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11551 [lbo-talk] Nawaf Obaid on Saudi Spare Capacity -- rank: 1000

On Jan 30, 2007, at 6:08 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Nawaf Obaid says, "[b]y June 2007, Saudi Arabia is expected to have > enough spare capacity to offset all Iranian exports" and "[b]y 2009 / > 2010 the goal is to satisfy global demand during a potential > disruption from Iran and one of the three other major OPEC exporters > (Venezuela, Nigeria or Iraq)" ("Saudi Arabia's Strategic Energy > Initiative: Safeguarding Against Supply Disruptions," C ...

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11552 [lbo-talk] SEIU & health care -- rank: 1000

On Jan 30, 2007, at 6:20 PM, Mark Rickling wrote: > On 1/30/07, Seth Ackerman <sethackerman1 at verizon.net> wrote: >> Interesting, but I don't get the historical analogy. The stench of >> Bernstein? What is single-payer - the perfume of Babel? Lenin? Sorel? > > Trotsky, no doubt. Does Physicians for a National Health Program, New > York Chapter, have a different position on 1199NY head Dennis Rivera, > or is he assumed to have imbibed the purple kool-aid too? I ...

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11553 [lbo-talk] Steve Early on (Gingrich fan) Andy Stern -- rank: 1000

On Jan 30, 2007, at 4:32 PM, Mark Rickling wrote: > See also: > > Features > January 5, 2007 > Does Andy Stern Talk His Walk? > High-profile victories by SEIU often run counter to its president's > rhetoric about the 'power of persuasion' > By David Moberg > > http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/2974/ > does_andy_stern_talk_his_walk/ Where we read: > But isn t his call for partnerships between unions and companies at > odds with this call for conflict and a ...

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11554 [lbo-talk] art world in crisis! -- rank: 1000

On Jan 30, 2007, at 4:20 PM, bitch at pulpculture.org wrote: > Chuck mentions the 80s. Didn't the same crap go down then with the > whole Wall St. phenom? My memory is even more than today. Art, at least in NYC, was all over the popular culture. Schnabel and all those other assholes were extremely visible. My first wife knew a woman who painted his stuff early in the morning before she went to her day job. One of the early issues of The New Criterion - which was at once furiously Reaga ...

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11555 [lbo-talk] oil up -- rank: 1000

Oil prices are up almost $3 today to just under $57/barrel. Evidently the markets haven't gotten the message about the US-Saudi deal to screw Iran. Doug

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11556 [lbo-talk] Re: Re: Re: SEIU praises Romney's lame-ass health scheme -- rank: 1000

On Jan 29, 2007, at 11:43 PM, Jim Straub wrote: > Yeah, I'm with you. I do think that you may have a -tad- > underestimated how difficult it will be to win it, but our position > is for universal hc. Seems to me that if you have a long-term goal, you pursue policies in the short-term that promote it. I don't see how SEIU is doing that. Why not find a state where the political environment for single-payer is promising and throw some resources into pushing it? Why support schemes lik ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 30 12:25:36 PST 2007

11557 [lbo-talk] art world in crisis! -- rank: 1000

On Jan 30, 2007, at 12:44 PM, Charles A. Grimes wrote: > Where's the problem? Jed Perl is an old-fashioned high-culture snob. The crossover of art into the broader popular culture makes him visibly sick to his stomach. I ran into him on the subway as he was heading home from having just seen the Sensation show at the Brooklyn Museum <http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensation_exhibition> back in 1997, and he had a look on his face like he was just forced to stare at a cauldron of rott ...

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11558 [lbo-talk] art world in crisis! -- rank: 1000

On Jan 30, 2007, at 2:50 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > andie wrote: > > >> Yeats said the same sort of thing in his borderline modernist >> Slouching >> Towards Bethlehem: the center cannot hold. There is no center. > > > > Dr. Melfi: "Every new idea makes things worse. The center cannot > hold. The falcon cannot hear the falconer." > > Tony Soprano: "What the fuck are you talking about?" And as I've pointed out before, according ...

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11559 [lbo-talk] Steve Early on (Gingrich fan) Andy Stern -- rank: 1000

<http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID679> Portside - December 21, 2006 "New" Agenda For America Hasn't Improved With Age by Steve Early A Country That Works: Getting America Back on Track, by Andy Stern, (New York: Free Press) 2006, 212 pp. $24. America Needs a Raise: Fighting For Economic Security and Social Justice, by John Sweeney (New York: Houghton Mifflin) 1996, 167 pp. $18.95. As politicians pursued voters and media coverage around the country this Fall, ...

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11560 [lbo-talk] art world in crisis -- rank: 1000

[the entire original post - some 38k - was appended to this, pushing it way over the length limit - please, folks, snip the extraneous stuff before hitting <send>, ok?] From: "Nicholas Ruiz III" <editor at intertheory.org> Date: January 30, 2007 2:37:09 PM EST To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] art world in crisis! The art world perceives no 'crisis,' they are laughing in the same ATM line as ourselves; albeit, laughing much more loudly. The re ...

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11561 [lbo-talk] art world in crisis! -- rank: 1000

On Jan 30, 2007, at 12:44 PM, Charles A. Grimes wrote: > You're going to explain this crisis more. Ok, here's Jed's article. Yeah, I subscribe to The New Republic <blush>. Doug ---- The New Republic - February 5, 2007 What money is doing to art, or how the art world lost its mind. Laissez-Faire Aesthetics by Jed Perl I. The art world has never been so well-oiled a machine as it is right now. Auction records are toppled practically every month, the big international contemporary art fa ...

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11562 [lbo-talk] SEIU & health care -- rank: 1000

[A friend deeply involved in single-payer agitation writes in answer to my question about what SEIU is up to...] I think the people who you're talking to are either drinking Andy Stern's koolaid, lying to themselves, lying to you or some combination of the three. SEIU has been actively involved in undercutting single-payer activism since before Stern took over. After he became president, he cut the deal with Kaiser, which put them directly in bed with the corporate health care industry, an ...

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11563 [lbo-talk] Cole: Iranian public very friendly towards US -- rank: 1000

[the first part of this is not what we've been hearing from Cde Yoshie] <http://juancole.com/> Well, the Iranian public is very pro-American, and it's one of the few publics in the Middle East, I think, that would reform, if it could, in a way that was friendly to U.S. interests. If the United States goes into a frontal confrontation with Iran, however, it will push the Iranian public away. The Iranians are very nationalistic and they don't want to be dominated by the U.S.

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11564 [lbo-talk] Paris to deploy 14,000 bikes -- rank: 1000

<http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=12119> Paris to Roll Out Free Bicycles January 30, 2007 By Associated Press PARIS -- The City of Light wants to soon become a city of bicycles. Paris City Hall announced it has selected French outdoor advertising firm JCDecaux SA to operate a new free bicycle service in the capital. Joining other European cities like the Dutch capital, Amsterdam, Paris wants to make thousands of bikes available for free to commuters, strollers and tourists -- in part ...

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11565 [lbo-talk] art world in crisis! -- rank: 1000

Our neighbor two floors down, New Republic art critic (and old friend of Leon Wieseltier) thinks the art world is in crisis. To read his article on the subject, you have to be a TNR subscriber, but his slideshow of how things suck is open to the world: <http://www.tnr.com/slide/artmarket/>. I dunno, I kinda like it. Doug

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