In The News: The space shuttle Discovery launch was scrubbed last night due to a bad Hydrogen control valve. They'll try to get it up again on Sunday. They call it the 'AfPak' War - Pakistan is coming apart slowly. There have been demonstrations and marches by the opposition in the provinces of Sind and Punjab. More... and still more from Juan Cole @ Informed Comment:

Thursday, March 12, 2009 Hundreds Arrested in Punjab; Suspension of Civil Liberties; Some set Out on Long March on Capital Well, I already used "crisis deepens in Pakistan," so what should I say about the news that the Pakistan People's Party government has had hundreds of attorneys and Muslim League (N) party activists arrested , invoking Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code throughout Punjab Province and in its capital, Lahore. This provision, which dates to British colonial methods of controlling the population, allows the government to forbid "all kinds of gatherings of five or more persons, processions, rallies and demonstrations at public places, distribution of hand bills and pamphlets, wall chalking,... [In Full]

President Obama signs the 2009 omnibus budget bill and says there will be stiff oversight of the next budget. There have been 54,000 new unemployment claims last week. 5.3 million Americans are out of work but the Dow Jones doesn't notice. The president will meet with the Chinese prime minister today, and the discussion will most likely turn to the South China Sea 'Economic Zone' and the recent confrontation between the US and Chinese navy. Abu Muqawama's blog has more umn... commentary:

Tuesday, March 10, 2009 If anyone was looking for a definition of "unconventional warfare"... The U.S. Navy is defenseless against semi-naked, trash-talking Chinese:

Maritime experts were given a rare glimpse of the underlying capabilities of the Chinese navy on Sunday, when crewmen involved in a stand-off with a US surveillance ship in the South China Sea revealed the fleet's previously hidden firepower. The exposure came as the American vessel USNS Impeccable was attempting to defend itself against what the Pentagon claimed was co-ordinated harassment and aggression from five Chinese ships. Being unarmed, the Impeccable turned its fire water hoses against two of the Chinese vessels that had come within 50 feet in a threatening posture.

Then, the Pentagon records in the admirably restrained language of international diplomacy, "the Chinese crew members disrobed to their underwear and continued closing to within 25 feet."[In Full]

Muntadhar al-Zeidi, the fellow who threw his shoes at George Bush as a going away president and ultimately attempted to defend his actions by pleading that Bush was not on an official visit has received a 3 year sentence and hero status in Iraq "The Shoe al-Tikriti"

Muntadhar al-Zeidi shoes... Click for a larger image... There was a message on the bottoms:

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