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I will liveblog the Senate ZTE hearing over at Inquirer Current starting at 2:30 pm.

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259 thoughts on “Liveblogging will be at Inquirer Current

  1. After almost 6 hours of telebabad,I am totally shocked at the complete lack of real justification for the NBN project.It’s a project that is being pushed for the wrong reasons.

    We need a government broadband network like we need a hole in the head!

    1)While we are trying to privatize government-controlled or owned corporations,the project proponents of the nbn deal are moving in the opposite direction .

    2)There are already three private companies (Globe, Smart,Sun)with a very wide national penetration.The government wants its own, redundant,network.

    This project is all about high stakes COMMISSIONS not only for Abalos but also for Mendoza and the Pidals.

    Kudos to Senators ROXAS,GORDON,ESCUDERO ,CAYETANO and PANGILINAN.Great job!

  2. Senators Noynoy Aquino,Loren Legarda, Honasan:Please do your homework naman.I got the impression that you were just interested in the photo-ops and sound bits at prime time!

    Senators Jingoy and Lacson:Not as fiery as the last session.

    Senators Miriam,Joker and Enrile:It’s about time to recharge your batteries.No more adrenalin.Joker,I got the impression you really
    want to be in the Supreme Court !

    The young brave lions of the Senate today: ROXAS,PANGILINAN,CAYETANO ,ESCUDERO and
    GORDON. Class acts today!

  3. The more I watched Joey,the more convinced Iam about his credibility.Warts and all,he is 100% more credible than MENDOZA and FAUSTINO.They stink!

  4. …and a better man than Romulo Neri. I looked at his biography and found that he had his high school at the Ateneo in the early 60’s. The Jesuits should revisit what went wrong with their values formation education for that decade.

  5. God writes straight with crooked lines …..

    1)Here is Joey De Venecia,a brave son of a most TRAPO father.
    2)Then we have a Fatso who proves that flight is a strong evidence of guilt.
    3)Brave journalists like MLQ3, Jarius,Ellen and Ricky .
    4)The standard contravidas:Lady Miriam,LoloJohnny and Joker.
    5)The original brave ones:Lacson and Pimentel
    6)The new BRAVE Senators,Cayetano,Pangilinan,Roxas,Gordon AND
    Escudero.
    7)The power of INTERNET and brave bloggers.

  6. CVJ:Don’t give up on NERI:He is a tormented soul now.They are watching him closely coz he worked with JDV before.

  7. ROMULO NERI

    Prior to his appointment as Budget Secretary last July 2005, Neri served as NEDA Director General and of the House of Representatives’ Congressional Planning and Budget Office (CPBO)under JDV.

    As CPBO director-general, Neri provided advice to the leadership of the Philippine House of Representatives on socioeconomic issues, particularly on fiscal and monetary policies, development financing, and the budget of the national government.

    He was a Eugenio Lopez Foundation associate professor for Corporate Financial Management at the Asian Institute of Management and as former corporate planning and finance officer of such companies as Canlubang Sugar Estate, Canlubang Pulp and Manufacturing Corporation, C-J Yulo and Sons Inc., Philippine National Oil Company, Luzon Stevedoring Corporation and Mobil Oil Philippines, Inc.

    Neri obtained his master’s degree in business administration in 1979 at the Graduate School of Management, University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA), majoring in Finance and International Management. He finished his business administration degree, major in marketing, at the U.P College of Business Administration in 1970, graduating class valedictorian and magna cum laude. He finished his high school at the Ateneo de Manila.

  8. I watched the tail-end of the hearings and its quite obvious that this deal does not deserve our hard-earned money. This is just a classic case of pambabakal and obviously entered into by the gang of FG to get a quick buck.

    I do admire Senator Mar Roxas, Chiz, Pangilinan and Cayetano for their incisive questions. However, what got my goat was when Pangilinan approached Mendoza after the hearings. Roxas probably thought that the cameras were out at that time. What I saw sickened me. It was Roxas congratulating Mendoza for a “job well done.” It just reinforced the view that the hearing was just a “show” by politicians. Imagine, even JInggoy congratulating Mendoza, for what? For being a bumbling cabinet secretary? So much for expecting too much from these politicos.

  9. Richard Gordon was a revelation to me! quite fair.Akala ko pang Ateneo Blue Buble Batallion na lang.Oh well,he had to find a better way of grabbing the spotlight now that the Blue Eagles have lost to La Salle.

    Sana naman Dick dont bully small people like doble.

  10. Patricio,
    para sakin kahit na anung pumasok sa kukote ng malacanang,mabuti na din na full force silang dumating sa senate.
    natawa ako ng kinomend ni villar si ermita sa pag dating,ay finocus ng camera na natutulog.

    ewan ko lang sa garci,wiretapping kung same attitude ang cabinet dito…siguro mas matimbang itong zte

    natural mas matimabang si FG kesa ke Gloria.

  11. Gloria will cancel the deal and then ask that the hearings be stopped and we move on. Her Senate tutas will say that’s right no harm no foul let’s move on.

    She doesn’t want to have to force Neri to perjure himself because he may just not go that extra mile for her,

    And of course she doesn’t want to risk having to turn Analos into a scapegoat because he might turn on her and bring her and Mike down with him.

    This ZTE deal is so big and the witness, Joey, is so credible that Gloria is in danger of losing the “somos” crowd and what then happens she’s done for.

  12. Can anyone familiar with elite psychology explain to me how come this ZTE scandal has more potency in unseating Arroyo than the Hello Garci scandal?

  13. The elite did not like Fernando Poe.So they were able to rationalize the cheating of Mrs.Pidal

    The ZTE story is different.Here is a young DaVID FIGHTING a goliath(Fatso),the queen,the CommissionER,the lackeys and
    the three spoiled brats.Hard not to like this type story .

  14. if the best thing you guys can do is show the zte deal is “unnecessary”, “disadvantageous”, or “expensive”, that is a matter of opinion. but to suggest that fgma and the first family is involved in “corruption” on the basis of this “hearing”, is more than just ridiculous. joey de venecia is credible a witness as to the “chance” meeting at wack wack, no more, no less. nothing, nothing in this “show” even suggest a presidential family’s wrongdoing.

  15. Bencard,

    above all the ZTE deal is treasonous,

    Sen Honasan touched on the sensitive national security issue.

    But if not for commission what’s in it for GMA?

    GMA needs cheap China loans as an addict needs money to buy drugs. GMA is addicted to power. She needs Chinese investments and loans to prop her up. A ‘good economy’ lays the predicate for PGMA beyond 2010,’to secure the gains of the economy’.

  16. Cheap moneys in-exchange for national security is a lousy trade off.

    “Biazon asks Formoso how many base stations Smart has; Formoso says ask NTC, companies view it as TRADE SECRETS. Biazon wants to know how many Globe, Sun, Smart have.”

    But Communist China is doing the backbone for the gov’t lock,stock and barrel.

    Terribly ridiculous if it were not so treasonuous.

  17. Bencard,

    While killing and kidnapping leftist militants, hunting down Ka Roger in the mountains, indoctrinating the soldiers with anti-communist propaganda, this GMA administration is practically surrendering our national security to Communist Chinese. Review Chinese investments in the country since GMA took power.

  18. As an off-shoot of the Senate’s ZTE investigation, I suggest the creation of the Philippine-China Economic and Security Review Commission.

    To monitor, investigate, and submit to congress an annual report on the national security implications of the bilateral trade and economic relationship between the Phillippines and the People’s Republic of China, and to provide recommendations, where appropriate, to Congress for legislative and administrative action.

  19. The NPA had been blowing up cell sites of local Telcos.

    Will they do the same to ZTE towers?

    Is there a ‘long-distance communications’ between the CPP Politburo and the Chinese Communist Party politburo? Was there an instuction emanating from China for the local NPA to do ‘preparatory action’ re Chinese investments in the Phillipines?

  20. “the Communist Party of China (CPC), through the Chinese government, thoroughly dominates China’s economy, and seeks to continue dominating it through maintaining and enhancing control of its major State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs).”

    What’s the status of ZTE? Is it state-owned?

  21. pete m, you seem to “know” so much about this issue and the “culpability” of the presidential couple. why don’t you testify, under oath, instead of hyperventilating and making the usual leftist rantings in this blog? put your sense of patriotism where your mouth is. maybe you will do a better hatchet job than joey.

  22. truly a public service, what you are doing manolo (w/d liveblogging)

    that way, people like me, who gets nauseated at all those hypocrisy and posturings in investigations like this, don’t have to sit through the whole event, jz to get an overview of what is happening. (oh, and if only this was done in other legislative investigations, no? i believe the Phils is also imitating C-span w/live coverage of congressional investigations, but as u can see, C-span bores most people to death, hence C-span defeats its purpose; which is to engage the general public)

    i really cannot watch people make a fool of themselves. inwardly, i cringe for them and switch the channel. Enrile and Santiago also spouts so much bullshit that u need to have a strong stomach to keep on listening to what they say. I can’t understand how Enrile keeps winning elections. for God’s sakes, he’s one of the architects of Martial Law! (and you accuse us younglings of being unmindful of history. yet i suspect the large number of those who vote for Enrile are peole who experienced Martial Law. so queber na lang ba na isa sya sa mga asong humabol sayo so long as he saved you in the end?)

    you provide the bare essentials, plus, a more palatable transcript, w/that humor of urs. thanks.

  23. Brian B,

    “Can anyone familiar with elite psychology explain to me how come this ZTE scandal has more potency in unseating Arroyo than the Hello Garci scandal?”

    Mike Arroyo did somethimg completely declasse. He acted as an enforcer for his wife’s underlings.

  24. Bencard,

    If you missed the Senate hearing this time, you cam catch it next week, that is if Gloria has not cancelled the ZTE contract yet.

    Yesterday, Sec Teves admitted that Abalos set up a meeting between him and ZTE and then, at another venue, between him, Mendoza and ZTE.

    Would you disapprove a thorough investigation of Abalos and Mendoza based on the statement of Sec. Teves?

    Also, Speaker de Venecia admitted to accomodating a request to reconciliate his son with Mendoza, Mike Arroyo, and Abalos at their request.

    Would you disapprove a thorough investigation of this matter as well?

    Ordinary people are asking, “What is the NBN and what is this ZTE, why is it that some of the higghest officials of the land are so intimately involved in the deal?

    Do you disapprove of the public’s desire to know what’s really going on if there is indeed something going on?

  25. DevilsAdvc8: I couldn´t agree with you more. Both on thanking Manolo wholeheartedly for what he is doing and perhaps more importantly, on your rant about the perpetual comeback whiz Enrile. The day when this man loses election will be a day of great victory for the Philippines indeed. Too bad he is not the only one we can say this about.

  26. The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), is investing as much as P4 billion to modernize its bank note printing system to prevent a repeat of the “Arrovo” bill mishap, Inquirer sources in the central bank said.

    Two Christmases ago, a European printer that supplied 80 million P100 bills misspelled President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo’s name as “Gloria Macapagal-Arrovo.”

    GLORIA MACAPAGAL ARROVO:How APT! “Ella robo”(nagnakaw!)

  27. yeah, buencamino. continue digging. but don’t make conclusions and condemnation until you find real dirt. the trouble with your people is that they always shoot from the hip first, celebrate, and then start looking for evidence. how can we ever extricate ourselves from these bad, bad habits? we are now in the 21st century, not rizal’s 17th. but have we changed as a society? i suggest you and manolo re-read noli me tangere and take a second look at rizal’s view of his society (expressed through padre florentino) and compare it with what we have now.

  28. “the trouble with your people is that they always shoot from the hip first, celebrate, and then start looking for evidence. bencard)

    Dear Tito Bencard:

    Stay vigilant, my agents – in time, the opposition, for all intents and purposes, will BE the Luli Arroyo Internet Brigade!

    Love and kisses,

    LULI A. (My Mommy right or wrong!)

  29. ‘Brian B,

    “Can anyone familiar with elite psychology explain to me how come this ZTE scandal has more potency in unseating Arroyo than the Hello Garci scandal?”

    Mike Arroyo did somethimg completely declasse. He acted as an enforcer for his wife’s underlings.’

    Ok, one more answer and I’ll admit I was being rhetorical. I’m with Bencard. What is the ZTE scandal and why will it topple this President. Are they talking impeachment? Or is merely that you people theorize na magkakapraningan ang mga pulitikong to at magbukuhan?

  30. Corruptions under the PGMA administration as alleged day in and day out would not happen without the explicit or implicit knowledge by the Leader of the Band, and like any other leader, the “tithe” must be offered to have the flocks live in total harmony and share among themselves fair and square. What happen here, someone got so greedy, and forgot the golden rule among thieves, and start squealing, reminiscent of Chavit, (had Erap or somebody screwed him up good?) Thieves will bring each other down, justice still however achieved..

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