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Doing research on some other topic, I stumbled on what at first I thought were outdated information.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

MAY TINGLE ITONG TAONG ITO

          THIS GUY POSSESSES A CLITORIS.

BECAUSE IF HE HAD BALLS, OUR ECONOMY WOULD HAVE BEEN ROBUST AND HEALTHY. BUT BECAUSE HE HAD NONE OF THE BALLS, HE ILLEGALLY DISBURSED THE PEOPLE'S MONEY IN ORDER TO BRIBE THE SENATORS AND CONGRESSMEN DURING CORONA'S IMPEACHMENT.

AND ALL OF US FILIPINO TAXPAYERS HAD BEEN FUCKED.

THE QUESTION IS: ARE THERE ANY BALLS OUT THERE AFTER THE FUCK????

OR ARE THE SAME BALLS KEEPING QUIET BECAUSE THEY ALL HAVE CLITORISES???

HOW THE AQUINO ADMINISTRATION ABUSES CIVIL AND HUMAN RIGHTS OF STATE WORKERS WHO ARE ENTITLED TO BE "PRESUMED INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY"

Customs employees oppose return-to-mother-unit order

by Rappler.com
Posted on 09/23/2013 3:50 PM  | Updated 09/23/2013 4:53 PM

MANILA, Philippines – Bureau of Customs (BOC) employees are strongly opposing an order crafted by the Department of Finance's newly formalized Revenue Cluster ordering them to return to their mother units.
In a statement, the BOC Employees Association (BOCEA) said the order will result in "massive dislocation, displacement and abandonment of functions" that may paralyze BOC operations.
"Such order caused restiveness and anxiety among the rank-and-file employees of the Bureau of Customs who are all in a quandary why did the Commissioner of Customs is again turning the guns on the lowly rank-and-file employees," said the group.
The Revenue Cluster headed by Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) Commissioner Kim Henares issued Customs Personnel Order (CPO) B-134-2013, mandating all BOC employees to return to their mother units, effectively revoking their current assignments. The cluster covers the BIR, BOC and the Bureau of Local Government Finance. The order was signed by BOC Commissioner Ruffy Biazon and approved by DOF Secretary Cesar Purisima.
BOCEA said Biazon is "ill-advised."
"This will gravely affect the security of tenure, basic rights of the employees under the Constitution and the welfare and interest of the whole rank-and-file employees," it said.
Henares said the order is just the first in a series of reforms that the Revenue Cluster will implement at the BOC, which President Benigno Aquino III singled out in his 4th State of the Nation Address for rampant corruption.
She maintained it is meant to put things at the agency in order. She said employees should be at their "plantilla" posts or where they were originally appointed.
The first batch of employees affected by the CPO included Supervising Customs Operating Officers and Customs Operations Officers III. These officers were relieved of their assignments on September 13, Biazon said in the CPO.
The second batch covered all Chief Customs Operations Officers and Customs Operations Officers V, whose designations were revoked on September 15.
“All officials and employees who are affected by the CPO have 10 days to report to their permanent units. By September 27, 2013, all employees of the BOC should be back at their respective permanent positions,” Biazon said.
"Failure to report to original/permanent units on or before the designated deadline may be grounds for administrative sanctions," he added.
No plantilla posts?
As expected, there are difficulties in implementing the order.
In a September 13 memorandum to Biazon, BOC Director for Administration Ma. Corazon Azana listed down several units and offices that do not have plantilla positions and hence will be left with no manpower.
Some Customs offices and ports have plantilla positions, but these are already inactive, Azana also said. "Recalled personnel have no office or port to report to."
These offices include BOC's Water Patrol Division, Radio Communication Division, Subport of Tabaco, Subport of Jose and the Food Terminal Inc. Customhouse.
More to come
Henares stressed that the CPO was a product of joint efforts to reform the BOC.
“It’s a joint effort of DOF and Customs,” she said.
The Revenue Cluster vowed to carry out sustainable reforms to institutionalize integrity in the BOC, curb smuggling, and plug tax leaks.
A Finance official said there will be "second and third waves" after the issuance of the CPO.
The official said among the changes planned is the transfer of some ranking Customs official to the DOF.
The biggest task at hand however is modernizing Customs procedures, said Biazon.
Changes at the BOC have the blessing of President Aquino. "All of these have clearance from the President," said Henares. – Rappler.com

IMPEACH AQUINO!

A FAMILY OF EXTORTIONISTS

 HYPOCRITES.....

 

HIGH-HANDED RIGHTEOUSNESS ( WALA NAMANG NAGAWA SA ECONOMY )

SORE LOSERS.......

CERTIFIED IDIOTS AND CRETINS...........

PRETENDERS TO THE THRONE OF GOD........

DAENG SUPOG!

MGA MANOY, MGA MANAY, DAENG SUPOG INING TAONG INI!

HUWAG SUPORTAHAN!!!

BONG REVILLANG BOBO AT WALANG ALAM

BHONG POLOMONGGOY REVILA IS A-GOOD- FOR- NOTHING SERVICE OFFICER IN THE SENATE. HE IS A KNOWN SEX PREDATOR IN HIS SHOWBIZ PROFESSION AND ALSO KNOWN TO HAVE NO POPULAR STAND ON VERY IMPORTANT NATIONAL ISSUES SUCH AS THE CHINA INCURSIONS, SABAH CLAIM, DISASTERS, RH BILL AND MANY OTHERS. 

WALA PONG KIBO PARATI ANG TAONG ITO.

PERA-PERA AT SHOWBIZ LANG ALAM NITO.

 EXPERT NGA PALA ITONG TAONG ITO SA MGA SEX VIDEO SCANDALS. 

MAG-ISIP BAGO BUMOTO!

 

MY GOD, MAGNANAKAW DIN PALA SILA AQUINO!

Sabah crisis: Is Aquino siding with Malaysia to protect relatives’ business interests?

by Arnold J. Padilla

Picket of members of progressive organizations, including Moros, in front of the Malaysian Embassy in Metro Manila. (Raymund Villanueva/Arkibong Bayan)

The “journey home” to Sabah of some 200 followers of the Sultanate of Sulu more than a month ago has escalated into a full blown humanitarian crisis. More than a thousand Filipinos have fled Sabah that for decades they called home. Men, women and children took any boat available in a frantic and perilous voyage away from the brutality of Malaysian forces. The number of refugees in Tawi-Tawi from Lahad Datu and other affected towns in Sabah is expected to grow in the coming days.
Those who fled recounted the atrocities that Filipinos suffered in the disputed territory. “Malaysian policemen ordered Filipino men to run as fast as they could and shot them,” said a report by the Philippine Daily Inquirer. “Even pregnant women and children have been hunted down and killed as the Malaysians fire mortars and embark on a house-to-house search,” according to the Philippine Star. These people are not part of the armed followers of Sultan Jamalul Kiram III. They just happen to be Filipinos.
Some are baffled while most are enraged by the attitude of the Aquino administration towards the Sabah crisis. From the onset, President Benigno Aquino III took a hardline stance against the Sulu royal forces. Jamalul’s brother Rajah Mudah Agbimuddin Kiram and his men must surrender before any talks can happen, Aquino insisted. Charges are being prepared versus the Kirams, claimed the Justice department. They may also be turned over to Malaysian authorities to face prosecution. Malacañang sowed intrigues to cast doubt on the motive and legitimacy of the Sultanate. The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) is probing the alleged conspiracy between the Kirams and certain politicians. All these even as Aquino ignored appeals by the Sultanate and the United Nations (UN) to stop the Malaysian military assault and for parties to talk.

“Noynoy, traitor to the country,” reads a placard in front of the Malaysian Embassy. (Raymund Villanueva/Arkibong Bayan)

Palace and Foreign Affairs spokespersons, of course, expressed concern over the reported human rights abuses in Sabah. But their statements are meaningless amid the brutal military offensive launched by Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak that Aquino practically sanctioned with his reckless position. The public perception is that Aquino abandoned his own people, surrendered the country’s rightful claim to Sabah and sided with Malaysia. Thus Aquino, like Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak and his forces, is responsible for the carnage of Filipino men, women and children in Sabah.
But why is Aquino siding with Malaysia? One plausible explanation noted by analysts is the ongoing peace talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) where Malaysia plays a key role as facilitator. Aquino does not want to displease Malaysia and risk undermining the negotiations.
However, it is also notable that since taking over in 2010, Aquino’s relatives who bankrolled his presidential bid have inked business deals with Malaysia. Could these business interests be another possible explanation for the administration’s handling of the Sabah crisis?
What are these business deals? One involves San Miguel Corporation (SMC) of Aquino’s uncle Eduardo “Danding” Cojuangco Jr. In August 2011, SMC acquired three subsidiaries of US oil giant Exxon Mobil’s downstream oil business in Malaysia. Worth $610 million, the transaction included the purchase by SMC of Esso Malaysia Bhd, Exxon Mobil Malaysia Sdn Bhd and Exxon Mobil Borneo Sdn Bhd. In its website, SMC said that the three companies form an integrated business engaged in refining, distribution and marketing of petroleum products. The physical assets include the 88,000 barrels per day Port Dickson refinery; seven fuel distribution terminals; and about 560 refilling stations.
SMC’s entry into the Malaysian downstream oil industry could be just the initial steps. Ramon S. Ang, president of the giant conglomerate, recently disclosed that SMC is eyeing big oil and natural gas field overseas. “If we were able to buy one of those, it would be like printing money forever,” Ang was quoted as saying. SMC is so serious about the plan that Ang said they are willing to let go of longtime core business San Miguel Brewery Inc. and new assets in power generation to raise funds. With its acquisition of Exxon Mobil’s downstream assets, SMC is in a strategic position to also corner upstream deals in oil-rich Malaysia.
The disputed state of Sabah itself is abundant in oil and gas resources. An article by the Philippine Star, quoting a 2012 study by Singapore-based FACTS Global Energy, reported that Sabah has reserves of about 11-12 trillion cubic feet of gas and at least 1.5 billion barrels of oil. The figures represent 12% and 15% of Malaysia’s natural gas and oil reserves, respectively, according to the report. Another article, by the Centre for Research on Globalization, noted that Sabah has 15 oil wells that can produce as many as 192,000 barrels a day. Also, four new oil fields have been discovered in its territorial waters in the past two years further increasing Sabah’s potential as oil producer.
Is Aquino avoiding displeasing Malaysia over the Sabah dispute so as not to undermine the grand multibillion dollar oil and gas ambitions of SMC and uncle Danding?
Another business deal involves AirAsia Philippines, the local affiliate of Malaysia-based AirAsia Bhd, the largest budget carrier in Southeast Asia. In November 2010, the Board of Investments (BOI) approved the formation of AirAsia Philippines as a joint venture between Malaysian investors and Filipino businessmen led by the President’s cousin Antonio “Tonyboy” Cojuangco Jr. Tonyboy and his Malaysian partners are aggressively expanding their operation in the Philippines with their recent acquisition of at least a 40% stake in local rival Zest Airways Inc.
Does Aquino fear that the contentious Sabah issue could somehow complicate the blooming Malaysian business partnership of his cousin Tonyboy?
Aquino could not just ignore the interests of his rich relatives. He won’t be President without their vital support.
Tonyboy was the biggest campaign donor of Aquino in 2010, based on the President’s official declaration to the Commission on Elections (Comelec). Out of the P440 million in campaign funds declared by Aquino, Tonyboy’s contribution accounted for almost a quarter with P100 million. While Danding was not officially listed as a campaign donor, it is widely believed that the tycoon and Marcos crony also supported the candidacy of his nephew.
If these business interests of his relatives played a key role in Aquino’s handling of the crisis, then the slaughter of our men, women and children in Sabah becomes much more revolting and enraging than it already is.

ANGKAN NG MGA PUTA AT OLIGARCH NA KAWATAN

THE GREAT PRETENDERS

AKALA NIYO BA SILA'Y SIMPLENG PAMILYA LAMANG? LOOK AGAIN, THEY'RE RICH. THEY ARE FILTHY RICH! RICHER THAN YOU.

PAG NAGPALOKO KA SA KANILA, IKAW ANG GAGO.

ANO KAMO?

MASKI ANO PA SABIHIN NIYO, AMIN NA ANG PILIPINAS!

CORY AQUINO ANG GAGONG PRESIDENTE

WALANG NAGAWA SI CORY AQUINO. SHE DIDN'T GIVE DEMOCRACY NOR DID SHE RESTORE IT TO THE COUNTRY. DEMOCRACY WAS THERE ALL ALONG. IT WAS ONLY WHEN MARCOS PROCLAIMED MARTIAL LAW THAT THE FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION WAS SUSPENDED BECAUSE OF THE MASSIVE SPREAD OF COMMUNISM THROUGHOUT ASIA AND THE COUNTRY. OF COURSE, MARCOS' CRONIES ARE ANOTHER MATTER LIKE DANDING TARANTADO COJUANGCO OR LUCIO TAN ETC.

MARTIAL LAW WAS DECLARED BECAUSE:

1. NINOY AQUINO WAS A COMMUNIST SUPREMO, SYMPATHIZER AND FINANCIER.  THEY USED COMMUNISM TO AS SHIELD TO COVER FOR THEIR ABUSES AT THE HACIENDA LUISITA.
2. NINOY AQUINO HAD THE MEANS AND MONEY, COMING FROM THE ELITE CLASS, TO FINANCE THE SPREAD OF COMMUNISTIC IDEOLOGY IN LUZON AND POSSIBLY THE COUNTRY.  HE WAS DEFINITELY A THREAT TO MARCOS.
3. UP- UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES WAS INFILTRATED WITH COMMUNISTIC IDEOLOGY AND SUCH WAS A THREAT TO THE CITIZENRY OF THE REPUBLIC.
4, INSURGENCY RECRUITMENT AT THE TIME WAS AT THE ALL TIME HIGH.

WHAT CORY DID AFTER 1986

1. CREATED A PRO-RICH CONSTITUTION
2. FOLLOW WHAT DANDING AND PEPING COJUANGCO ADVISED HER TO DO IN MATTERS OF MONEY AND MORE MONEY.
3.SOLD US TO THE AMERICANS
4. CORY DID NOT WAIVE OUR BILLIONS OF FOREIGN DEBT WHEN IT WAS IN HER POWER TO DO SO
5. SHE SUPPORTED THE MAKATI RICH BOYS CLUB AND HELPED MANY RICH BOYS CORPORATION
6. SHE LENT HENRY SY MILLIONS OF PESOS FOR SM CORPORATION SEED CAPITAL
7. SHE MADE VERY BAD ECONOMIC POLICIES TO THE DETRIMENT OF MANY FILIPINOS

IN SHORT, CORY AQUINO DID NOTHING!!!! NAGPAYAMAN LANG ANG MGA KAMAG-ANAK NIYA SA PUWESTO!

WHAT DID YOU EXPECT?

CORY WAS A MEMBER OF THE ELITE OLIGARCH. DILI INTAWON SILA POBRE NU!

PINAGPAPATULOY LANG NI ABNOY ANG KATAKAWAN NILANG MAGPAMILYA SA GOBYERNO NATIN.

HINDI KAYO NANINIWALA?
READ DINKY SOLIMAN'S FUND MESS AND NOY ABNOY'S EXCESSIVE PRESIDENTIAL FUND.

DITO NIYO MAKIKITA ANG KASAKIMAN NG MGA AQUINO.

GRABE TALAGA, KAPAG HINDI KAYO NAGBABASA AT NAGTATANONG, HINDI NIYO TALAGA MALALAMAN NA MASAMANG PAMILYA AT MATAKAW SILA.

ALAM BA NINYO MGA KAIBIGAN KUNG ANO TINGIN KO SA KANILANG MGA COJUANGCO-AQUINO?

EPOT.