Sunday, February 10, 2008 The Madriaga file on the NBN/ZTN broadband deal scandal February 7, 2008 By Ellen Tordesillas THE following document landed in my mailbox. It’s supposed to have been written by a certain Dante Madriaga. (A check with UP alumni activities show a Dante Madriaga as earning a BSE from UP in 1966.). [...]
Dear Folks, This must be another of Gloria Arroyo’s jokes. According to the following news article, Gloria Arroyo said in a radio interview that she “moved swiftly” to cancel the deal “the moment I learned there was the slightest suspicion of anomaly” in the ZTE-NBN contract. Ha ha ha… The truth of the matter is: [...]
Dear Folks, It’s no wonder that Gloria Arroyo did not stop the signing of the ZTE-NBN deal when she was told the day before that there was corruption involved in the deal; she didn’t want to lose the $30 million remainder of the $41 million advanced by ZTE. Is it a concidence then that a [...]
Fear is the perpetrator of evil rulers AS I WRECK THIS CHAIR By William M. Esposo Tuesday, February 26, 2008 A female Swiss exchange student once asked me: “How come the Filipinos don’t rise up and fight? Most of them have nothing to lose except their lives.” She asked me this in 1980 after traveling [...]
PerryScope by Perry Diaz The Imminent Fall of the Evil Empire For the last seven years since she usurped the presidency from Joseph Estrada, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo built an empire that fed on greed. And over that period of time, she spun a massive web of corruption — and deception — that centered in Malacanang. Corruption [...]
Landscape Gemma Cruz Araneta Mayor Lim lauds GOMBURZA On that breezy Sunday morning, one hundred thirty six years after three Filipino priests were garroted at Bagumbayan, Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim commemorated the nationalism of Fathers Mariano Gomez, Jose Burgos and Jacinto Zamora and connected it to the current “communal action”. Addressing the students in the [...]
Red scare for “coup me” (Herman Tiu Laurel/ Infowars column/ 2-25-2008 MON.) Press Statement on Malacañang’s On February 22, 2008, several mainstream newspapers carried a full-page ad by a patently Malacañang-funded group calling itself the “Kongreso ng Mamamayan,” which someone more aptly called “Contsaba ni Ma’am Yan” (or ‘Con’ ni Ma’am Yan). In a quote [...]
Dear Folks, Here we go again with Gloria’s demented statements. Does she think that the people would believe her? She knew corruption was involved in the deal. And she knew that a lot of people have been pointing their fingers at her husband, Mike Arroyo. Lozada testified that Abalos wanted a $130 million kickback from [...]
Dear Folks, The following is a reprint of my article, “Sleeping With The Enemy,” which was originally published on August 10, 2007, long before the NBN scandal erupted. Recently, Gloria Arroyo admitted that she knew something was wrong with the NBN contract but went ahead and signed it because she didn’t want any “diplomatic problem” [...]
LETTERS FROM PORT MORESBY (YEAR 3) By ALFREDO P HERNANDEZ www.batasnews.com Loyalty now a silent milking cow LOYALTY has become a multi-million peso/dollar commodity for those who are close to the powers-that-be. To them, it is their dogged commitment to stick to the seat of power come hell or high water; it is a determined [...]
