OVERHEARD: WHAT THE PRESIDENT HAD SAID DURING THE DURATION OF THE YOLANDA CRISIS

The President said the delivery of aid was hampered by the decimation of local government units.

 

 Blaming the LGU
“Our ability to take care of our problems rather quickly, except in this particular case, the foundation of our efforts rely on the local government units. And unfortunately, two or three were just simply overwhelmed by the degree of this typhoon that affected us,” the President said.

“The problem is when the local government unit who are acting as first responders fail to respond appropriately, then there was that breakdown. People became desperate and that’s why we are trying to fast-track the situation where the national government takes over these local government functions so that order is restored and people gain the confidence that their needs are being addressed and will be addressed fully.”

“But other than that, in the other areas, there was preemptive evacuation and cooperation from the citizenry, which brought down the casualty figures from the other areas affected, except for this corridor in the Leyte and two Samar provinces,” he added.

On number of Casualties
 “Ten thousand, I think, is too much. And perhaps that was also brought about by being in the center of the destruction. There was emotional trauma involved with that particular estimate, quoting both a police official and a local government official. They were too close to the incident. They did not have basis for it,” he said.

“So far, 2,000 to about 2,500 is the figure we are working on as far as deaths are concerned. But this might still get higher,” Aquino added.

LP territory in Samar

“Guiuan is organized so we are able to move faster and we can share the load with the local government. In other areas, their data (on casualties, among others) and figures are incomplete,” he said.

“I cannot afford to get mad at this point, but I want to emphasize that your LGU here in Guiuan has been very efficient in serving as the first responder,” Aquino said.

The President said if LGUs were unable to prepare well, it adds more burden to the national government which has to assume the role of being the first responder.

“We have already announced the path of the typhoon so local officials should have mobilized faster,” the President said, without mentioning the cities or municipalites which he thought failed to prepare enough ahead of super typhoon Yolanda.

WHAT DOES OBAMA HAVE TO SAY OVER AQUINO?

"WHO LET THE DOGS OUT . . . . .  

 WHOOOO ......WHOOOO!"

"WHO LET THE DOGS OUT?!"

Liars, Traitors and Hypocrites!

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Boy Scout 101

Mr. President, isn't it too late in the day to go on a camping experience, while being obnoxious to the feelings of suffering earthquake victims???

                  Hilo ka na ba Mr. President?

 

At ipinagmamalaki mo pa raw ang sarap ng simoy ng hangin diyan sa Bohol.

Bakit hindi ka nalang mag-apply ng trabahong scout master.

                                     - - -

  

               Take it from me, Mr. Boy Iskawat.

ITO BA ANG DAANG MATUWID NI PNOY???

BASAHIN NATIN!!!

HARAPAN, GINAGAGO TAYO NG MGA ITO. 


FROM MANILA TIMES

by RIGOBERTO TIGLAO

Doing research on some other topic, I stumbled on what at first I thought were outdated information. But the info turned out to be accurate—and troubling.
The conglomerate Philippine Investment Management Inc. (Phinma) listed as one of its board members Jose Cuisia. Isn’t he our current “Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the United States, with concurrent jurisdiction over the Virgin Islands, Grenada and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico?”
Yes he is. And not only that, our ambassador is presently active in nine other firms, which certainly aren’t just mom-and-pop outfits.
He is vice-chairman in the Philippine American Life and General Insurance Co., in which he had been CEO for a decade until its American owners, AIG, went bankrupt and had to sell out to Asian investors. He is also vice chairman of the company, which is at the core of Henry Sy’s empire, SM Prime Holdings.
He is a director of the Ayalas’ Manila Water Co., in cement conglomerate Holcim Philippines, in call-center firm Integra Business Processing Solutions, in property firm ICCP Holdings, and in Beacon Property Ventures.
I nearly fell off my seat reading this information: Cuisia is chairman of The Covenant Car Co.
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Why do I find that shocking? The Covenant Car Company is the sole importer and distributor of the US company Chevrolet’s cars in the Philippines, and I’m certain Cuisia doesn’t know much about the car business.

Its Filipino stockholders might as well have put up a neon sign at their showrooms: Trust us, our chairman is the ambassador to the US, and he sees the Chevrolet chairman often there.
With that number of directorships in major firms, Cuisia is obviously raking it in while he is our underpaid ambassador to the US. Strangely though, he seems to have become exempt from BIR rules since he became ambassador in 2010. Reported as the Bureau of Internal Revenue’s 55th biggest taxpayer in 2009 and paying P13 million in taxes, Cuisia has completely dropped out of the lists for 2010, 2011, and 2012.

Is Cuisia’s continuing employment in private firms while he is the Philippine ambassador to the US legal? If it is, is it proper?
I’m sure that The Covenant Car Co., Phinma Life, SM malls, Manila Water, and Integra Business Processing Solutions would have one way or another have business dealings in the world’s biggest economy.

Does having the Philippine Ambassador to the US as its chairman, vice-chairman or director give that company an unfair edge to its competitors? Or is Cuisia violating in principle the civil service code’s prohibition on conflict-of-interest situations of civil servants employed in private firms?
(The only other civil servant I know who is as busy as Cuisia in private firms is Social System Chairman Juan Santos, who sits in the board of Philex Mining and Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. where the SSS has shares in and in seven other major corporations, including Phinma and First Philippine Holdings.)

But the really important question is not even the legality and morality of a Philippine ambassador busy in ten private companies.
The US is the most important country we have diplomatic relations with. That’s an understatement. As a nation, we’re depending on the US for our security, and after ranting at China, and bad-mouthing it as a bully, our foreign secretary right after would sheepishly glance at Uncle Sam to be assured that it will defend the country if the Chinese really gets pissed off.
The US is also where we have the biggest population of migrant Filipinos, whom we can tap as a powerful lobby group for our national interests, as American Jews have done for decades. As a nation we also have the responsibility to assist them in preserving their Filipino heritage.

Our ambassador represents both the President and the entire country in the world of nations. He can’t be often absent in that job making money in the Philippines.
But maybe his membership in these firms’ board is just titular, and his involvement is through Skype or some of kind of teleconferencing.

Nope. Cuisia is even chairman of Phinma’s compensation committee and a member of its board’s executive committee. In SM Prime, he is chairman of its Risk Management and Audit Committee, and member of its Nomination Committee.
Cuisia has religiously attended in the Philippines each and every meeting of the board of the companies he is a director of, so that he is out of his US post from three days to a week every month.
Our ambassador to the US is not within his area of jurisdiction and travels to the Philippines for several days every month. Does the foreign affairs department pay for Cuisia’s first-class fare or is it the firms he is involved in?
I was surprised over Cuisia’s continued board memberships as I had the impression that this was forbidden, either by civil regulations or by practice in the foreign affairs department.
I remember there were magnates who wanted to be ambassadors during President Arroyo’s term, but who later on declined after being told they would have to take a leave from their companies. Tycoons Jaime Zobel de Ayala and Edgardo Espiritu had to take a leave of absence from their businesses when they served as ambassadors to the United Kingdom
Cuisia’s monthly travel to the Philippines is actually quite a remarkable feat.

Ambassadors are required to get an approval not only from the foreign affairs secretary but also from the President or the Executive Secretary when he leaves his post.
Not only that. The foreign secretary has to formally issue a document appointing a chargé d’affaires, or the official in charge of the Embassy while he ambassador is away. Not only that. The embassy has to report to the State Department (or the foreign affairs ministry in other countries) that the ambassador is not in the country, and that the chargé d’affaires will temporarily represent the nation. I doubt if Cuisia bothered with these required documentation.

All these paper work only emphasizes the fact that part of an ambassador’s job description is that he can leave his post only for official reasons or in an emergency. I wonder how Cuisia justified his board meetings with Phinma, SM and the other eight companies as “attending to official matters.”
An ambassador’s job is actually a very demanding one if one takes his work seriously. Filipino organizations demand the personal presence of the ambassador in their social activities. You can dismiss these as petty events, but one can also see these as opportunities to strengthen your links to the Filipino community you also represent in that land.

The Migrant Workers and Overseas Filipinos Act of 1995 in effect even gave our ambassadors a new, demanding duty of protecting OFWs in their posts, a job no other country has asked of their ambassadors.
What also makes an ambassador’s work practically limitless is the fact that to pursue the country’s interests, he has to make friends with the elite of the country he is covering, and this requires unending invitations to them for lunch or dinner. These requires the patience and energies of a salesman, since a single addition to an ambassador’s stock of friends would be another source of support when the Philippines need something from that host government.
Having a part-time ambassador is even a bit of an insult to the country he is posted in, as it sends the message that it is not that important a nation that it is not a full-time job for our ambassador, who will be away a week every month. I wouldn’t be surprised if Americans think of us so poor that we have to allow our ambassador in the US to make money in private firms while he is in his post.

No wonder we aren’t getting anything really substantial from the US, other than their empty blah-blahs supporting our saber-rattling against China, no wonder our embassy can’t even lobby successfully for the US president to visit our country.

tiglao.manilatimes@gmail.com
www.rigobertotiglao.com and www.trigger.ph

WHAT THEY DO NOT WANT US TO KNOW!

ASEAN INTEGRATION IN 2015

WHAT THEY DO NOT WANT US TO KNOW:

 1.  PHILIPPINE ECONOMY WILL BE OPENED UP TO FOREIGN GOODS AND SERVICES THAT WILL COMPETE WITH DOMESTIC PRODUCTION AND LOCAL TALENTS.

2. AS THE ASEAN INTEGRATION HAS NOT BEEN STUDIED AND SANCTIONED BY THE LEGISLATURE, IT SEEMS THAT THIS HIGHLY SYSTEMATIZED COMMERCIAL INTEGRATION WILL BYPASS OFFICIAL APPROVAL AND MAY POSSIBLY BRING ABOUT GREAT DAMAGE IN THE PHILIPPINE ECONOMY, WREAK HAVOC TO THE PHILIPPINE CONSTITUTION AND WITH  LOSS OF PROTECTION TO FILIPINO LABOR.

3. ASEAN INTEGRATION IMPOSES CHEAP GOODS AND PRODUCTS; PHILIPPINE PRODUCTS MAY NOT BE ABLE TO COMPETE WITH THE WORLD MARKET. 

TRUTH BE TOLD, ONLY DANDING COJUANGCO, LUCIO TAN, TONYBOY COJUANGCO AND RAMON ANG'S PRODUCTS WILL BE THE ONLY ONES TO FARE WITH THE COMPETITION.

SMALL TIME ENTREPRENEURS AND CRAFTSMEN WILL BE "KILLED". SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY HAVE NO CAPITAL TO EXPORT THEIR PRODUCTS.

4. ASEAN INTEGRATION WILL INTRODUCE FOREIGN SKILLS AND TALENTS, THUS, FOREIGN COMPETITION VERSUS LOCAL PRC HOLDERS. 

               TALONG-TALO NA TAYO DITO.

IMAGINE, A FOREIGN LAWYER OR A LAND APPRAISER PRACTICING OUR "OWN" LAWS WITHOUT SECURING "PERMIT" FROM GOVERNMENT AGENCIES. IT WILL BECOME EVEN MORE PERNICIOUS IF THESE PRACTICES WILL BE INSTITUTIONALIZED.

OUR OWN PROFESSIONALS WILL BE OSTRACIZED BY INVESTORS AND SHOT "DEAD"!
KAKAININ TAYO NG BUHAY!

5. THE K-12 PROGRAM WAS DESIGNED WAS ENCOURAGE OUR CHILDREN TO DO MANUAL LABOR FOR FOREIGN COMPANIES AND FOR DOMESTIC OLIGARCH COMPANIES. 

THEY WANT US TO PERFORM BLUE COLLAR JOBS FOR THEM. 

IN SHORT: CHIMAY AT CHIMOY! MGA EN-GRANDENG KATULONG AT BOY!

BERNIE VILLEGAS, A MEMBER OF THE RICH AND ELITE OPUS DEI BASED IN NEW YORK, ALSO ENCOURAGES US TO DO A "PARADIGM SHIFT".

                                  PARADIGM SHIFT? 

AT THE EXPENSE OF A HIGHER NATIONAL EDUCATION THAT WILL CREATE FILIPINO MASTER TEACHERS, BETTER MANAGERS, BUSINESS OWNERS, STATESMEN, HEAD ENGINEERS, SUPERIOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGISTS, HEAD NURSES, SUPERVISING ACCOUNTANTS, WORLD-CLASS PILOTS, PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS, EMINENT SCIENTISTS, FUTURE CAPITALISTS, PRODUCERS, ARTISANS, EXECUTIVES AND EVEN RAGS-TO-RICHES MAGNATES?  

WHERE IS THE ECONOMIC HIGHGROUND HERE?

PUTANG-INA KA BERNIE VILLEGAS, PALIBHASA YOU SERVE THE ELITE AND RICH OPUS DEI!!!

YOU FUCKING WANT US TO SERVE OLIGARCHS AND FOREIGN MASTERS AGAIN??

                            AT OUR OWN DOORSTEP???

AFTER 330 YEARS OF FOREIGN OCCUPATION IN THIS COUNTRY???

CIRCUMVENTING OUR TIME-HONORED PHILIPPINE CONSTITUTION, THAT PRESIDENT ABNOY NOW, IS DESECRATING???

YOU WANT US TO VIOLATE OUR OWN LAWS???

IS THAT THE REASON WHY YOU ARE IN FAVOR OF THE WITHDRAWAL OF MILLIONS OF PESOS IN BUDGET FOR OUR STATE COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES?

IS THAT THE REASON WHY YOU ARE SUPPORTING THE EXPENSIVE AND BURDENSOME K-12 EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM OF THE GOVERNMENT?

PARA KUMITA KAMING MGA PILIPINO SA PAGHUHUGAS NG PUWET NG MGA OLIGARCHS LIKE THE COJUANGCOS AND ARANETAS AND MADRIGALS AND FOREIGN COMPANIES SA SARILING BANSA NAMIN???

        YOU WANT TO DUMB US AGAIN AND AGAIN???

                   FUCK YOU PUTANG-INA KA!!!

THERE ARE 3 MAIN FUCKING REASONS WHY WE, THE PEOPLE, THE PROFESSIONALS, THE HEROIC MIDDLE CLASS TAXPAYERS, ARE EARNING COLLEGE DEGREES AND POST GRADUATE COURSES:

1. TO IMPROVE OUR CAREERS, LEADING TO A BETTER COMPENSATION, PROMOTION AND FULFILLMENT OF THE FILIPINO DREAM;

2. TO DEVELOP OURSELVES INTO BECOMING BETTER EXECUTIVES, ENTREPRENEURS, SCIENTISTS, ENGINEERS OR COMMUNITY LEADERS AND;

2. TO CHALLENGE YOU PEOPLE!

BECAUSE OLIGARCHS, CACIQUES AND ELITE RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS LIKE WHERE YOU BELONG, KEEP THIS COUNTRY IGNORANT, DOCILE, PATHETICALLY RELIGIOUS, PARASITIC, WEAK, POOR AND SERVILE!

JAPAN IS A BUDDHIST COUNTRY. BUT THEY ARE A  TECHNOLOGICAL CLASS.

AMERICA IS A PROTESTANT COUNTRY. BUT THEY ARE AN ENTERPRISING NATION.

THE PHILIPPINES PRIDES ITSELF AS A CATHOLIC NATION BUT MANY FILIPINOS ARE STILL DUMB! 

                                              WHY?

DAHIL GINAGAGO NIYO ANG MGA PILIPINO.
MGA ELEMENTARY-LEVEL PA LANG SILA, GINAGAGO NIYO NA!

PEOPLE LIKE YOU, LIKE THE OLIGARCHS, LIKE THE CACIQUES, LIKE THE JESUITS, ARE A PLAGUE TO THIS COUNTRY. 

 YOU KEEP ON INTERFERING WITH THE POLICIES OF THE GOVERNMENT, THAT IT NOW, BECOMES MORALLY AND LEGALLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR THIS COUNTRY AND ITS PEOPLE TO BECOME ECONOMICALLY DEVELOPED ,PERSONALLY  AFFLUENT AND WISE.

YOU PEOPLE CONTINUE TO SABOTAGE OUR COUNTRY AND YOU KEEP ON ADVERTISING SO MANY FUCKING DOCTRINES!. . . .THAT HAS NO RELEVANCE TO THE TRUE DESTINY OF THIS COUNTRY.

WE HOPE THAT ONE DAY,  PEOPLE  AND ORGANIZATIONS LIKE YOURS, LIKE THE JESUITS, BE EXPELLED AND DISBARRED FROM OPERATING IN THIS GOOD COUNTRY!
WE PRAY THAT MORE FILIPINOS WILL WAKE UP.

AND WE ALSO PRAY THAT IF A NATIONAL REVOLUTION IS THE ANSWER TO THIS NATION'S RECURRING PROBLEMS . . . .THEN SO BE IT.

                            LET'S BE DONE WITH IT.

                  THE SOONER THE BETTER.

UNKNOWN HEAD OF OFFICE

THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHY THEIR IDIOT PRESIDENT KEEPS ON PUTTING MORE IDIOTS AND IMBECILES AS HEADS OF OFFICES. MANY OF THESE NOYNOY APPOINTEES ARE VIRTUALLY UNKNOWN AND INEXPERIENCED.
WORSE, THEY ALLEGEDLY ISSUE OFFICE "ORDERS" WHICH ARE CONTRARY TO THE LAW AND CONSTITUTION, LIKE WHAT RUFFY BIAZON THE ENGOT DID IN THE BUREAU OF CUSTOMS. 

SIEGFRIED MISON IS AN UNKNOWN. EVEN OUR FRIENDS FROM HIS PART OF BICOL DO NOT KNOW HIM. 

WE SOMETIMES WONDER IF THIS GUY FROM THE IMMIGRATION BUREAU IS PART OF THE SAME PRESIDENTIAL ENTOURAGE.

ANG SOLUSYON

1.PEOPLE POWER!

2.IMPEACHMENT OF THE PRESIDENT!

 3. CONVICTION OF THE SENATORS!

 4. CONVICTION OF THE CONGRESSMEN!