Saturday, March 16, 2024

Specialpost--Ellen Bernstein--expose of World Bank Rohingya project--

https://www.irrawaddy.com/culture/books/hellfire-and-damnation-in-myanmar-ex-world-bank-country-head-recounts-rohingya-catastrophe-response.html
D
isclaimer: I have had extended family members who worked at the UN, including favorite Uncle Shane and "Uncle Joe"--my father's lifelong "student"--
BUT--
I have a low opinion of UN in general--I wish I had hand-copied a poem about Living High on the Hog, from the office door of Jere Berhman, a professor of Economic Development at Penn.
I wish I had kept the book outlining how the UN went bankrupt, its florists' bill for instance.
Jo
e himself told me "To get a job there, you need a relative already there."
His Geography professor at Univ of Chicago Norton Ginsburg found him the job with ADB in Manila.
All this was before Ted Turner bailed out the UN. By the 1980s the carpets were already threadbare.
I suggested through a former colleague who flipped in 2011, that Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz go to Burma. Stiglitz and my late mentor Dr. Ronald Findlay did.
I have never met Ellen Goldstein, but her 2 year job at WB sounds not unlike my 3 years of suffering job abuse at hands of a junta-inclined Burmese dept head at Radio Free Asia.
I stuck it out for the sake of 8 months unemployment insurance before the think tank arm of The Burmese Exile Govt--the Burma Fund hired me a a senior analyst.
This was the NCGUB, not the current NUG.
NCGUB was headed by Dr Sein Win, a math. Ph.D. with a German degree.
His father was U Ba Win, Aung San's elder brother.
The 2 brothers were assassinated the same morning 19th July 1947 with other members of Aung San's cabinet and a bodyguard. Aung San - Wikipedia
I have met David Scott Mathieson at a migration conference in Chiangmai--he's a good person.
To all Burmese I would say--don't put your trust in anyone, including the UN and Myanmar generals and cronies and your own blood relatives.
Everyone is in it to make money.
"Helping people" is just their cover story.
The worst is that they develop a "know it all mentality."
They don't.
Kyi May Kaung Ph.D.
3-16-2024

Verbal traits that foreshadow cognitive decline

https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-identify-speech-trait-that-foreshadows-cognitive-decline

Islands in the Stream--Kenny Rogers.Dolly Parton

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpWldTFq2Jk

Elephant's Eye--closeup--from Internet

Abelard and his pupil Heloise, Abelard and Heloise Memorial, Piere Lachaise Cemetery Paris, Woman reading love letters of Abelard ad Heloise.

Sao Shwe Thaike and his Yawngwe Mahadevi, at wedding of then Princess Elizabeth--from Patricia Elliot, The White Umbrella.-

Burmese junta is almost certainly "asking for Chinese armed intervention"

https://www.irrawaddy.com/business/myanmar-junta-blocks-flow-of-exports-to-checkpoint-on-china-border.html
as no trade is moving through Chin Shwe Haw since 1027(2023).
If the junta halts trade--as it is doing now, China will not stand for it.
It can just flex its little finger and sack Burmese SAC.
Incidentally, it's also anniversary of Chinese takeover of Tibet.
The other shoe is soon to drop as Chinese--mediated "peace talks" in Burma have failed already--in the trade sense, and it's all about cross-border trade.
Also there are allegations that KNU is involved in"untouched" Shwe KoKo scam hub near Mae Sod-Myawaddy on Burma-Thai Border--see
Irrawaddy article.
It is to be feared the "new sheriffs" will continue to run these scams,including sex scams which started appearing in 2020.
War-lordism or lady-ism (though Olive Yang--opium queen or opium queer was no lady)
predicted by my late systems political scientist professor Dr Henry Teune is already happening.
I don't see any hope for Burma.
They (the junta) will rule the graveyards.
Kyi May Kaung (Ph.D.)
3-16-2024

Friday, March 15, 2024

Johnny Cash--The Long Black Veil--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnXUPlsn31o

Shootout at the O.K.Corral--from wiki.

The gunfight Wikisource has original text related to this article:
A Fierce Fight
Wikisource has original text related to this article: A Desperate Street Fight (Daily Nugget)
Annotated 1886 fire map of Tombstone indicating the actual shootout location (in green) and the O.K. Corral (in yellow) on the other side of the block
Third St. in Tombstone, Arizona in 1909 from the roof of the Cochise County Courthouse. The O.K. Corral was located on Allen St., the first right turn off Third St. The white building at the center right is Schiefflin Hall on Fremont St.
Martha J. King was in Bauer's butcher shop located on Fremont Street.[89] She testified that when the Earp party passed by her location, one of the Earps on the outside of the group looked across and said to Doc Holliday nearest the store, "... let them have it!" to which Holliday replied, "All right."[86]: 66–68 [104]

Today I go and deposit my Poetry Award checque--and run off more copies of my chapbooks-gave my friend who had a hip transplant a version of my crochet shawl.

I wore one for the poetry reading.
No photos available right now.
Regie Cabico was the judge.
My advice is if you write or paint, put your work out there--but get in a safe space first.
The villains will hit the dust--mark my words.

Abelard (who was castrated) writing to Heloise--

Went to Bethesda Urban Awards Ceremony--2 poets from Burma, including me-

Lots of award-wnning poets, all ages, sizes, skin color and ethnicity--
very fun and good food,
Thank you.

Barrons--art market dip last year due to lack of supply, not demand--

From Counterpunch

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/15/the-best-revenge-art-and-culture-in-a-time-without-hope/

Thursday, March 14, 2024

Google search results--"Kitty Ne Win"--the general's whore

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=kitty+ne+win+images

And now--the world class Villains--NW obit 2002 by Martin Smith--

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/dec/06/guardianobituaries

Sao Nang Hearn Kham (Nyaungshwe Mahadevi)-- a great lady--brave, beautiful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sao_Nang_Hearn_Kham

Sao Shwe Thaike wiki--

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sao_Shwe_Thaik

The White Umbrella--by Patricia Elliot--Biography of Sao Hearn Hkam--Nyaungshwe Mahadevi--I interviewed her for RFA

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-white-umbrella_patricia-elliott/561644/item/5701721/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=low_vol_f%2fm%2fs_standard_shopping_customer_aquisition&utm_adgroup=&utm_term=&utm_content=688842569236&gad_source=1#idiq=5701721&edition=5069914

Sao Shwe Thaike (Nyaungshwe Sawbwa) and Sir Hubert Rance--first Burmese Independence Day--

Special special post--Eugene Yawngwe's memoir--Shan of Burma

https://www.academia.edu/42252024/Chao_tzang_yawnghwe_the_shan_of_burma_memoirs_of_a_shan_exile
Recipients--you are receiving this bc I assume it will be of interest to you.
You don't need to read it now or even ever--
Your ignorance is not my problem.
U Eugene's family and mine go a long way back--to before I was born, when Yawngwe Sawbwa sheltered my parents and older brother and 40 other families near Yat Sauk Waterfall in the Shan States.
It was my honor to work closely with U Eugene and his brother Harn 1997--present and U Eugene's passing in 2004 in the Burmese Democracy Movement Overseas.
In school in Rangoon, Ying Ying Thaike (Princess Sao Ying Sita) was one of my best friends. With June Taw, we were considered look-alikes. Ying also wanted to be a writer.
I also met Tiger in Canada in the 1990s, when Yawngwe Mahadevi (Queen) came to listen to a talk I gave.
The sound of heads turning and people whispering was like falling leaves.
I managed to catch up with her and thank her in the ladies' rest room--
Fictionalized scenes from Yatsauk are in my unpublished novel Once.
I asked Aunty if she had any family photos--she said, "How can I have photos? I had to leave with the clothes on my back."
You know who has them?
Notorious crony and arms dealer Tayza--thief.
Saw them on his Facebook.
Download all of them from there.
kmk
3-14-2024

Bertil Lintner--on Shan Leaders--especially Chao Tzang Yawngwe--

https://www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/guest-column/why-shan-states-formidable-armies-have-shunned-the-fight-against-myanmars-junta.html

Reuters Exclusive--Trump launched covert CIA operation against China

https://www.aol.com/news/exclusive-trump-launched-cia-covert-100648791.html
"We wanted them chasing ghosts."

Irrawaddy Investigative Unit--Shwe Ko Ko (KNU may be involved)--+ junta blew up bridges.

Ko Thiha said.
“At first, I thought they were recruiting translators. It was only after I arrived here that I found I had to do a completely different job. I had to expose my body parts later during sex chats. [I realized] this is not OK anymore. But you know what [harsh punishment] would happen to me if I refuse. So, I will have to complete the three-year contract,” said the married man, who has a daughter.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/investigation/surrounded-by-fighting-a-myanmar-crime-hub-is-oddly-unscathed.html https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/fleeing-myanmar-junta-troops-blew-up-bridges-in-rakhine-officer-confesses.html
2
links--end post.
3-14-2024

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

Oscars--beautiful in Memoriam segment--"Time to say good bye"--Andrea and Matteo Bocelli

https://www.deseret.com/entertainment/2024/03/11/andrea-bocelli-oscars-2024-performance-listen-stream/

Arakan Army has taken Ramree Island--near Kyaukphyu SEZ (Special Economic Zone)

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/aa-seizes-rakhine-town-near-key-chinese-port-project.html
Country in deep shit.
3-12-2024

25 years to write--American Prometheus--book on which movie is based--

https://www.amazon.com/American-Prometheus-Triumph-Tragedy-Oppenheimer/dp/0375726268/ref=asc_df_0375726268/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312090128763&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=1798801617231272814&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9007768&hvtargid=pla-435399110777&psc=1&mcid=bec897eb153534f58fc50282bb8bd423

Oppenheimer the movie--too bad there are no more movie theaters--

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppenheimer_(film)

From 20 days in Mariupol wiki--

Matt Zoller Seitz of RogerEbert.com gave the film three-and-a-half out of four stars, stating that "It goes on a short list of great documentaries that the viewer will never want to watch again.... This is a dispatch from hell on earth. The fragmented, chaotic, imprecise nature of it is a revelation."[33]

20 days in Mariupol--trailer--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi5gJsFDhaw

A great work of art--Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart'sThe Magic Flute--

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magic_Flute

Rene Pape sings the prayer--Oh Isis und Osiris--

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=rene+pape+oh+isis+und+orsis#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:15b5a35c,vid:oeP0NOPAIys,st:0

In my upcoming novel--Rene Pape himself or Kurt Moll is going to sing this at the wedding of Hero and Heroine and then --

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=The+Magic+Flute+Oh+isisund+osriros#fpstate=ive&ip=1&vld=cid:15b5a35c,vid:oeP0NOPAIys,st:0

Mozart's The Magic Flute--Within these sacred halls--one of the greatest arias ever written

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibxxlUeWRCk

Artemesia--documentary 55 minutes--In general I despise these men and women who make a life "generalizing and commenting, not doing--

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=artemesia+movie+youtube#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:76fd55d2,vid:xHVeyUbG1b8,st:0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisia_Gentileschi

Artimesia Gentilischi--graphic--decapitation of Oloferne--Judith and the Head ofHolofernes

Boeing whistleblower--John Barnett--apparent suicide--

https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2024/03/12/boeing-whistleblower-dead-john-barnett/

Increased colorectol cancer among young-read up--know symptoms--get colonoscopies

https://www.aol.com/news/people-got-colon-cancer-20s-143000922.html

Friday, March 08, 2024

Pierre Boulle--original Planet of the Apes + Bridge on the River Kwai

https://www.amazon.com/Planet-Apes-Pierre-Boulle/dp/0345447980?asin=0345447980&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1

Pierre Boulle + Planet of Apes franchise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_of_the_Apes

Zelensky has appointed army commander he fired as UK ambassador--levels of UK aid--

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/valerii-zaluzhnyi-uk-ukraine-zelensky-b2509429.html

From 2016--World Class Italian conductors who have joined Western orchestras.

https://www.economist.com/prospero/2016/01/05/italys-next-top-conductor-is-coming-to-your-hometown

Ta-NehisiCoates -

https://www.marvel.com/movies/black-panther-wakanda-forever

Ta-Nehisi Coates --Black Panther--

https://www.amazon.com/BLACK-PANTHER-NATION-UNDER-FEET/dp/1302900536

Thanks for screenshot--Dr.Maung Zarni

Movie clip--You've got to be carefully taught--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPf6ITsjsgk

Youve got to be carefully taught--wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27ve_Got_to_Be_Carefully_Taught

Japanese male workers experience simulated pre-menstrual pains--

https://www.aol.com/couldnt-move-japanese-male-office-015042254.html

Racism like every other "ism"is taught and learned-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvpyKWvdmWI
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_body

Specialpost--Ellen Bernstein--expose of World Bank Rohingya project--

https://www.irrawaddy.com/culture/books/hellfire-and-damnation-in-myanmar-ex-world-bank-country-head-recounts-rohingya-catastrophe-response....