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Continue reading →: Warrant in the Wind: Bato’s Last Stand or Manila’s Final Farce?RA 9851: Sovereignty Shield or Surrender Ticket? By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — November 11, 2025 Midnight Summons from The Hague Shadows creep through the Senate. A sealed envelope from the International Criminal Court (ICC)—slips past guards like a death notice. Senator Ronald “Bato” Dela Rosa, once the drug war’s…
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Continue reading →: DPWH’s P95M Phantom Flood Wall: Bonoan’s “No, No, No, No!” and the Great Vanishing ActBonoan’s Billion-Peso Vanishing Act: The Flood Wall That Wasn’t By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — November 11, 2025 The Invisible 147-Meter Miracle: A Concrete Structure That Never Was AYY, mga ka-kweba, gather close. What we have here is not just another bureaucratic hiccup. No, no, no, no! This is the…
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Continue reading →: The House’s P881-Billion Black Box: Tiangco’s Lone Stand Against a Transparency CharadePublish or Perish: The House’s P881-Billion Game of Hide-and-Seek Ends Now By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — November 10, 2025 WHAT’S in the box? No, not a Brad Pitt mystery, but the House of Representatives’ P881-billion secret. And Rep. Toby Tiangco is the only one brave (or foolish) enough to…
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Continue reading →: The Grandmaster’s Gambit: How Marcoleta’s Disbarment Threat Became His Own CheckmateDisbarment Threat: The Boomerang That Hit Home By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — November 10, 2025 UYYY, the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee—Philippine politics’ favorite stage for grand opera, where flood-control billions morph into kickback confessions, and senators strut like gladiators in tailored barongs. Last week, Senator Rodante Marcoleta thought he’d…
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Continue reading →: ICC Drops Warrant, Bersamin Drops ‘Not So Fast’—Tokhang’s Architect Now Hiding in Session HallSovereignty Shield or Senate Snuggie? Bato’s New Legal Blanket Has ICC Written All Over It By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo — November 9, 2025 Radio Rumor vs. Mass Grave: When “Good Authority” Trumps 6,000+ Bodies It started with a whisper on dzRH—a public interest radio program—and exploded into a constitutional…
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Continue reading →: “Skewed Narrative”? More Like Skewered Taxpayers!Zaldy Co’s ₱13.8B Vacation vs. Your Flooded Barangay By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — November 9, 2025 HAYY, mga ka-kweba, gather ’round the cave. The air reeks of desperation, expensive cologne, and the unmistakable stench of a ₱13.8 billion budget heist. Former Ako Bicol party-list Representative Zaldy Co – now…
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Continue reading →: CEBU’S P17.4-BILLION WATERLOO: WHEN FLOOD CONTROL BECAME A CRIME SCENEBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — November 8, 2025 THE CORPUS DELICTI: P17.4 BILLION FOR A WATERY GRAVE Over 100 corpses float in the Butuanon River’s rage.Thousands displaced.Entire subdivisions swallowed.And in the middle of this man-made apocalypse? P17.44 billion of taxpayer money—179 flood control projects across four rivers from 2016…
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Continue reading →: The Tide Goes Out on the UniTeam: A Coroner’s Report on a Drowning PresidencyBy Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo — November 7, 2025 The Numbers Are In—and They Sound Like a Coffin Closing The numbers are in, and they carry the distinct sound of a tide rushing out. For the once-unassailable “UniTeam” of President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and Vice President Sara Duterte, the cold…
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Continue reading →: The Inspector Who Crossed the River: When Magalong Went to Davao to Fix Floods and Stir PoliticsBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — November 7, 2025 In a city where floods wash away public funds faster than the rain can fall, Baguio’s mayor decided to wade in — literally and legally — to inspect Davao’s “questionable” flood-control projects. The result: one man’s good intention meets the undertow…
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Continue reading →: Final Act: The Sandiganbayan Drops the Curtain on Mayor Ejercito’s Graft OperaFrom Action Star to Inmate # – The Role He Never Auditioned For By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — November 6, 2025 ACT I: CUFFS, CAMERA, NO ACTION – The Sandiganbayan’s Non-Negotiable Arrest Warrant October 20, 2025. The Sandiganbayan Fourth Division drops a minute resolution colder than a Pagsanjan waterfall…






