No Parliamentary System, No LKY & No Mahathir
This old article from 27 April 2006 by Alex Magno emphasizes that Mahathir bin Mohamad of Malaysia and the late Lee Kuan Yew of Singapore could only emerge from the electoral mechanisms of a...
Category: Parliamentary System
The Philippines is run like a Mafia Network
After the recent revelations of the pork barrel scam, the patronage politics exposed during the Typhoon Yolanda Tragedy and the privileged speech revelations in Senate , it strikes me that the Government of the Philippines...
Tacloban Tragedy: A Painful Wake-up Call
Note: This was originally a status update from FB that went viral. We were able to get permission to publish it from the lady who was able to speak with several survivors of Super-Typhoon...
The Coming Fall of the “Noynoy Project”
The writing is on the wall: “P-Noy” is losing support. As a result of the wrath of Typhoon Yolanda (aka “Haiyan”), Philippine President B.S. Aquino III has been exposed to the rest of the...
The Parable of the Mountain Bike
Once upon a time, there was an American Peace Corps volunteer named Sam. Sam was a nice, good-natured 29 year old White Anglo-Saxon American guy who stood tall at 6 ft 7′ and enjoyed...
US Government Shutdown: The Presidential System Sucks
The recent US Federal Government Shutdown has further proven to everyone around the World that the Presidential System is an extremely unreliable, buggy, flawed, and faulty system of government whose proneness to gridlock has...
Infographic: Solutions to the Root Causes of the Pork Barrel
Many Filipinos want to get rid of the Pork Barrel. But as mentioned in a previous article, it is necessary to understand the root causes of this “contraption” in order to come up with...
Nápoles & Pork Barrel: It’s the Lousy System
There’s been a lot of anger expressed regarding Janet Nápoles, her daughter Jeane, their lavish lifestyles, and the Pork Barrel scam that funded it all. Everyone seems to be screaming about the need to...
Nancy Binay – Don’t hate the player, hate the game!
Nancy Binay is joining in the Senatorial Race because she can and because she has the necessary name-recall in order to win. She’s joining the race because she has exactly what the current Philippine...
Should the Philippines Turn Parliamentary?
By Rep. Florencio B. Abad It is unfortunate that enlightened debate about the proposed shift in the form of government has been hampered by allegations of hidden motives by Senate leaders and by a...
