First let me say thank you brother for instigating this conversation. Now, on to the plan. I believe that the way to go about this is through invasion and acquisition. These words may have a negative connotation but they describe a process that works in Nature and is most easilly seen on a Microbiotic level. This is what viruses do. They invade a cell and acquire its nucleus and use it to manufacture more of themselves. We need to do the same thing on a community scale.

Following the same metaphor; a virus invades a cell that offers less resistance. So that is the paradigm by which we should identify where we "invade". We need to begin by identifying communities that are in economic decline; yet still have available resources. In the body the virus seeks cells that are healthy but weakened by malnutrition. In a geoeconomic sense these are towns and small cities in regions that are being stressed by an economic downturn. I would suggest that for the use as an example we examine; western NC (where I intend to relocate) and the Ohio Valley. Both of these areas have human resources, a secure fresh water supply, good roads, the remnant of a rail system and most importantly the intellectual capital of an ongoing University structure. These regions have good sized University Cities surrounded by economically challenged smaller cities, towns and large villages.

My personal choice is NC in the Piedmont area between Charlotte and Asheville. I am now focused on Gastonia, Shelby, Bessmer City, Forest City, Polkville, and Boiling Springs. There are other communities in this region as well. In the process of making a selection we must examine the economic status of the locale. We need to select a community that has a high enough per capita income level to be capable of sustaining economic activity yet (following the virus model) weakened enough that we will be welcomed for bringing in new capital and not encounter an immune system that will prevent us from acquiring control.

I have chosen this area because it offers ready access to the Intersate Highway system and via that system easy commuting to Charlotte. I intend to establish a Metaphysical Teaching and Healing Center in Charlotte (vic) and a retreat in one of the smaller communities nearby. This will allow me to market both ventures to a sufficiently large enough population (over 1.7 million within 30 miles) and have a national reach via Charlotte Intl. Airport. I also have chosen this venue because of its proximity to first class medical facilities and major city cultural and recreational activities.

For those of us who are more interested in a less urban environment this region also offers relatively inexpensive arable land and the previously mentioned access to transportation to out ship produce. The smaller cities and towns in this region have large stocks of commercial realty available for small to medium scale manufacturing start ups. There are already a number of regional and even national corporations seeking to relocate there. This offers the potential for joint ventures. The University Community of Charlotte (29 colleges and universities) also offers a diversity of faculty and student population that have ties to communities and economies around the world.

This mixture of urban and rural economic opportunities is fertile, yet has been starved by the end of the dot com era and was "shaken down" by a pattern of over building around the region instigated by the expansion of the Real Estate Bubble of the past 12 years, resulting in a large inventory of foreclosed properties. Consequently there is still a large volume of available real estate at "fire sale" prices.

So Fred in answer to your three questions; we do build our Ball Park and an amusement complex adjacent to it with low cost residential housing for our employees, who will in turn invest their surplus income in economic development in the vicinity. They will have surplus income because we are smart enough to keep the cost of living; livable by producing our food supply regionally and consequently building a loyal consumer base that we (through our banking community) empower and finance to become entrepreneurs. We begin this amongst ourselves, which makes us the founding fathers & mothers. The founders always get rich, and if they have a vision of sustainability don't wind up losing their fortunes.

We take a multigenerational approach, within which we create not just a strong economic foundation but also a social contract that stresses families and communities. If we examine these "opportunitiy zones" we will see that they have become such because the individuals in control of the local economies did not have a long term vision and "ate their seed corn". At a time when they could have reinvested and sustained, they instead chose to extract their capital and speculate with it. In the various boom and busts that the national economy has undergone, they lost money starting with the aerospace industry of the 60s, the energy industry of the 70s (and the industries dependent upon it like airlines and manufacturing), the savings and loan industry of the 80s, the dot coms of the 90s, and the Real Estate Bubble of the late 90s and early 00s. And took the rest of the American people down with them.

All of this could have been avoided by reinvestment in the Industrial base of the 40s and 50s that was the basis of their wealth. Consequently we no longer have an automotive, electronic, textile, or machine tool industry in this country. The current service economy and investment economy are chimeras and are not sustainable. It doesn't take J.K. Galbraith to see this. Learning from history, we Black People and others willing to accept our leadership can within the lifetimes of our children being born today (the Crack of Dawn Babies), become the wealthiest society that the world (and then the Solar System) has ever known. With vision we can even colonize the seas and near space, in that same period. We can build the colonies on Luna and Mars. We can build the orbital habitats in the Lagrange Points.

I hope this vision, as long winded as it has been excites you. I am commited to it; not because it is my own, but because I see no other competing vision that offers us a similar future. I am aligned with the "Life Principle" and refuse to become a party to the increasingly rapid downward spiral toward the great "Die Off" that will result from our current social and economic trends.

By the way, here's something for everyone to consider, when moving back to the South.

Hurricane Katrina.

In the North, you'd never have that happen to so many black people. Thanks to Katrina, thousands of black people were kicked out of their land and moved into Nazi hell holes like Texas, etc., where they now have even LESS power than they had before.

So many blacks, once concentrated in New Orleans, are now scattered all over the south, in the most hostile anti-black parts of the WORLD, grossly outnumbered in their new surroundings... it's a recipe for utter disaster.

I've just been out to Texas and Oklahoma, and even the more rural parts of California. Rural areas are DANGEROUS. You get outnumbered out there and there's no sense of security... even less than in the big cities with all the gangs.

Gangs don't burn crosses on your yard and drag you behind a truck and rape and piss on your daughter just for the hell of it. When I was in Texas and Oklahoma, I saw ALL of that happening. Rural parts of Fresno, CA? Quite a bit of that was going on but not like Okie and Texas.

Blacks down there have just learned to live with the constant Sword of Damocles hanging over their head.