Heavy Fighting Between Army & KIA Amidst Peace Talks

(Compilation of translated news from various Burmese and Kachin blogs this week.)

KIA illegal logging camp at Mone-dane-par Village
near Mansi Town in Bamaw District.

Heavy fighting has recently re-started between the Army troops and KIA (Kachin Independence Army) insurgents in the KIA-controlled area by China-Burma border despite the frequently on-and-off peace talks between two long-term foes.

According to the army’s official site Myawaddy a fierce battle started when troops from Burma Army’s Ma-pa-kha Command tried to stop illegal logging activities near the KIA-controlled Mone-dain-par Village of Mansi Township in Bamaw District.

There were intensive clashes between KIA 12^th Battalion and Burmese Army units from Northern Regional Command on October-22. According to a senior officer from Army’s Northern Command (Ma-pa-kha) army units were sent into KIA-controlled area in the Mansi Township of Bamaw District to arrest the illegal loggers there.

Burma Army’s Cyber Warfare Unit: Anti-Muslim Warriors?

(Former Army Captain Phyo Thet Htun’s confession from the GUIDINGSTAR blog.)

Burma Army's Defense Service Technological Academy.

My name is Captain Phyo Thet Htun and I and my family are now living in Canada as refugees. I graduated from the Intake-47 of DSA (Defense Services Academy) in December 2004 and served in LIB-89 under LID-99 and later in the elite Cyber Warfare Unit at the War Office in Naypyidaw.

On August 13, 2013 I took a medical pension due to my bad eyes and came out to Canada where I am now living while trying to get my refugee asylum as a persecuted refugee from Burma.

This is my honest confession that the hundreds of clandestine internet pages -- disseminating anti-Muslim and anti-Democracy propagandas and thus instigating racial, religious, and political unrest and deadly riots in Burma -- have been directly controlled and actively ran by the War Office at Naypyidaw, and I was once in the thick of it.

Thein Sein Government’s Mid-term Results

(Translation of Dr. Nay Zin Latt’s article from Shwe-New News on October 21, 2013.)

Just not long ago this whole world had to march through extreme ideology-based politics. Especially from around the World-War-2 period to the end of Cold War. Once at the end of Cold War the results-oriented politics became stronger and prominent.

On the other side various theories of good economic management haves become truly influential and the nations’ emphasis is more on the results-based economics. Clearly not on the ideology-based political economy.

Good Economics is Good Politics

For whatever ideology and whatever system a nation practices their main aim is the economic success. The political end is not the success of a political ideology but the economic development, or the support of particular ideology for that economic prosperity. Thus a political ideology has become just a political means to achieve economic prosperity.

UN Praised Saud Arabia For Human Rights: A Sick Joke?

( The news report direct from the UN-WATCH on October 23, 2013.)

1995 Saudi Beheading of a Buddhist.

GENEVA, Oct. 21 - As the UN Human Rights Council scrutinized Saudi Arabia's domestic rights record this morning, a minority of democracies such as Canada, UK, and the Czech Republic raised concerns, while the vast majority of countries lined up to defend and praise one of the world's most repressive theocratic regimes.

82 countries in the United Nations praise Saudi Arabia for its ‘outstanding’ human rights record. Despite widespread recognition of Saudi Arabia’s abysmal record on the rights of women, religious freedom, and political liberties, the country is poised to win a seat on the Human Rights Council in elections scheduled for Nov. 12th by the UN General Assembly.

Muslims Bashed American In London's Tower-Hamlets

(Kay Atwal’s News report direct from the East-London Advertiser on October 23, 2013.)

Francesco Hounye the victim.

Horrific Whitechapel bottle attack by Muslim patrol caught on CCTV. Detectives have released CCTV footage of a violent bottle attack on an American student, by a gang of five men.

Tower Hamlets police believe the man from Florida was targeted simply because he was “obviously not local”. The detailed footage clearly shows five Asian men (Bengali-Muslims of local Sharia-patrol) setting upon Francesco Hounye, 22, who had only arrived in the UK three days earlier.

They smashed a bottle into his face and then chased after him to continue their assault, repeatedly kicking and punching him. The attack happened in the early hours of June 17 in Commercial Road, Whitechapel about 15 metres east from the junction with New Road.

Political System Is Broken: Greenspan Denied His Faults

(OP_ED article direct from the Money News on October 21, 2013.)

Greenspan Mulls Roots of Crisis He Didn't Foresee. For 18½ years as Federal Reserve chairman, he was rhapsodized for helping drive a robust U.S. economy. Yet in the years after he stepped down in 2006, he was engulfed by accusations that he helped cause the 2008 financial crisis — the worst since the 1930s.

Now, Alan Greenspan has struck back at any notion that he — or anyone — could have known how or when to defuse the threats that triggered the crisis.

He argues in a new book, "The Map and the Territory," that traditional economic forecasting is no match for the irrational risk-taking that can inflate catastrophic price bubbles in assets like homes or tech stocks.

China The New Super-power And Economic Bully?

(OP_ED article direct from the STRATEGYPAGE on October 21, 2013.)

As China’s economy has grown so has Chinese skill at using its economic power to pressure nations to cooperate. All the nations opposing China in the South China Sea have significant economic ties with China. China is always offering to invest more or allow trade concessions (let the country export to China) in return for “cooperation”.

At the very least this gives “pro-China” forces in the target country some clout. China is not reckless in the use of this economic weapon. China rarely makes deals that harm Chinese economic interests.

But there are many economic decisions that can go several ways and China makes it clear it will trade with nations that do what China wants. This even works with the United States. Take the movie industry.

Just like Nazi Germany did in the 1930s, American movie makers are pressured to keep things out of movies that make China look bad. For years this worked for the Nazis and it has worked for China as well. A recent example is the movie “Gravity”.

Pro-Muslim Sandinista-Socialist: Next New York Mayor?

(Daniel Greenfield’s article direct from the FrontPageMag on October 18, 2013.)

Bill De Blasio the Democrat Party's Mayoral candidate
together with Muslim-activist Linda Sarsour.

“I want at least 1,000 to 2,000 to die in one day,” Shahawar Siraj told an NYPD informant. The Pakistani illegal alien and Muslim bookstore employee was discussing his plans to kill as many New Yorkers as possible. “I’m going to fuck this country very bad.”

But before Siraj and his collaborator could bomb the 34th Street subway station at Herald Square in New York City, they were arrested. Their plans to bomb the subway and Macy’s department store came to nothing. But under Bill de Blasio, the New York Police Department would never have been allowed to lay a finger on them.

Some years later, Ahmed Ferhani was telling an NYPD undercover detective about his plan to bomb churches and synagogues.   He talked of blowing up “the biggest synagogue” in Manhattan, dressing up as a Jewish worshiper, planting a bomb and walking away.

Mahachai Police’s Shake-Down Of Burmese Workers

(Translation of news article from Myanmah Ahlin Newspaper on October 20, 2013.)

Burmese workers unjustly arrested in Mahachai, Thailand.

Thai policemen of Mahachia Town in Samut Sakhon Province are quite notorious in shaking down Burmese workers, both legal and illegal, working in the town and nearby areas.

According to Burmese workers there the Thais are daily arresting Burmese and only releasing the ones willing to pay them hefty bribes.

Just last Sunday October-13 more than 100 Burmese workers on their only day-off a week were arrested and squeezed money out off them by a group of nasty Thai policemen working out of their massive 4-storie police station near Mahachai Markets.