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Kristen Welker is having a baby by surrogate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57Q6T2Nv3rM She's one of my favorite reporters, able to handle a presidential debate.  An African-American woman can stand up to the likes of d j t, in fact was CHOSEN to do so. Best wishes to her.     Actually, one of my Burmese friends had a baby, with a semen donor, after her boyfriend ditched her and married a "real Mon." I think that was very brave and her own family supported her all the way. The young lady is related to someone in my extended family that the old money obsessed father in law rejected. km 4-29-2021    
For Burmese Protestors--Stay Alive. For Burmese Protestors: You can do nothing if you die. Stay Alive Stay Alive Stay Alive. Leave the g-damned place. Live to fight another day, in perhaps another way. 4-28-2021 Youthful Aung San Suu Kyi    

Fully vaccinated? Keep wearing that mask.

After you've been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, you should keep taking precautions—like wearing a mask , staying 6 feet apart from others, and avoiding crowds and poorly ventilated spaces—in public places until we know more. When You've Been Fully Vaccinated | CDC https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/04/26/vaccinated-wear-a-mask/ https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/vaccinated-great-why-you-should-still-wear-a-mask-in-public/ 4-26-2021  

Myanmar Coup--Gus Miclat's poem.

Salute to the peoples of Burma/Myanmar   We only have pots and pans And a three-finger salute To ward off evil sweeping our land   Beasts posing behind creased uniforms, Stars on their shoulders   We only have pots and pans And a three-finger salute   To dodge and do battle with rubber and bullets From snipers and cowards behind iron behemoths And rage against our stolen freedoms   We only have pots and pans And a three-finger salute Our votes. Our voices   To confront the brute force of overstaying generals and greedy elites Who pillage our lands, our rivers, our jade and our blood   We only have pots and pans And a three-finger salute To rally in the townships, in factories, in hospitals, universities and streets Across Irrawaddy, our vast plains and mountains   We only have pots and pans And a three-finger salute In solidarity with friends all over the world Showing that we are a p...
NBC Nightly News, Sat, 4-24-2021. Armenian Genocide, J and J vaccine, India Covid crisis-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wasmk-63H-0  

The Music of Protest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqfbp3AAcmU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRJdDaZVLgg If you wish to share these videos, copy and past the links directly from Youtube DO NOT--go lazy easy way and fwd to yr list--I am sure you don't want to invite hackers and neither do I. I will try and get you a translation of the lyrics. For now, my Ph.D. mentor and external examiner Dr Josef Silverstein said "I live a long time, and I remember everything, and everyone hates me." Well, I remember how we were slighted too by so-called Burma experts whose tones are always literally off. They love for instance to say, "I was just in Myann--mar last Wed." and "Are you one of the Burma bashers?" I went up to introduce myself to a woman who looked like Modigliana's Woman in Yellow (riding jacket) and the anorhexic said, "I know your opinions already." In Gottenberg in 2002, Zarni, Aung Zaw and others wanted Mun Awng to perform a concert. The Burma St...

Poem Let's be Brief + cartoons from Inside Burma.

Let's be brief Let's be brief Min Aung Hlaing went to Jakarta for ASEAN meet as he had to Took scolding like little boy & "agreed" But he will do it Burmese Way Smile & nod, then "come home" kill more people, having snipers shoot children & random humans in thr homes, w rifle mountd RPGs   k 4-25-2021        Kind of govt we children want. All cartoons from Internet, care of "Station Chief Down Under."