DIE HARD III
Herman Tiu Laurel
4/4/2005
The thinking inside the box, or conventional wisdom of today, is Pope John Paul II or Karol Wojtyla is an exceptional and great religious leader. What would he be like if one steps outside the box:
Karol Wojtyla is as good as any human being can be, but not great as Western and Roman Catholic Church propaganda makes him. All this drama over his last moments is great catharsis to reinforce the psychological hold of the Church over its flock, good for it; but not necessarily good for Mankind. Karol Wojtyla was a conservative and preached against the political liberation of the poor. He interfered to diminish the sovereignty of states and if they tried to kill him it is because of this. He failed to deliver on a major Church theme during his watch – the Jubillee’s debt forgiveness for the poor nations.
Wojtyla worked with the CIA to break open Poland and Eastern Europe, which strengthened the old European oligarchy's power over Eurasian politics. In the Philippines he allowed Sin to play politics and restore the oligarchy with Edsa Uno. The Roman Catholic Church has always been the Church of the oligarchy and will continue to be, and that is why where this Church is dominant in Third World countries the domestic economies are exploited for a few foreign and local interests. Most religions are too political, but Buddhism is not and many in the West have turned to it for honest faith.
The Catholic Church under Wojtyla restored a great degree of worldly powers but lost a lot of moral powers. He did not have the moral courage to resolve the hypocrisy of priestly celibacy that created the scandals of priests in sex. Yet, there are pictures on the Internet of Wotyla with a woman and a child enjoying an outing privately like a family. He campaigned against population planning, which I agree with, but used the distorted moral arguments that fail to address the real issue – population and poverty is foremost a problem of distribution and control of economic resources of the earth. Wojtyla could not argue this way for he would have to go against Western and national oligarchies upon which the Vatican depends for resources.
Wojtyla was a potentate who refused to retire even when demonstrably incapacitated. Arguing reminiscent of Davide’s convoluted “constructive resignation”, Wojtyla or his hangers-on said that his incapacity served as inspiration for the suffering people. Crass Vatican politics will choose its next political leader, there is much talk that the world may be seeing the last of them. There many are priests, nuns and bishops I like and admire, but institutionalized religion is a bureaucracy with vested interests like all the others.
Here’s a beautiful piece outside the box, from Hero Vaswani: “ ….understand why interest rates were so low during the period of fixed rates of exchange and capital controls (of the 50s). There was no macroeconomic fundamentals then as now for the domestic national economy. However with liberalization , privatization and deregulation you have actually made the macroeconomic fundamentals of this country a slave to the fundamentals of the U.S. economy, through the Federal Reserve and the U.S. treasury. In effect the Philippines remains a colony of the U.S.
“Rationale for interest rates is risk and real income. Income after inflation. However here in the Philippines it is impossible to have demand side inflation as our problem has always been ‘cost push’. BOP crisis resulting in devaluation. In peso terms we have already paid out debts many times over. Look at the explosion of debt since 1997 till 2004 and you have devaluation as the major source. Hence today since 1983 Jobo started us on the road to perdition by using interest rates instead of debt repudiation to solve forex crisis.
“Result: you have the monstrous debt problem and resulting debt service problem which is more than the revenue of the national government. Those theologians from the U.P. school will never move out of their dogmatic ways. Their gospel believes that there is one world economy therefore there is one monetary system. In essence they believe that the earth is flat. You actually bleed a country that has limited savings to make sure you can access foreign savings and the result becomes you can never raise your savings as you destroy your physical productive capacities during the bloodletting.
“That my friend is what the ‘economic hit man's’ role is. They use and preach the religion of free trade and free markets and people do not realize that this will result in slavery. Debt repudiation and capital controls is what is necessary. National government debt is $37 B. We have over to $30b in forex reserves, (BSP and FCDU). We could immediately pay off all multilateral loans. The BSP reserves are all result of loans anyway. We have at least $ 10b in recurring income from OFW's We have another $8B from exports. If only we institute capital controls we can also reduce interest rates in peso levels. There would be no need to raise taxes. However we would be in violation of the Brady agreement we signed. So what!!!!”
So what too to opposition lawyers’ in-the-box legalistic reaction to the SC Poe petition decision, the people ask: is GMA legitimate? The SC junking is an admission she’s illegal. People’s Electoral Tribunal here we come! WE, the people, will be the judge.
(Tune in to 1098AM, Mon. to Fri. 6-7pm)
Sunday, March 6, 2011
RP, mismanaged and misled
DIE HARD III
Herman Tiu Laurel
3/14/2005
The “eminence gris” of Ramos, Joe Almonte spoke before the VAT-supporting Foundation for Economic Freedom forum. He described Philippine society as a “mismanaged society” and such ripe for coup d’etat. He referred to the Estrada administration that he said collapsed due to mismanagement; but for the short period of three years one wonders how the blame can be on Estrada. Estrada did not sign the IPP contracts making our power rates the highest in Asia today, nor all the loans that went to real estate ventures that have failed and ballooned with a vengeance.
One management ran the show since 1986, that’s the Edsa Uno cabal that includes the “eminence gris” and his boss but also Cory Aquino, the Makati Business Club, the “civil society” and its socio-cultural infrastructure embracing the mainstream media, the neo-liberal U.P. economists and the Foundation for Economic Freedom, the corrupt in the military and the police forces, among many others who have embraced the cult of power and profit over principle and truth. They have not only mismanaged what was once the envy of Asia, they also misled it for over a decade.
When the Filipino nation exercised its wisdom to break from mismanagement since 1986 and a new direction under Estrada, the Edsa Uno cabal plotted and organized Edsa Dos. They launched a coup d’etat despite the vote of almost 11-million Filipinos, the largest vote ever attained by a presidential candidate and the only undisputed electoral triumph since 1986 – a claim neither the disputed Cory Aquino and Ramos election can even pretend to assume, nor what Gloria can ever claim about her 2004 “victory” over FPJ which 75% of Filipinos doubt.
The “eminence gris” has neither “gris” matter nor eminence. Maybe the reason my repeated challenge to him to debate face-to-face on the issues he has never accepted. What he has contributed to the national debate is not intelligent discussion but pedantic and verbose psywar propaganda, lies intended to continuously mislead any segment of the public which can still be taken in by such Goebbelian trash. His main proposition at the FEF forum is BS: Purely military intervention has invariably plunged us from one frying pan to another until we end up in the fire.
One must speak of the mission and policies of management. Almonte has represented the faction in society that advocate globalization of the nation. That policy has clearly been debunked at the recent of the century, and ushering in bleak millennium prospects for the country. The Estrada administration was unwittingly challenging globalization by prioritizing food security, opposition to sovereign guarantees, resolution of the insurgency, among other policies that was achieving success. That success had to be aborted, hence Edsa Dos.
Edsa Dos brought on the nightmare of what should be called “the Gloria mismanagement”, now Ramos and his “eminence gris” are attempting to wash their hands of the guilt. But people know the truth; these stabs at the Gloria regime by Ramos and Almonte are to leverage with Gloria for concessions while confusing the public about the real solution. There is only one way to restore sound management, restore the Constitution and respect the people’s mandate to restore the basis of good management: Trust.
Gloria has put us in number 2 in corruption in Asia. The other frontrunners in the Asian corruption race have much higher GDP growth rates than the Philippines, even Indonesia which the latest report ranks as No. 1. A recent international article on Indonesia opines that it does better than the Philippines because Indonesia, like Vietnam, India and China, have strong nationalistic orientations. Speaking of corruption, what is the record of the Philippine administrations.
The corruption issue was used against Estrada, but after four years of pursing the corruption cases against Estrada not a single case has been proven. After Edsa Dos the Gloria government formed an investigation team to pursue alleged Estrada corruption cases, with then Justice Secretary Nani Perez heading the mission. But in time, it was Nani Perez who was felled by a major corruption case, the $ 2-M Impsa biribery scandal that even Hong Kong and Swiss financial authorities substantiated with documentary proofs. Up to this day, nothing on Estrada.
The result of the decade-and-a-half of the mismanagement of the Edsa Uno cabal, including their worse ever move creating Edsa Dos, is a nation in turmoil and on the brink of disaster. A “rumbling social volcano” is at our feet, and that is the topic today at the PUP’s Post Anniversary Convocation, sponsored by the PUP Department of Finance, Politics and Economics; Department of Mass Communication and Department of Arts and Letters. Speakers are: Mayor Jejomar Binay, Dr. Alejandro Lichauco, Atty. Alan Paguia, Mr. Hero Vaswani and yours truly.
Finally, take note of the cover story of one international magazine extolling Jeffrey Sachs and his solution to global poverty. Sachs was an exponent of the now failed globalization. They praise him for the “stabilization of the Bolivian currency”, but currency is not the economy. Look at the Bolivian economic collapse now. They give him credit for Poland “recovery”, but what Poland did was default on its debt forcing the West to give it 50% debt discount that had nothing to do with Sachs. Sachs’ “shock therapy” misled and looted Russia. Don’t be misled by these U.S. magazines.
Herman Tiu Laurel
3/14/2005
The “eminence gris” of Ramos, Joe Almonte spoke before the VAT-supporting Foundation for Economic Freedom forum. He described Philippine society as a “mismanaged society” and such ripe for coup d’etat. He referred to the Estrada administration that he said collapsed due to mismanagement; but for the short period of three years one wonders how the blame can be on Estrada. Estrada did not sign the IPP contracts making our power rates the highest in Asia today, nor all the loans that went to real estate ventures that have failed and ballooned with a vengeance.
One management ran the show since 1986, that’s the Edsa Uno cabal that includes the “eminence gris” and his boss but also Cory Aquino, the Makati Business Club, the “civil society” and its socio-cultural infrastructure embracing the mainstream media, the neo-liberal U.P. economists and the Foundation for Economic Freedom, the corrupt in the military and the police forces, among many others who have embraced the cult of power and profit over principle and truth. They have not only mismanaged what was once the envy of Asia, they also misled it for over a decade.
When the Filipino nation exercised its wisdom to break from mismanagement since 1986 and a new direction under Estrada, the Edsa Uno cabal plotted and organized Edsa Dos. They launched a coup d’etat despite the vote of almost 11-million Filipinos, the largest vote ever attained by a presidential candidate and the only undisputed electoral triumph since 1986 – a claim neither the disputed Cory Aquino and Ramos election can even pretend to assume, nor what Gloria can ever claim about her 2004 “victory” over FPJ which 75% of Filipinos doubt.
The “eminence gris” has neither “gris” matter nor eminence. Maybe the reason my repeated challenge to him to debate face-to-face on the issues he has never accepted. What he has contributed to the national debate is not intelligent discussion but pedantic and verbose psywar propaganda, lies intended to continuously mislead any segment of the public which can still be taken in by such Goebbelian trash. His main proposition at the FEF forum is BS: Purely military intervention has invariably plunged us from one frying pan to another until we end up in the fire.
One must speak of the mission and policies of management. Almonte has represented the faction in society that advocate globalization of the nation. That policy has clearly been debunked at the recent of the century, and ushering in bleak millennium prospects for the country. The Estrada administration was unwittingly challenging globalization by prioritizing food security, opposition to sovereign guarantees, resolution of the insurgency, among other policies that was achieving success. That success had to be aborted, hence Edsa Dos.
Edsa Dos brought on the nightmare of what should be called “the Gloria mismanagement”, now Ramos and his “eminence gris” are attempting to wash their hands of the guilt. But people know the truth; these stabs at the Gloria regime by Ramos and Almonte are to leverage with Gloria for concessions while confusing the public about the real solution. There is only one way to restore sound management, restore the Constitution and respect the people’s mandate to restore the basis of good management: Trust.
Gloria has put us in number 2 in corruption in Asia. The other frontrunners in the Asian corruption race have much higher GDP growth rates than the Philippines, even Indonesia which the latest report ranks as No. 1. A recent international article on Indonesia opines that it does better than the Philippines because Indonesia, like Vietnam, India and China, have strong nationalistic orientations. Speaking of corruption, what is the record of the Philippine administrations.
The corruption issue was used against Estrada, but after four years of pursing the corruption cases against Estrada not a single case has been proven. After Edsa Dos the Gloria government formed an investigation team to pursue alleged Estrada corruption cases, with then Justice Secretary Nani Perez heading the mission. But in time, it was Nani Perez who was felled by a major corruption case, the $ 2-M Impsa biribery scandal that even Hong Kong and Swiss financial authorities substantiated with documentary proofs. Up to this day, nothing on Estrada.
The result of the decade-and-a-half of the mismanagement of the Edsa Uno cabal, including their worse ever move creating Edsa Dos, is a nation in turmoil and on the brink of disaster. A “rumbling social volcano” is at our feet, and that is the topic today at the PUP’s Post Anniversary Convocation, sponsored by the PUP Department of Finance, Politics and Economics; Department of Mass Communication and Department of Arts and Letters. Speakers are: Mayor Jejomar Binay, Dr. Alejandro Lichauco, Atty. Alan Paguia, Mr. Hero Vaswani and yours truly.
Finally, take note of the cover story of one international magazine extolling Jeffrey Sachs and his solution to global poverty. Sachs was an exponent of the now failed globalization. They praise him for the “stabilization of the Bolivian currency”, but currency is not the economy. Look at the Bolivian economic collapse now. They give him credit for Poland “recovery”, but what Poland did was default on its debt forcing the West to give it 50% debt discount that had nothing to do with Sachs. Sachs’ “shock therapy” misled and looted Russia. Don’t be misled by these U.S. magazines.
Corpo-RAT-ocracy
DIE HARD III
Herman Tiu Laurel
2/14/2005
It’s a red-letter day today, but it’s not because of Valentines. It is bloody Monday after the 500% toll rates increases at the Nlex or North Luzon Expressway, almost literally bloody during the first days of implementation as some motorists flailed their tire wrenches at toll-gate keepers, forcing Nlex bosses to cancel the collection for a while. Let’s do something about this massive oppression and swindle of the Lopez corporations, with Christian Monsod’s International Finance Corporation behind it, and make begin a nationwide awakening to Corpo-RAT-ocracy’s oppression.
The term “corporatrocracy” we encountered in John Perkins book “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man” who said: “Tossing and turning in my bed, I found it impossible to deny that Charlie and everyone else on our team were here for selfish reasons. We were promoting U.S foreign policy and corporate interests. We were driven by greed… A word came to mind – corporatocracy. I was not sure whether I had heard it before or had just invented it, but it seemed to describe perfectly the new elite who had made up their minds to attempt to rule the planet.”
Perkins asserts, “Things are not as they appear. NBC is owned by General Electric…CNN is part of the huge AOL-Time Warner conglomerate. Most of our newspapers, magazines, and publishing houses are owned – and manipulated – by gigantic international corporations. Our media is part of the corporatocrcy…” and like them Philippine media is also controlled by the corporatocracy. Despite the media’s cover up the reality of the oppression by the corporate vampires is dawning on all Filipinos, thanks to their uncontrollable greed and undisguised abusiveness.
The emphasis on “RAT” is my contribution to Perkins’ new term corporatocracy because the “rats” behind these appear in public as respectable, very amiable and upright people. Take the people behind the Nlex company, the top honcho is the very “respectable” former Cory Aquino cabinet member Jose “Ping” de Jesus. With the Lopezes’ control of ABS-CBN and DZMM, and the regular Thursday morning coffee at Annabel’s paid for by Ping de Jesus through her PR men, the “rat” continues with a human face when appearing in public gatherings.
I have long known that in Ping de Jesus’s presentation of the Nlex project to the NEDA board for approval, an item in the alleged P 18.5-B cost of the Nlex improvements described P 700-M for “legal fees”. To the credit of Neda chair Romulo Neri, this item alarmed him enough to make him stand and ask how such a huge amount could be justified for “legal fees”. Jose “Ping” de Jesus reportedly replied, “The president knows about this already.” The almost respectable Neri just folded back and kept quiet to Ping de Jesus’ reply.
According to one congressman the Lopezes’ Nlex takeover of operations violates the franchise law. It does not allow transfer of a franchise, that was given to the PNCC. The Lopezes entered into joint venture with PNCC and used that to takeover the franchise, which is anomalous and illegal. The same congressman reminded me that this Nlex contract was “Bicol expressed” with supposedly P 1-M payola for each congressman but Albertito Lopez “kupit” from. It ended up as P 500K payolas that then Cong. Mike Defensor exposed.
A Makati executive opined that the 500% toll increase could be acceptable if the expressway expansion went all the way through to Pampangga and beyond, but it is only midway up to Bulacan. Improvements such as emergency phones and free towing to the nearest exit are just cosmetic, they haven’t even lighted up the stretch to Pampangga. These are common sense evaluation from common folks. No amount of justification by the First Philippine Industrial Development Corporation (FPIDC) will mitigate the rage their oppression and abuse has triggered.
Filipinos will be hard hit as passenger transporters, truckers and biyaheros are forced to add on this huge burden to their patrons. Vegetable prices used to pay more for the tong along the way to the expressways, now they say this toll cost more than all the tong the pay at the PNP checkpoints. We heard on radio that the truckers association is considering a blockade of the expressway. I hope they do and we in the people’s movement will go all out supporting them, or maybe the people’s movements should initiate it.
The people’s movements must consolidate their struggles. The corpo-rat-ocrats’ PR operators are having an easier time with the divided focus of people’s movements. The expanded-VAT issue, exponentially growing tax burdens, horrendous toll rates increases, bloating debt, increasing power and water rates all connect to one problem – the Corporatocracy or what I also call the corporate oligarchy. Look at the board of : Oscar Lopez, CEO; Augusto Almeda-Lopez, Abes, Garrucho, Hilado, Psinakis, Paterna, Sycip, etc. Didn’t all these support Gloria’s power grab and election cheating?
Psinakis was the Light-A-Fire and April 6 terrorist groups boss, are his puppets like Doris Baffrey and Boyette Montiel (with his laughable “anti-corruption” rally) still proud to serve this “rat”? Many now say Marcos was right after all to crush the Lopezes, but don’t forget American agent Sycip. Am I getting personal? But what could be more personally offensive than stealing from us face-to-face and in broad daylight? They eradicate Rats don’t they?
(For more, tune in from Mon. to Fri. on 1350AM, 7-8am on 1098AM, 6-7pm)
Herman Tiu Laurel
2/14/2005
It’s a red-letter day today, but it’s not because of Valentines. It is bloody Monday after the 500% toll rates increases at the Nlex or North Luzon Expressway, almost literally bloody during the first days of implementation as some motorists flailed their tire wrenches at toll-gate keepers, forcing Nlex bosses to cancel the collection for a while. Let’s do something about this massive oppression and swindle of the Lopez corporations, with Christian Monsod’s International Finance Corporation behind it, and make begin a nationwide awakening to Corpo-RAT-ocracy’s oppression.
The term “corporatrocracy” we encountered in John Perkins book “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man” who said: “Tossing and turning in my bed, I found it impossible to deny that Charlie and everyone else on our team were here for selfish reasons. We were promoting U.S foreign policy and corporate interests. We were driven by greed… A word came to mind – corporatocracy. I was not sure whether I had heard it before or had just invented it, but it seemed to describe perfectly the new elite who had made up their minds to attempt to rule the planet.”
Perkins asserts, “Things are not as they appear. NBC is owned by General Electric…CNN is part of the huge AOL-Time Warner conglomerate. Most of our newspapers, magazines, and publishing houses are owned – and manipulated – by gigantic international corporations. Our media is part of the corporatocrcy…” and like them Philippine media is also controlled by the corporatocracy. Despite the media’s cover up the reality of the oppression by the corporate vampires is dawning on all Filipinos, thanks to their uncontrollable greed and undisguised abusiveness.
The emphasis on “RAT” is my contribution to Perkins’ new term corporatocracy because the “rats” behind these appear in public as respectable, very amiable and upright people. Take the people behind the Nlex company, the top honcho is the very “respectable” former Cory Aquino cabinet member Jose “Ping” de Jesus. With the Lopezes’ control of ABS-CBN and DZMM, and the regular Thursday morning coffee at Annabel’s paid for by Ping de Jesus through her PR men, the “rat” continues with a human face when appearing in public gatherings.
I have long known that in Ping de Jesus’s presentation of the Nlex project to the NEDA board for approval, an item in the alleged P 18.5-B cost of the Nlex improvements described P 700-M for “legal fees”. To the credit of Neda chair Romulo Neri, this item alarmed him enough to make him stand and ask how such a huge amount could be justified for “legal fees”. Jose “Ping” de Jesus reportedly replied, “The president knows about this already.” The almost respectable Neri just folded back and kept quiet to Ping de Jesus’ reply.
According to one congressman the Lopezes’ Nlex takeover of operations violates the franchise law. It does not allow transfer of a franchise, that was given to the PNCC. The Lopezes entered into joint venture with PNCC and used that to takeover the franchise, which is anomalous and illegal. The same congressman reminded me that this Nlex contract was “Bicol expressed” with supposedly P 1-M payola for each congressman but Albertito Lopez “kupit” from. It ended up as P 500K payolas that then Cong. Mike Defensor exposed.
A Makati executive opined that the 500% toll increase could be acceptable if the expressway expansion went all the way through to Pampangga and beyond, but it is only midway up to Bulacan. Improvements such as emergency phones and free towing to the nearest exit are just cosmetic, they haven’t even lighted up the stretch to Pampangga. These are common sense evaluation from common folks. No amount of justification by the First Philippine Industrial Development Corporation (FPIDC) will mitigate the rage their oppression and abuse has triggered.
Filipinos will be hard hit as passenger transporters, truckers and biyaheros are forced to add on this huge burden to their patrons. Vegetable prices used to pay more for the tong along the way to the expressways, now they say this toll cost more than all the tong the pay at the PNP checkpoints. We heard on radio that the truckers association is considering a blockade of the expressway. I hope they do and we in the people’s movement will go all out supporting them, or maybe the people’s movements should initiate it.
The people’s movements must consolidate their struggles. The corpo-rat-ocrats’ PR operators are having an easier time with the divided focus of people’s movements. The expanded-VAT issue, exponentially growing tax burdens, horrendous toll rates increases, bloating debt, increasing power and water rates all connect to one problem – the Corporatocracy or what I also call the corporate oligarchy. Look at the board of : Oscar Lopez, CEO; Augusto Almeda-Lopez, Abes, Garrucho, Hilado, Psinakis, Paterna, Sycip, etc. Didn’t all these support Gloria’s power grab and election cheating?
Psinakis was the Light-A-Fire and April 6 terrorist groups boss, are his puppets like Doris Baffrey and Boyette Montiel (with his laughable “anti-corruption” rally) still proud to serve this “rat”? Many now say Marcos was right after all to crush the Lopezes, but don’t forget American agent Sycip. Am I getting personal? But what could be more personally offensive than stealing from us face-to-face and in broad daylight? They eradicate Rats don’t they?
(For more, tune in from Mon. to Fri. on 1350AM, 7-8am on 1098AM, 6-7pm)
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