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Continue reading →: From Barangay Captain to Cabinet: Why 73% of Filipinos Think Bribery Is the Only Government Service That Actually WorksOCTA Survey 2026 Exposes the Real National Pastime: Paying to Play (or Just to Exist) By Louis ‘Barok’ C Biraogo — February 18, 2026 MGA ka-kweba, in February 2026, the latest Tugon ng Masa survey by OCTA Research – released on February 16 and commissioned by the Office of the…
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Continue reading →: Why Duterte Got the Fast-Track to The Hague but Bato & Bong Go Deserve a Full Constitutional PageantHow the Same Government That Speed-Delivered the Former President Now Wants a Local Judge’s Blessing Before Touching Senators By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — February 18, 2026 MGA ka-kweba, dear masochists who still bother reading Philippine political news in 2026, gather ’round the cave. Another day, another senator discovering the…
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Continue reading →: Marcoleta’s Treason Fantasy: Why Charging Carpio for Peacetime “Betrayal” Is the Dumbest Thing You’ll Read This WeekWhen Soundbite Patriotism Meets Actual Criminal Law: The Legal Roast Marcoleta Didn’t See Coming By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — February 17, 2026 MGA ka-kweba, grab your seats and some popcorn. We have a fresh episode in our national telenovela titled “West Philippine Sea: The Misadventures of Senator Rodante Marcoleta.”…
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Continue reading →: DOJ Caught Shielding Alleged Rapist Because He’s Their Sabungeros Golden Boy? The Ugly Truth ExposedHow a Minor’s Rape Complaint Became Collateral Damage in the DOJ’s High-Stakes Sabungeros Prosecution By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — February 17, 2026 MGA ka-kweba, hold onto your seats. A girl raped at 16—now 21, using the pseudonym “Gracie”—alleges that Julie “Dondon” Patidongan is her attacker. Yet while her case…
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Continue reading →: PNP “Integrity Reforms”: Nartatez’s ICC Panic Button or Just Another Camp Crame Comedy Special?When Four Ex-Chiefs Face Crimes Against Humanity, the Current Chief Suddenly Discovers “Integrity” By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — February 16, 2026 MGA ka-kweba, the timing is almost poetic in its cynicism. On the very day the nation is reminded that four former chiefs of the Philippine National Police (PNP)—Ronald…
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Continue reading →: Revilla’s Desperate Judge-Shopping Fails: Sandiganbayan Slams the Door on Inhibition BidBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — February 16, 2026 MGA ka-kweba, the Bong Revilla malversation case has just delivered another episode of courtroom drama straight out of a bad teleserye. In February 2026, the Sandiganbayan firmly denied former senator Ramon “Bong” Revilla Jr.’s desperate attempt to remove Associate Justice Karl…
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Continue reading →: Persona Non Grata Politics: Why the Philippines-China Diplomatic Row Is All Theater and No StrategyWhat Happens When Foreign Policy Becomes Performance Art and Nobody Remembers We’re the Weaker Party By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo — February 16, 2026 I. THE SETUP: A TALE OF TWO EGOS AND A SEA OF TROUBLES Picture this: In one corner, we have Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III,…
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Continue reading →: The Davao 8: ICC Finally Names the Henchmen in Duterte’s Bloody Pyramid SchemeTokhang Architects Exposed: Senators, PNP Chiefs & Duterte’s Inner Circle Allegedly Ran the Rewards-for-Bodies Program By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — February 15, 2026 MGA ka-kweba, grab your empi light and buckle up, because the International Criminal Court (ICC) just turned the lights on in the darkest corner of Philippine…
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Continue reading →: Duterte Loyalists Want Tito Sotto Jailed for Having a Mouth Bigger Than Their LoyaltyBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — February 14, 2026 MGA ka-kweba, loyal readers of the Kweba, brace yourselves. Today we rip open one of the filthiest chapters of Philippine politics in 2026. This is not mere Senate gossip or an X troll post – this is a petition designed to…
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Continue reading →: Fourth Degree of Separation — Or Just Two? When Former Justices Can’t Agree on How to Kill Dynasties That Won’t DieWhen Even the Justices Can’t Agree on How to Count Your Cousins By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — February 10, 2026 MGA ka-kweba, the anti-political dynasty law debate in the Philippines has reached peak absurdity. Two former Supreme Court justices—Antonio Carpio and Adolfo Azcuna—just spent a House committee hearing arguing…
