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Continue reading →: Cardboard Boxes and Empty Handcuffs: Inside PDEA’s ₱1.36-Billion Photo OpNo Consignee, No Arrests, No Answers: The Anatomy of a Seizure That Solved Nothing By Louis ‘Barok’ C Biraogo — November 6, 2026 ONCE again we are invited to marvel at a press conference featuring cardboard boxes, vacuum-sealed plastic bags, and officials wearing expressions of grim determination. On November 4,…
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Continue reading →: The Fix Was In: Why Marcos Picked the Man Who Freed His MotherMerit Was the Excuse. Loyalty Was the Currency. Imelda Was the Receipt. By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo | November 6, 2026 Let me save you the suspense, mga ka-kweba: the fix was in before the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) even finished its interviews. On November 5, President Ferdinand Marcos…
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Continue reading →: Kissinger’s 1975 Memo vs. the Sierra Madre: Why the Mutual Defense Treaty Still AppliesPaglinawan went to the archives and missed the last five decades of treaty practice By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo -+ November 6, 2026 LET’S give Adolfo Quizon Paglinawan some credit. In a country where foreign policy debate usually consists of shouting “China bad” or “America use us” into a Facebook…
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Continue reading →: Barbers Says Sara’s Defense Is ‘Defenseless’—But Bank Records Aren’t Guilty VerdictsWhy ‘Defenseless’ Is a Press Release, Not a Legal Finding By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — November 5, 2026 SO LET me see if I’ve got the prosecution’s theory correct: Robert Ace Barbers, the House prosecution’s designated hype man, has declared Sara Duterte’s defense team “defenseless” because the bank records…
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Continue reading →: The ₱7.2-Trillion Magic Trick: House Leaders Swear the 2027 Budget Is Transparent—So Why Can’t 90% of Congress Find Their Own Insertions?Ninety Percent in the Dark: Puno and Tiangco Just Admitted Congress Doesn’t Know What It Voted For By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo | November 5, 2026 PARDON my provincial arithmetic, but let me get this straight. The House of Representatives—the institution the 1987 Constitution designates as the sole originator of…
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Continue reading →: Sara Is Bleeding, Leni Is Frozen, and the Press Is Still Writing Fan FictionWhy “Leni Is Closing In” Is the Most Expensive Lie in Philippine Politics — And Who’s Paying for It By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — November 4, 2026 MANILA’S political press corps has a weakness for the horserace. Give them a poll with two names and a narrowing gap, and…
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Continue reading →: ₱491-M Right-of-Way Scam: DPWH Paid for Ghost Land, Ombudsman Finally NoticesInside the seventeen-year paper trail: a 2009 appraisal, a 2017 confession, 2019 NBI reports, and a 2026 reckoning By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — November 4, 2026 Walk me through this, slowly, as if I were a taxpayer. The Ombudsman just wheeled two dozen trolleys of documents into the Sandiganbayan…
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Continue reading →: The House’s ₱1.35B Electric Bill: A Primer on Paying for DarknessCertification-only liquidations, phantom supplies, and the art of declaring ‘savings’ you never needed to save By Louis ‘Barok’ C Biraogo — November 4, 2025 A MOMENT of appreciation is in order. The House of Representatives has turned the humble electric bill into a constitutional mystery. While ordinary Filipinos agonize over…
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Continue reading →: The ₱459-Billion Bluff: How DPWH Let Broke Contractors Win 11,391 ProjectsInside the Procurement Loophole That Turned “Financially Incapable” Into “Technically Qualified” By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — November 4, 2026 PRESENTING a number that ought to send every Filipino taxpayer rummaging through the liquor cabinet: ₱459.262 billion. That is not the cost of a space program, nor is it the…
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Continue reading →: Depreciate It, Lose It: Manila’s New Property TheoryJapan’s chamber discovers that in Manila, accounting entries now transfer property rights. By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — November 3, 2026 CONSIDER a hypothetical that isn’t hypothetical at all. You buy a truck. You depreciate it over five years. Book value hits zero. You’ve “recovered” your capital through accounting entries.…
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