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A Starry Guide to Ribbon Urban Development in South-Western Lanka
Rohan Gunasekera, 1 October 2015, from http://www.economynext.com/New_urban_agglomeration_emerging_in_southern_Sri_Lanka-3-3136.html, where the title is “New urban agglomeration emerging in southern Sri Lanka” NIGHT-TIME LIGHTS Satellite image of night-time lights showing how urbanisation has spread (Source-World Bank) ECONOMY NEXT – Sri Lankan cities are … Continue reading →
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Saving Talaivar Pirapāharan
Michael Roberts, courtesy of the Colombo Telegraph, at https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/attempts-to-rescue-pirapaharan-et-al-in-2009/ — where the title is “Attempts To Rescue Pirapāharan et al in 2009″ ONE: Saving Private Ryan[1] Stephen Spielberg’s blockbuster film “Saving Private Ryan” was a fictional … Continue reading →
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Encompassing Empowerment in Ritual, War and Assassination
Michael Roberts, courtesy of Berghahn Press and Social Analysis and Doug Farrer, the Editor of the Special Volume on “War Magic“, Social Analysis, 2014, vol 58/1…….. see http://berghahn.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/berghahn/socan/2014/00000058/00000001;jsessionid=brf7pbpqi52o9.Victoria….. Note that the article has a sub-title: “Tantric Principles in Tamil Tiger Instrumentalities.” … Continue reading →
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Sri Lanka balances Military Relations with China and USA
Shamindra Ferdinando, in The Island, 24 June 2015, where the title is “SL in simultaneous joint exercises with US SEALs and Chinese Army” The Sri Lankan military is taking part in joint exercises with both US and Chinese armed forces, … Continue reading →
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“I was once a corporal.” Graphic Images of HITLER in all his Power & Potency
SEE Photos rares du 3e Reich conservées par la revue Life AT https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#inbox/14aa5b5291ff242a?projector=1 http://www.theaustralian.com.au www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org
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Beheading the Citizenship of Some Jihadists! Australia getting tough
Cameron Stewart, in The Weekend Australian, 6/7 June 2015, where the title is “Half of all terrorists hit by citizenship changes” … NOTE the striking interactive graphics which depict the suburbs of Sydney and Brisbane where individuals have been d … Continue reading →
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The Osama Bin Laden Killing in Graphic Detail. An American Way of Telling
Larry Pickering: “Obama avoids paying his Bin Laden Bill,” 20 October 2014, at http://pickeringpost.com/story/obama-avoids-paying-his-bin-laden-bill/3971A Alternative Title: “Who Shot Osama?” — “WE ALL did it” says the Navy Seal Shooter There is little sympathy for the Pakistani who fingered Osama Bin … Continue reading →
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War as Blood and Gore: Omaha Beach, 6 June 1944
In support of my concept of “sacrificial devotion” and in keeping with his consistent criticism of all the generals on all the sides in World War One, Richard Koenigsberg has sent me a video clip of US troops storming and … Continue reading →
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The Realities of Eelam War IV
Michael Roberts, courtesy of the essay in Colombo Telegraph entitled “Down–to-Earth: The Hard Truths of Eelam War IV, ” which , alas, does not contain the vital hyperlinks. Nor does it contain the illustrative maps and images that are a vital … Continue reading →
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Crunched In-Between the Sinha-Le Activists and the Self-Righteous International Cabal
Michael Roberts, courtesy of Colombo Telegraph, 9 February 2016, where the title is “Near and Explosive Danger. The Sinha-Lē Campaign and Those Crusading Righteous” … and where the Footnotes could not be inserted for technical reasons … and where you will find the … Continue reading →
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