PHILSTAR: More than P17.5 million worth of medicine procured by the Department of Health (DOH) in 2012 have reportedly expired and are rotting in the agency's storage room, according  to the Commission on Audit (COA).

ANC: The country's economic growth slowed as expected by 7% in the 3rd quarter, the weakest this year, dragged down by agriculture and exports. The slowdown also comes amid speculation that the government slowed down spending due to the pork barrel controversy. In a briefing Thursday, the National Statistical Coordination Board (NSCB) said the economic growth rate was pegged at 7%. But this is lower than the 7.6% growth in the 2nd quarter.

TRIBUNE: ABAD'S DBM KEPT COA IN THE DARK - AUDIT CHIEF

The CoA, since 2010, was being kept in the dark by the DBM as the state audit agency was denied any access on any documents pertaining to VILPs for "hard projects", CoA chairman Grace Pulido-Tan admitted to the Senators. In the course of auditing P32 billion worth of VILP releases for the said period, the CoA found out that the actual amount stood at P115.9 billion yet CoA could only trace P46.7 billion or only 40 percent "because of the DBM's refusal to cooperate."

NEWS: COA ADMITS RECEIVING P150-M DAP 'INCENTIVES', Computers, Brand New Cars, CCTV, and Consultancies. IS THIS WHAT ABAD WAS SAYING ABOUT DAP AS ECONOMIC "STIMULUS"?

GMA News, DZBB

Mga kongresista, dismayado sa freeze order ng Court of Tax Appeals sa bank deposit ni Manny Pacquiao.

14-0 vote. DAP and malampaya disbursements except those for energy will most likely be declared unconstitutional. BS Aquino, Cabinet, senate and house. Leadership should resign. Follow Japanese example! Soon, Pnoy won't be able to bribe senators and congressmen again.

SC rules pdaf unconstitutional 14-0. Ayos na si noytard.

INQUIRER: An irrelevant president
antonio montalvan II re leyte victims and survivors:  We honor them not because the most powerful man of this country has not, but because it is the rightful and the most humane thing to do. The whole world's humanity, now converging in the Philippines, honors them. Never mind if the most powerful man in the Philippines has not. He has begun to reveal his irrelevance. He no longer is our leader.

Thank you CNN particularly Anderson Cooper, Christiane Amanpour and Andrew Stevens for exposing that Typhoon Noynoying a.k.a. Pnoy is the worst catastrophe that hit the Phil. Government. Pls pass until this reaches CNN and the Phil. Abnormal President.

The Aquino govt "has expanded presidential pork barrel or discretionary funds to over a trillion pesos, more than any other president." Ernie Maceda