Thidar Yumon: Myin-Gyan Pyu-saw-htee Boss!

                (Based on Myanmar Media posts from 2022 to 2024-Nov.)

Pyu-saw-htee was a legendary king of Pagan Dynasty of Burma (Myanmar), who according to the Burmese chronicles supposedly reigned from 167 to 242 CE. The chronicles down to the 18th century had reported that Pyusawhti, a descendant of a solar spirit and a dragon princess, was the founder of Pagan—hence, Burmese monarchy.

However Mhan-nan Yazawin-dawgyi, the Royal Chronicle of Kone-baung Dynasty proclaimed in 1832 that he was actually a scion of Tagaung Kingdom and traced his lineage all the way to Maha Sammata, the first king of the world in Buddhist mythology.

Scholarship conjectures that Pyusawhti the historical figure likely existed in the mid-to-late 8th century, who perhaps came over from the Nanzhao Kingdom as part of the Nanzhao raids of the Irrawaddy valley during the period.

The evolution of warfare in Myanmar

     (David Scott Mathieson’s post from the MYANMAR NOW on 11 November 2024.)

Femal soldiers of Arakan Army (AA).

The evolution of warfare in Myanmar: Nearly four years of post-coup conflict have transformed the way Myanmar’s military and its many enemies wage war against each other.

One year after the launch of Operation 1027 and the escalation of armed conflict throughout Myanmar, and nearing four years of repressive rule by the State Administration Council (SAC), how much has the nature of warfare changed in Myanmar?

The answer is—dramatically and in multiple ways, and for varied reasons. There has been military adaptation and innovation in all three branches of the Myanmar armed forces—the army, air force, and navy—and by ethnic armed organisations (EAOs) and other resistance forces under the general title of People’s Defence Forces (PDFs), in ways that have transformed the shape of fighting.

Trump Loyalist Kash Patel Nominated FBI Director!

            (Andrea Margolis’s post from the FOX NEWS on 30 November 2024.)

President-elect Donald Trump has named longtime ally Kashyap "Kash" Patel, who has been a frequent and harsh critic of the FBI, to serve as the bureau's next director in the new administration.

Patel, 44, is an attorney with experience in national security, intelligence and counterterrorism and helped uncover the bureau's surveillance of the Trump campaign and first term. He has been a member of Trump’s transition team, advising the administration on other appointments.

Trump announced Patel’s appointment in a Truth Social post on Saturday. "Kash is a brilliant lawyer, investigator, and ‘America First’ fighter who has spent his career exposing corruption, defending Justice, and protecting the American People," Trump's statement read.

The Age of Cloud Capital: Capitalism is Finished!

            (Staff post from the PERSUASION COMMUNITY on 30 April 2024.)

The Age of Cloud Capital: Capitalism is finished. What's replaced it is even worse. Extracts from “Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism” by Yanis Varoufakis.

Capitalism is now dead, in the sense that its dynamics no longer govern our economies. In that role it has been replaced by something fundamentally different, which I call technofeudalism. At the heart of my thesis is an irony that may sound confusing at first but which I contend makes perfect sense: the thing that has killed capitalism is… capital itself.

Not capital as we have known it since the dawn of the industrial era, but a new form of capital, a mutation of it that has arisen in the last two decades, so much more powerful than its predecessor that like a stupid, overzealous virus it has killed off its host.