Thursday, November 07, 2019

Mike Pence's aide sells out trump

https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/mike-pence-aide-sells-out-donald-trump-ukraine-scandal/22749/

Mulvaney subpoenaed, WH asked by whistleblower's lawyer to cease and desist.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry-live-updates/2019/11/07/a2fa1ad0-00e5-11ea-9518-1e76abc088b6_story.html

Foreign Affairs online archive, articles on Burma

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/search?qs=Burma

My publications and where you can buy them--



More than slap on wrist--major outlets refuse to publish alleged name of whistleblower that Don Jr "outed"

https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelsandler/2019/11/06/donald-trump-jr-slammed-for-outing-alleged-whistleblower-as-major-news-outlets-decline-to-publish-name/#1996593f15b7

It is ILLEGAL to out a whistleblower.

Walter Shaub, retired ethics tsar, said on Twitter that, that name may or may not be the real whistle blower, but Don Jr (of Trump Crime Syndicate) has already endangered that man and his family.

That is criminal activity.

If you see anything fishy on social media, report it.

So-called pres is holding hate rallies and inventing his own hate speech.

THIS MUST STOP.

Calls to impeach have been trending on Twitter for the last 6-8 weeks.

11-7-2019

Grandpa Kitchen has died.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/01/india/india-youtube-grandpa-kitchen-intl-hnk-scli/index.html

Photo copyright KM Kaung

Wednesday, November 06, 2019

My review of Thant Myint U's River of Lost Footsteps was Removed from Amazon. Here it is.


I did not like it at all.  Found it too self-serving and blowing his own horn.  In short, he has used name of his illustrious grandfather and his Western education in a rich suburb of NY City to write this book, and despite his tangos with the current nominally civilian government in Burma, does not really understand Burma.  I could not get past page 20 and have given my book away, to the DC/MD area dissident Burmese monastery.
Makaung kyaung po, as we say in Burmese.
"If it is no good, send it to the monastery," such as mismatched odd dinnerware, already used and slightly chipped.
One issue I had with it was it dismisses the student activists/dissidents of 1988 with one sentence.  I felt that their sacrifice and commitment should have been covered more extensively and with respect, no matter if the author does not agree with armed struggle or not. From what I had read or heard about him, I thought he spent one summer between high school and college at the ABSDF (All Burma Students Democratic Front) camp in Manerplaw, on the Burma-Thai Border.  But when I asked a former ABSDF person about it, this man said, "Oh no, he was there one night."  And also he jilted our lovely friend, who went on and married someone else.  The reader should do the same.  Saying this and this happened internationally, while that was happening in Burma, is not really "analysis."  He did not understand the disaster that is Burma nor look into the causes.  Poor historian.  KMKaung.
Changed on Amazon site 3-31-2016

Twitter employees spied for MBS & Saudis

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/former-twitter-employees-charged-with-spying-for-saudi-arabia-by-digging-into-the-accounts-of-kingdom-critics/2019/11/06/2e9593da-00a0-11ea-8bab-0fc209e065a8_story.html

Sam Rainsy to return to Cambodia

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/07/crackdown-in-cambodia-as-opposition-leader-vows-to-return-from-self-imposed-exile?CMP=twt_a-world_b-gdnworld

Americans who moved elsewhere and regretted it--

https://www.wired.com/story/they-fled-trumps-america-now-they-regret-it/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us