Ma Thein Shin by Naing Win Swe (Chapter 1)

(Direct translation of late Naing Win Swe’s novel “Ma Thein Shin Si Pote Pay Bar”.)

Year 1969

It was a foggy winter morning. The big train standing in thick mist seemed to be afraid of leaving the safety of the warm Station. But it had to go. It blew a lot of smoke and reluctantly began the journey. It turned on the front spotlights but the pale beams shorn just a short distance ahead in the fog.

Gradually gaining speed the train appeared to slowly overcome its fears as if its blood were now boiling. Once the dim lights of Taung-dwin-gyi station were well behind it the train squeezed out a long blow of single horn as if it was cheering up itself to travel deep into the foggy darkness ahead.

Immediately the train appeared to think that the sound of its own horn was the cheers from the surrounds and it became excited and now it was madly rushing into total darkness.

I stood in a shadowy corner of a car and I felt like I was just a mechanical part of the train. I just stared mindlessly at the blurred Taung-dwin-gyi Town standing still in darkness.

The lights from the Station seemed to be running away from the train and getting smaller and smaller as they had stayed behind. A flash from one of the town lamp-posts struck the train and then another flash struck and then another flash and then another as the train drove past them. The big town was dead quiet.

Muslim Refugee Programs To Erase American Culture

(Direct from the CENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY on 22 July 2015.)

Washington, D.C.: The Center for Security Policy today released a new paperback version of the monograph by investigative journalist James Simpson: The Red-Green Axis: Refugees, Immigration and the Agenda to Erase America.

This report extensively details the networks of radical left non-profits, foundations, government agencies and the personalities behind them. Unbeknownst to most Americans they are using refugee resettlement as a pretext to import waves of immigrants from third-world nations as a key front in Obama’s strategy of “fundamentally transforming” America.

These refugees have little interest in assimilating. Many are from Muslim countries, view immigration as “Hijra” i.e. a subversive means to invade a foreign nation, and have demonstrated a willingness to either support or engage in terrorism both in America and abroad.

These groups are coached by leftist non-profits to capitalize on our generous welfare programs and shown how to maneuver around legal impediments – all at our expense – but are not being taught how to assimilate. The report conservatively estimates welfare costs at $10 billion per year.

Burmese Nationalist MP Aung Thaung Died In Singapore

(Breaking news article direct from the STRAIGHT TIMES on 24 July 2015.)

Yangon - An influential Myanmar legislator and businessman accused of undermining the country's transition to democracy died on Thursday at a Singapore hospital, the New York Times reported. U Aung Thaung, 74, who had been flown to Singapore for treatment after a stroke on July 8, died from complications, according to U Win Tin, editor of The Union Daily in Myanmar.

Mr Aung Thaung was minister of industry for 14 years under the military junta that ruled the country for decades until 2011, DPA news agency reported. He was accused of abusing that position to amass a considerable fortune, and named by The Irrawaddy, a magazine dedicated to Myanmar news, one of the country's richest men.

He was a hardliner in the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party, which was behind a 2003 attack on pro-democracy figures including Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace laureate who now leads the country's opposition.

Muslim Killed Unarmed Marines At Recruitment Centers

(Breaking news story direct from the CNN on 17 July 2015.)

Muslim terrorist Mohammad Abdulazeez.

Chattanooga, Tennessee (CNN): Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez was carrying a deadly AK-47 with 30-round magazines when he opened fire, according to a source briefed by law enforcement. Abdulazeez kept police at bay for some time with the amount of ammunition he had, according to the source.

The shooting suspect was armed with an AK-47 style weapon‎ at the time of the attack according to two law enforcement officials briefed on the investigation. Who was the Muslim gunman accused of killing four Marines in a shooting rampage Thursday at two military centers in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and why did he open fire?

Suspected shooter Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez, 24, is dead, the FBI said. But -- publicly, at least -- investigators haven't said much more about him. Witnesses saw Abdulazeez spray a hail of bullets at the glass doors of a military recruiting center in a strip mall.

Muslim Doctors Giving Cancer Treatments To Healthys

(CNN article direct from the BARE NAKED ISLAM on 13 July 2015.)

Crooked Muslim Doctor Farid Fata.

SERVES YOU RIGHT, AMERICANS…for even choosing to use a Muslim doctor in America in the first place. Patients tell horror stories as Lebanese MUSLIM cancer doctor, Farid Fatah, 50, gets 45 years for giving cancer treatment drugs to patients who did not need them — including some who didn’t actually have cancer at all.

Dr. Farid Fata, 50, pleaded guilty in September to giving cancer treatments to misdiagnosed patients, telling some they had a terminal blood cancer called multiple myeloma. He pleaded guilty to 13 counts of Medicare fraud, one count of conspiracy to pay or receive kickbacks and two counts of money laundering.

Federal prosecutors called him the “most egregious fraudster in the history of this country.” To Fata, they said, “patients were not people. They were profit centers.” Why didn't he get the death sentence for killing patients? Fata forfeited $17.6 million that he collected from Medicare and private insurance companies. Some 553 patients received medically unnecessary infusions or injections, prosecutors said.

Germany Calling To Kick Greece Out Of EURO!

(Danny Kemp’s article direct from the AFP on 12 July 2015.)

Greece's Communist PM Tsipras.

Greece gets ultimatum to avoid euro exit. Eurozone leaders set Greece a brutal ultimatum for a desperately needed bailout deal at a last-ditch summit on Sunday as an exit from the single currency loomed ever larger.

Hawkish Germany pushed for a Greek "time out" from the euro if leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras fails to agree to tough take-it-or-leave-it terms for a three-year rescue plan worth up to 86 billion euros ($96 billion). Greece said the plans were "very bad", but with its banks set to run dry in days it looked to have little choice but to bow to reform demands that effectively rob Athens of control of much its finances.

The dramatic weekend of backroom dealings in Brussels threatened to leave the European Union more divided than at any time in its 50-year history, and by a currency that was meant to bring it together.

China Underground Banks Spread Pain As Defaults Rise

(Joe McDonald’s article direct from the AP on 10 July 2015.)

Small Chinese savers suffer losses as underground finance industry collapses. In this March 19, 2015 photo, security guards scuffle with protestors angry about failed investments with Hunan Bofeng Asset Management Ltd. outside of a branch of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China in Changsha in southern China's Hunan province. Thousands of Chinese savers who entrusted money to an informal finance industry that operates with little government oversight are suffering painful losses as borrowers default and real estate and other ventures fail.

BEIJING (AP) -- Fan Xiaolin, an engineer in Changsha in central China, thought he was safe when he deposited his family's savings of 800,000 yuan ($130,000) in a private finance company he said was recommended by employees of state-owned Bank of China.

The company, part of an informal industry of lenders and investment managers that operates outside China's state-run banking system, collapsed six months later as economic growth slowed and businesses struggled. Today, Fan said he and about 100 other depositors in Hunan Bofeng Asset Management Ltd. protest several times each week outside state banks and government offices, demanding their money back. "The security people at the bank hit us," said Fan, 50. "The police ask us to go home and wait."

Irrational Selloffs: China Stock Markets Crashing!

(DJIA article direct from the ASX on 8 July 2015.)

China Markets Fall Sharply Despite Fresh Help From Beijing! Chinese markets fell sharply Wednesday, even as officials scrambled to arrest a three-week stock selloff. The widespread selling has spilled into global markets and is deepening doubts about Beijing's limits to halt it.

China introduced fresh measures to restore investor confidence Wednesday seemingly to little avail. Stocks and Chinese bonds traded offshore, even high-quality corporate bonds issued by top state-owned companies, are getting dumped. China's offshore yuan, which trades freely, hit a four-month low against the U.S. dollar amid a dimming outlook for the world's second-largest economy.

The Shanghai Composite fell 5.9% at 3507.19, after losses of as much as 8.2% earlier Wednesday. The index has lost 32.1% since its peak in mid-June. The smaller Shenzhen Composite fell 2.5% at 1884.45, down 40% from its high last month. The ChiNext board, which measures startups, ended up 0.5% at 2364.05 after regulators committed to buying small-cap stocks. The index remains down 40.6% since its June peak.

Burma’s Nasty Little War on China’s Border

(Brandon Hong’s article direct from the DAILY BEAST on 19 March 2015.)

NANSAN, China — The Burmese army is fighting a drug lord's troops. Burmese refugees are fleeing into China. The Chinese government isn't sure what to do about it.

Nearly every night, just across the frontier in Burma’s Shan State, the hills of Kokang are on fire. It stains the fog of Yunnan's mountains, and the border villages see eight hours of twilight. Yet the mood is oddly serene. Locals don't seem too worried about conflict brewing at their doorstep.

On the roof of one hotel, the staff has set up a television set so they can keep up with their favorite late-night programs, and they glance only occasionally toward the orange glow, usually as an afterthought to something they hear from that direction. They simply trust that the Burmese will keep the killing to their own side of the border, but recent events suggest otherwise.

For more than a month, the Burmese military, also known as Tatmadaw, has been locked in a fight with an ethnic armed group called the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA). The center of those battles is in Kokang, a stone’s throw from the border with China.

Malaysian PM Pocketed $700 million From State Fund?

(Eileen Ng’s article direct from the AP on 03 July 2015.)

Malaysian PM Najib Razak.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak on Friday denied news reports that nearly $700 million were funneled from an indebted state investment fund into his personal accounts.

The investment fund 1MDB, which has accumulated 42 billion ringgit ($11.2 billion) in debt, is currently under investigation for alleged impropriety. The Wall Street Journal and the Sarawak Report online news portal reported that investigators have traced some $700 million wired into Najib's bank accounts.

The reports said five deposits were made into Najib's account and the two largest transactions, worth $620 million and $61 million, were done in March 2013 ahead of general elections.

A statement from Najib's office criticized "concerted efforts by certain individuals to undermine confidence in our economy, tarnish the government and remove a democratically elected prime minister."

Robots Killed Man at Volkswagen Plant In Germany

(News article direct from the AAP on 02 July 2015.)

A robot has killed a contractor at one of Volkswagen's production plants in Germany, the car manufacturer says. The man died on Monday at the plant in Baunatal, about 100km north of Frankfurt, VW spokesman Heiko Hillwig said.

The 22-year-old was part of a team setting up the stationary robot when it struck and crushed him against a metal plate. Hillwig said initial conclusions indicate that human error was to blame, rather than a problem with the robot, which can be programmed to perform various tasks in the assembly process.

He said it normally operates within a confined area at the plant, grabbing car parts and manipulating them. Another contractor was present when the incident occurred, but wasn't harmed, Hillwig said. Hillwig declined to give any more details, citing an ongoing investigation.