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Continue reading →: 10,000 Solar Pumps, Zero Water: The Marcos Irrigation ScamFour pumps a day, zero audits a year: Inside NIA’s procurement speedrun By Louis ‘Barok’ C. Biraogo — October 10, 2026 THE Marcos administration wants you to believe that 10,000 solar-powered irrigation sites by 2030 will solve Philippine agriculture’s problems. They’ve deployed Acting Executive Secretary Ralph Recto to sell this…
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Continue reading →: Pork, by Any Other Name: A Legal Autopsy of Suansing’s “No Pork” DefenseHow a ₱405-Million Supreme Court Case Became the Alibi for a ₱58.53-Billion Fund By Louis ‘Barok’ C. Biraogo — October 9, 2026 WELCOME back to the cave, where we do the dirty work of reading Supreme Court decisions so you don’t have to—and where we occasionally find that the people…
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Continue reading →: Ober Da Bakod: Mark Villar Swaps Conscience Vote for Public Works Candy StoreThe House Always Wins: A Villar Gets the Public Works Keys, a Sister Stays in the Minority, and the Family Keeps Both Doors Open By Louis ‘Barok’ C. Biraogo — October 9, 2026 The Most Honest Man in the Senate Let me tell you a story about the most honest…
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Continue reading →: The -11 Presidency: How a Survey Exposed the Rot Beneath the Malacañang MarbleSara Has +31. Marcos Has -11. Do the Math. By Louis ‘Barok’ C. Biraogo | October 9, 2026 THE number is -11. Not a temperature. Not a stock ticker. A political death rattle disguised as statistical noise. When Social Weather Stations (SWS) released its third-quarter survey last week, the headline…
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Continue reading →: From Import Ban to Import Flood: How the DA Created the Rice Crisis It Now Claims to SolveBecause Nothing Says ‘Food Security’ Like Banning Imports One Year and Flooding the Market the Next Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo — October 9, 2026 GATHER ’round, mga ka-kweba, for today’s episode of ‘Policy Whiplash’: the Department of Agriculture (DA) spent the better part of 2025 telling Filipino farmers that imports…
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Continue reading →: The Barbers Gambit: How “Two and Two” Became a Constitutional Magic TrickManchurian Candidates and Manufactured Drama: How the Prosecution Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Conspiracy Theory By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — October 9, 2026 MGA ka-kweba, welcome back to the Cave. Today we’re going to talk about a phrase that has become the prosecution’s favorite rhetorical crutch in…
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Continue reading →: Padilla and Go to the Rescue: The Only Men Brave Enough to Defend the Constitution They Voted to IgnoreThey Walked Out on the Threshold Vote—Now They Want the Supreme Court to Save It Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo — October 8, 2026 I Have spent the better part of three weeks watching the Philippine Senate perform what can only be described as constitutional alchemy—transforming the word “all” into “some,”…
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Continue reading →: The ₱4.4 Billion Hallucination: How the AMLC Turned Newspaper Clippings Into Impeachment EvidenceWhen Suspicious Transaction Reports Are Just Headlines With a Filing Number By Louis ‘Barok’ C. Biraogo — October 8, 2026 ALLOW me to summarize this for the folks in the back, because the AMLC just handed us comedy gold. The Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC)—the Philippines’ premier financial intelligence unit, the…
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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 →: The Tangere “Survey” Is Not a Poll—It’s a Political WeaponInside the methodology that turned a courtroom testimony into a presidential surge. By Louis ‘Barok’ C Biraogo — October 8, 2026 ALLOW me to ruin the party: the Tangere survey released on October 7, 2026, is not a scientific measurement of Filipino public opinion. It is a Rorschach test for…
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