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31 October 2007
Hobgoblins, bats, black cats and jack o’ lanterns may not be present, (depending on your views of the other habitués of Wednesday Night) but there will be a steaming brew of stimulating thought in the company of David Kilgour, Kimon Valaskakis, Hans Black (with Malcolm Thomas), and Beryl Wajsman to stir the pot. Given the likely topics, there will certainly be more scary matter inside 33 than in the streets of Montreal on Hallowe’en.
Among the topics we can expect to consider:
Pessimism grows over Darfur talks
Crippled by the absence of key rebel leaders, a highly anticipated Darfur peace conference was effectively postponed Sunday to give rebel delegates time to prepare before direct negotiations with the Sudanese government.
French FM Kouchner Proposes Fund to Push Democratic Change in Burma while Burma’s military government stepped up its propaganda campaign against the United States on Sunday, accusing Washington of inciting last month’s pro-democracy demonstrations in hopes of installing a puppet government. Also worth reading is the piece by the Burma Solidarity Collective in the McGill Daily
What happens when an authoritarian government and thousands of activists go head-to-head at the Olympics? China is about to find out.
Meanwhile it is reported that the Chinese government has arrested 774 people over the last two months as part of a nationwide crackdown on the production and sale of tainted food, drugs and agricultural products.
One cannot help but wonder whether those arrested are the ones who are really responsible.
Turkey [continues] to bomb Kurdish rebel positions in the east of the country, but the New York Times reports that the PKK is operating freely with little sign of any constraints from Iraqi Kurdish leaders. Condoleezza Rice is expected in Istanbul this week for talks, but likely the situation will be resolved temporarily when winter comes and the mountain passes close.
We recommend the Stratfor Analysis “Turkey as a Regional Power” as excellent background for the dilemma the U.S. faces in this conflict.
The Bush administration last week proceeded with its controversial decision to brand the Quds unit of the Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organization and impose new sanctions on Iran. Israeli officials have welcomed this American escalation of pressures on Iran, apparently considering it a foreign-policy achievement for Israel, as well as for the formidable array of pro-Israel US pundits who push for a combative policy against Iran.
Iran’s leaders need enemies like Bush . George Bush retains almost unchallengeable mastery of the greatest military arsenal on earth. There seems a real prospect that he will use this to cripple Iran’s nuclear programme.
As the world watches and waits for a spark to set off a conflagration in any one of these countries, King Abdullah al-Saud will enjoy a Royal Visit to Great Britain with all the appropriate pomp and circumstance. Not everyone is impressed, as some point to flagrant human rights abuse in Saudi Arabia with little sign of any reform and a concurrent flow of funds to Wahabbi-Islamist extremists
Closer to home, there’s Minister Flaherty’s economic update following the Loonie’s 47-year high of $1.05
Poor Bombardier: SAS abandons Bombardier Q400 after incidents and shares sink after third incident involving landing gear http://tinyurl.com/2rvyue while the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) called Monday for “an immediate crisis meeting” with officials from Transport Canada and Bombardier Inc to explain three crash-landings by the turboprop aircraft.
And there’s the on-going discussion of Alberta’s new oil & gas royalty structure that “poses no threat to producing projects, and U.S. officials [should] have no concerns about changes to the fiscal regime, according to the energy minister” while Oil prices hit a new trading high above $93 a barrel Monday before falling back, propelled by news that Mexico’s state oil company, PEMEX, was suspending about a fifth of its oil production due to a storm.
Finally, we are sad to report that one of our favorite projects, the Nicholas Negroponte $100 Laptop appears to be losing steam. Its price tag is now $200 as the economies of scale he had predicted have not materialized.
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