Botticelli lost for 50 years found--

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/nov/29/madonna-and-child-painting-botticelli-recovered-50-years-naples-italy

also read--Young Man with Rondel.

11-30-2023

AFP--Irrawaddy--Ye Htut sentenced to 10 years--Kissinger etc

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/world/henry-kissinger-singular-us-diplomat-dead-at-100.html https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-ex-information-minister-ye-htut-jailed-for-incitement-sedition.html https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-ex-information-minister-ye-htut-jailed-for-incitement-sedition.html

Va pensiero--Met at Home Gala + Metdancers--

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=va+penseiro+metathomegala+youtube#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:e07bc495,vid:NmF-ZeptCsI,st:0

Special music posts --for everyone dying to be free, world wide--Fernando by ABBA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQsjAbZDx-4

11-29-2023--Resistance vs junta in Myanmar--backand forth--

https://www.irrawaddy.com/

Just read everything posted every day--

junta airstrikes.

11-29-2023--Burma--India-China--Northen Resistance--make sure you read this--

https://www.irrawaddy.com/specials/myanmar-china-watch/chinese-navy-ships-arrive-in-myanmar-for-joint-drills.html

In Mon State:

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-junta-forces-flee-deadly-resistance-attack-in-mon-state.html

Impt--Guest col. https://www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/guest-column/success-on-myanmar-india-border-a-turning-point-for-chin-resistance.html

The Rihkhawdar-Zokhawthar crossing is also one of the main overland routes from Myanmar to India.--(for both refugees and non-profit aid coming in).

At a time when even China is seen as tacitly approving Operation 1027, largely motivated by the proliferation of scam centers under junta allies, India’s Myanmar policy stands out as an anachronism. At least 75 junta soldiers fleeing to Mizoram have been flown to India’s Manipur State by helicopter and repatriated across the Moreh-Tamu crossing. According to local journalists, these orders came directly from New Delhi after a junta request via the Indian Embassy in Naypyitaw. The Indian government continues to invite junta officials to high-profile events, including junta Education Minister Nyunt Pe at the Global South Summit on Nov. 17.

Continued Indian support for the “mortally wounded” junta is a miscalculation: the military itself is primarily responsible for Myanmar’s chronic instability, dating back to the Ne Win dictatorship. This instability is what forces tens of thousands of Chin refugees into India and allows safe haven for insurgents fighting the Indian government, such as the Manipur People’s Liberation Army, which attacked Indian security forces as recently as Nov. 16. Most strikingly, as junta air strikes and artillery pounded the Chin resistance to prevent Rihkhawdar’s fall, a refugee on the Indian side of the border was killed by stray fire.

This instability also rules out any possibility that India will realize grand economic plans such as the Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project, which requires an overland link from India through Chin and Rakhine in the very sites of renewed fighting. Only federal democracy in Myanmar can deliver the border security and regional stability that India needs. Indeed, most of the 5,000 Chin refugees fleeing the junta early this month have already begun returning home through resistance-controlled Rihkhawdar. Engagement with resistance forces now would do a great deal to ensure friendly relations once the junta is defeated.

This instability also rules out any possibility that India will realize grand economic plans such as the Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project, which requires an overland link from India through Chin and Rakhine in the very sites of renewed fighting. Only federal democracy in Myanmar can deliver the border security and regional stability that India needs. Indeed, most of the 5,000 Chin refugees fleeing the junta early this month have already begun returning home through resistance-controlled Rihkhawdar. Engagement with resistance forces now would do a great deal to ensure friendly relations once the junta is defeated.

Recommendations for the US

For Washington too, this transformative moment suggests a need for new policies. With the Indo-Myanmar border now accessible to the resistance, it is past time to bypass the junta and channel cross-border humanitarian aid directly to affected communities. The United States should begin working with India and the United Nations to build aid infrastructure for Myanmar’s northwest. This is also an opportunity to bolster the local administrative capacity of Myanmar’s civilian National Unity Government (NUG) and ethnic resistance organizations, providing a head start on the massive post-revolutionary task of building “federal democracy” from the ground up. Doubts about resistance unity, which contributed to slow implementation of the BURMA Act, met with a resounding rebuke in Operation 1027. Nonlethal aid and technical assistance for the resistance should be provided without delay; in the past, the NUG has asked for early-warning systems to protect citizens from air strikes, communications equipment, and support for its network of in-country schools. With hundreds of junta soldiers surrendering or joining the resistance since October, the United States should provide funds to incentivize additional desertions. These measures will hasten the end of the war now that the balance has swung decisively against the junta.

Most importantly, Washington needs to come to an accommodation with Myanmar’s neighbors about the post-junta landscape. Despite not drastically changing the character of aid, the BURMA Act raised alarm bells in Beijing that pro-democracy forces might become US catspaws. India and Thailand have their own concerns about the unforeseen consequences of regime change next door. It is imperative for the United States to clearly outline its limited interests and goals in the country, and to work with Myanmar’s neighbors to realize priorities such as infrastructure links and border security. Myanmar cannot finally succeed in its revolution only to become yet another arena of “great-power competition.”

Since the Fiscal Year 2024 budget is held up by congressional dysfunction, new US appropriations for Myanmar will not be possible until early next year. As Congress reconciles the Senate and House versions of FY 2024 appropriations, it should adopt the Senate’s US$167-million Myanmar budget, which explicitly funds cross-border humanitarian assistance through India as well as support for deserters and nonlethal aid for the resistance. In the meantime, the United States should continue to marshal international pressure on the junta and target its finances, as with its sanctions on Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise.

Zo Tum Hmung and John Indergaard are the executive director and project and advocacy coordinator, respectively, of the Chin Association of Maryland.

Jin San Jiao--Burma-China Border--drone attack--Alliance has not claimed yet it did it--

https://www.irrawaddy.com/business/drone-attack-at-myanmar-china-border-gate-causes-over-14m-in-losses.html

Also known in Burmese as

Kyin San Kyawt https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/war-against-the-junta/myanmar-armed-group-seizes-china-myanmar-border-crossing.html

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Saturday --Irrawaddy wrap 11-25-2023--Chinese LiveFire drills on Burma border etc.

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/ethnic-issues/myanmars-junta-and-its-military-face-annihilation-arakan-army-says.html

A

A leader points out 1027 launched by Brotherhood Alliance of wh it is a member and now junta on defensive.

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/ethnic-issues/tnla-hails-seizure-of-major- myanmar-junta-base.html

base retaken by junta, now retaken by TNLA

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/myanmars-crisis-the-world/escalating-fighting-in-northern-myanmar-triggers-live-fire-border-drills-in-china.html

Part of annual live fire drills,China says.

Kmk

Chauvin stabbed in Federal Prison--

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/24/us/derek-chauvin-prison-stabbing.html

Usually what happens to murderers and rapists in prison.

Chuvin put his foot on George Floyd's neck face down for 9 1/2minutes, killing him.

11-25-2023

Panic in Yagon--major cities--forced conscription--

https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/reports-of-forced-conscription-by-myanmars-military-spark-panic-in-yangon.html https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/parents-pull-children-from-schools-in-yangon-as-myanmar-junta-troops-move-in.html https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/myanmar-junta-to-prosecute-satellite-internet-users.html <

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The first thing Zelensky did before the Russian invasion was

secure his Internet--

Hope NUG has done the same--

This conscription indicates junta is panicking too.

Which means it has reason to panic.

Burma city residents shld just focus on survival.

It may be too late to get a passport to leave or even to walk out.

I hate to say it over and over--but a junta does not change its stripes.

k

11-24-2023

The Dutch--glad I went to see the tulips and van Gogh and Rembrandt in 2019 before Covid.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/shock-europe-anti-islam-populist-geert-wilders-records-massive-win-dut-rcna126479

It's as I saw/predicted.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news Thanksgiving Day.

km

11-23-2023

Chemical weapon used in Burma--day before yesterday--why is this not in internationalnews--hidden within another headline on Irrawaddy??

The Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) accused the Myanmar junta of using chemical weapons on Saturday during its successful operation to retake the strategic base of Sakhan Thit Kone, which had been seized by TNLA troops the previous day in Namkham Township, northern Shan State.

After being bombed with the chemical weapons, the TNLA troops suffered from dizziness, breathlessness, nausea, extreme agitation, fatigue, and low blood oxygen despite suffering no external wounds. The junta also used such chemical weapons in an attack on TNLA troops in Lashio Township, northern Shan State on Nov. 4. https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/war-against-the-junta/myanmar-junta-loses-bases-scores-of-troops-in-four-days-of-resistance-attacks.html 11-20-2023

From Old Post Office DC wiki--excerpt--Google it yourself

After Donald J. Trump was inaugurated as President of the United States, the Trump International Hotel became the focus of legal controversy.[177] World leaders stated Trump was encouraging that visiting emissaries were encouraged to stay at Trump hotels.[178] Trump family members, such as Ivanka, profited from their stake in the hotel while Donald Trump was president.[179]

After he left office, the House Oversight Committee continued to investigate, publicly revealing in October 2021 that the Trump International Hotel had received about $3.7 million from foreign governments, potentially violating the Foreign Emoluments Clause of the U.S. Constitution. Additionally, according to the congressional committee, the hotel had a net loss of over $70 million during Trump's presidency. To address this loss, another of Trump's companies, DJT Holdings LLC, loaned over $27 million to the hotel, only a small portion of which the hotel repaid. Most of the loan was eventually converted to capital contributions.[180] Emoluments Clause lawsuits

KDP direct--cover creator tutorial

https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G201113520

Self publishing is good for things you want in a hurry--

e.g. reports. Activism related items.

Before--you had to use either their generic designs or a pre-formatted design.

I used generic sometimes, sometimes custom designs.

Now you can use their Cover Creator with images of your own, or free images from the Internet.

This is an advance.

That said, good writing and a nice cover will not on their own produce massive sales.

You still need An Agent, and active marketing and social media on your own.

Cheers

Kyi May

It's all a scam--it's all a farce--NGO talk in Chiangmai--

https://www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/guest-column/myanmar-civil-society-burmanization-and-the-bars-and-coffee-shops-of-thailand.html

People are dying--200,000 are displaced. All-out civil war is raging.

Will you pl shut up.

It's very dangerous when"both sides" start to believe their own propaganda.

"I want arms, not a ride"

Zelensky.

Burmese saying--"You'll feel the pain when it hits your flesh."

kmk

11-18-2023

KNDF says shot down junta jet--AFP and Myanmar Now

https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/myanmar-military-jet-shot-down-by-karenni-resistance-group-says/

"Black Walnut ZMT" said:

Junta spokesperson Zaw Min Tun told state news MRTV that the jet was on a training flight and came down due to engine failure. He said both pilots were in contact with the military.

k

11-12-2023

China signs 3 solar projects in Magwe and Mandalay.

3 solar projects in Resistance Strongholds of Mandalay and Magwe plus some in Arakan https://www.irrawaddy.com/specials/myanmar-china-watch/china-signs-solar-power-deal-with-myanmar-junta.html

I really think this time

China is carefully laying the groundwork for a full scale invasion.

It can always say it is invading to "Protect Chinese investments and lives"

and to "control the chaotic situation."

After that they may or may not keep m a h.

Most of his ppl he will have purged already.

How neat.

Remember how they set the Panchen Lama against the Dalai Lama and took Tibet--wh now has a Chinese name.

Panchen Lama died in prison long ago after going deaf in one ear from always having to lie in bed so his face faced the peep-hole.

His Holiness is still alive in Dharamsala, India. Turned over Exile Gov to lay management.

He came to RFA once.

I don't know where my photo of us taken with him is.

Will write about it sometime.

km

11-12-2023

Book recommendation--The Costliest Pearl--China's Struggle for India's Ocean

https://www.amazon.com/Costliest-Pearl-Chinas-Struggle-Indias/dp/1849049963

by Bertil Lintner--recommended by Maldives' journalist Daniel Bosley in Himal latest news wrap.

Here's the pdf of a book review- https://www.idsa.in/system/files/jds/jds-14-4-2020-the-costliest-pearl-br.pdf

11-5-2023

More--Isreal-Hamas War

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-says-israels-strikes-refugee-camp-kill-more-than-195-people-2023-11-02/

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/01/biden-administration-thinks-netanyahu-may-not-last-politically-00124849 https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-11-01/israel-gaza-war-palestinians-refugees

LA Times article--Palestinians turn rage on own nominal rulers

https://www.aol.com/news/amid-israel-hamas-war-palestinians-100045934.html

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

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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

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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

My official website--

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

TED talk in Burmese--Burma or Myanmar

https://sanooaung.wordpress.com/2020/05/23/myanmar-or-burma-dr-khin-aye-tedxum1yangon/

They're the same--so much here we go round the mulberry bush.

9-30-2023

War novels/memoirs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Things_They_Carried

Tim O'Brien--

I have Box me up and ship me home--bought in Gottenberg,Sweden

and Yellow Birds--very sad. https://www.amazon.com/Yellow-Birds-Novel-Kevin-Powers/dp/0316219347/ref=asc_df_0316219347/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312114918153&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=3266454121145365358&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9007768&hvtargid=pla-487330906022&psc=1&tag=&ref=&adgrpid=58874700661&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvadid=312114918153&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=3266454121145365358&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9007768&hvtargid=pla-487330906022

also Audie Murphy's book.

Tim O'Brien has a special list of the things they carried.

Kevin Powers has a story of a soldier "Murph" who went awol

unforgettable scenes--

Also look at --Mark Bowden--Black Hawk Down. It was the delay in the satellite GPS which was their doom. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hawk_Down_(book)

kaung

9-30-2023

From La Boheme--Muzetta's Waltz--Quando m'en vo

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=quandomen+vo+youtube#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:765662ef,vid:kCralQMcehc,st:0

Magbificent Muzetta--but insipid Marcello

oh well--

can't have it all.

kmk

9-30-2023

My short story--Black Belt from 2016

https://www.himalmag.com/black-belt/

Details and story changed--except the kick.

told to me by a friend driving me to Blue Mountains near Sydney, Australia.

kmk

9-30-2023

Movie--I am not a witch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv_ONpV8ku8

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Not_a_Witch

regards

kmk

USA--Social Security checks willstill go out under government shutdown--

https://www.aol.com/news/happens-social-security-payments-government-155556010.html

General Mark Milley--US Army--Joint Chief of Staff--from Wikipedia

Rucker and Leonnig's book also quoted Milley as saying "this is a Reichstag moment", comparing Trump's attempts to overturn the election to the event used to cement Nazi Germany and referring to Trump's false statements about electoral fraud as "the gospel of the Führer". Milley reportedly told police and military officials preparing to secure Joe Biden's presidential inauguration: "Everyone in this room, whether you're a cop, whether you're a soldier, we're going to stop these guys to make sure we have a peaceful transfer of power. We're going to put a ring of steel around this city and the Nazis aren't getting in."[85][86] Trump later said that he had not threatened or spoken about a coup and falsely claimed that Obama had fired Milley.[87]

On January 12, 2021, Milley and the Joint Chiefs of Staff issued a statement condemning the storming of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of Trump and reminding all service members of their obligation to support and defend the Constitution and reject extremism.[88][89] They said: "As we have done throughout our history, the U.S. military will obey lawful orders from civilian leadership, support civilian authorities to protect lives and property, ensure public safety in accordance with the law, and remain fully committed to protecting and defending the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic."[90] see Milley wikipedia

Not your burmesejunta general.

He has written a 1980 book on guerilla warfare.

Excerpt from a Nepali novel--

https://www.himalmag.com/the-caravan-of-sanuman-dor-bahadur-bista-2021/

Tibetan intellectuals in China--From Himal Southasian magazine.

https://www.himalmag.com/refusal-and-responsibility-tibetan-intellectuals-2022/

Congratulations General C.Q.Brown

https://www.aol.com/news/c-q-brown-next-chairman-233119560.html

USTravel Advisories--Not to travel to--red--include Afghanistan and Myanmar,Mexico by State

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/places-the-us-government-warns-not-to-travel-right-now

Take note.

US paid too much recently to in effect buy American citizens out of Afghanistan --some of whom had been imprisoned years.

Don't take the risk--it's not worth it.

There are plenty other places to go to.

You can even staycation and travel anywhere by reading books, incld to ancient China, Greece, Rome, India you name it. To outer space, to the future--to see dinosaurs or the first fish, bird, bee, flower.

No more standing in line, no more walking miles and miles in airports, no more jet lags.

Almost every exotic food can be bought easily.

I'm very glad I decided to be a writer when I was 10.

kmk

9-20-2023 , or

John Grisham, GRR Martin and 17 others sue AI

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/openai-george-rr-martin-john-grisham-authors-copyright-b2415530.html

I hope it's sued out of business.

km

9-20-2023

Man's easy crochet vest--

easy men's crochet vest--tres facile

Tue, Sep 19 at 6:57 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26JKYpM0jq8

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

I don't like the contrast color band--but you can make it any way you wish

Or you can just make a scarf.

Mainstream media needs to shape up--

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/15/trump-biden-mainstream-politics-news-coverage

"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.

km

9-17-2023

Libyan floods--well written piece by Linda Loveluck--Wapo

Sat, Sep 16 at 5:36 AM

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/09/15/libya-floods-disaster-derna-aid/

This is how you write good narrative non-fiction.

Not over-inflated and at the same time empty (emotionally) like "Rebel of Rangoon" so-called novel by one-time Rangoon bureau chief--not from Washington Post. Non-fiction should be neither too dry--nor too pumped up like a bodice buster or fake breasts.

It should still reach the heart. Your heart --for both reader and writer.

Kyi May Kaung

9-16-2023

My poetry and articles in Foreign Policy in Focus--2007-2013

https://fpif.org/authors/kyi-may-kaung/

O Mio Babbino Caro (Oh my Beloved Father) sung by Kathleen Battle--Puccini.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Kyrie+alieson+youtube+kathleen+battle&client=firefox-b-1-d&sca_esv=564868581&sxsrf=AB5stBgqHu1SNJLM_jrlkGKj9xtczpux5Q%3A1694564786947&ei=sgEBZe6mOdLi5NoPu7SC-Aw&ved=0ahUKEwjux7LhqaaBAxVSMVkFHTuaAM8Q4dUDCA8&uact=5&oq=Kyrie+alieson+youtube+kathleen+battle&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiJUt5cmllIGFsaWVzb24geW91dHViZSBrYXRobGVlbiBiYXR0bGUyBRAhGKsCSIttUOItWJBrcAF4AZABAJgBlgGgAeURqgEEMTYuOLgBA8gBAPgBAcICChAAGEcY1gQYsAPCAg0QABgNGIAEGLEDGIMBwgIHEC4YDRiABMICBxAAGA0YgATCAgYQABgeGA3CAggQABgFGB4YDcICCBAAGAgYHhgNwgIGEAAYFhgewgIHECEYoAEYCuIDBBgAIEGIBgGQBgg&sclient=gws-wiz-serp#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:27ded7c8,vid:A2pc8Tm7sS0,st:0

Prayer for all the PDF People's Defense Forces, Others--dying for Freedom in Burma & Ukraine--Oh Isis and Osiris from The MagicFlute--Rene Pape.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeP0NOPAIys

Rene Pape--Within our sacred temple--from Mozart's The Magic Flute--original lyrics by Emanuel Schikenedar--translated by poet J DMcClatchy

https://www.google.com/search?q=Rene+Pape+Magic+Flute+youtube&client=firefox-b-1-d&sca_esv=564852360&sxsrf=AB5stBg1gPY2ntNBVP_iwfkysDEbi6eoNQ%3A1694563535025&ei=z_wAZcGDAY2v5NoP8vKl8AM&ved=0ahUKEwiBp7eMpaaBAxWNF1kFHXJ5CT4Q4dUDCA8&uact=5&oq=Rene+Pape+Magic+Flute+youtube&gs_lp=Egxnd3Mtd2l6LXNlcnAiHVJlbmUgUGFwZSBNYWdpYyBGbHV0ZSB5b3V0dWJlMgQQIxgnSIE8UNoPWIU5cAF4AZABAJgBZ6AB0wyqAQQxOS4xuAEDyAEA-AEBwgIKEAAYRxjWBBiwA8ICChAAGIoFGLADGEPCAhAQLhiKBRjIAxiwAxhD2AEBwgIKEAAYgAQYFBiHAsICBRAAGIAEwgIGEAAYFhge4gMEGAAgQYgGAZAGCroGBAgBGAg&sclient=gws-wiz-serp#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:ce590aba,vid:E8IbYFJAb8Y,st:0

Myanmar--junta arrests general in charge of exports and traders

https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/myanmar-regime-arrests-army-general-targets-businessmen-and-traders-as-economy-continues-to-suffer/

Cat Stevens--Morning has Broken--

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

Conte Partiro--Time to say Goodbye-Andrea Bocelli

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdWEhMOrRpQ . KMKaung 9-11-2023

Ellsworth Kelly

Other sculptures, not by Ai Wei Wei--at the Hirschorn Museum--big one outdoors is a Calder--

Nancy Pelosi and DawAungSanSuu Kyi--2012

T.S. Eliot--The Hollow Men

https://allpoetry.com/the-hollow-men

Some of Ai Wei Wei's art shown at Hirschorn Museum in Washington DC--CAT scan is his head after hit by Chinese security.

Chinese-born dissenting artist Ai Wei Wei From 2011--little paper packets are ceramic sunflower seeds for patrons--

A letter I wrote to Irrawaddy ref--Col.Chit Myaing--

" well respected" Chit Myaing?

Tuesday, June 21, 2011 11:02 AM

From:

"Kyi May Kaung"

To: "franz fanon" , "Irrawaddy Magazine" , "Dr. Sein Win"

Cc: "kyi may kaung", "inge sargent" , "Howard Sargent" , "Maureen Aung Thwin" , "Bertil Lintn "During a nearly 10-hour interview with me in 1995, the well-respected nationalist former Colonel Chit Myaing . . . "

Dr. Zarni

Dear Irrawaddy Editors,

You did not provide space for comments with ref. to Dr. Zarni's most recent piece.

Though I agree with Zarni on most of the points he makes,

Col. Chit Myaing cannot be considered "well respected" nor "nationalistic" - unless he is well respected by the junta, which I also doubt. I also doubt so-called "nationalism" of the junta, which is more like racism.

In the Greater DC area Chit Myaing is more or less a pariah. The junta people go to their own monastery and the dissidents have their own monks.

In about 1999, while at Radio Free Asia, I produced a "book review" presented as interview excerpts and a radio play of Inge Sargent (former Hsipaw Sawbwa's widow) - based on at least 6 hours of face to face interviews with Inge over 2 years and her memoir Twilight over Burma, published by the University of Hawaii Press. Bertil Lintner wrote the forward to this book, in which he described Inge with her two infant children going to confront Ne Win and Kitty Ne Win at Schloss Laudon where he was staying while seeing his psychiatrist in Vienna.

As you know, Inge's first husband, a US educated progressive Sawbwa, died, probably of torture, probably in Bahtoo Myo, probably days after the March 2, 1962 coup when he was separated from the other sawbwas who were arrested in Rangoon. Inge and her daughters have never received an explanation.

Mrs. Sargent told me that Ne Win was "angry with Saw Kya Seng, because he did not go down to the junction in the road to greet Ne Win by the roadside" and instead invited him to come to the haw or palace.

She also told me at least twice that "all this had to do with Col. Chit Myaing," then in charge of the Shan States, and "the revenues from the Bawkyo pagoda festivals" which includes income, allowed under the U Nu administration, for gaming tables playing lay khaung kyin, the traditional game with four animal motifs.

Anyway, the notorious previous head of RFA Burmese section (some think he was a junta plant and working then for Military Intelligence chief Khin Nyunt) Soe Thinn

"shot down" parts of my program and made me take out the reference to Chit Myaing.

His point was "Chit Myaing will sue RFA."

My point was "doesn't the victim and her family have Rights too, to state the truth? And it's not libel if it's true."

Soe Thinn still said "but U Chit Myaing won't like it" as if he was (still) working for Chit Myaing or the junta. {I told ST why don’t we play the program to CM on the phone, and if he does not agree we will also broadcast his denial, but ST said he would “call CM from his home phone in the evening.”

Burma Debate at the time also published letters from Inge Sargent and Chit Myaing.

I don't know how this person (Chit Myaing) got US asylum, but it sounds to me like the Nazis, mistakenly admitted.

Soe Thinn as you also know lost his job in 2007 due to RFA having to pay $300,000 in a court settlement for a gender discrimination case. (Soe Thinn asked his trick question, "If I askyou to speak ill of Aung San Suu Kyi,will you do so? The male job applicant sued and won.)

It was all on DC Superior Court website in the public domain including a verbatim account of the trial, but may have been taken off the site now. This was how I found out about it. blockquote>I hope you publish my letter.

KNote--they did not. ________________________________________

Bertil Lintner's foreward to Inge Sargent (HsipawMahadevi's) memoir--Twilight over Burma

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9780824865337-003/html

Mrs.Sargent's first husband--Hsipaw Sawbwa Sao Kya Hseng, was killed/died from torture in Ne Win's prison--in Shan States in 1962.

I interviewed Ma Ma (Elder Sister) Inge about 4 times.

Last saw her and her husband Tad in 2016.

RIP--Lovely Couple--

Let us not forget all the Victims of the NW and successive military regimes.

The junta has never given an explanation of what happened to Sao Kya Seng.

But we remember--we must.

I painted her portrait in one night--and gave it to her.

kmk

9-4-2023

Burma Resistance on Offensive, junta defensive--cluster bombs--de-mining with bare hands

https://www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/analysis/myanmar-junta-goes-on-the-defensive-in-august-resistance-gains-ground.html https://www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/guest-column/when-assessing-myanmars-democracy-struggle-beware-unwarranted-defeatism.html

I've heard so much of this blah blah since 1988.

I agree with Igor B.

"Suu Kyi is so this, SK is so that--sanctions don't work--corvee is not forced labor" and so much bullshit.

If everyone thought they would fail anyway, why do anything.

RESPECT these young people who are risking their lives daily.

Don't sit on your arse and do nothing=meditating,"sending thoughts and prayers" giving all manner of good advice, like"give up."

I personally think Rome is about to fall. Russia is buying back weapons from countries like Burma.

Economics and the weakness of slave labor brought down Nazi Germany-- you shld all read more. https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/rights-groups-slam-myanmar-juntas-use-of-cluster-munitions.html https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/what-do-changes-in-myanmar-regimes-roadmap-and-objectives-mean.html He looks stressed--go make another Buddha image. https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/myanmars-landmine-clearers-working-with-pliers-and-bare-hands/

9-1-2023