Sunday, April 28, 2024
Bottom line is if we don't stick together, we will all hang separately. I see a lot of racism among so-called educated Burmese--
Mahatma Gandhi said, "An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind."
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Restricted--US Army Manual of GuerillaWarfare + Che Guevera
Highly recommended--but don't let it get to anyone junta-connected.
No fence sitters, no extreme religious, no extreme “nationalists."
https://www.amazon.com/U-S-Army-Guerrilla-Warfare-Handbook/dp/1602393745?asin=1602393745&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1
Che Guevera--
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From Che Guevera wiki--
Intellectual and literary interests
Guevara learned chess from his father and began participating in local tournaments by the age of 12. During adolescence and throughout his life he was passionate about poetry, especially that of Pablo Neruda, John Keats, Antonio Machado, Federico García Lorca, Gabriela Mistral, César Vallejo, and Walt Whitman.[36] He could also recite Rudyard Kipling's If— and José Hernández's Martín Fierro by heart.[36] The Guevara home contained more than 3,000 books, which allowed Guevara to be an enthusiastic and eclectic reader, with interests including Karl Marx, William Faulkner, André Gide, Emilio Salgari, and Jules Verne.[37] Additionally, he enjoyed the works of Jawaharlal Nehru, Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, Vladimir Lenin, and Jean-Paul Sartre; as well as Anatole France, Friedrich Engels, H. G. Wells, and Robert Frost.[38]
As he grew older, he developed an interest in the Latin American writers Horacio Quiroga, Ciro Alegría, Jorge Icaza, Rubén Darío, and Miguel Asturias.[38] Many of these authors' ideas he cataloged in his own handwritten notebooks of concepts, definitions, and philosophies of influential intellectuals. These included composing analytical sketches of Buddha and Aristotle, along with examining Bertrand Russell on love and patriotism, Jack London on society, and Nietzsche on the idea of death. Sigmund Freud's ideas fascinated him as he quoted him on a variety of topics from dreams and libido to narcissism and the Oedipus complex.[38] His favorite subjects in school included philosophy, mathematics, engineering, political science, sociology, history, and archaeology.[39][40] A CIA "biographical and personality report", dated 13 February 1958 and declassified decades later, made note of Guevara's range of academic interests and intellect – describing him as "quite well read", while adding that "Che is fairly intellectual for a Latino".[41]
Motorcycle journey
Yesterday from Irrawaddy--excellent analysis--Matthew B. Arnold.
Excellent analysis by Matthew B Arnold—“not w a bang but a whimper.”
https://www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/guest-column/the-organic-logic-of-myanmars-revolution.html
And he hasn't even mentioned jet fuel boycott, sanctions and widespread conscription.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
From Myanmar Now--bumbling SAC propagandist-- SACK!--+ don't trust Hunterbrook Media--
Myanmar’s military regime is not renowned for its sophisticated propaganda machine. Much of what passes for strategic messaging from the ruling State Administration Council (SAC) is a sinister stew of old-time junta sloganeering, flat denials of clearly evident events, and blame-shifting to their opponents.
One of the arch peddlers of alternative facts for Min Aung Hlaing and his regime is the Myanmar businessman and purported head of the Myanmar Press Council, Aye Chan. A regular drivel scribbler for The Global New Light of Myanmar and his own pamphlet, Myanmar Insider, Aye Chan (or “UAC,” to use his propaganda nom de plume) is an unoriginal, bumbling, gormless gadfly. But the question is, has he been effective in reaching certain audiences with the alternative, “SAC-positive” reality that he presents?
https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/give-credit-where-its-due-an-open-letter-to-hunterbrook-media/
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4-25-2024
NYT--Columbia University protests against Gaza occupation--
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/us/columbia-protests-encampment.html
Columbia is an Ivy League institution.
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
USIP warns of scam centers on Burma-Thai border + KNU blames "allies" BGF for loss of Myawaddy (police station)--
KNU blames Border Guard Force for loss of Myawaddy (police station) to junta forces--
2 consecutive articles in Irrawaddy.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/us-think-tank-sounds-alarm-as-scam-centers-mushroom-on-myanmar-thai-border.html
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4-24-2024
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Monday, April 22, 2024
Sunday, April 21, 2024
Quote from Ven Ariyawuntha-Biwuntha fromMyanmar Now.
In my opinion, this is not the time to worry about religion. If you’re going to exploit the people in the name of religion, you’ve got to be one hell of a lousy politician. There have already been some bad things done in the name of religion by previous politicians. We have to focus on the future of the country first. Religion only comes next. There are multiple occasions where the Buddha said, “only give donations and meditate if the country is peaceful.’ It is really ridiculous to focus on religion while the country is on fire. What they said about religion is not true, in my opinion. MN: Many believe that the religion will be tarnished if the dictatorship is long-lasting. What do you think about this? U Ariyawuntha: This corrupt political system—‘dictatorship’ as you call it—will ruin everything. There’s a Burmese saying: ‘When the sky falls, nobody survives.’ You can’t have strong economics, education, livelihoods or religion as long as the political system is corrupt. Everything will be in ruins. I don’t think those things, let alone religion or the country itself, would survive under such a corrupt system. It really pains me to see that some are destroying the political culture in the name of something sacred.
CNN--House Aid Package--copied and pasted
It's a $95 billion package
The bills provide nearly $61 billion for Ukraine, more than $26 billion for Israel and more than $8 billion for Indo-Pacific security.
The package could lead to a TikTok ban
The fourth bill in the package would place sanctions on the seizure of frozen Russian sovereign assets and a measure that could lead to a nationwide ban of TikTok.
If passed, the bill would give the app's Chinese parent company, ByteDance, nine months to sell the social media company or it would be banned from US app stores.
How the House voted on each measure
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NYT--Hannah Beech--Ragtag army sees tide turning--they should not show faces nor use real names--
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/20/world/asia/myanmar-war-rebels.html
write letters to NYT and other major outlets.
4-21-2024
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