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Dronahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06864941770380173324noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post-62353725940015436222019-03-20T03:07:43.470-07:002019-03-20T03:07:43.470-07:00By reading the article material very very well and...By reading the article material very very well and this is very useful.<br /><b><a href="http://carakandunganberhasil.com/" rel="nofollow">cara menggugurkan kandungan dengan asam jawa</a></b><br /><b><a href="http://carakandunganberhasil.com/apa-saja-tanda-tanda-kehamilan/" rel="nofollow">tanda tanda kehamilan</a></b><br /><b><a href="http://carakandunganberhasil.com/aktivitas-penyebab-keguguran-yang-harus-dihindari/" rel="nofollow">aktivitas penyebab keguguran</a></b><br /><b><a href="http://carakandunganberhasil.com/penyebab-telat-haid-dan-solusinya/" rel="nofollow">penyebab telat haid dan solusinya</a></b><br /><b><a href="http://carakandunganberhasil.com/kalkulator-masa-subur-wanita-untuk-membantu-promil/" rel="nofollow">kalkulator masa subur wanita</a></b><br /><b><a href="http://carakandunganberhasil.com/masa-subur-wanita-harus-dicermati-bagi-anda-yang-ingin-punya-anak/" rel="nofollow">masa subur wanita</a></b>CBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03375439464690830847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post-74787180455438938842018-12-17T19:15:38.825-08:002018-12-17T19:15:38.825-08:00Thank you very much for sharing this very useful i...Thank you very much for sharing this very useful information, I am very happy to have found the information I was looking for. 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Please indicate the date of yo...Hi All Requestors,<br /><br />Please indicate the date of your request in your message/comment, as this section does not say. Then I'll know if I have timely responded to your request.<br /><br />OR<br /><br />Visit my SCRIBD website as mentioned from which you can download.<br /><br />Thanks!<br /><br />-BertBert M. Dronahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06864941770380173324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post-75335848704682202892008-08-17T08:53:00.000-07:002008-08-17T08:53:00.000-07:00it is indeed the miseducation. not a malpractice. ...it is indeed the miseducation. not a malpractice. in the first place, when we were colonialized, it is not education for the filipinos, of the filipinos and by the Americans. but rather Education of the AMericans, for the AMericans and by the Americans. i totally agree with what mr. constantino wrote. the reason why we are in the call-center and ofw period.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post-87515226654806418742008-06-23T04:58:00.000-07:002008-06-23T04:58:00.000-07:00please send me a copy of "The Mis-education of the...please send me a copy of "The Mis-education of the Filipino People at cathee16@gmail.com<BR/><BR/>thanks.Naceehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03360152387889922187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post-88893388569622942682008-01-15T02:02:00.000-08:002008-01-15T02:02:00.000-08:00hi,,,please send me a copy of "The Mis-education o...hi,,,please send me a copy of "The Mis-education of the Filipino People at this e-mail address(joy_amores82@yahoo.com).<BR/><BR/>Thank you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post-80091472245086753742008-01-14T00:21:00.000-08:002008-01-14T00:21:00.000-08:00hi. please send me the overview of The Miseducatio...hi. please send me the overview of The Miseducation of the Filipino People. please send it here:<BR/>sects_08@yahoo.com<BR/>thank you...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post-54090477221904003432007-11-28T00:14:00.000-08:002007-11-28T00:14:00.000-08:00Hi Joanne,Am currently in Spain and will be back h...Hi Joanne,<BR/><BR/>Am currently in Spain and will be back home 12/09. Will email back then. Thanks!!<BR/><BR/>BertBert M. Dronahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06864941770380173324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post-61150510443079776732007-11-25T04:58:00.000-08:002007-11-25T04:58:00.000-08:00hi. please send me the Miseducation of the Filipin...hi. please send me the Miseducation of the Filipino and Pambansang Demokrasya at joanne_valkyrie@yahoo.com. Thanks!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post-10765625575560231172007-11-25T04:48:00.000-08:002007-11-25T04:48:00.000-08:00please send me the copy of the "Miseducation of th...please send me the copy of the "Miseducation of the Filipino" and "Pambansang Demokrasya" at joanne_valkyrie@yahoo.com. Thank you!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post-51868258411858577862007-10-13T00:34:00.000-07:002007-10-13T00:34:00.000-07:00do please send me the whole copy of the "mis-educa...do please send me the whole copy of the "mis-education of the filipino" please send it at headhunter_bloodsting@yahoo.com thanks a lotAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post-25503661922487349492007-10-12T08:39:00.001-07:002007-10-12T08:39:00.001-07:00please send me the overview of the "mis-education ...please send me the overview of the "mis-education of the filipino" please send the overview at danah_roxas@yahoo.com thanksAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post-3231107592460513412007-10-12T08:39:00.000-07:002007-10-12T08:39:00.000-07:00please send me the overview of the "mis-education ...please send me the overview of the "mis-education of the filipino" please send the overview at danah_roxas@yahoo.com thanksAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post-52502069195241553082007-10-12T08:37:00.000-07:002007-10-12T08:37:00.000-07:00please send me the overview of the "mis-education ...please send me the overview of the "mis-education of the filipino" please send it at danah_roxas@yahoo.com thanksAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post-70458170991052567182007-02-13T03:33:00.000-08:002007-02-13T03:33:00.000-08:00Hello! Hello! Im just about to ask wen will u be p...Hello! Hello! Im just about to ask wen will u be posting the last part? Can u please post it sooner.. Pls. pls. Pls.. <BR/><BR/>-=>Lyn(^o^)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post-1143676446472785142006-03-29T15:54:00.000-08:002006-03-29T15:54:00.000-08:00Bert, I thought performance was well defined. Pe...Bert,<BR/> <BR/>I thought performance was well defined. <BR/> <BR/>Performance means getting to do one specific big thing very well, so as to achieve all our dreams of progress. The one big thing is this: <BR/> <BR/>1) Attract big annual Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows. It would lead to the realization of all the following great things that we Filipinos are ever dreaming of: <BR/>a) Lots of technology come with the FDI inflows; <BR/>b) There would be much low-wage employment; <BR/>c) There would be great export sales complete with big profits for the foreign investors; <BR/>d) The big profits attract global attention; <BR/>e) thus, more foreing direct investment inflows from new, addtional sources of capital; <BR/>f) so, there are even more Filipino jobs created, and more dollars earned to re-invest; <BR/>g) The reinvestment means strong imports of factory equipment; <BR/>h) hence workers attain a higher level of productivity; they become more sophisticated and skilled; <BR/>h) hence, their wages rise, but not eroding multinational profits; <BR/>i) thus, profit reinvestment continues and there are even more imported equipment for the country, sustaining the trend of rising wages; <BR/>j) in parallel, govt revenues from income and Vat tax collections rise; <BR/>k) thus much road building, and water supply and school construction and environmental clean-up occurs, which is nation-building.<BR/>l) if there will also be lots of corruption, and environmental degradation, we will have to endure these temporary pimples.<BR/>m) as workers get rich, they erect better homes. Goodbye Gawad Kaling pig pens.<BR/>Does the above enumeration of means and beneifts bore you? Sorry, but they need to be listed. I wish you mastered the model. It is all true--the experiences of Malaysia, Thailand, China, in the last 23 years and of India since 1991, and of four little Japans since the 1960s.<BR/> <BR/>Gloria did not achieve the above performance record. It would have benefited all members of the export-oriented Philipine alliance-- the workers, the govt, the foreign investors, the people, the nation. Do you see now what performance means?<BR/> <BR/>It is a bit disappointing that you said:<BR/> <BR/>>> For my own money, I'd rather stick to my self-managed investments. I got some ideas borrowed from your pal Warren, Pete Lynch, Ben Graham and all those economists who keep on writing "how to invest or get rich quick" cookbooks as their sideline.<BR/> <BR/>I wish you understood teamwork and leverage. One person is good, two are better, 88 million Filipinos are best, and 6 billion global citizens are bestest. <BR/>A few Filipinos must band together to form a new bank or investment company different from existing Filipino financial institutions that have been weakly led. <BR/>The few Filipinos would gather savings of Filipinos first, and then of the world next, so that there is big capital to invest. <BR/>The few Filipinos would get going the process above of accelerting foreign investment inflows.<BR/>How do you think America or Hong Kong got built?. Through banks and investment companies in America, or in HK collecting local and global money into concentrated bid wads to invest locally. <BR/> <BR/>>> While I rant about our lack of nationalism....It keeps me going and contented....as you seem to be in your money talk. <BR/> <BR/>You really should stop ranting on nationalism that leads nowhere. The right nationalism conquers world markets, with Tiger multinational allies to do it with. Rant on that... and realize your rant.<BR/> <BR/>You should be into what you call my "money talk," an unfortunate phrase, in my view. <BR/> <BR/>Makes me think of the three bricklayers. Asked what they were doing, one said, "laying bricks, the second said, "building a wall," and the third said, "erecting a great cathedral." You make me think I am only laying bricks.<BR/> <BR/>You should be into what I'd call building a cathedral of a nation, with finance at the lead, capital at the lead. In short, get into capitalism.<BR/> <BR/>Don't worry, after capitalism, we will get to socialism, but not now... perhaps in a few... ... paragraphs? No, more like one century or two. <BR/> <BR/>We'll be so productive in one or two centuries, that private property will be meaningless. Want to go to Paris. No problem, Scotty will beam you there. Or, want to go to Tiger Nebulae. No problem, the Starship Enterprise will get you there at Warp 9 speed. Want Cleopatra? No problem, the computer will consult a database, pluck atoms from the air, and manufacture Cleopatra for you to have your way with. Want a Rolls Royce? Ah... you'll be bored... The computer can make it for you from thin air any minute.<BR/> <BR/>I am an anarchist, but also a contradiction. I love the NCAA and teamwork. I adore American, Japanese, Korean, Chinese companies in the abstract, and the teamwork in there. You should see yourself as a potential team leader, an organizer. Every Filipino intellectual appears to only like to stand on a soapbox. You've seen the Wizard of Oz, yes? We'll, no matter who you are now, you can be a bold man, a leader, a nation-builder. Just say so, just fool yourself into believing it... and then keep up with the illusion.... You'll get somewhere... at least that is what I must tell myself each day. Illusions are so powerful and productive, if they are positive illusions.<BR/> <BR/>Your five assignments are these: 1) Get off the soapbox, and run away with my ideas. Use them as if they were your own; 2) Get other leftists to think the same way. 3) You and they organize your own investment company or bank. 4) With it build a cathedral, er... something larger... er the world? the galaxy? 5) When you succeed, teach me how to be that good. <BR/> <BR/>I won't talk to you for two or three years. Above assignment will require time and concentration. After you succeed, teach me how you did it. You've started well, reading Buffet, Lynch, and Graham Bell... er.. Ben Graham. How did you get stuck with Constantino, too? Don't explain. I understand. You've been an NNN -- nattering nabob of negativism. <BR/> <BR/>Good bye for a few years.... or hours... whatever... <BR/> <BR/>NormanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post-1143525872417481532006-03-27T22:04:00.000-08:002006-03-27T22:04:00.000-08:00Norman, Thanks for your entertaining comments thou...Norman, <BR/><BR/>Thanks for your entertaining comments though they have traces of validity.<BR/><BR/>Performance as bottomline. What is good or bad? if good performance, for whom?<BR/><BR/>I'll go along with you, though I must confess I do not have play money for venture capitalism, especially with your investment company, haha.<BR/><BR/>For my own money, I'd rather stick to my self-managed investments. I got some ideas borrowed from your pal Warren, Pete Lynch, Ben Graham and all those economists who keep on writing "how to invest or get rich quick" cookbooks as their sideline.<BR/><BR/>With your great ideas, you should be able to convince even those creative thieves in government who boundlessly want more money to line their pockets (they might even want to live forever or want golden caskets, I suppose). They may catch on and invest with you.<BR/><BR/>So devote more than 1% on these guys. You might have better luck. Who knows, you make your money and by chance may even help the country get somewhere..(to where)?<BR/><BR/>While I rant about our lack of nationalism....as it keeps me going and contented....as you seem to be in your money talk.<BR/><BR/>Cheers.Bert M. Dronahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06864941770380173324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post-1143522989194178282006-03-27T21:16:00.000-08:002006-03-27T21:16:00.000-08:00Your suggestion to get the government going with m...Your suggestion to get the government going with my proposals is much welcome. I surely must work on that. But, if I did, I'd use only 1% of my time on it.<BR/> <BR/>And while I am at it, could you help? Independently of me, could you work on government? I mean, must I do all the work?<BR/> <BR/>I need your help because you could have a better public relations personality than mine. I am impatient with most officials. I see them as not competent, visionary, speedy. Even if honest and well-meaning, they can slow you down. The problem is that Presidents and officials are giants and minions bound by bureaucracies and politics, and worse, by ignorance and incompetence, and thus are usually unable to soon fix the needs of poor nations. <BR/> <BR/>Of course there are exceptions-- Asian Tiger leaders Lee Kuan Yew. Ramos could have been an exception, too, but did not quite go over the hump completely, and the boulder he had pushed to near the top rolled back down.<BR/> <BR/>So you can imagine why I plan to use only 1% of my time, if that much, exploring ways to work with the government , especially Gloria's. No President from Quirino to Erap has ever had GMA's terrible record: <BR/>Exports have grown 0.5% annually during Gloria's 2001-2005 tenure instead of 7% to 10% on average per President, with Ramos as the great exception, at 22% annually (Hong Kong's long-term record); <BR/>Foreign direct investment inflows have grown negatively during Gloria since the 1999-2000 high points during Estrada, despite the strong rise in investment inflows in 2005 from the depressed level during 2004. There has never been negative direct investment inflow growth under any President since global data on direct investment flows started to be published (1970s).<BR/>I do not criticize Gloria for corruption, since corruption has been a great power for nation-building in the right hands: Deng Xiao Ping, Elizabeth 1, Stanford and the Robber barons of America, the Japanese of the 1950s, Park Chung Hee, Chiang Kai Shek. <BR/> <BR/>Honest or corrupt, GMA has not performed. At bottom, it is performance that counts. <BR/> <BR/>Given my aversion working with this government, but seeing that it could be important to do so, to educate it, to lead it, may I ask you to be in charge of this challenge?<BR/> <BR/>While spending little time thinking of ways to work with this government, I also spend little time siding with its critics or friendlies who are also incompetent. They and the administration never suggest Tiger ideas for nation-building. Instead, they blabber on every off-tangent subject, such as federalization or moving gov't offices to the provinces, or parliamentarization. <BR/> <BR/>Why don't they focus on the one big thing and do it well: <BR/>Win large amounts of foreign direct investment inflows so as to have the technology and foreign allies to produce $1 trillion of exports soon, up 24 fold from an estimated $41.5 in 2005? <BR/>Thus, have jobs more and more Filipinos, until the 10 million unemployed or underemployed Filipinos are virtually fully employed, and they earn big dollars to import productive machines, trucks, computers, technologies? <BR/>Thus, workers become more productive. The productivity of the other 25 million workers now fully employed soon rises from an output of only $3,500 annually now to the $78,000 output per worker in America, or $70,000 in HK, or $40,000 in SoKor? <BR/>Thus Filipinos have high incomes, therefore pay big taxes, therefore enrich the government to build more infrastructure and better schools. Thus, the nation gets built?<BR/>In avoiding engagement with Gloria and her critics, I devote myself to the bigger challenge: what must I, an individual, do, to use my time productively and push things forward?. I think I will reveal to you at some point my answer to the question, the business that I am into that is my answer to the question. I'll do that some time in the future, but not now. [ If I know me, that time in the future will be in 12 to 15 paragraphs, or the next email. :-) ] <BR/> <BR/>Talking only in broad strokes for now, I see you not as a dead flea, but a powerful god or monster, if unleashed. Don't let me state the cliche, please: Prometheus Unbound? .... <BR/> <BR/>No, no, no.... More like, Warren Buffet Jr. rising. Or HSBC Jr. emerging. Or Dracula flying high at mid-day?<BR/> <BR/>Do you know these names-- Buffet, HSBC? Of course you do. You must Google them. Spend time on their web sites. Warren Buffet, HSBC--along with Sam Walton--may be the greatest, or among the greatest, long-term builders of the world in modern times. <BR/> <BR/>If individuals are that powerful, why not use your literary and political talents to awaken Filipino individuals to their possibilities, instead of turning them into weak complainers like Walden Bello? <BR/> <BR/>Why don't you start with yourself? As a U.P. MBA alum, you must read more on the Japanese economic miracle of the 1950s-70s, and then of the miracles in Tawan, Hong Kong, China, Thailand, Malaysia, S. Korea, Taiwan. <BR/> <BR/>Be familiar with the instructive ups and downs of economic policies in Japan and S. Korea, especially the latest policies that has rescued them from the earlier stupid policies of the 1950s up to the late 1980s (or 90s for SK) that pushed them up high, only to plunge them into trouble from there. <BR/> <BR/>And read how China copied Hong Kong and admired S. Korea but avoided the chaebol-oriented Korean mistakes. <BR/> <BR/>Then go micro by reading much on Warren Buffet and HSBC. Then lead Filipinos, including officials, to the right actions for progress. Don't worry, I'll be there beside you, mano a mano, stouthearted man joined to another.<BR/> <BR/>I have found the suggested readings above more exciting and alive than the dead wails and dirges that I get from reading the complaining Bello, Constantino, Lichauco, Recto, and Jo Ma Sison. <BR/> <BR/>You must stop promoting their internally-defensive wails and whines and moans. Instead, be be a champion inspiring yourself and Filipinos to grow from fleas into monstrous winning beasts of world finance and commerce.<BR/> <BR/>We must be savage Vandals, Teutons, Mongols exploding from our borders into the world, respecting no hunks, no Hulks there, no Knights Templars, no samurais, no kung fu masters. <BR/> <BR/>We must break into rich Western and Asian markets with Western and Asian allies slaughtering the Grendels and Cyclops of commerce and finance there, while carrying away blue-eyed or chinky- eyed fair damsels as prizes. (wow, am I sexist... sorry, Women's Libbers.... I have been marching for Women's Lib forever. Now and then I must take liberties.)<BR/> <BR/>You and we are testosterone, Bert. That means electron. Now let us electrify. Of course you'll ask, How? <BR/> <BR/>My somewhat more specific answer now is this: Found a bank or investment company. Become Warren Buffet and HSBC combined. They were fleas with only 250,000 to 50 million pesos of starting capital. But, they flead well and became gnats of finance and commerce. Then they gnatted well and became gadflies. Then they gadflied well and are now magnificent vampires, monsters of finance and commerce. <BR/>Now go and grow like them, as I am doing with my money management company in New York. Become a Monstron, a Draculon. You have friends with 50,000 of capital no? And they have friends, no? Get going and pool P20 million to P50 million of capital. <BR/>Then buy into or joint venture with a small bank, a savings bank or rural bank. With that bank, look for foreign investors to ally with at exports. <BR/>Of course, also develop globally-oriented workers and managers. <BR/>And work with me to find your small American joint venture partners to export with from the Philippines, if you need my help. Small foreign exporter allies at first. <BR/>With them grow, and grow and grow to find larger foreign allies with whom again to grow and grow. <BR/>Thus we rise to become monsterlets as attractive globally as starlets. That would mean big-boobed and seductive enough to buy San Miguel and BPI. <BR/>So, we are a bigger entity and start promoting bigger foreign joint venture alliances. <BR/>And we grow and grow and grow into a Brad Pitt of finance and commerce. So we we buy Gloria, Angarra, Ping Lacson, Pimentel, Brother Eddie, Honasan and a couple of American or Korean firms. <BR/>We'd keep growing. So we buy the International Space Station, and settle on Mars and Jupiter to claim them as our frontiers. <BR/>From there we negotiate with Klingons and Romulens to buy the Tiger nebulae, if it exists. <BR/>If not, we'll create it. <BR/>It is a crazy world out there full of possibilities. If we retain our cosmic ambition, good sense, and some silly humor, and if we stop wailing and moaning about how we are miseducated and exploited by imperial Americans, we'll get somewhere. <BR/> <BR/>Best wishes,<BR/> <BR/>Norman Darth VadronAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post-1143522643483764222006-03-27T21:10:00.000-08:002006-03-27T21:10:00.000-08:00Norman, Thanks Norman. pretty amusing.I suggest th...Norman,<BR/> <BR/>Thanks Norman. pretty amusing.<BR/><BR/>I suggest that you address your ideas to those in government than to me, they can make them happen; and you'll be well credited.<BR/><BR/>Rather than attack the dead who can not respond.Bert M. Dronahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06864941770380173324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post-1143522487690638332006-03-27T21:08:00.000-08:002006-03-27T21:08:00.000-08:00In the global jungle, eat lunch, or be lunch. Re...In the global jungle, eat lunch, or be lunch. <BR/> <BR/>Renato Constantino never ate lunch, nor offered a recipe for lunch.. He and Recto only had ideas to build walls of protectionism.... i.e. building walls against pigs. Then the Tigers of global technology came and ate them. <BR/> <BR/>Hey Bert, technological Tigers are eating you, too. You use imported computers, imported cell phones, imported electricity (i.e., produced by imported oil and imported generators and imported tractors to build dams), but you don't help to earn dollars in a world of technological Tigers. <BR/> <BR/>So, your imports are bleeding the Central Bank's vaults of dollars, the foreign technological Tiges are ripping your and our hearts out through you and Filipinos buying all those Tiger attractive products. <BR/> <BR/>You've got to ride with Tiger allies to eat other Tigers worldwide. You must help build a Tiger Dell Philippines to eat up American Tiger Dell, or a Tiger Hyundai Philippines to eat up Tiger Hyundai Korea and Tiger Hyundai global, etc.! <BR/> <BR/>That is the crafty method Renato Constantino and you leftist guys are missing. Use Tigers as allies to eat up other Tigers. <BR/> <BR/>Such a Tiger Hong Kong alliance beat up Tiger America. Hong Kong ate Americans for lunch. <BR/> <BR/>Even Filipinos were their lunch, torn up by Tiger claws from Hong Kong consisting of radios, cameras, computer mice made in HK and sold in the Philippines. <BR/> <BR/>Ha, we must ride with Tigers. If we are not doing that, as leftists are not, then they have already fallen off the Tiger, and are being eaten up!<BR/> <BR/>Eat lunch or be lunch!<BR/> <BR/>NormanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11987503.post-1143214973447317512006-03-24T07:42:00.000-08:002006-03-24T07:42:00.000-08:00Norman,Sorry, the comment did not upload your Noah...Norman,<BR/><BR/>Sorry, the comment did not upload your Noah's Ark images.Bert M. Dronahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06864941770380173324noreply@blogger.com