Tonyo Cruz of TXTPower http://tonyo.blogspot.com
sent us this YouTube video of the ABC ZTE ringtone.
He said, “Let this ringtone express our protest.”
He said TXTPower will make the ringtone available at its website http://www.txtpower.org starting tomorrow.
The past days, Malacañang has been on overdrive trying to prevent the stink of the ZTE national broadband deal from reaching Gloria Arroyo.
Philippine Star columnist Jarius Bondoc believes that Malacañang’s suspension, not cancellation, of the controversial ZTE NBN contract, was a “calculated move to dissuade former NEDA director Romulo Neri from testifying when the Senate Blue Ribbon committee resumes its investigation on Wednesday.
Reports have it that Neri told Gloria Arroyo about the P200 million bribe attempt by Comelec Chairman Benjamin Abalos.
Ay naku, nagkakalat na naman si AFP Chief Hermogenes Esperon ng kokorokoko.
Sabi ni Esperon noong Biyernes na may anim na junior officers raw na kanyang inire-assign at pinamanmanan dahil nagre-recruit raw para sa panibagong coup. Walang detalyeng binigay si Esperon.
Akala ni Esperon tanga tayo, ano? Akala niya bilhin natin ang bilasa na niyang tinitinda.
Breaking news:
Gloria Arroyo has suspended the controversial national Broadband Network contract with China’s ZTE Corporation, Trade Secretary Peter Favila said just now.
Justice Acting Secretary Agnes Devanadera gave the questions and controversy that the deal has generated as reason for suspension. She also said Arroyo has ordered the formation of a technical group to review the contract with ZTE.
Ngayon pa after nabuking sila!
This is like watching a bizarre movie. Imagine, to save JDV’s political power, GMA is ousted. It’s really bizarre. But there’s no reason not to enjoy it. Sit back, watch and enjoy
By Jess Diaz
The Philippine Star
The opposition bloc in the House of Representatives will support the impeachment of President Arroyo if her allies succeed in unseating Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr., Minority Leader Ronaldo Zamora said Friday.
“We will not initiate an impeachment. But if Speaker De Venecia is ousted and his group starts an impeachment process, the minority will most likely support it,” Zamora said in a radio interview.
Even as the Makati Regional Trial Court denied his petition to allowed Senate sessions, Sen. Antonuio Trillanes IV held the first organizational meeting of his commitee on civil service at his detention center in the Marine Brig at Fort Bonifacio with Sen. Alan Cayetano in attendance. Media was not allowed to cover it.
From ABS-CBN online:
The Makati City Regional Trial Court on Thursday dismissed anew a petition by Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV to be allowed to attend sessions in the Senate and to set up office and grant interviews in his Fort Bonifacio detention cell.
From ABS-CBN Online:
Maria Flor “Pong” Querubin, wife of detained Marine Col. Ariel Querubin, said the announcement by AFP Chief Hermogenes Esperon about a fresh coup plot against the administration is just another “desk intelligence report.”
“Gawa-gawa lang nila iyan. (That’s a fabrication) Every intelligence report has a corresponding intelligence operation. If there are intelligence operations there is a corresponding budget,” Querubin said in an interview with Anthony Taberna in ABS-CBN’s morning show, “Umaga, kay Ganda”.
Querubin’s husband is currently detained in a military detention facility in Camp Capinpin in Tanay, Rizal. Her husband is being accused of leading the failed coup plot against Mrs. Arroyo in February 2006.
Erap conviction seen as a case of selective prosecution
by Czeriza Valencia
Former Malaysian deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim yesterday said the conviction of former President Joseph Estrada is “an issue in selective prosecution (in) the midst of pervasive corruption.”
In his explosive testimony at the Senate last Tuesday, Jose de Venecia III related the meeting at the Wack-Wack Golf Clubhouse last March where, in the presence of Comelec Chairman Benjamin Abalos, DOTC secretary Leandro Mendoza, Ruben Reyes, Jimmy Paz, and retired Police General Quirino de la Torre, Mike Arroyo, husband of Gloria Arroyo told him to “back off” from the big-ticket National Broadband project.
by Dennis Gadil and JP Lopez
The government acted with undue haste in awarding the $329 million national broadband contract to ZTE Corp. by signing a supply agreement with a Chinese company without first entering into an executive agreement with the Chinese government.
This was the observation of senators yesterday after members of the Cabinet appeared before a Senate inquiry to justify the alleged overpriced project.
Sen. Panfilo Lacson said since there was no executive agreement yet, the contract for the national broadband project should have been subjected to public bidding.
