Friday, February 27, 2026
Subscribe to AP (banned from WH early 2025), The Guardian,BBC, NPR, broadcasters on Substack, friends on LinkedIn--
Legacy Media--not so much.
Make a list of who caved to DJT--avoid.
Hillary calls House Oversight questioning repetitive--+ Burma--
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/26/nx-s1-5727777/hillary-clinton-deposition-house-oversight-epstein?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
That's what people on the attack do, when they have no firm facts.
Case in point "Dr." Bo Lay at my viva voce for my Ecos.M.A. at Rangoon Univ. His favorite student or follower herself said his Ph.D. was from a correspondence course.
At the examination, I said, "You just asked this Q and I just answered it.
Dr. Aye Hlaing dismissed the session and as I walked out the 15' corridor lined with bookshelves--I heard Dr Aye Hlaing (Dept Chair), Dr.Findlay and Yebaw Chan Aye shouting at U Bo Lay.
U Bo Lay later became head of govt Co-op ministry where all the co-op farm animals died. At the govt Pearl Island,the Japanese experts did not show the Burmese staff how they inserted the round beads--all the oysters died and were eaten. My brother's friend Gloria H.S. now in USA told him.
U Tha Hto and I sat on an oral exam for a Diploma in Eco.Planning student.
After about 5 mins, U Tha Hto said, "why this is just a record of all the chickens, ducks, geese, pigs and cows dying."
We passed the student. They were all working at Burmese govt. ministries or economic entitiies like banks etc.
One student described a certain Air Force man who had taken home antiques.
I still wonder today why U Tha Hto chose me as co-examinar though I wasn't from Mandalay.
Ne Win the dictator pulled the Mandalay staff back to Rangoon--so --there was Mandalay, also Moulmein, and Rangoon staff literally under one roof.
U Bo Lay and his wife got to stay in the confiscated house of Dr Suvi on Inya Road. Dr. suvi was a surgeon expelled from Burma by NW as "foreign."
His wife and he got in the newspapers bc his wife's longyis (sarongs) were stolen and he went and found them at the black market and roughed up the vendor, who I think was just the fence.
His wife invited my mother and other society ladies like Mrs. San Lin to her house for tea. She was quite a good-looking woman but obviously scared of her husband.
He had a pugnacious bulldog face and personality.
He later left the Co-op Ministry and is said to have made a living by telling fortunes.
Dr. Suvi operated in my mother's tumor and had one of the first orchid houses.
After Cyclone Nargisn, there was a Myanmar Gov. Report on the number of for eg. chickens killed, 7326 (a made up #)) but no statistics for humans killed. The day after the Cyclone, Myanmar govt-owned news outlets said only 5 women were killed as they were rowing a sampan in the Rangoon River. My neices stopped eating fish for awhile bc the found a human finger inside a fish they were cleaning for Mohinga--a popular fish soup eaten as breakfast.
K.M.Kaung
2-17-2026.
Thursday, February 26, 2026
American among those killed in Cuban waters, WH confirms--First reported by Axios.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/american-among-those-killed-speedboat-cuban-waters-white-house-confirms/
Marco Rubio looks down--
Was it another Bay of Pigs attempt??
Wednesday, February 25, 2026
We are all Burmese, Ukrainians, Somali, Iranian now--
We bleed, we die and we suffer all the same.
Tibetans, Rohingya, Persians, we all lose our native country.
kmk
2-25-2026
From Al Jazeera--Mexico descends into violence after cartel leader killed--Copied and pasted.
Schools have been shut in several Mexican states, and local and foreign governments alike warned their citizens to stay indoors, as widespread violence erupted following the army’s killing of the powerful leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2026/2/23/mexico-erupts-in-violence-after-army-kills-jalisco-cartel-boss-el-mencho?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
Nemesio Ruben Oseguera Cervantes, also known as “El Mencho”, was killed in a shootout in his home state of Jalisco on Sunday as the Mexican military attempted to capture him.
“El Mencho” was the boss of one of the fastest-growing criminal networks in Mexico, notorious for trafficking fentanyl, methamphetamine and cocaine to the United States and for staging brazen attacks against government officials who challenged it.
Cartel members responded with violence across the country, blocking roads and setting fire to vehicles.
The killing of “El Mencho” comes 10 years after his rival, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, was captured in a joint US-Mexico operation. El Chapo was later extradited to the US.
President Claudia Sheinbaum urged calm, and authorities announced late on Sunday that they had cleared most of the more than 250 cartel roadblocks across 20 states. The White House confirmed that the US had provided intelligence support to the operation to capture the cartel leader and applauded Mexico’s army for taking down a man who was among the most wanted criminals in both countries.
The US Department of State had offered a reward of up to $15m for information leading to the arrest of “El Mencho”. The Jalisco New Generation Cartel is one of the most powerful and fastest-growing criminal organisations in Mexico, which began operating
In February 2025, the Trump administration designated the cartel a “Foreign Terrorist Organization”.
Sheinbaum has criticised the “kingpin” strategy of previous administrations that took out cartel leaders, only to trigger explosions of violence as cartels fractured. While she has remained popular in Mexico, security is a persistent concern, and, since US President Donald Trump took office a year ago, she has been under intense pressure to show results against drug trafficking.
The Jalisco cartel has been one of the most aggressive in its attacks on the military, including on helicopters, and specialises in launching explosives from drones and planting mines.
In 2020, it carried out a dramatic assassination attempt with grenades and high-powered rifles in the heart of Mexico City against the then head of the capital’s police force, now the federal security secretary.
Mexico fears more violence after army kills Jalisco cartel leader
AP--photo essay Portraits of Ukrainians before and after full scale Russian invasion.
https://apnews.com/photo-essay/ukraine-photo-essay-portraits-anniversary-war-d7bb463924e7cad9cfaa45e59600fc60?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
Get your handkerchief, your wallet, your credit card and your checkbook/s, your brain or your brawn ready to help in any way you can.
NPR fact check of T's "state of the union."
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/24/nx-s1-5716277/trump-state-union-fact-check?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
Trump Fence around US Capital.
March, 2025 an artist won a major painting prize for similar image from Trump 1.0.
Tuesday, February 24, 2026
Top US General has been warning Trump about attacking Iran--
Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Dan Caine has been advising President Trump and top officials that a military campaign against Iran could carry significant risks, in particular the possibility of becoming entangled in a prolonged conflict, according to two sources with knowledge of those internal discussions.
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/23/iran-strike-trump-gen-dan-caine-vance-rubio?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
Monday, February 23, 2026
Trump appointed judge permanently blocks Jack Smith Report.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Monday permanently barred the release of a report by special counsel Jack Smith on his investigation into President Donald Trump’s hoarding of classified documents, a prosecution that was once seen as the most perilous of the four criminal cases the Republican faced.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-classified-documents-jack-smith-3a86d9c12f18b4dfe648e539925d72a2?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who was nominated to the bench by Trump, granted a request from the president to keep under wraps the report on an investigation alleging that Trump stored sensitive documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate after he left the White House following his first term and that he obstructed government efforts to get them back.
Smith and his team produced a two-volume report on the classified documents investigation and a separate probe into Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election after he lost to Democrat Joe Biden. Both investigations produced indictments that were abandoned by Smith’s team after Trump’s November 2024 election win in light of longstanding Justice Department legal opinions that say sitting presidents cannot face federal prosecution.
FDA website removed warning against ineffective autism "treatments"--Make America Sick Again.
https://undark.org/2026/02/23/fda-autism-treatment-warnings/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
FDA Removes Webpage Warning Against Ineffective Autism Treatments
HHS states it was cleaning up “dated content.” But advocates for people with autism say the warnings are still needed.
Visual: iStock / Getty Images Plus
By Megan O’Matz, ProPublica
Meanwhile--also from Slate--incld VIDEO--FBI dr, Kash Patel partying in Milan on taxpayer money--
Five-ring Circus
MAGOlympics
Kash Patel, Donald Trump, and the gold-winning U.S. men’s hockey team just showed us, again, exactly who they are.
By Alex Kirshner
https://slate.com/culture/2026/02/kash-patel-trump-maga-us-mens-hockey-team.html?pay=1771889976619&support_journalism=please
Sad--Nancy Guthrie home--what is FBI doing?--From Slate--17 days still unsolved.
The details of the case are sensationally macabre and rich with intrigue. I was not surprised to learn that several of my friends are in Guthrie-themed group chats; they’ve pelted me with their postulations all week long. Most crucially, the stalling momentum of the criminal probe has become its own kind of content engine, stimulating a growing belief that crucial puzzle pieces have yet to be properly interrogated, perhaps due to bumbling detective work.
https://slate.com/business/2026/02/nancy-guthrie-update-news-savannah-mom.html?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
Copied and pasted from Reuters--Lewandowski entered cockpit during planes ascent--bf firing the pilot over Noem's missing blanket--
Lewandowski, a long-time ally of President Donald Trump, was traveling with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem when they discovered her blanket was missing, the people said, requesting anonymity to discuss internal government operations.
The new details about the pilot incident suggest Lewandowski may have violated the safety guidelines set out by the U.S. Coast Guard, which operated the plane.
Lewandowski entered the cockpit before the plane had reached 10,000 feet (3,048 meters) and while the seatbelt sign remained on, one of the people said.
>Federal Aviation Administration rules, several of which were tightened after 9/11, strictly limit cockpit access and prohibit interfering with aircraft crew duties. An FAA regulation also prohibits airline pilots and staff from engaging in non-essential activities or conversations in the cockpit while operating under 10,000 feet, and civil aircraft operators that violate that rule could face thousands of dollars in fines while pilots could face fines or termination. The U.S. Coast Guard is not legally bound by the FAA's regulation, known as the "sterile cockpit rule," but has a similar policy, spelled out in a 2021 operations manual: "No person shall engage in any conversation or activity that could distract or interfere with a flight crewmember properly conducting their assigned duties during critical phases of flight." The manual does not provide a specific penalty for violating the rule, but states that rule violations generally will be handled through internal disciplinary processes. In response to a Reuters request for comment, Lewandowski said in a text message: "There was never a conversation in the cockpit when the flight was taking off." Lewandowski said the facts as related by the sources were wrong but he did not respond whether he entered the cockpit while the plane was climbing and still under 10,000 feet. Aviation safety experts consider the initial ascent among the riskiest parts of any flight. Randy Klatt, a flight safety officer with The Foundation for Aviation Safety, said planes are "low and slow" during the initial climb to 10,000 feet, making it important for pilots to focus on flight operations. "This is a vulnerable situation for any aircraft," Klatt said. "You don't have the altitude to spare, or trade for airspeed if needed." The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Coast Guard, which falls under DHS, declined to comment on the flight in question. They did not respond to a Reuters request to interview the pilots. The FAA did not respond to a request for comment. Noem, a top official overseeing Trump's aggressive immigration crackdown, has come under intense scrutiny after federal immigration agents killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis in January. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this month on infighting and tensions at DHS under Noem and Lewandowski, including the firing of the pilot. PILOT FIRED, THEN REINSTATED In response to a request for comment about Lewandowski entering the cockpit and about tensions at DHS, the White House referred to remarks in late January by Trump praising Noem and remarks by press secretary Karoline Leavitt saying Trump had the "utmost confidence and trust" in her. Lewandowski, a "special government employee" who by law is allowed to work up to 130 days annually, is a senior Noem adviser and has traveled on high-profile trips with her. The Wall Street Journal reported that the White House Counsel's Office opened an investigation into Lewandowski's use of the quasi-government role last year. The DHS spokesperson said that Lewandowski volunteers his time and that the department was not aware of any such investigation. Lewandowski did not comment when asked by Reuters about his employment status. During the flight last spring, which was on a Gulfstream jet, the pilots in the cockpit asked Lewandowski to return to the cabin until they had reached cruising altitude, one of the people familiar with the incident said. When the pilot walked back into the cabin later in the flight, the two sources said, Lewandowski asked who should be fired because Noem's blanket had been left behind when they switched planes for technical reasons before take-off. The pilot, an accomplished flyer with a long record of service, took responsibility for any possible mistake and Lewandowski fired him on the spot, the sources said, confirming the Wall Street Journal report. However, once Noem and Lewandowski reached their destination, Coast Guard leadership realized the pilot would be needed to fly them back to the Washington region and he was reinstated by the agency, the sources said. DHS and the Coast Guard declined to comment on the pilot's firing and reinstatement. Reuters was unable to independently confirm the reason for the reinstatement. (Reporting by Ted Hesson in Washington and Erin Banco in New York; Additional reporting by Kristina Cooke in San Francisco; Editing by Craig Timberg and Edmund Klamann)
Dow drops as Trump raises tariffs again!!!!
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/22/stock-market-today-live-updates.html
Maybe bitcoin has dropped further too.
Man shot and killed trying to enter Mar a Lago--
https://apnews.com/article/secret-service-president-trump-af8b23c318e2d7709d7b4a0105f8f516?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
Secret Service among those working without paycheck due togovt shutdown due to ICE budget of billions.
Sunday, February 22, 2026
From Lewandowski wiki--copied and pasted--
In September 2021, Lewandowski was removed from his role as chairman of a super PAC called Make America Great Again Action after reports of sexual harassment accusations from a donor.[108][109]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corey_Lewandowski
That same month, conservative media outlet American Greatness reported that Lewandowski was having an extramarital affair with South Dakota governor Kristi Noem, for whom he had long been a political advisor.[110][111] Noem called the report a "disgusting lie", saying, "these old, tired attacks on conservative women are based on a falsehood that we can't achieve anything without a man's help."[112][113][114] In September 2023, the New York Post and the Daily Mail published similar reports about Noem and Lewandowski, which Noem's spokesman denied.[115][116] As of September 2025, according to New York Magazine, they were widely understood by those who work with them to be romantically attached, although both deny it.[8] In February 2026, The Wall Street Journal reported that sources "said they do little to hide their relationship inside the department," that Lewandowski "spends time" at Noem's government housing, and that the "pair" have been traveling in a leased luxury jet "with a private cabin in the back".[106]
Coast Guard sounds alarm on Kristi Noem.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s relationship with the U.S. Coast Guard has become increasingly strained throughout her first year leading the department, according to two U.S. officials, a Coast Guard official and a former Coast Guard official.
Early in her tenure, Noem made decisions that rankled Coast Guard officials, including shifting resources away from a search-and-rescue mission to find a missing service member and putting them toward deporting migrants, the sources told NBC News.
Saturday, February 21, 2026
A friend sent around a video of "HK NewYear 2026" which was clearly an AI simulation--animation--
not a video recording of a real event.
How I caught on: The audience in the foreground was too uniform--not real. For instance, one was "people" all pointing in one direction.
Another had a paper cutout sihouette of "people."
SILHOUETTE Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
silhouette suggests a shape especially of a head or figure with all detail blacked out in shadow leaving only the outline clearly defined.
Also it went on too long and was too complex to be real.
It's no different from the still AI images anyone can generate say on Substack--to illustrate an article.
Trump uses AI on portraits of himself and to lampoon his enemies (Obamas)
They are Fiction--not reality. These just move.
Don'tbe fooled.
Grandma's Depression era recipes and tips--
https://www.allrecipes.com/grandma-kitchen-tricks-11905943?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
You can tenderize meat with fresh papaya skins.
From the Guardian--Don't go to the USA--copied and pasted--
So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? A possible answer began to emerge over the weeks she was incarcerated. As Karen got to know the guards at the Northwest ICE Processing Center where she was held, she kept hearing the same thing from them: that ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. “Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,” Karen says.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
It’s no secret that the Trump administration has been pouring money into ICE. Its annual budget – $6bn a decade ago – is now $85bn; ICE is now the highest -funded law enforcement agency in the US. Since last August, new recruits can expect to receive a signing-on bonus of up to $50,000. Karen’s experience has left her convinced that ICE agents are being given even more incentives – to arrest and detain anyone they possibly can, even blameless tourists who have all the paperwork they need to be in the US.
From Axios--Supreme Court decision on Trump Tariffs--what it means--copied and pasted.
State of play: The overturned IEEPA tariffs mean that billions of dollars are now in limbo across America, according to economic research firm Trade Partnership Worldwide, based on trade from February to December 2025.
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/20/trump-tariffs-states-refunds?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
That impact was largest for some of the biggest states, with California leading the way with $26 billion paid in IEEPA tariffs. It was followed by Texas ($11.4 billion), Georgia ($7.1 billion), Illinois ($6.7 billion) and New York ($6.7 billion).
How it works: The group uses data from the Census Bureau and the U.S. International Trade Commission to determine the tariffs that should be paid and then estimates excess tariff payments by using state-level census import data to assign them by product, country and month paid.
It says their estimated totals are likely conservative because it assumed any product subject to both IEEPA and another tariff authority, like section 202, fell under the latter. It also doesn't account for any IEEPA tariffs paid so far in 2026.
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