tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-364450222024-03-18T12:30:51.036-04:00KyiMayKaungBurma, 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.
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger15536125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36445022.post-88659894372307873802024-03-16T16:03:00.008-04:002024-03-16T16:03:51.644-04:00Specialpost--Ellen Bernstein--expose of World Bank Rohingya project--<a href="https://www.irrawaddy.com/culture/books/hellfire-and-damnation-in-myanmar-ex-world-bank-country-head-recounts-rohingya-catastrophe-response.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.irrawaddy.com/culture/books/hellfire-and-damnation-in-myanmar-ex-world-bank-country-head-recounts-rohingya-catastrophe-response.html</a>
<blockquote>D</blockquote>isclaimer: I have had extended family members who worked at the UN, including favorite Uncle Shane and "Uncle Joe"--my father's lifelong "student"--
<blockquote></blockquote>BUT--
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</blockquote>I have a low opinion of UN in general--I wish I had hand-copied a poem about Living High on the Hog, from the office door of Jere Berhman, a professor of Economic Development at Penn.
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</blockquote>I wish I had kept the book outlining how the UN went bankrupt, its florists' bill for instance.
<blockquote>Jo</blockquote>e himself told me "To get a job there, you need a relative already there."
<blockquote></blockquote>His Geography professor at Univ of Chicago Norton Ginsburg found him the job with ADB in Manila.
<blockquote></blockquote>All this was before Ted Turner bailed out the UN. By the 1980s the carpets were already threadbare.
<blockquote></blockquote>I suggested through a former colleague who flipped in 2011, that Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz go to Burma. Stiglitz and my late mentor Dr. Ronald Findlay did.
<blockquote></blockquote>I have never met Ellen Goldstein, but her 2 year job at WB sounds not unlike my 3 years of suffering job abuse at hands of a junta-inclined Burmese dept head at Radio Free Asia.
<blockquote><blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>I stuck it out for the sake of 8 months unemployment insurance before the think tank arm of The Burmese Exile Govt--the Burma Fund hired me a a senior analyst.
<blockquote></blockquote>This was the NCGUB, not the current NUG.
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</blockquote>NCGUB was headed by Dr Sein Win, a math. Ph.D. with a German degree.
<blockquote></blockquote> His father was U Ba Win, Aung San's elder brother.
<blockquote></blockquote>The 2 brothers were assassinated the same morning 19th July 1947 with other members of Aung San's cabinet and a bodyguard.
Aung San - Wikipedia
<blockquote></blockquote>I have met David Scott Mathieson at a migration conference in Chiangmai--he's a good person.
<blockquote></blockquote>To all Burmese I would say--don't put your trust in anyone, including the UN and Myanmar generals and cronies and your own blood relatives.
<blockquote></blockquote>Everyone is in it to make money.
<blockquote></blockquote>"Helping people" is just their cover story.
<blockquote></blockquote>The worst is that they develop a "know it all mentality."
<blockquote></blockquote>They don't.
<blockquote></blockquote>Kyi May Kaung Ph.D.
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36445022.post-22554185380490201002024-03-16T14:32:00.005-04:002024-03-16T14:33:01.472-04:00Verbal traits that foreshadow cognitive decline <a href="https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-identify-speech-trait-that-foreshadows-cognitive-decline" rel="nofollow">https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-identify-speech-trait-that-foreshadows-cognitive-decline</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36445022.post-44243745447155339012024-03-16T04:13:00.001-04:002024-03-16T04:13:12.259-04:00Islands in the Stream--Kenny Rogers.Dolly Parton<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpWldTFq2Jk" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpWldTFq2Jk</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36445022.post-83267351193832690102024-03-16T03:50:00.002-04:002024-03-16T03:50:51.548-04:00Elephant's Eye--closeup--from Internet<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLMYexAWg67-vGcKZBwdW0VvXYGsPudxq8Y9qVUA85D5yulj-PvisQpexlg9oi4KzeKnaJ55HayofXz1WHKFBp8LXJN3EBgybFClbDeJR42G16Ky12ft_Wrh0_eF0jOlvU-8jCcQiwxhArpP9VY9JDyzX-OmTRxohU-Q9xKD383-8Q8CS_YLA/s398/elephant%27s%20eye%20closeup%20fromInernte.jpg" style="display: block; 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<a href="https://www.irrawaddy.com/business/myanmar-junta-blocks-flow-of-exports-to-checkpoint-on-china-border.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.irrawaddy.com/business/myanmar-junta-blocks-flow-of-exports-to-checkpoint-on-china-border.html
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<blockquote></blockquote>as no trade is moving through Chin Shwe Haw since 1027(2023).
<blockquote></blockquote>If the junta halts trade--as it is doing now, China will not stand for it.
<blockquote></blockquote>It can just flex its little finger and sack Burmese SAC.
<blockquote></blockquote>Incidentally, it's also anniversary of Chinese takeover of Tibet.
<blockquote></blockquote>The other shoe is soon to drop as Chinese--mediated "peace talks" in Burma have failed already--in the trade sense, and it's all about cross-border trade.
<blockquote></blockquote>Also there are allegations that KNU is involved in"untouched" Shwe KoKo scam hub near Mae Sod-Myawaddy on Burma-Thai Border--see
<blockquote></blockquote>Irrawaddy article.
<blockquote></blockquote>It is to be feared the "new sheriffs" will continue to run these scams,including sex scams which started appearing in 2020.
<blockquote></blockquote>War-lordism or lady-ism (though Olive Yang--opium queen or opium queer was no lady)
<blockquote></blockquote>predicted by my late systems political scientist professor Dr Henry Teune is already happening.
<blockquote></blockquote>I don't see any hope for Burma.
<blockquote></blockquote>They (the junta) will rule the graveyards.
<blockquote></blockquote>Kyi May Kaung (Ph.D.)
<blockquote></blockquote>3-16-2024
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36445022.post-25872440831861977202024-03-15T04:40:00.004-04:002024-03-15T04:40:28.919-04:00Johnny Cash--The Long Black Veil--<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnXUPlsn31o" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnXUPlsn31o</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36445022.post-28293907064494659472024-03-15T04:30:00.006-04:002024-03-15T04:30:56.465-04:00Shootout at the O.K.Corral--from wiki.<blockquote></blockquote>The gunfight
Wikisource has original text related to this article:
<blockquote></blockquote>A Fierce Fight
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A Desperate Street Fight (Daily Nugget)
<blockquote></blockquote>Annotated 1886 fire map of Tombstone indicating the actual shootout location (in green) and the O.K. Corral (in yellow) on the other side of the block
<blockquote></blockquote>Third St. in Tombstone, Arizona in 1909 from the roof of the Cochise County Courthouse. The O.K. Corral was located on Allen St., the first right turn off Third St. The white building at the center right is Schiefflin Hall on Fremont St.
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</blockquote>Martha J. King was in Bauer's butcher shop located on Fremont Street.[89] She testified that when the Earp party passed by her location, one of the Earps on the outside of the group looked across and said to Doc Holliday nearest the store, "... let them have it!" to which Holliday replied, "All right."[86]: 66–68 [104] Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36445022.post-72843695172754458232024-03-15T04:23:00.001-04:002024-03-15T04:24:23.813-04:00Today I go and deposit my Poetry Award checque--and run off more copies of my chapbooks-gave my friend who had a hip transplant a version of my crochet shawl.I wore one for the poetry reading.
<blockquote></blockquote>No photos available right now.
<blockquote></blockquote>Regie Cabico was the judge.
<blockquote></blockquote>My advice is if you write or paint, put your work out there--but get in a safe space first.
<blockquote></blockquote>The villains will hit the dust--mark my words.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36445022.post-53234064769927516542024-03-15T04:13:00.001-04:002024-03-15T04:13:17.894-04:00Abelard (who was castrated) writing to Heloise--<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2fpAUyF15g63kEdh1UJ58YRF33T0kepL34W_DrTXYJpY6Jyp9auznlIkSk4Ute6BbwuwkEqy4mEJbv6g5Whu04mYV6aBBKtzYcx2scybggXQYB4U1OFwn2ddfizr_7PefspvQ3nF5Eq-vGgIsmVbW5A80Ku-2169SRJASphrj-eSQWpgo-WU/s769/Abelard_Writing%20to%20Heloise.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="400" data-original-height="769" data-original-width="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2fpAUyF15g63kEdh1UJ58YRF33T0kepL34W_DrTXYJpY6Jyp9auznlIkSk4Ute6BbwuwkEqy4mEJbv6g5Whu04mYV6aBBKtzYcx2scybggXQYB4U1OFwn2ddfizr_7PefspvQ3nF5Eq-vGgIsmVbW5A80Ku-2169SRJASphrj-eSQWpgo-WU/s400/Abelard_Writing%20to%20Heloise.jpg"/></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36445022.post-48967618958218350852024-03-15T04:11:00.000-04:002024-03-15T04:11:23.357-04:00Went to Bethesda Urban Awards Ceremony--2 poets from Burma, including me-<blockquote></blockquote>Lots of award-wnning poets, all ages, sizes, skin color and ethnicity--
<blockquote></blockquote>very fun and good food,
<blockquote></blockquote>Thank you.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36445022.post-12967245498713813642024-03-15T04:07:00.001-04:002024-03-15T04:07:46.955-04:00Barrons--art market dip last year due to lack of supply, not demand--Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36445022.post-83178547926682392282024-03-15T03:58:00.001-04:002024-03-15T03:58:10.235-04:00From Counterpunch<a href="https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/15/the-best-revenge-art-and-culture-in-a-time-without-hope/" rel="nofollow">https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/03/15/the-best-revenge-art-and-culture-in-a-time-without-hope/</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36445022.post-85550682657704866182024-03-14T10:12:00.002-04:002024-03-14T10:12:11.185-04:00Google search results--"Kitty Ne Win"--the general's whore<a href="https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=kitty+ne+win+images" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=kitty+ne+win+images</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36445022.post-61855953547865670782024-03-14T10:09:00.003-04:002024-03-14T10:09:54.367-04:00And now--the world class Villains--NW obit 2002 by Martin Smith--<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/dec/06/guardianobituaries" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/dec/06/guardianobituaries</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36445022.post-7873717903955627132024-03-14T10:07:00.002-04:002024-03-15T04:14:55.357-04:00Sao Nang Hearn Kham (Nyaungshwe Mahadevi)-- a great lady--brave, beautiful.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sao_Nang_Hearn_Kham" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sao_Nang_Hearn_Kham</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36445022.post-57713116157392480082024-03-14T10:03:00.004-04:002024-03-14T10:03:39.628-04:00Sao Shwe Thaike wiki--<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sao_Shwe_Thaik" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sao_Shwe_Thaik</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36445022.post-56333740099016336682024-03-14T09:57:00.002-04:002024-03-14T09:57:50.409-04:00The White Umbrella--by Patricia Elliot--Biography of Sao Hearn Hkam--Nyaungshwe Mahadevi--I interviewed her for RFA<a href="https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-white-umbrella_patricia-elliott/561644/item/5701721/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=low_vol_f%2fm%2fs_standard_shopping_customer_aquisition&utm_adgroup=&utm_term=&utm_content=688842569236&gad_source=1#idiq=5701721&edition=5069914" rel="nofollow">https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-white-umbrella_patricia-elliott/561644/item/5701721/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=low_vol_f%2fm%2fs_standard_shopping_customer_aquisition&utm_adgroup=&utm_term=&utm_content=688842569236&gad_source=1#idiq=5701721&edition=5069914</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36445022.post-62454597340412856532024-03-14T09:53:00.002-04:002024-03-14T09:53:47.441-04:00Sao Shwe Thaike (Nyaungshwe Sawbwa) and Sir Hubert Rance--first Burmese Independence Day--<div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvh7iVJpXB4812GeE6kLp6xmQ8WUAQEFozldSrpZ4fgz74R9KvHnRngjq1atlwctsecODfXeMh6lIN2YLCy9dn1EiwfoxtZPhLNvx3AfmDzSeU-RNcmfrPPnW_PkORiJUnzqvPk-AQY6oi4FLHguYvK_GbdGAk6qgnk5xpYr5ED7REBmI6vvM/s300/300px-Sao_Shwe_Thaik_and_Hubert_Elvin_Rance%201948.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="204" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvh7iVJpXB4812GeE6kLp6xmQ8WUAQEFozldSrpZ4fgz74R9KvHnRngjq1atlwctsecODfXeMh6lIN2YLCy9dn1EiwfoxtZPhLNvx3AfmDzSeU-RNcmfrPPnW_PkORiJUnzqvPk-AQY6oi4FLHguYvK_GbdGAk6qgnk5xpYr5ED7REBmI6vvM/s400/300px-Sao_Shwe_Thaik_and_Hubert_Elvin_Rance%201948.jpg"/></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36445022.post-88680633390992516582024-03-14T09:46:00.003-04:002024-03-14T09:50:54.053-04:00Special special post--Eugene Yawngwe's memoir--Shan of Burma<a href="https://www.academia.edu/42252024/Chao_tzang_yawnghwe_the_shan_of_burma_memoirs_of_a_shan_exile" rel="nofollow">https://<a href="www.academia.edu/42252024/Chao_tzang_yawnghwe_the_shan_of_burma_memoirs_of_a_shan_exile%3C/a%3E" rel="nofollow">www.academia.edu/42252024/Chao_tzang_yawnghwe_the_shan_of_burma_memoirs_of_a_shan_exile</a></a>
<blockquote></blockquote>Recipients--you are receiving this bc I assume it will be of interest to you.
<blockquote></blockquote>You don't need to read it now or even ever--
<blockquote></blockquote>Your ignorance is not my problem.
<blockquote></blockquote>U Eugene's family and mine go a long way back--to before I was born, when Yawngwe Sawbwa sheltered my parents and older brother and 40 other families near Yat Sauk Waterfall in the Shan States.
<blockquote></blockquote>It was my honor to work closely with U Eugene and his brother Harn 1997--present and U Eugene's passing in 2004 in the Burmese Democracy Movement Overseas.
<blockquote></blockquote>In school in Rangoon, Ying Ying Thaike (Princess Sao Ying Sita) was one of my best friends. With June Taw, we were considered look-alikes. Ying also wanted to be a writer.
<blockquote></blockquote>I also met Tiger in Canada in the 1990s, when Yawngwe Mahadevi (Queen) came to listen to a talk I gave.
<blockquote></blockquote>The sound of heads turning and people whispering was like falling leaves.
<blockquote></blockquote>I managed to catch up with her and thank her in the ladies' rest room--
<blockquote></blockquote>Fictionalized scenes from Yatsauk are in my unpublished novel Once.
<blockquote></blockquote>I asked Aunty if she had any family photos--she said, "How can I have photos? I had to leave with the clothes on my back."
<blockquote></blockquote>You know who has them?
<blockquote></blockquote>Notorious crony and arms dealer Tayza--thief.
<blockquote></blockquote>Saw them on his Facebook.
<blockquote></blockquote>Download all of them from there.
<blockquote></blockquote>kmk
<blockquote></blockquote>3-14-2024
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36445022.post-72892393971014129962024-03-14T09:06:00.002-04:002024-03-14T09:06:31.159-04:00Bertil Lintner--on Shan Leaders--especially Chao Tzang Yawngwe--<a href="https://www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/guest-column/why-shan-states-formidable-armies-have-shunned-the-fight-against-myanmars-junta.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/guest-column/why-shan-states-formidable-armies-have-shunned-the-fight-against-myanmars-junta.html</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36445022.post-60867178201231380892024-03-14T08:33:00.001-04:002024-03-14T08:33:01.321-04:00Reuters Exclusive--Trump launched covert CIA operation against Chinah<a href="ttps://www.aol.com/news/exclusive-trump-launched-cia-covert-100648791.html" rel="nofollow">ttps://www.aol.com/news/exclusive-trump-launched-cia-covert-100648791.html</a>
<blockquote></blockquote>"We wanted them chasing ghosts."Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36445022.post-33206364379197897052024-03-14T08:19:00.004-04:002024-03-14T08:19:57.934-04:00Irrawaddy Investigative Unit--Shwe Ko Ko (KNU may be involved)--+ junta blew up bridges.Ko Thiha said.
<blockquote></blockquote>“At first, I thought they were recruiting translators. It was only after I arrived here that I found I had to do a completely different job. I had to expose my body parts later during sex chats. [I realized] this is not OK anymore. But you know what [harsh punishment] would happen to me if I refuse. So, I will have to complete the three-year contract,” said the married man, who has a daughter.
<blockquote></blockquote><a href="https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/investigation/surrounded-by-fighting-a-myanmar-crime-hub-is-oddly-unscathed.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/investigation/surrounded-by-fighting-a-myanmar-crime-hub-is-oddly-unscathed.html
</a>
<a href="https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/fleeing-myanmar-junta-troops-blew-up-bridges-in-rakhine-officer-confesses.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/fleeing-myanmar-junta-troops-blew-up-bridges-in-rakhine-officer-confesses.html
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<blockquote>2</blockquote> links--end post.
<blockquote></blockquote>3-14-2024
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36445022.post-35678770918112758232024-03-13T15:34:00.004-04:002024-03-14T08:17:14.259-04:00Joint book and movie review--from 2005. Legendary lovers who leap at you from the 12th century--Heloise & Abelard: Love Hurts (Published 2005)
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/13/books/review/heloise-abelard-love-hurts.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/13/books/review/heloise-abelard-love-hurts.html</a>
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