HARAP-HARAPAN PINAGNANAKAWAN NILA TAYO! OK LANG SA INYO?

WHAT?? AN AMERICAN AT THE NATIONAL FOOD AUTHORITY??

TARANTADO PALA ITONG SINA ALCALA!

 Quezon mafia’ at DA!

Published : Monday, October 28, 2013 00:00

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Written by : Paul M. Gutierrez

ACTIVIST lawyer Argee Guevarra yesterday criticized Agriculture Secretary Proceso Alcala’s “dubious choice of appointees,” including an “American” who has been chosen to head the National Food Authority (NFA), the country’s lead food security agency. 

In a statement, Guevarra accused Alcala of “turning the DA into his own personal playground, appointing members of his ‘Quezon mafia’ into the department, including Orlan Calayag, an American citizen, as NFA administrator.”
“These very same people have been repeatedly accused of involvement in various acts of corruption including the Napoles pork barrel fund scam, yet they seem to continue to enjoy the confidence of Alcala, their political benefactor,” said Guevarra.
“Calayag is an American citizen leading the charge for national food security. Since when did our laws, including the NFA Charter, allow for the appointment of someone who has renounced his Filipino citizenship in order to acquire a foreign one?”
Calayag, former aide of then-congressman Alcala, flew from the United States back to the Philippines on December 19, 2012 bearing US Passport No. 462971672. He has since acquired dual citizenship as American and Filipino more than a year later on  January 7, 2013 -- six months after his appointment as NFA administrator effective  July 1, 2012.
“How was Alcala able to dupe the President into signing Calayag’s appointment in the first place? Even assuming he has regained dual citizenship, still, that does not qualify him for appointment in our bureaucracy,” explained Guevarra, a UP-trained lawyer.
Citing jurisprudence in Maquiling vs. Comelec (G.R. No. 195649, 16 April 2013) and Mercado vs. Manzano (G.R. No. 135083, 26 May 1999), Guevarra argued: “first, one who renounces his Philippine citizenship when he became an American citizen is no longer a natural-born citizen of the Philippines; second, even when he became a dual citizen under RA No. 9225, he does not automatically re-acquire his status as a natural-born citizen of the Philippines.”
The NFA Charter states that its administrator must be a natural-born Filipino.
Calayag’s appointment into the NFA, “absent the vetting process required under the Government-Owned and Controlled Corporations (GOCC) Reform Law 1,” according to Guevarra, also made him chairman of the Food Terminals Inc. and director of the Philippine Fisheries Development Corp.
“This is precisely the kind of mindset that breeds corruption in the DA. When, with impunity, its officials think that they are above the law and can circumvent around it at will,” said Guevarra who first exposed the alleged P457- million overpricing in the DA and NFA’s government-to-government rice importation transaction in April. The said transaction is currently under investigation by both the Senate and House of Representatives.
This week, congressional representatives, COOP NATCCO partylist Rep. Anthony Bravo and Laguna 3rd district Rep. Sol Aragones appealed for “wiser government spending” in the agriculture sector, while Agri-Agra Reporma Para sa Magsasakang Pilipinas (AGRI) partylist Rep. Delph Gan Lee filed House Bill (HB) No. 2936 seeking to end the “NFA’s monopoly on rice importation” as it has supposedly “adversely contributed to the price of the staple grain.”
Rice prices in September hit all-time highs even as the NFA invested heavily in government-led importations, spending US$94.5 million or more than P4 billion to import 205,700 MT of rice from Vietnam in April of 2013, and some P1.7 billion in importation duties and taxes.

Aside from Calayag, farmers’ group Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) earlier named the following as members of Alcala’s “Quezon mafia”: DA Undersecretary for Administration and Finance Antonio Fleta; Arnulfo Mañalac who served as Alcala’s administrator for the Sariaya Bagsakan Center in 2007; DA Assistant Secretary Ed de Luna; Philippine Coconut Authority Administrator and Alcala legal consultant Euclides G. Forbes; Claro Maranan of the National Irrigation Administration; Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Director Asis Perez; Bureau of Plant Industry Director Lito Baron; Philippine Fishing Development Authority Director Rodrigo Jimenez and Agri Technical Insititute director Nicomedes Eleazar.
Fleta, along with DA assistant secretaries Ophelia Agawin and Salvador Salacup, all Alcala appointees, were also implicated in the Napoles pork barrel fund controversy.

WE ARE ALREADY BEING ROBBED BY AQUINO AND ABAD!

The P10-billion question

By Manila Standard Today | Posted 4 hours ago | 181 views

ADMINISTRATION officials cannot simply wave away serious doubts about its plan to give away up to P10 billion in public funds to a private foundation in the United States to establish two research institutes in California.
Already, two officials of the Commission on Higher Education (CHED) have protested the Philippine-California Advanced Research Institute (PCARI) project, which will set up and manage institutes in the University of California Berkley and UC San Francisco focusing on health care and information technology.
CHED Commissioner Nona Ricafort, who had quit, and Director Carmina Alonzo raised some serious questions that neither the commission chairman Patricia Licuanan nor Budget Secretary Florencio Abad have adequately addressed. Nor have the Palace minions who haunt the social networks managed to defend the program against the whiff of irregularity.
Here, if they wish to address them point by point, are the questions that must be answered:
1) What is the legal basis for the P10-billion allocation?
2) Is there a binding contract with any of the US-based universities? If so, what are the terms of those contracts?
3) Why is there no counterpart funding for the project?
4) Why was the project farmed out to a private foundation without the benefit of a public bidding?
5) Is it true that the Philippine government will not own any patents from the inventions and discoveries made by the US-based research teams?
6) Why is the CHED the lead agency when the Department of Science and Technology would be more appropriate?
7) Why should research on tropical illnesses be conducted in the United States, where many of these diseases do not even exist, and where the expertise to deal with them would be even more difficult to find?
8) If the project is as “beautiful” as Abad says it is, why are details about it so nebulous?
The answers to these questions will have serious implications on the legality and propriety of the PCARI project, and the administration must answer each one to the satisfaction of a skeptical public that has seen the folly of entrusting public funds to non-government organizations. Shooting the messenger will not work.
But there is one more, P10 billion question, and it goes like this: Is it correct for this government to pump P10 billion into US-based institutes while cutting back on funding for local state universities and colleges?
Last month, 20 lawmakers protested impending budget cuts worth P3.3 billion for 79 out of 110 state universities and colleges in the proposed 2014 budget.
The same Budget Department that is so eager to give away P10 billion to a US-based private foundation actually slashed the 2014 budget of the University of the Philippines to P8.1 billion, which is even lower than this year’s budget of P9.5 billion. Now that’s just not right.

THE REPUBLIC IS DEAD

   ".. DARK STILL THE FUTURE HOLDS...............HMMMMM.."

 

       "CONSUMED HE IS OF HATE.....VILE HIS HEART IS...."

           "HIS FORCE IS STRONG...WITH THE DARK SIDE."

               "THE ENEMY HAS SPIES EVERYWHERE....."

                   "IN FEAR OF THE FUTURE HE HOLDS ......." 

.

        "HOPE IS NOT SOON.  NO... NOT YET."

BOYCOTT TAXES

UNTIL THE PORK BARREL ISSUE IS RESOLVED, WE URGE THE FILIPINO NATION TO SUSPEND PAYING TAXES!!!

 

WE ALSO BOYCOTT THE NEW TAXES BEING IMPOSED BY THE BIR DEVIL!

 KIM HENARES DEMONYO ANG PUTA!

HENARES: ASO NG MGA CASIQUE!!!

HINDI PO KAMI GATASAN NG GOBYERNONG AQUINO PARA I-SUBSIDIZE  NAMING MGA HARDWORKING CITIZENS ANG CONDITIONAL CASH TRANSFER NA IBINIBIGAY LAMANG NG ADMINISTRASYONG AQUINO SA MGA MAHIHIRAP NA GINAGAWA NILANG TAMAD!

MGA KAMAG-ANAK NA NAMAN!!!

Salceda hails SAN MIGUEL CORPORATION takeover of Albay electric co-op

 (The Philippine Star) | Updated August 19, 2013 - 12:00am

LEGAZPI CITY , Philippines   – Albay Gov. Joey Salceda has hailed the upcoming takeover by San Miguel Corp. (SMC) of the Albay Electric Cooperative (Aleco) that he said  will to solve the unending threats of blackouts in their province. SMC, one of the country’s largest independent power producers, won the bid to manage the beleaguered power coop,.
“Albay would have now SMC as one of its business trophies and send a strong signal to the investment community of the province’s economic potentials,” Salceda stressed.
Albay has recently become country’s fastest growing economy, even with the contant threats of blackouts despite its vast geothermal wealth, due to Aleco’s mounting debts has now reached P4 billion. With a stable electric supply, the province is destined to soar higher, Salceda said.
Energy Secretary Jericho Petilla recently announced SMC’s impending takeover of Aleco, San Miguel will not own ALECO; it will just run the cooperative and “shoulder the debt and pay monthly concession fees.”
The National Grid Corp. recently cut off Aleco’s power supply for failure to pay a month’s bill, plunging the entire province into darkness for 24 hours. Salceda negotiated for a reconnection in behalf of Aleco.  

Salceda said he fully supports SMC’s takeover of Aleco’s management. “Given

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SMC’s vaunted management expertise and marketing clout, there are huge synergies that can further propel Albay to a higher level of economic stature,” he added.
Salceda noted that SMC Caticlan Airport, the principal gateway to Boracay, under the public-private partnership program, while Albay, a major tourism destination is the site of the Southern Luzon International Airport, which as a  regional hub can make a Caticlan-Legazpi air route viable.
Salceda noted that with SMC around, Albay will have not just stable power supply but also the conglomerate’s strong brands and destination networks that will help enhance Albay as a prime tourist destination coupled.
“Having been in the corporate sector since 1989, I have yet to see an enterprise fail due to mismanagement by the SMC group which has instead distinguished itself for impressive corporate results and corporate social responsibility,” he stressed.
 “I don’t know of distribution utilities managed by top corporations, but compared to Meralco and Smart, SMC has been way ahead of the curve in demonstrating that you can earn more with low prices - the lowest priced gin and the lowest priced beer in the whole world, with Lucio Tan at par or slightly lower,” he added.

SMC wins bid for Albay Electric Coop.

August 18, 2013 8:07 pm

by MANNY T. UGALDE
CORRESPONDENT

LEGAZPI CITY: San Miguel Corp. (SMC) is set to takeover the debt-ridden Albay Electric Cooperative (Aleco) after three other interested buyers withdrew during the August 7 bidding for the said power distributor, Gov. Joey Salceda of Albay said over the weekend.
The governor noted that SMC would shoulder Aleco’s P4-billion debt.
He added that the Aleco bids and awards committee would announce its decision during the cooperative’s general assembly on August 21

TRAITOR TO THE HIGHEST DEGREE

AQUINO IS A TRAITOR. 

NO SELF-RESPECTING FILIPINO WOULD FORGIVE A MAN, A FRIEND, OR MUCH LESS A LEADER OF HIS OWN NATION, WHO BOWS BEFORE A SOVEREIGN, ALIEN TO HIS OWN, TO PROTECT HIS OWN HIDE.

IN THE TRADITION OF PHILIPPINE TRAITORS, BENIGNO THE 3RD, RANKS THE FIRST.

THIS IS TREASON. AND THIS IS A CULPABLE VIOLATION OF THE PHILIPPINE CONSTITUTION.

GENTLEMEN, WE HAVE A TRAITOR IN OUR MIDST. IT'S ABOUT TIME THAT WE DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

IBA ANG SINASABI NIYA SA GINAGAWA NIYA

IKAW, MANINIWALA KA PA BA SA KANYA? 

MAG-ONLINE KA NA RIN! 

LET'S CAMPAIGN FOR A NATIONWIDE CYBER-PROTEST AND SOCIAL "DISOBEDIENCE"!

 Noynoy hies off to Tarlac on Labor Day

• Written by  Tribune
• Thursday, 02 May 2013 00:00

Labor groups were busy protesting on their day, but President Aquino conveniently hied himself off to Tarlac, with the Palace claiming that Aquino spent the morning of Labor Day to get some rest and for him to recuperate from colds and his bout with coughing.
Aquino was said to have traveled to Tarlac City Tuesday afternoon, immediately after his dialog with labor group representatives in the Palace, to witness a job fair in the area.
Presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda said this rest day for Aquino is “an opportunity for him to rest. You know he is suffering from coughs and colds, He is taking medications for them,” adding that Aquino is is not trying to evade Labor Day protests in Manila.
“Yesterday, after the event, then later , he also had an event . He now has a chance to rest, So today is a good day for him to rest lang before his event at 4 o’clock,” he said.
The President will have an event with the local community in Victoria, Tarlac this (Wednesday) afternoon.
Lacierda also said the President spearheaded the Labor Day activities on Tuesday based on the advice by the Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) and it was not the President’s decision for him to take a rest today.
The labor department wanted the Labor Day activities on April 30 so as not to crowd the labor groups’ activities for May 1, Lacierda said.
“But this was suggested, I think if I’m not mistaken, weeks ago or a month ago. You know how it is with the schedule of the President. Thats’ planned in advance,” he said.
Meanwhile, in celebration of the 127th International Workers’ Day and its 110th year in the Philippines, a militant labor group staged a nationwide protest condemning the rabidly anti-worker and pro-capitalist regime of Aquino.
Aquino has again rejected workers’ calls for a significant wage hike, the junking of contractual employment and a stop to trade-union repression. He has bragged about non-wage benefits and his government’s efforts at creating jobs.
“The Aquino regime has been using the technicality that is the one-year ban on hiking wages to try to obscure the fact that it is insensitive toward the long-standing hunger and poverty being experienced by the country’s workers,” an official statement said.
“We condemn Aquino’s use of non-wage benefits, which come from workers’ taxes and premium contributions, to try to cover up his strong opposition to a wage hike. Unlike a significant wage hike, non-wage benefits will not directly and immediately give workers any relief from the soaring prices of goods and services.”
“We condemn Aquino for taking advantage of chronic unemployment to try to blackmail workers into accepting starvation wages, contractual employment, and violations of trade-union rights. The truth is that wages in the country have been pressed down for too long yet jobs available to Filipinos remain dismally scarce.”
The problem lies in the government’s refusal to implement land reform and national industrialization and generate decent employment through these policies. It has instead relied on foreign investments to create jobs in the country, and has offered cheap and repressed labor to attract foreign investors into the country statement further.
On his third Labor Day and almost three years in office, Aquino has thoroughly exposed himself as anti-worker and pro-capitalist. His statements leading to this Labor Day are merely footnotes to his already long record of implementing policies that are favorable to capitalists, especially the big and foreign ones, and detrimental to workers.
For almost three years, Aquino has consistently rejected calls for a significant wage hike, is attempting to impose wage cuts and wage freezes through the Two-Tiered Wage System, has legalized contractual employment, and is continuing policies that are repressive of workers’ right to unionize, collectively bargain and strike.
Today, our protests against the anti-worker and pro-capitalist Aquino regime will ignite. We vow to launch bigger protests in the coming weeks and months in order to push forward our just demands for our wages, job security and trade-union rights statement ended.
With Pat C. Santos and PNA

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  Wow, mukhang iba ang mga pinagsasabi sa pinaggagawa.
  Nasaan ang pinagsasabi at pinagyayabang nilang ito kung ganoon? Hanggang yabang lang ba ito?
  Sabi nila, " No one is allowed to relax – not even President Aquino – as the homestretch of the campaign begins." Pagkatapos, sabi naman ni Lacierda, this rest day for Aquino is “an opportunity for him to rest." Alin ba talaga ang totoo sa mga pinagsasabi nila?
  Punong puno talaga ng pagkukunwari, pagbabalatkayo at kaplastikan at saka kapalpakan.
  Ito basahin niyo.
  Noy, administration bets won’t relax until end of campaign
  By Aurea Calica, The Philippine Star, May 1, 2013
  MANILA, Philippines - No one is allowed to relax – not even President Aquino – as the homestretch of the campaign begins.
  Team PNoy campaign strategists vowed to work harder to raise the ratings of their senatorial candidates who are at the bottom of the poll surveys, a team spokesman said.
  The President told reporters after a dialogue with labor groups in Malacañang yesterday that he gave “marching orders” for all the administration candidates to give their best shot.
  “I tell all candidates that nobody should relax at this point in time. I think I am leading also by example. We believe we are espousing a certain ideology. Regardless of my physical condition, I will endeavor to maximize delivering the message to our people,” he said.
  Cita Wednesday, 01 May 2013 18:26 Comment Link

A SERIOUS SECURITY RISK, THIS MONKEY SHOULD BE RELIEVED AS COMMISSIONER OF IMMIGRATION!!!

THIS GUY DOES NOT KNOW WHAT HE IS DOING.

MALEDUCATED, UNDERNOURISHED, INTELLECTUALLY AND INCOMPARABLY INFERIOR TO FORMER COMMISSIONERS RUFUS RODRIGUEZ AND MIRIAM SANTIAGO AND WORSE, HE DOES NOT READ WHAT HE IS SIGNING!

HE IS A CERTIFIED ASSHOLE AND A RETARD!

CALLING THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION AND OMBUDSMAN INTELLIGENCE GROUP!

DAVID HAS BEEN ISSUING A LOT OF ILLEGAL PERSONNEL ORDERS AND MEMORANDUMS.

HE IS ALSO PROTECTED BY HIS MISTRESS WHO ACTS AS IF SHE WAS THE HEAD OF THE IMMIGRATION OFFICE..

 TONIA MANGROBANG, MAY ASAWA KA NA HOY!

Customs privatization ‘unconstitutional’ — solon

• Written by  PNA
• Monday, 29 April 2013 00:00 

A House leader yesterday warned against any proposal or move to abolish the Bureau of Customs (BoC) and replace it with a professional institution run by private officials and employees, noting that such is “unconstitutional.”

House Deputy Majority Leader Magtanggol Guni-gundo opposed the BoC replacement, which is among various proposals raised to stamp out corruption and smuggling at the agency.
“That’s a very dangerous proposition. Tax collection is a power that only the government can exercise. It will be unconstitutional to give that power to a private ins-titution that is profit-driven,” said Gunigundo, who was former chief of the Special Anti-Smuggling Unit of then Customs Commissioner Guillermo Parayno.
Instead of abolishing the BoC, he said there should be long-range restructuring of the agency and the BoC should be given fiscal autonomy to make it a strong bureau that can withstand political pressure.
“Exercise political will and apply the attrition law even if it involves BoC officials protected by powerful politicians,” he stressed.
During his time at the BoC, Gunigundo said the agency’s anti-smuggling campaign was effective. “It was effective because Malacañang protected us from the ire of politicians. We could run after contraband, re-assign personnel even if the person is backed by top government officials.”
He also disagreed with calls from some sectors to replace Customs chief Ruffy Biazon. “I am not in favor of that. Changing the head alone will not make BoC any better.”
Earlier, Biazon said he had initial talks with President Aquino about the ultimate solution to smuggling and corruption in the BoC.
Biazon said corruption is deeply embedded in the BoC’s culture and system so dismissing a few people or catching some smugglers will not totally eradicate the corruption problem.
The BoC official said the solution is to completely automate the system that will stop direct dealings between customs employees and importers. Biazon also proposed abolishing the entire Customs bureau to get rid of all the corrupt officials and employees in the agency.      

SINTO-SINTONG GOBYERNO

Delusional government

By Manila Standard Today | Posted on Apr. 29, 2013 at 12:01am | 116 views

IT was embarrassing to listen to President Aquino badmouth members of his own economic team last week simply because they reported that poverty had remained unchanged since 2006.
The statistics, released every three years by the National Statistical Coordination Board, showed that 28 out of 100 Filipinos still lived in poverty as of 2012, much as they did in 2006. While the numbers were reported without comment, they clearly suggested what Mr. Aquino was loathe to admit. Nothing he did in his first two years in office put a dent in the war on poverty, and the billions he had squandered on his so-called 4Ps program, a straight dole to the “poorest of the poor” families, had accomplished nothing that was statistically significant.
On this basis, the President called into question the veracity of the statistics and even the motives of the bureaucrats in his government that collated them. Pointing to an unrelated statistical error that was reported by a completely different agency of government, he cast doubts on the NSCB for sharing an inconvenient truth with the public.
The behavior is sadly typical of an administration that has mastered the art of cherry-picking figures that put it in a good light and dismissing or even discrediting data that lifts the curtain on its failures. The offshoot of this practice is that it leads to a false sense of accomplishment and provides a poor basis for sound policy making.
For the last three years, we have had to listen to Mr. Aquino blame his predecessor for all the country’s woes, and paint a rosy picture of change under his administration in his annual State of the Nation Address. But we now know from experience that what Mr. Aquino says often bears little resemblance to the unadorned truth.
Last year, for example, he boasted that disaster response under his administration was so good that “relief goods are ready even before a storm arrives.” It isn’t farfetched to believe that Mr. Aquino’s complacency and confidence contributed to the social disaster that followed in Davao, where starving farmers, victims of a powerful typhoon, stormed a government warehouse in February after the Department of Social Welfare and Development had failed to keep its promise to distribute sacks of rice to them to stave off hunger. Confronted with her failure to do her job, the Cabinet member responsible simply turned the tables on the typhoon victims, calling them “agitators” and threatening to charge them in court.
In the same State of the Nation Address last year, the President boasted that the agrarian reform program that his mother had begun during her term would finally see fruition under his guidance. The inconvenient truth: one full year after the Supreme Court ordered Mr. Aquino’s family to distribute its Hacienda Luisita sugar estate to tenant farmers, not a single square meter of farmland has changed hands.
Mr. Aquino’s love of the positive also colors his relationship with the press, whom he has constantly chided to focus on good news and to “avoid negativism” – which is fast becoming an administration mantra.
United States President Barack Obama, whom Mr. Aquino likes to style himself after, offered a contrasting view at a recent dinner for the press. “My job is to be the president, your job is to keep me humble,” he told the roomful of journalists.
On the other hand, Mr. Aquino insists that the role of media is to make him look good, whether he deserves it or not.