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Continue reading →: The ₱149.67B Illusion: Bam Aquino’s Budget Sleight of HandEveryone clapped for the education funding. Nobody asked where the money was coming from—or whether Congress can legally move it. By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo | October 19, 2026 LET me tell you about a magic trick. A senator stands up, waves a wand: “We shall take money from corrupt…
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Continue reading →: SSS ₱40B “Paper Loss”: The Philippines’ Most Expensive Toilet PaperNo Stop-Loss, No Brakes: How the SSS Rode a ₱40 Billion Equity Slide With Its Eyes Closed By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo | October 18, 2026 The Confession With a Calculator Let me follow the money through this hall of mirrors. The Social Security System (SSS)—the institution holding the retirement…
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Continue reading →: The Scam Republic: How the Philippines Became Southeast Asia’s Fraud Capital While Everyone Played Awareness GamesGoogle Funds the Cure for the Scams Its Own Platforms Spread By Louis ‘Barok’ C. Biraogo | October 18, 2026 LET’S start with a number that should make every Filipino’s blood run cold: 84%. That’s the share of Filipino adults who encountered a scam attempt in the past year, according…
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Continue reading →: Perpetual Disqualification or Perpetual Spin? Tolosa’s Constitutional Sermon Raises QuestionsSermon on the Mount vs. Math on the Floor: Who Really Decides Duterte’s 2028 Fate? By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — October 18, 2026 LET US gather, children of the impeachment gallery, and give thanks for Atty. Benjamin “Jay” Tolosa Jr., the House prosecution’s legal spokesperson and a man who…
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Continue reading →: Midnight Amendments, Morning Vote: How Erice Exposed the House’s ₱11-Billion Budget Magic Trick and the BARSc Livestream That Fooled NobodyThe BARSc Was Built to Shine a Light. Instead, It Texted Lawmakers at Midnight and Called It Transparency. By Louis ‘Barok’ C. Biraogo | October 18, 2026 WELCOME back to the cave, where the echo of ₱100 billion bouncing off the walls sounds suspiciously like a campaign jingle for 2028.…
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Continue reading →: The Mistrial Nobody Wants to Name: Why Sheila Sison Is Right and the Senate Is WrongThree Articles, Kept the Prejudice, and Called the Defense’s Rebuttal “a Waste of Time” By Louis ‘Barok’ C. Biraogo | October 17, 2026 THE House prosecution panel, in a move of breathtaking legal strategy that would make a first-year law student blush, has withdrawn three of the four Articles of…
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Continue reading →: The Permission Slip and the Water Cannon: How China Turned a Sick Sailor Into a Bargaining ChipManila Has the 2016 Arbitral Award. Beijing Has the Hose. Guess Which One Stops a Medical Evacuation. By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo | October 16, 2026 THE story Manila wants you to hear is simple: on October 8, a Filipino sailor needed a doctor. China’s Coast Guard sprayed a water…
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Continue reading →: Marcos ‘Recovers’ by 2 Points, Duterte ‘Slips’ by 1—And Other Statistical Fairy Tales From the SWS-Stratbase SurveyWithin the Margin of Error, Beyond the Bounds of Credulity: How a Commissioned Poll Manufactured a Political Comeback By Louis ‘Barok’ C. Biraogo | October 17, 2026 MGA kababayan, welcome back to the Kweba. The headline arrived like a gift from the political heavens, wrapped in the respectable blue-and-white branding…
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Continue reading →: The DILG Secretary, a Former Bangsamoro MP, and the Art of Naming Names Before Proving CrimesPDEA Had the Evidence and Kept Quiet. Jonvic Remulla Had a Press Conference and Named Names.“ By Louis ‘Barok’ C. Biraogo — October 16, 2026 LET’S begin with a confession: I was wrong. In my previous blog, I mocked the Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) for knowing “everything” about the…
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Continue reading →: Bantay Gloria: Why Sandro Marcos Just Went Undercover in Lakas-CMDThe Godfather’s Daughter vs. the Heir Apparent: A Cold War Brewing Inside Lakas-CMD By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo | October 16, 2026 MGA ka-kweba, countrymen, and those still naive enough to believe that political parties in this country stand for anything other than the acquisition and retention of power —…
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