CNN --Mocha has made landfall--2 hours ago.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/13/asia/cyclone-mocha-aid-agencies-myanmar-bangladesh-climate-intl-hnk/index.html

Images:

1. Cox's Bazaar refugee camps.Rohingya

2. Cyclone path fr CNN

3. crony monk praying to "dragon" in wrong place (Irrawaddy Delta)

4. Recently bombed Sagaing Village--bombed by junta.

Cyclone Mocha landfall Myanmar and Bangladesh Sunday

https://www.nytimes.com/article/cyclone-mocha-bangladesh-myanmar.html as we say in Burmese--

ah nar paw doke kya

a stick falls

on a gaping

wound.

Mocha means (100%) certain.

Try and get ready.

I used to say sarcastically after Nargis Cyclone 2008--"buy a boat." kmk 5-12-2023

Al Jazeera exclusive --Burma--massacres, air strikes etc.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2023/5/12/charred-bodies-burned-homes-a-campaign-of-terror-in-myanmar-2 Something needs to be done. Meanwhile junta sounds like it's panicking too-- offering cash rewards for PDF who defect fr Resistance with weapons-- but sounds like no takers. A young Resistance couple in Mon State just died. A terrible feeling of helplessness watching from afar. If they scorched everything, where will next years' rice harvest come from????? People incld the tat cannot eat RPGs etc. "Pineapples"=hand grenades k--5-11-2023

Poem from Cipher Magazine

https://www.ciphermagazine.com/rotten-2/to-the-person-who-loves-me-next

Sagaing etc images all from Internet

Thermobaric Bomb used in Sagaing + school bombed--++

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/hrw-myanmar-junta-used-enhanced-bomb-on-sagaing-village.html https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-regime-warplane-bombs-school-of-300-students-in-sagaing.html High time West did something. This week Sagaing, next week Karen/Kayin State. Call/write to newspapers, your Congressman, call White House. 5-10-2023

E Jean Carroll vs trump--he must pay $5 m

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/05/09/nyregion/trump-carroll-rape-trial-verdict

He didn't appear in court yesterday. Yeah, E Jean Carroll. Thank you for your Persistence and your Courage. k 5-9-2023

Pa O PNLO deny they fired on "toothless ASEAN convoy" delivering aid --

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/pnlo-denies-attacking-asean-relief-convoy-in-myanmars-shan-state.html

Dallas Mall shooting--50% of victims Asian --Asians 20 % of Dallas residents.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/2023/05/09/allen-mall-mass-shooting-at-least-half-of-fatalities-people-of-asian-descent/ The perpetrators choose crowded places. Assault weapons should be banned. One 6 year old is only survivor of his family. k 5-9-2023

Head ogre NW Command myanmar

https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/the-man-behind-the-myanmar-juntas-campaign-of-terror-in-sagaing/ 5-8-2023

War related injuries --treatment of--

https://www.cdc.gov/masstrauma/preparedness/primer.pdf Fee e download, 5th revision, Emergency War Surgery-- https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/emergency-war-surgery-5th-us-revision-1

US Govt Bookstore. Whether you are Russian, American, Burmese, Ukrainian, Sudanese,Syrian etc you need this now. I know bc I lived in West Philadelphia where gun shootings are daily occurrence, HUP Hospital of Univ of Pennsylvania and hospitals in Philadelphia are where doctors come to train for trauma injuries. There are a lot of books on war injuries beginning from US Civil War. Thanks. Stop being an ostrich. km 5-7-2023

Fee e download, 5th revision, Emergency War Surgery--

https://bookstore.gpo.gov/products/emergency-war-surgery-5th-us-revision-1 US Govt Bookstore. Whether you are Russian, American, Burmese, Ukrainian, Sudanese,Syrian etc you need this now. I know bc I lived in West Philadelphia where gun shootings are daily occurrence, HUP Hospital of Univ of Pennsylvania and hospitals in Philadelphia are where doctors come to train for trauma injuries. There are a lot of books on war injuries beginning from US Civil War. Thanks. Stop being an ostrich. km 5-7-2023

70 cousins in Sagaing hotbed--how long can Burmese villages hold out.

https://www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/guest-column/how-much-longer-can-myanmars-villages-withstand-juntas-onslaught.html doesn't look like they can hold out much longer. Do something, write op ed write to yr congressman. kg 5-5-2023

Maureen Dowd--Requeim for the Newsroom

Maureen Dowd --Requiem for the Newsroom. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/29/opinion/journalism-newsroom.html

T

he NYT building in Manhatten had a completely empty entryway, and all the elevators were locked.

This was before Covid.

There was not even a receptionist there.

Must be due to fear of terrorism.

But very disappointing.

The famous Dean and Deluca was also disappointing. No sign of any marron glace (candied chestnuts). I bought a mug but its rim was too thick.

That's why I work at this e-community so much.

Very few people left in this world now who call me by my nickname "KyiKyi"

T

hanks

kyi may

Beautiful, wrenching images by "amateur"photographers who gave their lives --

https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/as-myanmars-revolution-beckons-a-new-breed-of-activist-photographers-heeds-the-call/

Pl share this link widely and start collecting money.

The easiest way is for you to donate on the Myanmar Now site with a note on how you wish yr money to be used. $5, 10, 20 is only the price of a small dessert and coffee.

I'm out for eye surgery soon--but pl do this for me--esp. the families of these young people.

UN may turn its head, but we shld not.

Thanks.

km

4-29-2023

Cato Institute, DC. winner of Milton Friedman Award for Advancing Liberty --

Elon Musk rolls out pay wall causing uproar among developers From Financial Times

The shake up is the latest turmoil to hit Twitter since Musk bought the platform for $44bn in October. The billionaire has already alienated a large swath of advertisers with his content moderation approach, as well as some of Twitter’s most powerful users over his plans to charge $8 a month for its “blue tick” verification. In March, Musk said Twitter’s finances are improving to the point the social media company could return to posting positive cash flow next quarter. But the company remains on the hook for $1.5bn of annual interest payments on $13bn of debt he used to fund the acquisition

Kg; He DID NOT buy it with his own money and now debt service is stupendous. In past I could ask Google specific Qs such as "at wh gate will flight -- leave on -- at -- airport" and get correct instant answers. Or "C-drama XYZ ep 1 eng sub. I don't think I will pay $8 per month.

4-29-2023

Woman at center of Emmett Till lynching and death died --

https://www.aol.com/news/carolyn-bryant-donham-center-emmett-171259434.html Emmett, she charged, whistled at her. 4-27-2023

Quote of the Day from Spike Lee et al, BlackKKKKlansman--Harry Belafonte's last movie

INT. BELL'S NIGHTINGALE - NIGHT

Kwame holds The Crowd in The Palm of his Hand. Members of the

Audience who were sitting already are rising to their Feet...

CLOSE - RON

sits, claps vigorously, as if forgetting he is Undercover...

CLOSE - KWAME

KWAME TURE (CONT'D)

In closing I know it's getting late, may I leave you Sista's and Brothers with these Last Words. "If I am not for myself, who will be? If I am for myself alone, who am I? If not now, when? And if not you, who?" We need an Undying Love for Black People wherever We may be. Good Night and POWER TO THE PEOPLE, POWER TO THE PEOPLE.

The BLACK MASS STANDS AS ONE WITH KWAME TURE.

Read aloud for kids Chris van Hollen--Polar Express

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BbmkmrV4B0

My Archive at International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam.

https://researchworks.oclc.org/archivegrid/collection/data/1004228429 I shld work on depositing more items that are already in the public domain. They don't take original paintings. And I am keeping most in my personal collection, Estate, anyway. kmk

Yay mon--water cake in process, Chiangmai,Thailand.

Amnesty International Special Report--Deadly Cargo--jet fuel supply chain of US military-

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2022/11/myanmar-the-supply-chain-fueling-war-crimes/ 4-23-2023

According to pro-Russian forces, Ukraine has established foothold E of Dnieper River.

https://www.aol.com/news/report-ukrainian-forces-across-key-154401867.html 4-23-2023

God almighty--who's fighting whom--Sudan--US evacuates US UK Canadian diplomats 100 using 100 special ops, Ospreys.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/04/23/world/sudan-khartoum-fighting-news separatist leader allied with Russia and Wagner group. born again democrat civilians relying on Resistance Coms. Those int-ed in conflict w bur junt shld read this section carefully. NUG shld set up a pigeon post and non-internet secure channels NOT a centralized one. Cells shld not know each other (well). A code and passwords shld be changed all the time. NUG shld request direct help w communications fr US DOS and DOD. kg 4-23-2023

Why my eyes itch this Spring, Drought DC Baltimore

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/04/14/drought-conditions-dry-dc-virginia-maryland/ 4-22-2023

Reuters--US, UK, France, China to evacuate citizens from Khartoum, Sudan.

Could be Rangoon soon-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzjr6fk6lmE US says "shelter in place." I'm not sure if US Embassy still in Burma. 4-22-2023

Himal Lit Fest tentative dates –All the world’s a stage.

Mauve are release dates on Himal Southasian website of stories every other day. Then they will be up there forever.

I don't yet know times of Twitter panels and have to learn how to use spaces in meantime.

I am very excited as I love all these panels, poetic, political, as all panelists are already curated in it's like meeting your soul brothers and sisters.

Writers of the World, Unite, right?

Now it's on Zoom--others,in Berlin,Helsinki, NY City, Toronto,Calgary,DeKalb IL, Ann Arbor,Mchigan--Boulder,CO,Ubud, Bali, all good in terms of panels and presenters and audience response, but sometimes pol. lackeys and professional SOBs busy heckling--or more.

Like the Other Side taking photos or stealing evidence photos.

Won't go into detail here. Read my published work.

Zoom is safer in that respect, but tech makes one "once removed."

But post-Rushdie stabbing and Covid on-going, it's likely to be the norm from now on

so you and I must learn at least to use some of the tech.

If you have writerly/artistic ambitions get to work--just show your stuff, selling orchids, selling clothes, used books, new books, it's all the same.

Don't be afraid.

I started reading poetry downstairs in the community room of the dorm I Iived in.

KMKaung

4-21-2023

Fiction Fest schedule

Date Event Participants

12/06 Launch event: Panel on publishing in Southasia TBD

12/06 Containing Lightning Saher Hasnain

14/06 Joseph, Our Math Teacher Shah Tazrian

16/06 Beast Kyi May Kaung

16/06 Twitter spaces - Reading Saher, Shah, Kyi May

19/06 Deep Red Carnations Ciara Mendis

21/06 The Odyssey of Kartar Singh Siddharth Singh

23/06 Accident Zone Drive Deepa Basthi

23/06 Twitter spaces - Reading Ciara, Siddharth, Deepa

More Berlin 2005

Berlin 2005

Himal Fiction Fest, e-version, coming up in June- I am one of only 6 Asian writers selected.

Himal Fiction Fest, e-version, coming up in June- I am one of only 6 Asian writers selected.

Dear All,

I believe in working straight through any life or health crisis, writing every day and painting as often as I can.

Writing for me is a way of thinking aloud and getting life choices in order.

I wrote Beast, based on a Burmese story (Thiha Bahu), about 2001 starting it in a short-lived building writing group, and finished it after a gap of several years.

Previously, Himal Southasia had published one fiction piece Black Belt and one non-fiction piece Potemkin Politics of mine.

Himal acquiring editor told me they publish fiction infrequently, but as a former contributor he would like to see my work (that has not been published before).

I sent 2 pieces, 1st one 1st chapter of novel I have been working on since last July. Beast was my 2nd submission.

There will be an ad. campaign that they will do, also e-sessions on publishing and (joint) readings on Twitter-

I already worked through Beast w the Himal copy editor and now they are working on the illustrations.

In the past 2005 I went to Berlin for a similar festival of Writers who Dare Confront at House of World Culture where also a small # of writers were selected.

They found us on Internet and that one included Vietnamese poet Linh Dinh

https://substack.com/profile/4965357-linh-dinh

my now-friend Mariane Villaneuva, https://themuseumofamericana.net/the-walker-fiction-by-marianne-villanueva/

and founder of "Indonesian Time Magazine" Tempo, Goenawan Mohamad. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goenawan_Mohamad

Needless to say I had a swell time, with only 2 scares, one involving Burmese and the other the Philippine ambassador to Germany, who insisted M's story of gang rape of beauty queen "never happened."

Marianne gave me permission to write abt that.

I

'll have more details later.

K

yi May

4-18-2023

Russian crude, Shwe gas pipeline--China

https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/russia-moves-crude-to-chinese-refineries-via-myanmar-pipeline/

4-18-2023

Google it yourself--

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/junta-crony/notorious-myanmar-junta-crony-u-tay-za-reemerges-after-year-long-public-absence.html

trying again w tayza link.

arms dealer tayza and more crony monks==

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/junta-crony/notorious-myanmar-junta-crony-u-tay-za-reemerges-after-year-long-public-absence.html They look like what they are. 4-18-2023

Vladimir Kara-Murza sentenced to 25 years

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65297003 Very sad. 4-17-2023

a hundred roses for Olga Herzon + poem Naught --from Wrath Bearing Tree

https://www.wrath-bearingtree.com/2023/04/new-nonfiction-from-antoinette-constable-a-hundred-roses-for-olga-herzen/ Painting of roses by Fantin Latour--my favorite flower painter. https://www.wrath-bearingtree.com/2023/03/new-poem-by-sandra-newton-naught/

Red Roses on Balustrade --Kaung- kaung 5-16-2023

What to do with old portrait paintings

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/04/16/recycling-oil-paintings/ Some are quite beautiful. The one shown could have a novel written around it. km 4-16-2023

A stranger has come--

https://allpoetry.com/Love-In-The-Asylum

Cherry Blossom Parade--Plethora of Pink

https://wjla.com/features/cherry-blossom/national-cherry-blossom-festival-parade-7news-watch-see-it-constitution-avenue-where-to-watch-mickey-minnie-mouse-carson-kressley-lisa-ann-walter-marching-bands-route-map-dc-parking-road-closures Usually I go to the Tidal Basin, where one woman asked, "What kind of trees are these?" I answered. km 4-16-2023

Wang Kai--When a snail falls in love--

https://myasiantv.cx/show/when-a-snail-falls-in-love/episode-1 Scene 1 Cambodian train Scene 2 Rangoon Train Station-- see how decrepit it is. km 4-14-2023

Depths of Depravity--now it has a name--Thingyan Massacre--

https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/thingyan-massacre-reveals-depths-of-myanmar-juntas-depravity-and-its-growing-desperation/

Frederik the Great--images--Potsdam. Gleineke Bridge "Spy Exchange Bridge" near Berlin.

It's not posting the link again, in 3 tries.

Google it yourself.

Democracy Now--Pentagon leaks "You can see the fold lines" UK and US Special forces(100) already in Ukraine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7F0jE1UAdt8

Truly dreadful, terrible Burmese New Year--"There were pieces of flesh everywhere" Sagaing air strike etc

https://www.irrawaddy.com/ Just scroll down incld 100 dead, airstrikes in Sagaing etc. Shwekoko Gambling Hub etc. 5-12-2023

I've beat cancer so far--Athena Goddess of Wisdom and War

NPR quits Twitter

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/12/1169269161/npr-leaves-twitter-government-funded-media-label I agree. I have quit using it too. My entire acct disappeared and I had to open a new one. Was good under Jack Dorsey. @jack gave fast responses. At the rate Musk is firing staff, it will get worse. Mastadon is not that user friendly, Facebook sucks. All "kmk"on FB fakes or deep fakes. and yet ppl like it so much. Tired. km 4-11-2023

Excerpt from Gloria Anzaldua--Borderlands

http://www.warscapes.com/retrospectives/uncertain-borders/excerpts-borderlandsla-frontera

something like what I try to do. Kyi May Kaung

Gallery of Goons--man behind Sagaing killings

https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/the-man-behind-the-myanmar-juntas-campaign-of-terror-in-sagaing/

Myanmar Main Airport Yangon rocked by explosions

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/war-against-the-junta/myanmars-main-airport-rocked-by-explosions.html

Bush Sr Funeral continued Special train etc--

Bush Sr. Funeral images in 2019-