Philippines: Wealthiest Nation on Earth?, Following Shambhalista's Dubai Philippine gold Options

[trismegistos]

Cory Aquino scandal
from: http://caredt.blogspot.com/2005_09_09_archive.html
Mrs. Aquino is not the only greedy one. Her brother went to Switzerland to withdraw the entire monetary value of at least one certificate of deposit of Marcos. He was imprisoned for several days for doing so.

Today, Aquino knows that the Marcos deposits might finally be opened and the contents thereof transferred to the country. Estrada tried and almost succeeded but perhaps the Marcoses could not have trusted the Estrada group completely.

The Americans had a stake on the deposits for a long time and Cory wants desperately to work with them. She and her relatives, friends, factotums, loved ones and lovers — both dead and living — see stars just imagining how much they would be able to amass once the deposits are transferred.

Cory’s insufferability extended to Ramos, who was so agog during his time to get his own hands too in the Marcoses’ deposits. Ramos even learned a secret fact that was never revealed heretofore, that two-thirds of the deposits are merely lying in wait in China.

Isn’t that part of the success story of China? We surmise that it is. And Cory is linked to China by her lineage. She must be banking on being able to talk to the Chinese people in the know in case she comes to power again.

It will be hard to refute that Cory and her lieutenants desire deeply to arrogate upon themselves the power to control the Marcos deposits. In which case, the solution to the current crisis may not remain hidden for long. It will soon go out in the open. Many will know about it and soon they will discuss it and transfer their knowledge to others.

Soon all around the world, they will know Cory and her gang want to hold hostage the entire Philippines due to her own, her relatives’ and her friends’, factotums’, loved ones’ and lovers’ — both dead and living, but specially the living — burning desire to collect their undeserved percentages from the Marcos deposits once the decision to transfer these funds will come out.

The Last Will and Testament of Marcos is clear: The deposits will accrue to the Filipino people.

She can never even come to accept the truth that the late Ferdinand Marcos actually and in truth chose Sen. Benigno Aquino to be his successor. That is why Marcos was sending U.S.$100,000 every time for Ninoy to withdraw when Ninoy was in Boston, Massachusetts. He would use pay phones to call Marcos and never land lines so no one will know their connection.

Cory will never admit that she dug U.S.$4.62 billion of precious metal hidden by the late President inside a large dam in Metro Manila with the much-vaunted Fort Santiago gold diggings as a decoy. She used the Presidential Security Group as security guards. She used the National Security Council as social welfare workers distributing sardines, corned beef, water and other necessities to the people who were literally living on their rooftops because Cory’s gold digging had to flood communities because the huge dam had to be closed. Cory even had to donate a banca to many of the households because the pathways and streets in the community had become rivers just because of the treasure hunt.

It must be recalled that after this find, Gregorio Honasan and Sen. Enrile even more heightened their threats to unseat her from power.
from: http://caredt.blogspot.com/2005_09_09_archive.html

[matigasngulo]

we live in interesting times.

The Global Elites' take on Noynoy.

Monday, Apr. 26, 2010
The Next Aquino: Can Noynoy Save The Philippines?
By Ishaan Tharoor / Zamboanga City


It's past midnight in Zamboanga and Benigno (Noynoy) Aquino III slouches in his chair, a glass of Coke in one hand and a cigarette in another. He's tired and bleary-eyed and wracked by a cold. A grueling day of audiences, processions and interviews in three different provinces across the southern Philippine island of Mindanao is drawing to a close in the hotel lobby. While aides and well-wishers murmur around him, Aquino stands and holds out his arms as if awaiting handcuffs. They are lined with scratches and bruises — the toll of ceaseless hours of plunging into throngs of supporters and pressing the flesh. He grins: "It's another demonstration of people power."

For the Philippines, Aquino is an unlikely man of the moment. At a rally earlier in the day, tens of thousands had crammed into a stadium to hear the presidential candidate speak. Kris Aquino, his youngest sister and a celebrity talk-show host, revved up the crowd alongside her husband, an equally telegenic basketball star. High-school dance troupes garbed in yellow — the Aquino colors — spun cartwheels on stage. Yet when 50-year-old Noynoy emerged, hunched and bespectacled, amid blaring music and streams of confetti, he cut an awkward figure. Shirt loose, pants baggy and hair thinning, he looked more an abashed computer nerd than the sort of brash, swaggering politician that has become the stock-in-trade in the Philippines. (See pictures of Corazon Aquino's Life.)

The movement that has swelled around Aquino in the past year, launching him as chief contender for the Philippine presidency ahead of the May 10 general elections, hinges on a legacy far larger than his own. His charismatic father, Benigno (Ninoy) Aquino Jr., was the country's greatest champion of democracy before being gunned down in 1983, presumably by agents of the ruling dictator Ferdinand Marcos. Then his mother, Corazon (Cory) Aquino, a once meek housewife, became the figurehead of a popular rebellion in 1986 that toppled Marcos and gifted to the global lexicon the now immortal phrase of democratic revolution — people power. Not for nothing is Nelson Mandela said to have praised Noynoy Aquino when they once met, quipping, "You chose your parents well."

By his own admission, Aquino would not be running at all had it not been for the massive outpouring of public grief and affection that followed his mother's death from cancer last August. He says he now walks the same path first trod by his revered parents. "They made automatic in me the preference to take up the cudgels for those who have less in life, for the powerless," he says. "Why should I veer away from their footprints?" (Read "Corazon Aquino 1933-2009: The Saint of Democracy.")

This moral mandate has proven especially poignant ahead of the elections — winning Aquino a lead in opinion polls despite a relatively undistinguished political career (he's currently a member of the Philippine Senate). Popular opinion turned long ago against the current President, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, who has been in power for nearly a decade. Her administration is mired in sundry allegations of graft and electoral fraud. The law bars Arroyo from seeking re-election, but many critics see in her reign traces of the nation's authoritarian past. Analysts point to a decline in the independence of institutions like the judiciary and an increasing gap between the wealthy few and the 30% of the population living below the poverty line. Says Aquino: "It's as if we've backslid to the days of Marcos."

Aquino's campaign has styled itself as the panacea for an afflicted country. If you listen to his supporters, he is the righteous change candidate, destined to overhaul a stagnant status quo and redeem democracy, which has had a long and torturous history in the Philippines. While his opponents — including a wealthy billionaire — draw their funds from a coterie of vested interests, Aquino claims to be operating on a shoestring budget. Perhaps overstating the point, Aquino staffers in Manila display dozens of piggy banks filled with coins pooled together by schoolchildren. Chris Tio, a Cebu businessman who has left his work and family behind to volunteer for the campaign, shakes with emotion when recounting the virtues of the Aquino cause. "The Senator is a humble man at an extraordinary moment," he says. "We're in a fight for the soul of this nation."

Frozen in Time
Yet, for all the zeal he inspires, aquino himself is also a product of the status quo. Both his parents, Ninoy and Cory, came from pedigreed stock — landed, aristocratic families that have long been part of the ruling establishment. Similarly, Aquino's vice-presidential running mate, Mar Roxas, is the grandson of Manuel Roxas, the country's first President. Arroyo, their erstwhile foe, is the daughter of Diosdado Macapagal, another President from the early days of the republic. And though they eventually faced each other as enemies, Ninoy and Marcos were members of the same fraternity at an elite Philippine university. Like a pantomime of ancient Rome, Manila's political landscape has been shaped for generations by the intimacies and vendettas of an entrenched rank of patricians.


That, ultimately, has been more of a bane than a boon for the Philippines. From being the second richest country in Asia in the 1950s, it has dropped to among the continent's poorest and least dynamic. During the Marcos years, key industries were turned into monopolies run by friends and allies, creating a culture of crony capitalism that still lingers. While Arroyo is generally praised for guiding the economy to stability during the recession, much of the growth in the country is the result of remittances sent back by a legion of Filipinos encouraged to work abroad — currently an estimated 9 million to 11 million people, or roughly 10% of the country's total population. With little job creation at home, analysts point to the Philippines' inability to grow its middle class. "The basics for success are here, at least in terms of human capital," says Greg Rushford, a Washington-based expert on trade who has monitored the Philippines for over 30 years. "But there is a lack of seriousness in the political leadership — institutions are dominated by an uncaring wealthy class."

Aquino says he cares: he speaks eagerly and repeatedly about empowering the people by delivering them "freedom from hunger." His campaign has made curbing corruption its No. 1 goal; translated from Tagalog, its main slogan reads, "With No Corruption, There's No Poverty." Aquino says some $6 billion would return to the national budget each year were it not for graft in the system. But he and his nine rival candidates (who all, to varying degrees, have spoken out against corruption) are going up against a problem that is hardwired into the country's politics — one whose American-style democracy echoes the cutthroat days of Tammany Hall and whose hacienda culture of feudal oligarchs would seem familiar to much of Latin America. "There are ties of clan, family and region that are stronger than the nation," says Ramon Casiple, a leading political commentator in Manila. "To this day, it's all about patronage." (See TIME's Aquino covers.)

The rot in the Philippine system was perfectly illustrated last November, when gunmen in the service of the Ampatuans, a powerful ruling family in the Mindanao province of Maguindanao, ambushed the entourage of a rival politician, killing 57 people, including over two dozen journalists. The grisly massacre — some bodies were grotesquely mutilated and defiled — shocked the country and made global headlines. But while Arroyo has arrested leading Ampatuans and called for a ban on guns ahead of the polls, her opponents cite the clan's long-standing ties to her administration, which, they say, doled out generous state funding from Manila in exchange for support during local elections. "The incident dramatized the way feudal politics play out in the Philippines," says Marites Vitug, editor of Newsbreak, a respected Manila newsweekly.

What enraged many observers, beyond just the prevalence of naked warlordism in some of the poorer reaches of the country, was the audacity of the attack. It's a symptom, say Vitug and others, of a culture of impunity that has cemented itself in the Philippines over the decades and become exacerbated under the present government. A 2009 U.S. State Department report chronicled widespread extrajudicial killings and the disappearances of human-rights activists and leftist journalists, as well as the mistreatment of Muslims in the country's insurgency-ravaged south. It called corruption in the Philippines "endemic." (Read "People Power's Philippine Saint: Corazon Aquino.")

Rumors of politicians abusing their power swirl constantly in the voluble Philippine media, but little gets done to bring anyone to justice in a country whose courts are infamous for their low conviction rates. Arroyo became President in 2001 after being at the forefront of mass protests against perceived corruption in the administration of Joseph Estrada, a populist former movie star. In a rare instance of prosecution, Estrada was convicted of "plunder" in 2007, only to be pardoned by Arroyo months later. He's now among the front-runners in this May's presidential polls.

Like Mother, Like Son
Aquino is not the only candidate promising social renewal, but he seems well suited for the part — carrying himself with an air of almost Gandhian simplicity and uprightness. Ahead of his decision to run, he consulted in seclusion with the nuns of a Carmelite convent. He later exasperated aides by sending back shoes purchased for the campaign trail because they were too expensive. Unmarried, he leans on his four sisters for support. "Someone had to tell him that a shirt has to fit in a certain way," sighs Kris. "That his jeans can't have pleats."

But this modesty has not won over all. Aquino's chief rival in the elections, Manuel Villar, is a suave, smiling businessman with a rags-to-riches story, rising from a Manila slum to become one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in the country. He scoffs at Aquino's thin political record: "Has he done anything?" Villar himself has held influential seats in the Philippine Congress for over a decade and some accuse of him of using his political clout to grow his own real estate fortune, a charge Villar dismisses. His campaign spending has dwarfed that of other candidates, funding lavish TV ads and radio jingles, and he's associated with a roster of big-ticket allies, including world-champion boxer Manny Pacquiao. "I am not a movie star. My parents weren't heroes," Villar tells TIME. "The playing field needs to be leveled somehow."


Observers say the presidential race has become a contest between Villar's populism (and deep pockets) and the Aquino family legacy. The battle bears the echo of an earlier rivalry: like Marcos, Villar is running at the head of the Nacionalista Party, which vied in the past with the Aquinos' Liberal Party. (He is also backed by Marcos' son, Bongbong.) Marcos' refusal to accept an electoral loss to Cory triggered the People Power movement and catapulted her into the presidency in 1986. Her administration is credited with doing much to pull the Philippines away from the dark years of Marcos' martial law, bringing back foreign investors and rewriting the country's constitution. But, unlike her husband Ninoy, Cory was never a natural politician and was seen by critics at times to be weak and indecisive. She was also beset by the conspiracies of pro-Marcos forces and victim to three failed coup attempts. Shrapnel from a 1987 attack by rebellious troops is still lodged in her son's neck.

Noynoy Aquino says he has forgiven the soldiers who once sought to kill him — some are now in politics as well — and is not concerned about the threat of an interfering military. (Mutinous officers in 2006 also sought to oust Arroyo.) He talks with ease and intelligence about his plans to expand the country's middle class with microcredit programs, to boost industry, universalize health care, fix education and shake up the judiciary. But there are doubts about how savvy an operator he will be when thrown deep into the murky world of Philippine politics — one, by his own admission, that he has considered forsaking in the past "so not to be compromised anymore." Winnie Monsod, a prominent TV pundit who once served in Cory's administration, says Aquino "doesn't have his father's charisma, but he has his mother's sincerity. Whether that's enough, I don't know." (See pictures of a deadly massacre in the Philippines.)

Keeping Hope Alive
There's a cautious optimism that it just might be. "People sometimes don't see it," says Maria Elena, Aquino's eldest sister, widely known by her nickname "Ballsy." "But Noynoy's very stubborn. He knows what's right and what's wrong." Executive power in the Philippines is far-reaching — by some counts, Arroyo made thousands of government appointments — and experts hope the next administration will build up the stability and independence of the country's frail political institutions. Aquino is seen to be surrounding himself with a team of largely honest, well-intentioned politicos. "He may not be the ultimate architect of change, but he could push open the door for real reform," says the commentator Casiple.

Vitug, the magazine editor, says Aquino's promise lies in his incorruptible image. "Our trust in politics has been so eroded that people just want a new leader who will do the very basic — who will not be corrupt, who will be good," she says. But this is also tethered to a far deeper affection. "The people remember his parents," says Monsod. "For them it's like going back to Camelot." (Read "A Miracle Worker in a Plain Yellow Dress.")

Aquino is more humble about his role, fitting for a person who has lived quietly for much of his life in the shadow of his parents' legend. "We are just instruments put in the right position to execute God's will," he says with the sort of religious solemnity his mother became famous for. After leaving office, Cory had turned to painting. The walls of her old Manila home are lined with watercolors of flowers, rosaries and scenes of sylvan idyll far from the tumult and violence that often filled her political life. Aquino's rise follows his mother's retreat from the maelstrom and there's a palpable steeliness beneath his unimposing demeanor. "I crossed my Rubicon in 1983," says Aquino, referring to the year his father was assassinated. "I cannot accept that he would die for nothing."

Neither can countless Filipinos. As Aquino's convoy heads to the rally in Zamboanga, the city nearly empties out entirely onto the streets to greet him. Yellow banners and ribbons — first popularized by Ninoy's love for the 1970s pop song "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Around the Ole Oak Tree" — festoon almost every rickety fence and street light in a town governed by politicians aligned against the Aquinos. The roads teem with Zamboangans of all walks of life, barefoot street kids and housewives holding parasols, all clad in their own makeshift yellow Aquino gear (the campaign didn't at the time have a budget to mass-produce T-shirts). The procession teeters to a snail's pace for over three hours, as thousands swarm around, their hands held up forming Cory's famed L sign — meaning laban, or "fight." So much confetti and shredded paper billows out of office buildings that, over the wail of sirens and the ceaseless chanting of "Noynoy!," tropical Zamboanga looks like it's covered in a layer of snow.

Romy Mercado, a friend of Aquino's since high school and a close aide, says they have been received in such fashion nearly everywhere. The campaign, according to Aquino himself, is quickening something "dormant" in the Filipino people. "I haven't seen anything like it since the days of Cory and People Power," Mercado shouts over the din, sitting one vehicle behind Aquino's. But when asked to talk more about his experience of that now faraway time, Mercado is unable to respond. Head in his hands, he's too busy wiping away the tears.

—with reporting by Sunshine De Leon / Manila

http://www.bworldonline.com/main/content.php?id=9455

SSS to introduce gold trading

THE SOCIAL Security System (SSS) wants to introduce the trading of gold certificates in the stock exchange, and give investors a new investment vehicle and at the same time hedge its assets against price fluctuations.

In a statement, the private sector pension fund said it has written the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) to express its intent to purchase P1 billion worth of gold.

The BSP has $5.95 billion worth of gold in its reserves as of March.

“Eventually, SSS intends to issue gold certificates,” SSS President Romulo L. Neri was quoted as saying in the statement.

Short on specifics, SSS said it hoped to eventually “establish a trading mechanism” for these gold certificates in the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE).

SSS Spokesman Joel P. Palacios said in a telephone interview yesterday the letter was sent to BSP Governor Amando M. Tetangco, Jr. on April 16.

However, the plan to buy gold from the central bank and to issue tradeable gold certificates still needed to be approved by the Social Security Commission, the fund’s board.

“Once the gold is available, we will issue certificates to represent specific units of gold and the certificates will be traded at the PSE,” Mr. Palacios said.

“The plan would enable SSS to hedge part of its assets in gold reserves, which is widely considered a safe and stable investment,” SSS pointed out in the statement.

“Gold is a haven for investors during times of currency devaluations.”

Mr. Neri, in the SSS statement, said gold certificates would also give investors a hedge against price fluctuation, aside from presenting them another investment option.

He added the trading of these gold certificates would result in additional income for the pension fund as well as help the central bank mop up excess liquidity in the open market.

Sought for comment, Astro C. del Castillo, managing director of First Grade Holdings, Inc., said the trading of gold certificates will give investors another form of investment.

He said that during times of crisis, people usually go to gold for safety and so its value is expected to rise.

“The more instruments that we have in the PSE, the better. Hopefully, it will attract more investors,” he said.

He noted, however, that gold is traded in other Asian exchanges as a commodity and not as a security.

Under Section 26 of the Social Security Act of 1997, the SSS is mandated to invest in BSP-approved investment instruments.

As of end-December of 2009, the SSS has over P260 billion in its investment reserve fund.

The SSS investment portfolio includes placements in government securities, equities, member and development loans, housing and real estate. -- L. D. Desiderio
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[azaz]

Nanotechnology now employs gold, platinum and hydrogen peroxide to build bacterium-size catalytic engines for nanorobots according to Scientific America.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article....nanotech-motors

http://www.nano.uts.edu.au/pdfs/Cortie2002c.pdf
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Also in nanoscale levitation according to SEAS-Harvard U.

http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/foundati...time?view=print

http://www.utilisegold.com/news/2010/03/05...a_for_nanotech/
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That SEAS finding brings my mind back sometime ago to what Fr. Pascualito Monsanto (of the Aramaic Church of the Philippines and wrote a book about Philippine gold) wherein he said that gold has something to do with the stabilization of Earth's gravity. Though I brushed that aside as having no scientific basis, this new findings stirs my mind that maybe, gold might indeed have some Earth-size effect that modern science is still yet to discover. Gold has been mined since ancient times. Maybe the Ancients knew more about this metal than just for jewelry and adornment. In the Bible, gold is God's metal of choice for His Temple above silver and bronze.
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This topic is now one year in this forum. Thank you everyone.

This post has been edited by azaz: Apr 22 2010, 08:19 PM

[matigasngulo]

Nanotechnology now employs gold, platinum and hydrogen peroxide to build bacterium-size catalytic engines for nanorobots according to Scientific America.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article....nanotech-motors

http://www.nano.uts.edu.au/pdfs/Cortie2002c.pdf
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Also in nanoscale levitation according to SEAS-Harvard U.

http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/foundati...time?view=print

http://www.utilisegold.com/news/2010/03/05...a_for_nanotech/
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That SEAS finding brings my mind back sometime ago to what Fr. Pascualito Monsanto (of the Aramaic Church of the Philippines and wrote a book about Philippine gold) wherein he said that gold has something to do with the stabilization of Earth's gravity. Though I brushed that aside as having no scientific basis, this new findings stirs my mind that maybe, gold might indeed have some Earth-size effect that modern science is still yet to discover. Gold has been mined since ancient times. Maybe the Ancients knew more about this metal than just for jewelry and adornment. In the Bible, gold is God's metal of choice for His Temple above silver and bronze.
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This topic is now one year in this forum. Thank you everyone.

Happy Thread anniversary, everyone !

Interesting, the Orthodox Church in the Philippines - They are primarily Lebanese congregation, correct ?

[African]

This sounds abit finny and abit real

[matigasngulo]

This sounds abit finny and abit real

you could just add your own stories about Kenyan gold & fantastic treasures. Do you also have a King Midas ? Maybe the German East African Army left something from Tabora (but that's Tanzania).

[azaz]

Happy Thread anniversary, everyone !

Interesting, the Orthodox Church in the Philippines - They are primarily Lebanese congregation, correct ?

I don't remember Fr. Monsanto mentioning links with Lebanese based church. I'll ask if I get in touch with him again. He has not replied to my emails for two years now. His book on Philippine gold was sought by Todd Alphine, and probably also by the Diaz umbrella.

There is an unusual silence at Ming's forum. I hope they are turning their words into action, that is, "...returning the wealth to the intended owners..."

This post has been edited by azaz: Apr 26 2010, 10:58 PM

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[matigasngulo]

I don't remember Fr. Monsanto mentioning links with Lebanese based church. I'll ask if I get in touch with him again. He has not replied to my emails for two years now. His book on Philippine gold was sought by Todd Alphine, and probably also by the Diaz umbrella.

There is an unusual silence at Ming's forum. I hope they are turning their words into action, that is, "...returning the wealth to the intended owners..."

oh, i read the wikipedia article about that group, they seem to be present in Australia as well - large Lebanese population. and there are some in the Philippines too, doesn't mean though that it prevents others to join or even lead, like Fr. Monsanto. i noticed that in the forum, somebody was upset about a divorce settlement and started spamming. well, seems that packsof prospering are in RP too, with the SSS plan.

this is about the Russian / Byzantine Orthodox Church:

Gold is a colour of The Heavenly Kingdom. When used as the background of an icon it is not flat, but is instead intended to be of infinite depth. Icons are drawn in a flat, non-perspective style. This is intentional, not just a reflection on the skills of the icon painters. The flat style of the painting allows the icon to be viewed equally by all, regardless of position.

i'm following a discussion on a german forum about the german bank minting more gold coins than it acutally has - supposedly it has only 80 tonnes accesible, and is minitng them until 2015 in 20 € gold coins. people are suspicious , thinking that it will only lead to someone confiscating it in the future.

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[azaz]

Some of you maybe interested in these sites:

http://www.cseti.org/ce5.htm

http://www.ufoevidence.org/topics/Government.htm

This post has been edited by azaz: Apr 29 2010, 09:06 PM

[matigasngulo]

if we are already talking about ufos and trans-dimensional beings & demons, have you heard about Obama's plan to create additional states of the USA ? he slipped out the number "57", and only Puerto Rico is actually being debated. maybe RP could get itself nominated too... Federalistas, here we come again.

so, are the aliens helping the good guys or the bad guys ???

This post has been edited by matigasngulo: Apr 30 2010, 04:15 AM

[ilikechicken]

if we are already talking about ufos and trans-dimensional beings & demons, have you heard about Obama's plan to create additional states of the USA ? he slipped out the number "57", and only Puerto Rico is actually being debated. maybe RP could get itself nominated too... Federalistas, here we come again.

so, are the aliens helping the good guys or the bad guys ???

I think they are also trying to find this gold.

[azaz]

According to the sources I read (and heard), there are bad and good alien guys. With the seeming many technological applications of gold, it is very possible that they also seek this metal.

It is not uncommon for me when I was a boy and even now to see slow moving star-like objects in the night sky. Being a former IACE ( http://www.iacea.com/index.htm ), I can say that I can distinguish their difference from the lights of an airplane or other aircraft. One time, this star-like object I was watching made a sharp 90 degrees turn (or "L" shape turn) which is very unlikely for a plane or a helicopter. But not all I see are star-like and at night. On May 1985, in Roxas City, at around 11 in the morning, during our family reunion (father side), I thought I was seeing the moon above us, but when I looked more intently, it was a gray disc. I viewed the object for about two or three minutes then tried to get the attention of my cousins beside me. When I pointed the object to my cousins, it was gone. Few years later, Roxas City was in the news because of other UFO sightings.

This post has been edited by azaz: May 1 2010, 06:16 AM

[NeoVxR]

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Asian_Economy/LE01Dk01.html

By Walden Bello

The issue of corruption resonates in developing countries. In the Philippines, for instance, the slogan of the coalition that is likely to win the 2010 presidential elections is "Without corrupt officials, there are no poor people."

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it may be quite ontopic and of interest, what walden has to say about stronger causes behind poverty than corruption: financial politics and liberalization of domestic markets for foreign vendors.
and there are some other countries with similar problems.

[azaz]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGzcliLJolk...feature=related

This post has been edited by azaz: May 2 2010, 11:15 PM

[matigasngulo]

so, if there is a deal with the government, who will guarantee that the Aquino Corp. won't rescind it and take the loot themselves

btw i thought i saw a ufo once when i was in southern italy on avacation, don't know, was something shiny moving. maybe the aurora spyplane

This post has been edited by matigasngulo: May 3 2010, 05:06 PM

[azaz]

so, if there is a deal with the government, who will guarantee that the Aquino Corp. won't rescind it and take the loot themselves

btw i thought i saw a ufo once when i was in southern italy on avacation, don't know, was something shiny moving. maybe the aurora spyplane

The Aurora is triangular, hyper sonic, does not hover and pitch black. And if it can be seen by the naked eye, at that altitude, it would probably leave a booming sound.

There are already two sides in this Philippine gold: The Marcos umbrella and the DNP or Diaz umbrella. Both have certificates, claims and counter claims. I hope no other umbrellas mushroom around it.

This post has been edited by azaz: May 3 2010, 11:23 PM

[trismegistos]

Nanotechnology now employs gold, platinum and hydrogen peroxide to build bacterium-size catalytic engines for nanorobots according to Scientific America.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article....nanotech-motors

http://www.nano.uts.edu.au/pdfs/Cortie2002c.pdf
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Also in nanoscale levitation according to SEAS-Harvard U.

http://harvardscience.harvard.edu/foundati...time?view=print

http://www.utilisegold.com/news/2010/03/05...a_for_nanotech/
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That SEAS finding brings my mind back sometime ago to what Fr. Pascualito Monsanto (of the Aramaic Church of the Philippines and wrote a book about Philippine gold) wherein he said that gold has something to do with the stabilization of Earth's gravity. Though I brushed that aside as having no scientific basis, this new findings stirs my mind that maybe, gold might indeed have some Earth-size effect that modern science is still yet to discover. Gold has been mined since ancient times. Maybe the Ancients knew more about this metal than just for jewelry and adornment. In the Bible, gold is God's metal of choice for His Temple above silver and bronze.
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This topic is now one year in this forum. Thank you everyone.

One year na pala tayo.


Metaphysically and Alchemically speaking, Gold is the King of all metallic elements being analagous to Sun, Blood, and the Male seed, therefore having the highest energetic imprint...
Tiniest jots, even atomic particles of gold grants an enormous amount of condensation power

[azaz]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn8tY0RQeuU...feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dn8tY0RQeuU...feature=related

Japanese stolen treasure in Asia is distinct from Philippine gold. But Santa Romana had his hands on both that is why the distinction is often blurred.

Thank you Trismegistos. I thought this topic won't last a week. But the evidences that everyone pours here help awaken the minds of our current generation.

This post has been edited by azaz: May 4 2010, 09:35 PM

[trismegistos]

^^^Thanks a lot also for your noble aims and efforts.