Wednesday-Night

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and CNN Katrina coverage
After Fanfare, Hurricane Grants Leave Little Mark
NEW ORLEANS — It was the largest housing aid program in American history, billed as the essential government tool that would make New Orleans whole after Hurricane Katrina.
Yet even though about $3.3 […]

London Mayor Unveils Climate Crisis Plan
(Reuters/Planet Ark) LONDON - Mayor Boris Johnson unveiled a plan on Friday to help London tackle the challenge of climate change with less carbon dioxide, more trees, better drainage and increased water efficiency.
Some 15 percent of London is deemed at high risk from flooding due to global warming — an […]

Following last Wednesday Night’s Canada-focused (healthcare, the NDP and environment) evening, we are looking forward to reviewing matters beyond our borders in the company of Carole and Rodrigue Tremblay. Dr. Tremblay, an economist, is a former Quebec Minister of Industry and Commerce, and  has published 27 books, most of them dealing with finance and economics while […]

See also Wednesday-night.com on Burma

Myanmar News Agency, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
An aerial view of a town in the southern Irrawaddy Delta region of Myanmar that was devastated by the cyclone More Photos
BURMA - […]

Feeding the future (IPS news round-up)
The World Bank Group’s New Deal on Global Food Policy

August 2008 Scientific American
Are Malthus’s Predicted 1798 Food Shortages Coming True? (Extended version)
It remains to be seen whether his famously gloomy prediction is truly wrong or merely postponed
By Jeffrey D. Sachs
In 1798 Thomas Robert Malthus famously predicted that short-term gains […]

Excellent selection of readings from Foad Mardukhi
Petrodollar bonanza offers economic key
(FT) At today’s prices, the value of oil in the ground exceeds the combined value of all the world’s equity and debt markets.
Oil-importing nations are paying oil-exporting nations roughly $1,500bn per annum for oil – about 2.5 per cent of […]

More on oil See also Wednesday-Night.com Alberta and Oil Notes

August 25
The politics of sand
What constitutes sustainability?
(The Economist) IT’S official: extracting oil from Canada’s vast deposits of bitumenous sand is unsustainable. So, at any rate, Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) implicitly concluded when it ruled that Royal Dutch Shell was misleading the public by describing […]

NBC coverage and Photos of venues
Reuters   New York Times     CBC

China, Beijing Olympics ; Tibet
Official website
The Official Mascots of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games
The Olympic Emblem

Beijing Olympics Most-Watched Event in TV History (Hollywood Reporter)
NBC says it’s official: The Beijing Games has become the most-watched U.S. television event of all time. Through 16 […]

David Brooks gets his wish.
We had hopes for Bill Richardson, whose practical international negotiating experience would have served Obama well, however Senator Biden should make a good presiding officer of the Senate and the country needs thoughtful leadership in the legislative body that should guide an support foreign affairs policy (after government by Executive Orders, […]

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August 22
The US Banking System Is in Trouble
… Chris Whalen is the managing director of a service called Institutional Risk Analytics, whose primary business is analyzing the health of banks and financial institutions. If you are one of their clients, you can go to […]