SONOFAGANID!!!

DOG BREEDS

WHATEVER THEY DO, OR WHATEVER THEY PRETEND TO BE . . .

 

ASO PA RIN TINGIN NAMIN SA KANILA

 ANOTHER DOG ON THE RIGHT SIDE . . . .

PARE-PAREHO NA SILANG ASO

TSK. . . TSK . . . TSK . . .

KUNG BAKIT KASI ANG TATAKAW NINYO. .

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.

ANG BINUBUSOG NI PNOY AY YUNG MGA NASA ITAAS LAMANG

Workers protest MWSS board's 'excessive' allowances

By Alvin Elchico, ABS-CBN News

Posted at 08/13/2012 5:41 PM | Updated as of 08/14/2012 8:24 AM

MWSS chairman denies allegations

MANILA, Philippines - Employees of the Metropolitan Waterworks and Sewerage System (MWSS) on Monday held a protest rally to denounce what they call are "excessive" benefits given to members of its board.
Holding placards and streamers, around 30 MWSS employees protested during their lunch break. They claimed that each board member is paid P9,000 per regular committee meeting and P 15,000 for board meeting.
Nap Quiñones, MWSS Labor Association president, claimed MWSS officials and consultants are violating the new government-owned and controlled corporation (GOCC) law.
The group said MWSS trustees would schedule 4 committee meetings in a day, which would total earnings of P36,000 a day.
The group also accused the new MWSS management of hiring 36 consultants at P30,000 each.
They noted while the board members slashed their meal allowance of P150 a day to P3 a day, they feasted on excessive allowances.
The protesters were joined outside the MWSS by consumer group Water for All Refund Movement (WARM) who also denounced the hefty allowances and demanded the ouster of MWSS officials.
WARM also insisted on the refund of around P2 billion in collections to fund the cancelled Laiban dam and Bulacan irrigation projects initiated by the MWSS during the previous administration.
'Baseless accusations'
MWSS chairman Ramon Alikpala said all the accusations of the group were not true and have no basis. While Alikpala did not dispute the P9,000 per diem for each committee meeting, he insisted that the board members do not receive compensation or salary package.
He said this amount is within bounds of the law. Alikpala said it is not true that members of the board had meetings held 4 times a day.
There was an instance in April that several committee meetings were held but Alikpala said these were attended by different members of the board.
Compared to the previous chairman of the board who received P5 million a year, Alikpala said he only gets an income of P500,000, just a fraction of what his predecessor got.
Alikpala admitted the reduction of the meal allowance but stressed the additional compensation has no basis in law. He also defended the hiring of consultants which he claimed are needed in specialized area concerns of the MWSS but the number did not reach 36 at all.
When asked if he will resign, Alikpala said "if I do leave MWSS, it won't be because of this."
Meanwhile, Alikpala said the collected amount for the shelved Laiban and Bulacan irrigation project will not be refunded since the government will push through with these projects anyway. Any over- or undercollection can be remedied in the current rate rebasing done by the MWSS regulatory office for both Maynilad and Manila Water, he added.

TREASON !

A PRESIDENT WHO DOES NOT CONVENE THE SECURITY COUNCIL AND LIKEWISE INDIFFERENT TO THE CHINESE ENCROACHMENT OF THE PHILIPPINE TERRITORY IS GUILTY OF TREASON!

THE PRESIDENT IS DOING NOTHING!

CHINESE MILITARY WARSHIPS ARE ALREADY INSIDE OUR TERRITORIAL WATERS!

THEY ARE POACHING ON OUR WATERS, OUR MARITIME FOOD SUPPLY, WITH IMPUNITY.

AND THIS CREEP IS DOING NOTHING!

THERE IS A WAY TO DEAL WITH A CROOKED AND A TREASONOUS PRESIDENT!