Kenny Rogers--The Gambler--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hx4gdlfamo

Joni Mitchell--withJohnny Cash--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDsclKHb7Lo

Johnny Cash--The Long Black Veil

ttps://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023i/10/27/ethnic-rebel-alliance-attacks-military-positions-across-northern-myanmar

Warning graphic--Burma--State of Terror--AlJazeera Myanmar--

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023i/10/27/ethnic-rebel-alliance-attacks-military-positions-across-northern-myanmar

It

's all really happening and has happened--

whether you want to believe it or not.

Also 2nd day of ethnic alliance offensive--Shan State.

km

10-310-2023

I'm so annoyed at Miss Stupid Burmese Woman who said--"Aunty, your books are full of dead people."

FYI--Burmese women young--in DC area too busy marrying or dating white men.

As we say--The last chapter is not yet written.

la ci darem la mano from Mozart's Don Giovanni (Don Juan) written in 1787--Don Giovanni seduces Zerlina on her wedding day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLTXekG-meA

My official website--

http://www.kmkaung.com/art.html

Jeeze--stolen dinosaur bones-crushed and used for Chinese "medicine"

https://www.aol.com/more-1-million-stolen-dinosaur-015419932.html

When the market model combined with ignorance fails.

trump is another e.g.

kmk

1

0-23-2023

Ukraine's first use of US-made M39 missile probably took out 21 Russian helicopters--

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2023/10/22/ukraines-american-made-m39-missiles-may-have-wrecked-21-russian-helicopters-in-a-single-operation/

An M39 usually should strike within 50 yards or so of its aim-point. This isn’t super-accurate by modern standards, but it’s accurate enough considering that the M39 is an area weapon.

As the missile plummets toward its target, it spins and pops open, scattering 950 steel-and-tungsten bomblets across an area of potentially tens of thousands of square feet. Each M74 submunition has the explosive power of a hand grenade.

10-23-2023

Cat Stevens--morning has Broken--

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

Celine Dion--Andrea Bocelli--The Prayer

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

News wrap fr Irrawaddy Magazine--

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/junta-crony/myanmtar-junta-reportedly-set-to-prosecute-high-profile-businessmen-for-corruption.html

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/war-against-the-junta/myanmar-junta-seizes-sagaing-resistance-camp.html

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-prison-chief-and-4-staff-fired-over-hunger-strike-by-political-detainees.html

Putin guest of honor atChinese Belt and Road Summit--m a h not invited.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-67143322

International Law and Hamas-Isreali war.

https://www.aol.com/news/international-law-applies-war-why-164508662.html

All the bad news from Burma+ I told you so.

Burma--more bad news all the time--+hmm--I told you so--

Mon, Oct 16 at 7:26 PM

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/ethnic-issues/myanmar-junta-intensifies-bombing-in-two-kachin-state-townships.html rel="nofollow">https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/devastating-floods-hit-war-torn-kayah-state-displacing-thousands.html

this below can be considered good news-- https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/war-against-the-junta/myanmar-regime-loses-16-soldiers-in-kokang-ambush-mndaa.html

I don't think both sides are locked in a deadly stalemate--I think at last in Burmese recent history the good guys will win

I think the time for talk is long over--

China surveying to build Ann (in Arakan) to Kunming Railway--exactly along the Shwe Pipeline--Kudos to Rohingya activist Dr Nora Rowley who told me this--why China/Myanjunt wants Arakan--in 2012--at Columbia U confce.

Nora is a medical doctor who actually worked in Arakan/Rakhine--with Medicins Sans Frontieres--and then "could not be just a doctor anymore" and became an activist. I know at least 2 women like that--the other was a journalist for whom Bill Moyers created a special job-- https://www.irrawaddy.com/specials/myanmar-china-watch/china-begins-surveys-for-railway-on-myanmars-indian-ocean.html

One day more--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNNBrg4u9d0

Ring of Fire--Johnny Cash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-zNQA5Xi4Q

CNN--photos--Ring of Fire Solar Eclipse--

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/14/world/gallery/annular-solar-eclipse-images-scn/index.html

Amazing studio recording--very British accent--color-blind casting is the best--

On the Street where you live-

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=On+the+street+where+you+live#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:e962439b,vid:6kX3PZ_ynss,st:0

No--it's not Valentine's day--which I never celebrate--it's closer to Halloween--All Souls Day--Ezio Pinza--Some enchanted evening--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktvnNt abouthwBaeY

But I get tired of reading and writing about war.

Then I switch to my novel in progress.

He's a famous singer-she's a writer who designs and makes opera costumes.

That's all I can say now.

Kyi May Kaung

Nat King Cole--When I fall in love--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfAb0gNPy6s

Ethel Merman--Annie Get your Gun--I got lost in his arms--

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=ethelmerman+I+git+lost+yiotybe#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:8a2e2ccb,vid:J0NR5C7flSw,st:0

Amnesty International--Burmese junta uses its biggest bomb on village near China border.

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/junta-used-its-largest-bomb-to-attack-idp-camp-in-myanmar-ai.html

News wrap from Irrawaddy and AFP--

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/china-issues-arrest-warrants-for-two-officials-in-myanmars-wa-region.html

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/arakan-army-vows-justice-for-victims-of-myanmar-junta-massacre-in-kachin.html

Arakan Army in solidarity with Kachin after massacre

Around 30,000 Thais work in Israel, mostly in the agriculture sector, according to Bangkok’s Labor Ministry.

Two returning workers were in wheelchairs, their faces tired after the long journey home

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/asia/tears-and-trauma-as-thai-evacuees-return-from-israel.html

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/myanmars-crisis-the-world/myanmar-and-russia-sign-nuclear-power-plant-deal.html

end

Isreal orders 1.1 m people to move in 24 hours--how is this possible--Reuters

https://www.aol.com/news/now-time-war-says-israels-221628605.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/12/world/middleeast/us-qatar-iran-prisoner-deal.html

Scalise drops out of Republican clown car--

Isreal orders 1.1 m out of Gaza--

+ sign I saw on car.

Isreal vs Hamas war--3rd day dead and wounded stats.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/11/middleeast/gaza-power-plant-shuts-down-intl/index.html

This is like Burmese junta's long time 4 cuts policy--

Why couldn't Isreal have had a live and let live policy?

Beyond belief.

km

10-11-2023

40 year age gap--celebrity romance--

https://people.com/music/cher-spotted-holding-hands-with-amber-roses-ex-alexander-ae-edwards-in-los-angeles/

I've never heard any of Cher's songs--butshe's a very smart woman who says very intelligent things

and why not?

She's a millionaire and at the top of her game--why shouldn't she have love with someone equally talented.

Why do we poke our noses in other's business.

They look happy together--that's all that counts.

10-11-2023

US Central Command--USS Gerald R Ford carrier strike group arrives in En Mediterranean sea- https://www.centcom.mil/MEDIA/PRESS-RELEASES/Press-Release-View/Article/3552801/uss-gerald-r-ford-carrier-strike-group-arrives-in-the-eastern-mediterranean-sea/

god help us.

Un aura amorosa--Mozart--sung by Juan Diego Florez--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKZXK9smflc

Mario Lanza--re-mastered--Younger then Springtime--

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=I+touch+your+hand+and+my+armsgrow+strong+mariolanza#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:836ba841,vid:y-B_oyqqzVc,st:0

Netanyahu says "at war"--air land and sea strikes--Al Jazeera video--warning graphic

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/10/8/israel-palestine-escalation-live-israeli-forces-bombard-gaza

Note--Burmese junta has had close relations with Isreali--Mossad (Intel) since Ne Win and 1960s.

This time both US intel and Mossad missed surprise Hamas attack.

All Resistance should be very careful of cell phone and drone security.

Before Russian attack--Zelensky's Ukraine first secured its Internet.

take note,

10-7-2023

emergencies--hiking camping travel etc--water purification tabs--used by US army-- https://www.luminultra.com/blog/going-hiking-effective-water-purification-tablets/

Good idea to send to refugees Burma and elsewhere.

also kettles for boiling water--pot for food.

Backpacks--other emergency supplies. T

ents--sleeping bags--

UN is ineffective--work through other channels.

Isreal vs Hamas conflict-we are truly in WW III

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/10/08/israel-gaza-strikes-hamas-netanyahu/

https://www.aol.com/news/us-officials-raise-concerns-over-195649551.html

Isreal attack captured live

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDirU5biOHE

end

Special post W.S.Merwin reads his poem--Envoy from d'Aubinge.

https://voca.arizona.edu/track/id/62239

All India Radio still going strong--Modi--etc

https://www.himalmag.com/radio-ceylon-hindi-urdu-broadcasting-history-subhas-chandra-bose-ameen-sayani/

Our Burmese connection is our lovely Daw Than E Fend--popular singer frompre-World War II--Aung San Suu Kyi's "volunteer aunt--who worked at AIR during the war.

Also Nehru gave refuge to U Nu and family.

Aung San Suu Kyi's mother was ambassador in New Dehli.

all the bad news from Burma--shootings in Hpakant, jet bombs another village--refugees/workers stuck at China Border

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-junta-jet-bombs-another-camp-for-internally-displaced-people.html

please scroll down.

As expected, a "Burma problem" is fast becoming a regional problem, as ASEAN bows to junta.

Pl scroll down--Myanmar Now pay wall is coming up soon. kmk 10-6-2023

Long term treasury bond collapse largest in history--

Since March 2020, Treasury bonds with maturities of 10 years or more have plummeted 46%, Bloomberg says. That's just under losses seen in the stock market when the dot-com bubble burst.13 hours ago

The collapse in Treasury bonds now ranks among the worst market crashes in history businessinsider.in https://www.busines

Google--Victor Hugo--Les Miserables on your own--read English translation on Gutenberg Project.

If you have never readHugo--you don't know what literature is.

17 Jean Valjeans + One Day More!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpDbvlAI_A0

From Les Miserables--the Broadway show--Bring him home--

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Bring+himhome--yuotube#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:43dda561,vid:JMGMSgPHJoI,st:0

Alfie Boe

Colm Wilkinson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsYnhVITf9E

Latest Chinese block-buster "tarnishes" its reputation--says M .junta.

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-junta-says-chinese-crime-blockbuster-tarnishes-reputation.html

I also saw "Country M" in South Wind Knows--

as source of an immune disease among an unnamed ethnic group.

Maybe long love affair bet Burma and China starting to fray.

10-2-2023

AP--Ukraine building advanced army of drones

https://apnews.com/article/drones-ukraine-war-russia-innovation-technology-589f1fc0e0db007ea6d344b1972072

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhUyK8oYZK8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrJcAOa4pes

cardboard drones thattook out fighter jets on ground.

Australian anti (Russian) drone killer Slinger

USD 1 m each.

If you are Australia-based--check out advocating for Australian help for Burmese Resistance.

I don't know if Slinger works against jet planes--I would think not.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mpsDSlDdKA

But Burmese Resistance are fast learners and they could ask for tech advice.

Note--China is leading manufacturer of drone parts.

I believe Taiwan is the leading manufacturer of SIM cards.

Australian experts are named in the video--look for them. --

10-2-2023 10-2-2023

Ukraine is building an advanced army of drones. For now, pilots improvise with duct tape and bombs

By SAMYA KULLAB

Updated 6:51 AM EDT, September 26, 2023

LUHANSK REGION, Ukraine (AP) — Flying above enemy lines, a Ukrainian reconnaissance drone sends a clear image back to soldiers hiding in a basement a few kilometers away: A Russian armored vehicle is idling along a key logistics route, looking like easy prey in the artillery-scarred green landscape. --

How to wrte a kick-ass query letter

https://writingcooperative.com/writing-a-kick-ass-query-letter-5145b8243adb

Cash-strapped M junta does all the wrong things--

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmars-cash-strapped-junta-hikes-taxes-utilities-despite-surging-inflation.html

Nobel Prize goes to 2 scientists, Univ of Pennsylvania graduates, who developed Covid vaccine + how it works--

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-66983060 This is Ivy League Univ from whch I got my Ph.D. in PoliticalEconomy.

From Book Riot--long list of literary novels about older women--diverse too--

https://bookriot.com/novels-about-older-women/

from vampires to A-list women from many countries--and a "last colony."

Alzhs., widowers, troubled teens.

There's more here than anyone can read--I hope you find one that suits your taste.

Obviously, boomers read and the book market is still good.

That's good for me as a writer and a reader to know.

I have always benefited, e.g. medically from being part of this large population cohort--

I've always been able to find out what I need to know or think through by reading and writing.

I think that's great.

Kyi May Kaung

Dream of Old Age--copyright Kyi May Kaung Below--Old woman in Bali--copyright Kyi May Kaung

10-1-2023

Jutsice for Myanmar--special report--Developing Dictatorship

https://global-uploads.webflow.com/5e691d0b7de02f1fd6919876/63d74c96a7491d786488da53_Developing%20a%20Dictatorship.pdf