As to testimony of ruby tuason in today's hearing: re malampaya where they are trying to link me >> Per her own testimony, ruby and I were not seeing eye to eye because what she did to my cousin Butch (burned his clothes). We were not in talking terms. As to Jess Santos, it's double hearsay  cos she said it's her bro (who can't confirm cos he is dead) who said he knows Jess Santos. But she also has no proof that the money went to Jess Santos.

Ruby Tuason did not claim of knowing atty Jess Santos, its her deceased brother who allegedly dealt with him.

TRIBUNE: BAD POLICIES, NOT WEATHER, BLAMED FOR HIGH JOB LOSS

Members of House Independent Minority Bloc yesterday said the government has a lot of explaining to do on the supposed 2013 fourth quarter 7.2 percent growth in the gross domestic product (GDP), as the two figures don't meet eye to eye. The bloc issued this reaction yesterday as they noted that the supposed GDP growth was conflicting as against surge in the number of the unemployed to 12 million.

TRIBUNE: NOY'S B-DAY GIFT TO LUISITA FARMERS: HOLDING THEM AT GUNPOINT, RAZING HOMES

President Aquino's birthday gift from his family's corporation, Tadeco, was its security guards, also known as the Aquino-Cojuangco's yellow army that held the Hacienda Luisita farmers at gunpoint while the rest of armed security personnel destroyed huts, crops and homes of farmers.

TRIBUNE: 2 TUASON AFFIDAVITS BARE PORK FRAME UP

The script for the pork barrel melodrama on the chapter involving now state witness Ruby Chan Tuason, an erstwhile Malacañang employee, is a work in progress and is revised along the way based on the two affidavits of Tuason that The Tribune got hold yesterday.

MLA TIMES: BELMONTE FAKE SARO DIDN'T COME FROM CONGRESS

"There is zero probability that it [fake SARO] came from the House. It didn't come from here. It came from DBM and so far they [NBI] are only targeting low-level people in the DBM. In fact the only guy that you can be sure of is the driver," Belmonte, a lawyer, said in a chance interview.

MLA STANDARD: ECONOMIC CZAR ADMITS GOVT LAGS IN JOB CREATION

The National Economic Development Authority on Wednesday admitted that despite hitting economic targets, the Aquino administration has lagged behind in providing social protection and creating jobs. "We are on track with respect to our economic targets, but we lag with respect to our social outcomes," NEDA director general Arsenio Balisacan said during Tuesday's Cabinet meeting.

MANILA TIMES: PH drops in press freedom ranking

PHILSTAR: World press freedom: Phl slips to 149th

MLA STANDARD: Work environment for PH media 'worsens'

TRIBUNE: Impunity vs media thrives under Noy's watch - RSF (France based Reporters Sans Frontier's or reporters without borders)

YEAR 2010
Pnoy promised rice suffiency in 2013
- result: rice smuggling record-high; pnoy promised "pag walang korupt, walang mahirap"
- result: with DAP nad PDAF, dumami ang corrupt; pnoy promised to return hacienda luisita to farmers
-result: slowly being taken back by the hacienderos and wow, getting paid for it; pnoy promised a better economy
- result: increased poverty, hunger and unemployment; pnoy promised judicial reform
- result: political opponents arrested and jailed without evidence while corrupt allies go scot-free.
ANYARE???

ginamit daw ang DAP to pump prime or stimulate the economy ..dinugtungan pa na "mission accomplished" kaya itinigil na. bakit DUMAMI pa ang WALANG TRABAHO?? saan talaga NAPUNTA ang DAP?

a week ago, PNOY was quoted as saying "go after MERALCO".

now this:

PHILSTAR: GOVT JUSTIFIES APPROVAL OF MERALCO RATE HIKE
The Department of Energy DEFENDED before the Supreme Court (SC) yesterday its approval of MERALCO'S P4.15 per kilowatt-hour power rate increase.

Anyare?

-- who will DEFEND the consumers? ANYBODY?

INQUIRER: GOVT, NOT TYPHOON, TO BLAME FOR UNEMPLOYMENT - GROUPS

"The cause of the present jobs disaster in the country is NOT YOLANDA BUT NOYNOY. Aquino's dependence on foreign investments and refusal to implement genuine land reform and national industrialization are disastrous for the employment situation in the country," KMU chairperson Elmer Labog said in a statement.

INQUIRER: The Asian Development Bank (ADB), in a recent publication titled "Taking the Right Road to Inclusive Growth," said the failure of the country to boost its industrial sector was a key reason why its economic growth remained far from being inclusive. "The Philippines economy's chronic problems of high unemployment, slow poverty reduction and low investment are reflections of the sluggish industrialization," the ADB said.

ON RISING NUMBERS OF UNEMPLOYED: Malacañamg had a READY EXCUSE for this. According to the Palace, this was to be expected with MAN-MADE AND NATURAL CALAMITIES hitting the country last year, Labor Secretary Rosalinda Baldoz now claims that government data show that CALAMITIES DO NOT HAVE AN IMPACT ON EMPLOYMENT, and that SWS figures are always higher because the latter uses a different methodology.

- HOY! MAG-USAP NGA KAYO!!!

SWS reported a sizable increase in unemployment, WATCH OUT for the NEXT SURVEY RELEASE saying that THE PRESIDENT IS STILL POPULAR!!

translation: TUWANGTUWA TAYONG MAWALAN NG TRABAHO!
O DI BA?

SWS reported a sizable increase in unemployment, WATCH OUT for the NEXT SURVEY RELEASE saying that THE PRESIDENT IS STILL POPULAR!!

translation: TUWANGTUWA TAYONG MAWALAN NG TRABAHO!
O DI BA?