1. Flashback – September 2013 http://balitangbalita.com/2013/09/14/palace-released-this-photo-to-the-public-janet-lim-napoles-with-p-noy/
2. December 2015 – Philippine Daily Inquirer news article   Lifetime ban imposed on 12 execs tied to pork scam

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3. December 2015 – Jinggoy Estrada confident of bail from plunder like in 2003

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4. October 2015 – Sereno says message is clear: Pork is illegal

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5. July 2015 – P-Noy JAIL TIME behind Palace desperation in fielding a Roxas – Poe Tandem  Read more: http://balitangbalita.com/2015/07/16/p-noy-jail-time-behind-palace-desperation-in-fielding-a-roxas-poe-tandem/
   

     

   

Dinawit at INUPAKAN ni Pangulong Aquino ang FACEBOOK sapagkat hindi naman daw nito kayang makapagpatayo ng mga kalsada o makapagpakain ng mga nagugutom na mamamayan. Maliwanag na ang galit nya ay dala ng mga BATIKOS na natatanggap nya mula sa mga boss nya. Halos Metro Manila traffic, Mamasapano/SAF 44, Yolanda rehabilitation, MRT/LRT troubles, balikbayan box controversy at tanim/laglag bala sa airport ang malimit na nilalaman ng social media, nangunguna na ang Facebook. Hangad ng ating Presidente na ang makita nalang natin ay ang mga sinasabi nyang pagunlad ng mga taumbayan sa kanyang pamumuno. Desperado kasi si P-Noy na mahalal ang kanyang manok na si Mar Roxas na lagi namang KULELAT (pang apat sa mga may tsansang magwagi) sa mga poll survey.

Mahirap kasing PAGTAKPAN ang mga KAPALPAKAN ng kasalukuyang pamahalaan sapagkat talaga namang MAHINA ang mga manager na galing sa LIBERAL Party at nangunguna na dyan si Mar Roxas na hindi makuha ang pagmamahal ng masa sapagkat bilang asindero (kagaya ni P-Noy) hindi nya maipakita na may malasakit sya sa sambayanan at lalo pa nyang ginagalit ang mga botante sa PILIT nyang pagpapapel o pag-EPAL.

Natatakot si Noynoy na kung mahalal na Pangulo ang hindi nya kakampi sa pulitika, malamang MAKULONG sha dahil sa UNCONSTITUTIONAL DAP at PDAF, PANUNUHOL nuong panahon ng IMPEACHMENT TRIAL ng dating Supreme Court Chief Justice Corona at sa papel nya sa pagkasawi ng SAF 44.

Philippine President Benigno Aquino lll lashed out at social media, specifically FACEBOOK in obvious frustration over criticisms received by his Administration. On his sixth year in office and due to step down in June 30, 2016, the second-generation (son of President Cory Aquino) Chief Executive is DESPERATELY campaigning to have his Liberal Party mate former Senator and Department of the Interior and Local Government Secretary Mar Roxas replace him in national elections on May 2016. Mar Roxas, who lost his bid to become Vice President in 2010, is currently running FOURTH in poll surveys. Clean and honest elections in 2016 would almost certainly make Davao Mayor Rodrigo Duterte (who just recently seized the number one slot), Senator Grace Poe (survey front-runner for a few months back) and Vice President Jejomar Binay who had declared his intentions as far back as 2010 (who was survey front-runner for years prior to graft and corruption charges hurled against him).

Senator Grace Poe was DISQUALIFIED by a Comelec division with an appeal for a Comelec en banc decision. Should Senator Poe lose out on this one, she can bring the case up to the Supreme Court. Her case is about her natural-born citizenship status and the mandatory 10 year residency period in the Philippines prior to the May 2016 elections.

While Senator Poe has a Philippine CONSTITUTIONAL problem, Mayor Duterte has an election PROCEDURAL issue considering he did not file his Certificate of Candidacy during the prescribed period so he is now using the SUBSTITUTION CLAUSE to run for President.

Vice President Binay has been hounded by graft and corruption issues for many months now so there is also a chance that the Aquino Administration can get him out as a candidate with the use of the Department of Justice and the Ombudsman.

In other words, President Aquino is banking on Mar Roxas to win on the basis of having NO OPPONENT (unless we count the cancer-stricken Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago as a worthy election adversary).

With so many possibilities of candidates being excluded from the ballot list or candidates having ASTERISKS (*) beside their names to mean an election protest is on-going, P-Noy is hoping, praying and pleading for a Mar Roxas victory no matter how the win comes about. Of course, there is the issue of election cheating using the PCOS (counting machines) but that is another story.

President Aquino bashes Facebook because it is an arena he can not control. Mainstream media (newspapers, radio and television) have paid advertisements to deliver his message of good performance and a call for Mar Roxas to continue his programs. This situation favors the well funded candidates. There are also paid HACKS who dominate opinion columns and news reports. Facebook is relatively new and DIFFICULT to control. As this blog has always stated, FACEBOOK WOULD DECIDE the next Philippine President in 2016.

Related article: http://balitangbalita.com/2015/11/28/facebook-could-decide-the-next-philippine-president-in-2016-2/

Presidential candidate Davao City Mayor Rodrigo Duterte is STILL in the running for the highest position of the land. Days after an actual or perceived insult on the Prince of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, Mayor Digong is still swinging, sometimes wildly, and dishing out his usual cuss words. In a predominantly Catholic country, that was just recently visited by the Pope, few candidates can get away with, to put it mildly, IRREVERENT comments without getting the ire of the voting populace. Surprisingly, Mayor Duterte is still most probably leading the poll surveys that would be conducted and/or results released soon. The Davao mayor, for the first time, led in the most recent popularity contest conducted in Metro Manila.

In the heat of the battle going into a Presidential election, a single statement, action/inaction or event can be magnified a thousand times over and the lucky/unlucky candidate can find himself propelled upwards or pushed downwards, sometimes irreversibly. The death of former President Cory Aquino gave her son Noynoy, now called P-Noy, the chance to seize the Presidency (at the expense of Liberal Party mate Mar Roxas who had to slide down and run in a losing effort for the Vice Presidency). Few people would have voted for lackluster Senator Noynoy if Cory had not died at that particular period. This time around, Mayor Duterte courted political disaster by uttering curse words that devout Catholics could not stomach. In past elections, prior to the advent of SOCIAL MEDIA, Duterte would be DEAD MEAT by this time, what with the constant barrage of negative comments and reports coming from mainstream media (newspapers, radio and television).

In the old days, bad publicity could only be countered by the “obligatory” side of the center of controversy to be ventilated. Whole articles can lash out at the “victim” whose only consolation is that a few sentences would be published getting his version of the story. It would be the same for radio and television. Depending on the number of days that the controversial story would run, the perceived erring party would be a virtual punching bag with one and all invited to box and/or kick the usually defenseless erring person. Today, this is exactly what happened to Mayor Duterte, he is placed in an uncomfortable position trying to justify what he did (that he was just FRUSTRATED at the vehicular traffic jam) at the same time that he has to apologize for cursing the Pope (which, he claims, was not his true intention).

If the Philippines is still in the DARK AGES of total information control by mainstream media, Mayor Duterte would be struggling right now from the near-fatal blow that he got for failing to keep his mouth shut. However, in this Internet age, social media has captured the imagination of the Filipino people with Duterte admirers taking to Facebook to minimize losses, bide for time and launch a media counter-offensive all at the same time. While there is still a steady stream of Pope related stories, naturally negative to the Duterte cause, in mainstream media, in CYBERSPACE Duterte is WINNING points due to the sheer number of his sympathizers who say they would rather have a politician who CURSES rather than a public official who STEALS. Others bash the Catholic Church for anointing THIEVES (with pictures of CONVICTED felon Erap, PLUNDER charged Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Juan Ponce Enrile and Bong Revilla all hearing mass, being anointed or receiving Holy Communion in the company of Catholic bishops). Some pro-Duterte posters compare the mayor to the womanizing hero Jose Rizal and the foul mouthed General Antonio Luna (recently the subject of a blockbuster movie).

Since Facebook is a twenty-four hour activity, Duterte supporters have seized the UNFORTUNATE UTTERANCE and have turn the near-tragedy to a rallying point that would, hopefully, bring in more people who would be spending more time in defending and campaigning for their Presidential candidate. There are still five months till election day in May 2016, this should be enough time to get this INCIDENT out of the way so that the good mayor can again concentrate on more pressing issues like CRIMINALITY, Metro Manila TRAFFIC and NATION BUILDING.

Independent Senatorial candidate Senator Grace Poe was DISQUALIFIED by the Comelec Second Division for failing to hurdle her natural-born citizenship status and her minimum residency of 10 years to run for President.

She has the option to file for an appeal which would be heard by the Comelec en banc. A negative decision for Poe would force her to appeal to the Supreme Court.

The DISQUALIFICATION comes at a bad time after she lost her poll survey lead to Davao Mayor Rodrigo Duterte in a recently concluded study conducted in Metro Manila.

The main effort of Poe would have to be aimed at her name being included in the soon-to-be printed ballots while her appeal is ongoing. There is a provision to put an ASTERISK after her name to mean that a protest is still in process, nevertheless, she can be voted upon BUT still be DISQUALIFIED should the Supreme Court rule against her.

Legal experts believe that on a LEGAL plane Poe does not have a chance to run for President, however, a POLITICAL decision may still come out so the country may have to bear more months of uncertainty. The Supreme Court can DELAY a FINAL DECISION until after the May 2016 elections opting to allow her to win in case she gets the most number of votes under the principle of Vox Populi, Vox Dei (the voice of the people is the voice of God) while they need not make any decision should she lose the elections on the Moot and Academic Principle (meaning there is no point in issuing a decision since she lost anyway).