Lost in Translation

09/14/2007

Amid calls for the scrapping of the $329-million supply contract for the National Broadband Network (NBN) project, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said Wednesday night “we must be a government that honors contracts and agreements that go through the required processes, despite media attacks.”

 

09/25/2007

President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo said Tuesday that allegations of bribery are unsubstantiated in a Chinese company's winning bid for a Philippine national broadband network, citing an internal investigation.

 

 

October 02, 2007

Gov’t tells high court ZTE offered the best deal. The government defended in the Supreme Court its decision to award to China’s ZTE Corp. the $329-million contract for the National Broadband Network (NBN) project, saying the firm had offered the best deal.

 

November 09, 2007

Gov’t asks SC to dismiss petitions vs NBN deal. Government lawyers have asked the Supreme Court to dismiss the petitions filed by several groups questioning the legality of the $330-million broadband infrastructure contract between the Philippines and a Chinese firm.

 

 

February 23, 2008

Arroyo admits knowing of corruption before signing ZTE deal. President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo admitted Saturday she was aware of allegations of high-level corruption in the National Broadband Network project, but she did not stop the signing of the deal with ZTE Corp. last April 21 because she felt then that diplomatic relations between the Philippines and China were in peril.

The President, speaking mostly in Filipino, made this disclosure in an interview with radio commentator Joe Taruc over dzRH.

"Someone told me about it the night before the signing of the supply contract. That was one of many signings [in China]. But how can you cancel it the night before, considering that you are dealing with another country?” she said.

But she did not say who told her about the purported corruption.

According to Arroyo, she addressed the "anomalies” in the NBN-ZTE deal by canceling it.

"That was long canceled. Soon after I was informed about it, I already [planned] steps how to cancel it,” she said.

The President said that like other Filipinos, she was outraged by corruption: "The people are angry about corruption. So am I," she said in Filipino. That is why as soon as there was talk about corruption in this I project, I took steps to cancel it."

Arroyo canceled the project only in September 2007, about five months after her visit on April 21 to Hainan province in China.

Read on, I just got lost in translation.

I read the news

A news article:  Filipino journalist’s blog gets spammed. The blog of Filipino journalist Ellen Tordesillas has experienced a “spam attack.”

So this was article was reported Feb. 28, so it was of journalist' Ellen Tordesillas.

When I saw the title and before reading on the article, I thought it was MLQ3's daily dose because this "dose" can't be accessed today.

Infected by EO 464 virus?

Now More Than Ever

This interfaith rally, it may succeed or it may fail.

I wish i could go there but not yet. I haven't even figure it out how I can avoid being traffic- stuck at EDSA on my way home from the SOUTH.

I salute the many respectable people behind these but I avoided the gathering because of the personalities that have lost their credibility yet acting as if they are true leaders. How can somebody recently "pardoned" for his crime, ask the people to protest against corruption. If he could have just simply shut up and not include his personality into the occasion, that could have  been his greatest contribution. This and his kind bring on the passive behavior of Juan dela Cruz.

My stand is if this administration will continue to deny the people the truth, they have no reason to stay in their position.

Today's protest may succeed, well and good, and hopefully peaceful.

If it failed, it was just a momentary set back. The people will be better informed in the coming days.

And if you have known the truth, the evil flees.

 

 

Now More than Ever

Rating:	★★★★★
Category:	Music
Genre:	Rock
Artist:	John Cougar Mellencamp

Inspiring!

Now More Than Ever
If you believe, won’t you please raise your hands
Let's hear your voices, Let us know where you stand
Don't shout from the shadows, Cause it won't mean a damn
Now more than ever

Who am I to say, what needs to be done
I'm just nobody, another lost one
Caught between what's left, and what needs to be done
Now more than ever.
The loss of love, the loss of our dreams
It's not too late.
Now more than ever.

Pipes of Peace

This flash report, I saw ahead in a dream.

Gloria to read to the nation again: "I am sorry. I want to close this ABZTEFG chapter."

Mga minamahal kong kababayan,

For the last several years, some things have spun out of control. Tonight, I want to set the record straight. You deserve an explanation from me, because you are the people I was elected to serve with a big help from Ben and Garci.

As you recall, starting at the controversial $470,000,000 IMPSA cotract, the overpriced Macapagal Boulevard, Mickey's imported horses, the Jose Pidal account, the P278,000,000 Agrifund for municipalities that did not even have fields to plant crops at, the Philhealth cards weeks before the 2004 elections, the $20,000 a night suite by Fg at MGM Grand Hotel to watch a boxing match, the supposed monthly pay offs from Jueteng lords, the "Hello Garci" denial first / admitted later just like the handing out of P200,00 to P500,000 money bag in Malacanan and many others that I will not identify here anymore because the people might not forgive me anymore and will all troop to the streets and really pressure me to abolish EO464 and let the truth be known.I will just have to jump to the issue that I really failed to suppress..... the ABZTEFG NBN deal.

To give this issue a rest, I will repeat.....

I am sorry. I want to close this chapter. Let us move on.

If this is not enough, I will be more detailed next time. Just don't force me to resign. If you cannot trust me, why not give my House of representatives another chance to IMPEACH me again. Give my Ombudsman a chance or my inJustice Secretary. If not, I promise there will never be as big as ABZTEFG up to 2010.

Let us move on.

Everybody wants To Run The World

On that supposed mid January athleticism.......

I tried out for our company's basketball team and the result was favorable enough for me.

Details later.

Got to give way to this News Flash: Gloria to to recite "I am sorry. I want to close this ABZTEFG chapter."

In Between Days

Got a lot in my head to scribble about. Not much time for those today. Tomorrow maybe.

The mid january athleticism, the simple joys of everyday, the time away multiplying, those days living like Forever Young, the playlist i wish i have completed, the activist in me that i hope to share to all those who care to read.

Strange ways, here I am again, and this early on I ask of you....bear with me.

I was just thinking out loud.