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Month: February 2008

Ang $41 million na advance

Published by Ellen on February 25, 2008

Akala talaga ni Gloria Arroyo, tanga tayo.

Inamin niya noong Sabado sa kanyang interview sa DZRH na alam raw niyang may iregularidad ang $349 million NBN/ZTE deal na kanyang sinaksihan ang pirmahan sa Boao, China noong April 21, 2007 ngunit itinuloy raw niya dahil foreign government ang kasama sa deal.
Ngunit sabi niya, kinansela naman nya ang kontrata kalaunan.

Akala ni Arroyo, papatawarin siya ang sambayanang Pilipino dahil inamin niyang may irgularidad naman talaga ang kontrata na ilang buwan ring sinasabi ng mga opisyal niya na maayos at malinis. Akala niya katulad ni Rodolfo Noel “Jun” Lozada na lalong hinangaan siya ng sinabi niya na marami siyang nagawa na nakakawala ng respeto sa sarili ngunit gusto na niya ngayon bumawi at –isalbahin ang kanyang kaluluwa.

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What could spark military outrage

Published by Ellen on February 24, 2008

Immediately after last Friday’s 8-hour court martial hearing of the mutiny case against Maj. Gen. Renato Miranda and 27 other officers allegedly involved in the plan to withdraw support from Gloria Arroyo in February 2006, the members of the panel met with AFP Chief of Staff Hermogenes Esperon.

Esperon, the source said, was upset that no arraignment of the 28 officers took place. A member of the panel, the source said, told the AFP chief that much as they want to follow his timetable, it’s difficult for them to railroad the process. That would open them later to charges of violations of the law. They risk being subjected to court martial themselves for rendering unlawful judgment.

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Please bring us back to the barracks

Published by Ellen on February 24, 2008

On the 22nd anniversary of People Power One and on the second anniversary of their incarceration for allegedly planning to withdraw support from Gloria Arroyo, the 28 officers led by Maj. Gen. Renato Miranda and Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim, issued the following statement:

We are soldiers. We are also citizens. We, together with our families, are so much a part of the community more than our beloved organization. We are not faceless automatons incapable of thinking, feeling and discernment. We feel the pain of our neighbors as much as their anger. We see their oppression and sense their hopelessness. Of course, their happiness is ours too. But they are not!

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Makiramdam. Maghanda. Kumilos

Published by Ellen on February 23, 2008

Lahat na nakaka-usap ko na nakikiramdam sa nangyayari ngayon sa sitwasyon pampulitika sa bansa ay nagsasabi na magbantay at maghanda ng husto sa susunod na linggo. “Mula February 25 hanggang March 31,” sabi ng isang source.

Padami-dami na ang mga sector na lumalantad at nagpapahayag ng kanilang galit sa ginagawa ni Gloria Arroyo at ng kanyang mga alipores na pagyurak ng demokrasya sa Pilipinas. Ang mga dating walang paki-alam katulad ng mga negosyante sa Makati, mga pare at madre at mga kabataan ay sumasali na.

Ako ay pagod na pagod na sa kaka-martsa para sa katotohanan at hustisya na niyurakan ni Gloria Arroyo at may mga panahon na sabi ko tanggap ko na pinapabayaan na ng Panginoon ang Pilipinas. Para bang hinahayaan na tayong malugmok sa katiwalian sa kung anong rason na hindi ko ma-intindihan.

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Bonfire of institutions

Published by Ellen on February 23, 2008


By Randy David
Philippine Daily Inquirer

Because it is easier to imagine it, corruption has taken center stage in the public’s appreciation of the current national crisis. Against the backdrop of mass poverty, the quantities are truly mind-boggling: $130 million in kickbacks for a government project worth $329 million, a bribe offer of P200 million for a single signature, cash gifts of half a million pesos each for politicians who attend a breakfast or lunch meeting with a President facing impeachment, half a million pesos in pocket money for a government functionary who flies to Hong Kong in order to evade a Senate inquiry, and many more. But it would be a mistake to think this is just about corruption. This is, more importantly, about the long-term damage to a nation’s social institutions.

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Arroyo: I learned about ZTE mess on eve of signing deal

Published by Ellen on February 23, 2008

From GMA-TV News

Update:Gloria Arroyo continues to spin tales. She said the five-month delay in the cancellation of NBN/ZTE deal was because the Chinese government had to be informed properly.

Arroyo says corruption probe will spare no one. (How about herself?) But she also cleared herself and her husband saying no one proftted from the deal.

President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo on Saturday said she learned that something was wrong about the Philippine government’s $329.48-million National Broadband Network (NBN) project with China’s Zhong Xing Telecommunications Equipment (ZTE) Corp the night before she witnessed the signing of the NBN-ZTE contract.

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