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Nazi and China flags tied to a tower in central Kyabram, Victoria, Australia
Category Archives: landscape wondrous
Good All-Round Work restrains Coronavid Blows in Sri Lanka
Anjalika Silva in 3 April 2020, ….http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2020/04/02/praise-for-sri-lanka-from-the-world-health-organization-for-their-government-response-to-covid19-pandemic-how-they-succeeded/
The island of Sri Lanka, in the Indian Ocean usually referenced with negative connotations of terrorism, alleged human rights violations and other accusations is now in the forefront for its success and praise for handling the Covid19 pandemic.
Leading Buddhists in Ceylon in 1889: A Rare Photograph
Sent by Michael Roosmale-Cocq and Rex Kellar
from The Golden Book of the Theosophical Society (1925) … Col Olcott is the bearded gent seated mid-centre.
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Rescuing the Tigers in 2009: KP, Norway and the West
It is unclear whether this item is from today in 2020 in the Daily Mirror online …. or …. from 23rd November 2012
TITLE = “LTTE Leader thwarted Oslo’s Moves for a Ceasefire in 2009”
By D.B.S. JEYARAJ 
Q: The recent media exposure about an internal report compiled by the UN regarding its role and conduct in Sri Lanka has focused much attention on the final phase of the war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in 2009. You also made several observations in this respect when I interviewed you in detail in 2010 for the “Daily Mirror”. In view of the media spotlight on this issue I am thinking of focusing on it again to clarify certain matters. Shall we re-visit those past events again?
Yes. I am also seeing a lot of interest in the subject again. Old things are being dug up again. As usual some facts are being suppressed or distorted by interested people. I am ready to talk about whatever I know in this so that some aspects of the truth are made known.
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Western Covid Fever against China excoriated by Kalinga and Fair Dinkum
ONE: Kalinga Seneviratne: “COVID-19: Sinophobia Threatening to Endanger Strengthening the Biological Weapons Convention” ** … https://www.indepthnews.net/index.php/sustainability/covid-19/3435-covid-19-sinophobia-threatening-to-endanger-strengthening-the-biological-weapons-convention
SYDNEY (IDN) – With the spread of COVID-19 to Europe and the US a bout of Sinophobia seems to have infected the western media. On March 29, Australia’s 60-minute program – that is well known for sensational reporting – broadcast a program that portrayed China as the villain of the COVID-19 pandemonium, and just stopped short of calling for war against China.
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From Remote Wilderness to Blanket Pandemic Crisis
“Have you heard what’s happening in China? America is absolutely fucked”…. A very Kiwi way of updating someone emerging the remote mountains of NZ … Very Kiwi simple and to the point
James Johnston on his hike in New Zealand. Photograph: James Johnston
The Aditye Wansaya presenting the Lindamulage Clan
Johnny De Silva, presenting a typed copy of the English translation of an ola book, The Aditiya Wansaya, carried out by Pandit Yatinuwara Indaratne Thero for my granduncle Mr Charles de Silva
THE ADITYE DYNASTY (CLAN) OR ADITYE WANSAYA
The son of Aditiya was known as Aditye i.e. the sun. The lineage that originates from the sun is known as the Solar dynasty, or ‘Surya Wansaya’. The ‘Aditye Wansaya’ is the Solar Dynasty in another name; and those that belong to this clan are of Royal descent. The foremost of the Royal clans in ancient India was the Aditye Clan. The ‘Surya Wansaya’ ‘Dinakan Wansaya’ are other names used for this clan.
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Word Pictures in Deciphering Sri Lankan History, Politics, War
Jonathon Riley, reviewing Michael Naseby: Sri Lanka. Paradise Lost. Paradise Regained, 2020, London, Unicorn
Sri Lanka, Ceylon – geographically so close to the Indian sub-continent and yet with a culture and history that has been for many centuries distinct. What a difference a few miles of water make – as we in England know well. I recall visiting Sri Lanka in 1993 and, on the anniversary of independence in 1948, and reading a leader in the newspaper that suggested maybe it would have been a good idea to have stayed with Britain a few years longer. A brave sentiment indeed and one which, after more than twenty years, makes much more sense having read Michael Naseby’s book.
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