Nakakasuka itong lumalabas na kotongan ng mga congressman na miyembro ng Commission on Appointments.
Ito ay nangyari pagkatapos ng mga report na bilihan ng boto para sa kung sino ang magiging speaker sa House of Representatives.
Ito talagang mga kampon ni Gloria Arroyo, manang-mana sa amo.
Update: Abalos to critics: they can jump to hell
It’s too bad that the Metro Manila Council resolution banning rallies and motorcades in Metro Manila major thoroughfares passed last week will not be taking effect until 15 days of publication of the implementing rules and regulations.
Tomorrow’s motorcade rally by the Concerned Citizens Group would have been a good test case.
Tomorrow, at 9 a.m.. the CCG will express their “outrage and disgust over the blatant, frontal cheating maneuvers in Maguindanao” by holding a motorcade from Liwasang Bonifacio to the Comelec office in Intramuros.
May mensahe si Senator Antonio Trillanes sa sambayanang Pilipino:
“Sa tulong ng Maykapal ay matagumpay nating napagkaisa ang ating mga diwa at adhikain para sa bayan. Ito ay sa kabila ng pisikal na limitasyon na idinulot ng pagkakakulong sa atin.
“Sa tibay ng ating nabuong paninindigan, walang nagawa ang pulitikang tradisyunal upang supilin ang rumaragasang boses ng tunay na pagbabago.
It was only three days ago when Mike Arroyo told the Manila Trial Court that he has “forgiven” the journalists whom he sued for libel. Now he wants 8 of them arrested.
by Ashzel Hachero
A lawyer of First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo asked a court hearing the P12.5 million class suit filed by Filipino journalists to issue an arrest order against eight media personalities for their failure to comply with a court-issued subpoena for yesterday’s hearing of the case.
Update:Clearing Gringo dismays prosecutors
Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez today exonerated Sen.-elect Gregorio “Gringo” Honasan from all criminal culpability in connection with the 2003 Oakwood mutiny, reversing the finding of probable cause by a panel of Department of Justice prosecutors.
In a 19-page resolution on the petition for review filed by Honasan, Gonzalez said there was insufficient evidence to back the criminal information against Honasan before the Makati regional trial court.
Gonzalez, however, reaffirmed coup d’état charges against Sen.-elect Antonio Trillanes IV and other members of the so-called Magdalo group that staged the mutiny.
Update: What extortion at CA? – Pichay
This is great. Worms are wriggling out of Arroyo’s Pandora box. Fired BIR Chief Mario Buñag disclosed the manipulation of tax collection by Finance Chief Gary Teves. He said Teves should also be fired.
Teves’s father, Rep. Herminio Teves, came to his son’s rescue and dropped another bomb: racket in the Confirmation on Appointments.
Philippine Star/ABS-CBN story below:
By Jess Diaz
A Cabinet member who wants to be confirmed by the powerful Commission on Appointments (CA) has to shell out at least P5 million to win confirmation, outgoing Negros Oriental Rep. Herminio Teves disclosed Thursday.
Update: NBI preliminary report
NBI suspects ZTE’s rival in NBN contract in loss of documents
I hope Assistant Secetary Lorenzo G. Formoso III of the Department of Transportation and Communication will not get the ax for disclosing a “national shame” at the forum on the National Broadband Network project sponsored by the Action for Economic Reform at the Ateneo Professionals School in Rockwell last Wednesday.
The “national shame” was the loss of the sovereign contracts between the governments of the People’s Republic of China though a government subsidiary ZTE Corporation and the Philippine Government represented by the DOTC the night after the important documents were signed.
A DOTC source said a worried Formoso went back to his office after the AEC forum and confided to a subordinate that he made a mistake (“Nagkamali ako”) . “Bigla kong nasabi (I blurted it out ).
The lawyer of Jose Miguel Arroyo, the President’s husband, hopes to question in court Friday eight of the journalists who sued his client for millions of pesos in damages in a bid to have the class-action suit filed by media against his client dismissed.
Lawyer Ruy Alberto Rondain said Thursday the eight had been subpoenaed to appear in a Makati court as “hostile witnesses.”
“They will have to take the stand. If I’m successful, the class suit will be dismissed,” Rondain told the Philippine Daily Inquirer, parent company of INQUIRER.net, over the phone.
A journalists’ organization on Thursday took exception to President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s appeal for media to help her in the last three years of her term, saying media’s “sole responsibility is to the people.”
Arroyo made her appeal Wednesday to executives of selected media outfits she invited to Malacañang.
“The media can help the government and the country reach a new plane of development, stability and reform by balanced reporting based on verified facts, constructive commentary on public issues, and editorial focus on news that matters to the lives and livelihood of ordinary Filipinos,” Arroyo told the media executives.
A ranking official of the Department of Transportation and Communications yesterday said that the original contracts to set up a national broadband infrastructure between the Philippine government and the Chinese government corporation, ZTE for $365 million were lost in Hainan the night after it was signed last April 20 in the presence of President Arroyo.
DOTC Assistant Secretary Lorenzo Formoso, who was one of the two Filipino signatories of the contract (the other was DOTC Secretary Leandro Mendoza), said the theft was reported by Emmanuel Ang, DTI commercial attaché, who said the papers were stolen from the hotel where the DTI personnel were billeted.