Thursday, April 03, 2025
US officials object to European push to buy weapons locally--
Well--what did T.Admin expect??
e.g. if aid to Ukraine cut off,why would they buy American?
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-officials-object-european-push-buy-weapons-locally-2025-04-02/
Military industrial complex will suffer and will blame T.
Why is that so difficult to understand?
Zelensky said this after his Oval Office humiliation--
"Europe needs its own army."
So does Japan--so would it seems each US State.
At least maybe Red states and Blue States will divide.
Meanwhile as cynical "reciprocal symbol of friendship" Trump slaps 24% tariff on Japan.
https://english.kyodonews.net/news/2025/04/d5f352983d39-update2-trump-unveils-mix-of-universal-reciprocal-tariffs.html
Amazing that any Economic 101 student knows,Mr. does not know.
Wednesday, April 02, 2025
Cheese-head--definition--
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cheese·head
/ˈCHēzˌhed/
noun
noun: cheesehead; plural noun: cheeseheads
1.
informal
a resident of Wisconsin, especially a fan of the Green Bay Packers football team.
"Cheeseheads celebrated that day, as Green Bay walked away with a 35-10 win"
2.
informal
a blockhead; an idiot.
"quiet, you cheesehead, you'll wake up the neighborhood"
Myanmar junta admits firing on Chinese rescue convoy, continues bombings, has Thingyan Festival and prioritises
temple cleanup over relief--and more shit--see Irrawaddy.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-junta-admits-firing-on-chinese-quake-relief-convoy.html?__cf_chl_tk=UVCTExYP2BHP7uQkt.cCjYDHfESwnrIydzDinRGfI_w-1743607382-1.0.1.1-WMGAswK_EoYdBbOd_pjUSFLo2oVEd585jy5L8AsEeNk
m a h is a known extremely superstitious "businessman."
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photo--Burmese pancake.
Tuesday, April 01, 2025
Don Lemon was fired by CNN in 2023--looks like he's doing very well.
After several on-air controversies and reports of alleged decades-long instances of misogyny, he was fired by CNN in April 2023.
Don Lemon - Wikipedia
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What is short selling?
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Short selling is a strategy where investors profit from a decline in the price of a security (like a stock) by borrowing shares, selling them, and then buying them back at a lower price to return to the lender.
Here's a more detailed explanation:
Borrowing and Selling:
Investors who believe a stock's price will fall borrow shares from a broker, sell them in the market, and then hope the price drops.
Buying Back and Profiting:
If the price drops as expected, the investor can buy back the shares at a lower price, return them to the broker, and keep the difference as profit.
Potential for Unlimited Losses:
Unlike traditional investing where potential losses are limited to the investment amount, short selling has the potential for unlimited losses because the price of a stock can theoretically rise indefinitely.
Example:
Imagine you borrow 100 shares of a stock at $50 per share, sell them for $5,000, and then the price drops to $40 per share. You can buy back the shares for $4,000, return them, and pocket the $1,000 difference.
Risk:
If the stock price rises instead of falling, the investor will have to buy back the shares at a higher price, resulting in a loss.
Margin Account:
Short selling requires a margin account, which allows investors to borrow money or securities from their broker to finance their trades.
Short Position:
When an investor sells a stock they don't own, they are said to have a "short position" in that stock.
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Warning --highly disturbing--smells too--Mandalay rescue efforts hampered at every turn.
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/rescue-efforts-at-myanmar-earthquakes-epicenter-hampered-at-every-turn.html
There's going to be contaminated water and cholero etc too.
It's the original title of my unpublished novel
I Weep for You my Native Land.
I wrote it in mid-1990s in Philadelphia.
I was inspired by Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cry,_the_Beloved_Country
Paton was the warden of a prison when he wrote it.
It starts with a lovely description of the landscape--and his (narrator's sister) leaving for the city
where she "does not have s husband, but rather she has many husbands."
Something is happening to me again, with this double or triple or quadruple shocks and I am going back into dissertation writing mode.
I'll be doing what my friend Nita told me about 4 years ago:
"If the dishe pile up in the sink, that's what they are supposed to do. Don't even read. WRITE."
It's maybe time to check the news late at night when I have done my cooking after 8 PM and had my dinner and done my writing quota for the day.
People think writing is so glamourus and it come so easy.
Not that easy--painful.
I cry a lot.
I just cried for Virginia Giuffre.
First Reader down under cries when she reads the death scenes.
One ninny said, "But Aunty, your writing is full of dead bodies.
I was just re-reading a book by Stan Sesser, Lands of Charm and Cruelty: Travels in Southeast Asia.
So am I supposed to write cute things?
I think not.
Copyright Kyi May Kaung
Including images and titles of unpublished manuscripts.
4-1-2025
Kaung--Sagaing before 2021. Needlepoint.
Kaung needlpoint abstract--Sagaing village after bombing--I enhanced the colors--really was very grey--based in photo in Irrawaddy magazine. Thanks to editors, Ko Aung Zaw and Ko Yeni.
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