Erle Frayne D. Argonza
Magandang gabi! Good evening from PH’s suburban boondocks!
The Philippines just conducted a census last year, 2010, and the result shows a sum total of 94 Million heads in the archipelago. The population growth of 2 Million heads per year is also indicated, showing an increase from the 1.7 Million heads annual increase ten in the year 2000 (when the last census was conducted).
The 2 Million annual growth is already a total result in itself. Accordingly, about 500,000 fetuses are aborted every year in the country, a figure that has alarmed population and health experts. Never mind if the national charter bans abortion, women who commit unwanted pregnancies simply decide to go abortion.
94 Million Filipinos, at a time of economic boom and rising incomes, is a cause for celebration. With a rising middle class at hand—who form the demand base of consumption-led growth—we expect a steadily growing number of Filipinos who comprise the family income bracket earning U.S. $6,000-$30,000 annually. 20 Million Pinoys are in that category today, which will expectedly rise in the next couples of years.
Thus, PH qualifies as an ‘emerging market’. It has first of all a large population, and millions of people falling within the middle class spenders with incomes ranging from U.S. $6,000 to $30,000. Many heads working and earning well translates into economic wellness for a country, so we should welcome this development.
Now, let us not forget the Overseas Filipinos or OFs who comprise an estimated 10 Million heads across 200 countries more or less. These OFs earn an aggregate income of U.S. $400 Billions annually, $20+ Billions of which is remitted to the Philippines as Net Factor Income from Abroad or NFIA. Of the $20+ Billions, only around $18 entered legally established channels of remittance annually.
That means the OFs remit 5% of their earnings to the motherland, and that is good enough. No matter what misery-inducing policies the global elites would slap Pinoys with via the World Bank-IMF-WTO Group, the most demonic being the austerity policies of the IMF, the Philippines can survive thanks to the OF remittances. Let the evil elites shackle PH with crippling low credit ratings and low entry of ‘smart money’ and investments by them, we will still survive thanks to the remittances and our own domestic investments.
The signs are pretty clear that fecundity, the capacity to give birth, is high among Filipinos. This for me is a cause for celebration. Let us sustain our high birthing capacity and increase the number of middle class people by the year, and we will all the more exude our economic and social power as a people.
Contrast that high fecundity to the trends in Japan and Russia, where their populations are falling by the year. Russia has been alarmed a decade ago yet about falling population, and identified the phenomenon as the top national security problem. Japan just began to experience a falling population, and this early look at how alarmed and panicked the Japanese stakeholders are of the consequence of diminishing population.
Not so for my beloved Philippines. We will be producing 2 Million+ Filipinos annually in the archipelago and overseas for many years to come yet, and we shall use the burgeoning population as leverage in negotiating with other nations and regions. The global oligarchs can no longer be fooling us at this time, whacking us with oppressive policies that produce deplorable conditions for our poor folks.
Abroad, our own Kabayans are now crystallizing a consciousness as an Overseas Filipino Nation, and I do welcome this progressive development. United by culture, language, and shared experience, the OF Nation will wield the stick to leverage vis a vis governments, market players, and interest groups in their host countries. They can no longer be fooled in the negotiating tables, much more enslaved and butchered like unwanted pests by sociopathic monsters without responding in a pro-active way.
Clearly, the days when White Americans sang “Brown monkeys have no tails” in the archipelago, a sordid racist song they popularized upon invading the Philippines, are over. The figure of 200 Million Pinoys can be breached by 2050, at a time when PH will be a wealthy nation, huge and wealthy to lead the ASEAN Union.
In sum, 104 Million Filipinos should be welcomed as good news. It is the leveraging power of Pinoys in the new era of Urban Philippines, whence 68% of Pinoys are residing in urban communities here.
[Philippines, 11 February 2011]
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January 2011
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January 2011
Manigong Bagong Taon! Prosperous New Year!
I hereby send my goodwill greetings to enthused readers and fellow analysts who continue to appreciate and spread my notes about social life, wisdom, arts & culture.
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Special thanks to the following online news, magazines and portals for citing my notes as among the top blogs on cyberspace:
http://asiafinest.com
http://clpl-india.com
http://humanitariannews.org
http://newestnews.net
http://pul.se
http://sociology.alltop.com
http://thedailyreviewer.com
http://topcityblogs.com
http://www.nonprofit.org
For recognizing me as Finalist-Best Society, Politics & History Blog, special thanks to the Phiippine Blog Awards:
http://www.philippineblogawards.com.ph
Thanks too to the following hundreds of sites that have cited, discussed and debated on various notes of mine about a diversity of topics and themes:
http://abazurkiem.ciekaweforum.info
http://acutemigraine.info
http://adamsmithlegacy.com
http://aksesoriswanita.com
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http://alexfelipe.com
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Sunday, January 09, 2011
WOMEN CHIEF EXECS: INCREASING COUNT, KUDOS TO WOMEN POWER!
Erle Frayne D. Argonza
Women are making themselves felt more and more in the field of state governance these days. It surely pays to reflect on the increasing ascent of women in this field of endeavor.
In my own country PH, women have since expanded their presence in the top management of state and business bureaucracies. Latest count by the commission on women puts the number at 40% of total exec seats held by women, which renders PH among the exemplars of women empowerment in Asia and the world.
Our immediate past president, Gloria Arroyo, showed her own executive acumen as the Philippines graduated to middle income status from that of a poor 3rd world country during her incumbency. In 1986, our first lady president Corazon Aquino became the iconic symbol of democracy domestically and worldwide. Both lady leaders joined the select coterie of globally influential lady execs for their exemplary feats.
The most recent additions to the lady chief execs are Australia’s Premier Julia Gillard and Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff. I’ve already expressed my kudos to the noblesse ladies, and I wish that they will propel their respective countries towards greater growth and magnanimity in the global community.
The latest gender report shows the following list of lady chief execs (see AFP, 2011):
Australia: Prime Minister Julia Gillard
Argentine: President Cristina Kirchner
Bangladesh: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed
Brazil: President Dilma Rousseff
Costa Rica: President Laura Chinchilla
Croatia: Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor
Finland: President Tarja Halonen
Germany: Chancellor Angela Merkel
Iceland: Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir
India: President Pratibha Patil
Ireland: President Mary McAleese
Kyrgyztan: Interim President Roza Otunbayeva
Liberia: President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Lithuania: President Dalia Grybauskaite
Slovakia: Prime Minister Iveta Radicova
Switzerland: Confederal President Doris Leuthard
Trinidad & Tobago: Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar
Goodwill and best wishes to all the women chief execs! Mabuhay!
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Women are making themselves felt more and more in the field of state governance these days. It surely pays to reflect on the increasing ascent of women in this field of endeavor.
In my own country PH, women have since expanded their presence in the top management of state and business bureaucracies. Latest count by the commission on women puts the number at 40% of total exec seats held by women, which renders PH among the exemplars of women empowerment in Asia and the world.
Our immediate past president, Gloria Arroyo, showed her own executive acumen as the Philippines graduated to middle income status from that of a poor 3rd world country during her incumbency. In 1986, our first lady president Corazon Aquino became the iconic symbol of democracy domestically and worldwide. Both lady leaders joined the select coterie of globally influential lady execs for their exemplary feats.
The most recent additions to the lady chief execs are Australia’s Premier Julia Gillard and Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff. I’ve already expressed my kudos to the noblesse ladies, and I wish that they will propel their respective countries towards greater growth and magnanimity in the global community.
The latest gender report shows the following list of lady chief execs (see AFP, 2011):
Australia: Prime Minister Julia Gillard
Argentine: President Cristina Kirchner
Bangladesh: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed
Brazil: President Dilma Rousseff
Costa Rica: President Laura Chinchilla
Croatia: Prime Minister Jadranka Kosor
Finland: President Tarja Halonen
Germany: Chancellor Angela Merkel
Iceland: Prime Minister Johanna Sigurdardottir
India: President Pratibha Patil
Ireland: President Mary McAleese
Kyrgyztan: Interim President Roza Otunbayeva
Liberia: President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Lithuania: President Dalia Grybauskaite
Slovakia: Prime Minister Iveta Radicova
Switzerland: Confederal President Doris Leuthard
Trinidad & Tobago: Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar
Goodwill and best wishes to all the women chief execs! Mabuhay!
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IKONOKLAST: http://erleargonza.blogspot.com
UNLADTAU: http://unladtau.wordpress.com
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Saturday, October 30, 2010
MONTH-ENDER: OCTOBER FEST TO OCTOBER STORMS
Erle Frayne D. Argonza
October 2010
Good day to you all!
For this month, which was captured by the celebratory mood of the German Octoberfest, the world went through both tumultuous and celebratory moods.
I began this month with a publication of an article on “Fitness Program & Capacity-Building.” Being athletically and fitness-inclined, I began reflections with fitness & wellness as a way of reminding people about the supreme import of de-toxifying the body through a regular fitness program.
This analyst actually got sick by late September, an ailment that over-flowed till early October. I often get sick of severe allergic rhinitis, with the severity moving to acquiring inflammations with fevers.
So starting the month with physical wellness was also a way to remind myself to get back to the fitness game pronto, and go back to the gym as early as possible. By October the 5th I was back on the gym, back on a 4-day gym regimen, and back to long walks in the alleyways and nature sites of my work home south of Manila.
To reverb the times, storms hit the planet as usual, with Indonesia going through another flood episode. Indonesia seems to have solved its forest haze that was an issue sometime back, so we say our own kudos to the environmental precautions implementors in Jakarka and the ASEAN. Finally, there was the powerful 260 KPH typhoon that struck Luzon island of the Philippines.
The anti-terror campaign up North had found renewed vigor after the USA’s own celeb of the 9/11 event. This prompted me to write about concealed truths regarding the terrorist-makers of the USA and Europe, truth that trace such terror-makers right inside the Establishment of the two continents.
Meanwhile, we all watch as the North’s economies continue to flounder, with a 2nd recessionary dip threatening America altogether. Europe continues to wallow in the Jurassic flaks of the financiers (IMF-led) to institute austerity measures in the form of wage cut-backs, social services budgetary cuts, health benefits cuts, and so on.
Asia continued to kept the world in awe though, which is the positive side to the month. Asia’s stock markets continue to move up, defying patterns set in old fogey New York stock exchange (Dow Jones, Nasdaq). Asia’s growth patterns continue at sustained paces, with China on the lead, thus sustaining the global growth amid the downturns of the North.
In my own country, the patterns of growth have so far indicated the positive side. G.I.R. was at all time-high of $49.6 Billion (9-10 months imports), Balance of Payments or BOP stood at past $3B, exports & imports are back to high-growth times, unemployment remains checked at past 8%, and it was identified as the top investment area for Europeans to go to (per British financiers’ assessment).
The only black mark in RP’s growth pattern is the inability to meet the UN MDG target of cutting poverty by half by 2015 (poverty remains at 33% or more of the labor force). Aside from that, there’s the corruption low standing of the country in international yardsticks, something that chief exec Aquino should address very positively.
For the spirit of Octoberfest, Brazilian samba, and Asian world music, let’s celebrate our own growing sense of global brotherhood, peace and cooperation.
[See: IKONOKLAST: http://erleargonza.blogspot.com,
UNLADTAU: http://unladtau.wordpress.com,
COSMICBUHAY: http://cosmicbuhay.blogspot.com,
BRIGHTWORLD: http://erlefraynebrightworld.wordpress.com, ARTBLOG: http://erleargonza.wordpress.com,
ARGONZAPOEM: http://argonzapoem.blogspot.com]
October 2010
Good day to you all!
For this month, which was captured by the celebratory mood of the German Octoberfest, the world went through both tumultuous and celebratory moods.
I began this month with a publication of an article on “Fitness Program & Capacity-Building.” Being athletically and fitness-inclined, I began reflections with fitness & wellness as a way of reminding people about the supreme import of de-toxifying the body through a regular fitness program.
This analyst actually got sick by late September, an ailment that over-flowed till early October. I often get sick of severe allergic rhinitis, with the severity moving to acquiring inflammations with fevers.
So starting the month with physical wellness was also a way to remind myself to get back to the fitness game pronto, and go back to the gym as early as possible. By October the 5th I was back on the gym, back on a 4-day gym regimen, and back to long walks in the alleyways and nature sites of my work home south of Manila.
To reverb the times, storms hit the planet as usual, with Indonesia going through another flood episode. Indonesia seems to have solved its forest haze that was an issue sometime back, so we say our own kudos to the environmental precautions implementors in Jakarka and the ASEAN. Finally, there was the powerful 260 KPH typhoon that struck Luzon island of the Philippines.
The anti-terror campaign up North had found renewed vigor after the USA’s own celeb of the 9/11 event. This prompted me to write about concealed truths regarding the terrorist-makers of the USA and Europe, truth that trace such terror-makers right inside the Establishment of the two continents.
Meanwhile, we all watch as the North’s economies continue to flounder, with a 2nd recessionary dip threatening America altogether. Europe continues to wallow in the Jurassic flaks of the financiers (IMF-led) to institute austerity measures in the form of wage cut-backs, social services budgetary cuts, health benefits cuts, and so on.
Asia continued to kept the world in awe though, which is the positive side to the month. Asia’s stock markets continue to move up, defying patterns set in old fogey New York stock exchange (Dow Jones, Nasdaq). Asia’s growth patterns continue at sustained paces, with China on the lead, thus sustaining the global growth amid the downturns of the North.
In my own country, the patterns of growth have so far indicated the positive side. G.I.R. was at all time-high of $49.6 Billion (9-10 months imports), Balance of Payments or BOP stood at past $3B, exports & imports are back to high-growth times, unemployment remains checked at past 8%, and it was identified as the top investment area for Europeans to go to (per British financiers’ assessment).
The only black mark in RP’s growth pattern is the inability to meet the UN MDG target of cutting poverty by half by 2015 (poverty remains at 33% or more of the labor force). Aside from that, there’s the corruption low standing of the country in international yardsticks, something that chief exec Aquino should address very positively.
For the spirit of Octoberfest, Brazilian samba, and Asian world music, let’s celebrate our own growing sense of global brotherhood, peace and cooperation.
[See: IKONOKLAST: http://erleargonza.blogspot.com,
UNLADTAU: http://unladtau.wordpress.com,
COSMICBUHAY: http://cosmicbuhay.blogspot.com,
BRIGHTWORLD: http://erlefraynebrightworld.wordpress.com, ARTBLOG: http://erleargonza.wordpress.com,
ARGONZAPOEM: http://argonzapoem.blogspot.com]
Thursday, May 27, 2010
EUROZONE’S BURNING, CONVENE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CONFERENCE!
Erle Frayne D. Argonza
Magandang gabi! Good evening!
Eurozone is burning. Before the flames would reach infernal levels, the contagion effects thereof burning the other regions of the globe, a global financial conference should be convened most urgently.
The purpose of the conference would be to configure a new financial architecture. Such a policy architecture would then as guidepost to all nation-states and regional alliances (EU, trade regimes such as ASEAN, NAFTA, Mercosur, others) to follow.
In the absence of such a policy architecture, palliatives can only emerge from the board rooms of incompetent bureaucrats. Among such palliatives now arising are: (a) Merkel’s solution to regulate hedge funds operations (financial derivatives); and, (b) Obama & US Congress’ regulations of speculative excesses of its stock markets.
Such palliatives are merely piecemeal solutions, even as they are too partial and parochial. They weren’t derived from a comprehensive paradigm that could have generated clear explications of the financial/economic crises of our times. They are reactive rather than responsive. Absent a policy architecture, and the piecemeal solutions will only have short-run impacts, and will be folded up when “things will get better.”
The top agenda that must be taken up are:
1)Criminalize speculative excesses. Speculation has fueled bubble economies worldwide. Financial predators have emerged from the oligarchic quarters up North, who have played havoc on the equities and currency markets. If it will turn out beneficial to ban and criminalize hedge funds operations later, then so be it. Such vulture funds have no place in a civilized world where we witness poverty and hunger rising.
2)Tobin Tax cross-border transactions. In no way should unbridled cross-border transactions be allowed without taxation. A minimum Tobin Tax of 0.75% on all such transactions should be imposed. Higher tax on derivatives and commodities futures of 1.5% can also be agreed upon. The accruing tax revenues will then be turned over to the United Nations and attached agencies for their operations & maintenance budgets.
3)Condone fraudulent/usurious debts. Debts that are fraudulent or too usurious, notably those lent to developing economies, should be completely condoned. The same economies can then have a fresh start and breathing space for anti-poverty, jobs, and related social development efforts.
4)Abolish the Jurassic Fund (IMF). It is now time to re-assess the International Monetary Fund, leading to its abolition. It does not represent the interest of the member-states, but is rather a middle man peddling the interests of global financial cartels. Its top executives come from the ranks of the same cartels. It had imposed austerity measures on many developing economies, causing more hunger, poverty, low wages, and unemployment. This Jurassic Fund (to borrow from Walden Bello) must go!
5)Identify financial ‘White knights’. Authentic financial ‘white knights’ from among the emerging markets should be properly identified and urged to expand their operations. These financial groups can offer long-term financing at very low interest rates. The end-users should be authentic market players that are engaged in the productive sectors, which will end the practice of ‘white knight’ financing (such as the Yen Initiative Package) that lent money to financial cartels which in turn re-lent them at higher interest rates.
6)Ban banks from speculative pursuits. Commercial banks and development banks, or all banks for that matter, must be banned from engaging in speculative pursuits such as hedge funds, commodities, and ‘hot money’ operations. Banks must service the productive sectors and must infuse moral philosophy in their organizational cultures.
7)Abolish stock markets. Stock markets have never been instruments for wealth redistribution. They are filled with dirty operators. It’s now time to abolish them. In their stead should be instituted a direct link between investors and market players in need of fresh money, thus abolishing the stock trader as ‘middleman’. Reforming the stock markets isn’t the answer, but rather their abolition.
8)Institute gold reserve standard. The gold standard of the past was abolished, in order that gold be hoarded by a few cartels up North. It is time to institute a new form of gold standard serving as stabilizer and securitization instrument for currencies. The standard will eventually lead to a re-institution of currency control policy which redounds to a more stable global economy in the long run.
Let it be reiterated, that should the present situation be allowed to go on, with piecemeal parochial solutions carved out at best, a bigger global catastrophe will be in the offing. A more colossal nightmare is now unfolding, which we hope the Northern countries’ incompetent bureaucrats can see at all.
[22 May 2010]
[See: IKONOKLAST: http://erleargonza.blogspot.com,
UNLADTAU: http://unladtau.wordpress.com,
COSMICBUHAY: http://cosmicbuhay.blogspot.com,
BRIGHTWORLD: http://erlefraynebrightworld.wordpress.com, ARTBLOG: http://erleargonza.wordpress.com,
ARGONZAPOEM: http://argonzapoem.blogspot.com]
Monday, May 24, 2010
EUROPE’S BURNING!
Erle Frayne D. Argonza
Europe is on fire. Save for those who choose to be blind, the Union is going through an incendiary economic burn. How far will the economic burning go, whether it will spread to a larger continental inferno, no one can tell for now.
Before the EU’s creation, welfare policies were prevalent from east to west of the continent. Liberal reforms then arose, commencing with the Tory’s (Thatcher era) wholesale adoption and social marketing of the same, and copied by the conservatives and liberals of the continent alike.
By the turn of the century, upon the commencement of the Euro, liberal reforms already saw the uncontrollable ascent of predatory finance worldwide. Liberalized financial-capital markets paved the way for their immanence.
Among those instruments created by the predators was financial derivatives. To recall, a decade back the derivatives markets were already awash with exposures totaling over $150 Trillion, with 36% of these in the hands of British financiers while 15% were in Americans’ hands.
By 2001, the alarming projection was leaked out that derivatives will be inflated to exceed $350 Trillions within the new decade. At a time when the global economy was producing past the $40 Trillion in Gross World Product or GWP, it was sheer madness to consider debt papers of past $350 that could meltdown the globe in case of a gigantic bubble burst.
Europe was already flat on its back for a straight two (2) decades since after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Periodic stagflations and recessions have seen the rise of poverty incidence and, consequently, the re-emergence of neo-fascist movements.
Being strongly tied up to the U.S. economy, it was not surprising to realize that a contagion of the U.S. recession will surely hit Europe, which did happen. The ugly side of the formula was the aiding of ailing banks that were badly affected by the crisis, an intervention that was flawed and immoral as it entails using taxpayers’ money to aid criminal bank speculators.
Barely out of the U.S. contagion effect, Brussels was shocked to see that a new fire had started within the Eurozone— Greece to be exact. As this was happening, Spain also began to sneeze & cough, as some of its own banks (notably Santander) spiraled down bankruptcy scale. Other member-economies were also having their own financial crucifixions going by the early part of this current year.
If we diagnose what’s going on in the financial sectors of member states, we can easily pinpoint banks as hotspot fire sources. They were heavily into speculative pursuits, with enormous exposures to derivative operations.
Just exactly how that happened can be traceable to certain acts in the North by the mid-80s. Commodities markets have sprung up on that decade, even as a global recession took place then, threatening OECD economies. Liberal reforms were already permeating diverse sectors, and within the backdrop of liberalization, financial derivatives and equivalent portfolios were launched in mass scales.
Banks shed off their previous stance of inhibiting themselves from speculative pursuits. Soon they’d find themselves investing into every speculative games they could lay their hands into, inclusive of hedge funds operations.
Now, to fast track to the present, economists estimate that EU’s aggregate derivatives are within the range of $180-$200 Trillions, estimates that seem conservative. Measure this against the gross domestic product of EU at $13 Trillions, and you would be driven to ask: just exactly where will Europe get the funds to pay the hedged financials in case of bursts and massive bankruptcies?
If all of the hedge funds investors would ask for a forced payment of their total of, say, $200 Trillions more or less, who would pay for such debts? Where will the money come from? Is it morally right to extract taxes from European workers to pay up for the dirty debt papers in case? Is it likewise morally right to impose wage cuts on workers who were not the culprits in the virtual economy game in the first place?
Concerned Europeans should better rethink the Euro and ask whether the new currency really worked for their welfare. It is now clearer that the Euro was a sell-out idea and project, that it was launched to satiate the insatiable pockets of greedy financiers represented by the top financial houses there.
And Europeans better see how silly it is to allocate taxpayers’ money worth $1 Trillion to bail out ailing banks and industries hit by the rising meltdown. For measured against total debt papers of $180-200 Trillions, $1 Trillion would be ridiculously paltry.
Yet another ridiculous intervention is the austerity measure imposed by the IMF on Greece. We’ve had so many precedents of the deleterious effects of such measures on developing economies that aimed at eventually graduating from IMF programs as a salvation measure in the short run. While emerging markets are getting out of a burning house (IMF & austerity measures), Greece voluntarily entered this house. Unbelievable!
As per reports reaching my focals, Germany had the greatest exposures to Greece’s banking sector, with exposures running to hundreds of billions of euros. British financiers, on the other hand, have their hands full in Spain’s banks.
It isn’t difficult to forecast that the fire in Greece could spread to other eurozone economies. Not even the UK, which decided to stay out of the eurozone, will be spared from the bonfire. Spain is almost there now, and who knows what country will be next.
If banks and industrial conglomerates will simultaneously burn in all of the member-states of the eurozone, with total aid claims of past the GDP of $13 Trillions, then Europe will be on the brink of a continental inferno.
Concerned readers better think for yourself whether Brussels and the bureaucrats do have the right answers to the raging problems of Europe. Poverty incidences are now hitting past the 20% mark in member countries, while massive lootings of the financial and currency markets by predatory financiers take place every day in the continent.
Well, let’s all wait and see for what happens. Let us hope that a mad Nero bureaucrat wouldn’t appear to orchestrate the burning farther to infernal scale. That would bring a new nightmare to the whole planet if it happens.
[Philippines, 20 May 2010]
[See: IKONOKLAST: http://erleargonza.blogspot.com,
UNLADTAU: http://unladtau.wordpress.com,
COSMICBUHAY: http://cosmicbuhay.blogspot.com,
BRIGHTWORLD: http://erlefraynebrightworld.wordpress.com, ARTBLOG: http://erleargonza.wordpress.com,
ARGONZAPOEM: http://argonzapoem.blogspot.com]
Europe is on fire. Save for those who choose to be blind, the Union is going through an incendiary economic burn. How far will the economic burning go, whether it will spread to a larger continental inferno, no one can tell for now.
Before the EU’s creation, welfare policies were prevalent from east to west of the continent. Liberal reforms then arose, commencing with the Tory’s (Thatcher era) wholesale adoption and social marketing of the same, and copied by the conservatives and liberals of the continent alike.
By the turn of the century, upon the commencement of the Euro, liberal reforms already saw the uncontrollable ascent of predatory finance worldwide. Liberalized financial-capital markets paved the way for their immanence.
Among those instruments created by the predators was financial derivatives. To recall, a decade back the derivatives markets were already awash with exposures totaling over $150 Trillion, with 36% of these in the hands of British financiers while 15% were in Americans’ hands.
By 2001, the alarming projection was leaked out that derivatives will be inflated to exceed $350 Trillions within the new decade. At a time when the global economy was producing past the $40 Trillion in Gross World Product or GWP, it was sheer madness to consider debt papers of past $350 that could meltdown the globe in case of a gigantic bubble burst.
Europe was already flat on its back for a straight two (2) decades since after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Periodic stagflations and recessions have seen the rise of poverty incidence and, consequently, the re-emergence of neo-fascist movements.
Being strongly tied up to the U.S. economy, it was not surprising to realize that a contagion of the U.S. recession will surely hit Europe, which did happen. The ugly side of the formula was the aiding of ailing banks that were badly affected by the crisis, an intervention that was flawed and immoral as it entails using taxpayers’ money to aid criminal bank speculators.
Barely out of the U.S. contagion effect, Brussels was shocked to see that a new fire had started within the Eurozone— Greece to be exact. As this was happening, Spain also began to sneeze & cough, as some of its own banks (notably Santander) spiraled down bankruptcy scale. Other member-economies were also having their own financial crucifixions going by the early part of this current year.
If we diagnose what’s going on in the financial sectors of member states, we can easily pinpoint banks as hotspot fire sources. They were heavily into speculative pursuits, with enormous exposures to derivative operations.
Just exactly how that happened can be traceable to certain acts in the North by the mid-80s. Commodities markets have sprung up on that decade, even as a global recession took place then, threatening OECD economies. Liberal reforms were already permeating diverse sectors, and within the backdrop of liberalization, financial derivatives and equivalent portfolios were launched in mass scales.
Banks shed off their previous stance of inhibiting themselves from speculative pursuits. Soon they’d find themselves investing into every speculative games they could lay their hands into, inclusive of hedge funds operations.
Now, to fast track to the present, economists estimate that EU’s aggregate derivatives are within the range of $180-$200 Trillions, estimates that seem conservative. Measure this against the gross domestic product of EU at $13 Trillions, and you would be driven to ask: just exactly where will Europe get the funds to pay the hedged financials in case of bursts and massive bankruptcies?
If all of the hedge funds investors would ask for a forced payment of their total of, say, $200 Trillions more or less, who would pay for such debts? Where will the money come from? Is it morally right to extract taxes from European workers to pay up for the dirty debt papers in case? Is it likewise morally right to impose wage cuts on workers who were not the culprits in the virtual economy game in the first place?
Concerned Europeans should better rethink the Euro and ask whether the new currency really worked for their welfare. It is now clearer that the Euro was a sell-out idea and project, that it was launched to satiate the insatiable pockets of greedy financiers represented by the top financial houses there.
And Europeans better see how silly it is to allocate taxpayers’ money worth $1 Trillion to bail out ailing banks and industries hit by the rising meltdown. For measured against total debt papers of $180-200 Trillions, $1 Trillion would be ridiculously paltry.
Yet another ridiculous intervention is the austerity measure imposed by the IMF on Greece. We’ve had so many precedents of the deleterious effects of such measures on developing economies that aimed at eventually graduating from IMF programs as a salvation measure in the short run. While emerging markets are getting out of a burning house (IMF & austerity measures), Greece voluntarily entered this house. Unbelievable!
As per reports reaching my focals, Germany had the greatest exposures to Greece’s banking sector, with exposures running to hundreds of billions of euros. British financiers, on the other hand, have their hands full in Spain’s banks.
It isn’t difficult to forecast that the fire in Greece could spread to other eurozone economies. Not even the UK, which decided to stay out of the eurozone, will be spared from the bonfire. Spain is almost there now, and who knows what country will be next.
If banks and industrial conglomerates will simultaneously burn in all of the member-states of the eurozone, with total aid claims of past the GDP of $13 Trillions, then Europe will be on the brink of a continental inferno.
Concerned readers better think for yourself whether Brussels and the bureaucrats do have the right answers to the raging problems of Europe. Poverty incidences are now hitting past the 20% mark in member countries, while massive lootings of the financial and currency markets by predatory financiers take place every day in the continent.
Well, let’s all wait and see for what happens. Let us hope that a mad Nero bureaucrat wouldn’t appear to orchestrate the burning farther to infernal scale. That would bring a new nightmare to the whole planet if it happens.
[Philippines, 20 May 2010]
[See: IKONOKLAST: http://erleargonza.blogspot.com,
UNLADTAU: http://unladtau.wordpress.com,
COSMICBUHAY: http://cosmicbuhay.blogspot.com,
BRIGHTWORLD: http://erlefraynebrightworld.wordpress.com, ARTBLOG: http://erleargonza.wordpress.com,
ARGONZAPOEM: http://argonzapoem.blogspot.com]
Thursday, April 29, 2010
LABOR DAY 2010 SOLIDARITY
Erle Frayne D. Argonza
01 May 2010
Solidarity greetings to all toiling men and women of the Philippines and the world!
With glee and fulfillment I, as a fellow toiling man, express the highest appreciation for the power of labor and the fruits of all the toils of struggling workingmen & women across the millennia of human history. Truly, it is through our labor that our God-given creativity and wisdom find manifestations, galvanized as goods and services in the workplace. Nothing can ever refute such a universal fact or law about the potency of labor.
As a re-dedication to the working class movement across the planet, let me share this humble poem of mine.
REFLECTIONS ABOUT WORK
Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago
There can be
no savoring the foods
offered by Terra
without working hard for their generation;
no consumption of bounties
in torrential showers
without striving
for their production;
no recital of flowery
words about justice
without active contention
for their fruition;
no pleasant rest
of mind and body
without processing by
the sweatshops of labour;
no blissful state
of realized utopias
without rendering sufferings
from waylaid obstacles.
[Poem writ. 27 Sept, 1987, University of the Philippines, QC.]
01 May 2010
Solidarity greetings to all toiling men and women of the Philippines and the world!
With glee and fulfillment I, as a fellow toiling man, express the highest appreciation for the power of labor and the fruits of all the toils of struggling workingmen & women across the millennia of human history. Truly, it is through our labor that our God-given creativity and wisdom find manifestations, galvanized as goods and services in the workplace. Nothing can ever refute such a universal fact or law about the potency of labor.
As a re-dedication to the working class movement across the planet, let me share this humble poem of mine.
REFLECTIONS ABOUT WORK
Erle Frayne Argonza y Delago
There can be
no savoring the foods
offered by Terra
without working hard for their generation;
no consumption of bounties
in torrential showers
without striving
for their production;
no recital of flowery
words about justice
without active contention
for their fruition;
no pleasant rest
of mind and body
without processing by
the sweatshops of labour;
no blissful state
of realized utopias
without rendering sufferings
from waylaid obstacles.
[Poem writ. 27 Sept, 1987, University of the Philippines, QC.]
Thursday, August 07, 2008
SOCIAL TECHNOLOGIES IN WORLD FUTURE CONFERENCE
Bro. Erle Frayne Argonza
Good afternoon from Manila!
The social sciences are surely gearing up for more ambitious engagements in producing and disseminating social technologies. Below is a news about a forthcoming future society conference, with social technologies stakeholders participating.
[28 July 2008, Quezon City, MetroManila. Thanks to the Social Technologies database news.]
Social ) Technologies For Immediate Release
1776 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 815
Washington, DC 20036 CONTACT: Hope Katz Gibbs
Main office: +1 202 223-2801 Leader, Corporate Communications
Website: www.socialtechnologies.com Direct: +1 703 502-3405
Blog: http://changewaves.socialtechnologies.com Cell: +1 703 346-6975
Email: hope.gibbs@socialtechnologies.com
Social Technologies Participating in 2008 World Future Society Conference
Several senior futurists will be presenting at the WFS annual conference
Washington DC, July 26–28
Washington, DC, July 23, 2008—Several senior futurists from the Washington, DC-based research and
consulting firm Social Technologies will be speaking at the World Future Society annual conference,
July 26–28, being held this year at the Hilton Washington in Washington, DC.
The topic of this year’s conference is WorldFuture 2008: Seeing the Future through New Eyes.
“I always look forward to attending the World Future Society conferences because hundreds of
interesting futurists, academics, and business leaders gather to talk about fascinating topics—and
this year looks like it will be especially interesting,” says Tom Conger, founder of Social Technologies,
pointing to session topics including Business Futures, The Influence of Mega-Energy Markets, and
Future Hotspot: East Asia.
Conger says he’s especially looking forward to attending the two sessions being led by his
colleagues:
• Leader of Social Technologies’ London office Roumiana Gotseva will be part of a panel about
State-of-the-Art Monitoring Systems on Sunday, July 27, from 2–3:30 a.m.
“Forewarned is forearmed,” she explains, “and in today's quickly changing environments,
nimble organizations are closely scanning and monitoring the forces that create new
gamechanging opportunities and warn about possible threats or discontinuities.”
• Later that day, futurists Terry Grim and Scott Reif will be presenting a forum on Assessing
Foresight Capabilities: An Organizational Scorecard on Sunday, July 27, from 4–5:30 p.m.
“Social Technologies has developed the first-of-its-kind Foresight Maturity Model, based on
Carnegie Mellon’s successful software-engineering model, which presents a clear and
disciplined approach for assessing where you are in the many different practices of
foresight,” Grim explains.
“It can help practitioners to answer the question: How are we doing? This continuous process
improvement approach moves each practice through the five different levels of maturity or
development: ad hoc, aware, capable, mature, and world-class. Using this framework,
attendees will learn how to assess or baseline their current level of foresight practice and
then develop an informed plan for moving forward.”
• Also on Sunday, July 27 from 4-5:30 p.m., Social Technologies’ Thought Leader Josh Calder
will be participating on the panel Demographics Is Destiny, which will examine the values
and experiences of generations around the world. Josh will discuss India and China. John
Milewski, Senior Manager for Special Programs at the Newseum, will act as moderator.
The panelists will examine the contrasting demographics, how these different generations
and populations are relating to one another, potential dangers, and the reasons for hope.
Learn more
For additional information about the conference, visit: www.wfs.org. To learn more about Social
Technologies, send an email to Hope Gibbs (hope.gibbs@socialtechnologies.com).
About ) Social Technologies
Social Technologies is a global research and consulting firm specializing in the integration of
foresight, strategy, and innovation. With offices in Washington DC, London, and Shanghai, Social
Technologies serves the world’s leading companies, government agencies, and nonprofits. For more
information visit www.socialtechnologies.com, the blog:
http://changewaves.socialtechnologies.com, and our newsletter:
www.socialtechnologies.com/changewaves.
Josh Calder ) Futurist / Leader, Global Lifestyles
Josh Calder, a professional futurist since 1995, is Social Technologies’ Thought Leader. Josh tracks social, economic, and consumer change for corporate and government clients. Areas of special interest include emerging markets, cultural change, and international relations. Josh has an MA in foreign and defense policy from American University and a BA in government from Wesleyan University.
Rouminana Gotseva ) Leader, Futures Observatory
Roumiana Gotseva is an accomplished futurist and strategy consultant who leads the Futures
Observatory program and manages Social Technologies’ London office. Since joining S)T in 2005 she has managed consulting projects for major European firms such as BP and Cadbury Schweppes. Her skills include strategic planning, scenario development, systems thinking, trend interpretation, and environmental scanning. An accredited expert with the European Commission, Roumiana evaluates proposals and projects under the Information Society Technologies and e-Content programs. She is also a founding fellow of the European Academy for Digital Media and has sat on juries for the EuroPrix digital content award and the Bulgarian Web Awards. Roumiana holds an MBA from the University of Minnesota and is working toward an MS in studies of the future at the University of Houston.
Terry Grim ) Futurist
After working at IBM for 30 years on leading-edge technology and strategic projects, Terry Grim joined Social Technologies in 2007 as a futurist and consultant for strategic practices. She brings an extensive background in strategy development, customer engagements, and large-scale and missioncritical development management for top IBM clients including NASA, British Telecom, and the State of Washington. Terry received a BS with high honors (Phi Beta Kappa) in computer science from the University of Florida in 1975. She has an MS in studies of the future from the University of Houston and now teaches in that program.
Scott Reif ) Futurist
Scott Reif is a futurist and contributing writer to Social Technologies’ Technology Foresight and Global
Lifestyles multiclient projects. He also serves as a project manager, administering and writing for
custom client projects. Scott’s domains of expertise include social foresight and epistemological
futures, with a special focus on the emerging fields of complexity studies and integral theory.
Currently a graduate student in the MS program for studies of the future at the University of Houston,
he is in the process of completing his thesis work on the study of behavior under conditions of
uncertainty. Scott has a BA in philosophy from Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland.
About ) The World Future Society
The World Future Society is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, scientific and educational association of people interested in how social and technological developments are shaping the future. The Society was founded in 1966 and is chartered as a nonprofit educational and scientific organization in Washington, DC. For more, visit www.wfs.org.
Good afternoon from Manila!
The social sciences are surely gearing up for more ambitious engagements in producing and disseminating social technologies. Below is a news about a forthcoming future society conference, with social technologies stakeholders participating.
[28 July 2008, Quezon City, MetroManila. Thanks to the Social Technologies database news.]
Social ) Technologies For Immediate Release
1776 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 815
Washington, DC 20036 CONTACT: Hope Katz Gibbs
Main office: +1 202 223-2801 Leader, Corporate Communications
Website: www.socialtechnologies.com Direct: +1 703 502-3405
Blog: http://changewaves.socialtechnologies.com Cell: +1 703 346-6975
Email: hope.gibbs@socialtechnologies.com
Social Technologies Participating in 2008 World Future Society Conference
Several senior futurists will be presenting at the WFS annual conference
Washington DC, July 26–28
Washington, DC, July 23, 2008—Several senior futurists from the Washington, DC-based research and
consulting firm Social Technologies will be speaking at the World Future Society annual conference,
July 26–28, being held this year at the Hilton Washington in Washington, DC.
The topic of this year’s conference is WorldFuture 2008: Seeing the Future through New Eyes.
“I always look forward to attending the World Future Society conferences because hundreds of
interesting futurists, academics, and business leaders gather to talk about fascinating topics—and
this year looks like it will be especially interesting,” says Tom Conger, founder of Social Technologies,
pointing to session topics including Business Futures, The Influence of Mega-Energy Markets, and
Future Hotspot: East Asia.
Conger says he’s especially looking forward to attending the two sessions being led by his
colleagues:
• Leader of Social Technologies’ London office Roumiana Gotseva will be part of a panel about
State-of-the-Art Monitoring Systems on Sunday, July 27, from 2–3:30 a.m.
“Forewarned is forearmed,” she explains, “and in today's quickly changing environments,
nimble organizations are closely scanning and monitoring the forces that create new
gamechanging opportunities and warn about possible threats or discontinuities.”
• Later that day, futurists Terry Grim and Scott Reif will be presenting a forum on Assessing
Foresight Capabilities: An Organizational Scorecard on Sunday, July 27, from 4–5:30 p.m.
“Social Technologies has developed the first-of-its-kind Foresight Maturity Model, based on
Carnegie Mellon’s successful software-engineering model, which presents a clear and
disciplined approach for assessing where you are in the many different practices of
foresight,” Grim explains.
“It can help practitioners to answer the question: How are we doing? This continuous process
improvement approach moves each practice through the five different levels of maturity or
development: ad hoc, aware, capable, mature, and world-class. Using this framework,
attendees will learn how to assess or baseline their current level of foresight practice and
then develop an informed plan for moving forward.”
• Also on Sunday, July 27 from 4-5:30 p.m., Social Technologies’ Thought Leader Josh Calder
will be participating on the panel Demographics Is Destiny, which will examine the values
and experiences of generations around the world. Josh will discuss India and China. John
Milewski, Senior Manager for Special Programs at the Newseum, will act as moderator.
The panelists will examine the contrasting demographics, how these different generations
and populations are relating to one another, potential dangers, and the reasons for hope.
Learn more
For additional information about the conference, visit: www.wfs.org. To learn more about Social
Technologies, send an email to Hope Gibbs (hope.gibbs@socialtechnologies.com).
About ) Social Technologies
Social Technologies is a global research and consulting firm specializing in the integration of
foresight, strategy, and innovation. With offices in Washington DC, London, and Shanghai, Social
Technologies serves the world’s leading companies, government agencies, and nonprofits. For more
information visit www.socialtechnologies.com, the blog:
http://changewaves.socialtechnologies.com, and our newsletter:
www.socialtechnologies.com/changewaves.
Josh Calder ) Futurist / Leader, Global Lifestyles
Josh Calder, a professional futurist since 1995, is Social Technologies’ Thought Leader. Josh tracks social, economic, and consumer change for corporate and government clients. Areas of special interest include emerging markets, cultural change, and international relations. Josh has an MA in foreign and defense policy from American University and a BA in government from Wesleyan University.
Rouminana Gotseva ) Leader, Futures Observatory
Roumiana Gotseva is an accomplished futurist and strategy consultant who leads the Futures
Observatory program and manages Social Technologies’ London office. Since joining S)T in 2005 she has managed consulting projects for major European firms such as BP and Cadbury Schweppes. Her skills include strategic planning, scenario development, systems thinking, trend interpretation, and environmental scanning. An accredited expert with the European Commission, Roumiana evaluates proposals and projects under the Information Society Technologies and e-Content programs. She is also a founding fellow of the European Academy for Digital Media and has sat on juries for the EuroPrix digital content award and the Bulgarian Web Awards. Roumiana holds an MBA from the University of Minnesota and is working toward an MS in studies of the future at the University of Houston.
Terry Grim ) Futurist
After working at IBM for 30 years on leading-edge technology and strategic projects, Terry Grim joined Social Technologies in 2007 as a futurist and consultant for strategic practices. She brings an extensive background in strategy development, customer engagements, and large-scale and missioncritical development management for top IBM clients including NASA, British Telecom, and the State of Washington. Terry received a BS with high honors (Phi Beta Kappa) in computer science from the University of Florida in 1975. She has an MS in studies of the future from the University of Houston and now teaches in that program.
Scott Reif ) Futurist
Scott Reif is a futurist and contributing writer to Social Technologies’ Technology Foresight and Global
Lifestyles multiclient projects. He also serves as a project manager, administering and writing for
custom client projects. Scott’s domains of expertise include social foresight and epistemological
futures, with a special focus on the emerging fields of complexity studies and integral theory.
Currently a graduate student in the MS program for studies of the future at the University of Houston,
he is in the process of completing his thesis work on the study of behavior under conditions of
uncertainty. Scott has a BA in philosophy from Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland.
About ) The World Future Society
The World Future Society is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, scientific and educational association of people interested in how social and technological developments are shaping the future. The Society was founded in 1966 and is chartered as a nonprofit educational and scientific organization in Washington, DC. For more, visit www.wfs.org.
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