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Continue reading →: Concrete Lies: Lacson’s Trident vs. the Flood Control CartelForensic Engineering vs. the Pork Barrel: Can Science Beat the Syndicate? By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August 21, 2026 LET us begin with a number so absurd, so astronomical, that it should haunt the dreams of every Filipino taxpayer: ₱1.94 trillion. That is the sum the Philippine government has…
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Continue reading →: Guteza’s Great Flip: How a P150M ‘Basura’ Story Became the Philippines’ Most Expensive Recycling Program”The Pasay Rumba: One Laptop, One Senator, and a Retired Marine’s Masterclass in Creative Writing By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August 20, 2026 THE air in Manila is thick with the scent of burning affidavits and political desperation. It smells like a Japanese restaurant in Pasay, where a retired…
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Continue reading →: Two-Tranche Treason: How DBM is Amending the Constitution by MemoThe Deferred Repayment Scheme That Turns the Supreme Court into an Advisory Body By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August 20, 2026 THE hallowed halls of the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) have once again echoed with the sound of legal sophistry so profound it could make a first-year…
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Continue reading →: 14 Years Old, 2 Guns, 1 Livestream: The Ateneo Massacre That Was Completely Preventable—And Nobody Will Be PunishedFrom Tacloban to Zamboanga: The Philippines’ New National Sport Is Failing Its Children By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August 20, 2026 Prologue: The Paradox of the Dead Shooter Here is the grotesque irony that should haunt every Filipino tonight: a 14-year-old honor student—a boy who allegedly excelled in academics,…
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Continue reading →: The Walking Testimony: Richard Gordon Returns from Political Death to Haunt the Pharmally UndeadIn a nation where the corrupt never die and the honest rarely survive, one man staggers back from the electoral grave to demand a reckoning By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August 19, 2026 THERE is a particular species of Philippine political theater that deserves its own taxonomic classification. It…
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Continue reading →: “Manageable” Debt, Unmanageable Lies: DBM’s ₱21 Trillion Fairy TaleThe Marcos Administration’s Greatest Fiction Since Martial Law: Debt Is Fine By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August 19, 2026 ON August 17, 2026, Acting Budget Secretary Kim Robert C. De Leon—a 35-year-old former assistant professor who now holds the unenviable distinction of being the third person to occupy that…
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Continue reading →: The Blank Line That Screams: How Marcos Starves Davao to Slay a DragonA Budget of Blanks: The Art of Punishing Millions Without Saying a Word By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August 18, 2026 THE national budget is a confession. It reveals, in cold, unfeeling numbers, what a government truly values—and whom it has condemned. In the proposed 2027 National Expenditure Program,…
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Continue reading →: DHSUD’s Paper Chase: Zero Backlog, Zero HomesInside the Agency That Counts Loan Approvals as Houses and Calls It a Miracle By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August 18, 2026 THE Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD) has just released a document so exquisitely crafted, so artfully deceptive, that it deserves a place in the…
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Continue reading →: Ghosts, Graft, and Geographic Absurdities: The New Technology of Philippine Plunder ExposedSingson’s Bombshell Reveals a Cartel of 15 Contractors, P1.1 Trillion in Hidden Funds, and a National Budget That Bled in Broad Daylight By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August 16, 2026 GATHER round, mga ka-kweba, for we have stumbled upon something far more sinister than your garden-variety Filipino corruption. What…
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Continue reading →: Sub Judice Circus: How Barbers and Bangko Both Got It Wrong While Sara LaughsThe Marcos-Duterte War Finds Its Perfect Battlefield: A Procedural Squabble By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo — August 17, 2026 THE impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte has finally produced something more entertaining than the tedious recitation of confidential fund allocations. It has produced a masterclass in legal sophistry, selective…
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