PHILSTAR: Team PNoy confident Sabah crisis WON'T AFFECT campaign - The Liberal Party-led coalition Team PNoy downplayed fears that the bloody encounter in Sabah between Malaysian security forces and armed followers of Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram III would weaken the administration candidates' chances of winning, lawmakers said yesterday. --TEAM PATAY TALAGA!! KAMPANYA PA RIN NASA ISIP!!!

TRIBUNE: Palace blasts Ateneo body over Sabah crisis critique - Pres spokesman Edwin Lacierda blew his gasket over the expressed disappointment of the Ateneo Human Right Center (AHRC) on the Sabah standoff which claimed the death of at least 10 Filipino Muslims after a bloody firefight with Malaysian police commandos Friday morning.

MANILA TIMES: BOBI TIGLAO - Malaysian spokesman Dato Aquino? "Is [Interior Sec Mar Roxas now the spokesperson for Malaysia [by claiming] that Malaysia will not talk to us?" angrily asked Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram 3rd, Kiram though should be also asking that question rather to Roxas' boss: Mr. Aquino, and I'm afraid the answer would be in the affirmative, so much so that Malaysia should confer on him one of its honorific titles that can be given to foreigners like "dato".

TRIBUNE: Noynoy courts impeach over Sabah Tack - UNA
With both his public pronouncement and actions in dealing with the Sabah issue tantamount to abandoning the country's claim to the potential rich-oil island, Pres Aquino might be courting impeachment or civil war with Filipino Muslims. This was how UNA senatorial bet Mitos Magsaysay assessed Aquino's handling of the Sabah issue.

Dzmm teleradyo: Imam at 4 anak, patay sa pag-atake ng Malaysian forces sa Semporna; 1 pang Imam, sugatan - Pinasok umano ng Malaysian forces ang bahay ng mga sibilyan sa Semporna Village sa Lahad Datu, Sabah, ayon kina Princess Jaycel Kiram at Sulu Sultanate spokesman Abraham Idjirani. Sa isinagawang press conference ng Sultanato ng Sulu sa Taguig City, binanggit ng mga ito na nakarating sa kanila ang impormasyon na isang Iman (pari) at apat na anak nitong lalaki ang namatay habang isa pang Imam ang sugatan.

INQUIRER: Abraham Idjirani, spokesman for the sultanate of Sulu, said an Islamic religious leader and his four sons were killed in the fighting in the seaside village of Simunul in Semporna town, 300 kilometers from Tandua village in Lahad Datu.

GMA NEWS: Malacañamg om Sunday defended Pres Benigno Aquino III for continuing to campaign for his senatorial bets while a deadly gun battle broke-out between the followers of Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram III and Malaysian security forces last Friday.
-- OWWWS? ok lang mangampanya habang nagkakamatayan ang mga pilipinos sa sabah??? ---

is it worth it? filipino muslims are dying just because sultan's letters were lost or probably IGNORED? while our brothers are being killed in sabah, our president was more pre-occupied and busy insulting a former president in her home province?? how can his drum-beaters claim that he's on top of  the situation when filipinos are dying up to now?? what's revolting is that our commander in chief seems to value malaysian relation more than the dead bodies of our countrymen.

nakapagtaka na sunod-sunod ang paglalabas ng coa findings ngayong campaign period na halos patungkol kay enrile and jinggoy. bumisita pa si ruffy biazon sa port irene, at nagwarning si torres ng lto na walang irerehistro na galing cagayan. pero wala daw pulitika. nakaupo sila ng 3 TAON, bakit ngayon lang lumalabas ito??

NINOY AQUINO: the Filipino is worth dying for. Eh ang tanong nga ay: PILIPINO BA TALAGA ANG ANAK NIYANG NAMUMUNO, SA ISIP, SA DIWA, AT SA GAWA?

INQUIRER EDITORIAL: MISHANDLED
The decision to send armed men to reoccupy an area that is being leased - a fact that Kiram and his followers point to as proof that Sabah belongs to Sulu - was unfortunate. But the Aquino administration's MISHANDLING of the situation worse. The real problem with the Palace's approach to the standoff in Lahad Datu, however, lay in its glaring LACK of sympathy for the Sultan's followers. Statements by Malacañang officials, however, have only reinforced the sultan's decision to stay put in Lahad Datu; President Aquino's own forceful statements have been most unfortunate. 

-- ang tigas-ulong ABNOYNOYNOYING govt ay HINDI marunong umamin ng KABOBOHAN lalo na sa mga sitwasyonng may NAMAMATAY! mendiola, luneta, comval, atimonan and now sabah. and UNANG GAGAWIN ay maghanap ng SISIHIN at mas binibigyang pansin ang PROPAGANDA at walang tigil na KAYABANGAN! -- TATLONG TAON pa ba tayong PALOLOKO??

INQUIRER: Filipino in ambush of Malaysian cops beaten to death, says Sabah radio report - A middle-aged Filipino man, who was reportedly involved in the ambush of Malaysian police forces, in which five policemen including an officer was killed, was beaten to death by angry residents of a village in Semporna early Sunday, radio reports from Sabah monitored here said.

INQUIRER: PH humanitarian team banned from Lahad Datu Malaysian authorities have BARRED the humanitarian team sent by the Phil government from entering Lahad Datu, stopping the group at Kota Kinabalu, a member of the team told the INQUIRER on Saturday. -- is this the kind of friendly country that Pnoy govt seems to favor over our countrymen? --

GMA NEWS: The camp of Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram III on Sunday claimed to have captured at least 4 Malaysian officials following a clash in Semporna in Sabah where at least 5 policemen had been killed. Kiram's camp made the claim at a press briefing in Taguig City, even as they insisted they did not order the followers to attack, radio dzBB's Divine Caraecle reported.

INQUIRER: Philippines' ELITE swallow country's new wealth
- "Optimism is soaring that the Philippines is finally becoming an Asian tiger economy, but critics caution a TINY ELITE that has long dominated is AMASSING MOST of the new wealth while the poor MISS OUT". - World Bank country director Motoo Konishi.

INQUIRER: The Ateneo Human Rights Center urged Aquino to assure the sultanate that the state would "honor the claim over sabah" and send help to supporters of Kiram involved in the bloody firefight that erupted in Lahad Datu district on Friday. "The AHRC expresses its deep concern on what transpired in Lahad Datu, Sabah, which escalated into violence resulting in the death of a number of our Muslim countrymen. The AHRC likewise expresses its DISAPPOINTMENT on the govt's TREATMENT of the problem," said the center.

GMA News: Five Malaysian cops killed in firefight with Pinoys in Sabah standoff
- reports forces have been killed in a firefight in Sabah with an armed group believed to be among the Filipino followers of the Sulu Sultnate Saturday night, according to reports from Malaysian's state-run Bernama news agency and from Agence France-Presse.

this clueless and mentally ill-equipped president gets his energy by kicking and manhandling a sickly woman tied to a post whenever he encounter public criticism and disgust in handling an important issue like the sabah stand off. he blasphemes by insisting that his way "is the only way" even when his government bungles one issue after the other. he can't seem to get in his head that the filipinos who voted for him now realized that they made a mistake in writing his name in the ballots. as he exert his expertise in pressing buttons of the computer game "mortal kombat", he now portrayed himself as an "annoying-noynoying" leader of a nation in crisis, not noticing the ploy of making him a fool by his scheming double faced allies that will eventually step on his face to come 2016 offering an alternative to a stupid governance.

TRIBUNE: BACOLOD CHURCH EXEC DEFIES COMELEC ON RH BILL POSTERS
A renowned bishop said the move is not a form of campaigning but just a way to guide electorates on candidates who deserve to be voted. Retired Lingayen-Dagupan Bishop Oscar Cruz said the Catholic Church is not encroaching on the boundary between the Church and the State because the owner of  the church - the bishop - where the tarpaulin is posted allowed it. 

INQUIRER: MON TULFO - A JESTER IN THE PALACE
- There's a joke reportedly making the rounds among the Tausugs - people of Sulu and Tawi-Tawi who are subjects of the Sultanate of Sulu - that P-Noy has become the spokesperson of the Malaysian prime minister. Whenever the joke is told by one Tausug to another, I am told, they would laugh out loud. Not at the joke, but at the President. I mean no disrespect for the President, but he HAS TURNED HIMSELF INTO A CLOWN in the Sabah standoff. It's better for him to keep quiet and let his people at the DFA do the talking on the Sabah issue.

ABS-CBN NEWS: ROBIN PADILLA THROWS SUPPORT FOR KIRAM
Actor Robin Padilla expressed support for Sultan Jamalul Kiram III. Padilla questioned the government's stance in handling the standoff. "Kailangan marami akong tanong na dapat masagot. At ganoon din sa ating mga namumuno ng inang bayang Pilipinas, kung bakit pinapayagan nating mamatay ang ating mga kababayang Pilipino," he said.

PHILSTAR: DICK PASCUAL
- "What is now obvious it that the turn of events caught the Aquino administration by surprise despite a slew and progression of initiatives by the Sultanate to all parties involved in the Sabah issue, especially the Philippines and Malaysia, that even the DFA did not take these signals seriously. "So Aquino now feigning he was caught flatfooted is more of admission that he has been "NOYNOYING," translated for the educated as there is NOTHING STRATEGIC OR INTELLIGENT going on in his administration."

ABS-CBN NEWS: Arroyo has chance at bail, her lawyer says Former Pres Gloria M-Arroyo may yet post bail and campaign for reelection as Pampanga representative if the Sandiganbayan rules in her favor in bail hearings. Her lawyer, Anacleto Diaz, believes that the testimony of the prosecution's principal witness, Ma. Aleta Tolentino, is hearsay because she had no direct personal knowledge of the alleged transactions involving the PCSO funds. "We intend the challenge their evidence. The court can certainly rule not to admit evidence that we can prove to be irrelevant or hearsay," he said.

-- From the Post of Alma Anonas Carpio, associate editor of Philippine Graphic: You motherless bastard. Those people in North Borneo are Filipinos. That territory was won by dint of blood and lost to treachery. You show none of the intelligence and valor our race has been hailed for. I and ASHAMED of you Noynoy. --

MLA STANDARD: ROD KAPUNAN - The hypocrisy of this government is immeasurable. One wonders whether it is with a Filipino's sense of patriotism or insanity that we persist calling ourselves Filipinos. Maybe PNoy can claim his signing of R.A. 10368 is his crowning glory for as he would put it, the law is meant to right the wrong of the past. If such is the case, this government should declare Jose Ma. Sison a hero, and all the NPA hitmen and ABB members who died or were incarcerated "martyrs" for that is the sequential logic of what he said.

PHILSTAR: NOY URGED: CHOOSE TO BE PRESIDENT OR LP CAMPAIGNER
UNA senatorial candidate Mitos Magsaysay said yesterday that Pres Quino must choose between being "full time LP campaign manager or be the real President to the Filipino people." Magsaysay told The STAR that the clash between the Malaysian security and the supporters of Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram would have been prevented had Aquino made the right priority. Aquino was in Pampanga with LP candidates when Kiram's supporters fought with the Malaysian security force the other day.

MLA STANDARD: PROTESTERS MOCK DINKY, DO 'DINKY SHAKE' DANCE
Some 300 youth protesters on Friday mocked DSWD Dinky Soliman and Pres Benigno Aquino III by doing the "Dinky Shake" dance that was inspired by the popular Harlem Shake dance in a rally in Mendiola near Malacañang. Kabataan nominee-candidate Terry Ridon said the Dinky Shake dance shows how, "slow, inept, cruel and insensitive" the DSWD and the government in handling the relief distribution to typhoon Pablo victims.

ABSNEWS 03/02 7:47 PM
Actor Robin Padilla expressed support for Sultan Jamalul Kiram III amid tension in Sabah, where more than 200 followers of the Sultanate of Sulu remain. The 43 year old Kapamilya star, who is Muslim, also expressed sadness over the blood loss in the town of Lahad Datu.

INQUIRER: Aquino to Sulu 'army': 'Surrender now' - Pres Benigno Aquino III on Saturday urged the followers of Sultan Jamalul Kiram III to "surrender now" as he admonished them for choosing a wrong path to stake their claim on Sabah. ----namatayan na nga, pinagalitan pa!----

INQUIRER: Pres Benigno Aquino III's order to Sulu Sultan Jamalul Kiram's men in Sabah to "surrender now with no conditions" is NOT ACCEPTABLE". "Dapat kasi negotiations, dapat hindi dinidikta [What's needed is negotiations, not dictation]," she said. "There was never any option, no option was given but to surrender," she added.

INQUIRER: Jacel Kiram contradicted Cabinet Sec Rene Almendras' claim that Justice Sec Leila de Lima was in "direct contact" with her family Friday night. She said someone who CLAIMED to represent the justice sec had contacted them, demanding a "categorical statement" from the sultan ordering his followers to come home without any conditions.

after the palace meeting yesterday. damage control press statements are coming out one by one. realizing that a huge public disapproval of their handling of the issue is spreading like a wildfire and after 12 lives were wasted, they now are singing a different tune spicing it up with some confidentiality  refrains. media should be congratulated that they were vigilant to post govt's threats and neglect and their consistency in getting the side of the sultanate of sulu or else we could all could have drowned in a sea of lies and distorted view of the incident.

INQUIRER: SOLITA MONSOD
- his underlings must have FAILED (again) to show him ANOTHER LETTER sent by Kiram. This one is dated Oct. 15, 2012, and, I am told, it was NEITHER acknowledged nor answered. Was this letter also lost because of organizational problems or the bureaucratic maze? And, in any case, isn't an apology  called for, rather than the high-handed "I have just been made aware. Let me make clear that there was no intention to ignore your letter...."? What is to be gained by treating Kiram in such a fashion (like dirt)?

INQURIER: SOLITA MONSOD
- And, alas, they are right. A report by a non-govt organization talks about "the pathetic stance of the Phil govt on deportation showing that it cannot protect the interest of its citizen[s] much more assert itself as a sovereign nation."

INQUIRER: SOLITA MONSOD - Given that there is a standing claim, however "dormant," to Sabah, given that the Tausug from Sulu have always considered Sabah home and feel that they have as much right as Malaysians to live there, one would approach the situation with more sensitivity. But they behave in exactly the opposite manner, seemingly CONFIDENT that the Philippine government would NOT "rock the boat." And, alas, they are right.

ANC: JACEL KIRAM, DAUGHTER OF SULTAN KIRAM) HEADLINES
- Ngayon po Mr. Sec. Roxas and Mr. President ilan pa pong buhay ang kailangang ibuwis na galing sa Sultanato ng Sulu para lamang pakinggan nyo ang panawagan namin, para lamang tugunan nyo ng maayos at dapat ang aming ipinaglalaban, para hindi lamang sa Sultanante of Sulu kung hindi sa sambayanang Pilipino.

ANC: ISSUE: MALAYSIA BORDER STANDOFF (JACEL KIRAM)
Matagal na tayong inagrabyado, so yung takot matagal na tayong takot, so ano pang kailangan nating maramdaman ngayon, we now have to make a stand and fight for what we believe is right. Ang tanong dapat ganito eh, anong ginagawa ng administrasyon, anong ginagawa ng gobyerno, bakit ang mga tao natin sa Sulu wants to live in sabah, anong buhay ang dinaranas nila dito sa Pilipinas bakit kinakailangan pa nilang pumunta sa Sabah, bakit nangyari ang lahat na ito. Hindi ito political issue.

INQUIRER: Gov't slammed over handling of Sabah row
- The govt's manner of handling the situation had been "severely woeful, anti-Filipino and subservient to Malaysia," said Gordon. He said the violence could have been prevented had foreign affairs officials advised the President well. "Whoever is advising the President on foreign policy matters has  done terribly wrong by our people and has put us on a slippery slope with regard to this conflict." gordon added that the Phil government may have given the wrong signal to the Malaysian government, allowing them "to THINK by our own authorities that Filipinos are EXPENDABLE."

ABS-CBN NEWS BLOGS:
- Arceo Pangilinan ah, hanggang ngayon banat parin? walanya
- Thomas Parada juding juding si penoy..matalak
- Leslie Magbiray wala talagang kwentang pangulo yan, nagkakagulo na, nangangampanya pa rin...take note kasama pa talaga siya
- June Bondoc sabi ko na nga sa iyo, magaling lang yan magsalita at mamulitika.
- Maxie Maximus balita pa ba yan? kapag hindi tinira ni pnoy si gma yun ang malaking balita para sa akin hehehe.
- Renemar Penales Laylay bklang pangulo madaldal
- Marvin Jung Hello Pnoy, nagpapatayan sa Sabah oh, si Arroyo pa din ang inuuna muh? Hayaaan muh na muna xa, pagsikapan muh munang Tapusin ang problema ng Boss muh sa Sabah!

5:43-5:58 KUMPADRES DZIQ COMMENTARY
- SI SEN. KOKO PIMENTEL KAYA HINDI NAKAPUNTA SA SORTIE NG TEAM PNOY, MAYROON UMANO SENATE HEARING PERO WALA NAMAN KAMING NAKITANG SENATE HEARING NA NAKA-SCHEDULE.
BARCELONA: IN OTHER WORDS, NAGKAKALAT NG PROXY. BAKIT KAYA WALA SILANG MALINAW NA USAPAN SA POLITICAL RALLY ANG TEAM PNOY?
BARCELONA: KUNG NAAALALA N'YO MAY NAG-INTRODUCE KAY SEN. CHIZ ESCUDERO SA CEBU PERO VIDEO LANG PALA NA KUMAKAWAY AT NADISMAYA ANG PUBLIKO.

RMN:
- Dapat iwasan ng ating Pangulo na mangyari iyan.
- Kahit pa sabihin na ito nga ang ayaw niyang mangyari pero we hold the president to be on top of this situation and not campaigning. Pwede mong gawin ang 2 bagay kahit na nasa iisang upuan ka lang. Kaya naman niyang gawin ang kaniyang trabaho kahit nangangampanya pero may mga bagay na dapat i-prioritize niya. Masaya ho ba tayong lahat sa nangyari sa atin?

bukod sa utak na Team Patay, bakit ang pinoy govt palaging patay-mali kapag buhay ang issue. parang walang pakialam at hindi baleng magkamatayan ang mga pilipino basta HINDI ayon sa kanyang gusto. lumusob sa bukidnon ang NPA, hindi umimik at sinabi pang ituloy ang usapan sa peace process with CCP/NDF. up to now, hindi binabasa ang atimonan massacre report at inaatupag ang kampanya.

ISSUE: SABAH STANDAOFF (6:50-7:00 - Kamandag - RMN) Commentaries by R. Sendig
- Sana po maayos na sa mapayapang paraan ang kontrobersiyal na ito.
- Mahirap po magbitaw ng salita minsan nasa huli ang pagsisisi at kung nagsisi man tayo ay sana ay matuto na tayo.
- Sa kabila po ng isyu na ito hindi natin magustuhan ang panig ng ating Gobyerno.
- Kung sa tingin po ng Malacanang ay maliit na bagay lamang ito pero hindi po maliit na bagay ito dahil nagputukan na po sa Sabah ay nasa kampanya naman ang ating Pangulo.

INQUIRER: HOW CONFUSION BEGAN
Confusion about what was happening in Sabah began with deputy pres spokesperson Abigail Valte contradicting press reports of the police raid, saying no shots had been fired and there were no casualties. Interior Sec Roxas added to the confusion with his own report that Malaysian police fired warning shots and there were no reports of casualties. Then Roxas came back saying there had been reports of two followers of the sultan killed in the clash and that the "situation had evolved rapidly."

Ano ang ginagawa ni Noynoy habang binabaril ang mga Pilipino sa Sabah? NANGANGAMPANYA SA PROBINSYA NG KANYANG MORTAL NA KAAWAY. Like Nero while Rome was burning.

the blood of the sultan family will be a pledge  to the filipinos that it is worthy to die when your rights are violated di ba sabi ni hym aming ligaya na pag may mang aapi ang mamatay ng dahil sa iyo.

ANC: Election Lawyer Romulo Macalintal says the "Team Patay, Team Buhay" poster in San Sebastian cathedral, Bacolod is not covered by Comelec regulations on election campaigns.  Macalintal said  the poster is an exercise of religious freedom. "The church cannot be prevented by Comelec from putting up their huge tarpaulin of 'buhay' and 'patay' candidates even if oversized since the church is a private property. Its part of its religious freedom to disseminate its religious position and messages to its parishioners which the Comelec cannot prohibit by its  rules on campaigning," Macalintal said.

The Supreme Court under Chief Justice Renato Corona in its July 16,2011 ruling states that the country's "statutory claim over Sabah under Republic Act 5446 (adusting the country's archipelagic baselines) is retained." The Corona Court furthered that the petition questioning the validity of RA 9522 for its failure to include Ph claim over Sabah is baseless...Mabuhay ka CJ Corona for being a true patriot.

dzmm teleradyo: Pagpaskil ng 'Team Patay' tarp sa simbahan sa Bacolod, walang violation - lawyer
Iginiit ng abogado ng Diocese of Bacolod na walang nilalabag na anumang batas sa elecksyon ang pamunuan ng San Sebastian Cathedral sa pagpaskil ng "Team Patay" tarpaulin sa simbahan. Sa panayam ng DZMM, ikinatwiran ni Atty. Ralp Sarmiento na hindi sakop ng Comelec Resolution No. 9615 ang obispo o diyosesis, dahil hindi ito kandidato o partido.