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Continue reading →: The Books That Never Were: DepEd’s Procurement Farce and the Theft of a Generation’s FutureWhere Billions Go to Die Quietly While Kids Photocopy Yesterday’s Lessons By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — February 4, 2026 PICTURE this, mga ka-kweba: In a brightly lit stockroom in Quezon City, a property custodian in a crisp DepEd polo shirt neatly stacks thousands of brand-new textbooks, their glossy covers…
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Continue reading →: DILG vs. The Tarpaulin Gods – When Politicians Finally Get Told Their Faces Aren’t InfrastructureEpal Season Officially Canceled – Mayors Now Required to Smile in Private By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — February 4, 2026 MGA ka-kweba, for far too long we have endured the blinding smiles of politicians plastered on every waiting shed, drainage canal, and scholarship tarpaulin paid for with our taxes.…
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Continue reading →: The Plenary Farce: How the House of Representatives Is Building a Fortress of Paper to Shield the Cong-Tractor SwindlersHow the Secretary-General Turned “Plenary Approval” Into Congress’s Ultimate Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — February 3, 2026 MGA ka-kweba, let’s not mince words. The House of Representatives, that august chamber supposedly representing the sovereign people, has now resorted to the most transparent ruse yet in the great…
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Continue reading →: “Scared to Sign Vouchers” Is Now Official GDP Policy – Welcome to the Philippines’ Permanent Paralysis EconomyMonsod’s Diagnosis: The Bureaucracy Didn’t Freeze from Corruption—It Froze from the Sudden Threat of Actually Doing Its Job By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo –– February 3, 2026 LET US begin with a simple image: a child in a flooded Manila barangay, waist-deep in filthy water, clutching a plastic basin that…
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Continue reading →: Cops on Crime Spree: When the Drug Unit Becomes the Robbery FranchiseMakati Heist 101 – Enrolled by MPD’s Finest, Funded by Every Juan Taxpayer By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — February 2, 2026 ONE night on Arsonvel Street, Makati—not a movie scene, not a tabloid tale, but real life captured on video. Six police officers from the Station Drug Enforcement Unit…
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Continue reading →: Trillion-Peso Magic Trick: How the Villars Turned Family Backyard Dirt into Fairy-Tale Wealth (and Left Everyone Else Holding the Empty Bag)When “Fair Value” Means “Whatever Number Keeps the Stock Pumped Until We Cash Out” By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo — February 1, 2026 THE Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed a criminal complaint against Villar Land Holdings Corporation (VLC)—formerly Golden MV Holdings—and key members of the Villar family. The…
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Continue reading →: From Exposé to Exile: Leviste’s Five-Month Business-Class Passport to SilenceFrom Dropping Cabral Files to Dropping Off the Radar: The Leviste Exit Strategy By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — January 31, 2026 MGA ka-kweba, picture this: a young congressman, fresh from selling solar dreams to become the nation’s youngest billionaire-turned-lawmake, suddenly morphs into the Philippines’ most prolific document-leaker. He waves…
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Continue reading →: “Several Lifetimes,” Said Fajardo — Translation: “I’m Not Spending Even One More Day on This Circus”Fajardo’s Final Lesson: You Can’t Fix a System That Rewards the People Breaking It By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — January 31, 2026 IN A country where the poor wade through floodwaters that rise faster than our leaders’ excuses, Rossana Fajardo’s resignation from the Independent Commission for Infrastructure (ICI)—coupled with…
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Continue reading →: The Heroic Spirit-Savers of Landers: When the Flames Die, the Looting BeginsRemulla vs. the Liquor Looters: When Small Thieves Make Big Headlines By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — January 31, 2026 IN THE Philippines—a nation perpetually tested by disasters and undermined by opportunism—a massive fire ravaged the Landers Superstore in Quezon City’s Barangay Pasong Putik on January 28, 2026. Amid the…
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Continue reading →: Necromancy in Robes: Reviving Phantom Filings to Strangle ImpeachmentFrom Docket Graveyard to Constitutional Armor: A Judicial Horror Story By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — January 30, 2026 THE Supreme Court (SC) has spoken—again. In a unanimous 13-0 vote, the high tribunal denied the House of Representatives’ motion for reconsideration with finality on January 28, 2026, affirming that the…
