Thursday, April 03, 2025
Meanwhile--look at the cherries peaking--it's 79F--there's Presdt Obama--walking around--something the
most powerful man and the richest man cannot do--
Photo from Washington Post.
US officials object to European push to buy weapons locally--
Well--what did T.Admin expect??
e.g. if aid to Ukraine cut off,why would they buy American?
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-officials-object-european-push-buy-weapons-locally-2025-04-02/
Military industrial complex will suffer and will blame T.
Why is that so difficult to understand?
Zelensky said this after his Oval Office humiliation--
"Europe needs its own army."
So does Japan--so would it seems each US State.
At least maybe Red states and Blue States will divide.
Meanwhile as cynical "reciprocal symbol of friendship" Trump slaps 24% tariff on Japan.
https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2025/04/d5f352983d39-update2-trump-unveils-mix-of-universal-reciprocal-tariffs.html
Amazing that any Economic 101 student knows,Mr. does not know.
Wednesday, April 02, 2025
Cheese-head--definition--
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1.
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a resident of Wisconsin, especially a fan of the Green Bay Packers football team.
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2.
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a blockhead; an idiot.
"quiet, you cheesehead, you'll wake up the neighborhood"
Myanmar junta admits firing on Chinese rescue convoy, continues bombings, has Thingyan Festival and prioritises
temple cleanup over relief--and more shit--see Irrawaddy.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-junta-admits-firing-on-chinese-quake-relief-convoy.html?__cf_chl_tk=UVCTExYP2BHP7uQkt.cCjYDHfESwnrIydzDinRGfI_w-1743607382-1.0.1.1-WMGAswK_EoYdBbOd_pjUSFLo2oVEd585jy5L8AsEeNk
m a h is a known extremely superstitious "businessman."
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photo--Burmese pancake.
Tuesday, April 01, 2025
Don Lemon was fired by CNN in 2023--looks like he's doing very well.
After several on-air controversies and reports of alleged decades-long instances of misogyny, he was fired by CNN in April 2023.
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Short selling is a strategy where investors profit from a decline in the price of a security (like a stock) by borrowing shares, selling them, and then buying them back at a lower price to return to the lender.
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Borrowing and Selling:
Investors who believe a stock's price will fall borrow shares from a broker, sell them in the market, and then hope the price drops.
Buying Back and Profiting:
If the price drops as expected, the investor can buy back the shares at a lower price, return them to the broker, and keep the difference as profit.
Potential for Unlimited Losses:
Unlike traditional investing where potential losses are limited to the investment amount, short selling has the potential for unlimited losses because the price of a stock can theoretically rise indefinitely.
Example:
Imagine you borrow 100 shares of a stock at $50 per share, sell them for $5,000, and then the price drops to $40 per share. You can buy back the shares for $4,000, return them, and pocket the $1,000 difference.
Risk:
If the stock price rises instead of falling, the investor will have to buy back the shares at a higher price, resulting in a loss.
Margin Account:
Short selling requires a margin account, which allows investors to borrow money or securities from their broker to finance their trades.
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Warning --highly disturbing--smells too--Mandalay rescue efforts hampered at every turn.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/rescue-efforts-at-myanmar-earthquakes-epicenter-hampered-at-every-turn.html
There's going to be contaminated water and cholero etc too.
It's the original title of my unpublished novel
I Weep for You my Native Land.
I wrote it in mid-1990s in Philadelphia.
I was inspired by Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cry,_the_Beloved_Country
Paton was the warden of a prison when he wrote it.
It starts with a lovely description of the landscape--and his (narrator's sister) leaving for the city
where she "does not have s husband, but rather she has many husbands."
Something is happening to me again, with this double or triple or quadruple shocks and I am going back into dissertation writing mode.
I'll be doing what my friend Nita told me about 4 years ago:
"If the dishe pile up in the sink, that's what they are supposed to do. Don't even read. WRITE."
It's maybe time to check the news late at night when I have done my cooking after 8 PM and had my dinner and done my writing quota for the day.
People think writing is so glamourus and it come so easy.
Not that easy--painful.
I cry a lot.
I just cried for Virginia Giuffre.
First Reader down under cries when she reads the death scenes.
One ninny said, "But Aunty, your writing is full of dead bodies.
I was just re-reading a book by Stan Sesser, Lands of Charm and Cruelty: Travels in Southeast Asia.
So am I supposed to write cute things?
I think not.
Copyright Kyi May Kaung
Including images and titles of unpublished manuscripts.
4-1-2025
Kaung--Sagaing before 2021. Needlepoint.
Kaung needlpoint abstract--Sagaing village after bombing--I enhanced the colors--really was very grey--based in photo in Irrawaddy magazine. Thanks to editors, Ko Aung Zaw and Ko Yeni.
Monday, March 31, 2025
Virginia Giuffre--major Epstein, Prince Andrew accuser--given 4 more days to live.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/31/virginia-giuffre-jeffrey-epstein-prince-andrew
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Giuffre
PLEASE--pay her the tribute of writing her full name--
She was abused by rich and powerful men, when she was still a teenager.
She managed to make a new life for herself.
She took them to court.
The rich pimp woman, Epstein's accomplice, went to prison.
Epstein committed suicide in prison.
Andrew has been disowned by Brit Royals.
WTF--the woman is dying! WRITE HER FULL NAME. VIRGINIA GIUFFRE.
Myanmar earthquake wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Myanmar_earthquake
_video ofcouple and male chaperone --rooftop pool--Bangkok
-RFA Burmese site still open--as of 3-28-2025.
Sunday, March 30, 2025
Movie--The Reluctant Debutante--Rex Harrison, Kay Kendall, Sandra Dee--
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXUstcWLY9Q
1958 Burma (now"Myanmar") we were dealing with Ne Win's first coup.
Two beautiful movies--Barefoot and Dare to be Wild--free on Youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eZ7R6Sn3wE&list=PLoRABtYY-maK6GZytfhYy7ZAjMiMbk_tq&index=38
Lots of movies and books/novels too, are categorized as "rom com"--
But in my humble opinion,"romantic" is hard to define, and some are not funny either, in fact,the best are about death and dying--one unforgettable one on Amazon Prime--or maybe 2
or 3
involve--terminal cancer and the young doctor who falls in love with this woman, and "loves her through her death process."
A young man, rich, with a castle, who becomes quadroplegic, and his parents hire a goofy young woman to persuade him to live--but --
Barefoot is about a
dissolute young man--who is from a rich but uptight family. He is in debt, frequents bars with pole dancers and is often arrested. On probation, he's assigned to mop floors at a mental health facility--maybe like Ken Kesey's One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest--but I only read the book, 2 times.
Some things are too horrible to see as movies. e.g.Silence of the Lambs.
Back to Barefoot--a bipolar woman, barefoot, runs after the handsome floor mopper--and he takes her to his brother's wedding.
Don't do spoilers here.
Dare to be Wild is about a wildflower garden designer,Mary Reynolds, the Chelsea Flower Show--her gold medal and Ethiopia--greening the desert.
Oddly enough, I'd never heard of her before,though I know Andy Godsworthy's stone work and ephemeral art.
I recommend both and Ken Kesey's novel highly.
Since I'm not well enough to go see the cherries in bloom, the Ubers would cost too much, and I'm too tired and forever running late--these 2 movies transported me cost free to beautiful things to restore my faith in humanity
and clear my head of earthquake, trump-quake and junta-quake.
Cheers
Don't abandon truth, hope and your own beliefs.
What else do we jolly well have to live for.
My best friend across the pond sent me good wishes, 4 shots of the partial eclipse and
I also sketched out the bride jumping out of a Bradford pear tree--That tree is blooming right now in front of the Italian restaurant slap next to my building--but I never eat/ate there except 2 times with a play going group--when they discussed Death and the King's Horseman, by Wole Soyinka.
Food and atnosphere there--minus 3--plus watery spaghetti sauce--can't eat too much carbs anyway.
Susan Tepper, thanks for poem about bride jumping out of wedding cake, which inspired my painting--I think I'll do the wedding cake (building) too--on 12 x 24"canvas.
Sorry,images later.
Have to eat dinner and do the dishes.
Always time to do the donuts.
Also, van Gogh's birthday--Aries too.
Kyi May Kaung
3-30-2025
Poetry reading long time ago--when Dennis Brutus died, Busboys and Poets.
Too sad to bring this to you--as foreign rescue teams arrive--junta continues to bomb Sagaing--UNBELIEVABLE.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/world/live-updates-death-toll-rises-foreign-rescue-teams-arrive-nug-announces-military-pause-and-more.html
Among at least 1644 dead so far--560 at least Muslims in Mandalay Mosques, several former army officers in NPT ministries, while at ministerial level meetings at noon.
A Karen/Kayin Christian said: The Gods are angry.
It's just the Sagaing Fault--the junta fault.
Many videos on Irrawaddy site.
Many injured will die who were either rescued or are still in rubble.
Saturday, March 29, 2025
Hegseth brought his wife--formerly Fox News--to sensitive meetings with foreign military leaders.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/hegseth-brought-his-wife-to-sensitive-meetings-with-foreign-military-officials-c16db0ea?mod=trending_now_news_1
Great--Hegseth brings wife
VP brings wife.
Musk brings X.
Jim Acosta talks to Substack founder Chris Bess on Substack--where else?
https://jimacosta.substack.com/p/jim-acosta-and-substacks-chris-best
Amazing--but Acosta is an experienced journalist with a big rollodex.
Very happy for him.
Current construction at Tidal Basin.
Friday, March 28, 2025
Thitinan Pongsudhirak on New New World Order--
https://www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/guest-column/the-tyranny-of-anarchy-and-how-asean-states-should-respond.html
He may be right, with this 50 year cycle theory--but I am 80 already, and can't wait for the next 50 years.
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