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Continue reading →: Marcos’ Budgetary Bonanza: Unprogrammed Appropriations Spit in the Constitution’s FaceFlood Control or Fund Control? Marcos’ ₱807B Disappearing Act By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo — October 2, 2025 STEP right up to the greatest show in Malacañang, where President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is tossing ₱214.4 billion in unprogrammed appropriations like a political piñata at a patronage party. Representative Antonio Tinio,…
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Continue reading →: Cash, Cronies, and Cover-Ups: The Escudero-Ngu Kickback ConspiracyA ₱160-Million Handshake and a Senator’s Dirty Laundry By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — October 1, 2025 WELL, color me shocked. In a twist that absolutely nobody could’ve seen coming, tech mogul Maynard Ngu, the Cherry Mobile maestro, has decided to “spend more time with his family”—or, more likely, his…
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Continue reading →: 100% Rigged: DPWH’s Graveyard for Bids and Paradise for KickbacksBernardo’s Confessions from the Heart of the Corruption Cartel By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo — October 1, 2025 STEP right up, mga ka-kweba, to the Department of Public Works and Highways’ grand corruption carnival, where every bridge, road, and culvert is a ticket to a private jackpot! Former Undersecretary Roberto…
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Continue reading →: From Congress to Con-Job: Zaldy Co’s Tearful Trek to Tinsel TownHow to Dodge Subpoenas with a Side of Crocodile Tears By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — September 30, 2025 LADIES and gentlemen of the kweba, step right up to the festering swamp of Philippine politics, where Ako Bicol Representative Elizaldy “Zaldy” Co has staged a resignation so theatrical it could…
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Continue reading →: Swine and Dine: The Senate’s 2025 Budget Loot Stinks RottenLacson’s Exposé Lifts the Lid on a ₱100B+ Budget Swindle By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo — September 30, 2025 WALANG-HIYA! What a glorious mess we have in the hallowed halls of the Philippine Senate! Senator Panfilo “Ping” Lacson, that grizzled watchdog with a nose for fiscal filth, has flung open…
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Continue reading →: Bonds and Backroom Deals: The Marcoleta Saga of Corruption and Cover-UpsFrom Senate Spotlight to Scandalous Shadows By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — September 29, 2025 Opening Act: A Scandal So Brazen It Begs for a Spotlight He crusades against corruption by day,but his wife’s corporate paychecks fund his life by night. For this senator, the anti-graft inquiry isn’t a public…
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Continue reading →: Duterte’s Hague Heartbreak: Humanitarian Plea or Political Ploy?Unraveling Sara’s Tears in the ICC’s Shadow By Louis ‘Barok‘ C Biraogo — September 29, 2025 HERE we are, ka-kweba, plunged into another Philippine political saga, where Vice President Sara Duterte’s plea for her father’s release from the ICC is pure theater—part sob story, part power play. Is this a…
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Continue reading →: The Bersamin Denial: Untarnished or Just Uncaught?A ₱427.5M Shadow Looms Over the Executive Secretary’s Halo By Louis ‘Barok’ C. Biraogo+- September 28, 2025 IN A drama twist worthy of a Quiapo black-market script, Roberto Bernardo’s bombshell affidavit claims Lucas Bersamin’s palace crew pocketed ₱427.5 million in DPWH kickbacks, turning flood barriers into cash carriers (Inquirer affidavit…
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Continue reading →: The 48-Hour Fiasco: Mayor Magalong’s Meteoric Rise and Fall as the Philippines’ Shortest-Lived Corruption CrusaderICI Unraveled: A Commission So ‘Independent’ It Needs Executive Permission to Blink By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — September 28, 2025 IN A plot twist that could make a telenovela blush, Baguio City Mayor Benjamin Magalong has resigned as “special adviser” to the so-called Independent Commission for Infrastructure (ICI) after…
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Continue reading →: Zaldy Co’s Billion-Peso Plunder: A Flood of Lies ExposedJets, Lies, and Zamboanga Alibis: Co’s Scandalous Plunge into Infamy By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — September 27, 2025 A Congressman’s Crocodile Tears PICTURE a congressman, cloaked in righteous indignation, penning a tear-stained letter from some overseas medical retreat, swearing he’s never touched a cent of dirty money. Now picture…






