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7 November 2007
Do See our man in Afghanistan Robert J. Galbraith
It’s a very mixed and quite bleak bag this week, with the crisis in Pakistan dominating the international news, along with seemingly concurrent violence in Afghanistan (See also) In Pakistan the opposition centers around Judge Iftikhar Chaudhry, who after refusing to ratify General Musharraf’s order suspending the country’s constitution, warned the President that he would not be deterred from launching a fresh struggle to restore the constitution and the rule of law.
This is all very embarrassing for the U.S. which has for years supported General Musharraf and now doesn’t see a way out of the quagmire.
There’s another incipient quagmire lurking in the Turkish/PPK fight. One Wednesday Nighter comments: “What George doesn’t understand is that unless his support is concrete, the Turks will act and leave him holding the bag”. In support of that comment, we point to the report that “Mr. Bush declined to say how the United States would respond if Turkish forces entered northern Iraq, dismissing it as a hypothetical question that, he said, Mr. Erdogan himself had asked.” If it was so hypothetical, why would the Turkish PM have asked it?
Crude oil and gold prices surged to fresh highs today amid renewed dollar weakness as investors sought refuge from a second wave of credit turmoil attributed to “The [mounting] threat of fire sales of mortgage-backed securities [as] rating agency downgrades have pushed complex debt vehicles into technical default. The prospect of forced sales of assets comes as a US Treasury-backed plan for a “superfund” to stabilise troubled credit markets appears to have stalled.” At this stage, amidst all the gloom and doom, we must introduce a note of levity, directing you to the brilliant “Long Johns” discourse (thanks to David Mitchell OWN) on the subprime and banking crises.
A story to watch Boone Pickens seems well on his way to launching a 328-mile, $2.2 billion pipeline to transport water from the Texas panhandle across the prairie to the suburbs of Dallas and San Antonio. The project has many critics, both of its intent and the devious methods employed to get it started.
On a recurrent topic, the rebuilding of New Orleans continues to be bedeviled by delays and bureaucracy, “Intricate, inflexible and open-ended, the process seems to value perfect paperwork over speedy resolutions, local officials say, and requires endless haggling over every acoustic ceiling tile and paper-towel dispenser.”
Close to home, we first congratulate Ginette Sauvé Frankel on her victory in Sunday’s election for English Montreal School Board commissioner in District 7. Ginette is delighted and tells us that turn-out was 18.3%, more than twice the voter turn-out in 2003 (8.5%) and well above the province-wide 7.9%. That’s the good news. The bad news is the dismal turnout for School Board elections overall which has Education Minister Courchesne vowing to make changes, especially in communicating the role and importance of the school boards and M. Dumont calling for the abolition of school boards, (not to mention the Liberal government), declaring he wants to force an election on this issue.
We are curious about the selection of Me Hubert Lacroix as the new head of CBC/Radio Canada and note the terse announcement from Minister Josée Verner which is not exactly a glowing endorsement.We look forward to any facts or theories from Wednesday Nighters.
And finally, as today is World Food Day, we feel compelled to comment on Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Cancer the report that resulted from an examination of some 7,000 studies published since the 1960s. When taken in combination with all the other nutrition/healthcare advice with which we are assaulted daily, not to mention the warnings NOT to eat a number of foods because they are endangered, we have decided that only the Daily Mail “Don’t eat or drink, it makes you ill” has it right. If anyone has another solution, please let us know.
Meanwhile, we do not plan to overturn the Wednesday Night tradition of wine with food for thought.
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Dear Ginette,
We were happy to (finally) see the results in the Westmount Examiner online and are relaying it to one and all see the other site
You'll have to come and explain to us the two camps of the Montreal School Board - it's pretty confusing and seems very Italian!
Keep up the good work and get a rest - you will need it!
Very best to you,
Diana & David
Dear David,
Thank you for the opportunity to share my joy in the successful launch of Ron's book. with the Wednesday Night family.
I think it is important to remember just how much of a "family" you and Diana have created, and sometimes, when one has had a success, especially a minor electoral success, it is very hard to find a way to celebrate that success.
You and Diana have created that milieu for many of us, and it is in that spirit that such successes are brought to the table. This is a rare and precious gift, as many would rather challenge, ignore, or even belittle an achievement, out of envy or a mistaken sense that only the negative can be important or relevant.
You have the ability to provide that sense of having found one's "place in the sun" , even if only for a fleeting moment. It is a precious gift, one to be cherished and often the basis for a wonderful long held memory.
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