OPINION on Government links to WORLD BANK issues!!!

[baby_grace]

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Was it not Lacson who started the fire without evidence? He was the one who presented the WB report in bits and pieces. He said he will have other evidence gathered. How can that be now when the WB itself categorically admitted it had no proof whatsoever that the contractors and the First Gentleman were in collusion in performing the irregularities alleged? It's the World Bank we're talking about here. An international entity which cannot be dictated upon. So for those who are thinking that the World Bank was again influenced by Santiago or Enrile, it's better not to make such assumptions. When the WB said there was a controversy, the opposition and critics believed it right away. Now that the WB says it has no proof, the opposition and critics do not believe the WB and assume that something went wrong.

[raphz]

i definitely believe on the WB's statement. Politics here in the phil is full of graft and corruption. and it starts from the highest position, asa pman d i?
FG? dili na angay pangutan-on kung korakot b. buang rang wala kibaw. hahaha!

[omar50071]

i definitely believe on the WB's statement. Politics here in the phil is full of graft and corruption. and it starts from the highest position, asa pman d i?
FG? dili na angay pangutan-on kung korakot b. buang rang wala kibaw. hahaha!

Sakto jud ka bro, buang ra ang wala kibaw, pero unfortunately daghan kaayo dire ang nagpa buang-buang....hahaha...mo dupa jud sa ilahang idol.

[Jerry Michael]

is GMA just letting FG do the dirty work for her? or badlongon ra ni nga husband si FG?

OT sa' ha! disclaimer: joke of d month!

Actually, it's a team effort! A family that steals together, corrupts forever! or vice versa.


"O Panginoong Sataning...bigyan mo po kami ng marami pang pagkakataon na maka kickback...kailangan ni Daddy Pidal ng heart transplant at si Mommy Glo naman ay height augmentation at ke Luli naman ay face transplant...tapos si Mikey at Dato hinde pa natutule....aba, mahal yata iyong German cut procedure 'a...so plis, plis,....Maawa na po' kayo, Sir Lucifer!"...

[ManWhore]

^^ wahehehe! teamwork gyud kaayo, di gyud malalis. ayo kay naa pa sila konsensya noh? simba pa kunuhay. biliba gyud nako oi.

[godwhacker]

Now that the WB says it has no proof, the opposition and critics do not believe the WB and assume that something went wrong.

Obviously, some of the readers here have a poor understanding between hearsay and allegations backed with solid evidence.

[godwhacker]

OT sa' ha! disclaimer: joke of d month!

Actually, it's a team effort! A family that steals together, corrupts forever! or vice versa.


"O Panginoong Sataning...bigyan mo po kami ng marami pang pagkakataon na maka kickback...kailangan ni Daddy Pidal ng heart transplant at si Mommy Glo naman ay height augmentation at ke Luli naman ay face transplant...tapos si Mikey at Dato hinde pa natutule....aba, mahal yata iyong German cut procedure 'a...so plis, plis,....Maawa na po' kayo, Sir Lucifer!"...

I think your joke is libelous. I am waiting for the day that someone who has all the evidence of wrongdoing in his/her hands could nail FG to prison and I, too, would be happy. But until now, no one has ever succeded due to the simple fact that hearsay just won't hold water.

[omar50071]

Hearsay?
A LAW EACH DAY (Keeps Trouble Away) By Jose C. Sison Updated February 16, 2009 12:00 AM

With 60 witnesses interviewed and hundreds of documents gathered to back it up, the WB Department of Institutional Integrity (INT) report on “an institutionalized cartel replete with collusive tendering, bid rigging, price fixing and the routine payment of bribes and kickbacks” regarding the bank funded National Road Improvement and Management Project-1(NRIMP-1) can not just be ignored and set aside until forgotten. Bare denials of culpability and angry denunciations that the report is mere “hearsay”, “absurd” and “ridiculous”, by persons implicated therein will not conclusively end the case. As the INT itself said, it had “direct evidence of fraudulent or corrupt practices such as the submission of fraudulent documents or the payment of bribes derived from admission of participants or the direct testimony of witnesses” and or “circumstantial proof of collusion detected through an analysis of the fraudulent bids submitted by the cartel.” Indeed “hearsay” seems to be the most abused and misused word nowadays as the series of corruption and fraudulent practices are coming out one by one. Both the Congressional investigators and those being investigated indiscriminately use the term without fully realizing its real meaning. Even such reputed high caliber lawyers in the Senate like Miriam Defensor-Santiago and Juan Ponce Enrile have been erroneously using the term just to protect their patron in the Palace.

Hearsay? | The Philippine Star >> News >> Opinion

[godwhacker]

Hearsay?
A LAW EACH DAY (Keeps Trouble Away) By Jose C. Sison Updated February 16, 2009 12:00 AM

With 60 witnesses interviewed and hundreds of documents gathered to back it up, the WB Department of Institutional Integrity (INT) report on “an institutionalized cartel replete with collusive tendering, bid rigging, price fixing and the routine payment of bribes and kickbacks” regarding the bank funded National Road Improvement and Management Project-1(NRIMP-1) can not just be ignored and set aside until forgotten. Bare denials of culpability and angry denunciations that the report is mere “hearsay”, “absurd” and “ridiculous”, by persons implicated therein will not conclusively end the case. As the INT itself said, it had “direct evidence of fraudulent or corrupt practices such as the submission of fraudulent documents or the payment of bribes derived from admission of participants or the direct testimony of witnesses” and or “circumstantial proof of collusion detected through an analysis of the fraudulent bids submitted by the cartel.” Indeed “hearsay” seems to be the most abused and misused word nowadays as the series of corruption and fraudulent practices are coming out one by one. Both the Congressional investigators and those being investigated indiscriminately use the term without fully realizing its real meaning. Even such reputed high caliber lawyers in the Senate like Miriam Defensor-Santiago and Juan Ponce Enrile have been erroneously using the term just to protect their patron in the Palace.

Hearsay? | The Philippine Star >> News >> Opinion

Maybe the writer of this opinion doesn't even know yet that it was the WB itself who admitted it doesn't have the evidence against the alleged perpetrators of this wrongdoing. Pan-os na iyang opinion even if written lately.

[omar50071]

Maybe the writer of this opinion doesn't even know yet that it was the WB itself who admitted it doesn't have the evidence against the alleged perpetrators of this wrongdoing. Pan-os na iyang opinion even if written lately.

Maybe you should at least read all of its content of what he has to say about hearsay.