ABS-CBN - Julkipli Wadi Dean of UP Institute of Islamic studies-ex-Pres Ramos did not use force in Mindanao to push for peace

- We need strategic thinkers in the Mindanao peace process
- Military options should be used as last resort.
- even if Misuari is removed from power, there will be another Misuari.

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MNLF spokesman atty. Emmanuel Fontanilla on reports that government troops have entered their Lustre St. Command post: Hindi yan totoo!

MANILA STANDARD: 'KIT STANDS BY STORY, VOUCHES FOR SOURCES

Despite Malacañang's official statement describing as "pure fiction" my article in the Manila Standard on President B. S. Aquino's reported "closed-door conversations"  with Janet Lim-Napoles on Aug. 28, 2013, my sources, who are no enemies of the President, stand by their story and I stand by what I have written.

ABS-CBN NEWS: CLEAN UP MNLF MESS, FVR TELLS PNOY

As the crisis in Zamboanga stretched into another day, former President Fidel Ramos gave the Aquino administration an unsolicited advice. "Why don't you clean up your own mess first because you did it in the first place after we turned it over to you in a nice silver platter," he said. Ramos said Aquino should fix his management team. "Put your team in order. After that, maybe you can succeed in cleaning up the mess," he added.

MALAYA - NESTOR MATA - THE MOST EMBARRASSING OF ALL PRESIDENTS!

A few of them may have brought embarrassment to the nation, but in Noynoy Aquino's case, he embarrassed not only the country, but also himself and all the unquestioning, compliant, complicit, fools around him and those who elected him. After three years, two months and 10 days in the seat of power at Malacañan Palace, he clearly revealed his incapacity to lead a country now divided by partisan politics and a government sullied by corruption and plunder of millions and millions and millions of the people's money.

MALAYA: NESTOR MATA - CAUGHT IN A WEB OF LIES

After three years, two months and 17 days in power, Aquino faces today, in the words of one keen political critic, "a monumental crisis of credibility and confidence that could make your administration completely irrelevant and make you as an absolute political lame duck." Indeed, as I noted in this column exactly seven days ago, he is the "most embarrassing of all presidents of our lifetime." Mr. President, your "Bosses" have spoken!

Manila Times: Pondering the impossible: Could Aquino fall? (by Ricardo Saludo)

http://www.manilatimes.net/pondering-the-impossible-could-aquino-fall/40256/

PHILSTAR: Collateral damage BABE'S EYE VIEW By Romualdez
According to Serge Valencia, he was approached by some people in government urging him to be state witness against former President Arroyo, but he says he cannot lie  and can only say what he knows - which is confined to what the board approved. This is precisely what Serge Valencia is hoping to see - that justice will prevail and that all those implicated in allegations of corruption - even Gloria Arroyo who is confirmed to be ill - will be given a dignified, just and fair treatment. It's good to remember what Martin Luther King once said: "Injustice anywhere is threat to justice everywhere."