Monthly Archives: December 2023
HARLEQUIN DUCKS – 100CountryTrek.com
Myanmar Infantry Division Surrenders in Laukkai, Shan State: Reports
Troops from the 55th Light Infantry Division (LID) stationed in Laukkai, the capital of the Kokang Self-Administered Zone in northern Shan State, have surrendered to the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), according to military analysts close to sources on the ground.
An analyst monitoring the fighting in northern Shan State reported, “Based on a video clip on social media and accounts of residents, it is believed that three battalions of about 60 soldiers each from the 55th LID [were stationed around Laukkai].
Source: Myanmar Infantry Division Surrenders in Laukkai, Shan State: Reports
I’m terrified of people and loneliness – Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm
A poem in Vietnamese by Lê Vĩnh Tài
Translator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm
Photography: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

I’m terrified of people and loneliness
I understand it has something to do with separation
but I can’t say that I love you
or that I’m sorry
my tears of joy
It is love deceiving me
over a couple cups of coffee
and exchange of words
I wish I could keep a hold of myself
so that I’m not constantly
in trouble with you
I’ve been obsessed for so long
to the point where my pulse is barely there
forty beat a minute
the rest is all this glaring light
the sun constantly calculating
and recalculating the amount
I feel as though I’m no different to a child
I’m always scared of what’s outside
the wind and the shadows
I lined up in front of your door
across from Hà Huy Tập
the light flickering even though everyone were gone and
I’m the only one left, my mother’s strength is all I have left
to fight off the oblivion
I was cut down in front of the door of my own home
the tears like water, they poured
please, someone help me
I was so scared
I thought I had enough strength to be alone
now in my own home, I am scared
someone please, please help me
—
The day after Boxing Day, 2023
Source: I’m terrified of people and loneliness – Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm
Tom Lehrer DAT Recordings : Tom Lehrer : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Source: Tom Lehrer DAT Recordings : Tom Lehrer : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Life – normabobb
Life is a perpetual state of being, there is no beginning or ending.
© Norma Bobb-Semple 2023
Source: Life – normabobb

Remembering Civil Rights Activist Fred Shuttlesworth
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Sleepwalking America into fascism – Daily Montanan

…Donald Trump has defiantly laid out his plans to become our country’s first dictator. He copied his blueprints from the authoritarian playbook of corruption and venality which has informed and driven tyrants from Mussolini to the present.
To save our democracy voters must halt this inexorable slide toward Trump’s fascist abyss. But, how? Who is responsible? How do we not to become one of cult- Trump’s zombies shuffling, arms outstretched, into the void?
Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt provide some answers in their new book “Tyranny of the Minority…”
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