Members of India's parliament will see their salary more than tripled in the coming weeks, bringing their annual income to a high of $12,854 a year. But for some lawmakers, evidently, that's still not enough:

The Lok Sabha [the lower house of parliament] was adjourned as several MPs protested against the rise, which they said was inadequate.

The members had demanded their pay be raised to at least 80,000 rupees [a month], which is what senior bureaucrats are paid.

Translation: what the MPs really wanted was a pay hike of 500 percent, not 313.

I guess that makes sense, because India's economy is just swimming along, now. But wait, you say. Aren't we're talking about a country whose per-capita income still hovers at around $1,000 a year? And where over 10 percent of the country is out of a job, and more than 40 percent live on less than $1.25 a day?

Yes.

In its latest effort to keep employees from leaping from their dorm room balconies, Taiwanese tech manufacturer Foxconn held a pep rally yesterday at its industrial campus in Shenzhen, China. Employees received free T-shirts that read "I <3 Foxconn" and colorful pom-poms to wave in the air. Others got to dress up as superheroes and historical characters:

Twenty thousand workers dressed in costumes ranging from cheerleader outfits to Victorian dresses filled the stadium at the factory complex, which was decorated with colorful flags bearing messages such as "Treasure your life, love your family." The workers chanted similar slogans and speakers described their career development at Foxconn. 

Foxconn has been dogged by a wave of suicides this year in the face of low wages and hard working conditions. Already, the company's installed anti-suicide safety nets to catch would-be jumpers and raised wages 30 percent, but judging by its employees' lackluster response to its rah-rah efforts, Foxconn may need to find another way to inspire the troops. Watch.

With Gen. Stanley McChrystal safely in retirement and away from the battlefield, U.S. troops can breathe a little easier knowing that their austere -- some might say "un-American" -- diet may soon be gone along with him. McChrystal, famous for routinely operating on one meal, four hours of sleep and eight-mile runs every day, launched a second war -- against junk food -- this year in an effort to alter base-life culture and make space for vital equipment.

Now, Burger King and other fast-food joints could make a comeback (insert your bad Tolkien joke here) in Kandahar if Gen. David Petraeus approves:

"With respect to Burger Kings, all options are on the table," he said.

Whew -- I'm glad we got that taken care of. What's next?

Slashdot passes on news that Julian Assange, the controversial WikiLeaks chief, has just sealed a hosting deal with Sweden's Pirate Party that would help protect the whistleblower Web site:

Assange on his turn recognized that his organization is fighting for much of the same ideals as the Pirate Party, and said that there might be more joint projects between the two outfits in the future. “We see more opportunities down the road in cooperating with the Pirate Party and look forward to exploring those options,” Assange noted.

For photos of the event, which appears to have taken place in a pub, check out TorrentFreak's full coverage here.

Even as President Barack Obama brought the debate over the so-called "Ground Zero mosque" to the national level last weekend, Muslim residents of a very different city were launching their own version of the Cordoba initiative. In the real Cordoba:

Muslims in Spain are campaigning to be allowed to worship alongside Christians in Cordoba Cathedral -- formerly the Great Mosque of Cordoba.

Today, at the original Cordoba mosque in Spain, there is no call to prayer, only the ringing of church bells. That's because the former mosque is now a working Catholic cathedral, performing a daily mass.

Until the city was reconquered by Christian armies in the 13th century, Cordoba was a key symbol of Spanish Muslim culture. The Mosque of Cordoba, in particular, drew countless worshippers to the region. If the activists get their way, Cordoba's historical reputation may soon be restored.

Pakistan's intelligence agency, the ISI, has concluded that India is no longer the primary threat to the country's security. Displacing New Delhi for the title are Islamist militias operating in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province:

A recent internal assessment of security by the Inter-Services Intelligence, Pakistan's powerful military spy agency, determined that for the first time in 63 years it expects a majority of threats to come from Islamist militants, according to a senior ISI officer.

The assessment, a regular review of national security, allocates a two-thirds likelihood of a major threat to the state coming from militants rather than from India or elsewhere. It is the first time since the two countries gained independence from Britain in 1947 that India hasn't been viewed as the top threat.

In the words of Bruce Hoffman, a terrorism expert at Georgetown University, the report is nothing short of "earth-shattering." To be clear, the ISI's findings aren't yet supported among members of the Pakistani military, or in the higher reaches of government. But keep your eye on this.

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In this edition: monkey wrenches, a reunification tax, and another semi-official North Korean Twitter account.

Lots of news this morning from the Korean peninsula. To kick things off, a top North Korean defense official may become the monkey wrench upsetting Kim Jong-Il's succession saga, the Washington Post reports. Why?

It is Jang, the 64-year-old vice chairman of the powerful National Defense Commission, who has emerged as a third figure in any succession. There are other high-level leaders in North Korea, but no one else holds comparable clout. And no one else has been given more trust: put in a position in which he could serve as a mentor to Kim Jong Eun or attempt to seize power for himself once Kim Jong Il passes from the scene, at a time when North Korea's starving population increasingly doubts whether the Kim way is the best way. 

All things considered, this isn't a revelation so much as a rephrasing of what we already know: that Kim Jong Un is young and inexperienced, and that he'll be subject to considerable pressure to act tough if (when?) he takes over from his father. Worth a look for those readers seeking a primer on North Korean internal politics.

Second, South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak floated a proposal yesterday to reunify North and South -- and that he'd levy a tax to pay for it. The suggestion is a surprising one, given Lee's historically hawkish stance toward his northern neighbor (and the recent fraying of relations following the Cheonan incident at sea). Lee probably knows his counterpart in Pyongyang would never accept the offer, which makes it somewhat of an empty gesture. Does that mean that Lee's move is part of a broader domestic political strategy? If so, are South Korean dreams of unification enough to overpower distaste for a new tax?

Lastly, North Korea's PR folks are reportedly hard at work on socal media with the new Twitter account @uriminzok:

The first message was posted to the account on Aug. 12 and declared (in Korean) "The Web site 'Our Nation' is on Twitter."

It was followed by three messages pointing to important documents: a 1997 essay written by defacto leader Kim Jong Il on reunification, the North-South Joint Declaration of June 15, 2000, and the declaration issued after the North-South summit of Oct. 4, 2007. Subsequent updates have pointed to recent news articles.