Dennis Garcia’s Facebook wall carried this news item from today’s issue of The Daily Telegraph. A 2004 article in the Sun-Herald gave an interesting background on Analisa’s mother, Evelin, and the awesome money that Marcos gifted her. The article tells us how much money were taken away from us. Just imagine if those money were used for the Filipino people.
Ferdinand Marcos’ girl is shown the door
That’s what Bondi designer Analisa Hegyesi – an Australian-based daughter of former Philippines leader Ferdinand Marcos- says she was told when production company Shine Australia rang her on Monday to say she was no longer part of its planned Renovators show.
The Channel 10 series starts filming next week, with a team of professionals locked down in an apartment block and taken to various properties to make them over.
Hegyesi told us she made it to the final cut after months of auditions and interviews – but was dumped after she mentioned who her father was to producers last week.
“The thing is that I’ve had to juggle my business and clients to make time for the show after I was asked to audition and was then chosen from hundreds of people around Australia,” she told The Daily Telegraph yesterday.
“I was chosen on my own merits but then I was dropped due to aspects of my private life which I will not discuss.
“I was told there was a fear, too, attention would be paid to me and not the show and other contestants.”
A Shine insider told the Telegraph that staff thought it was harsh to drop her for “the sins of her father” who ruled the Philippines from 1965 to 1986 before he was deposed in a people’s revolution.
“A lot of people think it’s really unfair,” the source said.
Hegyesi was born in Australia to her mother Evelin, a former Sydney swimwear model.
A Ten spokeswoman claimed Hegyesi’s ejection was routine.
“Casting has not been finalised and we are still speaking to a number of different people,” she said.
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This brings back to mind a 2004 article, also in the SMH, on Hegyesi’s Marcos connection:
Hunt for tyrant’s millions leads to former model’s home
EXCLUSIVE | By Frank Walker
July 4, 2004
The Sun-Herald
A former Sydney swimwear model is at the centre of renewed attempts to locate millions of dollars sent out of the Philippines by former dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
Evelin Hegyesi, who modelled mink bikinis in the 1970s and once graced the pages of Playboy magazine, is now a 57-year-old eastern suburbs multimillionaire with a waterfront Point Piper mansion and several investment companies.
She also has a Eurasian daughter, Analisa, now living with Dean Fleming, son of the wealthy racing and fruit markets family worth $270 million.
An international investigation over several weeks by The Sun-Herald has uncovered documents that show that some of Ms Hegyesi’s Australian companies have financial links with secret Marcos accounts kept in Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
They have come to light after Swiss authorities lifted the country’s notoriously strict bank secrecy laws, allowing investigators access to secret bank records of the dictator, who died in 1989.
The Sun-Herald last night revealed the contents of a dossier on the Australian link to the Marcos money to the Philippines authority charged with chasing the $10 billion the late dictator stole from his country.
A spokesman for the Presidential Commission on Good Government (PCGG) said they would examine the material: “Our mandate is to pursue the money Marcos stole, wherever it may lead us.”
The Sun-Herald has obtained a series of Swiss court judgements which detail the 18-year search for billions of dollars Marcos salted away before he was deposed in 1986.
Buried deep in a maze of documents is a reference to a mysterious Sydney link. The documents show that, in 1971, soon after Ms Hegyesi had a baby daughter, then president Marcos signed papers that made Ms Hegyesi’s company, Austraphil Pty Ltd, the “sole and only beneficiary” of one of his secret accounts.
It was called Azio Foundation.
Australian company searches revealed Ms Hegyesi had set up Austraphil just one year earlier on October 14, 1970. She was 23 years old and three months pregnant at the time.
In February 1971 Austraphil bought a five-bedroom mansion in Sydney’s most expensive area, Wyuna Road, Point Piper, for $210,000 (about $1.8 million in today’s money).
Land title papers and annual reports show Austraphil had a loan of $250,000 (about $2 million in today’s money) from a Swiss firm called Finanz AG of Zurich. Finanz AG was a subsidiary of the Swiss SKA Bank, now called Credit Suisse. This was the main bank used by Marcos as the front for his Swiss secret accounts.
Marcos had many of his secret accounts at SKA, including “foundations” dubbed Azio, Charis, Avertina, Vibur and Valamo.
The court investigation, which was heard at Die Bezirksanwaltschaft, Zurich, found millions of dollars came from illegal sources. It revealed Finanz AG Zurich was frequently used by Marcos to distribute money from his personal accounts so it could not be traced.
Marcos set up Azio on June 21, 1971, with 100,000 Swiss francs – about $1.8 million in today’s money. Swiss court documents show that, on November 12, 1971, Marcos signed documents making Austraphil the sole beneficiary of his Azio Foundation.
That lasted a year until December 4, 1972, when Marcos changed the Azio beneficiary to another of his foundations called Charis. Bank records disappeared after this point.
Court papers show that Marcos siphoned $US23 million ($169 million in today’s money) from Japan’s war reparations into Charis. There is no suggestion Ms Hegyesi would have been aware of these transactions.
She paid off the loan to buy the Point Piper mansion in 1976, transferring ownership to her own name. She sold the mansion in 1999 for $6.2 million, moving to a waterfront apartment she bought for $1.48 million.
Australian listings show Ms Hegyesi set up several companies over the following years.
In April 1972 she set up Australasia Trading and Investment Corporation. In August 1973 she set up Lima Investments, which had Austraphil as a major shareholder. Annual reports show Finanz AG lent Lima $100,000 ($800,000 in today’s money) as an unsecured loan. Lima invested in a West Australian cattle property called Drysdale River Station.
Court documents show that, between 1982 and 1985, Marcos’s Vibur Foundation sent several transfers totalling $US200,000 ($700,000 in today’s money) to Credit Suisse Hong Kong marked “Vienna/Sydney”.
The court documents maintain: “This money was obviously destined for Evelin Hegyesi in Sydney and Anita Langheinz in Vienna.”
The court documents also said that in 1982 there were several payments from Marcos’s Vibur Foundation to an account at the Bank of NSW (now known as Westpac).
“As shown in the ongoing instructions, there were regular transfers of money which obviously went to Evelin Hegyesi,” the court concluded.
“The same Vibur Foundation account paid some administrative costs and payments in Australian dollars to the SKA bank subsidiary Finanz AG,” the court found.
The former model lived for more than 30 years on the ritziest peninsula in Sydney. She made millions from property deals but managed to keep a low profile among the eastern suburbs social set.
She made many trips back to southern Germany, where she was born. She had come to Australia in the late 1940s when she was just two years old with her Hungarian-born parents, Theresa and Anton.
It is not clear how she came to be connected with Marcos in 1970. But something happened that prompted the president to assign one of his secret Swiss bank accounts to her new company, Austraphil.
While her mother eschewed parties, daughter Analisa is described by social writers as “exotic”, “vivacious” and “flamboyant”, with a super-curvy body.
She and her partner bought a $4.5 million four-bedroom waterfront mansion on the end of Darling Point and last year they had a baby girl, Tahni.
Ms Hegyesi was not at her apartment last week and did not return messages and letters forwarded by friends and colleagues.
Doesn’t he have another “love child” that goes by the family name Ortega, who was a student in UP, sired with a woman from the north first named Carmen?
I’ve heard a lot of stories about him.
Teka, palakihan ko lang ang fonts at ng matsismis ng korek 🙂
Huli ako sa balita na to, meron palang ganda-gandang anak si Makoy na aussie! Sino nanay, hindi ako makahintay sa ID. 🙂
The above articles make us recall unpleasant discoveries which we have almost forgotten.
It boggles my mind reading the amount they have taken away from the Filipino people.
Ang ganda naman niya. Ngayon ko lang nalaman na may anak si Marcos sa labas. Akala ko kay Madam Imelda Marcos lang siya may anak.
Ayun, si Evelin, a former Sydney swimwear model yung nanay!
#5. Ellen, mas malaki yata ang nakulimbat kesa sa reported amount.
Nakakalula yung perang iniwan ni Marcos sa kanya,no/
Nalulula ako sa bilyunes na sinasabi dito sa article…hindi arok ng calculator kung gaano kalaki!
Ellen nangingilabot ako sa laki ng perang naitakas ni Apo, parang infinite na numero sa utak ko!
Hindi kaya maghabol ang siblings na Marcos? Parang sobrtang laki ang pamana ng tatay sa anak na aussie kesa sa iniwan sa kanila. Sabagay, I don’t have figures kong magkano ang itinatago ng mag-iinang Marcos to compare with.
Bloody Hell! Mukhang balak ni Apo na magretiro sa Australia kasama ng ikalawang pamilya. Dun nya binunton ang nakaw na yaman e! 🙂
Kalingkingan lang itong kay Evelin compared to the alleged $10 to $15 billion for Imelda and their children.
Just imagine if those money were spent for the Filipino people.
Singapore na raw sana ang PH sabi ni Sen. Bongbong kung hindi naalis si marcos. hehehhe An tindi nyo.
Hindi makaila na anak ni Apo, kamukha ng magkakapatid na Marcos.
#14. Kalingkingan pa yan?! OMG!!! No wonder napakahirap umusad ang pinoy!
#15. @Baguneta, hahaha! Susmalosep!!!
Parang kahawig ni Ilocos Norte Gov. Imee Marcos.
Holyshit! Never heard of this one!
Don’t forget Dovie Beams. 😛
There is an audio tape that was being circulated before of FM making love to Dovie Beams. What’s so funny was that the Ex-Prez was singing an Ilocano song while doing it with her. Hahahaha 😛
Some were saying it was Dovie Beams herself who recorded it. The intention was not clear though. Maybe to blackmail him??? 🙂
I first read the story in The Noisy Minority in FB. She’s pretty, ‘no? I am more familiar with the husband, though.
Dean (not Dan) Fleming is known to horse racing afficionados as the proud owner/breeder of superhorse Rocket Man, who just won last Saturday’s Dubai Gold Cup, which is probably the richest race in history, so far at $2M along with Emirs, Sultans, Kings pitting their best entries, Fleming’s Rocket Man outclassed them all. Sperm of horses like these fetch around $50,000 a drop.
The Dubai racecourse is the most expensive in the world and was featured in NatGeo’s Superstructures. The owners’ all-glass lounge is very private and appears to be hanging from the ceiling, the price is waaay beyond the 7-star hotel suite you can find also in Dubai. A room in the suite can cost up to $200,000 a night! WOW! Surely, only the likes of Makoy can afford those.
Thanks for the correction, Tongue.
Lalo akong nalula.
# 22
Tongue, kaya pala mga mamamayan sa Middle East ay naghuhurumintado at gustong mag aklas (people’s power) o nagaaklas na. Mantakin mo, yung pera ng bayan pinupusta lang sa karera ng mga sultan at hari. Pwede kaya mag side-bet? 😛
Pag nabasa ni Madam itong article na ‘to baka itapon sa ilog yung bangkay ni FM imbes na pinagpipilitang ilibing sa Libingan ng mga bayani. 😛
Another popular Fleming superhorse, Black Caviar, won its 11th straight win from down under. Many consider Black Caviar as the world’s best horse today.
#26. hahaha! pero siguradong alam ni madam yan! Malay mo baka kaya hindi pinalilibing ang asawa ay dinuduraan kung gabi! Sori poh, hehehe!
Yikes, hindi mamatay-matay si Marcos! But in fairness, I don’t blame the children for the sins of their father (ang mother). I treat their performance as public servants objectively as individuals.
@Mike (#22) Hindi lang yan ang kinalolokohan ng mga Arab royalty. Yung falcon hunting kung saan bumibili sila ng peregrine o saker falcons at tine-train para mang-hunting ng isang very rare desert bird – yung Houbara Bustard na malapit ng maging extinct dahil sa overhunting. Ang permit to hunt ay umaabot ng $2,500 per season, sisiw lang sa mga prinsipe pero yung falcon mismo umaabot ang presyo hanggang $600,000 ang isa. Napanood ko naman ito sa Discovery Channel, merong isang ospital sa UAE para sa mga falcons lamang at ang vet ay isang German na babae.
Napakamahal para sa isang ibong manghuhuli ng kapwa ibon. Yung Houbara Bustard ay mukhang pheasant na meron daw aphrodisiac effects. Siyempre naman kailangan yan lalo pag isang dosenang Europeans ang asawa mo, o kaya’y naghahanda ka para sa iyong 72 virgins.
Sad. I can’t imagine how many of them and exactly how much have been stolen by all these corrupt people for the last 40 something years. I wonder what these people say when they pray if they prayed at all. Probably not since perhaps money and power have become their gods.
# 30
Tongue, sana may lumanding na ganung klaseng falcon sa bakuran namin. Kahit ibenta ko lang ng kalahati.. US$ 300K pwede na. Kumbaga sa bentahan ng 2nd hand cars dito sa atin eh “fast-break” o mabilisan para cash agad. 😛
Mantakin mo, yung pera ng bayan pinupusta lang sa karera ng mga sultan at hari. Pwede kaya mag side-bet?
Kaya nga very private yung owners’ lounge kasi dito nagaganap yung mas malaking pustahan. Gasino na yung $2M na premyo nung stakes race. Galing lang yun sa kinita sa tickets at sponsors. Magagalit nga talaga ang taumbayan dahil di naman nagbabago ang buhay nila tapos yung mga prinsipe, sultan, hari, emir itinatapon lang ang kwarta kung saan-saan.
Sa Dubai ka rin lang makakakita ng sportscar na studded ng Swarovski diamonds, private yacht na Hermes ang brand na kapresyo na ng luxury liner, golf course at giant swimming pool sa gitna ng disyerto, ice skiing course with authentic snow falling on you at marami pang iba.
Tongue, sana may lumanding na ganung klaseng falcon sa bakuran namin. Kahit ibenta ko lang ng kalahati..
Ako naman kahit kalahati lang ng 72 virgins, payag na ko, ngek. Erase, erase. 36 virgins na lang para mas malinaw. baka lumanding sa bakuran ko e 72 na mananaggal na nahahati ang katawan.
*manananggal
Marcos, Ramos, Cimatu, Villanueva, Ligot, Garcia puro Ilokano ang mga iyan. Pagsamasamahin mo ang mga nakurakot puwede ng bilhin ang inyong Bansa. 🙂
Kahawig nga ni Imee…heh,heh,heh.
Maraming nakapangalan talaga sa mga nakaw na kayamanan ng mga Marcoses but it will be very difficult to recover these after all these years. Those who were made as dummies do not want to let go of the assets. May konting alam ako sa mga ito but it is hard to come up with hard facts. Hindi katulad ng mga Ligots na nagpagamit sa mga nakatataas sa kanila and used their names. Karamihan ng mga assets ng mga Marcos eh nasa LLCs na and if incorporated in Delaware, mahirap mong ma-trace ang mga may-ari. Dito palagay ko marami ring naitago si tabako at si putot.
Hahaha!
Ilibing na ninyo si makoy sa libingan ng mga bayani.
Mahirap palang “malibing” sa Libingan ng mga Bayani, Maraming “singaw-na-nabubuksan”,.i.e…bakit pa kasi pinipilit ilibing doon ???..katulad ng “Bargaining” na ginawa ni Garcia, naglabasan tuloy ang mga “bulok-singaw”, damay si Ombudsman, may nag-“harakiri”, nag-gulo ang kamara at Senado, pati lakad ni PNOY lalong yatang, nag-kaliko-liko ang landas..Si Binay tuloy-tuloy nagiging “Bayani”, at si Mar Roxas pinundi-nasira sa diskarte sa TAiwan..tsktsktsk!.
Saan ba talaga patutungo ang Pilipinas ?…lalo na siguro kung tamaan pa ng kalamidad, na katulad sa Japan, baka sa halip na PINAS ay “Punas na”, zero….2012 !..Ano kaya kung pamunuan ng mga “bloggers” ng magiting na Ellen, ang pagbabago, at nandiyan naman ang “Magdalo” reformed na mga sundalo ?…
marami palang binhi na sinabog sa buong mundo si Ferdie…is that why he is a hero? isang bayani? ay naku!
Philandering dictator added Hollywood star to conquests
By Frank Walker
July 4, 2004
The Sun-Herald
Ferdinand Marcos was a notorious philanderer. He had many affairs and is reputed to have 17 illegitimate children.
Early in 1970, a huge scandal hit the Philippines over the stormy break-up between Marcos and his mistress of two years, Hollywood starlet Dovie Beams.
Beams, a busty, C-grade actor from Nashville, was to star as the romantic interest in a movie about the life of the Philippine president.
The movie was part of CIA-funded propaganda to portray Marcos as a war hero who fought the Japanese from the jungle. This story was a lie, but Marcos decided to turn the romance into reality and Beams became his mistress.
Beams was the latest in a long line of mistresses and – with just one cheap western to her name – the first Hollywood actor.
The CIA was happy and Beams managed to hide a tape recorder under the bed to record their pillow talk.
But in January, 1970, Marcos tired of Beams, who
then threatened to sell love letters and tapes to the press.
Marcos’s wife Imelda threatened to kill her and the actor fled to the US embassy which bustled her onto the first plane out of the country.
Dinah, thanks for the article. Sus, naku ay si Apo talaga ang lakas ng libido. 🙂
Di ba halos lahat ng hari ay may harem? Feeling “king” si Ferdie at the prime of his rule kaya siguro marami siyang naging “chicks”. For him too, that was his way to hide his wealth. Halos lahat ng naging chicks niya binilhan niya ng bahay at ng business and bank accounts para pagtaguan niya ng mga pera niya. Yan ang masama sa matagal na nasa pwesto ng pagiging lider, marunong magnakaw sa malaunan.
Hanggang ngayon, “Idol” ng maraming opisyales natin si Macoy. Nagbabalatkayong maamong tupa, magnanakaw ng kaban ng bayan din pala. Lintik, malakas ang impluwensiya ni Macoy.
100 years from now, ganito pa rin kaya ang mga namumuno sa ating bansa? “bayan ko, binihag ka (ng mga magnanakaw), nasadlak sa lupa”.
Manmanan ang Tuwid na Landas ni PNOY.
Wala pa ring tatalo kay Macoy!
Walang sinabi ang mga chicks nila ni Ramos (ngek), Erap, pati yung kay Pnoy din, iba talaga standards ni Macoy.
Kaya pala maraming gustong maging presidente?
Si Gloria kaya? 🙂
jug, alam kung nagbibiro ka lang sa paghanga kay marcos.
pera ng bayan ang ginamit niya para makakuha ng mga babae.
jug, bakit “ngek” ang chick ni Ramos,kilala mo? 🙂
chi, hindi ako nagagandahan kay baby arenas kahit kailan.
dinah, hindi ako tagahanga ni macoy. wala na lang akong pwedeng maging reaction pagkatapos kong malula sa laki ng nakulimbat niya. eh, hindi na yata kailangang magpadala pa ng mga police officials para mag aral ng “money laundering” sa interpol abroad eh, mas marami yata tayong “experts” dito?
talaga naman, paano nga tayo naging Singapore niyan?
Lee Kuan Yew speaks about the Philippines below…
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There are three things which Lee believes have hampered Philippine progress. First, the traditional power elite who have a detached attitude towards the sufferings of the masses, similar to the mestizo hacienderos of other former Spanish colonies in Latin America. Another obstacle to progress is overpopulation due to the Catholic Church opposition to birth control, which aggravates the poverty crisis. A third obstacle to progress is what Lee describes as “a soft, forgiving culture.” His example of this is the case of the Marcoses, who had been accused of pillaging the nation for 20 years, but they are now back. Lee is even puzzled that the late General Fabian Ver was given by the Estrada government military honors at his burial.
This Singaporean statesman laments that many political and other troubles have hampered Philippine economic progress. He writes: “This was a pity because they had so many able people, educated in the Philippines and the US. Their workers were English-speaking, at least in Manila. There was no reason why the Philippines should not have been one of the more successful ASEAN countries. In the 1950s and 1960s, it was the most developed, because America had been generous in rehabilitating the country after the war… Some Filipinos write and speak with passion. If they could get their elite to share their sentiments, what could they not have achieved?”
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read more…
http://leeharry.blogspot.com/2007/09/how-lee-kuan-yew-made-singapore-asias.html
Oo nga, soft forgiving culture, si Reyes nga heor’s burial din, baka si Marcos na rin?
Take a look at his opinion of the catholic church.
Jug di ba si Nani Perez ang isa sa kanila? Lately ang palagi niyang kasama ay si Mike Defensor. Batang bata…heh,heh,heh. Marami daw yan.Yung gusto niya nakukuha niya…nuon na may power pa siya. Ngayon magtiyaga siya kay fatso…heh,heh,heh at kay bingot.
I am not surprised of this news that former Pres. Ferdinand E. Marcos has child outside, although he was really clever in covering up this news to surface & its only now several decades past. What is important is we could ecover back the money that were supposed to be for the filipino people. If only this hidden huge wealth, including the swiss gold deposits,etc. of the Marcoses be back in our government coffers then it could at least help our economy going. Indeed, our country is not POOR…
I am disappointed though at Senator Trillanes.
He is in favor of burying Marcos sa Libingan ng mga Bayani. Trillanes last Sunday cited a policy of the Department of National Defense that a soldier is entitled to be buried at the heroes’ cemetery.
The same policy, he said, was the same used to justify the burial there of Angelo Reyes, who he constantly vilified when he launched the failed coup attempts against then-President Gloria Arroyo.
Trillanes says to be consistent, we should allow the former President to be buried there. It’s time we move on. Let us get it over and done with so we can unite and move forward, he said.
In my opinion, Reyes’ case is different than Marcos’. Reyes was not yet charged and found guilty. Marcos was kicked out of the country for his atrocities. That’s worse.
This “let’s move on” thing is illogical. So we just let go of Merceditas, Gloria, the whole caboodle? Because we have to move on?
if the money comes from marcos who then represented the people, then it is the phil govt who must be very interested in this story. i am not a lawyer but there must be a way to get justice for the pinoys.
Kaya sobrang galit at selos at gustong papatayin ni Madam si Dovie Beams ay nung mapakinggan nya ang sex audio tape ni FM at ni Dovie. Sabi ni Madam: “Why did Ferdie sang a lovely Ilocano song while doing it with Dovie, samantalang kami when we were doing it he always sang ‘May bagong silang, may bago ng buhay. Bagong bansa…’? That’s unfair!”
😛
juggernaut – March 31, 2011 11:00 am
chi, hindi ako nagagandahan kay baby arenas kahit kailan.
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Si Kabuki pala ang sinasabi mo. 🙂 I first heard that word when a group of veteran newsmen were playing majong. Until now, I still don’t know if BabyA was called kabuki because her complexion is snowlike or she’s made up like Rosebud. 🙂
“Sa Kabuki-ran… doon manirahan…”, malawak ang kabuki-ran ni BabyA sa Pangasinan, sa may Malasiqui road going to Villasis. Malawak na taniman ng mangga.
Ooops sister rose, the fraciscans, na revised na pala ang lyrics, “sa Kabuki-ran… doon nag-tirahan…”
kawawa at masuerting bata?..anak siya sa pue-ra pero billiones ang kanyang pera..I hope she would use the money to help the poor children in the Phil. who could have received kahit isang kusing of it..had it not been stolen..if she wants to make a difference..this is an opportunity for her…to help the millions of poor children in the Phil…what sayest thou Analisa? wala kang kasalanan but the money given to you was stolen from the people of the Phil…help the poor children in the Phil..wala rin silang kasalanan na hindi sila naka tanggap ng tulong ng bayan via the then president who accidentally happened to be your father…make a difference..anak ka nga ng tatay mo pero hindi ka naman greedy at magnanakaw or are you?
hindi ba sa The Fort nakatira ngayon si Bebe? sa Essensa Two?
abc: am I the rose that you refer to? Yes, St. Francis is my model..pero hindi go gets ang ibig mong sabihin..anong lyrics? please share so I would also know…salamat! incidentally, Sa Kakabukiran is a beautiful song..and once you have a taste of living sa isang bukid (farm) you will have a taste of heaven..kung ang mga simpleng tao ang mga kapit bahay mo…life is worth living…
..ang lyrics I refer to “make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred let me bring love; where there is doubt faith….where there is injury pardon ..it is in giving that we receive etc. this is the prayer attributed to St. Francis of Asisi..
the father of francis of asisi disavowed him because he gave to the poor the family’s wealth. is anybody willing to do so today, maybe rose?
Suggestion lang, dapat, tumahimik na lang muna yong anak sa Senado, para huwag maglabasan ang mga “Singaw-Bulok” na ginawa noon…pwede siguro, mga 3-henerasyon pa,..limot na ng panahon,..huwag ngayon,..buking-na-buking..
Isasabog sana sa boung mundo-Pilipinas ang lahi. Pati ba naman sa kaisipang ito, may elementong “GREED-Selfserving”,ala Libya na nga ?..
Salamat sa mga Aquino Family, kung wala sa kanila, baka hanggan ngayon, wala pa itong “bloggers ni Sis. Ellen”. Nakabusal lahat ang kalayaan. Isang kalayaan lamang, ang magnakaw sila ki Juan de la Cruz.
Wala kang dapat ipagpasalamat sa Aquino Family, Rudolfo. Kung meron man, sa taumbayan lang.
Mula kay Aguinaldo hanggang kay Marcos, pagsamasamahin mo ang budget ng Pilipinas, triplehin mo ay kulang pa sa P1.3Trillion na ginastos nung panahon ni Cory at ang gantimpala? Limang Flyover sa EDSA at kalahating araw na brownouts araw-araw.
Budget ni Makoy – P42B nung paalis na, sabihin na nating pareho na yun nung nakaraang 20 taon niya = P840B. Ano’ng iniwan niya sa Pinas? Hindi ko na ililista, masyadong mahaba ang listahan.
P840B vs. P1.3T
Sandamukal na projects vs. limang flyover.
Mukhang hindi malinaw kung sino ang talagang nagnakaw.
Thanks, but no thanks.
Tongue, I agree with you. Pinaka marami pa ring nagawang infrastructures si Ferdie kahit na pagsamasamahin mo ang lahat ng presidente before and after him. Nagnakaw man siya kahit papaano may mga naitayo siya para sa bansa. Yung mga iba “lip service” lang. Ayaw ko lang ang human rights record niya and I know that if Ferdie knew what his generals and Imelda were doing in the last years of his very sickly life, he probably could have done something about it.
I believe that history will finally judge him kindly.
The younger generation now do not know a thing about what Marcos did for the country. They just read the washed version of his reign. But for all of us who were able to discern the difference, we are more objective.
Nuong panahon ni Ferdie ang mga contractors hindi magnanakaw. Ngayon, lahat ng ginagawa nilang mga roads and bridges ay mahihina. Dyan din kumikita ang mga local officials dahil paulit ulit na nasa budget nila ang pagpapagawa ng mga ito. Infrastructure projects are the center of BIG CORRUPTION for everybody involved in the projects.
“Nuong panahon ni Ferdie ang mga contractors hindi magnanakaw.” – parasabayan
kabaliktaran sa sinasabi mo, sa panahon ni makoy naging talamak ang ganitong raket. yan ang ‘legacy’ ni makoy.
“Budget ni Makoy – P42B nung paalis na, sabihin na nating pareho na yun nung nakaraang 20 taon niya = P840B. Ano’ng iniwan niya sa Pinas? Hindi ko na ililista, masyadong mahaba ang listahan.” – tongue
napakababaw na argumento. andiyan na nga ang pruweba. nakaw na yaman. ilang taon si marcos nakaupo? magkano ang palitan ng dolyar nuong una siyang maupo at hindi na umalis? magkano ang piso kumpara sa singapore dollar? nasaan na ang singapore ngayon? pasalamat ka sa mga taong nagpatalsik kay makoy. sa panahong ito, kung si makoy ang nakaupo, tameme na sana tayo sa pagbatikos sa pamahalaan.
sa panahon ni makoy nag-umpisa ang mga kaso na tulad ng nangyari kay Jonas Burgos.
“Nuong panahon ni Ferdie ang mga contractors hindi magnanakaw.” – parasabayan
“Ferdinand Marcos and his wife, Imelda, probably surpassed all other politicians at fiscal manipulation, economic favoritism and ‘cooking the books’ to enable themselves, their friends and their relatives to steal from the Filipino people,” Patricia Adams, executive director of Toronto-based think tank Probe International, said in a paper, “Odious Debts: Loose Lending, Corruption and the Third World’s Environmental Legacy.”
When Marcos became president in 1966, the Philippines’ debts stood at just under one billion dollars. When he fled the country in 1986, that figure had soared to over 28 billion dollars.
The Marcos story would have had a happy ending had all the debts his government incurred went to spurring growth and lifting the population out of poverty. Had that happened, the Philippines would probably be now rivaling Singapore as Southeast Asia’s most advanced and most prosperous country.
It is difficult to ascertain how much the Marcoses stole because most of the money were deposited in countries with strong secrecy laws, but few dispute the 10-billion-dollar estimate of the Presidential Commission on Good Government.
One of the biggest of the Marcos administration’s “odious” debts was the 2.3 billion dollars (119 billion pesos) worth of loans it got to build the Bataan nuclear power plant.
Since construction began in 1977, the government has spent more than 1.2 billion pesos paying for the power plant. Each Filipino taxpayer is now paying over 170,000 dollars a day in interest to an obligation that now accounts for 10 percent of the country’s total debts. The national treasurer estimates that taxpayers will have to shoulder another 282 million dollars until the loans are settled in 2018.
Despite this expenditure, the plant has never produced a single watt of electricity. It was declared unsafe and inoperable by a team of international inspectors after Marcos’ downfall in 1986. The ill-conceived plant stands just 100 kilometers from Metro Manila, near several earthquake fault lines and at the foot of a dormant volcano.
From the start, the project, which cost three times the price of a comparable plant in South Korea, was plagued by allegations of corruption. Originally estimated at 500 million dollars for two reactors, the entire project ended up costing 2.8 billion dollars for a single reactor, the cost largely padded by commissions that Marcos and his cronies allegedly received.
According to a 1986 New York Times investigation, Marcos allegedly received around 80 million dollars in commissions, through a crony, from Westinghouse Corp., whose winning bid was much more expensive than a proposal from General Electric Corp., which the head of the National Power Corp. recommended.
Marcos was told by one of his ministers that his government, at the price Westinghouse quoted, bought “one reactor for the price of two,” yet the transaction pushed through. Marcos overruled his own panel’s choice in favor of the much more expensive reactor before Westinghouse had even submitted a detailed bid.
The Marcos crony who arranged the deal, Herminio Disini, was awarded several lucrative contracts associated with the power plant, went on to live in a castle near Vienna.
Westinghouse acknowledged paying a commission to a Marcos associate but said “allegations of illicitly inflated costs at its nuclear power plant in the Philippines are completely without merit.”
According to the lawyer and a banker who negotiated the deal, Disini received payments through a variety of channels.
The best contracts went to Disini’s companies, many of them new and inexperienced in the nuclear reactor business. According to documents left behind in the presidential Palace, Marcos also had an interest in Disini’s companies.
In one case, Westinghouse helped Disini acquire Asian Industries, its distributorship in the Philippines, with commissions paid to the company for Disini’s benefit. In another contract, Disini set up a construction company that was soon named chief contractor for building the reactor. In a third instance, a small insurance company owned by Disini was awarded a 688-million-dollar policy on the nuclear plant, the largest ever written in the Philippines.
And finally, Disini received most of his money through a Swiss subsidiary of Westinghouse, which had set up another entity–Westinghouse International Projects Co.–solely to handle the Philippine reactor.
According to a New York Times investigation: “The reason for the complex arrangement with the Swiss concern was that Westinghouse couldn’t pay fees directly to Disini without risking charges of bribery under various United States fraud laws or laws requiring corporate disclosure. But there were no similar restrictions in Switzerland.”
The banker who represented Disini in the transaction explained that a special Swiss fund dispensed the money to Disini, Marcos and one or two of Disini’s employees, and that Marcos was to receive 95 percent of the fee. “After all, it was Marcos’ deal; Disini was just a conduit.”
To see the project through, Westinghouse and Marcos had to deflect growing concerns about the safety of the plant, which was sited at the foot of a volcano, in the middle of the Pacific “fire rim” earthquake zone of high seismic activity.
The International Atomic Energy Agency, the international promoter for the nuclear power industry, termed the site “unique to the nuclear industry” and considered the risk of a future volcanic eruption “credible.”
The Philippine Atomic Energy Commission, who refused to give the plant–already under construction–a construction permit, was also nervous. Finally, after much wining and dining by Westinghouse and pressure plied by the energy minister, and just one week after the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Librado Ibe, the head of the commission, issued the permit and then moved to the United States.
As he explained to Fortune magazine, it was unsafe to resist Marcos’ lieutenants for too long.
Marcos could not have accumulated his offshore estate had he restricted his means.
Hardly any government institutions were beyond his power: where none existed to serve his interest, he created them.
“Corruption was centralized as never before and was, thus, carried on more efficiently,” an independent Filipino research team learned. “Vast legislative powers Marcos accorded himself through Proclamation No. 1081 placed him in a vantage position to spot lucrative deals, then wheel and deal through his cronies who also held important government posts.”
The government-owned Philippine National Oil Co. was also placed at the service of Marcos and of his energy minister, Geronimo Velasco, who is believed to have siphoned off millions of dollars in illegal kickbacks and rebates from the company.
Velasco, according to the head of the Commission on Audit set up by the Aquino administration, “took a staggering amount. We really don’t know how much it was, or how much went to Marcos, because for all these years, PNOC was never audited.”
Recently, the 17-million-dollar Swiss account of Velasco with two other relatives was unfrozen, according to Swiss authorities. The PCGG plans to appeal the decision of the Zurich district attorney.
PNOC, the country’s largest business enterprise, was set up by Marcos during the oil crisis in 1973 and was specifically exempted from normal auditing controls by presidential decree.
The absence of regulatory and public oversight allowed Velasco to defraud the enterprise he ran. Whenever he chartered tankers to bring crude oil to the Philippines, Velasco would add a 5-percent commission to be kicked back and paid through the treasurer of a shadowy Filipino firm who would deposit the money in banks in Hong Kong and the United States.
Velasco would use a similar scheme when PNOC bought insurance for each tanker voyage from an insurance company owned by another notorious Marcos crony.
The PNOC routinely paid more for its tanker insurance than its competitors.
PNOC also paid 10 percent more than the going price for three oil tankers the company bought from Japan in 1974 and 1975. This purchase was believed to have come from a 400-million-dollar discretionary fund, called the “Oil Industry Special Fund,” over which only Velasco and Marcos had authority. Tariffs on imported oil kept the fund full.
Disini, of course, is not the only Filipino who has been known to profit from a personal relationship with Marcos. Since the President imposed martial law in 1972, his relatives and cronies, as well as those of his glamorous wife Imelda, the governor of Manila, have been amassing huge fortunes. Their blatant influence peddling has prompted one amazed diplomat in Manila to observe: “It’s incredible what they’ve taken over.” Marcos’ sister Elizabeth Marcos Keon, for example, is governor of Ilocos Norte province, and Benjamin (“Kokoy”) Romualdez, Imelda’s brother, who owns the Times Journal, one of the capital’s major dailies, is governor of Leyte province and heads the League of Provincial Governors and City Mayors. Roberto Benedicto, a frequent Marcos golfing partner, has acquired three television stations since martial law was imposed (giving him a total of four) and is chief of the Philippine Sugar Commission.
No one, however, can quite rival the meteoric rise of Disini, a Marcos buddy whose wife is a cousin of Imelda’s and former governess to the First Couple’s three children. In the past six years, Disini has transformed an otherwise undistinguished company, Herdis Management & Investment Corp., from a small cigarette-filter manufacturing plant into a conglomerate empire of 33 separate enterprises with assets totaling about $200 million. These firms, among other things, manufacture textiles, explore for oil and run charter air flights. Recently Disini acquired the Philippine agency for Caterpillar construction equipment and a large block of shares in the Philippine subsidiary of Reynolds Metals Co.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,919312,00.html
# 62 and # 63
@Tongue: @ PSB:
Ito, panoorin ninyo. Medyo nostalgic ang dating. Be sure not to missed the last part of the video where Pres. Marcos uttered his famous line. 😉
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhQXONHX4UE
Nonong panahon ng mga Marcos. kapag nalaman n`ya na may mga Tchismis tungkol sa mga sa Marcos O Gobyerno ay ipa kukulong ka! kaya hindi na babalita yang anak n`yang Australian.
norphil: sayang nga eh..hindi ako kasama ng grupo na nanalo sa 319 million noong isang gabi…makalipat nga sa Upstate NY..mukhang masuerte sila..
a number of saints of the Catholic church chose to lve a simple life..they do have the vows of humility, obedience and poverty..I just don’t know if our cardinals in the Phil. do so baka si Fr. Damaso ang kanilang idol..who knows..I don’t, do you?
Naiba na ang isyu … matagal ng patay pinagpiyepiyestahan pa. Laki talaga ng impluensiya ng media. Magbasa ka ng diyaryo wala na yong mga maiinit na isyu na gaya ng mga korap na General, wala na yong kay bakulaw Mercy …. yong carnap gang ano na ang nangyari … hay naku … wala talagang maniya-niya-ri.
Malaki talaga ang problema ang inyong Bansa.
Manonood na lang ako ng Willing Willy para ako’y matuwa … pantanggal ng stress at inis. 🙂 🙂 🙂
Dinah Pinoy,I did not say Ferdie was a saint, far from it. I just said, siya pa rin ang pinaka maraming nagawa na ifrastructures sa lahat ng naging presidente ng Pilipinas. If he made so much money off these projects, at least may nakikita. Eh ngayon, puro nakawan lang ang nangyayari at wala man lang makitang kahit man lang isang infrastructure that is worth appreciating. The infrastures (mahaba nga ang listahan na ito accroding to Tongue) are still being used right now at ang mga ito ay gumagana pa rin for the most part. Pretty soon though, we may have to replace these coz almost 40 yrs old na ang mga ito. Most of these were done immediately after Marcos took over the presidency. Hindi pa siya corrupt masyado nuon. The corruption was so bad around 7 yrs or so before he got ousted. Most of the corruption was not Marcos himself but more so on Imelda, her generals and the Romualdez clan.
# 69 Mike – April 1, 2011 3:54 am re video:
Just viewed your link… blimey! It’s been almost 40 years since I last heard that and guess what, I was a bit surprised to hear the melody, resembles the Bolsheviks’
L’Internationale
# 69 Mike – April 1, 2011 3:54 am re video:
Just viewed your link… blimey! It’s been almost 40 years since I last heard that and guess what, I was a bit surprised to hear the melody, resembles the Bolsheviks’ L’Internationale
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpgrO-tieGM 😀 😀 😀
Hahahahah! Sometimes, name dropping doesn’t help at all, not at all! 😛
Good day, Miss Ellen. I always read your blog po pero ngayon lang ako nakapagregister dito.
with this revelation, sana naman po mamulat na yung 212 na kongresista who are pushing for Marcos’ burial sa Libingan ng mga Bayani. Post ko na rin po dito yung link sa kanilang mga pangalan:
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/03/29/11/does-your-representative-approve-marcos-burial-libingan
Yep, Marcos was great. A great teacher and mentor..of large scale corruption, of destroying our institutions, of human rights violations. He started it all.
From Miguel Valbuena:
It is indeed unfortunate on the action of the TV Show on the daughter of President Ferdinand Marcos.
It is not her fault that her father is Ferdinand Marcos she did not ask to be born. Na pa ka narrow-minded
naman nang TV Station na iyan.
# 75
Anna, I hope you didn’t miss the last part of the video. Where the “president” uttered something. 😛
Mike, I did not catch the last part. When Ferdie talked, he garbled. Ano ba ang sinabi niya?
PSB, he’s not the real McCoy (pun intended). He’s actor Ruben Rustia as Marcos in the movie ‘A Dangerous Life: The Fall Of Marcos’.
Ang sinabi niya: “That ish ishtoopid” 😛
dinah-pinoy, I must admit I was blown away by your post on #67 and #68. Thank you very much, hope you will continue posting here whenever you have time.
rose: who is p.damaso? i am not a church goer though i am a catholic and like to visit old churches around europe because of their architectural beauty and the engineering craftmanship necessary to build them.
wow dinah-pinoy. thank you too for your posts above. i blame the marcos years to have effectively stopped pinas economic and political development. i read somewhere that before marcos, pinas can be compared with south korea..
norpil: Fr. Damaso is the Franciscan friar sa Noli and Fili ni Rizal…yong ang insinuation doon ay tatay ni Maria Clara or better known as Leonor Rivera..I read Fili and Noli only a year or so ago…bawal kasi sa listahan ng mga books to read in Catholic schools during my time…ngayon ko naintindihan kung ano ang tunay na purpose ng mga kastila..did they evangelize or colonize? ang sa sking pananaw they came to colonize (ginawa tayo na mga alipin) more than to be a better Christian…
norpil: talking of old churches…if you have the chance visit the Miagao church in Iloilo…it is the oldest church..ibang klase ang architecture..from Iloilo City go south, Oton, Tigbauan, Guimbal, Miagao ang ganda…I understand sa Ilocos maganda rin..Sayang nga the old church of San Jose, Antique ginawang modern … if you have the opportunity to visit the east coast dito sa Jersey City you will find two churchs magkatabi…Holy Rosary, the oldest Catholic church in NJ, built in 1895 Renaissance ang style..next door ang St. Anthony, a Polish church built in 1894, Gothic naman sila…
norpil, are you an architect?…I was introduced to the appreciation of art by a very good friend who now lives in Rome…he toured me around and he explained to me the styles, etc. of the artist..the ignoramus me had for a guide in the City of Rome, one who majored in the Restoration of Historical Monuments…sayang nga lang, he did not share ang mga alam niya..I encouraged him to be back in the Phil..and teach the children pero hindi niya ako narinig…sayang kasi ang daming mga talented sa atin..
“napakababaw na argumento. andiyan na nga ang pruweba”
Pruweba na mas maraming ninakaw nung panahon ni Cory?
magkano ang palitan ng dolyar nuong una siyang maupo at hindi na umalis?
Nung panahong yun ipinatupad yung floating rate ng peso. Kung dati ay nakapako sa P7 per $1 (gaya ng ginagawang fixed rate ngayon ng China) naging pabago-bago ito, araw-araw.
Nung mangailangan ng pera ang Pinas para pondohan ang infra projects ni Makoy, diniktahan ng IMF ang Pinas ng fiscal at monetary policies, gaya nga ng floating rate, kapalit ng infra loans. Ikinatuwa nga ng IMF yun, kaya nung 1977, dito ginawa ang IMF int’l conference kung saan, mahigit 10 na 5-star hotels ang itinayo ng investors. Dito nakuha ni Makoy ang tiwala ng mga bangko at yung magic number na 77; kung saan 7.7% ang naging highest GDP growth ng Pinas for the first time after Aguinaldo.
Nakita ng foreign banks ang kakayanan ng Pinas na magbayad ng utang kaya madali tayong pinondohan sa infra loans sa mababang interes.
So $10B pala ang ninakaw ni Makoy? nung umalis siya nasa P20 to the USD, therefore, P200B total.
Marunong kang mag-math? P1.3Trillion sa six years ni Cory, divide by 5 flyovers, (tangina, walang trillion ang calculator ko!) no answer na lang, hahahaha.
Sabi naman ni OmbudsMercy, ng ADB at World Bank, “one-third of the (Phil.) annual budget is lost to corruption”. Ang annual budget simula pa ni Putot, One Trillion na. Kahit anong manipula ng exchange rate ang gamitin mo diyan, mas magmumukhang santo si Marcos kesa sa mga sumunod sa kanya. P300B yan taun-taon kumpara sa P200B ni Makoy sa loob ng dalawampung taon”. 😉 😀 :8)
sa panahong ito, kung si makoy ang nakaupo, tameme na sana tayo sa pagbatikos sa pamahalaan.
Juicekopo naman. Kung nakaupo pa hanggang ngayong 2011 si Makoy e ako na mismo ang babaril sa kanya. O kaya’y gugulatin ko na lang para mamatay sa atake sa puso. Uugod-ugod na yun! 8)
si gloria kaya? ilang alaga niyang tabbaboy at mga biik at mga aso?…at hindi ba may LaundryMat siya? labandera ko!
Thank you pala sa article ni Patricia Adams, nabanggit pa yung kumpanya namin kaya lang wrong spelling.
Matagal na naming tinatawanan yang report na yan kasi yung informer ni Adams, dito sa
Actually, three employees yan, kaso dalawa lang (sina V at M) ang nabigyan kaya yung pangatlo (secret), naging informer ni Adams, LOL.
Yung article ng Time, cherry-picking ka naman e.
Eto yung nakasulat sa TIME article bago yung comment #68 mo:
Tapos sa ending ng article ganito ang nakasulat:
Alam mo nangyari? Kinuha ng gobyerno yung Caterpillar sa USI-Asia at ibinenta sa Usiphil. Yung Asia Industries ay tinake-over ng gov’t via NDC (later sold to ABB and DMCI) at yung Westinghouse ipinasa sa Beta Electric na under din sa NDC. Yung Apfcor na may-ari ng team nila Bay Cristobal, Manny Victorino, at Glenn Capacio, ibinenta yata sa empleyado. Kung totoong magkakutsaba si Makoy at Disini sa BNPP, bakit kailangang magtago ni Disini sa Vienna at bawiin ni Makoy yung assets niya?
Di kaya inonse niya si Makoy?
kontrolado ni Marcos ang Pilipinas noong reign niya..including the news media..Meldy tried to control his desires pero hindi niya nagawa..thus maraming bunga ang binhi niyang sinabog…very prolific…pero sa paningin ko hindi naghirap ang mga tao noon in terms of being hungry sa pagkain,,,bigas, etc. pero ngayon iba..and I don’t put the blame on PNoy…wala na siyang makuha sa kaban ng bayan at kinain ng mga baboy at biik, aso at tuta ni putot…do you notice kung paano kumain ang baboy? laplap at said ang pagkain..
“napakababaw na argumento. andiyan na nga ang pruweba”
Pruweba na mas maraming ninakaw nung panahon ni Cory?
mababaw pa rin.
ang magnanakaw ay magnanakaw. hindi ito paramihan ng ninakaw.
“Hunt for tyrant’s millions leads to former model’s home” ay isa lamang sa mg pruweba.
nasaan ang pruweba ng ninakaw ni cory?
sa panahong ito, kung si makoy ang nakaupo, tameme na sana tayo sa pagbatikos sa pamahalaan.
Juicekopo naman. Kung nakaupo pa hanggang ngayong 2011 si Makoy e ako na mismo ang babaril sa kanya. O kaya’y gugulatin ko na lang para mamatay sa atake sa puso. Uugod-ugod na yun!
napakadali namang intindihin ang ibig kong sabihin dito. hindi na kailangan spelingin pa.
ito lang ang importante sa nuclear power plant:
Each Filipino taxpayer is now paying over 170,000 dollars a day in interest to an obligation that now accounts for 10 percent of the country’s total debts.
Thank you pala sa article ni Patricia Adams, nabanggit pa yung kumpanya namin kaya lang wrong spelling.
Matagal na naming tinatawanan yang report na yan kasi yung informer ni Adams, dito sa
“The banker who represented Disini in the transaction explained that a special Swiss fund dispensed the money to Disini, Marcos and one or two of Disini’s employees…”
Actually, three employees yan, kaso dalawa lang (sina V at M) ang nabigyan kaya yung pangatlo (secret), naging informer ni Adams, LOL. – tongue-twisted
tongue, swerte ka pala at hindi mo naranasan ang epekto ng MARTIAL LAW kasi maganda ang nasalihan mong ‘team’. ako, ordinaryong estudyante noon. isang taon na lang at tapos na ng kolehyo. nakatapos din. nag ambisyong umunlad sa pinas at naghanap ng trabaho. pero isang araw na naglalakad sa plaza miranda, tinawag ako ng isang sundalo at nakursunadahan ang aking buhok na mahaba. jeproks kasi ako noon at hanggang balikat ang aking buhok. pinutol ang aking buhok laban sa aking kalooban. buti na lang at hindi ako pinagbintangan na kumunista kung hindi ay malamang ‘salvage’ ang labas ko.
dapat ilibing na…baka bumangon pa!
kung iku-kumpara naman ang Pilipinas at South Korea…
Lumabas ang artikulo na ito noong 1987
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The Post-Kleptocratic Economy
CONSIDER FIRST THE OVERALL ECONOMIC: PICTURE. Officials in both South Korea and the Philippines have pointed out to me that in the mid-1960s, when the idealistic (as he then seemed) Ferdinand Marcos began his first term as President, the two countries were economically even with each other, with similar per capita incomes of a few hundred dollars a year. The officials used this fact to make very different points. The Koreans said it dramatized how utterly poor they used to be (“We were like the Philippines!’ said one somber Korean bureaucrat), while to the Filipinos it was a reminder of a golden, hopeful age. It demonstrated, they said, that the economy had been basically robust until the Marcoses launched their kleptocracy. Since the 1960s, of course, the Philippines has moved in the opposite direction from many other East Asian countries. South Korea’s per capita annual income is now about $ 2,500–which gives the country a low-wage advantage over Japan or the United States. That same income makes Korea look like a land of plenty relative to the Philippines, where the per capita income is about $ 600. The average income in the Manila area is much higher than that for the country as a whole; in many farming regions the per capita income is about $ 100. The government reports that about two thirds of the people in the country live below the proverty line, as opposed to half in the pre-Marcos era. There are technical arguments about where to draw the poverty line, but it is obvious that most Filipinos lack decent houses, can’t afford education, in some areas are short of food, and in general are very, very poor. The official unemployment rate is 12 percent, but if all the cigarette vendors, surplus bar girls, and other underemployed people are taken into account, something like half the human talent in the country must be unused.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/1987/11/a-damaged-culture-a-new-philippines/7414/
Bayad na yan as far as I know.
Para kang nagpatayo ng mamahaling bahay na inutang sa banko. Napatayo nat lahat, ayaw mo namang tumira doon dahil me nakikita kang multo. Minabuti mong tumira sa apartment na mahal sumingil habang binabayaran mo yung amortization sa iyong housing loan, me problema ka talaga.
Everything that could be stolen from the government is in the national budget. The national treasury is not some vault where someone could walk in with a sack. Now, you want to rob the government, how? Pamilyar lang ako sa dalawa: the “patong” way and the “ghost project” way. I need not explain these schemes. Sabihin nating I am a voracious president and by various schemes, I could and did steal half on the entire budget, what else would be left to pay the bureaucracy more so finance any project? The “mystery” of the Marcos government is really that he was supposed to have stolen so much, if we go by his enemies initial estimates, almost the entire budget of the Philippines yata, yet surprise, surprise he has built countless projects unparalleled in scale by any of the subsequent governments with budget several times bigger, even put together. Paano nangyari yun?
Kaya nga in-scale down na from $50B(?) to $10B para mas credible. Kaso sabi ni Imelda, hus maliit pa yan ah.
Unexplained, yes. But plunder? Think again.
By blaming it on kleptocracy, we have failed to study policy mistakes of the regime more closely and address them properly. We also fail to see the hands of the manipulative oligarchy e kasi ke Marcos nakatuon ang pansin. Sus, matagal nang patay yung tao.
Now, this is a different thing. Indeed, because foreign aids are not in the national budget, pwedeng ito ang ninanakaw. Yet you wonder if indeed aid donors such as Japan and the US would be so lax with their own money as to allow it to be transferred to someone’s personal bank account without their knowing.
@35: Anyone regardless of ethnicity is capable to become a THIEF in this country.
@102: I stand corrected but the rent-money for the US Bases to remain in Pinas was at one time pegged at $300 million a year. That’s where the bulk of what Macoy and Imelda fished and banked overseas, pero as Imelda always says; naghihirap daw sya, what a lying hag!
I agree that the TV Show was unfair to this Australian daughter of Marcos. But isn’t it amazing how wide and international and long-lasting the infamous reputation of Marcos is?
And wouldn’t it be further amazing and incredulous to the international community if the Filipino nation just sat back and allowed Marcos to be buried in the Libingan ng mga Bayani? Simply because of one man’s recommendation – Jojo Binay’s recommendation, if ever he does so?
We’d be the laughing stock of the whole world. Nobody would take us seriously anymore after that.
I can just imagine it’s going to be Filipino bashing time on Jay Leno, David Letterman, etc, etc..
“We’d be the laughing stock of the whole world. Nobody would take us seriously anymore after that”.
Matagal ng laughing stock of the world ang Pilipinas, pero walang tatalo sa insidente noong Aug 23 2010.
oo nga pala kamusta na si Maldita…nabitay na ba? si putot, nasaan na? seguro patawatawa ang dalawa at wiling willie sa pagiling giling…
Florry,
Tama ka. Matagal na palang tumatawa ang mundo sa Keystone Cops incidents natin. Huwag nalang dagdagan pa with a hero’s burial for Marcos.
One solution to this Marcos burial at the Libingan ng mga Bayana is to just change the name to Libingan ng mga Soldado.
Ahh..but again the Marcoses might insist “No, we want him to be buried as a hero”.
How dense.
WOW..Marcos indeed is the World’s greatest lover!
Ayun na ang pruweba, yung “hunt for tyrant’s millions”. Hindi na pala billions, millions na lang. Susunod, ano, thousands na lang? Hahahaha.
Bayad na yan as far as I know. – ricelander
You’re right, ricelander, bayad na yan. Cory had all the chance and the power to abrogate unilaterally the nuclear plant contract if she really deemed it illegal and unsafe. But what do you know, she disregarded her friends including those from the debt coalition, and continued to pay ALL of Marcos and his predecessors’ obligations.
Again, I ask, what did we get in return for all of the P1.3Trillion Cory’s gov’t spent in her six years?
Para kang nagpatayo ng mamahaling bahay na inutang sa banko. Napatayo nat lahat, ayaw mo namang tumira doon dahil me nakikita kang multo. Minabuti mong tumira sa apartment na mahal sumingil habang binabayaran mo yung amortization sa iyong housing loan, me problema ka talaga – ricelander
Ang galing mo, ricelander.
Ayun na ang pruweba, yung “hunt for tyrant’s millions”. Hindi na pala billions, millions na lang. Susunod, ano, thousands na lang? Hahahaha. – tongue
gaya ng nasabi ko, ang magnanakaw ay magnanakaw.
kahit isang daan lang ang ninakaw mo, magnanakaw ka pa rin.
ang daming pruweba sa mga ninakaw ni makoy, pero walang mailabas na pruweba sa ninakaw kuno ni cory.
itaas naman natin ang level ng argumento dito.
si erap – Jose Vilarde
si mike arroyo – jose pidal
si makoy – william saunders
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July 07, 1967
Papers found in Malacañang showed Marcos opened his first bank account abroad on this day when he deposited US$215,000.00 in Chase Manhattan Bank in New York.
Not yet accustomed to hiding money, he used his own name.
The following year, 1968, he opened his first Swiss account.
March 21, 1968
The Manila Times headline was “CAMP MASSACRES BARED”, reporting the massacre of fourteen soldiers on Corregidor island, with another 40 missing, in a Marcos project code-named Jabida, whose aim was sabotage and insurgency in Sabah. The recruits were Filipino Muslims and the target was a Malaysian Muslim state. The recruits naturally rebelled and were therefore massacred. To Marcos, the natural resources of Sabah were the ultimate gold mine. He said as much so many times to mistress Dovie Beams. And he claimed to have the Special Power of Attorney on Sabah from the Sultanate of Jolo, traditional owners of what had now become a Malaysian state.
March 1968
Walter Fessler, an official of Credit Suisse Bank in Zurich, came to Manila. He was brought to Malacanang. Forms were filled out and signatures appended. On his signature verification form, Marcos wrote out “William Saunders (pseudonym),” an alias he had used in his WWII days, and underneath that name he wrote “Ferdinand Marcos (real name).” Imelda did the same, choosing Jane Ryan as her pseudonym. Four bank accounts were opened. Four checks, totalling US$950,000.00 were given for the deposit.
January 01, 1970
Today Marcos announced to the nation that he was giving up all his worldly wealth. He now admitted he was rich. This was amazing. He never admitted anything. But then came the blockbuster.”You know how I made my pile? I discovered Yamashita’s treasure.”
The shabby excuse was universally judged exasperatingly unoriginal. But there it was. He said he was rich because of Yamashita’s treasure and he was giving all that up for the Filipino nation in gratitude for their electing him to a second term – the only president ever to be reelected, he proclaimed.
February 13, 1970
Manila did not believe the Marcos Foundation announcement. The demonstrations got worse. Protests turned violent. While the battle raged, Marcos and Imelda issued handwritten instructions to Markus Geel on this day to establish another foundation – one to be kept secret from the Filipino people – the Xandy Foundation in Vaduz, the capital city of Liechtenstein. This tiny state between Austria and Switzerland was famous for offering a unique form of corporate structure – the anstalt – a single-shareholder company protected by the world’s tightest corporate secrecy laws. The CIA and KGB hid their covert funds there. Even Swiss bankers who sometimes had the need to hide money used the anstalten.
The Saunders and Ryan accounts were closed and the money transferred to the Xandy Foundation account at Credit Suisse. This would be the first of many foundations set up in this manner with Swiss bankers and lawyers as directors to hide the identities of Marcos and Imelda.
August 26, 1970
The Trinidad Foundation was set up in Vaduz.
January 27, 1971
Roger Roxas and his team of treasure hunters discovered a gold statuette of Buddha, almost three feet tall and too heavy to lift. On this day they borrowed a truck and brought the Buddha back to Roger’s house at 47 Ledesma Street in Baguio. It was two in the morning.
When they finally got to weigh the statue they saw that it weighed 2,000 pounds.
A representative from the Treasure Hunters Association in Manila, Louie Mendoza, tested the Buddha and said it was 22-karat, about 92 percent pure gold. Another treasure hunter, First Lieutenant Ken Cheatham of the US Air Force at Clark, came with his friends to see the Buddha and took a lot of photos.
April 5, 1971
At two thirty in the morning of this day, Holy Monday, Marcos’ uncle, Judge Pio Marcos, authorized the search of Roger Roxas’ house because Roger had allegedly violated a Central Bank regulation. The search became messy and violent. At the end of the day, the Buddha was gone.
Roger was picked up, blindfolded and driven to a secret location outside Manila. He thought it was a military camp in Pampanga. They tortured him until he signed a confession stating Marcos was not involved in the theft of the Buddha.
June 21, 1971
The Azio Foundation was set up in Vaduz.
August 21, 1971
The bombing of opposition rally at Plaza Miranda: Roger Roxas was to be the main opposition exhibit in the anti-Marcos campaign to dramatize the gold-greed and tyrannical methods of the President. The suspension of the writ of habeas corpus followed a month later – one of the elements forming the yearlong prelude to martial law.
September 24, 1971
The Rosalys Foundation was set up in Vaduz.
October 1971
Rosalys Foundation opened a bank account # 51960 at Swiss Bank Corporation. From this day to June 30, 1980, Berlin and Company would transfer US$10.3 million into this account.
December 27, 1971
The Charis Foundation was set up in Vaduz.
September 17-21, 1972
The start of the U.S.-Marcos Martial Law Regime, following Philippine Supreme Court decisions against foreign (i.e. US) ownership of land and in the wake of certitude that Marcos would not be legally allowed to run for a third term, not even by the ongoing Constitutional Convention, which he had so polluted with bribes and illegal interventions.
“itaas naman natin ang level ng argumento dito. “
Yan ba ang argumento mo? Mga write-ups ng kung sinu-sinong hindi mo naman kilala. Ang isinulat ko personal knowledge ko.
Tagal mong inipon, kaya lang napaglumaan na ng panahon at irrelevant na dahil inamin na ng CPP na NPA ang bumomba sa Plaza Miranda. Si Imelda naman ang nagsusulong na ibalik ng korte kay Roxas yung buddha. hihihihi
ANg taas nga ng level. Level ng tsismis.
ANg taas nga ng level. Level ng tsismis. – TonGuE-tWisTeD
buong mundo kasama ang pilipinas ang huhusga kung ang mga iyan ay tsismis.
salamat sa teknolohiya at ang mga pangyayari sa buong mundo ay naitatala at napapangalagaan.
tulad ni makoy, napaglumaan na rin si hitler, ngunit ang kanyang mga kasalanan ay nakatala at hindi nakakalimutan.
kahit ilang drum na pabango ang ibuhos kay makoy, hindi na maaalis ang baho.
kahit na gumawa pa ng libingan ng mga santo sa pilipinas at doon ilibing si makoy,
nakakabit na ito:
diktador, magnanakaw
heto pa ang isang “tsismis”:
Mohammed Suharto, Ferdinand Marcos and Mobutu Sese Seko ripped off up to $50bn (£28bn) from the impoverished people of Indonesia, the Philippines and Zaire, a sum equivalent to the entire annual aid budget of the west, anti-bribery campaigners said yesterday.
Releasing a list of the top 10 most corrupt politicians of the past two decades, headed by the former Indonesian dictator, Transparency International warned that the scale of political corruption was undermining hopes for prosperity in the developing world and damaging the global economy.
No country is immune from corruption, the report says, citing the lax controls over political financing in Greece, the close connection between companies and the Bush administration and the unchallenged power of Italy’s prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, over his country’s media.
But the most egregious examples of wholesale looting have occurred in the developing world, TI said, depriving the desperately poor of vital state resources.
On the take
Head of state Mohammed Suharto
Place, time Indonesia, 1967-98
Amount $15bn-$35bn
Head of state Ferdinand Marcos
Place, time Philippines, 1972-86
Amount $5bn-$10bn
Head of state Mobutu Sese Seko
Place, time Zaire, 1965-97
Amount $5bn
Head of state Sani Abacha
Place, time Nigeria, 1993-98
Amount $2bn-$5bn
Head of state Slobodan Milosevic
Place, time Serbia, 1972-86
Amount $1bn
Head of state Jean-Claude Duvalier
Place, time Haiti, 1971-86
Amount $300m-$800m
Head of state Alberto Fujimori
Place, time Peru, 1990-2000
Amount $600m
Head of state Pavlo Lazarenko
Place, time Ukraine 1996-97
Amount $114m-$200m
Head of state Arnoldo Alemán
Place, time Nicaragua, 1997-2002
Amount $100m
Head of state Joseph Estrada
Place, time Philippines, 1998-2001
Amount $78m-$80m
Dinah-Pinoy,
On Sabah: It involved a top secret plan to reclaim the island. Guess who leaked it? Sabah is ours. You may question the strategy and intent, still Sabah is ours. Indeed, we may never be able to reclaim Sabah as ill intent will always be raised by Filipinos themselves, sabotaging any effort from the start.
The so-called Yamashita treasure has always been dismissed as figment of imagination. One would even imagine that numerous books written about it, so rich in details, were written precisely to coverup for Marcos, authored by loyalists, but common sense revolts. Sa kasaysayan ng mundo, simulat sapul, ang kuwento tungkol sa mga giyera ay umiikot sa mga kayamanang sinamsam ng mga nagwagi sa mga sinakop at talunan, mga ginto at pilak, mga mga babae, mga alipin, lupain atbp kung tawagi’y spoils of war. Magtataka ka, sa mainstream history, bat wala kang mabasa tungkol sa mga gold reserves at treasures ng mga bansang nadamay sa WWII? That shiploads of golds moved from place to place is certainly more believable than that gold reserves of nations were spared from the war.
In any case, you might want to read the link below if it could help in your enlightenment.
http://www.nenepimentel.org/bluerib/zobel-depo.shtml
Mga secret bank accounts, malamang totoo ang mga yan. Proofs of unexplained wealth, yes; proof of plunder, sandali lang. The reason the PCGG was so confident they could nail the Marcoses was because they know you could not steal that much from the treasury without leaving a huge huge trail of documents that would prove their looting, especially so that they were driven out of power hastily. More than twenty years later, all they have is a SC ruling that says, oh this was all your salary for so many years, anything above that is looted, period.
The facts of the Roxas/golden buddha case are also online. After the first circuit’s award of damages amounting to $22B, the Supreme Court of Hawaii, reversed it and awarded something like $1.4M only because it said it was too speculative to put a value on “thousands of gold bars contained in unopened boxes” which Roxas’ estate claims was “converted” by Marcos to carry his own watermark.
http://www.state.hi.us/jud/20606.htm
The golden buddha was a celebrated case, but it was a mere fraction of the Japanese loot that Marcos claims he recovered using the military engineers and foreign treasure hunters all done in secrecy.
Thanks for the link of the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee deposition-taking, ricelander.
Like the Hawaii Supreme Court ruling, these are legally-binding documents and not some paid hack’s account of what is the convenient truth that his sponsor wants him to write about.
I’ve read most of the details of of the war loot from many sources, pictures included, but what struck me most was this part:
The contents of this Blue Ribbon hearing can be confirmed by no less than Atty. JB Baylon, Don Enrique Zobel’s long-time assistant and Ellen’s co-writer in Malaya. Don Enrique mentioned JB’s name several times.
Now this:
And this one:
Tongue,
Well, they had to discredit Enrique Zobel after that pero dahil respetable siyang tao sa lipunan, they had to attribute his “outlandish claims” to some degenerative mental disease. Poor EnZo.
Tinatamad lang ako para hanapin pero good read din yung transcript of the case involving the Golden Buddha which was heard in Hawaii. The Marcoses lost that one and was ordered to pay I think a whooping $74B(?!!)
‘Yung estimate na $10B in Marcos hidden wealth, mukhang maliit nga kaso mo lalo lang malulula yung kagalit niya hehehe.
Oops, sorry I missed #123.