Sunday, October 08, 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.
Tents--sleeping bags--
UN is ineffective--work through other channels.
Friday, October 06, 2023
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
Thursday, October 05, 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
Monday, October 02, 2023
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.
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=WhUyK8oYZK8https://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. --
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.
Sunday, October 01, 2023
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
Saturday, September 30, 2023
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
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