INQUIRER: METRO NANILA FLOOD CONTROL PLAN BUDGET A PITTANCE
The DPWH flood control master plan for Metro Manila and nearby provinces - which has a total proposed budget of P352 BILLION - has been included in the agency's budget allocation for 2013. But in a REPORT FURNISHED to the PDI, the DPWH's public information division said ONLY P15.8 BILLION had been allocated by the department for the master plan, among other flood control projects of the department, this year.

INQUIRER: GUN BAN? TELL THAT TO SHOOTING CHAMP
Pres BS Aquino on Sunday took home the championship trophy in a shoot fest with senior police and military officials. Mr. Aquino, a gun enthusiast, bested 102 generals and other senior officers in the executive category of the shooting competition dubbed "Games of the Generals 2013" at the shooting range of Camp Crame, the headquarters of the PNP, a senior official told the PDI. THE COMPETITION WAS HELD IN THE WAKE OF A BLOODY CELEBRATION OF THE NEW YEAR IN SOME PARTS OF METRO MANILA.

STANDARD: KIT TATAD - Malacañang, the Cabinet and Congress have a duty to make sure that any baseless CHARGE OF INSANITY against the President is effectively put down as pure slander or figment of the imagination. The nation must be assured that despite his bad smoker's cough and the PERSISTENT RUMORS OF AUTISM, Aquino is in good health, and nowhere near the case of England's King George III, who suffered a fit of insanity in 1788, recovered for a while, then went permanently mad and had to be locked away at Windsor Castle until his death in 1820.

DZMM TELERADYO: Aprubado at nabusisi umano ng COA ang P366 milyong confidential and intelligence funds na ugat ng kasong plunder na isinampa laban kay dating pangulo at Pamp Rep. Gloria M-Arroyo at iba pang opisyal ng PCSO. Sa 10-pahinang reiterative motion na inihain sa Supreme Court, humihirit si Atty. Anacleto Diaz ng kampo ni CGMA na magkaroon TRO at/o preliminary injunction sa plunder case na nakasampa sa Sandiganbayan laban sa dating pangulo. Paliwanag ng abogado, hindi maaring baligtarin ng Ombudsman ang findings ng COA kung saan nakasaad na legal, marapat at naaayon sa batas ang kinukwestyong pondo. Dagdag pa ni Diaz, isang independent constitutional body ang COA at walang kapangyarihan ang anumang ahensya ng pamahalaan na panghimasukan ang alinmang accouting at auditing rules and regulation nito.

TRIBUNE: COA OKAYED USE OF PCSO INTEL FUNDS - ARROYO
In a 10-page reiterative motion to the Supreme Court for the issuance of a TRO or preliminary injunction on the plunder case pending at the Sandiganbayan, Arroyo, through her lawyer Anacleto Diaz, said the Ombudsman cannot overturn a finding of the CoA that the CIFs were "lawful, necessary, regular and compliant with the rules."

TRIBUNE: COA OKAYED USE OF PCSO INTEL FUNDS - ARROYO
The CoA had cleared the use of P366 million in confidential and intelligence funds (CIFs) of the PCSO which former Pres and now Pamp. Rep. Gloria Arroyo is using as an argument to suspend plunder charges filed by the Ombudsman against her and former directors and ranking officials of the PCSO.

PHILSTAR: GMA ASKS SC TO STOP TRIAL OF PLUNDER CASE
Former Pres Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has asked the SC to stop the Sandiganbayan from trying the plunder case against her for alleged misuse of P363 million in PCSO funds on grounds that the disbursements had the approval of the COA. Through her lawyer, Anacleto Diaz, Arroyo said the Office of the Ombudsman cannot overturn a COA finding that the disbursements of the confidential and intelligence funds are "lawful, necessary, regular and compliant with the rules." The COA had duly audited the disbursements and found them compliant with COA Circular 2003-002, she added.

5:03 DZMM PCSO FUND ANOMALY: TRO O PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION SA PLUNDER CASE LABAN KAY CGMA KAUGNAY SA MAANUMALYANG PAGGAMIT NG PONDO NG PCSO, INIHIRIT NG LEGAL COUNSEL NITO NA SI ATTY. ANICETO DIAZ. DIAZ, SINABING APRUBADO AT NABUSISI NA NG COMMISSION ON AUDIT ANG P363 MILYONG CONFIDENTIAL FUND NG PCSO AT HINDI MAARING BALIGTARIN NG OMBUDSMAN ANG FINDINGS NG COA. DIAZ,  IGINIIT DIN NA MAITUTURING NA INDEPENDENT CONSTITUTIONAL BODY ANG COA AT WALANG KAPANGYARIHAN ANG ANUMANG AHENSYA NG PAMAHALAAN PARA PANGHIMASUKAN ANG ACCOUNTING AT AUDITING RULES AND REGULATIONS NITO.

Ang idol ng kabataan at maralita ay si BS Aquino. Ngayon gusto nila uminom, magsigarilyo, mambabae at mamaril, manduro sa mga fiscal, huwes at Supreme Court, mga Senador at congressman. Pag uminom mamaril at magsigarilyo sila, baka maging presidente sila ng Pilipinas.

TRIBUNE: NINEZ CACHO-OLIVARES - BENT ON HARASSING JOURNALISTS
It is well-known that if Noynoy wants a bill passed, all he has to do is dangle the pork barrel release to his congressmen to get the vote. For him not to move for the decriminalization of of libel, both in the Cyber libel and the regular criminal libel already means that he does not want to have the libel law decriminalised. Apparently, while he fears his acts and contracts and other public, he does not seem to mind having the tool to harass his critics and foes in media, and elsewhere. Truly, Noynoy is a man of promises - broken promises, that is.