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Continue reading →: The ‘Loose Investment’: How Sara Duterte’s GenCorp Testimony Became a ₱55.7-Million Loose EndGenCorp’s own lawyer couldn’t find the paperwork—but she did find a constitutional problem the defense can’t explain away By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo | November 12, 2026 LET us begin with a round of applause for Atty. Suzette Balucanag-Punay, corporate counsel of GenCorp Industries, Inc., who took the witness stand…
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Continue reading →: Tiangco Turned On the Lights. What We Saw Should Terrify Malacañang.A Cousin’s Testimony, a Speaker’s Suspension, and a President’s Convenient Amnesia By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo | November 12, 2026 LET me get one thing out of the way before the knives come out: Martin Romualdez is not a victim. He is a defendant. There is a difference between being…
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Continue reading →: Dead Witness, Missing Boxes, Zero Verification: The Estrada Case’s Three-Body ProblemCathy Cabral Is Gone, Her Six Boxes Are Gone, and the Only Thing Left Is a Database Field That Says ‘Proponent: Estrada’ By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo | November 12, 2026 The Engineer, the Database, and the Dropdown Menu Let me get this straight—or should I say, let me get…
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Continue reading →: 43–39? That’s Not a Lead, That’s a Coin Flip: Anatomy of OCTA’s 2028 Fantasy PollInside the survey that polled two candidates who said no, one who never said yes, and a running mate who only answers to Rodrigo Duterte By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo | November 12, 2026 The Poll That Wasn’t a Poll Something is rotten in the state of Philippine polling, and…
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Continue reading →: House Rejects Budget Reconsideration, Invents New Branch of Government: “The Senate Will Fix It”The ₱7.2-Trillion Hot Potato: How the House Passed Its Constitutional Mess to the Upper Chamber By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — November 11, 2026 On November 10, 2026, the House of Representatives was handed a chance to clean up its own mess. It chose instead to hand the mop to…
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Continue reading →: “Manageable” Debt, Unmanageable Corruption: The ₱19.66-Trillion Lie66.9% Debt-to-GDP, 2.1% Growth, 0% Accountability: A Forensic Autopsy of the Marcos Jr. Fiscal Regime By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo | November 11, 2026 I. The Headline They Want You to Swallow On November 9, 2026, the Bureau of the Treasury (BTr) announced that the Philippines’ debt-to-gross domestic product (GDP)…
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Continue reading →: Conditional Trust, Unconditional Overcharging: Inside the 2026 Philippine Trust StudyA PR Firm Measured Filipino Trust, Found It Broken, and Called the Result ‘Conditional’ By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo | November 11, 2026 The 72-Point “Conditional Trust” Headline Something curious happened in Manila this month. EON Group, a public relations (PR) firm, partnered with Ateneo de Manila University, surveyed 800…
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Continue reading →: Speaker Dy Says Trust Him—The Supreme Court Says ‘Unconstitutional.’ Guess Who’s Right?A ₱7.2-Trillion Budget, a ₱1-Trillion Red Flag, and a Speaker Who Wants Us to Look Away By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo | November 10, 2026 SO here’s the thing. Speaker Faustino “Bojie” Dy III wants us to believe that a ₱7.2-trillion national budget with over ₱1 trillion in suspicious congressional…
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Continue reading →: The Pink Wave’s Missing Standard-Bearer: A Tutorial in Noble Retreat and Strategic AbdicationThe Movement Was Real; the Leader Just Didn’t Want It Bad Enough By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — November 10, 2026 A Plot Twist In the annals of Philippine political theater, where the script is usually written in blood, gold, and the tears of the vanquished, Leni Robredo has just…
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Continue reading →: Maharlika’s ₱19.7-Billion Ghost: How to Announce a Deal, Waste Two Years, and Call It PrudenceA signing ceremony at Malacañang, twenty-two months of silence, and a quiet walk-away—inside the sovereign fund’s first big test of whether it can actually invest, or only announce. By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — November 10, 2026 EVERY great magic act begins with misdirection—and this one had a presidential witness.…
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