Sugath Kulatunga, …. original submission with highlighting added by the Editor, Thuppahi
That** was the story of Monday. The Friday that followed was a stark tragedy and a national calamity which has left its bloody stain in the records of our recent history. This was my harrowing experience of Friday 29 July 1983.
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Michael Roberts
The information and interpretations present in this Thuppahi website by “A Observer in a Black Sea Resort” (see refs at end) have been challenged by several Academic friends of mine located in the West (A and B quoted below within this text). However, another friend located in USA …. a Sri Lankan as it happens …. has chipped in with a counterpunch (see C below); while another Sri Lankan has also added a note of significance.
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Andrew Roth and Pjotr Sauer,in The Guardian 25 March 2024, where the title reads thus: “Four suspects in Moscow concert hall terror attack appear in court
Footage of gunmen reinforces Islamic State’s claim to have masterminded worst terror attack on Russia in two decades.
Four suspects have appeared in court in Moscow charged over the terrorist attack on the Crocus City concert hall on Friday that left 137 people dead. The men were officially identified as citizens of Tajikistan, the Tass state news agency said, and were remanded in custody for two months at Sunday’s hearing.
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Anonymous
Watch …. https://www.youtube.com/live/2EZg8mPatv4?si=uzoFr0XBWGEqB5A0
Today, we learn what I’ve known for years: that the CIA have spent billions in spreading anti-China propaganda to stir up trouble in China and with countries dealing with China, thereby seeking to topple the government of China and destroy its economy. This propaganda campaign included pushing fake stories that the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative [BRI] was a threat to the world, that China would use the BRI to take over the world, that China would militarize ports they had built as part of the BRI, such as in Hambantota. It was all lies. It is now confirmed that Trump ordered the CIA to bad mouth China’s infrastructural projects, which has caused tremendous damage around the world, costing trillions of dollars to the US in damages, destroying relationships around the world, and for what?
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Howard Bloom, Richard Koenigsberg & Chad Dougatz, at …. https://www.libraryofsocialscience.com/assets/audio/HBloom_Universe_022_Trump_as_Hitler
Just before the 2016 election, Richard Koenigsberg, Howard Bloom and Chad Dougatz presented this prophetic broadcast, which predicted everything occurring today.
Journalists, innocent Americans, having never experienced a phenomenon like Trump, could hardly have imagined what they were about to encounter.
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Kelly Ng, in BBC News ………………. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-68421131… with highlighting emphasis imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi
An organiser of a “white party” in Sri Lanka has apologised after the event sparked a backlash online. The event’s advertisement specified a white dress code, but also had a line saying “Face control: White” – which was largely interpreted to mean the event was open only to white people.
Michael Roberts
After several years work in asociation with Ismeth Raheem and Percy Colin-Thome the book People Inbetween: The Burghers an the Middle Class in the Transformations within Sri Lanka, 1780s-1960s was brought out under the imprint of Savodaya Publishing Services in 1989.** Its first chapter on “Pejorative Phrases ..” was a central and critical segment of the whole work and included an illustrative çartoon that had been presented in The Island newspaper on the 27th January 1985.
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Shamindra Ferdinando, in The Island, 28 February 2024 where the title runs thus: “National Elections: Ex-military Factor”... with highighting imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi
With the presidential election scheduled for later this year, political parties represented in Parliament have stepped up efforts to forge alliances.
Ex-military personnel at a rally organized by the JVP last year (pic courtesy JVP)
In terms of the Constitution, presidential elections will have to be conducted between Sept 18 and Oct 18, 2024. The last presidential election was held in Nov 2019.
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Russia’s most significant opposition leader for the past decade, Alexei Navalny, has died in an Arctic Circle jail, the prison service has said. What does that mean for the future of Russia, its opposition movement and its leader, Vladimir Putin?
In this special episode of The Global Story, Gabriel Gatehouse speaks to the BBC’s Chief International Correspondent Lyse Doucet, Olga Ivshina from the BBC’s Russian Service, and Francis Scarr, who covers Russian media for BBC Monitoring.
The Global Story brings you trusted insights from BBC experts around the world. We’re keen to hear from you, wherever you are in the world. #TheGlobalStory We want your ideas, stories and experiences to help us understand and tell The Global Story. Email us at theglobalstory@bbc.com You can also message us or leave a voice note on WhatsApp on +44 330 123 9480.
Today’s podcast was made by Peter Goffin and Miriam Quayyum. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The assistant editor is Sergi Forcada Freixas and the senior news editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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Brian Victoria* … in Informed Comment … https://www.juancole.com/2024/02/judaism-tribalism-universalism.html…. where the title read thus: “The Battle for the Soul of Judaism: Tribalism, Amalek and the Axial Age Universalism of Isaiah”
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