double faced

Presidential duplicity

By Manila Standard Today | Aug. 14, 2014 at 12:01am

 Once upon a time, President Benigno Aquino III gave us the sense that he despised his job so much that he could not wait his term to be over.
But he had the legacy of his parents to live up to, and as he said in his most recent State of the Nation Address just less than a month ago, he felt he had no choice but to take this path that seems to have been carved out for him.
In the past four years, the yellow ribbon-sporting President has made his mark by saying one thing and then doing another.
For instance, he said he would tread the straight path by going after the corrupt in government. In fact, he has only gone after his perceived political opponents —a Supreme Court Chief Justice who had the audacity to lead an adverse ruling on the Cojuangco family’s estate in Tarlac, and the President who had appointed him just before she stepped down.

 Everybody else is presumed guilty until proven otherwise— except his men and women who continue to enjoy his trust and who must be deemed innocent until proven guilty. There is, however, no means for proof to be established because they are never charged and prosecuted in the first place.
He also was adamant about attempts to amend the 1987 Constitution, crafted and ratified when his mother was President, even though proposals meant only to change the economic provisions and make the country more open and competitive.
But in an interview with News5’s legal analyst Mel Sta Maria, Mr. Aquino revealed on Wednesday that his position was not cast in stone after all. And no, he made no mention of greater foreign investments and competitiveness as factors that has changed his mind. Instead, he felt the powers of the Supreme Court were limitless and had to be clipped—the result, no doubt, of the Court’s surprise adverse and unanimous vote against his brainchild, the Disbursement Acceleration Program.
Mr. Aquino suggested that the Judiciary—one of the three supposedly Independent branches of government—has been using its power much too often.
Of course, a happy coincidence would be the possibility of running for a second term, as Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas suggested a week ago. At that time, many thought Roxas was plain silly, or plain desperate, but now it appears he has been in the loop in the Grand Plan, after all.
We now have it straight from the President’s mouth that his decision to go for a second term would all depend on what the people, his supposed bosses, want. The yarn is that the people have been enjoying the benefits of good governance and reforms he has instituted. They want him to carry on.
It’s a clamor he must heed, he hinted. But it is a clamor that we find difficult to imagine—what with his declining approval ratings and the increasing frustration with his arrogance, self-righteousness and duplicity.
With these pronouncements, President Aquino has marked the beginning of his downfall. Anybody who still believes he operates in good faith must now consider that the President’s feel-good talk is mostly hot air.

henry sy at aquino

What happened to the millions of pesos that were donated by foreign donors for the rehabilitation of Tacloban?? 

Gagamitin na naman ba iyon ng mga Oligarchs thru PRIVATE PUBLIC PARTNERSHIPS???

MAGTATAYO KA NGA NG BUILDING SA TACLOBAN PERO SI HENRY SY O RAMON ANG NAMAN ANG MAG MAMAY-ARI, DI NAKAW PA RIN YUN. 

SIYEMPRE  MAG CO-COMMISSION  NA NAMAN MGA KAMAG-ANAK NI NOY COJUANGCO AQUINO. 

MALAPIT NA RAW . . .

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PATAY KA!

HOY PORONTONG, NAKAMAMATAY RAW ANG DAANG MATUWID MO!

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                               EH ANO?!!

 

LOKO KANG GAGO KA AH! TIGILAN MO NA IYAN HA!!!

MATAPANG AKO

ALL OUT NA PO ITO! UUBUSIN PO NATIN SINA MISUARI AT ANG MNLF. THEIR DAYS ARE NUMBERED!

Di po natin titigilan and laban. We will make them surrender!

Gegerahin po natin araw-araw!

Gagamit po tayo ng makabagong teknolohiya!

MAG PEOPLE POWER ULI TAYO!

MAGSAMA-SAMA NA PO TAYO! ANOTHER ROUND OF PEOPLE POWER!

WHAT WOULD HE GAIN?

WHAT WOULD DANDING STAND TO GAIN IF HE WOULD ORDER NINOY'S EXECUTION?

NINOY

THE COMMUNIST SUPREMO

WHO ADVOCATED LAND DISTRIBUTION

HMMM....GOT IT?

KAWATAN SA DSWD

HOY DINKY, MAGKANO NG NANANAKAW MO DYAN SA CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFER ( CCT )NI ABNOY?

HINDI KA PA BA KINAKASUHAN NG PLUNDER?

CACIQUE, HACENDERO AND ANTI-MUSLIM!

HOY MAR ROXAS, HUWAG MO KAMING BOLAHIN. ANTI-EMPLOYEE KA RIN!

GAGOOOO!

HACENDERO KANG PUTANG-INA KA!

 

ANTI-MUSLIM

NTC BUDGET KINU-KURIPOT NG MALACANANG, ANTI-EMPLOYEE NGA TALAGA

NTC wants freedom from Malacañang

• Written by  Ed Velasco
• Sunday, 28 April 2013 00:00

A ranking official of the National Telecommunications Commission wants to liberate the agency from the Office of the President (OP), noting that NTC’s massive average P3-billion yearly income is not enjoyed by its employees.
In an exclusive interview with the Tribune, the official said liberation from OP is seen as the best solution to its long-time woes that range from miniscule salary, decrepit apparatus, very little budget and lack of communications competent workers. 

“It’s best time for our commission to be reorganized so that we can enjoy the fruits of our hefty income. We can’t feel the blessings of the money we’ve been generating for the national government. Where is that money going? We can’t feel it as far as our salary is concerned,” a ranking NTC official, who refused to be named, said.
The official said when they were removed from the Department of Transportation and Communications (DoTC), they thought their lives will be better. But the result of the turnover from DoTC to OP was a mistake because they feel that they are now deserted by Malacañang.
“Our counterpart in the US is the Federal Communication Commission. That is a very powerful agency but here we cannot even punish any telco (telecommunications company) because our organizational structure is old, especially our apparatus,” he said.
He added modernization alone cannot solve the miseries of the people in NTC because its problem is deeply rooted to its organizational flaws.
The official said the current set-up doesn’t allow the NTC to shoulder any skill-enhancing course of its officials whether locally or abroad, thus forcing them to rely on government and private sector-sponsored schooling for their workers to have advanced schooling on telecommunications.
“How often does USAID sponsor scholarship grants? That’s the only time that we can send our employee abroad to get free crash course?” he asked. Also needed to be restructured is the setting of fixed term for their commissioners so that there will be security of tenure and continuity in the programs of NTC.
NTC’s annual budget is only P300 million, just one-tenth of the yearly income it turns over to the national government.

BAKIT KAMI?

Bakit hindi mo i-Tax si Lucio Tan?

Lucio Tan owes this government billions of pesos in taxes and arrears. How come you are taxing the small businesses and ordinary people when you have the option of catching the BIGGEST FISHES in the country???

Noy Aquino has already exempted the Airlines from heavy taxes. Now as BIR chief, will you be taxing even Government Securities?

The people in this country is slowly being brutalized by the inhumane economic policies of this administration. Even bonuses given to ordinary civil servants are now taxed heavily. Pero mga smugglers, importers and friends and supporters of PNOY's administration are being spared from tax investigations.

Why us? Why us fingerlings?

BAKIT ANG HILIG NIYONG PAHIRAPAN ANG ORDINARYONG MAMAMAYAN??

IKAW TARANTADONG KIM HENARES KA, ANO KA BA TALAGA?

MALIIT NA TUTA O MAYABANG NA GARAPATA? 

PASALAMAT KA BIR CHIEF KA.

KAYA MAG-IINGAT KA PARATI HA. SANA HINDI TAYO MAGKATAGPO. AT BAKA MAPALO KITA NG TUBO SA ULO.

 

Daily Tribune on Sabah claim

First there was a denial from Malacañang that there was a firefight as well as the fighters of Kiram   being killed.
But in the aftermath of the firefight that ensued in Lahad Datu, Sabah between the Kiram clan of the Sultanate of Sulu and the Malaysian troops which resulted in a number of deaths, President Aquino and his propagandists in Malacanang were clearly trying to control the impact of shocking gunfire heard over the radio in southern Mindanao and Metro Manila.
Twelve Filipino followers of a self-proclaimed sultan died in a shootout with Malaysian security forces Friday, police told AFP after a 17-day standoff.
Sabah state police chief Hamza Taib said that in addition to two police officers killed, “three were injured and... 12 intruders died” in the firefight.
National news agency Bernama also quoted Prime Minister Najib Razak as saying he had received reports that 10 to 12 people from the armed group were killed.
Worse, Malacañang was placing all the blame on Kiram’s men, taking as gospel truth the version of Malaysia, that it was Kiram’s group that fired first.
The Malaysian Star newspaper initially reported that, at least, two police commandos were killed and four policemen injured after police started their operations on the Sulu gunmen following a standoff which started on Feb 9.
Bernama reported that the commandos were killed in a mortar attack after police moved in at the Tanduo village on Friday.
Condemning the violence that erupted in Sabah between followers of the Sultan of Sulu and Malaysian forces yesterday, UNA senatorial candidate Richard Gordon sympathized with the families of the Muslim Filipinos who have been killed and wounded in the conflict.
Gordon described the Aquino administration’s handling of the crisis in Sabah as “severely woeful, anti Filipino, and subservient to Malaysia.”
Gordon said  a bloody encounter could have been avoided and should never have happened.
He questioned the manner by which foreign affairs officials handled the situation and advised the President.
Gordon said that the DFA should be at the forefront of the matter and must never compromise the President of the Philippines by allowing him to comment on such issues.
“Should not our ambassador to Malaysia have been the one at the frontline?  Or our DFA officials?” Gordon asked.
He further questioned the lack of attention, priority and importance given to Sultan Kiram’s letters to the President.
“And what about our intelligence officials?  How is it that no one even knew that a large number of Filipinos were headed to Sabah?” Gordon continued.
“Whoever is advising the President on foreign policy matters has done terribly wrong by our people and has put us on a slippery slope with regard to this conflict,” he continued.
According to Gordon, the government sent the wrong signal to the Malaysian government when it portrayed the Filipinos pursuing the claim on Sabah as  common criminals. It is the president’s duty to protect its citizens everywhere.
Gordon said, “The Malaysians were allowed to think by our own authorities that Filipinos are expendable.
“This issue should have been more carefully handled by our foreign affairs officials, but clearly foreign policy and crisis management have not been the strong suit of this administration,” Gordon said.
President Aquino who was in San Fernando City, Pampanga when the firefight took place told his audience that he was monitoring the developments in Sabah.
“Please forgive me if I do go up and down of the stage. As you know, there is something that transpired in Sabah right now. It seems it was already done,” Aquino said.
Aquino said that the  details of the firefight relayed to him are not yet officially complete as to the number of deaths.
“The details are not yet complete. We have to hurry in going back as we expect that upon our arrival  in the office, all the necessary information is already complete,” Aquino said.
Presidential deputy spokesman Abigail Valte, minutes after the firefight ensued, held a press conference in Malacañang, claiming that there was no firefight between the Kirams and the Malaysian authorities.
Valte also down played initial reports about the number of casualties and injuries in the firefight later.
“First, we would like to make it clear that there was no gunfight or a firefight happened. Second, there was someone who fired a warning shot. And the two persons were detained. But our information was that these two were returned,”  Valte said.
Valte said there was an attempt from the group to get out of their cordoned area near the security forces of Malaysians.
“So, our information and what we have verified was that there was an attempt from the Kiram group to go out of the cordoned area to get near the area of the security forces of Malaysia,” Valte said.
Three people including two police officers were killed Friday as Malaysian security forces ended a stand-off with Filipino gunmen over a territorial dispute in Sabah, the Philippine government said.
Dozens of followers of the little-known sultan of Sulu had been facing off with Malaysian police for the past two weeks, after they sailed from their homes in the southern Philippines to stake a territorial claim in Malaysian Borneo.
The 74-year-old Jamalul Kiram III says he is the head of the Islamic Sultanate of Sulu, which once controlled parts of Borneo including the site of the stand-off, as well as southern Philippine islands.
The owner of the house where the leader of the gunmen stayed during the 17-day stand-off was also killed but the nationality was not known, foreign department spokesman Raul Hernandez told reporters, citing a report by Malaysia’s ambassador.
A third Malaysian police officer was wounded after the gunmen opened fire on their van, he said.
“The Malaysian ambassador said that the rest of the Kiram group in Lahad Datu escaped and ran toward the sea,” he said, adding that 10 members of the group were arrested.
An official at the main hospital in the town of Lahad Datu near the site of the stand-off told AFP two police officers had been brought in with gunshot wounds but were in stable condition.
Hernandez said he could not confirm allegations by a Manila spokesman for the gunmen that Malaysian security forces had shot dead 10 members of the group and wounded four others.
Hernandez said Manila had formally demanded a full account of the security operation that ended the stand-off.
Kiram’s spokesman Abraham Idjirani claimed Malaysian snipers had killed 10 of the sultan’s men and wounded four other members of the group.
“I talked to (the group’s leader) by telephone just now and asked him how many of his men were martyred. He told me 10. I inquired about the wounded and he said four,” Idjirani told a news conference at Kiram’s Manila home.
Idjirani insisted Kiram’s men would continue to fight and would not leave Sabah.
The Islamic Sultanate of Sulu leased northern Borneo to Europeans in the 1870s.
While the sultanate’s authority gradually faded as Western colonial powers exerted their influence over the region, it continued to receive lease payments for Sabah.
The former British colony became part of the federation of Malaysia when it was formed in 1963.
Kiram and the other heirs of the sultan still receive nominal annual compensation from Malaysia in the equivalent of about $1,700.
Idjirani suggested last week that the men would stand down if the compensation were substantially raised.
Members of the Malaysian police assaulted the group of Raja Muda Agbimmudin Kiram, a brother of Sultan Jamalul Kiram III of Sulu, in a village they occupied in Lahad Datu, Sabah.
Malaysia says it was the Kiram group that fired first and the Palace is buying that line.
The camp of Sultan Kiram claimed that 10 of his followers were killed, including a mother of two children, while four others were wounded after Malaysian forces assaulted the Filipinos holed up in Tanduao village in Lahad Datu.
Abraham Idjirani, spokesman of the Sulu sultanate, said that firefight broke out at around 10 a.m. when members of the Malaysian police commando attacked the group of Raja Muda Agbimmudin Kiram,  who led more than 200 of their followers in occupying a village in Lahad Datu since Feb. 12.
The camp of Sultan Kiram claimed that Malaysian forces fired first at the group of Raja Muda. Idjirani said the Filipinos were subjected to sniping by the Malaysian commando.
Idjirani claimed that based on the information received from Raja Muda himself, 10 of his followers, including a 28-year-old woman with to two children, were killed while four others were wounded.
He said that only two of the fatalities were identified but he refused to identify them.
Idjirani also denied reports that Raja Muda has been wounded and arrested during the assault. He claimed that Raja Muda, who is the Crown Prince, is in constant communication with Sultan Kiram.
The DFA, in a press conference, announced that the Malaysian Embassy informed them that the standoff was over as of yesterday afternoon.
The DFA said that the Malaysian government said that the attack resulted in the killing of three people –two Malaysian police and the owner of the house occupied by Raja Muda’s group. Ten other Filipinos reportedly surrendered.
The DFA said it has yet to confirm the reported killing of 10 followers of Raja Muda.
Meanwhile, senatorial wannabe retired Maj. Gen. Ramon Montano, former chief of the defunct Philippine Constabulary, said that the Aquino government should denounce the “aggression” against the Filipinos.
“The Philippine government should condemn the use of military force and aggression to resolve the issue,” said Montano.
With Mario J. Mallari

CRIMINALS IN THE PHILIPPINES

NOY-NOY AQUINO, BALLSY AQUINO, KRIS AQUINO, CORY AQUINO, NINOY AQUINO ARE AND WERE COMMUNIST SYMPATHIZERS AND SUPPORTERS.

THIS HAS BEEN SO TO PROTECT THEIR HACIENDA LUISITA PROPERTY IN TARLAC. THEY ARE THE ELITE, OLIGARCH AND PARASITE THAT SEEPS THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE OF JUSTICE, EQUALITY AND COMPASSION IN THIS COUNTRY. TOGETHER WITH COJUANGCOS DANDING, PEPING, TINGTING AND MIKEE, THEY ARE ALL CORRUPT, GREEDY, UNSYMPATHETIC AND AND UNWORTHY TO BE CALLED FILIPINOS.

THEY HAVE SINNED AGAINST THE FILIPINO PEOPLE THRU LEGAL MEANS AND DECEIT AND MANIPULATION OF THE ABS CBN, INQUIRER AND OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS SYMPATHETIC TO THE CAUSE OF THE MAKATI BUSINESS CLUBS.

MGA KAPATID, THIS IS AN INVITATION TO KIDNAP THE AQUINOS AND COJUANGCOS. SA PANAHON NGAYON DAHIL KINUHA NI FLORENCIO ABAD ANG MGA BUDGET NG ARMM, MARAMING GALIT SA MGA AQUINO ESPECIALLY KAY NOY-NOY.

GUSTO NILANG GUMANTI PERO MAS MAINAM MGA KAPATID, KIDNAPIN SILA DITO SA MAYNILA AT IBENTA SA MGA TAGA- LANAO DEL SUR AT MAGUINDANAO.

MARAMING MGA MUNICIPAL MAYOR AKONG NAKAUSAP NA TAGA MAGUINDANAO AT LANAO DEL SUR NA MAGBABAYAD PARA BILHIN ANG ULO NI NOY AQUINO AT KRIS AQUINO AT DANDING COJUANGCO. ACCORDING TO THEM, YAN RAW ANG MAS MASARAP NA RANSOM. MALAKING ULO, MALAKING PERA.

LAHAT NG AQUINO AT COJUANGCO CRIMINAL SA BANSANG ITO. DAPAT SILANG LIPULIN LAHAT.

Dapat silang itali ng patiwarik at IHI-AN.