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Sachs on USA’s Hegemonic Imperialism

An Email NOTE from Ajit Varuna-Candappa sent to his Royal College classmates, mid-February 2024 https://youtu.be/ZUbBU0OqCgE?si=H084GxLxuFKm6EQp Dear Tony & all my classmates at Royal of the 57 Group. We have known each other for 59 years since we entered Royal at … Continue reading

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Rhodes Scholars For 2025

Rhodes Trust has presented a Set of NAMES & PHOTOs of Rhodes Scholars before they start at Oxford as Rhodes Scholars. Abrianna Morales, New Mexico, 2025 …. Abrianna Morales, of Placitas, New Mexico, graduated summa cum laude from the University … Continue reading

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Piyumi Wijesekera Leaps into NASA Space …. and Mars

News Item in SATYN,  8 April 2024…. entitled “Sri Lankan born NASA Scientist Piyumi Wijesekera selected for Simulated Mars Journey” Sri Lankan born NASA scientist Piyumi Wijesekera has been chosen for NASA’s simulated Mars journey, NASA announced recently. In a … Continue reading

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‘Made’ in Australia: The Journal SOUTH ASIA

SEE … https://southasianstudies.org.au/journal/     South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies ranks as the leading academic journal in South Asian studies. It provides a forum for scholarly research, comment and discussion on the history, society, economy, culture and international relations … Continue reading

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Left-wing Groupthink is strangling UK’s Universities

Matt Goodwin, in The Sunday Times, 1 September 2024 where the title reads “Left-wing groupthink is strangling universities, so count me out” Having watched free speech being marginalised by a narrow monoculture over two decades, Matt Goodwin is stepping down … Continue reading

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Afghanistan ‘talibans’ Australian T20 Cricket Aspirations

Michael Roberts In what must have been a nerve-tingling match-up, the Afghanistan cricket team undermined and shattered Australia’s cricket team at  the T20 match in Kingstown on 22nd June. This was achieved via a team ffort involving several star interventions … Continue reading

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Commemorating D-DAY in Normandy, 2024

Item in The Economist, 30 May 2024 …. with highlighting imposed by The Editor, Thuppahi Bob Fagan was a 21-year-old private from Texas when he plunged from his assault craft into the cold sea off Utah Beach in Normandy, under … Continue reading

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The Story of a Masterpiece … and Its Painter Donald Friend

Dr Srilal Fernando, in The CEYLANKAN. Journal No, 100, November 2022, pp. 41-43 In 1969 James Gleeson, a well-respected authority on Australian painting, wrote a book called the Masterpieces of Australian Painting. It covered a full range of Australian painting … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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Beating COVID …. Sequential Multi-Drug Treatment

A Medical Friend in Lanka: “In response to Dr Justin Labrooy’s email about Ivermectin usage: I totally agree that people should not self-medicate. It can be very dangerous.”    Dr Peter McCullough MD, testified to the Texas Senate HHS Committee. … Continue reading

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