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Filipinos need new innovative ways to nail #DAP crooks to the wall!

July 2, 2014July 2, 2014 benign0 8 Comments

Following the milestone ruling by the Philippine Supreme Court (SC) yesterday deeming the controversial presidential slush fund known as the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) illegal on most counts, the reckoning has started. Several courses of action are being considered which may be undertaken in any number of combinations. The three standout items include: (1) Impeaching…

Crime, Politics, Society

SC rules DAP unconstitutional: Time for PNoy to walk down the straight path to justice!

July 1, 2014 benign0 47 Comments

So the highest court in the Philippines has now ruled, the Disbursement Acceleration Program (DAP) is deemed unconstitutional. It now needs to be dismantled, funds appropriated and disbursed within its framework accounted for, and its facilitators, brokers, and creators taken to task. It won’t be surprising if, out of all this, all eyes will once…

Crime, Government, Politics

Crime does not pay in the Philippines – or so Filipinos would like to think

June 24, 2014June 24, 2014 benign0 13 Comments

With Senator Jinggoy Estrada now on his way to the slammer, it’s two down, one to go. That’s right, Filipinos are keeping score. With glee. They see the imprisonment of Estrada along with Senator Bong Revilla and soon, presumably, Senator Juan Ponce Enrile as vindication that, indeed, crime does not pay. The three Senators are…

Crime, Culture, Society

4 reasons why equality and justice cannot be achieved in the Philippines

June 14, 2014June 14, 2014 Ilda 49 Comments

With news that dozens of Philippine public servants have been pocketing public funds for years through what is dubbed the pork barrel scam consistently dominating the headlines of major publications around the country since 2013, one wonders why the majority of the Filipino public still haven’t stormed the office of the President or Congress to…

Culture, Government, Politics, Society

Why Andray Blathche Being A Proud Pinoy Makes Perfect Sense

June 12, 2014June 12, 2014 Gogs 13 Comments

Just in time for the June 12 holiday, an NBA player is proud to be pinoy. NBC Rotoworld called it one of the strangest stories of the off season. If Andray Blatche is proud to be Filipino, can I be proud to be part of the 1972 Maimi Dolphins? Blatche was able to play…

Glitz and Glamour, Government

The Philippine government suffers from a bad case of Abad infestation

June 3, 2014 benign0 27 Comments

The Philippine government infestation by the Abad dynasty headed by current Department of Budget Management (DBM) Secretary Florencio ‘Butch’ Abad is being bathed under an increasingly harsh spotlight. The full extent of this infestation was described in detail by United Nationalist Alliance secretary general and Navotas Rep. Tobias Tiangco… […] Tiangco said there are 11…

Crime, Government, Politics

What caused the 6-month delay in the release of funding for repair of schools destroyed by Typhoon Haiyan?

June 2, 2014 benign0 13 Comments

It’s always the same, year in and year out. The opening of the new school year in the Philippines never fails to make headline news. The figure now is twenty million. That’s the number of Filipino school kids who trooped to their classes today — a number just short of the population of Australia. Their…

Development, Education, Government

Grassroots Participatory Budget Process (GPBP): Malacanang’s new Pork Barrel distribution machine?

May 28, 2014 benign0 7 Comments

Now that Department of Budget Management Secretary Butch Abad is in hot water over allegations surrounding (among others) his being lead architect of the gazillion-peso presidential slush fund — the ‘Disbursement Acceleration Program’ (DAP) — purportedly used to fund efforts to motivate Philippine Senators to deliver a favourable verdict in the 2012 impeachment of former…

Crime, Development, Government, Politics