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RA 12252: The Constitutional Crime That Trades Land for Lies
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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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From Farm-to-Market to Powerhouse-to-Pocket: Central Luzon’s ₱4.89B Pork Surprise
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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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The Healer Who Brought His Own Plague: Bojie Dy’s Prescription for a Sick House
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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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Feast of the Leeches: How Congress and Malacañang Turned Your Taxes into Their Personal Buffet
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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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Clavano’s Purity Pledge: No Evidence Unless It’s Factory-Sealed
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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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Bicam Circus Maximus: Davao Gladiators Battle Executive Lions for the Last Pork Chop
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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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The High Cost of ‘Free’: Herbosa’s Gamble on Philippine Healthcare
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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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Badge of Dishonor: When Fighting Corruption Means Your Trust Rating Hits Rock Bottom
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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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Clean Hands, Dirty Roads: Sara Duterte’s Sermon on Budget Purity Meets Her Own Mayoral Shopping Spree
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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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₱1.35 Trillion for Education: Bigger Budget, Same Old Thieves’ Banquet
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Continue reading →: ₱1.35 Trillion for Education: Bigger Budget, Same Old Thieves’ BanquetMain Course: Overpriced Classrooms and Confidential-Fund Gravy By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — January 1, 2026 MGA ka-kweba, Senator Bam Aquino calls the ₱1.35 trillion earmarked for education in the 2026 national budget a “historic victory.” The largest education fund in Philippine history, he says—more classrooms, free school meals, bigger…






