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.

UNDERSTANDING THE MARCOS GOLD: 1,330,000 Metric Tons of Innocence

Filipinos are mostly clueless on the political details of the Marcos Gold saga but it's long been an accepted fact among common Filipinos that the Yamashita gold, the major basis of the Marcos gold, was true. There has been resistance from the intellectual classes in the big urban areas though, the political mantras of "Ill-gotten Wealth!" were just too "ego-fulfilling" to be readily discarded . However, the presence of many Japanese and other prospectors at some very unlikely places were just too obvious. The luck of some Filipinos, most of them local politicians, are local legends (again, the target of blanket accusations of "ill-gotten wealth", part of the perpetual refrain of "Corruption" to defeat the Filipino's self-confidence and to justify persistent poverty when there are far more sinister reasons besides the hackneyed "ill-gotten wealth" spin). But generally, most Filipinos are unaware of the bigger stories behind those gold, that they played a major part in some of the biggest events of contemporary world history. Still, everyone felt their insidious effects which poisoned national political discourse for the last 3 decades. With the release of so many books shedding light on the subject, we'll try to highlight some specific milestones to better understand where we are now so we can, as a country, finally engage in an intelligent conversation and plot our country's future trajectory more sensibly.

The Marcos gold has played a big part in the world's financial history while the Philippines remained poor and innocent in its corner of the Pacific Ocean. Below was an extract from the Appendix of David Guyatt's book "Secret Gold TReaty" (extracted from Eric A. San Juan's book "Marcos Legacy Revisited"). The link to the whole book is provided down below). In 1989, the then President Cory Aquino already knew that Marcos probably "had 1.33 million metric tons of gold".

If Germany can't recover promptly half its tons of gold, how can the Philippines ever recover its 200,000 metric tons?

There are supposed to be only 171,000 tons of gold in circulation in the world and Germany, with  3,395 tons, is supposed to have the second largest. 1/2 of that was hidden in Fort Knox in the US and Germany now wants it back. It's been 7 years since it asked and it hasn't gotten any yet. When it asked for verification, a Bundesbank representative was just shown a few bars for inspection. When it insisted, the representative was taken in only one of 9 rooms but "no touching" (not even to check if they were not gold-plated?). German Bundesbank officials are still polite though everybody in Germany is understandably agitated. A German court finally asked the Bundesbank toaudit its gold.

The Philippines has about 200,000 METRIC TONS (note, not TONS) in the US if you include the 63,000 metric tons of Gold extorted during Edsa 1 revolution (READ here and the letter itself here). If 60 TONS of Germany's gold can't be returned promptly when asked, does the Philippines even have a chance?

The world's financial system is built on trust, and trust is suddenly becoming scarce as a consequence of America's financial woes. The dollar fiat economy is on death throes and most experts believe in the  introduction of a gold-backed new currency soon. Philippine gold will certainly play a big part.

 Meanwhile, Filipinos are mostly clueless (its leaders are very silent). Most of the great events in the world in the 20th & 21st centuries were actually influenced by Philippine gold. Project Hammer, which America used to bankrupt the Soviet Union, was financed by Black Eagle Fund, which was allegedly funded by the gold billions extorted from the Marcoses in EDSA 1. Most believed the artificial lowered world price of gold were certainly a product of  regular shorting of the market by the dumping of sequestered gold by the cartel. German, Philippine, etc. gold? One wonders, if the miniscule German gold was touched, how could the Philippine gold ever have been missed when they practically filled the vaults?

The sobering question: With its gold, how could the Philippines even be poor... and indebted? When its gold is, no doubt, leveraging frenetic money growth around the world, how could it even have had debts? Ginigisa sa sariling mantika, anyone?

Frankly, Filipinos should just forget the divisions of Edsa & just use their head for once. Their divisions keep them from following the gold. Pursuing one's interests doesn't necessarily mean you take sides with any of the powers that be who are vying for upmanship in the world. Simply, fair is just being fair. About time.

The Richest Country In The World?

We can call it vindication. The Yamashita treasure turned out to be true and former President Ferdinand Marcos seemed to have cornered one of the biggest portions of the "loot". Nobody really knows the exact amount but judging from the unbelievable figures bandied about (hundreds of billion dollars per Treasury certificate, for instance and a plane which crashed in Mindanao was full of them), Marcos' share must have worth trillions of dollars many times over. Several books which came out recently revealed his deposits were farmed out in hundreds of banks around the world. If nearly a trillion dollars (allegedly now worth $10 trillion in today's gold price) were found in Brussels which is not exactly a major financial center, how much more in the gigantic havens of Switzerland, London, etc.?.

 
This video is consistent with the Western script to mock Imelda to paint incredulity (part of the ill-gotten wealth drama to bolster what appears now as People Power fiction), but now that claimants were winning their share  from the Marcos "loot" in the courts (like Rogelio Roxas of the Golden Buddha fame who was awarded billions by a US court, confirming the existence of the Marcos Gold), Imelda is finally vindicated & having the last laugh.

What makes one giddy is that 1/3 is still waiting to be mined in the Philippines.

So, what was the PCGG's hunt for "ill-gotten" wealth all about then? After 30 years, it allegedly recovered half a billion dollars. Recovery or confiscation?

Even now, the Philippines only has a $200 billion GDP,  too peanuts for somebody who allegedly already had trillions in the 1950's (that amount was only his initial share from the immediate post-war $50 trillion-worth of Yamashita digging  which included the so-calledVatican Gold brought for safekeeping into the Philippines by Fr. Antonio Diaz during WWII, it doesn't include the proceeds from the digging of the rest of the Yamashita loot when he was already President of the Philippines). With 950,000 metric tons of Vatican Gold (trusts from aristrocratic European families) missing, most allegedly found their way  into the Philippines to escape the war. Alas, WWII courtesy of Japan caught up with them. With the European gold and the Asian gold allegedly amounting to 250,000 metric tons (this should be very conservative considering the Philippines presently has the biggest unmined gold reserve, and the rest of Southeast Asia is as blessed with natural resources) buried in the Philippines by the retreating Japanese, the lucky ones got really lucky. A young lawyer named Ferdinand Marcos, contracted by Fr. Diaz to administer the loot, got really lucky, more so when he became President of the Republic itself. The vultures immediately closed in. 132,000 metric tons of Philippine gold were deposited in Fort Knox & 63,000 metric tons were extorted by American globalists so he won't be dislodged during the Edsa People Power "revolution" (READ here and the letter itself here). When the World Trade Center towers were bombed, some of the alleged Marcos gold were at the basement. Conservatively, there are 200,000 metric tons of Philippine gold in the US alone.

 To think,  you read in Western economic publications there are only 171,000 tons of gold in the world. It's obvious the world gold cartel doesn't want the world to know the abundance of gold to control the value of their reserve currency. It is believed 2/3 of the world's gold are Philippine gold, making some of the more giddy ones claim the Philippines is actually the richest in the world (I think they have a point).