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So T3, if you followed this thread at P6 - and you know my past partiality to the pardo bredren from VC - then connecting these dots should be a snap.

It's all about relationship (interpersonal communion) now brah. The dollar has been on the black gold standard for over half a century. This physiocratic fact makes Hugo Chavez a pharaonically powerful black man, whose like has not been seen or felt for millenia.

"high oil prices have attracted top companies to Venezuela's heavy oil, which could boost the country's reserves count to the largest in the world - ahead of Saudi Arabia.

"Chávez is in the driver's seat because he has what everybody wants," says Roger Tissot, energy analyst at PFC Energy consulting firm, about Venezuela's heavy oil. "It's not any kind of oil. It's the oil of the future."

But more forced contract changes could further increase investor fear and make it more difficult for US oil companies to access one of the largest long-term sources of oil left on the planet.

We should Work to align our black gold with his black gold by any means necessary! Chavez has demonstrated like no other that his politics are fully black partisan. Stepping up and Working this relationship - to the fullest - is one sure way for us to be in this Murkan world, but not so pathetically and submissively of this Murkan world - because he will grant us market making access and already has the infrastructure in place to make it so. We should direct our capital, our political loyalty, and our business savvy toward working with Chavez like a nation of spooks sitting by the door.

What's interesting to me is how few folks actually can name the largest black corporation in America or its primary lines of business (it's privately held). Fewer still are the folks working in that specific vineyard. Now, drop down 20 levels of magnitude from there, and you're dealing with thousands of diversified black-owned binnis interests. Many of these companies need access to capital markets, and/or make good acquisition candidates. Venezuela through proxies is going to have to acquire a broad and tightly integrated binnis footprint all across the world, including in America, or be subject to all sorts of regulatory and political interference.

Add-in the metacapital of the narcotrafficantes, which can easily flow through Venezuelan laundromats, and you're talking about a ginormous capital engine poised to make and shake up markets. For us not to cue up on that type of an alliance would be the 4th i on the i-fecta, IGNORANT. Ignorant folk have no place in the ranks of black partisan leadership.

Still fewer pay attention to the money flows.....,

Dillon Read and the Aristocracy of Prison Profits

and in so failing, become complicit in the imprisonment they impotently, ignorantly, unimaginatively, and non-intuitively pretend to protest.

Surviving and thriving as a free people depends on creating and transacting with currencies and investments other than those printed and manipulated by Wall Street and Washington to the eventual end of our rights and assets.

excerpted from the Dillon Reed article;

After tours of duty in Dillon’s Corporate Finance and Energy Groups, I spent four years recapitalizing the New York City subway and bus systems on the way to becoming a managing director and member of the board of directors in 1986. I did not work on the RJR account. Odd bits of news would float back. They were always about the huge cash flows generated by the tobacco business and the necessity of finding ways to reinvest the gushing profits of this financial powerhouse.

In terms of trying to summarize the appeal of working with Chavez, why must one go any further than the obvious? Some of us have plenty to trade outside of the cultural intangible called HipHop. frankly one would have to be more than a little impaired to not see the obvious...,

Settling in now for a little late lunch of grilled shark.....,

fourth, the cultural reorientation and reeducation of American Blacks, by whites, to serve white interests. The fourth cultural factor has led to an organized confusion on the part of American Blacks to build a collective power base, serving our cultural, economic, political and social needs. It is the fourth factor (cultural reorientation and reeducation), and its linkage to wealth and power relations to which this book is addressed.

It would be highly unnatural for an assimilationist to think in these terms, even moreso for an anti-social assimilationist with minimal interpersonal circulation...., though I'd begun to belive the extent of such a one's impairment to be quite profound, it is now clear to me that it may in fact be irredeemably profound.

whew.

I factored in the unselfconscious emotional constipation, as well. too late to fix that shit, it's already gone mindkillingly toxic

onto a different subject, is it ok for me to circulate the shark.doc among my peeps here?

I'll just send them the link and they can do the rest.

Beijing expands its ties with Latin countries....,

You knew it was just a matter of moments before this other narrative shoe would drop..., history being rewritten all around us and some folks too sedentary to get into the mix, all worried about what white folks think. Just madness...,