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WikiLeaks: GL a Pomme, Mlinda a Yankee, US cable contends

By Colombo Telegraph -“In pursuing this pro-U.S. program, Wickremesinghe has been supported by two dynamic advisers, Minister of Constitutional Affairs G.L. Peiris and Minister of Financial Reform Milinda Moragoda.” the US Embassy Colombo informed Washington.The Colombo Telegraph found the related leaked cable from the WikiLeak database. The cable classified as “CONFIDENTIAL” analyses the Sri Lanka

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An additional Accomplishment : All IDPs resettled in North Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka’s accomplishment story comes after struggling 3 decades of terrorism, loss of near to 80,000 lives, rejection of several nearby and global bids of ceasefires and peace talks, refusal to quit killings of innocent civilians, continuance of child conscription to lastly choose on a military resolution to ending the conflict. It took just 3 years to comprehensive the military elimination of the

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Whose problem is Sri Lanka to fix – Sri Lankan Tamils or All Tamils

A nation of 20m people, a bulk of close to 15m folks (the Sinhalese) is into its 3rdyear possessing militarily eradicated 30 years of LTTE terrorism. What has confused issues is the method in which elected Tamil leaders have claimed that the LTTE terrorist demands and those of the Tamil folks are one and the same on the grounds that the LTTE was the sole representative of the Tamil people –

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2013 Price range Highlights

 ·         Government allocates Rs.1000 million for 3 12 months housing loan scheme for safety forces personnel.  ·         Government targets a US $ one hundred billion GDP by year 2016 to make the country a middle cash flow nation.  ·         Re-forestation will be carried out to boost the forest coverage up to 35%.  ·         Guaranteed price tag for paddy will be increased to Rs.35 and Rs.37 per kg.

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Sri Lanka tourist arrivals overtake Maldives

Dec 19, 2012 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s tourist arrivals which rose 16.five percent to 883,353 in the eleven months to November 2012 from a 12 months earlier, has outstripped that of Maldives which welcomed 866,310 tourists up only 2.four percent. Sri Lanka has seasoned a tourism boom since the finish of a war in 2009, whilst the Maldives has seen political turmoil and also a far more up market place model dependent on Europe

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The Sri Lanka Bar Association is also politicized

The logic of declaring anything at all “independent” have to be based on an unwavering dedication to unbiased, devoid of discrimination and ethical judgment in all circumstances whether or not they are linked with the 3 pillars of governance or in private/public sector as properly as in the daily affairs personal or otherwise of the public. It has turn into a trend to evade the main theme of any emphasis by turning issues

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Rizana – Yet another Sri Lankan Foreign Ministry Failure

Rizana Nafeek a Sri Lankan national from Muttur was beheaded in accordance to Saudi Arabian law on 9 January 2013 possessing been located guilty of killing a four month child whilst serving as a domestic in Saudi Arabia in 2005. The appeals for her release have been many – from each local and international. But, it is the Sri Lankan Foreign Ministry and its Mission in Saudi Arabia that must be held accountable and

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How Multi-Location Organizations Ought to Develop Content

Article WritingIf you have a business with branches in many cities, there are some aspects of Internet marketing that you should consider before creating content for your brand. With the increasingly stringent rules for search engine optimization, you do not want to be penalized for simply trying to bring business to your websites.

There are certain ways in which you can draw the attention of local customers to a local branch in your business. Below we will discuss some of the things that you should and should not do when creating content for multi location businesses.

One – Do NOT create articles with similar content.

The number one technique to stay away from is to create a multiple websites with similar content on each page. Many businesses simply copy and paste their content, changing only the location of the business on each post. Search engine algorithms cannot tell the difference between this type of content and spam content; therefore, all of your websites will be lumped into the low-quality category. You will lose ranking within search engine listings and overall trust within the search algorithms.

Two – Make sure to localize the content for each city that you serve.

One of the ways in which you can create different content for different websites is to localize the content to each area. For example, placing the names of local tourist attractions in each webpage is a great way to help legitimize each local blog post to human visitors and to the search engines.

Three – Make sure to speak directly to the customers in the locale.

If you think about it, different locations will probably respond to different marketing techniques anyway. People in different parts of the world live different lives; therefore, they will naturally need your product for different things. One of the best ways to quickly build an audience in a particular location is to speak directly to their local experience.

Four – Make sure to write about your customers, not about your business.

Although your customers definitely want to know what kind of service you offer, it is much more important for you to communicate how you solve their problems. People do not care about what you can do unless they first realize that you care about them. A great way to localize the content in your different websites is to showcase your knowledge about the specific problems that a locale may be having. For instance, if you offer lawn service to Seattle, you may mention the fact that you do not let bad weather dictate your appointment schedule.

Five – Use your resources wisely; hire a professional writer if you are not a good writer.

One of the worst ways in which you can use your time is in trying to re-purpose content if you are not a good writer in the first place. It is much more effective to simply hire a professional content creator and focus on the day-to-day aspects of your business. A professional copywriter will be able to finish the process much more quickly and effieciently. A professional copywriter will also be able to research each locale for you so that you do not have to spend time learning geography and history rather than simply conducting the business of your company.

Six – Make sure that you create content on a regular basis.

Whether you keep your content creation in-house or outsource it to a professional, make sure that you create content in a consistent manner. Dynamic content is much more attractive to search engines than static pages, and you will endear yourself to your local audience that much quicker.

 

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Lessons from Kosovo for the Tamil Eelam lobbyists

Tamils account for 76million the globe over. The British transported Tamils all round the planet as indentured labor throughout colonial occasions. The Tamils functioned as loyal slaves of the British.&nbsp&nbspDisproportionate possibilities and privileges paved the way for Tamils to mentally believe they were superior and above all other people and from this has sprouted the notion for the Tamils to have a separate state. Although there are hardly 2million Tamils physically living in Sri Lanka, 72million Tamils in fact reside in an Indian State that is referred to as State of the Tamils (Tamil Nadu) where Tamils are more than 99% of the population, exactly where Tamil language is the state language, where Tamil culture dominates, exactly where Hinduism prevails &#8211 virtually all components need for self-determination in a state that was amalgamated by the British to be named India. It is these arguments that the Tamils of Tamil Nadu started using to demand separatism from India but with India passing the pillow to Sri Lanka by creating Tamil militancy/LTTE Sri Lanka has become saddled with India&#8217s headache. Nonetheless, carving out separate states becoming the newest norm of the capitalist West outcome of which Kosovo came about in 2008 the newest attempt is Tamil Eelam but there are severe lessons for Tamils themselves to find out from. They very first need to come down a peg or two from cheering an eelam to questioning if Eelam will turn out to be a nightmare as the Kosovars are now discovering with no return as well!

Yugoslavia was broken into 7 states : Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia &amp Herzegovina, Macedonia and Kosovo.

Kosovo independence came in 2008.&nbspKosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci is component of a criminal syndicate.&nbspThe PDK, led by Hashim Thaci was a former Kosovan Liberation Army commander.&nbspUS, the EU and the UN supported him and continue to do so. The Heritage Foundation and similar other worldwide thinktanks assistance the KLA-KDP, despite its criminal connections.&nbspAccording to Serbian Justice Minister Vladan Batic, &#8220the prosecution at the Hague war crimes tribunal has more than 40,000 pages of proof against former Kosovo Liberation Army leader Hashim Thaci,&nbsp (quoted by Radio B92, Belgrade, three July 2003).&nbsp

In April 2000, US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright &#8220ordered The Hague chief prosecutor Carla del Ponte to omit from the list of war crime suspects Hashim Thaci&#8221 (Tanjug, 6 Could 2000). Carla del Ponte subsequently claimed that there was not adequate proof to indict Thaci on war crimes. .

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Madeline Albright and KLA leader Thaci

Just as in the case of Sri Lanka a nicely planned and funded set of lies enabled the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the creation of independent states that were ideal for the West to advance their agendas and get their hands on sources that would make a handful rich.

It is only after the harm is one particular and when there is no probabilities to reverse that the lies are coming out in a self-boasting by the villains!

A documentary by&nbspJonathan Dimbleby in 2000 confirms MEDIA LIED on behalf of the US/NATO. Media lied that there were &#8216ethnic cleansing&#8217 of the Kosovar Albanians creating the public opinion that NATO had the right to bomb and militarily intervene (doesn&#8217t it question the lies by MEDIA on behalf of West with regard to Sri Lanka!)

US/NATO employed MEDIA to led the globe to think ethnic cleansing took location. So far only 2000 bodies have been recovered. Doesn&#8217t that query the chorus of 40,000 to 125,000 claimed to be dead &amp missing in Sri Lanka with no providing so significantly as a single name.

Rambouillet Accords have been drafted with the hidden intention of creating separate states &amp concerns the present plethora of bogus resolutions against Sri Lanka by the very same players that developed Kosovo. What kind of Accord inserts provision permitting NATO freedom of movement not only in Kosovo but throughout Serbia with full immunity from all Yugoslav laws (watch out for such an inclusion in Sri Lanka&#8217s case for the same US/NATO forces)

Ninety per cent of Kosovo’s population is produced up of ethnic Albanians. At the finish of the conflict in 1999 numerous ethnic Serbs have been pushed out of Kosovo, but not all of them left. About 100,000 remained behind (recall the thousands of Sinhalese &amp Muslims chased out of the North by the LTTE &#8211 why was the planet silence on the ethnic cleansing by Tamils)

Existing scenario of independent Kosovo

  • Half of Kosovo’s 1.eight million folks are 25 or younger. Much more than 30,000 enter the job market yearly but only 8000 discover work.
  • Only 75 out of 192 states have recognized Kosovo independence
  • Russia claims it will not allow the cancelation of UN Resolution 1244, which confirms Serbia’s territorial integrity
  • International isolation : Afghani passport holders can cross 22 borders with out restrictions, whilst Kosovars can only travel to five countries visa-totally free: Turkey, Albania, Montenegro, Macedonia, and Haiti.
  • Unemployment in Kosovo highest in Europe &#8211 45%
  • half of Kosovo’s citizens struggle to survive on social advantages of less than $ two per day.
  • Kosovo economy in shambles : Domestic commerce documents are not recognized overseas due to the lack of diplomatic relations.
  • Kosovo imports goods and solutions worth about $ 200 million from neighboring countries such as Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, it is not possible for Kosovo to reciprocate exports because Kosovo is not recognized.
  • West is no longer nice guy :&nbspGoods from Kosovo brought into the market of the European Union will be topic to added tariffs. Kosovo&#8217s as soon as close friends are now only concerned about business &amp profit!
  • Kosovo has no international postal or telephone code. Mobile telephone calls are channeled via Slovenia or Monaco at considerable expense.
  • Kosovo can’t acquire its own net IP address, inhibiting on-line acquiring, Net banking, and national cybersecurity.
  • Kosovo athletes can not even join international sports associations.
  • Kosovo is becoming gradually privatized.&nbspProperties have been becoming supplied for sale as if they were the holdings of politicians, rather than the resources of all Kosovo residents. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is attempting to acquire Kosovo Telecom.
  • Kosovo has become a prostitute/smuggling and human trafficking hub (both places that LTTE and Sri Lanka&#8217s North has been notorious for)
  • U.S. military base in Kosovo was constructed in 1999 without having consulting with the government of Serbia and is the largest U.S. military base built outside of the U.S.&nbspIf Kosovo has been offered independence why is there need to have for 17,000 UN &#8216peacekeepers&#8217 to stay?

If Kosovo is the EU&#8217s Iraq, Eelam will become West&#8217s gateway to balkanize the 3 giants of Asia. To bring this initiative to its grand conclusion is the inclusion of the man responsible for Kosovo Independence who is now one of the 3 members of the UNHRC panelhttp://www.lankaweb.com/news/ things/2014/06/27/navi-pillai- appoints-martti-ahtisaari- bribed-by-albanian-mafia-to- deliver-kosovo-independence- to-investigate-sri-lanka/

Who wanted Kosovo liberation, who got it and who is benefitting from it and was it truly worth it in the end are queries that the Tamils living in Sri Lanka need to have to ask themselves in certain those living in the North. A separate state in the North implies that they will not be welcome in the rest of Sri Lanka. Just as Kosovars are now isolated internationally economically disabled, internationally cut off and even those that helped them get independence giving a cold shoulder the precise very same is most likely to happen to the Tamils. A lot more dangerous is the realization of the vision of the existing Sri Lankan Prime Minister for a road/rail hyperlink to India which will mean the end of Sri Lankan Tamils in phase 1 and thereafter a total invasion colonization of Sri Lanka by India and finish of the Sinhalese race in Sri Lanka.

With the West&#8217s use of Islamic terrorism, the seeds are already planted for scores of future conflicts all of which will fill the purses of westerners and the local bastards enjoying producing income from facilitating the killing of their own individuals.

Do we really need to walk into such dismal occasions when we need to be learning from the blunders and manipulations taking place below our quite own eyes.

Kosovo&#8217s liberators had been identical as the LTTE. The political party that holds reign in independent Kosovo is no distinct to the LTTE representatives the TNA. Although Kosovars are now in a state of shock, vulnerable, fearful and in poverty the Tamils are continuing to vote for the TNA in spite of so many warnings offered to them. Should Tamils listen or take guidelines from the Tamil Diaspora all of whom hold foreign passports and are not citizens of Sri Lanka?

Let the Tamils of Sri Lanka understand at least now the error they are making in stubbornly pursuing a separate state when they need to comprehend that the state to be declared independent is to advance the West&#8217s geopolitical designs and have nothing at all to do with wanting to help Tamils. Tamils ought to also understand that they have utilized the discrimination and genocide themes beyond any level of tolerance.
by Shenali Waduge

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2015 Basic Elections : Saving Sri Lanka’s Sovereignty

Sri Lanka is at a vital juncture. The situation is far a lot more dangerous than the 3 decades of terror that prevailed. It is such an intense scenario that calls for all politicians to set aside their self-centred political ideologies and cunning to recognize the thin line we are treading on and the abysmal outcome most likely to outcome unless we all rise to the occasion as a single nation guarding the nation from division or separation. This election is about voting to divide or safe the sovereignty of the country.
Let us take incidents and place them in point of view to comprehend the plot.
Firstly we need to have to recognize that with the implementation of the 13th&nbspamendment through the India forced Indo-Lanka Accord in 1987 and the introduction of the provincial council program, Sri Lanka is in structure federal. Nevertheless the Centre holds the powers to dismantle the provinces if they do not function to the countrys laws. The very best instance was the annulment of the merged North-East Provincial Council in 1990 when its Chief Minister Varatharaja Perumal declared Unilateral Declaration of Independence and thereafter ran off to India.
Moreover it have to also be stated that 36 of the 37 subjects have been devolved to the provinces barring police and land powers which have not been devolved to ANY of the provinces. Why should only the North seek it. The NPC cannot behave as spoilt young children throwing tantrums with no proving they are capable of governing the 36 powers beneath their purview! Certainly they are least interested in serving the men and women of the North proven by the easy example of utilization of the price range. TNA Provincial Administration requested Rs.five,831million for 2014 but had only utilized 25.17% for the whole 9months whereas the GOSL had spent&nbspRs.290,271 million from the National price range for the identical period. Who provided a service to the North &#8211 the GOSL or the NPC?
http://www.dailynews.lk/?q= attributes/sri-lanka-who-says- 13th-amendment-not-implemented
http://www.lankaweb.com/news/ products/2014/11/04/what-is-the- tamil-national-alliance- complaining-about/
Ever given that the Northern Provincial Council was established in 2012 with a former Supreme Court judge leaving Colombo where he lived for over 70 years to live for the initial time in the North there has been nothing but a harangue of complaints and whining with little accomplished to serve the men and women of the North. The TNA MPs had been travelling overseas campaigning with each other with LTTE diaspora among foreign leaders and UN officials.
The packaged list of complaints have included demanding the closure of military camps and removal of military personnel, accusations of rape, claims of vices, colonization of Sinhalese. Taken with each other what the clear intention is to take away military presence, nullify safety blanket over the North and make sure that no Sinhalese was given entry to North. This higher-handed initiative overlooked the fact that 10% of the population in the North in 1977 were Sinhalese and some Sinhalese had been living in the North nicely ahead of 1940s although sufficient archaeological and historical artefacts serve to prove the Sinhalese occupied the whole island just before Tamil migrants came from Tamil Nadu! As a result all mythical notions can be statistically &amp historically established incorrect even though cultural genocide of Sinhala Buddhist artefacts want to now be showcased against each Tamil politicians and LTTE/supporters.
To give oxygen to these demands by the TNA and the North Chief Minister in comes the usual culprits the human rights activists all of whom safe their monthly salaries from Western governments&nbsp&nbspplotting the outcome for Sri Lanka in Washington &amp London. Hence, we have C4, Sooka, Amnesty, HRW and their regional paid stooges all coming out with reports, panel discussions, statements which are then quoted as if from the Bible by the UN and foreign envoys and leaders which suffice to establish grounds for resolutions entirely ignoring the legalities involved. The worldwide systems function in such a way that there is not a soul to query how the extremely players that labored to avert the elimination of the LTTE militarily were the one&#8217s bringing the resolutions against Sri Lanka for war crimes/crimes against humanity partnered by internationally proscribed LTTE&#8217s handlers abroad! No a single came forward to question how investigation calls for the final phase ended up producing allegations on everything that could be packaged to bring their enemies to trial and place them out of the way of disturbing their plans for Sri Lanka.
It was the identical coalition that put together a widespread candidate and canvassed for the regime change in January 2015. The players have been the same. The stakeholders the same.
Now imagine exactly where these developments will gradually lead to:
  • Unelected Prime Minister assuring complete autonomy to the North in an interview to Indian media immediately right after the January 2015 Presidential elections
  • Applauds and bouquets pouring in from Western governments going so far as to even create state reports praising enhanced human rights within months of the modify in government.
  • Virtually buying more than key neighborhood entities like media / SL Bar even academia and steering the believed process of the men and women via a properly constructed media campaign feeding lies and distortions that men and women have been ready to believe and accept.
  • Northern Chief Minister demanding direct foreign aid and direct diplomatic ties.
  • Northern Chief Minister leaving for US without permission for &#8216tuition&#8217
  • Significant slip of the tongue revealing the actual intentions came when UNDP head referred to the Northern Provincial council as a &#8216Government&#8217&nbsp&nbspa ideal example of &#8216kata boru kiwuwath diva boru kiyanne netha&#8221&nbsphttp://www.lankaweb.com/news/ items/2015/06/11/use-of-the- term-northern-provincial- government/
  • UNDP and other INGOs offering only Northern Province direct help and other help especially in locations that are needed in the occasion of operating a separate state.
Reiteration of a separate state by means of the TNA election manifesto whilst simultaneously the Muslims are also claiming that unelected PM had provided to them in an unwritten election pledge. (these all contact to mind how the unelected PM signed the 2002 cease fire agreement giving territory to terrorists with out so a lot as even informing his personal cabinet and thereafter promoting himself for his wessanthara gesture).
What we want to take property from these developments is the realization that although LTTE was a creation of India &amp Britain that drafted the 13th&nbspamendment &amp the provincial council system keeping in mind Sri Lanka&#8217s geopolitical positioning and the Trinco all-natural harbour. It was with the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi that LTTE became directly controlled by the West by means of the Church and explains why Church leaders have been the mouthpieces for both Tamils and the LTTE more than the years inspite of more than 98% Tamils being Hindus. The three decades of terror that kept Sri Lanka destabalized and curtailed to firefighting and harm control enabled the West&#8217s covert operators the NGOs/INGOs and the UN entities to penetrate to Sri Lankan society and important structures that could be influenced &#8211 falling instant victims had been the SL media, handful of journalists, SL Bar Association and other essential state structures.
When the choice to militarily defeat the LTTE was taken the West did their greatest to stop the LTTE loss and when the elimination looked inevitable the West had a backup program currently in spot and therefore by bringing down the curtain on LTTE terrorism the next modus operandi was to resurrect the political arm of the LTTE by means of the TNA. This explains the manner in which considerable interest was shown by the West towards the TNA. The GOSL erred in not initiating action to investigate TNA&#8217s hyperlinks to LTTE prior to holding elections in the North.
With the West realizing that in the TNA they have an effortless partner ready to let them to use North/East so lengthy as Tamils were granted access to reside in the West, the subsequent stage was to safe a puppet down south. RanilW fitted the bill to perfection. With the potent position of the Presidency diluted for the next five years by installing a rainbow multicultural President not knowing where his allegiance is, the overall security and stability of the country is now in a volatile position. Neutralizing the enemy comes via the UN and by means of the illegal mechanisms now in force to topic the national leaders for bogus war crimes and remove them from the image.
So what does the image now look like? With elections just weeks away the TNA manifesto and open declaration that UNP Leader has promised them a separate state fits completely with the slip of the tongue by the UNDP head referring to the Northern Provincial Council as the Northern Government! This is the ultimate outcome pursued.
So what is the danger in TNA asking for autonomy? TNA is an unregistered coalition. It is the ITAK celebration that is the crucial party in this coalition. The ITAK &#8211 Illankai Tamil Arasu Katchchi has fooled the individuals by referring to itself as the Federal Celebration. Its Constitution has been challenged and ITAK is reluctant to reveal what ITAK&#8217s constitution aims &amp objectives are. If ITAK claims &#8216Shamasthi” stood for ‘federalism’ why did they substitute the word &#8216shamasthi&#8217 with &#8216innaipachchi&#8217 in August 2008 months prior to LTTE was eliminated? The allegation is that the new word stood for ITAK&#8217s aim for a confederacy. A confederacy is a union of independent and sovereign States.&nbsp&nbspA confederacy is formed with an intention to develop independent and sovereign States. The government of a confederation can withdraw from the Union and explains why TNA is generating a powerful bid for self-determination a quest that satisfies age-lengthy mental preparation that will leave them in the exact same abysmal predicament that the people of Kosovo finds themselves though only a handful of Tamils are now beginning to realize that the West is pursuing their &#8216cause&#8217 not for any enjoy of them but because that &#8216cause&#8217 fits effectively into their general program. If we look deeper we can comprehend the &#8216cause&#8217 was really produced by the West and promoted using selfish Tamil politicians who viewed it as an opportunity to rule over their personal folks!
Be that as it may possibly the West has been playing politics with the minds of people creating slogans to pitch the minorities against the majority in the time-tested successful divide &amp rule initiative.
It is in connecting the dots that we can put the puzzle collectively to understand why Mahinda Rajapakse is not the preferred choice but Ranil Wickremasinghe is whilst the dots should also reveal that these preferences are only until the job is accomplished and thereafter it is cheerio darling&#8230 as Saddam, Osama, Gaddafi and even Mubarak located out too late.
What we as citizens need to now comprehend is that in enabling a variety of foreign entities to interfere and dictate how a sovereign nation ought to run itself we have invited the enemy and now that enemy is slowing closing in and disturbing the structure of the country. Though Sri Lankans are poor at comparing Sri Lanka&#8217s case with the other nations that &#8216democracy&#8217 has been delivered to we are blindly walking into a trap that is destined to ruin the nation and our people.
Nationalist leaders will be imprisoned for concocted crimes whilst puppets who will be employed to get rid of all legislative, constitutional and other legal barriers and thereafter as soon as there of no use any a lot more they as well would be removed. Exactly where does that leave the rest of the nation&#8217s citizens?
That answer merits some critical thinking in the next couple of days by Sri Lankan citizens to comprehend that this election should not be to vote simply because parties promise to lessen the price tag of vital goods, promises the sun and the moon or increasing salaries. This election is extremely significantly about voting to safeguard the sovereignty of the nation or to blindly vote for parties that are willing to give the nation to foreign powers so lengthy as they will be kept in energy irrespective of what is excellent for the nation or people.