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TV Patrol Poll 10/04/2011

Question: Dapat bang magpakita agad si PNoy sa mga lugar na nasalanta ng bagyo?

Oo - 36%
Hindi - 64%

[KlaytoN]

TV Patrol Poll 10/04/2011

Question: Dapat bang magpakita agad si PNoy sa mga lugar na nasalanta ng bagyo?

Oo - 36%
Hindi - 64%

This goes to show that more filipinos are more mature and well-informed. Mas dili na mangita ug IDOL ERAP STYLE ARTISTA TRAPO ang mga pinoy karon.

[AlbertCruz]

Stopped reading at TV Patrol.
LOL, nakalimot na dagway mo kinsa ga.control sa media >_>

[networkguy]

mao na ni ron I thougth gusto niya limpyohan ang custom

Palace places RATS execs in freezer


10/05/2011

A lot of sacred cows appear to litter President Aquino’s much-hyped straight path which was believed to be the reason behind the suspension of eight key officials of the Bureau of Customs (BoC) involved in running after known smugglers.

Suspended was a group of so-called integrity auditors at the BoC who supervise the government’s Run After The Smugglers (RATS) program.

The Department of Justice (DoJ), acting on Malacañang directives, ordered the suspension of Deputy Customs Commissioner Gregorio Chavez, lawyer Christopher Dy Buco, Edgar Quinones, Francisco Fernandez, Alfred Adao, Jose Elmer Velarde, Thomas Patrick Relucio and Jim Erick Acosta.

“The RATS group has stepped on big toes in our unrelenting drive against smugglers. Now, we can see that the smuggling syndicates are using all the resources at their disposal to get rid of us and make the RATS program fail,” Chavez said in a statement sent by email.




The BoC officials filed yesterday an appeal with the Court of Appeals (CA) for the lifting of their suspension noting that the DoJ order effectively paralyzed efforts to curb smuggling in the country’s various ports.

The DoJ issued the suspension on the eight officials for alleged grave misconduct related to alleged smuggling cases filed against Sanyo Seiki Steel Corp. (SSSC).

Based on official documents, the integrity auditors filed last Jan. 20 a complaint against SSSC for allegedly misdeclaring, underweighing and undervaluing various steel and stainless steel importations last year.

The report made by the group stated that the steel products were undervalued by as much as 90 percent, prompting the BoC’s RATS unit to cite the steel firm for the smuggling of P1.3 billion worth of imported steel products.

The RATS group said the importation involving steel coils, steel sheets, steel bars and stainless steel was declared far less than the assessed P1.3 billion value.

A Department of Finance (DoF) source said with the suspension of the group of the integrity auditors, the RATS program was effectively paralyzed and will delay smuggling cases filed earlier or those scheduled for filing of complaints.

The suspension order also removed the group of integrity auditors from the unit that has pursued major smuggling complaints involving amounts of more than P1 billion each and compares with earlier anti-smuggling efforts where the amount involved ranged only in the tens or hundreds of millions of pesos, the source said.

The RATS charged SSSC of submitting false and spurious invoices in a bid to lower the steel firm’s tax and duty obligations to only P25.3 million instead of P179.4 million.

Last June 29, SSSC filed a complaint for alleged graft against Chavez and two other customs officials plus a number of private citizens before the Ombudsman for alleged grave misconduct.

Since President Aquino became the head of state in June last year, the RATS unit has filed 44 smuggling cases with total estimated dutiable value of some P60 billion or an average of P1.4 billion for each case.

The group has also contributed P551 million to the cash revenue collection of the bureau in the form of additional collection from duties and taxes on a number of questionable import transactions.

The increased collection was the direct result of the investigative activities of the RATS group, official sources said.

Aquino himself had said earlier that government efforts against tax evaders and smugglers were “paying off” citing “dramatic” increases in revenue collections.

Aquino said the government’s campaign against tax evaders and smugglers had helped in putting in much-needed revenues into government coffers by as much as 13.47 percent.

“Since we assumed office, we have worked on improving our tax administration efforts and some of the things we have done is run after tax evaders, smugglers and corrupt government officials,” Aquino said.

He noted that since July 2010 a total of 61 tax evasion cases and 43 smuggling cases have been filed against these groups and individuals “with claims totaling around P26 billion and P54 billion, respectively.”

“As we continue to monitor these cases, I am happy to report that our campaign against tax evaders and smugglers is paying off,” Aquino said.

“From January to July this year, revenues collected have already increased by 13.47 percent year on year,” he added.

He said that these “taxes that could have gone to social services, infrastructure, debt reduction or national defense” had the previous administration been more alert to the situation.

“Imagine how much money has been lost over the years,” the President said.

“But as we strive to show that this is no longer the case, I hope we can urge our fellow citizens to pay their share of taxes,” he said. CL

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[kiybordwaryur]

mas maayo pa ang DPWH Officials bisan gi Photoshopped... pero naa jud sila sa scene ug nag buhat real inspection..

pero si Pnoy.. sus marya! kalami sa tulog sa aircon sa Malakanyang...

Tabun-tabuni pa ang sayup sa inyong idol!
Ganahan man kaha mo mapareha ni Dinky doe little-traydor Suliman..
Sabunun pa kaayo ni Anthony Taberna si Pnoy nga palpak..duko lagi ang
political butterfly!

Beat this..! Even a single interview or public appearance or message sa mga victims.. wala jud!

Maayo pa si Pnoy nlng gikalingawan Photochopped sa FB karon!
Fan page Title from DPWhere ---> PNoy Here?

Kalami himuan fan page.. Slogan "PNoy Here! Weeh wala nga!"

[kiybordwaryur]

Stopped reading at TV Patrol.
LOL, nakalimot na dagway mo kinsa ga.control sa media >_>

eh di..ang whore of all media

[fingolfin]

..mods note: it's good that the personal attacks have stopped

[techguys]

PCSO soon to distribute 10 mobile clinics





The Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office is set to distribute to various recipients in the country’s impoverished regions its 10 state-of-the-art mobile clinics. The mobile clinics were not affected by Typhoons Pedring and Quiel, but will still be checked before distibution. PHOTO BY JOSEPH MUEGO

THE Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) will distribute mobile clinics in Mindanao, Visayas and Southern and Northern Luzon as soon as it finishes inspecting the units and ensure that they are in good condition.

PCSO General Manager Jose Ferdinand Rojas 2nd has quashed reports that floods have damaged the mobile clinics.

According to him, these mobile clinics will be distributed once the agency determines that they are in perfect condition. Each units costs P5 million.

“We do not want to turn over the mobile clinics to the beneficiaries unless we are sure [that] they are in perfect running condition and the medical equipment in the mobile clinics are in 100-percent good condition,” Rojas said.

The PCSO will be turning over two mobile clinics to Mindanao, two in Visayas and two each to Southern and Northern Luzon. The remaining two units will stay with the charity agency.

This is the PCSO’s way of reaching out to needy patients in the provinces through its partnership with local government units (LGUs), medical institutions, and non-governmental organizations, according to Rojas.

[PaYaSo]

^^are these the ones that were flooded during typhoon pedring?

[networkguy]

Preaching, but no practising


Malacañang and Congress should leave constitutionally well alone.

In the House’s and Malacañang’s bid to save face, they now say that they won’t have the judiciary’s hiring funds impounded by the Palace and released only when hires are made.

Now they say that these hiring funds will be given in full but imposed the condition that the hiring funds go to hiring and not used elsewhere, but with the judiciary now giving the Palace a report and accounting on how these funds are being spent.

The problem with this condition is the fact that it still impinges on the constitutionally-mandated fiscal autonomy of the judicial branch, which is still a constitutional no-no. But the House and Malacañang also know that if the 2012 budget carries this condition, such will be challenged before the high court and the Palace as well as the House will lose out on this issue, as it is the high court that rules what the law is.

But what is most strange about this move by Malacañang, which claims it is doing this for transparency, is the fact that while Noynoy and his boys, especially his Budget Secretary Butch Abad, speak of having these funds that should not be touched by the executive, or even Congress, the executive branch is certainly not being transparent and not even bothering to give the general public the lowdown on what Noy and his boys do with the funds allocated in the 2011 budget but remain unspent, or used elsewhere.

To cite one instance: The much touted Noy’s public-private partnership had something like P22 billion or so billion for 2011. There has been no such PPP project at all forged since the day Noynoy and his boys took over the government. Recently, it has been announced by Transport Secretary Mar Roxas that the Noynoy government will be dropping the PPP and instead be concentrating on the ODAs for such projects. The 2012 budget should be carrying another P22 billion for the PPP projects, which will no longer be utilized for the PPP. The 2011 funds as well as the 2012 funds are certainly going to be realigned by Noynoy and his budget chief, which means that they do use allocated funds for a different purpose, and worse, refuse to even show either the judiciary or the Congress where these funds went instead.

Then too, what happened to the hiring funds of the executive? It will be recalled that on Day One of Noynoy’s presidency, he wanted all those employees — including the career executives to resign. There were some who did and it is presumed that additional hires have been made, but it has also been made public that there are still some 1,000 positions vacant to be filled. No doubt, there has been an allocation for this purpose, yet, with so many vacancies, it is evident that the funds have again gone to the so-called “savings” which no doubt either, the Palace uses for the yearly bonuses given to government employees, among other “pocketed” expenses.

Stated differently, Noynoy and Abad do not practice what they preach. That which they claim the judiciary, or the Supreme Court should do and not do, they themselves do not do as they should or should not.

They claim to be transparent, yet they are far from being transparent. They want to interfere in affairs of a co-equal branch, but they do not want these co-equal branches to question them on what they do with the funds — in hundreds of billions, which they continue to realign without question.

As for the Commission on Audit that is now headed by Noynoy appointees, doesn’t it strike anyone odd that, to this day, the CoA has not bared reports on at least the first six months of the Noynoy administration for the year 2010? Why not?

But the whole point is, if the executive branch insists on imposing conditions on these hiring funds for the use of the judiciary and the Congress, both of which are co-equal branches and constitutionally mandated to be independent — although the same cannot be said of the House when it comes down to independence, then the same conditions should apply to the executive branch, especially on the issue of transparency.

Preach transparency? Malacañang should lead the way first — by example.

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