German soccer team use Ghana long-ball attack to win

The German coach in a very controversial move placed his faith in the Ghanaian long-ball attack to position German to advance to the semi-finals. Rather than be drawned into a positional passing game against a supiorArgentina, the German pushed a all out phyical attack while time was running out, waiting and hoping for a phyical collaspe of Argentina. When the phyical collaspe of the Aregentine players started, the coach immedicately reconfirgured the German team for more speed to create Ghanaian mismactches in the attack zone.

The failure of Argentina to take the air out of the German attack and hold on to the lead, will go down as one of the greatest collaspes in modern soccer history.

The German world cup team used an application of the Ghanaian long-ball attack to wear down and overwhemn then defeat the Argentina team. The long-ball attack allowed Germany to make up for the much phically smaller but surpoir passing of the Argentina team. Ghanaian Long-ball attack also force the replacement of key Argentina attack players and the weakness of the Argentina defene to get into trainstition. After 80 minutes of German long-ball pressure the Argentines lost control of the game and phyically collasped losing the led and control of the ball, setting up the shoot out. The German team replace slower players with speed and agressivison on both sides and took control of the game in the last 25 minutes of the game.

The long-ball allowed a less-than supior passing German team to get to the shoot out started. This application of the Ghanaian long-ball attack should not be lost to the American soccer community.

Chicago Bulls full court press, the gift Ghana soccer offer the US National Team

The hidden gift to American soccer in the Ghana defeat

Within the defeat of Ghana’s World Cup campaign and the record breaking goal by the Brazilian star, Ronaldo, is the mask of a much more important 1992 New York Giants football team Super Bowl victory story. The key to the Ghanaian near defeat of Brazil, as with the New York Giant victory, was ball control and time management. Ghana’s total commitment to the use of the long ball, i.e. deep penetrating counter attacking outlet passes to get behind the Brazilian forward defense put the Ghanaians Black Stars in more and better scoring opportunities than the defending World Cup Champs.

This attack strategy allowed Ghana to control and wear down Brazil’s offense throughout the whole game.

Time and time again, the Black Stars from Ghana were able to overwhelm the much better Brazilian defenders by creating mismatches deep in the rear of Brazil zone. While Brazil won the game in term of goals scored, Ghana lost because they failed to finish the many scoring opportunities that any top team would have done. Watching the Ghana misses was like watching the New York Knicks missing wide opening lay-ups playing the Chicago Bulls.

The score could have easily been 5-2 Ghana over Brazil.

Ghana’s long-ball strategy allows for super field position most of the game. This positioning was based on players’ multi-tasking and using the goalie as an aggressive and active element of the forward positioned defense system that allows Ghana to keep more players and pressure in the attack zone. The brilliance of Ghana’s long-ball attack was it is basing on aggressive multi-field defenders stopping Brazil traditional lines of attack. The Ghana attack was really a Chicago Bull full court press designed to trigger a rapid transition from defense to deep penetrating counter-attacks.

Unfortunately for Ghana, their “Jordan” was suspended for the game. The Ghanaians were still able in their carefully designed collective counter attack to make up for major differences in skill levels of the Brazilian players in situational play. The key was the soft interior passes inside the Brazilian defensive near the goal after the long-ball. Ghana was able to break Brazil down like few teams ever do as long as they remained committed to the long-ball counterattacks, forward defense and ball control that created the mismatches down field.

The Ghanaian collective approach to counterattack with long ball style offers the United States World Cup management a clear road map to selection and construction of a new style of America based on speed, aggression, multi-tasking players and long-ball and soft passes. The Ghanaian system is a direct application of the Brazilian system that emphasizes the strengths within the limited Ghanaian soccer culture and talent pool. The Ghanaian system is not coach centric. The keys to the Ghanaian system for US application is a new commitment to selection and development of players able to function in a demanding Ghanaian system based on transitional speed and player multi-tasking and standardized soccer systems like the West Coast offense in the NFL.

The NCAA system is too slow and limited in its way of attacking. The players are single tasked offense or defense, like American football. Very little attention is paid to the best transitional or multi-task players or systems in the NCAA centric soccer culture. The Ghanaian application of the Brazilian long-ball is not new either; what is new is the multi-tasking of the African players, new emphasis on physical bodying up of other players, and specifically beating the higher skilled Brazilians down the field with raw speed, over and over and over again. Finally, the Ghanaian system attempts to match the Brazilian pin point interior and long-ball passes to trigger the counterattack and to wear the slower teams down.

The most critical aspect of the Ghanaian system is their youth teams are already playing and beating the Brazilian under age 20 teams. While Ghana will never have the talent pool of Brazil because Ghana is 6 times smaller and lacks the massive human and physical soccer infrastructure, their national teams at all levels are being selected, designed and constructed to defeat the fielded Brazilian team on a given day.

The players are already in America who are able to operate within the Ghanaian system. Many are currently playing soccer, and others are playing other sports. The inner city talent pool of working class and African American players are waiting for the Ghanaian system. Many of these players reject the NCAA Euro centric style and have dropped out the sport after high school. The challenge to the Americna program is to follow Ghana and other African and South American countries and design a system to beat Brazil, not just play them. They select the type of player to function in the system and make it a national style not specific to a coach.

No American basketball coach on any level would not use transitional and fast break strategies in a game. The lack of this long-ball counterattack style keeps American soccer a second-class citizen in the United States. So where is the long-ball in the NCAA? It’s time to ask the American working classes to go to war and save the day for United States national soccer vs. the NCAA.

Dr. J the basketball super star once said, you never just show up and beat a great team. Rather you design a plan, get the players to fix the strategy weeks before you play a great team. The real game is nothing more than the execution of the plan that becomes the game plan you win.

Oprah Winfrey running lead dog in oil lobby misinformation campaign to hide their role in massive rain storms

Why Oprah Winfrey is down with the Oil Companies

The Oprah Show has willingly jointed the oil lobby misinformation campaign to try to explain away the real forces behinds the current massive rain storms and flooding destroying homes and business in the Northern United States with record llevels of flood water. While millions of Americans are trying to make sense of of losing their homes and life savings to massive rain storms in the Northeastren United States, Oprah is helping the oil lobby hide the true under the myth of gobal warming at a act of God and blaming the victims for the problem.Over 60 perecent of Americans live by water and can not move. Many of these peopele flood coverage to being taken away, to reduce the amount of money private companies must pay to flood victims.

It not clear why Oprah, knowing this would allowed her show to be used a plateform to try to sale the public on a oil lobby misinformation campaign, but when it commonly known in informed circles the the oil lobby and Insurnce industry is spending billion to hide their roles in the new powerful rain storms attacking the Northeastren United States.

The supression of the NOAA Priceton group findings, by the oil lobby is just the latest in a long list of critical findings. Oprah Winfrey read about it in her daily newspaper briefing. Her staff knew about of the NOAA Priceton finding critical importance. So why would Oprah Winfrey, firend of the working class and big sister to Black peoeple not help people who are in the process of losting their homes and being reduce to the level of Katrina, by sharing some critical information that will aid them in their recovery?

Oprah knows that President Bush and the Oval Office were informed by both the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the oil lobby, that the CO2 level in the North Alantic and Gulf of Mexico for 2006 were already dangerously high and would create another year of massive flooding in the Northeastren United States. Oprah and the other informed peopele know that the Insurnce companies moved on the NOAA information to reduce homer coverage in the targetted areas to millions of Americans.

This critical NOAA information was brually suppressed by the Oval Office this spring. Oprah reaseach staff is fully aware of this information but willfully refusese to include it in their report of on the current flooding in North America and Euorpe for fear exposing their oil corperate clients.

Tom Knutson and a small of team at NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton had reconfirmed MIT’s Kerry Emanuel, 1987 prediction that CO2 and developed an advanced model that predicted that hurricanes forming in 2005 would be substantially more intense. Robert E. Tuleye of Old Dominion University in Norfolk confirmed the Princeton findings.

The Princeton group documented a new critical mass in man-made C02 in the North Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico that was super charging hurricanes. The NOAA critical information was leaked to Wall Street and the oil industry that the “Big One”(hurricane) was coming in the second half of the 2005 hurricane season. Oil industry, Insurance industry and Wall Street investment firms networked the new reality of the Princeton group and acted.

Fearing strong public reaction to a direct linkage between man-made C02 and the petrochemical industry, the US oil lobby and the White House are suppressing the truth about hurricanes and increase levels of C02. A group of prestigious Princeton, New Jersey NOAA climate scientists are not being allowed to talk about the new class of killer hurricanes coming this year without a political pre-clearance from the from the White House.

The NOAA’s forecast for 2006 hurricane season was withold for over 10 weeks, in order to make it political comsumable to the public.

According to Retired Navy Vice Adm. Conrad C. Lautenbacher Jr., another active hurricane season for 2006, continuing an active hurricane cycle that began in 1995. Adm Keating, command and chief of the NORTH COMMAND federal army that fought Katrina and Rita and ten other storm last year, while over seeing the New Orleans crisis. is also censored by the White House from making any public comments on the coming hurrcanie season.

The final bell appears to be tolling on many dying small towns in the Northeastern United States from the current flooding. Many American towns that never recovered from flooding for 2005, and could not afford to construct levees, are once again flooding. This time they will be forced to rebuild with no flood insurance. Tens of thousands of Americans homes are entombed in floodwater because they were not toll by the federal government to build levees to protect themselves rivers now 10-20 fleet over the flood level.

The growing degree of flooding taking place in the Northeastern United State and Western Europe is on a scale only comprehensible in terms the flooding in Central Africa.

The people of the New York City and other eastern cities are terrified to learn from their hometown paper that they would potentially be in a much worse evacuation situation than the ghettoized Black People were in New Orleans. According the New York Times the city has no plan to deal with a direct hit by a Category 3 Katrina hurricane coming up the Huston Bay from the Atlantic Ocean. The city of New York has no way to physically evacuate the Wall Street business direct, much less the entire city, Long Island or Northern New Jersey.

According to AccuWeather forecaster Joe Bastardi “the Northeast is starting down the barrel of a gun”

According to USA TODAY, April 5, the 2006 forcast by the Tropical Meteorology Project at Colorado State University envisions a higher potential for intense hurricans to strike the East Coast. The report’s “landfall probabitity” outlook sees a 64 percent chance that a major hurricane will hit the East Coast. This probabitity is higher than New Orleans. This prediction if true would mean New York city and other east coast cities are great risk.

All East Coast cities lack the New Orleans levee system and stand defenseless against a Katrina class hurricane.

What new elements are driving this prediction.

William Gray,dean of the USA’s hurricane scientists, said last years onslaught (of storms) was made more destructive by strong steering currents of Atlantic air that guided more major hurricane to land. According to offically surpressed federal government findings from the Tom Knutson and a small of team at NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton have reconfirmed that man made perochemical waste CO2 and African sand dust are directly impact on the nature and stright of steering currents of young hurricanes forming in 2005 as they are making their way across the Atlantic from Africa becoming substantially more intense.

Both increase of man made CO2 and African sand dust increase the intenseity of steering currents in the Atlantic allowing more storm system to reach land in the Americas. As man-made chemical waste increase in the near Oceans air and water ,these critical factors are creating the pre-conidtions for Katrina class hurricans in the norhteast Unitied States.

In addition, these man make petrochemical waste in the ocean form hurricane feuling hot spots in the Atlantic Ocean that tropical depression feed off of as they make their way from Africa to the Americas. Co-author Phil Klotzbach said that “although the tropical Atlantic isn’t as warm as last year, temperratures have stayed warm in the North Atlantic for several years. Klotzbach also said “you tend to see more landfalls on the East Coast”. Katrina first fed on the Mississippi Plume in the Atlantic , then hurricanes like Katrina came ashore on the Atlantic side of chemical waste rich Florida coast, then jump into the chemical waste rich coast of western Florida Gulf of Mexico regenrating to a killer hurricane.

Already this year the petrochemical waste rich water temperature had heated up , according to the New York Times 70 degree water temperature are as far norrth as southren Virgina.

The city of Richmond air temperature 63 degrees and Columbia South Carlina 71. Deep sea water temerperature of 60 degree extand as far north as Cape May, New Jersey and are rising. The temperature in New Orleans is 78, only seven degree higher than South Carlina. All these region a fed by local petrochemical waste and dumping, along with the Mississippi Pume moving north from alone the eastren coast. The north Atlantic is reportedly in extraordinarily active(increase heat) cycle that started in around 1995.

For the past three years, seven of the 13 major hurricanes have struck land. According to Klotzbah “we’ve been very, very, very unlucky for the last three year.” All these storms were fed by petrochemical waste in the water and African sand dust.

President Bush and the Oval Office were informed by both the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the oil lobby, that the CO2 level in the Gulf of Mexico was dangerously high.

These same increase man-madeCO2 levels had been reached during the previous nine hurricanes, five of which were classified as major, that Florida suffered in 2004. This was the worst hurricane season in 118 years. A small group of researchers studied the man-made CO2 thermal agents building in the land, air and water. New elements like the Mississippi Plume and African dust integrated into the NOAA models for simulation.


Dr. Thomas Knutson, a Princeton NOAA scientist whose research showed a direct link between, petrochemicals, climate change and hurricane intensity is been censored by the White Houses. This ruthless NOAA censorship comes at the same time the country learned that the levee repair of the New Orleans is 4.5 billion dollars under funded and behind schedule.

Oprah fears saying anthing about the thermal structure of the new hurricanes and rain storms or why the temperature inside the eye of storms are so hot, or the effects of heighten levels of CO2 thermal agents in the northern Jet Stream that extends alone the East Coast away the way to Boston. Anything is being said about the chemical agents in the Gulf Stream near the entrance to the Florida Keys and how the secondary Gulf streams, winds and currents are running inside the Gulf of Mexico that would impact on the storm course or power.

1,200-mile super thermal beltway
As the national cry from New Orleans financial compensation increases, the oil lobby is very carefully suppressing at great cost, even in the New York Times any critical coverage or connection of the toxic Mississippi River chemical water that forms a long belt floating across the Gulf forms and alone the Eastren coast to Boston, a super thermal beltway to transport CO2 super heated water around the Gulf that aids in the green house effect that super heats the sea water that is transferring addition heat to storms via the Florida Keys into powerful storms. This same thremal dynamic is moving north alone the East coast, creating the pre-conitions for a Katrina class hurrican events to strike major industrial regions of the east coast. The North Atlantic Ocean is being heated and kept warm by Mississippi plume moving north alone the caost.

The EPA, Defense department and Homeland Security departments are stonewalling any information or connection between the ultra catastrophic class hurricane and the Mississippi chemical Plume concentrating in the Florida Keys and Northern Caribbean. Because of this official informational blackout and misinformation campaign by the oil lobby and Bush administration, main stream media has refused to report on critical NASA information, studies and active hurricane projects that link the chemical toxins to the heighten Hurricane’s temperature in the eye of the storms. The general public is unable to make the critical connection between the increase intensity storms and CO2 green house effect from the chemical toxins in the water and air of Key West Florida.

Almost all scientists agree there is something up with the Gulf Stream, but differ on what it may be. Many scientists are hiding behind Worldwide Warning, rather reviewing the local critical mass conditions of the Mississippi River Plume in order to understand the micro C02 situation in the Gulf of Mexico creating the precondition for ultra catastrophic class hurricanes.

The recharging of Rita followed the same pattern and location of the killer storms Katrina. Forecasters are hard pressed to explain the new category storm beyond just estimating the power of storm based on the Gulf Stream temperature. Gulf people know there is something wrong with the water. Most weathermen are reduced to just stating the facts, because of the oil lobby and Bush Administration suppression policy.

This has left most Americans with learned helplessness and misplaced fears of hurricans.

During the past 30 years, forecasting storm track have improved dramatically, but the public understanding of the interdependency of the Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic Ocean dust storms, locust invasion cross the Sudan green belt and the Sahara desert to the formation of powerful class of hurricanes has been willfully suppressed by the Oil lobby and the federal government. Major newspapers have suppressed and blackout this critical connection in mainstream weather forecasting. The recharging of Rita to a military class storm in less than 24 hours was just the tip of the iceberg of the powerful African connection. Mainstream forecaster remains hard pressed to explain the speed and intensity that Rita develops is record-breaking time. Category storm beyond just the number of 5.

The Sahara Desert historically fertilizes the Amazon; this process has been going for thousands of years. But something is happening; there is a dieback of the forest in the Amazon. The Sahara desert is expanding in a southern direction. The very fragile balance of dry lands and wetlands in the Sahara is shifting toward a new wide spread dust bowel.

Massive locust invasions under way in the Sudan belt from West Africa and migrating across Africa to Chad. This pan-Sudan invasion has infested millions of hectares of farmland cross Africa. This invasion of locusts backed after years of conflict had exacerbated the impact of drought spurring a food crisis and a Mid-Atlantic dust storm.

The UN warms that mass hunger and famine is bearing down on millions of people in Niger, Mali, Mauritania and Burkina Faso and southern Sudan. The very fragile health infrastructure in Chad is the only thing standing in the way of the famines in spread in southern Sudan. These crises are linking together to form a Pan African-Sudanese belt human nightmare. The famine is also creating massive amount of dust from the Sahara spreading south deeper into the Sudan green belt. This Saharan dust that has formed a group of thermal hotspots a lone the historical path across the Atlantic Ocean that Northern American hurricanes are formed.

There is massive new amount of Saharan dust being puts into the Atlantic Ocean. The additional dust is affecting the dynamics of thermal changes in the hotspots in the Atlantic Ocean. These hotspots act like massive regulators of Earth’s environment according to Professor Schellnubers. This Atlantic dust is critical to wind intensity, some suggest that this dust layer mixed with sea spray inhibits turbulence in the layer between the ocean and the air and makes it possible for extremely high winds to form.

These billion tons of Sahara dust contributes to the intensity of North American hurricanes. In the case of power of hurricane Katrina, the transfer of Mid-Atlantic dust hotspot clearly contributed to its force. There are interdependency Atlantic Ocean dust storms, the growing locust invasion cross the Sudan green belt and the Sahara desert to the formation of powerful class of hurricanes has not.

David Brooks and the New York Times open door to real debate about the role of US multinational distruction of American national soccer program

Is David Brooks and the New York Times calling for Soccer Academies replace the racist and dysfunctional NCAA and multinational control of the US national soccer program?

How does a country that lives one less than a dollar a day like Ghana ranked 48th soccer team in the world blow out the fifth rank United States national team?

Whats wrong with this picture.
It not the color or race of the players, maybe its the talent pool, incubation, training and playing the best , while limiting the role of US multinational corporations.

Poorly trained NCAA middle class white American soccer players, rather than America’s athletes , are being asked to go to war against elite working class professional trained players from the rest of the world. America is being blown out almost every time they go to war with the big dogs. These elite young players are selected from each country’s working class talent pool, not just their college talent pool. In many countries the African segment is reflective in the team’s best players.

Rather than import elite players, most countries develop them at home and then refined in advanced play in European and South America.

American soccer watchers and players trying to understand the political economy behind the crisis in the United States World Cup team can gain a little insight into why the NCAA need to be replaced with an inner city based network incubation academies system designed to develop World Class American elite players. Real insight into why the United States must start drawing on working class and African America talent pools can be gained by reading between the lines of David Brooks New York Times op-ed on June 22, 2006.

Mr. Brook’s notes the different(poor) preparation American youth get in NCAA College based soccer programs because that lack the world class standard.But he failures to note the very strong national public school soccer programs in other countries that create the elite player-trainees before high and professional training starts.

While Mr. Brook’s carefully avoids the politically charged race and class issue in the US World Cup team selection process, he makes it clear other countries; young soccer player’s gain critical technical advantages by going to professional level soccer training academies vs. weaker NCAA type college programs.

Without explaining the political economy behind the failure of the NCAA to develop World Class American soccer players or programs, Mr. Brooks openly note that the difference in preparation is bad for America’s World Cup prospects (and program). He states that “the difference in soccer training is part of a bigger phenomenon. That unexplained phenomenon Mr. Brooks avoids dealing with is the globalization of the American university system.

That is, rather than educating and training American students and players, the emerging focus of the American university system is to meet the increasing educational and training needs of US multinational corporations and their foreign business partners, at the expense of American students and athletes. Rather than the NCAA partnering with inner city public school systems to develop a national feeder system and soccer incubation centers, foreign developed soccer players are replacing American players to feed the college programs.

Increasingly the mission of the American university system is to incubate, train and education foreign students to fell the multinational jobs both in the US and aboard. This is great for the American corporation and countries like China, but not good for increasing numbers of American citizens and tax payers who can no longer afford higher education or the United State national program.

For most of America's best soccer players high is the end of the road.

The lack of after high school training and playing opportunities for American soccer players in a byproduct of this corporate centric misuse of the American university system and tax payer's money. The Williams sisters, the African American female tennis stars are a case in point of the failure of the NCAA programs and why the national soccer program should go to the inner city for the best athletes.

The emerging Latin American basketball players are the best know case of the structure and institutional weakness of the NCAA inner city policy.

After the Ghanaian embarrassment, fire the NCAA and go to the ghetto for the dream team

If you want to be the best you must design a teams that has the team speed to run with Brazil.

The aggressive play of DaMarcuc Beasley that created the led pass for Clint Dempsey to beat Ghana’s goalkeeper for 10 yard shot is the future of United States. There were many other opportunities to score but the Americans were too fatigued and lack the speed to exploit them.

Speed was employed Ghana’s national team over and over again to counter-attack and wear down and then overwhelm the much slower and weaker American team. Long-range pinpoint passes over US frontline defense deep in the America rear created a short field for Ghanaian attackers and a shorten action window for American defenders.

Raw breakaway ghetto speed illustrated by the Ghanaian attackers allows them to make adjustments on both sides of the ball for the 32-16 differential in fouls. By the second half, the American team was physically spent and unable to exploit most opportunities that required speed and/or mobility like the Dempsey goal. The deep penetration of the Ghanaians counter-attacks in the second half forced and determined what Americans players came into the game and when.

Overwhelming speed is the core element in all US sports played but African Americans and the most critical lacking element of the US soccer.

The Dujkov game plan was designed, like the old Chicago Bull, to create and exploit mismatches deep in the American rear. The Ghanaian superior technical abilities, developed in European play, allow them to not just clear the ball from their end, quickly transition from defense to attack with aggressive outlet passing.

In the final analysis’s fatigue and poor pass skills, created the conditions for mistakes.

The American team was not contracted to deal with the speed and mobility of the Ghanaian attackers or the fatigue factor, after playing Italy. Lack team speed and depth and defense players to deal with the shorten field, the African were physical and mentally overwhelm the Americans. The Americans were forced to weak long-range shots on goal, rather than exploiting matches within the Ghanaian mid-field and defense, because the Americans could never get their attack set up. After the second, the time management was on the Ghanaian side.

The worst aspect of the game was the nature, range and types of shots on goal the Ghanaians force the US take because of their lack of field position and players locations in the attack zone.

The slower NCAA players that form the core of the US national team, particularly the strikers must be replace by design with faster, technical players able to counter attack and carry and keep the attack on the other teams. The soccer long-ball is critically missing from the current American attack, and should designed into player-select in a way to allow the coaches to use interchangeable parts.

America must get your best young talent to play the world best.You become the best play, only by playing the best players at every level of a given sport.

United States young soccer players must be exposed on a regular bases to the best young players in Europe, South America and Africa before high school at all cost. Multinational corporations have the best political infrastructure and business culture to handle this critical national task. If need be, corporations should be given a dollar for dollar tax credit for investment in urban soccer infrastructure.

The first step in creating a world class United State national soccer program is to stop the NCAA racist policy importing foreign soccer players to play on the American team, rather than developing the gift and talented ghetto segment of American youth.

The WHL, Yankees and Mets importation model will destroy any chance for young Americans to develop world-class skill within the inner city. An aggressive 20 year national Manhattan project free of NCAA influence and control to develop inner talent will solved the America talent pool storage. Playing world-class soccer aboard in Europe and South America will solve the experience issue.

American Multinational Corporation much take control national soccer program and some of their money away from the NCAA and create inner city working class leagues that function as feeder for American soccer players to transition to the top soccer leagues in Europe and South America, not just the North America Soccer leagues.

Manhattan Plan for US National Soccer team

If America wants to run with the Big Dogs, it must go to the ghetto and dump the NCAA.

When the Ghana national team blows out the US national soccer team in Nuremberg, the American public will see what a high price the country is paying in pride by entrusting the national soccer program to the NCAA. Ghana will overwhelm the American team with both skill and speed. In the end the Americans, under the Chicago Bulls style pressure of the African soccer full court press, will give into fatigue. Ghana seasoned European players, surrounded by national role-players, will force the US team into the daunting task of thinking and problem solving as the gaining press attack deep in the US zone.

The American public will be shocked by the weakness of the American players to keep up with the speed of Ghana attacking front line. The Dujkov attack plan is designed, like the old Chicago Bulls, to create mis-matches in the Americans defenses. The Ghanaian team is centered around making a quick transition from defense to attack and in the process, creating two on three or four on three. Then, the seasoned players and the core middle field play imposes its will. The speed sets up the solution in which the Americans will have to think and react to a very fast moving flow.

As the Czech team saw, Ghana keeps the pressure on the whole game. Should Ghana score first, the Americans who must win outright, will be forced to press the attack.

Lack of national depth from the inner city Black and Latino core, the Americans can not run with the fast dogs for long and will give into fatigue and mental mistakes, like they did in the Czech game.

The only solution to the America soccer crisis is a aggressive Manhattan project to develop "ghetto" soccer. America must use its most powerful talent pool in order to run with the big dogs and take its rightful place in being the leader in World soccer.

Why US Men World Cup Soccer team is so embarrassing

White centric NCAA and corporate subsidies killing inner city soccer development

The international embarrassment of the United States men soccer will continue as long as its development is entrusted to the NCAA and white racism.

The solution to the American soccer crisis is aggressive development of inner city public education and feeder soccer programs and to give the NCAA corporate subsidies to the inner city soccer programs.

The highly subsidized white centric NCAA feeder system is missing the critical development of million of inner city youth. This failure to develop United States critical talent is costing America it place in world soccer and thousands of inner city children a place in college.

The level of World Cup necessitates that the United States, put side its white centric racism toward inner city Black and Latino youth and develop its most powerful talent in order to take its rightful place in World soccer.

Look at the Yankees and Mets basketball teams and you see the future of American soccer. Its color is no longer middle class white, but working class and brown.

Trinidad and other micro soccer powers have clearly demonstrated that if the United States expects to run with the Big Dogs of soccer, America must draw from the larger inner city talent pool and not the smaller white NCAA talent pool. America best soccer players are not in the NCAA. The soccer world is telling the United States FIFA, if you leave your inner city soccer players home, you should stay home or risk being embarrassed every time they go to war against a serious world-class soccer team.

Micro-countries like Trinidad and the Czech Republic with less populations less than New York City, have a larger and more developed talent pool than the NCAA, embarrassed America on a regular basis, because of America lack of developed talent. The NCAA has refused to develop post-high school developmental leagues to grow inner city talent after high school.

Deciphering the code of soccer excellence is simple. Great soccer countries draw on their national talent pool, which is mainly working class and some times poor segments. United States is the only country in the World Cup that has asked it white middle class soccer players play against the dream teams of the world.

The lack of developed working class American talent is clear for even the uninformed eye to see.

The NCAA is no substitute for aggressive national inner city public school level soccer programs. Most top world soccer players come from working calss and poor backgrounds.The national NCAA basketball program will collapse without inner city working class playground basketball. The problem with United States baseball and tennis programs is its left the inner city talent pool for the money in the white suburbs. In a rare open attack on American FIFA racist policy the New York Times is on record attacking the lack of inner city soccer development.

The United States NBA dream has demonstrated the critical need of drawing on the national developed talent pool in any given sport. Brazil, England, Italy, Germany or France do not send their middel class white college players to the World Cup, they send their best talent, most of whom will never see the inside of a college and many are increasingly Black. Americans must demand the same of their national soccer program. The NCAA could not handle the increasing demands of World basketball and tennis, it never managed world soccer. It time to come to the ghetto and develop the working class talent pool for soccer.

Westren subsidies ensure African's rainly season of starvation and death

Allow African Farms To Create A Bread Basket
By Isiah Scott

As the North American Black leadership debate the Bill Cosby attack on it leardship and real threat street ganags reaction to the hollowing of the inner city economies. While a sea of unemployed youth in the Unitied Statates and westren Europe are forced on the street corners do to increase Chinese trade, the Sudan and the rest of Africa struggles through another rainy season of massive starvation and death. As the world crys out about tens of millions of starving Africans, unknowing US, Japanese and European taxpayers are ensuring the death of millions of poor suffering Africans by their payment of political-based lobby food subsidies to rich multinational companies.

According to Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, more than 100 of every thousand Ghanaian children die before their fifth birthday. This is at least 10 times the rate of the rich countries. These deaths are preventable, but the health budget is only one quarter of what is needed to tackle the crisis. The Ghanaian austerity budget supervised by the International Monetary Fund and World Bank constitute a death warrant that results from Ghana’s poverty and the lack of sufficient donor aid and foreign direct investments in Ghana's rich agri-economy.

Cameroon and Chad, the potential breadbasket of Central Africa, helplessly watch as their oil is taken away by foreign multinational oil companies . Increasing amounts of this oil is needed at home to develop their agriculture export trade out of their countries . Some of the foreign multinationals oil companies are also leading recipients of farm subsidies.

Unknowing taxpayers from North America, Japan and Western Europe paid 600 billion dollars a year or 8,000 dollars per family via farm subsidies and military defense to ensure the death warrants are served on the world’s starving people.

Under pressure from a 600 billion dollar federal debit and then Secretary of State C. Powell, reportedly President George Bush has pledged in 2002 a strong reduction in US subsidies, but only on the condition that Japan and European Union do the same. Bush lacked the political will to stand up to the multinationals killing Africa’s agriculture trade. So the African starvation and ethic cleansing has gone on for three more years and the subsidies remain in place.

US and Chinese oil companies fighting over African oil has creates deeping African wars and starvation.

The Bush pledge should have been the basis for a new Africa policy initiative, but died when the Bush administration signed into law the $171 billion-farm subsidies bill in 2002, that shattered all records of corporate welfare. The Bush African trade pledge was naked political deception and misinformation. The US subsidies triggered a new round of subsidy increases and deepened levels of worldwide starvation.

The Western media all but blacked out the linkage between the Bush subsidy policy and deepening collapse of African agriculture export trade. African share of world exports declined from an already low 4 perecent in 1980 to 1 perecent in 2003. The 1 percent has been maintained by the increase in the world price of oil and masked the actual degree of non-energy collapse of African agricultural trade.

The European Union and Japan and even Mexico followed suit by increasing their subsidies programs or what BusinessWeek calls ‘armor plating’ farm economies. Bush lacked the political will to defend his own plan to reduce subsidies, against the Chinese containment faction in his administration.

The failed US Chinese containment policy means a increase Black African starvation.
The economic aspects of Powell’s new African initiative became an early victim of the new Chinese containment policy. US farm subsidies, Chinese oil imports and the Space arms race became critical economic weapons in a Cold War strategy to try and bankrupt Chinese military expansion. China has become a net importer of food. The US containment strategy is forcing China to make cash payments for imported food and oil. China is paying almost 90 billion dollar a year for oil. Reports of food shortages are reported across China. US multinationals are emerging as a major exporter of strategic foods to China, i.e. by maintaining artificially low foods prices worldwide; the US is retarding Chinese agriculture development. China is importing 7 billion dollars of food and grains from US multinationals.

The myth of Gleneagles G8 African aid initiative

The 25 billion dollars the Gleneagles G8 current spend on development assistance for extreme poverty is less than 5 percent of the money that ensure that genocide and ethic cleansing takes place. The G8 African aid increase does not even offset the recent armor plating subsidies increases by the US, EU and Japan. The proposed new funding level of 50 billion dollar a year in official aid for Africa translates into around 75 to 100 dollars per African. The United States five-year commitment is less than one day of Pentagon spending, and two cents of every 1,000 of US national income. Canada and Japan while agreeing to given 0.7 of their GND to aid extreme poverty, have refused to commit to a timetable. More importantly, none of the G8 countries will publicly debate much less commit to any timetable to phase out farm subsidies.

100 million African at risk of extreme poverty

Mr. Blair and other British officials continue to struggle with the Group of Eight (G8) countries to commit to an extra 50 billion dollars in political face saving aid to Africa by 2010. After all the recent Africa aid press and rallies, 10 billion dollar a year to save starving Africans would seem to be a small amount money for the richest countries in the world to come up with for the food security crisis for 700 million poor Africans. Even with the international community watching, forcing the powerful farm subsidies lobby to give up even 10 billion dollar its corporate welfare is proving to be politically impossible. Reportedly the G8 new plan will only save 10 million of the 100 million African at risk of starvation. The major foods producing African states are pushing for Europe to open its markets to new African exports.

The source of the African food crisis is one of the oldest and most powerful white lobbies, the New York –London slave cabal. These super rich banking families and multinationals are fighting to maintain financial hegemony over African political economy even face massive worldwide political protest. The human nightmare that was the Belgian Congo is the concept ional model to understand the current African crisis.

Unlike their advanced western oil and manufacturing interests, there is no comparative economic advantage in most market agribusiness segments without major infrastructure investments. Without the farm subsidies, multinationals can complete in world agriculture trade. Since the establishment of new World slavery, these rich families have used taxpayer’s money to subsidize their agribusinesses. The Irish famine was to support food prices in British and forced ethic cleansing of Ireland. Farm subsidies are naked political corporate welfare.

According to the Heritage Foundation Policy Research & Analysis--John D. Rockefeller reportedly received 2001- 2002, 134,556 dollars in farm subsidies. The four large corporate recipients were Westvaco, Chevron, John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance and Caterpillar. Less than 10 perecent of the recipients receive 73 percent of all farm subsidies.

African food exporters are fighting to create the infrastructure conditions to develop the African agriculture trade to drive its industrialization.

In order to open up world agriculture trade to African producers, farm subsides must be immediately reduced by 50 precent or 200 billion dollar and phased out in three years. Such a reduction would allow major new social programming in the United States. Even General C. Powell understood, this political challenge was a serious task that President Bush was not up to. World opinion is not enough to reduce the farm subsidy handouts. The solution of the African food security question threatens the bases of the post WWII Western power structure.

The political reality is that the whole effort by the G8 to save Africa is little more than an international public relations ruse. To its credit, Germany is actively resisting being part of the British ruse on African starvation. According to the Financial Times, the US is punishing Germany, officially for its Iraq opposition. While Africa is not mentioned, German opposition to the British ruse is a factor.

African food security is not about more aid, but about real investment in modern food-production infrastructure and exports opportunities.

Three years ago, July 2003, the presidents of Mali and Burkina Faso publicly begged President Bush in an op-ed article in the New York Times to change US farm subsidy policy:

West African Presidents speak out

The West African President stated-- Cotton is our ticket into the market. Its production is crucial to economic development in West and Central Africa, as well as the livelihoods of millions of people there. Cotton accounts for up to 40 percent of export revenues and 10 perecent of gross domestic product in our two countries.

According to the International Cotton Advisory Committee, cotton subsidies amount to about 5.8 billion dollar in the production year of 2001 to 2002, nearly equal the amount of cotton trade for this same period. Such subsidies lead to worldwide overproduction and distort cotton prices, depriving poor African countries of their only comparative advantage in international trade.

Not only is cotton crucial to our economies, it is the sole agricultural product for our countries to trade. Although African cotton is on the highest quality, our production costs are about 50 percent lower than in developed countries even though we rely on manual labor. In wealthier countries, by contrast, lower-quality cotton is produced on large mechanized farms, generating little employment and having a questionable impact on the environment. The cotton there (US) could be replaced by other high valuable crops.

In the period from 2001 to 2002, America’s 25,000 cotton farmers received more in subsidies—some 3 billion dollars more—than the entire economic output of Burkina Faso, where two million people depend on cotton. Further, United States subsidies are concentrated on just 10 percent of its cotton farmers. Thus, the payment to about 2,500 relatively well off farmers has the unintended but nevertheless real effect of impoverishing some 10 million rural poor people in West and Central Africa.

The G8 leadership refuses to force multinationals oil companies taking Africa’s oil and gas, to provide the necessary energy to African food producers for massive food production in Africa to feed it starving people and earn export income. Development of a modern agriculture exports economy would be a critical first down the road toward African industrialization. The energy to produce the food is being taken away by the multinational oil companies. Energy rich Cameroon is now a net importer of industrial energy. Only 5 percent of the population consumes electricity, less than 7 million Btu (vs. US value over 400 million Btu). Wood burning is the basis for the agriculture economy.

600 billion dollars of Farm subsidies
The G8, also refuses to drop the 600 billion dollars of farm subsidies given to domestic multinationals who keep world food prices artificially low in G8 final markets, there by blocking tens of billion of dollars of African food imports to G8 markets. Ten of billions of dollars of developing countries energy is forcibly soled to oil multinationals at below mark prices to pay foreign debt. This 600 billion-corporate welfare political give away program funds the largest genocide and ethic cleaning campaign in human history. African and Latin American are unknowingly supporting it every time they buy food at multinational chain food stores.
Genocide against Africa

The United Nation Millennium Development Goals (UNMDG) committed the International community to halving world poverty by 2015, a decade from now. The UN warns that 3 million children will die in Central and Western Africa alone. Millions of other Africans will die from starvation related causes. With the current oil crisis and subsides structure, the UNMDG goal is likely to be achievable only through the death of half of the poor by starvation, disease and local conflicts. In the case of Africa this could mean the deaths of another 100 million people over the next ten years. This G8 de facto food policy is tantamount to genocide against Africa.

The Doha Development Agenda negotiations, sponsored by the World Trade Organization, to reduce subsidies has collapsed. Rich countries would rather give African leadership 50 billion (an increase of only 10 billion dollars) and keep the 600 billion dollar farms subside program, rather than address the real African food security issue. The oil issue is well known, but the billions of dollar Japanese, American and European food subsidy issue is not. Multinational food-processing firms, lobby billions of subsidies behind nationalism, and protectionism, while third world peoples starve to death. Most food producing developing countries are unable to get either the international funding, food-processing, picketing or industrial markets to develop their agriculture markets.

Control oil, control food production
A real commitment to ending African poverty is a real commitment to a robust food-processing energy grid. Any thing short of an improved power grid will not work. Lack of oil to produce food in developing countries and subsidized agro-food multinationals in the industrial countries ensure the death of millions of Africans. Multinational energy companies are moving to take control of Africa’s energy grids to control food production. The reliable supply of energy is one of many important requirements for significant growth in Africa’s agricultural productivity. For farmers in most African countries, access to fuels or electricity for farm operations or crop processing is limited and very costly. If access can be improved, and energy needs for agriculture anticipated and met, then a potential roadblock to agricultural growth can be avoided.

Rapid growth in agricultural production could then stimulate rural and overall economic development. The objective of food security could come closer to reality, and exports of agriculturally based products could improve the regional trade balance. Simply put, the provision of energy for agriculture is essential to Africa’s long-term well being. With oil now at 60 dollars per barrel and most African countries using oil exports to pay foreign debt, the rich countries beyond the reach of African farmers and food processing firms are keeping its use for food production. The direct consequence of energy triage is growing starvation, many cases, in African countries with massive amounts of oil and gas.
Elimination the multinational farm welfare program

Mali is unique among African countries for its significant nomadic and pastoral populations and for its extensive use of animal traction. In contrast, the potential “bread basket of the Central Africa” the Cameroon once rich in oil and gas, lies within the rich humid belt of Central Africa, with large potentially arable area, increasing cultivated requires modern agriculture infrastructure, ports, energy grids and careful tropical forest management.

Cameroon and its river cities which are ideally positioned for nuclear-powered value added food processing and manufacturing. The Sudan is the potential “bread basket of the Middle East”--with only 10 percent of its potentially arable land under cultivation and the greatest extent of irrigation in the region. This agricultural potential can be developed by an international political solution to the civil war and development of agriculture infrastructure and elimination of the multinationals in fighting over control of African oil.

The key is not more aid, but industrial infrastructure investments driven by Wall Street capital. Congress allow tens of billions of American investments to go to Red China who are supporting the central government of Sudan, but none to go to the Black freedom fighters in South Sudan try to build a new and different society.

The key to solving the African starvation is supporting developing countries building the necessary industrial infrastructure for high yield energy intensive food-processing industries. Elimination of farm subsidies programs in Japan, North America and Europe would create a potential 600 billion dollar market for African agriculture exports and a means to feed her people.