tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87857066347154311832024-03-06T05:11:11.349+05:30Patta Pal Borua carefully researched scoop on news not usually available on any other media channel or in many cases noted before it appears in conventional media from an insiders perspective. The views are that of the author and are not guided by any other person or organization. A truly unique and independent opinion of SRI LANKA TODAYPatta Palhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10173044980411242894noreply@blogger.comBlogger1249125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785706634715431183.post-12984308712895405342018-12-18T09:56:00.000+05:302018-12-18T09:56:23.332+05:30The latest Twitter outburst - pitting Sajith and Harsha against reason and fair play. It does not pay to be someone else's lackey anymore!<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
Sajith Premadasa Conundrum! The two faces of duplicity~<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">If further evidence was needed on my
hypotheses, reinforced by the feelings on the ground in Sri Lanka (namely, that
we cannot tolerate any person, being selected by voters at the next general
election, who have ever served for even a day as an MP in the Sri Lanka
Parliament’s history) I provide proof positive of the duplicitous character of
the enigma, that is completely unsuitable as a leader for Sri Lanka, on a par
with that scoundrel without an ounce of brain aka Namal Rajapakse!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The latest was the past 24 hour Twitter
Frenzy caused by the completely unnecessary intervention of Sajith Premadasa to
defend Maharajahs at their behest, when mercilessly attacked by Muhunthan
Canagey. Harsha de Silva, foolishly or knowingly joined in the tirade against Canagey's allegations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Canagey’s ire against Maharajahs is well
known, the main reason being the granting of hugely valuable spectrum licenses
for almost nothing in return for favors in Media for Maithripala Sirisena,
through the TRC and his own brother at the helm of SLT.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">For a bit of background, it was
Maharajah’s Sirasa that gave credibility and stamp of authority for the Coup
gone wrong carried out by MS and his band of ill-advised legal advisers, whose
only goal was to destroy their arch enemy Ranil Wickremesinghe, even if they
would take the whole Country down to their knees to achieve a personal
vendetta.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">It is clear that Maharajahs completely
miscalculated the outcome of the Coup and now have egg on their face, however
the duplicitous team that they are, have all their bases covered, and Sajith
has been on their payroll, or at least their slave for as long as he has been
in politics, thanks to the favors granted to them by President Premadasa in a
quid pro quo basis.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">So Kili Maharajah called in the favor,
to damn Muhunthan Canagey’s allegation, and Sajith doing his masters bidding,
along with Harsha de Silva who probably wants a few favors granted him too,
fell for the bait and ruined their political careers all in a matter of
minutes, WITHOUT thinking about the consequences for their future! <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Such cretins did this world produce, when
our politicians are mere slaves of Oligarchs!<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">In today’s social media world these
juveniles (nambis) don’t understand the sheer power of those who see through
the charade and call a spade a spade, not worrying about who they are, as long
as their actions are seen to be against the people of this Country and only
pursuing an agenda of their masters, who are now REVILED as the EXCRETA of our
society. (Sajith backing Excreta)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Patta Palhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10173044980411242894noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785706634715431183.post-64475139588096430412018-10-30T10:32:00.001+05:302018-10-30T10:32:26.609+05:30LATEST: First 15 Crossovers to be paid Rs500M in the MPs Auction<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So
it’s a no brainer that Swaminathan, Gamini Jayawickrema Perera and John
Amaratunga will take this largesse and go to Mahinda, so that when he dissolves
parliament in a few months and call elections, they can go into happy
retirement with all this money, so what do you think? Do they have principles
or are they prostitutes? They will retire anyway but have not been able to make
the money they had hoped for under Ranil, so who cares about principles?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
am afraid that is the state of the state in Sri Lanka today, and the stakes for
democracy are so high, the people must demand an alternative that retains their
inalienable rights over Governing, which the present system clearly is NOT!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Just
think about it a Recycling Plant costs Rs 300M. Sri Lanka does not have even
one Recycling Plant. Now MPs are for sale at Rs 300M to Rs 500M, and they are
constantly being recycled into Parliament. Time the public insist that no one
can return to Parliament after ONE TERM. The only way to prevent this kind of
auction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So go sell your soul and your entire family's - just go ahead, you just have to be quick as there are ONLY 15 spots left at the JACKPOT of life</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We
are the true Nationalists, not the pseudo Nationalists who are willing to pay
the people’s money for POWER<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Patta Palhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10173044980411242894noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785706634715431183.post-15340927246602822732018-10-29T10:00:00.000+05:302018-10-29T10:00:04.061+05:30Impeachment now is the only option, surely!<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It’s the time to take out the
President, as he is shown to be a traitor, not a savior as all the charges made
are trumped up.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">IMPEACHMENT and incarceration is the
need of the hour<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For
the sake of sanity, after years of undermining the Prime Minister’s efforts to
clean up the stables, when people like Dilrukshi Dias W was removed, when her
investigation of crimes became too hot for him to handle and save his friends,
pining the same charge on Ranil Wickremesinghe, is NOT THE WAY TO HIDE YOUR OWN
TREACHERY.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Listening
to a litany of lies on TV his command of the Authority of Office which up to
now we were able to live with had turned now against his either mental state,
or if he is under threat by the Rajapakse’s we don’t know. However money talks
and Rajapakse’s have BILLIONS of dollars, which illegitimate Governments like
DUBAI refuse to give up, as their whole existence is predicated on their
ability to bank ill-gotten gains of drug runners and despots from all over the
world, once the Swiss decided to clean up their act.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Simply
put all the dirty money in the world is parked in Dubai, and the Rajapakses have
so much that they have enough to buy each MP for over Rs1Billion and have change
left over.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It
is the question whether our politics is for sale to the highest bidder, and if
so how much has the President been promised, a man who said he had been offered
enough for 14 generations, and refused.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We
cannot wait at this juncture for history to judge this night of the long knives
as one of the worst annals in contemporary history, where the legitimately
elected President of a Country abused his own powers to try and justify his
existence when the truth was getting just too hard to handle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Just
picking on the absurdity of his speech, ETI group was a private group trying to
negotiate the sale of its assets to be able to pay off his liabilities and he
is dreaming of a scam of tenders not called for? What planet pray is he living
in to justify his action?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Enough
said, people who read have such a limited attention span, that, people in power
know that so abuse their power to maximize on latter day, impotence of the
general public when the future of their Country is at stake. WE who sincerely
care about the future, want out future back from those intent on destroying it,
and in this case by justifying it by any means possible - LYING<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Patta Palhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10173044980411242894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785706634715431183.post-48790091039298557152018-10-29T04:45:00.003+05:302018-10-29T04:45:36.953+05:30Whichever way you look at it, despite the Constitutional nuances, it is clear that the Friday night coup – was nothing other than an illegal coup!<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There
is no point in going through the legal niceties to justify this or that, that
is left to the Supreme Court and finally an immediate (not delayed) summoning
of Parliament within 24 hours to determine who holds the confidence of the
majority of the duly elected people of this Country.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">However
for the record, the links below give two arguments for and against:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.dailymirror.lk/article/New-PreMier-appointment-it-s-legal-and-constitutional-157518.html">http://www.dailymirror.lk/article/New-PreMier-appointment-it-s-legal-and-constitutional-157518.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.dailymirror.lk/article/Paradise-Lost-Preliminary-notes-on-a-Constitutional-Coup-157519.html">http://www.dailymirror.lk/article/Paradise-Lost-Preliminary-notes-on-a-Constitutional-Coup-157519.html</a>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For
a President to take such drastic steps as to shock the nation after close of
business on a Friday evening, and stall the Helicopter of the Prime Minister
who was in the South, so he could not fly back to prevent his ouster, was a
cunning but more to the point a selfish act that will be seen throughout the
world as the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“rule of the jungle”<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As
if he does not know about the rule of the jungle and what that does to a
Country, so he is complicit in a crime against the Country. A traitor, needing
to be hung by the neck as punishment no less.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So
it was clear in his speech, by his demeanor that he was lying at the time he
was addressing the nation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
baldfaced lies are purely because he knows the people of the Country can be
easily fooled, and will believe any cock and bull story, and can only
experience <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“the cock of the story”</b>
in time and realize they have been had, and then it is too late to do anything
about it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Using
the element of surprise, the power at his disposal, he could make a decision, which
he did. So no one is saying he did not have the power to do so. I am saying he
SOLD HIS COUNTRY TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER, while claiming his opponent, in this
case Ranil Wickremesinghe was about to the sell the Country to foreigners.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Using
this tried and tested XENOPHOBIC canard, which equally and more applies to
Rajapakse who he appointed, he tried to legitimize lies by spending a few
minutes lying to the nation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Beginning
with by appointing a rogue as the Secretary to the President, namely Hemasiri
Fernanado who permitted the Public Money, at People’s Bank to be lent to
friends and those who were willing to pay him large bribes, like 10% of the
money lended, he put the Administrative Service in jeopardy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We
know then this was planned from that point. It is Ranil Wickremesinghe’s
stupidity that he did not smell a rat. So it was a bit rich calling the PM a
crook, like the plot calling the kettle black!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So
a President to address the nation and call the sitting Prime Minister a crook
and all his speech was trying to justify that moniker was TOTALLY OUT OF LINE.
It is the people of the Country who should determine that later in an election,
as he is the legitimately elected Prime Minister and the President ONLY sitting
their with his head still intact because of the Protection of Ranil
Wickremesinghe<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So
for him to turn out the electricity of Temple Trees, and withdraw the Security
detachment is a rotten and dirty deed, done with a typically village mentality
of uncivilized behavior, in keeping his family tradition of ruining his home
District of Polonnaruwa by a generation of plunder for personal gain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He
knows the Sri Lankan people take everything lying down, though they let
passions rise for the wrong reasons and create damage to Public Property, that
is their property to get rid of their anger, another poor trait of the people.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I
need not go into each aspect of his address to the Nation as it was merely an
unproven vengeful and fanciful set of allegations made by two bit unrealiable
jokers, on whom he is pinning an assassination plot, masterminded by the Indian
RAW. Implication being that if he is assassinated Ranil Wickremasinghe
automatically becomes the President.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To
cut a long story short, and taking the advice of the Speaker who all know is a
man of integrity and acting in the best interests of the nation, which he
clearly has shown himself incompetent in, he SHOULD HAVE CALLED PARLIAMENT
before the coup to show who had the majority to govern. There was a no
confidence motion against the PM which the PM was able to win handsomely so what
do you do, you choose a questionable means, but all say, YOU MUST IMMEDIATELY
CALL PARLIAMENT TO SEE WHO COMMANDS THE CONFIDENCE.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Now
the deed is done, we just have to see if a no confidence motion against
dubiously appointed Mahinda Rajapakse can be can defeated OR NOT. Just do it to
save the nation, and let your personal integrity GO TO HELL!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Patta Palhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10173044980411242894noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785706634715431183.post-32561753204170086192018-10-16T14:44:00.002+05:302018-10-16T14:44:33.507+05:30So there are buyers queuing up for JKH, but they are being put off by the uncertainty and corruption of the State <span style="font-size: large;">Read this excellent link below on the state of play of JKH, whose share price has tanked due to the international interest rate meltdown that has immediately lead to the 10% drop in the rupee vs the US dollar, to say nothing of the rupee price itself delivering a double whammy blow to existing investors, fearful of further losses, and who want to exit now to minimize the drop in their portfolio values.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.lankabusinessonline.com/stock-price-decline-leaves-john-keells-jkh-vulnerable-to-a-takeover-by-sri-lankas-oligarchs/">http://www.lankabusinessonline.com/stock-price-decline-leaves-john-keells-jkh-vulnerable-to-a-takeover-by-sri-lankas-oligarchs/</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There are a few conglomerates who see an opportunity, which if the SL Government was SMART would welcome them as it would mean an immediate infusion of US$2.5B into the Country.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is to say that smart investors now see value in JKH. They are willing to go up to US$2.5B to buy the group. They know they can break it up, into its parts and float them away, making the Sri Lanka Stock Market more liquid in the rush, and have their value increase to US$4B.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Remember this is 250% of the current share price and CURRENT INVESTORS TO A MAN WILL SELL.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So what is the problem?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Simple, some jokers in Govt. want bribes to allow them to do this, and the payer is not allowed to pay bribes, however it is sugar coated as it is illegal in their own country anyway. 10% or US$250M was bandied about, but they will not even countenance a penny. Just sell to existing shareholders, who cash out, this company looks at all the Companies and decides how to carve it up, to maximize value and sell at least 50% of the shares to the public and overseas on a much better performance budget, while the fat is all taken out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What is standing in their way are the labor laws about compensation for firing the useless baggage called staff who are not pulling their way. The inability to put foreign managers to run the newly carved out businesses for a year to be able to make them attractive entities to float.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">They don't want lawsuits and delays and state intervention to intercede, as the whole deal is one that needs a minimum of delay so that in one year all new entities can be hived off, creating about 25 different stock market entities out of JKH.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This frankly is the best thing that can happen to JKH as existing investors will have the funds to do as they please, with local investors also then getting funds to grow their businesses or invest in the new businesses thus created.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Making a company more efficient will help that company grow, be it in the hospitality business, or retail, or internet sales, incentivising performance and not old age or service. these lean businesses that hitherto had hopeless time serving management who only wanted their salaries cars and perks, but who were inherently lazy have no time in a business that needs to grow double digits.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This foundation can then create companies that in 4 years will be worth at least US$20B, and the economy, the investors, the foreign investor who is willing to do this, if he is given cast iron guarantees will all luck out including the new management who will be rewarded by options.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hitherto, JKH had been led by a bunch of goons for their own benefit, who have not added an iota to the value of JKH in their tenure, and have helped themselves to illegal stock options, at the expense of the real workers and investors who see their shares drop in value.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So this is a plea to the Island Mentality Government to make it clear that they are open to a take over bid for the whole group and they will not stand in the way and further more permit it to happen in 30 days the time investor needs, as they are not willing to entertain any delays.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This will prevent the oligopolistic inefficiency with NO inward foreign investment that will result and will just run the companies to the ground as their intentions are purely greed and not to add value to the economy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So Govt. of SL it is your call to make the statement loud and clear that you will not stand in your way </span><br />
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<br />Patta Palhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10173044980411242894noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785706634715431183.post-1367308223822393332018-10-12T13:30:00.000+05:302018-10-12T13:30:06.160+05:30What were the Saudis thinking, luring and killing Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul?<span style="font-size: large;">The brazen behavior of MBS the Saudi Crown Prince, announcing to the media world that he will not tolerate dissent, by killing a US resident Saudi journalist in Istanbul, has put his erstwhile ally Donald Trump on the spot like never before!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As if Trump had no other problems on his hand, and now has to face the midterm elections in three weeks, for this to come up at the crucial moment is at best foolish timing by MBS to make matters difficult for POTUS. Donald Trump.</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/oct/11/sir-richard-branson-suspends-saudi-business-talks-over-khashoggi-affair"><span style="font-size: large;">https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/oct/11/sir-richard-branson-suspends-saudi-business-talks-over-khashoggi-affair</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Time will tell, but MBS must ruing his decision to have him removed from life, if he has any common sense, and values the world's public opinion as it is not merely showing that he will not tolerate any criticism of his rule, but now it will turn the spotlight on everything he does.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just imagine the smurk on the faces of the Countries that are stacked against Saudi Arabia. I can't begin to think the smirk on the face of the Iranian President knowing there is now no defense of Saudi Arabia, whatever they do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The stupid Saudi Agents who did this are now out in the open as Turkey has provided the details of the people who came in two jets from Riyadh to carry out the contract, and to MBS their names being out in the open is no fuss, and they are the ones who will now be in the spotlight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">All in all it is quite clear this will backfire spectacularly on MBS whose impetuous behavior, will be further highlighted and his detractors will have evidence to attack him with.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The arrogance at which he performed this believing that people want Saudi, and not the other way round is going to ricochet back once the world oil price hike is a thing of the past, and Saudi will have to find another way to suppress the growing dissent at home on the quality of life of the majority of those living in Saudi which is on the way down despite the enormous display of gluttony and waste by the ruling princes elite!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I guess someone had to pay the price of arrogance and it will be the turning point, when Saudi history is written that undid this master plan created to bring Saudi Arabia into the international fold from Pariah status, and now will destine it back to the pariah status, due to the pariah acts it seems to carry out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This war in Yemen will now embolden the enemies of Saudi sensing the turning of the Publicity tide against them to take advantage of the window provided to show to the world how two faced they are and that there is no intention on the part of the monarchy to reform and partake as valuable citizens in collection of nations that make up the world and so they will just have to lie in bed with their erstwhile enemies Israel to find bed mates to conjoin with while the rest of the world will lay no stone unturned to investigate the behavior of the regime like it has never done before.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This awakening of the Frankenstein's monster in world media anger against this brutal killing, is going to consume the Kingdom, and hasten its demise, where the princes will have no place to hide, and not even the USA in a generation and they will sadly regret this turning point as the beginning of the end.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I write this with no malice, just stating facts on how a stupid act can be the catalyst in destroying a whole nation and its plan to change and curry favor with the rest of the world. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The next stage will be the isolation of the whole Muslim world from Saudi Arabia, one which they ass benefactors have seen to have bought up until now, but not any more! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is a good example for students of history to study how power corrupts absolutely, and know what it really means, as it cannot be sustained forever. Only righteousness finally wins.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So much for their deity they believe in! he will not spare them.</span>Patta Palhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10173044980411242894noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785706634715431183.post-81769584079916065462018-10-06T14:12:00.001+05:302018-10-06T14:12:21.453+05:30Time we offer refuge to US disabled people, as they face a very likelihood of death at the hands of US Police, than any other country!<span style="font-size: large;">Can you believe it? It is frightening to be disabled in the US, as if you somehow are unlucky enough to come face to face with a US Policeman, and they all carry guns, they are MORE LIKELY to shoot you dead and ask questions later, as they are TRIGGER HAPPY, FRIGHTENED FOR THEIR SAFETY, and they are NOT prosecuted if they kill you, as they claim some nebulous reason for killing you as they FELT they were threatened and did not know that the person they killed has some form of disability for acting the way they did!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Read the link for the corroboration for the statement made above please!</span><br />
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<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-45739335"><span style="font-size: large;">https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-45739335 </span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is without doubt this a human rights violation against the UN charters that the US has signed as to rights of citizens. However clearly they do not adhere to that and they do not belong to the ICC or Criminal Court, so they cannot be held liable for their grave HR violations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So when the book is thrown at anyone by the USA, just say, we have a problem, but it pales in comparison to the killing fields in the USA and to say nothing of the 3,000,000 incarcerated persons rotting in jail with no hope of proper rehabilitation or being weaned from addiction, or crime.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Say it as it is in Donald Trump's USA</span><br />
<br />Patta Palhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10173044980411242894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785706634715431183.post-68418996290207999332018-10-04T08:25:00.002+05:302018-10-04T08:25:58.300+05:30Why is the Financial Intelligence Unit of the Central Bank unwilling to disclose the name of the Big Guy who had Rs150M deposited into his accout?<span style="font-size: large;">It is time we demand that people just cannot get away with having undisclosed wealth, as they could be the proceeds of crime, drugs or any other untaxed or extortionate means.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As most of the 225 who occupy the seats in the Diyawanna are guilty of such unexplained resources, it is up to the Independent Cental Bank to take the first step, devoid of fear of any present or future Government and state who is under suspicion </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We the people want answers</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Look at the link below and read, how the women in the UK has been asked to explain how she got so much money from her disgraced banker husband who is doing time!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6237857/Bankers-wife-blew-16MILLION-Harrods-targeted-NCA.html">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6237857/Bankers-wife-blew-16MILLION-Harrods-targeted-NCA.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In today's technology context it is easy to track such types of expenditure and so answers must be provided, beginning with the largest amounts first and working downwards, as a matter of priority as it is better to deal with the bigger fish so that little by little all the fish know that their time will come unless they reform!</span>Patta Palhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10173044980411242894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785706634715431183.post-41844514869690168002018-09-12T14:20:00.002+05:302018-09-12T14:20:46.522+05:30Oh Bandula – what do you want? Now you have been chained in Dehiwela for all 69 years of your life?<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Without further ado, let’s be clear that
9<sup>th</sup> September’s Sunday Times has an article where one of Bandula’s
keepers from way back when he was small, Vasantha Nugegoda, who is now an
expert in zoos who goes around the world to advice zoos in the care of
elephants, saying he should remain where he is and he will die if he is moved
to Ridiyagama Safari Park, which is where the clamor is to move him to.
Vasantha maintains he was a perfect specimen of a well formed and attractive
elephant who was brought from Somawathiya in 1949 and has only lightly been
chained when in Musth, and the emotional outbursts in the press are truly false,
based on false information.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><a href="http://www.sundaytimes.lk/180909/plus/let-him-be-310433.html">http://www.sundaytimes.lk/180909/plus/let-him-be-310433.html</a>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Contrast this with the story put out in
the same Media Group’s sister paper, the Daily Mirror today, September 12<sup>th</sup>
2018, which is appealing to the emotions of animal welfare lovers, and included
in the high stakes appeal they have drawn his namesake Bandula Jayasekera a
former reporter, who is taking up this cause, and Dr Sumith Pilapitiya who is
non-committal, except to say that elephants should not perform in circuses or
zoos and certainly not used for transporting people for a ride. Their places
should be where they are free to roam.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">So the latter article concludes that ALL
THE ELEPHANTS including Bandula should be moved to Ridiyagama Safari Park as
the area at Dehiwela is insufficient for them to be unchained and be allowed to
roam free in a larger area. They are appealing to the President as the Minister
of the Environment, but not directly responsible for the Zoo which is part of
the Ministry of Sustainable Development to release this animal, and send him to
Ridiyagama, which Vasantha Nugegoda claims will kill him, as it is a
surrounding he is UNFAMILIAR with, and at his age of 69, he is not in a
position to absorb and assimilate into new surroundings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><a href="http://life.dailymirror.lk/article/latest_stories/Conservationists-appeal-to-President-to-unchain-Bandula-after-69-years/1/18197">http://life.dailymirror.lk/article/latest_stories/Conservationists-appeal-to-President-to-unchain-Bandula-after-69-years/1/18197</a>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">It is then up to the reader to read both
articles very carefully and comment on the pros and cons and suggest means to
achieve the best for the animal, as that is what we are trying to do, and make
different insinuations, based on our knowledge and if two elephant experts give
contradictory opinions, which do you choose, when you cannot ask the elephant
what he will prefer, when he does not know what the alternative is anyway,
except that the chains will be removed and he will allowed to go where he
pleases! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Patta Palhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10173044980411242894noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785706634715431183.post-59850245875873195532018-09-05T14:26:00.002+05:302018-09-05T15:20:49.414+05:30AUSTRALIA, seems you have got a REAL PROBLEM, don’t try and weasel your way out of it, admit you “ballsed up ROYALLY!” <br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18.6667px;"><b>Australia does not arrest unless they have done their homework thoroughly. If they make a mistake taking in an innocent even on suspicion its millions they will have to fork out, for their mistake as a reputation could be ruined due to the idiocy of the act, and someone has got to pay. So think of the possibilities in store now! Read on:</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The Australian anti-terrorist unit is suddenly faced with the
fact that they have truly, right royally f****d up in the investigation of the
Kamer Nizamdeen, case, in falsely accusing an innocent kid of links to
terrorism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">It all seems to have arisen out of the discovery of a
notebook containing intentions of probable terrorist activity within Australia,
where there is also reference to his personal diaries that are very specific in
nature relating to such terrorist activities of a very sinister nature, that were
planned to be carried out.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Obviously, the brain dead Australian detectives only mental
arithmetic is that if the name somehow sounds Muslim and there is a document
somehow that refers to terrorist activity, that it is a slam dunk case, that
required immediate arrest, as a threat to the state, and they will simply lock
him up and throw away the key.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">You can see how foolish and idiotic that is, but in a land of
many who have descended from Criminals, who were shipped there, so they can be
forgotten, you cannot expect them to have anything other than a criminal
mindset anyway! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">To put it another way “you judge others by your own standards”.
If your standards are warped, then you have a problem in objectivity, and you
are clearly misguided. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">To cut a long story short, they (the Australian Detectives
Investigation this ALLEGED plot) are in DEEP SHIT. They have no way of saving
face, as they will simply face the sack, due to their gross incompetence. SO
what do criminals get up to in such a circumstance? They are now busily engaged
in creating their own web of intrigue, manufacturing non-existent evidence,
making up stories, getting corroboration from seemingly innocent people, by the
use of threat, and in a world of fake news, want to cover their fakery, by deciding
that his openly and unequivocal defense from his homeland, of ALL religious and
racial persuasions are simply cast as fake news.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">While a whole case of lies is being drawn up as TRUTH,
President Trump for once has even better company in the form of the Australian
Police Force, in re drawing a story to cover-up their gross incompetence because
Australia will NEVER be able to live it up with this case, which has taken a
turn, no convict heritage detective could have imagined, due to their ignorance
of the status and stature of their legal immigrants or students of the present,
who have to go through hoops if they are to come to Australia. No dead-beat
terrorist sympathizer can come through the cracks today, only those who can be brainwashed
within that SORRY ASS country, which does everything in their power to create a
divided country, by not being sufficiently inclusive of all foreign people, who
instead of being accepted with open arms into their fabric of society are
looked upon in suspicion, which angers the looked upon to teach these Neanderthals
with a convict past a lesson or two in Human Rights.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">This guy has been denied his human rights with this
accusation, and the PTA Act of Sri Lanka looks like a walk in the park when
compared to the charges filed to keep him under lock and key and be tortured to
extract confessions if that is possible, using mind reading and bending
techniques to save face.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The mind really BOGGLES. What is happening in Sydney in the building
this guy finds himself in, with the person really guilty of the crime of
planting false information, just to get a smart kid in trouble salivating at
the thought that he has ruined the life of a very (some would consider too
intelligent for their own liking) bright kid with a wonderful career ahead of
him. This rotter did not like foreigners who were too off the charts with
ability, in comparison with the dick heads that litter the Country of
Australia, stolen from its true inhabitants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 18.6667px;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.dailymirror.lk/article/Impossible-to-believe-Kamer-was-radicalised-Goolbai-155052.html">http://www.dailymirror.lk/article/Impossible-to-believe-Kamer-was-radicalised-Goolbai-155052.html</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">If you need any evidence for my theory, just see what happened
to the true natives of Australia. Those few who remain have their lives ruined
in one way or another, purposely kept in a state of delirium, so that what is
truly theirs does not have to be returned to them in the first place. They have
NO SHAME.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">This act of aggression against a fellow human is true to character
of the Australian State that treats boat people like dirt, as if they don’t even
exist by sending them to hell holes like Nauru or Papua New Guinea, is
indicative of a Country in decline, but still unaware of how badly morally
bankrupt, they are.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I don’t know if we will ever get to the bottom of this
particular case, as truth is the first thing that goes out of the window, when
there is a cover up. We may have to wait decades, until books are written and
films made to finally get some kind of realistic idea of what happened, why it
happened, and why it was covered up, and the innocent lives sacrificed due to
this miscarriage of justice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The only lesson we can learn from this, is that to accuse
anyone of anything and follow due process, it is better to err on the side of
the accused rather than on the accuser as the consequences are far greater if
they are wrong on the credibility of the security forces, on which the faith of
the whole country depends, than the possibility of a terror plot that goes off
with a few people who get killed. Reader, don’t forget that there are hundreds
of investigations being carried out for terror related events today, this was
simply one that just went too far, due to an idiot in the investigation team
who wanted GLORY!</span><span style="background: white; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Here below was from the article in today's Daily Mirror News Paper<br />
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It is too early to comment on the detention of 25-year-old Kamer Nizamdeen, a popular PhD student affiliated to the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, Australia as the matter is under investigation by the NSW Joint Counter-Terrorism Team. His arrest on accusations of planning terror attacks has shocked almost everyone in the University and back at home in Sri Lanka as his life in Sydney was a story of successes with robust achievements, respected and admired. </div>
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It is bewildering that such a man could suddenly get ‘radicalised’ almost overnight as widely publicised worldwide without any evidence of any extremist comment being heard from him at any time by any of his colleagues. It is well known that a radicalised person cannot hide his views though he can hide his conduct and activities. How is it that there is no independent corroboration from his associates or his closest circle in the university that Kamer was no longer the same man they knew? </div>
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The only evidence known so far on which he was arrested on August 30 (Thursday) was a notebook allegedly containing references to former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, former Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, references to Sydney Opera House, police and railway stations allegedly found in his room. Though the exact wordings are not in any media, the PhD student will have to explain what the notebook contents were all about. We do not know his version because we have not heard the police or the media quoting Kamer in their reports. </div>
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It is difficult to believe that in a country where seven prime ministers were displaced in ten years and the last one Malcolm Turnbull was ousted by his own party colleagues on 24th August 2018, the Sri Lankan student could have had any ideological or religious reason to ‘terrorise’ Turnbull. There appears to be no evidence that he had plans to terrorise the former Prime Minister or former Foreign Minister at any time they held office. </div>
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Kamer was no simpleton; he was a bright, well-integrated PhD student and staffer at the UNSW. It is mind-boggling as to how his alleged ‘terrorism manifesto’ would be left in the open space of his shared room in the university premises carelessly for someone else to so easily ‘stumble upon’. </div>
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Kamer’s brother, in a Facebook Post on Monday 3rd September, has expressed the view that Kamer was framed. “His accomplishments within the university in UNSW speak for themselves and he would have had absolutely no reason to engage in such disgusting, hateful crimes to a city which has been extremely opening to him for the past 6 years,” the brother wrote. </div>
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Crime Reporter Sally Rowsthorne of The Sydney Morning Herald of Friday 31st August, noted “those who knew the Sri Lankan postgraduate student were in shock after the arrest with multiple friends and neighbours saying that they wouldn’t believe what Mr Nizamdeen is accused of doing”. ABC also quoted the police saying that they do not believe that Kamer was capable of carrying out a terrorist attack. </div>
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Except for the contents of the notebook, which are also capable of innocent explanations, there does not appear in the media any evidence of any previous expressions of opinion or conduct on Kamer’s part that would support the serious allegations made against this up and coming talented youth, whose future is on the brink of ruination. But then the investigations are continuing, we need to wait. However what is clear to this writer is that additional evidence notwithstanding, the sum total of the material against Kamer do not amount to even an attempt or a conspiracy to commit an offence known to the law as applied in countries which have not embraced oppressive Counter Terrorism laws or the draconian Prevention of Terrorism Law. Jotting down one’s views in a notebook cannot by itself constitute an act of terror. </div>
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There must be evidence of actual preparation or an engagement or assistance to commit a terrorist act, which appears to be lacking in this case. The reported facts as distinguished from speculatory comments, such as alleged membership in the ISIS, do not appear to qualify as a terrorist or attempted terrorist act under Australia’s Criminal Code Act of 1995 or under terror laws applicable in the New South Wales. Membership in ISIS itself is however, an independent terror related offence. There is no evidence of any “intimidation to advance a political, religious or ideological cause and the act causes”, the way a terrorist act is defined in the Australian Act. The phrase “and the act causes” would necessitate the act of intimidation causing actual ‘intimidation’, often ignored by investigators who probably want to demonstrate their ‘smart detection’ to their superiors! But Australia as a country maintains a high standard of judicially supervised investigative mechanism. It is possible that he would be and should be cleared of the accusations, subject however to some extra ordinary, but unlikely links with a terrorist organisation being discovered or due to some external pressure from racist entities. </div>
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Dinoo Kelleghan in Sydney writing to The Sunday Times (Sri Lanka) of 2nd September 2018 has made reference to highly speculative comments spicing the story which are unsupported by evidence. One example is that Kamer “acted as a lone wolf using his campus activities as a cover” which earned a sub-title in The Sunday Times, leading to a permanent damage to a man who had ‘networked into the university where he studied, worked and mentored students, and through projects that brought him plaudits by UNSW.’ Kelleghan reported further as follows: “Police say the PhD student is affiliated with the IS but are not charging him with being a member of the terrorist organisation.” But NSW Acting Detective Superintendent Mick Sheehy is quoted in the next sentence as having said, “From the documentation we believe he would affiliate with the ISIS”. </div>
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One will easily see the propaganda hype to make the suspect appear to be linked to ISIS, the earlier one claiming Kamer is affiliated with the IS while the subsequent one stating that ‘he would affiliate’ with the ISIS. </div>
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Kamer Nizamdeen had no previous criminal records prior to August 30. But were the police rushed into arresting Kamer with such weak allegations possibly by external elements? NSW’s Surveillance Device Act of 2007 and other terrorist related laws permit the police to conduct surveillance to establish more sound and credible material against possible real terror suspects. Why was he not monitored at least for a few more days, which smart investigators often do before rushing to arrest? What was the urgency? Did the elements that may have pushed the police to arrest the Sri Lankan forthwith have an agenda to create a realistic impact on the then ongoing Defence Seminar in Colombo, which commenced here on Thursday 30th August? </div>
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Day Two of the Defence Seminar on Friday 31st August morning session had two relevant presentations to the subject under discussion in this article. One by Lt. Gen.(Retd) Orit Adalo, managing director of Adalo Consulting Ltd of Israel on ‘Ideological Polarisation’ and the other by Maj. Gen. Roger J Noble, United States Army Pacific, Australia on ‘Role of the military in Response to Violent Non-State Actors in a Destabilised International System’. Space constraints do not permit a detailed discussion, which may be written off by some as conspiracy theories. The news of Kamer’s arrest however hit the news media here only at the conclusion of the two day Colombo Defence Seminar, perhaps a little too late. </div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">(The writer is a former Senior State Counsel and can be reached on mm_zuhair@yahoo.com) </span></div>
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<br />Patta Palhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10173044980411242894noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785706634715431183.post-42686683984611461272018-08-08T13:07:00.001+05:302018-08-08T13:07:32.880+05:30Wadduwa Party - Unanswered Questions! Better agitate for answers now before it becomes worse!<span style="font-size: large;"><b>If the report in the Island Newspaper is true, and of course there is a problem with much of the facts as reported in the Media, we have serious concerns that must be addressed NOW</b></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=189253"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=189253</b></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>How come there was a party of two thousand people, each paying three thousand rupees? That is a total of Six Million Rupees for a FB party arranged by an AD agency in Kaduwela.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Before the alleged drugs scene, that in itself must draw a red flag to the authorities.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>So what is the police doing about it? There is no point saying a Politician is protecting the organizers and doing nothing about it</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The IGP must investigate if the party was held correctly, and owing to the crowd involved, if there was an adequate police presence to ensure basic security for the party goers, a basic right for party goers.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>What enticed so many to come from all over the Country to pay Rs3,000 unless there was something available that is normally not available.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Basic Police investigations MUST get to the bottom of it, and eliminate all possibilities.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>What pray is the duty of the Police? Not just to prevent crime, but also to prevent the possibility in the future. In order to do the latter, they must look into the causes, and how it can be prevented from happening</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>I don't know about the drug scene there, but we have to nip the drug menace in the bud as a Country. as the people of the Country demand it of the law enforcement authorities and not allow politicians to run rings around them</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Remember the Police will eventually have to answer for it later, if something is not done immediately, and it is better to have it all discussed, resolved and suspects implicated or exonerated from the deaths today, rather than let it hang for a while before it is investigated and then it will more work for the already overburdened police force, trying to get a handle on the drug menace in Sri Lanka.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Where is the report of the IGP to the Law and Order Minister as there has been a clear breakdown of some law?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>We just cannot let the IGP sleep on the job, it is too critical to let slide.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Why aren't more people questioning this incident, as we don't want a more severe incident in the future?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Today it is clear that the strength of the drugs are not known, and many are overdosing on lethal drugs and dying because the suppliers are incapable of regulating the strength of some of the chemicals used in the psychedelic drugs freely available today.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Before the crisis gets out of hand where the police simply cannot cope, why not give it the significance due and act on it?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Someone please do something</b></span>Patta Palhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10173044980411242894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785706634715431183.post-50854773346298097322018-07-24T17:48:00.003+05:302018-07-24T17:48:41.137+05:30Micro Finance Debt – inability to pay – has nothing to do with region, it is a common issue across the Country<br />
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As usual the pontificating donkeys, also known as ministers
are hypothesizing debt into the Northern Debt being special which needs to be
forgiven, and not the debt taken by women in the rest of the Country. Bull
Shit!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There are philosophical issues that must be addressed and let
us do that one by one. Let’s home in on where the real problem lies. It is with
the microfinance lending practice of first targeting women, whether they are
women headed households or not. The assumption is this population is less
likely to default.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then they pick on vulnerable, as in financially not savvy
women and get them to find a guarantor, usually three women cross guarantee for
each other, and the money is promptly paid, not looking whether women have any
prior experience in paying off such debt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The predator salesmen are only concerned about their
commission which depends on the number of households they can lend to, and has
nothing to do with the evaluation of a business plan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A capping of the interest rates, will result in lower lending
to these vulnerable people, as lending criteria will have to change to safer
bets. It will prevent these people being targeted. However there is a catch,
the need to pick out those who will then go to the local money lender.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In short they will not be forced into taking loans they
cannot pay, but will go to the money lender who lends at high rates, without
guarantors for expenses, that no one else will lend on. These vulnerable people
have NO SAFETY NET.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is the duty of the Samurdhi Niladari to identify families
in this debt trap, for special assistance, and advise them before they mortgage
their lands to raise funds. Invariably the local money lender who charges
usurious rates, will end up owning the property by default, further pauperizing
these families.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is this vulnerable population, anywhere in the country who
MUST be helped. The question is, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">“how
can you identify them?”</b> and intervene before they go from the frying pan
into the fire. In short one is helping those trapped in poverty, without the
financial savvy to extricate them from this debt burden. Microfinance writes
off debt, money lenders take everything, leaving nothing.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Patta Palhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10173044980411242894noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785706634715431183.post-51001744193982016802018-07-19T11:26:00.000+05:302018-07-19T11:26:03.871+05:30Where is the media in defending the security of the nation?<span style="font-size: large;">When a debate in parliament took place, to effectively fool people again both by the Govt. and Opposition to imply that troop numbers are all that matter, the media SHOULD HAVE POINTED OUT THE FALLACY</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When the whole world is reducing the strength of their forces and that includes the US, UK, China Russia and India, and going hi tec, we in Sri Lanka are debating the issue of whether to reduce the strength of the Forces or not.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Of course it is a no brainer that we should have a more agile fighting force, which could be deployed immediately if trouble arises. Mobile Camps are the answer and is a well known form of security which it seems only Sri Lanka does not know about!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So let us leave the defence of the nation to the forces, to present their requests for the future security and for a proper independent analysis of its need, rather than be determined by people with personal agendas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We are paying Rs50BN a year just to feed the forces. That is simply unacceptable. So if you downsize by a quarter, If I had just a quarter of that to get ONE good brigade to be deployed whenever trouble occurs, that is better, while getting rid of excess bodies that is a quarter of the force in a five year period.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So why is the media not pointing this out? The fact is the forces are NOT nimble as there are too many structures that serve no purpose, other than just give people title and nothing else. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What do we want? Security of the land. How do you get it? Reduce the number and beef up the logistics using the latest technology. As Sri Lanka is a small country, we can get any amount of troops from one place to another in a matter of a few hours, by land sea or air. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What we don't have is the equipment to move them quickly and that is the need of the hour and not the bodies. the bodies are needed to run the economy, not sit around pissing in their boots. So redirect the personnel to civilian essentials not covered and use the money saved to getting transportation items to ensure we can fight any battle, big or small within an hour of it breaking out, where ever it maybe. Who is going to argue with that?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The present 250+ Army Camps don't even have bullets that work to last one hour of battle, so why even have them? We are only putting our soldiers in harm's way. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So who do we blame for that? the Civilian Government not acquiescing to forces commanders needs. So who are the traitors? Everyone of the people who are warming their seats in Parliament? Not one person not even Field Marshal SF has pointed this terrible state of affairs. </span>Patta Palhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10173044980411242894noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785706634715431183.post-6051267031876835902018-07-19T10:06:00.000+05:302018-07-19T10:06:27.559+05:30Why is Parliament littered with Bozos who appeal to their gallery? It’s called Democracy stupid!!<br />
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Taking a cue from what transpired in Parliament yesterday,
where the Government had to answer the allegation by the opposition, that the
Army was downsizing, allegations made by Bozo Dinesh Gunewardena, seeking to
get some brownie points from his gallery, by implying that he is trying to
defend the nation by keeping the Army at the present numbers. So one mistake
does not make it into two wrongs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.dailymirror.lk/article/Army-to-be-restructured-not-downsizing-152906.html">http://www.dailymirror.lk/article/Army-to-be-restructured-not-downsizing-152906.html</a>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mistake ONE – The
Quality of an Army to satisfactorily defend a nation from their brief has
nothing to do with troop strength.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mistake TWO –
Denying that the numbers will be reduced is itself a lie, as what is needed is
a MORE EFFECTIVE security force, not strength in numbers.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To illustrate how bankrupt both the Government and Opposition
are in terms of their inability to truly represent the needs of the Nation, is
their pandering to the Gallery, as votes are supposed to be obtained by telling
lies, as the truth will not win an election in Sri Lanka. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So we come back to the reason we are in the backwaters of the
world, when we can easily be in the forefront, but for the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>intellectual bankruptcy of the electorate to
whom, the education system has completely failed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I know I can defend the whole country with a troop strength
of a maximum of 50,000 well trained, high mobility force, equipped with drones,
helicopters, high technology surveillance, BETTER than today’s army can, with
lower capacity manpower, but with the nimbleness of a rapid deployment force.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As usual our donkeys in Parliament have missed the whole
point. We have seas, our economic zone, which is being plundered by foreign
trawlers DAILY, and they have not pointed that we need a Navy strength at 5
times present, with vessels equipped with latest technology to prevent the
POACHING WAR. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WE ARE CURRENTLY AT WAR IN THE HIGH SEAS AND DONKEYS IN
PARLIAMENT HAVE NOT RAISED THIS ISSUE YET! So what is the good of idiots who
just want to hear the sound of their voice, not realizing they are all traitors
for NOT defending our economic rights, from being stolen in daylight.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Patta Palhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10173044980411242894noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785706634715431183.post-79193274147605623662018-07-10T12:34:00.002+05:302018-07-10T12:34:39.305+05:30Count ourselves very fortunate in Sri Lanka - the Rest of the World has been gripped by heatwaves these past weeks<span style="font-size: large;">Sri Lankans tend to always look at the worst, or have pessimistic outlooks on life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The past month has seen record breaking high temperatures throughout the world, but we in Sri Lanka have not experienced any extremes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5933587/Mesmerising-maps-reveal-record-breaking-temperatures-world.html%C2%A0">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5933587/Mesmerising-maps-reveal-record-breaking-temperatures-world.html </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The link above is worth reading as it will bring to your attention how extreme some of the temperature has been.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Only if you live in a place and experience unusually high or unusually low temperatures will you understand how different life at that moment is.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In England roads have melted for the heat. Some people dare not go out of their houses and just imagine in many temperate countries they only have heaters and no airconditioners or fans, so people are really suffering the sweltering heat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">There has been no reference in the gutter press to the extreme heatwave the world is experiencing, and worse no indication to people in Sri Lanka that they truly live in Paradise, but where people still leave this country to move to countries experiencing such weather and temperature changes, only because the SYSTEM in Sri Lanka has pushed them out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So what is this system I refer to?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A parochial society, where performance is not appreciated. Where the old school tie matters more than ability leading the best of the rest to leave Sri Lanka for pastures anew to give their all to the Country that welcomes them, being disgusted with the Country of their birth that effectively chased away some of our best citizens, as they don't recognize quality and true Human Resource Potential</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It is only this resource that we lack in Sri Lanka, because we actually had them, but we chased the people away, so that idiots getting into positions of authority have stifled their upward mobility.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We must change this misconception, so we can give the truly talented a chance within Sri Lanka to display what they are capable of.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So literally we chase people from the frying pan to the fire in these extreme temperature countries because we are unable to give credit where it is due to good people, giving them the promotion needed or even at the beginning give them a living wage on which to build their lives and lay down their roots in Sri Lanka </span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>Patta Palhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10173044980411242894noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785706634715431183.post-33027405802868046132018-07-03T15:22:00.003+05:302018-07-03T15:22:52.599+05:30Foolish Southern Politicians have raised Vijayakala to heights even she could never have imagined – what say you?<br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">In this
era of fake news, planted news, manufactured news, nothing is truly what it
seems. So to see our Fellow Sinhala Bretheran becoming KULAPPUFIED is the
epitome of hilarity, except they have created a FRANKENSTEIN.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Even
Vijayakala Maheswaran, in her wildest dreams did not realize she will be made a
heroine in the North, purely because of a foolish TV channel called Derana that
gave her story a spin that it needed to go viral. If I was Tamil I will be
clapping like blazes watching the fun and reading the dick head comments.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Don’t
forget in life, if you think you are smart, it comes back to haunt you. One
must be humble, help the downtrodden. Vijayakala after all lost her husband 10
years ago, when she was only 35, a housewife thrust into politics because of
it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
husband was a successful businessman, who it says fell to a LTTE bullet, but
even there, we have no proof as to who gave the order to kill and exactly why.
Let’s leave it at that and come to present amusement gone serious.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">If you
were God and looking down on this scene of a whole bunch of people taking a cue
from Vijakala’s speech WITHOUT listening to it fully, knowing the context in
which it was made, knowing the people she made it to, and the rational she was
usingto make it, will come out with a different interpretation. We Lankans are
easily excited, and even more easily swayed into a fear psychosis to make hay,
completely out of context and before the speech was analyzed by Tamil
independent observers, who can catch the nuance of what she says, not the
literal translation of their interpretation of what she meant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I find
this whole saga entertaining to say the least, the fact that the PM has got
involved, instead of ignoring the whole fracas and having a private chat with
the instigator, to find out what made her blurt, shows even he is KULLAPUFIED~<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Does
anyone in the South, even some Southern Tamils, know what it is like to be
Tamil in Jaffna, know what people are facing and know that they have all become
political footballs in games that other Tamil politicians are playing for their
own survival in the north and worse others in the South? I am sure NOT.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">IN those
circumstances, when there is NO PROGRESS in the daily lives of the people, frustration
and anger boils and it shows in mysterious ways.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">A Tamil
Boy in Jaffna, who lives amongst the present climate there, would find living
in Jaffna very obtrusive, and frustrating. He gets money from relatives as a
sort of peace offering to their poor relations in Jaffna, so he is not in want
for food. His friends face similar outlook, and get into trouble with the law,
like all kids with a few bucks in the pocket, always do. Alcohol abuse and even
drugs is common, and it is known that the Forces in the past used this mode to
keep people non-compus. So alcohol abuse was a widespread means of control of
the civilian population.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">When you
get in trouble with the law and have to answer to a policeman in Sinhala and
you don’t know what the hell he is saying you again tense up and anger boils
inside of you, wishing the LTTE at least were back, so that their police at
least had imposed some rules and order and spoke in Tamil.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">You may
laugh and think it frivolous but it is true, that the hopeless ness of people
in the north with their leaders just as much as it is with the government has
led Tamil leaders like Vijayakala to be opportunistic in utterances, wishing
for a return of the LTTE if indeed that is what she wishes, and I am still
waiting for a full transcript in English, of the whole speech in order to make
head of tails of what she was trying to say.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Remember I
am not being judgmental yet, as I don’t know what was said in full, and taking
voice cuts is the worst thing that has happened to Sri Lankan news as every
voice cut even in Sinhala differs from the intent, if one listens to the whole
speech, be it from Ranil or Mahinda or for that matter from anyone whose voice
cut is broadcast. So Vijayakala’s is NO DIFFERENT to the rest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">There are
far bigger threats that the fear of the LTTE making a comeback, especially as
the Sinhala People foolish as they are will suddenly find that the Chinese have
bought up all of Sri Lanka except for he bits that the Muslims and Tamils own,
as they are capable of holding out for a bigger prize, while the Sinhala people
will sell their mothers and fathers to the Chinaman for a few bob.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I can
fight the LTTE single handed with a few drones and don’t need an army, so I don’t
know why the people are worried of a comeback. The only reason they will gain
traction is because of the sordid way they have mucked up the peace dividend.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Do you
know what I would have done? I would simply offer every Tamil female head of
household a job in the South for her and a place to live for the rest of the
family, and are you telling me she will not come? Of course she will if the
Tamil parties are not allowed to interfere and prevent her. Why should she stay
to put up with shit, no jobs, no prospects, when someone is offering a way out
for her family to prosper? SLAM DUNK – and BOO HOO TO YOO <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">As this article goes to press, I note that Parliament has adjourned for the day due to the Maheswaran Speech and no one in Parliament has heard it in full. So you can imagine what kind of excuses for human beings we have in Parliament to waste their time on nothing. I am sorry to say that we seem to have a bunch of real donkeys in parliament adjourning when there are many more important matters than Vijakala or the NYT report likely to be planted about the MR campaign receiving funds. All that is fake news, the real news is that the whole of the Country is corrupt to the core and the 225 in parliament lead that pack. To hide their nakedness they engage in frivolity to KULLAPUFY the general public and divert their interests from matters of state.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18.6667px;">They have by even adjourning give the LTTE more credit than it is due. No wonder it empowered Prabakaran and no wonder it is going to encourage the Diaspora, because of the silly and puerile behavior of the leaders of this Country, who don't care about the people, just want a voice cut that will fool the listener or viewer, that is simply all.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18.6667px;">We pray for this Country to receive leaders who actually cares about the well being of every man woman and child in Sri Lanka irrespective of their belief system.</span></span></div>
<br />Patta Palhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10173044980411242894noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785706634715431183.post-59683984074301004242018-06-26T19:02:00.002+05:302018-06-26T19:02:38.021+05:30This Government's scam by last Government's scam artist<a href="http://www.ft.lk/columns/The-Government-s-%E2%80%9Cgrowth-scam%E2%80%9D-/4-657822">http://www.ft.lk/columns/The-Government-s-“growth-scam”-/4-657822</a><br />
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The link above is to a Financial Times article which is well worth reading if you are knowledgeable and intelligent to sift through its MUMBO JUMBO, meant to fool the halfwits who mostly read it.<br />
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Nivaard Cabraal has got the nerve to maintain that the problems of today are solely this Government's and he has no blame attached to him from his time as the head of the CBSL.<br />
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It is mighty disingenous of him, to point the finger solely at others.<br />
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My opinion is that both Administrations are at fault, but the real rot began from there, as his growth was merely construction lead, which can easily increase GDP rates as no allowance need be made for borrowings higher the better for growth as it goes into construction that immediately boosts growth.<br />
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No fool can argue with that, but the fools in this govt. don't know enough economics to make this simple observation that is so obvious.<br />
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Further getting into unproductive investments meant that while the money was spent while investing in Mattala hits the GDP, suddenly when the constuction and spend stops and there is no return - meaning no planes landing, immediately the investment is a zero return one. If it did yield returns, it hits the GDP.<br /><br />
So the MR policies of WHITE ELEPHANTS was a classic case of grwoth while the elephant was ebing built and NO GROWTH once it is over, so add that Harbor, add that Sports Stadium add that Convention Center and add that high cost low return Norochcholai to the list despite the need for Norochcholai for the power at the time, but not such a wasteful one, where the worst optioin that paid the biggest commission was chosen to fatten the pockets of the party in power.<br />
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At least for all the idiots who in charge now, at least we can criticise and Cabraal can also write this kind of criticsm for us to read. If it was during MR time a white van would have taken Cabraal where we will never find him again.<br />
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Give credit where it is due and blame where it is too. take the partisan side out of you if you are a professional and if you are not your partiality and nakedness is so apparent any fool can see.<br />
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So no more sanctimoneous sermons from you please as there is no one in this adminisrtation who can point out your obvious flaws. We are a country where the blind have led the blind all throughout and we need professionals and not charlatans who claim to be professional like NC.<br />
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I hope the readers are able to decipher the fluff from the fact in this link in today's FT to make sense or nonsense of what is said.<br />
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This govt with flawed policies like reducing price of fuel, giving govt servants raises and allowing any car permits made matters worse. If they did none of these things we would be flying with 10% growth just from the private sector effort being ab le to emply a milion more to take the vacancies now on offer.<br />
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Thanks to MR who stuffed the public service with useless people we have no one to do the good jobs and we have people who are looking at the lazy public servants and saying if he can get a paychek like this for no work, why should we go to work an d get a lower paycheck wehre we have to sign in with our thumb p\rints, It is as simple as that.<br />
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If all vacancies are filled, growth today will be 10% + but the private sector is being squeezed to balance MR's excesses<br />
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May God Help Sri Lanka from these charlatans<br />
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<br />Patta Palhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10173044980411242894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785706634715431183.post-91166005047765725432018-06-13T00:30:00.000+05:302018-06-13T00:30:13.033+05:30North Korea under the US sphere of influence - who loses? Russia, China & to a lesser extent, Japan and South Korea<br />
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">North
Korea needs US technology to improve the quality of life of their citizens,
more than the US needs anything from there. So for nuclear disarmament they
will benefit enormously from US aid, which to the US is pea nuts but the poor
25M North Koreans it’s a shit load of money. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">A
dictatorship is better able with US help to impose a development model without
leaving it for market forces to find the equilibrium. With tried and tested technology,
they can leap to the 5G generations, skipping even the motorbike era for its
citizens.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">What if
Kim says I want all my roads to be ready to take autonomous vehicles from day
one? It will go straight from 19<sup>th</sup> century to 22<sup>nd</sup> in one
jump, and it is the South Koreans who are going to feel the heat, seeing the neighbor
in the North benefitting the most.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">It’s time
to get your house in order to get ready to go and work in North Korea, as the opportunities
for overall success are greatest. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I guess
this relationship is not as bad as was thought, Kim a Generation Z at heart is
ready to leapfrog. Forget the political prisoners for the moment as that is not
going to achieve the planned success, until the economy begins to grow. Then
you can even contemplate releasing these miserable wretches who have been
tortured and starved for years, those who survived that is as we know that 20
years ago, at least 5M North Koreans starved to death due to famine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The truly
fun part is going to be when US investment completely overwhelms North Korea. Russia
and China will look glumly at the increasing US influence on what they regarded
as their turf.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">These are
the benefits of gun boat diplomacy, that the US under Trump imposed on North
Korea and before you can say Jack the hard working Korean work ethic would
transform the North, unspoiled and beautiful to be the latest must visit place
on earth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Coming
back to earth now, it is unlikely that the doomsday scenario will take hold. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Donald J
Trump will then be seen as the savior of the day, outwitting all the punters,
and naysayers big time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Pack your
bags and let’s get ready for the North Korean Gold Rush, providing goods at
even lower prices to the US market as they will get more preferential access
than even China and Taiwan to say nothing of Japan and South Korea.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Patta Palhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10173044980411242894noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785706634715431183.post-5620346429821248172018-06-12T10:15:00.000+05:302018-06-12T10:17:41.256+05:30Please don't add to the number of Ministers - Please - It’s not the person, it’s the position stupid!<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><b>We must immediately reduce the number to a maximum of 30 Cabinet and Deputy, not increase it to 100</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Why is there no hue and cry over the
impending appointment of SIX MORE DEPUTY MINISTERS?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: times new roman, serif; font-size: 18.6667px;"><a href="http://www.dailymirror.lk/article/-UNP-backbenchers-to-be-sworn-in-as-Dy-Ministers-151164.html">http://www.dailymirror.lk/article/-UNP-backbenchers-to-be-sworn-in-as-Dy-Ministers-151164.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">In a Country where nothing can be
implemented, because none of the Cabinet Ministers are still clear about their
responsibilities, powers, and jurisdiction, adding to the confusion is
completely reprehensible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">This is what is being done to accommodate
every baby who cries fould at not having anything to do, or be able to tell
their backers, they can’t give jobs, as they have don’t have ministries to
stuff more yes men into.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">We are adding to traitors not to
patriots and automatically this position is not going to be used for the benefit
of Sri Lanka, its citizens and the important tasks ahead, but for more
ceremonies of taking office, more places for them to sit, more positions for
their lackeys and more space for their security.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">It is simply crazy that for a population
of 21Million, smaller than most states of the USA, most cities in China, most
Provinces in India, we have people in positions but no powers, or common sense
to do anything for the benefit of the Country.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Don’t misunderstand me. These people
have been given positions just to be yes men, not to do a job. They are a
nuisance to the Cabinet Minister as they are going to be a thorn in his side,
as he has to listen to more fools, and he has enough fools to listen to already,
instead of choosing someone who at least has some common sense to advise him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Politicians are in the mistaken belief
that they know what their constituencies want. Yes they know what they ask, BUT
NOT WHAT THEY REALLY WANT. They are sadly intellectually challenged to see the
difference and thus we have the downfall of our political system, where eigth
graders are listening to people’s request, without the ability to really get to
the bottom of their requests to supply what they really need to improve their
lives for the better. Make no bones about it providing what they ask for will
not satisfy the long term needs of the voter, it will merely satiate them till
next week when they will come asking for more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I suppose our political system works on
the premise that giving a little of what they ask will make them enslaved, so
beholden so the politician in question will have a following based on slavery.
That is not good for the Country it is treason. That is why these appointments
are against the interest of the Country.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Patta Palhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10173044980411242894noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785706634715431183.post-79466731500388382762018-06-12T09:47:00.004+05:302018-06-12T09:47:57.826+05:30The Handshake – World has turned on its head, and we are the better for it!<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">It’s true. Build a nuclear warhead
threaten your neighbor by flying your ICBMs without a nuclear warhead and then
POTUS will invite you for talks. Cool hah?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">That’s what North Korea did, and it paid
off. The world is watching, and the Country with the highest proportion of
political prisoners as a percentage of the population, facing toture and
starvation in Gulags, wins the day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Rajapakse clearly misunderstood the word
bullying here, and what it takes to win in the world of diplomacy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Trump on the other hand promised his
backers, that he will turn US foreign policy on its head as it did not work all
this time and by doing it is own way is making some HEADWIND. So what did he
do?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">He saw North Korea testing Nuclear
Missiles and they even taunted him by saying it was days before they could get
their ICBMs to go the distance to Hawaii and obliterate that island. He then
got Russia and China and tightened sanctions, and threatened to use Nuclear
Weapons against Korea, (if you obliterate the North, you also obliterate the
South) He brought the sixth fleet to the waters off Korea and showed he meant
business. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">South Korea’s new leader who was more
moderate, having his parents who fled the North as part of his legacy, managed
dialogue, got Kim to come made a historic meeting at the DMZ. (don’t forget the
two Korea’s are still, as in even today, technically at war) Then there was
another meeting again in Seoul much to the surprise of the world. Kim in the
meantime went to Beijing twice to meet his supporter, President Xi, who
provided the planes this time to bring his entourage and his two Mercedez
Limousines to Singapore. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The South Korean leader brokered the
meeting in Singapore. Trump whose art of the deal, saw the greatest photo
opportunity of his Presidency come and jumped at it. So did Kim. Sanctions were
eased immediately, the entrances to the Nuclear Tests sites were bombed, he agreed
to halt tests and they met this morning at 8.30am or there abouts at Sentosa
Island in Singapore, talks still taking place with their teams.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Despite condemnation from Human Rights
Organizations all over the world who have lost credibility by trying to stop
this meeting which will not even touch on the HR record at this meeting, it is
being hailed everywhere as a Diplomatic Triumph for Trump and Kim, who will win
the Nobel hands down.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Now
for the nitty gritty:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Did you see Denis Rodman on CN? He was
the front man for years, who went to Korea and got shat on by the US media, and
he was crying on TV saying he had death threats on his return, because he went
to the Pariah State. Now he sporting the Make America Great Again cap that the Donald
used in his campaign actually has the last laugh. Even Trump’s secrtary had
personally called him to thank him for his part in this historic meeting and he
was reveling in the fame of the moment, knowing his long term investment in
North Korea, which he said had always been let down by people making promises
and breaking them, get on the world stage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Personally I have not analysed my
feelings about the HR issue, about the totalitarian regime for 75+ years of
grand father, father and son in charge, ruthlessly suppressing opposition, and
controlling the remaining people with fear. One has to admire how 25million
people in a state that is dead broker and poverty all encompassing and people
fed a diet of only the leader as God, who effectively owns the Country, more
ruthless than Nero, and more grabbing of the Nation’s wealth than Ghadaffi is
now hailed as a hero even in South Korea that prior to meeting with their president
had 10% approval rating, 35% approval rating after the meeting with their leader
at the DMZ and today 75% approval rating in South Korea of all places. That is
absolutely astounding, for a man who threated to annihilate the whole of South
Korea with just one missile.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Diplomacy is weired, but diplomacy that
can change the stakes from fear to satisfaction without one shot of a bullet,
is to me the epitome of success. In Sri Lanka we miserably FAILED. Mahinda
Rajapakse who all think is a hero, miserably failed to stop the killing until
he had killed all the LTTE who were left. Don’t forget he massacred thousands
of his own Countrymen, using his own army. No matter that his countrymen
revolted. A smart leader could have turned things around with no killing,
dismantling the mad ruthless terrorist, if he was able to get his killing
machine, Karuna on his side, why could he not isolate Prabarkaran, where he had
NO option but to swallow his own cyanide on his neck, which the bloody coward
could not do even at the end.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">We learn from history, so we don’t make
the same mistakes, and that is why we use history to help the present. In Sri
Lanka we have fake history taught in schools and our teachers don’t even realize
how fake it is when they teach it. At least we can se the world operating in
our faces on TV today, a luxury our ancestors did not have. However as dumb as
most Sri Lankans are few would have even seized the moment of history happening
3 flying hours away from our little island, and Singapore an even littler
island getting press coverage worth US$10B in one day, when we cannot get US$1B
in FDI in ONE YEAR! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Despite my reservations about Donald Trump and his art of the Deal by which his Presidency seems to be defined, you have to give him credit for at least promising to do his foreign policy in a different to style to established foreign policy, and KEEPING TO HIS PROMISE.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">PS Did you not notice that there were NO US SENATORS OR CONGRESSMEN from either side of the Isle in his entourage? Well he did it on his own. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">For a great Country like the USA not even to consult or have their legislators anywhere on the scene, is tantamount to the POTUS being a dictator for a term of 4 years only. It works, knowing you could be elected one more time and that's it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">That is what MR failed to understand and failed to profit from, when being greedy to change the constitution to have a longer stint at the robbing top. Can anyone point a finger at Trump for robbing the coffers? NO. On MR the answer is a big YES. The fact you cannot get his stash from Dubai bank accounts, is not the fault of the present government. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Dubai is the place where all the rogues of the world stash their cash. Switzerland has now pledged not to allow stolen money to be dumped into their banking system. However Dubai is now the depository for money laundering in the world, and make no bones about it, the Rajapakse US$ billions are safe there, ready to fight many more elections in Sri Lanka if need be. So the answer to the critics saying where is the money? IS SIMPLE it is there and can only be used by the owners and their proxies, both of whom are operating in Dubai - don't we know it.</span></div>
<br />Patta Palhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10173044980411242894noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785706634715431183.post-61645606682928143302018-05-12T08:36:00.004+05:302018-05-12T08:37:00.017+05:30Sri Lanka seems to be the most incident prone country in the world – and they are so one of a kind!!!!<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Just think about it! Have any of you
heard of an operating table, while in the middle of an operatio, falling on the
surgeon and crushing his big toe?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">More to the point, the hospital director
sounds so blasé that he said it was a minor occurrence!!!!! That is SO Sri
Lankan isn’t it? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Nothing phases, even if we are the only
country in the world where the operating tables don’t conform to basic WHO
guidelines on health and safety.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">If you read the link below where a
statement was taken from the surgeon who had his big toe crushed, he says that
the staff are NOT trained in basic use of hospital equipment and instruments.
COME ON SRI LANKA you can do better than that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><a href="http://www.dailynews.lk/2018/05/12/local/150714/lanka-only-country-least-concern-theatre-safety-consultant-surgeon">http://www.dailynews.lk/2018/05/12/local/150714/lanka-only-country-least-concern-theatre-safety-consultant-surgeon</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">This is where we shoot ourselves in the
foot. Even if you have the most experienced ancillary staff in the world, if
they are not trained in using their tools of the trade, then that experience
counts for NOTHING.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I was completely taken aback by the
Administrator’s statement, as the Hospital Adminstrator’s job, is to ensure all
the staff under his direction are knowledgeable.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">This just about sums up the Sri Lankan
disease, a complacent attitude to work, and responsibility, and even if there
is injury and death, they more likely say that fate intervened and it had
little to do with man’s weaknesses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">So no wonder that there is insufficient concern
when road safety is shown to be terrible and the behavior of drivers on the
road is unpardonable and police look the other way, only because they even don’t
understand road safety, only do what they are told, like catch drivers for
speeding with speed guns, even if that action of speeding DOES NOT ENDANGER
anyone else’s lives but their own.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I appeal to the authorities in Sri Lanka
in every sphere to use their common sense in everything they do to ensure that
people know their jobs tasks, so that these minor matters do not become major
matters.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">This is part of the attitude change that
is desperately required in this Country!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Patta Palhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10173044980411242894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785706634715431183.post-58378512324749975092018-04-26T11:58:00.000+05:302018-04-26T11:58:32.346+05:30SHAME - Pistol Eraj appointed as Mayor of Hambantota - AARSIKLAND for sure now!Do people have no shame in this Country? No is the answer<br />
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The man who was filmed and shown all over the world with a real/toy pistol running like a gangster has true to form made himself the Gangster King of the Gangster Capital - which will be the new name for Hambantota.<br />
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It is clear that the SLPP wish this to be so, so let no one be deceived, this is the future if the SLPP is allowed anywhere near the seat of power. If you thought the present jokers are arseholes, you ain't seen nothing yet.<br />
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Just imagine yourself as a fly on the wall, watching this charade going on inside the room that was voting for the mayor. You had the UNP that had the most number of seats and crowd about it at the time of the results that they won in the heart of MR, and not to be outdone, the SLPP snookered an already planned counter attack, by using the strength of money, to buy the needed votes of the Members to make this wish come true, just as it has in many of the other Councils.<br />
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What makes Hambantota so galling, is the example it shows to the rest of the Country, that thugs are legitimate rulers and their thuggish actions are not proscribed, but have become a license itself to seek greater power.<br />
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So it is clear that the people of Hambantota are being fooled and a vendetta by the self same thug will be in place as soon as possible against all those who opposed him and by threats and innuendo he was able to assure himself of this position.<br />
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Worse, when his true colors come to light and the people who voted for him, come to regret their decision, but they cannot do anything about it. It is a lesson to all, that if we do something against the people we serve, there comes a point when we who permitted this wrongdoing, cannot plead ignorance, but have to suffer the consequence of their action.<br />
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The moral of the story then and should be always, DO WHAT IS RIGHT NOT FOR YOU BUT FOR THE PEOPLE WHO YOU REPRESENT, EVEN THOUGH MANY MAY HAVE NOT EVEN VOTED FOR YOU.<br />
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It is called Moral Obligation. When you break that obligation you have chaos - and you will shortly see the effects of that chaos<br />
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<br />Patta Palhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10173044980411242894noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785706634715431183.post-31977372908219359172018-04-24T12:51:00.002+05:302018-04-24T12:51:19.237+05:30It is truly sad that even Vesak Poya Day has been hijacked by Astrology<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Please correct me if I am wrong, but we
in Sri Lanka want to make life difficult for ourselves as we are succors for
punishment. So it was with Vesak, which by some inexplicable reason of the
Astrological Clock, is celebrated on the Full Moon which falls on April 29<sup>th</sup>
, instead of Vesak being commemorated all over the world, except in Sri Lanka
on May 29<sup>th</sup> Full Moon Poya Day. Why?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><a href="http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=183592">http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=183592</a>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">It is clear from the link above that the
Ven.Niyangoda Sri Vijithasiri Thero, the Anunayake of the Malwatte Chapter is
also questioning it, though he should have done this last year when the dates
were being discussed. As usual even the clergy are not planning it properly,
and he, if he did this querying six months ago, could have changed it to a more
suitable day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">There is an added complication where
OSTENSIBLY due to pressure by the Buddhist Clergy, the Government of Sri Lanka
decided to change May Day to May 7<sup>th</sup>, another first by this Country,
which is becoming the laughing stock of the world, because now different bodies
are commemorating May day on different dates, and despite the Government
banning any of its properties from being used on May 1<sup>st</sup> for
rallies, there are many labor unions planning their events on May Day. May 1<sup>st</sup>.
Ironic that finally the trade unions are getting the publicity of May Day, and
the political parties are having another day for their annual alcoholic tirades.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">It simply makes you wonder doesn’t it
that we are a country of fools & idiots, not just one or the other! How
come we have let ourselves be ruled by such absurd excuses for human beings
called law makers who loiter in Diyawanna Oya? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">It is our fault of course for electing
such lesser humans, who pretend to be more human and then fleece the Country of
its rightful inheritance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Dr Lional Bopage’s article about May Day
is also appropriate to be read at the same time, as we are now embroiled in
more disagreements than agreements.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><a href="https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/may-day-and-workers-rights/">https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/may-day-and-workers-rights/</a>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">So what do we do about Poson? It is time
for sanity to prevail, and we will not have to worry about this issue in our
lifetime anymore as this is the only time that this thorny issue has arisen in
living memory. In fool’s Paradise I dare say!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Patta Palhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10173044980411242894noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785706634715431183.post-30911120985502401232018-04-18T14:21:00.002+05:302018-04-18T14:21:43.648+05:30The first passenger fatality in a US aircraft since 2009 was yesterday! If that is not one of the most amazing facts of HISTORY, then what is?<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">See link as it was worthy of news that
the United States which has over 5,000 take offs and landing every day, with so
many aircraft criss-crossing this vast country of 300Million people, had its
first fatality yesterday, when an engine (one of only two in a Boeing 737) blew
up in mid-air, due to metal fatigue. The debris hit a window which punctured
and a woman was sucked out and pulled back in who later died of her injuries,
while the aircraft landed on one engine, smoothly at the nearest airport as
soon as the accident happened and dropped from its 32,000 feet altitude.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/one-person-is-dead-after-engine-fails-on-southwest-flight-forcing-emergency-landing/2018/04/17/a58bc66c-427e-11e8-bba2-0976a82b05a2_story.html?utm_term=.9a1584f63409">https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/trafficandcommuting/one-person-is-dead-after-engine-fails-on-southwest-flight-forcing-emergency-landing/2018/04/17/a58bc66c-427e-11e8-bba2-0976a82b05a2_story.html?utm_term=.9a1584f63409</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Frankly, no newspaper in the United
States is making any reference to this phenomenal safety record, as they do not
want to brag about such a safety record. However for those Russian and Chinese
agents who are out there in Sri Lanka who loves to bash the USA, understand
that this is what capitalism is all about.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Southwest Airlines 51 years strong,
which alone has more take offs and landings than any airline in the world,
including Emirates, which is just an international airline, (as Dubai just has
one airport! To the USA’s thousands) had its first fatality yesterday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Let us give credit where credit is due
please, to the efforts of the US airline industry, its safety measures and
their procedures, that despite the huge competition of the airline industry in
that country, they have been able to maintain their safety standards.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">It is just as well for the anti-american
Sri Lankan people who find every reason to bash the USA for every little thing,
including their absolutely crazy President, who has been the only one Brash enough
to have been able to get the North Korean Dictator to a summit, to agree to
temper his nuclear ambitions, is a Country that deserves its reputation as a
land of opportunity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Not Russia, not China nor any other
country has the opportunities available and the freedoms their people enjoy,
within their own country, and so due to jealousy on the part of the degenerates
of Sri Lanka, especially some journalists who have had a USA education, should
eat humble pie from such information.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Patta Palhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10173044980411242894noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785706634715431183.post-61763279680637870712018-03-27T13:27:00.001+05:302018-03-27T13:27:12.437+05:30President says 10% in the teaching profession cannot teach even a class of exercise, that is nearly 50,000 being paid to do nothing!<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Just read the links below just in today’s
Lankadeepa paper, and you will get a simple understanding of what is wrong with
this Country. It is simply the Public Service squeezing every bit from
everywhere of the Economy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">At a meeting of senior grades of the
SLAS, the President talks about people in jobs, which they have no clue what to
do as they have been appointed on lists of MPs and political pressure. Why can’t
this back door entry be prevented?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"><a href="https://goo.gl/3mgrp2">https://goo.gl/3mgrp2</a> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Then we have the daylight robbery which
is getting permits to destroy the Country. All these permits are given by the
various Government Departments. It is clear that there are billionaires in the
ranks of those in the Bureau of Mines that issues these permits for mining not just
sand, but also desecrate paddy fields so that they can be mined for precious
stones, for which permits are needed too. This kind of racket is destroying the
very fabric of society and it is the Government Servants who are engaged in
this too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><a href="https://goo.gl/9n5hR7">https://goo.gl/9n5hR7</a>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Talking about the Teaching Profession, he
says 50,000 cannot teach, he does not refer to 150,000 who are supposedly
teachers, who are bad teachers and have not been outed. They are still in the
system and will be till they retire, but they are working for a paycheck, and
should also be considered as bad teachers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">It is due to this factor in our schools
that Children do not get the education they need. It is no secret that the
Teaching Profession faces a lot of pressures and it is not easy to teach at any
level today.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The kids come with all sorts of problems
that the teachers are expected to solve and they are not given the tools for
such. About 15% of all Students in Sri Lanka schools need mental health counseling
as they are traumatized due to many issues, either at home or at school, or
other PTSD symptoms they have faced in their lives, including sexual
exploitation that is not easy to ascertain and even more difficult to resolve.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">W must accept that far more sensible and
directed resources need to be given to schools with the SOLE object of getting
students to enjoy what they are doing at school and prepare them for the world out
there, without expressly only working on their studies and ignoring all other
factors of education.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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