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Lozada surfaces; recounts NBN/ZTE deal

Published by Ellen on February 6, 2008

From the Inquirer:

A “missing” key witness in the national broadband network (NBN) controversy surfaced early Thursday morning and detailed his recollections on the now-nullified government contract with China’s ZTE Corp. in a televised press conference.

Seated with bishops and nuns at the La Salle Greenhills gym in Mandaluyong City, in Metro Manila, starting at 2:30 a.m., Rodolfo Noel Lozada Jr. narrated chronically his experiences in the preparations of the NBN project with China’s ZTE Corp., including a direct threat made by the now-resigned elections chairman Benjamin Abalos and the apparent involvement of First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo.

Truth will set us free

Published by Ellen on February 6, 2008

Ang nangyari kay Rodolfo “Jun” Noel Lozada, presidente ng Philippine Forest Corporation, na kinidnap ng mga tauhan ni Gloria Arroyo noong Martes nang siya ay dumating galing London ay dapat maging leksyon sa marami pang may alam tungkol sa mga krimen na sangkot ang pamilyang Arroyo.

Habang tinatago nyo ang inyong alam, may motibo silang takutin, pahirapan at saktan kayo at ang inyong mga mahal sa buhay. Hindi kayo magiging safe kung makipag-tulungan kayo sa kanila.

Ang inyong kaligtasan ay isawalat ang katotohan. Alalahanin nyo ang kasabihan: “Truth will set us free.”

Tension in Tanay

Published by Ellen on February 6, 2008

Situation in the detention center of in Camp Capinpin of officers facing mutiny charges for allegedly withdrawing support from Gloria Arroyo is tense. AFP Chief of Staff Hermogenes Esperon has ordered them transferred to Camp Aguinaldo today, the day before their scheduled hearing tomorrow. They are resisting because they have learned of a sinister plot to link them to a fake destabilization plot and they will be incarcerated in the dreaded ISAFP compound.

(See earlier statement: Concerned voices from Tanay).

They sent the following message through their lawyers:

The Madriaga files on NBN/ZTE

Published by Ellen on February 5, 2008

The following document landed in my mailbox. It’s supposed to have been written by a certain Dante Madriaga. Read on for what it’s worth:

I am an electronic/electrical engineer by profession.I attended the University of the Philippines and Texas A&M University.I have been in the communications industry for over 30 years.

I was a part owner of a company in the LISP in Cabuyao, Laguna that exported microwave radio transmitters.I was involved in the original design of the ARESCOM proposal using a concept similar to what Joey De Venecia thought about .I have been involved in the preparation and design of the NBN ZTE proposal since the beginning.

ZTE witness ‘abducted” at the airport

Published by Ellen on February 5, 2008

by Dennis Gadil
Malaya

A team believed led by the security chief of the Ninoy Aquino International Airport “snatched” NBN-ZTE prime witness Rodolfo Noel Lozada from Senate arresting teams as he arrived yesterday.

Reports said Lozada, who flew in from Hong Kong at around 4:40 p.m., was apparently whisked off by retired general Angel Atutubo, NAIA assistant general manager for security, and was directly taken down to the tarmac to a waiting van.

Atutubo reportedly was a former aide of President Arroyo. The van went toward Villamor Airbase in Pasay City.

Concerned voices from Tanay

Published by Ellen on February 5, 2008

The following statement was issued by lawyers of officers detained in Camp Capinpin,Tanay,Rizal implicated in the alleged February 2006 plan to withdraw support from Gloria Arroyo. The 28 detained officers include Maj.Gen.Renato Miranda, Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim (detained in Camp Crame with Sen. Antonio Trillanes Iv and other Magdalo officers), Col. Ariel Querubin, Col. Custodio Parcon :

Another suspicious order concerning the Tanay detainees led by Maj. Gen. Renato Miranda, has been issued and is danger of being implemented to the detriment of the said detainees.
Such is yet another oppressive act committed against the same men who have submitted themselves to the legal processes of a military establishment that seems intent on depriving them of their rights.

At the last hearing, both the defense counsels and the prosecution were directed by the court martial panel to make proposals (defense counsels) and counter-proposals (prosecution) on ways to efficiently conduct the proceedings. The meeting between prosecution and defense was conducted yesterday in Camp Aguinaldo. The proposals were as follows:

Continue readingConcerned voices from Tanay

Sige, labasan ng baho

Published by Ellen on February 4, 2008

Update: JDV ousted; Nograles elected speaker

As parting shot, JDV cites litany of graft, abuse

Sinimulan ng nga mga kaalyado ng mga Arroyo ang paglista ng mga anomalya na sangkot si House Speaker Jose de Venecia bilang rason raw kung bakit siya patalsikin.

Inungkat ang PEA-Amari deal, Landoil, Northrail at iba pa. Sabi nila kaya raw mababa ang tingin ng taumbayan sa House of Representatives dahil sa maga anomalya raw na kinsasangkutan ni JDV.

Mabuti yan at sinimulan ng mga tao ni Arroyo ang maglabas ng baho.

Romy and Tom

Published by Ellen on February 3, 2008

Malacañang has Romy Neri by the balls and that’s why the former economic planning secretary is so afraid to face the Senate where he could be compelled to reveal the role of Gloria Arroyo in the scandalously overpriced telecommunications deal with China’s Zhong Xing Telecommunication Equipment Company Ltd. (ZTE).

A source said before Neri appeared in the Senate, Malacañang emissaries told him that he could talk about the deal up to the level of former Comelec Chairman Benjamin Abalos, but he could not implicate Gloria Arroyo and her husband Mike. If he did, details about his “Brokeback Mountain” affair would find their way to media.

The source said the main character in Malacañang’s “Brokeback Mountain” blackmail on Neri is named “Tom.” Some have started talking about a government official’s “La Loma” lover, referring to a district in Manila notorious for its gay bars.

Pare-parehong mga buwaya

Published by Ellen on February 2, 2008

Hopeless talaga itong ating Kongreso. Ang kakapal ng mukha. Pare-pareho bata at matanda.

Lalo pa itong mga anak ni Gloria Arroyo na si Mikey, representative ng Pampanga, at si Dato, representative ng Camarines Sur. Kasama nila ang kanilang tiyo na si Ignacio “Iggy” Arroyo, representative ng Negros Occidental.

Bakit ba gusto ipatanggal ng mag-anak na Arroyo si Jose de Venecia bilang speaker. Hindi dahil sa prinsipyo. Kungdi dahil sa hindi niya nirendahan ang anak na si Joey de Venecia sa pagbulgar ng papel ng tatay niyang si Mike Arroyo sa kurakutan sa NBN/ZTE deal kung saan ang $129 million (dolyar yan ha) na deal ay naging $329 million.

Accuser and judge

Published by Ellen on February 2, 2008

Straight from Esperon’s mouth: aside from eliminating the New People’s Army, he wants the trial for the 28 officers he accused of mutiny for allegedly planning to withdraw support from Gloria Arroyo in February 2006 finished.

Esperon said this in an interview at ANC. Esperon said that the officers should be punished for what they did.

This is precisely what is wrong with the special general court martial no. 2 trying the case of Maj. Gen. Renato Miranda, Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim and 26 other officers for the February 2006 allegations. This is what the officers have been complaining about: it’s a kangaroo court. And Esperon’s interview at ANC confirmed it.

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