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Continue reading →: Predator Next Door: How NY’s Bail Laws Betray a 12-Year-OldBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — April 8, 2025 GLENNON Salvador Payabyab, a 43-year-old Iglesia Ni Cristo (INC) minister, allegedly texted a 12-year-old girl a Pornhub link and tried to lure her to a Staten Island parking lot. The NYPD swooped in, only to see him stroll free in under…
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Continue reading →: Dynasty Death Grip: The Philippines’ Constitutional Clown Show Rolls OnBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — April 8, 2025 Step right up to the Philippines, where the Constitution is a suggestion, Congress is a family reunion, and the Supreme Court plays the reluctant babysitter. Nearly four decades after the 1987 Constitution told Congress to ban political dynasties, we’re still waiting…
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Continue reading →: NBI’s Lightning Strike: Saving Filipinos, Exposing CracksBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — April 7, 2025 WHEN the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) dropped its March 11, 2025, press release detailing the rescue of three Filipino nationals from a Cambodian scam operation, it read like the opening chapter of a legal thriller: desperate victims, shadowy recruiters, and…
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Continue reading →: Frames of Grace: The Quiet Brilliance of Tony GloriaBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — April 8, 2925 It began, as so many luminous lives do, not with applause, but with shadows waiting to be transformed. One imagines the year was 1968, in the dusk-hallowed halls of the University of the Philippines’ Abelardo Hall, where a young undergraduate—sharp of…
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Continue reading →: Spies, Sea, and Suspicion: The Philippines-China Standoff UnraveledBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — April 7, 2025 ESPIONAGE. Detention. International intrigue. These aren’t plot points from a political thriller—they’re the real-life nightmare unfolding for three Filipinos held in China. On April 4, 2025, the Philippine government confirmed that David Servañez, Albert Endencia, and Nathalie Plizardo were arrested under…
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Continue reading →: Porac’s POGOgate: Gross Neglect or Political Hit Job?By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — April 7, 2025 THE Ombudsman’s April 3, 2025, dismissal of Porac, Pampanga Mayor Jaime Capil over the Lucky South 99 POGO scandal is a legal thunderclap with seismic political aftershocks. Found guilty of “gross neglect of duty,” Capil’s ouster—complete with a lifetime ban from…
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Continue reading →: Duterte in Chains: Manila’s Sovereignty Sellout or Justice Jackpot?By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — April 6, 2025 AN early-morning arrest. A leaked DOJ memo. A Rappler report that shook the Palace. On March 11, 2025, Rodrigo Duterte was flown to face the ICC, just days after a sealed warrant triggered an Interpol operation in Manila. But was this…
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Continue reading →: The Hidden Victims of Trump’s Trade War: Filipino WorkersBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — April 5, 2025 IN A cramped factory in Batangas, a province in the Philippines’ CALABARZON region, Maria Santos, 34, assembles circuit boards for export to the United States. Her P560.00 ($10) daily wage supports her two children, but last week, her supervisor warned of…
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Continue reading →: ₱75 Million Heist: Cops Gone Full BanditBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — April 6, 2025 IF YOU think the biggest threat to justice comes from criminals, think again. In a raid gone disastrously wrong, 31 police officers from the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO) allegedly walked away with ₱75 million in loot—after disabling CCTVs, cracking…
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Continue reading →: Blood, Bars, and Betrayal: The Duterte Dynasty’s Last StandBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — April 4, 2025 GRAY stone. Cold air. A black SUV slicing through the silence outside Scheveningen Prison. Then, Sara Duterte. Her expression? Unreadable. But the hurried steps of the two women trailing her – one her half-sister Kitty, the other their father’s partner Honeylet…
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