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Continue reading →: Bongbong’s Steel Amnesia: Blaming Duterte for a Crisis He’s Owned Since 2022Four Years, Zero Action: How Malacañang Discovered a Crisis It Was Already Sitting On By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo — September 16, 2026 MALACAÑANG, Philippines — President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. recently stood before the nation and, with the grave solemnity of a man who has just discovered fire, announced…
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Continue reading →: The Philippines Spent Day 24 of an Impeachment Trial Explaining That Stealing Is IllegalMy testimony is not for sale. The system, however, remains open for business. By Louis ‘Barok‘ C Biraogo | September 15, 2026 LET’S walk through this, slowly, for the people in the back. The Republic of the Philippines spent Day 24 of a Senate impeachment trial listening to a retired…
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Continue reading →: 30 Contracts at 20: The Solar Scandal Legarda Can’t Leave in FranceHow a 20-Year-Old Got 64% of the Solar Market While Mom Chaired the Budget Committee Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — September 15, 2026 FORGIVE me if I’m struggling to follow the logic here. A 20-year-old kid walks into the Department of Energy (DOE) in 2013 and walks out with more…
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Continue reading →: 24 Million Pesos Later: COA Finds DOLE’s TUPAD Database Was Basically a Suggestion BoxThe Philippine Government Can’t Prove Its TUPAD Beneficiaries Are Real—That’s the Scandal By Louis ‘Barok’ C. Biraogo — September 14, 2026 MGA ka-kweba, gather ’round. We need to talk about the Philippine government’s favorite magic trick: making millions of pesos disappear and calling it a “database lapse.” The Commission on…
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Continue reading →: SC Erases Bar Passer’s 2016 Record Over One Facebook Post — Is This Contempt or Institutional Overkill?Edgar Dizon Was Never a Lawyer. So the Court Did Something Worse Than Disbarment — It Erased the One Thing He Had Left. B.M. No. 4734 (In re: Social Media Posts of Edgar S. Dizon) — A Kweba ni Barok Investigation Let me tell you something about the Philippine Supreme…
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Continue reading →: Sacred Cows in Robes: How the Supreme Court Shields Its Own From the OmbudsmanSupreme Court dismissed. The justices walked. Here’s what “judicial in nature” really means. By Louis ‘Barok‘ C Biraogo — September 13, 2026 IN THE Philippine judiciary, “judicial in nature” is not a legal classification. It is a magic spell. Utter it, and seven Court of Appeals justices who defied binding…
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Continue reading →: BIR D.A.R.E.S. to Steal: How ‘Reforms’ Became the Perfect Cover for Corruption”₱2.5M Under the Table, ₱500K on Paper: The Only ‘Audit’ the BIR Never Fails By Louis ‘Barok’ C. Biraogo — September 13, 2026 I’VE watched this movie before. Scandal erupts. Senate investigates. Agency announces ‘reforms.’ Cameras roll. Everyone claps. And six months later, the same crooks are back—except now they…
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Continue reading →: 10 Votes to Kill the Constitution: The Senate’s Impeachment Math Doesn’t Add UpA Simple Majority Can’t Amend the Constitution. Try Telling That to the Senate. By Louis ‘Barok’ C Biraogo — September 12, 2026 LET’S play a game. You’re a senator-judge in the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte. The 1987 Constitution of the Republic of the Philippines (1987 Constitution) says…
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Continue reading →: Disbarment or Political Hit Job? The Rondain & Mendiola Four Deserve Their Day Before the Supreme Court, Not the Court of Public OpinionMeet Rondain, Mendiola, Criaga, and Apostol: Four Lawyers Whose Only Crime So Far Is Being on the Wrong Side of a Political War By Louis ‘Barok’ C Biraogo | September 12, 2026 LET’S get one thing straight before the pearl-clutching begins: I don’t know if Jing Paras did it. Neither…
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Continue reading →: Siargao’s Missing Road: How the Matugases Built a Dynasty on Paper-Completion65% Complete, 100% Paid, 0% Surprised: The Matugas-Boometrix Blueprint for Getting Rich on Roads Nobody Can Drive On By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — September 12, 2026 Well, well, well. If it isn’t the Philippine government’s favorite new spectator sport: watching a political dynasty explain why a ₱457-million loan to…
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