Taxpayers to shoulder Marcos debt until 2025

[c0lt_45]

Wala na makita sa wiki si kamen, puro ka kasi wiki eh.

Tapos yung mga malalaking companies pa eh ipapatong sa bilihin yung tax nila, doble gastos, ang gagaling kasi ng mga politiko ngayon, sobra

 

[TambayBlues]

Because of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in Pennsylvania, USA the International Atomic Energy Commission passed more stringent nuclear plant reactor design, construction and safety regulations which the BNPP did not meet due to it's older design. This is one of the reasons the Philippine government sued Westinghouse, the American company who built the BNPP. The rest is history.

 

[KamenRaida]

Because of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in Pennsylvania, USA the International Atomic Energy Commission passed more stringent nuclear plant reactor design, construction and safety regulations which the BNPP did not meet due to it's older design. This is one of the reasons the Philippine government sued Westinghouse, the American company who built the BNPP. The rest is history.

That's why Bataan Power Plant is a bogus project and part of marco's illigitimate debts

May Napoles din Sa Taym Nya

 

[c0lt_45]

Bogus? Oh come on, the bogus(well im not saying he's a pure bogus, 60/40) President is already in our generation. matagal nang patay si marcos, why extend the blame game? too much blaming causes nothing. It results to walk out and indecisiveness. Believing too much with the words of someone without seeing the full effects of his words amount to nothing.

 

[vyruz32]

Because of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in Pennsylvania, USA the International Atomic Energy Commission passed more stringent nuclear plant reactor design, construction and safety regulations which the BNPP did not meet due to it's older design. This is one of the reasons the Philippine government sued Westinghouse, the American company who built the BNPP. The rest is history.

Diniscuss 'to ng prof. ko noon sa Engineering. Magbibigay sana ng settlement ang Westinghouse noon para ma-sarado na yung lawsuit. Ganda pa nga yung terms na binigay ng Westinghouse - Payment nung lawsuit ($100 million) , majority of costs of operation handle nila, refurbishing and upgrading, plus hand-over after 30-40 years. Mga panahon na kasi yon ni Cory ata nagsimula yung lawsuit na tumuloy hanggang kay Ramos.

Either way, tinuloy parin yung lawsuit at natalo yung Pinas. Yung resulta? Settlement ng $45 Million lang.

Di rin alam kung bakit naituloy kasi meron din administrative order si Ramos tungkol doon sa offer ng Westinghouse (AO 4).

 

[KamenRaida]

Sana kunin at ifreez din ng Gobyerno ng Pilipinas yung Assets, Properties at Bank Acoounts ng demonyong pamilyang ito

fyi mas mayaman pa ang mga marcos kay paquiao

 

[c0lt_45]

pinakamalaki parin ang yamang nakuha ng mga cojuangco kung tutuusin.

 

[KamenRaida]

pinakamalaki parin ang yamang nakuha ng mga cojuangco kung tutuusin.

tama ka dyan dahil hindi naman lahat ng pondong ninakaw ay naitakas overseas

nasa crony corporations (San Miguel, PLDT, Maynilad, PAL etc) kasi yung hidden accounts nila

 

[c0lt_45]

kahit naman maaccount yung riches ng marcos mas mayaman parin ang cojuangco.

 

[KamenRaida]

Escalante massacre

The Escalante massacre was an incident on September 20,
1985 in Escalante City , Negros Occidental, Philippines where
para-military forces of the government gunned down
civilians engaged in a protest-rally in commemoration of the
13th anniversary of the declaration of Martial Law . It is also
called Escam - shorthand for "Escalante massacre", and
sometimes Bloody Thursday , though the massacre really
happened on a Friday. [1]

Background

The declaration of martial law on September 21, 1972 by
President Ferdinand Marcos proved to be the dawning of
darker days for the country. Although martial rule was lifted
by Marcos on January 17, 1981, the suspension of the writ
of habeas corpus was continued. Citizens merely protesting
the policies of the Marcos government risked arrest without
warrant and indefinite detention.

Adding to the tension of the times was the proposed
creation of the province of Negros del Norte from Negros
Occidental. Citizens saw this as a maneuver by Marcos
cronies in the northern portion of the province to consolidate
more power. Negros del Norte was created from Negros
Occidental on January 3, 1986, but its creation was later
found to be unconstitutional and was abolished on August
18, 1986.

Attack

On September 18, 1985, a crowd composed of sugar
workers, farmers, fisher-folk, students, urban poor,
professionals and church people staged a noise protest in
the town center. The crowd was estimated to number 5000.
The next day, the protesters set up human barricades in
front of the public market and at the entrance of the
municipal plaza. On the morning of September 20, a police
car approached the picket line and the protest leaders were
invited to a negotiation conference at the municipal building
which was about fifty meters from the barricades. The
leaders refused.

About mid-afternoon, fire trucks arrived and began to
bombard the picket line with high-pressure water and tear
gas. The crowd was surrounded by members of the Regional
Special Action Force (RSAF) and the Civilian Home Defense
Force (CHDF). When some protestors threw back the tear
gas canisters into the empty plaza, the para-military forces,
who would later allege that a few "trouble-makers" tried to
grab their weapons, opened fire into the masses.

Aftermath

Accounts of the number of casualties vary: between twenty
[1][2] and thirty[3] dead, and thirty[2] wounded. After the
crowd had dispersed, the site was cordoned off by the para-
military units and on-lookers were ordered to bring the
wounded to hospitals in the town. The bodies were
recovered from the rally site, and in the sugar cane fields
surrounding the location. Buildings and concrete walls
nearby were riddled with bullet holes.

The government organized the Escalante Massacre Fact-
Finding Commission chaired by Ombudsman Justice Raul
M. Gonzalez (as of 2007, the Secretary of the Department of
Justice). The commission recommended that the
government indemnify the victims' next of kin. This was
never done. [1] In 2003, three low-ranking policemen jailed
for their alleged role in the massacre were released on
parole.

source: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalante_massacre

 

[carlo1254]

Marcos pa rin! Ano bang di nyo nagustuhan kay Marcos? May patunay ba kayo sa mga bintang sa kanya? 'Wag magbubulaglagan. Kitang-kita ang pinagkaiba noon at ngayon. Simple lang naman yan at NAKIKITA ng mga tao. Noon may kapangyarihan ang Pinas, ngayon sobrang hirap na. So ibig sabihin noon maganda ang pamumuno ngayon 'nga-nga'.

- - - Updated - - -

Marcos pa rin!

 

[Resistor]

Escalante massacre

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/54/Escam.jpg

The Escalante massacre was an incident on September 20,
1985 in Escalante City , Negros Occidental, Philippines where
para-military forces of the government gunned down
civilians engaged in a protest-rally in commemoration of the
13th anniversary of the declaration of Martial Law . It is also
called Escam - shorthand for "Escalante massacre", and
sometimes Bloody Thursday , though the massacre really
happened on a Friday. [1]

Background

The declaration of martial law on September 21, 1972 by
President Ferdinand Marcos proved to be the dawning of
darker days for the country. Although martial rule was lifted
by Marcos on January 17, 1981, the suspension of the writ
of habeas corpus was continued. Citizens merely protesting
the policies of the Marcos government risked arrest without
warrant and indefinite detention.

Adding to the tension of the times was the proposed
creation of the province of Negros del Norte from Negros
Occidental. Citizens saw this as a maneuver by Marcos
cronies in the northern portion of the province to consolidate
more power. Negros del Norte was created from Negros
Occidental on January 3, 1986, but its creation was later
found to be unconstitutional and was abolished on August
18, 1986.

Attack

On September 18, 1985, a crowd composed of sugar
workers, farmers, fisher-folk, students, urban poor,
professionals and church people staged a noise protest in
the town center. The crowd was estimated to number 5000.
The next day, the protesters set up human barricades in
front of the public market and at the entrance of the
municipal plaza. On the morning of September 20, a police
car approached the picket line and the protest leaders were
invited to a negotiation conference at the municipal building
which was about fifty meters from the barricades. The
leaders refused.

About mid-afternoon, fire trucks arrived and began to
bombard the picket line with high-pressure water and tear
gas. The crowd was surrounded by members of the Regional
Special Action Force (RSAF) and the Civilian Home Defense
Force (CHDF). When some protestors threw back the tear
gas canisters into the empty plaza, the para-military forces,
who would later allege that a few "trouble-makers" tried to
grab their weapons, opened fire into the masses.

Aftermath

Accounts of the number of casualties vary: between twenty
[1][2] and thirty[3] dead, and thirty[2] wounded. After the
crowd had dispersed, the site was cordoned off by the para-
military units and on-lookers were ordered to bring the
wounded to hospitals in the town. The bodies were
recovered from the rally site, and in the sugar cane fields
surrounding the location. Buildings and concrete walls
nearby were riddled with bullet holes.

The government organized the Escalante Massacre Fact-
Finding Commission chaired by Ombudsman Justice Raul
M. Gonzalez (as of 2007, the Secretary of the Department of
Justice). The commission recommended that the
government indemnify the victims' next of kin. This was
never done. [1] In 2003, three low-ranking policemen jailed
for their alleged role in the massacre were released on
parole.

source: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalante_massacre

Kamusta naman ang mendiola massacre? )

 

[KamenRaida]

take note 18 sa Escalante Martyrs mga Teenagers/ Menor de Edad

 

[c0lt_45]

Eh yung sa tarlac? May pa army army pa, pag sa mindanao nangyari yun, rebellion, pero pag kadugo ng administrasyon, legal daw yun

 

[KamenRaida]

YEARENDER: PCGG wins 2 cases vs Marcos
allies By Helen Flores

(The Philippine Star) | Updated January 3, 2014 - 12:00am

MANILA, Philippines - The year 2013 was another good one
for the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG),
which won two of its major cases against former Marcos
allies and surpassing its P451-million target remittance.
PCGG Chairman Andres Bautista expressed confidence the
commission will be able to remit P600 million to the National
Treasury this year.

As of Nov. 30, the agency has remitted P375.89 million to the
national coffers, including proceeds from the sale of the
Mapalad property in Parañaque City amounting to P247.11
million.

The Mapalad property was among the alleged illegally
amassed assets of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, which
were surrendered to the government by his former associate
Jose Campos in 1986.

Vilma Bautista conviction

Last November, the New York District Attorney’s Office found
Vilma Bautista, a former secretary of Imelda Marcos, guilty for
conspiring to sell a Monet painting that vanished after the
1986 EDSA Revolution.

Bautista said they will be working to recover the proceeds and
assets that were confiscated by the Manhattan District
Attorney’s Office from Ms. Bautista, including proceeds from
the sale of Monet painting, bank deposits amounting to $15
million, an apartment worth $3.9 million and three unsold
paintings worth millions of dollars.

The sentencing of Ms. Bautista, 75, who is not related to the
PCGG chairman, is scheduled on Jan. 6. She could be
sentenced to 25 years in jail.

Bugarin case

Bautista said a writ of execution was issued in favor of the
PCGG on June 21 last year to forfeit ill-gotten wealth of
former National Bureau of Investigation director Jolly
Bugarin.

He said the ownership of the forfeited properties, which
amounted to P120 million, has been transferred to the
government.

“Although it has taken more than 25 years of protracted
litigation, coupled with legal maneuverings and a slew of
dilatory tactics, the forfeiture case against Bugarin proved the
government’s resolute desire to recover ill-gotten wealth,”
Bautista said.

Created in 1986, the PCGG is in charge of recovering ill-gotten
assets of the Marcoses and their cronies to be used for the
agrarian reform program.

The PCGG has sold four sequestered real estate properties,
including one in Wack Wack in Mandaluyong City, the Hans
Menzi Compound and Banaue Inn compound in Baguio City
and the Mapalad property. Lined up for sale in 2014 are two
lots in Pangarap Village, Caloocan City and the 2,885-square
meter IRC property on EDSA, Mandaluyong, where the PCGG
holds office.

Bautista said the commission is looking at privatizing next
year the 1.7-hectare J. Y. Campos Compound in Baguio City
and the controversial Payanig sa Pasig property, which has an
estimated value of P13.8 billion.

Challenges

Bautista, however, expressed hope the agency would be given
more resources in a bid to recover more Marcos assets.
“We should be more proactive in looking for leads. There is
still a lot to recover,” he said.

The PCGG has filed plunder and graft charges against seven
former officials of the Bataan Shipyard and Engineering Co.
Inc. (BASECO) with the Office of the Ombudsman.

The PCGG and the current board of directors of BASECO sued
former directors Proceso Maligalig, who also served as
president, Agustiniana Avelino, Wilmar Lucero, Rene Cruz and
Gloria Cortez.

Also included in the charge were former BASECO legal counsel
John Jay Consunji and finance officer Socorro Santos.
BASECO is a government-sequestered company. It was
incorporated in August 1972 to engage in shipbuilding and
dry-docking.

Bautista said the company is expected to remit P20 million to
the PCGG this year.

Officials of all sequestered companies have been instructed to
come up with their own annual reports. “We have to show
transparency and accountability,“ he said.

A Big for PCGG and CHR for winning Big cases against Marcoses, Cronies and Relatives

 

[c0lt_45]

Kumusta naman ngayon ang meralco? Kumusta naman noon ang meralco? Tss

 

[KamenRaida]

Kumusta naman ngayon ang meralco? Kumusta naman noon ang meralco? Tss

kamusta Meralco under Marcos Cronies? si Marcos nag create nun di ba?

 

[c0lt_45]

kamusta Meralco under Marcos Cronies? si Marcos nag create nun di ba?

Sagotba yan sa tanong ko? Begging the question tss pwe

Napabayaan na meralco ngayon, wala ng control ang gobyerno matapos ipaubaya ni cory. Magtatanong nanaman yan ng walang rebuttals

 

[KamenRaida]

Sagotba yan sa tanong ko? Begging the question tss pwe

Napabayaan na meralco ngayon, wala ng control ang gobyerno matapos ipaubaya ni cory. Magtatanong nanaman yan ng walang rebuttals

panong napabayaan? unang una yung Power Hike napiginalan ng Govt (Supreme Court) kasi nga unconstitutiinal at subject for investigation.... at wala pang generation charge increase sa Bill ngayonng Nov-Feb

tignan mo yung bill mo iho

 

[KamenRaida]

Hello mga Ka Symb, im Back!

Sandigan junks Marcos family claim to Paoay property
By Cynthia D. Balana
Philippine Daily Inquirer
| April 23, 2014 at 7:56 pm
MANILA, Philippines

Sandiganbayan has dismissed the claim of the family of the late
President Ferdinand Marcos to a 57.68-hectare lakeside resort in
Paoay, Ilocos Norte, because the area specified in an impugned
contract was an actually an “inalienable public domain,” it being a
national park.

In a 33-page decision by the anti-graft court’s First Division dated April
21, 2014, the court declared the 1978 lease agreement between
Marcos and the defunct Philippine Tourism Authority null and void.
“The Paoay Lake and lands within one kilometer from its water line…
was declared to be a national park and therefore considered public
land. These were, therefore, outside the commerce of man,” the court
said.

The verdict was penned by Justice Rafael Lagos, and was concurred
in by Justices Rodolfo Ponferrada and Efren de la Cruz, division
chairman.

The court said the late dictator had no right to bind the property in any
agreement or proprietary transaction as supposed owner because he
did not own the property.

Presidential Decree No. 1554, issued by Marcos on Aug. 11, 1978,
reclassified stretches of land around Paoay Lake as “alienable public
land.” The Marcos-PTA lease deal was signed on Dec. 20, 1978.
“Section 101 of the Public Land Act provides a remedy whereby lands
of the public domain fraudulently awarded to the applicant may be
recovered or reverted back to its original owner, the government,” the
court ruling said.

“An action for reversion has to be instituted by the Solicitor General, in
the name of the Republic of the Philippines,” it added.
This means all 154 lots covered by the lease agreement, structures
found on them, and even those that are already covered by approved
patents to the children and grandchildren of Marcos and any other
third-party, were property of the Republic.

Aside from the lots, the court also placed under the control of the
government, through Tourism Infrastructure and Enterprise Zone
Authority (TIEZA), the Malacañang Ti Amianan (Malacañang of the
North), Maharlika Hall building, Suba Sports Complex, the Old Motor
Pool, swimming pools, tennis court and an 18-hole golf course.
Court records showed that no less than 79 lots in the questioned
property are already under free patents or have pending free patent
applications by Ilocos Norte Gov. Imee Marcos and her children.
Former first lady and now Ilocos Norte Rep. Imelda Marcos, Sen.
Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. and Irene Marcos-Araneta had
executed waiver of rights over the subject lots in favor of Imee Marcos
and her children.

More than half of the lots already have approved and/or pending patent
applications by the Marcos heirs and other persons.
Senator Marcos had insisted to the court that the Paoay resort estate
was not the subject of any forfeiture move by petitioner Presidential
Commission on Good Government and therefore cannot be considered
ill-gotten wealth.

He also questioned the jurisdiction of the Sandiganbayan over the
case.

The court said state lawyers should now ask the Department of
Environment and Natural Resources and the Land Management Bureau
to nullify adverse claims by other parties on parts of the questioned
property.

The court said lawyers from the Office of the Solicitor General and the
PCGG were able to establish that the property previously belonged to
the government and was thus transferred to the Marcos family and their
associates illegally.

But the court said the fact that the PCGG never sequestered the
property was immaterial.

“What matters is that the petition alleges that the former president used
all his powers and influence to appropriate to himself all the lots
covered by the lease with scanty claims of ownership,” it said.
The court cited as proof of unlawful financial interests by the late
president the “hundred of millions of pesos” development undertaken
on the Paoay property with the use of taxpayers’ money shortly after
the lease agreement was signed.

It likewise cited the patent applications made by the Marcos heirs over
the developed lots covered by the lease.

(“T)he Marcos heirs have concentrated their free patent applications on
the lots where most of the improvements are situated. Just on this
score, the lease contract should be declared void,” the ruling said.
The court took more than four years to resolve the case after it was
filed by the PCGG on March 3, 2010.