Hi guys,
I am deeply honored to attend next week’s Global Media Forum in Bonn by Deutsche Welle, courtesy of the Federal Republic of Germany.
The invite to me as a journalist-blogger came out of the blue. I’d like to thank those in the German Federal Foreign Office who recommended me to attend this forum because I am not officially employed by any news publication or outfit. I’m basically a creature of the digital age – a freelancer who has added her voice to the multifaceted discussions on global issues, thanks to the Internet.
And of course I could not have gone through this digital journey alone. We are all in this together.
Looking at the forum program, I find most of the topics exciting. They have mainly to do with working as a journalist in the digital age, reporting on freedom of speech, the digital jihad now going on even as I write this, religious radicalism, climate change, the plight of refugees, frozen conflicts, the need for access to cheap medicine, etc.
I understand over 2000 participants are expected from all over the world, many of them journalists, academics, officials of international organizations. It will be one huge cross-pollination of ideas.
Deutsche Welle has crammed so many events — 40 workshops and events in just a few days– that it is pretty hard to choose which ones to attend physically.
Fortunately, DW has promised to put all the forums and workshops in the cloud.
Just to give you an idea, there will be a session on “Reporting on post-conflict societies and frozen conflicts”.
I must confess, it’s the first time for me to think of a conflict as “frozen”. But that’s exactly what we have been having in Muslim Mindanao since 1976 – a frozen conflict.
There will be five speakers for this session – four senior journalists from Germany, Iraq, France, Bosnia And Herzegovina and Cambodia and an academic from France. I am curious to hear what the journalist from Phnom Penh will say.
The forum’s description of the journalist’s dilemma in reporting on frozen conflicts is right on the money. It states:
Over time, media consumers tend to lose interest in frozen conflicts. But a number of recent examples demonstrate that frozen conflicts can reignite from one moment to the next, and without sustainable conflict management and conscientious media coverage, they can quickly flare up again.
How can frozen conflicts be dealt with journalistically and how can media help to ensure that balanced investigative reporting is not replaced by bilateral propaganda? Journalists are frequently subjected to two contradictory criticisms: on the one hand they are expected to monitor conflicts, and their processes of transformation, that are no longer the focus of public attention; on the other hand, they are accused of stoking the fires of such conflicts and keeping them alive.
Personally, I have been reporting on the peace negotiations between Muslim rebels and the Philippine government since 1987. Finding fresh angles and new developments got harder and emotionally draining after a while. But thanks to South China Morning Post (HK) which sees itself as a regional paper, I got to report on the many twists and turns of the conflict and the peace talks.
I wonder if the local communist rebellion can also be classified as a “frozen conflict.”
Another highly interesting topic is – “Foreign policy in 140 characters: How technology is redefining diplomacy.” Matthias Lüfkens, founder and author of the study of “Twiplomacy”, will be a speaker. Lüfkens pioneered a study on how world leaders use Twitter to engage ordinary people. But he will be speaking on how the UN can yank itself into the digital age.
If the Internet permits, I will be tweeting during the forum.
To make all these happen, DW partnered with Amnesty International, the Grimme-Institut, the United Nations, the OSCE, Reporters Without Borders Germany and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. And of course a financial institution, the Foundation for International Dialogue of the Savings Bank in Bonn is co-hosting the event, along with the German Federal Foreign Office, the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, the City of Bonn and the Robert Bosch Stiftung, one of Germany’s largest private foundations that promotes the social and natural sciences. .
DW’s Global Media Forum is a stark contrast to another forum I once attended in Libya 28 years ago. That forum was attended by all the rebels in the world that then Libyan Leader Muammar Khaddafy wanted to thrust at the face of the United States and the western world. In short, those who were then considered “radical” by the west.
I wrote about the Khaddafy forum here.
I’ll keep you up to date on the Global Media Forum.
I’d like to apologize for not updating my blog as often as I would want to. I have many pending stories :(
I needed to finish certain assignments and to get together the documents for this trip.
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Last month, I got to meet Michael Hasper, the Deputy Head of Mission of the German Embassy in Manila and Carmina Barcelon of the German press and cultural section. We talked about history, including German history. But I clean forgot to ask Hasper what he thought of President Benigno Aquino’s allusion to Sudetenland in relation to the South China Sea conflict.
Although he did have some very interesting observations about China.
Hasper is a history major, specializing in Prussian history.
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Before meeting Michael Hasper and Carmina Barcelon I had lunch with the lovely and very persistent Georgia Lovell, Second Secretary of the Australian Embassy.
She asked me about Philippine politics. I asked her about Australia and its politics. Such a huge subcontinent only has around 26 million people. But of course, my hubby Alan reminded me, a lot of it is desert and uninhabitable.
I also asked her what she thought of the potential presidential candidates of the Philippines for 2016 and she had some very interesting things to say about some of the candidates
Rene-Ipil says
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“Rene, you think we here will forget so soon all your recent posts promoting Duterte and his sponsorship of extra-judicial killings?”
You are again misleading and twisting the truth. Did I not explain again and again that I support Duterte’s federalism program but not the alleged vigilante and extra-judicial killing, if any.
You seem to forget that vigilante killing is wrong because those victims – alleged drug pushers, etc. – are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. How about Duterte? You seem to presume that he is guilty unless proven innocent. Where is due process then? The sauce for the gander must be the sauce for the geese. Now, you brag to know the law and tell lies just to disparage me.
Just answer my question. When did I ever say in this blog that I favor vigilante justice? Please cite just one instance like what I did in proving that you were LYING. Just one instance.
Rene-Ipil says
Caliphman
“If we are talking lies, you are full of IT. Masquerading as a Philippine lawyer is just one of it. Your understanding of Philippine law or any law is full of serious errors and the ‘advise’ you give leads CPMers astray. Case in point: you agreed with others the other day that the CA could not favor Binays second petition for a TRO because his defense entailed condonation. WRONG AGAIN!”
Yes, the condonation doctrine is not applicable to Binay. What’s wrong with it? Please elaborate so others may understand.
caliphman says
Your ignorance never ceases to amaze me, Rene. Just because you declare the condonement doctrine unconstitutional does not make it so. Its the Supreme Court who has to reverse itself before it stops being settle law. Frankly, I and a lot of other CPMers gave better things to do than to argue eith or dpell things out with you. Excuse me while I put you and your posts on permanent ignore.
Rene-Ipil says
You evaded my query. Nevertheless, thank you.
Rene-Ipil says
Caliphman, I am almost convinced that you wanted me out of Raissa’s blog. Do I seem to hit the jugular of your true benefactor? Yvonne is right after all. WHAT A CHAMELEON YOU ARE? But I don’t believe that you are JV Bautista as pointed out to me by a friend.
Thank you again for your time. I hope that you walk the talk this time. I have read that promise of yours for the nth time. MAN UP!!!
BFD says
@rene-ipil, it is of my opinion and my opinion only and it doesn’t even have an iota of legal truth in it.
But I think that condonation doesn’t apply to Binay if the project involved money coming from the IRA or share of the city from the National Treasury since it came from the tax collected from all the taxpayers in the country. Therefore, condonation should not apply to the Binay since this is a major crime against the state and not on the city only where unfortunately the Makati populace voted for Binay.
Rene-Ipil says
Right, you are BFD. That angle had been discussed here before by Yvonne. Binay plundered the local revenue of Makati City as well as the national revenue through IRA. if I remember right, even the amount of IRA for a certain year was posted.
baycas says
Read more: http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/702697/missing-binay-aide-still-on-makati-govt-payroll
baycas says
If the old mayor, as rumors flied, ‘robbed-clean’ the house…
The ‘second-termer‘ (as acting mayor) is literally cleaning the house…
leona says
Can you catch a GHOST who receives her salary every PAY DAY?
What does a GHOST do with her salary MONEY?
Is it TRUE that in every city/town there are GHOST EMPLOYEES?
Do GHOST EMPLOYEES also VOTE during ELECTION TIMES?
Is it alright to PAY a GHOST EMPLOYEE with a GHOST MONEY?
Ghosts! Goats! Ghasts! Ghastos!
Cha says
What will the ghost employees say when Acting Mayor Peña refuses to pay their salaries?
BOO !
:)
leona says
ha ha ha
boooking!
:-)
Rene-Ipil says
Syempre hindi makikita ni Peña yung mga ghosts. Kasi puro skeletons yung naiwan sa closets ng Makati City Hall.
Skeletons ng Omni Security Agency, city hall cafeteria operator, garbage contractor ni Elenita, Hillmarcs, bakery ni Nancy, etc.
Mary says
@ Rene Ipil
Can they still invoke the law on legal contracts they executed between their family owned corporations or can the city invalidate these contracts for reasons of conflict of interest or something, the term escapes me at the moment.
Even banks have this DOSRI (directrs, officers, stockholders and related intersts) thay they follow in their day to day transactions as mandated by the Central Bank.
Rene-Ipil says
The city of Makati could file a civil action for rescission (with damages) of contracts which are contrary to law .
The parties in the contract could be charged with violation of RA 3019 or the anti-graft law for entering into a contract that is disadvantageous to the government.
Mary says
Thanks for the immediate response.
I hope that can be done within the six months period of the preventive suspension, that is, unless the CA gives a TRO thereby reinstating AGAIN Junjun…heaven forbid!
Ancient Mariner says
Also the ghost files. What is missing from the filing systems will speak just as loudly as what has.not been shredded or removed.
vander says
whodyawanna call?
ghostbusters, tadaaaa!
kid pena he is! hehehe.
sa kanya nakasalalay ngayon ang kalahati ng pnas…
Matan G. Pusa says
Whose signature appears on the payroll sheet when the payroll for the missing employees were paid? Let us compare the signatures for all months these employees are missing yet collecting salary. All employees paid in cash have to sign a payroll register/sheet to acknowledge receipt of cash. If there are no signed registers, there is no accountability for the cash – a strong indicator of an anomaly. Who is then accountable for the payroll paid in cash? Whoever authorized the payroll (most likely boy payong) together with the payroll dept employees. Charge the payroll dept employees with malversation and they will sing to save themselves.
Mary says
It has been a while since this method of manual and cash payments of salaries in Makati has beeb exposed, criticized and ridiculed by almost everybody, netizens, other public personalities and officials but as proven by documents unearthed by the acting mayor, it still persists in the city.
Who can blame us if we believe the former VM Mercado in his revelations that he regularly delivers sacksfull of cash to the Binay family, presumably from this cash salaries paid for ghost employees? Does any right thinking individual still believe the lies, justifications and palusots being uttered by Binay and his spokesmen? The substantial leave credits mentioned by the Binay’s palusot team, should not be released as monthly salary but should have been included in his overall retirement pay
If it is true that right after the Senate sub committee hearings started, those two (baloloy and Limlingan) emptied their joint accounts, preterminated their joint investments, sold their co-owned securities and transferred them all to Canada or elsewhere, who can blame me if I then conclude that the reason they can’t let go of Makati even for six months under the preventive suspension order is because they are still after the substantial cash from this ghost employees for their campaign kitty?
Makati is truly their pet goose that lay unending golden eggs that enable them to be elected mayor, congresswoman, senator, vice president, and their ultimate aim, the presidential position. That’s why they wont ever let go of the pet goose come what may. As Junjun said to his blind supporters before temporarily vacating his post, hindi pa po tapos ang laban.
BFD says
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/07/03/15/villar-defends-pnoy-gives-him-fair-grade
Senator Cynthia Villar is giving President Benigno Aquino III a “fair” grade of 6 out of 10, saying that while the country has achieved economic growth under his administration, it was not inclusive.
“Fair. 5 to 7. 6,” said Villar, when asked to give an over-all rating for the President’s accomplishments.
“Mahirap talagang maging presidente. It’s so easy to say you are lazy, you are indecisive. To move the bureaucracy, mahirap talaga,” she said.
Villar acknowledged that the country has indeed achieved economic growth under the leadership of Aquino. This, however, is “not really trickling down to the poor,” she said.
BFD’s Comment: Di naman talaga failing, kasi ayon naman sa iyo, Sen. Villar, hindi gumalaw ang mga taong nasa poverty level. Ibig sabihin naaresto na yung pagbulusok pababa ng kahirapan ng bansa at dapat susunod na administration na ang magpapatuloy ng pagbulusok pataas tungo sa poverty alleviation. We should all remember na hindi lang poverty ang problema ng bansa and you wouldn’t be able to improve those within a 6-year period.
“Remember, I am different. Ang background ko business. Ang sabi nga ni Manny (her husband), hanggang walang kita, wala iyang lahat. You can have all the programs pero kung hindi nagma-materialize, wala sa akin iyan. Kung walang output, wala,” she added.
If she were to rate the President in terms of her confidence in his anti-corruption drive, Villar said she would give a 7 out of 10.
“Mahirap kasi ang corruption. It comes with development. Halimbawa iyong mga tao, malalaki na ang sweldo, hindi na sila naghihirap, you can tell them wag ka magluluko, wag kang korap kasi okay naman ang sweldo mo… Mga 7 siguro doon sa confidence in government. Iyung sa poverty hindi tayo maka-move on,” she said.
According to Villar, some of the notable accomplishments of the Aquino administration are the PhilHealth universal healthcare program, and the improvement of the services of state weather bureau PAGASA, noting that the Philippines is a disaster-prone country.
“We collect P35 billion sa sin tax for Universal Healthcare. We will be able now to give PhilHealth card to 15 million poor families. That will be substantial. That is first time in the Philippines na yung mahihirap may Philhealth na, makakapasok na sila sa hospital.”
But she said the poor still has to be educated on how to use the PhilHealth card.
Villar also lauded the administration’s anti-corruption drive in the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), saying the President appointed a good secretary.
“Hindi pulitiko, madaling kausap basta okay iyong hinihingi mo, ibinigay niya,” she said, pertaining to DPWH Secretary Rogelio Singson.
As the for the newly-implemented K-12 basic education program, the senator noted that it is facing numerous criticisms and even cases before the Supreme Court (SC).
“Kasi based on studies, if you are able to finish college, 2 percent na lang ang maghihirap. But alam naman natin na it will be hard for everyone to finish college. Kahit iyong mura nating state universities and colleges, 5,000 na lang ang tuition, ang estudyante lang ay one million,” she said.
Meanwhile, Villar did not give a rating for Vice President Jejomar Binay. “Wala naman, kasi the vice president is just waiting for the president to die. Para kang spare tire lang.”
NHerrera says
ONCE MORE, THE MACHINERY-CANDIDATE CONUNDRUM
I posted in Post 170 my thoughts on the subject, to which Caliphman replied with a suggestion which I find useful, but I still have difficulties. So I am posting this again, NOT on insisting it, but rather on the viewpoint that it may be taken with it, ACCEPTING the limitation of the admittedly SIMPLITIC view of the model.
The mechanics of the model has already been described in my Post 170 and I will not repeat it here.
The viewpoint with which the model may be considered is as follows:
1. The Presidential Preference surveys which Pulse Asia and SWS have taken in the past is to be taken with a lot more weight than my notes here.
2. It is an acknowledge truism that the parties or machinery that carries the candidate is important; not that it is a 100 percent insurance; researchers can easily find exceptions. That is, at this time — unless miracles happen, and they do happen — a very poor placer in the Presidential survey, may not prosper even with a full complement of parties. Interestingly, in a sort of circular argument (a chicken or egg affair), a party may not throw its weight on a candidate in a situation where the candidate’s standing in the survey is very poor.
3. Having said the above, the model provides a SUPPLEMENT to the Presidential Preference survey — especially at this time when the parties NOT ASSOCIATED DIRECTLY with the candidate are still mulling who to support. When a definitive decision is made, then this model loses much of its value because the reality and not the probability (as used here) kicks in.
4. Whereas in my Post 170, I included Duterte, in the current post, I confined myself to the three: Binay, Poe and Roxas. I have correspondingly changed the Party’s weight and the probabilistic distribution of the Party’s support to the three.
5. The INDEX is still my measure of the Machinery-Candidate strength which must be viewed together with the Presidential Preference. Again, it is NOT MEANT to replace the importance of the Presidential Preference survey results, but rather as a SUPPLEMENT to it.
6. With the above apologia, here are my input numbers and corresponding results:
Weight—-Party———————Binay——Poe——–Roxas
100———LP————————0————1————9
50———-NP————————0————4————6
60———-NPC———————-1————6————3
80———-PMP———————-2————8————0
40———-PDP-Laban————-0————2————8
20———-Lakas-CMD————-9————1————0
80———-UNA———————-8————2————0
————–INDEX—————–1040——-1560——-1700
Ok, I can now take the brickbats of my fellow CPMers. With any chosen set of numbers the relative numbers will change. Those numbers I have chosen are my GUT-FEEL numbers.
caliphman says
Manong Herrerra,
What your model does is provide a useful simulation of how different assumptions of the relative strengths added by party sponsorships and their allocation among three main candidates increasez their electibility, again in relative terms. As any mathematical model, its output is only as good as the assumptions. But it gives a number that summarizes simply what the consequences are of changing the assumptions. It nay not be sophisticated mathematics but it focuses discussion on what the the ‘right’ assumptions are and not on the calculations.
Hey, none of our sliderules can do that! Hehehe
moonie says
nherrera, brickbats? not from moi. I’m too dumb. but, isn’t grace’s husband IT specialist? he must have mastered logarithm and quite good in analyses too. surveys are probably his forte, piece of cake, his knowledge most useful. I think of him as being creative, quick witted and quick to act, placing like minded people in places where surveys are conducted, ready with answers, yay! he, he, he. right on the spot! genius.
in the past, similar thing has been done with t.v. shows. certain houses are marked for survey without householders knowing. few pollsters know who and where they are, and then, bombard their letter boxes with adverts, freebies and gift vouchers, their emails too. lot of gifts and freebies on offer. when polling day comes, the t.v. shows heavily advertised albeit subliminally, got top rating, naturally. and so, more advertisers advertise on top rating, prime time t.v shows, more money coming in for producers of t.v. shows, actors will get paid, their contracts renewed. the outlay and expenses worth all the more.
Joe America says
A most interesting numerical assessment. I’d imagine a similar intuitive assessment bears heavily on the minds of VP Binay and Senator Poe. It is reflected in the VP’s panic mode and bizarre behavior. It is likely reflected in Poe’s worry, will my popularity have holding power in the face of political machinery and the endorsements from name people likely to go to Roxas? Or “am I a flash in the pan?”
caliphman says
Joe, we will know soon enough. One big chunk of her supporters come from the CDE segment, the largest component of our electorate. Much of Binay’s core supporters are from this segment as well and as we have observed they tend to be diehard followers. Whether she will be a flash in the pan, its hard to tell. I think what happens to her support from this class, particularly the D voters, will determine her staying power.
Joe America says
Yes, true enough. I think Duterte is out. So there are three horses in this race. It seems to me that Binay is crashing, so there may actually be just two. Of those two, I’m inclined to think the Philippines will be fine, either way. I hope the campaign is on real issues and positions, like on EDCA and China and BBL and foreign investment and guns vs butter. And how to bring poverty down.
caliphman says
I know I sound like a broken record but Binay has no choice but to remain in the race. Yes he aspires for presidency but why he cannot quit is almost the certain conviction and jail time facing him, his son, and his wife. Maybe my friend baycas can log this but I expect at least three major candidates to face off: Poe, Binay, and Roxas. I think Poe and Roxas being in the race is for the national good as I expect them to run a positive campaign against each other perhaps on the issues you described. Binay of course will continue to run a negative campaign attacking Poe on experience and Roxas on his roots from an elitist haciendero. In turn, corruption will be his Achilles heel and it is Poe who will benefit from the continued erosion of some of his diehard CDE support.
This is just my opinion of course and it is based on what is happening now. I really doubt VP Binay can be successfully impeached or indicted for criminal offenses before the election is over.
Mary says
I wish I could share your optimism.. The CDE voters and Binay and Estrada’s blind followers of the AB class worry me…how to effectively reach them, there are so many of them…I need to pray more and to exert great effort to reach much more than my immediate circle of influence.
Estrada has announced that should Binay encounters more legal and other problems in his candidacy, he is willing to be the opposition’s standard bearer,,,aaargh!
Joe America says
I think his days are done at the national level. Just a hunch.
caliphman says
She is reaching them which is why she has the lead in the surveys. If she can continue capturing votes in this segment based on her popularity with the masses, and at the same time focus on a reform agenda to deal with our corruption, economic, defense, regional autonomy, and other critical issues in response to a similar platform from Roxas, we might emerge from this Binay/Estrada nightmare scenario in fairly good shape.
Rene-Ipil says
Nherrera, I think you concocted a useful model. My only disagreement is on the assigned numerical contribution of the party machinery strenght. With 100 points assigned to LP as maximum, I would rather assign identical points to NP of Villar, PMP of ERAP and UNA of Binay at 60 each. Lesser points to NPC of Danding at 50. And much lesser points to PDP-Laban of Pimentel and LAKAS of Arroyo at 40 each. Tabled, it would be:
Weight—-Party——————Binay——Poe——–Roxas
100———LP————————0————4————6
60———-NP————————0————6————4
50———-NPC———————-3————5————2
60———-PMP———————-2————8————0
40———-PDP-Laban————-2—— ——4————4
40———-Lakas-CMD————-6————2————2
60———-UNA———————-8————2————0
————–INDEX—————–1070——-1750——-1320
Computation sample for Binay:
LP 100 x 0 = 0
NP 60 x 0 = 0
NPC 50 x 3 = 150
PMP. 60 x 2 = 120
PDP. 40 x 2 = 80
LAKAS 40 x 6 = 240
INDEX 1070
Based on my assessment pursuant to the “Nherrera Doctrine” Poe would be supported by all parties on varying degrees. And overall Poe would get the highest number of points.
Rene-Ipil says
UNA 6 x 80 = 480
NHerrera says
Thanks guys for the comments. At least we at CPM through our collective minds — using what my idol Einstein call “gedanken” or thought experiment — are able to give some flesh to the concept of machinery-candidate.
As I expected our varying gut-feel notwithstanding, point to similar qualitative results: Binay aside from down on Presidential Preferences (ref: PA and SWS surveys), seem to be down too in our perception of machinery-binay; and those of machinery-poe, machinery-roxas are higher in relative strength. In the latter two, I agree, it may be a toss up, with Poe having a better go at it.
(By the way, Rene-Ipil, there is a slight variance in my K+E result versus your Hemmi result: 1070/1850/1180 versus 1070/1750/1320. But, no matter, it is directionally the same. I placed another dash of talcum on that old K+E to make sure. :-)
Rene-Ipil says
I think your model is really good. Ni-rambol ko na nga yung numbers, ganun pa rin halos ang resulta. Or maybe we just have similar assessment criteria.
NHerrera says
The Philippine Star — Philippines sends top execs to South China Sea arbitration (July 3, 2015 – 3:58pm)
http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2015/07/03/1472862/philippines-sends-top-execs-south-china-sea-arbitration
We really have a cream of the crop delegation to attend next week’s start of the oral arguments on the Philippines’s arbitration case against China in the following:
Senate President Franklin Drilon, Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio, House Speaker Feliciano Belmonte Jr., Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert Del Rosario, Justice Secretary Leila De Lima, Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin, Associate Justice Francis Jardeleza, Solicitor General Florin Hilbay and former AFP Chief of Staff Manny Bautista.
Fare you well. We salute you on your mission.
moonie says
they have to act as a team, speak in one voice. please, only the job at hand with no ego and no personality clash. I think, china will try to chip our ‘armor’, isolate the ones they think have vested interest and dig right in.
china is awfully good in hacking and getting secret info, probably have in depth knowledge of the weaknesses and secrets of each of our team. if china uses the knowledge to unsettle our team and made them useless by threatening to reveal their shameful secrets, I hope our team will not collapse and stay strong.
NHerrera says
You may find the advice of JoeAm to Pacquiao worth reading:
“Get out, Manny! Get out!” (July 3, 2015)
http://joeam.com/2015/07/03/get-out-manny-get-out/
NHerrera says
We owe it to the world sports phenomenon and our country’s great pride, Manny Paquiao — who has been honest, dignified, and sportsman-like with regard to boxing — to give advice before he ruins himself and his family with the dirty politics of Binay.
Ancient Mariner says
I 100% agree. Although I must add that he did not look too happy sitting behind the Poison Dwarf.
moonie says
yeah, sitting behind the poison dwarf and sniffing his bad smell, no wonder pacman looked daze, he, he, he. put up shield wall, pacman, and wear mask. binay is contagious.
vander says
ako naman ay isa sa fans niya.
dati. wala pa siya sa house noon.
pero imho, isa sa worst performances niya ang lower house.
maihahanay siguro sa lucky punch ni boy iji marquez.
anyway ang kanya namang nasasakupan ay masaya sa pagrepresent niya sa kanilang distrito.
pero para namang abuso de kumpiyansa na kung maging senador pa.
at susunod naman ay prisidinti sa 2022!!! hohoh!
nakakaokray at nakakakikay. hahaha…
leona says
Cong. Manny Pacquiao will box to become a Senator.
Cong. Pacquiao believesthe Senate has also FOUR CORNERS like the boxing ring. He is absolutely wrong!
Cong. Pacquiao will find out in the Senate it has TWELVE CORNERS! He will not know to which CORNER he will take the 1 minute break.
Cong. Pacquiao will become a Senator. He will top a senator’s absences!
‘Sen.’ Manny Pacquiao will experience many knockouts in the Senate. In the Lower House he only experienced many absences.
‘Sen.’ Pacquiao will listen, listen and LISTEN a lot in the Senate but will not glisten like one in the ring.
‘Sen.’ Manny Pacquiao will be the first boxer who became a Senator! A congressman. A basketball coach. A pastor. A singer. Rather than use his talent and experience to share with Filipino potential boxers,
‘Sen.’ Manny prefers to become finally a politician. His ambition is to become the first Filipino professional boxer to be the president in Year 2022 of this country.
‘Sen.’ Pacquiao is curious why the thieves and robbers go into politics? Why can’t he when he is none of it? Get in! I want to Get in! honestly believes Manny Pacquiao.
Cong. Pacquiao is looking at the writing on the wall – GET in! GET out! GET in or GET out!
But it is Cong. Manny’s motto ever since his youth: Sigi. . . GiT iN! Ju! . . . Git out!
Joe America says
Thanks for the note on the blog. Quite a few people have bopped over for a read. I haven’t participated much in the dialogue on this blog, but did pen one comment that gives my personal view of the matter, and also about Senator Poe:
I tried to separate the “moral message” from the political message in the blog. Manny is entitled to use his popularity to earn a living or make money or leverage it into service of the people, if that is his goal. I mean, that is what Grace Poe is doing, and I’m not sure she has much depth of leadership above what Manny has. He’s been boxing for years and dealing with contractual issues, working with advisers, taking his knocks by making mistakes (taxes), and orchestrating his family’s rise into local politics. He carries himself diplomatically.
To me, he is self-selecting on competence, just as Senator Poe is doing. If he stays in UNA, he is self-selecting himself has having both poor values and poor judgment. If Senator Poe, a greenie, chooses to use her popularity as the basis for qualifying herself as ready for the Presidency, she is demonstrating that she is a poor judge of managerial capability. She believes popularity is sufficient and experience doesn’t mean anything.
That is so “old school” for a nation that needs to get productive and knowledgeable and stop roaming about on the backs of people who are popular but unskilled.
Joe America says
By the way, somewhat related, I think Senator Escudero is proving himself to be a political snake. He is leveraging popular issues for political gain. He is trying to leverage poor broadband speed as an issue while, to his side, Senator Aquino is working diligently to pass laws that will improve service. He is taking the sunken ferry tragedy as a platform to stand on to criticize the Administration’s poor management of port services. That’s rather ghoulish and smacks of Binay working the Laude family and the Mamasapano 44 for political gain.
NHerrera says
A RE-POSTING WITH ASSUMED PERMISSIONS
I was late in reading Post 190 of @Parekoy. Vander, Vhin AB, Pinay710 and I enjoyed reading this latest novela cobbled from Parekoy’s “unreliable” source. So, if I may, I would like to repost it with the assumed permission of Parekoy and Raissa. The novela is too good to be missed by the readers who are just viewing the latest posts in Raissa’s Blog.
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190
Parekoy says:
June 30, 2015 at 9:50 pm
Calibrated Response
Strategy vs. Strategy!
Binay’s strategy is an old one while the Admin’s is new and more potent for the kill!
Admin’s strategy is really a slow kill.
Instead of DILG issuing the suspension orders, the Ombudsman was the one who did first. This is to take out the spin that Roxas is so eager to expel Junjun from the Makati City Hall. Expectedly according to the plan, Junjun will complain again persecution and he is correct that the Palace (Aquino) now is involved, for Ochoa and Coloma knew it all along and as their double agents reported to VP Binay the impendig issuance of suspension. Aquino, however, ordered to control the situation on the Ombudsman, PNP and DILG part and show maximum tolerance, and let the Binays commit their expected abuses, abetting violence against the government, and using the paid gullible people and diehard Binay supporters as human shield.
So Binay took the gambit that the Ombudsman is toothless by ignoring the suspension and tried to rally their troops against the administration. The Ombudsman did it correctly that the suspension is more on the administrative case first so as to show that it has not prejudged the case yet as criminal and the Ombudsman has more leeway on why they are suspending Binay. Conching is smart, she knows that the Binay’s lawyers could poke holes in the suspension if she added criminal charges and the CA justices could conspire again with the Binays. So kudos to the Ombudsman Morales, great strategy!
Since it is calibrated, the next phase is using the PNP under DILG, and Jamias is a trusted superintendent who handpicked his men who are instructed to apply maximum tolerance but knows how to protect themselves from the mob. The purpose is two-fold: To issue the suspension order and post it on the Makati City Hall so that Junjun could not deny legally that he did not receive it and the police presence will have a climate that PNP is trying to provide security not only on the human shield but also prevent the massing of armed men. PNP has assets and informants in Makati City Hall. Some of the Binay supporters are actually agents and tipping the PNP which are the armed and dangerous hooligans. Videos are also employed to record what is expected to happen and the PNP made sure that evidence is there to counter the expected accusations from the Binays. NBI assets are also at the periphery and are another set of eyes to make sure that PNP abide by the instructions for some maybe bought by the Binays to start the commotion. Talagang sarado at napaka-detalyado ang plano ng Admin, and Roxas had lots of inputs in that.
Roxas wanted to project what kind of leader he is. He knows that Binay will accuse him of personal interest so his plan is to show professionalism. Plenty of his detractors wanted Roxas to be harsh and use the full might of his office to immediately forcibly removed Junjun from Makati, but he knows what he is doing. Roxas knows that when the Binays are the ones self-destructing why stop them from doing that? The Binays are in panic mode and Jojo himself is now the hands-on commander of his troops to save his empire in Makati for he knows that once Junjun is out of Makati City Hall, the skeletons pile up above the ceiling that the ghost employees are making noises pointing to where the evidence are. A lot of documents were shredded according to an asset inside the Binay’s circle. Remember that Mercado has people too in Makati, and the other councilors already made a secret pact with LP and they gave some evidence as a sign of good faith on their new allegiance.
In the next weeks we will see the next phase wherein Junjun will be forcibly removed from Makati City Hall if he insists on staying. According to footage, Binays are the ones to blame in the telenovela cum action TV. The sympathy is on the police and the Administration and DILGs tolerance. The next phase is the Taumbayan is now growing impatient with Binays defiance and clamoring for the DILG PNP to muster some balls, but that is part of the plan so that if there is any violence, the public has their mind set that the Binays are the usual culprits!
The Binays have unwittingly provided Roxas with a stage wherein Roxas has shown leadership and professionalism by abiding to the letter of the law and just doing his job without grandstanding. Roxas is showing that you don’t need to be dirty like Duterte to do his job and let the wheels of justice (Pun intended to SC Justice on Wheels) roll on the Binays.
Imagine that the Aquino Administration is like a boa constrictor now wrapping its body on the dying Binay Empire. It will be a slow and excruciating death and there is nothing at the moment that the Binays can do for the more they resist the more pain they suffer and louder sound of the crushing of their bones are heard.
I would like to write in quatrains but most folks might not get the message, thus the colloquial…
Parekoy-aka Michel de Nostredame
06-30-2016
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NHerrera says
CONTINUATION OF THE NOVELA
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190.1.1
Parekoy says:
July 2, 2015 at 2:21 am
Dapat nagmatigas sila Binay, pero sabi ng unreliable source ko, natipan nila Ochoa at Coloma na may order na si PNoy na forcibly removed pag nagmatigas.
Saka yung timing ng ppagpalabas na indicted si Biazon eh para mawalan ng bisa yung akusasyon ni Binay na namimili lang si Conching ng sadampahan ng kaso. Yung isa sa mga staffs sa Ombudsman nakaibigan ng kaibigan ko na dating nagtratrabaho sa Ombudsman at ngayon eh judge na eh pikon na daw si Morales kasi napapakiusapn lang siPNoy niPong na kung pwede eh di isama si Ruffy, pero determinado si PNoy na huwag mabigyan ng paa ang akusasyun ni Jojo Binay na selective justice.
Sacrifice si Ruffy at si Gen. purisima para mas may credibilidad si Aquino laban sa UNA. Kaya windang ngayon ang UNA at si Erap na ang poposisyon as kandidato sa pagkaPresidente.
Puri ni PNOy si Roxas at Morakes sa execution ng suspension order.
Abangan ang warrant of arrest naibibigay kay JojoBinay!
Si Poe silent lang kasi pati sya di alam kung pipiliin ni Aquino as VP ni Roxas…
Namumuro na.
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NHerrera says
Oops, the preceding post to which the above — CONTINUATION OF THE NOVELA — is a sub-item, is under moderation; so the numbering is out of sequence. It is not a sub-item to the post re-Pacquiao
Dodong says
Si Binay ay may ugaling hindi mapigilan ang sarili na manakit at manduro ng mga tao kapag kinokontra sya, napatunayan na yan sa mga insidenteng nangyari sa kanila ni bong daza sa loob ng cityhall kung saan may namatay na security aide ni daza, sumunod ay during election kung saan kalaban nila si genuwino kung saan sinaktan nya ang isang supporter ni genuwino sa loob ng eskwelahan habang nagbobotohan, kumalat ang video tungkol dito pero malamang sa lawak ng koneksyon ni binay ay baka wala na to ngayon. Sumunod ay ang dasma gate at ang pinakalast ay ang jamias incident, kung icocompile lahat ng eto para sa eleksyon e baka mag no.1 eto sa mga scandal sa pilipinas. Ang mga binay ay parang kapitbahay nyo lang na pag hindi kayo nakisama o sumalungat kayo sa gusto nila ay peperwisyuhin nila kayo.
duquemarino says
@Dodong
Ang isa sa mga unang nalahad sa dyaryo ng pagka-arogante at vindictiveness ni VP Binay at noon OIC mayor pa lang sya ng Makati. Gustong gumamit ng pasilidad ng YMCA Makati ang kanyang mga anak subalit dahil hindi sila miyembro hindi pinahintulutan. Nagsumbong ang mga anak sa ama, pinasara ng ama ang YMCA.
May mga tantrum moments din siya as boy iskawat.
moonie says
ganon di yata ang gagawin ni binay kay jamias. binay threaten to kick out jamias from the police force, destroy his career the way ymca was destroyed. anyone standing on binay’s path got run down. this time though, I think, binay has hit a wall, shield wall. nabangga siya. sakit sa ulo.
Vhin AB says
Sen. Enrile, with all his power and influence is now in jail courtesy of the president. VP Binay’s friendship and loyalty to Cory Aquino and her family didn’t prevent PNoy in making Binay pay for his sins against the prople of the Philippines.
Matigas si PNoy. Matigas din ang ulo. Pero kapag magnanakaw ka at binangga mo siya ay tiyak na tatamaan ka.
leona says
Imagine people-passengers are made to hear ‘Sorry’ for their missed FLIGHTS at NAIA3. Bureau of Immigration officials saying only ‘We Are Sorry.’
Does BI have somewhat ‘Plans’ for unexpects? You missed your flight after a month of planning it etc.
Ganoon lang – ‘sorry’? It won’t happen again? Diyos Ko! Mahina ang palakad dito. Poor management of the bureau office.
leona says
Link of BI SORRY state
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/metro-manila/07/02/15/bi-sorry-long-lines-naia-3-missed-flights
Joe America says
I’m sorry that incident occurred because my experience the last few times through the various terminals is that Immigration has shifted to a “customer service” mode from an authoritarian mode. The lines have been reasonable in length, and no different than Singapore’s. Of course, I always hobble and wheeze my way to the old fart’s line on the left, then resume my skipping once through the check point. I’ve also found that if one smiles at an Immigration official, the official smiles back.
Let me tell you about those immigration thugs in Hong Kong . . . they don’t smile back . . .
Well, enough of that . . .
Vhin AB says
Friendship versus Country
The friendship of the Aquinos and Binays is a public knowledge. It is also a matter of public interest. Cory Aquino gave VP Jojo Binay the city of Makati and the rest is history for Mr. Binay. Mahaba at matatag na relasyon sa loob ng mahigit 30 taon. Ang mga sumunod na henerasyon ay kabilang sa naging bunga ng pagiging loyal ni Binay kay Cory.
Nang maluklok si Noynoy ay nagdeklara siya ng Tuwid Na Daan bilang panata sa kanyang character at magiging panuntunan ng kanyang administrasyon. Naging mapagmatyag tayo. May mga panahon na parang nauubos na ang pasensya natin sa ibang mga desisyon niya. Mahirap sigurong maging pangulo ng 100 milyon na tao. Nandyan ang utang na loob sa mga nakatulong sa kampanya. Ito ay isang realidad sa pulitika na kailangan natin na maintindihan. Di ka naman mauupo kung walang suporta at kompromiso. Sa pulitika man o personal na buhay ay isa itong katotohanan.
May mga kamag-anak at kaibigan. Mga negosyante at lalo na ang mga kaalyado sa pulitika. Mahirap na ibalanse. Anumang gawin ay may mapupuna. Natitiyak naman natin na may magiging pagkakamali katulad din ng mga naunang pangulo ng bansa. Walang perpekto gaya ng sinabi ko.
Kapag kaibigan mo ang naiipit kahit pa sabihin na ang itinutulak mo ay ang kapakanan ng bayan ay napakahirap pa rin sa kalooban na ito’y basta talikuran lalo pa kung may mahabang pinagsamahan. Kung tayo ang nasa katayuan ng presidente ay paano mo ibabalanse lahat itong nangyayari sa pamilya ng isa sa pinakaloyal sa Aquino?
Madalas mapag-usapan dito ang mga kapalpakan at ang pagiging matigas na ulo ni PNoy. May mga nagsasabi pa na “abnoy” o wala raw ginagawa. Ang iba naman na ang sabi ay diktador daw. Ang pagiging ‘weak’ at diktador sa tingin ko ay magkasalungat na pag-angkop sa pagdescribe sa isang tao.
Ang karamihan sa atin ay natutuwa dahil siya lang ang nakapagpatalsik sa isang Chief Justice ng Supreme Court at sa mga senador kabilang na si Sen. Enrile na ngayon ay nakakulong at nakahabla. Untouchables pero di sila umubra. Selective justice naman ang sigaw ng iba pero ngayon ang mga kaalyado naman ang kanyang sinasagasaan, huli man ay naipakita pa rin sa atin.
Magtyaga pa tayo. Walang perpektong presidente pero malaking bagay kung ang pinuno ng bansa ay hindi magnanakaw. Hindi nagpapayaman mula sa pera ng bayan. May mga napapaboran pero ganoon talaga sa pulitika na kailangang bumalanse sa lahat ng personalidad at isyus.
Ngayon nga ay isang kaibigan ang nasagasaan ng Tuwid Na Daan. Alam ko na maaraming naiinip kung kailan kikilos ang pangulo. Nanggigigil tayo dahil sa mga katiwalian na na-expose laban kay VP Binay at pamilya nito. Pero dumating na ang tamang oras. Ito na ang panahon. Hindi madaling isalin ang kapangyahiran na pangunahan ang 100 milyon na Pilipino kung isa kang lider na hindi man nagtangka na nakawan ang kaban ng bayan.
Sa huli ay tayo pa rin ang mag-uupo ng bagong pangulo pero masaya ako na sa ngayon ay nanaig kay PNoy ang kapakanan ng Bansa laban sa pagkakaibigan.
canadadry says
@Vhin
Magaling ang pagkakasulat mo kaibigan!
Alam mo hindi ko rin inaasahan na si Pnoy ay magtatapos na walang bahid ng korapsyon. Hindi ko rin inasahan na uunlad ang PiliNas sa ekonomiya, hindi pa nga lang kalat sa mga malilit pero spectacular ang growth pag inoobserbahan mo sa labas ng Pinas kumpara sa mga ibang bansa. Ultimo Greece nagdefault pero ang Pinas umaarangkada. Tama ka malaking bagay yung pagkaalis nya kay Ombudsman Gutierrez at Chief Justice Corona, nagbago ang temperatura ng government service. Yung pag paliwanag nya ng position ng Pilipinas laban sa Tsina ay kapansin pansin, mantaking mong banggain mo ang Tsina, pero ano ang resulta buong mundo nabuksan ang mata sa “pagkabinay” ng Tsina-tarantadong sakim. Wala man ako sa Pilipinas nagpapasalamat ako na sa aking lifetime nawitness ko yung posibilidad kung papano ang Pinas kung hindi magnanakaw at buo ang loob ang Pangulo. Okay na sa akin yon.
Tingnan mo Vhin kung ano ang nagagawa ng sinulat mo, nakakapukaw ng saloobing matagl ng gustong sabihin.
Kajames says
@canadry: ewan ko ba kung bakit habang binabasa ko ang talata mo ay nangingilid ang luha ko…
Vhin AB says
Thanks @canadadry.
Marahil ay hindi nalalaman ng mga kababayan natin na sa labas ng Pilipinas ay mabango ang tingin sa ating bansa dahil sa matinong pamumuno ng pangulo. Hindi sila nakatingin sa ekonomiya na lumalago kundi sa presidente na hindi corrupt.
Mahirap ang dinadanan ng pangulong Noynoy dahil 10 years si GMA na naging presidente at nasira ang napakaraming institusyon. Kay FVR at Erap ay gayun din. Simula 1992 hagang 2010 ay 18 years na napakaraming proyekto na puno ng katiwalian. Umusbong ang napakasakit na kultura ng nakawan. Ang masakit pa ay iniwan sa kanya si Corona na banta sa kanyang administrasyon.
Kaya minabuti na linisin muna ang gobyerno. Maraming naiinip at kabilang na ako. Pero nanatili ang paniniwala ko na iniaayos niya ang lahat lalo na ang ekonomiya. Hindi ito madali dahil tadtad ng korapsyon lalo ang big ticket projects sa panahon ni GMA kaya kailangang linisin muna. Inaasahan natin na ang susunod na pangulo ay mas transparent na ang sistema dahil kay PNoy.
Natanggal si Corona. Nakakulong ngayon ang 3 senador. May mga elected officials pa na humaharap sa mga iba’t ibang kaso. Tyaga lang tayo. Malapit na rin naman siyang bumaba sa pwesto. Sana ang pumalit ay mahigitan si PNoy sa ibang bagay na sa tingin natin ay mahina siya pero sana ay kapantay nya sa katapatan. Yung hindi magnanakaw sa kaban ng bayan. Yung may dignidad. Isang lider na pwedeng ipagmalaki dahil hindi nangungurakot at matapang na hinaharap ang malalaking personalidad.
fed-up says
@Vhin at @canadadtry. May previous post ako sa nakaraang topic tungkol sa mahigpit na hikayat ni US Pres. Obama sa liderato ng Pilipinas na dapat sila ay magkaroon ng vision (“Have vision”). Naisip ko tuloy kung muls kay Manuel Roxas (unang Presidente ng bansa noong binigyan ng Pilipinas ng independensiya noong 1946) hanggang kay Pnoy ay kung sino at kung ano ang naging vision ng bawat isa sa kanila. Kung tatawagin nating “nation-building” ang pag-angat ng economya at estado ng Pilipinas sa pamamalakad ng isang presidente mula kay Manuel Roxas at “nation-tearing” naman ang itatawag natin sa isa sa kanila na walang nagawa kundi pagsasamantala lamang noong siya ay namuno, sinu-sino kaya sa kanila ang ang maituturing na “nation-builders” at “nation-tearers”? Kung mananalo si VP Binay sa 2016, magiging “nation-builder” kaya siya o “nation-tearer”?
parengtony says
well said.
akoypnoy says
ganyan din ang saloobin ko..d lang ako kagaya nyo na magaling magsalansan ng mga salita,,,
canadadry says
@akoypnoy and @kajames
mahalaga talagang inilalabas ang saloobin miski isang sentence lang kasi ang pakiramdam mo di ka nag iisa may kasama kang sumasabay sa hinihingi ng pagkakataon.
tama si Loida Lewis, eto ang panahong sama sama tayong tumulong sa ikaangat ng bayan, sabi nga sustainability para magka traction:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7DGESi3v9Y
@Vhin tingnan mo ang ginawa mo tatlo na kaming naapektuhan sa pagsulat mo
canadadry says
@Vhin
apat pala kasama si @parengtony!
Vhin AB says
Kapareho nyo lang din ako na may saloobin na dapat iparinig sa lahat. Mga obserbasyon na nais ibahagi sa lahat at mga katanungan kung bakit sa tagal na panahon ay ngayon lang nagsimula ang pangulo na singilin si VP Binay sa mga kasalanan niya sa bayan.
Sa isang post ni Raffy Alunan III na maging si FVR ay hindi nagiba si Binay sa Makati. Matindi naman talaga ang kapot at puwersa nito. Pero di umubra kay PNoy. Tamang ‘timing’ lang naman talaga at ito na. Nangyayari na. Matuto tayong magtyaga pa at maniwala na mananaig ang tapang at Tuwid Na Daan ng pangulo.
pelang says
@Vhin AB hindi lang si FVR kundi kay Arroyo din. Hindi nakuha ni Arroyo na paalisin siya sa makati. Nagbarikada siya sa loob ng makati Hall.
Vhin AB says
Good point @Pelang.
Though I wanted to compare PNoy sa isang presidente na kapareho nya na lalake. Si FVR ay militar pa pero hindi nya nagalaw si Binay sa kanyang kaharian noon. Matapang at sanay sa bakbakan si FVR lalo na noong panahon niya. Isang Korean war veteran kung tama ako pero walang nagawa na ganito.
Si GMA with all her powers for 10 years ay wala rin nagawa kay Binay kaya tama ka. So, sino nga kaya ang weak at ‘dictator’ gaya ng gusto palabasin ng mga detractors? Sana ay masustain ang nasimulan na pagputol ng sungay sa mga gustong maghari-harian sa ating bansa.
Percival says
Isa lang ang malinaw dito. Na walang hawak na alas si Binay laban kay PNoy, di gaya ng ipinapahiwatig ng ilan. That’s why I believe, only an untainted leader can clean a corruption infested government.
Percival says
Mayroong nagsasabi na lahat ng politiko ay corrupt at hindi naiiba si PNoy, na mayroon din itong itinatagong Katiwalian. Pero kung totoo ito, disin sana’y nailabas na ito ng mga gusto syang sirain at pababain sa pwesto. Kung ang mga pagkakamaling hindi sinasadya ng pangulo gaya ng mamasapano ay ginagamit upang siya ay ibagsak, ano pa kaya ang malinaw na katiwalian, upang gamiting oportunidad para sya ay kasuhan at pabagsakin.
Maaari nga na may selective justice na nangyayari. Mga kaalyado na hindi napaparusahan. Pero kung kahit kapartido nya na may maliit na katiwaian ay agad agad ding pananagutin, sino pa ang matitira na kakampi nya para magtanggol sa kanya. Kung magkaganoon, hindi rin sya tatagal sa pwesto para isakatuparan ang mga reporma. Tama na siguro sa ngayon na hindi sya nakikialam sa pagpapatupad ng batas laban sa mga kaibigan at kaalyado nya. Asahan at ipagdasal natin na habang nalalapit na ang kanyang pagbaba sa pwesto, isa isa na ring mapapanagot ang mga tiwali nyang kaalyado sa politika. Bigyan natin sya na panahon. Ang mga nakaraang pangulo ay hindi nagawa na magpakulong ng untouchables kahit pa ito’y mahigpit nilang kaaway. Kay PNoy, kahit paano, marami sa mga tiwali ang ngayon ay napapanagot kahit paano. Walang perpektong lider. Kailangan nilang makipaglaro para sila ay tumagal at magtagumpay sa kanilang hangring kabutihan ng bansa.
Vhin AB says
Thanks @Percival.
Nice way of explaining how to balance the president’s position. Hindi niya kayang linisin lahat sa loob ng 6 na taon ang kultura ng korapsyon. Most of our politicians are born and raised in this kind of corruption. Nawa’y maipagpatuloy ng susunod na pangulo ang matinong pamumuno at malinis na hangarin.
Kapag ang pinuno ay walang ambisyon na magpayaman ay malaking puntos na ito sa ihahalal natin sa 2016. Huwag maghanap ng perpekto. Ang character pa rin ang importante dahil dito nakasalalay ang buhay ng 100 milyong Pilipino. Ang ekonomiya ay uunlad kapag hindi magnanakaw ang naupo. Hindi biro ang dapat na balansehin. Kaya mahalaga na alamin ang posisyon ng kandidato sa mga issues ng ating bansa.
vander says
Nadale [email protected],
sapul na sapol.
at ang mga sinabi mo ang suportang dapat nating ipinadarama kay pnoy upang higit pa niyang pag-ibayuhin ang pamamahala hanggang sa mailuklok natin ang kanyang ie-endorso sa 2016.
higit na buti ang darating pa sa bansa kung maipagpapatuloy ng lahat ang adhikain laban sa pandarambong at imoral na pamamahala ng kaban ng bansa.
vander says
uulitin ko ang sinabi ko na noon pa.
pagkaupung-pagkaupo ni pnoy,
sinabi nya, “walang wang-wang”.
hindi late ang pagkalas ni pnoy kay binay.
dahil si binay ang “wang-wang” sa buhay ni pnoy.
iyan mismo ang itinanim ni pnoy sa isip ko.
ginamit lang ni pnoy ang “billiard tactics” niya na naaayon sa isang blog ni Raissa.
Vhin AB says
Thanks @Vander.
Different tactics depende sa personalidad, isyu at sitwasyon. Kaya tama ka na sakto lang ang pagkalas. Hindi inaasahan ni Binay na ang ‘loyalty card’ ay hindi pala uubra kay PNoy.
Kung titgnan sa pangmalawakang pagtanaw, ang maidudulot nito ay mabuti. Na pwede pala na kahit isa kang Bise-Presidente o Senador ay pwede kang makulong. Hindi lang yung maliliit na isda. Ngayon ay maging ang kaalyado ay may kailangang sagutin sa batas. Hindi lang talaga pwede na sabay-sabay. Billiard tactic sabi nga. Sana may ganyang ‘balls’ ang susunod na pangulo. Thanks @Vander.
Rene-Ipil says
[email protected]
“If the evidence of guilt is strong AND the respondent’s continued stay in office may prejudice the case filed against him, then the “investigation” in this kind of situation may not necessarily constitute solely an “administrative” one but may ALSO constitute a “preliminary investigation” necessary for a possible criminal case.
“Therefore, the Ombudsman (or his Deputy) may preventively suspend an officer or employee under the OMB’s authority pending ANY OMB’s investigation REGARDLESS of nature.”
AO 7 was promulgated pursuant to the mandate of RA 6770 and has the force and effect of law. Section 24 of RA 6770 applies only to administrative cases as ruled in AO 7. Unless declared as invalid by the SC, said rule is mandatory. Indeed, Section 19 (Administrative Complaints) to Section 25 (Penalties) refer SOLELY to administrative adjudication.
Preliminary investigation (PI) is not meant to produce preventive suspension whether conducted by the OMB or the DOJ. Please take note that criminal offenses of public officers in relation to their office are cognizable not only by the OMB but also by DOJ. And such cases are tried not only by the SB but also by regular courts.
Never was there an instance that a respondent under PI by the OMB or DOJ had been preventively suspended. The rationale is that all the criminal cases cognizable by the OMB – comprising of high ranking officials – are subjected to administrative adjudication which affords preventive suspension of the respondent. Thus, there is no need to preventively suspend the respondent by reason of the PI. And RA 6770 recognizes that.
What must be the reason for empowering the OMB to preventively suspend the respondent public officer pending PI, while withholding that power from DOJ which does exactly the same function?
Rene-Ipil says
In the same vein lower ranking public officers who are tried in regular courts for a criminal offense in relation to their office could also be administratively charged and preventively suspended by their respective disciplining authority. The Administrative Code of 1987 provides in BOOK V/Title I/Subtitle A/Chapter 7-Discipline:
“SECTION 51. Preventive Suspension.—The proper disciplining authority may preventively suspend any subordinate officer or employee under his authority pending an investigation, if the charge against such officer or employee involves dishonesty, oppression or grave misconduct, or neglect in the performance of duty, or if there are reasons to believe that the respondent is guilty of charges which would warrant his removal from the service.”
leona says
‘ x x x or if there are reasons to believe that the respondent is guilty of charges’ – I find it – vague.
What ‘charges’? Criminal, civil or what?
I just do not know why drafters of our ‘bills’ for law-making DO NOT MAKE SPECIFIC important ‘items’ in every provision like SEC. 51. It creates hiatus.
tsk tsk :-)
Rene-Ipil says
It refers to administrative cases only or violations of civil service laws by public officers as subsumed under subtitle A, Civil Service Commission, Chapter 7, Discipline of the Administrative Code of 1987.
leona says
Araaaayyy! One has to check another CODIGO for that.
Thanks Rene.
baycas says
1/6
For the record, my comments regarding “administrative investigation” and “preliminary investigation” started from @parengtony’s remark of “why not use instead a “criminal process” rather than an “administrative one” in carrying out a preventive suspension.” Here is the mini-thread where my opinion started…
http://raissarobles.com/2015/06/16/im-attending-deutsche-welles-global-media-forum-on-media-and-foreign-policy-in-the-digital-age/comment-page-4/#comment-312227
In sum, I believe a concurrent use of “administrative investigation” and “preliminary investigation” as bases for ordering a preventive suspension bolsters the case for suspension as a preventive measure (not a penalty).
This is because in both instances, the one being investigated must ‘step aside’ first before a full and impartial investigation is carried out. Of course, this is highly considering that criminal prosecution can be simultaneously started as in the case of the first order of preventive suspension on Binay (Prior to the order, the field fact-finders’ or investigators’ recommendation is for both administrative adjudication and criminal prosecution to be carried out which the Ombudsman approved.)
baycas says
2/6
I have explained here (again in a series of posts: http://raissarobles.com/2015/06/16/im-attending-deutsche-welles-global-media-forum-on-media-and-foreign-policy-in-the-digital-age/comment-page-4/#comment-312537 ) why the use of “preliminary investigation” may also be a reason to preventively suspend a public officer or employee under the OMB’s authority.
It is because, as the name implies, the suspension is preventive in nature. This is perfectly conforming to situations where the following requisites for a preventive suspension, pending any investigation, are met:
(1) The evidence of guilt is strong; AND
(2) The respondent’s continued stay in office may prejudice the case filed against him.
baycas says
3/6
This recent Ombudsman order in another pending case is instructive:
Please note that in both “administrative investigation for the purpose of administrative adjudication” as well as “preliminary investigation for the purpose of prosecuting a criminal action,” the preventive nature of the suspension is applicable.
baycas says
4/6
Further into the discussion why I would want a concurrent use of the administrative and preliminary investigations as bases for the preventive suspension is because it emphasizes that not only administrative liabilities are present but potential criminal liabilities likewise exist.
We all know that, sadly, administrative liabilities may easily be quashed by the “condonation by reelection” doctrine.
In fact, Muntinlupa’s San Pedro was recently adjudged recipient of such ‘leniency’ of being outrightly pardoned http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/693824/ombudsman-upholds-condonation-doctrine . (Note that San Pedro’s case is different from Binay because it was already in the “execution” phase of the OMB final decision and yet the suspended Makati Mayor is presently mouthing a possible ‘double standard’ consistent with his “persecution” narrative.)
However, in criminal prosecution and eventual establishment of penal liabilities, the doctrine is not applicable.
So, the concurrent investigations (administrative investigation and preliminary investigation) that the OMB fact-finders (field investigators) had prayed for in their recommendation to the Ombudsman like in the first OMB order of suspension on Binay stood to have a better chance of coming up with vital evidence for Binay’s criminal indictment while he was supposed to be preventively suspended.
Besides, in the perception war, criminal prosecution far outweighs in benefit rather than mere administrative action that the one being investigated on would most likely deafeningly scream or shriek as “political persecution” only.
Unfortunately, the CA TRO forestalled such scenario of the ‘stepping aside’ first of the one being investigated…
and now I await the SC’s decision with bated breath. I hope the preventive suspension in the MPB overpricing case will be upheld in order for both administrative and preliminary investigations to go on as planned.
baycas says
5/6
While it may be a no-brainer that the doctrine of condonation must not apply to a preventive measure like a provisional suspension operates simply because it is not yet a “final determination of guilt” or it is not meant as a punishment…
…some people (even the CA) already advanced the idea that the doctrine is relevant to Binay’s defense since it’s just a waste of time to even provisionally ‘get rid’ of him when, in the end, he will not be administratively punished anyway.
An Inquirer editorial even appeared on May 29, 2015 criticizing the Ombudsman: http://opinion.inquirer.net/85305/double-standards .
Going along the path of Muntinlupa’s San Pedro…when punishment will already be meted, as I anticipate the administrative investigation on Binay will result to, Binay will be administratively exonerated in this present MSHS overpricing case as he was already deemed condoned in 2013 when he was reelected as Mayor.
Perhaps the start of preliminary investigation for the purpose of criminal action will only come later as in San Pedro’s case. The good thing about San Pedro is that he no longer enjoys the sanctuary of the office.
But what if the suspended Binay will soon be reinstated as Makati Mayor by the CA 10th Division following the ruling of the CA 6th Division?
Rene-Ipil says
It seems that the the OMB relies on the theory that the CA has no authority to issue TRO against the preventive suspension of Binay. It is NOT anchored on the inapplicability of the condonation (CD). Because by saying that the CA erred in applying the CD to Binay case, the OMB would appear to have acknowledged the power of the CA to intervene in the case, and the only issue is the CA’s erroneous application of the CD.
Meaning that had the main basis of the CA comprise of lack of strong evidence of guilt of Binay – NOT the CD – it would be alright for the CA to intervene. But the OMB has another tack. That the CA is completely bereft of authority to stop the preventive suspension of Binay because it was just a preventive measure and not a decision or final order yet. And the OMB law of 1989 supports its contention.
IMO the SC would not mind whether the inapplicability of the CD or lack of authority of CA would prevail. The SC would decide on what is proper. The SC may uphold the preventive suspension of Binay based on the inapplicability of the CD IAW 1987 constitution and the Llamas case of 1991, which J. Carpio discussed during the hearing, or based on lack of proper authority of CA, or based on BOTH reasons. NOT that the OMB has power to preventively suspend Binay pending preliminary investigation of the criminal case.
baycas says
6/6
Let us call on the Supreme Court to act swiftly…
Because “The Kid” (OMB) is still in a predicament on how to go about a full and impartial investigation (any investigation for that matter) that will ‘make or break’ their cases.
Rene-Ipil says
I think the suggestion to use the PI as the source of preventive suspension is due to the condonation doctrine (CD) which relates only to admin cases. Meaning that there would be no preventive suspension IAW the said doctrine. Without the CD there is no need for PI to suspend preventively because all criminal cases cognizable by the OMB are valid subject of admin adjudication from whence the preventive suspension could be derived.
leona says
It is really mind-boggling this issue. Even justices of SC etc. will have a clash what they understand and do not understand. Then the clash issue will be ruled ‘by the NUMBER of votes’ only.!
tsk tsk :-)
leona says
Disaster in Ormoc City (Leyte)
“A ferry loaded with nearly 200 people capsized off a central Philippine port on Thursday, officials said, killing at least 38 people in the latest of the country’s long string of maritime tragedies.” Yahoo news.
7000 Islands. Our people travel along these islands via ferry boats. Boats made of wood. In good or bad weather disaster happens.
‘Poorly maintained, loosely regulated ferries are the backbone of maritime travel in the sprawling archipelago.’
The disaster-plagued Philippines is hit by about 20 typhoons and storms each year, many of them deadly.
We can minimize disasters by having better and newer ferry boats. Better trained maritime crews. And better maritime management.
One comment made:
“We never learned from our tragedies. Even our MARINA is nothing but a paper-licensing agency. How many qualified marine surveyors and nautical engineers MARINA got? Mangamatay mga Cebuanos at Warays at Bol-anons at Leytenyos sa mga bangka natin.
“It is safer to have donned a swimming trunk and swim to the Camotes. Nyawa jud. Marina Boss, you write your resignation letter and submit it pronto.”
“With a Maritime Industry this kind, we do not need enemies to kill us; our boats armed with a Certificate of Public Convenience will send us to the River Styx.” (Antonio)
Nyawa jud! (pronounce it like ‘Jude’ Law)
Yes! A Certificates of Disasters
leona says
Link
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/ferry-173-board-overturns-philippines-coast-guard-072008327.html
NHerrera says
INQUIRER — Binay did not promise they would not steal from gov’t—Chiz (12:56 PM July 2nd, 2015)
Nagpapabango si Chiz. Pero tama sya.
Excerpts:
Senator Francis “Chiz” Escudero found something lacking from Vice President Jejomar Binay’s speech where he attacked the Aquino government: He never promised that he would not steal public funds.
“Sa dami ng sinabi nya. Wala syang sinabi na hindi sya o sila magnanakaw,” (He said a lot of things. He did not say that he, or they, would not steal) Escudero said, referring to Binay’s speech during the launching of the United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) as a political party.
“Wala syang binanggit ni isang salita ukol sa ‘tuwid na daan’ at sa pagtiyak na gagalangin at papangalagaan nila ang kaban ng bayan,” (He never said anything about the ‘straight path’ or made any assurance that they would respect and protect the government coffers) the senator added.
Sup says
“Those who take kickbacks have lost their dignity and need some kick under their back”
NHerrera says
Nice.
moonie says
very nice talaga. ngayon lang pala napansin ni cheesy ang kakulangan ni binay. where has cheese been all this time? whereas those accused of being paid hacks alam na alam a long time ago. kawatan si binay!
moonie says
I would say, thank you, cheese, for finally waking up. huli man. nothing cheese said is new despite his being among lawmakers and has easy access to information we can only dream about. again, thank you, cheese, for mouthing what we have been screaming far and wide.
jorge bernas says
@ Moonie,
Palagay ko nagsisisi siguro si sen. escudero kong bakit niya tinulungan itong si bise presidente binay noong 2010 national election at siguro ngayon lang niya nakilala nang husto ang mga pinaggagawa ni binay? ha ha ha halos kagatin ni cheese kamay nito sa pagSISISI…hinudas pala ito…
Vhin AB says
Kaliwa’t kanan ang katiwalian na akusasyon kay VP Binay. Kagaya rin ni PNoy na matagal din na nagtiis dahil sa mahabang panahon na pinagsamahan ngunit ngayon ay pinutol na. Maaaring pumasok sa isip ni Sen. Escudero na kung si PNoy na kaibigan ng bise presidente ay handang tumalikod sa pinagsamahan alang-alang sa bayan ay bakit siya ay hindi?
Maaaring may mga kaalyado pa na sumunod sa pag withdraw ng support kay Binay lalo pa sa ipinakita nitong kayabangan sa Makati nitong mga nakakaraang araw. Posibleng nagpatiuna na ang mga negosyante at binulungan na ang mga natulungan nila kagaya ni Escudero. Long term ang vision ng mga business people at nais na nilang tapusin ang paghahari-harian ng mga ito sa siyudad ng Makati dahil na rin sa kagagawan ng mga Binay. We all witnessed their behavior na parang pag-aaari na nila ang Makati.
Three fronts ang haharapin ni Binay sa giyera. Una ay ang pagtakbo sa pagkapangulo, ikalawa ay ang posibleng pagkawala ng Makati City sa kamay nila at ang pangatlo ay ang mga kaso na kinakaharap sa Ombudsman o korte.
Pickers1368 says
Does “under the back” mean chest or belly? Somewhere way below that but above the knees would be perfect!
leona says
Why do you or anyone would think Binay needs to say ‘I will not steal from government’? Did he ever said this when he became the OIC in Makati City? No. So what happened?
Who is or was the politician who said ‘I will not steal from the government’?
I Will Not Steal From The Government Thou Shalt Not Steal
Who in the government does not steal? Who is/was the greatest thief in the Philippines
‘I promise I will not plunder the government.’ Which has more thunder; to plunder or to steal from the government?
How many plunderers are there in Bilibid Prison? Thieves? A public official who steals from the government in huge amounts is a Plunderer. Why not a thief?
Alibaba and the Forty Thieves! A nice sounding. Alibaba and the Forty plunderers! Not nice sounding.
Thieves! Catch Me If You Can. It take a thief to catch a thief. Nice sounding too.
The Thief Who Came Out From The Vault! I like the sound of this. Thievery is a serious crime.
But there was a thief who became a saint. Or was he a robber? He was not a public official I guess.
Saint Thief. Did anyone knew his name? I don’t know why he has never been canonized.
Saint Thief never returned what he stole from others. Did he need to do that? Yet he was assured he will be saved and go to heaven.
Steal And Return What You Stole. Why should it be returned? Because It Is Not Yours.
What Will You Do With So Much You Have Stolen? To Feel Happy? That is One, yes.
What Else? To Make My Family Happy Also. Anything More? Yes! To Make Everyone I Stole From Unhappy!
Do You Steal Directly Or Indirectly? I steal indirectly both from the poor and the wealthy. Para patas!
How Do You Do The Stealing? Ask Mr. Alibaba on that. Actually, it is not difficult how to steal. Just steal.
Have You Ever Been Caught Stealing? In Flagrante? No. How? In Front eh! Explain. I only sign and it steals for me already!
You call it stealing by just signing something? Yes. It is the refined way of stealing. Sign it for something else but the stealing comes around infront eh.
Doing that kind of stealing I can always deny I am stealing. Stop asking me. It is a long story anyway.
. . . bye’ See yah.
vander says
@leona,
no need for him to sign by himself.
a plunderer can always hire somebody to sign.
so he doesn’t have to own or deny.
he cannot be faulted, he can also say the signature is forged.
not authentic.
hahaha.
so when a candidate does not utter he wont steal, does it mean his intent is to steal.
chiz is a genius!!! hehehe…
i think he knows all who are stealing.
good tip chiz, good!
congrats!
moonie says
leona, it’s not only money binay plundered. he has also ‘plundered’ important documents, placed them where COA cannot access. hidden in his family vault in his house in makati perhaps under the watchful eyes of his heavily armed personal body guards? COA has wanted to audit boy scout but documents were missing.
BFD says
BeNice – tawag sa mga hakot ni Makati Parking Building 2
moonie says
the failed barako of makati rely on hakot mob, dubious and nasty. wannabe failure has no respect for the city of makati, let in bad elements that destroy public properties. put the city of makati in bad light too.
thank the lord, makati businesses are alert and have security guards posted at the doors and entrances, else hakot mob took to the streets and go on looting spree, pillaging and maybe even raping citizens.
Sup says
”I solemnly, sincerely and truly declare and affirm that I will tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth …..”but won’t………”
That’s what i think every time i hear those words in the Senate investigations…sorry…
drill down says
very significant also that the pnoy admin was forced to admit that selective justice exists.
hope that trillanes, etc. will continue going after the binays and the binays will continue to fight back. no doubt the binays are going to lose this fight but, ironically, they could also help clean the government. checks and balance at work, better than collusion or scratching each others’ back by politicians.
NHerrera says
In our different ways here at CPM, we have smelled blood in the political scene, especially those related to the Binays, particularly the VP. Corollarily, in our different ways, we have added fuel to fire — the more to burn Binay’s chances at the 2016 polls. I can sense that we are engaging ourselves, in the spirit of “striking while the iron is hot.” I can sense that the political players sensed that too and are acting accordingly. (In fact, if I may borrow from @Parekoy’s thoughts, the main political players have themselves engineered or stimulated the events.)
May be it is better for each one of us to use the option we best think will work, in keeping with the tradition here at CPM — each to his own best device. I believe, we will know, when to rally to a critical idea when it comes, without being urged or planning for it. We have some time to do that. But, for the more creative of us, we may write here propositions on a battle plan. (But that may be counter-productive: giving away the precious battle plan to the “enemy.” In any case, this is just my thought for the day.)
NHerrera says
Oops, wrong choice of words, “engineered or stimulated.” The appropriate word is “baited.” Baited by the political players, but Binay — lacking the needed intelligence, except as it concerns corruption or the concoction of lies — fell for it.
Rene-Ipil says
I deny that I baited or engineered Binay’s move to question the residency and citizenship of Grace Poe. When Binay made such move I thought it was merely scripted to allow Grace to clear herself in due time and preempt any move of LP to discredit her.
Calipman intimated that I would earn a lot by providing Binay the necessary documents to prove the disqualification of Grace. As it turned out it was Yvonne who had the “smoking gun.” I merely started the race and expected that Yvonne would finish it with flying colors. But Binay jumped the gun and got busted. And Caliphman was so happy. So I thought but I stand corrected.
NHerrera says
Just a simple explanation. It is not you or others here I am alluding to. It is more the mainstream traditional political players OUTSIDE of this Blog. How the political players read us here is their problem not ours. As I wrote in Post 210.1 we praise or criticize or essay on matters and persons here no holds-barred. I respect and learned from your notes, as I did from yvonne, caliphman, baycas, leona, among others.
Rene-Ipil says
Well taken. While I did not bait Binay to question the residency and citizenship of Poe, I am glad that his moves boomeranged to him. Not to CPM because I believe Yvonne has the last card.
NHerrera says
Yes. That is the beauty of our discussions here. We ourselves get heated up because of our individual convictions, but not done with the motivation of that corrupt and almost irredeemable public official. And so in some strange ways — almost providential — the discussions here helped in bringing about some boomerang effect on the family.
caliphman says
Rene, I would check what you ate for breakfast as it seems to have transoprted you mind into flights of fantasy as to what I supposedly “intimated” or “felt”. I would never accuse you or anyone here of having “earned” compensation for trying to dig up political dirt fot the Binays, for bragging rights maybe, as silly as that sounds to me. This moral theory you have that it is better for Poe to have her candidacy vilified publicly by ‘ friends’ than by her political opponents, its crazy. In war, victims of friendly fire do not care where the bullets came from. They are typically just dead. With friends who do ‘favors’ like publicly scuttling her candidacy, who needs enemies?
moonie says
he, he, he, I think scuttlers did it with tongues in cheek. grace was given a sort of medical trial, see if she can go over it. not allergic and lethargic, and able to face challenges and hurdles, and survive. we cannot always walk on clouds, there are thunders and lightnings along the way. grace was not protected from the world but made a functioning part of the world. that’s what friends are for: ensure she’s strong enough, her mental muscles exercised to the full, able to stand on her own. like medicine, they taste bad, but are good for you. si susan nga hindi kinonsente si grace and said, grace knows what she’s doing. so okay, grace knows what she’s doing. the best steam passes through fire. diamonds are dirty rocks when first mined from the bowels of the earth, but after a good washing, scrubbing, cutting and polishing, their carats assured, diamonds shine brighter than the sun.
moonie says
grace may stand alone, but behind the scene, she has many advisers in the peripheries, chiz among them, all advising her how to steer clear of present danger. grace can always call on osmenya for expert opinion, erap and bong marcos may provide much needed help too, as well as belmonte. then there is her IT expert husband, susan and her pragmatism, all converging on grace. together, they make her path smooth, chuck out stones and boulders thrown by ninnies.
caliphman says
moonie, you might be a real nice person in real life. but, if that is idea of friendship, pardon me if I’ll pass on the honor of being one of yours…hehehe
Rene-Ipil says
If my memory and the records serve me right, this was what you posted in this blog on May 26 at 4:23 PM @ 23.2.1.1.1 “Can we trust MILF.”
“[email protected] you can prove the identities of Poe’s biological parents and their non-citizen status at birth, be sure to let Poe know as she may not have and want this info. You could also make a fortune if you sell it to Binay as Poe is his strongest if not the only viable cintender….hehehe.”
You did not say I earned but that I COULD make a FORTUNE which was the tenor of my comment. I just could not describe what kind of a person you are by saying those things. And NOW you have the temerity to deny it. And if my memory serves me right again, you even repeated same post later. But I did not bother to look for it anymore. I am wondering as to what I have done to you and others as well to merit such unkind words.
Again you have the gall to attribute to me a”moral theory” which I never had. Indeed, you mistook me for Yvonne who said @189.1.1.1.1 in reply to you:
“yvonne says:
July 1, 2015 at 1:17 am
I’m not going to telegraph what they are all about.
“But it is not about a chameleon, an anti-Poe masquerading as a Poe defender and provoking others to do the work of criticizing Grace. No, that reverse psychology is too obvious to work.”
It seems that you are now disputing what Yvonne said about that CHAMELEON. But it’s really crazy to accuse somebody falsely. I am now wondering also on how you were raised.
Rene-Ipil says
Maybe Yvonne is right after all about her idea of a chameleon. I am now entertaining the probability that you, Caliphman, is anti-Poe but masquerading as Poe defender.
caliphman says
First of all, you come out of nowhere referring to me out of the blue and making this unprovojed statements about what I am supposed to have ‘intimated”, Turns out you twisted my words from ‘could’ to ‘would’ going from mere possibility to likely tendency. That changes the meaning completely of what you say and not merely the tenor of what you wrote. The statement I made about how much the Binays would be willing to pay for anything that could hurt Poe’s candidacy is even more true now than it was then and it is not now nor never was an accusation of what your intention mightvhave been. You would have to be pretty deluded to even suggest I am secretly anti-Poe when it is you all
along who have publicly admitted you are against her because you did not like her treatment of Purisima your idol, Napenas, in the Mamasapano senate hearings and her report. It is you whose moral values are questionable when you as a lawyer you try to defend cases of vigilante killings and to declare that wrongly finding one innocent person guilty is okay if ten guilty persons are correctly convicted of guilt. You have a habit of more often than not being on the wrong side of a legal,moral, or any other type of of argument, as as has been demonstrated in the many of our past discussions..
caliphman says
And to tell you the truth, you can wonder all you like as to how I was raised or if I was perhaps a foundling like Poe but dont go preaching here about not making any postings here personal in nature if you going to be a hypocrite about it as well.
Rene-Ipil says
P A L U S O T. Could, would, should? English composition blog ba tayo. Sa tagalog, ang sabi mo ay puede akong yumaman kung ibebenta ko kay Binay ang nalalaman ko tungkol kay Poe. Iyan ang buod o essence ng sinabi mo nuon.
Ang issue ay tungkol kay Binay at Poe. Paano napunta kay Napeñas, Purisima at Duterte? Squid tactics? Nabenta na yan, Caliphman.
Tungkol sa CHAMELEON. Sino talaga tinutukoy mo? Ako o si Yvonne? Sasabihin mo na naman ako nag twist?
SABI NI SUSAN: ANG SINUNGALING AY KAPATID NG MAGNANAKAW.
About the conviction ratio of innocent and guilty. Heto posting ni Baycas quoting Jurist Blackstone of England:
“”Lawyers “are indoctrinated” with it “early in law school.”
Siguro absent o tulog ka nang ituro ito ng professor mo sa first year law. In Philippine law schools more than 50% of students fail to pass first year law because Criminal Law 1 and 2 are intentionally taught early to screen wannabe lawyers.
HOW ABOUT YOU? Kung magsalita at umasta ka ay talo mo pa tunay na abugado? Sa mga veteran trial lawyers ay hindi lulusot ang PALUSOT mo.
Totoo ba talaga na JD/MBA ka? Kung totoo, at least you attended criminal law subjects in first year law. Bakit hindi mo alam yung innocent-guilty ratio?
caliphman says
Rene, you are the personhere who likes to posture as a lawyer. But I question whether you were ever admitted to a first tier law school in the Philippines. I hate to say it but in all the years you have been posting here, you have consistently shown difficulty or outright inability in grasping complex legal issues. You had problems understanding basic tax law concepts, international law principles, and even now you are confused with OMB law and OMB rules of procedures and which takes precedence over which.Those who hold themselves to be authorities on Philippine law like yourself, and that excludes me because as I have repeatedly said that is neither my training or avocation, have openly declared their law degrees and where they attained it, such our friends Ariel and Oscar who go by their real names as well. Did you finish at least a JD in UP, UST, or Ateneo if you wish to remain anonymous? What year were you there? What area did you specialize in? Are you afraid of being discovered as the fake that you are?
caliphman says
And before I forget, maybe the reason why that guilty-innocent ratio is not used here is because that brand of vigilante justice you espouse is not taught or practiced here, whatever the beliefs were expressed more than 100 years ago.
Rene-Ipil says
Caliphman,
Of course you are entitled to your own opinion. Buntot mo hila mo. If it would make you happy, just assume that I am not a lawyer. Maybe that’s why I could not understand complex legal concepts. It does not bother me at all. It is not my fault that some CPMers assumed that I am a lawyer which I neither deny nor confirm. And it’s okay with me that you think of me as a fake lawyer.
But I am not a fake lawyer because I don’t claim to be one. But when any CPMer asked for my explanation on any legal problem, I willingly obliged as a colleague who could contribute to a better discussion of issues. Wait. It is unlawful to practice law without passing the BAR and taking the necessary oath.
So you are free to charge me in court for illegal practice of law by giving legal advice to CPMers. But who is Rene-Ipil? My legal advice again. Just charge John Doe and amend the charge after you ascertained who is the real Rene-Ipil.
Rene-Ipil says
Caliphman,
When did I ever say that I am in favor of vigilante justice? You are again telling an outright LIE.
caliphman says
Rene, you think we here will forget so soon all your recent posts promoting Duterte and his sponsorship of extra-judicial killings? It is your denials to me and Alan which are outside lies. If we are talking lies, you are full of IT. Masquerading as a Philippine lawyer is just one of it. Your understanding of Philippine law or any law is full of serious errors and the ‘advise’ you give leads CPMers astray. Case in point: you agreed with others the other day that the CA could not favor Binays second petition for a TRO because his defense entailed condonation. WRONG AGAIN! As a fake lawyer ‘practicing’ law here at CPM, your performance is abysmal. Your performance and your misrepresentation here would merit charges of malpractice and disbarment if you were a real lawyer and we had a CPM Supreme Court here..lol. In fact Victinluz, who is a nonlawyer and engineer and whose English grammar and diction is challenged, has a better grasp of legal concrpts thsn you do! Hehehe…
canadadry says
VP BINAY GOT SCARED UPON LEARNING JAMIAS IS THE “BARAKO NG MAYNILA”, WANTS TO APOLOGIZE
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/702271/jamias-says-vp-binay-wants-to-reconcile-with-him
canadadry says
See JInggoy play BARAKO NG MAYNILA movie based on Jamias life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn9rQzHF9x4
NHerrera says
canadadry,
Thanks for the link.
Beautiful. That demonstrates again the two-faced nature of that duwag at kawatan. This reminds all of us of his challenge to Sen Trillanes, in front of media, to a debate but cowardly withdrew later. Same thing happened when he urged his mouthpieces to besmirch Grace Poe, but ordered Tiangco to apologize when the public reacted negatively against that strategy. BINAY IS TRUE TO FORM.
And of course, his “fingering” Jamias and uttering un-presidential words and the video scene of his hakots throwing those chairs to the not-to-be-provoked police (even when some where hurt) quite obviously BOOMERANGED ON HIM. So atras na naman — asking his minions to seek Jamias so he can talk to the latter and apologize.
Police Supt Jamias is right — he will talk to the VP out of respect for the Office, but will not withdraw his suit against that WORST FILIPINO candidate for a Philippine President. No amount of apology can erase the memory of the blatant show of character of Binay before live television.
Rene-Ipil says
Kung takot si Binay sa barako ng Maynila ay higit na takot siya sa barako ng Davao. See this video.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yri8aJfLpM
NHerrera says
Thanks for that video. Poor Binay, his demeanor and facial looks, as he answers or mutters words. show exhaustion of a defeated, never mind the takot — now from both the Barako of Maynila and the Barako of Davao. Baka takot na rin sa CPM. He certainly lacks the flair of an Erap. Hahaha.
canadadry says
MAGPAKALALAKI KA—SABI NI BINAY
Nagpakalalaki nga si Trillanes, sagot ewan naman naman si Binay, atakbo atulin.
Nagpakalalaki nga si Koko, sagot wala naman si Binay
Nagpakalalaki nga si Jamias, sagot “please bati na tayo” ni Binay
eto ang magdadala sa pilipinas after 2016? man, walang bayag…no balls..weakling…
Dodong says
Does anyone remember the incident that happen between Bong Daza and Binay in Makati city hall , one of the security aide of bong daza was killed inside the city hall and the family of Daza need to fetched Bong Daza becoz he was threatened by Binay. Elenita was running for mayor during that time and that was the most violent election in makati because Elenita almost lost in that election.
canadadry says
@DODONG
galing mo pre, totoo nga,, siguro maganadng tanungin ni Raissa si Erneto Mercado dito here’s the news :
MAKATI BLOODBATH: MURDER CHARGES VS. BINAY
Makati City, May 15, 1998 – Murder and frustrated murder charges will be filed against outgoing Mayor Jejomar Binay and two others by the newly-formed coalition of three political parties in connection with the death of two supporters of LAMMP vice mayoralty candidate Bong Daza.
The two were stabbed dead by security men of Binay who attacked Daza’s office right inside Makati City Hall on election day.
Facing the press yesterday as hey announced their unified stand against Binay were Nemesio “Toro” Yabut, LAKAS candidate for mayor; Nelson Irasga, LP mayoralty candidate, Roberto “Bobby” Brillante of LAKAS-Reporma, and LAKAS congressional candidate Rosemarie “Baby” Arenas.
They charged that the suspects in the killings were Lito Glean, chief security of Binay, and Monico de Leon, chief security officer of vice mayoralty candidate Ernesto Mercado.
As of press time, the Makati police had not arrested anyone for the killings. Instead, they arrested Vice Mayor Daza and charged him with grave threats and oral defamation.
Mayor Binay went to television to deny the involvement of his men in the killings.
http://www.newsflash.org/199805/hl/hl000666.htm
Dodong says
Does anyone remember the incident that happen between Bong Daza and Binay in Makati city hall , one of the security aide of bong daza was killed inside the city hall and the family of Daza need to fetched Bong Daza becoz he was threatened by Binay. Elenita was running for mayor during that time and that was the most violent election in makati because Elenita almost lost in that election.