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Punishable by six to 12 years imprisonment

By Raïssa Robles

Fr. Chito Damaranan of the Salesian Society of Don Bosco is angry. He wrote today on his Facebook page:

“There are unscrupulous government people who slow down the pace of relief distribution for they are repacking the goods, by stripping away all signs that they came from foreign donors and replacing them with government signs that make it appear like they came from our honorable, generous, and ever loyal public servants. I am aghast. I am angry. And I am making myself the spokesman of these people who are also aghast, angry, and absolutely disgusted at this image conscious government run by showbiz personalities masquerading as public servants.”

If these are true, people have to put a stop to it.

People have to name names.

It is the only way we can change our political culture.

UPDATE: AS OF 8:09 pm, November 19, 2013

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has finally explained why it repacka foreign donations and puts them in bags stamped with the “DSWD” logo. Here is the explanation.

When a politician re-labels relief goods with his miserable greasy face, he could be violating Republic Act No. 10121 or the “Philippine Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Act of 2010”.

Like many of you, I thought we had no law against making E-Pal during disasters. It turns out that we do. It was one of the last laws Benigno Aquino III signed as a senator just before he became President in 2010.

Among the prohibited acts are:

Misrepresenting the source of relief goods, equipment or other aid commodities by:

(1) Either covering, replacing or defacing the labels of the containers to make it appear that the goods, equipment or other aid commodities came from another agency or persons;

(2) Repacking the goods, equipment or other aid commodities into containers with different markings to make it appear that the goods came from another agency or persons or was released upon the instance of a particular agency or persons;

(3) Making false verbal claim that the goods, equipment or other and commodity in its untampered original containers actually came from another agency or persons or was released upon the instance of a particular agency or persons;

Substituting or replacing relief goods, equipment or other aid commodities with the same items or inferior/cheaper quality;

Such actions are punishable with the following:

  • A fine of P50,000 to P500,000 or;
  • A jail term of six to 12 years or both;
  • Perpetual disqualification from public office if the offender is with the government;
  • Confiscation of the goods in favor of the government.

Interestingly, the law does not punish politicians who give donations plastered with their names. Even if these donations did not come from their own pockets. However, if the goods came from their pork barrel or office money, isn’t that misrepresenting the source? It’s a gray area and the lawmakers made it that way.

Still, with this law, it is time to show politicians enough is enough.

Let’s start making examples.

Comments

  1. Just got a glimpse in IBC 13 Sen. Cayetano says ‘Bagohin ang response sa kalamidad’…

    Bagohin or balikan ang tama response that has been forgotten?

    The proper response goes deep:

    1. No politicking…iwasan ang pa mumulitika. Remove all incompetent public officials! Replace them.
    2. Stop all loggings. Clean all waterways. Catch garbage throwers. This defects contributes to calamities’ destructions.
    3. Put effective communications. There is none when calamities like Yolanda takes place.
    4. Create/form a READY CAPABLE Responding Group in each city or town. Again, no politicking.
    5. A ready RELIEFS Goods at all times 7/24 throughout the season when calamities happens.
    6. Elect only capable officials. Gauge them under stress conditions they have not encountered yet.
    7. A stand-by Boats/ships, Vehicles/trucks and Aircrafts to fly or evacuate people before the storm comes, if necessary.
    8. A ready list of possible ‘Donors’ for reliefs goods in and for every area to be hit by a calamity.
    9. Maintain a sufficient police and military force to prevent disorder in any area.

    and
    10. Appoint/designate only ONE over-all leader for all this who is capable, younger, innovative, courageous, and all other possible good qualities of a LEADER. Not a politician again. No who retire many times already. Healthy, can go for many sleepless days and nights for hours and days. A Leader who leads and acts under all possible stresses of situations etc.

  2. CPM’aers are now talking about the “transformational changes”.
    Where do we start?
    My suggestion is for us to urge the government to release accounting of all the aids spent.
    I hope there are no more FAKE NGO’s around.

  3. As there is a wide coverage of Mayor Romualdez and his family clinging on the roof of their house in the height of Yolanda typhoon, I would like to ask why they found themselves in such precarious situation when they should be, in the first place, in the evacuation center, together with the other evacuees. Does it mean they didn’t follow PNoy order / instructions to haul themselves up to evacuation centers? Being the mayor, he should be the SHINING EXAMPLE OF A GOOD FOLLOWER OF THE GOVERNMENT DIRECTIVES, BUT HE FAILED TO DO SO.

    By not following the government directives, is Mayor Romualdez guilty of abandonmennt of his position as mayor of Tacloban is he guilty of negligence, of insubordination and most of all is he GUILTY OF MURDER – FOR NOT LEADING HIS CONSTITUENTS UP THE EVACUATION CENTERS AND STAYED WITH THEM UNTIL YOLANDA TYPHOON HAD LEFT THEIR CITIES. His failure to follow PNoy’s order had caused so much deaths, sufferings, untold starvation and no roof over the heads of his constituents.

    • Imo, yes.The leader ‘s responsibility is to lead by action together with the people; people could have followed what he said and what he could have done for he has the resources and manpower. But he chose to underestimate the warning and ignore the biggest responsibility of securing the safety of his constituents, and use his superiority over them if they proved to be stubborn. Now he says nobody expected it to be worse like this, well when he was wooing the voters to vote for him I am sure he promised the moon and the stars. Now he got hell as a bonus, I just wish he has the capacity to understand that he and his family were given a second chance of life to rectify his mistakes and now govern with dedication and honesty. Now I have more appreciation of understanding why PNOY ALLEGEDLY WALK OUT, it is because some leaders in this instance just like in a wedding vow only want the better part and not vowing for the worst part of the union. .. as in state of the province. There is a big job waiting, please don’t waste the opportunity for we may pass this life only once,(my favorite quote and it rings true) yet you are given second life. May you be humbled by it.

    • alam kong alam ni meyor na matindi ang bagyong(yolanda) parating. pero mas higit ang tiwala niya sa bahay niya kesa dun sa evacuation center.
      ang masaklap lang ay lumalabas sa mga report ng mga nangyari o pangyayari ay napabayaan niya ang kanyang mga kababayan, inasikaso niya ang kanyang pamilya.
      halos lahat po naman ay ganoon ang magiging aksyon ng mga tao sa isang kalamidad.
      ang malungkot lang ay isa nga siyang halal ng bayan at may hangaring maglingkod sa bayan.

  4. reminds one of the senate xmas bonuses. repackage it as “savings” so that it loses its label as taxpayers money. then distribute as you know what coming from you know who.

    • sa gobyerno po ay kung sino ang namimigay ay iginagalang ng mga binibigyan.
      tinatanawan ng utang na loob.
      inihahalal at ipinaglalaban pa.
      kahit iyong ibinigay sa kanila ay sadyang para sa kanila kundi man ay dinukot mula sa kanyang pitaka(buwis)
      ganyan po ang kalakaran. kasi po kung kalaban naman sa pulitika ay utot mong mabiyayaan ka pa.
      marami tayong naririnig na ganyang sumbong na ipinapahayag ng ating mga reporters sa radio at sa TV.

  5. I wonder why the government did not asked the Russian embassy for help during the height of the Yolanda rescue effort when they have problem getting heavy equipment into the city. Russia have helicopters specifally designed for hauling heavy equipment from place to place…

    • The Russians were one of the first to help by sending the largest cargo aircraft in the world. It was all over the media!

      • Not really correct, the biggest plane in the world landed at Mactan Cebu International Airport to bring a 180-ton replacement transformer for the First Gen Corporation (FGC) San Lorenzo natural gas-fired power plant in Batangas City.

        • maybe your typo error…it’s First Gas…but you’re correct, the flight was not related to Yolanda…

      • “The photos with blue relief bags bearing the seal of the Office of the Vice President (OVP) and Vice President Jejomar C. Binay’s name, as well as those showing a truck with a tarpaulin with the OVP seal and the Vice President’s photo, were taken in 2011 and 2012, respectively.” -Joey Salgado OVP Media Affairs Division

        Link: http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-1061710

  7. TRANSFORMATIONAL REFORMS

    @Tomas, @letlet, @pinay, @akoypnoy, @ella, and all readers…

    Been meaning to write…but limited time wouldn’t allow…

    Anyway…

    Here’s a piece (c/o @angelastuartsantiago) on sparking, I hope, the motivation to transform:

    We don’t spring back, we transform

    Across oceans and throughout the five continents of this Earth, we carry the tales of our old heroes and muses, our elementals, who confront, in each re-telling, tests of strength and spirit.

    Some break, like Mariang Makiling who hides in a thousand-year hibernation; others metamorphose, like Bernardo Carpio who becomes a pillar of stone stopping cliffs from caving in on his village.

    We may not remember their old names – names being the first to be erased under colonialism – but we remember how they were and how we are supposed to be: metamorphic.

    What have we become after Yolanda?

    These two legends represent the twin possibilities for the Filipinos’ metamorphosis. Both are inexplicable outside of the local paradigm. Just as what we’re watching now in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda seems inexplicable.

    Who can fathom what drives a woman to open body bags of putrefying corpses in search of a husband, a son, a daughter? At the end of a gaze that has lingered over a hundred dead faces, what is she now?

    Who can measure the rage of the peaceable man breaking through the walls of groceries, warehouses, shopping malls? And having pierced both law and walls of Authority, what is he now?

    The absence of thousands

    To say that Filipinos are resilient is an assurance for those who have imposed upon them – much and repeatedly.

    It is to say to themselves that we shake off tragedy much like ducks shaking off water.

    It is to ignore the monuments to what has been suffered: matchstick debris of houses, muck and mud of vanished cities, stench of the dead and – oh! – the absence, thousands of absence, of those who used to be in our midst. Who could be so resilient as not to be transformed by that?

    http://ph.news.yahoo.com/commentary–calling-filipinos-resilient-is-an-insult-011053161.html

    Change…and @Tomas is spot on!…change for the better is what Yolanda” (of course, and “Janet”) is telling the Filipinos…

    • Further on CHANGE:

      @marocharim strikes another mind-provoking piece…especially to what seems to be feeble minds of government compared to the enormity and strength of Yolanda’s destructive nature…

      …The ability of government and humanitarian organizations to deliver aid to areas devastated by Yolanda is hampered by decades – if not generations – of economic underdevelopment brought about by a multitude of factors. It’s a wound that cuts to almost everything from literacy to education to employment to housing to disposable income to disaster preparedness. It’s a wound cut by the knives of political patronage, dependency, backward policy, and the perpetuation of top-down development that does little – if not nothing – for the poor.

      These days, social media is a hotbed for criticisms against President Aquino for not doing enough. As President, he is not blameless. He should be at the forefront of the reforms in policy and redistributing resources in Eastern Visayas, in particular. But generations of underdevelopment and poverty can be pinned down not only to him, but to every President, Vice President, Senator, and Representative who has ignored the imperative to prepare the most vulnerable people in the country for the worst through a national plan and execution for sustainable development.

      http://marocharim.com/2013/11/15/yolanda-notes-on-a-disaster/

      (Again, this link was c/o @angelastuartsantiago.)

  8. A Filipina acquaintance in London went on holiday to Philippines who got stranded in Manila because of Yolanda typhoon. Right after the typhoon, she went to her hometown, Tacloban city, where thousands of people died. She is telling us now that the people evacuated when they were told to do so, but after JUST raining for two days, they presumed that if it was just raining which they were used to, they went back to their houses and stayed there for two days more, until they felt the wrath of the most powerful typhoon. It was too late for them to return to the evacuation center and save themselves. The fact that the Romualdez family was one of those who were clinging to their roof is a testament that they didn’t follow when PNoy government told them to evacuate. THEY BLAME PNOY FOR THEIR DEVASTATING PREDICAMENT YET THEY NEVER BLAME THEMSELVES FOR NOT FOLLOWING THE GOVERNMENT INSTRUCTIONS TO EVACUATE.

    The problems with some/ lots of Filipinos is that they never listen and do what they are rubbish in the esteros that causes floods in spite of the government instructing them to stop doing it, they never follow, Some people keep on peeing on the wall / post in spite of the sign on the wall saying do not pee, they never follow.

    It’s not right and fair to blame PNoy and his government for the wrongdoings/ mistakes committed by some people. The wrongdoers should shoulder the blame for the cause and effect of their bad behavior.

    • Second paragraph -They never listen and do what the government is instructing them to do. They are throwing rubbish in he esteros

      • likas na matigas ang ulo ng KARAMIHAN NG PILIPINO. mga WALANG DISIPLINA SA ISIP, SA SALITA AT SA GAWA. lahat INAASA SA GOBYERNO AT SA BAHALA NA ATTITUDE.

        at pagdumating ang indulto PURO SISI, PURO SISI. HINDI TIGNAN ANG SARILI KUNG TAMA BA ANG GINAGAWA.

        YAN ANG PILIPINO!!!! KAINIS!!!!!

        • Ang kawalan ng disiplina at magandang asal ng maraming pilipino ang isa sa mga dahilan ng hindi pag – unlad ng ating bansa, ang kahirapan na malutas ang poverty sa mga nakararami ay dahil sa maling pag – iisip at pananaw nila at ang patuloy na pagboto nila sa mga hindi karapatdapat na pulitiko na nagnanakaw ng kaban ng bayan ay delubyo sa pag asenso ng ating bansa.

          Kailan kayo gigising mga kababayan ko?

        • may nakausap akong Koreano noon, marunong na syang magtagalog pakonti-konti…sa aming pag-uusap naitanong ko sa kanya bakit dito sa Pilipinas mo napiling tumira…ang sagot nya sa akin…”sa Korea kapag bawal talagang bawal pero dito sa Pilipinas kahit bawal e pwede pa rin”…pero may pag-asa pa…yung sample ni Pnoy na wala ng wang-wang kahit medyo maliit na bagay lang at nilalait ng iba e nasusunod naman yata.

    • Being Filipino is never an excuse for being stupid and boneheaded!

      Maybe, just maybe, Yolanda could be a game changer for many attitudinal behavior patteerns that have been so difficult to crack……..CPM’rs and Filipinos in diaspora all over the world could indeed help bolster the possible transformational reforms that fortune has allowed to descend upon us……the Napoles Affair, the Supreme Court decision declaring pork barrel as unconstitutional and Yolanda. This triune of opportunities ought not be wasted.

      • The Million March missed the opportunity to demand the resignation of the triumvirate of Enrile, Estrada and Revilla for the PDAF scam.

        I wonder if those Filipinos who have attitude problems that is halting / pulling down the progress of our country could see the momentum of opportunities when they occur, unless they have positive outlook. Napoles affair and Yolanda have bitten them severely but are they the kind of people who learn from their mistakes and rectify them for their best interest.

        I wonder if there are plans A and B for the CPM’rs and Filipinos in diaspora all over the world to bring forward the triune of opportunities into more fruitful and collectible actions / results. If indeed there are, please count me in and let us – CPM’rs- know how we could be of help.

        • @letlet…it was not a missed opportunity…[1st sentence], the ‘missing’ was their resignations afterthe Million March. Here is the today’s news PDI, Nov. 21, frontline page –

          ‘An investigative team of the Office of the Ombudsman has named Senate Minority Leader Juan Ponce Enrile as the mastermind of the alleged P10-billion pork barrel scam—not businesswoman Janet Lim-Napoles, according to official documents obtained by Inquirer.”

          Mastermind!

          Mr. Master in mind will deliver a defense in privilege speech soon.

          If ever CPM has plans, it will be from Plan A to Z, or Plan 1 to … and you’ll be counted in for sure!

      • Philstar news today, Nov. 21st, frontline page reports DOJ’s reaction the SC decision –

        ‘“It seems that we are tasked to investigate even past misuse of pork barrel funds, so you can imagine how difficult such work would be,” she said.

        “But I think we can find a way if we pool our manpower and resources together with the Office of the Ombudsman to comply with the directive,” she explained. “Are we really looking at massive misuse? Will we be able to gather evidence?”

        A ‘case’ that is a walk in the park is dangerous also for losing it. But a ‘case’ doggedly researched and prepared has a better chance for a success. I prefer this than the first one.

        • maybe we can start with SALN,,,”declaration of assets (i.e., land, vehicles, etc) and liabilities (i.e., loans, debts, etc), including business and financial interests, of an official/employee, of his or her spouse, and of his or her unmarried children under 18 years old still living in their parents’ households. The submission of a SALN is required by law under Article XI Section 17 of the 1987 Constitution and Section 8 of Republic Act No. 6713, the “Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards for Public Officials and Employees.” It includes a waiver authorizing the Ombudsman or his authorized representatives to attain documents that may show assets, liabilities, net worth, business interests, and financial connections from all appropriate government agencies.”Official Gazette

    • I hope this example shows also the Filipinos most especially the voters, kung sino ang karapat dapat sa susunod the eleksiyon.

      This should be a lesson for all of us. To listen to government sa panahon ng typhoon warnings and not use politics.

      But you are very correct and you pointed it very blatantly, if the romualdezes listened to the warnings of the weather bureau and set the example of evacuating … then maybe the number of casualties would not be that high.

      Well, that is done but it is always nice to look at what has happened and learn lessons.

    • They were ordered to go to the evacuation centers 4 days before landfall?
      Isn’t that a little impractical? Two days before the typhoon I think is more realistic.

  9. SLOW CASUALTY COUNT (or shaving)

    On philstar today, NDRRMC released the death toll at 4,011 12 days after yoly struck. With the presence of the US navy, many remote areas in the Samar/Leyte provinces have been slowly reached, and aids given and casualty reported.

    On November 15, one Joy Cantos of Pilipino Star Ngayon reported on the fudging of casualty figures on the tally board of the Office of the Civil Defense in Tacloban City.

    “In full view of reporters, she said, the 5,026 death toll on the board based on actual body count was changed to 3,422. The shaved figure was forwarded to the NDRRMC at Camp Aguinaldo.” (Postcript 11/19/13)

    It looks like many LGUs are afraid to report higher casualties lest they be admonished for lack of preparation like Tacloban City. While on a visit to Guian, Samar, PNoy said “Any casualty is an issue to me”

    In Tolosa, Leyte, the birthplace of Imelda and seldom visited by relief workers, officials said 367 bodies had already been recovered and at least 2,000 bodies had yet to be retrieved from collapsed houses and seaside communities (inquirer today)

    Are NDRRMC afraid to suffer the faith of Police Supt. Edwin Soria who was dismissed for reporting that 10,000 casualties are estimated in Tacloban City alone? or is PNoy afraid to reinstate Soria if the casualties reach 10,000?

      • “His interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour showcased a man throwing a temper tantrum and arguing over death count rather than focusing on rebuilding. His ridiculous need to appear in control is just hampering efforts overall and his continued blaming of the local government makes many, myself included, sick to our stomachs.”(Philstar online column “surviving the aftermath” 11/20/13)

      • did not mean that pnoy is definitely fudging, that remains to be seen, but he caused the issue to come up.

        • …but does not mean PNoy would like to be lied to of the ‘truth’ of the body counts.

          Not to tell the ‘truth’ would definitely aggravate the truth and the lies would become the ‘truth’!

          …remember, the truth hurts. . . but lies destroys everything.

        • don’t really know. but the reason gave in contradicting 10K was the “psychological” state of the estimator. the reason given in relieving the estimator was also “psychological”. sort of in line with the original reason.

        • ok. to be complete, the other part of the reason given in contradicting 10K was there was already a count of 2000 and only 500 more maximum was expected, something like that.

        • Yolanda disaster is ‘a drop in the bucket’ the casualties I mean.

          PDAF, for one, how many casualties for many years? Is there an estimate? None so far. I estimate – 30, 000, 000!

          Malampaya Fund, how many casualties for many years? Is there an estimate? None so far. I estimate – 60, 000, 000!

          DAP Funds, very recent, how many casualties for a short period of time? None so far. I estimate it is 70, 000, 000!

          How many casualties in the Senate & Lower House. No estimate? I estimate about less than 487 only !

          What is the estimate of corruptions in this country? 100, 000, 000 na! Are we not scared?

        • looting of public funds is a root problem. it kills mostly indirectly and you are seeing that in action in the yolanda casualties.

          if fudging is true, it means there are dishonest people around and corrupt people are people capable of dishonesty.

  10. I always feel proud to be a Filipino especially when I read news such as this:

    International media laud Filipino resilience amid ‘worst disaster’ Yolanda
    By Luigene Yanoria | Yahoo Southeast Asia Newsroom – Fri, Nov 15, 2013

    When the world looks at the Philippines, they won’t remember the worst typhoon to hit the earth—they will recall how strong Filipinos are, too.

    Seven days on, the world’s eye remains on the Yolanda-battered nation as international media like CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, NBC, ABC, and CBS—dispatch their topnotch journalists to deliver updates on the record-breaking typhoon.

    Leading the pack of foreign journalists on the ground is CNN’s Anderson Cooper who’s been ironically making headlines of himself due to a report where he mentioned the lack of national government support in the badly-hit Tacloban City.

    But for the veteran journalist who has so far covered the world’s biggest disasters, Filipinos show incredible strength even when aid seems bleak.

    “The Filipino people–the people of Tacloban, and Samar and Cebu and all these places where so many have died—they’re strong not just to survive the storm; but they are strong to have survived the aftermath of the storm,” he said in the November 15 broadcast of AC360.

    “They have survived for a week now often with very little food, with very little water, with very little medical attention,” he continued.

    Responding to President Benigno Aquino III’s appeal to the media “to use your role to uplift the spirits of the Filipino people — to find stories of resilience, hope and faith, and show the world just how strong the Filipino people are” and to observe accuracy in reporting, Cooper underscored that it is what they strive for as well.

    “Can you imagine the strength it takes to be living in shock, to be living, sleeping on the streets next to the body of your dead children? Can you imagine that strength? I can’t. And I’ve seen that strength day in and day out here in the Philippines. And we honor them with every broadcast that we do,” he concluded, his voice cracking.

    Filipinos’ sense of humor, resilience alive

    Another CNN reporter Ivan Watson picked up another Filipinos’ peculiar trait of finding a way to laugh even in the most trying times.

    “Certainly Filipinos here have not lost their sense of humor. They joke with the stranger even though their homes are damaged and their stomachs are empty,” he recounted as he featured the smiles on children’s faces in Guiuan, Leyte—with one kid saying, “Laughter is the best medicine.”

    Meanwhile, as survivors become desperate for basic needs, BBC’s Rupert Wingfield-Hayes reported how “ingenious” Tacloban residents are getting fuel as they ran out of their means to cook meals.

    “If this is looting, then it is very patient and well-ordered looting. The truth is, it’s the only way for people to get fuel here.”

    Andrew Harding, still from BBC, showed how residents of Guiuan manage to survive day by day—equipped with “phenomenal resilience.”

    “This place was cut off for so long it’s not surprising things got pretty tense, pretty desperate here. There’s been a lot of looting and still a state of emergency. And yet, what’s really striking about this town is how quickly the community has come together again and started to get things done. People may not have insurance here, but they have phenomenal resilience,” he said.

    http://ph.news.yahoo.com/international-media-laud-filipino-resilience-amid–worst-disaster–yolanda-113842924.html

  11. “Interestingly, the law does not punish politicians who give donations plastered with their names. Even if these donations did not come from their own pockets. However, if the goods came from their pork barrel or office money, isn’t that misrepresenting the source? It’s a gray area and the lawmakers made it that way.”
    —————————————————————–

    that’s what legislators do best. provide loopholes so it can be exploited. make what is wrong not illegal.

    • Not only ‘misrepresenting’ at that, it is STEALING. Theft. Or criminal misappropriations of public funds without valid authority of [ constitutional] law. Now the SC said ‘unlawful’ or illegal. Not a gray area anymore. Clear and not zero visibility!

      Btw, no more P200M or P70M yearly for senatongs and tongressmen, respectively. Who will be interested in the movie land to be a lawmaker this time? No more forever more.

      Overall I like the SC decision. The people surely loves this decision. Thanks God there is Heaven and Hell pala!

  12. puede po ba SA MGA BUMABATIKOS SA MGA NAGRE REPACK at sa nagbabantay ng KAMALIAN NG SYSTEMA. san
    isipin na lang na ANG MGA NAGBO BOLONTARYONG MAGRAPACK AY MGA TAONG NASALANTA AT TAGA DOON MISMO. IILAN LANG SILA . YUNG MGA BUMABATIKOS MAGPADALA KAYO NG MGA TRABAHADOR PARA TUMULONG SA PAGAAYOS NG MGA DONATION.
    PURO NA LANG BATIKOS, NAKIKITA ANG MALI PERO HINDI NAKIKITA ANG PAGSISIKAP NG MGA TAONG NAGTRA TRAABAHO!!

    DAPAT KILOS! TULONG!! TAMA NA MGA DALDAL!!
    KUNG WALA MAITULONG TUMAHIMIK. LALO LANG KAYO NAKAKAPGPASAMA NG LOOB NG MGA NASALANTA NATING MGA KABABAYAN!!

    • Pinay, you cannot just tell people to shut up or not say something. You should appreciative that these people are exposing the BULOK system of Philippine government.

      Don’t get mad at them, instead learn and know where they are coming from… after all they are not the thieves that stole the public funds, took advantage of the every Filipino and misused their power. These people that you asked to be silent are the ones that seeks justice, speaks and stands for truth for themselves and for their countrymen.

  13. Off topic: SC VOTING 14-0-1 PDAF UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Retun left over pdaf 2013 to natinsl coffers.
    Malampaya and PSF staya as deemed necessary for its purposes.
    SC also instructed prosecutions of gov’t officials found abusive of pdaf.
    YEHEY! Now takbo ang gusyong maglinkod ng matino at mahusay.
    Takbo, takas ang mga nagnakaw, abuso sa pdaf.

    • Nice we really need good news at the moment. I read it was 14-0 pero wala pang balita kung sino yung mga justices for or abstain. I guess the reforms in the judicial system have started.

      Also read the news inquirer “Enrile, Estrada, Revilla face another plunder case.”

    • Finally, the Court hereby DIRECTS all prosecutorial organs of the government to, within the bounds of reasonable dispatch, investigate and accordingly prosecute all government officials and/or private individuals for possible criminal offenses related to the irregular, improper and/or unlawful disbursement/utilization of all funds under the Pork Barrel System.

      This Decision is immediately executory but prospective in effect.”

      http://www.rappler.com/nation/44076-sc-junks-pork-barrel-unconstitutional

  15. I believe this news should be posted here since it also touches on topic regarding relief goods from international donations.

    Palace blasts fake photo on ‘repackaged’ goods
    http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/11/18/13/palace-blasts-fake-photo-repackaged-goods

    I believe that whoever this user name Male22maroon who posted the photo should come out and prove his claim because there are thousands of relief goods being repacked on a white plastic bag baring the tag DSWD without any epal signs, political names or faces.

    Photos of relief goods from news websites:
    http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/photo/48453/relief-ops-for-yolanda-victims-ongoing-in-metro-manila-schools

    http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/photo/48489/pnoy-inspects-yolanda-relief-ops-in-manila