Category Archives: energy resources
The Several Pathways to Hellish Bliss
Filed under accountability, cultural transmission, energy resources, life stories, performance
Artificial Intelligence: Humankind’s Master or Servant?
Chandre Dharmawardana, in The Island, 17 April 2023 , ….. whose preferred title is “The relevant and irrelevant fear of Artificial Intelligence”
The oracle-like power of the ‘large-language’ Chatbot named chatGPT has frightened rational techies and mystic mullahs alike. Elon Musk, Steve Wozniac who co-founded Apple Inc., historians like Yuval Harari, and academics like the Turing-prize winner Yoshua Bengio of Montreal University called for a six-month pause for developing AI beyond GPT-4, the latest technology released by OpenAI.
Filed under accountability, art & allure bewitching, economic processes, education, energy resources, governance, landscape wondrous, legal issues, life stories, medical puzzles, meditations, modernity & modernization, politIcal discourse, security, self-reflexivity, the imaginary and the real, transport and communications, trauma
Waterpower in Sri Lanka: Natural and Tamed
Filed under architects & architecture, art & allure bewitching, economic processes, energy resources, governance, heritage, historical interpretation, irrigation, island economy, landscape wondrous, life stories, modernity & modernization, nature's wonders, performance, sri lankan society, transport and communications, unusual people, world affairs
Busts outdo Bums in the Paddy fields of Asia!
A ‘Byway’ and Productive Thought from Sanath Jayatilaka in Lanka !@#!!
Power Cuts in Cuba indicate Spreading Economic Crisis
Marc Frank in Reuters, 30 July 2022, with this title “Havana announces blackouts, cancels carnival as crisis deepens”
The Cuban capital of Havana will begin electricity blackouts in August, has cancelled carnival and is taking other measures as the country’s energy crisis worsens, state media reported on Saturday.
China’s Way in Africa … and The Success Story in Rwanda
This Video Presentation is an Eye-Opener. It was sent to me recently by Sanath Jayatilaka (who is in Sri Lanka). I do not know whose voice and politics is behind the pitch. It is presented here in Thuppahi so that more information can be elicited …. including challenges and/or confirmationsre the specific claims. Michael Roberts
Filed under Aboriginality, authoritarian regimes, centre-periphery relations, China and Chinese influences, energy resources, export issues, governance, historical interpretation, Indian Ocean politics, landscape wondrous, performance, politIcal discourse, power politics, propaganda, truth as casualty of war, world events & processes
The Elephant in the Room: Geopolitics and the ‘Great Reset’ in Sri Lanka
Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake, in Countercurrents
“But to watch cricket, there has to be a country left for us to watch it in, no?” A fan at the Galle Test Match that ended with an innings victory for Sri Lanka. July 11, 2022
Spirits were high on July 11 when the Sri Lankan cricket team beat the visiting Aussies by an innings even though the country was in its worst economic crisis ever, due to a lack of Dollars to buy fuel caused by an international Sovereign Bond (ISB), debt trap and Staged Default.
Filed under accountability, american imperialism, authoritarian regimes, conspiracies, cricket for amity, debt restructuring, economic processes, energy resources, foreign policy, IMF as monster, Indian Ocean politics, insurrections, island economy, law of armed conflict, legal issues, life stories, military strategy, modernity & modernization, performance, political demonstrations, politIcal discourse, power politics, Rajapaksa regime, self-reflexivity, slanted reportage, sri lankan society, the imaginary and the real, transport and communications, trauma, truth as casualty of war, unusual people, vengeance, world events & processes
Colossal Deception: Gross Lies about Sources of Sri Lanka’s Debt Burden foisted on the World by Western Agencies
Benjamin Norton, in Multipolarista, July 12 July 2022 where the title reads thus “Real debt trap: Sri Lanka owes vast majority to West, not China” ... with highlighting emphasis in colours imposde by the Editor, Thuppahi
Sri Lanka owes 81% of its external debt to US and European financial institutions and Western allies Japan and India. China owns just 10%. But Washington blames imaginary “Chinese debt traps” for the nation’s crisis, as it considers a 17th IMF structural adjustment program.
A protest in Sri Lanka in April 2022
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More Abject Prostrations from Sri Lanka!
Chandrasena Maliyadde = “Beating the Fuel and Energy Crisis”
The shortage of fuel and energy has brought the whole of Sri Lanka to a standstill and its citizenry of all walks to mile-long queues. It disrupts social movements, economic activities, business and production of all scales in all the sectors. Addressing the Parliament, on 7th June, Prime Minister (PM) has stated that we have to find $3,300 million for fuel and $250 million for gas over the next six months and that “We need to find new ways as an alternative to the traditional ways if we are to elevate the country from this position”.
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