Wny is the MF thanking the Supreme Court this week--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0SRoPaA3UE

https://www.theguardian.com/books/audio/2010/apr/15/sylvia-plath-ted-hughes

just another marriage "made in heaven" that ended badly.

10-31-2020

 

 

Original 1938 broadcast of War of the Worlds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs0K4ApWl4g

Now I've lived through shenanigans at Radio Free Asia where some of Burmese staff brought up volume of gun shots during a live broadcast by a reporter far away during a hostage situation in Ratchaburi on the BurmaThai Border; the time I made a serialization and dramatization of Animal Farm in Burmese (and the VP said "just do a book review"), and 9/11, and now covid,

and I am familiar with the places near New York City,

this seems much more realistic to me.   It is of course, Brilliant.

I can believe people in 1938 thought it was real, and panicked, when today all sorts of BS is coming from the so-called prez, such as "We're rounding the corner on covid" and "You can put chlorox in body and disinfect it," and "maybe I'm immune" and "herd mentality."

Hope by Wed. this living nightmare might be over, but we will see.

Pl VOTE, if you have not already.  And have a plan, not just for election day, but also for afterwards.

I heard yesterday that Dr Fauci said it will go into 2022.  Of course it will.

kmk

10-31-2020

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoLnHpPd1Og

Thomas Friedman talks to Anderson Cooper abt what trump will do.

“Is this the last weekend of America as we know it?”

 

10-31-2020

 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/10/30/covid-news-us-9-m-cases-ihop-los-angeles-wisconsin/6077964002/

https://www.wesh.com/article/daily-us-coronavirus-cases-reach-new-high-thursday/34526601

https://www.clickondetroit.com/health/good-health/2020/10/30/kroger-pharmacies-to-offer-rapid-covid-antibody-testing-with-15-minute-results/

El Paso lock downs

https://www.clickondetroit.com/health/good-health/2020/10/30/kroger-pharmacies-to-offer-rapid-covid-antibody-testing-with-15-minute-results/

10-30-2020

 

Obituary--Penny Sanger --co-founder, Canadian Friends of Burma.

Obituary--Penny Sanger --co-founder, Canadian Friends of Burma.

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theglobeandmail/obituary.aspx?n=penny-sanger&pid=190004416

She was wonderful.  She found us and started tourism boycott of Burma in 1994.

Rest in :Power.

Kyi May Kaung

10-29-2020

 

Fighter jet intercepts--trump is clueless but tries to wing it.

Fighter jet intercepts--trump is clueless but tries to wing it.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/28/politics/trump-rally-fighter-jet-arizona/index.html

 

Fighter jet intercepts--trump is clueless but tries to wing it.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/28/politics/trump-rally-fighter-jet-arizona/index.html

Supreme Court refuses to fast track Gop challenge--amy con parrot did not vote.

Supreme Court refuses to fast track Gop challenge--amy con parrot did not vote.

 https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/28/politics/supreme-court-pennsylvania-mail-in-deadline-barrett/index.html

 

FBI announces indictment of Chinese agents--

FBI announces indictment of Chinese agents--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnxDtghKRJ4

 

Greetings from Washington, DC.

I was supposed to write "Economic effects of Covid-19" for you all over there, but I got caught up in other things, including staying alive, making cloth masks and U.S. politics.  The habits of just 3 years at Radio Free Asia die hard, and I check the news every 2-3 hours, including at night. Needless to say, the economic effects have been and will continue to be devastating.

Death and disease also have a multiplier effect.  On non-political-economy, I am an active member of a Fiber Group, but I am the only one painting, making needlepoint and crocheting.

All I can say is after working for democracy in Burma for decades and studying authoritarian systems, to be confronted with #45 is quite something.  Vote, whichever country you are a citizen of.

You can find my dissertation on the University of Pennsylvania website.  Watch MSNBC. 

Above all, stay alive.

Kyi May Kaung (Ph.D)

27th October 2020.

 

4 people who've known trump up close assess the situation--

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/25/deep-down-terrified-little-boy-bob-woodward-mary-trump-john-bolton-anthony-scaramucci-on-donald-trump

Dark Towers--Deutsche Bank's Nazi roots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zkzRIi-Oqc

 

My book has arrived, and I've wiped it with hand sanitizer, but not reading yet as new research says covid lives on surfaces 28 days, not 3.

 

I have seen Auschwitz in 1968-9 while I was studying in Poland.  Deutsche Bank financed Auschwitz.

 

Another book by Detlev Peukert maintains Nazis remained in then W Germany even after WWII.  I believe it. 

 

10-27-2020

 

Putin rejects Trump criticism of Hunter Biden business

Putin rejects Trump criticism of Hunter Biden business

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/putin-rejects-trump-s-criticism-hunter-biden-s-business-n1244731

Who will win this year's US election?

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-election-forecast/

BBC: British commandos retake control of Nigerian oil tanker near Isle of Wight in 7 mins, at 7 PM

BBC: British commandos retake control of Nigerian oil tanker near Isle of Wight in 7 mins, at 7 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjqSGw8Cl18

 

Look what I found, illustrated life of Buddha by U Ba Kyi

Look what I found, illustrated life of Buddha by U Ba Kyi

http://kusala.online-dhamma.net/%E6%96%87%E5%AD%97%E8%B3%87%E6%96%99/%E5%8D%97%E5%82%B3%E4%BD%9B%E6%95%99%E5%9C%96%E6%9B%B8%E9%A4%A8%20Theravada%20Buddhism%20E-Library/074%20Children%27s%20Buddhist%20Books/Buddha%20Life%20Stories%20(Myamnar%20Tradition%201)/0ymbabok.htm

When we were growing up, we had a print copy of this, which we kept under our shrine shelf.

And I just found out U Ba Kyi also went to Univ of Pennsylvania, School of Arts and Science, in Philadelphia, and he may have been selected for that scholarship by my father U Kaung.   In the 1950s, a number of Burmese studied in the USA or UK. 

And then in 1962, after my father had passed away already, Gen. Ne Win stage his coup and stopped all scholarships to West, except for medical doctors.

My husband's boss used to say, "Well, why doesn't he have a barefoot doctor cut into him then?"

I also went to U Penn in 1982 on a Fulbright.  6 of us in a country of 60m were selected after a battery of tests, bc Ne Win's daughter failed her entrance exams for med school in London.

For a while, Wikipedia listed her as "dictator gynaecologist."

That's all amazing.

kmk

10-23-2020

 

 

Covid-19 books for kids

http://www.schoolmentalhealth.org/media/SOM/Microsites/NCSMH/Documents/COVID-19/COVID-Books-Resources.-For-Children-final.pdf

FBI Press Conference--Iran and Russia interfering in US elections.

FBI Press Conference--Iran and Russia interfering in US elections.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mDvm_8Izv0

 

Buvanka--first incest daughter--

Buvanka--first incest daughter--

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ivanka-trump-coronavirus-pandemic-lockdown-guitar-poverty-b1186526.html

 

Oxycontin maker to pay $8 b fine, going bankrupt.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/21/business/purdue-pharma-guilty-plea/index.html

Submarine murderer caught close to prison.

Submarine murderer caught close to prison.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/20/europe/peter-madsen-prison-escape-intl-scli/index.html

 

My writerly memoir --A Time to Write.

My writerly memoir --A Time to Write.

https://www.amazon.com/Time-Write-Burma-Memoir-Memoirs/dp/153977421X

 

Dr. Fauci now requires a security detail--

Dr. Fauci now requires a security detail--

https://twitter.com/60minutes/status/1317973049006837760

all due to 45's verbal bad mouthing and stochastic terrorism/inciting violence.

He's still rallying with unmasked crowds who chant lock her up, against Gov Whitmer (13 arrested for kidnap attempt), and Biden "lock him up," still bringing up "Hilary's emails," and Hunter Biden.

Just a little over 2 weeks left to election.

If you live in USA or anywhere else, vote (if you can), and lay in food and supplies for unrest sure to come.

Pelosi has set 48 hour deadline (Tuesday) for stimulus deal.

Treasury yields rising.  Big deficit.

10-19-2020

 

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/19/politics/donald-trump-joe-biden-election-2020-coronavirus-fauci-masks/index.html

As corona virus surges, time to make more cloth masks

As corona virus surges, time to make more cloth masks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3nwb9ZTyyU

as corona virus surges.

I would put in a 3rd layer, also with box pleats.

Remember not to sew down the pleat along its length, as you normally would.

I don't like a million things hanging on my ears, so use straps if you don't like elastic.

Happy sewing and wearing masks.

You can also sew, embroider or write messages with soft pen on your masks, such as BLM or VOTE or I am Speaking.

kmk

10-18-2020

 

US reports highest number of Covid 19 cases daily--Friday

US reports highest number of Covid 19 cases daily--Friday

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/17/us-reports-highest-number-of-new-coronavirus-case-since-late-july.html

 

Washington Post op ed by Tun Khin

Washington Post op ed by Tun Khin

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/10/14/dont-be-fooled-myanmars-democratic-

 

CA wildfires in pictures, from New York Times

CA wildfires in pictures, from New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/us/california-wildfires-photos.html 

 

and the MF denied wildfire relief.

 

#VoteHimOut

 

Trump rejects California wildfire aid. (May he burn in hell)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/16/trump-administration-rejects-california-request-wildfire-relief-funds

Savannah Guthrie grills d j t in Town Hall--

https://news.yahoo.com/trump-clashes-with-savanah-guthrie-on-covid-q-anon-and-white-supremacy-set-tone-for-nbc-town-hall-014056081.html 

 

He deserves to be Grilled.

 

Note his defensive posture, non-stop lying and Guthrie's relaxed pose.

 

Truth shall win.  He'll lose to Biden by Landslide.

 

It's better to read the transcript, as then you don't have to look at the f-face.

 

Kudos and flowers for Savannah.\

 Fall flowers.

 

10-16-2020

My novel Wolf + short stories and novellas

My novel Wolf + short stories and novellas

 

 https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/km-kaung/wolf-a-novel-of-love-and-betrayal/

 

https://www.amazon.com/Wolf-Novel-Betrayal-Burma-Myanmar/dp/1479203882

 

 http://kyimaykaungburmese.blogspot.com/2014/06/complete-press-kit-for-my-6-books-links.html

I'd love it if you can write me a review on Amazon.

 

Posted by Kyi May at 1:07 PM