The Pipe

There is a serious showdown looming over the fate of the Keystone XL and I love it. It goes perfectly with the whole Victory In Iraq Moment, industrial energy needs and the logic of Empire bumping up against ecological catastrophe, white men bumping up against First Nations, desperate Workers bumping up against Populist Expand The Middle Class union buffoonery. This is gonna be interesting indeed!

I'm sure David Axlerod thinks he has this all handled but I believe History is outpacing his political calculations. If Obama smokes that Corporate Crack pipe all the residual hopey changey delusions go swirling down the electoral toilette. They will have to throw Jim Hanson and Bill Mc Kibben under the bus and face down an American Spring with riot police and tanker cars of tear gas. We got the G20 and NATO summits in Chicago ( Haymarket Square?) then the conventions in Tampa Bay and Charlotte. Forest fires and droughts and tornadoes Oh My!

The European Double-Dip contagion will make itself felt and the White House organic garden won't feed the growing food lines. The Durban protesters will have had time to talk to Bolivian piquetaros and Chiapan Zapatistas and Spanish Indignados.

"Well the gamblin man is rich
while the workin man is poor
and I ain't got no home in the world anymore." Woody Guthrie

This all means that there will be PLENTY to occupy. The Postal Service, coal fired power plants and train loads headed to China, the Veterans Administration (vets will be looking for work, perhaps camping out in D.C.?), ICE and the INS, not to mention Wall Street, Main Street and K Street. Penultimate Pipeline Percept?