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By Kathleen Maclay, Media Relations | 22 July 2003 (revised 7/25/03) BERKELEY – Politically conservative agendas may range from supporting the Vietnam War to upholding traditional moral and religious values to opposing welfare. But are there consistent underlying motivations? Four researchers who culled through 50 years of research literature about the psychology of conservatism report that at the core of political conservatism is the resistance to change and a tolerance for inequality, and that some of the common psychological factors linked to political conservatism include: * Fear and aggression * Dogmatism and intolerance of ambiguity * …

சக வரலாற்றாசிரியர் ஜேம்ஸ் பாய்ஸ், மெக்கென்னா “ஆஸ்திரேலியாவின் காயமடைந்த இதயத்தை அம்பலப்படுத்தியுள்ளார்” என்றார். How a cold-case kept secret in the heart of Australia was uncovered in a Brisbane garage after 85 years By Levi Parsons For Daily Mail Australia 06:04 20 Feb 2021, updated 07:27 20 Feb 2021 A dark secret which cuts to the core Australia's brutal treatment of Aboriginal prisoners has been revealed after 85 years. The mystery of what really happened to tribesman Yokununna - an Indigenous prisoner who was shot by white police officer Bill McKinnon near Uluru in 1934 - was finally uncovered after a garage search in suburban Brisbane tu…

Danish aid group says staffer killed in Sri Lanka 23 Jul 2007 10:10:13 GMT Source: Reuters Alert Me | Print | Email this article | RSS [-] Text [+] COLOMBO, July 23 (Reuters) - A gunman shot dead a Sri Lankan staff member of the Danish Refugee Council in the island's army-held far northern Jaffna peninsula, the aid group said on Monday, the latest in a series of killings of humanitarian staff. "One of our national staff in Jaffna was murdered this morning," said Charles Macfadden, head of the group's Sri Lanka mission. "We know nothing. He was on his way to work, we understand he dropped (off) his wife, stopped and had a chat with someone and some…

ஒரு துணையையே வைத்து கவனிக்கமுடியவில்லை என நிறையப்பேர் புலம்பும் பொழுது எப்படி இவரால் இத்தனைபேரை கவனிக்கமுடிந்தது🤔🤔 Ziona Chana (right) poses with members of his family in October 2011.(Reuters: Adnan Abidi) A 76-year-old man who had 39 wives and 94 children and was said to be the head of the world's largest family has died in north-east India, the Chief Minister of his home state says. Key points: With 167 members, Ziona Chana's family is the world's largest, according to local media His family lives in a large, four-storey pink building with about 100 rooms The sect leader said he once married 10 wi…

Diplomatic strain between Sri Lanka and Norway Sunday, November 19, 2006, 15:21 GMT, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Nov 19, Colombo: A diplomatic brawl has erupted between the Sri Lanka and Norwegian governments, Sri Lanka Foreign Ministry sources said. Diplomatic ties between the two countries have been alternatingly tense and highly cordial since Norway engaged in Sri Lanka's peace process as the facilitator. But several incidents that took place recently have made the situation worse. In one of the incidents, an angry Tamil Norwegian of Sri Lankan origin seeking a visa to travel in Sri Lanka stormed the Sri Lanka Embassy in Oslo and smashed a photograph o…

By Dan Strumpf And Stephen Manning, The Associated Press NEW YORK - Toyota said Thursday it is recalling more than 2.3 million vehicles in the U.S. and Canada to fix accelerator pedals that can become stuck, the latest in a string of quality problems that have bedeviled the Japanese automaker. The recall affects the 2009-2010 RAV4, the 2009-2010 Corolla, the 2009-2010 Matrix, the 2005-2010 Avalon, the 2007-2010 Camry, the 2010 Highlander, the 2007-2010 Tundra and the 2008-2010 Sequoia. The Avalon, Camry and Tundra models - encompassing about 1.7 million vehicles - also were included in the 4.2 million-vehicle recall Toyota launched in late 2009 in the Uni…

Couple sues realtor over sale of house where double murder occurred Published on Tuesday November 20, 2012 The Star. VINCE TALOTTA/TORONTO STAR Eric and Sade-Lea Tekoniemi stand in their home, where a gruesome double murder took place in 1996. They are suing the real estate firm, agent and former owners. Tony Van Alphen Staff Reporter 99 Comments Eric and Sade-Lea Tekoniemi thought they had bought their dream home in Bowmanville last fall. But it turned into a house of nightmares after they learned it had been the scene of a horrific double murder 15 years earlier. That discovery has n…

Samsung said it took up about 54% of global market share for 5G phones as of November 2019. The firm also said it’s bringing 5G to its Galaxy Tab S6 tablet in South Korea in the first quarter. Samsung sold 6.7 million 5G smartphones worldwide in 2019, the company announced Friday. The South Korean consumer electronics giant said it took up about 54% of global market share for 5G phones as of November 2019, citing data from industry research firm Counterpoint. It’s already the world’s top smartphone maker, accounting for about a fifth of the global market, but has been up against some stiff competition in the form of China’s Huawei. Other Chinese manufa…

Dissecting the Semi-fictionalized HRW Report by Sachi Sri Kantha To paraphrase an aphorism of Einstein on 'quality,' "It's no use if the wrapper is of better quality than the meat it covers." In responding to the flurry of outbursts from the Eelam Tamil diaspora to the half-baked, mud-slinging report released this month, Human Rights Watch (HRW) stated: "Human Rights Watch investigations are based on qualitative rather than quantitative research" [Reuters report, March 16, 2006]. The two key words here are quality and research. Now, let me quote from an authority on research. To paraphrase an aphorism of Einstein on 'quality,' "It's no use if the wrapper…

India seeks to back non-intrusive resolution against Lanka at UN rights Council DMK workers laid siege to the Sri Lankan Deputy High Commissioner's office in Chennai on Match 5, 2013 demanding United Nations Human Rights Council probe into alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka. (TOI photo by C Suresh Kumar) RELATED DMK seeks referendum in north, east Lanka NEW DELHI: The US circulated a draft resolution in Geneva against Sri Lanka on Thursday, which, if supported by India, could upend many of the fundamental "no-go" areas of Indian foreign policy and complicate New Delhi's efforts to honour the sentiments of Tamil MPs while maintaining it…

Why not call terrorists in Sri Lanka Hindu terrorists? : Musharraf By IANS Tuesday September 26, 01:19 PM Washington, Sep 26 (IANS) Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf says he is against use of the term Islamist terrorists or 'Islamo-fascists' as such labelling can then be used for other terrorist outfits as well, like the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka who are Hindus. 'Does one call terrorists in Sri Lanka Hindu terrorists? Why is Pakistan's bomb called an Islamist bomb? Why is India's bomb not called a Hindu bomb and that of Israel as a Jewish bomb?' Musharraf asked. 'Pakistani people are certainly for fighting terrorism, but they somehow are not h…

Is this the beginning of Eelam war IV? Situation Report - by Iqbal Athas LTTE's new high tech claymore bomb There are some stark realities to the latest phase of the shadow war launched by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) against the armed forces and the Police. For the past 16 days, since the murder of Vanniasingham Vigneswaran (51), a staunch LTTE supporter, Tiger guerrilla attacks have increased. As President of the Trincomalee District Tamil People's Forum, he was responsible for a string of Hartals and anti-Government protests. A father of three, he was to be parliamentarian for the Tamil National Alliance (TNA). That was to f…

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The Coming of the Micro-states By Fred Weir, correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor, June 5, 2006 (Also, see below articles related to emerging states and comments by the EU and US.) From "The Coming of the Micro-states": Experts fear that many "frozen conflicts" around the world - in which a territory has gained de facto independence through war but failed to win international recognition - could reignite as ethnic minorities demand the same right to self-determination that many former Yugoslav territories have been offered by the international community. The United Nations Charter mentions both the right of "self-determination" of peoples a…

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THE pitiless success of Sri Lanka’s military offensive delivers one salutary lesson: If you have China as an ally, you can afford to ignore pressure from anywhere else. . President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s government has won China’s financial, military and diplomatic support — along with the confidence to brush off Western protests about its behaviour. . In the closing stages of the assault on the Tamil Tigers, the army surrounded about 50,000 civilians inside a tiny enclave. Other governments would have found it difficult to resist outside calls for a unilateral ceasefire, at least to allow the evacuation of wounded innocents. . If the Security Council had thrown …

[TamilNet, Monday, 23 September 2013, 08:23 GMT] The obsession of utmost priority for a section of TNA leadership is to satisfy the Sri Lanka saving agenda of New Delhi and Washington, by interpreting the TNA victory as supersession of the Vaddukkoaddai Resolution based mandate of 1977, political observers in Jaffna commented on a statement made by the TNA leader Mr. R. Sampanthan, aided by Mr M.A. Sumanthiran, at a press conference convened in Jaffna on Sunday. Sampanthan talking of united and undivided country described the TNA victory as a clear verdict of Tamils, unprecedented in the political history of the island. Answering a question raised by an Eezham Tamil jour…

Donors warn on Sri Lanka violence International donors have urged Sri Lanka's government and Tamil Tiger rebels to halt worsening violence. At an aid meeting in the city of Galle, World Bank vice president Praful Patel said the bloodshed was "at the centre of any discussion" about the country. US ambassador Robert Blake told delegates there was no military solution to the conflict, which has claimed 65,000 lives since the 1970s. Most of about $4.5bn in foreign aid pledges is contingent on peace moves. 'Obstacle' Mr Patel said there was no way "to politely skirt" the issue of renewed and deepening conflict in the island. World Ba…

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Anandasangaree's hour A New York Times journalist e-mailed me the other day with a question, "does the Sri Lankan government have a plan for devolution?" It was a question to which I must confess, I had no answer, and therefore had to direct to my old friend, former Georgetown alumni, and spokesperson for the joint Tamil delegation at the crucial closing session of the 1985 Thimpu talks, Kethesh Loganathan, who is currently the deputy head of the Peace Secretariat. Frankly, I don't know whether he had an answer, or whether anyone does for that matter. This is the Achilles heel of the democratic Sri Lankan state; the weakest link in the Sri Lankan case. It has …

Here’s your chance to pose questions to a president about global issues. The world’s eyes are focusing on Sudan, which on Sunday will hold a referendum on independence in the southern part of the country. The south, which holds more than 75 percent of the country’s oil, is expected to vote almost unanimously for secession, and that will start a process that could lead to the birth of Africa’s newest country. In the past, there had been a good deal of fear that the referendum might lead to renewed warfare, but so far the process has gone better than many had expected. One of the observers monitoring the referendum on the ground is former President Jimmy Carter, w…

Statement by Liberal Leader Bob Rae on the Situation in Jaffna, Sri Lanka TORONTO- Liberal Leader Bob Rae made the following statement today on the situation in Jaffna, Sri Lanka: “News is slowly emerging of an attack on the men’s and women’s dormitories at Jaffna University, with some fifty students being sent to hospital, and many arrested without warrants. Sri Lanka’s civil peace is still under threat from its own government. The United States government has issued a call for a respect for civil liberties and pluralism. Canadians can hardly do less in the face of continuing attacks on journalists and others expressing their opinions. I had the chance, n…

"SRI LANKA -THE COUNTRY WILL NEVER BE PUT TOGETHER AGAIN" - Lee Kuan Yew, 1998 Date: 13 August 2006 Source : Book - The Man and His Ideas by Han Fook Kwang, Warren Fernandez and Sumiko Tan 1998 Lee Kuan Yew: The Man and His Ideas is the title of a book published in Singapore in 1998. Written by three Straits Times journalists Han Fook Kwang Warren Fernandez and Sumiko Tan, the book carries fresh interviews with Lee Kuan Yew on the events that shaped his life and the way he governed Singapore. Now in his graying years - he is 74 now - the founding father of Singapore is regarded as virtually a national institution at home. In transforming a busy ramsh…

Added on June 04, 2006, 08:03 PM by whitebeach1234 (1 videos) Sri Lanka is a tiny South Asian country. It's government is so corrupt that it has been waging war on minority Tamils so the politicians and military officials can mooch of the defence contracts. Government corruption has crippled its economy!!! ... (more) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Msz7-qDmIVc...n%20Sri%20Lanka

Sri Lanka's overseas Tamils fill rebel Tiger coffers By Peter Apps Fri Jun 23, 8:39 AM ET LONDON (Reuters) - It's thanks to Sri Lanka's overseas Tamils -- people like engineer S. Vijayadeva or accountant Kana Naheerathan -- that the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) can afford to keep up its insurgency. ADVERTISEMENT For two decades, the Tamil Tigers have fought for an ethnic Tamil homeland in Sri Lanka's north and east. They say they are the only legitimate representatives of the Tamil people, but several countries, including Britain, see them as terrorists. "Tamils have no power in the political system," 69-year-old Vijayadeva…