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Five lessons from Thatcherism
April 17, 2013 The Great Albion is bidding farewell to the Iron Lady on this day. Thousands came to show their respect for Lady Thatcher while her casket, covered with the union flag, was carried from the Palace of Westminster to St Paul’s Cathedral. Margaret Thatcher, who was the most famous of the twenty prime ministers of the Twentieth Century, was one of the few handfuls who changed the world. She is the only female British Prime Minister ever and the only one who held the office for three terms. Lady Thatcher, who was originally from a poorer district in London's east, enrolled at Oxford University where only the wealthy attended. She majored in chemistry and later on, in 1955, became a politician. After entering politics, she brought about reform, not only to the Conservative Party, but also to British politics. ...
ELECTION LAW AND PHILOSOPHERS
Elections are the name card of a country’s political structure. Mongolia recently changed its election law and will present its new card on theupcoming elections. Parliament members have been discussing and debatingover the approval of this law for many years. Today, almost all of them approach the issue philosophically: these days it is not unusual to hear almost every MP to remark with a deep sigh that there is no such thing as a perfect law,or that there are two sides to every coin. Indeed, one is bound to reflect whether the new election law can significantly change Mongolian politics and society. The renewed election law is modelled onlaws and experiences of other countries with similar small-size population, large territory, and yet not federal system. The result is the combination of majoritarian and proportional representation: 48 seats are majoritarian and ...
Cyber security
Every country has always been trying to acquire greater power than others in land, water, air and space in order to protect and ensure its security. When dealing with those spaces, a country can predict when, where and how one trespasses its border and prevent it from happening. All of the battles and wars in human history have been fought in those three spaces: land, water and air. Superpowers of the world have already declared their interests in space and have been attempting to protect those from the others. Meanwhile, there has been a revolution in communication technology, which created a new threat to humanity and a new space called “cyberspace”, security of which must be protected as well. Cyberspace is an abstract, timeless, limitless, uncontrollable and open system that has neither ownership nor structure of authority but is ...
Dead-end State
Mongolia’s politicians are at a dead-end.Faced with next year’s parliamentary elections, Mongolian parliament members have no other choice but to change the voting system toward a free and fair election with respect to citizens’ voting rights.The public uprising over fraudulent parliamentary elections last year proved to be a bitter lesson to our government for drastically skewing voters’ representation. Then, candidates joined parliament with 5000 votes while those who counted 100,000 could not. 1/3 of the 76 members represented Ulaanbaatar city when half of the nation’s population resides in Ulaanbaatar. An even smaller portion of the state budget investment was designated to the city. Yet today, children in Ulaanbaatar’s peripheries live without electricity and study in a class of 50.So to improve the election system, our two political parties propose a mixture between proportional representation and representation by majority. As of ...
Sheep by Wolf
The state of Mongolia’s corruption is overwhelming. Giving and receiving bribes has deeply permeated our daily lives and social consciousness. It has become unimaginable to accomplish anything without corruption. The places where corruption breeds and multiplies are organisations involving public property, the owner of which is theoretically the public. In reality, it belongs to no one. Instead, there remains a portion of naïve citizens who believe in its’ existence and our state-ruling political parties who try to convince us that such phenomenon exists. Today, in Mongolia state property is synonymous with the financial sources of the ruling political party. Wolves To govern in Mongolia means to control the spending powers of Erdenet Co., MIAT, Mongolian Railways, power plants III and IV, Baganuur mine and other state owned companies, plus pension and social security and other state funds and to ...
Abandoned Tuul
Most major cities in the world are situated on rivers and waterways. Ulaanbaatar about thirty years ago had the Selbe, Dunde, Uliastai, Tuul rivers. One by one they died out and today only Tuul river is left. Even this one looks like it will soon disappear. During the last ten years the river has broken off in several places and the fish began to die off. Looks like the residents of Ulaanbaatar, us too, we are headed in the same direction. Why Tuul River is becoming like this has already been diagnosed. We all know well the main three of the many elements that are causing the pollution and disruption of Tuul River. Factories that clean, process and rinse leathers, skins, wools and cashmeres and other animal raw materials with chemicals. In Ulaanbaatar alone, there are 3 leather processing factories ...
Samurai
President Elbegdorj has paid a visit to Japan. Japan and Mongolia has been expanding their ties in government level and Japan has been rendering development assistances to Mongolia for many years.They repaired our power plant when it was almost about to stop, provided circulating capital when we had no money to extract coal, presented fifty buses when city’s public transport was on the verge of stopping that winter, and built dozen of secondary schools nationwide. Soon they are going to build an airport on long-term credit.All these are bringing a new consumption culture to Mongolia. However, Japanese business is not in hurry to enter Mongolia. Main reason is that we, Mongolians, are not predictable or it is still hard to trust us. Business representatives I met say that there is still high risk in business trust in Mongolia. Exactly the ...
Augusto Pinochet
In 1960’s socialist idea spread dynamically in South America, and left forces started to take power in almost all countries. In Chile, S. Alende won the election in his fourth attempt and nationalized land, industries, mines, shops and all entities and expelled foreign companies from the country in just a few years. These actions were followed by economic instability and shortage of food and consumer goods, resulting economic bankruptcy. In 1973 there was a military coup d’état and the President was shot in the Government house and all those of socialist idea were arrested and chased and hanged.Military leader Augusto Pinochet appointed a number of young ministers, graduates of the Chicago school of economics (US) who had studied market economy theory and returned all confiscated property to their owners back and reestablished market economy relations and invested huge amount of ...
Bushido
Every time I go to Japan, I’m really impressed by their work-ethic. I respect the ever hardworking and industrious quality of its people. Every foreigner is curious to find out and understand what really drives the Japanese people forward from within themselves. This country has been progressing and perfecting its living environment, not only in the years of its rapid economic growth, but also in the last decades of economic decline. Like we said in socialism times, “Capitalism is decaying, but its odor is so nice”. The tangible things they have created and designed with awesome intelligence and cleverness, including their infrastructure, their air, water and land road networks, their water supply system, circulation system, and unpolluted air in the biggest city in the world – Tokyo, in its parks, micro-surroundings, and buildings. If you pour over all these things, you ...
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