A tale of US imperialism's racist black face strategy...

[RWalker]

What is behind the strategy of promoting a black face as the cover for the USA racist imperialism? Quite simply the immense wealth of Africa. The capitalist global economy is in deep trouble and if the people of the world, particularly the African people were to become conscious the problem would be even worse, leading to the collapse of the white power (i.e., imperialist) global system.

Well it is simple:
1.
Africa is a vital source of many of commodities essential to modern society, including uranium, cobalt, coltan, copper...not to mention things like abundant sea food resources, timber, natural gas, petroleum and others...

and

2 Once again Pan-Africanism has become a formidable force in the world and it threatens the interest of the racist elements who run the globe by dent of genocide and military aggression. These racists know that in fact Pan-Africanism, real Pan-Africanism, would end their theft of Africa's material as well as human resources. And they will do anything to stop this.
It is clear to me, and I hope to you, that we must be very careful about our political choices...

So we see that this struggle over the issue of a "black face" for the US racist imperialism might mean the difference between the collapse of racist imperialism or the continuation with a eunuch "black" serving as it's image to the world. This is classic spook who sat by the door stuff, fool the "fools" with a house negro they of their own as Malcolm X said

"....in their (US government) failure to protect our human rights, they are violating the United Nations Charter, and they are not qualified to continue to sit in that international body and talk about what human rights should be done in other countries on this earth. [Applause]…

"I have to say this, then I’ll sit down. Back during slavery, when Black people like me talked to the slaves, they didn’t kill ‘em, they sent some old house Negro along behind him to undo what he said. You have to read the history of slavery to understand this.

"There were two kinds of Negroes. There was that old house Negro and the field Negro. And the house Negro always looked out for his master. When the field Negro got too much out of line, he held them back in check. He put ‘em back on the plantation.

"The house Negro could afford to do that because he lived better than the field Negro. He ate better, he dressed better, and he lived in a better house. He lived right up next to his master-in the attic or the basement. He ate the same food his master ate and wore his same clothes. And he could talk just like his master-good diction. And he loved his master more than his master loved himself. That’s why he didn’t want his master hurt.

"If the master got sick, he’d say, “What’s the matter, boss, we sick?” [Laughter] When the master’s house caught afire, he’d try and put the fire out. He didn’t want his master’s house burned. He never wanted his master’s property threatened. And he was more defensive of it than the master was. That was the house Negro.

"But then you had some field Negroes, who lived in huts, had nothing to lose. They wore the worst kind of clothes. They ate the worst food. And they caught hell. They felt the sting of the lash. They hated their master. Oh yes, they did.

"If the master got sick, they’d pray that the master died. [Laughter and Applause] If the master’d house caught afire, they’d pray for a strong wind to come along. [Laughter] This was the difference between the two.

"And today you still have house Negroes and field Negroes [Applause] I’m a field Negro. If I can’t live in the house as a human being, I’m praying for a wind to come along. If the master won’t treat me right and he’s sick, I’ll tell the doctor to go in the other direction. [Laughter] But if all of us are going to live as human beings, as brothers, then I’m for a society of human beings that can practice brotherhood."

Any sane African would hate the master(s) just as Omowale Malcolm X...any man or woman who loves the masters or mistresses, for that matter, is to use another Malcolm quote, "is a negro who is out of his mind."


So what aer the material stakes confronting us today?
Take a glimpse at the following article on the IMF's desperate plans to sell off gold as a way of staving off the continuing decline in the western (particularly US) economic vitality (as you read these keep in mind the abject poverty of the majority of Africans in the world...even in the bastion of "democracy" in the US, Africans are growing more impoverished everyday, rather than less...remember this the next time some one comes to you with phony claims of "change" and praise for the tremendous progress we have made in America):

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"The price of gold fell sharply this morning after the United States Treasury said that it backed the International Monetary Fund's proposed sale of about 400 tonnes on the global market, which would be worth around $12 billion (£6.1 billion).

"Gold slipped to $930.20 an ounce from $937.80 in late New York trading yesterday, well below last week’s record high of $953.60 an ounce.

"The fall was triggered by comments made by David H McCormick, a senior official at the Treasury Department. He said that the US agreed with the IMF that its plan to sell nearly 13 million ounces of gold was "probably the most viable" way of securing the organisation’s long-term funding.

"At current prices the sale would raise just under $12 billion for the IMF.

"Mr McCormick's remarks were significant because the US Treasury had previously opposed sales by the IMF, the world’s third-largest holder of gold bullion with more than 3,200 tonnes. The IMF has not sold a significant amount of the metal since 2000.

"Profit-taking by a variety of gold bulls following last week’s highs amplified the fall, but the downturn in the price attracted some bargain hunters, particularly jewellery makers in the Far East.

"Meanwhile, shares of Gold Fields, the South African gold mining group, fell more than 4 per cent on Monday after it said that the country’s acute power crisis could force it to lay off up to 6,900 workers out of a total of 53,000.

"In January, state power supplier Eskom suspended electricity for several days at some of South Africa’s biggest mines.

"Gold dealers expect the outages to lead to a fall in gold." (here they speak of gold production...and therefore a rise in prices RW)

"Gold loses its shine over $12bn IMF sale plan":
Robin Pagnamenta
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/to...cle3436377.ece

It is clear from the unstated but evident panic that gold is a critical commodity in the current global economy. And we know that Africa...let us say that again... Africa is by far the leading source of gold in the world.

But there are other commodities that are important to the capitalist system, and they too are abundant in Africa, let us examine a few:


"The commodity bourses hogged the limelight last week with commodities setting records after records. Platinum traded at an all-time high and went above $2200, Palladium above $500 and Rhodium within a spitting distance of $9000. The agri commodities were not far behind either: wheat, soya and maize made exciting trading patterns. Of course, gold and silver, too, scaled fresh peaks. Gold went up all the way to $954 during the week while silver reached a fresh 27-year high by going beyond $18 threshold.

"Tuesday saw the beginning of the rally, and on that day itself the price went beyond $920 an ounce. Wednesday saw the price beginning from a vantage point at $928 in cash market, and thus did not have much difficulty to go beyond $940 mark. Thursday took the prices way beyond $950 level, all the way to $954.70, yet another record. The market cooled down a bit on Friday yet the price closed at a very healthy $944.60 an ounce, registering the best weekly gain in decades.
With the sustained weakness in US dollar, the push to the precision metals was automatic. The dollar fell to a three-week low against the euro on concerns that the Federal Reserve will cut borrowing costs to avert a recession. (The dollar has lost 11 per cent against the euro in the past year.)

"The real push to gold, however, came from the astonishing rise in the crude price. Crude oil advanced to an all time high price of $101.32 a barrel in New York. The main driver to the oil prices came from the speculation that the OPEC, due to meet on March 5, is expected to cut output as winter heating demand wanes. "


"Gold prices may be on the slide"
http://sify.com/finance/fullstory.php?id=14609899

And then there are diamonds which Africa is also the key producer/supplier, not that we profit from them, as the profits go to Israel, US, Belgium, Britain and so forth:

"The Star Diamond project is the most advanced and Shore has done all of the necessary work to develop a mineral resource, in other words, to know how much kimberlite [the host rock of diamond], is in the ground and what the grade is of the diamonds in the kimberlite throughout the body.

"The kimberlite is very large, measuring two kilometres across at the top of the kimberlite. The kimberlite is also buried underneath the hundred metres of overburden.

"We have to investigate it in three ways. First we drill it on a pattern grid surface with a three-inch core drill and we get out great length of rock, which we use to make the internal structure of the kimberlite so we can understand what the sizes of eruptions were. Remembering that these are big volcanoes and we have to know the internal structure of the volcano, each eruption stage will probably have a different diamond population," said George Read, Senior Vice-President of Exploration at Shore Gold.

"Core drilling is used to understand the internal geology and from there they have to get a large gathering of diamonds, which is called commercial groups that are bigger than one millimeter. The kimberlite is underneath 100 metres of overburden and the overburden is dominated by glacial sediments.
"We need to sink a shaft into the kimberlite, drill an underground development and extract a large volume of kimberlite and recover the diamonds," said Read.

"On the Star Diamond project, they have taken out 70 thousand tonnes of kimberlite rock, processed it through an onsite plant and created concentrates. The concentrates were then sorted in Ontario, the diamonds recovered and the results were returned to Shore Gold and then announced on a periodic basis to their shareholders.

"The bulk sample has been complete on the Star project and there are two important parts of the bulk sample. The first is that they need to determine the grade of the diamonds in the different kimberlite stages in terms of carat per 100 tonnes, they also need to determine the value or price of the diamonds because the diamond population in a kimberlite is unique to the kimberlite host.

"The average price of diamonds worldwide in the rough from kimberlites is some $63 a carat, however, on the Star kimberlite we have a value of $170 a carat, so more or less three times the world average," said Read.

"The second important factor in diamond evaluation is big diamonds, particularly if they're high quality demand a very high price, at Star it's very important that there are a large number of big stones.

"We've already recovered a 49, a 22 and three 19-carat diamonds from the Star kimberlite and then there are some 80,000 stones in all that make up the 10,000 carats," explained Read.
Price definitely plays a factor in the quest for diamonds as the bulk sampling exercise is expensive to do and it only covers a relatively small area of the kimberlite, then they need to relate what they see in the underground to the greater kimberlite.

"We do that with what we call large diameter drilling. The large diameter drills were cutting edge technology when we started using them in 2005," said Read.

"The drill is able to drill a hole that is 1.2 metres in diameter and allows them to drill to a depth of 300 metres below the surface. For every metre of advance in one of the holes, they extract about 2.5 tonnes of kimberlite.

"Shore Gold has now completed all that work and are in the process of developing a resource model, which will tell them that they have so many tonnes of kimberlite that runs at a specific grade.

"The resource definition is a very specific milestone in this project. We are on schedule to deliver before the end of the first quarter, which is in March of this year for the Star kimberlite."

"From there they will add the mining method and the processing plant and the associated costs to that resource estimate. The resource estimate will be upgraded to a reserve estimate.

"We then need to tighten up the definition of all those costs, find out exactly how much it costs to build a diamond mine and a process mine at Star and that financial document will be called a bankable feasibility study and that will allow us to raise the money," said Read.

"That step will be the final green light for the project to go ahead. From there they will raise the money and build a mine.

"We fully anticipate the bankable feasibility study to be ready at the end of 2008 for Star."
They are also sinking the shaft on Orion South and have begun doing a large diameter drilling on Orion North.

"The recent news is that Shore Gold announced diamond results from Orion South, the first sample to come out of the shaft. They are about 150 metres below the surface and entered kimberlite at about 102 metres.

"We have the first results from Orion, which are between 16 and 20 carats per 100 tonnes, grade for the diamonds there's a 6.3 carat stone, and a 3.2 carat stone, so we're ceratinly very excited about the initial results that have come out of the Orion."

"Shore Gold is very optimistic about the project.

"You don’t get joint venture partners such as Newmont to spend $30 million lightly. We are obviously very careful with our cash and have a very substantial budget. I think that shows the vote of confidence in the project."

"The outlook is good and certainly we’re working very hard to make this project work in Saskatchewan," said Read.

"Shore optimistic about two on-going projects
Shore Gold Inc., is very optimistic about the two adjacent projects they have going on right now."
By Melissa Mangelsen
Journal Staff
Thursday February 21, 2008
http://www.nipawinjournal.com/News/377998.html

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Rough Conference South African Diamonds & Precious Metals Board

"CEO Louis Selekane pointed out that about 50-60 percent
of the country’s clients are Israeli. He noted: “The Diamond Amendment Act focuses
on value addition and the spin-offs are enormous. This has not deterred investors
of whom there are many from all over the world including some of the biggest mining
companies such as BHP and Rio Tinto. He hopes South Africa will become the diamond
hub of Africa. South Africa produces 15-16 million carats annually, 90 percent
of which is from kimberlite mining and the rest from alluvial. As far as power
shortages are concerned, Selekane said the Chamber of Mines has agreed with ESKOM
to a 10 percent power cut and that is more than enough to function. "

"Exclusive Interview with South African Diamonds and Precious Metals Board CEO,
Louis Selekane South Africa will Become the Diamond Hub of Africa "
By: Sheryl Katz and Rachel Liberman 19.02.08, 13:34 /
Israel Diamond Portal, Israel - Feb 19, 2008
http://www.israelidiamond.co.il/engl...918&objid=3215

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NEW DELHI:

"With an aim to enhance collaboration with key diamond-producing regions in Africa in the field of polishing and training, Minister for State for Commerce Jairam Ramesh will visit the continent next month with a high-level trade delegation.

"We will visit diamond producing countries of Namibia, South Africa, Botswana and Angola from March 21 to 28 and explore possibilities for partnership for the Indian diamond industry," Ramesh said on the sidelines of Gems and Jewellery Export Promotion Council function on Friday.

"The four African countries are emerging as the key diamond producing regions, with several global firms planning to set up polishing units in the region.

"India has been a traditional cutting and polishing hub for diamonds and in return for the rough diamonds that it would import from the African countries, it would provide training in cutting and polishing as well as technical assistance to set up local units there, he said. "

"Ramesh to visit Africa to explore p'ship in diamond industry"
Feb 22
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/...ow/2805787.cms

My advice is as always, do as Nkrumah recommended, take our wealth back and be free...

[Sourakhata]

"International Monetary Fund
Starving me to satisfy your hunger for wealth
International Murderers Front
Overfeeding yourself with my wealth
I sweat, I work harder and harder
But the fruit of my labor I’ve never saw the color
For the profit of foreign stockholders
Poisonous loans, taking the loaf
From my children mouth
I.M.F. I.M.F. I.M.F
Am I not a man enough
To enjoy the fruit of my own wealth
Wall Street randomly strip our resources
Assaulting us with their
Economic weaponry, financial artillery"

"Doin’ their best to keep us in chains
They don’t give a damn
High rates mortgage
They don’t give us a chance
Leaving us not even with
A single bit to bite
I.M.F I.M.F I.M.F
International Murderers Front
International Murderers Front
International Murderers Front"