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KIM HENARES; FORMER IMF EMPLOYEE, CORRUPT AND SERVING FOREIGN ELITE INTERESTS

Shotgun mentality

• Written by  Tribune Editorial
• Wednesday, 26 March 2014 00:00

Acontentious issue in the impeachment hearing of former Chief Justice Renato Corona was the House prosecutors’ demand that his dollar accounts be pried open for scrutiny since one of the allegations against the Supreme Court head was that he had withheld information on his wealth in his statement of assets, liabilities and networth (SALn).

Brought into the spotlight was the Foreign Currency Deposits Act (FCDA), which guarantees the confidentiality of dollar accounts signed during the term of former President Ferdinand Marcos.
It was a measure supposedly meant as an incentive to foreign investors.

The amended Anti-Money Laundering Act already provided a procedure for the government to compel banks to open deposits in local currency through a court order.
Now, Internal Revenue Commissioner Kim Henares the other day said the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) will seek the removal of the secrecy of bank deposits on suspected tax cheats which in effect would be the accounts of anybody whom the government fancies.
For somebody who frequents the shooting range similar to Noynoy, Henares may have developed a shotgun mentality of spraying a crowd with bullets to kill a criminal.
The allegation on Corona in being remiss on his SALn declarations was a good example of how selective political persecution can be introduced by giving the government excessive police powers.
Since the FCDA is a law, for instance, it was not the fault of Corona, nor probably most of the Cabinet members of Noynoy as well as Noynoy himself, to make use of it in securing their assets, legally acquired or otherwise.
The argument raised during the impeachment trial was that the FCDA and the bank secrecy law in general render the SALn law and the constitutional provisions on full disclosure of assets, liabilities and net worth useless since “corrupt public officials can open dollar accounts and co-mingle peso accounts with their relatives to justify the filing of SALn that are completely and totally inaccurate.”
The BIR wants to shortcut the process of removing the anomaly created by the FCDA by totally expunging the bank secrecy law and thus allow government to have access on bank accounts at its whim.
The bank secrecy law and even the FCDA, as they are, do not provide absolute confidentiality. The bank secrecy law is now subject to varied exemptions provided under the AMLA and the FCDA only bars the banks, not the depositors from disclosing information on dollar accounts.
Indeed the FCDA can be considered a major hurdle in efforts to fight corruption in government but a total repeal would create a backlash on businesses and even individuals that rely on the law to safeguard their assets in the country.
It was also proven during the impeachment trial that the powers the government currently has are already potent in extracting information about the assets of suspected corrupt officials.
Up to now, however, no proof has been established on the alleged hidden or undeclared wealth of Corona despite the continued persecution undertaken against him and his family.
The suggestion of Henares to totally remove the secrecy on bank deposits is not even necessary to comply with international norms as proven by the Financial Action Task Force on money laundering removing the country from its watch list after Congress passed reform measures to the AMLA.
Henares said the removal of the bank secrecy law is a step toward enhancing transparency which is a subject she should take up with Noynoy first since he is determined in his opaqueness by not endorsing the Freedom of Information bill.
The Henares proposal is even dangerous in its encompassing scope since it covers anybody whom she believes is not paying the right tax.
Using the current selective government campaign against targeted opposition members through the scripted Priority Development Assistance Fund scam, it will not be hard to imagine who Henares will go after once she gets her wish.
Dismantling the right to privacy comes to mind in the folly of Henares

PEOPLE WILL OVERTHROW THIS FUCKING PRESIDENT!!!

Yolanda victims set deadline for Aquino to heed their plea

Manila Standard

By Marvin T. Modelo | Feb. 02, 2014 at 12:01am

The Alliance of Typhoon Yolanda Victims (ABBAT) set a deadline on the Aquino administration to grant their petition for 40,000 cash relief and abolition of the ‘no-build zone’ policy on or before February 14.
ABBAT community leader Patrick Escalona rejected rehab czar Panfilo  Lacson’s option to provide construction materials instead in lieu of the 40,000 cash relief originally meant for daily subsistence of every family. He said the amount is too small to replace the rehabilitation program of the government.
 Sister Edita Eslopor  vowed that they will stage a series of protest rallies until the government heeds their call.
“The massive number of people is proof of their intense discontent over Mr. Aquino’s criminal negligence and utter incompetence in looking after the welfare of the people. This is just the first of a series of protests that will fill the streets of major cities across the country to express our indignation at the Aquino administration,” Eslopor said.
Exactly a week  ago when more than  10 thousand Yolanda survivors from Leyte and Samar staged a protest march in the streets of this city  to express their indignation against the inaction of the national government  on the plight  of the victims of the super typhoon, Malacanang  has yet to act on their demands.
Yolanda survivors under the banner of People Surge laid out specific demands  such as provision and sustenance of food aid, until necessary, to aid full recovery  while source of livelihood  does not stabilize and an immediate provision of P40,000 cash relief for every family   devastated by Yolanda,  during the rally  considered as one of the biggest protest action in the country directed against the Aquino  administration.
According to Dr. Efleda Bautista, a storm survivor herself and current executive vice chairperson of People Surge, instead of directly addressing the problems presented by the Yolanda victims, Presidential spokesperson Edwin Lacierda belittled the series of protests as mere “concerted effort of a few to convince the public that most of our countrymen are dissatisfied with the way the national government  respond to the catastrophe.”
“He  (Lacierda) believes in the very good rating of the president. He is convinced that Yolanda survivors are happy towards P-Noy’s rehab efforts.” Bautista said.
Bautista lambasted  Lacierda’s statement    saying, “The Aquino administration is pathetic for being a die-hard defender of a bogus survey even after survivors from Eastern Visayas—the worst hit region by the typhoon—have spoken of their real condition.”
“With no sense of urgency to respond to ‘Yolanda’ survivors’ demands, this government is victimizing us [‘Yolanda’ victims] all over again,” Bautista lamented.
Eslopor, a Benedictine nun and Chairperson of People Surge, insisted that the Aquino government must have consulted the victims at the onset of any rehab effort.
She said that at the rate by which government implements policies like the ‘no-build zone’, not going through any real consultation among major stakeholders who are the victims, Aquino’s rehab plan is going somewhere else, certainly not towards genuine recovery of typhoon victims.
In another development, two opposition lawmakers on Saturday renewed their appeal for action from the Aquino administration on the plight of the survivors of typhoon Yolanda, saying that the urging from the Catholic Church would also be a ‘voice from Heaven’ that must be heeded.
Gabriela party-list Rep. Luz Ilagan of the Makabayan Bloc and Abakada party-list Jonathan dela Cruz, member of the Independent Minority Bloc in the House of Representatives headed by Leyte Rep. Ferdinand Martin Romualdez, said that the   administration has all the resources needed by the victims, and that every needed assistance for them is possible if only it has the political will to do such .
“Definitely, it’s the Voice of God urging those in power to heed the crisis of a people who suffered from such devastation who continue to suffer from the vagaries of politics,” Dela Cruz told the Manila Standard.
His statement came after Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines president Lingayen-Dagupan Archbishop Socrates Villegas appealed to the government as well as  donor-groups to listen to the Yolanda victims and not just provide them with relief or shelter without considering their needs.
Ilagan lamented that the victims are still waiting for government action on them.
Ilagan said that the urging of Villegas is “not only the ‘voice of God’ but also the voice of common sense and good governance.”
She criticized the Aquino government for lacking a comprehensive plan for the victims and survivors of natural calamities.
“Victims cannot rely on relief forever. After relief is the rehabilitation phase to allow the people to return to normalcy as early as possible.  Government’s action or the lack of it gauged by the speed and effectiveness of transition from relief to rehabilitation to rebuild—Obviously, the Aquino administration is short on this,” Ilagan said as she recalled the government’s inaction on the victims of super typhoon Pablo in December 2012 as well as of Zamboanga siege in September 2013. With Maricel Cruz

what Tribune says

 Noynoy and his Liberal Party, especially its president, Mar Roxas, the presidential anointee, by now realize that they can no longer escape blame and responsibility for whatever damaging issue comes their way, as like it or not, Noynoy’s presidency and his administration have already been defined negatively on the basis of their mishandling of the “Yolanda” crisis.
As they would be defined by their inaction and uncaring nature, this would have a negative impact on the LP bid to stay in power after 2016.
It will be difficult for Noynoy and the LP to get the electorate to trust them again to do a good job, even after the Yolanda crisis settles down, because there will be more crises coming their way — and not just on issues such as typhoons and earthquakes.
Before Yolanda, Noynoy and his aides somehow always got away with evading responsibility and accountability, even as they continued playing the blame game. It was always somebody else’s fault, never theirs. And whatever promises they made but were never fulfilled, people somehow glossed over, mainly due to Noynoy’s yellow media and his yellow manipulated surveys that constantly gave him high popularity ratings even when other items in the same surveys were already clearly contradictory, such as high concerns of the respondents over government poor performance.
But with the blame game played by Noynoy in Tacloban, three days after the monster typhoon hit the Visayas, with Leyte and Samar being brought to their knees, it was much too clear to Filipinos that Noynoy and his LPs have gone too far in evading responsibility for their unpreparedness, unfeeling and uncaring national government’s response to the crisis in these two provinces.
Filipinos saw for themselves how Noynoy and his aides continued to play the blame game and vindictive politics in Tacloban, three days into the typhoon crisis and their failed bid to evade responsibility, which brought back all those other times that Noynoy evaded responsibility over the many other crises, not to mention his and his government’s unpreparedness for any sort of crisis, sometimes of their own making.
They remembered the way Noynoy and his LP allies mishandling of the August 2010 Manila hostage crisis, and his refusal to accept responsibility for the botched hostage rescue which left at least eight Hong Kong tourists dead, with one more still in the ICU to this day.
Worse, Noynoy refused to charge his allies who were responsible for their botched rescue operations and to this day, no sanctions have been meted for their criminal negligence.
Talk has been making the rounds that the Tacloban mayor, Alfred Romualdez, who is a Noynoy foe, for being related to Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, a day after Yolanda hit the city and the province, had already asked the national disaster council to come to their aid, as devastation of his city was massive. His call went unheeded. The second day, a Sunday, Romualdez was said to have pleaded for the national government to send the military and the police forces to take over the peace and order situation.
Even on the third day, when Noynoy flew to Tacloban, and there were already reports of looting, starvation and people exposed to the elements, as they have lost their homes, Noynoy was still on his blame game mode, compounded by his political vindictiveness, as he even walked out of the disaster council meeting, refusing to heed the pleas of businessmen who had complained of looting and of being shot for trying to stop the looting of their stores. This was met by a stony “well, you’re not dead, are you?” response.
And even on the fifth day, there was hardly any strong government presence or even the military presence. It had to take international media to bring this issue out.
All these will be remembered, now and in 2016, as the people now know that they have been served so poorly by a president whose propaganda of thei being his boss was believed, but whose belief today has been shattered by Noynoy and his LPs through their uncaring ways.

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You are absolutely right! Even my kasambahay who is from Capiz, declares "wala hong kwenta yang si abnoy. Selective ho ang tulong niya. Maski ho yung si Mar Roxas, ni hindi ho nanalo sa amin yan."

How then in heaven's name can they come forth and aspire for higher office or a continuance? People are saying, that it should have been Gibo who should have been president. He would know what to do in crisis situations and he cannot be dictated upon by allies and kkk. He knows how to lead! Ang pagsisisi ay talagang nasa huli. Although I did not vote for Gibo or any candidate associated with GMA. Now I wonder how many people are regretting not having done so?

The LP and its candidates, will definitely lose in 2016. There is no way for them to ingratiate themselves back to the people's trust and confidence.

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.

Things you should know!

                          Is this even legal?

                        They must all resign!     

 

 

SECRETARY PURISIMA IS THE DEVIL OF PHILIPPINE ECONOMY

HOY PURISIMANG PUTA! NAGPAHIRAM KAYO NG 1 BILLION DOLLARS SA IMF-WORLD BANK, PERO GAMOT, FLASHLIGHT, PAGKAIN AT KUMOT DI NIYO MAIBIGAY AGAD SA BOHOL EARTHQUAKE VICTIMS???

WALA KA BANG KULTURA PUTANG-INA KA??!!

MUKHA KANG LINTA PUTANG-INA!!!

YOU ONLY SERVE THE INTERESTS OF THE RICH PEOPLE. 

ACCORDING TO THE CEBUANO AND MINDANAO SUPPORTERS OF THIS BLOG, YOU ARE ONE OF THE CAUSES OF MISERY OF THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY. 

YOUR POLICIES  AND ADVISORIES TO THE PRESIDENT FAVORED ONLY THE BUSINESS INTERESTS OF THOSE WHO LIVE IN MAKATI.

PUTANG-INA KA SECRETARY PURISIMA. 

PAGNAGKA-REBOLUSYON SA BANSANG ITO, ISA KA SA MGA PAPATAYIN NG MGA SUPPORTERS NG BLOG NA ITO!!!

OPEN STATEMENT TO OBAMA

WE WOULD LIKE YOU TO LISTEN. . . . . .

DO NOT DEAL WITH OUR PRESIDENT!

 IN THE UNITED STATES, YOU CONFINE THE MENTALLY-ILL AND THE RETARDED. .

                             HOWEVER. . . .

 IN THIS COUNTRY, WE ELECT THEM.

             BEWARE MISTER PRESIDENT!

 

DO NOT GET IN TOUCH WITH PNOY. 

DO NOT GET INFECTED.

KAWAWA ANG MGA WORKERS

Workers protest PNoy’s new labor laws

April 14, 2013 in Cordillera, employment by editors

By ALDWIN QUITASOL
www.nordis.net

BAGUIO CITY — Anakpawis Cordillera Regional Coordinator Micheal Cabangon said that the signing of President Benigno Aquino III of two new labor laws will not benefit the Filipino workers and their families at all.
On March 22, the president signed into law the Act Strengthening Tripartism. The law declared tripartism in labor relations as a state policy where employers and workers will be part of policy-making bodies of the government. The said law mandates the establishment of a National tripartite Industrial Peace Council (NTIPC). The body will be headed by the secretary of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE).
Cabangon said such NTIPC will only serve as a venue to facilitate the collaboration among big businessmen, pro-management labor unions and groups and the government setting aside the true plight of the workers in the country. He said worker’s experiences in the past are enough to define how the workers are being waylaid when it comes to policy-making decisions and how the government favors the big businesses over the lowly workers such on the demand of wage increase.
In a statement of Kilusang Mayo Uno (KMU) national office, the labor center condemned the president for signing the two new labor laws.
KMU added that Filipino workers do not welcome Aquino’s “Trojan Horse” this coming Labor Day 2013.
According to KMU, the compulsory arbitration being mandated by the creation of NTIPC will hinder the worker’s right to strike. The group said it will add up to the already numerous requirements for holding strikes against unfair labor practices and abusive employers.
KMU national Chairperson Elmer Labog said the government tries to package said laws as pro-labor but they actually signal the intensification of violations of worker’s democratic rights.“These laws show that Aquino continues to serve big capitalists by offering cheap and repressed labor. He is trying to tighten control over workers in order to ensure big capitalists’ profits amidst crisis conditions,” Labog added. He said that the government is making existing labor laws worse for the country’s workers.
According to Labog, they have seen tripartism and compulsary arbitration in action and they are not pleased with their results. He said tripartism has only resulted in the crafting of more and worse anti-labor policies while compulsary arbitration has been used to delay workers’ strike so that big businessmen can act to lessen the impact of the workers’ protests.
KMU stated that the laws compliment the government’s refusal to hike wages by a significant amount, implementation of wage cut and wage freeze through the Two-Tiered Wage System, and legalization of contractual employment through the Labor Department’s Order No. 18-A Series of 2011. The labor center added that the new laws jibe with the Labor Secretary’s power to assume jurisdiction over labor disputes, legalized by Republic Act 6715 or the Herrera Law, an amendment to the country’s Labor Code.
Last April 12, KMU led a workers protest action at Mendiola in Manila to express their condemnation on the signing of the two new labor laws.

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

THE REPUBLIC IS DEAD

   ".. DARK STILL THE FUTURE HOLDS...............HMMMMM.."

 

       "CONSUMED HE IS OF HATE.....VILE HIS HEART IS...."

           "HIS FORCE IS STRONG...WITH THE DARK SIDE."

               "THE ENEMY HAS SPIES EVERYWHERE....."

                   "IN FEAR OF THE FUTURE HE HOLDS ......." 

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        "HOPE IS NOT SOON.  NO... NOT YET."