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2009 ECONOMIC FORECASTS: DEPRESSION, INTERVENTIONISM, REVERSAL

Erle Frayne Argonza Magandang hapon! Good afternoon! 2009 will be another bleak year economically, more so for the North (USA, EU, Japan are topmost). The recession that began with the subprime mortgage bubble burst in America in 07, will ensue with even mightier turbulence, as there are no coherent policy solutions of a strategic nature that can salve the economic ailment on a global scale. As already articulated by this economist/analyst in various articles, the policy environment must be ch… Continue

Added by Erle Frayne Argonza on January 26, 2009 at 5:48am — No Comments

ECONOMY THAT HEALS: CHALLENGE OF THE NEW EPOCH

Erle Frayne Argonza / Guru Ra Magandang Hapon! Good afternoon! Please know first that this writer/analyst is both (b) economist and (b) mystic-healer. For some time now, the challenge of contributing to the construction of an ‘economy that heals’ has been knocking at my ‘mental coconut’, a task that explains this article and many yet that will succeed this one. As an economist, my lines of subspecializations are: (a) development economics, (b) political economy & public policy, (c) intern… Continue

Added by Erle Frayne Argonza on December 11, 2008 at 2:06am — No Comments

PAKISTAN’S CREATION, AFGHAN OPIUM: BRITISH TRADE LINKS

Erle Frayne Argonza In the name of the Father (British oligarchy), the Son (Pakistan) and of the Holy Spirit (Afghan opium). So mote it be. Pakistan and India are now on the verge of another war, one that will extend the frontiers of a brewing World War III to the South Asian corridor. Many are befuddled by the events in the region, the continuing animosities among the erstwhile ‘sibling’ neighbors, the latest terror attack on Mumbai, and more to come. Many in India and Pakistan still think tha… Continue

Added by Erle Frayne Argonza on December 4, 2008 at 4:41am — No Comments

HEALING GLOBAL ECONOMY VIA NEW FINANCIAL ARCHITECTURE

Erle Frayne D. Argonza Magandang hapon! Good afternoon! Buenos tardes! At this juncture, this economist, who is also a healer (pranic healer, soul healer, psychosocial counselor), will begin to articulate economic problems from a wellness vantage point. I will be calling the paradigm ‘healing economics’ as a fusion of wellness principles and economic analysis. If we observe the ‘treatment’ applied by public policy experts on national economies today, we would see that the solutions to the pro… Continue

Added by Erle Frayne Argonza on November 29, 2008 at 11:17pm — No Comments

PHILIPPINES AS FRIENDSTER CAPITAL: SOCIAL & SPIRITUAL FACETS

Erle Frayne Argonza Magandang hapon! Good afternoon! A gladdening news just filtered out recently about the Philippines having now capped the Top Friendster end-user notch. Accordingly, there are today 30 Million end-users in the Philippines of the top social networking platform, the Friendster, out of a total of 85 Million users worldwide. Just couples of months back, it was at 24 Million Filipino ‘ka-Friendsters’ that represented 1/3 of the world total. This development reveals couples of v… Continue

Added by Erle Frayne Argonza on November 22, 2008 at 5:17am — No Comments

WILL ZAIBATSU OFFENSIVE BE ACCOMPANIED BY NEW JAPANESE MILITARISM?

Erle Frayne Argonza In a previous article, this writer articulated the success of the Japanese Zaibatsu offensive. As one ought to realize, the success of the Zaibatsu offensive came at the expense of other markets, notably the North’s. Intellectually bankrupt as they are, the policy makers and technocrats of the North never foresaw the catastrophic consequences of predatory policies more so those concerning finance that came from their Japanese partners. Today, Zaibatsus are well prepositione… Continue

Added by Erle Frayne Argonza on November 18, 2008 at 9:52pm — No Comments

ZAIBATSU GLOBALIZATION ‘VOODOO ECONOMICS’ BOWING OUT

Erle Frayne Argonza Magandang hapon! Good afternoon! Let me share to you at this moment some notes regarding the ‘globalization’ experiment and the flawed policies that sustained it. There has been much ballyhoo about the global economy’s integration, over the last three (3) decades, as having been carved out supposedly by the Anglo-Saxon policy architects, using Thatcher & Reagan as the face for the ‘neo-liberal’ policy regime they installed. Little do peoples across the globe, including… Continue

Added by Erle Frayne Argonza on November 15, 2008 at 3:06am — No Comments

Personal Carbon Trading: A new hope for Mumbai?

Abstract One of the biggest unsolved crisis today is of the changing climate due to the continuous (and rising) anthropogenic input of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Efforts to mitigate this climate change by various governmental movements and policies around the world and within a country, state, or city do not seem to be able to counteract the problem. Mumbai local government up till now has focused on cleaning of wastes and sewages with few policy enforcements on vehicular a… Continue

Added by Anupriy Kanti on November 12, 2008 at 2:18pm — No Comments

SZWARZENEGGER’S GAY PERSECUTION: NAZI-ERA GENOCIDE COPYCAT!

Erle Frayne Argonza Cryptic night to everyone! Cryptic indeed, as we all received this cryto-fascist measure led by the Aryan Master Race prototype, Arnold the Terminator, that reverses the state law concerning gay marriage in his wealthy state of California. Arnold the Terminator is getting to resemble closer now the same dreaded morbidity machine of the movie series that featured him as the old prototype Terminator. Not satisfied with the narratives of bloodletting by the Nazi Aryans of his… Continue

Added by Erle Frayne Argonza on November 11, 2008 at 6:33am — No Comments

OBAMA VICTORY: ‘14th BRUMAIRE'‘ OF US TECHNOCRACY, HEALING BEGINS

Erle Frayne Argonza From my highland nest in Manila goes Big Kudos to Barack Obama & US Democrats! My first elation has to do with the fact that Obama represents my generation of ‘post-industrial babies’, comprising of those aged 55 and younger. Obama represents a broader worldwide trend of leaders who are veering away from intolerant/polarized values towards one of ‘tolerance for difference’. My generation is the first among the emerging ‘global citizens’, and I could hardly wait to see v… Continue

Added by Erle Frayne Argonza on November 6, 2008 at 5:57am — No Comments

PEACE & HEALING IN THE FORTHCOMING USA ELECTIONS

Bro. Erle Argonza / Guru Ra [Healing Meditations 08-01. Writ 02 November 2008, Manila, Philippines.] Citizens of Terra, Peace & Love! Within a few days from now, on November the 6th, the USA electorate will choose a new set of federal leaders. As observed in all quarters, this giant pillar of the global economy is currently on a downspin in both the domestic and international fronts. Being Fellows of this planet, we cannot just stand by and show indifference to the eventualities forthcomi… Continue

Added by Erle Frayne Argonza on November 3, 2008 at 3:30am — No Comments

LOIN EMPOWERMENT: CHURCH CRANKY POLITICAL DISCOURSE

Erle Frayne D. Argonza Religious fundamentalism is among the mega-waves of the moment. Secularism, which was a 19th century wave yet, had reached its full circle around the 3rd quarter of the 20th century. From 1980 onwards, with the advent of Islam Fundamentalism and Religious Right (Christian Right, Hindu Right), secularism has been taking the backseat as fundamentalism’s seductive new dogma delivered their devastating blows on erstwhile ‘enemies of God’. Catholic fundamentalism has been rid… Continue

Added by Erle Frayne Argonza on October 28, 2008 at 11:08pm — No Comments

36 MILLION DEAD BY AMERICA’S AGGRESSIONS, WHAT SAYETH OBAMA?

Erle Frayne Argonza Magandang hapon! Good afternoon! In just a couple of weeks’ time, the US voters and electorate will make their decisions about who should be the next American chief exec and vice-president. As a US observer (from Manila), I can now advance my own forecast, based on survey polls and the emerging ethos in the USA, that Barak Obama is the man of the hour, the next president of the USA. I would now wish to bring the matter of US aggression and its toll to the American voters a… Continue

Added by Erle Frayne Argonza on October 21, 2008 at 6:50am — No Comments

Sustainable innovators 100

Are you one of the Sustainable Innovators 100? Globe Forum 2009 will be the arena for innovators to meet investors and potential customers from different countries and regions. The Sustainable Innovators 100 is an initiative where we will gather the 100 most promising sustainable innovation companies, to promote them and their ideas. This will lead to significant exposure in many markets. If you represent a sustainable innovation company and would like to become one of the Sustainable Innovato… Continue

Added by Niclas Ihrén on October 16, 2008 at 12:00pm — No Comments

REFLECTING COMMUNITY WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

Erle Frayne Argonza Gracious morning to you! A country such as Tanzania that is known for possessing large swaths of wildlife can provide to us a wonderful database regarding the impact of political and economic changes on community wildlife management. Such is precisely the purpose of a report prepared by the Drylands Programme, as summarized below. [05 October 2008, Quezon City, MetroManila. Thanks to Eldis database reports.] ________________________________________ Emergent or illusory?… Continue

Added by Erle Frayne Argonza on October 12, 2008 at 8:07pm — No Comments

CONTINUING BOURSE PLUNGE DOWN NEAR DEPRESSION LEVEL

Erle Frayne Argonza Good afternoon, Fellows of Planet Earth! The planet’s bourses are still plunging as of yesterday (Friday), a day that was dabbed as ‘black Friday’ in Japan which saw the Nikkei plunge by 10%. ‘Bloody Friday’ may be a better term, as the word ‘black’ in ‘black Friday’ could be construed as a racial slur. This gentleman is among the economists/social scientists in Manila who forecast, way back in the late 1980s yet, that the Western economies led by the USA will experience a… Continue

Added by Erle Frayne Argonza on October 11, 2008 at 4:39am — No Comments

FORESTRY EDUCATION TRAINING UPDATE

Erle Frayne Argonza Forestry education is among those human development engagements that are urgently being delivered today. A study done in Kenya, by Temu A & Kiwia A, examined how future forestry education can respond to expanding societal needs. The study is summarized below. [04 October 2008, Quezon City, MetroManila. Thanks to Eldis database reports.] ====================================================================== Future forestry education. Responding to expanding societal need… Continue

Added by Erle Frayne Argonza on October 6, 2008 at 6:30am — No Comments

IMMORAL U.S. BAILOUT ECHOES JAPAN’S 1990s ‘CRISIS MANAGEMENT’ FLAWS

Erle Frayne Argonza Magandang hapon! Good afternoon! It’s been some couples of weeks now since the financial downspin in the USA took a further plunge as mega-banks sought help from federal government for rescue. The closure of the Lehman Brothers and the S.O.S. by other big banks that are now in the red rocked the global stock markets to a new round of instabilities and volatilities, even as the US economy is in danger of another Great Depression. As I’ve already expressed in many articles o… Continue

Added by Erle Frayne Argonza on October 4, 2008 at 7:10am — No Comments

SCREENING CROPS FOR CLIMATE TRAITS

Erle Frayne Argonza Good morning! Adapting food to climate change has been among the raging challenges of the times. This challenge is now being met head on by screening some specific crops for that purpose. See the good news below. [Writ 03 October 2008, Quezon City, MetroManila. Thanks to SciDev database news. ============================================================================== World's crops to be screened for climate traits Katherine Nightingale 22 September 2008 | EN | 中文 An… Continue

Added by Erle Frayne Argonza on October 2, 2008 at 8:10pm — No Comments

INDIA ACTION PLANS CLIMATE CHANGE

Erle Frayne Argonza On a case to case basis, each country has taken certain forms of action regarding climate change. India had recently formulated its action plan for climate change, a plan that served well as input to its cooperative efforts with South Asian countries. The report is shown below. Happy reading! [12 August 2008, Quezon City, MetroManila. Thanks to SciDev database news.] ========================================================================= India launches climate change… Continue

Added by Erle Frayne Argonza on September 27, 2008 at 6:42am — No Comments

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