Tag: juan ponce enrile

Pork outrage vs viral videos: Filipinos get angry with the wrong head

September 6, 2013 Kate Natividad 29 Comments

Another week another viral video. I saw Ms Ilda’s earlier tweet where she expressed what seems to be exasperation over the attention “leaked” intimate videos routinely get… Sigh…accdng to the site stats, most Pinoys would rather read about Chito, Neri, Wally & Yosh’s s*x video than about #porkbarrelscam That kinda makes me angry. There is…

Crime, Culture, Media

Manila government looks on as Mindanao bombing incidents remain unsolved

August 9, 2013August 12, 2013 FallenAngel 16 Comments

While the public in Metro Manila are preoccupied with the controversy surrounding the pork barrel and the leaked sex tape of Parokya ni Edgar singer Chito Miranda, it seems that the Philippine central government based in Manila can only look on and react belatedly at five (5) recent bombing incidents that occurred in Mindanao. An…

Crime, Government, The South

Now that Senator Enrile has resigned, should the ‘Christmas bonus’ controversy die?

June 6, 2013 Ilda 8 Comments

After months of speculating on a supposed “plot” to oust him, Senator Juan Ponce Enrile has finally resigned as Senate President. We can only hope that the drama in the senate halls will go along with his resignation or at least simmer down a little bit. As Senator Antonio Trillanes correctly pointed out, Senator Enrile…

Politics

Wikileaks exposé: Philippine military generals allegedly in drag during Marcos ‘secret’ party!

April 15, 2013June 6, 2013 benign0 24 Comments

More leaked “secret cables” are coming out revealing more about the underbelly of Philippine society in the 1970s under the rule of then President Ferdinand Marcos. Even as the camp of former Defense Minister, now Senate President, Juan Ponce Enrile battle the re-emergence of anecdotal evidence surrounding the allegedly homicidal past of scion and Senatorial…

Culture, Politics, Society

Speculation surrounding Jack Enrile’s allegedly homicidal past rage as more Wikileaks cables emerge

April 12, 2013June 5, 2013 benign0 11 Comments

As expected, Cagayan Congressman Jack Enrile who is running for a Senate seat in the coming elections is “vehemently” denying his role in the shooting of Ernest Lucas Jr during a soiree (a party organised between classes in exclusive private gorls’ and boys’ high schools) in San Lorenzo Village in Makati back in 1975. The…

Crime, Media, Politics

Congressman Jack Enrile complicit in 1975 shootings according to Wikileaks revelation

April 10, 2013June 2, 2014 benign0 55 Comments

Jack Enrile is the legendary “spoiled brat” who was “once suspected of having his bodyguards shoot down a guy who stared at him in a nightclub.” (Domini M. Torrevillas, Demythologizing Jack Enrile Philippine Star) and is allegedly linked to a “number of ‘incidents’, ranging from the supposed suicide of his sister’s boyfriend, to the shooting…

Crime, Politics

The Three Kings of the United Nationalist Alliance

February 20, 2013January 1, 2014 Virtual Vigilante 21 Comments

Juan â€œJohnnyâ€ Ponce Enrile Once upon a time, Enrile was just another down and out offspring out of wedlock, growing-up in the boondoks. He had a prominent father, a mother from humble origins, more than his fair share of suffering and humiliation, and all the hang-ups associated with this scenario in that particular era of…

Politics

Senate drama sideshow: Yoly Ong and Juan Ponce Enrile’s exchange of lawsuits

January 28, 2013August 19, 2013 FallenAngel 28 Comments

As if Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile did not have enough on his plate this month from Senators Miriam Santiago, Antonio Trillanes, and Alan Peter Cayetano. As was reported a few days ago, he also has to deal with the counterclaim of Campaigns & Grey chairperson and Philippine Star columnist Yoly Villanueva-Ong. Ms. Ong filed…

Government, Media, Politics