Category: Crime

President Noynoy Aquino’s extensive history of suppressing the Truth

September 19, 2013 benign0 21 Comments

My colleague Paul Farol, on the mark in his usual form, had earlier cited what is likely the most recent case of the underhanded manner with which the administration of Philippine President Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino III deals with revealing information circulating amongst its constituents. An article published by Francisco S. Tatad earlier this week…

Crime, Government, Media, Politics, Technology

Something Fishy About the Department of Agriculture’s Extra Rice

September 18, 2013 P. Farol 13 Comments

(Last week, I pointed out that there is an ongoing rice scam at the Department of Agriculture and National Food Authority that could cost taxpayers to lose P2 Billion to corruption and waste. This post picks up where it left off, which is the enormous yearly corruption and waste that is created by the government’s…

Crime, Development, Economy

MNLF head Nur Misuari is the Janet Lim Napoles of the Zamboanga crisis

September 18, 2013September 18, 2013 benign0 12 Comments

The root issue in the on-going trouble down under in Mindanao is the way the Philippine government has traditionally cozied up to even the meanest and baddest terrorist and rebel groups “for the sake of peace”. Currently, it is the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) that is being painted as the bad guy, and rightly…

Crime, Government, Politics

Stay tuned for the next big tele-trial starring Napoles, and Senators Enrile, Estrada, and Revilla!

September 16, 2013 benign0 21 Comments

What goes around comes around. Who gets the laugh for the day really depends on which side is throwing the boomerang. Back in the first half of 2012, the national hysteria of the day swirled around the kangaroo court impeachment trial of then Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona following months of systematic demonisation by…

Crime, Media, Politics

Did President Benigno S. Aquino meet with Janet Lim Napoles hours before her surrender?

September 16, 2013September 21, 2013 P. Farol 19 Comments

Facebook is abuzz about the supposed Manila Standard article by Francisco S. Tatad where it was claimed that Janet Lim Napoles had lunch with President Benigno S. Aquino hours before the supposed scripted and staged surrender of the supposed P10 Billion Pork Barrel Scam. A meme spreading wildly through the cyber mosquito network of sites…

Crime, Government, Politics

The men and women behind Voyager 1 put to shame the iPhone generation of the 21st Century

September 13, 2013September 13, 2013 benign0 13 Comments

I read with wonder how Voyager 1, a little space probe launched by the United States in 1977 had “finally” left our solar system — “for real this time” according to a Scientific American report. What is really amazing about this spacecraft and the men and women who designed, built, launched, and worked with it…

Crime, Government, Society, Tech Talk

The Philippines: An inherently unjust society where criminals big and small get away

September 12, 2013 benign0 17 Comments

Injustice pervades Filipino society from head to toe. Most recent is the exceedingly tragic fate that befell 25-year-old Kae Davantes whose hog-tied remains were found last Saturday after she went missing on Friday last week. The words “a parent’s worst nightmare” in no way comes close to describing the sort of grief that one can…

Crime, Culture, Government

What Does Jeane Lim-Napoles and President BS Aquino III’s Picture Prove?

September 12, 2013September 12, 2013 P. Farol 24 Comments

About an hour after I posted the picture of Senate President Franklin Drilon with Janet Lim Napoles, my neighbor sent me a text message saying that it wouldn’t be unlikely that President B.S. Aquino would also have a picture with Napoles. After getting over the initial shock of finding out that my 75 year old…

Crime, Government, Politics

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