Thursday, May 12, 2016

Burmese tycoons saying they will give compensation money to China for stopping Irrawaddy dam project.

Sounds too good to be true--like an April Fools' joke--

Burmese tycoons saying they will give compensation money to China for stopping Irrawaddy dam project.  I don't know if they will really come through.  Also I don't know how the already constructed portions will be removed?? and at what cost.

Local economists should work on the $$$ cost of rectifying previous govt's big mistakes--I am sure some like NPT, mis-sited factories, are there forever, and then it is a matter of "repurposing," shutting down or selling off.

kmk
5-12-2016

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ျမစ္ဆံုေလ်ာ္ေၾကးကိစၥ အစိုးရသစ္ကို ကူညီရန္ ျမန္မာစီးပြားေရးလုပ္ငန္းရွင္မ်ား ဆံုးျဖတ္
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၇။ ဧၿပီ
ႏုိင္ငံျခားေရး၀န္ႀကီးဌာန ျပည္ေထာင္စု၀န္ႀကီး ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ေျဖရွင္းရမယ့္ ပုစာၦေတြထဲကမွ အင္မတန္ေျဖရွင္းရ ခက္မည့္ ပုစာၦတစ္ခုျဖစ္ေသာ ယခင္အစိုးရလက္ထက္က ေျမြမေသတုတ္မက်ိဳးက်န္ေနခဲ့သည့္ ျမစ္ဆုံေရကာတာ စီမံကိန္း ကိစၥကို တ႐ုတ္ႏုိင္ငံျခားေရး၀န္ႀကီး ၀မ္ယီ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံသို႔ လာေရာက္စဥ္က ေတြ႔ဆုံေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ၾကသည္။
တ႐ုတ္ႏုိင္ငံျခားေရး၀န္ႀကီး ၀မ္ယီက မိမိတို႔၏ ျမစ္ဆံုစီမံကိန္းကို ရပ္တန္႔လိုပါက အေမရိကန္ေဒၚလာ သန္းေပါင္း (၆၃၀၀) ကို ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံဘက္မွ ေလ်ာေၾကးေပးရမည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ေျပာဆိုခဲ့သည္ကို Real Religion News သတင္းေထာက္ စိုင္းခြန္ဆာ က ရယူခဲ့သည္။ ဆက္လက္၍ ယေန႔ မြန္းလြဲ (၁း၃၀) နာရီတြင္ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ျပည္လမ္းေပၚရွိ Novotal ဟိုတယ္၌ ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့သည့္ ျမန္မာ့စီးပြားေရးလုပ္ငန္းရွင္ႀကီးမ်ား၏ ေတြ႔ဆုံမႈသည္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ၏ အသက္ေသြးေၾကာ ဧရာ၀တီျမစ္ကို ထိခုိက္ေစမည့္ ျမစ္ဆုံစီမံကိန္းအတြက္ ေလ်ာ္ေၾကးေငြကိစၥႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍လည္း ေဆြးေႏြးသြားခဲ့ေၾကာင္း သတင္းေထာက္ စိုင္းခြန္ဆာ က ဆိုသည္။
ျမန္မာ့စီးပြားေရးလုပ္ငန္းရွင္ႀကီးမ်ား ေတြ႔ဆုံပြဲ၌ ေဇကမာၻကုမၸဏီလီမိတက္မွ ေဒါက္တာဦးခင္ေရႊ၊ မက္စ္ျမန္မာကုမၸဏီလီမိတက္မွ ဦးေဇာ္ေဇာ္၊ ထူးကုမၸဏီလီမိတက္မွ ဦးေတဇ၊ ေအရွာေ၀ါလ္ကုမၸဏီလီမိတက္မွ ဦးေလာစစ္ဟန္၏သား စတီဖင္ေလာ၊ CB ဘဏ္ ဥကၠ႒ ဦးခင္ေမာင္ေအး၊ SPA ဂ႐ုပ္မွ Serge Pun၊ ကေမာၻဇဘဏ္ဥကၠ႒ ဦးေအာင္ကို၀င္း၊ Myanmar Lighting ကုမၸဏီလီမိတက္မွ ဦးစိန္၀မ္၊ ႏုိင္ဂ႐ုပ္ေဆာက္လုပ္ေရးမွ ဦးေဇာ္ႏုိင္ဦး၊ ႐ိႈင္းေဆာက္လုပ္ေရးမွ ဦးေအာင္ေဇာ္၀င္း (USDP - ေမာင္ေတာ)၊ ECO Asia (United Living Mall) မွ ဦးသန္းၾကြယ္၊ Asia Winner လီမိတက္မွ ဦးေအာင္ႏိုင္ စသည္ ဒိတ္ဒိတ္ႀကဲ လုပ္ငန္းရွင္ႀကီးမ်ားက တက္ေရာက္ခဲ့ၿပီး ျမစ္ဆုံေလ်ာ္ေၾကးႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ ၎တို႔၏ ပုဂၢလအျမင္မ်ားကို တင္ျပသြားခဲ့သည္။
ေဇကမာၻေဒါက္တာခင္ေရႊက “ကြၽန္ေတာ္တုိ႔ ကုမၸဏီအေနနဲ႔ ယခင္စစ္အစိုးရ၊ စစ္၀တ္စုံခြၽတ္အစိုးရလက္ထက္မွာေရာ အခုျပည္သူ႔အစိုးရလက္ထက္မွာပါ တုိင္းျပည္အက်ိဳးကို တစ္ေထာင့္တစ္ေနရာကေန ထမ္းရြက္သယ္ပိုးဖို႔ စိတ္ပိုင္းျဖတ္ထားပါတယ္။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ ကြၽန္ေတာ္တုိ႔ လုပ္ငန္းရွင္ေတြအေနနဲ႔ ျမစ္ဆုံစီမံကိန္းေလ်ာ္ေၾကးအတြက္ ကူညီႏုိင္ေသာ ေငြပမာနကို ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ထံ တင္ျပသြားပါမယ္” ဟု ေျပာသည္။
ထူးကုမၸဏီလီမိတက္မွ ဦးေတဇကလည္း “ကြၽန္ေတာ့္အေနနဲ႔ ဒီေျမမွာေမြး၊ ဒီေျမမွာႀကီး၊ ဒီေရကိုေသာက္သူတစ္ေယာက္ ျဖစ္တာေၾကာင့္ ဒီႏုိင္ငံရဲ႕ အေကာင္းအဆိုးကိစၥတုိင္းဟာ ဘယ္အစိုးရအသုံးမက်သည္ျဖစ္ပါေစ၊ ကြၽန္ေတာ္ႏွင့္ သက္ဆုိင္သလို ခံစားရပါတယ္။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ ျမစ္ဆံု စီမံကိန္းေလ်ာ္ေၾကးအတြက္ ကြၽန္ေတာ္ပိုင္ ပ်ံသန္းေျပးဆြဲလ်က္ရွိေသာ ေလယာဥ္တခ်ိဳ႕ကို ေရာင္းခ်ၿပီး ကူညီသြားပါမယ္” ဟု အားတက္သေရာေျပာၾကားလုိက္သည္။
ဆက္လက္၍ မက္စ္ျမန္မာ ဦးေဇာ္ေဇာ္က “ေရွ႕က ကြၽန္ေတာ့္လုပ္ေဖာ္ကိုင္ဖက္ေတြေျပာသြားသလိုပါ၊ ဘယ္အစိုးရအသံုးမက်က်၊ ဒီႏုိင္ငံရဲ႕အေရးကိစၥက ကြၽန္ေတာ့္ကိစၥပါ။ ႏုိင္ငံသူႏုိင္ငံသားတုိင္း ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္ေစခ်င္တာ ဟိုအရင္ကတည္းက ကြၽန္ေတာ့္ဆႏၵပါ။ ဒါေၾကာင့္လည္း ျမန္မာေဘာလုံးအသင္းကို ကြၽန္ေတာ္ပိုင္ ေငြေၾကးေတြနဲ႔ ေျမေတာင္ေျမွာက္ေပးခဲ့တာပါ။ အခုလည္း ကြၽန္ေတာ္တစ္ဦးတည္းပိုင္တဲ့ ဧရာ၀တီဘဏ္တစ္ခုလုံးကို ေရာင္းခ်ၿပီး ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္အတြက္ ေပးဆပ္သြားပါမယ္” ဟု ကတိသစၥာျပဳလိုက္သည္။
ႏုိင္ဂ႐ုပ္ေဆာက္လုပ္ေရးမွ ဦးေဇာ္ႏုိင္ဦးကေတာ့ “ကြၽန္ေတာ္တို႔ကေတာ့ ရွင္းတယ္။ ျမန္မာျပည္ကိုခ်စ္တယ္၊ ျမန္မာစကားကိုျမတ္ႏိုးတယ္၊ ဒါေပမဲ့ ကြၽန္ေတာ္တုိ႔ကို သူရဦးေအာင္ကိုက ဧည့္ႏုိင္ငံသားေတြလို႔ ေျပာသြားတယ္။ ဒါကို အခဲမေက်ဘူး၊ သေဘာမက်ဘူး၊ စိတ္ဆိုးတယ္။ ဒါေပမဲ့ ကြၽန္ေတာ္တတ္ႏုိင္တဲ့ဘက္ ေဆာက္ထားတဲ့တုိက္က ေရာင္းရေငြ သိန္း ၃၀၀၀ ေလာက္ေတာ့ ကူညီေပးသြားမယ္” ဟု ေျပာသည္။
႐ိႈင္းေဆာက္လုပ္ေရးမွ ဦးေအာင္ေဇာ္၀င္း (USDP - ေမာင္ေတာ) ကေတာ့ အခုလိုေျပာပါတယ္။
“ဦးေဇာ္ႏုိင္ဦးေျပာသြားသလိုပါပဲ။ ကြၽန္ေတာ္တုိ႔ကို ဧည့္သည္လို႔သတ္မွတ္တယ္။ ဒါကိုစိတ္နာတယ္။ ဒါေပမဲ့ တစ္ဖက္က ျပန္ၾကည့္ေတာ့ ဒီႏုိင္ငံေပၚမွာ လုပ္စားခဲ့ရင္းပဲ ကြၽန္ေတာ္တို႔ ခ်မ္းသာခဲ့တာေလ။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ ကြၽန္ေတာ္ပိုင္ Hotel Esperado Yangon ကို တ႐ုတ္လုပ္ငန္းရွင္တစ္ဦးဆီကိုေရာင္းခ်ၿပီး ေလ်ာ္ေၾကးေငြမတည္ေပးသြားပါမယ္”
Asia (United Living Mall) မွ ဦးသန္းၾကြယ္က “ကြၽန္ေတာ္ပိုင္ Day To Day ေရွာ့ပင္းစင္တာကို KFC က ၀ယ္ယူဖုိ႔ ကမ္းလွမ္းထားတာရွိပါတယ္။ ေရာင္းခ်သြားပါမယ္။ ရတဲ့ေငြေတြ လွဴဒါန္းသြားပါမယ္” ဟု ေျပာလုိက္သည္။
ထို႔ေနာက္ ျမန္မာ့စီးပြားေရးလုပ္ငန္းရွင္ႀကီးမ်ားက ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္သီခ်င္း ကမာၻမေၾကကို သံၿပိဳင္ဆိုကာ အခမ္းအနားကို ႐ုပ္သိမ္းခဲ့ၾကသည္။
ဤသတင္းကို ရန္ကုန္အေျခစိုက္ Real Religion News သတင္းေထာက္ စိုင္းခြန္ဆာက ေပးပို႔သည္။
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Thae Tone
Thae Tone ျကားရတာေတာ့အားက်စရာပါပဲ ဘာမွမေထာက္ပံ့နိုင္တဲ့ က်ြန္ေတာ္တို့လိုလူေလးေတြကေတာ့ ဒီသတင္းသာတကယ္ျဖစ္ပါေစလို့ဆုေတာင္းရမွာပါပဲ
U Kyaw Myint
Aye Aye Aung
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May Thet Aung
NayLa WinOo
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Aung Ko Min
Aung Ko Min ေထာင္ျမင္လို႕ရာစြန္႔မဟုပ္ပါေစနဲ႕
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Winn Ohn
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Minaung Aungmin
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Myat Yu Mon
Panthit Sar
Panthit Sar အားေပးပါတယ္
ကံ စီမံရာ
ကံ စီမံရာ ေခတ္အဆက္ဆက္သာေပါင္းညာစားေတြမင္းတို႔ရထားတ့ဲေငြေတြဟာျပည္သူမ်က္ရည္စာေတြက်ေတာ္သာအစိုးရဆိုလို႔ကေတာ့အားလုးံသိမ္းျပီးေလ်ာ္ပစ္မွာေစာက္ကုလားနူစ္ေကာင္ကဧည့္နိူင္ငံသားမဟုတ္ရင္လီးလား မင္းတို႔အေဖေတြကရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ေမာင္ေတာျမိဳ႔နယ္အလယ္သံေက်ာ္ကိုထြက္ေျပးလာတ့ဲဘဂၤလားကကုလား မင္းအေဖနိူင္ငံသားမွတ္ပုံတင္ရိွလား
Aung Thein Oo
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အာလုံက်မၼာခ်မ္းသာျကပါေစ ။
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Maung Maung Yesagyo
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Kaung Kaung
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Nay Myo
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J Nyi Myint Maung
J Nyi Myint Maung sky net အသံ မၾကားရေသးဘူး
J Nyi Myint Maung
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ဒီလိုစိတ္ဓါက္ေလးေတြ ရွိပါတယ္
ဝမ္းသာ ၾကည္ႏူး မိပါတယ္
Ko Mg Myo
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Su Su Sandi
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Ye Winnaing
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Myo Kyaw OO
Myo Kyaw OO ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံကပစၥည္းေတြ
ေရာင္းစားသြားတဲ႔
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Aung Aung Kyaw Moe
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Khu Soe Reh
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Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Should Burmese democrats stop struggling now?? by Kyi May Kaung (Ph.D.)

No response from place I submitted it--so posting here--

So is there democracy in Burma now and should we stop struggling?
Beginning in about 2009, the powerful NGOs working in the Burma field, the United States and the Friends of Burma as they were then called, started what I consider to be a twin-pronged approach to Burma.
I went to the informal launch of this policy at SAIS (School of Advanced International Studies) in Washington DC.
In this policy, sanctions regarding weapons purchases were kept on, and the United States upgraded the Charge D'Affaires post in Rangoon to Ambassador again, with trips to Rangoon by Mrs Clinton and in 2011 by President Obama.
Even the then President of the Burmese government Thein Sein was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, an amazing and misguided gesture.
Official announcements by the State Department seem to have taken the view that a good dose of praise will keep the battle seasoned Burmese junta on the democracy track.  What a hope!
But what most people do not know is the junta is smarter than you or me, or most people, and is expert at buying people off.
I do not really believe a woman I will call Conspiracy Theorist who called me on the phone about 18 months ago, and maintained that everyone around Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the democracy leader, has been bought off already.  ("Daw" is an honorific for a mature woman, roughly translated as "Aunty.")
Not only that, this woman maintained that all the officials in the US Embassy, Rangoon, were millionaires as they had been bought off already by the Burmese regime, and that in Florida there are "4 star hotel grade" so-called monasteries, with junta plants already in place, who have come in on religious visas.  She said there was a Florida-based Burmese businessman donor who had donated tens of thousands to this retreat set up in advance for the junta, something like Brazil for ex-Nazis and the Odessa File.  She told me after all the money had been used, the presiding monk or abbot then declined to eat food donated by this businessman, in other words, rejected him completely.
I asked to speak to these aggrieved donors, but this woman declined to give me phone numbers, and shortly after I unfriended her on Facebook as she would come onto my page and insult Rohingya and Burmese-Muslim advocate Wai Wai Nu, for no reason at all, implying she was just a pretty face. 
I do think youth and beauty can take you part of the way, as I know for a fact the major donors are partial to the young, but not all the way, I don't think.
For those of you who do not know, the Burmese junta is really Military Government Inc. or incorporated.
It has stayed in power since Ne Win's second coup of 1962 (the first coup was when he set up the so-called Caretaker Government) and since 1988, when it suppressed the nationwide pro-democracy demonstrations with a reported 3000 killed, more than Tiananmen in 1989, journalists always write, it has had UMEH--Union of Myanmar Economic Holdings, which is in effect, the economic holdings of the junta, kept in the names of wives and children of top army brass.
There are always rumors of bank accounts and apartments and other real estate in Dubai and Shanghai.
IN 2005, using forced labor it built its new capital city Naypyidaw "Kings's Royal City" in the middle of Burma near Pyinmana.
Rangoon wags called it Naypoodaw "Infernally Hot Royal Place."
In 2007 the Saffron Revolution, triggered by the monks marching in the rain chanting the Metta Sutra, in response to the increased price of petrol (suggested by IMF),took place, and the monk U Gambira who led that, has just been rearrested again under the so-called "new administration" since the end of March.  He was sentenced to 20 years of hard labor.
In 2008 the junta did not allow a US aircraft carrier USS Essex to deliver aid after Cyclone Nargis for about a week.  Activists have called this criminal neglect.  The commander of the Essex himself said that after the supplies were delivered, Burmese army trucks drove off with the packages and nothing was ever heard about that again.
(In Ne Win's time, Ne Win separated from his then wife {NNM, wife #3 and 5} in a token divorce, as it was reported her sister took all the cyclone USAID aid.)
A few days after Nargis, the junta allowed the referendum to go on, and of course it came out in favor
In 2010 Aung San Suu Kyi was released.
Against the wishes of her former principal strategist U Win Tin, she decided to go along with the junta in the charade of "democracy."
I do not blame her for this.  She was out of options and needed to negotiate for her better treatment by the junta.  The only way she could do this, was to promise to help remove sanctions.
She was then allowed to travel widely, a beautiful and cultivated opening act, before the general comes and signs the trade and other agreements.
Now that phase has come to its culmination.
Their "Nargis Constitution" is specifically jiggered so she can never be president, and so a make believe post as "advisor" has been created for her, and her close associate U Htin Kyaw has been sworn in as President.
But is this NLD National League for Democracy "new administration" any more than a lame duck facade?  For one thing, it is unclear who is paying the salaries and giving them all these perks like Mercedes.
He who pays the piper will always control the tune and the dance.
It remains to be seen, as everyone else, the entire governmental bureaucracy, remains in place, and they are likely to block the NLD the whole way.
Bureaucrats such as they like rules.  The more rules the better, as then there is more leeway for sarr pauk or "hole for bribes."
Nazis did not disappear from postwar Germany overnight.  The same with the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.
The foreign-based Burmese language media has largely been bought off too in exchange for access, and their programming has gone soft.
I do not think the United States and other Western governments should be so naive in their dealings with the Burmese government.
The Burmese situation remains wooly and opaque. 
In the meantime the junta, cronies, cronies of cronies and owners of rental property are making it rich, just like NGO workers.
But what of the farmers whose land was grabbed?
What of the Rohingya pushed into internal concentration camps and out to sea?
What of the on-going civil wars in the north and the southeast?

I leave this to you to make up your mind, but in the meantime you should stop going to Burma and staying in government or crony-owned luxury hotels.
KMK
Submitted to -- online submission
5-1-2016


















of the military.

Monday, May 09, 2016

John Ralston Saul--Voltaire's Bastards--

Bringing back up front as so good--it is about the corruption of language and the fear of writers--

Highly recommended--tagging Ye Khin Myo MyintU Ye Myint Ye Ni Aung Thu NyeenThynnthynn Wynn Khin Pwint Oo Sean Turnell

Quote--"They got rid of the economic historians, because they wanted to eliminate speculation--" John Raulston Saul--good to hear: "The aristocracy would be the economic historians, they understood the shape of what had already been done--"

That's me--see my dissertation on line at Penn Commons--

We are systems people--

KMKaung
The Pathology of Tyranny
5-9-2016
John Ralston Saul: The Cult of Neoliberalism
video mirrored from teleSUR's Days of Revolt - Neoliberalism as Utopianism @ https://youtu.be/GCqKYftRVE8 watch more on teleSUR @ http://www.…

Eroding Coastlines--disturbing images--Outer Banks

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/ocean-at-the-front-door-coastal-communities-battle-erosion?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us