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FOLLOW THE MONEY TRAIL...  The first senate hearing on PhilHealth's P15 billion anomaly was fully attended by PhilHealth's Exec-Committee. However, the second hearing scheduled this Tuesday, two of the members including the chief has sent notice that they cannot attend the hearing no more due to health reasons. Many netizens criticizes and doubted the authenticity of their medical condition as the timing is quite amusing. Such move, medical reason, has been used already by previous government officials to either get sympathy or evade prosecution. As they say in the Filipino language, "Buhay Kurakot, Kapag Nabubuko, Nalulumpo."  Buhay Kurakot, Kapag Nabubuko, Nalulumpo? The article published by PhilHealth, as follows: Ground zero hospitals receive hundreds of millions in Covid-19 assistance from PhilHealth (April 14, 2020) STATE HEALTH INSURER, PhilHealth, reported that, to date, a total of P4.1 billion have now been approved and are currently being released to variou

Who is Ricardo Morales? Morales hailed from Davao, from the hometown of president Rodrgio Roa Duterte.. PhilHealth Chief Ricardo Morales, a former soldier, retired in 2009 as a general. A member of Reform the Armed Forces Movement (RAM) headed by Gringo Honasan. In 1986, the group hatched a plan to topple the Marcos government. He was then the trusted aide de camp of Imelda Marcos... He was the group’s ace in the hole. The plans had him as the rebel commandos’ guide into the Presidential Palace to capture the First Family (Marcos). “Since I knew the route inside the palace, my job was to lead the assaulting element,” Morales recalls... But something went terribly awry. RAM leader Gregorio Honasan had tried to recruit yet another Palace insider, Maj. Edgardo Doromal. Doromal, however, squealed, and Presidential guards moved swiftly to arrest Morales and two other military officers. On the eve of Feb. 22, 1986, just six hours before the planned commando assault, then Ferdinand E. Marcos

"Duterte Addresses The Nation. As usual, Unholy Hours" Duterte addresses the nation in lieu of the plea from the medical sector to revert the current GCQ (General Community Quarantine)  to a more restricted MECQ or Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine due to surging COVID-19 infections, and the hospitals, including designated quarantine camps are already full.  The health workers as a group, were asking for a respite, a breather, as many of them were either exhausted or hospitalized as well, infected. One representative of the group said that the influx of patients has to be stopped at least for two weeks or the health care will suffer a collapse. Here comes the address of the nation...As expected, still frustrating for many, is why would the president address the nation in such unholy hours where many would rather be resting or sleeping. He is nocturnal, period. He started the meeting with the key members of the IATF (Inter Agency Task Force 'on Emerging Infectious Dis

A Summary of Cynthia's Stupid Remarks: Cynthia proposes to ban unli-rice: “Ipagbawal na yang unlimited rice, masama yan. Pagbawal na natin yang unlimited rice kasi nagkakasakit tayo gawa ng unlimited rice na yan; we should learn how to eat vegetables." Cynthia blames Carabao Center for the country's malnutrition: "Partly to blame kayo sa kabobohan ng mga bata. Ang mga bata pinaainom ng milk para tumalino." Cynthia on the plunging price of palay due to rice tarrification law that she sponsored into law: "Kumikita naman sila (farmers) ng five pesos/kilo, I think P17 is the regular price and its too much to ask P21,P20." Cynthia on the surging price of galunggong (poor man's staple fish): "Kung mahal ang galunggong, eh di huwag kumain ng galunggong, di ba?" Cynthia on DA's budget: "Bakit ba baliw na baliw kayo sa research? Ako matalinong tao pero hindi ko maintindihan ang research nyo..." Cynthia belittles nurses: "Actuall

Vice President Leni Robredo addresses the nation, salient points...gave her suggestion on the government fight against the pandemic - via ABS-CBN News Robredo: Hindi mapipigil ang pandemya kung basta mag-aabang na lang tayo ng bakuna. Kailangang maampat ang pagkalat nito sa lalong madaling panahon. Nagsisimula ang lahat sa tamang datos, na pundasyon ng tamang desisyon.  Naghain muli tayo ng mga mungkahi kung paano tutugunan ang #COVID19 pandemic... Una, linisin at pabilisin ang pagkalap ng datos ukol sa COVID-19. Kung magagawa ito, magiging mas matibay ang pinagmumulan ng mga desisyon, polisiya, at programa para mapigilan ang paglaganap ng virus. Isama ang mga pamantasan at academic institutions para tumulong sa validation process ng DOH. Siguruhing mabilis ang turnover time ng mga COVID-19 tests. Alamin kung bakit nagkakabacklog, kung saang mga laboratoryo ito nagaganap, at tulungan silang makahabol. Sa LSIs: Nagpadala na tayo ng rekomendasyon na bigyan sila ng libreng swab test bago

'SIX KEY DAYS, THAT COULD HAVE SAVED THE WORLD FROM THE PANDEMIC' BUT CHINA LIED... China didn’t warn public of likely pandemic for 6 key days By The Associated Press [April 15, 2020] In the six days after top Chinese officials secretly determined they likely were facing a pandemic from a new coronavirus, the city of Wuhan at the epicenter of the disease hosted a mass banquet for tens of thousands of people; millions began traveling through for Lunar New Year celebrations. President Xi Jinping warned the public on the seventh day, Jan. 20. But by that time, more than 3,000 people had been infected during almost a week of public silence, according to internal documents obtained by The Associated Press and expert estimates based on retrospective infection data. Six days... That delay from Jan. 14 to Jan. 20 was neither the first mistake made by Chinese officials at all levels in confronting the outbreak, nor the longest lag, as governments around the world have dragg