the one that people see on TV, hear on the Radio and read in the Papers, and a completely different world called REALITY that no one is privy to, except the perpetrators of the crimes themselves.It is rarely that the blogger is able to sus out some of the truth, as I have attempted to in many instances, more to ...
The raid on Friday June 29th at the offices of both Sri Lanka Mirror and Lanka X news was not legal. The Police stated that those people were taken into custody under Section 118 of the Penal Code. But, since this Section on the Law of Criminal Defamation has been repealed under Act No. 12 of 2002, the Magistrate ordered ...
The exceedingly low IQ of our journalists was apparent yet again, when a bunch of Ceylon Today journalists sent their letter of resignation in protest at the sacking two days ago of their editor, Lalith Alahakoon.I remember reminding them going into this, to step back from greed. After all it was sheer greed that drove them to join Ceylon Today, ...
Sarath Fonseka states, where ever he goes, that he wishes to save the country from the Rajapakse regime, and that he wants Law and Order restored. Don’t we all. We want something more from SF. Something new, something concrete and something explosive without the chemicals!The much hyped press conference today, where for the first time he gave a publicized media ...
The hardly believable Media Minister announced today that the Govt. will bring in a law to force all news websites to register their site, giving details which will be built into the particular statute of the how’s and why’s and the rules by which they have to operate. I hope he is just kidding as this amounts to a further ...
It is now apparent why this administration is so cocky, and sure of winning the forthcoming PC elections. The first salvo was to get rid of irritants, ‘X news’ and ‘Lanka Mirror’ websites, banning them. (actually they did them a favor as they will re start from a proxy server overseas, with a guaranteed overseas viewership! And increased page hits)As ...
On Saturday the Mawbima on Sunday paper's lambasts were laid bare and similarly the Ceylon Today on Sunday (14th October 2012) had the similar story attributed the same person in English which I show in full below:I am giving the article more publicity as the paper does not sell at all and is running on empty except for the coffers ...
The UNP is trying as a test of its organizational skills to draw as many people from all parts of the country on a weekday to demonstrate against the government and thereby show the government by a show of hands that there is a significant population who disapprove of what the government is doing in a whole host of ...
We in the Banana Republic have just been informed that the Cabinet has appointed the Government Agents of Hambantota, Moneragala and Badullla as Competent Authorities to run, Pelwatte, Sevanagala Sugar Industries and Colombo Commercial Ltd. Any person with a pea brain will know that these people do not know one end of the sugar cane from another, and will ...
It is just mindboggling how the politicians of the Government can with a straight face expound their dreamy thoughts as reality on the people of Sri Lanka and get away with it. There is NO step that this Govt. has taken that is actually correct. Yet people slavishly believe they can do no wrong. What Planet may I ask these ...
Mr Ranil Wickremasinghe who was a Minister and Prime Minister in Sri Lanka, from 1977 to 1994 and a short stint as a Prime Minister in 2001, has now spent more time in Opposition, as leader than in Government. In a Government of fools, felons and figments he receives brickbats for his immense patience in staying in his position despite ...
Sri Lanka is given 10 minutes to make a speech at the UNHRC and we just go through a list of irrelevant issues that no one will question! This gives the onus on to the prosecution, to say that SL still does not realize, namely what is at stake, by either pretending not to understand or deliberately sidestepping the ...
In this wonder of Asia it is all about wonders, and now there is yet another wonder. The SLFP, the principle constituent of the UPFA government said that last week’s Nil Rella new membership drive enrolled 2 million members in the last week.http://www.dailynews.lk/2013/04/05/pol01.aspWe are now left wondering if there are any people left who have not enrolled in either main ...
Now we know in hindsight, as much as Sarath N Silva did when he was the Chief Justice, that he gave rulings which he now bitterly regrets. One was the ease with which elected Parliamentarians can switch sides at their whim and fancy no matter what the people who elected them think about it. This makes an absolute mockery of ...
IF YOU READ ANY OF THE PROPOSALS AND YOU HAVE A SOCIAL CONSCIENCE YOU WOULD NOT VOTE FOR IT - SO WHO DID?It is yet another sad day in our sunny isle when Law Makers, voted in by the people, who cannot understand the 3 thick volume budget proposals given to them, vote without having a clue what they are ...
In a Country where no outrage on the part of the ruling class is even considered anything but normal, jocular, and typical of a murderous junta, when a mere University Don sends threatening SMS’s to a man whose rap sheet is longer than the most accused criminal in Sri Lanka history, it is time to take stock and just incarcerate ...
Is there no shame? It is quite clear that public money is being used to lure or to prevent leakage by defection, and it is now clear the stakes are high, so high that it boggles the mind. The indecent Rs500M offered for defections, and retentions beggars belief!http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=114820It is time that the people of Sri Lanka realize that they have ...
FUTA have an online petition called, “Save Sri Lankan Schools and Universities.” Firstly I would respectfully ask them not to bring the massive problems in schools into their strike and industrial action. They hope, I believe to gain sympathy from the public by this petition, but they are being very cynical in encompassing issues not related to their agitation into ...
The Headline of the Sunday Observer of 3rd of June was ‘Govt. decries the UNP, JVP attempts to destabilize economy.’ – also titled ‘disseminating misleading and false information’. This was with specific regard to destabilizing the economy as the aforesaid parties are engaged in explaining to the world that highly dubious financial transactions courtesy of senior Govt. personnel continue to ...
While the President takes all these Sri Lankan Aircraft from the Airline and treats it as his personal allowances, at a cost of over Rs500M while the airline bleeds, a team of young people have also had to find their way at huge expense to Rio. When such costs are incurred it is automatically assumed that the benefits accruing to ...
