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Before following, the frog in the well Lal Kantha for a three day strike, think of theValiant Soldier sons of mother Lanka sacrificing their lives in the North.

By Charles.S. Perera

Copied below is an article appearing in the Phoenix Busness Journal, USA, for the information of the frog in the well Lal Kantha, and those members of Trade Unions who would be "foolish enough" to follow the bogus Trade Union Leader Lal Kantha, who seems to have another Agenda behind his call for a three day stike.

Perhaps Lal Kantha is trying to make up for his tarnished image after the failure of the one day token strike of the 10th July..

We implore those who may want to follow like " lame ducks", the misguided politico Lal Kantha in a meaningless adventure against a suffering motherland, to think of the many valiant soldiers who are giving their lives to save the greatest treasure we have-the land in which we were born.

Energy costs accelerate consumer prices to second-fastest growth rate in 26 years
Phoenix Business Journal - by Adam Kress

Soaring energy prices pushed consumer costs up in June at the second-fastest rate in 26 years.

The U.S. Labor Department reported Wednesday that consumer prices jumped 1.1 percent last month. Energy prices shot up nearly 7 percent, reflecting big increases for gasoline, home heating oil and natural gas.

The 1.1 percent June increase was the second largest monthly advance in the past 26 years, surpassed only by a 1.3 percent gain in September 2005 from a jolt to energy costs after Hurricane Katrina.

Over the past 12 months, consumer inflation is up by 5 percent, the largest year-over-year gain since May 1991.

Food prices rose 0.7 percent in June, more than double May's 0.3 percent increase. Vegetable prices grew by 6.1 percent, the biggest increase in nearly three years as recent flooding in the Midwest translates to higher prices for many crops.

Core inflation, which excludes energy and food, showed rising pressures too with an increase of 0.3 percent in June, up from 0.2 percent in May and the biggest one-month rise since January.

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