By Shelton A. Gunaratne @ 2010 ƒ”š‚ Los Angeles is big and sprawling both in terms of population and area. If you are talking about Greater Los Angeles, also called the Southland, you are referring to the large urbanized area comprising five counties”ƒ¢¢”š¬‚Los Angeles (88 cities with 9.9 million people), Orange (34 cities with 3 million […]

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by Charles.S.Perera ƒ”š‚ Indianƒ”š‚  politicians and Diplomats seem to have lost their heads over India’s new status of a fast developing economy in Asia.ƒ”š‚  They try to dictate terms to Sri Lanka as it isƒ”š‚  an Indian colony. ƒ”š‚ The Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao, reminding us of ƒ”š‚ a previous Diplomatic intruder Robert Blake, has made a strange […]

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Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 Canada 18 May 2010 The Editorƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚  THE EMBASSY Ottawa ƒ”š‚ Sir: The International Crisis Group’s (ICG) report entitled “ƒ”¹…”War Crimes in Sri Lanka’ calling for an independent international investigation into alleged war crimes by the Sri Lankan Government Armed Forces against civilians during the […]

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Channeled by Sesha Samarajiwa May 18, 2009 Toƒ”š‚  All Tamil Eelamists From Velu Pillai Prabhakaran, Late National Leader of Tamils everywhere 7th Zone of Hell ƒ”š‚ My dear fellow Tamil Eelamists, Vanakkam! ƒ”š‚ I started to write this letter “ƒ¢¢”š¬…”- one of the most important messages I have delivered –ƒ”š‚  a few days ƒ”š‚ before my untimely departure […]

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By Shelton A. Gunaratne, Ph.D. Professor emeritus, Minnesota State University Moorhead ƒ”š‚ I have the hunch that Lanka (note the omission of Sri) as a dissipative structure”ƒ¢¢”š¬‚a thermodynamic system open to its environment for managing its energy-entropy flow at far from equilibrium”ƒ¢¢”š¬‚is in the process of moving from one long-term (Kondratieff) cycle to another after a […]

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Insight By Sunil Kumar May 18th 2010 Here we go again! The matter has been laid to rest as far as the Tamil Tiger internal armed insurrection is concerned and only just recently the Sri Lanka Government has expressed concerns about the resurgence of A Tamil Tiger build up overseas and a group calling themselves […]

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ALI SUKHANVER Political turmoil, economic disorder, scarcity of energy resources and no doubt above all the ever growing population; the developing countries have their own particular problems throughout the world. All these problems join hand together and ultimately create sky-kissing hurdles in the way to stability and prosperity of these countries. In such a hazardous […]

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MEDIA RELEASEƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ -SRI LANKA UNITED NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA It is just one year after Sri Lanka’s victorious forces cornered the ruthless Tamil Tiger Terrorists (LTTE) and eliminated the megalomaniacal leader Velupillai Prabhakaran, his coterie of murderous deputies and his fighting apparatus made up of brainwashed armed cadres on the banks of the Nanthikadal Lagoon, thereby […]

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