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Continue reading →: Unprogrammed Appropriations: The New Pork Barrel Where Civil Servants Pay the Butcher’s BillFrom Guaranteed Pay to Ghost Funding: How Lawmakers Made Civil Servants the Collateral Damage of Pork 2.0 By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — January 4, 2026 LADIES and gentlemen of the jury—otherwise known as the long-suffering Filipino taxpayers—gather ’round while I expose the latest parlor trick pulled off in the…
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Continue reading →: RA 12252: The Constitutional Crime That Trades Land for Lies124 Years of Foreign Control Proves Congress Cares More About Cash Than Country By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — January 3, 2026 A Nation Betrayed by Its Own Laws On September 3, 2025, President Marcos Jr. signed Republic Act No. 12252 (Amended Investors’ Lease Act), a law that doesn’t just…
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Continue reading →: From Farm-to-Market to Powerhouse-to-Pocket: Central Luzon’s ₱4.89B Pork SurpriseFrom Flood Control Cuts to Congressional Jackpots: The Great Budget Realignment Trick By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — January 3, 2025 IN A country where thousands of farmers slog through mud and floods every harvest season, the government rolls out “farm-to-market roads” like some savior of rural development. The promise…
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Continue reading →: The Healer Who Brought His Own Plague: Bojie Dy’s Prescription for a Sick HousePrescription: Silence, Clearance, and a Side of Palace Dependency By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — January 3, 2025 A surgeon was appointed to clean the bleeding wound in the House—the shameful flood control budget scandal that toppled Martin Romualdez last September. Now, under the new Speaker, Faustino “Bojie” Dy III,…
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Continue reading →: Feast of the Leeches: How Congress and Malacañang Turned Your Taxes into Their Personal BuffetLeftovers for the Poor: PhilHealth’s Zero Subsidy While the Elite Lick Their Plates Clean By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — January 2, 2026 MGA ka-kweba, mga kapwa biktima ng sistemang ito—welcome back to the cave. It’s your resident troglodyte, Barok, here to drag another carcass of institutional plunder into the…
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Continue reading →: Clavano’s Purity Pledge: No Evidence Unless It’s Factory-SealedHow the Ombudsman Turned Chain of Custody into a Chastity Belt for Truth By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo — January 1, 2026 HMMNN, the sweet smell of procedural formaldehyde. The Office of the Ombudsman has spoken, and its verdict on the Cabral Files is clear: originals only, please. Copies are…
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Continue reading →: Bicam Circus Maximus: Davao Gladiators Battle Executive Lions for the Last Pork ChopThe Final Chop: Pulong, Ungab, and the Ghost of Pork Barrel Past Enter the Ring By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — January 2, 2026 MGA ka-kweba, welcome back. It’s January 1, 2026, and while the rest of the country recovers from New Year festivities, Congress has served us a fresh…
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Continue reading →: The High Cost of ‘Free’: Herbosa’s Gamble on Philippine HealthcareTechnocrat in the Typhoon: Herbosa’s Tightrope Over a Sea of Shortfalls By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — January 2, 2026 FANCY Maria, the 42-year-old Tondo vendor peddling fish by day, now cradling her ailing son in a DOH hospital swarm. For the first time in her life, she walks out…
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Continue reading →: Badge of Dishonor: When Fighting Corruption Means Your Trust Rating Hits Rock BottomTwo Philippines, Zero Accountability: Luzon Clings to Marcos, Mindanao Worships Duterte, Everyone Loses By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — January 1, 2026 IN THE sweltering heat of Manila’s political season, a December 2025 Pulse Asia survey arrived like a monsoon downpour — revealing a nation soaked in disillusionment. President Ferdinand…
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Continue reading →: Clean Hands, Dirty Roads: Sara Duterte’s Sermon on Budget Purity Meets Her Own Mayoral Shopping SpreeFrom Pulpit to Pork Barrel: How the Vice President’s Anti-Insertion Crusade Collides with Her Billion-Peso Wish List By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — December 31, 2025 KARON, the Philippine political circus never disappoints, does it? Just when you think the Duterte clan has exhausted every trick in their playbook of…
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