Filipinos React to the Bogus NGO Scam in PDAF plunder

Looks like Janet Lim-Napoles in cahoots with our dishonorable legislators has Filipinos riled up specifically in the internet social media. They are now proposing some radical change such as abolition of pDAF or pork barrel altogether.

Since everything is almost a cruel joke albeit a cruel one there seems to be a clamor for change or at least some changes that truly reflects the true intent and nature of how government resources are spent by the plunderers errr politicians. The following are some of the list compilations of the proposed change, feel free to add your own:

1. Budgetary Allocation for Crooks' Outreach Nationwide (BACON) 
2. Lawmakers Initiative for Emergency, Miscellaneous and Personal Outlay (LIEMPO)
3. Livelihood Empowerment for Countrywide Humanitarian Outlaw Network (LECHON)
4. Pinagandang Iligal na Gastusin (PIG)
5. Countrywide Universal Priority Initiatives Treasury (CUPIT) Fund
6. Totally New Government PDAF Audited to Satisfaction (TONGPATS)
7. National Assistance Program of Lawmakers Engaged in Swindling (NAPOLES)
8. Holistic Lawmaking for Development of All Filipinos (HOLDAF)
9. Selective Enforcement of Budgetary Outlays (SEBO)
10. Government Outlay Line-itemized and Appropriated Yearly (GOLAY)
11. Fund Integration for Social Housing (FISH)
12. Bridges, Excavations & Elevated Roads Fund (BEEF)
13. Countrywide Allocations With Accountability and Transparency (CAWAT)
14. National Allotment for Countryside Amelioration and Welfare (NACAW)
15. PNoy's Initiative for Good Governance CountrYwide (PIGGY))
16. Countrywide Assistance for Special and Important Matters (CASIM)
17. Budget for Allies for Continuation of Party Dominance (BACON-PD)
18. Hearty Allocation of Money (HAM).
19. Benigno Aquino Development Assistance Fund (BADAF)
20. Countrywide Outreach and Rehabilitation Assistance Fund (CORAF)
21. BSA's Awesome Budget for Outstanding Allies of the Year (BABOY)
22. Horrifyingly Unlimited Money for Belmonte, Aquino and Allies (HUMBA)
23. Pnoy's Allowance and Treasury Allocation (PATA)
24. President Aquino’s Nationwide Outlay for Transparency (PANOT I)
25. President-Approved National Outlay from Treasury (PANOT II)
26. President Aquino's Political Action and Initiative for Total Allocation of National Budget (PAPAITAN)
27. Social Initiative for Service in Governance (SISIG)
28. President’s Overt Revenue Kickback (PORK)
29. President’s Outlay for Countrywide Handling of Emergency Rehabilitation for Opulence (POCHERO)
30. Outlay for the Interest of Noynoy and Kinsfolks (OINK)
31. Countrywide Re-distribution of the Inherent Source of Patronage for the Yellow President’s Allies, Toads and Associates (CRISPY PATA)
32. Legislative Allocation for Reform and Development (LARD)
33. Barangay Initiatives for New Allocations Granting Oversight On Non-Government Associations Nationwide (BINAGOONGAN)
34. Presidential Oversight for Relatives and Kin with Budgetary Entitlement from Legislative Largesse Yearly (PORK BELLY)
35. National Allotment for Countrywide Amelioration and Welfare Initiative Fund (NACAWIN FUND)
36. Budgetary Utilization for Literacy Assistance and Livelihood Opportunities (BULALO)
37. Budgetary Initiatives for Secretive Transactions Enhancing Kickbacks (BISTEK) 
38. Budgetary Allocations for Government’s Nonsense but Endless Transactions (BAGNET)

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Open letter from CHRP on the Maguindanao Massacre

President Benigno Simeon Aquino III
Malacanang Palace
Manila
Republic of the Philippines

23 November 2010

Dear President Aquino,

It is now one year since 57 people were massacred in Magindanao in the Philippines by a local private army. Among the victims were 32 journalists, making this the worst massacre of journalists on record.

Disappearances, torture and murder remain a constant threat to community activists, church workers, lawyers, journalists and trade unionists in the Philippines. Since 1991 there have been over 1200 political killings in the Philippines and the level of killings and abuses shows no sign of abating following your election. The complicity of the Philippines armed forces in these abuses of human rights has been placed on record by among others Philip Alston, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.

There is hope and expectation from all those around the world concerned with human rights that a new government in the Philippines will usher in a new concern for human rights. However, the first 100 days following your coming into office witnessed 16 further political killings. This surpasses the rate of killings of the last months of the previous president Mrs Arroyo. On 12 November the president of the Calamba Water District Union was gunned down by masked men on motorcycles. We have similarly seen disappearances continue with the recent cases of Agusto Ladera and Reanato Deliguer, two farmers who were abducted by soldiers in Surigao del Sur in August.

We call upon your government to bring the suspected perpetrators of the Maguindanao massacre to justice speedily; to bring to justice all those responsible for torture, murder and disappearances in the Philippines; to end the climate of impunity which allows political killings and disappearances to take place; and to ensure a safe environment for journalists and all those who work to defend a free society.

Yours sincerely

Reverend Canon Barry Naylor
Chairman
Campaign for Human Rights in the Philippines (UK)

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NUJP Statement on the Dropping of Charges vs Zaldy and Akmad Ampatuan

National Union of Journalists of the Philippines
April 18, 2010

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Forget justice. Forget law. Forget democracy.

Acting justice secretary Alberto Agra’s order to drop multiple murder charges against Zaldy and Akmad Ampatuan is proof that these principles do not, nay, have never existed under the Arroyo government, that this is governance not through the rule of law but through political expediency.

It is proof of what we have suspected almost as soon as it became apparent that a clan known to be one of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s closest allies might be linked to the worst election-related violence in our country’s recent history AND the worst single attack on the media ever – that this administration would do everything within its power to assure they would not be held accountable.

It is not for us to proclaim the innocence or guilt of either Ampatuan for the November 23 massacre of 58 persons, 32 of them media workers.

But neither is it for Agra to do so.

Not after the charges have been formally filed in court. Not after the judge has issued a commitment order against them, for which the two, along with other members of their clan and several of the 197 accused have been transferred to the Camp Bagong Diwa detention center.

It should now be for the court to judge the innocence or guilt of the 197 persons accused of planning or carrying out the massacre.

By issuing the order, which incidentally Agra had already announced earlier he was inclined to do, the man supposedly sworn to uphold justice in this country has preempted that prerogative of the court. Agra has hijacked the judicial process and subverted the very justice he should be upholding.

It does not take legal expertise to know the alibi is the flimsiest defense in a criminal case. And yet Agra has practically pounced on this straw and used it to buttress his assertion that neither Zaldy nor Akmad Ampatuan should be charged because they were not there when the massacre took place.

But surely, this travesty is not Agra’s doing alone, for he could not have done this without the full knowledge and approval of his principal, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.

We hold Agra and Arroyo, personally, and this administration accountable for this massacre of the principles that define us as a country and as a people – justice, the rule of law, our basic rights, democracy.

We call on the Filipino people to protest this outrage. More important, we call on the people to demand an accounting. We cannot let this pass. Or we might as well totally forget that we are one country, one people.

Inday Espina-Varona's note: I WANT TO HEAR ALL CANDIDATES CONDEMN THIS OUTRAGE. This is one instance when silence really means collusion in evil.

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GRAPEVINE BUZZING “AMPATUAN…GMA… ELECTIONS…”

Good evening-morning in Manila.

Strange things are happening in the dead of night – like this conversation among media people, mainstream and bloggers. This is real news – clear evidence of sellout of Elections 2010. The names, however, must be disguised to keep the freedom of journalism. I can’t reveal my sources, now, can I? Read and discover “one little operation” to release the Ampatuans – father and son – responsible for that massacre in December ’09 are being released on bail by La Gloria, and what this means to justice and democracy itself in poor Inang Bayan. It also indicts the National Press Club, the media establishment and certain individuals whose identities we're tracking as BOUGHT MEDIA. Listen in. - Sylvia Morningstar MOON FACE:

Hello folks,

My apologies to those who were tagged but this needs to be looked into.

A very VERY reliable source has informed me that the Ampatuans will be released on bail based on an Ampatuan insider. This is not going to sit well for our country and that PGMA is considering granting it [?].

Also, there are rumors that the Ampatuans have paid some "media" personnel not to have the Ampatuan cases placed in the front pages of some newspapers as well. [This news coming from Hawaii] and that only the foreign press is following this case closely.

I'm throwing this to you guys because you have your eyes and ears on the ground and if media is not picking this up. Oh, gosh.

Best regards to all.

BABY DOLL: Thanks. I will forward this to some people.

EARNEST HEART: Can anyone check about the military and police unrest? I have received queries and tidbits about it. Please let me know.

MOON FACE: I've heard about PMA Class 78 coming up with a manifesto but I still haven't read the press release on that.

EARNEST HEART: It’s class 77 we have to watch out for. Sila ang tinamaan ng 'overlook'.

MOON FACE: ay sorry, yup, 77 nga. Need to keep my ears on the ground....

EARNEST HEART: let me know ha, moon?

MOON FACE: Hey, someone just verified the news - including the fact that once bail is denied by Reyes, Fortun will take it to COA and then the appointees will influence the COA decision under duress and pressures from pandak. The Ampuputas will be out on bail.

He said: your sources are correct. That's very unnerving...

BABY DOLL: goodness gracious!

SISTER RAM: They must be desperate about Mindanao. Neither Gibo nor Villar (nor Noynoy) are gaining ground there.

EARNEST HEART: very true...haaay.

HANDSOME BARRACUDA: I guess pandak knows granting bail to the Ampatuans could sow more chaos in an attempt to create unrest that would eventually halt or delay the polls. I've seen how the Malacañang people despise People Power nowadays.

LEFT TURN: Is it because Gloria feels the Mangadadatus will not do a good job of delivering the votes against a tested clan who delivers them "efficiently"?

MOON FACE: Maybe PJ or someone threatened to spill the beans if they're not allowed bail.

GREEN HORNET: I think it's Zaldy Ampatuan who will be released first.

SEXY BLOGGER: What? OMG.

MOON FACE: It’s been hounding and haunting the grapevine since yesterday... how come the media hasn't picked this up? They can report on the "rumor" right?

SEXY BLOGGER: There's a lot they haven't been picking up lately...

MOON FACE: and one wonders why....

EARNEST HEART: Here’s another rumor. NPC head Benny Antiporda and 50 million pesos from the Ampatuans. That a good enough reason why these stories aren't seeing the light of day?

MOON FACE: 50 Million? Why do these eggheads have this kind of money in the first place? Is it theirs or someone gave it to them?

EARNEST HEART: Mindanao is a rich rich rich place.... Corruption there is like a fat leech now.

MOON FACE: I'm getting a major gum-ache from all this...grabe.

EARNEST HEART: Kakasuka. When I first heard this, sa reliable source... gusto ko pasabugin ang building ng NPC... Nakakagalit... pucha... 30++ na kabaro ang niratrat sa Maguindanao tapos itong mga hinayupak na ito... ibinenta ang kapwa nila! Wala silang ipinag iba sa mga cannibals... di pa mangamatay eh!!

MOON FACE: Antiporda should explain this. NPC should get overhauled pag ganyan. Uso ata yung dependency on the palace syndrome nowadays.... no such thing as an INDEPENDENT institution anymore.

EARNEST HEART: Ano eexplain nyang Antipordang yan, eh ang kapal ng mukha niyan. Dati pa pero tino- tolerate. Pero ito, ibang level na to. Ide deny nya lang lahat yan... magaling yang gagong yan. Nakuuuuuuu nanggigigil talaga ako.

MOON FACE: Don't the members and board members of the NPC have the power to "eject" an erring member from its Board?

EARNEST HEART: BAYAD RIN! Kaya nga di ba sabi ko... gusto ko pasabugin ang building ng NPC? Yung mga waiters doon na ang tagal na... pinalayas ng mga grupong ito... para me mga maipuwesto... grabe... kahit barya... pinapatulan...

MOON FACE: Bert Causing is running as president of the NPC di ba? Maybe Antiporda should be exposed as early as now...

Best way to deal with them is exposure. A simple expose on them... sayang, walang online yung list of current members.

EARNEST HEART: If Bert Causing is as good as he thinks he is... he should already know about this pay off... grabe ha...nasira ang pagtingin ko sa NPC... parang gusto kong ma depress...I’m taking a big goblet of wine... pucha nagising ako ah.... out muna ko.... see you tomorrow

MOON FACE: daya mo.

EARNEST HEART: shocked ako, ha. patulog na ko me tumawag... taga dzbb; yung isa taga dzrh. pareho ang sinabi... ayaw magpa quote... mahirap i prove... pero pati mga boss nila... tumanggap.

tuloy ito bukas... masakit ang ulo ko... may i-share pa akong iba... tungkol sa monitoring etc....

MOON FACE: Kung puede lang ilusot yang wine sa linya, nagpa lusot na rin ako...

ELUSIVE ONE: If no one objects, I'm turning this into a Note on my wall with ALL IDENTITIES DISGUISED. I'll wait for a half-hour. It's 1:14 a.m. now, March 25. My logic is that MORE PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THIS, BEYOND THE MEDIA. This concerns the whole nation, if not humanity.

Okay? Countdown begins now. Posting this at 1.45 a.m. March 24.

MOON FACE: Gen S and I once agreed that the short-term memory syndrome was a primary ill of this country. Now the National Press Club is capitalizing on that. Disgusting talaga.

The NPC is supposed to uphold press freedom, uplift the thinking minds of the people, support it, guide it, and make people THINK and ponder on what's right and what's wrong! Writers, journalists, reporters - are supposed to mirror the society... but what happens when that mirror is cracked and chipped ... broken into a thousand paid pieces?

NO WONDER our society is like this.

GREEN HORNET: That Zaldy Ampatuan will be released is true, I think. That he will work for Villar is Aquino camp paranoia, I think. Let's not mix up facts with propaganda. Ang totoo lang, please.
____________________________________________________________

To be continued as this dialogue continues, as is, where is. WAKE UP, MEDIA! You're failing your mission. WAKE UP, COUNTRY! DO SOMETHING NOW!

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