Burma, America, The World, Art, Literature, Political Economy through the eyes of a Permanent Exile. "We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the oppressed. Sometimes we must interfere. . . There is so much injustice and suffering crying out for our attention . . . writers and poets, prisoners in so many lands governed by the left and by the right." Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Speech, 1986, Oslo. This entire site copyright Kyi May Kaung unless indicated otherwise.
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
I'm glad I deleted my Facebook account. I did not like the time it wasted, the clone that appeared, and looking at Burmese bragging.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-01-31/facebook-really-wants-you-to-come-back
I went to Twitter as it takes less time, and djt and critics use twitter--because you can just post things and no one can engage you back and cause disruption in your daily schedule.
1-31-2018
SOTU is unrecognizable
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/the-state-of-the-union-is-unrecognizable/551927/
It's like he was talking boringly about some distant la la land.
I did not listen to it all.
But stuff on immigration was scary, as well as not true (non-factual)
But all the Repubs stood up and called, and he clapped himself and called for more clapping.
You wonder.
He must have got the clap.
What he said had nothing to do with what he has actually done and not done for the last year.
He's just giving himself another "excellent" unreal job recommendation, and people like DeVos and Mnuchin clap and clap.
Small footnote, Melania arrived separately.
Brian Williams said "It is germane to what's happening,"
ie rumors of M sleeping at T? Hotel 3 times a week since Stormy Daniels news broke.
what a shambles of a so-called presidency.
1-31-2018
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Democratic response Joe Kennedy III, to SOTU address
makes a lot more sense than the ---
spouting things he doesn't believe and repugnant views.
I think Joe Kennedy might be the next Presdt.
1-30-2018
I have been reading Sinclair Lewis' It Can't Happen Here, which is enjoying sales, just like
George Orwell's 1984 and Ann Rand's And Atlas Shrugged.
Scene at SOTU address may be just like Minute Men throwing weight around at Madison Square Garden in NY in It Can't Happen Here.
I am writing something called It can happen here,
or It did happen here.
KMKaung
1-30-2018
Cartoons from Internet.
MSNBC news coverage and analyses of McCabe firing, GOP pretend memo.
http://www.msnbc.com/hardball/watch/matthews-this-is-a-slow-motion-saturday-night-massacre-1148829763565
On other hand, Republicans would not allow Democrats counter memo.
"This will erode public trust in Dept of Justice and FBI," says former FBI agent.
"Maybe Andrew Mccabe just had enough."
I could see at the public hearing that Trmp friendly committee members tried to get McCabe to say publicly that Comey was disliked at the FBI, but McCabe just shrugged and refused to do so, instead said how well regarded Comey was.
In my opinion, the trmpies over step every time and have gone way beyond the line.
Let's see what drivel Liar in Chief spins out in State of the "Uniom" address live coverage at 8 PM.
Already, there is talk about having Dreamers (illegal immigrants grown children with jobs) who were allowed to stay by Obama, being arrested in DC as they come for the SOT"Uniom"
Stay tuned.
1-30-2018
One recent article by an expert says trmp lies 9.9 times a day, which in more than the 6+ times most college students lied in samples
and moreover the lies are malign, with intend to hurt.
Draft articles of impeachment and corrupt intent--fr MSNBC and NYTs.
http://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/the-impeachment-case-against-trump-1148985411759
They enumerated 9 points so far just from what is publicly available.
I think trmp will go down, kicking and screaming, but so far he has been "winning."
1-30-2018
Monday, January 29, 2018
Headlines 1-29-2018--meanwhile MD parks closed for deer culling--
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Sean Spicer talks to MSNBC--why now?
http://www.msnbc.com/craig-melvin/watch/sean-spicer-on-wynn-comey-and-white-house-staff-turnover-1148823107510
Dara Shikoh Album Page--on sale at Christies--
http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjectID=6065411&lid=1
It will run into millions, someone buy it.
1-29-2018
Clear now? My letter to Sen. Webb from 2009.
https://www.causes.com/causes/283896/updates/248032
Activists before going to Webb hearing, 2009, photos, KMK
They were starting their "two pronged approach to Burma policy."
Later, Christiane Amanpour asked "my question."
But Burma activism is almost dead now, with former groupies baking bread, doing pizza delivery and court and hospital interpreting.
But before you sneer and heap scorn on people, think, could you do it.??
I think that people can do grass roots level jobs means they are uncorrupted, and anyway, it is not their fault. There is no shame in honest labor.
All the funding fell away, everyone went to Burma, some jumping the fence and getting land in exchange. Up to 10 acres each and licenses to import cars, which are very rare in Burma.
I know the names. Majority were people I had worked with before 2011, some even closely.
As they say, "Time gives you the correct answer."
So I think it is laughable when a family friend asked me, "If you benefited from (the exile govt.), when they are down can you suffer with them?" I did not "benefit" from a survival level NGO job.
I stayed alive to write and paint another day.
Since I did not benefit, there is no question of "suffering with them." We did nothing wrong, unlike the junta which has done everything wrong, caused countless deaths and social disruption.
I wish fools who know nothing would just keep their mouths shut.
Such as the women who asked if I got an advance for self published books, or if the jobs at Thai univs. were tenured.
As far as I know, tenure track does not exist in S.E. Asia. Ask anyone who self-published how many copies they sold.
In Burma, people get sinecures if they are related to someone, and similarly get fired if they are related to persona non grata.
About 40 people are fired each time one person is purged politically.
I have been told, many times, by people who worked in UN agencies, that to get a UN job, you need to be related to someone inside the UN.
You need a Burmese passport.
Another person asked/told me to be careful, the CIA would recruit me.
Why? If anyone looks on CIA job site, they will see they only need Arab speakers.
I've never seen an open source job for Burmese speakers.
So please shut up.
It's getting late and we are getting old and tired.
When you get old, you lose patience.
km
Kyi May Kaung
Words Sounds and Images
Trmp's Hollywood star
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/07/donald-trump-hollywood-star-walk-of-fame-clean-dirty
I was there Sept 2016, did not care for it, thought he paid for it, no one paid any attention to it or any other stars then.
1-29-2018
Sunday, January 28, 2018
Be not afraid--Stitchless TV--
https://www.youtube.com/user/StitchlessTV
I've already refashioned countless sarongs into jackets,and opera coats, re-decorated some that were too plain,cut down dresses to short tops with peplum shapes and used the skirt parts to generate bias binding,
AND sold items as wearable art at craft fairs.
Be not afraid.
Sometimes the fabric, such as silk or ethnic weaves are Excellent.
I regret piles of clothes I donated before I got the idea.
kmk
1-28-2018
Nana Mouskouri sings in Mandarin--
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASO51pNQp60
Each language has its own cadences.
Elton John-- Abide with me--
https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-mozilla-001&hsimp=yhs-001&hspart=mozilla&p=elton+john+abide+with+me+uyoutube#id=1&vid=aa59503d5bc7a44c3ce71b2ca3eb1b5d&action=click
And that's it for our Sunday special music post.
Note: Leonard Cohen was ordained as a Zen Priest.
1-28-2018
This is the best--SNL--Hallelujah
https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-mozilla-001&hsimp=yhs-001&hspart=mozilla&p=SNL+Halleluja+youtube#id=51&vid=235d2ac56866fbb2116ccb16aad28bef&action=click
Even though things went wrong
I stand before the God of song.
Leonard Cohen
This is probably the best--"Kair--lee-anne Cawnway"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sb9ybImGwkU
Unfortunately, Bellyache did not shut up.
One more coming from McKinnon File.
Enjoy.
1-28-2018
Headlines 1-28-2018--sorry, no time.
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Saturday, January 27, 2018
2000+ blog hits yesterday, but maybe mostly bots--
from countries like Brazil and Philippines, previously zero.
Friday, January 26, 2018
Thursday, January 25, 2018
Fashion--ze coat dress--
http://www.eonline.com/news/892626/kate-middleton-or-melania-trump-who-does-the-coat-dress-better#photo-290717
I am unclear what they wear underneath.
1-25-2018
The Golden Child 1986, plot synopsis.
https://thescriptlab.com/screenplay/five-plot-point-breakdowns/3509-the-golden-child-1986/
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Fire & Fury fallout--Mueller set to question Bannon on firings of Flynn and Comey.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/24/politics/robert-mueller-steve-bannon-questioning/index.html
We don't know if Bannon in fact told writer Michael Wolff stuff, intentionally to provide a trail of breadcrumbs.
Bannon's not a fool, in spite of his extreme R mentality/ideology, and neither is anyone else.
1-24-2018
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Adam Entous & Evan Osnos for the New Yorker: Kushner is China's Trump Card.
A must read.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/29/jared-kushner-is-chinas-trump-card
Anybody can see the couple is sucking up to the Chinese--even their child was trotted out to deliver greetings in Mandarin to Presdt Xi.
Maybe they learned all this from Burma.
Hollow laugh.
1-23-2018
Monday, January 22, 2018
Not at the end game yet, an article and transcript of VOA interview I did a few years ago.
Democratization in Burma: Dr Sein Win, PM in Exile speaks out
By Kyi May Kaung
Dr.Sein Win
Lately, there are endless reports of people going to Burma, so much so that as the saying goes – chaung pauk tawme, or a river will soon run through the worn footpath. It was therefore refreshing to note that the usually soft-spoken Dr Sein Win, elected Prime Minister of the US-based National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma, gave an interview to VOA, in which he calmly pointed out that we are still not at the end game with regards to democracy in Burma.
Sein Win was elected to his constituent state in the 1990 election, which Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy won. Power was not transferred. In danger of arrest, he and other MPs fled to the Burma-Thai border, where they formed the Exile Government in the Karen stronghold of Manerplaw, which fell to SLORC’s forces (the former name of the State Peace and Development Council – the Burmese junta).
Sein Win has a doctorate in mathematics from a German university, but has spent the last two decades as a political activist and advocate for Burmese democracy. In 2009, in Malahyde, Ireland, he was re-elected by secret ballot to the Prime Minister post . Here
Three prominent dissidents including the famous comedian Zarganar who was recently released and was at a National Endowment for Democracy event in DC a few days ago, reiterated points made by Sein Win.
I transcribed and informally translated this.
MC Thar Nyunt Oo’s intro: Even though it is said there are reforms in Burma, because there is still no political solution, there is still a need for overseas-based activist groups, according to Dr Sein Win, PM of the Exile Government or NCGUB. When VOA’s Khin Soe Win interviewed him, Sein Win explained –
“Yes, on our part, we do welcome the changes that show a positive sign. This is a hopeful trend. However, in some areas (change) is not consistent. For example, ceasefires with respect to various ethnic groups. In Kachin State, (the Burman army) is still waging a serious offensive. Besides heated battles, civilians are suffering all kinds of troubles. We do need to look at this, talk about this. The release of political prisoners is not yet complete.
“They let go of the leaders, but there are still many (about 1000) still in prison. So it’s not consistent. Also, in the nature of reforms, it’s not enough just with this one issue. From the background, (just) laws (which come from grass roots debate of the people’s legitimate representatives) must appear.
The 2010 election was rigged and the “constitution” written entirely by the SPDC.
Interviewer: “As they did not recognize the 1990 election, if she (Aung San Suu Kyi) should win the by-election . . . will government recognize the results?”
“I think, they will help organize it so that it’s free and fair. I assume they will accept the emerging results. By-elections are in only over 40 places. The total number is over 450.
“Even though they may do things equitably for these 48 places, when the general
election takes place, they need to be fair.
Q. I have heard that if the NLD registers as a political party, the Exile Government will dissolve itself. What is your opinion?
“Now they will enter (the by-election) and run – in April, the MPs will get into the parliament. Aung San Suu Kyi will get there too. When that happens, whether it will be an Exile Government, or a Parallel Coalition Government, will be something to think about. . . There is the main base which elected the NCGUB. We have something called the Members of Parliamentary Union (outside Burma), and it will be decided there by majority vote.
Q. What is the NCGUB’s future role? Will you go back? Some have been invited.
“Some people say go back, for this to happen, that to happen. That’s not the main point.
“The main point is – how much progress there is inside the country. How much real freedom do the people have? Is there a real political solution? Right now there is not. What Suu Kyi calls a breakthrough is a political solution. The main point is to give full democratic rights. It depends on the constitution”
Note – in the 1990s, Suu Kyi called the constitution “just something written on a slip of paper.”
“In the present SPDC’s constitution, there are points which are not democratic, which are opposed to democracy. Daw Suu has said this clearly too. There are some corrective changes, but they are not solutions. For instance – ceasefire. Ceasefire alone is not the ultimate solution. We’ve had ceasefire with the Kachin for 17 years already, now they’re shooting again. Because problems have not been solved. What we want is a real solution. Go on the right path for politics, economics, social welfare.
“The economy too must be the right system. Now there’s crony capitalism. This is not right for our country. Only when we have the solution can we say there’s democracy”.
In Jeffersonian democracy, it is still a continuous process, not a static situation.
Q. Will you go back to help?
“It’s not necessary to go to Burma to work on Burma issues. It can be done from outside too. OK, right now we have a bit more freedoms, we have more this and that. Ceasefires. But these have not reached the end of the process. What stage has freedom of news reached? Yes, when they invite you, you can go”
(Khin Soe Win was first journalist to go)
“When they talk to you and issue statements, you can listen and report it. But can you really write what you want? There is still censorship. We know that.
“These things must be pointed out. Constructive criticism exists even in a democracy. From the outside we can point these things out. That’s our job.”
You can see it on Rohingya Blogger.
Sunday, January 21, 2018
Saturday, January 20, 2018
Ah lwan pyay, as we say in Burmese--to assuage our longing for the past.
http://people.com/politics/photos-michelle-obama-white-house-photographer-book/amp/
Instead just daily pics and "news" of the idiot afraid of sharks, covfefe.
1-20-2018
Friday, January 19, 2018
English translation of Yodaya Naing Mawgun--about Burmese sack of Ayuthia in 1767 by general who took part--
http://www.siamese-heritage.org/jsspdf/2011/JSS_099_0d_SoeThuzarMyint_YodayarNaingMawgun.pdf
My brother was instrumental in the rediscovery of this ms.
1-19-2018
Thursday, January 18, 2018
Steve Bannon strikes a deal with Mueller--
Bannon has struck a deal w Mueller to avoid Grand Jury, for now.
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/01/17/bannon-has-deal-with-special-counsel-mueller-avoids-grand-jury-cnn.html
Robert Mueller.
Wednesday, January 17, 2018
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Saturday, January 13, 2018
Very sad--victims of California mudslides--
http://beta.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-montecito-mudslide-victims-stories-20180112-htmlstory.html#nt=tertiarynavbar
Montecito and Santa Barbara are such "dreamland areas" and to have all this happen.
Victims of mudslides who escaped earlier fires.
As you see, affluence is no guard against natural disasters.
1-13-2018
A bumbling White House, fake tweets by "WH doctor" (who can't spell his own name) etc etc.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show
Woman who was paid $150,000 to keep quiet about her affair with trump--her name is Stormy Daniels.
Straight out of fiction.
1-13-2018
Friday, January 12, 2018
Japan to provide $3m for Rohingya return to Burma, but they will monitor and pay in stages--
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/japan-to-provide-3-million-to-myanmar-for-rohingya-return/2018/01/12/fd78ff4e-f764-11e7-9af7-a50bc3300042_story.html?utm_term=.6baf8502475f
Going back to another barracks-like situation??
Not good.
1-12-2018
Tuesday, January 09, 2018
The book everyone is talking about Fire and Fury--
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnYHP3YMTf4
Complete programs The Rachel Maddow Show + Lawrence O'Donnell, interviewing author Michael Wolff. 1-8-2018
Incredibly damning, Wolff says his book will bring down DJT, as will "the daughter."
We will see.
1-9-2018
Monday, January 08, 2018
Sunday, January 07, 2018
Dickens--images from wiki--in boot black factory, Marshalsea debtors' prison to which his father was sent--
Dickens and his characters, on first US tour 1843 and in old age--empty chair after death.
This print alone sold very well.
10 best Horatio Nelson books
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/sep/29/books.top.10s.nelson
Horatio Nelson and HMS Victory on which he was killed.
Fire in the Eves to Major Conflagration--my article in Truthout from 2014
http://www.truth-out.org/speakout/item/24889-fire-in-the-eves-to-major-conflagration-its-high-time-to-evaluate-burmas-so-called-democratic-reforms
Poetry reading in front of Burmese Embassy DC
Personal collection 2011.
with DC Poets Against the War.
Saturday, January 06, 2018
Kindle sample--Fire and Fury, Inside the Trump White House--by Michael Wolff
https://www.amazon.com/Fire-Fury-Inside-Trump-White-ebook/dp/B077F4WZZY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1515287189&sr=8-1&keywords=fire+and+fury
Selling like hot cakes, quite competitively priced.
This one is written like a novel too, in the new journalism style, but I don't share some of Wolff's opinions, such as Conway has a "telegenic face"
and I am not sure if the people featured really thought that way, unless they specifically told him so.
One reviewer on Amazon says it feels like eating one gallon of ice cream in one go, with predictable side effects.
So far I have resisted the urge to buy it.
I don't want Wolff's views/take to influence my own.
Besides, I already know the Wolff book is taking a tremendous toll on the DJT Admin, so it mist have done its work well.
Bravo.
kmk
1-6-2018
The Rachel Maddow Show "The Blob"--"unending list of firings and resignations in DJT admin--
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/list-of-high-level-trump-administration-departures-grows-1130732611664
Including WH lawyers' wife Mrs. McGahn who was secretary to Mnuchin, Treasury Secretary.
I think DJT Admin might be finished, high level meeting in cold planned this weekend at Camp David, but Attorney General Jeff Sessions not invited.
Sounds like DJT about to do something really stupid.
His tweets say he is "a very stable genius."
k
1-6-2018
All images from Internet
Wednesday, January 03, 2018
If you are a holocaust denier, a genocide denier or a Rohingya denier--
frankly, I will leave you to wallow in your sh*t.
I don't have time for you.
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Upgraded is a good movie on Amazon Prime with high end art, art auctions in NY and London
and characters who are colored. Very nice. Of course you have to buy Prime membership and again I have no business connection whatsoever ...
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