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Continue reading →: A Nation Seduced by Blood: Duterte’s Ghost Grips the Philippine BallotBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — April 14, 2025 AT A roadside karinderya (eatery) in Davao, a mother clutches a faded photo of her son, gunned down in Rodrigo Duterte’s drug war. “They called him a pusher,” she whispers, “but he was just a carpenter.” A kilometer away, a rally throbs…
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Continue reading →: Cebuana Comet: Mapping Pilita Corrales’ Seven-Decade SkyBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C Biraogo — April 14, 2025 Prelude: The Sky’s Silent Applause On April 12, 2025, the heavens dimmed their lanterns. Pilita Corrales, Asia’s Queen of Songs, slipped into the cosmos at 85, her voice—a silk bridge between Manila and the Milky Way—now a whisper in the stars.…
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Continue reading →: From Drug War to The Hague: Remulla’s ICC Bet—Genius or Betrayal?By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — April 14, 2025 Introduction: The Senate Showdown That Shook Manila When Justice Secretary Crispin Remulla stepped into the Senate’s lion den on April 10, 2025, he wasn’t just defending the surrender of former President Rodrigo Duterte to the International Criminal Court (ICC)—he was rewriting…
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Continue reading →: Imee Marcos’ Last Stand: Probing Duterte, Defying DynastyBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — April 13, 2025 THE gavel cracks like gunfire in a Manila hearing room. Senator Imee Marcos leans forward, her voice sharp as steel, leading a fiery probe into the arrest of Rodrigo Duterte—once President, now prisoner at the International Criminal Court (ICC). This isn’t…
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Continue reading →: Azcuna’s Bombshell: Duterte’s ICC Arrest—Righteous or Rigged?By Louis ‘Barok’ C Biraogo — April 13, 2025 RODRIGO Duterte’s March 11, 2025, arrest and swift Hague handover have unleashed a legal slugfest hotter than Manila’s rush hour. The International Criminal Court (ICC) snagged the former Philippine president for alleged crimes against humanity in his brutal drug war, but…
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Continue reading →: SC Blesses FIT Allowance—Constitutional Cover or Regulatory Ruse?By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — April 12, 2025 THE Philippine Supreme Court’s April 8, 2025, ruling in ERC/DOE/NREB v. Petitioners (G.R. No. [XXXXX]) is a thunderclap for renewable energy regulators—and a slap in the face to skeptics of unchecked agency power. In a sprawling 118-page decision by Senior Associate…
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Continue reading →: Sia’s ‘Single Mother’ Gaffe: A Campaign-Killing Masterstroke of StupidityBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — April 12, 2025 IAN Sia’s crude jab at single mothers didn’t just spark a legal dumpster fire—it napalmed his congressional bid in Pasig City, where voters prize dignity over cheap laughs. Hiding behind “freedom of speech” might save him in court, but in the…
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Continue reading →: Senate Smackdown or Executive Endgame? Remulla’s Ironclad Stand Against a Witch HuntBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — April 12, 2025 WHEN PNP Chief Rommel Marbil played the executive privilege card at the Senate’s April 10, 2025, circus over former President Rodrigo Duterte’s ICC arrest, he didn’t just dodge a bullet—he sparked a constitutional showdown. DOJ Secretary Boying Remulla, with a verbal…
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Continue reading →: Duterte’s ICC Gambit: How His Lawyers Are Burying the Dead TwiceBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — April 11, 2025 AT THE Hague, a legal chess game is underway. On one side: the International Criminal Court (ICC). On the other: Rodrigo Duterte’s defense team, armed not with facts, but with bureaucracy. Their latest move? Demanding national IDs from drug war victims’…
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Continue reading →: Porac POGO Heist: Justice or a Government Land Grab?By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — April 11, 2025 COME on in, step right up, to the legal Thunderdome, where the Philippine government is slugging it out with the Cruz family over a 10-hectare slice of Porac, Pampanga, once home to the shady Lucky South 99 POGO. The feds want…
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