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BLACK & YELLOW LEMURIANS: ANOTHER POLYNESIAN LORE FROM INDONESIA

Posted on 28/10/2013, 08:39 by: Erle

BLACK & YELLOW LEMURIANS: ANOTHER POLYNESIAN LORE FROM INDONESIA
Erle Frayne D. Argonza / Ra

Source: www.oldandsold.com/articles29/mythology-14.shtml

A tale wide-spread in the Archipelago, and interesting because of its further extension elsewhere, introduces the theme of the descent to the underworld, though not as in the Polynesian examples of the Orpheus type. As told by the Galela, it runs as follows. Once upon a time there was a man who was accustomed to keep watch in his garden to prevent its being plundered by wild pigs. One night a pig appeared at which the man threw his spear; but the creature was only wounded and ran away with the missile sticking in its back. Next day the man followed the trail of the stricken animal and after a long chase found that the tracks led to a deep cleft in the rocks, which conducted him down into the earth, so that at last he came out in the middle of a town. The tracks led directly to one of the houses, which the man entered, and looking around, he saw his spear leaning by the door. From a neighbouring room he heard sounds of crying, and shortly a man appeared, who asked him who he was and what he wanted. When he replied that he had come to find his spear, which had been carried off in the body of a pig the night before, the owner of the house said, "No, you speared my child, and her you must cure. When she is well again, you shall marry her." While talking, the man who was in search of his spear happened to look up and saw hanging from the rafters a bunch of pigs' skins, which were the disguises that the people of this underworld assumed when they visited the upper earth to plunder the gardens of men. He finally agreed to try his skill in curing the woman whom he had thus unwittingly wounded, and in a short time she had wholly recovered. Some time after he had married her, she said to him, "Come now, you act just as if you had forgotten all about your wife and children," to which he answered, "No, I think of them often; but how shall I find them?" A plan was proposed which he accepted, and in accordance with which they were both to put on the pig disguises and visit the upper world. No sooner said than done, and for three months he lived in the underworld, visiting the gardens of his own town in the upper world in the guise of a pig. Then one day, when he and others had come to the upper earth, they said to him, "Now, shut your eyes, and don't open them until we give the word. After this, when you make a garden plot and the pigs come to break in and make trouble, do not shoot at them, but go and call out, saying that they must not come to this field but go to some others; and, then they will surely go away." He did as the...

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PHILIPPINES’ CAMPOS GROUP BUYS U.S. DEL MONTE CORP, NEW INVESTING HISTORY BEGINS

Posted on 27/10/2013, 08:43 by: Erle

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PHILIPPINES’ CAMPOS GROUP BUYS U.S. DEL MONTE CORP, NEW INVESTING HISTORY BEGINS

Erle Frayne D. Argonza

Good day to you, global citizens!

For the good news coming from Asia: the Philippines’ Campos group, majority owner of NutriAsia, just bought the Del Monte Pacific Ltd., a US-based company that has been operating a large subsidiary in the Philippines. This is a milestone event for Filipino business investments in the USA, which could be followed up by other Philippine-based conglomerates buying into other American-owned big businesses inside the USA.

This experience isn’t exactly precedent setting. Couples of years ago, the San Miguel Corporation, PH’s largest Food & Beverage conglomerate, bought the NatFood of Australia. NatFood is Australia’s biggest F&B firm by the way, so that negotiation marks a precedence to show the maturity and advanced systems of economic enterprises constituted in the Philippines.

Though it isn’t precedent-setting on a regional-global setting, it is milestone for U.S. engagements by Filipino businessmen & entrepreneurs. Since F&B companies in the Philippines have attained a maturity and advanced development, expect the purchase by other Filipino F&B giants, such as Jollibee Group, of large F&B companies owned by American business tycoons.

It may not be long when the big realty mall-makers of the Philippines will set foot in the USA. SM Group, Gokongwei Group, and Ayala Group are the top players so far, besides being recognized as among Asia’s topguns in the terrain of mall-making. Not only do these conglomerates make big malls, they also produce architectural marvels that are among the world’s top mall architectural wonders.

I would credit the maturation of the Filipino companies to good measures of corporate governance, update organizational culture, and best practices put into place across the decades. Re-engineered to pass the test of time and resilience, the same Filipino firms have become global and have invested in other regions and continents as well.

It is merely the ‘planting season’ for Filipino investments overseas as of the moment. At a certain juncture in the foreseeable future, when the pattern attains maturity, the repatriation of profits from such business concerns to the Philippines will exceed those of remittances from overseas workers. I’ve been forecasting this trend since the start of the new millennium yet, and I’m optimistic of its coming to fruition timed with the maturation of the Philippine economy to a 1st world rich economy by the latter part of next decade.

[Manila, 19 October 2013]

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REPTILOID & HUMAN HYBRID IN SOME INDONESIAN LORES

Posted on 23/10/2013, 08:56 by: Erle

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REPTILOID & HUMAN HYBRID IN SOME INDONESIAN LORES
Erle Frayne D. Argonza / Ra

The narrative sample below continues with the narratives, coming from Indonesia and shared by certain Melanesian and Polynesian communities across the South Pacific, that reveal the role of ‘maidens from above’ in the breeding of a new race of Terran humans.

In the representative version below, the ‘lizard man’ appears as genotype. The presence of the ‘lizard’ is a referent to those reptilian humanoids from diverse parts of the galaxy, who might have been involved in genetically breeding new humans then, with some Terrans already bearing with them the genes of the same Reptiloids.

Among the Reptiloid-hybrid Terrans were certain ethnic groups that could have encountered the human streams from other parts of the galaxy. The same human ‘visitors’ dovetail into the ‘solar pitris’ articulated in divine wisdom or Theos Sophia who intervened to help move Terrans to the next phase of their evolution, or more accurately to help reptilian-bred Terrans to move back to the human lifestream.

Insofar as the ASEAN myths are concerned, the mid-Lemurian aegis is revealed as that particular phase of human evolution when Reptilians began to intervene in the genetic breeding projects on Terra. Divine wisdom traces that aegis to be around 18 million years ago, which is surely so deeply embedded in our collective memory.

[Philippines, 29 June 2011]

Source: www.oldandsold.com/articles29/mythology-14.shtml
Many of the stories in Indonesia are based upon the theme of the animal disguise, or "Beauty and the Beast," the following being typical of this class.' Once there was an old woman who lived alone in the jungle and had a lizard which she brought up as her child. When he was full grown, he said to her, "Grandmother, go to the house of Lise, where there are seven sisters; and ask for the eldest of these for me as a wife." The old woman did as the lizard requested, and taking the bridal gifts with her, went off; but when she came near the house, Lise saw her and said, "Look, there comes Lizard's grandmother with a bridal present. Who would want to marry a lizard! Not I."
The old woman arrived at the foot of the ladder, ascended it, and sat down in Lise's house, whereupon the eldest sister gave her betel, and when her mouth was red from chewing it, asked, "What have you come for, Grandmother? Why do you come to us?" "Well, Granddaughter, I have come for this: to pre-sent a bridal gift; perhaps it will be accepted, perhaps not. That is what I have come to see." As soon as she had spoken, the eldest indicated her refusal by getting up and giving the old wo...

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IS DEGLOBALIZATION POSSIBLE?

Posted on 21/10/2013, 08:34 by: Erle

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IS DEGLOBALIZATION POSSIBLE?

Erle Frayne D. Argonza

Globalization has traversed a historic track that is considerably long and expansive in impact at this juncture. Curiously, certain forces are working hard to de-globalize the world, so let me raise the question: is deglobalization possible?

Before anything else, a reflection on the meaning of the ‘globalization’ term. Globalization is delimited to the integration of national economies into a seamless planet-wide borderless economy, as this was the original meaning of the term.

There are so many insurgent voices around the globe today that are agitated by their own painful experiences in the aftermath of the official effectuation of the 1994-signed treaty called the GATT-UR. That fiat was largely binding on the states that forged and signed it, binding thereof on the economic life of member nations of the World Trade Organization that the treaty created.

The core principle behind globalization is free trade which in turn is based on laissez faire doctrine. Already rotting in the dustbins of archives for some time, as an obsolete stinking doctrine, laissez faire was suddenly revived and revved up globally to forge free trade. Largely British in origin (recall the Scottish physiocrats), free trade soon caught the obsessive attention of predatory financiers and technocratic subalterns who then transformed it into a global phenomenon.

Japanese technocrats then picked up the free trade resonance and concocted the term globalization. Kenichi Ohmae is the topgun Japanese thinker of globalization, which was then copycat by other Japanese thinkers. By the 1980s, the Japanese economic diplomacy corps then convinced their Americans and Western counterparts to accept the term and build up on the core principles of global free trade in order to forge a seamless, borderless planetary economy.

I’ve writ too many articles already about the subject, and spoke in many occasions about globalization and free trade from the 1990s to the past decade. I was among the insurgent voices then, being among nationalist ideological blocs in Manila that opposed the PH Senate’s signing of the GATT-Uruguay Rounds. I kept on drumming up the threat side of globalization till last decade.

Beginning this decade though, I shifted mode to a silent observer. I witnessed the win/win impact of globalization on developing economies. Fact is, the very world powers that arm-twisted small countries to sign open up their economic borders to free trade, and later to arm-twist small nations to sign the globalization treaty, were hit so badly by depression (i.e. Great Recession), which I did forecast to happen using a long-wave Kondratieff model.

Now my very own country, the “sick man of Asia” in the years ’83 through ’86, is the ‘economic wellness...

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NEW RACE BREEDING BY EXTRATERRESTRIALS IN JAVA LORE

Posted on 18/10/2013, 09:06 by: Erle

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CAN THE WORLD’S PEOPLES BE FED IN THE LONG RUN?

Posted on 15/10/2013, 08:48 by: Erle

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CAN THE WORLD’S PEOPLES BE FED IN THE LONG RUN?

Erle Frayne D. Argonza

“In the long run, we shall all be dead!” – John Maynard Keynes

Good day to you fellow global citizens!

By the year 2050, the world’s present human population will breach the 10 billion mark. That’s what the forecasts are saying so far, although it is always possible that assumptions done in the forecast may not work in the future.

At any rate, yielding a population figure that is based on zero population growth or ZPG is all wishful thinking. World population is now growing at 80 millions annually, and there is no indicating a reversal or decline of the number of babies born and survived annually (less the numbers of death).

There just aren’t enough land to treat as frontier lands anymore, sufficient to yield greater harvests. Human food production is still based largely on land cultivation, though hydroponics was already perfected in the late 1980s yet, which can considerably shift production stress away from land. So we will still be stuck up with land-based cultivation + land- based fish farming + land-based livestock production.

As studies show, the sub-Saharan (desert largely) has the potential for feeding an additional 4 billions of warm bodies. This is quite some good news so far, though it only is a palliative. Unless that population growth will taper down slowly across the coming decades, till it possibly gets nearer ZPG, the feeding problem will be a headache for humanity in the long run.

Below is a very interesting report about the feeding forecasts and problems anticipated in food production in the long run.

[Manila, 10 October 2013]

Source: http://www.scidev.net/global/farming/analy...ion-people.html
Focus on Poverty: How can we feed ten billion people?
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• Demand for food is set to outstrip supply and there is little spare land for crops
• But Sub-Saharan Africa has great potential to increase production
• As well as science, inequality and consumption patterns must be considered
It will be even harder to feed the world in 2050, but African farmers could be key, says Roger Williamson.

An alarming study has found that major crop yields are increasing too slowly to meet future food demands. With the latest UN projections suggesting a world population of 9.6 billion by 2050 [1] and the population rising by more than 80 million a year — with the fastest rates in some of the most populous African countries — how will the human race feed itself?

In future, will we be talking about three to four billion people in extreme poverty rather than the current 'bottom billion'?
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OBJECTIFICATION/DESCENT, GALACTIC INTERVENTION IN HALMAHERA MYTH

Posted on 14/10/2013, 08:03 by: Erle

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OBJECTIFICATION/DESCENT, GALACTIC INTERVENTION IN HALMAHERA MYTH
Erle Frayne D. Argonza / Ra

Source: www.oldandsold.com/articles29/mythology-14.shtml

A version from Halmahera 3 shows a further development. A man once had seven sons. Attacked by a mysterious illness, he gradually turned to stone, and the sons, wishing to seek for medicine with which to cure him, determined at once to set out in search of it. The youngest son, however, being very ugly and covered with sores, was left behind; but he, resolving to do what he could, started off alone in another direction and came to the house of an old woman, who took pity on him, cured his sores, clothed him, and listened to the story of his quest. When she had heard his tale, she told him to hide among the bushes near a pool of water which was close by, and he had not been there long before five maidens came to bathe. They took off their garments and laid them on the bushes under which he was concealed; and while they were bathing, he stole the clothes of the youngest. The others, when they came out, put on their winged garments and flew away, but the youngest, unable to escape, begged in vain that he would return to her magic robes, only to have him re-fuse and take her home as his wife. When he had told her of his quest and had asked her if she could help him, she immediately called for her flying-palace, and in it they both ascended to the sky. She brought her husband to the presence of the lord of heaven, who gave him, after hearing his story, the medicine for which he had been seeking, and with this the son now returned to his father, thanks to the aid of his wife's magic flying-house. There he cured his parent; but his six brothers returning empty-handed, and being angry because the youngest had succeeded where they had failed, were later turned into dogs, while the hero and his wife lived happily ever after.
REFLECTION

The Septenary Law again is revealed here, in the 7 sons of a man. The man ‘turned to stone’ signifies the further descent of early Earth humans into the dense sphere of existence.

Amusingly, the narrative of maidens coming from ‘above’ is indicated here. The maidens came from a ‘flying palace’ which is a direct referent for the inter-dimensional ships of extraterrestrial humans of a higher dimension. The ‘ugly son’ out of 7 brothers—possibly 7 ethnic groups comprising a racial family of a Lemurian-era sub-race—was fortunate to have interbred with the visitors from above.

The ethnic community was to inherit knowledge, signified by ‘medicine’, aside from being ‘volunteered’ as hybridization vehicles for a new race of sorts. The ‘lord of heaven’ signifies the ‘solar pitris’ articulated in Theos Sophia, who aided i...

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WITCH HUNTING NANOTECHNOLOGY? QUE SERA SERA BRAZIL!

Posted on 9/10/2013, 08:30 by: Erle

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WITCH HUNTING NANOTECHNOLOGY? QUE SERA SERA BRAZIL!

Erle Frayne D. Argonza

Magandang araw! Good day!

It seems that Brazilians have among them a new crop of superstitious punks whose noxious superstition discovered their enemy whom they need to stake to death in public: nanotechnology practitioners. By practitioners we mean those who practice the research & development of nanotech into usable byproducts.

The superstitious witch hunters have found allies among legislators who are proposing to ban nanotech items in food & beverage or F&B labels. If these Inquisitors have their way, they may end up heaping up public hysteria on the nanotech practitioners who may get lynched or stoned to death.

Fortunately, there are more sane minds than madmen among the legislators in the noblesse federal republic. Of course, it need not be stressed that the sane legislators struck down as impertinent and dismissed the inquisitional stone age superstitionists.

You can find the reportage about the rather ubiquitous inquisition below.

[Manila, 06 October 2013]

Source: http://www.scidev.net/global/technology/fe...technology.html
Brazil struggles to regulate emerging nanotechnology
Speed read
• Congress has rejected a bill to label food and drugs containing nanotech
• Yet a US$186 million nanotechnology initiative was launched last month
• A new bill is pending, which may introduce what some see as badly needed regulation
[RIO DE JANEIRO] The Brazilian Congress has rejected a bill that aimed to introduce labelling on all food, drugs and cosmetics containing nanostructures, arguing that it was alarmist and that there was no scientific basis for warning people about nanotechnology in products.

The move is the latest rebuff to such regulation, even as the country spearheads multimillion-dollar nanotechnology programmes and experts argue that better oversight of this new technology could benefit both industry and consumers.

A Senate report on the rejected bill said that the proposed labelling could have been interpreted as a "warning" even on products improved by nanotechnology, potentially causing losses to companies that have invested in improving their products through this technology.

Consequently, there could be a fall in research and development investment in the sector, which would undermine national investment into nanotechnology such as the National Nanotechnology Programme, a multimillion-dollar initiative launched in 2005, and its extension the Brazilian Nanotechnology Initiative launched last month (19 August) that is worth 440 million reals (approximately US&#...

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3rd PLANE BEINGS BREED TERRANS IN MELANESIAN LORE

Posted on 8/10/2013, 09:54 by: Erle

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3rd PLANE BEINGS BREED TERRANS IN MELANESIAN LORE

Erle Frayne D. Argonza

Source: www.oldandsold.com/articles29/mythology-14.shtml
Another tale from the same tribe shows a more typical form of the story. According to this, seven parakeets one day flew down to bathe, doffing their bird garments and laying them on a bench while they made merry in the water as beautiful maid-ens. Magoenggoelota crept up and stole the garment of the youngest, who, realizing that something was wrong, called to her sisters, "Whew! I smell human flesh," at which the others were vexed and said, "Oh, how could any mortal come here? You are joking." Soon they all went out to resume their garments, but though the older sisters found theirs and donned them, the youngest was unable to perceive her own until she saw a man who held it in his hand. Her sisters had disappeared, for they had flown up to the sky; and when they arrived, they said to their mother, "Kapapitoe has gone away, for someone took her dress," at which their mother shed tears and berated them for abandoning their sister, so that they did not dare to go bathing any more. Meanwhile the younger sister wept and begged Magoenggoelota to give her back her feather garment, but he refused, saying, "Come, stop your crying. I shall do you no harm, but shall take you to my house as my wife," to which she answered, "Very well, if you will, take me with you; but first give me back my clothes." When she had promised not to fly away, he returned her feather garment, but when she put it on, he held her fast until she said, "You don't need to hold me; I will not go away, for I do not know the road. If you are fond of me, put me in your betel-box," and accordingly he took out his betel-box, put her in it, and took her to his home.
REFLECTIONS

The ‘swan’ archetype in one mythos now appears as the ‘parakeet’ archetype in another. In this current version, the parakeets mutates to humans as they descended to the ‘water’ to take a bath’. It was during such descent, while their over-garments were taken off from them, that humans crept upon them, till the conclusion was the breeding with the humans.

The ‘parakeets’ were of course beings coming from the mental plane or 3rd plane (governed by air element), and were on their way down in the devolution phase of their own development. During the descent to ‘water’—the 2nd plane or astral plane (governed by water element), that the breeding with Terrans occurred.

The lore reveals that there could have been sentient beings on Earth at that time of descent of the higher dimension beings. The higher beings could be interpreted as those coming from higher level planets...

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HAS MONSANTO INVADED CHILE’S SMALL PLANTERS?

Posted on 4/10/2013, 08:25 by: Erle

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HAS MONSANTO INVADED CHILE’S SMALL PLANTERS?

Erle Frayne D. Argonza

“God must be angry on Chilean peasants, He’s sending Monsanto here!” could be an apt idiom by angry Chileans over the passing of the Monsanto Bill in their legislature. I am very much in sync with the protesting farmers and concerned Chileans, as I know the dire implications of getting Monsanto to invade their country.

I was among the social activists in the Philippines who opposed the signing of the GATT-Uruguay Rounds in the mid-90s, and spoke in many venues to expose the social costs that the treaty would spawn. The rise of gigantic trusts or monopolies has been on the agenda plate of the global oligarchs in the the 90s when the treaty was signed, and, as an adroit observer of international political economy, I was among those who forecast the rise of such global monopolies that will control certain sectors of agriculture such as seed production.

That monopolization is taking place in steel and mining. Ditto for agriculture, with Monsanto as the flagship trust. I am no professional basher of genetic modification of organisms, as I myself witnessed the great benefits brought forth by genetic engineering on many varieties of veggies, fruits, and grains in my backyard country. However, the likes of Monsanto gobbling up grains, which effectively prohibits small farmers to own seeds for re-cultivation later, is pure EVIL.

The Monsanto Bill had raised blood pressures in Chile that is rising fast as a developing country in South America. Details of the issues raised are reflected in the reportage below.

[Manila, 30 September 2013]

Source: http://www.scidev.net/global/bioprospectin...o-law-bill.html
Farmers' rights 'at stake in Chile's Monsanto law bill'
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• Campaigners say the bill suits big firms rather than ordinary farmers
• But biotech companies deny claims that it would unfairly restrict seed use
• Strong intellectual property rights could also aid agricultural exports, say the bill's supporters
[SANTIAGO] Campaigners who last month marched through more than a dozen Chilean cities against a bill dubbed the 'Monsanto law' after the giant US biotech firm, plan to protest again if the bill progresses through the country's Senate.

Meanwhile, the bill's supporters — mainly associations of large-scale farmers — are lobbying senators to back it.

At issue is the legal implementation in Chile of the latest version of the International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV 91).

As a signatory to the 1978 version, Chile already protects plant breeders' r...

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