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Continue reading →: The Sacred Separation of Powers: Marcos’ Favorite Get-Out-of-Plunder CardThe Palace’s Selective Reverence: Overreach Only When It Threatens Allies By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — February 6, 2026 DEAR readers of this humble cave: gather close, for today we dissect a beast with many heads—each one more grotesque than the last. The latest farce stems from Malacañang’s declaration on…
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Continue reading →: Supreme Court Hides Behind Procedure While the Palace Builds a Parallel Republic: The Cowardly Dismissal of the ICI PetitionFrom Transcendental Courage to Procedural Paralysis: The Slow Death of Judicial Spine By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — February 5, 2026 DEAR esteemed magistrates of the Supreme Court (SC): congratulations. Yesterday, February 4, 2026, you managed to dodge a constitutional bullet with the grace of a matador who simply steps…
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Continue reading →: The Frasco FiascoWhen the Tourism Secretary Becomes the Destination By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo — February 5, 2026 SCENE: Late evening in a bustling Tokyo 7-Eleven. A foreign visitor, guidebook in hand, picks up a complimentary English-Japanese travel mag from the rack. The cover star? Not Boracay’s waves or Cebu’s cliffs —…
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Continue reading →: The Jumbo Jet That Never Lands: How We’re Dumping Our Future into the SeaFeasting on Tomorrow’s Catch: The Generational Theft of Philippine Marine Wealth By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — February 5, 2026 EVERY single day, a fully loaded jumbo jet—brimming with 123,000 kilograms of fresh fish—takes off from Philippine waters and vanishes into thin air. Not hijacked. Not crashed. Just gone. According…
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Continue reading →: The Books That Never Were: DepEd’s Procurement Farce and the Theft of a Generation’s FutureWhere Billions Go to Die Quietly While Kids Photocopy Yesterday’s Lessons By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — February 4, 2026 PICTURE this, mga ka-kweba: In a brightly lit stockroom in Quezon City, a property custodian in a crisp DepEd polo shirt neatly stacks thousands of brand-new textbooks, their glossy covers…
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Continue reading →: DILG vs. The Tarpaulin Gods – When Politicians Finally Get Told Their Faces Aren’t InfrastructureEpal Season Officially Canceled – Mayors Now Required to Smile in Private By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — February 4, 2026 MGA ka-kweba, for far too long we have endured the blinding smiles of politicians plastered on every waiting shed, drainage canal, and scholarship tarpaulin paid for with our taxes.…
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Continue reading →: The Plenary Farce: How the House of Representatives Is Building a Fortress of Paper to Shield the Cong-Tractor SwindlersHow the Secretary-General Turned “Plenary Approval” Into Congress’s Ultimate Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — February 3, 2026 MGA ka-kweba, let’s not mince words. The House of Representatives, that august chamber supposedly representing the sovereign people, has now resorted to the most transparent ruse yet in the great…
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Continue reading →: “Scared to Sign Vouchers” Is Now Official GDP Policy – Welcome to the Philippines’ Permanent Paralysis EconomyMonsod’s Diagnosis: The Bureaucracy Didn’t Freeze from Corruption—It Froze from the Sudden Threat of Actually Doing Its Job By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo –– February 3, 2026 LET US begin with a simple image: a child in a flooded Manila barangay, waist-deep in filthy water, clutching a plastic basin that…
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Continue reading →: Cops on Crime Spree: When the Drug Unit Becomes the Robbery FranchiseMakati Heist 101 – Enrolled by MPD’s Finest, Funded by Every Juan Taxpayer By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — February 2, 2026 ONE night on Arsonvel Street, Makati—not a movie scene, not a tabloid tale, but real life captured on video. Six police officers from the Station Drug Enforcement Unit…
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Continue reading →: Trillion-Peso Magic Trick: How the Villars Turned Family Backyard Dirt into Fairy-Tale Wealth (and Left Everyone Else Holding the Empty Bag)When “Fair Value” Means “Whatever Number Keeps the Stock Pumped Until We Cash Out” By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo — February 1, 2026 THE Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed a criminal complaint against Villar Land Holdings Corporation (VLC)—formerly Golden MV Holdings—and key members of the Villar family. The…
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