MSNBC special post--US-Mexico Border

https://www.nbc.com/dateline/video/the-dividing-line/3749130 I am sending link out bc I don' t have a working TV. Also some people are overseas. If you've seen it before, ignore it. If US citizen, vote tomorrow. If citizen of any country, THINK. km Kyi May Kaung Words Sounds and Images

World Refugee Day --special post movie El Norte, The North, a brother & sister's journey fr S to N America.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiuRrsgMoME Complete movie. Special for world refugee day. Make sure it's not "lower case" I have heard dozens of stories of Burmese including Rohingya refugees and their grueling journeys. Don't send them back. Speak up. Retweet. Do Activism. Be safe. kmk 6-21-2018

Grandpa's kitchen--chicken biryani for 50+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH-j8QNCjMg He really feeds his children well. See how to cook clean and well with the barest of facilities, but good water and supplies. Plastic spoons should be provided. I cook Hyderabadi biryani, but process is a bit different. Doesn't matter. Like me he foregoes saffron, the most expensive spice in the world, maybe now $5 for 5 small stamens of saffron crocus. He stints on nothing else. I like the way he does not talk much, sits and waits for it to cook, and tastes everything first, then shares widely. Do the same, kmk 6-17-2018

Daily Beast: Kim Jung Un tells us what Trump gave away.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-singapore-hangover-kim-jong-un-tells-us-what-trump-gave-away A very poor negotiator, full of bombast and fury, but delivering nothing. Quote: "Can only Republicans do this? Can only Nixon go to China?" 6-14-2018

Frank Kingdon-Ward--great plant hunter of Burma.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Kingdon-Ward

Vladimir Tismaneunu-Rumania expert.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Tism%C4%83neanu

Quote of the day, from Ceaucescu wiki

Friday, June 01, 2018 Quote of the day--from Ceaucescu wiki. As anti-government protesters demonstrated in Timișoara in December 1989, he perceived the demonstrations as a political threat and ordered military forces to open fire on 17 December, causing many deaths and injuries. The revelation that Ceaușescu was responsible resulted in a massive spread of rioting and civil unrest across the country.[4] The demonstrations, which reached Bucharest, became known as the Romanian Revolution—the only violent overthrow of a communist government in the turn of the Revolutions of 1989.[5] Ceaușescu and his wife, Elena, fled the capital in a helicopter, but were captured by the armed forces after the armed forces changed sides. On 25 December, after being tried and convicted of economic sabotage and genocide,[6] they were immediately executed by firing squad,[7] and Ceaușescu was succeeded as President by Ion Iliescu, who had played a major part in the revolution. Capital punishment was abolished shortly thereafter.

Ne Win, wikipedia.

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

Rohingya Activists' Handy Handbook--on The Genocide.

https://www.amazon.com/Rohingya-Genocide-Burma-2012-2017-Actvists/dp/1981805028

Short story FGM (Female Genital Mutilation) by K. Kaung.

https://www.amazon.com/Story-about-Mutilation-Women-Short/dp/1497497736 This particular type of abuse does not exist in Burma, at least I hope not, but people should still recognize it is abuse. "Culturally sanctioned" abuse. kmk 6-1-2018

hmm--sudden spike in blog hits, 145 today, on this blog.

Blue ceiling of slave quarters, Savannah, Georgia. Photo, K M Kaung copyright.