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Berkeley-based rabbi Michael Lerner spoke as a representative of the Jewish faith at Muhammad Ali’s memorial service in Louisville today, and delivered a fiery sermon calling for a litany of social change, including the ending of drone warfare, the ending of Israeli West Bank occupation, and literally dozens of other things—commanding multiple standing ovations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUXilmt192k&feature=youtu.be
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A Critical American Rabbi, Michael Lerner, rips Trump Apart – at Muhammad Ali Funeral
A Kiss! A Kiss! Ceylon’s First Motor Accident
with thanks to Asoka Kuruppu
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Discard Antiquated Provincial Scheme for a Spatio-Political Order geared to Integration & Democracy
Neville Laduwahetty, courtesy of The Island, 17 June 2016, where the title is “Unit of Devolution”
The Public Representations Committee on Constitutional Reform headed by its Chairman Lal Wijenayake has recommended retaining the Province as the unit of devolution. The Commission proposes 6 “alternate formulations” based on the Province as the peripheral unit. These formulations vary from retaining the existing 9 Provinces without merger with provision to withdraw devolved power without consent, to merger with minority participation in the Executive and the Legislature and other formulations in between, including the re-demarcation of existing boundaries.
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Undermining the Burqa: The Fish Net Garment
Among like minds Front-On
A Puzzle: When Weiss, Amnesty International and Aussie Greens LIE
Michael Roberts, courtesy of Colombo Telegraph, where the title is “Moral Crusader Journeys into Duplicity”
Today’s world in the West is marked by currents of secular fundamentalism mounting campaigns against paedophiles, smoking, corruption and “crimes against humanity”. The humanitarian campaign directed at war crimes has on occasions promoted a strange phenomenon: where people of ethical stance indulge in outright lies as well as the massaging of facts. When Amnesty International, the Public Interest Advocacy Centre (Sydney) and such moral crusaders as Gordon Weiss descend to such duplicity, the world must surely take note.
Christine Milne on Sri Lanka –www.youtube.com = Pic 1
The Australian media-man Gordon Weiss is the epitome of a moral crusader. Of Polish Jewish ancestry, it is likely that his leanings are coloured by the horrors inflicted on the Jews in Europe during the first half of the 20th century. His presentation of self within his own web site, his intense demeanour when fronting the public on TV cameras or stage and his campaign against the government of Sri Lanka (GSL) stand as testimony to the stance “crusader for truth.” Continue reading
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An Ode For Gentleman Scholar Ashley Halpe
Gwen Herat, courtesy of Daily News, 8 June 2016
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest’……..
A prince he was;
A prince who captured the imagination of the literary world and who rose to be one of its icons.
Gone but the indelible aura remains sweeping gently over all those who met and shared his life and sprit; big and small, famous and not so famous.
Disaster Management!!! What a Disaster!
A Spoof! A Spoof! Delightful Derision. Deserved Brickbats. Indi Samarajiva displays the failings of the Island’s disaster management system.
https://www.facebook.com/YAMUtelevision/videos/1012285775491114/
The government kinda messed up during the floods. Here’s how and why.
ALSO SEE https://www.flickr.com/photos/indi/
