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Continue reading →: Hide-and-Seek with a Kickback King: Zaldy Co’s Notary Ninja Moves Mock Philippine JusticeMedical Leave or Masterclass in Evasion? Co Turns Europe into His Personal Safe House By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — January 30, 2026 MGA ka-kweba, gather ’round the flickering screen of cynicism. It’s your favorite subterranean scribe, Barok, here to drag another Philippine political farce into the harsh light of…
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Continue reading →: CHED’s Thirty-Year Siesta: How the “Higher” Education Watchdog Napped Through a National CatastropheDreaming of Excellence, Waking to Scandals: Corruption, Diploma Mills, and the Equity Snooze-Fest By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — January 29, 2026 MGA ka-kweba, let us not mince words today. The Second Congressional Commission on Education (EDCOM 2) final report is not a polite suggestion. It is a death certificate…
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Continue reading →: De Facto Martial Law or De Facto Meltdown? Leviste’s P24-Billion Sob StoryWhen Your Solar Empire Implodes, Just Declare Yourself a Political Prisoner By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — January 2 9, 2026 LISTEN up, because we’re about to autopsy a political corpse still twitching with self-pity. Batangas First District Rep. Leandro Leviste—once billed as the solar wunderkind who would light up…
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Continue reading →: The Seduction of StatisticsBuild Better More, Feel Worse Sooner: The Marcos Miracle Nobody in the Barangay Can Afford By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — January 28, 2026 WHEN Palace Press Officer Claire Castro steps to the podium, the numbers arrive like clockwork: unemployment at 4.7% in 2025, down from the pandemic’s brutal 10.3%…
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Continue reading →: Remulla’s Billion-Dollar Bouncer: “No Cash, No Conversation” – The New Door Policy at the Palace of JusticePlunderers Welcome… Provided They Bring a Billion-Dollar “Sorry We Stole It” Gift Receipt By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — January 28, 2026 BEHOLD, Manila, the city that never sleeps—because someone is always counting someone else’s money. On January 27, 2026, Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Jonvic…
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Continue reading →: The Stolen Growth: A Nation’s Receipt for Billions Pilfered, Leaving Us Poorer, Angrier, and Still Flooded25% Kickbacks: The Only Percentage That Actually Grew in 2025 By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — January 28, 2025 IF AN economy is a testament to a nation’s priorities, then the Philippines’ missed growth target for 2025 is less a technical failure and more a stolen receipt—evidence of billions pilfered…
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Continue reading →: Tiu Laurel Declares War on Paperwork: Philippines’ Food Basket Now Protected by the Sacred Art of Doing Nothing Until JuneSix Months of Blessed Inaction: Because the Fastest Way to Save Farmland Is to Let Applications Rot in a Drawer YESSS….., the valiant Agriculture Secretary Francisco P. Tiu Laurel Jr. rides in on his white steed—or perhaps a rusty tractor—brandishing Department Circular No. 1 like a magic wand to “protect”…
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Continue reading →: Bonoan’s Flood-Control Illusion: Vanishing Projects, Vanishing Funds, and a Nation Left Drowning in DebtFrom Paper Dikes to Real Yachts: The Secretary’s Masterclass in Liquid Assets By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — January 27, 2025 BEHOLD, the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee hearing on January 19, 2026: a stage set for the absurd, where former Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Secretary Manuel Bonoan…
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Continue reading →: The Co-Defensor-Marcos Impeachment Circus: A Philippine Farce in Three-Ring CorruptionFollow the Billions: The Real Flood Isn’t the Water, It’s the Money By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — January 26, 2026 MGA ka-kweba, welcome back to the fever swamp that is Philippine politics, where the clowns aren’t just entertaining—they’re running the show, and the audience is us, the tax-paying rubes…
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Continue reading →: The Ghost in the Rulebook: Adiong’s Phantom Procedure Haunts the People’s JusticeWhen “Strict Compliance” Becomes Code for “Sorry, Marcos Is Busy” By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — January 26, 2026 BEHOLD, the Philippine House of Representatives—bastion of the people’s will, or so the fairy tales go. In a plot twist worthy of a bad teleserye, they’ve unveiled their latest innovation in…






