News Item in THE ISLAND, 27 jUNE 2027 …
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Fazli Sameer
In the sun-drenched southern skies of old Ceylon, beneath the coconut palms and temple bells, a young man named Mahen stood at the edge of a decision that would alter his life forever. It was 1969, and at just twenty-one, Mahen was about to walk away from his studies at the University of Colombo, a path laid carefully by his parents, relatives, and the expectations of society. He didn’t do it out of rebellion, nor failure. Rather, he felt the tug of purpose in another direction: the world of corporate business and finance.
His uncle, a senior officer at the Bank of Ceylon, had mentioned an opening at a branch in Borella. “There’s more to learn behind a counter than behind a blackboard,” his uncle had said with a knowing smile. Mahen, who had always been neat, quick with numbers, and calm under pressure, found himself drawn to the order and promise of the banking world.
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Darshana Sanjeewa Balasuriya, in Daily Mirror, 24 June 2025
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Old Soldier … responding to Thuppahi Editor’s Request for THOUGHTS on the Impact of the Hot War in the Middle East
Topic: Is WW 3 closer than you think?Filed under accountability
Manel Fonseka, writing from Sri Lanka
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ALSO VIEW .…https://www.reuters.com/pictures/what-gaza-looks-like-today-after-15-months-war-2025-02-11/
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Errol the Fernando in Melbourne, writing to his alter ego, Gavin Assauw, 24 June 2025
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A Tongue in Cheek NOTE from Errol Fernando to Gavin Assauw, June 2025
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Michael Roberts
The concept ARMAGEDDON denotes the idea that alludes to “the gathering of nations into one place and that one place is the destruction of this world through war.” In other words it signfiies the potential end of all human and animal life.
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Dr. Itay Gal in Jerusalem Post, in Jerusalem Post, June 2025
What is Diego Garcia? The US military base that will be key to operations against Iran ….? What is there, what aircraft operate from it, and why could it become a critical link in any future conflict in the Middle East?
US B2 Spirit stealth bomber
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Michael Roberts, presenting an article published in 2005 as a pamphlet by the ICES, Colombo with this title “The First Settlers and Their Claim to Ownership of Terrain/State. A Comparative Excursion” … an essay originally presented in Abdul Rahman Embong, Rethinking Ethnicity and Nation Building: Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Fiji in Comparative Perspective, Panbrit UKM, Bangi, Malaysia, (c. 2003) which was then reprinted as a booklet by ICES, Colombo in 2005 – see ISBN 955-580-099-5 I.
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