Where did my neighbors Freedom Go? I guess not out his window, cause he looked out there and it was no where to be seen. Or may be my other neighbors dog found it and buried it somewhere in my garden! So in search of his freedom, he needs to dig up my garden, violating my freedom and my rights to my Land! Isn't this what so many people and so many organizations do, in search of the their freedom cum rights (to live in luxury) they will not hesitate to violate my freedom or my rights.
Well any way, we have so many movements that fight for freedom, human rights, media freedom and what not, but still there is no freedom! Well if they were to win these "freedom" or "rights" that they are so longing for, what the hell will happen to their (generously funded) NGOs? Who need them then? How will they live their gala lives? Who will pay their (unlimited) fuel bills or their mobile bills or their house rents or trips abroad, etc. etc.?
Freedom has indeed gone to the dogs. Let alone the government, even these so called "Rights" and "Freedom" organizations have started to denying rights and freedom, what ever the hell one calls them. These organizations hide the truth in their publications and moderate and censor comments, which in turn deny the right of the reader to know the truth and the commenters' their right to their opinion and freedom of expression. The truth is bitter for them and bad for their coffers, so no way can one expect truth. But moderating and censoring comments!!! You can try commenting in the most civilized manner and language, and give logical arguments relevant to the topic - but if your comments differ in opinion or threaten their agenda, well you have no right or freedom to have your opinion published.
Just try it out by posting a logical and civilized argument on the blogs of the Free Media Movement or Groundviews or Vikalpa, or try leaving a comment on the vikalpa channel on YouTube, or why not try to comment on the DailyMirror blog. All of them will go to town with the story when some so called journalist or some Kumara, Sivalingam or Mohamed is "harnessed". What more I am still waiting for the "Muththusami Ilankoowan" story on DailyMirror site, which has been carried by every other major newspaper.
The mind-boggling question is, if they don't want to hear the opinion of people, why the hell do they allow for comments? Ain't they obstructing the "rights" and the "freedom", which they say they are fighting for? What are these "rights" and "freedom" organizations really fighting for? Is it for the freedom to live or the freedom of expression or human rights or media freedom or are they just showing their funding organizations and political masters that there is no freedom and there are no rights in Sri Lanka, and that all commenters' on their publications reinforce what they say?
In simple terms is their fight real or are they fighting to keep the money flowing into their coffers and for their "right" and "freedom" to live luxury lives with blood money.
Friday, 29 February 2008
Friday, 1 February 2008
Who cares if Solders Die, I pay them!
This is a comment of a so called Sri Lankan (I have no way of knowing, but I took it off the comment page of indi.ca)
…you walk the streets of Colombo because some anonymous solider sacrificed his life to stop a terrorist from spreading his terror…
This is a myth that many continue to propagate.
Yes, it is true that anonymous soldier takes an enormous risk for protecting me, but I PAY ENOUGH for that. So he is NOT doing any favours to me.
Lets us see how.
Military today are among the highest paid, in terms of salary and privileges compared to their qualifications.
Entry level salary 25k +
Special privileges that no other government employee receives.
Compensation in case of death of disability
Pension after 10 years in job.
In case of death, full salary paid to wife and children till the death of wife and children become 21 years.
Posthumous promotions
Can you tell me which other job provides this kind of return for just GCE A/L qualifications? Probably MPs, but not anyone else.
Not that I say it is wrong. That is the price we pay for our security.
Now let us see how I pay.
About 20% of my earnings goes to state through PAYE.
About 12% of my earnings goes to state through indirect TAX (VAT = 15%, just take 3% out because there are few tax free goods)
Depending upon the rate more than 20% of the earnings lost due to inflation and this gets added up at the state coppers, as indirect ‘inflationary tax’.
So how come you say that anonymous soldier does a favour for me, when I pay nearly 50% of my earnings to state? (bulk of them go for the war including salaries of the military) Nobody asked that anonymous soldier to join army. I am sure he knew the risk when he joined, but attracted by the perks of the job. Economically speaking he is just acting rational.
So I get security, he gets paid for it. No favours from any side.
If anybody does that service for me without a salary and privileges, I will be grateful. Otherwise I do not see any reason why I should be grateful for receiving services for what I pay through my nose.
I pity him/her since he/she lacks humanity and gratitude!
…you walk the streets of Colombo because some anonymous solider sacrificed his life to stop a terrorist from spreading his terror…
This is a myth that many continue to propagate.
Yes, it is true that anonymous soldier takes an enormous risk for protecting me, but I PAY ENOUGH for that. So he is NOT doing any favours to me.
Lets us see how.
Military today are among the highest paid, in terms of salary and privileges compared to their qualifications.
Entry level salary 25k +
Special privileges that no other government employee receives.
Compensation in case of death of disability
Pension after 10 years in job.
In case of death, full salary paid to wife and children till the death of wife and children become 21 years.
Posthumous promotions
Can you tell me which other job provides this kind of return for just GCE A/L qualifications? Probably MPs, but not anyone else.
Not that I say it is wrong. That is the price we pay for our security.
Now let us see how I pay.
About 20% of my earnings goes to state through PAYE.
About 12% of my earnings goes to state through indirect TAX (VAT = 15%, just take 3% out because there are few tax free goods)
Depending upon the rate more than 20% of the earnings lost due to inflation and this gets added up at the state coppers, as indirect ‘inflationary tax’.
So how come you say that anonymous soldier does a favour for me, when I pay nearly 50% of my earnings to state? (bulk of them go for the war including salaries of the military) Nobody asked that anonymous soldier to join army. I am sure he knew the risk when he joined, but attracted by the perks of the job. Economically speaking he is just acting rational.
So I get security, he gets paid for it. No favours from any side.
If anybody does that service for me without a salary and privileges, I will be grateful. Otherwise I do not see any reason why I should be grateful for receiving services for what I pay through my nose.
I pity him/her since he/she lacks humanity and gratitude!
Wednesday, 16 January 2008
The New MacBook Air is out
At 1.36kg in weight, 0.4 to 1.94 x 32.5 x 22.7 cm dimensions, 13.3in glossy 1280x800 LED widescreen and sleek looks it is one of the coolest portables in town. A new feature called "Remote Disc" lets you access the CD/DVD drive of any other Apple or PC.
The only drawbacks due to the slimming and trimming is the lack of speed at 1.6-1.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, lack of main memory upgrade with only 2GB onboard, lack of space at 80GB 4200rpm PATA or a 64GB Solid state hard drive (need to pay extra), external DVD drive at $99 extra and most importantly you have to pay extra for the Apple Remote :-(
But if you're a traveling man not running big Apps, then this is the coolest toy around!
images from apple.com
Friday, 28 December 2007
Donkeys at the Katunayake airport?
My wife was traveling to Europe on a Schengen visa, it is usual for the airport staff to check the visa before anyone boards the plane. Well the sad thing is the IDIOTS at the Katunayake International airport who check the Schengen visa at the Gate to the flight don't know the different types of visas. They simply did not know that if the stay is longer than 3 months the visa issued by the Schengen states is a temporary residency permit and not a tourist visa.
May be the airport authorities need to check this and not put donkeys to do a humans job. These donkeys had taken 45 minutes to just verify this facts. Ultimately a blasting from my wife had got the thing done. Trust me if you ever travel, be firm, treat these buggers like s**t and assert yourself, that will get the thing done, that's the trick I use (sadly I forgot to tell her this).
This is the most likely situation to occur when one gets political boot lickers' joining the service showing a letter from ministers. Just because they "hosh posh" a little in English they think they are I.T. it, they fellows don't have the brain of a jellyfish. This is the reason why Sri Lanka stagnates if not deteriorates day by day. Wrong person in the wrong job, these buggers should be put to clean the toilets in the airport.
May be the airport authorities need to check this and not put donkeys to do a humans job. These donkeys had taken 45 minutes to just verify this facts. Ultimately a blasting from my wife had got the thing done. Trust me if you ever travel, be firm, treat these buggers like s**t and assert yourself, that will get the thing done, that's the trick I use (sadly I forgot to tell her this).
This is the most likely situation to occur when one gets political boot lickers' joining the service showing a letter from ministers. Just because they "hosh posh" a little in English they think they are I.T. it, they fellows don't have the brain of a jellyfish. This is the reason why Sri Lanka stagnates if not deteriorates day by day. Wrong person in the wrong job, these buggers should be put to clean the toilets in the airport.
Thursday, 27 December 2007
Long Live the Free Media Movement!
I was reading the loud "Jing Bang" created in the local media and specially by our most beloved Free Media Movement about the arrest of the two France 24 journalist filming a "road block" (a.k.a the Boosa detention camp - LOL!) for allegedly 5 seconds (a photograph can give a lot of information, 5 seconds of video may give even more info).
Well any way I watch France 24 on MyEasyTV but to my amusement they did not care to mention this and make a big "Jing Bang" like our FMM NGO. I also did a couple of searches for it on the France 24 website but zipp about the arrest or release of these journalist (btw their web search is pretty accurate).
So WTF is the agenda of the FMM? What is in it for them? More money? Pleasing their foreign Masters? Or simply pacifying the Tiger Pussy?
"Long live the FMM" is probably what Prabakaran is chanting!
Well any way I watch France 24 on MyEasyTV but to my amusement they did not care to mention this and make a big "Jing Bang" like our FMM NGO. I also did a couple of searches for it on the France 24 website but zipp about the arrest or release of these journalist (btw their web search is pretty accurate).
So WTF is the agenda of the FMM? What is in it for them? More money? Pleasing their foreign Masters? Or simply pacifying the Tiger Pussy?
"Long live the FMM" is probably what Prabakaran is chanting!
Friday, 21 December 2007
Sinhala, English and Tiger Terrorists?
It is a sad situation we have to face today with the Web 2.0 bringing to forefront the issue of accuracy of information. With anyone being able to put up anything on the web, there are more lies than truths out there today. Even worse is the fact that people still lack the skills of judging truth from fiction. Blogs have become one of those sources of misinformation and are being increasingly misused. It is not something ethical for one blogger to write against another, but once in a while you have to break the rules for the sake of the "better good".
Terrorist not only exit bearing kalashnikovs or a belt of explosives strapped on to their chest, but they exist bearing pens (now keyboards), peace doves, and humanitarian and human rights symbols. They conduct their propaganda war, while their brothers in arms blow up building and kill innocent civilians. Each mutually supporting the other for survival. One could not exist and profit without the other, a good "business model" with plenty of money involved no doubt and as the saying goes, I scratch your back - you scratch mine.
I have been reading some so called "bloggs", one of them started in English and then branched out into Sinhala and Tamil, all blowing the trumpet of the Tiger terrorists and their supporting power-hungry puppet politicians. I think the Sri lankan blogosphere are not that stupid as these terrorist think we are. Just because they right in Sinhala or Englis it does not mean they are not terrorist supporters (What about the Sinhala Terrorists and some SL politicians - they are Sinhala speaking right, and the Canadian and British parliamentarians who attend LTTE rallies - they are English speaking right - so language, race or religion does not in anyway give a new face to terrorists). Let me ask you, if Tamilnet starts a site in Sinhala or Tamil we know that they are still the mouthpiece of the LTTE, right? So I'm not going to beat around the bush anymore, and the winner in the terrorist blog category is... "grounviews" and its sibling Sinhala terror sites "vikalpa" and their Tamil site "Marru wali" (sorry but I have forgotten my Tamil - read it as best as I could). Everybody know what "groundviews" agenda is and what terrorist group they support - and how they published a disagreeing commenter's IP info and bocked and moderated comments from others who had different opinions (they promote human rights and support free speech?). And now "vikalpa" meaning "alternate" and we all know who's alternative policies they are and who makes money through that NGO and which terror group they say "Ai Ai Captain" to.
The runners-up in the terrorist blog category is.... "transcurrants". If that bloke post something it is a fabricated piece of rubbish. I was wondering why famous defense analyst like B.Ramana and other eminent people only write to this website. These specific articles on "transcurrents" were never published anywhere else on the web not in any other news or defense site. Could it be because they are not the actual writers? Likely that some joker is impersonating these experts to give a moral boost so that the Tiger Terrorist may pump out more money from the Tamil diaspora and pacify the power hungry SL politicians and peacenics? B Ramanan publishes all his material on Rediff but where are these articles that praise the LTTE and rundown the SL government? The most horrifying thing was when I read one of these fabricated articles on the Island of the 25th of October 2007. They had simply done a "copy and paste" without verifying facts. One must say, now that is a dangerous trend, because we still believe that the Paper bought at the local boutique is a little bit more valid than what we might find on the Internet (because of the process that it SHOULD go through)!
So please keep your eyes and ears and most importantly your minds open, since this is just the tip of the iceberg. Many other blogs, youtube videos etc. etc. wait in line to do the bidding of the Tiger Terrorist to achieve their "virtual" Eelam (it just occurred to me that may be the Tiger Terrorist and their entourage could actually buy some space on SecondLife and create their own virtual Eelam and Prabahakaran can be their king LOL!).
Wish you all PEACE, LOVE AND HARMONY this Christmas and the New Year to come.
Terrorist not only exit bearing kalashnikovs or a belt of explosives strapped on to their chest, but they exist bearing pens (now keyboards), peace doves, and humanitarian and human rights symbols. They conduct their propaganda war, while their brothers in arms blow up building and kill innocent civilians. Each mutually supporting the other for survival. One could not exist and profit without the other, a good "business model" with plenty of money involved no doubt and as the saying goes, I scratch your back - you scratch mine.
I have been reading some so called "bloggs", one of them started in English and then branched out into Sinhala and Tamil, all blowing the trumpet of the Tiger terrorists and their supporting power-hungry puppet politicians. I think the Sri lankan blogosphere are not that stupid as these terrorist think we are. Just because they right in Sinhala or Englis it does not mean they are not terrorist supporters (What about the Sinhala Terrorists and some SL politicians - they are Sinhala speaking right, and the Canadian and British parliamentarians who attend LTTE rallies - they are English speaking right - so language, race or religion does not in anyway give a new face to terrorists). Let me ask you, if Tamilnet starts a site in Sinhala or Tamil we know that they are still the mouthpiece of the LTTE, right? So I'm not going to beat around the bush anymore, and the winner in the terrorist blog category is... "grounviews" and its sibling Sinhala terror sites "vikalpa" and their Tamil site "Marru wali" (sorry but I have forgotten my Tamil - read it as best as I could). Everybody know what "groundviews" agenda is and what terrorist group they support - and how they published a disagreeing commenter's IP info and bocked and moderated comments from others who had different opinions (they promote human rights and support free speech?). And now "vikalpa" meaning "alternate" and we all know who's alternative policies they are and who makes money through that NGO and which terror group they say "Ai Ai Captain" to.
The runners-up in the terrorist blog category is.... "transcurrants". If that bloke post something it is a fabricated piece of rubbish. I was wondering why famous defense analyst like B.Ramana and other eminent people only write to this website. These specific articles on "transcurrents" were never published anywhere else on the web not in any other news or defense site. Could it be because they are not the actual writers? Likely that some joker is impersonating these experts to give a moral boost so that the Tiger Terrorist may pump out more money from the Tamil diaspora and pacify the power hungry SL politicians and peacenics? B Ramanan publishes all his material on Rediff but where are these articles that praise the LTTE and rundown the SL government? The most horrifying thing was when I read one of these fabricated articles on the Island of the 25th of October 2007. They had simply done a "copy and paste" without verifying facts. One must say, now that is a dangerous trend, because we still believe that the Paper bought at the local boutique is a little bit more valid than what we might find on the Internet (because of the process that it SHOULD go through)!
So please keep your eyes and ears and most importantly your minds open, since this is just the tip of the iceberg. Many other blogs, youtube videos etc. etc. wait in line to do the bidding of the Tiger Terrorist to achieve their "virtual" Eelam (it just occurred to me that may be the Tiger Terrorist and their entourage could actually buy some space on SecondLife and create their own virtual Eelam and Prabahakaran can be their king LOL!).
Wish you all PEACE, LOVE AND HARMONY this Christmas and the New Year to come.
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