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Continue reading →: Suansing’s ₱3.86 Billion Question: Why the Appropriations Chair Won’t Show the ReceiptsThe watchdogs mapped the money. The House offered maternity leave. Here’s what that tells us about how the budget really works. By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo | October 30, 2026 PAUSE the alibi. Let’s replay the tape. The House Appropriations Chair—the person who literally holds the purse strings for the…
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Continue reading →: Concrete Confessions: UP Diliman’s Unfinished Buildings and the Discaya Ghost on CampusWhy the Main Library Is Still Closed, the Faculty Center Still Empty, and Nobody in Diliman Hall Is Answering By Louis “Barok” C Biraogo — October 30, 2026 LET me tell you something about the smell of unfinished concrete. It doesn’t smell like progress. It smells like a cover-up that’s…
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Continue reading →: The ₱1-Billion “Leadership Fund”: A Masterclass in Creative Budgeting, Selective Memory, and the Art of Not Knowing AnythingThe DBM Secretary Was ‘Aware,’ the President ‘Didn’t Know,’ and the Public Pays for All of It By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo | October 30, 2026 WELCOME to the Philippines, where the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) apparently operates a slush fund so informal it makes your office…
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Continue reading →: Rice Smuggling Scandal: Kiko Pangilinan Exposes DA’s Harvest-Season ‘Modus OperandiHow Imported Rice Arrives Just in Time to Break Filipino Farmers—and No One Goes to Jai By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo | October 29, 2026 CUE the dramatic music. Senator Kiko Pangilinan—yes, that Kiko, the man who lost the vice presidency so badly he had to reinvent himself as the…
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Continue reading →: Pocket Change: Palace Says P4.37-B Insertions Are Fine Unless the Money Lands in Sandro’s PocketsClaire Castro Discovers a New Constitutional Test: If the Road Is Paved and the Pocket Is Empty, the Insertion Is Legal By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo | October 29, 2026 STAY with me, because the Palace is counting on you not to. The Supreme Court, in a decision penned by…
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Continue reading →: 2041: The Year Filipinos Finally Finish Paying for a 2026 ‘EmergencyInside the ₱1.5-Billion AGAPAY Loan: Yen-Denominated Debt, Floating Rates, and a Repayment Schedule That Outlives the Crisis By Louis ‘Barok‘ C Biraogo — October 29, 2028 MGA ka-kweba, countrymen, and those still naive enough to believe that a loan agreement signed in October is about a war that started years…
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Continue reading →: The Witness Who Knew Too Much—and Named Everyone but the SpeakerThe star witness named Co, Bernardo, Estrada, and Revilla. Then he named the one person he never dealt with: the accused By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo — October 28, 2026 ALLOW me to point at the elephant before the headlines dress it up in a tuxedo and call it a…
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Continue reading →: The ₱1-Trillion Pork Roast: The House Budget Is a Crime Scene, Not a Spending PlanInside the ₱695-Billion ‘Hard Pork,’ ₱210-Billion ‘Soft Pork,’ and ₱112-Billion ‘Shadow Pork’ Categories the House Hopes You Won’t Google By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — October 28, 2026 CORRECT me if I’m wrong — and the Supreme Court says I’m not. The House of Representatives—that august chamber of democratic deliberation,…
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Continue reading →: Gatchalian to Makabayan: ‘We’ll Fix the Budget Ourselves’ — Makabayan to Gatchalian: ‘That’s What We’re Afraid Of’Inside the ₱7.2-Trillion Standoff: Why the Senate President’s ‘Self-Correction’ Promise Smells Like the Same Old Pork, Just With Better Packaging By Louis ‘Barok’ C. Biraogo — October 29, 2026 LET’S cut through the legislative fog for a moment. Senate President Sherwin Gatchalian looked the Makabayan bloc in the eye this…
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Continue reading →: The Ambassador, the Mayor, and the 41-Million-Gallon Elephant in the RoomThe Duterte dynasty needed friends. Washington needed a parking lot. Davao got both—and nobody asked the Lumad. By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo | October 28, 2026 PHOTOGRAPHS lie. Diplomats smile. And somewhere in Davao, a 41-million-gallon fuel depot waits patiently for nobody to ask about it. On October 22, 2026,…
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