Reconstructing Tacloban: It's All About GOLD

A major disaster, and the do-gooding season is on. The usual pledges from the supposedly rich, but now actually cash-strapped countries, will cover the immediate emergency needs. The actual funds for the reconstruction of a city will not come through compassion though. The Philippines will shoulder it all, as always. Surprisingly, if it finally uses its brains for once, it can do it easily. And it can regain its dignity besides. More importantly, its freedom.

Tacloban City, Central Philippines: After Supertyphoon Haiyan/Yolanda
regional capital: Region 8 
provincial capital:  Leyte Province
population 220,000
(video courtesy of Sun-Star.ph) 

Tacloban is not a simple victim of a natural calamity. If given the chance, it could even be a catalyst to the country's renaissance. In many ways. First, it's the hometown of former First Lady Imelda Marcos. The time for her full vindication and resurrection has arrived- she has the cards if she does decide to shuffle them. A big part of the comedy that is the Philippines is that its poverty is supporting the scam that has installed financial fascism throughout the world. Around the world in hundreds of banks are more than a million metric tons of re-minted gold  that were retrieved from the Philippines but they remain not part of the "official" gold reserves of the world (stated as only 171,000 tons). Acknowledgement of their presence will simply collapse once and for all the already-collapsing financial integrity of the Western countries who are now busy signing checks for a few million dollars as "humanitarian aid to a poor country".  The Philippine gold alone that was extorted from Marcos when he was overthrown came to 63,000 metric tons and that can build a new Tacloban far modern than New York City. But enough is at hand to bring Tacloban alive again. Though it's accepted Imelda doesn't have access to all the Marcos gold, she has enough access to hundreds of billion dollars worth. A trickle is only needed to turn Tacloban into the monument of her dreams. Pressure will understandably be thrown her way, but the world spotlight and the disaster compassion dividend can give her a wider struggle room. In the Philippines, where the mouth is mostly the meat of the discussion, a new, modern Tacloban will be the propaganda king.

NB.
A friend has a "maldito" idea.The favorite trick of the manipulators to control the world finances is "shorting"- actually, the Philippine gold is enough to short the current financial fascism, so it may not only bring about a new Tacloban, but a new financial paradigm if you would allow the more "mischievous" to tinker with it a bit more aggressively. So you see, the Philippines is not a minor entity in the scheme of things when you really come right down to it.


Read more about the Marcos gold here, here and here.