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Continue reading →: Billionaire on Bail: Why Leviste’s ₱72K Warrant Is the Cheapest Thing About This Scandal₱10.44 billion in alleged plunder. ₱24 billion in DOE penalties. ₱72,000 in bail. One family. Zero accountability—so far. Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo | October 8, 2026 MGA ka-kweba, let me tell you a story about a ₱72,000 arrest warrant. On the surface, it sounds almost quaint. A Makati court wants…
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Continue reading →: Adik? The ₱66 Million Question Jonvic Remulla Doesn’t Want You to AskA Vice Mayor Screamed ‘Thieves.’ The DILG Secretary Screamed ‘Addict.’ Only One of Them Took a Drug Test. By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — October 7, 2016 LET me tell you what I love about Philippine politics. It’s not the policy. It’s not the governance. It’s the sheer, unadulterated theater…
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Continue reading →: ₱4.4 Billion and a Witness Who Can’t Explain It: The Duterte Impeachment’s Most Expensive Non-AnswerThe AMLC’s own executive director admitted he couldn’t reconcile the numbers—and that admission may be the defense’s strongest evidence yet By Louis ‘Barok’ C Biraogo | October 7, 2026 The Witness Who Knew Too Little FORGIVE me, I must have skipped the day they taught ‘How to Add Apples and…
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Continue reading →: Villar ISP Case Dropped: When “Insufficient Evidence” Means “We Didn’t Really Try”Or: How to Spend Half a Decade Investigating the Obvious and Conclude That Water Is Not Wet By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — October 7, 2026 The Setup: A Complaint So Simple a Barangay Captain Could Resolve It In March 2020, homeowners at Bria Homes’ Northridge Grove subdivision in Bulacan…
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Continue reading →: The Duterte Succession: A Trial Balloon So Obvious You Can See the Strings From DavaoFrom Impeachment Court to Succession Narrative: The Timing Nobody’s Buying By Louis ‘Barok’ C Biraogo — October 7, 2026 LET’S pause the succession telenovela for a moment: Sara Duterte did not announce that her brother Baste is running for president. She did not say she’s dropping out. She did not…
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Continue reading →: COMPASS: The Philippines’ New Budget Tracker That Tracks Everything Except AccountabilityMarcos Institutionalizes a Portal That Sees Everything—And Answers to No One By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — October 5, 2026 THE Marcos Jr. administration just did something genuinely interesting: it took a glorified spreadsheet and gave it the constitutional weight of an Executive Order. On September 28, 2026, President Ferdinand…
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Continue reading →: ₱16 Billion, 280 Accounts, 8 Helicopters: Boying Remulla’s Case Against the Yaps Is Not a DrillThe Yap Brothers Have 280 Frozen Accounts, 8 Helicopters, and Exactly One Defense Left: POLITICS By Louis ‘Barok’ C. Biraogo — October 7, 2026 LET me say something that will get me excommunicated from the chattering classes of Metro Manila: Jesus Crispin Remulla is the only person in this country…
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Continue reading →: Boying Remulla vs. Customs: The Ombudsman Just Called Out the World’s Most Expensive Paper ShredderWhere Smuggling Cases Go to Die: Inside the BOC’s Documentation Black Hole By Louis ‘Barok’ C. Biraogo -+ October 6, 2026 FULL disclosure: I actually believe Boying Remulla might be onto something. And that sentence just cost me five years of credibility in certain circles. Here’s the thing about Philippine…
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Continue reading →: The ₱10 Billion Fire Sale: How the Marcos Admin Is Selling Makati’s Crown Jewel for PeanutsThe Valuation They Don’t Want You to See: Why P436K Per Square Meter Is an Insult to Every Filipino Taxpayer By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — October 6, 2026 READ the fine print they hoped you’d skip: Administrative Order No. 50 (AO 50) is not a sale. It is not…
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Continue reading →: Philippines Pays Foreign Banks ₱1 Billion for Projects It Never Built₱723 Billion in Idle Loans, 72% of Projects Delayed, and a Meter That Never Stops Running By Louis ‘Barok’ C. Biraogo — October 6, 2026 The Philippine government paid about ₱1.02 billion in commitment fees in 2024 on foreign loans it had not drawn, including more than ₱202 million for…
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