ZTE-NBN scandal whistleblower Rodolfo “Jun” Lozada says he has paid the price for telling the Filipino people what they already know “and yet do not want to be told.”

PinoyPress Blogs: Make no mistake about it: politics is the only reason Lozada is still alive. If he’s murdered or harmed at this point, it would be a political disaster for Arroyo. And she needs that disaster like a hole in the head.

The Black and White Movement on Cardinal Vidal: “There is a difference between critical collaboration, which allows prelates to receive state funds while preaching political moderation from the pulpit, and being a puppet of the president.”

Minority Leader Aquilino “Nene” Q. Pimentel, Jr.
(PDP-Laban) today said the piles of testimonial and
documentary evidence on the anomalous national
broadband network-ZTE project that have surfaced in
the series of Senate hearings belie Malacañang’s claim
that the Senate has mishandled the inquiry on the
case.
Pimentel advised Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye not to
play deaf and blind to such ample evidence in [...]

Joey de Venecia III, the first whistleblower in the ZTE scandal, regrets that his father, former House speaker Jose de Venecia Jr., had to pay a steep political price for his exposé. “Maybe it was his salvation,” Joey says of his father’ ouster as House speaker. But, Joey says, their relationship has never been better.

Bringing the issue to the Courts is a legal trap

The NUPL condemns Pres. Gloria Arroyo’s use of legal institutions and processes to mislead the people and suppress the truth behind charges of corruption behind the NBN-ZTE contract and harass those who are oppose to this suppression of the truth. The belated [...]

“We are former senior government officials who have served the government in the administrations of Presidents Marcos, Aquino, Ramos, Estrada and Arroyo. Today we see how the institutions of government are being manipulated, weakened, and corrupted.”

Senate Minority Leader Aquilino “Nene” Q. Pimentel,
Jr. (PDP-Laban) today dared President Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo to stop preventing Secretary Romulo
Neri from testifying anew at the Senate inquiry into
the national broadband controversy and heed the call
of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines
for transparency to curb graft in government.
Pimentel said Neri’s continued refusal to return to
the Senate to complete [...]

Two former presidents – Corazon Aquino, who led the first People Power in 1986, and Joseph Estrada, who was ousted in the second People Power in 2001 – joined priests, nuns, farmers, activists and students in a march in Makati City.

Says it will not derail the people’s growing struggle to make Arroyo accountable for her lies and crimes
Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) described today as “absurd” and “misleading” the call of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) for Ms. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to “take the lead in combating corruption”.
The multisectoral alliance said that while it [...]

Taking off their lab coats and glasswares, activist scientists are
today joining the mobilizations calling for the ouster of President
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
Scientists and engineers from AGHAM or the Samahan ng Nagtataguyod ng
Agham at Teknolohiya para sa Sambayanan and the broad coalition
Scientists for Truth, Scientists for Change (STSC) will be bringing
protest flasks to the mobilization commemorating the [...]

Minority Leader Aquilino Q. Pimentel, Jr. (PDP-Laban)
today told Malacañang and its legislative lackeys to
stop telling the Senate to discontinue its
investigation into the national broadband controversy
and to entrust this task instead to the Office of the
Ombudsman which has already started its probe on the
same case.
Pimentel said there is no reason to scuttle the Senate
inquiry into the [...]

Statement of Joey de Venecia
21 February 2008, Makati
The conversation I was supposed to have made with Jun Lozada and
posted in the YouTube shows how people like you and me can be
bugged, harassed and threatened by this government.
First, they abducted Jun Lozada and when they failed at it, they are
now trying to demolish him by coming [...]

Deputy Minority Leader and Bayan Muna Rep. Satur C. Ocampo today said that Commission on Higher Education Chair Romulo Neri’s declaration of a “web of corruption” in government shows that crony capitalism under President Macapagal-Arroyo has become worse since the time of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
Ocampo issued the statement after Rodolfo Lozada Jr. in his [...]

LA SALLE GYMNASIUM, GREENHILLS
17 FEBRUARY 2008
On this Second Sunday of Lent, during which we are asked to reflect on the Transfiguration of Jesus Christ, I wish to touch on three themes that have to do with our moral transformation as a people: first, Ascertaining Credibility; second, Rediscovering our Humanity; and third, Witnessing to the [...]