Nasaan na ang pera BF?

Fernando fails to account for flood control funds; MMDA budget deferred

http://www.tribune.net.ph/metro/20080927met1.html

By Gerry Baldo

09/27/2008

Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) Chairman Bayani Fernando could not account for the millions of pesos in flood control funds being used by his agency even as lawmakers were surprised to learn that Fernando is ignorant of the basic speed limit along Edsa, the major artery that links the north and southern part of Metro Manila.

tsk tsk tsk.... nasaan ang pera? ano nangyari sa pera na dapat ginamit sa flood control dito sa metro manila? saan napunta? baka naman eh nandito o dito napunta

http://mgasidecommentsko.blogspot.com/2008/08/where-in-philippines-is-bayani-fernando.html

According to House deputy minority leader Rep. Roilo Golez, he moved to defer the MMDA budget on the note of Fernando’s statement that there was no speed limit on Edsa.

“I moved to defer, and this was carried, the consideration of the budget of the MMDA when Chairman Fernando said at a formal hearing that there was no speed limit on Edsa and that he was even encouraging motorists to go as fast as they can,” Golez said yesterday.

Golez added it was reckless and irresponsible on the part of the MMDA chairman, who is tasked with managing Edsa traffic, to say there was no speed limit on Edsa.

“If drivers heed his statement, Edsa would become a death avenue with all the resulting deadly collisions,” Golez said.

In spite of the “many unanswered questions on flood control, travels and tarpaulins,” the hearing was moving smoothly prior to that statement.

The move to defer the MMDA budget started when Fernando refuted Golez’ s statement, in the course of the budget hearing that touched on several issues, including Fernando’s use of several police escorts, the huge tarpaulins, the U-turn slots and the MMDA’s use of flood control funds, that motorists should comply with a 60-kph speed limit along Edsa.

Fernando said there was no such limit and that he is encouraging motorists to go as fast as they can on Edsa.

“Actually, it’s more than that (60 kph), your honor. They can run as much as they can. We have to speed up the vehicles (along Edsa),” Fernando told members of the House appropriations committee.

Golez said he was willing to withdraw his motion if Fernando takes back his statement and tell the lawmakers that he was only joking.

“No, I’m not kidding your honor. I encourage motorists to move faster (along Edsa),” Fernando answered back. On that note Rep. Abigail Binay seconded Golez’s motion.

“I move to defer because this budget may be used to promote traffic accidents on Edsa. It’s a reckless, irresponsible statement coming from the MMDA chief,” Golez said.

“If drivers heed his statement, Edsa would become a death avenue with all the resulting deadly collisions.”

Golez maintained the statement, coming from the MMDA chief, would have dire implications.

Muntinlupa City Rep. Ruffy Biazon, who heads the sub-committee on appropriations which heard the MMDA budget yesterday, concurred with Golez and Binay.

Biazon said “the budget deserves to be deferred.”

Earlier at the hearing, lawmakers also lamented Fernando’s failure to produce a copy of an approved resolution coming from the Metro Manila Council — composed of 17 mayors — that is required before the MMDA budget is discussed.

Upon the warning of Biazon that the committee will not allow another failure to bring the resolution, Fernando said he would try his best.

“Best efforts, your honor. I cannot promise (that we will deliver), but we will exert efforts. We will try to give that in time for plenary deliberations your honors,” Fernando said.

“We do hope that your best will be good enough. But next time we will not allow that,” Biazon said.

Fernando could not likewise provide lawmakers a breakdown of the flood control funds and projects for each local government unit in Metro Manila.

Fernando told lawmakers that it might take him “too long” to produce documents pertaining to the flood control funds.

ano ba yan! yan ba ang presidential candidate? yan ba ang owner ng isang contruction company? hindi alam kung saan napupunta ang pera ng kanyang opisina o company? why too long? sabi nga ng kaibigan kong auditor, kung malinis at matino mga libro mo, hindi mahirap itong ipakita sa mga auditors.

Golez, Fernando in word war

http://www.inquirer.net/vdo/player.php?vid=1634

Tingnan ninyo kung gaano kababaw si BF. hahaha hindi daw nakikinig si golez at namumulitika lang si golez. well may kilala akong non-elected official na hindi nakikinig sa mga tao kahit na mali at palpak ang ginagawa nya at naglalagay ng panget na picture sa metro manila na lantarang pamumulitka.

yan ba ang presidente nyo... hindi alam ang tungkulin ng Congress. trabaho ng congress ang mag approve ng budget ng gov't. kaya nga may budget hearing.

Bayani goes to congress

House panel defers MMDA budget hearing over Bayani statement

utak tabutso statements from BF

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/123164/House-panel-defers-MMDA-budget-hearing-over-Bayani-statement

MANILA, Philippines - Opposition lawmakers on Friday succeeded in deferring the hearing for the Metro Manila Development Authority's (MMDA) proposed 2009 budget after MMDA chief Bayani Fernando said drivers can go as fast as they can along the almost 24-kilometer EDSA road that traverses the northern and southern parts of Metro Manila.

siguro kung merong police / traffic escort

"I move to defer the budget of the MMDA because this budget may be used to promote traffic accidents in EDSA," said Senior Deputy Minority leader Roilo Golez.

Makati City Representative Mar-Len Abigail Binay, daughter of former MMDA chief and current Makati City Mayor Jejomar Binay, seconded the motion.

During the subcommittee hearing, Golez questioned Bayani's use of motorcycled police escorts, saying that a circular distributed by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said only the President, Vice-President, Supreme Court Chief Justice, Senate President, House Speaker, and Philippine National Police chief can have them.

oh kaya naman pala sinasabi nya na mabilis ang traffic sa edsa, may escort na hagad si gago...este gwapo.

Bayani justified his hiring of police escorts by saying that the cops accompanying him on his travels are traffic enforcers who attend to traffic problems that they may encounter along the way.

"We manage the traffic in Metro Manila, and my escorts are traffic enforcers," Fernando replied.

wow pare! may brain damage na yata itong si BF. anong klaseng statement yan. anong klaseng pagiisip ito! eh hindi lang traffic enforcers ang kasama ni BF pati ambulance sama din. i know nakita ko na dati convoy ni el kwago sa edsa.

Fernando added that he has police escorts to manage the traffic so he would get to his destination on time--a statement which Golez questioned, saying Fernando has been bragging that Metro Manila traffic has now eased and drivers can now go as fast as 60 kilometers per hour along EDSA.

sino niloko nito? siguro kung mahal na araw ka lang makaka 60kph sa edsa.

Fernando replied by saying drivers can even go beyond 60 kilometers per hour because the MMDA wants as little traffic congestion as possible.


"More than that, as much as you can," Fernando retorted.

A visibly bothered Golez then moved to defer the budget.

"That to me is a very reckless, irresponsible statement on the part of the MMDA chairman," Golez said.

halatang nagyayabang si BF

Golez said he would withdraw his motion to defer if Fernando says he was kidding about his statement that there is no speed limit along EDSA, but the MMDA chairman replied, "I'm not kidding."

Earlier, the opposition solon also grilled Fernando on other rules that the MMDA chairman supposedly violated, particularly in connection to the MMDA tarpaulins strewn across Metro Manila highways.

Citing MMDA Regulation 04-004 signed by Fernando on Sept. 2, 2004, Golez pointed out that it was unlawful for any person or corporation to install or display billboards along major thoroughfares and other roads without the approval of the MMDA and permits from local government units (LGUs) concerned.

He then questioned the MMDA chairman if he is violating the regulation which he himself signed.

Fernando defended the posting of the MMDA tarpaulins, which carry his image, by saying they are posted on national highways that LGUs "understand" to be under MMDA jurisdiction.

"These are on national highways which are under our jurisdiction," said Fernando. "We have an understanding with LGUs that national highways are under MMDA."

"Somehow I have administrative prerogatives," the MMDA chairman added.

wow pare! ang babaw! ok sabihin natin pwede kang maglagay ng billboard...why the fuck mukha mo pa!? eh halatang pang election.

Fernando, who had publicly announced his intention to run as president in the 2010 elections, also said there is nothing political about the tarpaulins, which bear road safety reminders, except "perhaps my picture."

The subcommittee hearing on the MMDA's proposed budget was almost deferred at the very beginning of the hearing when, upon the inquiry of Golez, Fernando admitted that the MMDA 2009 budget proposal has not been approved by the Metro Manila Council and that this has been the "practice" for a long time.

Golez had earlier pointed out that under Republic Act 7924 or "An Act Creating the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority," the MMDA must first secure the Metro Manila Council's approval of the proposed budget before presenting it to Congress.

The opposition lawmaker conceded to hearing the budget, however, after Fernando assured that they would give their "best effort" to obtain the approval of the Metro Manila Council before the plenary hearings on the 2009 budget.

The Department of Budget and Management has allotted P1.79 billion for the MMDA's 2009 budget, only about one-fourth the P5.9 budget being requested by the MMDA. - GMANews.TV

laki ng budget ah... pero kagabi ang lakas ng ulan. binaha nanaman ang metro manila. sabi ni bf hindi na daw babaha sa metro manila ngayon taon.

http://mgasidecommentsko.blogspot.com/2008/08/no-more-floods-in-metro-manila-next.html

ang tanong... san napunta yung pera para sa flood prevention ngayon taon?

BF for president 2010.... and Panalo ka!

BF for president 2010 ... ARE YOU SHITTING ME!?!

and

Panalo... ito ang panalo

http://anawayaday.blogspot.com/

All the chairman's men

ok hindi lahat. yung mga nasa baba ng food chain.

Golez: BF `di mananalo sa MMDA employees
(Nilo Marasigan)

http://www.abante-tonite.com/issue/sep1408/news_story3.htm


Kahit magpa-survey sa sariling bakuran ay lalabas na talo pa rin umano si Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) chairman Bayani Fernando dahil sa inaayawan ito mismo ng mga sariling empleyado.
Ito ang ipinukol na pang-aalaska kahapon ng numero unong kritiko ni Fernando na si House deputy minority leader at Parañaque Rep. Roilo Golez sa pangungulelat ng MMDA chief sa ika-32 puwesto sa kabuuang 45 personalidad ng senatoriables na isinailalim sa survey ng Social Weather Station (SWS) para sa 2010 elections.
“Kahit sa loob ng MMDA, matatalo siya. Masuwerte kung makakuha siya ng 10% sa mga employees ng MMDA,” pambubuska pa ng kongresista.

hmmm..bakit kaya?

Magugunitang sa isinagawang survey sa mga presidentiables kamakailan, ni hindi nakakuha ng anumang boto si Fernando sa kabila ng maagang pagdedeklara ng ambisyong maging kandidatong pangulo sa susunod na halalan.
Patuloy naman ang ginagawang pagbira ni Golez kay Fernando sa hinalang ginagamit na umano ng huli ang pondo ng pinamumunuang ahensya para lamang maisulong ang kanyang political agenda.


hahaha LMAO.... thank you Bert for sending this story.

hmmm... bakit kaya matatalo si BF sa sariling bakuran...hmmm




http://www.manilatimes.net/national/2007/jan/25/yehey/metro/20070125met8.html

Uniforms overpriced, metro aides complain

By Jefferson Antiporda, Reporter

Street sweepers from the Metro Manila Development Authority are considering filling a graft case against officials of the agency involved in the procurement of allegedly overpriced uniforms.

Some 3,000 street sweepers or metro aides, who are members of the MMDA employees’ union, Sakamay, claim that the uniforms are not only overpriced but are of poor quality.

They refused to accept the uniforms until the MMDA management acted on their complaint.

The MMDA officials “claimed that they have taken into account our complaints about the uniforms they would be distributing to us... but they have pushed through with it, disregarding our questions on the quality of the gear,” said Luisa Estacion, Sakamay secretary-general.

Estacion said some of the equipment like rubber boots, thongs, raincoats and belt pouch are regularly issued to metro aides and should not be deducted from their P4,000 annual clothing allowance.

Estacion also questioned why jogging pants were issued to the sweepers instead of regular pants.

She said the sweepers’ clothing allowance used to include a long-sleeved, collared shirt and pants. Now the agency gives them garterized jogging pants, an ordinary shirt and an armband.

She also said that the clothing issued to them only costs P3,202, P798 short of the P4,000 annual clothing budget.

The MMDA started distributing new uniforms to its personnel last January 15. Only the street sweepers’ group refused to accept the uniforms.

The group also said the contractor who made the uniforms was endorsed by one of Chairman Bayani Fernando’s consultants.

Edison Fainsan, the MMDA general manager for finance, dismissed the claims of the group and said that the procurement of uniforms went through the regular process and competitive bidding.

“We are willing to open our books in order to prove that there’s no irregularity in the procurement of the new uniforms and that it was made in a very transparent process,” Fainsan said in an interview



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Ombudsman asked to file charges vs MMDA chief

By Maila Ager
INQUIRER.net
First Posted 14:26:00 04/30/2008

MANILA, Philippines -- The filing of appropriate charges before the Office of the Ombudsman against Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) chairman Bayani Fernando has been formally sought by a lawmaker at the House of Representatives.

Deputy Minority Floor Leader Roilo Golez, in a letter to Ombudsman Ma. Merceditas Gutierrez, requested an “investigation of and the filing of appropriate charges, if warranted” against Fernando for alleged misuse of funds and other irregularities.

Golez cited the alleged non-payment of clothing allowance of MMDA employees for two years, destruction of government property with the “dangerous and unsightly” three-lane U-turn slots, violation of the MMDA regulation on billboard and advertising signs, and alleged expensive trips here and abroad purportedly to improve the performance of his office.

Golez cited the “massive tarpaulin campaign” of the MMDA featuring the giant photos of its chairman and the installation of pink traffic signs purportedly in preparation for 2010.

The MMDA chief has openly declared his intention to run for president in 2010.

“The MMDA chairman has misappropriated the color pink for non-civil defense purposes, thus jeopardizing future civil defense activities,”
Golez said.

“It is public knowledge that pink is the political color of the Mayor of Marikina, the wife of the MMDA chairman, and is therefore for the chairman’s personal political ends and not for the public interest,” he said.

UNDERTOW on Bayani Fernando

Great blog on El Metro Kwago..that's my comment


Undertow by leslie bocobo
http://lesliebocobo.blogspot.com/2008/09/no-way-ememdee-ey-it-certainly-irks.html



http://lesliebocobo.blogspot.com/search/label/Bayani%20Fernando

Ang Kawawang Sundalo

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
George S. Patton



Ex-defense chief hits Arroyo for failure to upgrade AFP equipment

abs-cbnNEWS.com | 09/13/2008 1:34 PM

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/09/13/08/ex-defense-chief-hits-arroyo-failure-upgrade-afp-equipment


The Arroyo government has failed to release badly-needed funds the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) needs to buy equipment it needs to effectively protect civilian communities in Mindanao, according to a former defense secretary. In an interview by Ricky Carandang on ANC's The Big Picture, former Defense Secretary Avelino Cruz said the AFP lacks essential equipment that would raise its capability to protect civilian communities in the south. "It’s very clear that they need an additional funding to purchase mission-essential equipment. They lack mobility," Cruz said.

no shit! talagang kailangan nila

Among the urgent equipment the AFP needs, Cruz said, are trucks to transport soldiers, C-130 planes, helicopters, bullets, and hand-held radios. “For instance, they are short of about 5,000 trucks in the AFP. On top of that, you need medium-lift vessels. We had only two C-130s and now, it’s down to just one,” he said.

Gezas!!! one C-130 transport plane! Mag cecebu pacific na lang ang mga sundalo natin kung pupunta ng mindanao.

As a result, Cruz said the AFP's equipment readiness rate is "just on the border line of passing." "Our estimate before was, we need P10 billion for mission-essential equipment, for six years, in order to raise the readiness rate of our equipment from 45% to 70%. The passing is 50%," he said. "So we’re just on the border line of passing. So we have to raise it to 70% so that our AFP can be effective in protecting our civilian communities in Mindanao," he added.

"The expectations are high, the demands are very high on them to protect these communities. They will be spread out, they need mobility, they need firepower. They lack helicopters, they lack airplanes, bullets, trucks, hand-held radios. At that time when I was still at DND, they still lacked 12,000 hand-held radios," Cruz said.

Binigyan tayo ng US ng Huey helicopters a few years back. ok naman ang Huey kahit luma na. yung binigay ni uncle sam eh ginawa noong early 1980's. itsura pa lang alam ko na early 1980's silang ginawa. hindi naman sila vietnam 1960's model. my friend in the PAF told me na top condition pa yung mga Hueys.



nagamit ba kaagad ng mga sundalo natin? hindi. yung first three helos according to my friend sa PAF were converted to presidential choppers. ayos ba!? first "combat mission" of those choppers? rescuing udong mahusay... remember him?




mukha siyang bakla


He said the AFP needs P10 billion yearly to be able to purchase these equipment, but the Arroyo government has failed to release the money even if the item has been appropriated in the budget. "My frustration then was, the money was not being released. It was in the AFP budget, it was approved by the Office of the President. We had completed the circular of requirements, it could already be bidded out but no money was released,” he said.

binulsa na ng mga trapo at corrupt dyan sa gobyerno

“So I pity the soldiers. We assign them a big task, run after the rogue MILF commanders, protect the community in Mindanao.” He said the Arroyo government could easily have funded these items in the budget with the expansion of the Value-Added Tax from 10% to 12% and other tax measures passed.

kawawa talaga. tapos itong si gloria pa trip trip lang sa iba't ibang lugar sa pilipinas. papunta punta sa mga beaches...you bitch!

tapos mga sundalo natin hindi ma medivac

But the government still failed to release the funds. “In fact, with the increased collection of VAT, when we were collecting the 12% VAT, the price of oil was $30 or $40 a barrel, then it went up to $100 a barrel, that’s a lot of extra revenue of government,” Cruz said. He said the P10 billion is again part of the P1.4 trillion budget for 2009, so it's just a matter of releasing the money. “I was able to talk to [DND Secretary] Gilbert Teodoro at the US embassy, and he’s continuing it, this capability upgrade plan. But it appears the money isn’t being released,” he said. "In light of the hostilities in Mindanao, it’s so urgent to release funds for the AFP so they can buy mission-essential equipment," Cruz said.

forget about it Mr Cruz. malapit na ang election. gagamit na yung pera na yon sa kampanya, pambili ng boto at pandaraya.

The cost of uglifying Metro Manila

Tarpaulin printing = 30 pesos / sq-ft (average price in ebay.ph and sulit.com.ph)
Size of largest Bayani Fernando MMDA poster/billboard = 12 feet by 5 feet (Rough estimate lang)

12 feet x 5 feet = 60 sq-ft
30 pesos/sq-ft x 60 sq-ft = 1800 pesos

number of Bayani Fernando/MMDA posters = 1000 (estimate lang po yan.)
1800 pesos x 1000 = 1,800,000 pesos

1.8 million pesos para lang dito!


yung malaki lang yan. hindi pa kasama yung mga maliliit na posters.

Bayani Fernando and the Urban Poor

In Public Lives by Randy David
Philippine Daily Inquirer, 1 September 2007

http://opinion.inquirer.net/inquireropinion/columns/view_article.php?article_id=85966

MANILA, Philippines — If there is one public official in our country today who does his work seemingly without regard for the political consequences, that person has to be Bayani Fernando, the current chair of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA). In a just society, he would be a model public servant. But in our kind of society, he can only be the blind, uncaring agent of the powerful.

BF, as he is popularly known, is ironically, for the same reason, the modern Metro Manilan’s folk hero. For the city’s most persistent problems –illegal encroachment on public space, traffic gridlocks, rampant criminality, flooding, urban blight, etc. — he finds solutions that are, at one and the same time, capricious and ingenious, impulsive and experimental, outlandish and generally effective. The upper and middle classes hail him as modernity’s champion, and think of him as the kind of president we need. But I doubt that he will ever win an election outside of Marikina City, where he was mayor for many years.

For BF is also possibly the Filipino poor’s most hated figure. This is understandable. To him belongs the unenviable job of dealing with all the illegal improvisations that make up the typical life of those who are forced to spend the greater part of their time trying to survive. BF is right in the frontline of the class conflict that rages daily in our divided society. And he is staunchly on the side of power.

While his political bosses may pay lip service to the needs of the poor even as their policies systematically oppress them, BF has no choice but to face the poor as if they were a perpetual nuisance, in accordance with his assigned role as the hatchet man of an unjust property system.

In this capacity, he must remain blind to the larger societal context of the problems he is assigned to fix. He cannot propose long-term solutions that touch on the structural inequalities from which flow all the problematic outcomes of mass poverty. He is effective precisely because he treats the symptoms, and remains unmindful of the profound social illness that produces them. In countless media appearances, BF speaks of the problems of the city in such folksy commonsensical terms that he leaves you wondering how someone like him can be so insensitive in his dealings with the poor. You expect this lack of empathy to come from a disengaged technocrat who cannot see beyond his theory. It is shocking to find it in a practical man like BF who has lived among the masses. Is it possible that he thinks he knows the poor so well that he actually believes there is no way of dealing with them except by acts of toughness?

A few years ago, he stopped illegal vendors from plying their trade on sidewalks by ordering his men to spray kerosene on the goods they were selling. In this manner, he reasoned, there is no way they can recover their investments. He confiscated their carts, and detained those who persisted in occupying the sidewalks.

The other day, I heard him on radio talking about the demolition of shanties along “esteros” [creeks] and under bridges that impede the flow of rain water and cause flash floods. Asked if there were relocation sites to which the affected families could be transferred, BF had a ready reply: “We cannot reward these lawbreakers by giving them homes.” He wants to send them back to the provinces where they came from. One might wonder where such attitude is coming from. But in fact it is a sentiment that is silently held by many Filipinos who do not have to live dangerously along river banks or pitch their shanties inside cemeteries.

It is difficult not to appreciate BF’s stubborn ideas about how to make the city livable. To him it is all a matter of teaching people how to live in a modern society. There is a lot of truth in this, but it is not the whole story. It omits the one crucial element that determines the character of most of our social problems as a nation: mass poverty.

You cannot have a well-ordered city if nearly one-half of your residents have no regular jobs, no decent homes, and no bright future to look forward to no matter how hard they try. Law-abiding citizens will not thrive in a society in which the very structure of opportunity has collapsed for the many. They will be forced to improvise in order to survive. They will put up their homes wherever they can so they can be close to schools, hospitals and places of work.

You cannot tell people constantly on the verge of starvation to stay away from garbage heaps. You cannot tell them that scavenging is an unworthy way to earn a living. You have to show them that a better way is within their reach. BF knows this. He was irked by the sight of grown men stopping in the middle of the streets to urinate behind the doors of their taxis or on the tires of their jeepneys. He tried shaming them for acting like stray animals, but to no avail. What finally put a stop to this uncivilized habit were the pink urinals he put up on Metro Manila’s sidewalks. If you build public toilets, people will relieve themselves decently. If you build them proper homes, they will voluntarily leave the esteros.

People in general are not unreasonable. They may stall, negotiate and try to assert the primacy of their interest — but such behavior is pretty much distributed across social classes. Poverty is certainly no excuse for recalcitrance. But even under a rule of law, the MMDA’s forcible demolition of poor people’s shanties, leaving them without a roof over their heads, constitutes an unspeakable atrocity.

AMEN!

Flash floods hit Metro Manila; students and commuters stranded

Kasama ako sa mga na stranded kagabi. ngayon ang lakas na naman ng ulan. sigurado baha na naman.

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/118942/Flash-floods-hit-Metro-Manila-students-and-commuters-stranded

MANILA, Philippines - Flash floods brought by heavy rains turned parts of Metro Manila into a waterworld again Monday night, leaving many commuters and students stranded.

In Manila, floods were gutter- or ankle-deep in several key roads, even as traffic aides and policemen were again absent from their posts.

Many students were forced to walk in the rain, their umbrellas not enough to protect them.

Pedicabs and passenger jeeps ignored traffic rules as they picked up passengers at will.

Traffic was similarly heavy in Pasig City and other parts of eastern Metro Manila.

In Quezon City, dzBB radio's Manny Vargas reported floods in the Cubao and Kamuning areas.

Along Commonwealth Avenue and Epifanio delos Santos Avenue (Edsa), several passengers were similarly stranded while traffic was snarled due to the rains and flash floods. - GMANews.TV

hello Bayani Fernando ano nangyari sa flood control program mo? sabi mo hindi na babaha sa metro manila ngayong taon

MMDA and DPWH

Galing talaga ni Chairman
Do you want a president like this creature?

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/87352/MMDA-DPWH-rift-cancels-project

MMDA, DPWH rift cancels project


The National Economic and Development Authority in 2000 approved the P1.98 billion Metro Manila Interchange Construction Project Phase 5, which was expected to help alleviate the metro's traffic problem.

Disagreements between the Metro Manila Development Authority and the Department of Public Works and Highways over the design, however, delayed the project's implementation and eventually led to its cancellation.

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/88939/Experts-criticize-MMDAs-Arroyo-approved-elevated-u-turn

Experts criticize MMDA's Arroyo-approved elevated u-turn

In the DPWH-MMDA rift over the P1.98 billion Metro Manila Interchange Construction Project, President Arroyo favored MMDA's proposed elevated u-turn. Experts question the safety of the project, which was approved without a feasibility study, while MMDA defends it.






A statement from the experts and fellow engineers

http://www.pice.org.ph/Statement%20PICE-U%20Turn.pdf

Statement from the Philippine Institute of Civil Engineers
The Philippines is falling behind most of its Asian neighbors due to its poor
infrastructure. Hence, the attempt of the present administration to increase (the
historically-low) investments in infrastructure – in the transport sector, more specifically
- is to be lauded.
But spending for poorly-conceived, mediocre, and ill-designed projects will only
increase the number of poor infrastructure, rather than raise our country’s
competitiveness. The construction of elevated U-Turns in Metro Manila belongs to that
genre. Instead of building world-class structure, the MMDA is spending hundred of
millions of pesos on a structure that violate national and international highway
standards.
Perhaps, the original plan for the intersection may have been over-designed. In the
world of professional practice, the same issue can only be resolved through Peer
Review, and not by sheer “political will.” An “over-designed” structure is more tolerable
in the long run than an ‘under-designed” one. Also, a peer review process would have
shown that the construction cost of a straight viaduct is lower than a curved one, for
the same length and number of lanes, aside from having a lesser number of traffic
hazards. Strangely and unfortunately, in this case, there is also no duly-licensed “Peer”
to talk about.
The objective of grade separation at major intersections is to achieve maximum road
capacity (or passenger throughput) per lane. Gaining “pogi points” is not an explicit
objective in building of transport infrastructure. This can not be achieved by the
elevated U-Turn scheme for two basic reasons: (a) a roundabout way can never be
shorter or faster than a straight line from point A to point B, (b) the potential conflict
points between vehicular movements have not been reduced. The high-volume
through-traffic get intermixed with local, low-volume, slower-speed, and left-turningtraffic;
thus, reducing the overall flow to the least common denominator – especially
severe during peak hours. Vehicles can only be as fast as the slowest ones in front of
them.
Bragging that the structure is the first of its kind in the world may be a cause of pride
for its proponent. It is, however, a cause of shame for Filipino civil engineers who are
supposed to be responsible, by law, for this kind of structure but were not involved in
the first place. A mediocre design that ignores fundamental rules of road safety is not
something Filipino civil engineers (as it would be wrongly ascribed to the profession as
a whole) – or for that matter, patriotic Filipinos - can be proud. Neither is it the path to
progress.
The Philippines can only move into the faster lane of development and progress – if it
builds the right infrastructure in the right way and under the exacting yardstick of
globally-accepted engineering standards.

MMDA’s Claim of Cleaner Air, Pure Air – Environmentalists

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BY BULATLAT
September 1, 2008 - 6:21 p.m.

http://www.bulatlat.com/2008/09/mmdas-claim-cleaner-air-pure-air-environmentalists-0

An activist environmental group is not convinced at all in the Metro Manila Development Authority's (MMDA) claim of cleaner air. Clemente Bautista, national coordinator of the Kalikasan People's Network for the Environment (KPNE) branded MMDA Chairman Bayani Fernando's claim as pure air.

Hahaha! LOL Busted!!! buking hahaha

Fernando declared that there was a 50-percent drop in the air pollution level of Metro Manila due to the massive sweeping and vacuuming of roadways initiated by the MMDA.

Bautista said, "Maybe the ever-arrogant Chairman is hallucinating from the polluted air he breathed in EDSA or just campaigning for 2010."

no he is hallucinating from the smell of his pink urinals

The group pointed out that they found no scientific study or data showing that air pollution levels in Metro Manila have dropped. "There is no recent air quality status report, which just goes to show that clean air monitoring in the country is ineffective," said Bautista.

The KPNE said that even the technical paper published by the World Bank concluded that average Total Suspended Particulate (TSP) concentrations of Metro Manila are frequently five times higher than the World Health Organization Air Quality Guidelines. Higher than standard TSP means higher pollution. TSP is used to measure particulate matter (PM) present in air. PM is the generic term used for a type of air pollution that consists of complex and varying mixtures of particles suspended in the air.

come on BF. kahit mga mmda truck mo eh smoke belchers.

Based on the weekly Ambient Air Quality Monitoring of EMB, Pasay, Makati, Valenzuela are among the areas that usually exceed the standard 230ug/Ncm for TSP.

Bautista further said, "Manila itself is known to be one the most polluted areas in the Philippines. The areas of Pasay and EDSA, which Mr. Fernando claims to have significantly improved are still among the most polluted areas in Metro Manila in terms of amount of TSP. Now, he wants people to believe that air quality has improved because of his mechanized street sweeping? No sane person would buy that claim," declared Bautista.

Last year, the joint report of Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) and World Bank showed there were nearly 4,968 premature deaths each year in Manila due to respiratory and cardiovascular diseases from exposure to poor air quality.

Bautista said, "Mr. Fernando can weave all the tales that he wants but experience and facts tell us that the problem of air pollution, or any environmental issue, has not been resolved. What the government is doing are only palliative measures. The policies and programs of the government do not address the root causes of pollution, much less of environmental degradation in the country." Bulatlat

BF will do and tell anything....tsk tsk tsk. will you vote for a person like this as president of the philippines?

other side comments here

Small Town Values at the RNC

I think most Republicans are stupid and hypocrites.... hmmm like most of our politicians

Fernando will run for president with or with Lakas support

Fernando to run for prexy sans Lakas support

09/07/2008 | 01:45 PM

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/118727/Fernando-to-run-for-prexy-sans-Lakas-support

MANILA, Philippines - Bayani Fernando of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) will run for president in the 2010 elections with or without the support of Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats (Lakas-CMD).

Why? bakit ba talagang gustong tumakbo ni BF as president? at napaka desperado nyang maging presidente?

In a report over dzBB radio, Fernando was quoted as saying that he will pursue his political ambitions even if the Lakas-CMD would refuse to pick him as the administration’s standard bearer.

Fernando, a former mayor of Marikina City, also reportedly said that should Lakas ignore his presidential bid he will be forced to leave the party and form his own political party.

wow kapal! feeling... san kukuha ng pera si BF para sa election. eh

Earlier reports said Lakas is wooing Vice President Noli de Castro to be the party’s presidential bet in the 2010 elections.

Fernando shrugged off his current poor ratings from the people, saying Lakas has the power to make those ratings favorable towards him.

kung mataas ang rating sa survey ok lang...dedma. sasabihin na totoo yang survey na yon. pero kung kulelat eh magpapalusot. hoy BF kaya ka kulelat kasi kitang kita ng mga tao sa buong pilipinas ang ginagawa mong pag aapi sa mga mahihirap at yung mga gimik mo na kalokohan.

Meanwhile, Fernando’s wife, Marikina City Mayor Maria Lourdes Fernando, said she will no longer seek political post in 2010 and would just dedicate her time to support her husband’s election. - Aie Balagtas See, GMANews.TV

i bet tatakbo for mayor ay yung babaeng anak nila na 28 years old pa lang.

Singson confirms appointment as deputy NSA

Singson confirms appointment as deputy NSA

this confirms Gloria Arroyo is an idiot

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/topofthehour.aspx?StoryId=130361

Former Ilocos Sur governor Luis "Chavit" Singson, a losing senatorial candidate of the administration in 2007, confirmed Saturday that he has been appointed by President Arroyo as deputy national security adviser (NSA).

Singson told ABS-CBN News Channel that he was informed by Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita about the appointment on Friday.

Asked what he can contribute as deputy to NSA Norberto Gonzales, Singson said he will be "concentrating on our Muslim brothers in Mindanao."

geezzz wala talagang alam si Chavit. alam mo ba kung ano ang trabaho ng isang National Security Adviser?

"Even if the MOA (Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain) has been scrapped, we should still talk to them," the former Ilocos Sur governor said.

Singson said he has a lot to contribute in bringing peace to Mindanao because he is used to dealing with people in conflict-areas.

"I know how to deal with people in problem areas. When I was young I used to be a chief of police in Vigan. I'm used to conflicts," he said, adding that he has a lot of friends in Mindanao.

yes he know a thing or two about "conflict". by killing his opponents.

Singson said he would have to meet with Gonzales first before joining the government's peace effort in Mindanao.

The former governor was the fifth losing senatorial candidate of the administration's Team Unity to be given a government post.

The others were former senator Ralph Recto as head of the National Economic and Development Authority; former congressman Prospero Pichay as administrator of the Local Water Utilities Administration, former senator Vicente Sotto III, head of the Dangerous Drugs Board and former presidential chief of staff Michael Defensor as task force head on the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3.

Ah yes it pays to lose in the Philippines. Only in the Philippines.

Pacquiao joins GMA’s party: as party bouncer

Pacquiao joins GMA’s party

By Jaime Pilapil

http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=sports1_sept2_2008

BOXING icon Manny Pacquiao yesterday was sworn in as a member of Kabalikat ng Malayang Pilipino at Interior Secretary Ronaldo Puno’s office at Camp Crame.

Pacquiao is reportedly interested to run for a congressional seat either in General Santos City or in nearby Sarangani Province. He ran and lost for the 2007 congressional post opposite Darlene Antonino Custodio, who is now on her third and last term.

Puno is Kampi’s chairman while Pacquiao is currently the World Boxing Coucil lightweight champion slated to fight Oscar de la Hoya on Dec. 6 at MGM Grand Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Interviewed by reporters, Pacquiao said he might retire from professional boxing next year or two fights after the Dec. 6 bout with the Golden Boy.

Pacquiao reportedly spent a whopping P100 million in his first bid for an elective post. With no less than P1 billion he would get from fighting De la Hoya, the four-weight division champion will have the most important arsenal in 2010 elections.

pera lang ni pacquiao ang habol ng mga lintek na buwaya. hindi pa nga nananalo sa laban umaaligid na ang mga hinayupak.

Kampi is a political party founded by then Senator Gloria Macapagal Arroyo in late 1990s in preparation for her presidential bid.

Asked why he joined Kampi, he said: “I would like to show to Filipinos that I could be champion when it comes to helping our countrymen. Ang pagpasok ko sa pulitika ay para ipakita na champion din ako sa pagtulong sa ating mga kababayan.”

orangejuicekopo! madami ka pang matutulunggan kung wala ka sa politika. masyado na bang lamog yang utak mo manny?

Puno said Pacquiao is a “plus factor” to the ranks of Kampi and would prove to be a big influence in convincing Filipinos in Mindanao, especially in South Cotabato, to abandon violence and trust ongoing government efforts to bring just and lasting peace in the island.

“Napapanahon ang pagsali ni Manny sa Kampi lalo na ngayon at may problema tayo sa Mindanao. Palagay ko ay malaki ang kanyang maitutulong, lalo na para sa South Cotabato, para matahimik ang Mindanao ,” Puno said. “Alam naman natin na mataas ang pagtingin ng ating mga kababayan kay Manny.”

the master bullshit aristist has spoken

Kampi, the second largest political party in the country, has for its members 55 congressmen, 15 governors and thousands of other local chief executives in vote-rich areas nationwide.

not for long

Also present during the oath-taking were presidential son, Rep. Juan Miguel “Mikey” Arroyo of the Second District of Pampanga; Representatives Trisha Bonoan-David, Fourth District of Manila; Albert Garcia of the Second District of Bataan; Rodolfo Albano III of the First District of Isabela; and Antonio Alvarez of the First District of Palawan.

mga buwaya

Puno said that Kampi is now discussing plans with Pacquiao on whether he should run either as congressman or for any other local government post in Mindanao come the 2010 elections. Puno noted that Pacquiao could run for senator and win handily in 2010, but the prizefighter is only 30 years old, making him ineligible for the post. Thirty-five is the minimum age requirement for senatorial candidates.

sus kahit bouncer ok lang basta manny basta makuha namin yung pera mo. uto uto ka talaga manny

Kampi, Puno noted, has a strong presence in Central Mindanao, especially in the provinces of South Cotabato and Sarangani. Kampi is presently working double time in its bid to merge with Lakas-CMD.

Mga side comments ko na LOWDOWN

Naykupo! blog ko nasa column ni Jojo Robles
http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=jojoRobles_sept2_2008

wow! salamat po Jojo Robles at yung iba pang bloggers
http://kurkeh.wordpress.com/
http://pindutinmoto.blogspot.com/
http://bambit.kusangpalo.com/

thanks din sa flickr.com, google.com, yahoo.com, at picasaweb.com. kung wala sila hindi ko mahahanap si bayani. hahaha



ito na side comments ko.


Who will stop Bayani?

Jojo Robles
Manila Standard
http://www.manilastandardtoday.com/?page=jojoRobles_sept2_2008

One of my favorite blogs these days is something called “Mga Side Comments Ko” on Blogspot. The site has a map which shows where probably the most thick-faced official of this government has been lately, under the heading “Where in the Philippines is Bayani Fernando?”

Yes!

Clicking on the face of the Metro Kwago (as another blogger calls the owlish-looking chairman of the Metro Manila Development Authority and early-bird presidential candidate) will lead a visitor to the map—which is supported by photographs of places around the country where Fernando has been.

kilala ko yung blogger na yon ah

Bayani’s itinerary has been backbreaking: Ilocos, Zambales, Bulacan, Quezon, Aklan, Iloilo and Davao are some of the locations where the supposed chief traffic aide of the metropolis has been recently. In the photographs, Bayani is shown glad-handing the locals, dancing during their town fiestas, distributing relief goods and generally spreading his luridly pink-and-baby blue largesse throughout the country.

hindi lang photo may video pa hahaha

In nearly all the photographs, Bayani is escorted by official vehicles of the MMDA sporting red government plates —giving the lie to the MMDA chairman’s claim that he is using his own resources to campaign (illegally, it must be added, since he still has not resigned) for the presidency two years before the elections. Even assuming that he is, as he claims, using his own money for the plywood boards and other stuff that he’s donating all over, what about the cranes, trucks and various other vehicles that he’s been using to deliver them?

Amen

Does Bayani own all these vehicles, as well? And does Bayani think that just because he’s doing all these things outside Metro Manila, no one will notice?

Baka naman akala ni BF na 1800's pa at ang takbo ng balita eh kasing bilis ng asong hindi matae. hoy bayani may Internet na po. kitang kita ka na. may video phones pa. so wala kang lusot.

The abuses committed by Bayani Fernando boggle the mind, and yet the man thinks he is being persecuted. To the House of Representatives, for instance, he has replied that he will not appear at a congressional investigation of his activities because the lawmakers who are accusing him of wrongdoing are “politically motivated.”

This is just the latest of Bayani’s transgressions, that of ignoring a Congress summons without even the benefit of an executive gag order from his boss, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Where most government officials would quake in fear of appearing before a congressional investigation, Bayani actually thinks he can get away with this cavalier dismissal of the House invitation on the grounds that his interrogators have a political motive.

kapal talaga. sabi pa ni bayani hindi naman daw nya congressmen yung mga nagpapatawag sa kanya? ano ibigsabihin nya doon? hindi nya ka distrito yung mga congressmen, hindi nya kapartido, hindi nya hawak?

And I guess plastering your sleepy-eyed mug all over the country is not politically motivated—if not outright criminal on so many levels that it would make anyone’s head spin? Who will stop Bayani Fernando from violating nearly every law in the land before he’s through?

Who? si Jojo Robles! Mabuhay! hahaha =) peace tayo ah. hehehe pwede ring Jojo Binay. hahaha

* * *

One of Bayani’s most treasured myths about himself is that he is all about discipline. And yet, given the many and repeated transgressions of the MMDA chairman, you have to wonder who will discipline him.

Bayani has run afoul of the law so many times and yet he is allowed to thumb his nose at anyone who dares cross his path. He can even go on a television talent show and claim that he wants to win because he is raising funds for his election campaign in 2010—and no one even asks anymore if this blatant fund-raising by a sitting government official is illegal or not.

WTF! talaga sinabi nya yon!?! sorry hindi na ako nanonood ng local TV programs. Naiinis lang ako.

He has crossed swords with an entire Cabinet’s worth of government agencies and nearly all of the mayors of Metro Manila (who supposedly are his bosses and funders), and yet he goes on his merry way—disregarding laws, ordinances, human rights and simple courtesy as he barrels his way through with his pink-and-blue army of traffic terrorists, mulcters and bus-jackers, sidewalk-vendor scourges, squatter demolishers and sticker-and-tarpaulin plasterers.

Jojo Robles, ano sa palagay mo at bakit gustong tumakbo ni BF as president of the Republic of the Philippines? Power, pera, attention, para ba maabswelto sa mga kaso?

No one has asked Bayani to present an audit of his expenses, to show which funds are his and not his to spend, and which was spent where and how much. No one has filed charges against Bayani for ordering the illegal confiscation of property in the form of the buses his men take over or the wares of the sidewalk vendors that they grab and never return.

Even the usually quick-on-the-draw human rights groups have not taken up the case of Bayani’s lightning demolition of squatter shanties, nor have they challenged his explanation that it’s not his job to relocate squatters, only to demolish them. No real opposition has been encountered by the government employees who do nothing but put up his tarpaulins and stick his stickers—even if the taxpayers cough up the money for their wages. No official inquiries have been made about his questionable infrastructure projects like the abominable elevated U-turn on C-5 Road or his dangerous (and BF Corp.-fabricated) railings, pedestrian overpasses and the absolutely free gift of a on-off ramp that he gave to the owner of a mall in his home turf of Marikina.

Nobody in authority has really asked why he can declare for the presidency and yet not resign.

Unfortunately, the undeniable effect of letting Bayani do whatever he wants and not forcing him to account for his actions afterward is the breakdown of order, respect for the law and common decency. Ironically for the man who prides himself with a genius for instilling discipline and restoring order, all he’s been doing lately is to show that if you’ve got the power, you can actually get away with anything.

Of course, government officials have been running afoul of the law probably for as long as there’s been a government. But no one in memory has so cavalierly declared himself to be so high above mere legal questions as Bayani Fernando. And the saddest part of it all is, he still has his job.

Maybe, just maybe, somebody will remedy that soon.

Pathetic Bayani Fernando Tshirts

Pathetic talaga itong BF na ito. iniinsulto ang masa. sinira na nga ang kabuhayan mo iinsultuhin ka pa, bibigyan ka ng konswelo de bobong kamiseta. mababa talaga ang tingin ni BF sa mga mahihirap.