The Alden and Yaya Dub invasion of Philippine television has reaped huge rewards with the ratings of the noontime show Eat Bulaga which was claimed to have TRIPLED in terms of audience patronage. Aside from the professional careers of both Alden and Yaya Dub, GMA7, the television company, is, of course, the biggest winner of them all. Both GMA7 and ABS-CBN are locked in a life and death struggle to be named the number one television station in the Philippines. Both have claimed that number one slot but it is obvious that there can only be a single company that should occupy the top position. Prior to #AlDub, most Filipinos believed that ABS-CBN is ACTUALLY, REALLY and TRULY the number one television network in the country. The problem stems from the fact that there are two survey firms that REPEATEDLY, CONTINUOUSLY and CONSISTENTLY

Eat Bulaga host Joey De Leon shows PDI front page photo of AlDub. A photo of Joey with Yaya Dub is also featured in another part of the newspaper.

Yaya Dub has captivated the hearts of the Filipino television viewing audience with her funny interpretations of original voice recordings of celebrities.

have conflicting results. With the #AlDub phenomenon, GMA7 is in a much better position to stake its claim as the champion in the television ratings slug fest.

The phenomenal Yaya Dub has boosted GMA 7’s Eat Bulaga to dizzying heights as even Makati business center employees alter their lunch hour routine to catch the highly rated show. The AlDub (Alden and Yaya Dub) love team and segment cast were featured in the cover of Philippine Daily Inquirer, a major

Eat Bulaga host Joey De Leon shows PDI front page photo of AlDub. A photo of Joey with Yaya Dub is also featured in another part of the newspaper.

broadsheet.

Former Senator and Makati Representative Agapito “Butz” Aquino is dead. The former actor gained prominence after the assassination of his brother, Ninoy Aquino, on August 21, 1983. He is among the founders of the August 21 Movement (ATOM) and Bandilla, both protest vehicles that sought, among other issues, justice for his former Senator brother, Ninoy. The Marcos dictatorship was proven to have planned the daring daylight execution. Butz was elected senator (1987 – 1995) during the term of his sister-in-law, Cory Aquino, who assumed the Presidency after dictator Ferdinand Marcos was ousted from office during the 1986 EDSA People Power revolution. Butz later became a Congressman (1998 – 2007) representing the second district of Makati City. Butz Aquino was among the relatives of President Noynoy Aquino who supported then Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay for Vice President in 2010. The Noy-Bi pair that won both the Presidency and Vice-Presidency in 2010 was, and remains, controversial up to today since then Mayor Binay was not in the same ticket of then Senator Noynoy Aquino. Major groups within the Noynoy Aquino for President initiative conspired to support a different Vice-Presidential candidate (Binay) rather than the Liberal Party official candidate for Vice President, then Senator, now DILG Secretary Mar Roxas. The Mar Roxas 2010 stab in the back may be repeated in 2016 as both Roxas and Binay square off again, this time for the highest position in the land, President of the Republic of the Philippines. Butz Aquino had previously expressed his support for the Presidential candidacy of Vice President Binay for 2016.

DISCLOSURE: The owner of this Balitang Balita page was a personal friend of former Senator Butz Aquino. Balitang Balita would like to extend its deepest condolences to the family of Senator Butz.

Butz Aquino with former Congressman Satur Ocampo.

The AlDub phenomenon is still making waves and what more proof do we need considering that a major broadsheet, Philippine Daily Inquirer, has featured the GMA 7 Eat Bulaga new segment stars Alden and Yaya Dub in its Sunday front page.

Major Philippine newspaper PDI featured AlDub in its Sunday front page.

GMA 7 phenomenal success Yaya Dub (DubSmash Queen) currently DOMINATES YouTube (Philippines) with multiple video posts that have surpassed the 2 million views mark (all within a month since initial posting).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6oA-IJJsWU  2,641,305 hits in 30 days

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEaV4RG5aIc  2,119,922 hits in 30 days

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM2MASwVTjM  2,286,528 hits in 31 days

A fourth video post has eclipsed 1 million video hits while a fifth one is over 900,000 and would also most likely hit the 1 million mark. It is still too soon to determine if her video posts can surpass the types of numbers (over 10 million music video hits e.g Gloc – 9’s Sirena got more than 15 million music video hits) that local singing and movie celebrities are able to garner but as things stand right now the nation has stumbled upon a rare gem.

Yaya Dub has captivated the hearts of the Filipino television viewing audience with her funny interpretations of original voice recordings of celebrities.

Administration Samar group will dump Mar Roxas again in 2016. As they did in 2010 with a NoyBi call. The Palace Samar Group (Executive Secretary Ochoa, Communications Secretary Coloma, Maria Montelibano, Boy Montelibano, Peping Cojuangco, Tingting Cojuangco, Pastor Boy Saycon, Butz Aquino, Tessie Oreta, Mikee Cojuangco, Eddie Roces, Speaker Feliciano Belmonte and Senator Chiz Escudero) is again weighing the option of supporting a non-Liberal Party candidate (this time for President). Senator Grace Poe, Vice President Binay and Davao Mayor Duterte may shatter the Administration Coalition, Liberal Party, Nationalista Party and the NPC.

In 2010 the reason the Samar group stabbed then Senator Mar in the back was mainly for personal reasons (most Samar group members are not “comfortable” with Secretary Mar). Come 2016, Mar Roxas has not endeared himself to the 2010 conspirators and in a repeat of history, the same gang of plotters are again giving a thumbs down to the P-Noy Anointed One. It does not help the cause of Mar Roxas to be tied for the fourth and fifth places (with former President Estrada) in the surveys. It also helps the Samar group to justify abandoning Secretary Roxas on the basis of poor ability to win.

2016 Presidential survey front-runner Senator Grace Poe with Vice President Jejomar Binay in second place. Davao Mayor Rodrigo Duterte occupies the number three slot while DILG Secretary Mar Roxas is tied for fourth and fifth positions with former President now Manila City Mayor Joseph Estrada.

Ang kasalukuyang trending na AlDub (Alden at Yaya Dub) team ng Eat Bulaga sa Channel 7 ay sobrang lakas ng pagtanggap ng mamamayang Pilipino na nauuga ang trono ng Kapamilya network Channel 2. Phenomenal o nakakamangha talaga ang AlDub duo na sa isang kisapmata ay napagiwanan sa mga usapusapan ang mga love team (Kathniel, Jadine) ng himpilang Dos.

Should Senator Grace Poe run for President against DILG Secretary Mar Roxas and Vice President Jejomar Binay, the Liberal Party-based Administration Coalition would shatter to at least two major blocs. Survey tail-ender (among the top 4 possible candidates, the others being Senator Poe, Vice President Binay and Davao Mayor Duterte who has not yet formally announced his plan to run for President) former Senator now Secretary Mar Roxas would have the MOST TO LOSE since he and Senator Poe, front-runner in the surveys, come from the same Administration Coalition. The choice among Administration Coalition (LP, NP and NPC) politicians would be between the 2010 losing vice presidential candidate (Roxas) and the 2013 Senatorial elections topnotcher (Poe). Idealism (Roxas backers think he is best for the job to succeed President Aquino) versus pragmatism (Poe backers are sure she has much better chances to win the 2016 Presidential race in comparison to survey-lagging Roxas) would would thus divide the Administration Coalition and the Liberal Party.

The Nationalista Party has not yet decided to field candidates in the Presidential and Vice-Presidential contests so it is still a waiting game for them. NP Senator Alan Peter Cayetano may run for Vice President under the Administration Coalition while NP Senator Bong Bong Marcos may run for Vice President under either Vice President Binay or Mayor Duterte. NP Senator Sonny Trillanes has also previously announced plans to run for Vice President.

The Nationalist People’s Coalition has the best chances of remaining intact as a political party because of its time-tested formula of allowing all of their members to individually decide where their greatest chances of electoral victory would be. Some can choose to run under LP tickets while others can run under the major opposition group of UNA under Vice President Binay. After the elections, the NPC members would again group together and decide whether to join the next administration or side with the opposition.

Vice President Binay is closely monitoring the Administration Coalition developments because in a 3 or 4 horse race for the Presidency, he has the best chances of a 2016 Presidential election victory. The only situation that

2016 Presidential survey front-runner Senator Grace Poe with Vice President Jejomar Binay in second place. Davao Mayor Rodrigo Duterte occupies the number three slot while DILG Secretary Mar Roxas is tied for fourth and fifth positions with former President now Manila City Mayor Joseph Estrada.

should cause him major headaches would be if Senator Grace Poe decides to slide down to the Vice Presidential derby with Mar Roxas as her Presidential standard bearer.

In 2010, supporters of then Presidential candidate Noynoy Aquino dumped, junked and otherwise kicked then Vice-Presidential candidate Mar Roxas. Both candidates ran under the Liberal Party. The anti-Mar faction was called the Samar group, named after the street in Quezon City where the plotters held court. Organizations such as the Noynoy Aquino for President Movement also actively campaigned for a Noynoy Aquino – Jejomar Binay (called the Noy-Bi) tandem. Senator Chiz Escudero was the main spokesperson of the group with many others secretly supporting candidate Binay with their names only being revealed to the public AFTER then Makati  Mayor Jejomar Binay won the Vice-Presidency.

Prominent Samar group members are Executive Secretary Paquito Ochoa Jr. and Communications Secretary Herminio Coloma Jr. Among the relatives of President Aquino, maternal uncle Peping Cojuangco, aunt TingTing Cojuanco, paternal uncle Butz Aquino and the Presidential sisters campaigned for then candidate Binay.

Pastor “Boy” Saycon, Boy and Maria Montelibano, Eddie Roces (son of the Chino Roces), the late Billy Esposo and Mikee Cojuangco campaigned for Jojo Binay.

As the 2016 Presidential elections start to heat up, the same Samar group and NAPM personalities that betrayed Mar Roxas in 2010 are poised for a REPEAT stab in the back situation. To date, the Presidential sisters have openly stated that they (with the possible exception of tv celebrity Kris) may not be in a position to support Vice President Binay this time around. Adding to a possible scenario too is the much-awaited entry of Senator Grace Poe and Davao Mayor Rodrigo Duterte in the Presidential derby. Needless to say, Binay, Poe and Duterte would certainly draw Administration allies AWAY from the Liberal Party standard-bearer, former Senator, now DILG Secretary Mar Roxas.

Senator Juan Ponce Enrile, currently in jail (hospital arrest) and charged with PLUNDER in connection with the Janet Lim Napoles PHP 10 BILLION Pork Barrel Fund Scam is all set to be released on BAIL. Fondly called JPE, Senator Enrile filled a petition with the Supreme Court pleading that the evidence against him is weak, thus he is entitled to post bail and be provisionally released while his trial continues. JPE, can therefore go back to his work in the Senate. As the Presidential elections of 2016 start to heat up, Senator Enrile is in the triumvirate (together with former President Joseph Estrada and current Vice President Jejomar Binay) that leads the opposition party, United Nationalist Alliance. Two other senators are also charged with PLUNDER, Senator Bong Revilla and Senator Jinggoy Estrada. All three have their cases in different divisions of the Sandiganbayan which means that each senator adopts different defense strategies. A favorable Supreme Court ruling on the case of Senator Enrile will naturally encourage the two other senators to attempt to go out on bail on the basis of a previous Enrile ruling. In the cases of Senator Enrile and Senator Jinggoy Estrada, there is no DIRECT evidence pointing to the two as their subordinates have been pointed to as the recipients of dirty money (kickbacks and commissions) from Napoles. Senator Revilla, on the other hand, personally received money from Napoles, according to whistleblower and prosecution witness Ben Hur Luy.

Senator Juan Ponce Enrile with Senate GF (girl friday) and Chief of Staff Atty. Gigi Reyes. Both are charged with PLUNDER, a non-bailable offense (unless the evidence is weak). JPE petitioned the Supreme Court to allow him to post bail on the basis of “weak evidence”.