Tag: janet lim napoles

Mabuhay ang Daang Matuwid! Ombudsman charges Tanda, Sexy, and Pogi for plunder

April 8, 2014 Virtual Vigilante 23 Comments

At long last, the Office of the Ombudsman has found probable cause to file plunder charges against Senators Juan Ponce Enrile, Jinggoy Estrada and Bong Revilla in connection with the pork barrel scam–click the links below this paragraph to read the plunder complaints against Tanda, Sexy and Pogi. Most of us already know that most…

Crime, Society

Whistleblowers in pork barrel scam Ruby Tuason and Benhur Luy deserve jail time not hero and celebrity treatment

February 15, 2014February 16, 2014 Ilda 18 Comments

The first thing you notice about the whistleblowers involved in the priority development assistance fund (PDAF) or pork barrel scam is the manner with which they act during the senate blue ribbon committee. They seem at ease and familiar with the people around them as if they were in a social gathering with their drinking…

Crime, Politics, Religion, Society

The Philippines’ non-stop requests for foreign aid, support, and investments is becoming tiring and embarrassing

February 7, 2014December 20, 2021 benign0 62 Comments

The thing with the precarious position the Philippines finds itself in its dealings with China and the handling of the two big diplomatic crises surrounding it — the dispute over various territories within the West Philippine Sea and the row over the Philippine government’s unsatisfactory resolution of the 2010 hostage crisis in which nine Hong…

Civics, Crime, Culture, Development, Economy, Government, Media

DOJ Sec Leila De Lima and Malacanang looking good as Lee and Cornejo case collapses

January 29, 2014 benign0 11 Comments

Given the picture emerging so far, lead goon Cedric Lee and his squeeze starlet Deniece Cornejo are toast. There is no way the rape allegations lobbed by Cornejo against Vhong Navarro could hold water. CCTV footage analysed by the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) had shown that Cornejo had left her condo within a minute…

Crime, Politics

Sen. Bong Revilla’s tell-all pork scam privilege speech: thick on emotional appeal, thin on logical argument

January 20, 2014 benign0 21 Comments

So Philippine Senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr today has concluded his privilege speech before the Senate where he supposedly aired his side following his being implicated in allegations of pork barrel thievery surrounding alleged scam leader Janet Lim Napoles. Did we learn anything new from the speech? It seems none — other than that Revilla…

Crime, Government, Politics

2013’s Strong Words

January 4, 2014 Despair 46 Comments

The year 2013 was the year where disasters and scandals decided to, well, troll the country. The damages went almost irreversible, and forever changed the lives of many. But even though that the past year was unpleasant to the optimistic Pinoys, here I am sitting on a chair marveling at the wonders of life. But…

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Lifestyle, Politics, Society

President Noynoy Aquino cannot take credit for the abolition of pork barrel funds

November 20, 2013November 22, 2013 Ilda 95 Comments

Now that the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) or pork barrel funds has been declared illegal or unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, we are seeing a lot of politicians who are doing an about-face. Some members of Congress are now saying that they are happy with the decision because they have been for its abolition…

Crime, Government, Politics

Is Janet Lim Napoles worth killing?

November 9, 2013 benign0 18 Comments

Murderous senators? That, according to Senator Miriam Santiago, is what alleged pork barrel scam mastermind Janet Lim Napoles should really be worried about. Napoles told: Talk or die, screams the Inquirer.net headline. You wonder if this is a scene in the police interrogation room from an old 1970’s police drama, before the suspect “lawyer’s up”,…

Crime, Government, Politics