Sorrows growing more each day in Syria

Althought the far distance of Syria to the Philippines may make us feel insulated regarding events developing in that county, the Internet, news and social sites, make the events vivid and just nearby whenever we browse the web!

We are moved by this news item Los Angeles Times: Syria activist who shared horrific images of Syrian government crackdown in bloodshed killed

The citizen journalist who was able to upload chilling videos to youtube was killed by shrapnel in his besieged neighborhood in the tempestous city of Homs and the last video was about him.




Syria is witnessing the killing more of its bright young minds every day! We will not be surprised if the country slides into chaos and violence rule the days in that country, We hope that the citizen journalist did not die in vain.

The difference between leaders of Germany and of the Philippines

Click on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Wulff

The president of Germany, Christian Wullf who served during the period 30 June 2010 – 17 February 2012, resigned due to allegations of corruption commited while he was still prime minister of Lower Saxony.

Read that! Mere allegations! Here our impeachment court will NOT accept mere allegations!


In the same article, it was mentioned that a premier and former Interior minister stumbled over a scandal involving free travel paid by a travel group company.

Compare with Corona who digs in, exposing himself to hold secret dollar accounts and local peso deposit to the tune of 20 million pesos plus!

In Japan, most leaders will resign or commit hara-kiri. Filipino leader are made of cheese.

Is Joker Arroyo guilty of fear-mongering?

After Corona, the honorable judge-senators might be next! That, is according to the amazing Joker Arroyo, who played a prominent role in the impeachment trial of the former president Joseph Estrada.

inquirer.net: After Corona, Senator Arroyo fears Malacañang will investigate senator-judges

There are now three investigations into Corona's account: AMLAC,BIR and the impeachment trial itself.

Excerpt:


In short, three investigations simultaneously have been conducted against the Chief Justice. I raise this point my esteemed colleagues, we are acting as judges…As of now, it is Chief Justice Corona and then tomorrow it is one of us if we offend Malacañang,” Arroyo said during the trial.

“If we do not follow Malacañang, they can proceed against us for the information gathered through the AMLC. It is a disturbing thought,” Arroyo added.


Yes, Senator Arroyo should be disturbed but if only he engaged in his own money laundering or keeping his wealth in secure dollar accounts. We cannot sympathize with him on this one. You see, Joker was given a cushy position in some government owned corporation.

He has nothing to fear if he is CLEAN!


AMLC- Anti Money Laundering Council.

Poor Iggy! His body is still in London.

We do know that Iggy, Jose Arroyo, has been relied by the first family often to be the "fall guy" in some hot cases involving helicopters, mysterious bank accounts and others.

Now that he has fallen dead due to a heart attack, his body still remains frozen in some faraway London morgue. I think I even read that English officials are calling on the feuding Iggy Arroyo members(a former wife, a mistress) to clear up the custody battle, a legal impediment to bringing him(dead body) home! Even his daughter cannot claim her father's body.

Such is the fate of honorable but very rich congressman of the third district district of Negros Occidental.

It is more than twenty days already! Enough! Even I, a Filipino, will feel a little shame about this macabre event.

Once more, it turns out that the annulment of Iggy's first marriage was not even registered! Iggy is morbidly lucky that he is now dead and need not face the spectacle of two women fighting over and claiming his dead body.


Further reading:

visayandailystar: Ibuna, Iggy’s daughter win custody of his body
Hopefully this will bring an end to the battle for Iggy Arroyo's body.

inquirer.net: Annulment of Iggy Arroyo’s first marriage not registered — civil registrar



abs-cbnews.com: Iggy Arroyo's body to remain in London a little longer.


Battle for custody of Iggy Arroyo's body continues


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Open Dollar Accounts! Religious leaders demands.

The law on dollar accounts secrecy applies only to foreigners to encourage investing in the Philippines, and this does not apply to Chief Justice Corona, who is being subject to impeachment. The law requires a written permission from the depositor(Corona) for the information to be divulged. We see that Corona, who has an MBA and once worked in a bank, uses the banking system for hiding his wealth from the PUBLIC.

A group calling itself, Association of Major Religious Superiors of the Philippines has come out in the open urging the impeached Chief Justice Corona to open his dollar accounts.

We dont know much about this group. But you can visit its web site at http://amrsp.org

This follows on the earlier call for the same demand by bishops.

We hope that the growing clamor will force the Chief Justice to REALIZE that he has lost on the Filipino PUBLIC, who did NOT vote for him, but was appointed by a president GMA who has dirtied her hands on so MANY Corruption and Bribery, ELECTIONEERING cases. Corona is now eating the fruits of his blind obedience to a president, whom history will judge a corrupt one. And Corona has become corrupt ALSO.


Further reading:
Open dollar accounts, Corona urged

Bishops call on Corona to open bank accounts

Corona is blocking the quest for truth!

If Corona has nothing to hide, then he should have his dollar accounts information open to the public. Just the starting and ending balances should be enough to satisfy the growing din for more upfront transparency from the Chief Justice. He is now blocking the search for Truth!

Were if not for this impeachment trial, we would not have known how rich Corona has become. He trusted that an Supreme Court internal memo created in 1989 would have shielded him. But the hiding of SALN records from the public violates in spirit the Republic Act 6713 or the Code of Conduct and Ethical Standards for Public Officials. Let us not forget that Corona has exerted efforts via recommendations or being the ponente in some cases of removal from government service lower ranking public servants due to inaccurate SALN filing!


Corona has been forced, by less fortuitous turn of event to face the fact that his SALNs have been divulged in the Senate by a fearful Clerk of Court, exposing him to charges of gross DISHONESTY.

Now what remains for the prosecution panel in tackling Article 2, is the opening of his supersecret dollar accounts. As we understand it, the law was meant for foreigners to invest their dollars in the Philippines not for a native Filipino like Corona to hide his hidden wealth!

In spite of this private and secret dollar hoard,this fact is PROOF enough that by his sheer gross dishonesty by Corona, displayed for all to see in his SALNs, should be SUFFICIENT to declare him guilty of loss of public trust, and hidden wealth.

Simple corrections to the SALNs is closed to Corona for the simple reason the Supreme Court never gave a chance to people convicted of filing false SALNs.

A ressurrected mudslinging attack on Pnoy

My interest was piqued by a post in Negros Bloggers, a Facebook group about a letter from a supposed Atenean classmate of Pnoy calling himself Tomcat.

What was amazing was that the contents of the letter, reposted without attribution, was published TWO damn years ago!

Click on
http://manilareview.wordpress.com/2010/04/17/noynoy-aquinos-classmate-reveals-all/ if you want to view the contents.