Day: February 23, 2008

1. Estrada calls on AFP to heed people’s call for change -GMATV

Pardoned former president Joseph Estrada on Saturday called on the military to joins hands with the people in urging President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to step down.

2. Ito pampasira ng eksena:

Estrada willing to lead the country again, if Arroyo is ousted

3. Ito naman gusto maki-ride on dahil nahalata niyang matutumba na:

In front of Gloria Arroyo, former president Fidel Ramos said “greed, apathy and corruption
we brought down during those days are once again making themselves felt,”

3. Esperon says military won’t be pushed to intervene in another people powers - ABS-CBN news online

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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Wait, there’s more!: Buy her a gift this Valentines! or send her flowers!

From GMA-TV News

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.

Mrs Arroyo told radio dzRH that the day before she witnessed the signing of the NBN-ZTE contract on April 21, 2007 in Boao, China, she was advised about the supposed irregularities in the project.

However, she said she could not readily terminate the deal that would be funded through a loan from the Chinese government.
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