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Continue reading →: The 39 Holes of Marcos Jr.: Promises, Puddles, and the Ghosts BelowWhere Floodwaters Rise and Kickbacks Sink: Barok’s Guide to Subterranean Governance By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August 25, 2026 THE rain fell like a confession: heavy, relentless, impossible to ignore. In the flooded streets of Metro Manila, water reached the knees and despair reached the neck. Then our President…
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Continue reading →: Bongbong’s Reap What You Sow: How Marcos Created His Own Duterte MonsterAccommodation, Arrogance, Annihilation: The Three Stages of Marcos’ Self-Destruction By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August 24, 2025 THERE is a peculiar affliction that strikes Philippine presidents as the intoxicating fumes of Malacañang begin to fade. It is the sudden, frantic realization that power, that most fickle of lovers, is…
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Continue reading →: Recantation Olympics 2026: How One Witness Became Three Liars and a Japanese RestaurantWhen Your Recantation Needs a Recantation: Inception for Corruption Cases By Louis ‘Barok’ C. Biraogo — August 24, 2026 PART I: THE NON-CASE THAT’S SOMEHOW A VERY BIG CASE Mga ka-kweba, gather ’round the flickering screen of justice, because today we’re dissecting what might be the most expensive work of…
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Continue reading →: The Philippines’ Fishing-Tracker Fiasco: 3 SolGens, 8 Years, 1 Self-OwnWhen the Government’s Top Lawyers Argue With Themselves By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo — August 23, 2026 THE Philippine Supreme Court just gutted the government’s vessel-tracking rule. Best part: the government spent eight years arguing with itself first, and the law that would have made this whole mess moot was…
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Continue reading →: DUTERTE’S ₱612M VS. MARCOS’ ₱4.55B: A TALE OF TWO STANDARDSOne Gets Impeached, the Other Gets a Rubber Stamp By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo | August 22, 2026 WHILE the nation sits riveted to the Senate’s forensic dissection of Sara Duterte’s P125 million “special disbursements”—complete with fictitious-sounding recipients like “Mary Grace Piattos” and the now-infamous 11-day spending spree—a far more…
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Continue reading →: THE 9.7% ILLUSION: HOW THE PSA PERFECTED THE ART OF STATISTICAL GASLIGHTINGWhen 52% of Filipinos Say They’re Poor, But the State Says 9.7%—Who’s Gaslighting Whom? By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August 22, 2026 THE body isn’t even cold yet, and already they’re throwing confetti on it. On August 21, 2026, the Philippine Statistics Authority—that august temple of numerical truth—declared that…
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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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