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.”
From ABS-CBN Online:Luli says past drug habit taking toll on JDV III
President Arroyo’s only daughter assailed whistleblower Jose “Joey” de Venecia III for linking her father to the controversial contract involving the Philippine government’s national broadband network deal and China’s ZTE Corporation, ABS-CBN News reported Wednesday.
Evangeline Lourdes “Luli” Arroyo said that de Venecia, whom she said was a former drug user, could still be experiencing the effects of substance abuse.
Let’s watch closely the unraveling of the ZTE conspiracy. I will only believe that there is justice in this country if the real big fishes, who are Gloria Arroyo and her husband, and their co-conspirators are dumped in jail.
Update:
Joey de Venecia: Abalos bugged me
That means the military was again used by Gloria Arroyo for another crime of monumental plunder. That’s why you have Arroyo invoking the “secrecy” of the military. Secrecy in the crime against the Filipino people.
by Evangeline de Vera
The Supreme Court en banc yesterday issued a temporary restraining order on the $329 million National Broadband Network project which the Department of Transportation and Communications entered into with the Chinese firm ZTE Corporation.
The high court granted the consolidated petitions of Iloilo Vice Gov. Rolex Suplico and Amsterdam Holdings Inc. (AHI) pending its decision on Suplico’s prayer to declare the broadband contract as unconstitutional.
The high court did not act on Suplico’s request to set the case for oral arguments.
Wonder how Medy Poblador looks? She’s the woman beside former GMA political adviser Gabriel Claudio. Photo, sent by a friend, was taken during the failed…
This blog was hacked again. An unauthorized post was posted just now by a certain “onetalk”. I erased it but have kept it for the…
Pulutan- from the Soldiers’ Kitchen is going worldwide! Reuters, an international news agency featured it. It was carried in Star (malaysia), yahoo asia news, yahoo philippines and Malaysia Sun, among others.
Here’s the Reuters’ article.
Coup accused cook up a tasty plot in the Philippines
by Carmel Crimmins
MANILA (Reuters Life!) – Two Philippine navy officers in detention for their role in a failed 2003 coup have taken a novel approach to dealing with jail: they’ve written a cook book.
(Joint statement of Makati Business Club,Management Association of the Philippines,
Financial Executives Institute of the Philippines,Foundation for Economic Freedom, Inc.,
Action for Economic Reforms)
We are appalled that the culture of impunity among certain government officials appears to have spread to an extent exceeding that of all past administrations. This impunity seems also increasingly evident in many agencies of government.
A glaring example is that of COMELEC Chairman Benjamin Abalos who had no business in allowing himself to be entertained by officials of ZTE Corporation, a potential contractor of the Republic, particularly considering he had an important electoral exercise to administer. His indiscreet conduct and absence from his official duties could only have happened if he believed he was immune from sanctions. We therefore reiterate our call for Chairman Abalos to resign.
There’s an article on “Pulutan – from the soldiers’ kitchen” by Elmer D. Cruz and Emerson R. Rosales in Hongkong’s South China Morning Post today.…
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