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Bush in the Middle East, Ethnic Tensions in Pakistan, World’s Cheapest Car, Kenya’s Economy |
by Alex Thurston :: Filed Under Daily Briefing :: January 9th, 2008 @ 10:17 am EST
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Bush kicks off a visit to the Middle East today, stopping first in Israel and holding a press conference with Olmert. More on this later today. Meanwhile, Iran accuses the US of faking the video of this weekend’s naval follies.
Ethnic tensions in Pakistan smolder.
On Thursday, Tata motors, an Indian company, will release the world’s cheapest car.
Kenya: It’s not “tribal conflict”: “It’s the economy, stupid.”
China freezes energy prices to hold down inflation, and “bans free plastic shopping bags.”
BLOGS
Anybody writing more than a paragraph today about something non-NH related? Jeez.
Non NH blog posts? Ok!
http://www.scholarsandrogues.com/2008/01/09/fcc-investigates-comcastan d-congress-investigates-the-fcc/
The FCC is starting to investigate Comcast for throttling Bit Torrent traffic and not telling anyone. This is good news on the net neutrality front. We’ll see how far this investigation goes, however.
Non-NH:
Wired Blog network has a post in response to Pervez Musharraf’s appearance on the tv-show 60 Minutes in which he claimed Pakistan is not particularly looking for Osama bin Laden (despite billions in U.s. aid to perform that task…).
Further evidence that the U.S. needs to stop fooling itself about Musharraf’s value as an ally…
Straight from the horse’s mouth too! Wow…just…what the fuck are we doing in the Middle East again?
P.S. Anyone know the story behind Benazir’s sister Sanam appearing in the photo with Bilawal in the Christian Science article Alex referenced?