TRIBUNE: Noynoy's flagship anti-poverty scheme, the so-called conditional cash transfer (CCT) program, is targeting an expansion of coverage through the P63 billion that is being requested for its funding next year, P5 billion of which just for administrative expenses. Periodic surveys on self-rated poverty and hunger incidents would be good gauges on the dole-out scheme. The number of Filipino families who responded to such surveys, however, indicate that they felt to be in worse state than the previous year. Even the basic form of indicator, which is the incident of hunger, the program can be considered a miserable failure since those saying that they go hungry at least once a day have increased substantially, based on what a pollster - one whom the Palace says spends a lot of money on for support.

Dzmm:

Dps Valte: mga schedule ni president bs aquino III ngayong araw kanselado na din. Ngunit pnoy imo -- monitor daw ang sitwasyon sa ncr. --- Josh hinahanap ka ni Tito! ---

FWD - Who is at fault sa sobrang pagbaha ngayon other than nature? Si Pangulong BSA 111 who cancelled the Belgian contract to dredge Laguna Lake na dapat tapos na by now! What good has he done anyway that he gets away with anything and everything? Pls pass

This felt like being cheated twice over. First, by the ruthless plunder of state coffers by pork-crazy politicos. Second, by PDI's overwhelmingly selective revelations, which made it look like opposition senators, possible presidential contenders, and a few hitherto nameless and faceless congressmen had the exclusive franchise to the pork market, and that BS Aquino buddies and Liberal Party Bosses like Niel Tupas and Neptali Gonzales were like Adam and Eve before the Fall - free of the stain of original sin.

with PNOY going to HIS FOURTH YEAR in office, BUMABAHA pa rin sa metro manila, MATRAPIK pa rin sa edsa, hindi makapasok sa eskwela, may putukan at pagsabog pa rin sa mindanao, mataas pa rin ang bilihin, lalong DUMAMI nag NAGUGUTOM at walang trabaho, NAG-AAGAWAN pa rin sa PORK, mas dumami ang squatters at basura, walang investors na dumadating, tuloy ang PAGYAMAN ng mga Ayala, Sy, Tan, Cojaungco at Lopezes, puro presscons at press releases, panay ang PANANAKOT ng DOJ, BI at NBI, wala namang nahuhuli pero natatakasan pa. gumagastos ng MILYON sa propaganda pero walang maibigay na bonus sa mga empleyado ng PAGASA.

CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFER (CCT) IS THE MOTHER OF ALL PORK!! asking a whooping P63 BILLION now, what happened to the 2011 30B and 2012 40B? if the program was EFFECTIVE, they should be asking for LESS! with the distribution under the discretion of Pnoy, Abad and Dinky - 63 BILLION PORK!!! yet FILIPINOS ARE POORER AND HUNGRIER THAN EVER!

questions to ask palace: did COA submitted advance copy of its report? did the palace pre-selected the years covered by the report that will be used in Tan's presscon? who received and read the report?

questions to ask Pulido-Tan: it took her 3 years just to cover discrepancies from 2007-2009? why was she quiet until Napoles made the headlines? why did she hide (during the presscon) other Pnoy allies in her submitted list and mentioned only those not in good terms with Pnoy? is COA now under OP?

TRIBUNE: COA REPORT COVERS UP NEW, BIGGER PORK SCAMS SOLON SAYS AQUINO'S FAVORED PARTYLIST GOT P4.05B

The release of the Commission on Audit (CoA) special report on the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) was calculated to enrage the people on particular lawmakers who have received excessive funds during the previous administration, but it actually was meant to cover up irregularities in the PDAF's release under  the watch of President Aquino, a member of the independent House minority bloc said yesterday. Abakada Rep. Jonathan dela Cruz said the CoA REPORT WHICH was released by CoA Chairman Grace Pulido Tan herself last Friday was INTENDED TO DIVERT public attention from BIGGER PDAF IRREGULARITIES UNDER AQUINO'S TERM. However, during the deliberation for the 2011 budget sometime in 2010, AKBAYAN PARTYLIST, a staunch ally of Aquino, got its pork complete with gravy, the trimmings and the side dishes, as it WAS GRANTED a P4.05-BILLION FUND for this marginalized constituents in agrarian reform communities.

MLA STANDARD: JOJO ROBLES - CoA has decided, apparently on its own, TO LIMIT ITSELF to investigating PDAF allocations from the YEARS 2007 TO 2009. WHY CoA Chairman Grace Pulido-Tan thought people would be satisfied with SUCH A LIMITED AUDIT, only she can explain. But Pulido-Tan has apparently fallen into the same trap (or hewed to the same strategy, take your pick) where ONLY LAWMAKERS WHO SERVED IN THE PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION - and who are now identified with the opposition - are guilty of misusing their PDAF allocations.

MLA STANDARD: GARY OLIVAR - THE WITCH-HUNT CONTINUES

Why the timing of the special audit, and WHY IT WAS CONFINED ONLY TO THE CLOSING YEARS OF THE ARROYO ADMINISTRATION, doesn't seem to have been explained by Mrs. Tan, an Aquino appointee. If one were inclined to be more suspicious than this columnist is, one might think that THIS IS A HAM-HANDED ATTEMPT TO DISTRACT THE PUBLIC'S ATTENTION from a smear operation (the Napoles expose) that got out of hand (because of the unexpected breadth of its disclosures), and try to REFOCUS PUBLIC INDIGNATION on the administration's favorite hate object, the former President.

nasaan na ang COA report ng 2010-2013.. If ngayon lang lumutang si Napoles, nasaan siya noong 2010-2013?

PHILSTAR: DICK PASCUAL

President Noynoy Aquino has served notice that, UNDER HIS WATCH, THE PORK BARREL STAYS. Naturally. He needs the pork TO CONTROL salivating senators and congressmen (majority of them anyway) and DO HIS BIDDING. Then the senators and the congressmen in his pocket, in turn, move TO PROTECT THEIR PALACE PATRON in SYMBIOTIC PROSTITUTION. Where does that leave the people, who have been FOOLED THE PAST THREE YEARS into thinking THEY ARE THE BOSS?

BLOG MANILA TIMES Three points:

1.) I am beginning to think that Pnoy and his cohorts have been folling us all the while. Otherwise, why are records of his PDAF and that of his cohorts not released to the COA team? what is he hiding from the public???

2.) I now understand why the FOI bill will NEVER PROSPER . . . the PDAF fraud is the very reason.

3.) Why doesn't Pnoy initiate a COA audit on the PDAF expenditures in his term from 2010-2013???
Josef Raymund, josef_raymund@yahoo.com

MANILA TIMES: BOBI TIGLAO - AQUINO ALLIES EXCLUDED FROM COA REPORT

I wouldn't doubt the COA data on these senators. However, how did President Aquino - a senator from 2007 until he  was elected President in 2010, which covers the year 2002 to 2009 which were the subject of the COA's investigation - use his pork barrel? For that matter, how did the senators now known to be Aquino loyalists and allies use theirs? Foremost among these are Aquino side-kick Mar Roxas, senator from 2004 to 2010, the Cayetano siblings Alan and Pia, Francis Escudero, Francisco Pangilinan, Antonio Trillanes, Loren Legarda, Rodolfo G. Biazon, and even Jamby Madrigal. Were these legislators saints?

TRIBUNE: NINEZ CACHO OLIVARES

As stated by Lacierda, Transport chief Jun Abaya "will provide the due process. We'll look into it first. Of course, she will be asked. That is the process, you cannot just ax her immediately. "REALLY? But didn't Noynoy immediately ax the NIA chief, without due process? And were Gloria Arroyo and the rest of the former PCSO officials given due process prior to the filling of plunder charges against them? But there Lacierda went again, hypocritically saying the public can assured that Torres would not be given special treatment. Yet the past tells a different story, when it comes to presidential cronies, and in this instance, Torres. Recall that even in the early days, Noynoy chose not to sack Torres, and instead sacked his then Transport chief, Ping de Jesus, since he wanted her fired for insubordination. And even when there has been a great delay in the delivery of license plates and even has never been reprimanded by Noynoy.

Ms. DOJ Sec. You are not a Law Maker to change the Law on HDO. Wala pong pagkakatulad ang HDO at Warrant of Arrest para masabing magka pareho ang epekto. Ang HDO po ay para hindi makaalis ang tao sa bansa at walang kulong, ang Warrant po ay para hulihin at ikulong. Yan po isa sa maraming pagkakaiba. Pagusapan naman natin ang Citizen's Arrest. Huwag maniwala na maari ninyong arrestuhin si Napoles kung saan man makita. Isa sa mga elemento ng Citizen's Arrest ay personal mo nakita ang taong aarestuhin mo na gumagawa ng Krimen. Huwag kang sumama sa katangahan. Mag ingat at baka sa huli ikaw ang makulong.

MANILA TIMES: JOJO ROBLES

But I hope Napoles enjoys living on the run, something some people said she should have experienced early on, when she was charged with making a killing by supplying the military with substandard Kevlar helmets. As for remaining uncaught, I think that's already a given; just ASK Ping Lacson.

MANILA TIMES: National debt rises to P5.45 trillion August 16, 2013

The debt of the national government (NG) rose to P5.4 trillion as of end-June 2013, which is 1.6 percent, or P87 billion higher from the previous month's level. Data from the Bureau of Treasury (BTr) showed that of the total debt, P1.95 trillion, or 35.8 percent, was from foreign creditors while P3.5 trillion, or 64.2 percent, was sourced from domestic creditors.

People are saying the Inquirer headline of 28 houses owned by Napoles is wrong, because she owns 2 more houses which they failed to count --- the Upper House and the Lower House. Mwahaha!