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Will cheaper gas nix energy reforms?

Does the low cost of flying, transporting goods, and getting to the store mean that the biggest incentive for energy reform is evaporating?

CSM/Yahoo 03.Nov.08
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The biggest incentive.
This morning on LinkTV's Spotlight, a piece on rendition flights, first thing, plus I was out of coffee. 

The only corporate media I caught before shutting the tv down again was a piece on the construction of the set for I guess the election night victory party for Obama's campaign.
The biggest incentive.
Is rendition going to stop now? Because that was enough, and whatever purpose it was serving needs something else done now? 

It's hard, because there's no one with a three-digit IQ watching all this who believes torture is effective as an information-gathering technique, yet there's all that torture going on. 

So it's all just another mistake, like Iraq, like not concentrating on destroying Afghanistan first but destroying Iraq instead.
The biggest incentive.
Obama's going to not do what Bush has done, we know that. 

Is he going to undo what Bush has done?
What has Bush done?
Three things, the invasion/occupation of Iraq, presiding over the collapsing economy, and the evidently permanent suspension of legal protections guaranteed by the US Constitution. 

Is Obama going to undo that? Any of it?
How?
The biggest incentive.
Because if he doesn't then it looks pretty much like what some of us were afraid of is in fact the case. Bush was there to figurehead a violently aggressive military assertion,  a domestic civilian  clampdown, and now that everything's in place he can be driven out of town in disgrace. 

Then a liberal version of what happened in the last two elections (aside from the out and out stealing) happens. 
In 2000 and 2004 conservatives and the loosely self-defined privileged and wannabe privileged classes got hoodwinked, chumped off, rode hard and put up wet.
Now it's over to the left side of the equation. 
The biggest incentive.
The conceit here as always is that the corporate media reflect rather than create public concern.
The people elected George W. Bush and now the people look ready to elect Barack Obama. 

As opposed to - the media hypnotized people into thinking they elected GWBush, and now...

The little clot of cable news channels still sparkles with analysis and subliminal confirmation of the values of their audience. Values that seemingly arise independently of any coercive influence or intent, like swamp gas, like spontaneous combustion.
So that Sarah Palin appearing on Saturday Night Live is highly newsworthy, and the fact that every other commercial in that show's time span was for some brand-new car or other is completely insignificant.
Meanwhile the Weather Channel's talking about records breaking all across the country, and LinkTV's got the CIA's ex Chief of Operations for Europe nervously chuckling and talking, or claiming his inability to talk about, the torture of human beings in the name of freedom. 

Even as he admits it doesn't "work". The implication seeming to be that this is a symptom of a disease that entered from the top and has filtered down through the ranks. That whatever's done all this extraordinary renditioning isn't endemic to CIA, but came into it from above. And the CIA's ex Chief of Operations for Europe is confident when he says it doesn't "work" to torture people, because the information gained is too unreliable.
Yet the information gained is claimed quite clearly to be the reason for it happening. Even though it doesn't "work".
Of course what that means is simply that it doesn't work to the stated aims - but it does break people, and spirits, and that is of course why it's being done. Because it's an act of terror,  the systematic use of violence as a means to intimidate or coerce.

What isn't so clear is the possibility that if it did in fact come from above whatever did it's likely still there, and probably won't be leaving town in January with Bush when he goes.