Thursday, February 20, 2025
Myanmar Thai Border scam centers--Yeni interviews Jason Tower.
But those BGF leaders need access to the Thai border, and it would basically cut off their ability to go across the border. And I imagine at some point Interpol could become involved. It could be a new source of potential tensions between the Myanmar military and the Thai government.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/in-person/interview/how-the-game-is-changing-for-scam-centers-on-the-myanmar-thai-border.html
I think he said systemically,not systematically.
Border Guard Forces are the problem and junta is probably getting a cut too.
It's like 2004 when Khin Nyunt and coterie were purged, involvement with the Northern opium warlords.
It's like the Burmese saying, The monkey you put on a pedestal is scaring you now.
kmk
2-20-2025
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Roman Polanski movie--very sad--The Ghost Writer--International intrigue, war crimes,
CIA, FBI, academics (faux) murders--why does it feel so familiar.
Actor, Pierce Brosnan.
She's written 3 novels besides holding down these high profile jobs and had a baby at 51.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolle_Wallace#:~:text=Wallace%20married%20American%20businessman%2C%20former,and%20Mark%20divorced%20in%202019.
I actually know a Burmese woman who had a baby via donor sperm, after her fiance married someone else on racial grounds.
I have known 3 couples who broke up, 2 of the 3 on racial or religious grounds.
But there was also an international couple, at first of different religions as well as nationalities, who married till death did them part.
I thought I married someone similar to me, but in the end we were quite different.
--Except for my own life,which I can chop up into fiction any way I wish,I abandoned the other cases in fiction as I don't really write non-fiction, and the role models became cases in failure.
But I also know a former Jesuit priest and a nursing sister who had to apply for dispensation from the Pope to marry and are still together--
This story I may write someday, transposing them to Burma, Sagaing region.
This couple acted as my surrogate family when I had no job,no money, no country and no passport and my scholarship was cut off in 1988.
So all of you out there who think yourselves qualified to criticize me, think again.
"You know nothing,John Snow," said the girl from the North of the Wall, whom the bastard Snow was in love with in Game of Thrones by GRR Martin--
https://www.amazon.com/Game-Thrones-Song-Fire-Book/dp/0553386794
I like about the first 3 books--after that the story gets too"spread out," too many characters--
I like the "ice"portions,the "water"portions less.
kmk
2-19-2025
Old Burmese saying--The monkey you yourself put on a pedestal
will come back surely to haunt you.
Ko hmyauk te myauk
koe pyan chauk.
Translation copyright
Kyi May Kaung.
Monkey Mandala--free image from Pixabay
2-19-2025
Hopefully trump musk will break up soon--
https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-says-unfair-us-if-musk-builds-factory-india-2025-02-19/
Musk's son X reportedly shouted "Close your mouth" at trump in the oval office, according to The Independent.
TNLA says Chinese brokered talks have failed, after only 2 days during which junta continued to bomb--
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/politics/tnla-peace-talks-with-myanmar-junta-have-failed.html
The Chinese point man himself shut down the talks.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy--brilliant politician, world leader, strategist, commander in chief.
WE WISH HIM LONG LIFE and an equally brilliant future and peace for his country on Ukraine terms.
There's going to be a world-wide economic depression,increased poverty, dangerous virsuses while research and vaccine development by NIH is cut off--Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid cuts.
Who will benefit--the very rich--
There will probably be widespread violence such as wars and revolutions.
My friend was always Wharton,Wharton,Wharton--
but she wasn't really interested in Commerce or Business-she was interested in Women's Studies and Islam.
I am and was interested in Political Science, economics and after my Ph.D. in Creative Writing--
I moved my subject matter in secret. I am happy were I am.
Oddly enough, all 3 of them attended Univ of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Ecos.
But I was in School of Arts and Science.
My friend who went to Wharton did not get her Ph.D.
Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Good Reads competitor--Story Graph--worth a try.
I've never used Good Reads.
I Google my books and movies.
Google is owned by Sundar Pichai
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/feb/16/goodreads-amazon-nadia-odunayo-the-storygraph
Monday, February 17, 2025
Depressing movie, based on real life, called All the Good Things--should be called All the Bad Things--
New York real estate family,murders.
Dissemble, dissent, divest, divert, take a deep dive--take your lessons from
the Resistance against Hitler and Mussolini, the present Burmese Resistance.
Don't swallow lies whole.
In the end, who won?
Myan junta criticizes Argentina arrest warrant--
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/world/myanmar-junta-criticizes-argentina-arrest-warrant.html
Htin Kyaw and Daw AungSan Suu Kyi also included in the warrant.
m a h co. will have nowhere to run to.
Movie--The Love Punch--on Prime
Only rom com that's really com--funny.
Emma Thompson, (old) Pierce Bosnan.
Sunday, February 16, 2025
From Bangkok Post--Thai health ministry taking up some of the slack due to Trump aid cuts, 9 refugee camps
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/asia/trump-cuts-hit-thai-refugee-camps-on-myanmar-border.html
For decades now, Thailand has benefitted from cheap Burmese migrant labor.
AI overview--Ne Win's coups--
AI Overview
Learn more
Ne Win effectively staged his first coup, considered a "caretaker government", on October 28, 1958 when he took over as interim Prime Minister of Burma (now Myanmar) at the request of the then-Prime Minister U Nu due to political instability in the country; he later handed power back to U Nu after elections in 1960, but then staged a full military coup in 1962.
Key points about Ne Win's 1958 "coup":
Circumstances:
U Nu asked Ne Win to take over as a temporary caretaker to stabilize the country when political factions were causing unrest.
Nature of the takeover:
While considered a coup, it was initially presented as a temporary measure to restore order and was not a full military takeover at the time.
Later actions:
Ne Win eventually used his position as caretaker Prime Minister to consolidate power and stage a full military coup in 1962.
U Nu | Prime Minister of Myanmar & Nationalist Leader
His party retained power after winning general elections in 1952 and 1956. ... In 1958 he resigned his post as prime minister and ...
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U Ne Win | Myanmar General & Dictator of 1962-1988
Jan 25, 2025 — In 1958 Ne Win was asked to serve as prime minister in a caretaker government after the administration of former prime...
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Impossible to understand--Amazon workers vote against unionizing--
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/15/nx-s1-5298055/amazon-union-vote-north-carolina-warehouse-workers
Saturday, February 15, 2025
trump admin backtracks on nuclear arsenal workers firing--now
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/15/trump-administration-nuclear-arsenal-worker-firings
can't find them to offer them back their jobs.
Left no forwarding addresses.
This Trump/Musk coalition is super bid f*cker upper.
2-15-2025
2018--Acosta vs Trump little girl kaunma lay--tries to take mic from Acosta
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&sca_esv=37989991c7ab7d35&cs=0&sxsrf=AHTn8zrhkaIhTI3S5f4Yl4yQYRx2kdcw9w:1739636963328&q=Jim+Acosta+Press+conference&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiyrt_ZjMaLAxXJTDABHb1UAMsQpboHKAF6BAgBEAM&biw=831&bih=407&dpr=2.31#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:67d52e1f,vid:zdFe-LmFRV8,st:0
Just like David Steinberg did from me in Gottenberg, when Ko Aung Zaw, Irrawaddy came in.
Jim Acosta is the son of immigrants from Cuba--to rise to CNN Chief WH correspondent is a big thing, in a white centric society.
Message from Jim Acosta--Hold on to the truth--don't give in to lies.
https://jimacosta.substack.com/p/hold-on-to-the-truth
I think I saw tears in his eyes.
I wish him well--another book, Jim.
(Maybe short of cannon fodder) Myanmar stops worker/migrants departure for Thailand.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-junta-suspends-migrant-worker-departures-to-thailand.html
Or maybe it's just retaliating for Thai crackdown on scam centers.
2-15-2025
Depressingly cheery young--I don't know that such a person exists in the Myanmar universe.
https://www.amazon.com/I-Did-Something-Bad-Novel-ebook/dp/B0CQHLFX74?ref_=ast_author_mpb&asin=B0CQHLFX74&revisionId=c9f34e25&format=1&depth=1
But my editor friend (female)loved it.
It's like Crazy Rich Asians.
Essays by Pyae Moe Thet War--
https://www.amazon.com/Youve-Changed-Accents-Feminism-Comedies-ebook/dp/B09BTYKNKF?ref_=ast_author_dp&asin=B09BTYKNKF&revisionId=d3c8695e&format=1&depth=1
Not so interesting to me, as I am Burmese-born--used to white people totally misunderstanding me, and Burmese people finding me strange.
Now I just write and read. I don't interact closely with anyone,including family and extended family.
It's all the same--I am just tired.
Friday, February 14, 2025
Important post--261 rescued victims of scam centers show signs of torture by junta-aligned DKBA
WARNING--GRAPHIC
The "B" used to stand for "Buddhist" but the name was changed to "Benevolent."
DO NOT GO ANYWHERE NEAR THERE IN REALITY OR ONLINE.
Be aware--these are only FOREIGNERS who were rescued.
Burmese/Myanmar and ethnic victims WERE NOT RESCUED.
THAI Gov. and China should raid these and take action at once.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/freed-scam-center-victims-tell-of-torture-by-karen-militia.html
Sure, they'll move to another place--but neighboring countries should all take action.
Since others beginning with "U" are not.
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