Wednesday-Night

See also Vice President (R) Sarah Palin
She never ceases to surprise - and on the eve of The Fourth.
Palin announces resignation
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin announced Friday that she was resigning her office later this month, a stunning decision that could free her to run for president more easily but also raises questions about her political […]

BBC Iran country profile ; Iran on Wednesday-Night.com ; Search NYT for Iran ; Slate: Why the Islamic republic has such a youthful population ; Iran on the Economist ; Huffington Post Iran Uprising Live-Blogging ; The Land of Nod

Who killed Neda? Not us, Iran claims
(National Post Comment) … according to Iran’s Press […]

See also Wednesday-night.com on Burma

(HuffPost) Gordon Brown: When UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon meets the military dictatorship in Burma today he will have the whole world with him. His mission, to persuade the junta to release all political prisoners and engage with democracy, is critical to the future of the Burmese people. But it is […]

Here is the wonderful  Montreal City Weblog that does 99.9% of our Montreal-focused work for us. While it also covers aspects that do not interest us - readers will have remarked on our avoidance of organized sport topics with a few rare exceptions (we consider politics a dis-organized sport) - it is full of current […]

See  Canada economy 2009
Kelly McParland: Latest studies show Canada is one awful country (Don’t be too alarmed, this is somewhat tongue-in-cheek)
Boy, do we stink. A nation of dirty-lunged, out-of-work, spendaholic chronic invalids, with a lousy banking system. How did this happen? I wonder if it’s too late to emigrate to North Korea?
1 July
Liberal-Era Diplomatic […]

BBC Iran country profile ; Iran on Wednesday-Night.com ; Search NYT for Iran ; Slate: Why the Islamic republic has such a youthful population ; Juan Cole’s Informed Comment: Thoughts on the Middle East, History, and Religion ; Stratfor Iran Situation Reports and Analyses ; More on Iran
It’s not the voting that’s democracy; it’s the […]

(BBC) Afghanistan country profile ; Pakistan post 2008 elections - Updates
U.S. deploys 4,000 Marines in major Afghan offensive
With the backing of helicopter gunships, nearly 4,000 U.S. Marines and 650 Afghan soldiers launched a ground campaign in the volatile Helmand River valley, where poppy crops provide the Taliban with a significant source […]

The size and extent of the damage caused by the Bernie Madoff (yes, ironically, it really is pronounced ‘Made-off’) Ponzi scheme is so great that we have decided to give it its own page, rather than mingling it with the news of the rest of the economic and financial woes of the world.

Robert Scheer: […]

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Canada’s National Press Gallery Admonishes China Business Lobby
(Epoch Times) Canada’s Parliamentary Press Gallery has issued a stern rebuke to the Canada China Business Council, saying it is “completely displeased” with the way the CCBC handled media access to a […]

China in internet filtering climbdown
(FT) China has agreed to delay implementation of its policy to have all new computers in the country equipped with a controversial internet filtering software, averting the threat that PC makers not complying by Wednesday would face fines.
12 June
Chinese Embassy Responds Regarding Kidnapped Christian Attorney Gao […]