Reply #22: We'll find out Obama's choice next week.

[LooseWilly]

My perfect solution, however, will not be televised.

As to a brief touching on the "pipelineistan" theory: http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis161.html

More can be found in a post on progressiveindependent, if you're so inclined.

As to it's not receiving coverage implying it's not a factor... I can't help but notice that there's been precious little coverage of the possibility that Iraq was invaded in order to re-gain control over the oil for US/"coalition" corporate interests. I also find precious little coverage of the practices of the World Bank, lending money to "third world" countries for infrastructure improvements, with the proviso that Bank Charter country corporations then be hired for the projects (presumeably because only they are "certified" to the insurance standards of the terms of the Bank's loans)... so that those corporations can then turn around and hire local sub-contractors (for pennies on the dollar) to do most of the actual work, while the Charter Nation corporations pocket the lion's share of the profits, and the "third world" countries are left to pay off the loans and the interest... and if their payment schedules encounter a "hiccup" then the Bank Executives go in and restructure the country's economy (opon penalty of US/NATO "intervention") so that the payments can be made (and most likely more corporate contracts will be involved along the way).

I don't think the lack of coverage of that bit of international financial activity is much covered by the media either... but I don't think that lack of coverage is indicative of falseness of that activity, but rather more indicative of the perceived tastes of the target audience the media is trying to appeal to when it chooses its stories, and the frames within which they choose to examine those stories.

And, that brings me to what I expect to see from Obama next week: the Frame that Obama means to hang upon whatever action he means to take. It's like the unveiling of a stage upon which a play will take place... we're going to be presented with a drama within the confines of that stage/frame... and no one is going to talk about what is happening back stage, where the scenery is built/shuffled, the marketing strategies are worked out, the handbills are printed... etc.

Nothing happens in this world anymore unless it is of benefit to a corporation... except maybe piracy off the coast of Somalia, or my darning of my socks.