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World's largest arms exporters

The unit in this table are so-called trend indicator values expressed in millions of US dollars at 1990s prices. These values do not represent real financial flows but are a crude instrument to estimate volumes of arms transfers, regardless of the contracted prices, which can be as low as zero in the case of military aid. Ordered by descending 2000–2010 values. The information is from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.^[8]

2001–12 Rank	Supplier	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
1	United States	5908	5229	5698	6866	6700	7453	8003	6288	6658	8641	9984	-
2	Russia	5896	5705	5236	6178	5134	5095	5426	5953	5575	6039	7874	7967[9]
3	Germany	850	916	1713	1105	2080	2567	3194	2500	2432	2340	1206	-
4	France	1297	1368	1345	2219	1724	1643	2432	1994	1865	1834	2437	-
5	China	499	509	665	292	303	597	430	586	1000	1423	1354	-
6	United Kingdom	1368	1068	741	1316	1039	855	1018	982	1022	1054	1070	-
7	Italy	880	191	526	314	538	432	366	454	383	806	1046	-
8	Israel	203	239	342	209	583	1187	1326	530	545	503	531	-
9	Sweden	216	426	341	212	774	502	684	417	514	806	686	-
10	Ukraine	700	311	442	200	290	553	728	330	320	201	484	-
11	Spain	7	120	150	56	108	843	590	610	998	513	927	-
12	Switzerland	193	157	181	243	246	285	301	482	255	137	297	-
13	Canada	129	170	263	265	226	226	334	227	169	258	292	-
14	South Korea	165	N/A	100	29	48	94	220	80	163	95	225	-

Aliens in Sri Lanka???

Scientists claim they've got fossilized proof of alien lifeforms

(We only know lot of Alien thuggers  from UN/USA/EU - mine)

"Wickramasinghe is a fervent proponent of [panspermia]. Like, really fervent. So much so that he attributes everything to life in space," Plait wrote. "He's claimed living cells found in the stratosphere come from space. (There is no evidence at all they do, and it's far more likely they are terrestrial). ... Wickramasinghe jumps on everything, with little or no evidence, and says it's from outer space, so I think there's a case to be made for a bias on his part."

The above image was taken from an electron microscope's view of a meteorite found last month in Sri Lanka. According to Chandra Wickramasinghe, the director of Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology at the University of Buckingham in the U.K., that wormlike shape in the image is a diatom ("a type of microscopic plant life"), and if his research is correct, it came from outer space.

In studying the meteorite Wickramasinghe and his colleagues found "a microstructure and morphology characteristic of a wide class of terrestrial diatoms," and "the presence of structures of this kind in any extraterrestrial setting could be construed as unequivocal proof of biology." In other words, these fossils match similar lifeforms found on Earth, but because they were found on a meteorite, the researchers believes they didn't come from Earth. So Wickramasinghe and company believe they've found definite proof of at least microscopic forms of life in outer space.

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Killing innocent Rizana - video

This is not clear enough to claim the same killing.

HOW DO WE REACT TO THIS?

Killing of Sri Lankan maid in Saudi - Wiki

Wiki info

Rizana Nafeek (4 February 1988 – 9 January 2013) was a Sri Lankan woman who was executed by beheading in Saudi Arabia for a homicide, which Nafeek argued was unintentional. Nafeek said that an initial confession was made under duress and without linguistic assistance.^[2] Sri Lanka unsuccessfully sought clemency for Nafeek.

Early life

Nafeek was born on 4 February 1988.^[3][4][5][6] She grew up in a poor Muslim family in the eastern province of Sri Lanka. Her education was terminated in her early teenage years due to poverty.

[edit]Employment in Saudi Arabia

Nafeek was only 17 years old when she arrived to work in Saudi Arabia on 4 May 2005. Her passport was forged to mark the birth year as 1982, because minors were not allowed to be recruited in Sri Lanka for work abroad. She began work as a domestic helper in Dawadamissa, some 400 kilometers from Riyadh. On 22 May 2005, her employer's infant child died while in Nafeek's care. Nafeek said that she believed the baby had choked on a bottle by accident during feeding.^{[7][8][9][10]} The baby's parents and Saudi police insisted that Nafeek was guilty of murder.^[11]

[edit]Death sentence

Nafeek was imprisoned and sentenced to death on 16 June 2007. The President of Sri Lanka twice personally requested a pardon for Nafeek from theKing of Saudi Arabia. Human rights activists held many demonstrations calling for her release.^[12] In October 2010, according to a senior official of Sri Lanka's External Affairs Ministry, Charles, Prince of Wales, appealed to the Saudi King, seeking clemency for Nafeek.^[13] The Hong Kong-basedAsian Human Rights Commission appealed for Queen Elizabeth II to intervene and plead for clemency for Nafeek on Her Majesty's diamond jubilee.^[14]

[edit]Execution

Nafeek was executed by beheading on 9 January 2013, despite an appeal from the government of Sri Lanka.^{[15][16][17][18][19]}

[edit]Reactions

The Sri Lankan Parliament observed a moment of silence soon after it received the news of the execution.^[20] UNP, the main opposition party of Sri Lanka, held a special media briefing hours after the execution. In that media briefing the opposition MP Ranjan Ramanayake described the Saudi government as "dictators" and emphasized that the Saudi government never executes citizens of rich European or North American countries but only the citizens from poor Asian and African countries.^[15]

The case of Rizana Nafeek has come under intense scrutiny worldwide as international law prohibits the death penalty for crimes committed before the age of 18.^[15]

[edit]See also

• Capital punishment in Saudi Arabia
• Domestic workers convention
• Women's rights in Saudi Arabia

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/10/world/meast/saudi-arabia-sri-lankan-maid/index.html

(CNN) -- A young Sri Lankan woman has been beheaded with a sword in a small, dusty town in Saudi Arabia, thousands of miles from the lush jungles and idyllic beaches of the country where she grew up.

Rizana Nafeek arrived in Saudi Arabia in 2005 and spent her first few weeks in Saudi Arabia working as a housemaid to earn money to support her relatives back home who had been displaced by the massive tsunami in the Indian Ocean the year before.

She then spent the next seven years in Saudi jails as she was accused, charged, convicted and sentenced to death in the killing of her employers' 4-month-old son. Authorities executed her Wednesday in Dawadmi, about 200 kilometers west of the Saudi capital, Riyadh.

Lankawe Kunu Kanda

http://www.divaina.com/2013/01/13/feature01.html
Divaina feature

රටේ කුණු එකතු කිරීමේ රාජකාරියට අව් වැසි බලපෑමක්‌ නැත. දවස්‌ 365 හේම කුණු එකතු කිරීම නගර සභාවේ අනිවාර්ය රාජකාරියක්‌ ද වේ. ලංකාවේ වෙනත් නගර සභාවලට කෙසේ වෙතත් කොළඹ නගර සභාවට මෙය ඉතා භාරදූර කර්තව්‍යයකි. මන්ද, කොළඹ නගරයේ දිනකට එකතු වන කුණු ප්‍රමාණය විශාල බැවිනි. එහෙයින්ම දිනපතා කොළඹ අවට කුණු එකතු කිරීම සඳහා කොළඹ නගර සභාව විසින් පෞද්ගලික අංශය ද සම්බන්ධ කර ගනිමින් එම වගකීමෙන් 70% ක කොටසක්‌ පෞද්ගලික අංශයට පවරා ඇත.

පෞද්ගලික සමාගම් දෙකක්‌ ඇතුළුව කුණු ලොරි 97 ක්‌, කුණු ට්‍රැක්‌ටර් 21 සහ සේවක සේවිකාවන් 1600 ක්‌ පමණ කොළඹ නගර සභාව දිනපතා කුණු එකතු කිරීමේ රාජකාරියට යොදවා ඇත. 

කොළඹ නගර සභාව කුණු එකතු කිරීමේ යොදවා ඇති බොහෝ වාහන මීට වසර විස්‌සකට පෙරදී කොළඹ නගර සභාවට ජෙයිකා ආයතනය විසින් 'පිනට දුන්' වාහනය. දැන් ඒ ලොරි රථ මෙන්ම ට්‍රැක්‌ටර් රථ ද කුණුවලටම ක්‍ෂය වී ගොස්‌ රෝගී තත්ත්වයට පත්ව ඇත. එමෙන්ම කොළඹ නගර සභාවේ පවිත්‍ර සේවයෙන් විශ්‍රාම යන සේවක සේවිකාවන් වෙනුවට නැවත ස්‌ථිරවම සේවක සේවිකාවන් බඳවාගැනීමක්‌ සිදු කර නැත. බඳවාගෙන සිටින සේවක සේවිකාවන් ද තවමත් සිටින්නේ කොන්ත්‍රාත් පදනම මතය. මෙවැනි හේතු නිසා කොළඹ නගර සභාවේ සමස්‌ත ඝන අපද්‍රව්‍ය අංශයම දැඩි අර්බුදකාරී තත්ත්වයට පත් වෙමින් තිබේ. අර්බුද ගැන කතා කළොත් නිමක්‌ නැත. දැන් අපි නගර සභාවේ කුණු එකතු කරන මිනිසුන්ගේ ජීවිත ගැන කතා කරමු.

Report of LLRC committee - If War did not end?

Sri Lankan war against the world's most dangerous terrorist outfit LTTE was ended at a high cost.

Some dirty fractions in the local and international community were so upset on closing up their lucrative earnings. But Sri Lanka did not bow down to dirty fractions. We were genuine and have done the best. We can correct if there is any wrong thing happened.
Lesson learnt and reconciliation committee was appointed on this regards and the relevant report has been published. You can direct download and read that here

Still We have a lot of things to do. But some people needed war for their survival. For instance,

01.LTTE fund raisers who are living luxurious lives at the cost of war, civilian casualties, ethnic unrest, underdevelopment and many in Sri Lanka. They earned lot of funds from Tamil diaspora. Some millions of dollars a day was  a real business for them.

02. LTTE donors in developed (economically) with war refugee visas
03. INGOs and NGOs who fueled war for their longer luxurious stays (plus some media people)
04. politicians both Sinhala Tamil muslims and some Indian political jokers (plus high level Indian/Singaporean/Norway/EU/Aus/Canada  politicians) In the region, mostly for votes and others for long term business and world power gains
05. Dirty hearted fools

Ended war had huge benefits invaluable

01. Freedom of life threat (we always thought there would be a bomb blast at any minute where ever we were)
02. War destroyed 30 years of Sri Lanka's economy and all others. If war did not end at any cost, the destruction will be immense and we can't measure it. We are in many sciences, about twenty years back from the world.
03. Sri Lanka is recognized again as a safe place in the world. Thereby a better tourist destination, no embargoes, no surcharges and many more.
04. Within one year, we were leveled at middle income country from low income country
05. Investors are flowing in. There will be many things than most popular "Ceylon Tea, Ceylon Cinnamon etc" in the world market soon

Wimal & Green Peace

You partially know Wimal - Wimal Weerawanse (for whom I fetched much water at the election)
GreenPeace is an INGO who fight for environmental friendly world (as they are claimed to be).

First I will tell you a hidden truth on GreenPeace. GP's main enemy is Monsanto - a giant company engaging in many biotechnological innovations. They are the pioneers of genetic engineering for commercial purposes. GP is fighting with a huge voice against Monsanto. But we heard that the INGO, GP's main donor is Monsanto. SO Monsanto is funding the those who are shouting against them. The secret is; GreenPeace is famous for real environment friendly force on the earth. They are pioneers to identify the risks for the environment. They pioneer to shout against that and make awareness on the issue on public. So public believe that GP is going to save the world. Therefore, people help GP to do intensive works to the sake of the world. After heavy shoutings, GP stops the propaganda. Public think that the problem is over with the diminishing voice against it.


Wimal shouted against UN report and activities biased to terrorists. All others recognized Wimal's action as the main force against anti-Sri Lankan activities of the terrorists via UN. Wimal stopped his death fasting after three days of high publicity. But the propaganda was just continuing better than ever. I don't say that Wimal has been bribed by LTTE.
Recently, we heard similar things from him. Voice against drug dealers, corrupt people at higher level of politics or government administration, mis-development activities, and etc. But the menaces are still in prorogation   within the government.
So I feel that he is helping the corruption and dirty works of the government as what does by GreenPeace for Monsanto.
  

Gota's Speech at “Galle dialogue”-maritime symposium

Text of Defence and Urban Development secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa’s address at the inaugural session of the “Galle dialogue”-maritime symposium at the Light house Hotel in Galle on November 14th 2011


Minister of External Affairs, Excellencies, Secretary to the President, Secretary to the Ministry of External Affairs, Secretary to the Ministry of Ports and Highways, Secretary to the Ministry of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, Chief of Defence Staff, Commanders of the Army, Navy and Air Force, Distinguished delegates and invitees Ladies and Gentlemen.
I consider it a pleasure and a privilege to address you at the opening session of the “Galle Dialogue” Maritime Conference organised by the Ministry of Defence of Sri Lanka.

The Galle Dialogue was initiated in 2010 to facilitate increased cooperation between the nations interested in the security of the Indian Ocean region. During the first Galle Dialogue, the participants held fruitful discussions on the topic “Charting the Course for Sustainable Maritime Cooperation”. Building on that theme, this year’s Conference deliberates on “Challenges and Strategic Cooperation for Indian Ocean Maritime Concerns”.

The Indian Ocean is the third largest ocean in the world, and borders over thirty nations. It is a resource rich ocean, with enormous reserves of oil, natural gas, minerals and a wealth of biological resources. It is estimated that approximately 60,000 ships cross the Indian Ocean each year, including nearly half of the world’s containerised cargo. Only twenty per cent of the cargo transported through the Indian Ocean is traded within the region; the remaining eighty per cent is extra regional.

Libyan Exploitation began....

Libyan oil investment

Some of the world's leading oil companies have a large presence in Libya. The list includes Spain's Repsol, Italy's Eni ADR (NYSE: E), Total (NYSE:TOT) and U.S.-based Occidental Petroleum (NYSE: OXY),ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP), Marathon (NYSE: MRO) and Hess (NYSE:HES).

Of these companies, the largest foreign investor in Libya's oil industry is Eni, which has resumed some of its oil and gas production activities in the country. It stands to gain greatly from a renaissance in Libya's oil industry.

Investors reading the news headlines lately may wonder if there is an investment angle on Libya. There is...and it involves black gold, oil, and an oil company poised to profit from Libya's rebirth.

Libyan oil

With the death of Libyan dictator, Moammar Gaddafi, markets are euphoric about the future of Libya in general and its oil industry in particular.

But not so fast...full resumption of Libyan oil production could be years away. For example, production in Iraq did not return to pre-war levels until 2008. However, when Libya's oil industry does get back on its feet, it may offer an incredible opportunity for investors to profit.

A quick primer on the Libyan oil industry seems appropriate here since some investors may wonder why Libya is important at all. After all, the country was only the 12th largest global oil exporter , producing about 1.6 million barrels of oil before the conflict began. Global oil output is roughly 87 million barrels a day.

Global Assessment of the LTTE

Global Assessment of the LTTE

The Sri Lanka Governments assessment of the LTTE is widely shared within the intelligence, law enforcement and criminal justice communities across the world. Even as Sri Lanka appears to be gaining the upper hand in its battle against the LTTE on the ground, there are many who continue to fear that the international tentacles and reach of the group does not augur well.

- The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in its 10 January 2007 special report has described the LTTE as "among the most dangerous and deadly extremists in the world".

- Dr. Magnus Ranstorp, Chief Scientist at the Centre for Asymmetric Threat Studies at the Swedish National Defence College has described the LTTE as "probably the most sophisticated terrorist organization in the world".

- Dr. Gerard Chaliand, Former Director, European Center for the Study of Conflicts reminds us that "no peace seems possible with V. Prabhakaran as we have seen from the peace process of 2002-2005 which was but a tactical truce".

- Most recently, The US Pacific Joint Command (PACOM) Admiral Timothy Keating while commending Sri Lankan military for its recent successes against the LTTE, has told New York correspondents on 6 November 2008, "We are hopeful that the LTTE would be a decreasingly important factor of much less reach than they are and have been in the past".


- Proscription and its limitations