Wrote this as reply on a South Asian Blog re Sri Lankas China leanings questioned by Indian readers. Did not mention the obvious China has not trained and funded terrorists against Sri Lanka, unlike India.Replying to Naveen and Sumits comments. Sumit: i don’t understand the level of simping for China in SL Naveen: SL have done the China leaning ...
Not Mainstream in ones Home CountryMy sisters and I dont have the smallpox vaccine scar. When in Grade 2 (Form 1) the Warden of my school STC (S. Thomas College, Mt Lavinia) sent a letter to my father requesting that I get the vaccines. Warden is normally used for the in charge of prisoners. To use Warden instead of Principal ...
Interesting midterm election sideshow on Indian Caste in NY Times. JD Vance a Republican is married to an Indian Usha Chilukuri. The NY Times hit piece implies Usha is of low caste and a traitor to her origins. i.e she is sleeping with the enemy the Republicans and not supporting the party of the oppressed the Democratic Party One ...
Hoopoe bird. Sinhala; පොරුව කුරුල්ලා Poruwa kurulla Tamil: Chaval kuruviI got to see a Hoopoe Bird in the garden. I have never seen one despite umpteen safari trips to the nearby Wilpattu National Park. Normally, I make my coffee and sit in front of computer reading news and other bullshit This was in June 2022 with many power cuts. So ...
First a huge kudos to Mahinda Rajapakse's Machiavellian political maneuvers. Impressive, within the law, and constitution. No violence, no bloodshed. Very democratic..When the undemocratic mobs invaded the official President and PM residence, the two brothers Gota and Mahinda resigned.No bringing out military to defend their position.On July 9th it looked like the end of the road for Rajapakses. Then because ...
It's Mob Rule in Sri Lanka. From its supporters it is a color revolution a la Ukraine Maidan in 2014 (more on that later). There are calls to hang and quarter President Gotabya Rajapakse. who was democratically elected by an overwhelming majority These are not sentiments of rural folk. It's the call from Western leaning, educated urban affluent folk, plus ...
https://www.youtube.com/embed/Y39veTO7kF4 Self-anointed "fact-checkers” in the U.S. corporate press have spent two weeks mocking as disinformation and a false conspiracy theory the claim that Ukraine has biological weapons labs, either alone or with U.S. support. But Rubio's clean-up act came too late. When asked whether Ukraine possesses “chemical or biological weapons,” Nuland did not deny this: at all. She instead ...
A short note about fractional calculus, mainly because of a Sri Lankan in the forefront. That is Udita Katugampola who got his Bachelors from Colombo University in 2002. He has created the Katugampola fractional operators that are integral operators that generalize the Riemann–Liouville and the Hadamard fractional operators into a unique form. Why fractional operators matter. Conventional calculus has its ...
There are hearsay and innuendo on Gotabhya Rajapaksa's (current Presidents) purportedly lack of education. So decided to check, thats far from the truth. Gotabaya served as an army officer for 20 years. Then after retiring from the army, got himself a Post Graduate Diploma in Information technology from University of Colombo. To do this about turn in career and ...
All these pandemic stuff is not unexpected. Those who look at downside risk, i.e. tail risk, predicted the 2008 crash*. After that they commented the structural issues of US economy are still weak and an pandemic will tear apart globalization. So obviously we are seeing the pandemic at play. I thought it would die down by May Jun (2021) at ...
This was a post from 2012, that had got deleted. Resurrected from waybackmachine.I got this Letter thru email and the saw that it had been posted on a blog as wellUpdate: Please read Climate Change, Food Security & Virtual Water an Asymmetric Threat to Sri Lanka which articulates this whole issue in a bigger picture context.Excerpts from the email from ...
1918 Pandemic Infection DatesAustralia First known infections October 1918. Second more severe in July 1919Sri Lanka First Wave in June 1918 Second Wave Sept 1918Just based on pandemic incidence getting lagged, would guesstimate that Aus second wave will be in July 2021. In Sri Lanka guesstimate the pandemic should be over by February.Some Excerpts from (National Museum of Australia)In ...
Abstract: A centralized govt in Sri Lanka is necessary maintain Law and order. Devolution of power to provinces may be stepping stone to de facto Federalism and a client Federal state to India. The cautionary example is the US and its separation of Federal and State powers. The separation of US and State power has lead to inconsistent implementation ...
The Irish slave trade began when 30,000 Irish prisoners were sold as slaves to the New World. The King James I Proclamation of 1625 required Irish political prisoners be sent overseas and sold to English settlers in the West Indies. By the mid 1600s, the Irish were the main slaves sold to Antigua and Montserrat. At that time, 70% of ...
Start with a quote from Matt Stoller (2011)Change needs to happen—and it will happen, either through good leadership or through collapse. The US has choices, most other countries dont.With all the chaos and rioting there are no specific goals to make the US equitable, specially for the lower rungs of society. My thoughts of specific goals.What should be done immediatelya) ...
Note: This was written in March long before the George Floyd chaos.The next 6-9 months will be a test of resiliency of societies. It is going to test the social and economic cohesiveness of societies to depression level economic downturns.Countries have different gods. In the US and UK now it is "Personal Freedom" and the stockmarket.In the US they pumping ...
Since 1998 was working in Wall Street. A lot of my work involved Risk in billion dollar portfolios. Most people, look at the upside, but because of my work started looking at the downside and its effects. By 2003 or so there was some focus on what is called fat tail risk, a higher than normal probability of the downside. ...
The U.S. shouldn’t bail out billionaires and hedge funds during the coronavirus pandemic, Social Capital Billionare CEO Chamath Palihapitiya says. “Who cares? Let them get wiped out."Just be clear, like, who are we talking about, a hedge fund that serves a bunch of billionaire family offices?" Palihapitiya replies. "Who cares? Let them get wiped out, who cares! They don’t get ...
I thought it would be a War in the mid-east that would get the dominoes falling. Turned out a real black swan. However much many think that the US stock market was on solid foundation, false premise. The underlying instabilities that caused 2008 crash never went away.Injection of trillions, low Fed Interest rates almost free (now zero rates, i.e free) ...
Not necessary to go out on a Limb, Trump will most likely loose the 2020 Elections.Why,a) because I think the Covid19 is going to be bigger in the US than in China (even if half bad enough).b) Trump has not had a plan to combat the virus and partly because of the US health care system, mainly private insured. The ...
