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Continue reading →: ₱6.77 Billion and Zero Cash: The Sara Duterte SALN Math That Doesn’t Add UpThe prosecution says the bank records will do the talking. Unfortunately, nobody’s taught the Senate how to read a spreadsheet. By Louis ‘Barok’ C. Biraogo |October 5, 2026 LET me tell you something about the Philippine impeachment circus that should terrify anyone who actually cares about forensic evidence: the prosecution…
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Continue reading →: Garin’s Gambit: Admit the Failure, Ask for More Power, Blame the Market123 Alerts Later, the Only Thing Getting Fast-Tracked Is the Excuse-Making By Louis ‘Barok’ C. Biraogo –Ocrober 5, 2026 GOOD News, Visayas: the lights may be out, but the press releases are on. For months, the Visayas grid has been teetering on the edge of collapse. Red alerts, yellow alerts,…
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Continue reading →: Joel Villanueva Wants You Angry About a Budget Cut That Doesn’t ExistHow a Re-Election Bid, a Reform Law, and Creative Accounting Created the Perfect Political Storm By Louis ‘Barok’ C. Biraogo — October 5, 2026 SENATOR Joel Villanueva wants you to believe the sky is falling on Filipino students. The man who has spent more time running for office than running…
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Continue reading →: No-El 2028? Imee Marcos Just Discovered the Slippery Slope Her Dad BuiltShe’s Right About the Legal Argument. She’s Also the Last Person Who Should Be Making It. By Louis ‘Barok’ C. Biraogo — October 5, 2026 NOTICE who’s holding the lighter. Imee Marcos predicting a “no-election” scenario in 2028 is like a pyromaniac warning you about fire safety. Technically, she might…
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Continue reading →: Sand Mafia: How Zambales Became Manila Bay’s Secret QuarryGhost Ships, Dirty Money, and the Dredging Empire No One Audited By Louis ‘Barok’ C. Biraogo — October 4, 2026 MGA ka-kweba, grab your shovels and your tinfoil hats. Today we dig into the most brazen regulatory heist since someone convinced the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) that “donations” are…
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Continue reading →: The 2% Classroom Catastrophe: COA Finds the DepEd-DPWH Pipeline Is Basically a Sewer99 Classrooms Built Out of 5,298 Targets—And the Government Calls That a Success By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — October 4, 2026 WELCOME back to the cave, mga ka-kweba. Today we’re going to talk about a government program that has achieved a level of incompetence so pure, so crystalline, that…
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Continue reading →: Boying Remulla Found the Bodies. The SC Just Put a Mailbox on TopThe Ombudsman brought a dossier. The Supreme Court brought an email address. Guess which one changes anything. By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — October 4, 2026 LET me tell you something about the Philippine judiciary that nobody in Padre Faura wants to admit: the institution doesn’t have a corruption problem.…
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Continue reading →: Cale88 Foods: The Smoking Gun That Isn’t (Yet)The Trillanes Paradox: How a Dropped Witness Became the Story’s Loudest Voice By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — October 3, 2026 WELCOME back to Kweba ni Barok, where we do the forensic accounting the Philippine Senate farms out to press conferences. This week: China money flowed into a company tied…
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Continue reading →: Matina Crossing = Barangay 74-A: The Impeachment Trial’s Dumbest Plot TwistProsecutors Spent Millions to Discover That Two Names for the Same Place Are Still the Same Place By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — October 3, 2026 DAY 32 of the Sara Duterte impeachment trial delivered what every legal observer secretly craves: a property scandal, a confidentiality meltdown, and a defense…
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Continue reading →: TBS Crackdown: The DILG’s “78 of 83” Arithmetic Problem and Other MysteriesWhen the Government Can’t Count Provinces, Why Should We Trust It to Count Criminals? By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo | October 2, 2026 THE Philippine government has found its new public enemy number one: a street gang with a name so aggressively bland it sounds like a paint swatch at…
