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Some are Killing for the right to RULE - Some Others Don`t have even the RIGHT TO LIVE
Monday, 9 November 2009 - 3:12 AM SL Time
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Scientists have warned that more than a third of species assessed in a major international biodiversity study are threatened with extinction.
According to a report by BBC News, out of the 47,677 species in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 17,291 were deemed to be at serious risk.
These included 21 percent of mammals, 30 percent of amphibians, 70 percent of plants and 35 percent of invertebrates.
Conservationists warned that not enough was being done to tackle the main threats, such as habitat loss.
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13th Amendment Working - Sports development for the Whole Western province Rs. 11 nillion - foreign trip for 101 Councillors Rs 30 million
Saturday, 7 November 2009 - 9:28 PM SL Time
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WPC erupts over body building equipment to PSD
by Shamindra Ferdinando
The JVP and the UPFA yesterday clashed at the budget debate of the Western Provincial Council over allocation of funds to procure a set of body building equipment for Temple Trees.
Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa, JVP member of the WPC, said that of Rs.11 million allocated for development and promotion of sports in the entire province, Rs. 180,000 had been spent on body building equipment. The JVP Central Committee member said that Temple Trees could easily afford to buy whatever it needed and there was absolutely no need for the WPC to supply sports equipment to the Temple Trees.
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Soldiers say suspect shouted `Allahu Akbar` before shooting rampage that left 13 people dead
Friday, 6 November 2009 - 11:59 PM SL Time
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Texas - Soldiers who witnessed the shooting rampage at Fort Hood that left 13 people dead reported that the gunman shouted `Allahu Akbar!` before opening fire, the base commander said Friday.
Lt. Gen. Robert Cone said officials had not yet confirmed that the suspected shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, made the comment, which is Arabic for `God is great!` before the rampage Thursday, which left 30 people wounded, including the gunman.
An imam from a mosque Hasan regularly attended said Hasan, a lifelong Muslim, was a committed soldier, gave no sign of extremist beliefs and regularly wore his uniform at prayers.
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Violence in the US involving soldiers is commonplace, with a rise in domestic abuse, murder and suicide since the wars began in Afghanistan and Iraq. But there is nothing commonplace about Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the soldier responsible for the biggest m
Friday, 6 November 2009 - 8:55 AM SL Time
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Violence in the US involving soldiers is commonplace, with a rise in domestic abuse, murder and suicide since the wars began in Afghanistan and Iraq. But there is nothing commonplace about Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the soldier responsible for the biggest mass killing at a military base in the US.
He was not a soldier returning from deployment in either Iraq or Afghanistan, suffering from stress or combat fatigue. Hasan, although 39 years old, he had never served in a war zone. Instead, his horror of war came second-hand. He was a psychiatrist who listened to the harrowing stories of his comrades at the Walter Reed Hospital in Washington DC, and latterly at Fort Hood, Texas.
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Sri Lanka HAs far more than it`s carrying Capacity. Associate with Australia and train Them to SUIT Australia. Send skilled people THE ARTICLE FOR MR. SOMASUNDARAM
Friday, 6 November 2009 - 1:27 AM SL Time
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DIAC Rejects Unskilled Migrants Plan
Australian Immigration Minister Chris Evans has rejected a proposal by Sri Lanka`s immigration chief to allow unskilled workers to immigrate to Australia in a bid to stop the exodus of boatloads of immigrants turning up in Australian waters.
The Sir Lankan Commissioner P B Abeykoon told The Australian newspaper that his proposal would cut down the number of asylum seekers, a number that has been steadily rising over the past few months. It was whilst the Commissioner was in Canberra for talks that he raised the idea of unskilled migrants: The people who are going through the boats are unskilled labourers, fisherman, farmers, he commented.
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CHANGE - where is it ? - Is there any hope left?
Thursday, 5 November 2009 - 4:16 AM SL Time
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It`s been a year since Barack Obama stood on a stage in Chicago`s Grant Park on a balmy November night and made Americans feel, for a little while at least, that their world wasn`t coming down around their ears.
It was a brief speech by Obama standards but laden with the dreamy, tranquilizing platitudes Americans wanted so badly, at least back then.
Here was a man, whose very appearance screamed change, talking about how `young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native-American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled` had come together and shown that America is not a country of two polarities left and right but rather a truly United States.
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The Theory on Kontiki Expedition is Wrong. Polynesians had better techniques to navigate Pacific.. All in memory
Wednesday, 4 November 2009 - 7:36 PM SL Time
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The Wayfinders
The ancient Polynesians, Nainoa Thompson told me, were not navigators in a modern sense so much as wayfinders. Sailing from Tahiti for Oahu, for example, they did not set course for Pearl Harbor they set out to find a chain of islands, the Hawaiian Archipelago. Moreover, the distances in the Pacific are not as formidable as they appear on a chart. With the exception of the three most distant points of the Polynesian Triangle, Rapa Nui, Hawaii and Aotearoa (New Zealand), no voyage from Melanesia through Polynesia has to traverse more than 500 kilometres of open water, at least as the crow flies. And there is more land than the maps reveal. At sea one can see roughly 50 kilometres in any direction. Draw a circle with a radius of 50 kilometres around every landfall, and suddenly the ocean shrinks and the area effectively covered by land increases.
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Fiji expels envoys over interference claims
Wednesday, 4 November 2009 - 7:01 AM SL Time
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Fiji`s self-appointed prime minister, Frank Bainimarama, has given Australia and New Zealand 24 hours to get their high commissioners out of Fiji.
He is expelling them both and recalling his own envoys because he says Canberra and Wellington are interfering in his country`s judiciary.
Mr Bainimarama sacked all the country`s judges when he did not like their decisions and he believes Australia has been trying to thwart his attempts to hire replacements from Sri Lanka.
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Killing Political Ambitions and Character Assasination - Complaints against ex-CJ
Monday, 2 November 2009 - 2:15 AM SL Time
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Available case records sent to Bribery Commission
The new Supreme Court Registrar is said to have sent by registered post early this week available records of two cases wanted by the Bribery and Corruption Commission to begin the probe against former Chief Justice Sarath Nanda Silva following a series of complaints lodged against him in relation to two cases heard by Supreme Court Benches headed by him.
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Smells Like Norway Trojan Horse - US Embassy to Rehabilitate Former Rebels - REMEMBER, First, Japan was worried about LTTEers
Saturday, 31 October 2009 - 10:52 PM SL Time
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by Hela Puwath
US Embassy in Colombo in a press release states that it has launched a new program to help LTTE combatants reintegrate in to society. It says that The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) will implement the project by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and The Chief Minister of the Eastern Province, Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan [former LTTE commander], alias Pillaiyan, has already participated in an event in Batticaloa.
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JVP rules out union with opposition alliance - Intelligent decision among some Dumb Acts.
Saturday, 31 October 2009 - 12:11 AM SL Time
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Oct 30, 2009 10:45 PM The JVP has ruled out a union with the alliance of opposition parties that is to be formed next month.
Speaking to `Lankatruth` website, propaganda secretary of the party Vijitha Herath has turned down an invitation to join the United National Alliance.
UNP general secretary Tissa Attanayake, extending the invitation, said he saw no hurdle against the JVP`s joining the alliance as both had the abolition of the executive presidency as a key policy objective.
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