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Caste System In The Philippines

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Caste System In The Philippines

As you have probably gathered from the amount of recipes, dining experiences, photos and blogs posted on GlobalGranary.Org, that we are very partial to food. So I thought I should watch a lifestyle program with a cooking segment from the Philippines. With my trusted MacBook Pro, I trawled youtube for some cooking programs. I came upon Regine Velasques’s Sarap Diva.

I settled down to watch, contentedly chomping on my breakfast in bed, courtesy of my sweet, darling husband and, hoping to enjoy the show especially as Regine said that it would be a homage to the 80s, a throwback 80s if you like.

There were songs and reminiscence which I thought were really nostalgic of the period but I almost choked on my toast with growing anger, shock and disbelief when some of the guests became ABUSIVE and disparaging towards a black transvestite, who acted as Regine’s sidekick.

The most sickening and abhorrent part was Regine, herself.  Instead of chastising her guests, she joined  in with the MALTREATMENT AND DEHUMINISING of the sidekick! I think this is what they call comedy.

They made it very clear that the sidekick/maid was just so lucky to be there breathing the same hot air with Regine and guests in the studio.

A prat of a guest, to get a laugh, commented that “Sigurado ka hindi nangangagat yan?” (Are you sure it won’t bite?)

To which Regine replied “Hindi naman at saka may injection! (No, and it has its injections)

By implication, the black maid was reduced to a dog, rabid or otherwise!

They should be laughing with the maid rather than laughing at her.

Regine did make me laugh when she tried to remonstrate her sidekick (not really sure of his name), who came in with some tin-foil wrapped hotdogs.  Regine said “Ilagay mo lang dyan, wag mo munang pagtripan yan! (Just put them there, don’t start on them yet), completely ignoring that fact that Regine, herself, looked like she’s been the one eating all the donuts or hotdogs.

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It is so sad that Philippines is not joining in with the rest of the world in ensuring that everyone is treated fairly and rightly.  Where is the respect?!!!

It is even sadder to think that there are now more than 100 million Filipinos and most of them live in poverty in the motherland.  There is a great chasm between the rich and the poor and programs like SarapDiva are not doing their bit to make sure that the poor, the gay, the black and disable are not dehumanised.

Another show that makes me wince because of latent denigration of others is KrisTV. Kris Aquino comes out as all benevolent, and extremely generous to her minions but she does make them pay or work for it. Time and again, Kris would treat Darla, her ‘assistant’ more of a servant or a favoured pet. Many a time, Darla becomes the butt of Kris’s often cruel jives.  Darla, the human waste disposal or vacuüm cleaner gets to eat all the leftovers!!!

This treatment of the less fortunate is very telling of our Filipino ways and traits. This is the very reason, I think, that we do not progress as people. Our colonial mentality, the remnants of which still exists whilst the rest of the civilised world had moved away from it, is alive and kicking, sadly.

We Filipinos seem to  love nothing better than kicking  or make those who we think have less in life, largely through no fault of their own,  to feel small, to convince  and make ourselves better and superior and climb a higher echelon in life.

Contrarily we give too much leeway and importance to those who have risen into the elite part of our society through corruption.  Yes we are talking about you, Napoles, Enrile, Reyes, Revilla, Ejercito and your likes!  Why do these corrupt people continue to get preferential treatment in jail when others are accepting humiliation just to survive?!!!

Caste system is still in place in the Philippines.  And we enthusiastically allow it to embrace our future generation.

Filipinos give big business to places like Belos.  It seems being Kayumanggi (brown race) is something to be ashamed off.  White rocks!

Until we all realised that being different doesn’t make us inferior to anyone, the battle of the downtrodden will live on.

Rogues Gallery: PDAF Plunder Mugshots

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Mugshots of Alleged PDAF Plunderers

At long last heads have started to roll and about time too.  It has been a very slow process.  Criminality and corruption are so entwined and intertwined in the Philippine Government that untwining these would take some time.

Janet Lim Napoles, the madam of the PDAF plunder, is no longer the lone person to be arrested for criminality against the Pork Barrel scandal.

She has been joined by Bong Revilla, her Pogi, who surrendered himself a few days ago.

Jinggoy Estrada, Janet Napoles’s Sexy, has also surrendered himself but was for a moment  almost free to “walk” after Government lawyers bungled the case raised against him.

There are plenty more to come including Tanda Enrile and of course people who are under PNoy’s own party list and cronies.  This would be a test for PNoy’s much talked about Daang Matuwid (Straight Path) away from corruption.

Who will join these three?  Who else have taken advantage of the P10 Billion Pork Barrel?  Where are Janet Napoles’s children?

We’ll just have to wait and see!

PDAF – The Rogues Gallery

 

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Janet Lim – Napoles PDAF – Facilitator

Bong Revilla

Bong Revilla Napoles’ Pogi

 

Jinggoy Estrada

Jinggoy Estrada Napoles’ Sexy

 

Juan Ponce Enrile Napoles' Tanda

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Napoles’ Tanda

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Jo Christine Napoles Still pending arrest

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James Christopher Lim Napoles Still Pending arrest

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Fernando Ramirez Pending Arrest

 

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Renato Soson Ornopia Pending Arrest

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Aileen Palama Pending Arrest

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Amparo Fernando Pending Arrest

 

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Dorilyn Agbay Fabian Pending Arrest

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Jesus Bergola Castillo Pending arrest

108 Alleged Pork Barrel Criminals by Napoles

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Janet Napoles has finally named names of alleged master criminals working within the bowels of the Government.  All of these alleged money tricksters are already well healed in their own rights.

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108 solons in ‘Napolist’
Abad gave me ideas to set up NGOs – Napoles

by Hannah L. Torregoza & Mario B. Casayuran
May 26, 2014

Manila, Philippines — Suspected pork barrel scam mastermind Janet Lim Napoles has implicated 108 former and incumbent senators and congressmen in the misuse of their Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) in her expanded affidavit submitted yesterday to Justice Secretary Leila de Lima.

In the same affidavit, Napoles said that it was Budget Secretary Florencio Abad, then a congressman representing the lone district of Batanes, who told her in 2000 about a P10-million project. Abad even showed Napoles the Special Allotment Release Order (SARO), explaining what it was for. Abad, she said, gave her ideas on how to set up non-government organizations (NGOs).

The 20 senators listed in Napoles’ affidavit submitted by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to Senate Blue Ribbon Committee Chairman Sen. Teofisto “TG” Guingona III are:

1. Sen. Juan Ponce Enrile

2. Sen. Jinggoy Estrada

3. Sen. Ramon Revilla Jr.

4. Sen. Gregorio Honasan II

5. Sen. Manuel “Lito” Lapid

6. Sen. Ferdinand Marcos Jr.

7. Sen. Loren Legarda

8. Sen. Aquilino Pimentel III

9. Sen. Vicente Sotto III

10. Sen. Cynthia Villar

11. Sen. Alan Peter Cayetano

12. Sen. Francis Escudero

13. Ex-Sen. Rodolfo Biazon (now Muntinlupa congressman)

14. Ex-Sen. Robert Barbers

15. Ex-Sen. Loi Estrada

16. Ex-Sen. Robert Jaworski

17. Ex-Sen. Ramon Magsaysay

18. Ex-Sen. Tessie Aquino Oreta

19. Ex-Sen. Aquilino Pimentel Jr.

20. Ex-Sen. Manuel Villar

Also listed were 88 former and incumbent congressmen. They are:

1. Abad, Florencio

2. Agarao, Benjamin

3. Albano, Rodolfo

4. Amatong, Prospero

5. Angara-Castillo, Bellaflor

6. Arroyo, Iggy

7. Arroyo,Mickey

8. Bagatsing, Amado

9. Banaag, Leovigildo

10. Baterina, Salacnib

11. Beratio, Napoleon

12. Biazon, Ruffy

13. Cagas, Marc Douglas

14. Chavez, Leonila

15. Chiongbian, Erwin

16. Chipeco, Joaquin

17. Cuenco, Antonio

18. Dangwa, Samuel

19. Estrella, Conrad III

20. Estrella, Reymund

21. Fabian, Erico

22. Falcon, Jesnar

23. Falcon, Peter

24. Flores, Florencio

25. Fuentebella, Arnulfo

26. Gullas, Gerald

27. Joaquin, Uliran

28. Jaraula, Constantino

29. Lagdameo, Antonio Jr.

30. Seachon, Lanete Rizalina

31. Lanete, Scott Davies

32. Labanan, Marcelino

33. Macarambon, Benasing Jr.

34. Madamba, Sunny Rose

35. Malanyaon, Corazon

36. Malapitan, Oscar

37. Martinez, Clavel

38. Mercado, Roger

39. Miraflores, Florencio

40. Miranda, Anthony

41. Montejo, Neil Benedict

42. Nieva, Ernesto “Banzai”

43. Olano, Arrel

44. Ortega, Manuel

45. Ortega, Victor

46. Pablo, Ernesto

47. Padilla, Carlos

48. Pangandaman, Hussein

49. Pangandaman, Nasser

50. Pichay, Prospero

51. Pinggoy, Arthur

52. Plaza, Rodolfo

53. Ramiro, Herminia

54. Real, Isidro

55. Remulla, Gilbert

56. Rodriguez, Maximo

57. Rodriguez, Oca

58. Romualdo, Jurdin Jesus

59. Rodriguez, Rufus

60. Romualdo, Pedro

61. Sandoval, Ricky

62. Sandoval, Joseph

63. Solis, Jose

64. Suplico, Rolex

65. Tulangan, Generoso

66. Umali, Alfonso “Boy”

67. Umali, Aurelo “Oyi”

68. Umali, Reynaldo

69. Ungab, Isidro

70. Unico, Renato

71. Valdez, Edgar

72. Valencia, Rodolfo

73. Veloso, Eduardo

74. Yumul Hermida, Georgilu

75. Zamora, Manuel

76. Alvarado, Wilhemino

77. Cortuna, Juliega

78. Daza, Nanette Costelo

79. Echeverri, Recom

80. Lapuz, Jesli

81. Monfort, Narciso

82. Nantes, Rafael

83. Nograles, Prospero

84. Pablo, Ernesto

85. Plaza, Maria Valentina

86. Roman, Antonio

87. San Luis, Rodolfo

88. Zialcita, Eduardo.

Of the 20 former and incumbent senators, Enrile, Estrada, and Revilla are already facing plunder complaints before the Office of the Ombudsman.

The agents

Enrile’s agents are Gigi Reyes, Ruby Tuason, Freddie Villamor, Butch Tuason.

Jinggoy’s agent was Ruby Tuason, while Richard Cambe acted as Revilla’s agent.

According to Napoles, certain “Bernard and Rose Palacio” acted as agents for Biazon and Barbers, respectively.

The affidavit also stated that certain “Lyn,” Matt Ranillo, Butch Tuazon, Tet De Joya, and Pauline Labayen acted as agents for Ex-Sen. Loi, wife of former President and now Manila Mayor Joseph Estrada, while a certain “Atty. Danny” acted as agent for Honasan.

Jaworski’s agents, according to Napoles’ affidavit, were his son Dudut (prior to his election as Pasig congressman) and Tet De Joya.

A certain Zenaida Ducut acted as Lapid’s agent, while a certain Catherine Mae “Maam Maya” Canlas Santos acted as agent for Marcos and Legarda.

In Magsaysay’s case, Napoles said that certain Patricia “Gay” Agana Tan, Bibing Agana Villacorta, and Atty. Yacky Agana were his agents.

Listed as Oreta’s agent was a certain Carlos “Caloy” Reyes, while a certain Mon Arcenas acted as agent of the elder Pimentel. On the younger Pimentel’s case, his estranged wife Jewel and Luis “Louie” Cruz acted as his agents.

Napoles named Jennifer “Jen” Corpuz as Sotto’s agent, while she identified Jun Adriano and Arman Padilla as the agents of the Villar couple.

Campaign contributor

Napoles also admitted providing campaign funds for former senator Villar through Adriano, as well as Cayetano and Escudero.

“Nagbigay ako ng pera para sa kampanya ni Senador Alan Peter Cayetano noong last election (2010). Nagkita kami sa Slice restaurant sa Bonifacio Global City. Personal kong inabot sa kanya ang pera,” Napoles stated in page 28 of her affidavit.

She also said she got to meet congressman Ompong Plaza who introduced her to Escudero who ran in the 2010 senatorial elections.

Before the elections, Napoles said she met Escudero in a private function at a Chinese restaurant in EDSA Shangri-La Hotel and was convinced to provide financial support for his presidential bid. Escudero would later back out from his presidential bid.

Napoles said her next meeting with Escudero, already a senator, was at the Taste of LA in Quezon City. She said they discussed possible projects and gave sizeable funds again to Escudero only to learn later that no project pushed through.

Not the mastermind

In the same affidavit, Napoles reiterated her innocence in the pork barrel fund scam and her decision “to tell the whole truth.”

“I am not the most guilty and not the mastermind of the alleged P10-billion pork barrel fund scam nor of the Malampaya fund scam,” Napoles said.

“I categorically and strongly deny that I am the mastermind of the alleged Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) or pork barrel and Malampaya fund scams as well as other projects that used government funds of which I have personal knowledge of,” she also said.

Napoles also said that though the Commission on Audit (COA) report identifies at least 82 NGOs with questionable transactions, she clarified that she is not involved nor familiar with all these NGOs.

“I am absolutely sure that even before I entered into the business of transacting through NGOs or foundations, there were already existing foundations transacting with the government,” she said.

As a businesswoman, Napoles said she just wanted to expand her business as well as the distribution of her products having been a manufacturer of liquid foliar fertilizers.

But in 2000, Napoles said she was introduced to Abad by Manuel Jarmin at a Japanese restaurant at EDSA Shangri-La. It was during the meeting that Abad told Napoles about the P10-million project.

Napoles also said that she was presenting her affidavit to support her request for the exclusion of her children James Christopher and Jo Christine from prosecution, saying they had “no knowledge, participation, and involvement” in the case.

“I am executing this affidavit to shed light on the facts and circumstances surrounding the PDAF and Malampaya fund scams involved in the cases pending before this honorable office and to support my request to be utilized as state witness and to be granted immunity from criminal prosecution in accordance with Section 17 or Republic Act 6770,” Napoles stated in the conclusion of her affidavit.

Where PDAF Fears to Tread

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Where PDAF Fears to Tread

Poverty is a widespread problem in the Philippines; 22 per cent of the population live way, way, way below under the breadline. And yet is not given the priority it needed.
The corrupt and greedy have got their noses in the pork trough while the poor have scraps to live on
This must change with the increasing revelations about the Pork Barrel PDAF scandal.

Money is there but not distributed fairly as we have learned from the Janet & Jeane Napoles scandal. We have also learned that they spend monies into non-priority projects like that of Luneta Flagpole costing several millions of pesos.

Until community leaders, senators, congressmen and the president of the Philippines think of the people first rather than themselves and their status, there is no way out from this worsening condition of indigence.


The film delivers what it meant to do in such a big way. It does not patronise poverty but rather shows a clear indictment of how living under the breadline is all about. There are no tears, no sadness but of stoicism, laughter and acceptance which made the film/situation more heartbreaking.

Pork Barrel By Another Name (Gravy Train)

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Pork Barrel By Another Name (Gravy Train)

Ooopps  Have we all rejoiced too early after the announcement by PNoy (President Benigno Aquino III) that the much flawed Pork Barrel funding will be abolished. We now learn that any changes maybe just cosmetic, and all that may happen is a name change from PDAF pork barrel to just another vultures dinner!?
Perhaps to use UK slang further alluding to the pork meat connotation, those who had their greedy pig like snouts in the trough(of free cash) now know the pork will be covered by ‘gravy’ taking their fill from the ‘gravy train'(a position in which one receives excessive and unjustified money or advantages with little or no effort).

Clearly we need a fuller and transparent explanation of the new funding system and how the bottom line spending will benefit those it is supposed to be targeted to. Senators should not be handing finances, funding should be centralised for more control and accountability. For example medical health care should be nationalised with a central department dealing with distributing the funding to where it is needed and all should know where the money is going to.
No more nurtured Napoles’!

We heard that approx only 60,000 people turned up at the anti-Pork Barrel ‘Million People March’ in Luneta Park, Manila on 26 August 2013. It was hoped that many many more making the numbers of demonstrators near to the titled ‘million’ would attend. PINOYS should not be complacent. Though this was rather disappointing, we will not stop until every single peso is accounted for. We need proof that the noble ‘rhetoric and promises of reform'(not rename)- from the leader of our nation made before millions on Friday 23 August 2013, will indeed become fact and not more ‘smoke and mirrors’ deception as in the past. Come on PNoy make history and us proud!!! It is daang matuwid, nevermind the t-junctions, just bulldoze your way into sanity and honesty.