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Continue reading →: Cloud Seeding, Indian Seeds, and ₱62 Billion: The El Niño Plan That Does Everything Except Work223,214 Farmers, ₱61.99 Billion, and One Question Nobody in Malacañang Wants to Answer: Where Exactly Is the Money Going? By Louis ‘Barok’ C Biraogo — October 21, 2026 The Art of the Fiscal Hallucination Come closer, mga anak. This is the kind of story you hear at a wake—except the…
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Continue reading →: Kickbacks Are ‘General Knowledge’—But the NBI Still Can’t Find Estrada’s CutSamson Testified to Everything Except the One Thing That Matters: Where the Money Went By Louis ‘Barok’ C Biraogo | October 21, 2026 THE Philippine anti-corruption establishment has a new legal theory, and it is breathtaking in its audacity. It goes something like this: Everyone knows kickbacks are standard. Therefore,…
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Continue reading →: Supreme Court to Congress: That’s Not a Contingency Fund, That’s PorkThe High Court Just Declared Your ‘Unprogrammed Appropriations’ a Slush Fund With a Legal Disclaimer By Louis ‘Barok’ C. Biraogo — October 21, 2026 MGA ka-kweba, gather ’round. Bring your calculators, your reading glasses, and a strong stomach—because the Supreme Court just dropped a 121-page judicial bomb on the Philippine…
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Continue reading →: ₱63 to the Dollar: The Only Thing Falling Faster Than the Peso Is the Government’s CredibilityA Record Low, a Corruption Scandal, and a Central Bank Governor Who Called It ‘Okay By Louis ‘Barok’ C Biraogo | October 21, 2026 SOMETHING curious happened on October 15, 2026. The Philippine peso slid to ₱63.06 against the dollar—a record low—and the guardians of our economic destiny responded with…
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Continue reading →: Marcoleta’s 90-Day Vacation: Boying Remulla’s Gift That Keeps on GivingThe law says 90 days. Remulla says “you’re welcome.” Marcoleta says “persecution!” The court says “read RA 7080.” By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — October 21, 2026 Let us begin with the only fact that matters, the one buried beneath the avalanche of Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) prayer rallies, Remulla…
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Continue reading →: ‘Ti, Ano Kung Benitez Ka?’ — The Five Words That Broke Bacolod’s Political AllianceInside the dinner-party confrontation that turned a routine audit request into a ₱6.1 billion war—and why the congressman still won’t answer a single question. By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — October 20, 2026 LET ME tell you about the most expensive table slam in Philippine local governance history. On October…
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Continue reading →: The Bloodbath That Wasn’t: How Jonvic Remulla Discovered the Perfect Excuse for Not Doing His JobOr: How the Interior Secretary Learned to Stop Enforcing Warrants and Love the Excuse By Louis “Barok” C Biraogo | October 20, 2026 FORGIVE me. I must have missed the memo where arrest warrants became optional. The Secretary of the Interior and Local Government (DILG)—the man tasked with supervising the…
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Continue reading →: Build Better More (Debt): The SCMB Railway Scandal Nobody’s AuditingThe DPWH Has a Corruption Problem, the DOTr Has a Graft Rap, and You Have a Property Title By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo | October 20, 2026 GATHER ’round, children, and let me tell you a story about the most expensive game of Monopoly ever played in Southeast Asia. The…
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Continue reading →: 281 Congressmen Voted to Keep You Begging for Medical AidThe House doubled the MAIFIP pork barrel to P50 billion while slashing PhilHealth to a level that runs dry by March 2027—because nothing says ‘universal healthcare’ like a guarantee letter and a politician’s selfie. By Louis ‘Barok’ C. Biraogo — October 19, 2026 CALL me naive, but I thought healthcare…
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Continue reading →: The Mastermind Problem: How ECOP’s Sergio Ortiz-Luis Became the Philippines’ Accidental Truth-Teller on a ₱100-Billion Scandal and the Art of Getting Nothing DoneThe Government Says Trust the Numbers. The Business Sector Says Numbers Don’t Build Warehouses. By Louis ‘Barok’ C. Biraogo — October 19, 2026 IF YOU want to understand the Philippine investment climate in late 2026, you don’t need to read the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA)’s FDI numbers or the Kearney…
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