send money says the climate change meeting

I am reading how the climate change meeting in Brazil is insisting that rich countries pay oodles of money to poor countries over climate change...

Dirty little secret? Much of it will be diverted into the pockets of crooked politicians and/or businessmen, and of course even the non stolen money won't help people at the grass roots level as much as it will pay the salaries of people working in NGOs.

Corruption is a big issue world wide, but here in the Philippines the big scandal  for the last few months is the diversion of money for flood control projects which were either not done, not finished, or done with shoddy materials.

this is actually business as usual: this story is about corruption in the Arroyo administration, and the Aquino administration, and the Duterte administration.....and now under Marcos.

Wikipedia summary 

What is unusual is that it is being exposed in Congressional hearings that have been on going for the last month or so, and that the public is doing demonstrations against the fraud. Will actual punishment follow? 

And yes, the failure to build flood control projects contributed to the damage from the latest typhoons.

the latest  big rally against corruption is led by a local church, the INC.

LOOK: The QCPD and the United People's Initiative do a walkthrough of the People Power Monument and White Plains Avenue ahead of the group's rally there to be simultaneously held with the INC's rally at Luneta Park starting on Sunday.

The NCRPO previously said it will deploy… pic.twitter.com/Ks8bguB9t1

— Inquirer (@inquirerdotnet) November 14, 2025

.......since the story on local TV is in Tagalog, I will post some videos from other source:

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this is from one month ago:

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