Knowing the gov't they'll build overpasses with low headroom and steep steps and still claim it's pedestrian friendly

Setyembre 3 umano nang hindi umuwi ang biktima matapos itong itinanan umano ng guro na nakuhanan sa CCTV camera sa lobby ng motel. Nakuhanan din siya sa CCTV na kasama ang bata na dumiretso sa second floor.

Bukod dito, nakunan din ng video ang dalawa na dala-dala ang kanilang mga bag patungo sa kuwarto at tumagal sila doon ng mahigit 24 oras.

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That part of the Constitution states, “No law shall be passed authorizing any transfer of appropriations; however, the President, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and the heads of Constitutional Commissions may, by law, be authorized to augment any item in the general appropriations law for their respective offices from savings in other items of their respective appropriations.”

MANILA -- The chief of the Cybercrime Investigation and Coordinating Center (CICC) said on Tuesday that the government is considering limiting the number of SIM cards an individual can own in a bid to further deter scammers.

The proposal was made as text scams continue to proliferate in the Philippines despite the implementation of the SIM Card Registration law.

Undersecretary Alexander Ramos said he is looking at a maximum of four to five SIMs per person as he believes having too many is "abnormal."

But he said telco players are proposing a maximum of 10 sim cards per person as the "reasonable" option.

https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/human-trafficking/apollo-carreon-quiboloy

FBI-wanted pastor Apollo Quiboloy's account as well as the Kingdom of Jesus Christ (KOJC) Facebook page have been terminated. SMNI News is their last remaining holdout online.

Press Release September 4, 2023

Senator Risa Hontiveros on Monday said that she agrees with Vice President Sara Duterte when the latter said that her office could "live without" the P500 million confidential funds they are requesting for 2024, after Duterte admitted to using confidential funds this year for free bus rides, tree plantings and other programs unrelated to security matters.

"Masaya ako na mismong si Vice President Duterte na ang nagsabi na kaya nilang mabuhay ng walang malaking confidential funds sa 2024. There is no good reason why the Office of the Vice President (OVP) should have confidential fund allocations that are larger than the combined confidential budgets of our top security agencies," Hontiveros said.

During a Senate Finance subcommittee hearing, Hontiveros showed that the OVP's proposed P500 million confidential funds - which have less auditing and reporting requirements than regular public funds - "tower over" the combined P438.2 million confidential and intelligence funds allocated for both the Department of National Defense (DND) and the National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA).

"There is something fundamentally wrong when the OVP alone has a confidential fund of half a billion pesos while the NICA itself, which is the government's primary intelligence arm, has confidential and intelligence funds of only P341.2 million. Alam naman natin kung kanino talaga dapat napupunta ang confidential at intelligence funds - sa DND, NICA at iba pang responsable para sa national security, law enforcement at border protection," Hontiveros said.

Duterte, during the same hearing, admitted that the OVP has been using its confidential funds for 2023 for the "safe, secure and successful" implementation of initiatives with no direct relation to national security, like the construction of a vice presidents' museum and an OVP permanent office as well as free bus rides, tree plantings and feeding programs.

Hontiveros pointed out that the initiatives do not fall under the exclusive list of programs in which confidential funds may be used, as laid out in COA-DBM Joint Circular No. 2015-01. The circular, she said, requires that confidential funds be used only for the purchase of information and or expenses "necessary for the formulation and implementation of programs, activities and projects relevant to national security and peace and order."

"As important as free bus rides and tree buildings are, these are not projects involving national security for which confidential funds should be used. Hindi iyan pwedeng maging justification para sa napakalaking confidential funds. Pwede namang pondohan ang mga proyekto na yan gamit ang regular funds ng ahensya," the senator said.

Hontiveros then urged her colleagues in the Senate to take up the Vice President on her word that she and the OVP can fulfill their functions without the hundreds of millions in confidential funds.

"Kayang kaya ng OVP na pagsilbihan ang Bayan ng hindi gumagamit ng confidential funds na halos hindi naau-audit at narereport sa publiko. As I have said before, let's leave the security and intelligence work to the experts," Hontiveros concluded.

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"Ang intention ko po noon, bubunot po ako at nagkasa ng baril dahil pasugod po siya sa akin. Kahit i-review po natin 'yung [video], inamin naman niya na susugod po siya," Gonzales said. (My intention when I pulled out my gun was to defend myself, even if we review the video. He also admitted that he was going to attack me.)

"Dinepensa ko lang po ang sarili ko at 45 degrees lang po, alam niyo naman po 'yun. Naka 45 degrees lang po pag gusto lang natin i-disable 'yung tao if ever susugurin niya ako," he added. (I just defended myself. It's just 45 degrees in case I want to disable the person if ever he attacks me.)

In response, Bandiola admitted that he became aggressive toward Gonzales after the former policeman hit him in the head. He said it was just "normal reaction."

"Normal reaction ko po 'yun kasi binatukan niya ko eh. Bumaba po ako ng bike... kaso lang po inano niya ko ng... bakit niya ko binatukan eh, puwede naman niya ko kausapin ng maayos," Bandiola said. (That's my normal reaction because he hit me in the head. I stepped out of my bike... why did he hit me? He could have just talked to me.)

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The MTRCB claimed that "multiple complaints" over the alleged "indecent acts" of Vice Ganda and Ion Perez have been received by the agency. The regulatory board also indicated in their official statement that this is not the first time that the noontime show was suspended due to "multiple complaints."

The resolution also noted that, despite existing laws like the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012 and the Department of Information and Communications Technology Act of 2015, social media users don’t have an effective way of finding recourse to prevent such breaches from happening.

For next year, the DOTr will only have P500 million for its active transport bike share system and safe pathways program, which is less than the program’s budget in 2022 and 2023.

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For Senator Sonny Angara, chairperson of the Senate finance committee, the free tertiary education should be revisited “with a view to making richer families pay”. “Multi-millionaire families should pay tuition so that more resources can go to support poorer families and students,” said Angara in a message to reporters.

It issued its decision to suspend the noontime show on Monday, after several viewers lodged multiple complaints about its July 25 episode, where It's Showtime hosts allegedly acted in an indecent manner in the "Isip Bata" segment.

Hontiveros pointed out that Duterte’s request of P500 million is bigger than the confidential funds of the Department of National Defense and National Intelligence Coordinating Agency in the proposed 2024 budget.

Meanwhile, Pimentel quizzed Duterte about the over the P125 million in confidential funds spent by OVP in 2022. This, despite it not being included in the 2022 approved budget.

Napadaan kami dito nung isang araw papunta sa Cecilias Buko Pie.. May nakita kong church or or mukang church na structure na may runic text sa harap.. mabilis yung sasakyan kaya di ko na picturan.. baka may idea kayo kung ano yun.. di ko sya makita sa google maps.. tengk!

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On Thursday, Inquirer.net, one of the Philippines’ most-read news websites, asked that question in an article based on an exclusive report by The FilAm, an online magazine based in the United States with which it has a content partnership.

The article was up for several hours and getting multiple comments from readers when it was taken down, reportedly on orders from top management. The link to the piece now directs readers to a landing page of reports by Inquirer.net’s US contributors.

A link to a cached version could still be found on Sunday morning. It now renders a 404 error.

It’s the latest in a number of instances of Philippine news sites taking down reports on the country’s powerful politicians and businessmen. The CEO of the Inquirer Group of Companies, Sandy Prieto Romualdez, is married to the Speaker’s brother, Philip.

PCIJ reached out to Inquirer and Inquirer.net on Sunday morning for comment. It has not received a response as of this writing.

“Not anymore Boy, because the technology has changed. Nobody buys records, nobody buys CDs, nobody buys cassettes anymore.”

“So we earn a little bit from Spotify, not too much, and also from endorsements and doing shows, that’s all,” pagpapatuloy niya.

In an interview with Teleradyo Serbisyo on Sunday, September 3, Senator Francis Tolentino came to the defense of his colleagues, saying that there was “nothing wrong” with wearing the “West PH Sea” shirts.

“Walang masama doon sa nagpapakita ng kanilang personal political belief na atin ang (There’s nothing wrong with showing their political belief that we own the) West Philippine Sea even if in a sports that is FIBA. I don’t see anything wrong with that,” he said.

https://www.wheninmanila.com/shell-nxplorers-senior-high-students-creating-innovative-solutions-for-ph/

Shell NXplorers is an educational program specifically created to help the youth develop critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills. They challenge senior high school students to create solutions for the Food-Water-Energy (NEXUS) issues of the country. Sounds like a big deal, right? That’s because it is.

This platform was made for young talents to be positive agents of change and culminated with the Shell NXplorers: The Bright Ideas Challenge, where 10 teams of students presented prototypes of their innovative solutions for the country’s problems in food, water, and energy.

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The win marked the first time the Filipinos won a World Cup game at home after the country lost all eight games of its hosting in 1978.