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Continue reading →: Selfie Secretary to Resilience Czar: How Frasco Landed the Ultimate Soft LandingTourism Photos Out, Ghost Adviser Salary In By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — March 20, 2026 MGA ka-kweba, let us pause to appreciate the sheer theatrical genius here. On March 12, 2026, Christina Garcia Frasco is quietly eased out of the Department of Tourism after turning its social-media feed into…
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Continue reading →: “Education President” Marcos Jr.: P1.345T Budget, Zero Chalk for TeachersScholarships flow, classrooms crumble — welcome to the great Philippine education mirage By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — March 20, 2026 SOMEWHERE in the hallowed halls of Congress, beneath chandeliers that glow with taxpayer-funded optimism, Faustino Dy III has declared a new national truth: Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is now the…
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Continue reading →: Comelec’s New Rule: Hide the Cash, Blame the Donors, Call It LegalThe Loophole That Lets You Buy Votes Before You’re Even a Candidate By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo — March 19, 2026 THE Commission on Elections (COMELEC) just looked at a senator who admitted pocketing P75 million in anonymous cash, filed a Statement of Contributions and Expenditures (SOCE) declaring zero contributions,…
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Continue reading →: DTI’s Award-Winning Book Is a Hot Mess—Now They’re Suing the Guy Who Read ItTaxpayer-Funded Errors Win Gourmand Gold—Then They Sue the Critic Who Did the Homework By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — March 18, 2026 Welcome to the Heritage Roast Fest HUY, mga ka-kweba! Grab your Red Horse and sit down, because your favorite kweba-dweller, Barok, is about to spit fire hotter than…
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Continue reading →: “Everything’s Normal” — Except the Prices Killing Filipino FamiliesVendors “Cooperating,” Families Starving — Welcome to Presidential Semantics By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — March 18, 2026 MGA ka-kweba, picture this: President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. strolling the aisles of Agora Market, vendors flashing practiced smiles for the cameras, price tags frozen in obedient normalcy. He declares, “Right now,…
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Continue reading →: FLR: For Later Riches? Puno & Dy Fight Over the Empty Pork BarrelPuno’s Minority Threat: Because Even Loyalty Has a Price Tag By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — March 18, 2026 IN THE dim glow of a flickering bulb in some forgotten barangay hall in Antipolo or Isabela, a mother clutches her sick child and asks her congressman: “Bakit wala pa ang…
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Continue reading →: Meralco Math: 62% Coal + 1% Oil = 100% of Your SufferingHow Imported Coal Became the Most Expensive Electricity in Southeast Asia By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — March 17, 2026 MGA ka-kweba, picture this: You flip the switch in your cramped Metro Manila apartment. The bulb glows. That glow comes mostly from coal—62.5 percent of our 2024 generation, 79 million-plus…
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Continue reading →: Pulse Asia Drops Bomb: Bongbong Bounces, Sara Bleeds, 2028 Already BloodyOne Survey, Two Corpses, and Four Years to Bury Them Both By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — March 17, 2026 LISTEN up, mga ka-kweba. While the chattering classes are still high-fiving over “Sara leads, Bongbong rebounds,” the real story is written in the blood-red ink of a fractured republic. This…
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Continue reading →: Russian Oil or Bust: Manila Begs Putin While Our Fuel Light Blinks Red98% Middle East Junkie – Now Eyeing Putin’s Clearance Rack? By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo — March 16, 2026 MGA ka-kweba, pull up a chair. Another day, another masterclass in Philippine statecraft: the tragicomedy where we treat energy security like a game of tong-its played with a deck missing half…
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Continue reading →: “I Warned You in 2022!” — Sara’s Crystal Ball Meets Claire’s Nonfeasance RoastOFWs Duck Rockets While Leaders Duel Over Who Saw It Coming First By Louis ‘Barok‘ C Biraogo — March 15, 2026 MGA ka-kweba, isipin n’yo ‘to: a Filipino domestic worker in Riyadh, clutching her phone at 3 a.m., scrolling through shaky videos of Iranian missiles lighting up the Gulf sky.…
