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9286 [lbo-talk] Query: Speculation and oil prices -- rank: 1000

On Apr 8, 2008, at 3:39 PM, ken hanly wrote: > Often it is stated in articles that a certain > amount of the going oil price is the result of > speculation and estimates are made of how much per > barrel is caused by speculation. How on earth are > these estimates made? Build a supply-demand model, and then assume that the portion of the price that the model can't "explain" is the result of speculation (or war premium). I'm not saying that I agree with the results, b ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 8 13:50:32 PDT 2008

9287 [lbo-talk] worst president ever? -- rank: 1000

<http://hnn.us/articles/48916.html> 4-01-08 HNN Poll: 61% of Historians Rate the Bush Presidency Worst By Robert S. McElvaine Mr. McElvaine teaches history at Millsaps College. His latest book, Grand Theft Jesus: The Hijacking of Religion in America, has just been published by Crown. As far as history goes and all of these quotes about people trying to guess what the history of the Bush administration is going to be, you know, I take great comfort in knowing that they don t know what ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 8 12:17:11 PDT 2008

9288 [lbo-talk] NY blocks mayor's congestion plan -- rank: 1000

On Apr 8, 2008, at 2:36 PM, John Thornton wrote: > When I lived in Manhattan years ago I lived on the east side. > I didn't own a car and didn't recall that being a problem or the east > side being a transit desert. > Has NYC changed that much? > Is the east side really a transit desert? No, it's not. Besides, driving to compensate for the lack of a subway on the far east side would be pretty silly - either they'd be spending $30 on a garage or 45 minutes looking for a parking s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 8 11:39:15 PDT 2008

9289 [lbo-talk] NY blocks mayor's congestion plan -- rank: 1000

On Apr 8, 2008, at 1:01 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > Doug writes (twice): > >>> Raising the cost of driving is problematic in a lot of >>> other parts of the USA because there's no alternative >>> to driving. That's not true in Manhattan. > > It's only true is SOME parts of Manhattan. I refer you to the 2nd > Avenue Subway, among others ... basically the east side is a transit > desert. > > If you're saying that the MTA is providing a perfect solu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 8 10:31:22 PDT 2008

9290 [lbo-talk] health insurance violates Sharia -- rank: 1000

On Apr 8, 2008, at 9:09 AM, Dennis Perrin wrote: > Carrol: > >> the shameful treatment of Yoshie on this list > > Did I miss something? Carrol loves to drop a stinkbomb and then never defend himself when criticized. We'll see what he comes up with on this one. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 8 09:51:57 PDT 2008

9291 [lbo-talk] congestion pricing: the class angle -- rank: 1000

[Dwayne asked from some data. Here's some. Granted, it's from officialdom, but if anyone has any better data, please supply.] <http://www.nyc.gov/html/planyc2030/downloads/pdf/cpfactsheet.pdf> Myth: A majority of non-Manhattan residents rely on their cars to commute to Manhattan. Fact: Only 5% of commuters in Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx commute to Manhattan by car and of that number, only about one in six report that they drive because of inaccessible or inconvenient m ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 8 09:42:54 PDT 2008

9292 [lbo-talk] NY blocks mayor's congestion plan -- rank: 1000

On Apr 8, 2008, at 11:44 AM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > But now we're looping (see my 8 year running battle with Doug on this > point in the archives): you simply cannot "make it more expensive" > without providing an immediate alternative. An hour ago, I wrote: > Raising the > cost of driving is problematic in a lot of other parts of the USA > because there's no alternative to driving. That's not true in > Manhattan.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 8 09:35:09 PDT 2008

9293 [lbo-talk] NY blocks mayor's congestion plan -- rank: 1000

On Apr 8, 2008, at 9:03 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > It seems that the owners of this country are very > careful not to dethrone the car and they enjoy full > support of right wing populists and useful idiots on > the Left. By the way, there's a major Albany subtext to the defeat of congestion pricing. Bloomberg never cultivated the hacks who run that dismal town. He alienated Dems by contributing to the Rep legislative campaign. He's a technocrat who's never really gotten invo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 8 06:17:39 PDT 2008

9294 [lbo-talk] health insurance violates Sharia -- rank: 1000

On Apr 7, 2008, at 9:13 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > You just spoiled a perfectly good piece of > Islamophobia (probably designed ex post facto) to give more > credence to > the shameful treatment of Yoshie on this list. By the way, dickhead - did you read that poll of Iran I posted yesterday? Or would acknowledging it have interfered with your one- dimensional line on "Islamophobia"? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 8 05:54:55 PDT 2008

9295 [lbo-talk] health insurance violates Sharia -- rank: 1000

On Apr 7, 2008, at 9:13 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > the shameful treatment of Yoshie on this list Yawn.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 8 05:50:47 PDT 2008

9296 [lbo-talk] NY blocks mayor's congestion plan -- rank: 1000

On Apr 7, 2008, at 11:30 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > Fine and good. So why penalize it only in the city's wealthiest > neighborhoods - and more specifically, by "outsiders" in those > neighborhoods? Both you and Doug seem to be going out of your ways to > duck this most obvious of questions. They're the densest neighborhoods. Fifth Ave in the 90s, one of the richest neighborhoods in the world, was outside even the original congestion zone (below 86th St), and was well ou ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Apr 8 05:42:40 PDT 2008

9297 [lbo-talk] NY blocks mayor's congestion plan -- rank: 1000

On Apr 7, 2008, at 9:35 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 9:17 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski > <swsokolowski at yahoo.com> wrote: > >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7335806.stm > > Good for the Assembly Democrats. Oh please. This is such reactionary populism. There are too damned many cars in Manhattan. Driving here has to be made more expensive. Fewer cars, more plazas, more bikes. Stop whining and take the subway. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 7 18:40:49 PDT 2008

9298 [lbo-talk] Iranian domestic attitudes -- rank: 1000

Lots in that PIPA survey on Iranian domestic political attitudes that's not in the web summary. Fairly high levels of satisfaction expressed. <http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/pdf/apr08/Iran_Apr08_rpt.pdf> Assessments of the Government Iranians largely express satisfaction with their government. Two out of three say that Iran is generally going in the right direction, though a plurality is dissatisfied with the Iranian economy. Half say they trust the government to do what is ri ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 7 11:06:09 PDT 2008

9299 [lbo-talk] Iranians want talks with US, more openness, oppose nukes -- rank: 1000

<http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/home_page/468.php? lb=hmpg1&pnt=468&nid=&id=> Iranians Favor Direct Talks with US, Mutual Access for Journalists, More Trade April 7, 2008 Poll Finds Diminished Perception of US Threat, General Thawing of Hostility Iranians Oppose Producing Nuclear Weapons, Saying It Is Contrary to Islam Full Report (PDF) Questionnaire / Methodology (PDF) A new WorldPublicOpinion.org polls finds that although Iranians continue to view the Unit ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 7 10:54:56 PDT 2008

9300 [lbo-talk] oh, that McCain! -- rank: 1000

<http://rawstory.com/news/2008/ McCain_temper_boiled_over_in_92_0407.html> Book: McCain temper boiled over in '92 tirade, called wife a 'cunt' Nick Juliano Published: Monday April 7, 2008 John McCain's temper is well documented. He's called opponents and colleagues "shitheads," "assholes" and in at least one case "a fucking jerk." But a new book on the presumptive Republican nominee will air perhaps the most shocking angry exchange to date. The Real McCain ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 7 10:25:44 PDT 2008