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Letter to Representatives Lowey and Wolf on US foreign operations funding November 7, 2007 The Honorable Nita M. Lowey US House of Representatives 2329 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC 20515-3218 The Honorable Frank R. Wolf US House of Representatives 241 Cannon House Office Building Washington, DC 20515-4610 Via Facsimile Sri Lanka Since the collapse of the ceasefire between the Liberation Tamil Tigers of Eelam (LTTE) and the Sri Lankan government in mid-2006 and the resumption of major military operations, civilians have borne the brunt of the fighting. More than 1,000 have reportedly "disappeared." Several hundred …

Health: 1. Drink plenty of water 2. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar 3. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants, and eat less food that is manufactured in plants (factories) 4. Live with the 3 E's -- Energy, Enthusiasm, and Empathy 5. Make time for prayer 6. Play more games 7. Read more books than you did last year 8. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day 9. Sleep for 7 hours 10. Take a 10-30 minutes walk every day ---- and while you walk, SMILE !! Personality: 11. Don't compare your life to others'. You have no idea what their journey is all about. 12. Don't have negative thoug…

மாலை என்பது ஆசாவரி குல்கர்னிக்கு அன்றைய விருப்பமான நேரம். அவர் தனது புதிய கூட்டாளர் அனில் யார்டியுடன் க்ரீன் டீ குடிக்க செலவழிக்கிறார். குல்கர்னி ஒரு சுறுசுறுப்பான சமூக வாழ்க்கையை கொண்டிருந்தார், ஆனால், பல வருடங்கள் தனிமையில் இருந்தபின், 68 வயதான விவாகரத்து பெற்றவர் தனக்கு வீட்டில் யாராவது தேவை என்று உணர்ந்தார். "மாலை வீழ்ச்சியடைந்ததால், எனது உடல்நலம் மற்றும் வீட்டில் தனியாக இருப்பது மற்றும் எனது பாதுகாப்பு குறித்து நான் கவலைப்படுவேன்" என்று முன்னாள் காப்பீட்டு முகவர் கூறினார். எனவே, அவர் ஹேப்பி சீனியர்ஸ் டேட்டிங் ஏஜென்சியில் சேர்ந்தார், மேலும் 68 வயதான யார்டியை தியேட்டர் மற்றும் சினிமாவுக்குச் செல்லத் தொடங்கினார். பத்து மாதங்களுக்குப் பிறகு, அவர்கள் ஒன்றாக வாழ்க…

"Five LTTE cadres guarding Pirabakaran have escaped by pretending to be dead amongst the dead bodies strewn in the battle field. One of them has escaped from Sri Lanka to a safe country." _____________________________ By Our Defense Investigator (October 24, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) According to information gathered from a Senior Defense Ministry source in Colombo, it is established that the LTTE leader Velupillai Pirabakaran had surrendered to the army in the final stage of the war without swallowing the cyanide capsule tied to his neck. The credible evidence obtained from the source linked to the Sri Lanka’s Military Intelligence led by Major-Genera…

[February 11, 2006] Trawler explodes off Sri Lanka coast, gunrunning suspected+ (Japan Economic Newswire Via Thomson Dialog NewsEdge)COLOMBO, Feb. 11_(Kyodo) _ A fishing trawler exploded at sea off Sri Lanka's northeastern Mannar coast on Saturday when approached by navy vessels for inspection, Sri Lankan navy sources said. "The boat exploded as two naval fast-attack craft approached it for inspection," a senior naval officer said. "There had been no offensive action on either side." "All on board are presumed dead," he said, adding that he had no information on how many there were. The naval vessels patrolling the area had approached t…

Sri Lanka masses troops, bombardment continues [TamilNet, July 29, 2006 16:50 GMT] As thousands of Sri Lankan troops were moved to Kallaru junction ahead of a threatened offensive, Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) Kfir jets Saturday flew three bombing sorties over the Mavilaru area in Eachchilampathu division south of Trincomalee district. Sri Lanka Army (SLA) continued shelling of the area as Chief of Staff of the Sri Lanka Army, Major General Nanda Mallawarachchi, visited Kallaru area. Sri Lankan military sources in Colombo said air strike is being continued in Mavilaru area to prepare the ground to move troops by land to re-open the closed sluice gate of Mavilar…

How Airplanes Fly: A Physical Description of Lift Almost everyone today has flown in an airplane. Many ask the simple question "what makes an airplane fly"? The answer one frequently gets is misleading and often just plain wrong. We hope that the answers provided here will clarify many misconceptions about lift and that you will adopt our explanation when explaining lift to others. We are going to show you that lift is easier to understand if one starts with Newton rather than Bernoulli. We will also show you that the popular explanation that most of us were taught is misleading at best and that lift is due to the wing diverting air down. Let us start by defining…

துரிதமாக பணக்காரர் ஆகிவரும் அவுஸ்திரேலியர்களஏனைய அபிவிருத்தி அடைந்த நாடுகளை விட அவுஸ்திரேலியர்கள் தான் துரிதமாக பணக்காரர்கள் ஆகிவருகின்றார்களாம்....http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/stor...5001028,00.htmlஅதுக்காக நேசக்கரத்தக்கு காச கூட்டி தரசொல்லி கேக்கிறேல்ல சொல்லிட்டன்...

Sri Lanka police detain French TV crew By IANS Tuesday December 25, 03:19 PM Colombo, Dec 25 (IANS) It wasn't a merry Christmas for French TV journalists Capucine Henri and C. Siomon doing a documentary on the ethnic problem in Sri Lanka. The duo, representing France 24 news channel, had to spend Christmas in a police station in Rathgama in south Sri Lanka, having been detained for filming an army checkpoint and trying to take shots of a Tamil family visiting a relative in a detention camp for terror suspects on Christmas eve. A Free Media Movement (FMM) press release Friday quoted a police officer as saying that the arrested journalists were b…

Killings of a six-year-old girl and a vet are just two examples of a problem that appears to be getting worse Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Rajasthan Her family called her Twinkle. In the dry desert brush of Rajasthan where her body was found, blood spattering her tiny legs and brown school uniform and a belt fastened around her neck, she lay among scattered toffee wrappers. Her family could barely utter the words to describe what happened to the six-year-old. “If you saw her body, you will never sleep again,” said her grandfather Mahvir Meena. Over the past week, a wave of anger and repulsion has enveloped India in resp…

Left, DMK demand India vote against Sri Lanka at UN rights meeting Communist Party of India (CPI) leader D Raja on Thursday said India should demand an impartial and international inquiry on the war crimes committed by Sri Lankan military on Tamils as well as should vote against the island nation in the current meeting of UN Human Rights Council. Raja said the assurances by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh or external affairs minister Salman Khurshid has no meaning unless India takes a pro-active role in the current session of the UN Human Rights Council meeting at Geneva. "And India should see whatever resolution brought by US or …

Russia says US troops arriving in Poland pose threat to its security Early deployment of biggest American force in Europe since cold war may be attempt to lock Trump into strategy American soldiers during a welcome ceremony at the Polish-German border in Olszyna, Poland. Photograph: Natalia Dobryszycka/AFP/Getty Images First published on Thursday 12 January 2017 10.39 GMT View more sharing options …

SLAF, SLA attacks tantamount to declaration of war by Colombo, Elilan tells SLMM [TamilNet, July 29, 2006 16:49 GMT] Liberation Tigers Trincomalee District Political Head S. Elilan, in an urgent letter to the Head of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) Major General Ulf Henricsson Saturday evening said that artillery attacks by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) and air strikes by the Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) in the Liberation Tigers controlled territories in the Northeast, tantamounted to Declaration of War by the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) against the LTTE. "It is now appropriate for the SLMM to declare publicly that the ceasefire agreement is not holding anymor…

The basic question is, if not now, When? 17. November 2006 By: Kowsalyan. Death Due To Starvation - first case reported in Jaffna peninsula. Dr. Kathiravetpillai told TamilNet that there were no traces of food or water in Chandrapala's stomach and that he had died purely due to starvation and cold. Dr. C. S.Kathiravetpillai, the District Medical Officer of Health (DMH) pronounced the cause of death as 'death due to starvation'. The reality has started to strike our faces. It’s not happening in a far away land, now it’s on our door steps. Since the closure of A9 highway, Jaffna Peninsula is cut off from the rest of the island, the humanitarian …

In 1996 they were preschoolers living in Mankulam. Today Jinoshan and Rushanthini are learning Year-11 at Mankulam Maha Vidhyalayam. Their lives in the intervening decade are by no means typical for 15 year olds anywhere in the world. As four year olds they displaced with their families in 1997 as the Sri Lankan military launched an attack on Mankulam. Their families moved to Mallavi and the two started their schooling at Yohapuram Maha Vidhyalayam in Mallavi. One year later in 1998 they displaced again this time from Mallavi to Akkarayan because Mallavi came within Sri Lankan military artillery shell range. They were studying Year-3. In early 1999 they displaced a…

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Country cannot afford any more external borrowing - Bandula If India reschedules its loan for SL, other countries will follow We will face the real debt crisis in 2025 Debt soared to Rs.13 trillion during Yahapalanaya regime There is an economic risk involved in raising foreign currency loans It is always better to opt for internal borrowings despite impact on inflation Education tourism vital as a development strategy For a year, some 20,000 Sri Lankans go abroad for higher education Sajith is caught between the devil and the deep blue sea UNP will suffer the most humiliating defeat at general election …

ACF workers demand handover of massacred NGO workers' bodies [TamilNet, August 07, 2006 11:39 GMT] The humanitarian workers of the French NGO, Action Contre la Faim (Action Against Hunger, ACF) have urged the support of all NGO workers to excert pressure to release the bodies of the massacred Tamil workers in Muthur, NGO sources said. Fifteen Tamil NGO workers were allegedly massacred by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) troopers who entered Muthur town after the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fighters returned to their original positions Friday midnight after launching a 3-day-long counter offensive following Sri Lanka Army offensive towards Maavilaru. …

Sri Lanka military vows to ‘annihilate’ LTTE in east then north [TamilNet, Thursday, 04 January 2007, 14:02 GMT] After taking control of the eastern province in the next two months, Sri Lanka’s military will recapture the areas held by the Liberation Tigers in the north of the island, the Army (SLA) Chief said this week. On Wednesday Lt. Gen. Fonseka visited the Army headquarters in the island’s east to set the military strategy in motion. http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=13&artid=20807

A police officer and two employees were killed in Chicago hospital shooting that left gunman dead By Emanuella Grinberg, Sheena Jones and Ryan Young, CNN Updated at 11:03 PM ET, Mon November 19, 2018 …

https://wolfstreet.com/2019/12/25/how-amazon-gains-control-domination/ How Amazon Gains Control & Domination by Wolf Richter • Dec 25, 2019 Amazon takes over the last mile and everything else. By Wolf Richter. This is the transcript from my podcast last Sunday, THE WOLF STREET REPORT: Amazon just gave us an update on how rapidly its own delivery system is replacing UPS, the US Postal Service, FedEx, and other carriers in delivering packages from an Amazon fulfillment center to the door of Amazon’s customer. The numbers show how big this system is already after practically no time of starting it up, how big the package volume is …