Tag: pork barrel

Additional funding for Leni Robredo’s office: a case of REVERSE PORK BARREL

September 15, 2020September 15, 2020 benign0 4 Comments

Back in the day, pork barrel — known by a variety of euphemisms like “Priority Development Assistance Fund” (PDAF) and most notorious of all, the so-called “Disbursement Acceleration Program” (DAP) — usually involved funds “allocated” by the Executive Branch to legislators. Nowadays we are seeing an even bigger perversion of this crooked accounting sleight of…

Government, Politics

Filipino voters should let go of their fixation on celebrity candidates like Jinggoy Estrada and Bong Revilla

May 12, 2019 benign0 19 Comments

Jinggoy Estrada and Bong Revilla consistently being in the Top 12 senatoriables list in this year’s elections (according to SWS and Pulse Asia polls) illustrates the whole trouble with Philippine society. One wonders what bases surveyed members of the electorate apply when selecting these poltiicians. Both Estrada and Revilla, as we know, were in detention…

Crime, Politics

CamSur Rep. Lray Villafuerte Leads Ouster Plot Vs. GMA After Discovery of His P1 Billion Pork

September 18, 2018September 18, 2018 P. Farol 10 Comments

I am not sure if CamSur Second District Representative Lray Villafuerte had tears in his eyes as he was plaintively crying that he was bullied during plenary debates on the proposed 2019 budget. But if he had torrents of snot running down his fat face, I wouldn’t be surprised. An observer at the plenary hall…

Government, Politics

Janet Lim Napoles is worth more to Filipinos as a witness than as a jailed crook

March 19, 2018March 19, 2018 benign0 8 Comments

Screeching “activists” from the Philippine Opposition seem to be losing the plot. For them, the bigger outrage surrounding the persistent scourge of pork barrel politics in the Philippines is the recent placing of “Pork Queen” Janet Lim Napoles on a witness protection program by the Department of Justice (DOJ). The important aspect of the plot…

Crime, Politics

No ‘genocide’ intended: Filipinos need to get a grip over the Dengvaxia debacle

December 5, 2017 benign0 12 Comments

What really first needs to be stopped is all the panicky statements being released about the anti-dengue vaccine Dengvaxia. There was no intent to perpetrate “genocide” even if the circumstances surrounding its procurement and approval for public dispensation in 2016 by the Department of Health (DOH) under then President Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III are…

Government, Politics

#CocoyGate: The Amazing Issues On-and-Off Switch used by Yellowtard ‘thought leaders’!

October 3, 2017 benign0 3 Comments

It is hardly surprising that the very same “fake news” that the Philippine Opposition had been screeching about over the last several months has suddenly become a non-issue. Selective “activism”, after all, is a Yellowtard expertise. Indeed, the list of “non-issues” kept by the Opposition (led by the Liberal Party, a.k.a. the “Yellowtards”) is growing….

Media, Politics

Members of Congress represent what is wrong with Philippine society

August 19, 2017August 19, 2017 Ilda 7 Comments

Most Filipinos are accustomed to receiving bad news. It’s like a part of life to live with sad endings and also tragedies. Perhaps it has something to do with the Catholic mantra “if someone slaps you on one cheek, offer the other cheek also” or perhaps some people are simply not the master of their…

Culture, Politics

Kris Aquino’s text message to Duterte proves patronage politics is alive in the Philippines

February 8, 2017 Ilda 7 Comments

According to Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, former television host and Presidential sister Kris Aquino sent him a text message pleading with him not to send her brother former President BS Aquino to jail. It seems she was compelled to contact Duterte on learning that the President is hell bent on getting to the bottom of…

Crime, Politics