JGL Eye: FUTURE ICC PROSECUTOR SLIPPED INTO THE PHILIPPINES TO INTERVIEW “MORE THAN A 100 VICTIMS” IN 2018!

©2025 By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (PhilaMessenger.net) DEFENCE COUNSEL THROWS A CURVE BALL ON THE PROSECUTOR THAT LED TO LATTER’S DISQUALIFICATION! “MATALINO MAN DAW ANG MATSING, NAPAGLALANGANAN DIN.” (A wise monkey can also be outwitted.) --SALAWIKAIN (FILIPINO PROVERB) CHICAGO (PM) – THE YEAR 2018 was the height of former President Rodrigo Duterte’s infamous and bloody War on Drugs. It was also the time when nobody can ever question Mr. Duterte who turned his country into an extra-judicial “killing” fields of thousands of poor Filipinos. Not even Con...

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JGL Eye: FATHER KNOWS BEST

©2025 By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (PhilaMessenger.net) WAS HIS FATHER PRESCIENT WHEN HE BARRED CHIZ FROM POLITICS? “IF YOU LIVE BY THE CONTRACTOR, YOU DIE BY THE CONTRACTOR” CHICAGO (PM) – THE LATE Agriculture Secretary and later Congressman Salvador “Sonny” H. Escudero, III, my wedding sponsor, was a workaholic. He once invited me to have a “good time and have some drinks” at the famed Roxas Boulevard Strip but I did not take his offer because I knew it was not a serious in...

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NUMBERS OF OFFICIALS TO BE CHARGED IN FLOOD CONTROL SCANDAL ARE CLIMBING

©2025 By JOSEPH G. LARIOSA (PhilaMessenger.net) 21 OFFICIALS INITIALLY CHARGED ALMOST ALL SENATORS HAD “LARGE, UNPRECEDENTED” INSERTIONS IN 2025 BUDGET THE LIST OF SENATORS DOES NOT YET INCLUDE MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CHICAGO (PM) – If Sen. Ping Lacson’s statements are true that almost all senators have insertions of their own totaling P100-Billions ($1.8B) in the 2025 national budget, the initial tallies of 21 officials by various outlets in Manila...