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Stop Calling for Cha-cha!
Yes. Stop calling for Cha-cha! Stop calling for a Latin dance that goes forward & backward and doesn’t really get anyhere. Stop calling for something that people do not associate with progress or anything...
Open Letter to Noynoy from a Tacloban Survivor
We found this open letter floating around in Facebook and have decided to OPEN LETTER FROM A SURVIVOR : After being stuck in a dead zone with no comms and internet the past 48...
The Video that’s bringing Mar (and Noy) Down
This is the infamous video of the meeting where Mar Roxas tells Alfred Romualdez: “You have to understand you are a Romualdez and the President is an Aquino so <cut video> …so we just want to...
The Philippines & Venezuela: Destroyed by Chavez’s Smartmatic?
Trial [ezcol_1half] Originally entitled “The Philippines and Venezuela: Smartmatic and Carter Center but without the MUD (the Venezuelan Opposition)” By: Rómulo Lares Sánchez · Published on 10/12/2011 – See more at: http://www.frentepatriotico.com/inicio/2011/12/10/filipinas-y-venezuela-smartmatic-y-el-centro-carter-pero-sin-la-mud/#sthash.smJlmUhu.dpuf The ex-president of the Philippines (Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo) was...
Singapore & Malaysia Relied on MNCs and Foreign Investors to Fight Unemployment
From page 66 of LKY’s book “From Third World to First” —“We did not have a large group of ready-made entrepreneurs such as Hong Kong gained in the Chinese industrialists and bankers who came...
Philippine Poverty is due to Prioritizing Pride over Practicality
One major problem I find in the Philippines is that leaders, politicians, and even many “public intellectuals” – writers, columnists, professors, activists – haven’t quite learned to prioritize based on what are the ordinary...
Pretentious Professor is Proven Wrong on the Federal-Parliamentary Issue
Ever since Rodrigo Duterte won and announced that he was aggressively supporting constitutional reforms that would lead to the removal of anti-FDI restrictions as well as a shift to the Listening to the supporters...
The USA should not blame the Electoral College, better to go Parliamentary
Some Americans are angry about the Electoral College, saying that the USA ought to get rid of it and only count the popular vote. Guess what, the Electoral College, as imperfect as it...
Learning about Federalism using Australia’s example
The Aussie Law YouTube site is operated by Renato Saeger M. Costa, a PhD in Law student at the University of Queensland. He’s originally from Brazil, but is an immigrant to Australia and occasionally...
Forum of Federations: Videos for Learning about Federalism
The Forum of Federations is an international organization based in Ottawa, Canada. The Forum and its partners comprise a global network on Federalism. It brings together elected officials, civil servants and experts in federalism from...
How will the Government pay for its COVID-19 Expenses?
Several Filipino politicians have recently said that the Philippine Government should not talk at all about Constitutional Reform and should – according to them – focus purely on the COVID-19 pandemic and crisis. But...
Constitutional Reform First before claiming Sabah!
It’s about time the Philippines and all Filipinos started thinking straight regarding the Sabah issue and understanding that the most important part of the Sabah issue is what the People of Sabah themselves think...
Why Do So Many Filipinos Misunderstand System Change?
[spacer height=”20px”] Many of the anti-reform naysayers who do not have an evil vested interest in maintaining the status quo tend to go against procedural systemic reforms such as shifting from the Presidential System...
Juan Linz: The Perils of Presidentialism
by the late Dr. Juan J. Linz As more of the world’s nations turn to democracy, interest in alternative constitutional forms and arrangements has expanded well beyond academic circles. In countries as dissimilar as...
Frequently Asked Questions (Tagalog)
ECONOMIC LIBERALIZATION 1. Ano ang ibig sabihin ng pag-alis sa probisyong 60/40 sa ating Saligang Batas ng 1987? Ito ay ang pagbura ng Article 12 Sections 9 to 11 at iba pang mga probisyon...
The Parliamentary System can fix Philippine Politics
The Federal-Parliamentary System is Preferable to a Federal-Presidential System: Sticking to the Presidential System may worsen Philippine Politics (This article came out of the book “Quest for a Federal Republic: The PDP-Laban Model of...
Federalism in Africa: The Case of Ethiopia – Challenges & Prospects
(Lecture given by Dr. Negasso Gidada, Former President of the FDRE, for a group from University of Maryland as part of UMD Study Abroad- Ethiopia 2015: University of Maryland Program in Ethiopia: The Policy and Politics of...
Centrist Proposals Executive Summary
The Centrist proposals[spacer height=”default”] The Centrist proposals (CDPI, CDP, Lakas, 2004 ConCom and CDA) calls for a shift to a parliamentary-federal system, with a unicameral body, with the president as head of state and...
The PDP-Laban Federalism Executive Summary
Proposed Amendments to the 1987 Philippine Constitution [The Constitution of the Federal Republic of the Philippines] The PDP Laban Model of PH Federalism: An Executive Summary The Philippines has a unitary system of government...
KITT vs KARR: Systems & Algorithms Matter
Back in the 1980’s there was an extremely popular TV show called Knight Rider. It featured a crime-fighter with a talking car named KITT, short for “Knight Industries Two-Thousand.” KITT was a high-tech Pontiac...
How does Federalism work?
Of all the most important systemic and fundamental constitutional reforms that must be implemented in order to improve the Philippines, Federalism is the reform that has the most solid support among most ordinary Filipinos....
TOM RODRIGUEZ is a solid Constitutional Reform advocate!
If you didn’t already know, Bartolome Alberto Mott, whose nickname is “Tom” (from the ‘Tolome’ of his first name) and is better known to the entire Philippines as “Tom Rodriguez” is not just a...
Marina Bay Sands is One Big Foreign Direct Investment
These days, when you think about Singapore, you imagine a photo of the “three buildings with a boat on top.” If you have friends who have been to Singapore, they prove that they visited...
Lee Kuan Yew on Filipinos and the Philippines
(As a tribute to the great Singaporean statesman, Singapore’s first Prime Minister and visionary “Third World to First” leader who passed away early morning of March 23, 2015 (Monday morning), the CoRRECT™ Movement would like...
I believe: This is a CoRRECT™ Video with a very positive message
Walang Natira: Gloc-9's MTV Rap about the OFW Phenomenon