines properly consulted.
What was nauseating was the attempt to hoodwink the Filipinos who did not know much about Japan nor about their own country’s history enough to care for those properties granted in exchange for the lives sacrificed in the last world war (my uncles’ included), etc.
The Japanese bidders out of respect for the wishes and will of the Filipino people that we represented backed out. Only two stayed, but by some miracle, one of them failed to submit the required check and was disqualified. The bidding was stopped and declared null and void. None of the 2,500 dollars paid by the 35 bidders were returned to the wannabe bidders (laking kuwarta din iyon).
But the government was desperate to make money to pay those who helped topple Marcos of course, and tried another bidding. None bidded because we were past to connive the Japanese media, too, in exposing the deal on the property enough to frighten bidders.
That is the reason now I guess why they do the bidding in the Philippines, and having foreigners with Japanese dummy to do the buying that when proven can be ground for disqualification.
This is the reason why I think the PCGG is a useless agency that should be scrapped and those highly paid appointees terminated. Ang dami pang lagayan diyan I am sure.
I should mention that I had a cousin in fact who benefitted from these sequesterings of properties that did not even belong to the Marcoses. I thought it was injustice, but God apparently would not allow evil to prevail. My cousin found his life more complicated and miserable living in that property that could be more aptly describe as stolen than sequestered.
Talk of crime not being able to pay! But Ellen, wala na bang katapusan ang graft and corruption sa Pilipinas. Maliit pa ako rampant na iyan, hanggang ngayon ba hindi na natapos iyan at lalo pang lumalo dahil kay Ale Boba and her countless pigs?! Dugong aso na mga tikbalang pa!
Next to Angara and Santiago, this Enrile is the most dangerous man in the Senate. His fans can praise him to high heaven, but I will not. His famous slogan “Problema mo, sagot ko” is actually “Problema ng Malacanang, sagot ko”. A trapo, an opportunist, a balimbing…that’s all about this guy. He doesn’t come clean…not the way he projects himself to be.
I have witnessed so many hearings, inquiries and followed most of them from ‘aid to legislation’ to uncovering the “mystery” that normal police and criminal investigations can not dig out or to satisfy the Public demand for Answers. Ninety Nine Percent of the Time it never involves Elected Politicians, but Judges, Coroners, or Any Person considered knowledgeable to conduct such complex and very demanding tasks.
The one example I can site is one that happened locally. City of Toronto IT equipment lease contract double to 86 millions from 43 without the Council approval. Came madame Justice Bellamy to conduct an ‘aid to legislation’ or more of uncovering the dirt, and it was unbelievable how a millionaire City Budget Commissioner (one of the council member) can be tempted by a 25 grand grease money by a smooth (brother of a Hockey Star, a hairdresser turned Salesman) sales who nothing about computers. The city spent 20 million on the inquest, but it was well-worth it and the Lady Judge kept her cool with all the lies and bravado in her court. But in her report he cited the Budget Commissioner that his testimonies was worthy of Pinocchio., and recommended laws that may prevent such abuse from happening again.
I think that’s how a hearing should be conducted if everyone really wants to reform the system. Instead of Senator Gordon and all the Rest throwing insults and shouting match as if they are doing the World Wrestling Federation dramas.
Ang “…opisyal ng Development Bank of the Philippines” na kasama ang mag-pinsan na Mike at Bomboy sa presidential party” na nagpunta “sa Munich, Germany” as si Rey David.
Talagang “Misteryosong biyahe, di ba?”
Unfortunately, Vic, there should not have been _these shoutings at the Senate gallery if the overstaying occupants at the palace by the murky river are themselves preventing the smooth investigation of these cases and stopping the Senate from asking the prosecutor or the police themselves to start an investigation.
The reason is because they are involved in the anomalies and/or are using these people now under investigation on promise definitely that they would be protected from prosecution and reason why they are hard on having the Senate abolished!—reason why you and the rest of the bloggers here should prevent them from doing that even by making sure they do not succeed in changing the Constitution under this bogus regime.
Chabeli:
I am told by a friend in Manila that former DoLE Secretary Pat Sto. Tomas was put in as chairman of DBP because she is very good at helping camouflage the escapades and shady deals of the Pidals, pimping blindly in fact for the Pidals when she was at DoLE. She should be the one to be investigated as well regarding the OWWA funds used for the health card scam.
Chabeli:
PAM=PAMILYA ba ang trip sa Europe?
Hindi ako magtataka kung kasama na naman ang Yaya ng apo ng mga perhuwisyo familia!
At the Pinoys’s expense!
grrrrrrrrrrrrrr…………………..
Am not really worried about this so-called mysterious trip of Fg and Co. to Munich. I know for sure that as soon as the business counterparts here smell something fishy, they won’t be tolerated. I should know. There might be corruptions here too, but those incidents ussually didn’t exist that long before they were exposed and never solved unpunished. I’m curious what’s the mystery behind those secret trips. Wanna bet guys?
PCGG is a waste of tax payers money! If we are to define “White Elephant”, Presidential Commission on Good Government would be in my opinion is the prime example. It has been proven PCGG is nothing but a duplication that the govt can do without, certainly such institution was a conspicuous failure. And Commis Ricky Abcede obviously as commissioner has no respect for the law as many others under Gloria’s spell. I think the Senate finally woke up that they’ve such power vested to them by the people. Hooray! Hooray to the Senators! It’s about time to kick ass!
Elvira:
Welcome to the club. Anna and I have been in this “treasure hunt” for some time now, and I’m surely pleased to hear of her participation in the rallies for Filipinos in Brussels even dominated by foreigners!!!
Nothing to feel bad about Filipino indifference. Hindi lang kasi sanay! Tapos tinatakot pang papatayin sila kung sasama sila sa mga nagpro-protesta! As of this writing more than 750 na ang naligpit! Latest is the bodyguard of Mayor Binay, who is the only one bold enough to give permits to protesters sans the blessings of the sipsip PNP Chief!
Apparently, the crooks have found Germany a convenient place to try a new venture with the Swiss banks no longer willing to hide laundered funds after the Marcos fiasco, and with the Joc-Joc Bolate case, I doubt if their friends and cronies will stil openly volunteer to be their dummies.
I wonder how much public funds they are baiting wannabe dummies in Germany to hide their so-called loots. If you are a citizen of Germany in fact you have the privilege and right to ask for an investigation of any secret transaction of these crooks there. Even a tidbit of a clue would be enough for the police to start an investigation especially when they realize that it would be detrimental to national interest.
With the Fraport experience, I doubt if the serious traders there would be willing to have anything to do with this couple. Their partners must be the desperate ones, if not members of the underworld gangs.
Ellen,
Garapalan at bastusan na talaga. Garapalan dahil ang perang technically ay galing sa nakaw dahil pera ito ng taumbayan, ninanakaw pa ulit ng mga walanghiya sa gobyerno. Bastusan dahil kunwari ay prinsipyo ang pinaninidigan ng PCGG pero sa totoo lang, ayaw lang sumagot dahil halata ang pagkakamali. Executive Order No. 1 was never intended to absolutely exempt the PCGG from legislative investigations.
Tama si The Bystander!
Puro pakapalan na lang. Pabilisan ng magnakaw. Pagarapalan ng lang ng husto.
Tinapon na ang hiya at ang honor.
Tapos may lakas pa ng loob na manigaw ay hindi naman sa kanila iyong perang ginastos nila. Ninankaw lang nila!
Anong klaseng hayop ang mga taong ito. Tumatanda ng napakasama si Sabio! Walang dignidad! Ito ba ang gusto niyanng ipamana sa kanyang mga anak?
may pagka-partisan rin itong si abcede.
politicaljunkie.blogspot.com/2006/09/who-said-pcggs-ricardo-abcede-is-not.html
mula noon kay cory hanggang sa kasalukuyang multong administrasyon, ‘yang pesteng PCGG na ‘yan ang pahirap sa bayan. meron ba kayong nabalitaan na naipalabas na na-sequester na assets na naipasa sa kaban ng gobyerno? di ba pianghahatihatian ng mga kagalanggalang ng nangongomissioners na ‘yan? kaya dapat na tawag d’yan commission of ghost government!!!!
PCGG is a milking cow for presidential cronies. It’s not all about good government or governance it’s for corrupting government.
PCGG: Presidential Cronies in Greedy Government
Abcede is in charge of asset management, so far, he has managed his and the pandak’s ass. He should be charged with treason for “dancing” with the enemy.
Yeah, Schumey, and sent to the gallows for that and for plunder.
Abcede, quite a name. He sure knows the a, b, c, d and e of corruption.
Yeah, “He sure knows the a, b, c, d and e of corruption” for Gloria, the Alpha and the Omega of Philippine corruption.
nice one, schums.
So I hear, Bolante is ready to talk but is ‘blackmailing’ the wrong person.
Well, if he really wants to play toughie, then I suggest he might as well learn to cope with being the regular rape boy of common criminals where he is today or in another penitentiary.
What did he say? He will disappear forever? Oh no, not when Fatso hears that he’s about to turn the Fatso in. Why, one click of Gloria bansot’s fingers and he’s dead meat!
He should think twice and go to Magsaysay – spill the beans and get the Senate to issue him a witness protection program (if that’s at all possible in Pinas) but he must accept to bang the goods on Fatso’s and Gloria bansot’s heads.
Either that or be the raping, er whipping boy of criminals and gangsters in prison.
Thanks John. Anna, he better tie a string to the bar of soap he uses. We all know very well what happens when one bends down while taking a shower in prison. Aray ko po!
You bet, sinong may sabing komo nakaupo sila o protektado sila ng mga nakaupo ay free sila from prosecution? But then, hindi ba sinabi na nga ni Alan Paguia iyan na wala nang rule of law mula nang umupo si Bansot? Ang batas ng Pilipinas ngayon it seems ay iyong batas na inembento ni Fatso at sila lang ang masusunod. Nalito na ngayon pati iyong mga duwag na judges of the Philippine courts na nasasaklawan or under control ngayon ng mga pinaupong amigo y kamag-anak nina Bansot at Fatso sa Supreme Court.
Takot na takot naman iyong mga dapat magpairal ng batas gaya ng mga member ng mga bar associations sa Pilipinas dahil kundi sila mapapatay ay aalisan sila ng lisensiya gaya ng ginawa kay Paguia. Gosh, injustice ang ginawa sa kaniya!
Just-tiis, tigilan na! PATALSIKIN NA, NOW NA!
Anna,
That’s more like it. Witness protection program. Not immunity because this Bolate needs to learn his lesson by reaping what he has sowed. Dapat din magbayad ang ungas na iyan! Hindi puedeng siya lang ang makakalusot!
Schumey,
Matagal ko nang naririnig ang pangalan ng Abcedeng iyan. Hindi pa ba iyan nakukulong? Iyong ninakaw daw ni Marcos, asan na? Bakit pinayagang gastusin ni Pandak?
Ystakei,
Thanks for the info on Patricia Sto. Tomas. Yes, I agree, “She should be the one to be investigated as well regarding the OWWA funds used for the health card scam.” Also, wasn’t Sto. Tomas the one who was also going to resign together with the Hyatt 10, but had a change of heart?
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taipan88,
Oo nga, “PAM=PAMILYA” yata yung trip sa Europe…kainis nga no? Walang konsensya talaga! Mandarya na, sinungaling na, magnanakaw na, makapal pa!
Bantay-salakay si Presidential Commission on Good Government commissioner Ricardo Abcede at kanyang mga kasamahan. Bakit sila nagtatago? Siguro sila ay guilty sa pandarambong ng kaban ng bayan. Public funds and assets are no longer safe at the hands of Jose Pidal crime family.
In 2003 the Swiss government awarded the Philippine government some $628 million of the dollar deposits that were stashed away in Swiss banks. The corrupt Gloria Arroyo government has spending spree in the recovered Marcos Swiss bank deposits. The Marcos loot disappeared without a trace in two years. The recovered P35-billion must be used for the Agrarian Reform Program. What the Commission on Audit is doing about it? BANTAY-SALAKAY ang mga alipores ni Pandak !
Hi Ystakei!
Thanks for the tip. Will see what an old Mum like me can still do. Let’s keep our fingers crossed. Who knows, with the way things are happening around, and if we believe in Him and do something about it…we might hit the pot of gold! I hope you understand what I mean.
Mainit ang issue kay Bolante o Bolate ba? Medyo…have you noticed “Bulilit’s” (making her looked cute kuno (lol) before the camera eyes) in Malaya’s front page today, closed ang kanyang bulging eyes and attempts to be praying wholeheartedly. Praying for Bolante’s change of dialogue, kaya?
For too many times Gloria, Ermita, Bunye, Gonzales (the elderly), Defensor, etc. have been heard to utter “No one is above the law.” As usual, they lie with such aplomb and with the usual rehearsed poker faces that has become their trademark. In their slavish minds, there’s only one law. Gloria. She is above the law. All the rest must kneel and bow before her and her Ungentlemanly Spouse.
The De Venecia House has long stooped over. The Floppy-Eared One and his kennel allies not only kneel and bow, they grovel, they whine and sniff the ground the Queen trods on . Let’s gift them with canes this Christmas for their aching backs. The AFP and PNP? Hah. The Supreme Court? They’ll need back braces in the next few weeks. It’s only the Senate that’s still displaying strong backbones. They’ve got mighty stiff backs. But that doesn’t mean The Arrogant One Who Is Above the Law and her Droopy-Eyed House Chief aren’t working on them. Some Senators’ backs are already showing signs of osteoporosis. And when the Senate goes, that’s when this nation goes to the dogs completely.
“Some Senators’ backs are already showing signs of osteoporosis. And when the Senate goes, that’s when this nation goes to the dogs completely.”
That will be disastrous for Filipino humankind, Phil.
Arf, arf, arf! Awooooooooooooooh!
Elvira:
Dasal-dasalan lang iyan. Kamukhang-kamukha ng nanay niya! Laylay na ang mga laman! Humihingi siya ng tulong doon sa amo niyang si S at kung sino-sino pang maligno! Suyang-suya siguro sa mga kano at napalpak ang advice nila kay Bolate! Di niya akalaing mas malakas pala sa kaniya si Jun Magsaysay sa mga kano!
Makibalita ka sa mga taga-embassy diyan. Marami kang mapupulot na tsismis!
Suyang-suya siguro ang mga kano sa ginagawa ni Bolate na parang nakakaloko! Palpak ang advice ng mga amo niya sa kaniya. Akala kasi alam na alam nila ang pasikot-sikot sa America! At least, sa America may rule of law pa kahit papaano.
Ang yabang kasi! Buti nga sa kaniya!
Ito namang si Pandak, gosh, parang lulugo-lugo ang kumag sa Hawaii. Hindi puedeng mag-bikini sa Waikiki! Daig ni Anna! 🙂
Hay naku, with all the problems in the world, I have decide this instant to take things easy. Taipan is right, take it easy, be happy.
I will sleep over the horrible news of late because I know that tomorrow, I’ll wake up bright as the sunshine that hovers over this part of the world (at least when it feels like it) and then briefly check on the net if the world has changed.
If the world has not moved or if I feel that it is determined not to do anything other than to stay as it is, I will make myself some real Darjeeling tea, potter around in my garden, paint the new pots bright pink, yellow green, and light orange, fix the crazy ivy plant that’s threatening to throttle my young peach tree and perhaps, re-read “I Claudius” (which I always manage to sort of finish reading but never quite remember what I’ve read hence the re-reading ad vitam eternam exercise), a highly interesting historic-fictional read but also one of the most boring literary work of semi-fiction I’ve read. Go figure.
That is my “agenda” for tomorrow, Monday, which I intend to follow as soon as the kids leave home for school.
Till then, dear friends, au revoir!
Diego, the manner by which the $628M held in escrow at PNB was released for GMA to pocket, is yet one of the many “creative” decisions under Hilarious Davide’s court of clowns.
The escrow agreement with the Swiss bank provided that for he money to be released to gov’t, the Marcos should first be convicted in a court.
What the “constructions” of Davide achieved was to simply declare the money as gov’t property, totally bypassing the agreement, presto, another win-win solution…for Gloria and the Marcoses.
Phil Cruz is partly wrong in saying that Glora is above the law. Well, she’s not above it. She IS the law.
I beg your indulgence, Ellen, this is off-topic but very deserving of the space.
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Slip of the Tongue:
My 6:56am entry should have read:
The escrow agreement with the Swiss bank provided that for the money to be released to gov’t, the Marcoses should first be convicted in a court.
it is because of section 1 of executive no. 1 that encourage pillage in the assets sequestered by the agency. it also embolden crooks to continue raiding sequestered assets to enrich themselves because of the provision that unmistakably defies public accountability so enshrined in the present constitution. in my one cent of opinion, that provision now invoke by the PCGG commissioners is unconstitutional and should be striken down by the SC in the instant habeas corpus petition of chairman sabio. expect fireworks in the session hall of the SC when legal minds clash in the oral argument set on sept. 21.
while graft and corruption pervades every government offices in this country, PCGG is a standout. the notorious fiscal agents then assigned in sequestered companies started to work in PCGG as ordinary bureacrat most of them becoming millionaires in a year or two in the agency, living in expansive mansions and driving the latest models of expensive cars. most of them formerly jobless, they became instant millionaires. their only qualifications is strong political connection. how lucky can these people get. of course they are now all gone and so with the assets entrusted to them then and the filipino people were left behind with a big fat ZERO in the bag. they were replaced by another group equally if not more sophisticated in making sequestered assets easily vanished in thin air.
it is interesting to note that sen. salonga, who himself was the first chairman to sit in that agency, said in an interview on tv that chairman sabio was misapplying that provision because absolute immunity to answer any questionable act of PCGG officers was not really the legislative intent of that provision. i am sure sen. salonga will be invited to submit his comment in that petition as “amicus” and i wonder how he would explain the provision, assuming if it is left untouched. the language used in that provision is clear leaving nothing to be interpreted. in statutory construction, the court will interpret the law only when it is vague but will merely apply it if it is written in clear and equivocal terms. of course, the court can always declare a law or a part of it as unconstitutional, thus invalidate it.
how would it be reconciled with the constitutional provisions on public accountability would be an interesting legal discourse from a brilliant mind like former sen. salonga. i am sure his advance age will not diminish his superior ability to render a wise opinion on complex and difficult question of law in this habeas corpus petition. i can bet though that the SC will later on declare a portion of executive order no. 1 unconstitutional.
of course, the senate could probably lose this case and be ordered to release chairman sabio if the SC finds it did not stricly follow the procedure in the exercise of its power of inquiry already laid down in the recently decided case involving e.o. 464.
correction: EQUIVOCAL above should read, unequivocal. by the way, i also learned that executive order no. 1 was authored by sen. salonga himself.
vic says:
“I think that’s how a hearing should be conducted if everyone really wants to reform the system. Instead of Senator Gordon and all the Rest throwing insults and shouting match as if they are doing the World Wrestling Federation dramas.”
well said vic, but conducting legislative inquiry here in the philippines or a politician exposing graft of another opponent politician in public is often suspected as the most effective way of getting wide media mileage without spending so much in hefty media advertisement fees. experience shows that the country keep on kicking one grafter only to be replaced by another grafter more rapacious that the first. that explains well why, after the war, the philippines was economically sound next to japan only to land tail ender as of now.
i can only wonder aloud if a generally clean and honest society can fail to put clean and honest leaders in government. are we not deserving the kind of government that we have put in place?
Tongue-I.A.:
I like that: HILARIOUS Davide!
hahahahahahhh!!!
eh si bolante? :BOLArius?
hahahaahahhh!!
Anna,
A multi-tasking woman, indeed, you are. But get back to this blog quick after smelling the roses. We’ll miss your wisdom and your wit. And your fighting spirit.
Tongue,
Yes, I guess you’re right. She is not above the law. She is the law. But there’s a higher law she can’t create or bend. The Divine Law. The Natural Law. The Law of Karma. She has hurt and destroyed far too many lives. This higher law will soon catch up with her and her cabal…as it is already doing so.
It looks like the soft-spoken Camilo Sabio has also been cashing on the assets of Philcomsat, just like the weirdly emotional Abcede.
Vic Agustin has juicy items in in his column “Cocktales” in the Inquirer today.
A portion of Vic’s column:
You mean using the money for a night or two inside luxurious accomodations?
Nyah-hah-hah!
This must have some rings of truth…..a very dear kin works in a 5-star hotel and itiated that:
> one high-profile man of glue, with initials R.P. was often seen in a 5-star hotel in the city, with a has-been starlet in tow….not once, not twice, but several times!
…..I doubt if they are into government policy discussion….Baka kaya IBA ang diskas-yun?
tee^hee! 🙄
oppppss…
This must have some rings of truth…..a very dear kin works in a 5-star hotel and WHISPERED/INTIMATED that:
tuloy tuloy ang kanilang cashiyahan samantalang lugmok na sa hirap ang mga pobreng mamamayan. naman! naman! naman!!!!!
…Tongue-IA…i guess abalos has no room go go but ‘sing’..like in the song “SING”..sing a song, make it simple to last your whole life long….if he will give more weight to his conscience if he still values this. otherwise, we gets a gun and poke it in his temple to have ‘the sound of silence’….and for pandak bruha..it aint over till the fat lady sings!(in this case, bolate et al who has stories to ‘sing’)….
i remmber seeing in anther loop re flavier…he’s one example of balimbing as well. all the while i thought he was a righteous man…when he was out of DoH, wala na rin syang paki…and he is one of the directors of CAP!!!! naman, naman, naman….u mr flavier have snathed the right of the youth to have education – kahit we cant say for sure its quality education that we have around here!…u sir have been neglecting your duty as a senator, whre the people trusted u cz they thought you have the heart and mind to serve the people who put you to where u r right now..as Anna said, nt only do we have politicians who have osteoporosis but alzheimers and dementia and amnesia as well!..i hope these politicians who are liars, cheater, robbers, will have cancer and aids so that they will feel what it is to be shun by society…KARMA is a very powerful aspect of life…it is like the angel of death….
soleil,
walang takot sa karma yan. kahit impyerno pa!!!! yan lagay na yan? hirap na huminga! sinungaling pa rin. santambak ngayon ang hayop sa gobyerno ni pandak at bigman! kanda bulol na sa gagamiting salita! o SADYANG bumabanda lang ang salita kay among pandak!!!!
“Arthur Yap added that anti-graft agencies such as the Presidential Anti-Graft Commission are being beefed up with additional funds to hire more prosecutors and strengthen investigation and prosecution.” TO BEEF UP MORE FUNDS TO LOOT!!!!
@#@#@#@#@#***&&*@&@@&&*!!!!!@#&*@#&*^(@&*(*&&*!!!!!!!!!!
who needs a commission on good govt if the govt is good.in any case if all the 3 seats of power are functioning the culprits will always be judged. it is when the executive dominates the other 2 when there should be independence from each other that things become problematic.corruption exist even in the most advanced democracies but it is limited on the lower echelons.the work of a commission should be limited in time and scope but now many seems to be eternal.
Hello Phil,
My roses are in full bloom and they smell so nice but there’s lots of bumble bees around – don’t want the risk of getting stinged in the nose.
But here I am, up and about! Thanks…
here’s one from critic of glue the cemented
Target: bishops
VIEWPOINTS
Archbishop Oscar V. Cruz
09/19/2006
Now it is clear. Any and all critics of the administration are considered its dangerous enemies. They are perceived as destabilizers of the government and they are therefore made targets of threats, accusations and summary executions even. This has become clear and certain not only in the country but also abroad.
For the government, it is a crime to tell the truth. To protect its tenure of power and might, to extend its influence in intensity and extent, there are no holds barred. To assure its continuous unconscionable affluence, this odious end justifies all devious means. Nothing and no one is allowed to be on its way in pursuing its questionable options and dubious motives.
Leaders and members of cause oriented groups are gradually diminished in number. Protesting farmers are not spared. There are dissenting professionals who are eliminated. Critical media practitioners now live dangerously. Even students are abducted and pastors are killed without qualm or remorse. All of these people are considered “enemies of the state” by the government and should therefore be silenced temporarily or permanently.
The government has turned its persecutory attention to six Filipino bishops according to their own list. In so many words, the administration tells them to behave like little good boys. They are told: Play dumb. Keep quiet. Stay still. The national leadership and its avid followers are one in wanting the same bishops to act like the proverbial three monkeys: See nothing. Hear nothing. Say nothing. Or else.
This government that now wields power and has command of unlimited money and firearms of all kinds is in fact pitiful and pathetic. It forgets that there is no way of killing the truth. Guns and bullets do not vanish ideas. Even murders keep ideals alive first and foremost. It might be good to remind this government that doing away with six bishops simply means that six or even more new bishops will simply come to fore.
Woe to this government if it wants to think that lying, cheating and stealing should not be the concern of bishops, that injustice, oppression and killings should not get the attention of the church.
Soleil: Flavier claims to be the poorest among the senators. But, he purchased houses for all his children. All he does at the Senate is to sleep in his room and take naps during the session. He’s another waste in the Senate together with this Lapid.
Anak ng jueteng magsasakitan ang mga alipores ni Pandak kapag gini-gisa sa senado. Ginoong Sabio ang estilo mo bulok. Matagal na kayong nagnanakaw wala pa kayong nai-pakulong. Wala kayong silbi katulad ang iyong among Pandak.
Malacanang appointees think they are above the law. National Security adviser Norberto Gonzales was arrested by Senate Blue Ribbon for lying on the P50-million lobby contract he signed with US law firm Venable LLP. Norberto Gonzales was brought to the Heart Center in Quezon City after the hearing for high blood pressure. After the Norberto’s sick drama at senate hearing, Gloria Arroyo signed a gag order Executive Order 464 to protect its own kind. The discredited EO 464, which bars Cabinet men and key government officials from attending congressional inquiries without her permission. What happened to the P50 M U.S. lobby Venable LLP contract investigation? Bantay-salakay PCGG men are not above the law.
Alam mo Diego, over here iyan din ang tactic ng mga duwag na politiko na hindi kayang magbigti o tumalon sa mataas na building kapag nabisto. Pero dito natutuluyan! Kasi hindi makalabas ng hospital dahil pag labas ng hospital tuloy-tuloy sa kulungan.
Take the case of former Prime Minister Tanaka, who fell ill when he was exposed of taking bribes for introducing some people to Lockheed that everyone hear believes he was trapped into doing to remove him. But a bribe is a bribe and it is against the law.
At first, I thought it was just a ploy, but when they showed his face to the press, tabingi na ang mukha niya kaya totoo siyang na-stroke. And definitely over here no doctor would stake his reputation to lie for anybody no matter how politically powerful! Di sumbong mo sa pulis!
But in the Philippines, pati doctor kasabwat!!! Pwe!!! Kaya dasal na lang natin matuluyan na lang sana, or something like a Tsunami to remove these crooks if the Senate is rendered useless and made to look merely grandstanding. Amen!
Soleil, sabay-sabay na ito. Yung kay Bolante, itong sa PCGG, yung kay Alan Cayetano at ibang na-libel, Amnesty International, World Bank, pati na ADB (nasa ADB ako last week and my contact there told me they have submitted a blacklist to World Bank for corrupt lenders which included some 6 names of companies and twenty individuals. Wala pa yata ito sa diyaryo?) And now this PET calling on Abalos to testify. Lose-lose situation iyan kay Abalos.
Pag sinabi niyang tama yung bata niya na yung 5 copies ng COC/ER/COV magkakamukha maliban sa kopya ng kongreso, malimnaw na na-switch yung kopyang ginamit na na-“NOTED”.
Pag sinabi niyang mali yung bata niya, papaano niya mapapatunayan na ang kopya ng administrasyon, oposisyon, Comelec, Namfrel, at isa pa ay peke lahat? Siguradong magagalit si Donya niyan!
Buhos na ng todo ito, kulang na lang gulpihin ng buong mundo itong mag-asawang aswang sa dami ng pinagtatakpang kasalanan.
Pag nakawala pa ito, talagang makapangyarihan na ang Demonyo.
taipan,
katawa-tawa kasi ang pinag-gagawa kaya hilarious. Matindi pero delikado rin naman yung pumalit, si Artemio Panganibyan.
Phil,
meron ding law sa Physics, what goes up must come down.
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Slip of the tongue:
1.Corrupt borrowers, hindi corrupt lenders.
2. malinaw not malimnaw.
tongue, their lucky and favorite number 666!!
Related Topic:
Japan just wants home helpers
By PATRICK HATTMAN
Tokyo
Articles on Sept. 9 and 10 about the Japan-Philippines free trade agreement confirm that the pact was overhyped and leaves much to be desired. Focusing on the issue of Japan accepting Filipino medical-care givers, the cynical observer has to wonder at the results of years of bilateral negotiations.
It seems to me that Japan, by setting the qualification standards so high, has never seriously considered accepting but a few token Filipino medical professionals. Unfortunately, due to racial stereotypes, Filipino doctors and nurses, irrespective of their education and qualifications, will not be accepted as equals in this society for the foreseeable future.
What this country really wants is the equivalent of hundreds of “home helpers” annually to perform some needed medical services in exchange for scant compensation, while providing prospective brides for Japanese men to hopefully boost the country’s abysmally low birthrate.
Japan is not displaying its good will to the Philippines with this part of the free trade agreement. It is simply a marriage of economic and social convenience.
The opinions expressed in this letter to the editor are the writer’s own and do not necessarily reflect the policies of The Japan Times.
The Japan Times: Sunday, Sept. 17, 2006
(C) All rights reserved
I like Lito Banayo’s comments on the Dona’s European Rainbow Tour that did not turn out rainbow full after all. Hopefully, we will not be hearing about the Dona having the same affliction Eva Peron had after her trip to the Vatican, Spain, Italy and France just after WWII. She suffered from Cancer and died, but unlike the Dona, Evita was loved by the Descamisados!. The Dona? Sinusuka with everybody shouting now, “Off with her head!” except of course those who have their hands with the palms up all the time!
ystakei,
GMA has 40 to 45 months until June 30,2010 to recoup her image by creating or reviving her campaign slogan last 2004: “10 Million Jobs”.
“History will be kinder to Gloria Macapagal Arroyo”, —–kasi nga “PHILIPIN HAVE A SHORT MEMORY MEMORY”, kasi nga kabaro ng elitista, kasi nga pidalista, kasi nga ekonomista, kasi nga asumsyonista, kasi nga retokista, kasi nga gustong mag artista at kung anu ano pa!
ayan ang isang dekadang panunungkulan!
—–dahil sya ay babae? Kung lalaki lang ang umuukupa sa katayuan ngayon ni GMA, malamang OUSTED na rin siya!
dahil sa naranasan niya sa Europe at Cuba, siguradong ire-calibrate nya ang kaniyang mga polisiya.
Panahon na naman para magtrabaho si Little Mike. Mangangampanya na naman sila 🙂
You bet! Wala namang ginawa iyan kundi mangumpanya hanggang ngayon. No, I don’t think history will be kinder to her dahil wala namang accomplishment kundi gawing mga puta, atsoy at atsay ang mga kababayan niya. At least, si Marcos may maaalala ang mga pilipino sa mga ginawa niya. Kahit nga mga komunistang katulad nina Satur Ocampo nare-realize na hindi naman pala ganoong kademonyo si Marcos di tulad nitong mga swapang at ganid na ito na lahat ng pundo kinurakot! Si Marcos hindi ginalaw ang pondo ng mga nagtratrabaho sa Supreme Court na sinawapang naman ni Davide, o ang OWWA fund na pina-ipon ni Marcos para sa mga OFW. Me ninakaw man siya pero may tinitira naman para sa mga talagang nangangailagan. Itong si Ale Boba, ninakaw na lahat wala nang itinira sa mga nangangailangan kundi para sa photo op lang. Tapos, kunyari ang daming ginawa pinalalayas lang ang mga pilipino sa bansa tapos kinukumbidang tumira sa Pilipinas iyong mga matatandang pensionado sa ibang bansa para makurakot din siguro niya ang mga pera nila. In short, ganid!
she is a president who has not outgrown her high school attitude, delivering speeches like valedictory addresses, showing her tantrums like a spoiled brat and always want to be the center of attraction. economist? ewan!!!!
yes TongueIA..u said everything well…seems puro peke nalang anywhere we turn..jst now there is the investigation that will be started re faking of PEPTEST..i believe these are the equivalent of the NCEE during my time…atlest noon am sure walang fake…i got the highest score and it was reflected in the university entrance tests as well…this proves that tayong mga graduates noon ay talagang may pinagkatapusan ng magtapos tayo n not jst run-of-the-mill certificates ang nasa isip…
pagwawaldas ng asset ng taumbayan not only in monetary aspect itself bt in the precious time and effort that people go through…jst to think of the humonguous(?)’assemblyline’ of movement tht everyone goes through – the wastage is immesurable and unimaginable!!!
npongco, there are still plenty who are nt only like flavier and lapid who are only good in taking siestas n making chit-chat or texting…
off-topic…wats happening now with the ‘battle between cayetanos and fatguy’, ‘tulfos and the fatguy’…chavit must be peeing in his pants with glee hearing that they are preparing the cell for atong ang. the thing is he should also be joining him there as they are all in connivance. he was a sourgrape kaya lang sya nag name that tune!
Soleil, the power of Malacanang is very evident these days. Now, they’re convincing (or pressuring) Atong Ang to testify against Erap when he’s extradited to Manila. Not long ago, another Erap ally former Rep. Mark Jimenez also turned against Erap. Obviously, there always has been some kind of secret arrangement between Malacanang and the US. Why this Gloria is still in power explains it all!
From the column of Ernesto Maceda’s Mr. Expose in the Daily Tribune’s issue of Sept 19:
“Fantastic Four. In every administration, the center of corruption is the Bureau of Customs (BoC) where hundreds of millions could be made in a few days considering the estimated 3,000 containers arriving daily in the different ports of the country.
Like the Bureau of Internal Revenue and the National Food Authority, it has always attracted the special attention of powerful men connected with the Palace. Invariably there emerges a king, a queen or a “cuadro de jack.”
Customs tabloids are now talking about the latest version of the “cuadro de jack” in the persons of two congressmen and two Cabinet members.
They alleged that Representatives Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo and Ignacio “Iggy” Arroyo, Secretaries Michael “Mike” Defensor and Ronaldo Puno are now the most influential VIPs in the Customs zone.
The operators are surnamed Montenegro, Atayde, Tan and Yu. The estimated take — P50 million a day or P1.5 billion a month”.
We can see how these people rob the treasury. Instead of the taxes going to the coffers, it is going directly to the pockets of the robbers. And somebody here still is idolizing and adoring the evil queen who is illegally sitting in Malacanang.
EDITORYAL – Corruption sa gobyerno ang unahing lutasin
Ang Pilipino STAR Ngayon 09/20/2006
MABUTI at matapang magpahayag ang World Bank na ang Pilipinas ay walang ginagawang matibay na paraan para malutas ang lumulubhang corruption. At least ang nagsabi ay taga-labas mismo kaya walang preno sa paglalantad ng kanilang reklamo o batikos. Bukod sa talamak na corruption na inireport ng World Bank na nakasaad sa kanilang “Governance Matters 2006: Worldwide Governance Indicators” binatikos din ang klase ng pamumuno sa Pilipinas. Sabi pa ng World Bank, sa kabila na ang Pilipinas ay isang demokratikong bansa at isa sa may pinakamalayang pamamahayag, hindi pa rin maputol ang nangyayaring corruption. Palubha pa nang palubha. Ayon sa report ng WB, noong 1998 ang ranking ng Pilipinas sa pagkontrol sa mga corrupt ay 50.5 percent subalit nakapagtatakang bumaba sa 37.4 noong 2005. Malaki ang nangyaring pagbaba na nagpapakita lamang na walang ginagawa ang gobyerno para malutas ang pagnanakaw sa gobyerno. Tinalo pa ng Indonesia at Cambodia ang Pilipinas na tumaas ang ranking at lumalakas pa para labanan ang katiwalian sa kanilang bansa.
Hindi pa natatagalan nang ireport din ng World Bank na ang Pilipinas ay nasa nakadidismayang puwesto na iniiwasan ng mga dayuhang investors. Ang dahilan ng pag-iwas: Talamak na red tape. Only in the Philippines na maraming papeles na kakailanganin bago makapagbukas ng negosyo at hindi kikilos ang mga papeles kung walang “padulas” na pera. Kung malaki ang nakaipit na pera hindi na mahihirapan at ayos na agad. Kung maliit, tatagal ang proseso. Ony in the Philippines lamang ito. Dito sa Pilipinas may mga “buwaya” na walang kabusugan.
Ang sinabi ng World Bank ay mariin namang binatikos ng Malacañang. Hindi anila nagkukulang ang gobyerno ng Pilipinas kung ang tungkol sa pamumuno ang pag-uusapan at lalong hindi naman naging malambot sa paglaban sa mga tiwali sa pamahalaan. Walang katotohanan ang sinabi ng World Bank.
Mahinang pamumuno at labis na katiwalian ang nakikita sa Pilipinas. Nakadidismaya at nakahihiya ito. At natural na hindi tatanggapin ng Malacañang ang komentaryo o obserbasyon ng World Bank.
Walang pinakamabuting magagawa kundi unahin ng Malacanang na malutas ang labis na katiwalian. Hindi na sekreto ang problemang ito. Ang taumbayan ay sukang-suka na sa mga katiwaliang nagaganap. Iprayoridad ito.
Iyan talaga ang editorial ng Pilipino Star?
Wow, ang tigas!
Good thing, Max Soliven hasn’t fired the editor!
anna, alin ga ang matigas? ‘yung editor?……..o yung ………. article ng pagbubunyag? ala, ang sama agad ng isip ey.
Ang alam ko ang akin ang matigas. Siyanga pala Ate Anna, taga-Batangas ka ba? Marami akong kamag-anak diyan lalo na sa may San Juan. Kamag-anak ko ang mga Malabanan at Quizon.
artsee, kalat ang malabanan sa batangas. ala’y sa amin sa batangas ey hindi na kailangang ika’y magpasikat para makilala’t sumikat ey. ala’y sayang itong mga tinamaan ng mga kulog na batanggenyong sunod aso sa puwet ng mag-asawang maligno – eduardo ermita, leandro merdoza, hernando perez, alanganin itong si recto, ewan ko si sanchez, lahing makapili si mandanas. sus, bakit naman kasi hindi mangagpakalalaki ey.
may mga malabanan din sa laguna bandang calamba at los banyos.hanggang dito sa oslo ay mayroon ding mga malabanan.