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Continue reading →: Reprimand for a Billion: How GSIS Turned a P1.45B Gamble Into a Parking TicketAmbiguous Rules, Absent Board, and the Art of the P50-Million Dodge By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo –– August 5, 2026 THE Office of the Ombudsman has finally delivered its verdict on the P1.45-billion Alternergy preferred-share gambit, and the Republic’s 2.7 million government workers—whose compulsory contributions funded this adventure—may now rest…
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Continue reading →: Boka-Boka Billionaires: How the DPWH Resurrected Pork and Made Bribery Perfectly LegalThe Supreme Court Killed PDAF—So the DPWH Built a Smarter, Sleeker, Unprosecutable Monster By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August 5, 2026 WHEN the Supreme Court killed the Priority Development Assistance Fund (PDAF) in 2013, the political class didn’t mourn. They simply innovated. They retreated to their air-conditioned offices, lit…
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Continue reading →: Pantay na Hustisya, Please: The Romualdez Plea the Ombudsman Doesn’t Want to HearFrozen Accounts, Shifting Witnesses, and a Defense Nobody Wants to Acknowledge By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August 4, 2026 IF you want to know how a cornered political titan wages war, you don’t look to the courts of law. You look to the theater of public opinion. It’s a…
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Continue reading →: The Revilla Graia-vy Train: How a Dynasty Legalized Looting in Plain SightA Story of Flood Control Projects That Drowned Only in Corruption By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August 4, 2026 Spot-the-Anomaly 101: The 97% Cavite Jackpot Let’s play a game of spot-the-anomaly. In the nine years from 2016 to 2025, a company called Graia Construction Corporation won 67 government contracts…
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Continue reading →: Garbage In, Graft Out: Why Your Mayor’s Trash Contract Is His Real Cash CowYour Mayor Collects Kickbacks Faster Than He Collects Your Trash By Louis “Barok” C.. Biraogo — August 3, 2026 I. The Ombudsman’s Sweeping Wake-Up Call: Trash Talk or Truth? On August 1, 2026, Ombudsman Jesus Crispin “Boying” Remulla made a provocative statement on his radio program: “Pinakamalaking negosyo ng lahat…
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Continue reading →: St. Jonvic’s Glass Pulpit: The DILG Secretary Preaches Accountability While the SK Burns“Standardized” 20% kickbacks, forged signatures, and ghost projects: welcome to the SK, where Congress trains its next generation. By Louis ‘Barok’ C. Biraogo — August 3, 2026 SO there he stood, Secretary Jonvic Remulla, at De La Salle University, delivering what can only be described as the Sermon on the…
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Continue reading →: Accused, Detained, Promoted: Jinggoy and Marcoleta’s Unbelievable Senate Glow-UpStaff Salaries Over Public Sanity: The Payroll Excuse That Rewrote Senate Ethics By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — July 31, 2026 IN THE grand theater of Philippine politics, where farce routinely masquerades as governance, the 20th Congress has delivered a new masterpiece of institutional self-sabotage. Senators Jinggoy Estrada and Rodante…
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Continue reading →: $9 Million for a Pier, $100 Million for a Headache: The U.S. Just Bought the Philippines a Frontline SeatHow Washington’s “Deterrence” Package Transforms Palawan from Paradise to Powder Keg By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo — July 30, 2026 I. Nine Million Dollars for a Pier, One Hundred Million for a Headache On July 22, 2026, the U.S. State Department released a fact sheet—you know, the kind of glossy…
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Continue reading →: Marcos vs. Romualdez: A Family Affair, Now With 100% More PlunderBlood Is Thicker Than Water—But Cash Is Thicker Than Both By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo | July 29, 2026 LET us dispense with pleasantries. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s 2026 State of the Nation Address (SONA) announcement—that cases against his cousin, former Speaker Martin Romualdez, will proceed—is not justice. It is…
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Continue reading →: ₱8.4 Billion, 42,000 Barangays, 1 Election: The “Bawat Barangay Makikinabang” Vote-Buying MasterclassHow DILG Memo Circular 2026-038 Turned Public Funds Into a Nationwide Pre-Election Patronage Machine By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — July 28, 2026 THE sheer audacity is almost admirable. Almost. With the ink barely dry on the Sandiganbayan dockets from the flood-control scandal—that magnificent cathedral of graft where billions vanished…
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