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                    [Summary] => I wrote last Monday how, while we were all busy watching Joseph Estrada’s impeachment, MMDA and Presidential Flagship Projects Office pulled a fast one by cooking biddings for the Metro Manila waste program. Well, they did it again – some other guys, this time. While we all weren’t looking, the Asset Privatization Trust tried to sell the foreclosed Philippine National Construction Co. (PNCC) at bargain prices. 


Geez, were they trying to make hay on the few remaining days that the sun is shining on them? It would seem so, from the timing and the amounts involved.

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                    [Title] => Obeying illegal orders - GOTCHA by Jarius Bondoc
                    [Summary] => It may not have been orchestrated. But if there was a common line of questioning by senator-judges and defense lawyers in Joseph Estrada’s impeachment trial, it was on the matter of obeying illegal orders. 


Miriam Santiago tried to elicit such a confession from Roberto Lastimoso when she asked why he let illegal jueteng operations proliferate during his tenure as PNP chief. "I only followed orders from the President," Lastimoso replied matter-of- factly. 


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                    [Title] => Erap has the offensive, or so he thinks - GOTCHA  by Jarius Bondoc
                    [Summary] => A general knows he has lost the war when his officers start deluding themselves with imagined battle victories. But what if the general himself is busy gloating?


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                    [Title] => Would you go to jail for Erap? - GOTCHA by Jarius Bondoc
                    [Summary] => As he spins an alibi on Jueteng-gate, Joseph Estrada is incriminating his own kin, pals and aides. He portrays himself in continuing radio and press interviews as the unsullied hero, while everyone else around him is tainted one way or another by jueteng payola and criminal negligence. He typecast a movie in his mind: Brother-in-law Raul de Guzman, personal lawyer Edward Serapio, PNP chief Panfilo Lacson – they, among many others, are the ones responsible for abetting jueteng, receiving protection money, or at the very least failing to report crime.
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                    [Title] => Port workers, users march vs. cronyism - Gotcha
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If Manila's city officials stand accused of selling two public roads to a mall
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lot along Pearl Drive collects parking fees on sidewalks. He does it round the
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Either he's too stupid to understand what he's blabbering about, or he's too
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What else to make of Joseph Estrada's reaction to surveys that show his net
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"Popularity doesn't matter, it's performance that does," he brushed off the
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lot along Pearl Drive collects parking fees on sidewalks. He does it round the
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Again while we weren’t looking - GOTCHA by Jarius Bondoc

December 27, 2000 - 12:00am

I wrote last Monday how, while we were all busy watching Joseph Estrada’s impeachment, MMDA and Presidential Flagship Projects Office pulled a fast one by cooking biddings for the Metro Manila waste program....

Opinion

Obeying illegal orders - GOTCHA by Jarius Bondoc

December 13, 2000 - 12:00am

It may not have been orchestrated. But if there was a common line of questioning by senator-judges and defense lawyers in Joseph Estrada’s impeachment trial, it...

Opinion

Erap has the offensive, or so he thinks - GOTCHA by Jarius Bondoc

November 25, 2000 - 12:00am

A general knows he has lost the war when his officers start deluding themselves with imagined battle victories. But what if the general himself is busy gloating?

Opinion

Would you go to jail for Erap? - GOTCHA by Jarius Bondoc

November 15, 2000 - 12:00am

As he spins an alibi on Jueteng-gate, Joseph Estrada is incriminating his own kin, pals and aides. He portrays himself in continuing radio and press interviews as the unsullied hero, while everyone else around him...

Opinion

Port workers, users march vs. cronyism - Gotcha

By Jarius Bondoc | April 12, 2000 - 12:00am

If Manila's city officials stand accused of selling two public roads to a mall owner, what do you make of this? In Pasig, the owner of a building and a vacant lot along Pearl Drive collects parking fees on sidewalks....

Opinion

They talk too much - Gotcha

By Jarius Bondoc | April 3, 2000 - 12:00am

Either he's too stupid to understand what he's blabbering about, or he's too smart he knows his blabbering is all his audience understands. What else to make of Joseph Estrada's reaction to surveys that show...

Opinion