Pork Barrel 8: Lawmakers Named, Luxury Cars Named and We've Only Seen The Tip Of The Iceberg

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There are some individuals and non governmental agencies named in the pork barrel scam, 

http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/326182/news/specialreports/pork-patrons-47-reps-gave-nearly-a-billion-pesos-to-dubious-ngos

23 Lawmakers Plus Popular Names Linked to Pork Barrel Scam:

'Five senators and 23 members of the House of Representatives allegedly made available their pork barrel funds to dummy nongovernment organizations for purported ghost projects worth P10 billion over the past decade, according to affidavits submitted to the National Bureau of Investigation.'

http://2010presidentiables.wordpress.com/2013/07/15/revilla-enrile-estrada-marcos-lanette-23-other-lawmakers-contributed-their-pork-barrel-funds-to-p10b-mother-of-all-scams-pdi/#more-7025

Expensive cars of the alleged mastermind in the Pork Barrel Scam were allegedly acquired through the money:

http://2010presidentiables.wordpress.com/2013/07/15/revilla-enrile-estrada-marcos-lanette-23-other-lawmakers-contributed-their-pork-barrel-funds-to-p10b-mother-of-all-scams-pdi/#more-7025
'Also identified were expensive vehicles of Napoles supposedly acquired through the money: Range Rover (PN TIN 11), white Porsche Cayenne (CYN 98), white Toyota Alphard, BMW, Tahoe, Chevrolet, two Ford E-150, Starex Gold,  Toyota Prado, Savanna GMC, Lincoln Navigator, Hummer, Land Rover, Honda Civic and Mercedez Benz.—With reports from Norman Bordadora and Christian V. Esguerra'

Accounts  of the alleged mastermind frozen:
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/business/08/17/13/415-napoles-accounts-covered-freeze-order

'The CA on Friday issued a 6-month freeze order on all of the bank accounts and related web of accounts of Napoles, members of her immediate family, other relatives and staff of the JLN group of companies, including accounts of non-government organizations allegedly allied with Napoles.

This was in response to the application of a freeze order filed by the Office of the Solicitor General on behalf of the Anti-Money Laundering Council.'

Only the Tip of the Iceberg?

http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/326366/publicaffairs/gma7specials/trace-the-anatomy-of-the-pdaf-scam-on-bantay-kaban-ng-bayan

'The much talked-about COA Special Audit Report only covers the period of 2007-2009. As more and more records—even from recent years—are examined, it appears that the misuse of pork did not stop in 2009. And while the congressional pork barrel already puts at least 25 billion a year in the hands of lawmakers, the fact is there are trillions worth of special and regular funds disbursed and possibly misused year after year.'
We’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg.

There are 10 Billion Pesos from the Pork Barrel funds allegedly made available to dummy non governmental organizations for purported ghost projects, why doesn't this money reach the hands of the poor?

Transparency and accountability will not solve the problem of corruption. The corrupt wanted to win because they fear to lose. We created corruption within our mind. 

Whenever we see the poor around us  - our maids, our drivers, our cooks etc. within our mind, we have this fear that one day we might lose our money and we'll end up like them, poor, suffering and in pain. So, we do whatever we can to be rich. We go to other countries to work so we can have more money so we will never be poor - so we will not suffer like them.

We created corruption in 'our within' as the mind and created this in 'our without' as this world system of money, self-interest and competition. 

If we walk back, we will see that this all started when we took coins from the purses of our parents 'playfully' when we were young thinking that our action has no consequence. 

We have to face consequence of what we accepted and allowed in this world. 

The government has to make sure all the citizens of the country get the basic necessities it needs to survive because that is essentially what a government represents - the citizens.

We have to nationalize resources and create dividends enough to pay a Basic/Living Income to the poor, unemployed, elderly, uneducated etc. 

It is a crime Not to.

Nature has provided all of us enough resources to survive equally, so we have to give the poor their equal share.

'Give so that you will receive'

Quotes From The Basic/Living Income Guarantee Website:
http://basicincomeguaranteed.wordpress.com/

'A government is the citizens representing themselves, no matter what system is utilized at the end of the day, which is what the government represents: the citizens. Therefore, any action that is taken to undermine the wellbeing of the citizens in a country – for instance causing poverty or diminishing resources, causing harm to the citizens of a country = that would be sedition and that is how it should be approached.

Sedition certainly is not when one exposes abuse by your government representatives that they should be held accountable and what they do should be transparent and therefore, one needs to re-look at the word ‘sedition’ carefully.

The media as a medium with which the citizens communicate and educate themselves to be effective in supporting each other to have a country that is economically and financially effective. The media should thus be owned by the people of the country and never only by certain individuals. No policy should ever be allowed that damages the country because to do that, is to in fact act in a way that is detrimental to the wellbeing of the country and by definition would be – if we have lawyers with some common sense – the premise for treason. And that is why the police force will exist, that’s why the commercial units will exist is to investigate those that do damage the Economy and to the Human Rights of the people. That’s what police’s purpose actually is, the purpose of the police is not to protect the rights of the wealthy, is to protect the rights of the citizen, to ensure that there is nothing that is happening that will cause unemployment that will cause people to live on the streets – that’s a crime!'

http://basicincomeguaranteed.wordpress.com/category/corruption/

the statistics just inflate the idea that you know what you’re talking about, so statistics is just another form of inflation, it’s just Public Relations. It’s just a fake and false image and likeness with which the actual data is distorted so that those that benefit from having control and access to resources through this inflated view can justify why it is that the things are the way they are, why poverty is so immense and expansive… And so you’ll have the curious bizarre thing happening, for instance that the corporate top dogs and the loyalty they buy from people that are in the corporation – as well as their income – has been skyrocketing for at least the last 30 years. So these massive profits are used to buy loyalty which protects the top dogs. This same illness is now part of the government where people’s loyalty is bought so that they can protect the wealth of the few while the majority of people on Earth are existing in one or two dollars a day – and that’s quite okay apparently because the image is inflated to say that“That is enough for them to make a living.”

http://basicincomeguaranteed.wordpress.com/category/banking-industry/

Quote:

"I commit myself to show, that Life as ‘lifestyle’ as origin as source as resource, is Given: Equally – to every Body of Life; and that dominion is to those that are able to distribute this which is Given Freely, Equally to All – that no-one may need or desire anything that will cause this separation that now exist as ‘lifestyle’ on Earth." Bernard Poolman

"I commit myself to Call on those claiming to be experts in Economics, to remove their Fears and prejudices, and to walk in Forgiveness for what they have allowed on Earth, and to rectify the situation so that All Life may be Equal at the table, prepared for Each One to have enough to Eat and Drink, and to have a Home and a lifestyle worth Living to such measure that that is the Inheritance they give to All Children that may ever be born on Earth for All Time – as that is the Foundation of Eternal Peace and Love on Earth." Bernard Poolman

"I commit myself to show that when the starting point is life equally respected in each other, the fundamental premise to give so that you may receive is immediately grasped to such an extent that irrational fear evaporates." Bernard Poolman

“I commit myself to restore the common sense trust in the physical reality that is the giver of life, to restore order in an irrational , illusory world of consciousness.” Bernard Poolman

“I commit myself to demonstrate the oneness interdependency between all parts of the physical realm that together form the body that is life through which we have been destroying the Earth, and our life will end and therefore we cannot continue to live as if we are separate of the real reality without permanent consequence.” Bernard Poolman