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Wednesday Night #1777
Just as we were prepared to send off a suggestion of a relatively wonkish, if not upbeat, topic, came the awful news of the ISIS attacks in Brussels. More than 30 people are dead and more than 200...
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Forests and Deforestation
FOUND! Sarawak’s Stolen Wealth Is Locked In A Treasure Trove In The United States! (Sarawak Report) The treasure is in the form of vast land assets and investments, comprising major developments,...
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Corruption
Transparency International The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists Corruption in all its facets thrives on secrecy and on the perception by the corrupt that they are somehow above the...
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Kimon must be sitting on a cloud with Scot Gardiner and other old friends contemplating the Brexit disaster and thinking “if only they had listened to me!” Thank you, John Evdokias for finding and...
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UN Reform
UN was headed to Philadelphia, but a Rockefeller stepped in The book “Capital of the World” chronicles the search for a home for the United Nations headquarters after World War II and the nearly 250...
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Just for a moment – or two – can we move away from the political melodrama to the south? Incredible as it may seem, there are other developments in the world, including Canada, to which we should turn...
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NAFTA – Three Amigos
NAFTA Ottawa offers to renegotiate NAFTA in effort to warm ties with Trump The federal government has offered to renegotiate the North American free-trade agreement, a gesture of goodwill to Donald...
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Alternate (clean) energy/renewables
Latin America is set to become a leader in alternative energy (The Economist) The region already leads the world in clean energy. For almost seven months this year, Costa Rica ran purely on renewable...
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2016 has been marked by some great losses of admirable (and seemingly irreplaceable) public figures, as well as several great Wednesday Nighters. Last week, we were saddened by the death of Warren...
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Airline industry 2012 – 2017
See also Airline industry — Flight MH370 Why Airlines Collude To Make Flying As Miserable As Possible (Daily Kos) Few experiences are as universal to Americans as the shared degradation and misery of...
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Before getting to the major and unavoidable topic, a few other items for your consideration. As the crisis in North Korea‘s relations with China, the U.S. and the rest of the world escalates, Dr....
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Cities & sustainability
The Guardian A history of cities in 50 buildings Agenda 21 Safer, Smarter and Sustainable Cities C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group End of the car age: how cities are outgrowing the automobile Cities...
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Alternate (clean) energy/renewables /2
The Race to Solar-Power Africa American startups are competing to bring electricity to communities that remain off the grid. By Bill McKibben, former New Yorker staff writer, environmentalist,...
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Welcome back Peter Berezin! Peter’s latest report, titled Stocks Are From Mars, Bonds Are From Venus? makes the following points: • The divergence between global bond yields and equity prices is not as...
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The Partition of India 70th anniversary
Partition, 70 years on: Salman Rushdie, Kamila Shamsie and other writers reflect More than a million were killed and many millions more displaced by Indian partition. Authors consider its bloody legacy...
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NAFTA Negotiations 2017
NAFTA The Trump Unit: Inside Canada’s PMO squad to save NAFTA Canada-U.S. Canada-U.S. 2015-17 5 September (Globe & Mail) It’s the final day of the second round of renegotiations of the North...
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Forests and Deforestation
Long-lost Congo notebooks may shed light on how trees react to climate change Decaying notebooks discovered in an abandoned research station contain a treasure trove of tree growth data dating from...
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A quick tour d’horizon of international events before turning to the Americas, Canada, Quebec, Montreal and – Westmount. Austria has elected (though not with a clear majority) the ÖVP and 31-year old...
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Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and after
10 – 11 November Trump says U.S. won’t be ‘taken advantage of anymore.’ Hours later, Pacific Rim nations reach deal on trade without America. (WaPost) On Saturday, the countries announced they had...
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2018 Olympics Pyeongchang
IOC Andrew Cohen: Americans are becoming as blasé about winter sports as its president is about foreign trade Its fourth place in South Korea was behind Norway (39 medals), Germany (31 medals) and...
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