Rebranding corruption; corruption by other names (flood control, insertions, allocables)

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In the beginning it was Pork (Barrel)

Then  PDAF

Now its flood control  (allocables, insertions)

How can they be so bold?  Sagad sagad ang kawalang hiyaan, at kasamaan?  Will they even enter hell?

Its shameful for us to wash our laundry in this post.    May the Lord forgive them

Fmr SP Franklin Drilon says the flood control controversies have no equal in his 34 years of govt service

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Perhaps it is so massive and so scandalous:   ghost projects,  cut and paste, uncompleted projects op, etc 

Massive 20-25% commissions for just including in NEP, UA, or Bicam, paid in advance.    etc.    Milking raiding the treasury progressed from pork barrel, PDAF and now flood control projects.   How creative our top leaders can be  Whom we entrust with out taxes and nations future. 

 

Senators implicated in the flood control project anomalies. There could be more

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Two solons were linked to the ongoing investigation on flood control anomalies.  News has it that Senate could lose its quorum (being less than 13)

The corurption MO varied over the years:    pork barrel, PDAF, now its flood control projects

How sad?!

"Kayo ang aking boss" what does it mean?#KBL (Kasal, Binyag, Libing

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From Sona of Pnoy - from Inquirer



Rizal  Philippines   |  October 9, 2014

For all we know, this is a political gimmickiry.  All aimed at getting votes.

That means too that the President must pay the price:   favors, employment,  contracts, and maybe DAP and PDAF.

No less than the President himself declared war vs KBL -  Kasal Binyag Libing.  They pose difficulty for all elected govt officials.  Yet political patronage, our political system, the slogan. "kayo ang aking boss" dictates that the elected official given in to that. Such a contradiction.

What is the new whistle blower doing re the PDAF testimony?

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Ruby Tuason testimony weak from GMA News

Ruby Tuason, the social sec implicated for the PDAF scandal being pointed by another whistle blower as having received more than half billion in commission has nothing conclusive, no material evidence to link the good senators to the scandal. "Nagkita po kami sa restaurant"  Nothing in her action or testimony links/lead the senator to the crime.  At the end of the day, she and Janet will go to jail.

Sorry for you  D o J.   

From Rappler - Binay says prosecution case weak

Ruby Tuason returns, to testify in Malampaya and pork barrel scam

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Estrada aide, Ruby Tuason returns turns state witness in PDAF anomaly | February 7 2014

From Sunstar - Tuason received commissions for JE and JPE

Who is Ruby Tuason and who she is working for video

Ruby Tuason, former staff of Sen. Jinggoy Estrada and social secretary of fmr president Erap Estrada has returned to the country to testify in connection with the PDAF anomaly.  She is accused to have received a total of P242.775 million in connection with the P900 million Malampaya fund anomaly. Investigators believe that there are principals behind the receipt of the said amount. She is one of those who is accused in pork barrel scam and the P242.775 million is the biggest to have been received.

Tuason is charged before the Ombudsman in connection with the P10 billion PDAF scam involving Janet Lim Napoles, Ben Hur Luy, if we remember

In the TV interview today, she admitted having received the said amount in behalf of Sens. Estrada and Enrile

What was JE request to COA head?

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December 16, 2013

I happened to go on plane travel yesterday and was seated beside the lady from COA.  Our conversation veered towards PDAF, the senators and solons involved, and JE.  I asked her what did JE request their head in  a phone conversation.  Well she said, JE requested for replacement resident auditor for City Hall (where the father  is the mayor).  This was denied by the lady head of COA.

Now you know

Tax collection efforts will lose traction because of DAP and PDAF

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Philippines December 10, 2013



Our friends remarked and they are under BIR tax audit, that voluntary willful payment of taxes would have been the order of the day were it not for the PDAF and DAP events.  It would have been tuwid na daan and many would be willing to pay their taxes promptly and faithfully.  But not after PDAF.  With the wanton wastage of the taxpayers money, with the plunder and stealing that is going on at the highest level (without the PNoys knowledge) we cant expect belligerence or revolt on the part of the taxpayers.   Their agressiveness in  tax collection should be matched with care and diligence how that money must be spent

The Napoles hearing at the Senate was a fishing expedition

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Philippines   |  November 7, 2013

 

The way Sen. Santiago coaxed Ms. Janet Napoles to tell the truth vs her esteemed colleagues in the Senate and to perpetuate her testimony, and even suggesting that she may be assassinated (fear factor) would seem to suggest that her being a witness vs the Senators would be the strongest evidence vs. the alleged crooks in the government.  If there were truckloads of evidences vs JLN, why up to now no charges on PDAF have been filed? She is in custody because of the illegal detention case and not because of the alleged plunder case.  If the case is so strong because of the former employees turned witnesses, why still go to this circus?

Some facebook commenters suggested that while they love SMDS demeanor this time, she did not advance much the cause of the case

Ms. Sen Santiago's questioning would seem to trap Napoles (which she easily extricated herself from) and bring fear for her life so she would tell all, did not achieve all.  Her hypothesis that her becoming so rich and knowing all  businesses is suspicious (because the shipyard and coal businesses failed) can be at best speculative, and which according, in her past lectures at the Senate, cant be a probable cause.

From Rappler on Napoles hearing at the Senate

Hmm stupid is forever?

                 

3 charged senators allegedly endorsed Napoles linked NGOs

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From PHILstar headlines | September 5, 2013

 

The three senators who are charged various offenses with the Office of Ombudsman allegedly endorsed the Napoles linked NGO. This was according to VP for Finance and Administration Rhodora Mendoza of NABCOR  (National Agribusiness Corporation)   The Napoles linked NGO is Social Development Program for Farmer Foundation (whose head is Ben Hur Luy)








From Rappler - were the senators signatures faked?

Sen Jinggoy Estradas bombshell on PDAF?

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What bombshell - was really a bombshell?

One of the three senators accused of wrongdoing in the PDAF anomaly promised to drop a bombshell.  Was it really a bombshell?  Or was it mud?

All that he said is why single him out or the three?

But he did not deny nor refute the COA nor the whistle blower's testimony.  Of course former CJ Renato Corona benefited from his privileged speech.  But it did not endear him to the rest of his colleagues.

Was the P50 million additional PDAF for senators a bribe to convict SC Corona?  Are they honorable man or ...

So when the going gets rough, the rough gets going.

Expect more bombshell and those who will run for cover and turn against former friends.

Why did Lawyer Kapunan take the Napoles case?

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I watched the interview of Lawyer Kapunan by Tina Monson Palma over the allegations vs her client Napoles.  While she was logical and very clear on her stand with regards to alleged illegal detention of Ben Hur Luy, she was not when asked why she took the case.

She said Luy went on a retreat.  And the fact is Luy, who is a relative of Napoles was alleged to have malversed funds from Napoles and was alleged to own businesses like call ctrs. etc.

But when asked why she took the case, she was ambivalent and nebulous with her answer.

It was as if you heard former Senator Saguisag being interviewed on why he took a controversial client to defend.  (Well we can be practical by saying, that money is good)

She said she was against the crooks behind the PDAF;   Whaaat. ???? That would not have been possible without the facilitation of her client.    The advocacy of lawyer is sometimes about the legal fees.  Had she said that it advocacy and everybody needs equal protection before the law, that would seem more like it.

Senators defense lawyers say there are no documents linking PDAF scam with their client

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Repost from Inquirer | September 19, 2013

One of the senators, a senior one has been linked to the P10 billion plunder case PDAF Napoles scam.  The lawyers say that there are no documents that link the senator diverting the Senators PDAF funds to the Napoles NGO.

With the admission of the whistle blower Benhur Luy (a relative of Napoles) that numerous documents have been forged by Napoles staff or even by other people, it would be difficult to have solid case vs the senators.  Hearsay and speculation may not be good evidence to prosecute the alleged culprit. As good lawyers and even Presiding officer of the Senate, or even chief of the impeachment court, the good senator would be smart enough to have no part in this scam.

I wonder whether the prosecution would be embarrassed and red faced if the lawyers submit their counter affidavit.

Did the prosecutors DOJ proceed in haste?   Did they bungle this one again.  I am not pro or against any one but let us follow the process.  Let us think like we are professionals and not gossipers or those who rely on hearsays to make judgment on people

50-40-10% sharing of PDAF laundered through NGO; how greedy can people get?

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We just learned the 50-40- 10% scheme for sharing of the loot for the PDAF and it is outrageous and revolting:

50% goes to the sponsoring solon as a kickback

40% goes to the JLN

10% goes to the project beneficiary.

Read more on the newest place to have your children at UST stay - Corte Fragata

No wonder the outrage is extreme.  It makes us nauseous.  Who wants to puke?

If the ratio was the reverse, it would not be so bad.

So much money has been made in the name of the poor

A protest vs pork PDAF? It is a battle between the victor and the spoils...

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There is supposed to be a nationwide and a million protesters vs PDAF today.  Former SC Chief Justice was heard to be a Quirino grandstand probably to point at fingers his tormentors, who were as culpable as he is committing acts that were clearly unconstitutional.  While we may uphold high standards, the system perpetuate itself, and no end can be sight. The only hope may be a revolution.  Thus says Thomas Jefferson, every generation needs a revolution.  (As we as young protesters have often mouthed as if robots)

Some realities  we must accept:

l.  To the victor belongs the spoils  (those who are in power must reap the spoils of victory)  What are we in power for?  Would anybody believe that we did not enjoy the perks of power while we were in power.

2. Make hay while we may.  Can the officials still recover their costs if they are no longer in power?

3. It is a battle of commissioners.  Those who battled the former officials are now the corrupt officials.

4. Power corrupts and it corrupts absolutely.

5.  The politics of patronage.  Our politicos need the PDAF, or earnings from this to keep themselves in power:  from campaigning to keeping their constituents happy and well fed.  Where to get all that money. I doubt, if not one of these protesters solicited/received any money from anyone of these officials whom they are protesting now.   It is the way it works.    How can some people, including from the religious sector be so hypocrites

Land of the free (or the responsible?)

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Free dom has acquired  a new meaning;  so has "land of the free" in a national anthem.  It is more like the free of Chris Anderson.

Many citizens see that it is their right to expect to get free from the state.  The state is compelled to borrow massively to finance this culture of "free" entitlement.  State has to borrow massively to give free livelihood, food and the like to its citizen.  Result?

In the PHL, the free culture forces many politicians to have jueteng and many fund raising projects to fund/finance the need of their constituents  for free.  So you cant really abolish PDAF or jueteng.  No legislation can do that.

I saw how overpowering this idea of "free " is .  The homemaker did not arrive this morning to do the laundry, because she has to fall in line for a free from the LGU for the flood victims.  She missed a handsome pay for the day in favor of a measly free goods!

Unless our citizens subscribe to the mental model asked for by fmr President JFK  "Ask not what your country can do for you, not what your country can for you."

It is not about freedom, it is about responsibility