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Continue reading →: Anti-Dynasty Law Needs ChaCha? Only If You’re Allergic to Actual ReformWhy Pass a Law When You Can Just Keep Talking About Amending the Constitution? By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — December 18, 2025 MGA ka-kweba, fellow martyrs in Philippine politics that feels like an endless telenovela with no happy ending: Welcome back to the Kweba ni Barok. Today, let’s talk…
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Continue reading →: Davao Detour to Deadly Rampage: When a ‘Fishing Trip’ Turns into Australia’s Worst NightmareSelf-Radicalized? Or Mindanao-Recharged? By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — December 17, 2025 MGA ka-kweba, visualize this: a father and son, one already whispered about in the hushed corridors of Australian intelligence, pack their bags in Sydney and jet off to the Philippines for a leisurely month-long holiday. They scribble “Davao”…
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Continue reading →: Sky Cable is Cheating Its SubscribersBy Hail to the Chair — December 18, 2025 SKY Cable Corporation has been quietly cheating its subscribers. It is no wonder that many long standing patrons of this cable television (TV) service provider are considering the competitors, among them Cignal. The story begins in May 2020 when broadcast giant…
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Continue reading →: The Ombudsman Should Sue SSS Officials de Claro and Limlingan for P13.195-M Toilet Paper ScamBy Hail to the Chair — December 17, 2025 CORRUPTION is not exclusive to the Department of Public Works and Highways. Based on recently publicized state audit findings, the Social Security System (SSS) headed by its president, a certain Robert de Claro, is apparently plagued with graft and corrupt practices,…
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Continue reading →: Standby Pork 2.0: How Congress Turned ‘Unforeseen Contingencies’ into Foreseen Family FeastsPCIJ’s Damning Receipt: How P545 Billion in Flood Walls Became Kickback Laundromats By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — December 17, 2025 The Opening Gambit Ah, the Unprogrammed Appropriations—that noble-sounding fiscal invention, touted as a mere “standby fund” for those oh-so-unpredictable calamities and “activities we do not even anticipate.” How quaint.…
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Continue reading →: Healthcare as Vote-Buying: Tito Sotto’s “Reform” and the P51-Billion Health Pork BarrelTito Sotto’s Magic Trick: Making Pork Barrel Disappear (While Doubling It) By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — December 17, 2025 MGA ka-kweba, let us pause for a moment of ironic applause. Senate President Vicente “Tito” Sotto III has graciously announced that he aims to eliminate lawmakers’ guarantee letters in the…
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Continue reading →: Healthcare as Vote-Buying: The Guarantee Letter – Your Free Ticket to Utang na LoobFrom PDAF to MAIFIP: Same Old Pork, Now Wearing a Stethoscope By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — December 16, 2025 MGA ka-kweba, imagine this: A desperately ill Filipino, too poor to pay hospital bills, queues not at a clinic but at a politician’s office, hat in hand, begging for a…
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Continue reading →: Herbert Bautista’s Twilight Treasury Raid: Acquitted in the Sandiganbayan’s Midnight FarceBistek’s Eclipse Escape: Raiding the Vault and Evading the Graft Gavel By Louis ‘Barok‘ C Biraogo — December 16, 2025 Ah, mga ka-kweba, gather ’round the flickering screenlight of Philippine justice, where the powerful bask in the glow of acquittals while the rest of us squint in the dark. Today,…
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Continue reading →: Andres’ Palace Pivot: Fortifying Marcos’ Legal Frontline Amid Factional StormsBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — December 15, 2025 Strategic Shift: Jesse Andres and the Streamlining of Malacañang Operations In the intricate web of Philippine governance, where administrative moves often reveal deeper strategic intents, the anticipated appointment of Department of Justice (DOJ) Undersecretary Jesse Hermogenes Andres as Deputy Executive Secretary…
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Continue reading →: Fishing Expedition or Feeding Frenzy? Sara Calls It Harassment—But the Receipts Are Still Hiding in the DeepBlack Box Bait: How Confidential Funds Turned Public Money into the Ultimate Deep-Sea Mystery By Louis ‘Barok’ C Biraogo — December 15, 2025 MGA ka-kweba, at the Kweba ni Barok, the ₱612.5-million question is not merely about the possible guilt of Vice President Sara Duterte—it is about a system that…
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