Our Vision

Red represents ‘Socialism’ - Lion Represents ‘Patriotism’

Our vision is Patriotic Socialism.

We are loyal to our motherland whose preference is for a ‘Socialist’ economic system.

We do not intend to wear coloured glasses and blindly follow party politics. As one of the Great Chinese leaders said: “We do not care whether the cat is black or white if it catches mice’



Wednesday 28 April 2010

Song - SINHAYA OBA- YOU ARE THE LION Gotabaya Rajapaksa.




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The song is little bit too much, but we should accept the fact that Mr. Gothabaya Rajapaksa is a true hero for the Sinhala nation.

By Chinthaka.

President meets South Asian leaders.

President Rajapaksa today held bilateral discussions with South Asian leaders on the sidelines of the 16th SAARC Summit being held in Thimphu, Bhutan. The summit will commence this afternoon and will continue until 30th April 2010.

The President of Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed called on President Rajapaksa today at the Sri Lanka House at SAARC Village in Thimphu. The Maldivian President congratulated the President on the resounding election victory at the recently concluded Presidential and Parliamentary elections. The Maldivian President opinioned that the people of Sri Lanka had recognized very well the good work that had been carried out by the President and wanted the continuity of the same leadership.

The two leaders discussed several issues of bilateral importance including cooperation in the fisheries sector and sea route connectivity.

The Prime Minister of Nepal Madhav Kumar Nepal called on President Rajapaksa yesterday (27).

The meeting took place in an atmosphere of cordiality and friendship. The Nepali Prime Minister, at the outset, congratulated the President on his resounding election victory both in the Presidential and Parliamentary elections. The Nepali Prime Minister inquired about the status of the political parties in the Parliament and the strength of the ruling party. The Nepali Prime Minister was keen to learn from Sri Lanka experiences and inquired as to how Sri Lanka weakened and defeated the LTTE. He explained the difficulties the Nepal going through at the moment and his Government’s efforts to reach consensus with the Maoists Party to finalize a new constitution.

The President stressed the importance of Sri Lanka’s relationship with Nepal which is the sacred Birth place of the Lord Buddha and very dear to the majority Buddhist community. The President inquired about the progress of the Lumbini Development Project and expressed Sri Lanka’s commitment to support the development of Lumbini. He also recalled the inauguration of the Sri Lanka monastery complex in Lumbini during his recent visit to Nepal. The two leaders agreed to work closely to promote bilateral relations. The Nepali Prime Minister requested the President to consider recommencing direct flights to Nepal. The President responded saying that this matter would be seriously considered.

Prof. G.L. Peiris, Minister of External Affairs, Namal Rajapaksa, MP, Mr. Lalith Weeratunga, Secretary to the President, Mr. Romesh Jayasinghe, Secretary, Ministry of External Affairs and other senior officials were present at the meeting.

By Courtesy of www.news.lk
28th April 2010.

Birthday of the Iraqi Dictator/ Nationalist President Saddam Hussein- Born 28th April 1937.




SADDAM KING OF IRAQ.







Tony Benn's interview with Saddam Hussein 4th February 2003 (Part 1-3).

Friday 23 April 2010

Song - Viva La Quince Brigada - Christy Moore



Viva la Quinta Brigada (listed as Viva la Quince Brigada in later recordings) is a Christy Moore song about the Irishmen who fought in the Spanish Civil War against Franco. The title was inspired by a Spanish song about the war, 'Viva La Quinta Brigada'.

Sri Lanka's new cabinet, 37 Ministers sworn in.

Apr. 23, Colombo: The newly appointed Cabinet comprising of 37 Ministers took oaths before the President at the Presidential Secretariat early Friday afternoon in the capital Colombo.

Basil Rajapaksa has been sworn in as the Economic Development Minister. G. L. Peiris as Foreign Affairs, Education - Bandula Gunawardana and Helth portfolio went to Maithripala Serisena.

HIGHLIGHTS ::

• Deputy Media Minister - Mervyn Silva

• Keheliya Rambukwella - NO Portfolio

• Dr. Amunugama - NO Portfolio

• Mahindananda Aluthgamage - NO Portfolio

Following are the Ministers and their portfolios:

Minister Portfolio

* President Mahinda Rajapaksa (1) Defence, (2) Finance & Planning, (3) Ports & Aviation, (4) Highways

1 D. M. Jayaratne Buddhasasana & Religious Affairs

2 Ratnasiri Wickramanayake Public Management & Reforms

3 Nimal Siripala de Silva Irrigation & Water Resource Development

4 A. H. M. Fowzie Disaster Management

5 Maithripala Sirisena Health

6 Susil Premajayantha Petroleum Industries

7 Dinesh Gunawardena Water Supply & Drainage

8 Douglas Devananda Traditional Industries & Small Enterprise Development

9 A. L. M. Athaullah Local Government & Provincial Councils

10 D. E. W. Gunasekera Rehabilitation & Prison Reforms

11 Rishad Bathiyutheen Industry & Commerce

12 Wimal Weerawansa Construction, Engineering Services, Housing & Common Amenities

13 Champika Ranawaka Power & Energy

14 Basil Rajapaksa Economic Development

15 P. Dayaratne State Resources & Enterprise Development

16 Prof G. L. Peiris Foreign Affairs

17 John Seneviratne Public Administration & Home Affairs

18 Mrs. Sumedha Jayasena Parliamentary Affairs

19 Milroy Fernando Resettlement

20 Jeewan Kumaratunga Post & Telecommunication

21 Pavithra Wanniarachchi National Heritage & Cultural Affairs

22 Anura Priyadarshana Yapa Environment

23 Tissa Karaliyadde Child Development & Women's Affairs

24 Athauda Seneviratne Justice

25 Gamini Lokuge Labour Relations & Productivity Improvement

26 Bandula Gunawardena Education

27 Mahinda Samarasinghe Plantation

28 Rajitha Senaratne Fisheries & Aquatic Resources

29 Piyasena Gamage Indigenous Medicine

30 S. B. Navinne National Languages & Social Integration

31 Janaka Bandara Tennekoon Lands & Land Development

32 Felix Perera Social Services

33 C. B. Rathnayake Sports

34 Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena Agriculture

35 Kumara Welgama Transport

36 Dullas Alahaperuma Youth Affairs

37 Johnston Fernando Co-operatives & Internal Trade

The Deputy Ministers and their portfolios:

Deputy Minister Portfolio

1 Salinda Dissanayake Plantation and Industries

2 Dilan Perera Public Administration and Home Affairs

3 Susantha Punchinilame Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development

4 Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena Economic Development

5 Chandrasiri Gajadeera Finance and Planning

6 Jagath Pushpakumara Agriculture

7 T. B. Ekanayake Education

8 Mahinda Amaraweera Health

9 Rohitha Abeygunawardena Ports and Aviation

10 S. N. Chandrasena Irrigation and Water Resources Management

11 Gunaratne Weerakoon National Heritage and Cultural Affairs

12 Mervyn Silva Mass Media and Information

13 Pandu Bandaranayake Indigenous Medicine

14 Jayaratna Herath Industry and Commerce

15 Dayashritha Tissera Ports and Aviation

16 Duminda Dissanayaka Posts and Telecommunication

17 Ranjith Siyambalapitiya Economic Development

18 Lasantha Alagiyawanne Construction, Engineering Services, Housing and Common Amenities

19 Rohana Dissanayake Transport

20 H. R. Mithrapala Livestock Development

21 Nirmala Kothalawala Highways

22 Premalal Jayasekera Power and Energy

23 Geethanjana Gunawardena External Affairs

24 Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan Resettlement

25 Indika Bandaranayake Local Government and Provincial Councils

26 Muthu Sivalingam Economic Development

27 Siripala Gamlath Lands and Land Development

28 W. B. Ekanayake Disaster Management

29 Chandrasiri Suriyarachchi Social Services

30 Neomal Perera Co-operatives and Internal Trade

31 Sarath Gunaratne State Resources and Enterprise Development

32 Nandimithra Ekanayake Higher Education

33 Nirupama Rajapaksa Water Supply and Drainage

34 Lalith Dissanayake Technology and Research

35 Sarana Gunawardena Petroleum Industries

36 Reginold Cooray Justice

37 Vijithmuni Zoysa Rehabilitation and Prison Reforms

38 N. L. A. M. Hisbullah Child Development and Women’s Affairs

39 Weerakumara Dissanayake Traditional Industries and Small Enterprise Development

By Courtesy of www.colombopage.com
23rd April 2010.

Thursday 22 April 2010

This is disgraceful – Wimal Weerawansa.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin- Born 22nd April 1870.










Birthday of the leader of the 1917 Russian Revolution Vladimir Ilyich Lenin – Born 22nd April 1870.

Youth 1887
Age 3.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924), born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, was a Russian revolutionary and communist politician who led the October Revolution of 1917. As leader of the Bolsheviks, he headed the Soviet state during its initial years (1917–1924), as it fought to establish control of Russia in the Russian Civil War and worked to create a socialist economic system.

As a politician, Vladimir Lenin was a persuasive orator, as a political scientist his extensive theoretic and philosophical developments of Marxism produced Marxism–Leninism, the pragmatic Russian application of Marxism.

Lenin was born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, on 22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1870, to Maria Alexandrovna Blank, a schoolmistress, and Ilya Nikolayevich Ulyanov a physics instructor, at Simbirsk, a Volga River town in the Russian Empire of the nineteenth century; following family custom, he was baptized into the Russian Orthodox Church.[2][3] Later, the USSR renamed Simbirsk as Ulyanovsk.

In 1869, Ilya Ulyanov became the Inspector of Public Schools, and later the Director of Elementary Schools, for the Simbirsk Gubernia Oblast (province), a successful career in the Imperial Russian public education system. Yet, Tsarist cultural mores defined the Ulyanov family stock as "ethnically mixed" — "Mordovian, Kalmyk, Jewish (cf. Blank family), Volgan German, and Swedish, and possibly others"; none the less, being of the intelligentsia, the Ulyanovs educated their children against the ills of their time (violations of human rights, servile psychology, etc.), and instilled readiness to struggle for higher ideals, a free society, and equal rights. Subsequently, excepting Olga (dead at age 19), every Ulyanov child became a revolutionary.[4]

In January 1886, his father died of a cerebral hemorrhage; in May 1887 (when 17 years old), his eldest brother Aleksandr Ulyanov was hanged for participating in a terrorist assassination attempt against the Tsar, Alexander III (1881–94).[5] His sister, Anna Ulyanova, with Aleksandr when arrested, was banished to an Ulyanov family estate at Kokushkino, a village some 40 km (25 mi.) from Kazan — those events transformed Lenin into a political radical, which official Soviet biographies represent as central to his assuming the revolutionary track as political life.

Early life and background.

Complementing these personal, emotional, and political upheavals was his matriculation, in August 1887, to the Kazan University, where he studied law and read the works of Karl Marx. That Marxism-derived political development involved Lenin in a student riot, and consequent arrest, in December 1887; Kazan University expelled him, the police authorities barred him from other universities, thence was under continuous police surveillance — as the brother of a known terrorist.[6] Nevertheless, he studied independently and earned a law degree; in that time, he first read Das Kapital (1867–94). Three years later, in 1890, he was permitted studies at the University of Saint Petersburg.[7] In January 1892, he was awarded a first class diploma in law;[8] moreover, he was an intellectually distinguished student in the Classical languages of Latin and Greek, and the modern languages of German, French, and English, but had only limited command of the latter two. In the 1917 revolutionary period, he relied upon Inessa Armand to translate an article of his into French and English; and wrote to S. N. Ravich in Geneva, "I am unable to lecture in French".[9]

Revolutionary

Lenin practised law in the Volga River port of Samara for a few years, mostly land-ownership cases, from which he derived political insight to the Russian peasants' socio-economic condition;[10] in 1893, he moved to St Petersburg, and practised revolutionary propaganda. In 1895, he founded the League of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class, the consolidation of the city's Marxist groups; as an embryonic revolutionary party, the League were active among the Russian labour organisations. On 7 December 1895, Lenin was arrested for plotting against Tsar Alexander III, and was then imprisoned for fourteen months in solitary confinement Cell 193 of the St. Petersburg Remand Prison.[11] In February 1897, he was exiled to eastern Siberia, to the village Shushenskoye in the Minusinsky District, Yenisei Gubernia. There, he met Georgy Plekhanov, the Marxist who introduced socialism to Russia. In July 1898, Lenin married the socialist activist Nadezhda Krupskaya, and, in April 1899, he pseudonymously published the book The Development of Capitalism in Russia (1899), by Vladimir Ilyin, one of the thirty theoretical works he wrote in exile.

At exile's end in 1900, Lenin travelled Russia and Europe (Munich, Prague, Vienna, Manchester and London, with a memorial plaque at Percy Circus WC1, King's Cross), but resided in Zurich, where he worked as a Geneva University lecturer. He and Julius Martov (later a leading opponent) co-founded the newspaper Iskra (Spark), and published articles and books about revolutionary politics, whilst recruiting for the Social Democrats. In such clandestine political work, Vladimir Ulyanov assumed aliases, and, in 1902, adopted Lenin as his definitive nom de guerre, derived from the Siberian Lena River.

In 1903, the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (РСДРП) ideologically diverged as the Bolshevik and the Menshevik factions; the RSDLP party faction names Bolshevik (majority) and Menshevik (minority) derive from the narrow Bolshevik electoral defeat of the Mensheviks to the party's newspaper editorial board, and to central committee leadership. The break partly originated from Lenin's book What Is to Be Done? (1901–02), which proposed a smaller party organisation of professional revolutionaries, with Iskra in a primary ideologic role.

In November 1905, Lenin returned to Russia to support the 1905 Russian Revolution.[12] In 1906, he was elected to the Presidium of the RSDLP; and shuttled between Finland and Russia, but resumed his exile in December 1907, after the Tsarist defeat of the November Revolution.[12] Until the February and October revolutions of 1917, he lived in Western Europe, where, despite relative poverty, he developed Leninism — urban Marxism adapted to agrarian Russia reversing Karl Marx’s the economics–politics prescription, to allow for a dynamic revolution led by a vanguard party of professional revolutionaries.[13][14]

In 1909, to disambiguate philosophic doubts about the proper practical course of a socialist revolution, Lenin published Materialism and Empirio-criticism (1909), which became a philosophic foundation of Marxism-Leninism. Throughout exile, Lenin travelled Europe, participated in socialist activities, (the 1912 Prague Party Conference). When Inessa Armand left Russia for Paris, she met Lenin and other exiled Bolsheviks. Rumour has it she was Lenin's lover; yet historian Neil Harding notes that there is a "slender stock of evidence . . . we still have no evidence that they were sexually intimate".

In 1914, when the First World War (1914–18) began, most of the mass Social Democratic parties of Europe supported their homelands' war effort. At first, Lenin disbelieved such political fickleness, especially that the Germans had voted for war credits; the Social Democrats' war-authorising votes broke Lenin's mainstream connection with the Second International (1889–1916). He opposed the Great War, because the peasants and workers would be fighting the bourgeoisie's "imperialist war" — one that ought be transformed to an international civil war, between the classes. At war's start, the Austrians briefly detained him in Poronin, his town of residence; on 5 September 1914, Lenin moved to neutral Switzerland, residing first at Berne, then at Zurich.

In 1915, in Switzerland, at anti-war Zimmerwald Conference, he led the Zimmerwald Left minority, who failed, against the majority pacifists, to achieve conference’s adopting Lenin's proposition of transforming imperialist war to class war. In the next conference (24–30 April 1916), at Kienthal, Lenin and the Zimmerwald Left presented a like resolution; but the conference concorded only a compromise manifesto.

In spring of 1916, in Zurich, Lenin wrote Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916). In this work Lenin synthesised previous works on the subject by Karl Kautsky, John A. Hobson (Imperialism: A Study, 1902), and Rudolf Hilferding (Das Finanzkapital, 1910), and applied them to the new circumstances of the First World War (1914–18) fought between the German and the British empires — which exemplified the imperial capitalist competition, which was the thesis of his book. This thesis posited that the merging of banks and industrial cartels gave rise to finance capital — the basis of imperialism, the zenith of capitalism. To wit, in pursuing greater profits than the home market can offer, business exports capital, which, in turn, leads to the division of the world, among international, monopolist firms, and to European states colonizing large parts of the world, in support of their businesses. Imperialism, thus, is an advanced stage of capitalism based upon the establishment of monopolies, and upon the exportation of capital (rather than goods), managed with a global financial system, of which colonialism is one feature.

In accordance with this thesis, Lenin believed that Russia was being used as a tool of French and British capitalist imperialism in World War One and that its participation in the conflict was at the behest of those interests.

Russian return

After the 1917 February Revolution provoked the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II (1894–17), Lenin decided upon a Russian return; difficult, for he was isolated in neutral Switzerland, surrounded by belligerent countries fighting the Great War, nevertheless, the Swiss Communist Fritz Platten obtained Imperial German permission allowing Lenin (and cohort) to traverse Germany in a diplomatically-sealed train. Geopolitically, the Germans expected his return to politically disrupt Imperial Russia — in aid of ending the Eastern front war (17 August 1914 – 3 March 1918), so that Germany could concentrate upon defeating the Western allies. Having traversed Germany, Lenin continued through Sweden, aided by local Communists Otto Grimlund and Ture Nerman.

On 16 April 1917, Lenin arrived at the Finland Station, Petrograd, Russia, to assume command of the Bolsheviks, and published the April Theses (1917), calling for uncompromising opposition to the Provisional Government (March–November 1917).[22][23] Initially, this leftist position isolated the Bolsheviks, yet rendered the Bolshevik party as a pragmatic political refuge for people disillusioned with the vacillating Provisional Government and dissociated them, in particular, with the government's policy of continuing the war with Germany, as manifested in the disastrous Kerensky Offensive of July 1917.[24][25] In Petrograd dissatisfaction with the regime culminated in the spontaneous July Days riots, by industrial workers and soldiers.[26] After being suppressed, these riots were blamed by the government on Lenin and the Bolsheviks.[27] Aleksandr Kerensky, Grigory Aleksinsky, and other opponents, also accused the Bolsheviks, especially Lenin — of being Imperial German agents provocateur; on 17 July, Leon Trotsky defended them:

An intolerable atmosphere has been created, in which you, as well as we, are choking. They are throwing dirty accusations at Lenin and Zinoviev. Lenin has fought thirty years for the revolution. I have fought [for] twenty years against the oppression of the people. And we cannot but cherish a hatred for German militarism . . . I have been sentenced by a German court to eight months' imprisonment for my struggle against German militarism. This everybody knows. Let nobody in this hall say that we are hirelings of Germany.[29]

In the event, the Provisional Government arrested the Bolsheviks and outlawed their Party, prompting Lenin to flee to Finland. In exile again, reflecting on the July Days and its aftermath, Lenin determined that, to prevent the triumph of counter-revolutionary forces, the Provisional Government must be overthrown by an armed uprising.[30] Meanwhile, he published State and Revolution (1917) proposing government by soviets (worker-elected councils).[31]

In late August 1917, after the failed coup d’ État of the General Kornilov affair, popular support for the Provisional Government collapsed, whilst support for the Bolshevik Peace, Land, Bread programme increased; jailed Bolsheviks were freed.[32] In October, Lenin returned from Finland, and inspired the October Revolution with the slogan All Power to the Soviets! From the Smolny Institute for girls, Lenin directed the Provisional Government’s deposition (6–8 November 1917), and the storming (7–8 November) of the Winter Palace to realise the Kerensky capitulation that established Bolshevik government in Russia.

Head of government

On 8 November 1917, the Russian Congress of Soviets elected the pragmatic Lenin as Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, as such, declaring that "Communism is Soviet power plus the electrification of the entire country" in modernising Russia into a twentieth-century country:[34]

We must show the peasants that the organisation of industry on the basis of modern, advanced technology, on electrification, which will provide a link between town and country, will put an end to the division between town and country, will make it possible to raise the level of culture in the countryside and to overcome, even in the most remote corners of land, backwardness, ignorance, poverty, disease, and barbarism.[35]

Yet the Bolshevik Government had to first withdraw Russia from the First World War (1914–18). Facing continuing Imperial German eastward advance, Lenin proposed immediate Russian withdrawal from the West European war; yet, other, doctrinaire Bolshevik leaders (e.g. Nikolai Bukharin) advocated continuing in the war to foment revolution in Germany. Lead peace treaty negotiator Leon Trotsky proposed No War, No Peace, an intermediate-stance Russo–German treaty conditional upon neither belligerent annexing conquered lands; the negotiations collapsed, and the Germans renewed their attack, conquering much of the (agricultural) territory of west Russia. Resultantly, Lenin's withdrawal proposal then gained majority support, and, on 3 March 1918, Russia withdrew from the First World War via the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, losing much of its European territory. Because of the German threat Lenin moved the Soviet Government from Petrograd to Moscow on 10-11 March 1918.[36] [37]

On 19 January 1918, relying upon the soviets, the Bolsheviks, allied with anarchists and the Socialist Revolutionaries, dissolved the Russian Constituent Assembly thereby consolidating the Bolshevik Government’s political power. Yet, that left-wing coalition collapsed consequent to the Social Revolutionaries opposing the territorially-expensive Brest-Litovsk treaty the Bolsheviks had concorded with Imperial Germany. The anarchists and the Socialist Revolutionaries then joined other political parties in attempting to depose the Bolshevik Government, who defended themselves with persecution and jail for the anti-Bolsheviks.

To initiate the Russian economic recovery, on 21 February 1920, he launched the GOELRO plan, the State Commission for Electrification of Russia (Государственная комиссия по электрификации России), and also established free universal health care and free education systems, and promulgated the politico-civil rights of women.[38] Moreover, since 1918, in re-establishing the economy, for the productive business administration of each industrial enterprise in Russia, Lenin proposed a government-accountable leader for each enterprise. Workers could request measures resolving problems, but had to abide the leader's ultimate decision. Although contrary to workers' self-management, such pragmatic industrial administration was essential for efficient production and employment of worker expertise. Yet Lenin’s doctrinaire Bolshevik opponents argued that such industrial business management was meant to strengthen State control of labour, and that worker self-management failures were owed to lack of resources, not incompetence. Lenin resolved that problem by licencing (for a month) all workers of most factories; thus historian S.A. Smith's observation: "By the end of the civil war, not much was left of the democratic forms of industrial administration promoted by the factory committees in 1917, but the government argued that this did not matter since industry had passed into the ownership of a workers' state."

Internationally, Lenin’s admiration of the Irish socialist revolutionary James Connolly, led to the USSR’s being the first country to grant diplomatic recognition to the Irish Free State that fought the Irish War of Independence from Britain. In the event, Lenin developed a friendship with Connolly's revolutionary son, Roddy Connolly.

Establishing the Cheka

On December 20, 1917, The Whole-Russian Extraordinary Commission for Combating Counter-Revolution and Sabotage (Chrezvychaynaya Komissiya), the Cheka (Extraordinary Commission) was created by a decree issued by Lenin to defend the Russian Revolution.[39] The establishment of the Cheka, secret service, headed by Felix Dzerzhinsky, formally consolidated the censorship established earlier, when on "17 November, the Central Executive Committee passed a decree giving the Bolsheviks control over all newsprint and wide powers of closing down newspapers critical of the régime. . . .";[40] non-Bolshevik soviets were disbanded; anti-soviet newspapers were closed until Pravda (Truth) and Izvestia (The News) established their communications monopoly. According to Leonard Schapiro the Bolshevik "refusal to come to terms with the [Revolutionary] socialists, and the dispersal of the Constituent assembly, led to the logical result that revolutionary terror would now be directed, not only against traditional enemies, such as the bourgeoisie or right-wing opponents, but against anyone, be he socialist, worker, or peasant, who opposed Bolshevik rule".[41] On December 19, 1918, a year after its creation, a resolution was adopted at Lenin's behest that forbade the Bolshevik's own press from publishing "defamatory articles" about the Cheka.[42] Said Lenin: "A Good Communist is also a good Chekist."

Combating anti-Semitism.

Lenin recognised the value of mass communications technologies for educating Russia’s mostly illiterate, heterogeneous populaces; as Bolshevik leader, he recorded eight speeches to gramophone records in 1919, that went unpublished. During the Khrushchev era (1953–64), seven were published, but, significantly, the suppressed eighth speech delineated Lenin’s opposition to anti-Semitism:[43]

The Tsarist police, in alliance with the landowners and the capitalists, organized pogroms against the Jews. The landowners and capitalists tried to divert the hatred of the workers and peasants, who were tortured by want, against the Jews. . . . Only the most ignorant and down-trodden people can believe the lies and slander that are spread about the Jews. . . . It is not the Jews who are the enemies of the working people. The enemies of the workers are the capitalists of all countries. Among the Jews there are working people, and they form the majority. They are our brothers, who, like us, are oppressed by capital; they are our comrades in the struggle for socialism. Among the Jews there are kulaks, exploiters, and capitalists, just as there are among the Russians, and among people of all nations . . . Rich Jews, like rich Russians, and the rich in all countries, are in alliance to oppress, crush, rob, and disunite the workers . . . Shame on accursed Tsarism, which tortured and persecuted the Jews. Shame on those who foment hatred towards the Jews, who foment hatred towards other nations.[44]

Failed assassinations

First, on 14 January 1918, in Petrograd, after a speech, assassins ambushed Lenin in his automobile; he and Fritz Platten were in the back seat when assassins began shooting, and "Platten grabbed Lenin by the head and pushed him down . . . Platten's hand was covered in blood, having been grazed by a bullet as he was shielding Lenin".[45]

Second, on 30 August 1918, the Socialist Revolutionary Fanya Kaplan approached Lenin after a speech; at his automobile, whilst he rested a foot upon the running board, in speaking with a woman, Kaplan called to Lenin, and, as he turned to face her in reply, she shot him three times. The first bullet struck an arm, the second bullet struck his jaw and neck, and the third bullet missed him — and wounded the woman with whom he was speaking; the wounds felled him, unconscious.[46] Fearing in-hospital assassins, Lenin was delivered to his Kremlin apartment; physicians decided against removing the bullets — lest the surgery endanger his recovery, which proved slow.

To the public, Pravda ridiculed Fanya Kaplan as a failed, latter-day Charlotte Corday (a murderess of Jean-Paul Marat) who could not derail the Russian Revolution, reassuring readers that, immediately after surviving the assassination: "Lenin, shot through twice, with pierced lungs spilling blood, refuses help and goes on his own. The next morning, still threatened with death, he reads papers, listens, learns, and observes to see that the engine of the locomotive that carries us towards global revolution has not stopped working. . . ."; despite unharmed lungs, the neck wound did spill blood into a lung.[47]

The Russian public remained ignorant of the true physical gravity of the wounded Soviet Head of State; other than panegyric of immortality (viz. the cult of personality), they knew nothing about either the (second) failed assassination, the assassin, Fanya Kaplan, or of Lenin's health. Historian Richard Pipes reports that "the impression one gains . . . is that the Bolsheviks deliberately underplayed the event to convince the public that, whatever happened to Lenin, they were firmly in control". Moreover, in a letter to his wife (7 September 1918), Leonid Borisovich Krasin, a Tsarist and Soviet régime diplomat, describes the public atmosphere and social response to the failed assassination on 30 August, and Lenin's survival:

As it happens, the attempt to kill Lenin has made him much more popular than he was. One hears a great many people, who are far from having any sympathy with the Bolsheviks, saying that it would be an absolute disaster if Lenin had succumbed to his wounds, as it was first thought he would. And they are quite right, for, in the midst of all this chaos and confusion, he is the backbone of the new body politic, the main support on which everything rests.[48]

From having survived a second assassination originated the cult of personality, that Lenin, per his intellectual origins and pedigree, disliked and discouraged as superstition revived; nevertheless, his health, as a fifty-three-year-old man, declined from the effects of two bullet wounds, later aggravated by three strokes, culminating in his death.[49]

Later life and death

The mental strains of leading a revolution, governing, and fighting a civil war aggravated the physical debilitation consequent to the wounds from the attempted assassinations; Lenin still retained a bullet in his neck, until a German surgeon removed it on 24 April 1922.[77] Among his comrades, Lenin was notable for working almost ceaselessly, fourteen to sixteen hours daily, occupied with minor, major, and routine matters. About the man at his life’s end, Volkogonov said:

“Lenin was involved in the challenges of delivering fuel into Ivanovo-Vosnesensk . . . the provision of clothing for miners, he was solving the question of dynamo construction, drafted dozens of routine documents, orders, trade agreements, was engaged in the allocation of rations, edited books and pamphlets at the request of his comrades, held hearings on the applications of peat, assisted in improving the workings at the ‘Novii Lessner’ factory, clarified in correspondence with the engineer P. A. Kozmin the feasibility of using wind turbines for the electrification of villages . . . all the while serving as an adviser to party functionaries almost continuously.”

When already sick, Lenin remembered that, since 1917, he had only rested twice: once, whilst hiding from the Kerensky Provisional Government (when he wrote The State and Revolution), and whilst recovering from Fanya Kaplan’s failed assassination.[79] In March 1922, when physicians examined him, they found evidence of neither nervous nor organic pathology, but, given his fatigue and the headaches he suffered, they prescribed rest. Upon returning to St. Petersburg in May 1922, Lenin suffered the first of three strokes, which left him dumb for weeks, and severely hampered motion in his right side; by June, he had substantially recovered. By August he resumed limited duties, delivering three long speeches in November. In December 1922, he suffered the second stroke that partly paralyzed his right side, he then withdrew from active politics. In March 1923, he suffered the third stroke that rendered him mute and bed-ridden until his death.

After the first stroke, Lenin dictated government papers to Nadezhda; among them was Lenin's Testament (changing the structure of the soviets), partly inspired by the 1922 Georgian Affair (Russian cultural assimilation of constituent USSR republics), and it criticized high-rank Communists, including Josef Stalin, Grigory Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev, Nikolai Bukharin, and Leon Trotsky. About the Communist Party's General Secretary (since 1922), Josef Stalin, Lenin reported that the "unlimited authority" concentrated in him was unacceptable, and suggested that "comrades think about a way of removing Stalin from that post." His phrasing, "Сталин слишком груб", implies “personal rudeness, unnecessary roughness, lack of finesse”, flaws "intolerable in a Secretary-General".

At Lenin's death, Nadezhda mailed his testament to the central committee, to be read aloud to the 13th Party Congress in May 1924, however, to remain in power, the ruling troika — Stalin, Kamenev, Zinoviev — suppressed Lenin's Testament; it was not published until 1925, in the United States, by the American intellectual Max Eastman. In that year, Trotsky published an article minimizing the importance of Lenin's Testament, saying that Lenin's notes should not be perceived as a will, that it had been neither concealed, nor violated;[81] yet he did invoke it in later anti-Stalin polemics.[82][83]

Lenin died at 18.50 hrs, Moscow time, on 21 January 1924, aged 53, at his estate in Gorki Leninskiye. In the four days that the Bolshevik Leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin lay in state, more than 900,000 mourners viewed his body in the Hall of Columns; among the statesmen who expressed condolences to Russia (the USSR) was Chinese premier Sun Yat-sen, who said:

"Through the ages of world history, thousands of leaders and scholars appeared who spoke eloquent words, but these remained words. You, Lenin, were an exception. You not only spoke and taught us, but translated your words into deeds. You created a new country. You showed us the road of joint struggle . . . You, great man that you are, will live on in the memories of the oppressed people through the centuries."[84]

Winston Churchill, who encouraged British intervention against the Russian Revolution, in league with the White Movement, to destroy the Bolsheviks and Bolshevism, said:

"He alone could have found the way back to the causeway . . . The Russian people were left floundering in the bog. Their worst misfortune was his birth . . . their next worst his death."[85]

Three days after his death, Petrograd was renamed Leningrad in his honour, so remaining until 1991, when the USSR dissolved, yet the administrative area remains "Leningrad Oblast". In the early 1920s, the Russian cosmism movement proved so popular that Leonid Krasin and Alexander Bogdanov proposed to cryonically preserve Lenin for future resurrection, yet, despite buying the requisite equipment, that was not done.[86] Instead, the body of V. I. Lenin was embalmed and permanently exhibited in the Lenin Mausoleum, in Moscow, on 27 January 1924. Despite the official diagnosis of death from stroke consequences, the Russian scientist Ivan Pavlov reported that Lenin died of neurosyphilis.[87]

Writings

Lenin was a prolific political theoretician and philosopher who wrote about the practical aspects of leading a proletarian revolution; he wrote pamphlets, articles, and books, without a stenographer or secretary, until prevented by illness.[88] He simultaneously corresponded with comrades, allies, and friends, in Russia and world-wide. His known writings compose 54, 650-page volumes; the most influential are:

• What is to be Done? (1903) establishes that a revolution requires a professional vanguard party.

• Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916) explains why capitalism had not collapsed, as Marx had posited, presenting the First World War as a capitalist war for land, resources, and cheap labour.

• The State and the Revolution (1917) interprets the ideas of Marx and Engels, the October Revolution's theoretic basis, and opposes the social-democratic tendency as indecisive in effecting revolution.

• April Theses (1917) propose the socio-economic need for a socialist revolution.

• "Left-Wing" Communism: An Infantile Disorder (1920) A sharp critique of the 'ultra-left'

Tuesday 20 April 2010

Today is the Birthday of the fascist imperialist dictator – Adolf Hitler-20th April 1889.



Adolf Hitler Biography.



A HISTORICAL ADOLF HITLER SPEECH (WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES)



Fall of Berlin with Soviet Anthem.

Monday 19 April 2010

Mps will monitor ministries: President Rajapaksa.


The President mentioned this when he met the newly elected UPFA members at Temple Trees yesterday. Informed sources said that the President was planning to assign a team of UPFA seniors to monitor the progress of each Ministry in the next government and report to him in this regard. Sources also claimed that the President has promised the MPs, who are not getting any ministerial or deputy ministerial portfolios that they would be appointed to supervise the ministry work.

The President is presently planning to appoint a cabinet of 38 Ministers. They will be sworn in on April 23. Sources said that there would not be any non-cabinet ministerial posts this time but a number of deputy minister posts similar to the number of cabinet ministers would be created.

Addressing the new UPFA MPs, the President requested them to directly speak to him if there is any problem that they may have. “Just talk to me directly without talking of such matters in small clicks. I will attend to them as soon as possible,” the sources said quoting the president.

He said that he has a separate telephone number for the MPS to talk to him about any problem and every Thursday will be assigned to meet those MPs who want to speak to him about their problems.

By Courtesy of www.dailymirror.lk
19th April, 2010.

මර්වින් ධර්මය.

Thursday 15 April 2010

Military musicians start Victory Parade rehearsals in Moscow Russia.


Over 1,500 musicians from the Consolidated Orchestral Regiment of Russia’s Defense Ministry have started rehearsals for the Victory Parade to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany.

By Courtesy of www.rt.com
15th April 2010.

බැසිල්, විමල් සහ සුදර්ශණී නව කැබිනෙට්ටුවට.

නව කැබිනට් මණ්ඩලය පත් කිරීමේදී එයට එක්වන නවක මුහුණු කිහිපය අතර බැසිල් රාජපක්‍ෂ, විමල් වීරවංශ සහ සුදර්ශණී ප‍්‍රනාන්දුපුල්ලේ යන අයද වන බව අරලියගහ මන්දිර ආරංචි මාර්ග සඳහන් කරයි. එමෙන්ම පසුගිය අමාත්‍ය මණ්ඩලයේ සිටි අමාත්‍යවරුන් කිහිප දෙනෙකුටම අමාත්‍ය ධුර හිමිවනු ඇති බවද සඳහන් වෙයි. එහෙත් සමහර විෂයයන් සම්බන්ධයෙන් ගැටළු සහගත තත්වයන් ඇති කරගෙන සිටි අමාත්‍යවරුන් එම අමාත්‍යාංශ වලින් ඉවත් කර වෙනත් ආමත්‍යංශ ලබා දීමටද යෝජනා වී ඇත.

මෙතෙක් කැබිනට් නොවන අමාත්‍ය ධුර දැරූ බොහෝ දෙනෙකුට නියෝජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය ධූරයක් හෝ හිමි වීමේ ඉඩකඩද අවම බව පැවසෙයි. කෙසේ වෙතත් දක්‍ෂ තරුණ මන්ත‍්‍රීවරුන් කිහිප දෙනෙක්ද නියෝජ්‍ය අමාත්‍යවරුන් ලෙස යෝජනා වී ඇති අතර කැබිනට් මණ්ඩලය හෝ නියෝජ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය ධුර නොලබන මන්ත‍්‍රීවරුන් සඳහා අධීක්‍ෂණ මන්ත‍්‍රී තනතුරු පිරිනැමීමට රජයේ අවධානය යොමු වී ඇති බව එම ආරංචි මාර්ග සනාථ කරයි.

By Courtesy of www.lankacnews.com
15th April, 2010.

Wednesday 14 April 2010

Sinhala New Year Song: ‘Koho Koho’ – Visarada Sanath Nandasiri.

LTTE underground fuel storage found in Northern Sri Lanka.

Apr 14, Colombo: A special joint operation conducted by the police and Army has discovered a buried fuel storage tank used by the LTTE Tiger rebels in northern Sri Lanka, the military said today.

On information received by the police, a special team of police and army troops Tuesday discovered the underground tank in the Tigers' former stronghold of Puthukkudyiruppu.

Police Spokesman Prishantha Jayakody said the tank which is 18 feet long and 8 feet wide was estimated to contain about 20,000 to 25,000 liters of diesel.

Troops conducting search and clear operations in former rebel-controlled Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu districts continue to recover hidden stocks of arms, explosives, and other military hardware.

On Monday troops conducting search operations in the areas of Mirusuvil, Iranamadu, Alankulam and Visuamadu in Kilinochchi district found one kilogram of TNT, 150 g of C-4 explosives, two 81 mm mortar bombs and seventeen 60 mm mortar bombs among a haul of military items.

By Courtesy of www.colombopage.com
14th April 2010.

Saturday 10 April 2010

Sri Lanka President asks everyone to come together to build the country.

Apr 10, Colombo: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa said he is humbled by the continuing support his government receives from the people and the confidence placed in his policies.

"We are humbled by the size of the repeated mandates given by the people and pledge to respond, in full measure, to the trust placed in us," the President said commenting on the on the results of the parliamentary elections held on April 8.

"This is the triumph of Democracy. It is a clear restatement of the confidence the people placed in me, the Mahinda Chinthana and the UPFA at the recent Presidential Election," the President was quoted by the Government Information Department.

The ruling party won 117 seats of the 225-member parliament and secured its power in the new parliament which is to be convened on April 22. The results however, are not yet complete as re-polling is scheduled for two polling divisions.

President Rajapaksa noted that the assured majority in parliament given by the voters encourages the government to proceed with its policies for the strengthening of peace and reconciliation, reconstruction, greater infrastructure development, increased investment in identified areas of growth, and the overall development of the country to make it the centre of economic and social progress in South Asia.

"These results, coming after the successful elections to Provincial Councils and the Presidential Election, are proof that democracy is fully in place in Sri Lanka and the commitment of our people to the democratic process," he said.

The President urged the people to celebrate the victory peacefully and come together to build the country.

"It is now the time for peaceful celebration by those who have contributed to this victory; and the acceptance of the verdict of the ballot by those who have lost. It is also the time for all who place their trust in democracy to come together to build a new era of prosperity for Sri Lanka," the President had said.

By Courtesy of www.colombopage.com
10th April 2010.

UPFA's Wimal and UNP's Ranil lead Colombo District preferential votes lists.


Apr 10, Colombo: Sri Lanka's National Freedom Front leader Wimal Weerawansa has topped the ruling party UPFA's preferential votes list with 280,672 votes.

In the UPFA list, candidates R. Duminda Silva and Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka clinched the second and third slots with 146,336 and 120,333 preferential votes, respectively.

Dinesh Gunawardena, Bandula Gunawardena, Thilanga Sumathipala, Susil Premajayantha, A.H.M. Fowzie, Jeevan Kumaranatunga and Gamini Lokuge are the others in the UPFA list.

In the opposition, UNP Leader Ranil Wickremasinghe obtaining 230,957 votes led the UNP's preferential votes list in the Colombo district. He was followed by Ravi Karunanayaka, Mohan Lal Grero, Rosie Senanayake, Wijayadasa Rajapaksa, Sujeewa Senasinghe and Prabha Ganeshan.

The Marxist alliance, DNA leader and former Sri Lanka Army Commander retired General Sarath Fonseka who is in military custody contesting the election received 98,456 votes. JVP member Sunil Handunnetti has also won a seat.

By Courtesy of www.colombopage.com
10th April 2010.

Friday 9 April 2010

Government Ministers losing seats in General election.


Apr 10, Colombo: While preferential votes in Sri Lanka parliamentary elections are still being released and two more districts are to have re-polls due to election violations some upsets are beginning to appear in the political landscape.

According to the preferential votes results the leader of the National Democratic Front Wimal Weerawansa has topped the list securing over 200,000 votes. The Environment Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka of the Buddhist nationalist party Jathika Hela Urumaya has come in second place with Minister Dinesh Gunawardena following him at the third position.

Reportedly the Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama and Justice Minister Milinda Moragoda, both crossovers from the United National Party, have failed to secure a place in the preferential votes list.

The Cricket legend Sanath Jayasuriya was the highest preferential vote taker in Matara District and enters the parliament as a newcomer while his former captain of the World Cup winning cricket team Arjuna Ranatunga who was a minister in the Alliance government has won his seat in Kalutara District contesting under Democratic National Alliance led by General Sarath Fonseka.

Main opposition United National Party (UNP) leader Ranil Wickremasinghe contesting from Colombo District received the most preferential votes from the opposition. Former Mrs. Sri Lanka and Ambassador to Malaysia Rosie Senanayake too has received the most preferential votes from Colombo.

In Gampaha district Senior Adviser to the President and his brother Basil Rajapaksa has secured the most preferential votes while the Dr. Sudarshani Fernandopulle, widow of Late Minister Jeyaraj Fernandopulle has come in second. The controversial Labor Minister Dr. Mervyn de Silva is reportedly the third in the list.

Both senior ministers Maithripala Sirisena from Polonnaruwa District and Nimal Siripala de Siva fro Badulla District have topped their lists. Minister Nandana Gunathilaka, meanwhile, has lost his seat in Kalutara.

In Ratnapura District Minister Vasudeva Nanayakkara has secured his place in the parliament but Minister Mahinda Rathnatileka has reportedly lost his seat.

In Batticaloa, the Chief Minister Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan's Thamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal received only 9.35% of the votes and failed to secure a single seat. Tamil National Alliance party Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kadchi (ITAK) dominated both Eastern and Northern Provinces securing a total of 12 seats in the new parliament.

Complete results of the 2010 parliamentary election will not be released until the re-polls are held in Kandy and Trincomalee districts.

By courtesy of: www.colombopage.com
Published 09th April 2010.

Election wipe out of JVP begins from southern stronghold.

Apr 09, Colombo: Sri Lanka Marxist People's Liberation Front (JVP) led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) failed to win a single seat in Matara district.

From the results released so far the NDA led by defeated presidential candidate retired General Sarath Fonseka received only 20,465 votes from the district amounting to a percentage of mere 6.25.

Mathura district in the Southern Province is one of JVP's major strongholds of the island. It is the home district founding leader of JVP, late Rohana Wijeweera.

Two JVP MPs, Premasiri Manage and Jinadasa Kithulegoda represented Matara district in the last parliament.

Ruling United People's Freedom Alliance won six seats out of the eight seats of the district while the major opposition United National Front (UNF) secured the other two seats.

Former Foreign Minister and the leader of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party - People's Wing Mangala Samaraweera also contested under the UNF ticket from this district.

Preferential votes are still being counted.

By courtesy of: www.colombopage.com
Published 09th April 2010.

General Elections Results-April 2010.



Wednesday 7 April 2010

ජවිපේ කඳුලු දේශපාලණය.


සහෝදරවරුන්ට ලැජ්ජ නැති හැටි. ජෙනරල්ගෙ ඇඟේ එල්ලිලා

ජනාධිපතිවරණය ගොඩදාගන්න  බැරිවුන සහෝදරවරු දැන්

ජෙනර්ල්ගෙ හාමිනේගෙ කඳුලුවල පිහීටෙන් මහමැතිවරණයෙ

ඇප බේරගන්න උත්සහ කරනවා.

චින්තක විසින්.

JVP leaders using SF as bait - Wimal

The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna leadership is using former Army Chief Sarath Fonseka as bait to get what they want, National Freedom Front leader Wimal Weerawansa told a press conference at the Mahaweli Centre.

He pointed out that General Fonseka cannot enter Parliament because of the ongoing cases, even if he won the elections by chance, if he was found guilty ans punished. "The JVP is trying to capitalise on this situation," Weerawansa said.

Though the possibility of General Fonseka winning the elections was remote, Weerawansa said like animals exhibited to attract visitors on road sides, the JVP was doing a similar thing with General Fonseka to clinch votes.

"Sarath Fonseka seems to understand nothing and Anoma is much worse," he said on Monday.

Weerawansa said he was stunned to witness the JVP leadership’s concern towards General Fonseka and his wife. "The same leadership was critical when I spoke on the national channel when General Fonseka was attacked by a suicide bomber. I was asked ‘why did you make an over statement on him’," he said.

By Courtesy of www.island.lk
07th April 2010.

Tuesday 6 April 2010

Lanka slams US war crimes.

Sri Lanka has slammed the US saying it has blood on its hands after a shocking video showed a US aircraft firing indiscriminately towards civilians in Iraq killing atleast 25 of them including two journalists.

Government Defence Spokesperson Minister Keheliya Rambukwella told Daily Mirror online that while the US has been accusing Sri Lanka of human rights allegations and have repeatedly called for a war crime probe, they seem to have ‘conveniently forgotten’ its own issues in Iraq.

Minister Rambukwella also called on the US to conduct an investigation on it’s own troops before pointing fingers at developing countries.

“These are the world’s so called super powers. They have always tried to bully developing countries but have ignored the blood on their own hands. This is nothing new, it has been happening for years. They say we are guilty but we all know what happened in Iraq,” Minister Rambukwella said.

Further reacting strongly to the video Minister Rambukwella also questioned the UN on its silence and queried why the UN Secretary General was failing to appoint an expert panel to advise him on the US involvement in Iraq.

He also said that it was due to this reason, that the Sri Lankan government had always questioned the credibility of the ‘strong statements’ which were released by the west and the UN against Sri Lanka.

The investigative organization WikiLeaks, this week released military video of what it describes as three incidents of an “indiscriminate slaying” by U.S. forces near Baghdad on July 12, 2007.

WikiLeaks said the encounters killed as many as 25 civilians, including two Reuters journalists. The U.S. military said in a statement at the time that a total of 11 people died in the strikes conducted by U.S. and Iraqi forces.

The video is shot from two Apache helicopters on patrol in Iraq. The choppers were responding to reports of AK-47 gunfire in the suburb of New Baghdad when military personnel on board spotted a group of nine to 12 people walking through a courtyard.

The military contends that the U.S. followed the appropriate "Rules of Engagement" during the incidents.

The video shows military personnel aboard the Apaches indicating they spot the suspects toting several AK-47s and several RPG's. But WikiLeaks contends that the Reuters photographers were only carrying cameras, which the military mistook for weapons. The helicopters circle multiple times before opening fire.

In the second incident captured by the video, U.S. forces open fire again after a van arrives to pick up casualties from the first attack.

Later, American ground troops pull into the courtyard in an armored Humvee and appear to drive over one of the casualties.

Soon after, the same helicopters spot several individuals entering a nearby building. U.S. troops receive permission to strike again, this time with Hellfire missiles.

Julian Assange, of WikiLeaks, released the video at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. He said the behaviour of the pilots is like they're playing a video game. He also did not say how WikiLeaks obtained the video.

A senior military official at the Department of Defense told Fox News on the condition of anonymity that "an investigation of the incidents confirmed our belief that these attacks were justified."

"The individuals who were killed, apart from the Reuters journalists, were involved in hostile activity," the official said.

By Courtesy of www.dailymirror.lk
06th April, 2010.





Monday 5 April 2010

Birthday of a great Director: Lester James Peris- 05th April.





‘‘ශක්තිමත් මිනිසුන් අතර විමල් ශක්තිමත් මිනිසෙක්’’.- ජනපති මහින්ද කොට්ටාවේදී

මහින්ද චින්තනයේ ඇතුළත් ඉලක්ක ජය ගැනීම සඳහා ශක්තිමත් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවක් සහ මිනිසුන් පිරිසක් තමාට අවශ්‍ය බවත් එසේ අවශ්‍ය මිනිසුන් අතර විමල් ශක්තිමත් මිනිසෙක් බවත් ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතා පවසයි. ජනාධිපතිවරයා මේ බව කියා සිටියේ විමල් වීරවංශ මහතාගේ ජයග‍්‍රහණය වෙනුවෙන් කොට්ටාවේ පිහිටි ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණේ මැතිවරණ කාර්යාලයේ අද (05) පස්වරුවේ පැවති ජනහමුවට සහභාගි වෙමිනි. එහිදී වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දැක්වූ රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතා මෙසේ ද පැවසීය.

‘‘මං අද කතා කරන්න හිතාගෙන නෙවෙයි ආවෙ. මෙතන ලස්සන කාර්යාලයක් තියෙනව කියල මම දැනගත්තා. ඒ ගැන හැමෝම කතා කරනවා. ඉතින් ඒක බලන්නයි මම ආවේ. බුලත් කොළය දිනවන්න විමල් ගන්න මහන්සිය, ශක්තිය අපි අගය කරනවා. මට මතකයි 2005 ජනාධිපතිවරණෙ වෙලාවෙ එක රැස්වීමකට එන්න ප‍්‍රමාද වෙන නිසා මං විමල්ට කිව්වා මම පැය බාගෙන් එනව එතකං අල්ලං යන්න කියල. කොහොමහරි මං එනකොට පැය දෙක හමාරක් පරක්කුයි. මං එනකොටත් විමල් උගුර ලේ රහ වෙනකං කතා කරනවා. විමල් එදා මාව දිනවන්න, රට දිනවන්න, ත‍්‍රස්තවාදය පරද්දන්න කතා කළා. විමල්ගෙ ශක්තිය ලොකු හයියක් වුණා ත‍්‍රස්තවාදය පරාජය කරන්න.’’

‘‘අද මිලිබෑන්ඞ්ල වගේ අය විවිධ දේ කතා කරනවා. ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණ අධිරාජ්‍යවාදය වෙනත් ආකාරයකට පතුරුවන්න සූදානම් අය වෙනුවෙන් පෙනී ඉන්න පිරිසක් බවට පත්වෙලා. එක්සත් ජාතික පක්‍ෂය විතරක් නෙවෙයි ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණත් අද අධිරාජ්‍යවාදීන් එක්ක සන්ධාන ගහන්න තරගයකට ඇවිත්. බටහිරට අධිරාජ්‍යවාදීන්ට වඩාත් කිට්ටු කවුද කියල පෙන්නන්න මේ දෙගොල්ල අතර තරගයක් තියෙනවා.’’

‘‘මීට පස්සෙ වගකීම් දුන්නම විමල් ඒව භාර ගන්න ඕන. ඒවත් අරං ඉදිරියටම යන්න. විමල් ගැන මං කියන්න ඕන නෑ. ඔහු ගැන, ඔහු යන මාවත ගැන, ත‍්‍රස්තවාදය පරාජය කරන්න ඔහු කළ කැපවීම ගැන අමුතුවෙන් කියන්න දෙයක් නෑ. ඔබට සුබ අනාගතයක් ප‍්‍රාර්ථනා කරනවා’’

By Courtesy of www.lankacnews.com
5th April, 2010.

Saturday 3 April 2010

බටහිර කළඹමින් ‘පුටීන්’ වෙනිසියුලාවේ.


-පිළිගන්න චාවේස් ගුවන් තොටටම යයි

රුසියාවේ අගමැති ව්ලැද්මීර් පුටීන් හදිසියේ වෙනිසියුලානු නිල සංචාරයක් සිදු කර ඇත. රුසියාවේ ව්‍යවස්තාවට අනුව රුසියානු අග‍්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා වුවද එරට ජනතාව මෙන්ම ලෝක ජනතාවගෙන් බහුතරයද තවමත් රුසියාවේ නායකයා ලෙස සලකන පුටීන්ගේ මෙම සංචාරය ඇමරිකාව ප‍්‍රමුඛ බටහිර රටවල් වල බලවත් කණස්සලට හේතු වී ඇති බව බටහිර හිතවාදී වෙබ් අඩවි වාර්තා කරයි.

ඇමරිකාව ප‍්‍රමුඛ බටහිර ලෝකය චාවේස් සලකන්නේ අකීකරු, දඩබ්බරයෙකු ලෙස වන අතර මේ වන විටත් වෙනිසියුලාව අරඹයා නිල හා නොනිල මට්ටමින් සම්බාධක රැසක්ද ඔවුන් විසින් පනවා ඇත.

තම රටට පැමිණි රුසියානු අග‍්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා පිළිගැනීම සඳහා තම රටේදී විදේශ රාජතාන්ත‍්‍රිකයෙකුට පුද කල හැකි ඉහලම සත්කාරය සිදු කරමින් වෙනිසියුලානු ජනාධිපති වන හියුගෝ චාවේස්ම එරට ප‍්‍රධාන ගුවන් තොටට ගොස් ඔහු පිළිගැනීමට කටයුතු කර තිබුණි.

පැය 12ක් තරම් වූ කෙටි කාලයක් පමණක් වෙනිසියුලාවේ ගතකල කාලයේදී දෙරට අතර තෙල්, වායු, බලශක්ති සම්බන්ධයෙන් වැදගත් ගිවිසුම් කිහිපයකට අත්සන් තැබූ බවට මාධ්‍ය විසින් වාර්තා කලද පුටීන්ගේ මෙම සංචාරය ප‍්‍රකාශිත අරමුණු ඉක්මවූ බටහිරට එරෙහි උපක‍්‍රමික ක‍්‍රියාමාර්ගයක් මෙන්ම බටහිරට එල්ල කරන ලද අතුල් පහරක් ලෙස විචාරකයන් මත පල කරති.

කෙසේ වෙතත් බටහිර බලවත් රාජ්‍යයන්ගේ දැඩි දෝෂ දර්ශණයට ලක්ව සිටින ඔවුන්ගේ උදව් උපකාර, ඇල්ම බැල්ම නොලබන චාවේස්ට මේ පෙරදිග බලගතු රාජ්‍ය නායකයාගේ සංචාරය මහත් අස්වැසිල්ලක්, ශක්තියක් බව එරට මාධ්‍ය වාර්ත කර තිබුණි.

By Courtesy of www.lankacnews.com
3rd April, 2010.

ප්ලාස්‌ටික්‌වලින් ඉන්ධන සිහිනය සැබෑවෙයි.

එක්‌තරා ආකාරයකට එය සිහිනයක්‌ බඳු කාරණාවක්‌ යෑයි කීවාට වරදක්‌ නැත. සැබවින්ම සිහිනයක්‌ බඳු කාරණාවක්‌ නොව... සිහිනයකි.

ඉවතලන ප්ලාස්‌ටික්‌ වලින් ඉන්ධන නොව තාර වත් නිපදවීම සිහිනයකි. ආශ්චාර්යයකි.

ඒ සිහිනය සැබෑ කළේ ඔහුය. ඔහු නමින් ආනන්ද විතානගේ නම්ය.

යටියන්තොට කබුළුමුල්ල නම් ග්‍රාමයේ උපත ලද ආනන්ද අධ්‍යාපනයෙන් ඉහළට ගිය අයෙක්‌ද නොවීය. වාණිජ අංශයෙන් ලද පාඨශාලීය අධ්‍යයනය මද දුරකදී හමාර කළ ඔහුගේ ඊළඟ අභිප්‍රාය වන්නේ කුමක්‌ හෝ ආරක්‍ෂක අංශයකට එකතුවී රට බේරා ගැනීමේ සටනට උර දෙන්නටය. ඔහු නාඹර තරුණ වයසේම ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොලිසියට එකතුවී සේවය ආරම්භ කරන්නේ ඒ අනුවය.

ආනන්ද තුළ සහජයෙන් මතුව ආ නිර්මාණශීලී පරිකල්පනා ශක්‌තියට හැඩි දැඩි රළු පරළු ගති සොබා ඇති පොලිසිය තුළ ඇති වටිනාකම කුමක්‌ද? ඔහු අතට අසුවන කුමකින් වුවද අලුත් දෙයක්‌ නිර්මාණය කිරීමේ උපන් ගෙයි හැකියාවෙන් තෙරපෙන ආනන්දට පොලිසිය හිතකර ප්‍රියමනාප තැනක්‌ වන්නේම නැත. කෙසේ හෝ අවුරුදු 10 ක කාලයක්‌ පොලිසියේ රාජකාරි කරන ඔහු විටකදී ලද අවසරයකින් පොලිසියෙන් සමු ගත්තේය.

පොලිසියෙන් සමුගත් ඔහු තම හැකියාවන් උරගා බලන්නට පටන් ගනියි. කොහුබත්, ඉවතලන පොලිතින්, ප්ලාස්‌ටික්‌ වර්ග ඔහුගේ පර්යේෂණාගාරයේ අමුද්‍රව්‍ය වූහ. ඉවතලන දැ තුළින් ඔහු නොයෙකුත් අත්හදා බැලීම් කර අවසානයේ අපූරු නිර්මාණ කිහිපයක්‌ සොයා ගන්නටද සමත් වෙයි.

ඉවතලන පොලිතින් හා ප්ලාස්‌ටික්‌ ද්‍රව්‍ය මගින් ඔහු ඉදිකිරීම් ක්‍ෂේත්‍රයට අවශ්‍ය විවිධ ආම්පන්න නිමවන්නට පටන් ගනියි. ඔහුගේ නිර්මාණ අතර වඩාත් කැපී පෙනුණේ කොන්ක්‍රීට්‌ දැමීමට උපයෝගී කරගන්නා සැටලින් ලෑල්ලකි.

මේ ආකාරයේ නොයෙකුත් නිර්මාණ හේතුවෙන් ඔහු වයස අවුරුදු 33 වන විට කෑගල්ල දිස්‌ත්‍රික්‌කයේ නව නිපැයුම්කරුවන් ගේ සංගමයේ සභාපති බවට පත් වෙයි.

ඉවතලන ප්ලාස්‌ටික්‌ හා පොලිතින් සමග නිතර නිතර ගැටෙන ආනන්ද හරි අපූරු රසායනික සංයෝගයක්‌ සොයා ගනියි. ඒ අනුව ඔහුට ඝන ද්‍රව්‍යක්‌ බවට තිබෙන ඕනෑම වර්ගයක ප්ලාස්‌ටික්‌ තොගයක්‌ ද්‍රවයක්‌ බවට පත්කර ගැනීමට හැකිවෙයි.

ප්ලාස්‌ටික්‌ යනු හයිෙඩ්‍රාa කාබනික ද්‍රව බන්ධකයක්‌ ලෙස සැලකෙන රසායනික සංයුතියකි. ආනන්ද සොයාගත් රසායනික සංයෝගය සහිතව ඉතා විශාල උෂ්ණත්වයකින් රත් කරන විට එය නිතැතින්ම ද්‍රව හා වායු වශයෙන් කොටස්‌ දෙකකට වෙන්ව යයි.

වායු වශයෙන් ඉහළට යන කොටස ගෑස්‌ වර්ග ලෙසත් ද්‍රව වශයෙන් ලැබෙන කොටස පෙට්‌්‍රල් ඩීසල් හා භූමිතෙල් වැනි ඉන්ධන වර්ග බවටත් පත් කෙරෙනුයේ ඒ අනුවය. මේ ක්‍රියාවලිය මැනවින් සංවර්ධනය කළ ආනන්ද විතානගේ තම වික්‍රමය ලොවට හෙළි කරන්නට උත්සාහ දරන්නේ 2006 වසරේ ජුනි මාසයේදීය.

එහෙත් ඔහුගේ මේ අනර්ඝ නිමැවුම දෙස ලෝකයා බැලුවේ මහත් අප්‍රසාදයෙනි. නැතහොත් වපරැසිනි. ඒත් නැතහොත් අවඥවෙනි. මේ අතර ආනන්ද විතානගේ තම අපූරු නිර්මාණය පිළිබඳ අදහස සහිතව එවකට පරිසර අමාත්‍ය චම්පික රණවක හමුවන්නට එන්නේ ලංකාවේ තිබෙන භයානකම පරිසර ගැටලුවකට විසඳුම ඇත්තේ තමන් ළඟ බව පෙන්වා දෙමිනි.

මේ වන විට මිලියන දෙකකට ආසන්න ජනගහණයක්‌ ජීවත් වන අපේ මේ පුංචි රටේ දෛනිකව ඉවතලන කුණු කසල ප්‍රමාණය ටොන් 6400 ක්‌ පමණ වන බව ගණන් බලා තිබේ. මෙයිනුත් විශාල ප්‍රමාණයක්‌ ඇත්තේ නාගරික කැළි කසළය. මෙම නාගරික කැළි කසළ ප්‍ර්‍රමාණයෙන් සියයට 6 ක්‌ 7 ක්‌ අතර ප්‍රමාණයෙන් නිසැකවම ලැබෙනුයේ පොලිතින් හා ප්ලාස්‌ටික්‌ කැළි කසළ වශයෙනි.

දිනෙන් දිනම උග්‍රවන මේ කැළි කසළ ප්‍රශ්නයේ භයානකම කොටස වන්නේ ප්ලාස්‌ටික්‌ හා පොලිතින් කැළි කසළ ප්‍රමාණය දවසින් දවස ඉහළ යැමය.

මේ නිසා පරිසර අමාත්‍යංශය හා මධ්‍යම පරිසර අධිකාරිය සිටින්නේ ලංකාවේ දිනෙන් දිනම ඉහළ යන ප්ලාස්‌ටික්‌ හා පොලිතින් කැළි කසළ ප්‍රශ්නයට කුමක්‌ හෝ කල් පවතින විසඳුමක්‌ සොයමිනි.

ආනන්ද විතානගේ නම් නව නිපැයුම්කරුවාගේ නිර්මාණයන් පරිසර අමාත්‍යාංශයේ අභිප්‍රායන් ජාඩියට මූඩිය සේ ගැලපෙන්නට පටන් ගත්තේ මෙතනදීය.

නමුත් මෙතැනදී අදාළ බලධාරීන් එකපැහැර ආනන්දගේ යෝජනාව පිළිනොගත්තේය. ඔවුහු මේ නිර්මාණය කෙළින්ම යොමු කළේ මොරටුව විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයේ රසායනික හා ක්‍රියාවලි අධ්‍යයන අංශයටය. ඒ අංශය මගින් කරනු ලැබූ පර්යේෂණ ගණනාවකට පසුව ආනන්ද විතානගේ නම් මේ අරුම පුදුම නිර්මාණ ශිල්පියාගේ නිර්මාණය සක්‌ සුදක්‌ සේ පැහැදිලි බව ඔප්පු වූයේය.

අනතුරුව පරිසර අධිකාරිය, ආනන්ද විතානගේ හා මොරටුව විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයේ රසායනික හා ක්‍රියාවලි අංශය ගිවිසුමක්‌ අත්සන් කළහ. එදා පටන්ම යටියන්තොට කඹුළුමුල්ල ගමේ ආනන්දගේ රසායනාගාරයේදී වැඩ ආරම්භ කෙරිණි.

ආනන්දගේ මනස තුළ නිර්මාණය වූ රසායනික ක්‍රියාවලිය සඳහා යන්ත්‍ර සූත්‍ර ඉදිකෙරිණි. ඒවා විධිමත් පර්යේෂණවලට මොරටු විශ්වවිද්‍යාලය මගින් ලක්‌ කෙරිණි. නිරතුරුවම ඇමැතිවරයාගේ අමාත්‍යංශයේ හා මධ්‍යම පරිසර අධිකාරියේ අධීක්‍ෂණය ලැබිණි.

පර්යේෂණ කටයුතු අවසන් කෙරිණි. ඉදිකිරීම් කටයුතුද අවසන් කෙරිණි. අවසානයේ නිෂ්පාදන කටයුතුද ආරම්භ කෙරිණි.

පසුගිය මාර්තු මාසයේ 31 වන බදාදා උදේ 7.00 ට යෙදුණු සුබ මොහොතින් ඇමැතිවරයා අතින් යටියන්තොට කඹුළුමුල්ලේ දී අදාළ කර්මාන්ත ශාලාව ආරම්භ කෙරිණි.

ප්ලාස්‌ටික්‌ වර්ග බෙදා රසායනික ක්‍රියාවලිය මගින් නිෂ්පාදනය කරන ලද පෙට්‌්‍රල් වර්ගය ඒ මොහොතේම ත්‍රිවිලර් රථ සඳහා නිකුත් කෙරිණි.

ඉන්ධන ත්‍රිවිලර් රථ සඳහා නිකුත් කරමින් ඇමැතිවරයා අප හා අපූරු කතාවක්‌ ද කීවේය.

මේ යන වියදම් සියල්ල සපුරාගෙන මෙතන නිෂ්පාදනය කරන පෙට්‌්‍රල් ලීටරයක්‌ අපට රුපියල් 70 ත් 80 ත් අතර මුදලකට අලෙවි කරන්නත් පුළුවන්. එම ඉන්ධන නිපදවීමේදී අපට ප්ලාස්‌ටික්‌ කිලෝ ග්‍රෑම් එකකින් පෙට්‌්‍රල් ලීටර් තුන් කාලක්‌ නිසැකවම නිෂ්පාදනය කරන්නත් පුළුවනි. මේ ව්‍යාපෘතිය හරියාකාරව ක්‍රියාවේ යෙදුවොත් අපට 2012 දී ප්ලාස්‌ටික්‌ හා පොලිතින් අපද්‍රව්‍ය කියල දෙයක්‌ ඉතිරි වෙන එකක්‌ නැහැ.

ඒ කතාව හරි අපූරුය. 2012 දී එය යථාර්ථයක්‌ විනි නම් 2013 දී අපට ලෝකයේ කොහේ හෝ රටකින් භාවිතයෙන් ඉවතලන ප්ලස්‌ටික්‌ වර්ග ආනයනය කරන්නට ද සිදුවනවා නිසැකය.

By Courtesy of www.divaina.com
03rd April 2010.

Sri Lanka accuses UN and questioned the double standards of the organization.

Sri Lanka has questioned the double standards of the United Nations by attempting to set up an expert panel on Sri Lanka within nine months whereas it took nine years for the organization to set up a probe commission to investigate Britian's involvement in Iraq.

Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama, questioning the UN’s rush in appointing such an expert committee on Sri Lanka, stated that the UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon should have granted more time and space to the government to address the issues raised by him.

“We defeated terrorism only nine months ago in May 2009. Now we are into April 2010. In the UK, it took nine long years to appoint a committee to investigate affairs on the Iraqi issues and UK’s involvement such as the deployment of forces, violations of human rights etc. In Sri Lanka, only nine months have passed so it would have been better if the Secretary General would have given us more time and space,” Minister Bogollagama said.

The government has also raised suspicion on the timing of such a panel and said it ‘was a matter of concern’ as to why such a decision was taken just before an election.

“We also could do just an adhoc arrangement but they are not going to serve the purpose. It is a matter of concern why the Secretary General decided to appoint such a committee just before a general election. We oppose this move because it was not needed and not warranted and the timing is absolutely not right for the Secretary General to have proceeded,” Minister Bogollagama said.

The Foreign Minister further said that the Secretary General should have obtained the permission of the Security Council to appoint such a committee which would look into the affairs of another country and clearly ‘hoped’ that Mr. Ban Ki Moon would respect and avoid any type of influence in the local electorate in a manner that would have very adverse repercussions.

By Courtesy of www.dailymirror.lk
03rd April 2010.

President at UPFA Kekirawa rally: Self-sufficiency in agricultural needs soon.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa emphatically stated that the era in which Sri Lanka sought outside loans to feed its people would soon be over.

The President was of the opinion that the country would soon achieve self-sufficiency in its agricultural needs with the Government giving pride of place to this sector.

Commenting on the many incentives given to improve agriculture, the President said that while a farmer had to spend only Rs 1,435 on fertilizer to cultivate an acre of land the Government spent Rs 27,500 to supplement the effort as a result of the prevailing subsidy on fertilizer.

The President made these observations addressing a political rally in Kekirawa held in support of UPFA candidates contesting the Anuradhapura district. The President noted that the Government was looking at developing rural economy with strategies based on location specific needs, modernising agriculture, strengthening supply chain and marketing etc.

Also massive irrigation schemes in progress would provide farmers with year around water to support their agricultural productions, he added. The President also noted that instead of spending monies on imports the Government would divert them to foster and encourage local agriculture.

In addition to improving agriculture various other programs are in the offing to improve the living standards of the people in the area. Already the notion border villages which prevailed in the area due to acts of terrorism have been wiped out and people are enjoying their new found freedom.

Now it is time to focus on development and we all have to work as one to achieve our objectives in this regard, he added. He told the gathering that in the near future every household in the district would be provided with electricity.

The Government allocated Rs.7200 million for this purpose from the last budget, he added. In addition we would also enact a separate program to upgrade the road network in the area. The efforts undertaken in this regard so far has paid rich dividends and has lessened travel time considerably, he observed.

The President told the gathering that a convincing parliament majority at the April 8 polls would help to accelerate the ongoing development process.

However, you should appoint people who could work and fulfill your expectations. Your number one priority is to ensure victory for the betel leaf. If you do this then we can increase the number of UPFA nominees in Parliament. Then you have three preferences and you can use them according to your choice. However don’t forget to send representatives, who could propagate your wishes, he added. During the occasion a team of lawyers who had been active UNP members for a long time joined the UPFA. This included UNP lawyer’s association head in the area J. M. Koswatte.

Ministers Maithripala Sirisena, D. M. Jayaratne, Artiste Jackson Anthony and all UPFA members contesting the district too addressed the gathering.

By Courtesy of www.dailymirror.lk
03rd April 2010.

Thursday 1 April 2010

Moscow Metro- One of the best Subway systems in the world.

Moscow Metro blasts: video footage.


Deadly blasts rocked two key connection stations of the Moscow Metro network during morning rush hour on March 29 killing 39 people and injuring hundreds more. Some images may be disturbing.

America engineers another regime change in Iraq, this time through rigged elections.

The primary technique through which America maintains its shaky neo-colonialist influence on the developing world is by affecting ‘regime change’ at the slightest sign of challenge to the system, usually through subservient or corrupt local collaborators (think Ranil Wickremesinghe, Sarath Fonseka).

When the stakes are higher however, if a strong Arab leader appears on the radar for example, posing a serious challenge to Israel, the Zionist machine resorts to more extreme measures and elaborate conspiracies to achieve regime change.

The Iraqi invasion of 2003 was one such case where the primary objective was to achieve regime change through invasion, planned for more than a decade. The preparation came in the form of UN sanctions aimed at weakening Saddam Hussein’s regime and the Iraqi military prior to the 1991 Gulf War, and continued until well past 2003.

The crucial component of the conspiracy however, was the long-term, extensive collaborations the Zionists developed with many exiled enemies of Saddam Hussein, three in particular: Ayed Alllawi, Nouri al-Maliki and Ahmad Challabi, exiled in the UK, Syria and US respectively.

Following the invasion America used the primary collaborators as figureheads in occupied Iraq in order to gain some legitimacy, and to achieve their long term strategic aim of permanently destabilising Iraq. The Americans used the three selfish, power hungry and corrupt collaborators cunningly by playing them against each other to achieve such objectives as limiting Iran’s influence in Iraq, to suppress Iraqi resistance to occupation and to gain long term control over untapped oil reserves for US oil companies.

The collaborators

The backgrounds and profiles of the three collaborates are typical of the type US normally targets for recruitment: wealthy, corrupt local elite who have vested interests in regime change due to their greed for power or political desperation, or to escape culpability under domestic law.

Nouri al-Maliki, the incumbent Prime Minister of Iraq was a Shia dissident to Saddam Hussein’s regime in the 1970s. He fled to Syria and became a senior leader of the Dawa party, the rival of Saddam’s Baath party, while in exile. He also coordinated anti-Saddam guerrilla activities with Iranian and Syrian support.

Ayad Allawi, the British trained neurologist, is a former associate of Saddam Hussein. He escaped to Britain in 1978 following a leadership battle with Saddam and returned to Iraq in 2003 after the US invasion. Allawi claims he survived an assassination attempt by Saddam’s agents in 1987 in London. Though he is a Shia, Allawi secures the support of the Sunni minority due to his past links with the secular Baath party.

Ahamad Chalabi, described by his biographer Aram Roston as, “The Man Who Pushed America to War” is the worst criminal of the trio; Chalabi left Iraq in 1956. During decades of exile in London, he is supposed to have become a billionaire through controversial banking and real estate deals. He was convicted of bank fraud of $200 million, in absentia, in Jordan in 1992.

Seeking to topple Saddam Hussein in order to escape pending fraud charges in Iraq, Chalabi made a ‘rogues’ alliance’ with neocon war mongers Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle. Using their official positions, Wolfowitz and Perle established a ‘special analytical unit’ at the Pentagon to coordinate Chalabi’s ‘intelligence’ input which they knew fully well was ‘rubbish’; the operation was paid for by the clueless US tax payer through the State Department.

In the aftermath of the Iraqi occupation and failure of the US to find any Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) in Iraq, the Defense Intelligence Agency reported that the Pentagon had acted on bogus ‘intelligence’ provided by Chalabi; the sort of revelation that deserves the Homer Simpson catch phrase, ‘D’oh’!

Chalabi was discarded by the Americans following this ‘revelation’, and also because he was not useful in Iraq due to most Iraqis not knowing who this impostor was. Later he was arrested by the US Army due to his attempts to get close to Iran in order to bargain with the Americans. He used his wealth to contest in the first parliamentary election in 2005, winning just 30,000 of the 12 million votes!

The story of Iraqi invasion is also the story of American ‘exploitation’ of these three collaborators to achieve key milestones of the occupation such as the destruction of the Baath Party and the murder of Saddam Hussein, exploiting their intense hatred in respective areas.

Allawi was appointed a member of the ‘Interim Governing Council’ established by the Americans following the invasion. He was nominated Iraq’s first head of government by Paul Bremmer, the Henry Kissinger associate who became ‘dictator of Iraq’ following the invasion, and later Allawi was appointed Prime Minister of the Interim Government.

Allawi used the opportunity to personally execute his former enemies; in July 2004, the ‘Sydney Morning Herald’ journalist Paul McGeough broke the news that Allawi summarily executed six suspected insurgents at a Baghdad police station, in the presence of police officers. Allawi reportedly said that the execution was to “send a clear message to the police on how to deal with insurgents”. The allegations went largely unreported by mainstream American media. Allawi’s term as Prime Minister ended in April 2005 when he lost the first ‘real’ elections to the Islamic Dawa Party leader Ibrahim al-Jaafari.

In the case of al-Maliki, his obvious hatred towards the Baath party earned him the post of deputy leader of the ‘Supreme National De-baathification Commission’, formed to purge Saddam era Baath Party officials from the military and government positions. He was elected to the transitional National Assembly in 2005, and was made Prime Minister in 2006 due to Americans finding the ‘elected’ Prime Minister al-Jafari too ‘pro-Iranian’ to their liking!

On December 30, 2006, (the first day of the feast of Eid ul-Adha), al-Maliki signed the death warrant of Saddam Hussein and declined a stay of execution, saying: “Our respect for human rights requires us to execute him.” In 2008, al-Maliki ordered an offensive against the young Shia cleric Muqtada Al Sadr’s powerful Mahdi Army in Baghdad and Basra.

Al-Maliki’s falling out with the occupiers

Despite being ‘thick as thieves’ with the Americans during the planning of the invasion and the murder of Saddam Hussein, al-Maliki’s relationship with them ‘hit the rocks’ when American aims began to contradict his personal objectives.

American gripes with al-Maliki arose mainly from his alleged reluctance to tackle Shia militias, a duty he was expected to perform diligently as a true American cat’s paw, despite the militia coming from his Shia power base!

In return, al-Maliki criticised the so-called ‘coalition’ forces for deliberate killings of Iraqi civilians, saying: “this is a phenomenon that has become common. No respect for civilians, killing them on a hunch. It’s unacceptable.” He complained about American raids on Shia militia leaders without his approval.

Al-Maliki probably committed the ‘cardinal sin’ when in June 2008 he demanded, albeit on bended knee, withdrawal of US troops from the country ‘in about 16 months’. Later he said the US government has been reluctant to agree to a timetable “because they feel it would appear tantamount to an admission of defeat”.

Maliki hit back at Hilary Clinton’s not-so-subtle calls for his removal by alleging that the Americans were acting as if Iraq was ‘their property’ and that they should ‘come to their senses’ and ‘respect democracy’. Such remarks and Al-Maliki’s position on key issues involving the occupation made him a target for regime change by the Zionists; past contributions do not count in such situations.

Allawi on the other hand, played his cards right. The US surely did not want to leave an Iranian sympathiser in power in Iraq following their scheduled troop withdrawal next year, and Allawi has been highly critical of Iran for ‘meddling’ in Iraq and supporting Shia militia. He also paid a visit to Saudi Arabia before the election for currying favours with the royal family, who are with Americans and against Iran.

This is the reason why the Zionists carefully engineered a regime change in occupied Iraq, once again, through a rigged election, presented as the paragon of democracy: the electoral process the Americans put in place in Iraq, and the conduct of the March 7 elections were carefully designed to yield the result they were after.

The first defilement of the election process was to confine the contest to the parties led by US collaborators: Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s State of Law coalition, Ayad Allawi’s Iraqiya Party and Ahmad Challabi’s Iraqi National Congress.

The Independent High Electoral Council (IHEC) approved 6172 candidates to compete for 325 seats. Candidates with even the remotest past link to Baath Party were weeded out by a committee headed by Ahmad Chalabi, a candidate, and one other member. Nearly 500 candidates including the Sunni Muslim leaders Dhafir al-Ani and Saleh al-Mutlaq, were disqualified, disenfranchising Sunni Iraqis. The disqualified candidates complained that they held no memory of the Baath party or Saddam Hussein!

The extremely controversial, opaque, vote counting process showed that the US was prepared to fully control the process to achieve the regime change they were after. During the counting the lead switched several times between Allawi’s coalition and al-Maliki’s alliance; with 95 per cent of the votes counted, al-Maliki led Allawi by a few thousand votes.

During the counting al-Maliki’s party insisted that the vote counting has been marred by ‘stuffing’ ballots boxes by Allawi’s supporters, and ‘unknown’ hackers tampering with computer votes. The IHEC rejected Maliki’s calls for a manual recount, prompting his supporters to announce the IHEC as corrupt.

According to the official results declared on 27 March, 19 days after the election, Allawi’s Iraqiya party apparently won 91 of the 325 seats in Iraq’s Council of Representatives, with Nouri al-Maliki’s State of the Law party winning 89 seats. The overall difference in the number of votes between the winner and the looser was as little as 9,000 votes (of 12 million registered voters)!

Al-Maliki immediately announced he would not accept the results alleging electoral fraud, and renewed his calls for a recount. He claimed that the results remained ‘preliminary’ and ‘not final’. In Baghdad his supporters protested waving banners that read ‘No, to fraud!’ and ‘Where have our voices gone?’

But endorsements of the results came thick and past from the usual suspects who expect their word to be ‘final’ on matters involving elections anywhere in the world: the US hailed elections as ‘a significant milestone’. Tellingly, US Ambassador Christopher Hill and Gen. Ray Odierno, the American military commander in Iraq, praised ‘the overall integrity of the election’ and called on leaders to ‘refrain from inflammatory rhetoric or action’; if there ever was an ‘implicit threat’, this was it!

The UN representative in Iraq, the former Dutch politician Ad Melkert also declared that the results ‘credible’ and urged all sides to accept them. Western ‘observers’ also said they saw no signs of widespread fraud.

Allawi, obviously happy with the latest turn of events, pledged to ‘work with all sides’ to form the next government; but his chances do not look good.

A coalition of disillusioned politicians and their constituents assisting al-Maliki against Allawi seems possible, with leaders of other political parties supporting al-Maliki’s call for a re-count: President Jalal Talabani of the Kurdistan Alliance (who has his own ulterior motive to annex the semi-autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan) prefers al-Maliki over Allawi. Interior Minister Jawad al-Bolani who leads the Iraqi Unity Alliance, believes that the Americans inflated voter registration numbers by about 12 per cent.

Also, there is the distinct possibility that al-Maliki may opt for more radical options in order “to prevent the slipping of the security situation in the country and the resurgence of violence that was defeated only after efforts, sufferings, and bloodshed” as he pointed out during his calls for a recount.

Installing democracy in Iraq was never the US mission or objective in Iraq (why should it be?); it simply served as an ‘excuse’ for the invasion, following the exposure of lies about WMD.

Now they have achieved the long term aim of destabilising Iraq permanently.

By Ajit Randeniya
By Courtesy of www.lankaweb.com.
28th March, 2010.