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Continue reading →: Two-Tranche Treason: How DBM is Amending the Constitution by MemoThe Deferred Repayment Scheme That Turns the Supreme Court into an Advisory Body By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August 20, 2026 THE hallowed halls of the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) have once again echoed with the sound of legal sophistry so profound it could make a first-year…
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Continue reading →: 14 Years Old, 2 Guns, 1 Livestream: The Ateneo Massacre That Was Completely Preventable—And Nobody Will Be PunishedFrom Tacloban to Zamboanga: The Philippines’ New National Sport Is Failing Its Children By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August 20, 2026 Prologue: The Paradox of the Dead Shooter Here is the grotesque irony that should haunt every Filipino tonight: a 14-year-old honor student—a boy who allegedly excelled in academics,…
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Continue reading →: The Walking Testimony: Richard Gordon Returns from Political Death to Haunt the Pharmally UndeadIn a nation where the corrupt never die and the honest rarely survive, one man staggers back from the electoral grave to demand a reckoning By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August 19, 2026 THERE is a particular species of Philippine political theater that deserves its own taxonomic classification. It…
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Continue reading →: “Manageable” Debt, Unmanageable Lies: DBM’s ₱21 Trillion Fairy TaleThe Marcos Administration’s Greatest Fiction Since Martial Law: Debt Is Fine By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August 19, 2026 ON August 17, 2026, Acting Budget Secretary Kim Robert C. De Leon—a 35-year-old former assistant professor who now holds the unenviable distinction of being the third person to occupy that…
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Continue reading →: The Blank Line That Screams: How Marcos Starves Davao to Slay a DragonA Budget of Blanks: The Art of Punishing Millions Without Saying a Word By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August 18, 2026 THE national budget is a confession. It reveals, in cold, unfeeling numbers, what a government truly values—and whom it has condemned. In the proposed 2027 National Expenditure Program,…
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Continue reading →: DHSUD’s Paper Chase: Zero Backlog, Zero HomesInside the Agency That Counts Loan Approvals as Houses and Calls It a Miracle By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August 18, 2026 THE Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD) has just released a document so exquisitely crafted, so artfully deceptive, that it deserves a place in the…
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Continue reading →: Ghosts, Graft, and Geographic Absurdities: The New Technology of Philippine Plunder ExposedSingson’s Bombshell Reveals a Cartel of 15 Contractors, P1.1 Trillion in Hidden Funds, and a National Budget That Bled in Broad Daylight By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August 16, 2026 GATHER round, mga ka-kweba, for we have stumbled upon something far more sinister than your garden-variety Filipino corruption. What…
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Continue reading →: Sub Judice Circus: How Barbers and Bangko Both Got It Wrong While Sara LaughsThe Marcos-Duterte War Finds Its Perfect Battlefield: A Procedural Squabble By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo — August 17, 2026 THE impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte has finally produced something more entertaining than the tedious recitation of confidential fund allocations. It has produced a masterclass in legal sophistry, selective…
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Continue reading →: Elite Capture in Paradise: Pangilinan, Foreign Giants, and the Great Bangsamoro Energy HeistThe Legal Framework Says ‘Autonomy,’ But the Fine Print Screams ‘Manila’s Money Machine’ By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August 16, 2026 Magician’s Patter Over the Hydrocarbon Prize The recent pronouncement from the Department of Energy (DOE) and the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM) reads less like a…
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Continue reading →: Burn Baby Burn: Marcos’ ₱26B Incinerator Won’t Stop the Floods, Just the EvidenceFrom 12 Years of Neglect to a ₱26B Fire Pit: The Governance Arson Behind the Smokey Mountain Scheme By Louis “Barok” C. Biraogo — August 16, 2026 THE President has discovered fire. Not the metaphorical fire of reform—he abandoned that long ago—but literal fire. A ₱26-billion furnace to burn the…
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