Newsweek has a cringe inducing article from a Mr. Joe Cochrane regarding his visit to Rangoon for the New Year Festival. It's titled, Techno Revolution. The title doesn't immediately reveal the inanity of the article, although you might be able to guess what's coming. The page's descriptive title is "Burma: Despite Military Junta, Partying Goes On". Reading it seriously made my head hurt. If I ever meet Joe Cochrane in person, I'd have to put the smack down for the following quote: "People with a rudimentary understanding of the place think it’s only authoritarian rule, forced labor and gross human rights abuses around the clock. But that’s only one side of the story. Despite its endless woes, Burma is also a pretty happening place, as I learned last week."    more »

The sequence of events happening over the last few months has made it apparent that the Burmese junta is up to something. From stepping up their counterinsurgencies to denouncing the NLD and Daw Suu Kyi as irrelevant, it seems they are taking steps to consolidate and/or extend their power over the beleugered nation. It also seems that they are still suffering from the delusion that people can't see through their thinly veiled propaganda and lies, but knowing they are full of shite is cold comfort when witnessing bits of their evil plan for dominion slowly roll forth.   more »