Yeah it is egregious. The original deal was already a sham because for giving up huge swaths of land they are only getting paid $4 per head per year for 1400 people. This is essentially a lease of $5,600 for 100,000 square kilometers of land. Which includes Thunder Bay, North Bay, Sault Ste. Marie and Sudbury. These people were manipulated into giving up their land, and we can’t even honor the original scam.

Has Montreal’s cityscape changed much? haven’t been there in a few years.

That’s long overdue.

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Good god. This is embarassing.

This is only for 2015! What about now? Price of bread is ridiculous.

This development indicates the insecurity of current regime leader Min Aung Hlaing who has suffered significant battlefield defeats in recent months including the loss of tourist hub Ngapali beach and the important Ruby-Jade mining town of Mogok just yesterday to anti-junta groups. Former dictator Than Shwe is considered a mentor to Min Aung Hlaing. Than Shwe was the one who placed Min Aung Hlaing as chief of staff of the military. Former president Thein Sein had just returned from a recent official visit to China, weeks after receiving an unusual and publicized visit by Chinese Ambassador to Burma.

This is extremely significant development. It shows how insecure Min Aung Hlaing is. He fears his former mentors are going to take back the reins and stage a coup to put someone else in power.

As a reminder, it was Thein Sein who picked Min Aung Hlaing as chief of the military in 2010 that’s set us onto this path.

This is not only an economic loss for the junta but also a loss of face for Min Aung Hlaing. And that is way bigger.

Let him pop up in youtube I’m fine.

Bye TNT & Draymond!

They are clearly saying they are Chinese lackeys.

He’s referring to the appointment of a woman to lead the army. It’s too “woke”. The complaints by women soldiers and officers against sexual harassment is too “woke”.

These attacks on civilian targets are rather cynical. This mofo MAL has to go.

BBC documentary on assassination of Aung San: https://youtu.be/lFWjFGGAl6k?si=-bRmYkQzYpSL8fkk

It’s been 77 years. Since Burma’s independence hero was gunned down in a hail of machine gun fire. The biggest issues remain the same in the country - ethnic strife and division along with building the proper political institutions for an independent Burma. The military Aung San founded is nowhere near his vision of what it’s supposed to be - the liberator of the country. Instead, by merging with the Colonial Army built by the British and using the infrastructure of that colonizing military organization and hanging onto its privileged position within the former colonial state, that militia founded by Aung San has become the colonizer of the country.

Losing Mogok to TNLA would be a big symbolic and economic blow to the Junta within Burma. It would further undermine (any) confidence in Min Aung Hlaing in the country and within the military. This may be more brazen than Lashio and Ngapali.

The Palaung people which the TNLA represents may number at most 500,000 within Burma.

Yup. It’s back to the old days and old ways. It’s cash and goods trading society. This military keeps sending the country back to the stone age.

This is why the military is losing. They are fighting on many fronts: in the North and North-east against 3 brotherhood, in the West against AA, Chins and PDF, in the East against Karens and Karennis, South per this article, and in the major cities and around them against the local resistance people and PDF.

The reason people are withdrawing their money is because 1) value of money is decreasing rapidly and they want to purchase goods or stores of values (gold etc) with it; 2) they don’t trust the junta.