Watch Much more Sri Lanka Gossip Videos, News. Click Right here: http://www.GossipsOnline.com.
Video Rating: 3 / 5
SLIM Annual Common Meeting 2012/13.
Video Rating: 5 / 5
Categories
Mother Died – www.GossipsOnline.com
A important member of the Opposition United National Party on Friday urged Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella to unblock Colombo Telegraph, claiming that it offers views of a broad section of society and not news.
UNP MP Dr Harsha de Silva has created this request for the duration of his speech in parliament on the budget. He mentioned that the curb on media freedom has resulted in a number of internet sites being utilised to market news and views.
Earlier in the day, Media Minister Rambukwella denied there were attempts by the government to curb media freedom in Sri Lanka. Another UNP MP Sujeewa Senasinghe mentioned that several journalists have been forced to flee the nation out of fear.
Connected posts
President Rajapaksa Phoned TRC Palpita To Ask Colombo Telegraph Blockade
Ranil Demands Rajapaksa Unblock Web Websites
TRC Head Palpita ‘Selective’ And ‘Inconsistent’
Dhanapala Measures Down From Dialog Board
Fears For Ad Income From Dialog Stops Sri Lankan Print Media From Taking Dhanapala Concern
Dhanapala Have to Take A Stand And Resign From Dialog, Condemn Its Illegal, Unethical Behaviour – Kumar David
‘I Give Dhanapala The Advantage Of The Doubt’ Says Radhika
Calling Jayantha Dhanapala A Liar, Or The Tragedy Of Lankan Public Life
Swedish Govt. Appointee Dhanapala’s Unethical Behavior Embarrassment To The SIPRI
‘Dhanapala Need to Choose’ Says Saravanamuttu
Picture Proof: Following Dhanapala Addressed BASL Meeting Dialog Blocked Colombo Telegraph Once more
Unlawful Restrictions On Media By State Or Private Actors Is A Matter Of Critical Public Concern And Have to Be Questioned – Bishop Chickera And Prof. Savitri
Dialog Unblocked Colombo Telegraph For Dhanapala To Address A Public Meeting
Jayantha Dhanapala Is A Liar Caught Lying Over Silence On Colombo Telegraph Blocking
Jayaratne Says Dhanapala Will Stand By Greatest Practices, Dhanapala Pussyfoots On Illegal Web Blocking
International Press Institute Urges UN To Make certain Interference With Colombo Telegraph Ends
Colombo Telegraph Has Every single Proper To Raise Dhanapala’s Conflict Of Interest Friday Forum Member Speaks Out
Write-up 19 Slams Ban On Colombo Telegraph Site
Dialog Board Director And Friday Forum Member Jayantha Dhanapala Fails To Stop CT Blockade On Dialog Network
Dhanapala Might Be Influenced By Massive Payment He Receives From Dialog – Professor Kumar David
‘Dhanapala’s Position Ethically Untenable’ Says Dr. Pradeep Jeganathan
Sara Says ‘Dhanapala – WebBlocking’ Problem Demands To Be Resolved Inside The Framework Of Very good Governance
Subtle Enterprise Interests Much more Damaging Than Anti–Democratic Regime: Dhanapala Need to Answer Conflict Of Interest Concerns – Dr. Nirmal Ranjith
Sri Lanka Blocks Internet sites And The President Lies On Twitter
As soon as Once again Colombo Telegraph Blocked Dialog And Etisalat Tamper DNS Responses
TRC Blocks Colombo Telegraph, Warns Service Providers To Keep It’s A ‘Technical Glitch’
Colombo Telegraph Blocked, How To Attain Us Now: Sri Lanka Telecom And Mobitel Joins The DPI Club!
Sri Lankan Govt. Periodically Blocked Colombo Telegraph In 2013: US Human Rights Report
History of Colombo Telegraph blocking
Very first -December 26, 2011 – We are blocked but we will not be stopped
Second – May 8, 2012 – Colombo Telegraph Blocked Once again
Third – March 29, 2013 – Sri Lanka Blocks Colombo Telegraph and Selected Tweets: Colombo Telegraph Unblocked
Fourth – August 23, 2013 – Colombo Telegraph Blocked, How To Reach Us Now: Sri Lanka Telecom And Mobitel Joins The DPI Club!
Other attempts
October 26, 2012 – Colombo Telegraph Was Hacked
August 9, 2012 ColomboTelegraph Password Cracking Try Blocked
Freedom Residence Report: Freedom On The Net 2012, Sri Lanka Is A Country At Threat
Categories
Sri Lanka – 2009 – Component 1
Video Rating: / 5
Categories
Another Term Of This Madness?
By Tisaranee Gunasekara –
“Negligent, ambitious, and perverse Princes are the real causes of public misfortunes.” – D’Holbach (Excellent Sense Without having God)
This month, a female university-entrant fell off a seven-foot wall and suffered spinal injuries[i], even though participating in the Leadership Coaching Programme in an army camp.
The military spokesman says the wall was just six feet high. Let’s think him.
What sort of ‘leadership training’ entails jumping from a six-foot wall? Armed robbery? Kidnapping? Movie stunts?
What is the logic of herding students into army camps and forcing them to engage in mindless and useless pursuits which have no place in a normal law-abiding civilian existence?
The leadership education programme is a close to best symbol of Rajapaksa pondering and Rajapaksa governance. It is unnecessary, does no good to anyone and senseless virtually to the point of insanity. It has not achieved any of its stated aims. The execrable practice of ragging continues the only distinction is that freshers get ragged twice – by the military as nicely as by seniors. (The Leadership Education Programme may broaden the sadistic horizons of future raggers, teaching them more degrading, hazardous and inhuman ways to torture the next batch).
The Leadership Education is a waste of everyone’s time and everyone’s money.
But it will not be scrapped due to the fact it is a brainchild of Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Scrapping the programme would be akin to admitting that the Rajapaksas can make blunders, which violates a essential maxim of Rajapaksa rule – Rajapaksa infallibility.
The leadership instruction programme also provides a clear warning of the future awaiting Sri Lanka, if Mahinda Rajapaksa wins a third term.
Mahinda is not just Mahinda. Mahinda is Basil and Gotabaya, Namal and Shashindra, siblings, nephews, nieces, cousins and in-laws. And acolytes, always acolytes, those pawns empowered and glorified for 1 crowded hour – or two. There will usually be Sajin Vass Gunawardanes, Sampath Chandrapushpas, Duminda Silvas and Mervyn Silvas (and their sons) and Galagoda-Atte Gnanasaras. The Rajapaksas cannot rule without them.
Is this the future we want?
This is the future we will have, if Mahinda Rajapaksa wins a third term.
Mahinda Rajapaksa defeated the LTTE. He did not do so alone but let that be. Is defeating the LTTE a logical cause to give him a third term, understanding what he and his brothers did in the second term?
Make Mahinda Rajapaksa a gazetted national hero. Give him all the accolades and statues his megalomanic heart craves for. Rename every public facility following him. Make his birthday a national vacation. Have an annual parade honouring him. But do not give him a third term, so that he can institutionalise familial rule and render dynastic succession inevitable.
It is only in fairy tales that the monster-slayer gets the country as a reward. This is actual life.
Mahinda Rajapaksa is indubitably a friendly man. Fine set up a Mr. Conviviality award and give it to him every single year. But that is not a good adequate reason to vote for him, realizing what he will do and what he will enable his brothers, relatives and acolytes to do.
Mahinda Rajapaksa cannot defend national sovereignty. He is in the method of turning Sri Lanka into a Chinese protectorate. Mahinda Rajapaksa cannot create peace. He has failed to reconcile the Tamils whilst antagonising the Muslims and the Christians.
The only way Mahinda Rajapaksa can defend territorial integrity is by igniting another unnecessary war with an additional minority and winning it – right after a number of much more decades of bloodshed and mayhem.
Mahinda Rajapaksa’s thought of development is to create expressways, airports and ports, although ordinary folks like, his personal Sinhala-base, sink into greater want.
Do we want the Rajapaksas – and that means all the Rajapaksas, not this or that Rajapaksa, simply because theirs is a loved ones business – to rule this nation for at least six a lot more years?
Do we want Gotabaya Rajapaksa in parliament, poised to step into his brother’s presidential shoes, legally and constitutionally?
Do we want a entirely degraded judiciary? Do we want judges who are manifestly the pawns of the rulers?
Do we want the new Rajapaksa commonsense to grow to be hegemonic? Do we want impunity, abuse and corruption to turn out to be the only normal the next generation of Lankans know?
Do we want the militarization of economy, civil society and our minds? Do we want a morality which despises the weak and worships the powerful and the effective?
Do we want a nation which can’t defend its most vulnerable (children and the elderly) even as it spends most of the national wealth on defence?
Do we want an acolyte-capitalism and a serfocratic administration, a nation exactly where Dhammika Pereras rule the economy and Sajin Vaas Gunawardanes thump Chris Nonises?
Do we want a nation where advancement and security depends on slavish obedience to Rajapaksas?
Do we want Sri Lanka to grow to be a battleground of regional and international powers?
Do Sinhalese want a lasting peace or a new war with one more minority?
Do Tamils want to live under de facto occupation, a life of worsening humiliation, powerlessness and insecurity?
Do Muslims want to grow to be the new Tamils?
Do Christians want to live like second class citizens?
Dislodging the Rajapaksas will not solve all Lankan troubles. But the absolute majority of Lankan difficulties can’t be solved without dislodging the Rajapaksas.
The Final Trapdoor
Defeating the Rajapaksas becomes an uphill job with every single passing year. Not due to the fact the Rajapaksas turn into far more well-known, but because the Rajapaksas make the politico-electoral playing field much more uneven, from within.
But economic discontent is growing, specifically among the Sinhalese (as the CPA survey reveals). That provides the opposition a trapdoor of opportunity, a decent opportunity of pushing the election into a second round. For the opposition, an outright victory is not necessary preventing an outright victory by the Rajapaksas will suffice because it can result in a political tsunami, such as within the SLFP.
If the Rajapaksas win the presidency, they will move swiftly to neutralise the most efficient figures in the opposition. As soon as the opposition is reeling from attacks, arrests, calumnies and internal squabbles, the parliamentary election can be held. When a Rajapaksa occupies the PM post, the Achilles Heel of familial rule will be no far more.
Life has not improved for Tamils and Muslims during the second Rajapaksa term. But has life turn into much better and happier for the Sinhala majority during the second Rajapaksa term? The Sinhala-South may possibly not be interested in the atrocities committed throughout the war and in the aftermath. They may possibly be indifferent to Tamil and Muslim problems and fears. But has the situation of the Sinhala-South enhanced for the duration of the second Rajapaksa term? Are Sinhalese greater off socio-economically, a lot more safe and much more hopeful about the future than they were in 2010? Are they satisfied about the path in which the Rajapaksas are taking the nation? Are they willing to sacrifice the fundamental rights they take so much for granted and the prospect of a far more peaceful and prosperous future, for the sake of a dead or an unseen enemy?
The Rajapaksas will attempt to muddy the waters of our thinking by screaming about Tigers and Jihadists, traitors and conspirators, so that we forget the actual situation.
Do we want a Rajapaksa future?
[i] http://www.bbc.co.uk/sinhala/sri_lanka/2014/11/141111_thisara_leadership_course
The Widespread Candidate Search Group all agree for the want for a Widespread Candidate but for months on now they are in a twist who to decide on. As for the voters of Sri Lanka, what is critical when casting their vote is to recognize how far they want change, what that change is probably to result for the country and whether any reversal of the gains are most likely to outcome in bringing about that adjust. It becomes all the much more important that our choice of leader for Sri Lanka needs to be looked much more upon the capacity to defend Sri Lanka from the worldwide sharks than just wearing the crown of President of Sri Lanka. The contenders all of whom had held leadership roles in the previous it is very good to appear back and take cognisance of how far they have truly protected and guarded the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Sri Lanka. If they have not they do not deserve any location in re-contesting to repeat their felonies.
Candidate 1: Ranil Wickremasinghe
Gambling with the prospects of
-
Winning UNP votes (significant quantity although let’s not overlook that there are some UNP voters who put their brains before their hearts and place the interest of the nation very first. They have completed so in the past and they are probably to be the essential decider for this election)
-
Winning Muslim votes (considerable number of commercially inclined Muslims who think that only the UNP is capable of drawing Western investments. Lets not neglect that a huge quantity of rural Muslims did not vote for the UNP or the Muslim Congress at the last election)
-
Winning Tamil votes (the Northern and Southern votes assured as has always happened)
-
Winning the Christian/Catholic votes (these votes are now split in half and there are again massive numbers of individuals who put brains ahead of heart and vote and generally large numbers of urban voters end up not going to vote as well)
-
Not wanting to win the Buddhist vote (this has been a recognized fact. UNP have never cared to modify the status quo and as an alternative preferred to woo the non-majority voters only – a mathematical hara kiri)
-
Will people keep in mind or care to bear in mind
-
The betrayal of the nation and the soldiers as effectively as over 60 intelligence officers in agreeing to sign an agreement not shared with even his crucial Ministers? (Cease Fire Agreement of 2002)
-
The appeasement and subservience towards Western domination most likely to leave Sri Lanka as a servant state with a puppet leader and bring down the nation and reverse all that we have gained post-conflict?
-
The capacity to actually lead the nation when demands of the majority populace are purposely ignored in UNP policies is a essential obstacle
-
What has Ranil completed for Sri Lanka in 40 years of politics – Is 30 election losses an achievement!
-
Candidate 2: Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga
Gambling with the prospects of
-
Winning support of the current Ministers in the UPFA as a support base and cross more than
-
Winning help of the majority Buddhist bloc aligned to organizations now calling for the abolition of the Presidency – aim to divide the Buddhist vote
-
Winning help of the UNP vote base as widespread candidate
-
Winning support of the Muslim vote base as frequent candidate relying on Muslim Congress assistance
-
Winning help of the Tamil vote base as common candidate assured of TNA assistance
-
Winning help of the Christian/Catholic vote base as typical candidate
-
Winning the JVP insignificant vote base by way of buddy Mangala
-
Will folks keep in mind or care to remember
-
The beeshana period below each her terms
-
Now promises finish to corruption – Lest we overlook – The ‘chowra rajina’ Bandit Queen allegations and Water’s Edge verdict
-
Now promises Rights for Girls – women supporters of the UNP stripped naked and forced to march along the street below her rule
-
Didn’t she pledge to take away the Executive President in six months in 1994 and stayed on for two terms!
-
She did promise Prabakaran to enable him to rule the Northern Province for 10 years with no elections!
-
We are now told she has bowed out of the Frequent Candidate race – there’s also the possibility to adjust one’s mind as well!
-
The web comments are fairly interesting and reveal the views of men and women for other prospective Widespread Candidates
Anura Kumara Dissanayake – able to drag Sri Lanka into stoneage. Lets also don’t forget that all the individuals they killed were Sinhala Buddhists and not a single LTTE terrorist!
Sarath Fonseka – Revenge mantra will lead to doom but folks like to hear some ‘kalawedda’ stories!
Sajith Premadasa – All Talk No Action
Sobitha thero – Referred to as Mr. by some and that says it all! The thero promises he will hold forte for six months if elected and then abolish the Executive Presidency …. Related story was told by that trishaw driver to Sirisena Cooray at the Municipality Elections but refused to step down thereafter!
Karu – A Journalist claimed he was bribed Rs.50,000 per month for publicity! Not a great commence for a Common Candidate
Arjuna – Major Sri Lanka and representing Sri Lanka on world political stage is no game of cricket!
The widespread candidate confusion can’t erase and in fact has raised men and women’s doubts of how the country can be led when the parties vying to pick a typical candidate have however to pick one and they have been on the job for quite some time now. Just think about how decisions might be taken right after their Widespread Candidate gets elected and the disagreements likely to arise provided the ideological and other political agendas each and every of the common candidate group are all aligned to. How a lot of promises and pledges need to be taking location for the assistance of each and every group, what are their demands to canvass their folks for votes, will the frequent candidate President be in a position to give in to all these demands and will he/she actually honor these demands or will all this finish up in further chaos for the nation – these are factors that Sri Lanka’s voters be they Sinhalese, Tamil Muslim, Burgher, Buddhist, Hindu, Christian/Catholic, Islam or atheists and agnostics will need to consider about Before they cast their vote!
Even though the common candidate group are busy choosing a candidate it is great for voters to think about their selection as well and most of all think about what Sri Lanka is most likely to be like if their selection of typical candidate wins and he/she can’t or won’t honor the promises created to appear as typical candidate.
It is also a very good time for the general public too to recognize that every of us individually have a greater function to play and are ourselves accountable by our actions for taking the country forward or backwards – the blame can not always be placed on the doorstep of the politicians.
“A Leader is a single who knows the way, goes the way and has shown the way’.
“Aspirants for that function are those who don’t know the way, have gone the wrong way and can’t show the way”.