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Thursday, November 30, 2017
sex predator presidt of the usa -- d j t--these men should all be castr**ed
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/nov/30/donald-trump-sexual-misconduct-allegations-full-list
All the women who have accused trmp, inlcd first wife Ivana--
beyond words
cartoon fr Internet
Important open message for Daw Aung San Suu Kyi--
Open message to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi--You have become an all too convenient fall gal for the junta.
Please side step and get out of the line of fire before you are hurt further.
11-30-2017
Slightly off translation--Sitagusayadaw said at end of his racist sermon, which gave "religious permission" to carry on with Rohingya Muslim genocide
a lan ma lair say ne
"Don't let the flag fall to the ground."
This was a pep talk couched in Pali, delivered at a military base.
He talked of ancient Ceylon king Duttagamani, "making country that was split unified again."
He talking of killing Tamils, whom he referred to by their modern name--Burmese transliteration "Tamee"
FYI, he and the other notorious racist so-called monk Wirathu went to Sri Lanka with official team and met with Sri Lankan generals "in order to study how to carry out genocide,"
and in the videotape see below, he refers directly to "I did not say this, the Sri Lankan sayadaw said this."
I was suspicious of his body language when he came to DC, and also in a videotape of him and Wirathu going to "study" Burman-Muslim current conflict when it started, around 2012 or 13.
They did not console the victims or see the ravaged areas.
Instead they went in a white unmarked van from a distance, got out of the van and looked around.
They could not be operating like this without the support and sanction of the Burmese junta.
kmk
11-30-2017
trmp blasted wrong Theresa May on Twitter--
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/11/30/donald-trump-blasted-theresa-may-on-twitter-unfortunately-he-got-the-wrong-woman/?utm_term=.e8090bd02059
How great his intelligence is!!
Wow, "elected head" of one of most powerful countries in world and he can't even check which is correct PM May.
And he has 17 !! intelligence agencies at his disposal.
11-30-2017
Notorious serman by Sitagu Sayadaw (Theetagu sayadaw) saying king would not go to hell because only 1 1/2 humans (Buddhists) among hordes of Tamils killed
Sitagu Sayadaw’s ‘Mahavamsa’ Sermon
Posted on November 3, 2017 by Paul Fuller
This is an English translation of a sermon given by the revered Burmese Buddhist leader Sitagu Sayadaw. It was given on 30th October 2017 to army officers at the Bayintnaung garrison and military training school in Kayin, Mynmar.
The following is part of the sermon with English translation and Burmese script. The original sermon was 3 hours long.
It has gained much attention as the Sayadaw quotes from the notorious Dutthagamani passage from the 5th Century CE Sri Lankan chronicle, the Mahavamsa, which was originally composed in Pali. The standard English translation of the Mahavamsa by Wilhelm Geiger is available here.
In the famous episode Dutthagamani, having waged a long and bloody war in which millions were killed is advised by a group of eight Arahants (Buddhist saints):
From this deed arises no hindrance in thy way to heaven. Only one and a half human beings have been slain here by thee, O lord of men. The one had come unto the (three) refuges, the other had taken on himself the five precepts. Unbelievers [they have ‘wrong-views’, micchādiṭṭhi ] and men of evil life were the rest, not more to be esteemed than beasts. But as for thee, thou wilt bring glory to the doctrine of the Buddha in manifold ways; therefore cast away care from thy heart, O ruler of men!’
The Pali reads: saggamaggantarāyo ca natthī te tena kammunā / diyaḍḍhamanujā ve’ttha ghātitā manujādhipa // saraṇesu ṭhito eko, pañcasīle pi cāparo / micchādiṭṭhī ca dussilā sesā pasusamā matā // jotayissasi ceva tvaṃ bahudhā buddhasāsanaṃ/manovilekhaṃ tasmā tvaṃ vinodaya narissara, Mhv xxv. 109-111.
00:00-00:25 During Burma’s fight for independence, under the leadership of General Aung San, almost every one of the prominent warriors in the Burmese Army took shelter at the Buddhist monasteries in the rural villages, all over the country. We have learnt and read about that in history books. Buddhist monks and [Burmese] soldiers are inseparable.
00:26- 00:45 King Duttagamani accepted a flying alms-bowl. Not only was there food for himself, but his horse and the soldiers were also fed, as it was full of food. After they had had the food, they washed it [the bowl] and the empty alms-bowl was sent flying back. This was called the “flying alms-bowl”.
00:46-01:20 King Duttagamani had won the battle triumphantly. Millions of Tamils (Damilas) had died in the battle. After the battle, King Damainla, King Kyae were killed. King Duttagamani managed to unite the divided island of Lanka. Did you know that the island of Sri Lanka was separated into two sides? One side was Tamil (Damila) and the other was Buddhist. So who managed to combine the two separated parts into one country? King Duttagamani.
01:21-01:40 After the battle, the King was too exhausted to fall asleep. He couldn’t fall asleep and stayed awake in the middle of the night. What was happening to him was that he was being overtaken by remorse. What is that called? (to the audience)
“remorse” (The audience answers)
01:41-02:05 We are talking about the powers of the Dhamma. The victory of this battle is due to the power/quality of the Dhamma over King Duttagamani. The battle was won because of the effects of the power of the Dhamma. And as a result of the unity of the monks in fighting the battle together, the battle was over. That was how they had a landslide victory in beating the invaders.
02:06-02:21 It’s about unity, right? There must be unity between the King (leadership) and its people as well as the unity between the Army and Sangha (the Monks). The Four of them also have to be united. It’s like the four legs of a chair. They all have to support the country.
02:22-03:02 The King was unable to sleep until midnight because he was thinking about those millions of opposing Tamil soldiers, whom he had killed in the battle. He feared he would go to four hell realms due to the his unwholesome actions (B. arkhutho. P. akusala-kamma) he committed by killing millions of human beings. He was mentally exhausted because of fighting in the battle; the worries of having to rebuild the country again; the worries of resisting and defending the country against the Tamils; the worries about the unwholesome actions he committed. All these worries accumulated because of the millions of lives lost in battle.
03:00-03:30 The Arahants residing in the countryside become aware of the remorse of the King [through their ‘spiritual powers’, abhiññā].
-Who are they? (He asked the audience)
-The Arahants. (The audience answered)
You all need to understand that these arahants are always taking care of the King.
The King receives metta [loving-kindness] from the arahants, which is well received.
03:31- 03:50 As soon as they were aware of the King’s remorse, eight of these arahants arrived in the middle of the night. They asked the guard to open the palace gate. The guard informed the King and he let the Arahants go in to see the King.
They asked the King why he isn’t sleeping well.
The King said he was remorseful.
03:51-04:02 He said he had remorse about the unwholesome actions he had committed and that he will go to hell for those actions.
The eight Arahants said “Do not be worried at all, your Majesty. It was only a tiny bit of unwholesome action that you have committed”
04:03-04:42 “Why only a tiny bit”, the King asked.
The Arahants answered that “even though millions of beings had been destroyed, there was only one and a half human beings who is a genuine being. There was only one and a half beings who can be regarded as a human being. Out of these Tamil invaders, there was only one who had adopted the five precepts, and one who had adopted the five precepts and taken the three refuges in the Buddha, the Dhamma and the Sangha. Therefore, there was only one and a half human beings.
The arahants have the ‘spiritual power’ (abhiññā) to see this.
So, even the person who practices the five precepts is not a complete being. He is half a human being.
04:43-05:20 “The one who adopts the five precepts together with the three refuges in Buddha, Dhamma and Sanga, is a complete (full) human being. Among the millions of beings who he killed by shooting, hitting & chopping, there was only one whom can be called a human being and one whom can be called half a being. Thus, there’s only one and a half human beings in total. Please do not be worried, your Majesty”
We did not say it. Who said it? (He asked the audience)
He answered to his own question – The Arahants said it.
The King then had peace of mind.
05:21-06:49 [Then Sitagu Sayadaw recites a sermon/Sutta, with interpolations]: “Laypeople lead by their leader and members of Sangha lead by the Venerable monks shall be mutually dependent and support each other. After having totally freed from 62 years of being a slave’s life, our native land shall be built again. Our country, our land, our inheritance shall be established and prospered. Don’t let it falter.”
06:50-07:20 Land, water, sky [alluding to the three parts of the military: Army, Navy and Air Force]. There was that monk who saw the Tipiṭaka books being buried inside the meditation compound. So that counts as “Land”- your infantry Army, “water”- your navy, “sky” –that means your Air Force, right?
07:21-07:40 The monks see that. They have a big heart for the country. Land, water and sky. One should not lack anything, no omissions. Our Land should be protected. Our water should be protected thoroughly including the Straits. Don’t take anything for granted.
07:41-07:43 Do not worry. No matter how much you have to fight, how much you have to shoot them, just remember what was being said earlier. There are only one and a half beings that can be regarded as human beings. The persons who cannot be called human beings are not important.
07:44-08:30 All three of them – land, water, sky, should not lack in any protection and should be safeguarded by the Army. So, this is to the officers in the Army here – land, water, sky – should not lack anything. What does it mean? Safeguarded by the assembly of troops, during the military parades ceremony, on the Armed Forces Day, the chief of the military parade offered all the troops to the Chief of Defence. Doesn’t he use this particular term while doing so? It was the same term written 80 years ago by Gadaryone Sayadaw called “tut paung” (assembly of troops).
08:31-08:55 This term was already written 80 years ago by Gadaryone Sayadaw. Land, water and sky should be safeguarded by the assembly of troops. Like King Duttagamani and King Ajātasattu, they not only fight for the country, but they also fight for the Buddha sāsana. This should be the way.
08:56-09:54 If you want to hear, just listen to this. King Duttagamani made a solemn vow before he marched towards the battle [solemn vow recited in Pali.] This was King Duttagamani’s solemn vow, meaning “the reason I fight for this battle is not to sustain the luxury of being a King. The reason I am fighting Kyay Kalars (the Damilas, Tamils) is to preserve Buddha’s sāsana for as long as possible on this island of Sri Lanka. This was King Duttagamani’s solemn vow. He did not fight to preserve the luxury of being in the palace. Why did he fight? He fought to preserve Buddha’s sāsana for as long as possible.
09:55-10:35 The London Pali text society wrote this in English: [not clear where this is from, it is quoted by Sitagu Sayadaw in English], “My battles are not only to the secure kingship, but also for the future security long establishment of Buddhism.” [Then he explains this quote in Burmese]: In order to have a safe and secure Buddha sāsana and to preserve and sustain Buddhism in this country and in the future, I fought this battle” Who made this solemn vow? King Duttagamani and King Ajātasattu.
10:36-10:49 Similarly, our soldiers should take this example of King Duttagamani and King Ajātasattu in your heart. Thus, I would like to conclude this ceremony by encouraging you undertake this military responsibility of serving for the country and sāsana.
10:50-12:07 [Then Sitagu Sayadaw repeats the sermon/Sutta that he gave earlier]: “Laypeople lead by their leader and the members of Sangha lead by the Venerable monks shall be mutually dependent and support each other. After having totally freed from 62 years of being a slave’s life, our native land shall be built again. Our country, our land, our inheritance shall be established and prospered. Don’t let it falter.”
Sadhu, sadhu, sadhu.
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DO NOT worship such a racist bloke!!!
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Stary Stary Night, Don Mclean, Images by Vincent van Gogh--
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxHnRfhDmrk
I took the photos as they remind me of van Gogh paintings and have a lot of photos, titled "cherry van Gogh"
kmk
11-29-2017
The greatest anti-war anthem of all time--Peter, Paul and Mary, where have all the flowers gone--
I saw them perform in 1988, March, in Colonial Williamsburg, and they looked and sounded just like this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgXNVA9ngx8
The anniversary of my father's death is coming up. In memory of Sithu U Kaung, I am posting some of his and my favorite music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jciDXzYw0-g
Where have all the flowers gone?
Plasir d'amour--
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Fashion sense Queen Elizabeth II
http://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/g5584/queen-elizabeth-style/
Stick to same style in different colors.
11-28-2017
Sunday, November 26, 2017
Not yet released. Edward Rutherfurd, China.
https://www.amazon.com/China-Edward-Rutherfurd/dp/0385538936
I have read his Russka and liked it and now reading Sarum.
They are written James Michener style with fictitious individuals and families woven through pre-history and history.
For me, they are a painless way of learning history and much easier to remember.
km
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Saturday, November 25, 2017
Friday, November 24, 2017
Walpola Rahula--What the Buddha Taught
https://www.amazon.com/What-Buddha-Taught-Expanded-Dhammapada/dp/0802130313
Still the best book on Buddhism anyone can read.
11-24-2017
Thursday, November 23, 2017
Wednesday, November 22, 2017
Some justice on Thanksgiving--Butcher of Bosnia sentenced
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/butcher-bosnia-ratko-mladic-guilty-genocide-war-crimes-n823206
Think of the Rohingya muslims "silent" genocide in Burma, the junta generals, the lack of accountability, free press everywhere.
11-22-2017
Thanksgiving Eve.
Tuesday, November 21, 2017
Monday, November 20, 2017
Sunday, November 19, 2017
Saturday, November 18, 2017
low morale no surprise--
Kyi Kaung @KyiKaung
36s37 seconds ago
If there is a morale issue in State Dept, or in WH or US Govt, it is Trmp admin's duty to find out why fix it.
Bf we get into a nuclear war
Trmp admin mainly defensive now
BAD performance imagine saying "Am. first" overseas, in Asia, Soo diplomatic.
Low morale no surprise
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Kyi Kaung @KyiKaung
7m7 minutes ago
State Department spokeswoman acknowledges ‘morale issue’ in surprise admission : http://aol.it/2zOq4YX via @AOL
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2h2 hours ago
Donald Trump Jr.'s messages with WikiLeaks provide evidence of campaign-finance violations, Bob Bauer argues:
Friday, November 17, 2017
Thursday, November 16, 2017
Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Luke Harding in The Guardian--How trmp walked into P's web.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/15/how-trump-walked-into-putins-web-luke
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Louise Linton and Steve Mnuchin at the US Mint--what awful characters
Kyi Kaung @KyiKaung
47s47 seconds ago
oh great, the real LL has 22 followers and is following 2 ppl.
wow
https://twitter.com/MsLouiseLinton
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Quinn CummingsVerified account @quinncy
4h4 hours ago
So, Louise Linton story. Friend went to bridal shower of acquaintance. My friend isn't fancy, but acquaintance has aspirations above her station. Much older fiancé, much lucre, you get it. Anywho, at said fancy event, this woman comes swanning in, 1/
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Jeffrey Labowski @TheLastPenguin
7m7 minutes ago
Replying to @RVAwonk
Louise Linton and Steve Mnuchin are pigs. Let them eat cake.
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Donald Jr.'s Orange Jumpsuit
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❄ @ghostofgener
8m8 minutes ago
Replying to @aravosis
Louise Linton poses with the love of her life, and her husband was there, too.
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TJ @SithLordTJ
11m11 minutes ago
Does anyone else think that Louise Linton & Donald Trump had an affair?
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TJ @SithLordTJ
12m12 minutes ago
Louise Linton looks as if she is getting ready to select young women to work for her, only to slaughter & use their blood to bathe in to stay youthful, & make lamp shades out of their skin...Yikes!
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truthbyDW @truthbyDW
13m13 minutes ago
When Cartoon Villains turn into real people. Louise Linton & Steve Mnuchin
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Kyi Kaung @KyiKaung
5m5 minutes ago
Kyi Kaung Retweeted Paul Rudnick
tone deaf, they have been called and they outclass the trmps in boorishness
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Paul Rudnick
@PaulRudnickNY
Steve Mnuchin and Louise Linton showing off their ultrasound
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Liberal Venom
🌊 @LiberalVenom
32m32 minutes ago
I am pretty sure that you could search the world over, and not find a less likable woman, than "Louise Linton"
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Carrot @FreedomCarrot
3h3 hours ago
Who the hell makes duck lips in the U.S. Mint??
Geezus. None other than #HermesTerrorist Louise Linton. #ChampagneCabinet strikes again!
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CNN PoliticsVerified account @CNNPolitics
34m34 minutes ago
Steven Mnuchin's wife Louise Linton strikes a pose with a sheet of money, looking thrilled that her husband's signature made it onto the dollar bill http://cnn.it/2jsFHi3
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Caroline O. @RVAwonk
3h3 hours ago
Just a friendly reminder that the GOP wants to raise taxes on the middle class & take health insurance away from millions of Americans so people like Louise Linton and Steve Mnuchin can get a tax cut.
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Jesse BerneyVerified account @jesseberney
4h4 hours ago
God bless Louise Linton, who even after one of the worst PR disasters of the year is unable to stop dressing like a Disney villain.
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Red T Raccoon @RedTRaccoon
3h3 hours ago
Honestly, has Louise Linton not learned anything from her last photo op?
This isn't a good look.
Just live your life away from the camera please.
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan
3h3 hours ago
Photographer, to Louise Linton:
OK, give me your best "Let 'em eat cake" face.
Ahh, perfect.
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Kyi Kaung @KyiKaung
2h2 hours ago
Former KGB Putin friend hired for US Moscow embassy security http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/former-kgb-putin-friend-hired-for-us-moscow-embassy-security-1096641603905 … via @msnbc
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Kyi Kaung @KyiKaung
5h5 hours ago
House Dems introduce articles of impeachment against Trump
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Cheech MarinVerified account @CheechMarin
May 1
Proud to share that I'm talking with @RAMriverside @riversidecagov to open national #ChicanoArt center http://lat.ms/2oPe84j @CheechMarin
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Cheech MarinVerified account @CheechMarin
May 2
amazing day! Thank for @riversideartmuseum and The City of Riverside for giving me the opportunity of establishing The Chicano Art Center
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Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Jeff Sessions live hearing at Senate Judiciary Com. 3rd version :(
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/14/us/politics/jeff-sessions-congress-russia.html
Testimony is over 5 hours long, but worth watching, even to count the "I don't recalls" and "I can't answers."
Repubs try to shift narrative, Dems attack with deadly accuracy.
Watch it.
11-14-2017
You will still need a Twitter account to open my Twitter acct and read it, so get some young un in your family to show you how to open one, or figure it out yourself.
If I can do, so can you.
I am a senior and I have been blogging for over 10 years
was on Facebook for 3 (2013-2016)
and on Twitter wh I resuscitated in Nov 2016, for obvious reasons.
11-14-2017
My tweets 11-14-2017--follow me on Twitter, Kyi Kaung@KyiKaung
Kyi Kaung @KyiKaung
2m2 minutes ago
Trmp is just sinking fast and faster, so he's throwing twitter shit at anyone he can think of, that's always his strategy and tactics.
He does what's best for Trmp family, ALL the Time, that's all.
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Pat CunnaneVerified account @PatCunnane
7h7 hours ago
Imagine for a moment if @BarackObama asked @EricHolder to investigate @SenJohnMcCain to distract from the reeling economy of 2009. That's where we are. @realDonaldTrump shouldn't get a pass just because he's a moron who's done so much damage to American norms it's hard to keep up
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Black Aziz Anansi @Freeyourmindkid
21h21 hours ago
So did anyone else pickup that GQ tried to recreate this photo of Muhammad Ali with Colin Kaepernick ?
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Muta Asinus Vulpes @cyclodog
9h9 hours ago
Replying to @Khanoisseur
And important to note that candidate Trump was briefed by US Intelligence on August 17th that RU was meddling and likely using WikiLeaks as a cutout, thus he knowingly propped up and promoted a non-state foreign adversary in late 2016.
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Laurence TribeVerified account @tribelaw
7h7 hours ago
WikiLeaks asked Donald Trump Jr. to spread its work, contest the election results, and have Assange appointed ambassador to the U.S. @JuliaIoffe on their secret correspondence:
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Brian KlaasVerified account @brianklaas
5h5 hours ago
Brian Klaas Retweeted The New York Times
These attempts to bully the Justice Department into investigating political rivals is the kind of thing you expect in Turkey or Russia.
Brian Klaas added,
The New York Times
Verified account @nytimes
Jeff Sessions asked officials to look into whether a special prosecutor is needed to investigate the Clinton Foundation http://nyti.ms/2hpYVk5
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Jesse LehrichVerified account @JesseLehrich
6h6 hours ago
Jesse Lehrich Retweeted Donald J. Trump
Rasmussen is notoriously awful.
nobody thinks you "could be in the 50s."
every decent pollster has your approval between 34% & 40%.
Jesse Lehrich added,
Donald J. Trump
Verified account @realDonaldTrump
One of the most accurate polls last time around. But #FakeNews likes to say we’re in the 30’s. They are wrong. Some people think numbers could be in the 50's. Together, WE will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
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rosierifka @rosierifka
4h4 hours ago
Why Is Trump So Militantly Against An Investigation Into Putin's Meddling In Our Elections
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Seth AbramsonVerified account @SethAbramson
21h21 hours ago
(THREAD) News that Trump offered Papadopoulos a "blank check" to choose any administration job he wanted after the election, coupled with reports Papadopoulos lied to the FBI a few weeks later "out of loyalty to Trump," suggests the possibility of new Obstruction charges—read on.
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Anne Helen PetersenVerified account @annehelen
Nov 11
White evangelicals are now more accepting of politicians who have committed immoral acts than the average American:
https://www.npr.org/2016/10/23/498890836/poll-white-evangelicals-have-warmed-to-politicians-who-commit-immoral-acts …
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Joe ScarboroughVerified account @JoeNBC
4h4 hours ago
85% Of Trump nominees for the federal court have been male. His percentages for US Attorneys may be worse. Outrageous.
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Kyi Kaung @KyiKaung
8m8 minutes ago
Opinion | The clown goes abroad
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rosierifka @rosierifka
4h4 hours ago
Trump's Asia trip showed what happens when a very big nation is led by a very small man: http://wapo.st/2hnUdDE?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.437ac3f8b681 … by @Eugene_Robinson
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Joe ScarboroughVerified account @JoeNBC
5h5 hours ago
Joe Scarborough Retweeted Maggie Haberman
Barack Obama wisely refused to investigate Bush actions in Iraq. Sessions investigating Trump's political rival would set a dangerous precedent followed by tyrants and autocrats.
Joe Scarborough added,
Maggie Haberman
Verified account @maggieNYT
Trump wants a probe of Clintons. Trump has hinted at firing Sessions. Sessions wants to keep his job. Here we are. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/13/us/politics/justice-department-uranium-one-special-counsel.html?_r=0 …
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Alan HeVerified account @alanhe
12h12 hours ago
Mike Pence to Hugh Hewitt 7/29/16: "If it is found that Russia or China or any other foreign power compromised the private email, or capture classified information, and then released that information through the Wikileaks or otherwise, there’d be serious consequences for that."
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rosierifka @rosierifka
3h3 hours ago
A Washington county that went for Trump is shaken as immigrant neighbors start disappearing
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David LeopoldVerified account @DavidLeopold
3h3 hours ago
Timeline of Trump Jr.'s exchanges with WikiLeaks
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Natasha BertrandVerified account @NatashaBertrand
12h12 hours ago
It’s worth noting that it is very easy for the sender of a DM to delete it. Only way to be sure that Trump Jr (whose lawyer hasn’t responded to my q about this) published full exchange is for Wikileaks to release its copy. But Assange is now saying WL doesn’t keep those records.
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Justin HendrixVerified account @justinhendrix
3h3 hours ago
George Papadopoulos told Stephen Miller, a senior Trump campaign policy adviser, that he had received "interesting messages" from Moscow — one day after learning that Russia apparently had "dirt" on Hillary Clinton, the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee
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Kyi Kaung Retweeted rosierifka
what do you expect with orange beating drum loudly fr WH???
Kyi Kaung added,
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Hate crimes rise again https://www.axios.com/axios-am-2509201075.html?rebelltitem=6&utm_term=twsocialshare#rebelltitem6 … #axiosam
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Kyi Kaung Retweeted rosierifka
shit
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Mo Brooks is sticking by Moore. He says the GOP agenda is 'vastly more important than contested sexual allegations.' https://trib.al/EmyBMRZ
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Polls in Virginia UNDERESTIMATED disdain for President Trump, just FYI. You can’t just make up results you like.
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One of the most accurate polls last time around. But #FakeNews likes to say we’re in the 30’s. They are wrong. Some people think numbers could be in the 50's. Together, WE will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
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A key NATO ally sought assurances Trump could not launch a rash nuclear strike, CNN has learned. Lawmakers looking to limit his authority.
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New this morning in upshot-land, we explore a curious relationship: The more education that Democrats and Republicans have, the more their beliefs in climate change **diverge**. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/11/14/upshot/climate-change-by-education.html …
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Hello I'm from the smart encryption leak website. Would you like to DM with me about crime?
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A partisan paradox.
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POTUS to NYT in Nov. 2016: " Look, I want to move forward, I don’t want to move back. And I don’t want to hurt the Clintons. I really don’t. She went through a lot. And suffered greatly in many different ways. And I am not looking to hurt them at all."
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Trump keeps making this bizarre false claim about Obama. What actually happened was Obama, in advance, cancelled a planned Laos meeting with Duterte, who’d insulted him and his mother. He wasn’t stranded in the sky above Manila.
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Monday, November 13, 2017
Francis Wade's book on the Rohingya
https://www.amazon.com/Myanmars-Enemy-Within-Nationalism-Anti-Muslim/dp/1783605278/ref=pd_cp_14_1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=E445R6MWE8CHGNSQ93PD#reader_B0741BWS4B
It's state sponsored violence.
And it is a Genocide. Capital G.
No one in Burma can even organize a hiking group without state approval.
I "know" Francis Wade as I recommended he be invited to speak in 2002 when we (The Burma Fund) arranged a conference in Bangkok, on democracy. He was working at the Irrawaddy magazine then, and we had not yet heard of the Rohingya.
This is a thoughtful book which begins with an interview of a Burman /Arakan? extreme nationalist, and I am afraid they all are.
I have spoken to several, they seem at first reasonable enough, then you notice the warped views.
For instance, a geneticist said, it could all be settled in 5 minutes flat. (Because I guess she meant DNA testing on both sides of the border line would show "Muslim blood.")
She was married to an Arakan man.
The problem is the borderline is assumed to be legitimate, but it was just drawn on a map (piece of paper) by British colonialists in 1824 and then taken by independent Burma after 1948 and the junta after 1962.
So what if your folks lived on both sides of the border line and families grew in size over time.
Besides, the govt. wants your land, for the start of their Shwe (Gold) pipeline which cuts across straight to Yunnan. (Source, Dr. Nora Rowley, 2012). Nora worked for Medicins sans Frontieres in Arakan and also spent her own money to live and work in Fort Wayne, IN, among Burmese refugees.
Dr Yin Yin Nwe, geologist, former daughter in law of Gen Ne Win, has said the Rohingya " have too many children" and look how hard it is for her, having to keep one son in school, even on her UN salary.
She was junta appointed delegate on junta sponsored "Rohingya commission"--I don't think it was even called that.
Well, this book is worth a read.
kmk
11-13-2017
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floating cities financed by bitcoin--what would they sell, tourism and prostitution?
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/11/13/business/dealbook/seasteading-floating-cities.html
They forget that airlines and cruise lines are spaces where Human Rights are the most abused.
What about pollution and sewage?
11-13-2017
Sunday, November 12, 2017
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Thursday, November 09, 2017
Ref. mass headlines below
I don't have the time to post individual articles' links.
If I post them en bloc as below, the links are always broken.
Therefore if you are interested, move yr fingers a wee bit and Google each headline on your own,
or Google
"When will trump be indicted?" on yr own
and Google will do the rest.
A relative in Burma just said my Facebook had a lot of fans in Burma, why don't I put it up again, but I won't.
Also, this blog ALWAYS had more readership in its more than 10 year history than my FB and Twitter combined.
The ads too were just money down the drain, "a gift" to Zuckerberg under false pretenses, since they did not, do not guarantee results. Just "exposure",but people who have spent 10s of 1000s on ads, have sued FB--hit counts are different when checked independently.
Lucky I do not have money to spend.
I reactivated Twitter at beginning of yr as it is good for pol. news.
Besides, and that's why trmp likes it apparently, no one can argue back this and that, like the Cambodian Khmer Rouge Angka, "Don't argue back this and that" just obey orders and go to your deaths like dumb ducks--
and I did need a black board or white board after I took down FB.
Also, now it's revealed they took Russian money for ads that attacked Clinton and stole the election, probably.
Anyway, in my life I don't believe in circling back.
I am the sotappana (in Burmese thawtapan) who does not return to previous existences, what for.
As humans and as Buddhists we are looking for relief or release and as Salman Rushdie said, "Things once thought cannot be unthought."
Now Daylight Saving Time, summer time has ended.
I was resting since Sunday, so I did not "fall back" on my clocks until this morning when I noticed it was still very dark at 6.30 AM, so I changed it to 5.30
I can later check with the master clock at the US Observatory.
But I need not worry, after Christmas and the Winter Solstice, days will lengthen again in the Nn Hemisphere.
I have a friend who was born on the shortest day or longest night of the year, but since in adulthood she loved to Australia and now Tasmania, she celebrates her birthday on the longest day and shortest night of summer.
Now my current worry is I can't find a lace piece and some Thai handwoven pieces which I intended to sew up.
Maybe they were stolen.
I have a lot of lost items and people along the way, including people I was fond of who died, and one country that I did not like,
but in the end, nothing will matter. I will be gone from it all.
kmk
11-9-2017
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Wednesday, November 08, 2017
Burmese currency with my father U Kaung, "Maung Kaung"s signature on it, from good olde days of U Nu's government.
I do resent some fool's question from Facebook--
"But how did your father's signature come to be on it?"
It did not "come to be on it" and he did not lobby for it.
He had to sign as part of his duties for the Burma Currency Board when he was assigned there in London, c. 1947-1950,
and Burmese currency was printed in the UK by Delarue and Co.
From his official correspondence, which my mother gave to U Soe Saing, economist, the Burmese government and Delarue were very careful about the money supply.
For instance, one letter that I looked at, asked for replacements for a few notes which had been partially singed in a fire.
That's how careful they were.
When one of my major economics mentors, Dr. Aye Hlaing, left his post because he was appointed chairman of the national bank under (Gen.) Ne Win, in his farewell speech to us at the Institute of Economics, he said he could not sleep at night because he (could not decline the post) and he kept seeing the money supply amount in his sleep.
Kyi May Kaung (Ph.D.)
11-8-2017
Dangers of e-currency--like bitcoin.
Wed, Nov 8, 2017 7:47 am
http://www.businessinsider.com/ethereum-parity-wallet-hack-freeze-missing-code-2017-11
besides, it's not issued by a national government, with "the full faith and backing of" the U.S. Government.
Cheers
km
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