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Continue reading →: ₱491-M Right-of-Way Scam: DPWH Paid for Ghost Land, Ombudsman Finally NoticesInside the seventeen-year paper trail: a 2009 appraisal, a 2017 confession, 2019 NBI reports, and a 2026 reckoning By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — November 4, 2026 Walk me through this, slowly, as if I were a taxpayer. The Ombudsman just wheeled two dozen trolleys of documents into the Sandiganbayan…
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Continue reading →: The House’s ₱1.35B Electric Bill: A Primer on Paying for DarknessCertification-only liquidations, phantom supplies, and the art of declaring ‘savings’ you never needed to save By Louis ‘Barok’ C Biraogo — November 4, 2025 A MOMENT of appreciation is in order. The House of Representatives has turned the humble electric bill into a constitutional mystery. While ordinary Filipinos agonize over…
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Continue reading →: The ₱459-Billion Bluff: How DPWH Let Broke Contractors Win 11,391 ProjectsInside the Procurement Loophole That Turned “Financially Incapable” Into “Technically Qualified” By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — November 4, 2026 PRESENTING a number that ought to send every Filipino taxpayer rummaging through the liquor cabinet: ₱459.262 billion. That is not the cost of a space program, nor is it the…
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Continue reading →: Depreciate It, Lose It: Manila’s New Property TheoryJapan’s chamber discovers that in Manila, accounting entries now transfer property rights. By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — November 3, 2026 CONSIDER a hypothetical that isn’t hypothetical at all. You buy a truck. You depreciate it over five years. Book value hits zero. You’ve “recovered” your capital through accounting entries.…
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Continue reading →: Four Nominees Bring Loyalty. Leonen Brings a Refusal—and That’s Exactly Why Marcos Should Pick Him.Why the Only Nominee Who Owes Marcos Nothing Is the Only One Worth Appointing By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — November 3, 2026 I’LL DO you the favor of skipping the foreplay, dear readers—the shortlist is out, and four of the five come pre-owned. The Judicial and Bar Council (JBC)…
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Continue reading →: The Palace Wants Congress to Keep Its Hands Off the Budget. Which Budget, Exactly?The President proposed 11,420 DPWH projects. The House delivered 16,244. Malacañang is now defending all of them as if they were his. By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo — November 2, 2026 THERE is a particular comedy in watching an administration that spent years insisting on the sanctity of the Supreme…
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Continue reading →: Eleven Names, One Seat: The JBC’s Supreme Court Shortlist Is a Political BuffetA Solicitor General, a COA Chief, and a COMELEC Commissioner Walk Into a Shortlist… By Louis ‘Barok’ C Biraogo — November 2, 2026 PARDON me while I pick my jaw off the floor. The Judicial and Bar Council (JBC)—supposedly designed to keep political hacks out of the judiciary—has handed President…
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Continue reading →: The Babbler, the Billionaires, and the Christmas Layoff FictionThe Construction Crisis Is Real—But This Story Is Not By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo | November 2, 2026 LET’S begin with what Bilyonaryo won’t admit: the story is gossip with a deadline. Not entirely. The macroeconomic numbers are real and grim. The flood-control scandal has already devoured reputations and livelihoods.…
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Continue reading →: The ₱64 Question: Malacañang’s Peso Panic and the Fine Art of Blaming the WeatherHow the Palace Turned External Shocks into an Excuse for Ghost Beneficiaries, Token Subsidies, and Constitutional Chaos By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — November 2, 2026 LET us begin with genuine appreciation. Claire Castro has mastered the meteorological explanation for economic failure. Peso sinking? Middle East. Inflation eating budgets? The…
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Continue reading →: Five Days to Explain How ‘All’ Became ‘Some’Padilla and Go Asked for Sixteen. The Senate Said Fourteen. The Court Said: Prove It By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo — November 2, 2026 SOMEWHERE in the 1987 Constitution, a sentence is weeping quietly into its footnotes. The 1987 Constitution says—and I’m quoting here, because apparently this is now a…
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