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Continue reading →: Justice Moreno’s Cross-Examination: When the Judge Becomes Revilla’s Best LawyerHow a Judge Out-Lawyered Seven Defense Attorneys Without Breaking a Sweat By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo | August 26, 2026 THEY say the wheels of justice grind slowly, but in the hallowed halls of the Sandiganbayan Third Division, they have recently been grinding with a deafening screech. We find ourselves…
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Continue reading →: Holy Water, Dirty Hands: The Theater of Bojie Dy’s ‘Bagong Kongreso’From Flood Control Kickbacks to Controlled Flooding of the Truth By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August 27, 2026 MGA kababayan, welcome back to the Kweba. The air in the Batasan complex still reeks of burnt incense and old money. It is August, the season of new beginnings for the…
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Continue reading →: ₱3.06 Billion for Evacuation Centers—But Nobody Knows Where They’ll Stand (Or If They’ll Exist)Malacañang Swears the Money Is Real—Just Like Those 14 Flood-Control Projects the DOJ Confirmed Were Never Built By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo — August 25, 2026 THERE is a species of lie, favored by politicians worldwide, that is technically not a lie at all. It is an architectural falsehood—a structure…
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Continue reading →: The 39 Holes of Marcos Jr.: Promises, Puddles, and the Ghosts BelowWhere Floodwaters Rise and Kickbacks Sink: Barok’s Guide to Subterranean Governance By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August 25, 2026 THE rain fell like a confession: heavy, relentless, impossible to ignore. In the flooded streets of Metro Manila, water reached the knees and despair reached the neck. Then our President…
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Continue reading →: Bongbong’s Reap What You Sow: How Marcos Created His Own Duterte MonsterAccommodation, Arrogance, Annihilation: The Three Stages of Marcos’ Self-Destruction By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August 24, 2025 THERE is a peculiar affliction that strikes Philippine presidents as the intoxicating fumes of Malacañang begin to fade. It is the sudden, frantic realization that power, that most fickle of lovers, is…
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Continue reading →: Recantation Olympics 2026: How One Witness Became Three Liars and a Japanese RestaurantWhen Your Recantation Needs a Recantation: Inception for Corruption Cases By Louis ‘Barok’ C. Biraogo — August 24, 2026 PART I: THE NON-CASE THAT’S SOMEHOW A VERY BIG CASE Mga ka-kweba, gather ’round the flickering screen of justice, because today we’re dissecting what might be the most expensive work of…
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Continue reading →: The Philippines’ Fishing-Tracker Fiasco: 3 SolGens, 8 Years, 1 Self-OwnWhen the Government’s Top Lawyers Argue With Themselves By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo — August 23, 2026 THE Philippine Supreme Court just gutted the government’s vessel-tracking rule. Best part: the government spent eight years arguing with itself first, and the law that would have made this whole mess moot was…
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Continue reading →: DUTERTE’S ₱612M VS. MARCOS’ ₱4.55B: A TALE OF TWO STANDARDSOne Gets Impeached, the Other Gets a Rubber Stamp By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo | August 22, 2026 WHILE the nation sits riveted to the Senate’s forensic dissection of Sara Duterte’s P125 million “special disbursements”—complete with fictitious-sounding recipients like “Mary Grace Piattos” and the now-infamous 11-day spending spree—a far more…
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Continue reading →: THE 9.7% ILLUSION: HOW THE PSA PERFECTED THE ART OF STATISTICAL GASLIGHTINGWhen 52% of Filipinos Say They’re Poor, But the State Says 9.7%—Who’s Gaslighting Whom? By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August 22, 2026 THE body isn’t even cold yet, and already they’re throwing confetti on it. On August 21, 2026, the Philippine Statistics Authority—that august temple of numerical truth—declared that…
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Continue reading →: Concrete Lies: Lacson’s Trident vs. the Flood Control CartelForensic Engineering vs. the Pork Barrel: Can Science Beat the Syndicate? By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August 21, 2026 LET us begin with a number so absurd, so astronomical, that it should haunt the dreams of every Filipino taxpayer: ₱1.94 trillion. That is the sum the Philippine government has…
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