<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:blogger="http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6916543</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:30:42 +0000</lastBuildDate><category>religion</category><category>culture of death</category><category>stuff</category><category>prayer</category><category>history</category><category>music</category><category>abortion</category><category>absurdity</category><category>abuse</category><category>conspiracy</category><category>intercessors</category><category>philippines</category><category>saints</category><category>stem cells</category><category>WTFFRANCIS</category><category>bioethics</category><category>books</category><category>china</category><category>church</category><category>family news</category><category>films</category><category>headlines</category><category>humor</category><category>medical ethics</category><category>rant</category><category>science</category><category>Mama Mary</category><category>Mary</category><category>art</category><category>asia</category><category>bible</category><category>christ</category><category>medicine</category><category>nwo</category><category>stupidity</category><category>tolkien</category><category>G</category><category>africa</category><category>amazon synod</category><category>anti church</category><category>antichrist</category><category>apostasy</category><category>catholic obama</category><category>cats</category><category>charity</category><category>colombia</category><category>computer</category><category>crafts</category><category>diary</category><category>evil</category><category>f</category><category>famil news</category><category>family news.</category><category>feminism</category><category>globalization</category><category>hollywood</category><category>human rights</category><category>marriage</category><category>martyrs</category><category>meditation on gospel</category><category>modernism</category><category>money</category><category>nonsense</category><category>politics uggh</category><category>pope fiction</category><category>prolife</category><category>sign</category><category>spiritual life</category><category>stories</category><category>teotwawki</category><category>tpusa</category><category>trivia</category><category>wagd</category><title>Boinkie&#39;s Blog</title><description>My diary of what I am thinking, since writing helps me clarify thought.&#xa;Mostly rants or thoughts about medicine, politics, and the whole damn thing of life.</description><link>http://boinkie.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>1453</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6916543.post-2125626253454912494</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2026 09:37:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2026-02-09T17:37:11.209+08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">tpusa</category><title>I sm able to walk now</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;Maybe I can go to church.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;And did my request to Charlie Kirk have something to do with this? Who knows.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Well, anyway, here is the concert of the right wing Christian nationalists in the USA.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Since I am Catholic and Filipino I am not quite in their group. But as Bishop Strickland noted: We need bishops to proclaim the Lord, not get involved in politics.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;And despite all the insisting that kids are into anti Ice stuff, I wonder if stuff like this (and the Amerlia craze) is being ignored by the MSM for a reason.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;240&quot; referrerpolicy=&quot;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/GJYq3AJ06hA&quot; title=&quot;TPUSA Presents: The ALL-AMERICAN HALFTIME SHOW&quot; width=&quot;694&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;</description><link>http://boinkie.blogspot.com/2026/02/i-sm-able-to-walk-now.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/GJYq3AJ06hA/default.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6916543.post-996772723681583976</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 09:29:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2026-02-03T17:29:10.246+08:00</atom:updated><title>where are the shepherds</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe title=&quot;vimeo-player&quot; src=&quot;https://player.vimeo.com/video/1159687891?h=95fd66a577&quot; width=&quot;640&quot; height=&quot;360&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; referrerpolicy=&quot;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&quot; allow=&quot;autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share&quot;   allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.complicitclergy.com/2026/01/31/bishop-strickland-watchmen-at-the-altar/&quot;&gt;LINK1 &lt;/a&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://pillarsoffaith.net/podcasts/watchmen-at-the-altar/&quot;&gt;LINK&lt;/a&gt;2&lt;P&gt;When worship loses its center, everything else begins to drift. Doctrine becomes harder to articulate. Moral teaching becomes uncomfortable. The call to repentance softens. And mercy is quietly separated from truth. &lt;P&gt;We hear much about mercy today – and rightly so. Without mercy, none of us would stand. But mercy has been redefined. Too often it is presented as affirmation without conversion, accompaniment without direction, and compassion without truth. 

This is not the mercy of Christ. &lt;P&gt;
  The Church is not abandoned. Christ remains her Head. He is present in the Eucharist. He is faithful to His promises. And yet, many of the faithful feel unsettled. They feel disoriented. They struggle to put words to it, but they sense that something precious has been weakened, something essential has been obscured.&lt;P&gt;It is one thing to be compassinate for those seduced to come to the USA saying they would be winked at for being illegal, but when the criminals are being deported and the left is making it a crusade to stop them violently (like running them down with a car or invading a church), then you have to recognize there is a lot of deception. And when the bigshot US bishops defending the leftist crusade are the ones we layfolk know as beingg the same ones who wink at priests who are immoral, well, you know a lot of us will be cynical. And I won&#39;d even get into the middle management level of the church bueaurocracy that got pedophiles off, and are using the fund</description><link>http://boinkie.blogspot.com/2026/02/where-are-shepherds.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6916543.post-3184397182967992548</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 23:03:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2026-01-13T07:03:41.844+08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">conspiracy</category><title>more witchcraft</title><description>&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;first we had witches putting a spell on Trumpieboy before he was shot: They complained their spell didn&#39;t work because he was protected (Lots of people praying for him).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;THen we had witches putting spells to destroy Charlie Kirk before he was killed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Now we have&lt;a href=&quot;https://spiritdaily.org/blog/now-witchcraft/&quot;&gt; witches in Minneapoli&lt;/a&gt;s.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;&gt;&lt;p dir=&quot;ltr&quot; lang=&quot;en&quot;&gt;Liberals are now performing witchcraft over Renee Good’s memorial in Minneapolis.. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;lol &lt;a href=&quot;https://t.co/1gqdSUZ4iC&quot;&gt;pic.twitter.com/1gqdSUZ4iC&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;— American AF 🇺🇸 (@iAnonPatriot) &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/iAnonPatriot/status/2010124316751413379?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;January 10, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;script async=&quot;&quot; charset=&quot;utf-8&quot; src=&quot;https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;sensing a pattern here.&lt;/span&gt;..&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://boinkie.blogspot.com/2026/01/more-witchcraft.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6916543.post-8387802494615473956</guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 07:32:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2025-12-30T15:32:16.482+08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">religion</category><title>malachi martin</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe width=&quot;914&quot; height=&quot;240&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/tmZvyJ-y3rc&quot; title=&quot;Jesuits And The Apostasy: And Interview With Bestselling Catholic Author Rob Marro&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; referrerpolicy=&quot;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;</description><link>http://boinkie.blogspot.com/2025/12/malachi-martin.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/tmZvyJ-y3rc/default.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6916543.post-5007336322503979457</guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 03:21:37 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2025-12-30T11:21:39.448+08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">religion</category><title>witches for sale</title><description>&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/spell-2025-was-year-etsy-witch-rcna248853&quot;&gt;nbc&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;story about buying spells on line.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;They cursed Charlie Kirk 2 wks before he was killed&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/jezebel-charlie-kirk-editors-note-witches-curse-1236514904/&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Similar reports that a group cursed Trump but it didn&#39;t work because he had spiritual protection&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The moral collapse of tucker and candace and how astroturfed racists like Fuentes who are trying to take over the youth organization not to mention the full court press of theedia trying to destroy kirks wife is so far out of proportion that I suspect evil forces have to do with this&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://boinkie.blogspot.com/2025/12/witches-for-sale.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6916543.post-1028279223687459782</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 07:41:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2025-11-18T15:41:45.535+08:00</atom:updated><title>yup. the bishops  noticed the scandal amonth after they started investigating it</title><description>&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: sans-serif; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: 700; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;September 6, 2025&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;font-family: sans-serif;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;css-146c3p1 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-37j5jr r-rjixqe r-16dba41 r-imh66m&quot; dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-emoji: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: 20px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space-collapse: preserve;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;css-175oi2r&quot; style=&quot;align-items: stretch; 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box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;The Catholic Bishops&#39; Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) issued a formal statement on this date condemning the corruption in flood control projects, which involved billions of pesos in anomalies like ghost projects, substandard construction, and misuse of public funds by politicians, contractors, and officials. Signed by CBCP president Cardinal Pablo Virgilio David, the statement demanded the return of stolen funds, greater transparency in budgeting, and full accountability, while urging Filipinos—especially the youth—to expose injustices and make corruption &quot;shameful again.&quot; This followed earlier ecumenical condemnations on September 5, 2025, from the Church Leaders Council for National Transformation (including three Catholic bishops), and aligned with the Manila Archdiocese&#39;s pastoral letter on September 15, 2025, calling for prayer and non-violent action against the scandal. The controversy had escalated in late August 2025 amid deadly floods in Metro Manila, revealing how graft worsened typhoon impacts in the disaster-prone nation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1adg3ll r-1x3r274 r-p1pxzi&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; display: block; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1adg3ll r-1x3r274 r-p1pxzi&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; display: block; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1adg3ll r-1x3r274 r-p1pxzi&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; display: block; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;Overview of Ghost Projects in the Philippines Flood Control Scandal&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;white-space-collapse: collapse;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;css-146c3p1 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-37j5jr r-rjixqe r-16dba41 r-imh66m&quot; 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font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;In the context of the 2025 flood control scandal, &quot;ghost projects&quot; refer to infrastructure initiatives—primarily flood mitigation structures like dikes, revetments, and river walls—that were officially funded, approved, and reported as completed by the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) but either never started, remain unfinished, or exist only on paper with falsified documents. These schemes involve collusion between politicians, contractors, and officials, who pocket funds through kickbacks (known as &quot;tongpats&quot; or &quot;obligasyon,&quot; often 30-40% of project costs), overpricing, and substandard or nonexistent work. The scandal, exposed amid deadly typhoons like Kalmaegi (locally &quot;Uwan&quot;) in late 2025, has amplified public outrage, as these failures directly contributed to at least 259 flood-related deaths, widespread displacement, and economic losses estimated at ₱42.3 billion to ₱118.5 billion (US$850 million to US$2.4 billion) from 2023-2025. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt; President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. personally inspected sites in August 2025, flagging issues like a ₱55-million revetment in Baliwag, Bulacan, as a prime example. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1adg3ll r-1g7jtus r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; display: block; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;The term &quot;ghost project&quot; has historical roots in Philippine corruption cases, such as the 2013 pork barrel scam, but this scandal marks its largest scale in flood infrastructure, affecting a nation hit by 20 typhoons annually and vulnerable to rising sea levels. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-adyw6z r-135wba7 r-b88u0q&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; display: block; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 24px; list-style: none; margin: 1.5em 0px 0.5em; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;Key Statistics and Scope&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1adg3ll r-1g7jtus r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; display: block; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;Investigations by the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee (launched August 2025), DPWH, Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), Philippine National Police (PNP), and the Independent Commission for Infrastructure (ICI) have uncovered widespread fraud. Here&#39;s a breakdown:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;css-175oi2r r-xoduu5 r-1ifxtd0 r-lltvgl r-bnwqim r-13qz1uu&quot; style=&quot;align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-flex; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; width: 785px; z-index: 0;&quot;&gt;&lt;table style=&quot;border-collapse: collapse; color: black;&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr style=&quot;border-collapse: collapse; border-color: rgb(51, 54, 57); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;th style=&quot;border-collapse: collapse; border-width: 0px; text-align: start; text-wrap-mode: nowrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;css-175oi2r r-1adg3ll r-11f147o r-faml9v&quot; style=&quot;align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;Metric&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th style=&quot;border-collapse: collapse; border-width: 0px; text-align: start; text-wrap-mode: nowrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;css-175oi2r r-1adg3ll r-11f147o r-faml9v&quot; style=&quot;align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;Details&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th style=&quot;border-collapse: collapse; border-width: 0px; text-align: start; text-wrap-mode: nowrap;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;css-175oi2r r-1adg3ll r-11f147o r-faml9v&quot; style=&quot;align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;Source&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style=&quot;border-collapse: collapse; border-color: rgb(51, 54, 57); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;border-collapse: collapse; border-width: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;css-175oi2r r-1adg3ll r-11f147o r-faml9v&quot; style=&quot;align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;Total Flood Control Projects (2022-2025)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;border-collapse: collapse; border-width: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;css-175oi2r r-1adg3ll r-11f147o r-faml9v&quot; style=&quot;align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;Over 9,855 projects funded with ₱545 billion (US$10.9 billion) nationwide.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;border-collapse: collapse; border-width: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;css-175oi2r r-1adg3ll r-11f147o r-faml9v&quot; style=&quot;align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style=&quot;border-collapse: collapse; border-color: rgb(51, 54, 57); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;border-collapse: collapse; border-width: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;css-175oi2r r-1adg3ll r-11f147o r-faml9v&quot; style=&quot;align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;Identified Ghost Projects&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;border-collapse: collapse; border-width: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;css-175oi2r r-1adg3ll r-11f147o r-faml9v&quot; style=&quot;align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;At least 421 out of 8,000 inspected (5.3%); AFP alone found 60 in initial reviews, with 100,000+ still pending validation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;border-collapse: collapse; border-width: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;css-175oi2r r-1adg3ll r-11f147o r-faml9v&quot; style=&quot;align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;, ,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style=&quot;border-collapse: collapse; border-color: rgb(51, 54, 57); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;border-collapse: collapse; border-width: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;css-175oi2r r-1adg3ll r-11f147o r-faml9v&quot; style=&quot;align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;Regional Hotspots&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;border-collapse: collapse; border-width: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;css-175oi2r r-1adg3ll r-11f147o r-faml9v&quot; style=&quot;align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;- Bulacan (e.g., Calumpit, Hagonoy, Malolos, Plaridel): ₱9 billion in contracts to Wawao Builders; 4 projects worth ₱334 million flagged by COA as fraudulent or nonexistent.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;- Quezon City: 35 of 331 projects (20%, worth ₱17 billion) unlocatable due to missing/incorrect coordinates.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;- Luzon-dominant, but cases in Cebu and Davao.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;border-collapse: collapse; border-width: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;css-175oi2r r-1adg3ll r-11f147o r-faml9v&quot; style=&quot;align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;, ,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style=&quot;border-collapse: collapse; border-color: rgb(51, 54, 57); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px 0px 1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;border-collapse: collapse; border-width: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;css-175oi2r r-1adg3ll r-11f147o r-faml9v&quot; style=&quot;align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;Financial Impact&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;border-collapse: collapse; border-width: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;css-175oi2r r-1adg3ll r-11f147o r-faml9v&quot; style=&quot;align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;- Direct losses: Up to ₱118.5 billion (70% of some budgets siphoned).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;- Broader: ₱1.7 trillion stock market drop; peso weakening; 95,000-266,000 jobs lost; GDP curb; 727 bank accounts frozen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;border-collapse: collapse; border-width: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;css-175oi2r r-1adg3ll r-11f147o r-faml9v&quot; style=&quot;align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;, ,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr style=&quot;border-collapse: collapse; border-color: rgb(51, 54, 57); border-style: solid; border-width: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;border-collapse: collapse; border-width: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;css-175oi2r r-1adg3ll r-11f147o r-faml9v&quot; style=&quot;align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;Human Cost&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;border-collapse: collapse; border-width: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;css-175oi2r r-1adg3ll r-11f147o r-faml9v&quot; style=&quot;align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;Preventable deaths (e.g., 26 in July 2025 floods); 300,000+ displaced; leptospirosis surges; sinking communities in groundwater-extraction zones.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;border-collapse: collapse; border-width: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;css-175oi2r r-1adg3ll r-11f147o r-faml9v&quot; style=&quot;align-items: stretch; border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; flex-basis: auto; flex-direction: column; flex-shrink: 0; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-height: 0px; min-width: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; z-index: 0;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;, , [post:20]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1adg3ll r-1x3r274 r-p1pxzi&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; display: block; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;Greenpeace estimates US$17.6 billion bilked from climate-related projects since 2023, exacerbating vulnerabilities in low-income areas. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-adyw6z r-135wba7 r-b88u0q&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; display: block; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 24px; list-style: none; margin: 1.5em 0px 0.5em; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;How Ghost Projects Operate&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1adg3ll r-1g7jtus r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; display: block; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;The modus operandi typically follows a pattern:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;ol dir=&quot;ltr&quot; start=&quot;1&quot; style=&quot;margin-block: 0px 1.25em; padding-inline-start: 2em;&quot;&gt;&lt;li style=&quot;margin-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;Budget Insertion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;: Politicians insert pet projects into the national budget via congressional pork barrel funds.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style=&quot;margin-top: 0.5em;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;Rigged Procurement&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;: Handpicked district engineers and monopolizing contractors (e.g., Wawao Builders) secure bids through bribery (e.g., ₱3.1 million in Batangas to halt probes).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style=&quot;margin-top: 0.5em;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;Falsification&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;: Projects are declared &quot;100% complete&quot; with fake inspections, photos, and payments released—despite zero construction. In Bulacan, a ₱72.3-million Plaridel project was fully paid but nonexistent.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style=&quot;margin-top: 0.5em;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;Kickbacks and Laundering&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;: Funds flow through networks; VP Sara Duterte&#39;s allies and family members like Nancy Binay (Makati mayor) have been implicated in related schemes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style=&quot;margin-top: 0.5em;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;Cover-Ups&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;: Substandard work (e.g., crumbling dikes) or splits in structures to inflate contracts.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1adg3ll r-1g7jtus r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; display: block; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;This echoes past scandals, like Jejo Bongcarter&#39;s 2013 ghost bridges, but flood projects&#39; urgency (post-typhoon funding) enables faster graft. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-adyw6z r-135wba7 r-b88u0q&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; display: block; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 24px; list-style: none; margin: 1.5em 0px 0.5em; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;Notable Examples&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;ul dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;margin-block: 0px 1.25em; padding-inline-start: 2em;&quot;&gt;&lt;li style=&quot;margin-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;Plaridel Revetment (Bulacan)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;: ₱72.3 million allocated; ICI recommended probing ex-DPWH chief Manuel Bonoan and two undersecretaries for liability. Site: Unfinished dike leaving residents stranded during September 2025 floods. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style=&quot;margin-top: 0.5em;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;Baliwag Revetment (Bulacan)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;: ₱55 million for a 220-meter structure; Marcos Jr. confirmed it as &quot;ghost&quot; on August 20, 2025—paid but absent. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style=&quot;margin-top: 0.5em;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;Quezon City Batch&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;: 66 of 331 projects (2022-2025) untraceable; top contractors bagged ₱1.63 billion across 24 works. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style=&quot;margin-top: 0.5em;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;Dasmariñas &quot;Basura&quot; Ties&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;: Local officials (Barzaga family) linked to waste and flood mismanagement, compounding uncollected trash in flood-prone areas. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-adyw6z r-135wba7 r-b88u0q&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; display: block; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 24px; list-style: none; margin: 1.5em 0px 0.5em; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;Government Response and Ongoing Probes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;ul dir=&quot;ltr&quot; style=&quot;margin-block: 0px 1.25em; padding-inline-start: 2em;&quot;&gt;&lt;li style=&quot;margin-top: 0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;August 2025&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;: Senate launches &quot;Philippines Under Water&quot; inquiry; Marcos Jr. vows transparency.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style=&quot;margin-top: 0.5em;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;September 2025&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;: CBCP condemns graft; LCP supports audits.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style=&quot;margin-top: 0.5em;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;October 2025&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;: DPWH reports 421 ghosts; AFP/PNP inspections ongoing; 180 bank accounts frozen initially.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style=&quot;margin-top: 0.5em;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-b88u0q r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;November 2025&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;: Marcos Jr. promises arrests by Christmas (&quot;no merry Christmas for them&quot;); COA flags ₱334 million in Bulacan fraud; massive INC-led rally in Manila demands jail time. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1adg3ll r-1x3r274 r-p1pxzi&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; direction: ltr; display: block; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;The Philippine peso hit a five-month low, with &quot;scandal fatigue&quot; noted amid protests. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt; Critics, including experts like Matthew David Ordonez, argue for structural reforms beyond arrests, such as better oversight and nature-based solutions (e.g., reforestation over concrete dikes). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3 r-1x3r274&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid black; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px; min-width: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: inherit; white-space: inherit;&quot;&gt; As of November 18, 2025, probes continue, with calls for an Independent Commission for Flood Control to expedite accountability. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://boinkie.blogspot.com/2025/11/yup-bishops-noticed-scandal-amonth.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6916543.post-8373296955675160819</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2025 02:54:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2025-11-17T11:43:06.225+08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">absurdity</category><title>Homan tells off PC BIshops</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; height=&quot;240&quot; referrerpolicy=&quot;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/rMbsBh707To&quot; title=&quot;Tom Homan puts Catholic Church on blast over Trump&#39;s deportation crackdown&quot; width=&quot;579&quot;&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;...&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.ncregister.com/cna/border-czar-homan-says-catholic-church-is-wrong-on-immigration&quot;&gt;NX Reg article::&lt;/a&gt;Border czar Tom Homan strongly opposed the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) “special message” on immigration, saying the statement would encourage people to make a dangerous trek to the United States.

Homan told EWTN News on Nov. 14 that the “Catholic Church is wrong. I’m sorry. I’m a lifelong Catholic. I’m saying it as not only a border czar. I’ll say it as a Catholic. I think they need to spend time fixing the Catholic Church, in my opinion.”&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;The bishops approved the message on immigration at the 2025 Fall Plenary Assembly in Baltimore on Nov. 12. “We oppose the indiscriminate mass deportation of people,” the message said.

More than 95% of the American bishops voted to support the message. The bishops said in the message they “are bound to our people by ties of communion and compassion in Our Lord Jesus Christ” and “are saddened by the state of contemporary debate and the vilification of immigrants.”

The bishops’ message cited Scripture such as Luke 10:30-37, referring to the Good Samaritan who “lifts us from the dust,” and Matthew 25, in which “we see the One who is found in the least of these.” Floor debate on the measure included bishops’ discussion of “the One” referring to the face of Jesus Christ as seen in the migrant.

“The Church’s concern for neighbor and our concern here for immigrants is a response to the Lord’s command to love as he has loved us (John 13:34),” the statement said.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;Homan said: “So according to [the bishops] the message we should send to the whole world is: ‘If you cross the border illegally, which is a crime, don’t worry about it. If you get … removed by a federal judge, that’s due process, don’t worry about it, because there shouldn’t be mass deportations.’” 

He added: “If that’s the message we send the whole world, people are still going to put themselves in harm’s way to come to the greatest nation on earth.” 

“We saw during the Biden administration, when there was no immigration enforcement, over 4,000 aliens died making that journey” and “40 million Americans died from fentanyl,” Homan said.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Homan said he wants the Catholic Church to understand that secure borders save lives.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;U.S. bishops acknowledged the need for secure borders in their special message, writing: “We recognize that nations have a responsibility to regulate their borders and establish a just and orderly immigration system for the sake of the common good.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;Homan said: “We’re going to enforce the law, and by doing that, we’re saving a lot of lives. One of the reasons no one talks about why we have the most secure border in the history of this nation is because [of] exactly what ICE is doing.” 

“ICE has sent a message to the whole world: ‘Don’t give your life savings to come to [the] country, because you’re not gonna be released. You’re not going to cross [the] border illegally. You’re going to be prosecuted,’” Homan said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;no mentioned in the discussion: How the US church made oodles of money &quot; helping&quot; the migrants.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://boinkie.blogspot.com/2025/11/homan-tells-off-pc-bishops.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/rMbsBh707To/default.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6916543.post-7906668151245641641</guid><pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2025 06:34:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2025-11-15T14:34:33.783+08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">absurdity</category><title>Bishop Strickland protests</title><description>


&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe width=&quot;579&quot; height=&quot;240&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/x3RourObvP0&quot; title=&quot;Bishop Strickland Talks To Catholic Unscripted About His USCCB Intervention&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; referrerpolicy=&quot;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;</description><link>http://boinkie.blogspot.com/2025/11/bishop-strickland-protests.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/x3RourObvP0/default.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6916543.post-722313456755868419</guid><pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2025 01:47:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2025-11-08T09:47:24.029+08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">absurdity</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">christ</category><title>drugs psychodelics ufo and demons</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;lt;iframe width=&quot;521&quot; height=&quot;240&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/xJCgXxc6cvQ&quot; title=&quot;Every Tech Billionaire Is Having the Same Haunting Vision. Demonologist Explains Why.&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; referrerpolicy=&quot;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&quot; allowfullscreen&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/iframe&amp;gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://boinkie.blogspot.com/2025/11/drugs-psychodelics-ufo-and-demons.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6916543.post-2879975187907112051</guid><pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2025 08:49:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2025-10-05T16:49:43.802+08:00</atom:updated><title>say it again</title><description>&lt;iframe width=&quot;639&quot; height=&quot;240&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/wDAtVjZ44ic&quot; title=&quot;Cardinal Dolan Calls Charlie Kirk a Modern St. Paul as Nuns Condemn Him for Racist, Hateful Rhetoric&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; referrerpolicy=&quot;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;</description><link>http://boinkie.blogspot.com/2025/10/say-it-again.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/wDAtVjZ44ic/default.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6916543.post-6081630658532955305</guid><pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 17:37:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2025-09-18T01:37:56.829+08:00</atom:updated><title>fye</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;lt;iframe width=&quot;799&quot; height=&quot;240&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/S-M0hQd1sUQ&quot; title=&quot;The Death of Charlie Kirk: Martyr for Faith or Victim of Cultural Division? A Catholic Perspective.&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; referrerpolicy=&quot;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&quot; allowfullscreen&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/iframe&amp;gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://boinkie.blogspot.com/2025/09/fye.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6916543.post-3732162477421719989</guid><pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 02:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2025-09-17T10:39:45.513+08:00</atom:updated><title>Verdad?</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;I don&#39;t know if this is true or fake:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe width=&quot;799&quot; height=&quot;240&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/_G9rJwqUtRY&quot; title=&quot;“Charlie Kirk: Why? POPE LEO XIV Makes An Interesting Connection || POPE LEO XIV Inspired Sermon”&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; referrerpolicy=&quot;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;</description><link>http://boinkie.blogspot.com/2025/09/verdad.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/_G9rJwqUtRY/default.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6916543.post-3414623200975432066</guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2025 14:02:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2025-09-16T23:46:58.455+08:00</atom:updated><title>religion making a comeback</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;I live in the Philippines so can&#39;t judge this, but if&lt;a href=&quot;https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/15/europe/faith-gen-z-catholic-church-influencers-intl-cmd&quot;&gt; CNN says it&#39;s so&lt;/a&gt;, maybe it&#39;s true?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Religion is making a revival, and at the center is Roman Catholicism who has laypeople on line at the head, not the Vatican per se.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;  To some, the entire idea of a Catholic influencer is a paradox. Certain social media figures have become standard bearers of a consumerist, individualistic, echo-chamber-filled vision of modern society. Many would say that’s at complete odds with Christian values.

And yet, this summer Pope Leo met with 1,000 Catholic influencers – Sister Albertine among them – at the Vatican, underlining the importance of what the church leadership sees as “digital missionaries.”

“Jesus called his first apostles while they were mending their fishing nets,” the pontiff said to them. “He asks the same of us today. Indeed, he asks us to weave other nets: networks of relationships, of love.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;and don&#39;t forget that the&lt;a href=&quot;https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/07/europe/millennial-saint-carlo-acutis-intl&quot;&gt; church just declared a computer nerd&lt;/a&gt; a saint.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;and now it is open, as we see thousands praying at meetings mourning the death of conservative and Christian influencer Charlie Kirk, a Prostestant married to a Catholic.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Glenn Reynolds, aka Instapundit, identifies this as the quiet people finally realizing that they are not the only ones with these beliefs and that Kirk&#39;s death is bringing them out into the open.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;related story from western PA from Selena Zito:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/3808706/the-awakening-few-see-coming&quot;&gt;The awakening few see coming&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;She describes the packed churches after the assasination of Charles Kirk&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;
  
  These young people are rejecting an ideology that’s inherently against the idea of God. And so, somehow in interesting ways, that has crossed into what’s happening politically. But there in my church, there is very, very, very little conversation about politics. That’s not the conversation. The conversation is people need Jesus and a return to traditional ways of thinking about identity and relationships, and our place in the world, and what really matters in life,” Howard explained.

What drew them to Kirk wasn’t politics. Instead, it was upholding traditions such as marriage and not being afraid to thank God for their blessings, said Howard.,,,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;
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“The wave has been rising. And I think that the assassination of Charlie Kirk just reinforces some of these core values. And I think that it is going to be a catalyst in that direction for sure,” he said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;

The Sanctuary wasn’t the only congregation to be filled to the rafters. My tiny little country Catholic church was packed in the aisles and at the door. People across X posted photos of their families going to church either for the first time in a long time, for the first time ever, or seeing their own pews filled with people seeking purpose and finding resolve.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;

Howard said this return to faith may not be just about Kirk, adding that not everyone at their services agreed with all of his politics. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;

“But the one thing that everyone is agreeing on is his boldness about his faith in Jesus,” he said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;

Before Kirk’s death, there was this sense that if you talked about your faith, there would be guaranteed backlash, explained Howard. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;

“You see this politically. Well, it’s similar when it comes to faith, where it’s like, if I’m open and honest about what I really believe, I will be called a bigot. I will be called hateful. I will be called an enemy of love, and I will be sidelined, and I’ll be persecuted. And that has been the reality for the last 20 years,” he said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;

“Well, now what you’re seeing is people who are saying, I don’t care. I’m going to be bold and unashamed,” Howard said. 
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“These kids have a light that pierces through the darkness, and that can actually change what’s wrong in our world,” Howard said. 

“And this is our moment.” .....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Today, the dynamic is bold, unashamed: there is salvation in Jesus, and the whole world needs to know, and we are not trying to ease you into it or slowly convince you towards it. It’s like this bold, passionate battle cry. There’s hope in Jesus. And the boldness and the fearlessness has come along with Gen Z.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://boinkie.blogspot.com/2025/09/religion-making-comeback.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6916543.post-3191506443385848903</guid><pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2025 16:19:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2025-09-15T00:19:47.578+08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">prayer</category><title>Charles Kirk RIP: Spiritual tsunami?</title><description>&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;a podcaster on the right, who often holds conservative Christian values and quotes the bible with his talks, was deliberately killed, by a terrorist.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Well, this is only one of several high profile attacks in the last ten years on political figures. Sigh.,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;But anyway, I only follow a few podcasts, and didn&#39;t really know who the guy was, although I did see a few of his interviews on podcasts that I sometimes listen to (i.e. Joe Rogan and Jordan Peterson).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;but looking around the web, I was astounded because a lot of people were crying about his death.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt; not because of his politics per se, but because they knew him andoften had their lives impacted by him.,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;So I looked into some of what was being said, and again it was not the usualy trite sympathy sentences, but sad and often tearful statements on how he affected their lives. And  nearly all of these seemed to be by young men.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Instapundit has a lot of links about him, but other blogs where I get my news were joining in the open mourning.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Ironically, there are a lot of &quot;I am glad he is dead ha ha&quot; stuff from the left, often teachers or in other woke professions, many of whom were young ladies.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Again, WTF?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;The overkill and rejoicing of the left is disgusting of course, but it is so far over the top that it seems like it might be diabolical influence.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;I mean you might see things like this about an enemy of your in war, but here it was supposedly for his haterful comments. Except his comments were not hateful: Just polite. In other words, they are rejoicing abou the death of a nice guy who the leaders on th eleft have made into a monster by manipulating and lying about what he said. So do they hate the man himself (which would be diabolical) or jsut the fake strawman of the cult of the woke?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;
  
  and in the second and third day, this has continued, and even morphed into a Christian revival and people that usually were secular in their writings talking about the need for spiritual warfare.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;here is an example from the satire tweeter Catturd.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote class=&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;&gt;&lt;p dir=&quot;ltr&quot; lang=&quot;en&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;The movement is now 100 times bigger. The demons have failed. &lt;a href=&quot;https://t.co/ypcBvtDwbY&quot;&gt;https://t.co/ypcBvtDwbY&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) &lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/catturd2/status/1967156268164174322?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;&gt;September 14, 2025&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;script async=&quot;&quot; charset=&quot;utf-8&quot; src=&quot;https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;,,,,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;but like previous revivals e.g. after911, I am sure the opposition will push lies to destroy this. How long until a fake lady claims sexual harassment or worse, similar to how Clarance Thomas and Kavanaugh were accused.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;at the same time, I am going through a spiritual heartburn... severe dryness. I have been unable to sit through the mass because of muscular weakness and heat exhaustion like symptoms.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;since I had dengue, I got my weakness back but in the last three months of hot season it got worse: not SOB or pain but just fatigue&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;so I asked Joy to ask the church if they could bring me communion which is done by the Catholic church for the homebound. But Joy or the secretary got the message wrong so when Father finally came, it was at supper time. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;well, I was outside with the dogs who were in my room when I was napping so I went outside to let them do their thing, and to enjoy the sunset.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;And the cook came in. Because she didn&#39;t know why Father was there she didn&#39;t welcome him in. I locked the dogs in the dining room, but by the time I hobbled to where Father was, Kuya went inside to find me, and the dogs all ran out, ran past us at the door, and started chasing the neighboring dogs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Now, the day before and earlier that day, I was literally unable to pray, either my regular prayers or my talking with the Lord or reading and thinking and when I went to the door, I was still a bit confused from my recent nap...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;So when Father looked me over I explained I didn&#39;t want to be anointed but just permission to receive commonion (and go to confession), at which point the discussion deteriorated because Father saw a fat lady chasing the dogs with her cane and then saying she was too weak to attend mass, so he started telling me about all the different masses I could attend. Well, finally he said he would send the person on Sunday with communion and left, and I was left without confessing or receiving the sacrament or anointing. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Diabolic oppresion? Confusion from my anti allergy medicines? Symptoms of depression? I went through some of this when I was writing pro life stuff years ago, so maybe.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;well anyway, this morning with all the Kirk assasination coverage, I have been recovering the ability to pray, and by the time the Eucharistic minister came with the sacrament, I could receive it and pray for awhile after he left: I felt the touch of grace in this.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;iframe width=&quot;568&quot; height=&quot;240&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/X5HdaD4ImiY&quot; title=&quot;Ed Sheeran – Rest in Peace, Charlie Kirk | Heartfelt Tribute Song&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; referrerpolicy=&quot;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://boinkie.blogspot.com/2025/09/charles-kirk-rip-spiritual-tsunami.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/X5HdaD4ImiY/default.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6916543.post-794045272188573578</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 09:10:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2025-09-05T17:10:56.979+08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">religion</category><title>Hercule Poirot&#39;s bible</title><description>&lt;iframe width=&quot;499&quot; height=&quot;240&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/g6UWJWCfntk&quot; title=&quot;David Suchet reads Bible like HERCULE POIROT&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; referrerpolicy=&quot;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;</description><link>http://boinkie.blogspot.com/2025/09/hercule-poirots-bible.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/g6UWJWCfntk/default.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6916543.post-8025927055718433042</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2025 20:23:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2025-08-16T04:23:29.249+08:00</atom:updated><title>synodality sham</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;from&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.complicitclergy.com/2025/08/15/watch-what-if-synodality-means-nothing&quot;&gt; complicit clergy:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;he good news is that “synodality” might actually be meaningless. (That raises some questions about why, then, we are spending so much time, energy, and money on the topic; but let’s try to manage one conundrum at a time.) The bad news is that, precisely because “synodality” is a meaningless term (and “meaningless” will be defined below, shortly), it can be used to signify—or worse, justify—anything.,,My concern is that before very long when we ask, “Why should we change this or that?” or “Why should we stopping doing this or that?” or “Why should we do what the Church has never done before?” the infinitely elastic (and apparently self-justifying) response will be, “Synodality!”</description><link>http://boinkie.blogspot.com/2025/08/synodality-sham.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6916543.post-7770536112911312774</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2025 16:34:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2025-08-05T00:34:03.005+08:00</atom:updated><title>the seeds of faith by the Fiilipina caregivers</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe width=&quot;640&quot; height=&quot;360&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/2VHD3T3VYuQ&quot; title=&quot;How Filipino Faith Became a Battlefield Ritual in the IDF&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; referrerpolicy=&quot;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;</description><link>http://boinkie.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-seeds-of-faith-by-fiilipina.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/2VHD3T3VYuQ/default.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6916543.post-1168628249237697272</guid><pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2025 08:31:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2025-08-01T16:31:15.964+08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">antichrist</category><title>UFO Propaganda</title><description>&lt;iframe width=&quot;640&quot; height=&quot;360&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/M4mUeaDF4_Y&quot; title=&quot;Satan&amp;#39;s Great Space Alien Deception Is Unfolding&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; referrerpolicy=&quot;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;P&gt;,,,&lt;P&gt;</description><link>http://boinkie.blogspot.com/2025/08/ufo-propaganda.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/M4mUeaDF4_Y/default.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6916543.post-2275811558969187330</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2025 08:58:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2025-07-25T16:58:59.445+08:00</atom:updated><title>is he dead or really really really dead?</title><description>&lt;iframe width=&quot;640&quot; height=&quot;360&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/uRLJW_OXqz8&quot; title=&quot;The World Over July 24, 2025 | HHS &amp;amp; Organ donation: Fr. Tad Pacholczyk with Raymond Arroyo&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; referrerpolicy=&quot;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;</description><link>http://boinkie.blogspot.com/2025/07/is-he-dead-or-really-really-really-dead.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/uRLJW_OXqz8/default.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6916543.post-5921760490535229467</guid><pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2025 00:51:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2025-07-05T08:55:40.027+08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">absurdity</category><title>earthquakes? Minor</title><description>&lt;iframe width=&quot;640&quot; height=&quot;360&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Gi2KhLphJd4&quot; title=&quot;Japan rattled by quakes near Tokara IslandsーNHK WORLD-JAPAN NEWS&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; referrerpolicy=&quot;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;P&gt;....&lt;P&gt;&lt;iframe width=&quot;640&quot; height=&quot;360&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/2Qk3wu7MUyE&quot; title=&quot;Over 1030 EARTHQUAKES in 2 Weeks ! PANIC is spreading ! Order to prepare for M9 Megathrust Quake !&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; referrerpolicy=&quot;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;</description><link>http://boinkie.blogspot.com/2025/07/earthquakes-minor.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/Gi2KhLphJd4/default.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6916543.post-1499694709544465177</guid><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2025 02:54:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2025-07-04T10:54:51.009+08:00</atom:updated><title>WAGD Tsunami in Asia</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;iframe width=&quot;640&quot; height=&quot;360&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/yuFXSVvonEg&quot; title=&quot;The July 5 prophecy goes global: Why scientists &amp;amp; media are paying attention&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; referrerpolicy=&quot;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;P&gt;more &lt;a href=&quot;https://thearchivist24.com/2025/04/15/japans-baba-vanga-has-issued-a-chilling-prophecy-for-july-2025/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;:Tatsuki’s latest premonition centers on an extraordinary natural phenomenon: she foresees an event in which the ocean, just south of Japan, will appear to “boil.” This dramatic imagery is interpreted by her followers as a precursor to an undersea volcanic eruption—a scenario that could unleash forces strong enough to trigger a mega tsunami. In her vision, the torrent of water unleashed by the eruption would not be a localized occurrence. Instead, the impact is predicted to be vast, with an affected area that forms a diamond-shaped zone extending over Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia, and the Northern Mariana Islands.

B. The Detailed Predictions
According to Tatsuki’s account, her premonitions offer specific details about the unfolding catastrophe:&lt;P&gt;

Oceanic Transformation: In her prophetic dreams, the ocean south of Japan is depicted as “boiling”—a metaphor that likely conveys rising water temperatures and violent disturbances at the seabed. This phenomenon suggests an imminent, large-scale geological rupture.&lt;P&gt;

Undersea Volcanic Activity: Experts acknowledge that the regions around the Pacific Ring of Fire, which includes much of Japan, are prone to significant volcanic activity. Tatsuki’s vision intimates that an undersea volcanic eruption could generate seismic disturbances potent enough to initiate a tsunami of immense scale.&lt;P&gt;

Expansive Impact Zone: The predicted impact is not constrained by political or geographical borders; instead, her vision sketches a diamond-shaped zone that would envelop a broad area of the Western Pacific. Such an area would include several densely populated regions with histories of seismic activity.&lt;P&gt;

Mysterious “Dragon-like” Figures: Adding to the intrigue, Tatsuki’s visions reportedly include imagery of “dragon-like shapes” moving toward the target area. While these figures may be symbolic, they have captured public attention, evoking imagery that is both mythic and foreboding.&lt;P&gt; </description><link>http://boinkie.blogspot.com/2025/07/wagd-tsunami-in-asia.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/yuFXSVvonEg/default.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6916543.post-1808891627048770332</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 22:19:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2025-07-01T06:19:36.610+08:00</atom:updated><title>same old same old stuff going on</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;when I live in Altoona, the bishop openly proclaimed that no new cases of pedophilia had been reported since he took office.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The problem? One of my patients almost cried when she told me how her husband had been asked by the Lawhers for the diocese to intervene with the family of a local boy who had been abused by a &quot;visiting&quot; priest, pressuring his family not to report it to the police.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In other words, abuse had happened, the lawyer for the diocese knew about it (and presumably the gays in the offices of the bishop knew about it) but they hadn&#39;t officially reported it to him&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I was half tempted to write a ltter to the editor saying he was a liar but alas patient cfincentiality prevented me, and also I didn&#39;t know the names of those involved, so couldn&#39;t prove it was a lie.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sigh.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;So Pope Francis had lots of gays and sexual abusers (e.g. his favorite artist) and appointed bishops who had dovere such things up. So waiting for a change in popes, we hoped things would get better.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And indeed he is doing a lot of good stuff, but a closer look at what Pope Leo is doing is not hopeful. Unlike the 1990s where we only had letters to the editor to expose abuse, now we have the internet.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Via&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.complicitclergy.com/2025/06/25/same-sex-blessers-and-amazon-rite-advocates-now-oversee-traditional-orders/&quot;&gt; Compicit Clergy:&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;two links to whistleblowers&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://johneighteenthirtyseven.substack.com/p/the-lavender-mafia&quot;&gt;Gene Thomas Gomulka of John 18:37&lt;/a&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;P&gt;................&lt;P&gt;not much has changed between 2003 and the present despite efforts on the part of members of the hierarchy, Church organizations, and the Catholic media to argue that “Clergy Sex Abuse in U.S. Virtually Disappears.” In addition to failing to report clerical sex abuse and episcopal cover-ups involving prelates like Washington Cardinal Robert McElroy, New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, and others, the Catholic News Agency (CNA), the National Catholic Reporter, America magazine, and other complicit Catholic news outlets and publications also fail to cover stories involving priests and former seminarians who were reprised against for reporting clerical sexual predation and homosexual misconduct.&lt;P&gt;the article goes on about murdered whisltlblowersMO&lt;While priests like Minkler, Kunz, and Moreno are murdered after they were known to have gathered incriminating evidence against Bishops Hubbard, Ryan, and Grosz, all three of whom were reported and later sued for abuse like Archbishop Lucas, whistleblower priests like Father Michael Briese are being eliminated without the expenditure of hiring a hitman. Briese, who confronted Cardinals Wilton Gregory and Robert McElroy for covering up the sexual predation of Father Adam Park, the former secretary to Cardinal Donald Wuerl and vice rector of the North American College (NAC) in Rome, was suspended and reports being without health insurance to cover his medical problems connected to the stress and anxiety he experienced as a result of his unjust suspension. Diagnosed with a heart condition, Briese reported that he cannot afford the heart medication his doctor prescribed which costs over $500 without insurance. This report from a priest who is approaching 70 years old is all the more egregious when one considers the fact that disgraced Cardinal Wuerl was reported to have received over $4 million in “hush money” from Cardinal Gregory, and the Archdiocese recently announced a $50 million deficit over the past five years.&lt;P&gt;.......&lt;P&gt;If it turns out that Leo is really the newly anointed “Godfather” of the Lavender Mafia, then one should not expect anything bad to happen to McElroy, Grosz, Lucas, or any of the 150+ bishops credibly accused of abuse. &lt;P&gt;,,,,,&lt;P&gt;Another article via complicit clergy is this one:&lt;P&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://bigmodernism.substack.com/p/leos-war-on-consecrated-life-continues&quot;&gt;ChrisJackson at big modernism&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;P&gt;Leo’s War on Consecrated Life Continues: Same-Sex Blessers and Amazon Rite Advocates Now Oversee Traditional Orders&lt;P&gt;What better way to safeguard the future of consecrated life than by handing it over to men who bless same-sex couples, advocate pagan syncretism, and treat the priesthood like a job-share? That, apparently, is Leo XIV’s vision, judging by his June 24 appointments to the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life (DICLSAL): the Vatican body tasked with overseeing religious orders, including those attached to the Latin Mass.&lt;P&gt;...&lt;P&gt;Roche’s place in this cabal is no surprise. As the enforcer of Traditionis Custodes, he spent the better part of the last decade snuffing out the Latin Mass wherever it dared to bloom. His disgust for traditional piety is well documented; so much so that a senior member of his office once reportedly expressed dismay at the success of the Chartres pilgrimage purely because it featured the Tridentine liturgy.

Now installed at DICLSAL, Roche will have a hand in scrutinizing the constitutions, leadership, and very existence of traditional communities. The man who once called the old Mass a “threat to unity” is now positioned to determine whether the monks, nuns, and priests who love it will even be allowed to exist.

Cristóbal Romero: Fiducia’s Favorite Salesman


Cardinal Romero, Archbishop of Rabat, is best known for his ideological loyalty to Fiducia Supplicans, the Vatican’s Trojan horse for same-sex blessings. After most of Africa rightly rejected the document, Romero issued a statement urging Catholics to “avoid any spirit of controversy” and accept the declaration as a deepening of “discernment.”

In other words, shut up and bless it.

Romero has insisted that even “irregular couples” asking for blessings deserve the benefit of the doubt. Gone is any fear of scandal. Gone is clarity. What remains is a muddle of emotional affirmations posing as mercy; all designed to baptize moral disorder.

This is the man who will now help decide the fate of religious congregations bound to traditional vows, traditional morals, and traditional theology.

Spengler’s Jungle Rite and the March of the Viri Probati


Cardinal Spengler, president of the Latin American Bishops’ Conference, has long danced on the edge of doctrinal disaster. His flirtation with an Amazon rite, including pagan symbolism and indigenous rituals, has been well documented. He praises the “dignity” of tribal inculturation and hints at approving the ordination of married men as a pastoral necessity.

When asked about blessing homosexual couples, Spengler offered the kind of sentimental drivel that passes for pastoral wisdom today: “Are they people? If they are people, they deserve our respect.” It’s the theological equivalent of “Love is love.” And now, this same man will help determine whether a traditional Carmelite monastery in the Alps is sufficiently “synodal.”,,,,,And the war on consecrated life is no longer waged in shadows. It now marches under the banner of synodality: blessing irregular unions, praising Amazonian rituals, and silencing what remains of the sacred.</description><link>http://boinkie.blogspot.com/2025/07/same-old-same-old-stuff-going-on.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6916543.post-1307627163034176761</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2025 09:34:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2025-06-18T17:34:28.459+08:00</atom:updated><title>oLd age</title><description>
so I finally changed my routing numver to my new bank acccount. Took forever but they gave me permission not to got    to Mania to do it sinsce I am disabled. 

I haven&#39;t figured out what is going on witgh my motor skills: Not quite Parkinson disease.Post encephalitis from dengue? Old age? Cardic fatigue? Too much lack f exercize? OH well

Prayer today is that there will be no war with Iran who are crzy enoug to throw radiaciv tuff at teir ennemies.

I am still trying to figure out this keyboard so ignore the stuc eys an bad speilling.
</description><link>http://boinkie.blogspot.com/2025/06/old-age.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6916543.post-4538796961751068915</guid><pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2025 08:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2025-06-08T16:30:02.977+08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">religion</category><title>Jesus is busting out all over</title><description>on Joe Rogan? WHo wudda thot:&lt;P&gt;&lt;iframe width=&quot;640&quot; height=&quot;360&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/dT_1FsuvTCM&quot; title=&quot;What made me start believing in Jesus.. | Joe Rogan&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; referrerpolicy=&quot;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;P&gt;......&lt;P&gt;&lt;iframe width=&quot;640&quot; height=&quot;360&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/EtW8aBR3r5U&quot; title=&quot;BISHOP BARRON and Tucker Carlson BRILLIANT Dialogue about Jesus&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; referrerpolicy=&quot;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;P&gt;,,,,,&lt;P&gt;&lt;iframe width=&quot;640&quot; height=&quot;360&quot; src=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/embed/DDWTVctMOR8&quot; title=&quot;Bishop Barron: Why young people are converting to Catholic faith&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allow=&quot;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&quot; referrerpolicy=&quot;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;</description><link>http://boinkie.blogspot.com/2025/06/jesus-is-busting-out-all-over.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/dT_1FsuvTCM/default.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6916543.post-4721799357974352407</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2025 17:23:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2025-05-29T01:23:52.802+08:00</atom:updated><title> Pope Leo is allowing the culture of death to win</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.complicitclergy.com/2025/05/28/pope-leo-please-stop-catholics-from-killing-themselves/&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;Leo XIV Appoints Assisted Suicide Advocate to Head Pro-Life Office&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;In 2022, Pegoraro publicly justified assisted suicide as a “lesser evil” in secular legislation. While admitting that neither assisted suicide nor euthanasia represent the Catholic position, he nevertheless called for legalizing the former under certain conditions, an action flatly condemned by Evangelium Vitae, which declares assisted suicide “never excusable, even if requested by the person seeking assistance” (EV 65–66).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: large;&quot;&gt;,,,,,,,,,,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj78PCUH6wugyPHoTvRAcm-kCnnECwgmIDNWbX4AlyOhn9j3Wjb7vwgnExeAj-L2mNKwf5zrB8OP3k_etW8rGKsYek1oXROEnE2Mp59t1rzvGunCGTbh5vSXGnpxeE_gLkGb7hoplL2XN0S1_7kNgYXNxW7X-8qNudxQRBUBdrz_OFxPrxKMcd2/s680/img_5056-1.webp&quot; style=&quot;display: block; padding: 1em 0px; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; data-original-height=&quot;680&quot; data-original-width=&quot;680&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj78PCUH6wugyPHoTvRAcm-kCnnECwgmIDNWbX4AlyOhn9j3Wjb7vwgnExeAj-L2mNKwf5zrB8OP3k_etW8rGKsYek1oXROEnE2Mp59t1rzvGunCGTbh5vSXGnpxeE_gLkGb7hoplL2XN0S1_7kNgYXNxW7X-8qNudxQRBUBdrz_OFxPrxKMcd2/s400/img_5056-1.webp&quot; width=&quot;400&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://boinkie.blogspot.com/2025/05/pope-leo-is-allowing-culture-of-death.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Nancy Reyes)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj78PCUH6wugyPHoTvRAcm-kCnnECwgmIDNWbX4AlyOhn9j3Wjb7vwgnExeAj-L2mNKwf5zrB8OP3k_etW8rGKsYek1oXROEnE2Mp59t1rzvGunCGTbh5vSXGnpxeE_gLkGb7hoplL2XN0S1_7kNgYXNxW7X-8qNudxQRBUBdrz_OFxPrxKMcd2/s72-c/img_5056-1.webp" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item></channel></rss>