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Continue reading →: House Rejects Budget Reconsideration, Invents New Branch of Government: “The Senate Will Fix It”The ₱7.2-Trillion Hot Potato: How the House Passed Its Constitutional Mess to the Upper Chamber By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — November 11, 2026 On November 10, 2026, the House of Representatives was handed a chance to clean up its own mess. It chose instead to hand the mop to…
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Continue reading →: “Manageable” Debt, Unmanageable Corruption: The ₱19.66-Trillion Lie66.9% Debt-to-GDP, 2.1% Growth, 0% Accountability: A Forensic Autopsy of the Marcos Jr. Fiscal Regime By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo | November 11, 2026 I. The Headline They Want You to Swallow On November 9, 2026, the Bureau of the Treasury (BTr) announced that the Philippines’ debt-to-gross domestic product (GDP)…
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Continue reading →: Conditional Trust, Unconditional Overcharging: Inside the 2026 Philippine Trust StudyA PR Firm Measured Filipino Trust, Found It Broken, and Called the Result ‘Conditional’ By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo | November 11, 2026 The 72-Point “Conditional Trust” Headline Something curious happened in Manila this month. EON Group, a public relations (PR) firm, partnered with Ateneo de Manila University, surveyed 800…
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Continue reading →: Speaker Dy Says Trust Him—The Supreme Court Says ‘Unconstitutional.’ Guess Who’s Right?A ₱7.2-Trillion Budget, a ₱1-Trillion Red Flag, and a Speaker Who Wants Us to Look Away By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo | November 10, 2026 SO here’s the thing. Speaker Faustino “Bojie” Dy III wants us to believe that a ₱7.2-trillion national budget with over ₱1 trillion in suspicious congressional…
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Continue reading →: The Pink Wave’s Missing Standard-Bearer: A Tutorial in Noble Retreat and Strategic AbdicationThe Movement Was Real; the Leader Just Didn’t Want It Bad Enough By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — November 10, 2026 A Plot Twist In the annals of Philippine political theater, where the script is usually written in blood, gold, and the tears of the vanquished, Leni Robredo has just…
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Continue reading →: Maharlika’s ₱19.7-Billion Ghost: How to Announce a Deal, Waste Two Years, and Call It PrudenceA signing ceremony at Malacañang, twenty-two months of silence, and a quiet walk-away—inside the sovereign fund’s first big test of whether it can actually invest, or only announce. By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — November 10, 2026 EVERY great magic act begins with misdirection—and this one had a presidential witness.…
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Continue reading →: The ₱817 Million Guess: Sara Duterte’s Trial Is Now a Forensic Accounting Fever DreamInside the Prosecution’s Math Problem: Why a 45% Margin of Error Isn’t Evidence By Louis ‘Barok’ C Biraogo — November 9, 2026 FULL disclosure before we proceed. I have spent the better part of this year chronicling the slow, agonizing death of the Sara Duterte impeachment trial as a coherent…
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Continue reading →: The SolGen’s ‘Trust Us’ Budget Motion: A Constitutional Loophole With a Cover LetterThe Solicitor General Wants the Court to Trust Congress. The Same Congress That Gave Us SAGIP, the ₱449.5-Billion Increase, and the Bicameral Black Box. By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — November 9, 2026 MGA ka-kweba, gather ’round the constitutional campfire, because the Office of the Solicitor General (OSG) has done…
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Continue reading →: 70 for the Boys, 30 for the Republic: Boying Remulla Exposes the BIR’s Profit-Sharing SchemeInside the Revenue Split That Senate Hearings, PCCI Testimony, and a Suspended Audit System All Point To By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo | November 9, 2026 THE Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) does not have a corruption problem. It has a business model. And Ombudsman Jesus Crispin Remulla just walked…
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Continue reading →: Jailhouse Privilege: Romualdez’s 7-Week Sleepover With a Personal AideThe Warden, the Aide, and the Medical Note That Never Was By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — November 8, 2026 A moment of silence, please, for the Philippine criminal justice system, which apparently suffered a brief, catastrophic bout of amnesia sometime between September 14 and November 5. For seven weeks,…
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