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Friday, October 19, 2012
Burma - Blowing in the Wind - Where have all the young men gone? The timber, the electricity, the copper etc.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2012/10/electricity-myanmar
"Gone to graveyards every one."
The electricity and teak have all gone to Bangkok and points further E and W.
The nominally "reformist" Presdt Thein Sein's special economic advisor, who so famously sang Blowing in the Wind, with Aung San Suu Kyi's son Kim Aris, is no longer in the news, either replaced, displaced or not in favor.
We do not know.
"When will they ever learn, when will they ever learn."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tAFV1irG2E&feature=fvwrel
Bob Dylan — Blowin' In The Wind
How many roads most a man walk down
Before you call him a man ?
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she sleeps in the sand ?
Yes, how many times must the cannon balls fly
Before they're forever banned ?
The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind.
Yes, how many years can a mountain exist
Before it's washed to the sea ?
Yes, how many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free ?
Yes, how many times can a man turn his head
Pretending he just doesn't see ?
The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind.
Yes, how many times must a man look up
Before he can see the sky ?
Yes, how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry ?
Yes, how many deaths will it take till he knows
That too many people have died ?
The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind.
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