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Continue reading →: SALN Deathmatch: Zubiri’s Plea for Pity Clashes with Hontiveros’ Call for GutsThe Fight Over Financial Disclosure Is a Brutal Mix of Legal Firepower, Political Posturing, and the Eternal Quest to Outwit Corruption. By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August, 30, 2025 WELCOME to the latest blood-soaked round of Philippine Political Thunderdome, where the Statement of Assets, Liabilities, and Net Worth (SALN)…
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Continue reading →: Supreme Court to Barok: ‘Your Quest for Truth? Bury It in Bureaucracy and Buzz Off’By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August 30, 2025 Introduction: A Citizen’s Crusade Crushed by Cowards in Robes I’m Louis “Barok” Biraogo, the guy who’s been poking the bear of Philippine corruption since Aquino’s days. I’ve toppled commissions and challenged dynasties, but in Biraogo v. Martires (G.R. No. 254516), I…
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Continue reading →: DPWH’s Billion-Peso Ghost Party: Bonoan’s “I Didn’t Know” Excuse Is a Flimsy Umbrella in a Corruption TyphoonBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August 29, 2025 THE Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) under Secretary Manuel Bonoan is wading through a swamp of corruption so vile it makes Manila’s esteros smell like a perfume counter. Ghost flood control projects, a district engineer caught trying to bribe…
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Continue reading →: Marcos’ Lifestyle Checks: Panning for Gold in a Cesspool of CorruptionBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August 29, 2025 PRESIDENT Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has brandished lifestyle checks as his shiny new sword to slay the dragon of corruption, but it’s looking more like a plastic butter knife against a ₱2 trillion flood control catastrophe. It’s like trying to mop up…
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Continue reading →: Another NBI Bust, Another Philippine Flop: The Scandal That Keeps on GivingBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August 28, 2025 WELCOME to the latest installment of As the Philippines Spins, where the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) and Bureau of Immigration (BI) stage a tragicomedy of corruption, incompetence, and performative justice that would make Kafka weep into his Metamorphosis manuscript. The…
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Continue reading →: The Supreme Court’s Duterte Disaster: When an ABS-CBN Clip Outranks the ConstitutionBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August 28, 2025 STEP right up, folks, to the Supreme Court’s legal carnival, where their latest ruling is such a spectacular flop it could drive a first-year law student to tears over their Constitutional Law textbook. In its July 25, 2025, en banc ruling…
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Continue reading →: The Quiet Force: Judy Araneta Roxas and the Legacy of GraceA Portrait of the Woman Who Turned Loss into Light, and Silence into Lasting Power By Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August 27, 2025 IN Cubao, where the bright arteries of commerce and culture converge, stands Araneta City—a monument to vision and enterprise, a humming testament to urban possibility. It…
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Continue reading →: When the Watchers Fail: DPWH Builds Nothing, COA Notices NothingBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August 27, 2025 WHAT a miraculous discovery in the Philippines: a P55.7-million riverwall in Bulacan that exists only in government ledgers. The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) 1st District Office swears it was built, the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) released…
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Continue reading →: Torre’s Takedown: How the Philippines Axed Its Rogue ReformerBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo — August 26, 2025 A Sacking Dressed Up as “Procedure” In the Philippines, where political loyalty is the currency of power, President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. has decided the only “direction” needing a course correction is one that veers away from a police chief who…
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Continue reading →: A Tale of Two (Convenient) Truths: Why the Philippines’ 2026 Education Budget Betrays Its ChildrenBy Louis ‘Barok‘ C. Biraogo – August 27, 2025 IN A stunning display of bureaucratic innovation, the Philippine government and its critics have managed to transform a national learning crisis into a tedious math quarrel. The Philippine Business for Education (PBEd) says the 2026 education budget is only 3.8% of…
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