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US properties of GMA?Concerned Filipinos in the US have submitted the photos of expensive buildings in the US reportedly owned by installed President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
The building above on 1776 Sacramento St. cor. Van Ness St, San Francisco is priced not lower than U$2.5 million according to latest estimates. The one on the left situated on 737 Bush St., San Francisco is estimated to cost a little lower. Said properties were not included in Arroyo's declaration of assets and liabilities. She is being linked to jueteng lord, Bong Pineda, who is still in the US avoiding investigations. Another source told Pinoywatch that there are at least two more properties of Arroyo in the US that are not known to the public.
DIEHARD III Herman Tiu Laurel Manila Times Chavit�s sing-song
"Many opposition people are happy and salivating over the prospects of using the Chavit sing-song for toppling the Erap administration. It may have stoked enough disgust to get more people to march on Edsa again. They�re counting on the Catholic Church to support this (despite the Church�s sing-song, it does not want to see jueteng donations to its local churches end). I�m happy over Chavit�s singsong too, but for another reason - it shows that illegal jueteng is now being flushed out to the open, and those benefiting from its sub rosa operations are now hurting.� - HTL, Oct. 9, 2000.
The grand conspiracy
"The fact is, for the first time in 150 years the illegal jueteng game has been forced to the surface by the Bingo 2-Ball game. For the first time in those 150 years (the farthest I could trace the old game of jueteng de lotteria) the Philippine state and government is formally getting about 25-percent share of the revenues from the heretofore underground game. This is a breakthrough in the campaign to dry up the circulation of underground funding for corruption of government, politics, media and the Church. But I suspect a grand conspiracy to suppress the legalization of jueteng." - HTL, Oct. 13, 2000.
Now that the conspiracy has succeeded in toppling Estrada, jueteng has returned with a vengeance becoming once again the main source of campaign funds for many election candidates.
Bantay-salakay
"The past two days we have explained how these people do their lagaring hapon, i.e. Japanese sawing. It�s an old Filipino adage about one who benefits whichever way a situation goes, just as the Ayala Avenue speculators are doing. As they pounce on the peso to give Estrada and the country this misery, they reap the windfall from the devaluation by buying and hoarding dollars. When the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas raises interest rates on Treasury bills, they buy those bills and double their money. Then they go about sanctimoniously blaming every national economic woe on government." - HTL, Nov.1, 2000.
Even now that Estrada is out of power the peso has remained within the vicinity of 50 to the US dollar debunking allegations that Estrada was the main reason for the fall of the peso.
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Statement by the Executive Committee-Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines Ang Bayan,October 14, 2000
"US imperialism is restive. It is quickly taking steps to stabilize its teetering neocolony and prepare for the further worsening of the crisis. Not long after US diplomats rushed to have a consultation with Gloria Arroyo, she resigned from her cabinet post. If the situation continues to go beyond Estrada's control, we can expect greater US intervention to resolve the political crisis, most likely by forcing Estrada to resign or calling for a snap election."
Without qualms the Communist Party of the Philippines, led by the Netherland-based Joma Sison, joined the destabilization campaign against Estrada and in effect aligned itself with its sworn enemy, the US.
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Ipaglaban ang Kalayaan at Pagkakaisang Pilipino!
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Bakit bumagsak ang piso? Hindi dahil sa isyu ng jueteng. Bago pa man nagwala si Chavit
Singson ay may mga nagkalat na ng mga tsismis sa text at internet tungkol sa anomalya raw ng Bangko Sentral at sa pagkalat ng anila'y bilyong pisong mga pekeng salaping papel sa Baclaran at Divisoria! Sabotahe talaga! Mga interesado sa eleksyon sa 2001 at mga gustong magpabagsak sa gobyerno nagsabwatan! Ang mga burgesyang comprador sa Makati kumita pa! Lumilitaw na pati mga Kano nakialam talaga, lalong-lalo na yung mga may pakulo ng Project Democracy na naglalayong magpabagsak sa mga gobyernong sumasalungat sa Estados Unidos.
Basahin:Rebelyon ng Mahihirap
Ang Pakikialam ng Malalaking Negosyanteng Kano
...What amazed the Europeans present (and my source is A-1) was the categorical statement of Buchanan, to which members of his party nodded assent, and his use of "WHEN Estrada is impeached", not "IF Estrada is impeached." Was Buchanan guilty of bad grammar? It doesn�t appear so. Because somebody at the table followed up his snide remark with the direct query: "Are you sure he is going to be impeached?" To which the US official replied jauntily: "Just wait and see."
... It left the Europeans with their mouths agape that such top-drawer US biggies were talking as though they still called the shots in their 'colony', the Philippines and that, even in the armaments business, the Europeans don�t stand a chance of doing "business" in the Philippines without the participation and support of the Americans...
- Max Soliven, Phil. Star, Oct. 27, 2000
The Western-controlled media is convicting and "demonizing" President Estrada even before the Philippine Senate started its impeachment hearings. The Asian Wall Street Journal raised a non-issue from several years ago alleging that the "new senate president offered him money and a car," insinuating this is connected to the case. The motive for this hostility can be found in The Economist�s Nov. 17 issue charging, among other things, that Estrada has stalled "economic reform" which is their code word for further surrender of the Philippine economy to Western domination.- HTL, Manila Times, 21 Nov. 2000.
"Pinoywatch stands firm on the need to let Erap have his day in court. And if found guilty he should be punished accordingly. This is the only way to show the world that we have a government run by laws. Pinoywatch is against sending Erap to exile by choice or by force. That Erap remains a destabilizing factor to the Arroyo-Macapagal regime is a flimsy reason for the exile proposal."
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The French Secret Service has noted that the destabilization of the Estrada administration by the US started in 1998 during the Philippine-US Summit held in December that year headed by Undersecretary Sonny Conejos of the DND. (Full story.)
Bishop Bacani warned about plot to sacrifice lives to force President Estrada to resign. Was it the Dec. 31 bombings that left a number of people dead?
VICE President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, shown here with leftist stalwarts Satur Ocampo and Crispin Beltran in a public dialogue at St. Theresa's College in Quezon City on Nov. 16, 2000. Ocampo was eyed to replace Horacio Morales as Secretary of Agrarian Reform for the Arroyo administration but a strong opposition from the military and the business sectors would have made his appointment untenable.(Photo by PDI)
"What most alarms a growing number of people (who hate Erap, mind you), though, is her flirtation and that of some of her trusted henchmen with the Radical Left."- Max Soliven, Phil. Star, Nov. 17, 2000
"Bayan and Sanlakas are, in turn, groups that are fiercely vicious toward each other. Both are from the rib of Jose Ma. Sison (CPP-NPA-NDF), but like Cain on Abel would sooner slay the other. They label each other 'reaffirmist' and 'rejectionist', reaffirming ideological support for Sison or rejecting him. One schism is the method of struggle, reaffirming Mao�s armed struggle from the countryside against urban and 'above ground' struggle. Both have been strengthened by the anti-Estrada campaign, with funds from allies like Peping and the Ayalas, and the psychological boost from the coup triumph." (Full Story.)
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Read: The Grand Conspiracy to Wreck the Erap Administration
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President Estrada found support from the poor who wanted him to continue with his anti-poverty program.(Photo by Malaya, Oct. 21, 2000.)
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"The claim that foreign funds� massive exodus due to the political crisis is absolutely false, since foreign funds had already left by the droves in the first six months of the year.'
Herman Tiu Laurel,Manila Times, Oct. 30, 2000
"We could not fault Estrada for going back to his own natural constituency, the "mahihirap" who swept him to victory in 1998.
Class war? It's elementary politics. We are prepared to concede different classes have different political interests. That's no great insight, and certainly not a monopoly of the communists. What we will not concede is the communist position that class interests are irreconciliable, that the fight between the Master and the Slave can only be resolved by the extermination of the former.
" Malaya editorial, Oct. 21, 2000
Who may have committed a treasonous act?
"Erap has indeed learned his lesson from the mistakes of his
predecessors who wanted peace so much that they were
blinded to the opportunism and trickery of the rebels." -
Neal H. Cruz, Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 14, 2000.
FVR practically ceded RP territory to MILF
"During the peace talks with the MILF, the Ramos administration 'acknowledged' or 'recognized' the existence of 46 (repeat 46) 'MILF camps' in Mindanao." - Neal H. Cruz, Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 5, 2000.
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President Estrada with AFP Chief of Staff Gen. Angelo Reyes on his left and PNP Chief Panfilo Lacson on his right.
"NOW that President Estrada has given his go-signal and the much-awaited attack on the Abu Sayyaf has been unleashed, we can only pray that the casualties remain at a minimum and that the hostages are rescued unharmed. It was a hard decision for any commander in chief to make. I can understand the dilemma that faced the President." - Neal Cruz, Phil Daily Inquirer, September 18, 2000
With the success of the above campaign against terrorists, other interest groups that have been wanting the present democratic government to fail were one in exploiting the jueteng issue against President Estrada and the subsequent drive to oust him. The earstwhile leader of the armed partisan Alex Boncayao Brigade, Popoy Lagman, has called not only for the ouster of the President but for the downfall of the 'system' as well. He was joined by the pro-Joma Sison communists and even by the beleaguered Moro Islamic Liberation Front.
Now these groups are pressuring installed President Macapagal-Arroyo to grant them concessions.
Joma loves to think of himself not only as the chief strategist and tactician for the CPP-NPA but even for the legal opposition as well. Not satisfied with that he imagined himself as an adviser to the Federation of Retired Commissioned Officers and Enlisted Soldiers (FORCES) in calling on active military and police personnel to force President Estrada to resign. (Read from CPP-NPA-NDFP site.)
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