Friday, March 31, 2017
Thursday, March 30, 2017
all time peak blog hits per day--yesterday--1215 hits.
I have done nothing different, so I don't know what it is.
Most visitors from France and USA.
Most visitors from France and USA.
USA--T wars heating up
Flynn askd 4 immunity in x change 4 testfyng http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/michael-flynn-testimony_us_58dd889fe4b0e6ac7093b323?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004 … via @HuffPostPol
majr breakthro he does not plan on being fall guy
Van Gogh's Birthday
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Happy Birthday Vincent van Gogh--you did a lot in your short life.
3-30-2017
How to Protect Your Online Privacy Now That Congress Sold You Out
https://goo.gl/BDXlKU
#INDIGENOUS #TAIRP
Anything new?
anything new--spicer and T. always lie
spicer lies to cover up T's lies.
that's his job.
as for bellyache
no comment.
3-30-2017
photo from Politico--
spicer lies to cover up T's lies.
that's his job.
as for bellyache
no comment.
3-30-2017
Blog hits peaking here --right now--
- Kyi Kaung @KyiKaungMy blog was set up that way over 10 yrs ago So you cannot say I copied fr orange Wh I was on FB too many comments & in end cloned gave up
Peak blog hits on my blog https://kyimaykaung.blogspot.com
1000+ today
do visit
open free
but u might not be able to comment & I can't respond.
can't fix what is broken due to fundamental wrongs
Mr Fixit Ms Fixit nothing will work for d t
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/326436-meet-president-trumps-ms-fix-it …
you can't apply businss principles to govt
It IS NOT a "business"
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Steven Colbert takes dig at--
Steven Colbert @StephenAtHome takes dig @ son in law & father in law tweeter nepotsm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wgscG7F6rI
you were busy not much to do
3-28-2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wgscG7F6rI
you were busy not much to do
3-28-2017
I wear leggings a lot
as in 2003 I saw a woman, older than I, then about 75? wearing them very effectively, while leading a busy life doing activism, writing.
Since then only 1 son has objected once.
Everyone wears leggings.
They are warm.
Even my self portrait in my memoir shows me wearing leggings.
3-28-2017
Since then only 1 son has objected once.
Everyone wears leggings.
They are warm.
Even my self portrait in my memoir shows me wearing leggings.
3-28-2017
Ogden Nash--women in pants
http://www.aenet.org/poems/ognash7.htm
United Airlines just banned 2 girls because they were wearing leggings.
d t: "dress like a woman"
all very sexist, NO??
3-28-2017
United Airlines just banned 2 girls because they were wearing leggings.
d t: "dress like a woman"
all very sexist, NO??
3-28-2017
Trump scandals --
highly recomd
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show
Jared Kushner's enormous portfolio--Middle East, Russia, China, "reimagining Veteran Affairs" --
Democrats Schiff & Pelosi ask Nunes to recuse himself from Russian_ Trump Campaign ties Investigation.
Seems Nunes jumped into 2 cars on 2 days (one a Uber) and went to White House without notifying anyone else.
His (and T and T team's) credibility very stretched.
Stay tuned.
3-28-2017
Photo from Internet, (NYTs) --receding
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show
Jared Kushner's enormous portfolio--Middle East, Russia, China, "reimagining Veteran Affairs" --
Democrats Schiff & Pelosi ask Nunes to recuse himself from Russian_ Trump Campaign ties Investigation.
Seems Nunes jumped into 2 cars on 2 days (one a Uber) and went to White House without notifying anyone else.
His (and T and T team's) credibility very stretched.
Stay tuned.
3-28-2017
Photo from Internet, (NYTs) --receding
Monday, March 27, 2017
Lessons from Burma & Thailand: If you make fish paste, hard to conceal the stink.
Kyi Kaung @KyiKaung
10 seconds ago
Anyone notice how the smell of fish or the stink of fish, seems to linger in the air?
It's like town where fish paste is made.
Head Of House Intel Committee Went To White House Grounds To Meet Source https://n.pr/2mIPNMI
fishier and fishier
Sunday, March 26, 2017
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and 00s of other arrested in Moscow
as unauthorized demonstrations against govt corruption break out. Hundreds demand Medvedev resign.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/russian-police-arrest-protesters-at-nationwide-anti-corruption-rallies/2017/03/26/11208e46-10a1-11e7-aa57-2ca1b05c41b8_story.html
So grateful to Rachel Maddow show for keeping us updated on Russian angle.
3-26-2017
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/russian-police-arrest-protesters-at-nationwide-anti-corruption-rallies/2017/03/26/11208e46-10a1-11e7-aa57-2ca1b05c41b8_story.html
So grateful to Rachel Maddow show for keeping us updated on Russian angle.
3-26-2017
Saturday, March 25, 2017
Friday, March 24, 2017
Thursday, March 23, 2017
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
Monday, March 20, 2017
Congressional Hearing on "wire tap claims" + Russian interference 2016 US election
complete Hearing 5.25.28 length
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHZ_j_Tim08
you can move your cursor when watching, and stop and watch in segments.
Good luck in your belief in American democracy.
3-20-2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHZ_j_Tim08
you can move your cursor when watching, and stop and watch in segments.
Good luck in your belief in American democracy.
3-20-2017
Very funny--Anderson Cooper on Stephen Colbert Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3UVisXGeT0
Looking like Putin.
Colbert: Where were you?
Cooper: I was in Mee ahn mar, at an elephant sanctuary.
In these surreal times, let's laugh.
kmk
3-20-2017
Looking like Putin.
Colbert: Where were you?
Cooper: I was in Mee ahn mar, at an elephant sanctuary.
In these surreal times, let's laugh.
kmk
3-20-2017
Saturday, March 18, 2017
Thursday, March 16, 2017
Obituary Dr Hla Myint--Burmese-born economist d. March 9, 2017
Obituary of Economist Dr. Hla Myint.
By Kyi May Kaung
I never had the good fortune to attend Dr. Hla Myint's classes as I was born "one year too late."
I always knew Saya Hla Myint was one of the generation of pre-World War II scholars such as Dr. Tha Hla (geologist) and Dr. Hla Pe (Burmese linguist) who were stuck in the UK due to the outbreak of the War.
And I always knew that with Sir Arthur Lewis, he was known as one of the co-founders of the discipline known as Development Economics.
In the 1950s, when he was Rector of Rangoon Univ. my friend who was in his class won a Colombo Plan Fellowship to study in Canada.
By Kyi May Kaung
I never had the good fortune to attend Dr. Hla Myint's classes as I was born "one year too late."
I always knew Saya Hla Myint was one of the generation of pre-World War II scholars such as Dr. Tha Hla (geologist) and Dr. Hla Pe (Burmese linguist) who were stuck in the UK due to the outbreak of the War.
And I always knew that with Sir Arthur Lewis, he was known as one of the co-founders of the discipline known as Development Economics.
In the 1950s, when he was Rector of Rangoon Univ. my friend who was in his class won a Colombo Plan Fellowship to study in Canada.
Yiyi Chit Maung was one of the blessed women who combined intelligence and beauty with a lovely nature, family background and wealth. At the time she was in the Commerce Department of the Economics Institute. I am a little hazy on the official nomenclature. Her family founded and owned several nylon lace factories and the family house was the only 4 story building on Sandwith Rd, and in Rangoon or Burma.
She had a thick braid of jet black hair, reaching almost to her knees which she wore either hanging down her back or rolled up in a bun.
Yiyi who spelled her name Yi Yi then, wanted me to come along with her on the short walk from Economics to Saya Hla Myint's house on Bagan Rd. It was mid day and lunch time, but we were so well brought up, we usually did not walk alone on campus. In my first 2 years in college, I had a hell of a time having to escort my attractive future sister in law, that I did not know would be my sister in law, around campus, with sometimes the young men attempting to hand her love notes on little bits of paper, which I would hand her and she would get scared with a big intake of breath and ask me to hand back.
Yiyi was more able to handle stuff like that on her own, I think.
She wanted to ask Saya what she should study in Canada.
We went along, me adjusting my aqua linen longyi that was too heavy for a wrap longyi.
When we got there, Saya Findlay was also visiting.
So it must have been before Ne Win's 1962 coup. I do remember that the linen piece was one my mother had brought back from England, where she also ran into the Chit Maung sisters who were visiting London at the time. So it had to have been before 1962, or no one would have gotten passports to travel overseas, and Yiyi's family and other entrepreneurs would already have had their factories and businesses confiscated and be in somewhat straitened circumstances.
Y. asked her question, and Saya smiled and said something like: It doesn't really matter anyway, what you study. You'll be lost to economics anyway.
Dr. Findlay laughed and Y blushed and we walked back to our mother department.
Poor naive beautiful Y did not understand and even when I explained, she still did not understand.
A week or so later she said: You're right, that is what he meant.
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I always knew Dr. Hla Myint favored an open, export-oriented economy for Burma.
But it was really hard for me to understand why Ne Win hated anglicized, Westernized, Western-educated intellectuals so.
He particularly hated mixed race people and high achieving academics, or Shan royalty, or people who "wore long strands of pearls" and liked hitting people either with his fists or with golf clubs, and I have still tons of quotes of his vulgar language, especially with regard to the pearls.
In any case, in 1998 or so, when expatriate Burma scholars compiled their ideas for Burmese development, we somehow did not include U Hla Myint.
But I heard several anecdotes about him and Ne Win, because when I first arrived in Philadelphia, one of my close friends was dating one of his nephews and so related several anecdotes to me and others.
This concerned the cruelty and power-boasting typical of NW and other dictators.
According to KN, Saya went back to see his aging mother, and the NW regime did not even allow him to enter the Rangoon airport lounge. He had to talk to his mother looking up at her on the airport balcony, while he stood on the tarmac.
But I have never heard that Saya ever mentioned this himself.
I was "somewhat instrumental" in advising the powerful non-profit to invite Nobel Laureate Joseph Stitglitz, Dr. Ronald Findlay and Saya Hla Myint to visit Burma.
That is, about 2004, while I was at The Burma Fund, I suggested Prof. Stiglitz be drawn into advising Burma, and my immediate job supervisor Ko ZO relayed it to the "mover and shakers" and this very powerful non-profit arranged for a 3 day seminar in D.C. in the Reagan Building.
-- In 2010, this was after I had compiled the 20 page A Plan for Democracy and Development for Burma for the Burmese democratic government in exile, I was in Thailand with Ko ZO's CDCE (Community Development and Civic Empowerment), I suggested through Ko Khine Win (nephew of Dr Sein Win, head of the Exile Govt and Daw Suu's nephew)
that it might be a good idea to invite Dr. Hla Myint to Chiangmai to talk at CDCE.
I said, "Due to his advanced age, you might have to treat him better," (than putting me in a dorm), "but it is worth it so that young people can see and be inspired."
Then in 2010, in fact right on the day when Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was most recently released from house arrest,
my sister and I went to see Saya Hla Myint and his sister Aunty Myint at their home.
It was a VERY long taxi ride, and during the ride Pu Soo said her cousin Delphine had said, "She said she hopes Ko Thaw (my brother) did not get into trouble because you (I) spoke to BBC (Hardtalk)."
I said: I did not talk to BBC to get my brother into trouble, It's not something where I can say No. The interview request came to me via the Exile Government.
But I don't think people tuned to tunnel vision in Burma really hear me when I say things like this.
Just last Sept. my Karen friend said, as soon as she got to--she saw me on BBC Hardtalk, and her hosts wanted her to say something, but she said, she's not like her friend (me) she's going back to Burma.
To this I said nothing.
I had no gift for Saya H. Myint, not traveling with the Plan in my carry on baggage, so I gave him a book of my poems.
I tried to verbally run through some of the suggestions made in the Plan.
Saya said, "There are already SEZs (Special Economic Zones) in Burma."
We stepped out on the big balcony, but it was quite hot. The Chao Phra River glistened in the distance.
I don't remember what we talked about on the balcony.
When we came back in, Aunty Myint said, "We went searching for a tropical place to retire, so far, we got as far as New Zealand and Bali. We used to have orchids on the balcony, but they all died."
I used to think it was so strange Valdimir Nabokov and Vera lived in an hotel in Geneva, when they could afford a big house with a rose garden in upstate New York.
To Aunty M's remark, I said nothing, as I already scouted out Chiangmai and found it too like Rangoon in the way all the Burmese feud with each other.
When I am in Thailand, the world seems to shrink.
Maybe it will shrink down south where I am retiring too.
When I was saying good bye to Saya Hla Myint, I said at the door, "Don't worry Saya, they (the big non-profits) will come for you. They have come for everyone else already."
It turns out I was right.
At the end of the movie and story Woman in Gold, which is about a Gustav Klimpt painting that the Nazis stole from the Jewish family that owned it,
the German official says to Mrs. Altman (played by Helen Mirren)
"Won't you reconsider leaving the painting where it is in Germany" in a big museum. This after she'd gone as far as the U.S. Supreme Court to get the painting back.
To this Maria Altman responded sharply, "Oh No. She is going to live overseas now, as many of us (Jews) have been obliged to do."
My family friend Joe K.H. always used to say, "Living well is the best revenge."
His wife baked not one loaf of bread, but 20 to give as Christmas gifts.
He also loved to tell his favorite story, Ma Thay Thay Kyay Zuu Tin.
Ma Thay Thay, Ms. Small like her name, jilted the young man, who went on to become the literary luminary Sardone Sayadaw.
Many of us have been obliged to live overseas.
I am glad both Dr. Hla Myint and Aunty Myint, who passed away a few years ago, got to live their last years in comfort overseas, and in Freedom.
And that Saya had the last trip, for Closure, as they say.
I am told his gave his speech from a wheelchair, it was standing room only, and there was a standing ovation.
There really was, I saw the photos.
Dr. Findlay said that China is an economic miracle by following the H. Myint Model.
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I think when people give well considered, well meant and well intentioned advice which is good advice, when that advice is not taken, it does not hurt the advisor/s so much as the would be advisee/s.
Kyi May Kaung (Ph.D.)
Political economist, writer, dissenting artist.
3-16-2017
Kyi May Kaung
Words Sounds and Images
Words Sounds and Images
New Yorker panel--who will T Presidency end
David Remnick talks to Rushdie, Tony Kushner
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l8JEWfeocg
New Yorker panel
3-16-2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l8JEWfeocg
New Yorker panel
3-16-2017
Team T must hate Rachel M
fr Feb 16 R. @MaddowBlog Steve Bannon wife abuse 911 records
Andy Puzder withdrew as labor sec.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tja-pKEF_YI
posted here 3-16
Andy Puzder withdrew as labor sec.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tja-pKEF_YI
posted here 3-16
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
from Boston Globe-- T tax return 2005 leaked
Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images
President Donald Trump
However, because of the huge deductions he took, the Alternative Minimum Tax kicked in. The AMT, which Ronald Reagan signed
into law in 1986, is designed to make sure that high earners with a ton
of deductions still pay a minimum amount of tax. The AMT added $31.3
million to Trump's tax bill, for a total tax paid of $36.6 million. That
raised his tax rate to 24 percent. Now we know why Trump wants to
eliminate the AMT in his tax overhaul.The tax return that reporter Johnston found in his mailbox is stamped "Client Copy," leading
Also, there was a major hack on Twitter, with a swastika-themed tweet showing up on the accounts of many high-profile brands, businesses, and public figures.
cartoons from Internet images, not Boston Globe.
3-15-2017
Monday, March 13, 2017
Tune them out! T tweets
R Maddow stopped covering Twitter feed her ratings soared http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rachel-maddow-stopped-covering-trumps-tweets-and-her-ratings-soared_us_58c6c5b3e4b0ed71826e4248?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004 via
@HuffPostEnt
tune them out T tweets rubbish anyway http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rachel-maddow-stopped-covering-trumps-tweets-and-her-ratings-soared_us_58c6c5b3e4b0ed71826e4248?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004 via @HuffPostEnt
@HuffPostEnt
tune them out T tweets rubbish anyway http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/rachel-maddow-stopped-covering-trumps-tweets-and-her-ratings-soared_us_58c6c5b3e4b0ed71826e4248?ncid=engmodushpmg00000004 via @HuffPostEnt
Sunday, March 12, 2017
Single outfit that costs almost 10 grand
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/melania-trump-suit-clothes-michael-kors-sequins-response-a7605831.html
we don't care what she wears, but the trips and security are our tax money.
we don't care what she wears, but the trips and security are our tax money.
Saturday, March 11, 2017
Rachel Maddow helps us connect the dots--intv of recently resigned Russia expert Daniel Fried, on why Russia is doing this
Rachel Maddow hammering in nails has noose
Russn connectn contd more incriminating evidce
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o92GQzU7TcQ
Good job Rachel thanx
3-11-2017
Russn connectn contd more incriminating evidce
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o92GQzU7TcQ
Good job Rachel thanx
3-11-2017
Friday, March 10, 2017
Jeff Sessions asks 46 Obama admin officials to resign immediately
Justice Dept tells all remaining Obama admin U.S. attorneys to resign http://wapo.st/2n88HfB?tid=ss_tw-bottom
make no mistake, he plans to be Am. dictator
make no mistake, he plans to be Am. dictator
Thursday, March 09, 2017
Wednesday, March 08, 2017
small minded strong men so-called--
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
Inside the mind (well Twitter acct) of a dangerous ignoramus
what Trump sees when he opens his Twittr
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/06/politics/trump-twitter-list-trnd/
hmm no wonder he suffers fr groupthink, the ignoramus-- arrogance "I'm like v v smart"
no wonder he says what he does, and uses Twitter as an inciting and deflecting tool.
FYI, Burmese dictator Ne Win had no Twitter, but he would regularly make pronouncements on things he knew nothing about, such as the Burmese-English dictionary
"the one by Dr Hla Pe" is quite good--systematic--peepee pyin pyinn"-- a favorite NW word.
He then attacked the one by famous poet U Wun a k a Minthuwun, who would go on to be one of the strongest supporters of Aung San Suu Kyi, as is his son U Htin Kyaw (Peter Wun) now President in ASSK's nominal govt.
BTW, I strongly object to NYTs and others calling the SK govt "the defacto government"
Her govt is not "defacto" or a government in fact--
it is nominal, while the Burmese military has all the power.
kmk
3-8-2017
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/06/politics/trump-twitter-list-trnd/
hmm no wonder he suffers fr groupthink, the ignoramus-- arrogance "I'm like v v smart"
no wonder he says what he does, and uses Twitter as an inciting and deflecting tool.
FYI, Burmese dictator Ne Win had no Twitter, but he would regularly make pronouncements on things he knew nothing about, such as the Burmese-English dictionary
"the one by Dr Hla Pe" is quite good--systematic--peepee pyin pyinn"-- a favorite NW word.
He then attacked the one by famous poet U Wun a k a Minthuwun, who would go on to be one of the strongest supporters of Aung San Suu Kyi, as is his son U Htin Kyaw (Peter Wun) now President in ASSK's nominal govt.
BTW, I strongly object to NYTs and others calling the SK govt "the defacto government"
Her govt is not "defacto" or a government in fact--
it is nominal, while the Burmese military has all the power.
kmk
3-8-2017
Rachel Maddow "He's alive" Christopher Steele, former MI6 author of 35 page secret dossier on T's ties to Russia, collusion in T campaign.
issue of collusion is v v v important
3-8-2017
Rachel Maddow Perfectly Explains Why The People Will Have To Bring Down Trump Themselves
With all of the Congressional investigations being controlled
by Republicans affiliated with the Trump campaign, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow showed
why it would be up to the people and the press to find the answers on the
Russia scandal that could bring down Trump.
. . .
Maddow said,Does this mean that we are finally going
So far, it is us as American citizens. It is us in the press who are connecting the dots on this story, who are figuring this out. Do we have any reason to believe that any
The
If you want to understand why Democrats are demanding a special prosecutor, look no further than who is overseeing the investigations.
There is a giant scandal hanging over this White House. It is the kind of scandal that ruins a president and his party.
Republicans have a
They might be able to bury this scandal in Congress, but they can’t stop the free press and the American people from uncovering and spreading the truth.
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