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    Posted on February 24th, 2010

    Written by jnjqn

    Compromiser?

    Compromiser?

    The evangelical community is all abuzz about the appearance of Bro. Eddie Villanueva before the congregation of Pastor Apollo Quiboloy on February 3 for the group’s 25th anniversary. Much of the talk is unflattering to the presidential candidate, and if you log on to the Youtube posting of Villanueva’s speech and view the comments, you will see a man vilified as if he had committed the sins of Jimmy Swaggart or Jim Bakker. Compromiser, he is being called.

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  • Sidebar

    Posted on February 24th, 2010

    Written by jnjqn

    Transcript of Bro. Eddie’s controversial message

    In the interest of clarity and accuracy, I took the effort to transcribe Bro. Eddie Villanueva’s message during the 25th anniversary celebration of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ The Name Above Every Name headed by Pastor Apollo C. Quiboloy on February 3, 2010:

    Isang mapagpalang na araw, makasaysayang araw sa lahat sa inyo na nagmamahal na tunay sa Diyos at sa bayan.

    Sa pangalan po ng Jesus Is Lord Worldwide Movement at ng Bangon Pilipinas ay buong-pusong binabati namin ang natatanging movement for the kingdom of God in our country and in this world, ang Kingdom of Jesus Christ The Name That Is Above Every Name sa pangunguna po ng ating ginagalang na kaibigan, Pastor Apollo Quiboloy.

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  • Third World

    Posted on February 24th, 2010

    Written by jnjqn

    Starstruck

    Starstruck

    A fish out of water. That was me as I joined a group of reporters from Davao City and Cebu City to cover the final night of GMA Network’s Starstruck, a “reality-based artista search” that had a Davaoeño and a Cebuana in the final five. I received the call on Friday (February 19) that GMA (the network, not the President) wanted to fly us into Manila on Sunday morning to watch the show live at the Araneta Coliseum, and since it was practically a fly-in-fly-out proposition, I naturally accepted. As soon as I met the other reporters, however, I had the sinking feeling that I was in the wrong place at the wrong time: while everyone knew the latest on the five finalists, I was in the dark and was hard pressed to even identify one of them. I kept silent most of the time and bluffed my way out when my opinion was asked.

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  • Third World

    Posted on February 18th, 2010

    Written by jnjqn

    Coffee talk with Mar Roxas

    Coffee talk with Mar Roxas

    I attended last Wednesday’s press conference of the Liberal Party (LP) here in Davao City, and before it started I headed for the percolator at the back of the venue to get some coffee. Upon getting there I was shocked by two things: first, the restaurant — one of the most popular in the city — was serving instant coffee (why set up a percolator at all?), and second, Senator Mar Roxas, the vice presidential candidate, was making his own cup of joe.

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  • Sidebar

    Posted on February 11th, 2010

    Written by jnjqn

    Imaging

    Imaging

    I wrote about Senator Noynoy Aquino’s plans for Mindanao the other day, and at the risk of sounding like I’m campaigning for him, I’d like to continue with the other things he said in last Friday’s early morning press conference here in Davao City. And since it is the campaign period, let me start with something interesting he mentioned: that 70 percent of a campaign is about “imaging,” that is, “in the absence of knowledge of a candidate, people will base their view of him on the image he projects.” Unfortunately, imaging can also be used against a candidate: people can also base their view of him on the image projected of him by his opponents.

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  • Third World

    Posted on February 11th, 2010

    Written by jnjqn

    Kuryente

    Kuryente

    If I were a Manileño reading the Daily Tribune last Wednesday, I’d be worried about any relative I may have in Davao City. According to the newspaper, the city’s residents are living in terror because of the actions of communist insurgents who were being coddled by Mayor Duterte himself and his “boys” (what, no girls?) at the City Council. In fact — and this was the lead of the story — the Council had just declared two staunch anti-communists, party list Reps. Pastor Alcover of ANAD and Jovito Palparan of BANTAY, personae non gratae, proving, said some anonymous sources, that the city government is “into coddling enemies of the state, which makes them also enemies of the state, as they appear to allow the communists to engage in their activities unopposed and given free rein to terrorize the city residents, while barring those who fight these enemies of the state.”

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  • Third World

    Posted on February 9th, 2010

    Written by jnjqn

    Mindanao under a Noynoy presidency

    Mindanao under a Noynoy presidency

    How would a Noynoy presidency tackle Mindanao? I was able to field this question directly to Senator Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino during an early morning press conference last Friday (February 5) at a restaurant in Davao City. His mother, the late former President Corazon C.Aquino, was the one who restarted the peace initiatives in the island, bringing back Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) chair Nur Misuari from exile in Saudi Arabia and recognizing the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) as “a partner in achieving peace in Mindanao.” Her successor, Fidel V. Ramos, built on these and forged a peace agreement with the MNLF, but the succeeding presidents apparently made it their policy to engage the MILF in “all-out war.” Which way would Noynoy go?

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  • Third World

    Posted on January 27th, 2010

    Written by jnjqn

    Shame on who?

    Shame on who?

    Some years ago I attended a press conference with Richard Gordon, who I guess was still running for senator, and I remember telling myself at the onset that this was one big (expletive deleted – sorry, I don’t use bad words in public, or in private, for that matter) who was talking to us. He came off as condescending, irritable, and downright rude as he talked to us. The climax came when one of us asked him something (which I can no longer remember), and he replied, “That’s a stupid question.” I tuned out after that, no longer listening or taking down notes or even caring what he was saying. I didn’t even write about the interview.

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  • Third World

    Posted on January 26th, 2010

    Written by jnjqn

    The (red) letter

    The (red) letter

    A fellow journalist asked me the other week what I did with “the letter” I received as a student of the University of the Philippines in the early 80s. “What letter?” I asked, and he looked at me as if I had just made a joke. “The letter from the NPA (New People’s Army) activating you into active duty and telling you where to report,” he said. I think he assumed that because I was a UP student, and because I am now a journalist, and perhaps because I wear my anti-establishment heart on my sleeve, then I must have been an activist in my college days and a candidate for “mountaineering” – pamumundok, or going out to the mountains to become a rebel.

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