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Continue reading →: The Seduction of StatisticsBuild Better More, Feel Worse Sooner: The Marcos Miracle Nobody in the Barangay Can Afford By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — January 28, 2026 WHEN Palace Press Officer Claire Castro steps to the podium, the numbers arrive like clockwork: unemployment at 4.7% in 2025, down from the pandemic’s brutal 10.3%…
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Continue reading →: Remulla’s Billion-Dollar Bouncer: “No Cash, No Conversation” – The New Door Policy at the Palace of JusticePlunderers Welcome… Provided They Bring a Billion-Dollar “Sorry We Stole It” Gift Receipt By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — January 28, 2026 BEHOLD, Manila, the city that never sleeps—because someone is always counting someone else’s money. On January 27, 2026, Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Jonvic…
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Continue reading →: The Stolen Growth: A Nation’s Receipt for Billions Pilfered, Leaving Us Poorer, Angrier, and Still Flooded25% Kickbacks: The Only Percentage That Actually Grew in 2025 By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — January 28, 2025 IF AN economy is a testament to a nation’s priorities, then the Philippines’ missed growth target for 2025 is less a technical failure and more a stolen receipt—evidence of billions pilfered…
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Continue reading →: Tiu Laurel Declares War on Paperwork: Philippines’ Food Basket Now Protected by the Sacred Art of Doing Nothing Until JuneSix Months of Blessed Inaction: Because the Fastest Way to Save Farmland Is to Let Applications Rot in a Drawer YESSS….., the valiant Agriculture Secretary Francisco P. Tiu Laurel Jr. rides in on his white steed—or perhaps a rusty tractor—brandishing Department Circular No. 1 like a magic wand to “protect”…
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Continue reading →: Bonoan’s Flood-Control Illusion: Vanishing Projects, Vanishing Funds, and a Nation Left Drowning in DebtFrom Paper Dikes to Real Yachts: The Secretary’s Masterclass in Liquid Assets By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — January 27, 2025 BEHOLD, the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee hearing on January 19, 2026: a stage set for the absurd, where former Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) Secretary Manuel Bonoan…
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Continue reading →: The Co-Defensor-Marcos Impeachment Circus: A Philippine Farce in Three-Ring CorruptionFollow the Billions: The Real Flood Isn’t the Water, It’s the Money By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — January 26, 2026 MGA ka-kweba, welcome back to the fever swamp that is Philippine politics, where the clowns aren’t just entertaining—they’re running the show, and the audience is us, the tax-paying rubes…
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Continue reading →: The Ghost in the Rulebook: Adiong’s Phantom Procedure Haunts the People’s JusticeWhen “Strict Compliance” Becomes Code for “Sorry, Marcos Is Busy” By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — January 26, 2026 BEHOLD, the Philippine House of Representatives—bastion of the people’s will, or so the fairy tales go. In a plot twist worthy of a bad teleserye, they’ve unveiled their latest innovation in…
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Continue reading →: GMA’s ‘Talent’ Tango: SC Delivers the Ultimate Labor Law Mic Drop After 11 Years of Foot-DraggingWhen “Serbisyong Totoo” Meets Serfdom: The Network’s Contractor Charade Finally Gets the Boot By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — January 25, 2026 MGA ka-kweba, gather ’round the digital campfire for another episode of “How the Mighty Squirm.” It’s your favorite legal gadfly, Barok, here to skewer the latest judicial bombshell…
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Continue reading →: RETIREMENT? STILL RETIREMENT?Gen. Torre, the Elastic Meaning of Leaving Office, and the Philippine Art of Never Really Going Away By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — January 25, 2026 IN most civilized jurisdictions, retirement is a clean break: you hand over your badge, clear your desk, collect a plaque you didn’t ask for,…
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Continue reading →: Feelers from a Fugitive: Zaldy Co’s Priestly Whisper and the Rot That Echoes BackWhen Your Get-Out-of-Jail Card Is Delivered by a Collar and a Rosary By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — January 25, 2026 IT’S almost poetic, in the darkest Filipino way possible. A fugitive former congressman—once a powerful cong-tractor—hides in a gated community in Lisbon, while billions in flood-control funds disappear into…
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