Saturday, September 13, 2014

SC disfavors fair and free elections! Elections Commissioner’s FR petition decided by Basil’s ex secretary

(Lanka-e-News- 12.Sep.2014. 11.55PM) The Sri Lanka Supreme courts (SC) that has turned into a stinking garbage bin of the Temple Trees contributing further to the already existing stench of the latter , dismissed a fundamental rights (FR) petition within just a day even without examining the petition to give a verdict against the Elections Commissioner who took steps to conduct a fair and free election , thereby surpassing even the verdicts of King Kekile era for its eccentricity and atrocity going by the gross injustice meted out by the SC under the Rajapakse era.

It is most disgraceful that this egregiously unjust decision of the SC manipulated under the Rajapakse era will go down as an incredible stigma attaching to the SC that is indelible in its history .

This FR petition was filed by a group aligned with Basil Rajapakse at latter’s behest . Basil Rajapakse 's economic development Ministry decided to distribute a sum of Rs.2500.00 to every family in the Moneragala district to earn votes in the Uva provincial council elections which in fact is an elections bribe .

The opposition political parties and election monitoring organizations made a complaint to the Elections Commissioner that this payment constitutes an illegal bribe . The Elections Commissioner after his tour of the province made an order last Tuesday(09) to the relevant divisions to put this payment on hold until after the elections.

Basil Rajapakse who was infuriated by this directive held a discussion summoning a number of Moneragala pro Rajapakse regime groups .It was decided that enlisting such a group an FR petition be filed in the SC against the decision of the Elections Commissioner. This petition was filed on Thursday.

Most strangely the SC in an unholy haste took up this petition for hearing the very next day , Friday (12) , that is today. This petition was heard in SC No. 502 by a panel of judges including Chief (cheat) justice Mohan Peiris, Priyantha Jayawardena and Buwaneka Aluvihara ,that is , a team of mockers of justice who are front line Rajapakse regime lickspittles and lackeys. The worst part ? Priyantha Jayawardena who sat on the bench to hear this trial today was the secretary to Basil Rajapakse later appointed to the bench.

This case was cunningly heard today last in order to keep the gaze and attention of the lawyers away from.

It is a practice when such an FR petition is taken up , at least one day time is allowed so that the respondent can file answers .Instead , even without summoning the Elections Commissioner , who is the respondent , this case was hurriedly decided and verdict given against the respondent today itself - something that never takes place in a judicial court dispensing true natural justice. When delivering this verdict , this panel of mockery justice led by chief (cheat) justice Mohan Pachoris announced , since the people in that area are facing hardships following disasters , postponements must not be made and to distribute these cash gifts (Rs. 2500.00) to them without delay, and not to halt it.

The most reprehensible, treacherous, atrocious and poisonous ingredient in this travesty of justice dispensed by this set of jokers and mockers of justice is : in the FR petition filed ,what was stated was , there are obstructions to distribution of dry rations ,and nowhere was Rs. 2500.00 mentioned. Yet this pack of wolves in judges’ attire had no qualms when disgracing the lofty judicial bench by acting in usurpation of every rule of true and hallowed justice.

What this comic trio who disgraced the bench instead of gracing it failed to understand was : it is the Ministry of disaster management that should look into the disaster affected people’s woes and not judges from benches. It is a pity that these shameless judges of MaRa by giving this verdict for and in favor of Basil’s economic development Ministry has converted the sacrosanct judicial bench into a garbage stench by stooping to do the sordid biddings of unscrupulous politicians.

The bottom line is the SC that should stand by and uphold justice had itself descended most shamelessly to take a decision in disfavor of a free and fair election - can you beat that !

He is not related only to Obama, president tells of Mervyn!

Saturday, 13 September 2014

The president summoned public relations minister Dr. Mervyn Silva, who claims that all the Sinhalese are his relatives, and gave him a contract to fulfil. That is to threaten and tame a UNP provincial council election candidate who is unleashing thuggery in Moneragala district these days. In order to be in the good books of the president, Mervyn accepted the contract, went to Kiribathgoda immediately, got around 250 of his thugs into vehilcles and left for Moneragala.

Arriving in the area in question in Moneragala, the minister and his thugs had raised hell, and surrounded the home of the UNP candidate whom they had come to tame. Coming out of the house wearing only a towel was UNP MP Palitha Thewarapperuma. Saying “Ah, Mervyn Aiya,” Palitha has gone to Mervyn and he has embraced him, asking him, “What are you doing here, Malli?” Placing his hands around Mervyn’s shoulder, Palitha has taken him inside. A little while later, to the much surprise of his thugs, Mervyn came out, his hands around the shoulder of the UNP candidate they had come to tame.

In front of them all, Mervyn gave a call to the president and said, “OK. Sir, the matter has been settled. He is my relation. He wants to join the government after winning. I will do the needful.” Saying something, the president disconnected the line and told those near him, “Now, only Obama of America is not related to our Mervyn.”

MPs have done it again!

Editorial-September 12, 2014

Ministers continue to draw heavy flak for wasting public funds on useless ceremonies and travelling the length and breadth of the country to ‘declare open’ or, as the government propagandists say, ‘vest in the people’ culverts, school buildings, public conveniences etc. It was only recently that a minister vented his spleen liberally on some officials for not being present at a ceremony he attended in a province. Ordinary MPs representing both the government and the Opposition are no better. They, too, neglect their legislative duties. Most of them do not even attend Parliament regularly as we report from time to time.

On Tuesday the government failed to have a set of regulations under the Imports and Exports (Control) Act passed for want of a quorum in the House. They had been presented on behalf of the Ministry of Finance which is under President Mahinda Rajapaksa! Even government MPs did not care to be present in the House to ensure the passage of their big boss’s regulations!

We often have party leaders waxing eloquent on parliamentary traditions, quoting as they do Erskine May, Alice Sturgis, John Bourinot et al. But, before parading their knowledge of parliamentary practice and procedure they ought to ensure that their MPs attend parliament, oughtn’t they? The Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) and the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) consisting of government and Opposition lawmakers rip state institutions and officials to shreds for dereliction of duty among other things. But, never do the MPs, save a few, turn the searchlight inwards.

Strangely, Chief Government Whip Minister Dinesh Gunawardene told the Chair on Tuesday that the party leaders had decided that the regulations concerned could be passed with or without a quorum. The presiding member, however, adjourned the House on the grounds that the Chair had to do so when a member pointed out there was no quorum—21 members out of 225. The government had to wait till the following day to have the regulations passed.

The remedy reportedly proposed by the party leaders is baffling, to say the least! One may recall how the incumbent government solved the problem of the illegal transfer of duty free vehicle permits prior to the expiry of the stipulated five-year period. It amended the law to legalise the transfer of permits immediately after their issuance! We hope and pray that our politicians in their wisdom won’t try to solve problems such as murder and robbery by decriminalising those offences. The solution to the issue of MPs skipping parliamentary sessions is to make them mend their ways and do what they are paid for with public funds. Nothing else will do.

Party leaders including the President have to take the blame for the deteriorating parliamentary standards and poor attendance. The time has come for them to get cracking and grasp the nettle without papering over the cracks and proposing ludicrous remedies which only make one wonder whether they have no control over their MPs.

A multi-million-rupee new administrative wing for Parliament is said to be on the drawing board. Why should the parliamentary complex be further expanded at a massive cost to the state coffers when its members do not make use of even the existing facilities?

In 2011, an urgent Bill was steamrollered through Parliament, regardless of protests, to take over ‘underperforming enterprises’ and ‘underutilised assets’. The government insisted that it had done so in the public interest though it was patently clear that the expropriation law was politically motivated. Why no frantic effort has ever been made over the years to enhance the performance and productivity of political institutions, especially the national legislature is the question.

Army in UPFA campaign

SATURDAY, 13 SEPTEMBER 2014

36 Army personnel have been deployed for the election campaign of Maj. Denipitiya who is a UPFA candidate for Uva PC election from Badulla District say reports.

They have been deployed with duty leave and all official privileges for the election campaign at Banadarawela area.

Many more personnel of SL Navy and SL Army have been deployed in the election campaign of the UPFA and we hope to reveal information of these personnel in the very near future.

Regime’s hidden rifts surface : Basil disappears deserting the Uva elections campaign: Poor treatment to Japanese PM

(Lanka-e-News- 13.Sep.2014, 11.30PM) While the Uva provincial elections (PC) is around the corner , the conflicts within the Medamulana Rajapakse family had deepened so much so that the SLFP national organizer and economic development Minister Basil Rajapakse had done the vanishing trick leaving everyone in the lurch at the crucial juncture, according to Temple Trees sources.

It is learnt that Basil had left everything aside suddenly and disappeared following the step motherly treatment that was accorded to him when the Japanese Prime Minister (P.M.) Shinsho Abe arrived in Sri Lanka (SL) recently. Basil had taken offence at his marginalizing during the visit of the foreign guest , while prominence and precedence was given to Medamulana MaRa’s synthetic lawyer Namal Rajapakse the ‘podiyan’ (brat).

Based on protocol , it is Basil Rajapakse , a Minister who should be given prominence and precedence over Namal who is just an M.P. Despite it , since Basil was sidelined , he had not participated in any of the functions attended by the Japanese P.M. – not even the business conference attended by the Japanese P.M. where the presence of Basil as economic development Minister was essential.

Based on Temple Trees informed sources Basil may not participate when the Chinese P.M. too arrives in SL on 18 th September . Meanwhile the poor treatment meted out to the touring Japanese P.M.is a hot theme of discussion among Diplomatic circles.It is a widely known fact that it is Japan that donated the television system to SL as well as the Jayawardena hospital , yet the P.M.of Japan who arrived in SL for the first time after 24 long years was instead of being allowed to address a Parliamentary session was accorded a welcome in the Parliamentary canteen by the Medamulana Rajapakses.

The Diplomatic circles are of the consensus that this constituted a serious affront to a powerful country like Japan that had greatly assisted SL. It is learnt that the Rajapakses had taken this reprehensible attitude towards Japan because they were kowtowing to the pressures exerted by the Chinese embassy in SL. As though to meet this scorn poured on him on the same plane, the Japanese P.M. extolled over and over Late J.R. Jayawardena when he made his address at the canteen of the Parliament.

In the course of his speech , Shinso Abe said , even his father had been a P.M. of Japan , and he remembered during his young days that in his father’s house too there was a photograph of J.R. Jayawardena , and in fact in every house of the political leaders of Japan there is one, he noted.

But for the courageous speech of J R Jayawardena ‘Nahi werana weranee,’ who steadfastly stood by Japan , made after the second world war , Japan would not have advanced this far to reach the position it is now in , Shinso Abe emphasized.

It is however noteworthy Basil Rajapakse did not attend the canteen conference , and he boycotted it. His absence was most conspicuous.

Meanwhile the seniors of the SLFP lamented , Basil Rajapakse who took over the national organizer post without giving it to Janaka Bandara Tennekoon who did yeoman service to the SLFP , had at the crucial period deserted the decisive Uva PC elections campaign , and scooted off without trace.

At the moment Namal Rajapakse had taken over the current UPFA elections campaign . The SLFP seniors are naturally questioning whether Namal who is inexperienced in politics and who knows next to nothing in that sphere can carry out this task in relation to a most decisive election .

The media coolies noted for bartering their souls most selfishly for self propulsion , who made a big din and issue about the absence of the support for the UNP at the Uva elections of a worthless non entity like Sajith Premadasa who holds no post in the UNP , have turned into stinking corpses being unable to write a word or open their mouths to utter a word regarding the fleeing of Basil Rajapakse from the Uva elections scene.

35-year-old shot dead in Horana

September 13, 2014

A 35-year old person was shot dead in Illimba area in Horana, a short while ago, a source from the police said.

The person was reportedly shot at point blank by an unidentified gunman who arrived in a motorbike. The victim had died on-the-spot following the shooting incident took place at around 2.00 p.m. according to the police.

“The Horana police have launched investigations into the incident. The investigating teams have not yet disclosed the reason behind the shooting,” a police officer said.

The remains of the deceased have been taken to the Horana Base hospital for the post-mortem examination.

Magistrate reprimands police for giving into Wasanthi Chaturani

Saturday, 13 September 2014

Actress Wasanthi Chathurani has filed a complaint with the children and women’s bureau of the police against Neth FM media network’s owner Nihal Epa Seneviratne, CEO Asanga Jayasuriya and two journalists of its popular ‘Belumgala’ programme. The reason for the complaint is an exposure of her made by ‘Belumgala’ after she had objected to a prevous exposure of a corrupt official at the Presidential Secretariat.

She has complained not against the radio channel but its owner, CEO and the two announcers. Nihal and Asanga have given statements to the women’s bureau of the police, and on behalf of the two announcers, their head of the section gave a statement, as the exposure of their identities could endanger their lives. However, at the instigation of Wasanthi, the bureau is making quite an effort to hunt down the two journalists of ‘Belumgala.’

Despite any pressure by police, Neth FM has not produced the two journalists of ‘Belumgala.’ Then, Wasanthi has influenced the Bureau to obtain a warrant from the court. On her order, the bureau has made submissions to the Nugegoda magistrate’s court and sought permission to record statements from the two journalists. However, Nugegoda chief magistrate Aruna Aluthge has considered the safety of the two journalists and severely reprimanded police, telling them not to use courts for the lowly acts of the police. Perplexed by the unexpected outburst by the magistrate, police have withdrawn their request. Saddened by this, Wasanthi is trying to weave a net against magistrate Aluthge, sources say.

A corrupt political correspondent

September 14, 2014
Ceylon Today is ready to reveal several corrupt deals of a political correspondent of a national English weekly who plays 'both ways' to amass wealth. He is no different from the famous corrupt political correspondents; Nevanji Madanhire (The Standard), Brian Mangwende (Newsday) in Harare or Maurice Lance Nlube (Sun - Times) of Malawi. This political correspondent has gained much over the past four decades to build a mansion and enjoy acres of lands in the outstations holding certain politicians to ransom with his pen. He once traversed the 'Road to Justice,' located in the 'New Boutique' area in Colombo every morning with rise of the Sun. He escaped from being charged for having raped a young woman journalist who worked under him way back in 1980s wielding political power.

The late Minister of Internal Security, T.B. Werapitiya who was in charge of the Police knew that rape story well.
Having escaped from that case, this Political Correspondent who was a News Editor at that time befriended another young woman journalist working under him. He wrote feature articles for her and published them under her byline to promote her. In the meantime intimacy too grew strong and couple set out from that editorial together.
As the relations became sour, this Political Correspondent tried an 'escape route'. However, the Nugegoda 'Tilakes' were tough, as they all came from a legal and political background. Despite the huge age gap, the man was caught in 'marriage' trap. During that UNP regime he managed to get 60 acres of land from Minuwangoda and upcountry areas using his pen to threaten politicians on both sides over alleged abuses.

Amassing wealth was his hobby abusing the might of the fourth estate. During the Kumaratunga administration he used his column to attack a high ranking minister and was offered a grand bungalow and a tea estate in Matale. During the terrorist war, he posed off as a correspondent of a magazine that had links with arms manufacturers and acted as the local agent to promote arms deals.
When President Mahinda Rajapaksa assumed office, he ordered an investigation into the reported corrupt acts of this Political Correspondent. The man stopped the weekly column and jumped the country. Having returned after a long absence he has resumed his weekly column. Now attempts are being made to sweep the investigation file under the carpet. This Political Correspondent is reported to be busy visiting 'High Places' pleading not to proceed with the investigation.
Ceylon Today will assure the readers that we will unfold all details about this corrupt Political Correspondent in question, and will also speak to him to get his comments about the investigation that is now proceeding against him.

Alles’ Gateway teaches children about ‘mom’s boyfriend’

Saturday, 13 September 2014

The biggest business of MP and businessman Tiran Alles and his family is Gateway International School.

Children of ministers and MPs and other VIPs study at this group of schools. Internally, it is like a heap of garbage, but that is not being highlighted by the media because parents of the students do not want to spit at their own faces.
Alles’ Gateway Teaches Children About ‘Mom’s Boyfriend’ by Thavam

Urgent Appeal: Police Arbitrariness

In Nepal

Immediately release Doctor Chandra Kant Raut who have been confined into illegal and arbitrary confinement

( September 13, 2014, Kathmandu/ Hong Kong SAR, Sri Lanka Guardian) “The police station in Morang, Nepal, has arbitrarily arrested Dr Chandra Kant Raut, a social activist, at 7:15 PM on 13 September 2014,” reported by the Asian Human Rights Commission, a right group headquartered in Hong Kong SAR.

The report further reads as follows;

Urgent Appeal Police Arbitrariness by Thavam

Scotland Poised To Become An Independent State After September 18 Referendum

By Veluppillai Thangavelu -September 13, 2014

Veluppillai Thangavelu

The make or break referendum in Scotland is just a few days away. People ofScotland will vote on September 18 to decide whether to stay part of the United Kingdom or break the 307 years long union. Why the Scots did waited this long, almost three centuries, to conduct a referendum for separation?

Recent opinion polls suggest the referendum race is neck and neck. There are four million voters – which for the first time will include 16- and 17-year-olds – to be asked a single question: “Should Scotland become an independent country?”

Previous opinion polls showed support for independence at between 25% and 35%. This week’s polls put the Yes at 51% and No at 49% thus a narrow lead in favour of independence.

Even after the Act of Union of 1707, Scotland continued to keep its distinct identity differently from the rest of Britain. It maintained its own separate education system, law and justice systems, and church and sports teams. But until the vote to set up a devolved government for Scotland in 1997, all major decisions were made by the Westminster parliament in London.

A referendum in 1979 on a devolved Scottish assembly garnered 51.6% of votes in favour, but the vote was defeated on a technicality: the low turnout meant those voting in favour constituted only 32.9% of the electorate, below the 40% bench mark. Many Yes supporters felt cheated, however, this time around there is no turnout requirement. A simple majority of 50%+ will carry the day.

Scottish people tend to dislike rightwing parties; the ruling Conservative party has only one Conservative Member in the current Westminster parliament. When Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister she imposed a deeply unpopular poll tax in Scotland that led to riots. It was left to the current Tory leader, David Cameron to offer an apology to the people of Scotland in 2006. Yet, the Conservative Party remains deeply unpopular in Scotland.

The election of Tony Blair’s New Labour party in 1997 initiated change. The Scottish devolution referendum of 1997 was a pre-legislative referendum held in Scotland on September 11, 1997 over whether there was support for the creation of a Scottish Parliament with devolved powers, and whether the Parliament should have tax-varying powers. The referendum was a Labour manifesto commitment and was held in their first term after the 1997 election. This was the second referendum held in Scotland over the question of devolution, the first being in 1979. Turnout for the referendum was 60.4%. The prime minister confidently predicting the result would cement the union, not encourage further cracks. Read More

Beijing’s Control Freaks Deceive Hong Kong: So Far Narendra Modi-1, Xi Jinping-0

By Kumar David -

Prof. Kumar David

President Xi is just completing his first benighted year in office; in countries on the other side of its littoral waters China is seen as an obstreperous bully; Beijing’s control freaks have brazenly deceived the people of Hong Kong; emotions of great power nationalism have grown among the people though the economic waters of the Middle Kingdom are uncertain. Modi’s first 100 days as Prime Minister has been like an express train, sometimes sans brakes. He has scored PR goals but admittedly it is too early for substantive achievements. On the down-side, is he building a team or turning his Cabinet colleagues into pliant followers?

[Now is a good time to review the goal scoring rates of our giant neighbours since next Sunday has to be reserved for armchair philosophising about Scotland and the week after for Uva after the verdict; that is if elections are held. Why is the ruling party indulging hell for leather in vote-losing election violence? Is there a pact between the palace and the commissioner whereby the king can instruct his underling to call it all off if defeat stares the regime in the face? In recent times there has been so much perfidy in high places that the surreal is the possible].

Lying to Hong Kong

A solemn promise was recorded in 1997 at the reunification of HK with the Mainland that there would be steady progress towards universal suffrage in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) to give it its full name. A high degree of autonomy was also enshrined in the Sino-British Joint Declaration of 1984. All came to nought two weeks ago when the National People’s Congress (China’s parliament) decided that for all intents Beijing will nominate 2 or 3 persons and Hong Kong people could choose one among them – some universal suffrage! The procedure would be that Beijing appoints a “nominating committee” of 1200 Hong Kongers who will pick the candidates. In the years since 1997 a similar committee of Hong Kong tycoons, businessmen and China supporters elected previous Chief Executives. (The Chief Executive is the Chinese version of the British Governor). Read More

Salmond: No 'day of reckoning' for businesses who back union

SATURDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2014

Scotland's first minister distances himself from remarks made by nationalist Jim Sillars about "a day of reckoning with BP and the banks".

Mr Sillars, a former SNP deputy leader, appeared to threaten banks and business who have come out in favour of preserving the union as the 18 September Scottish independence referendum looms.

He said: "This referendum is about power, and when we get a Yes majority we will use that power for a day of reckoning with BP and the banks.

"The heads of these companies are rich men, in cahoots with a rich English Tory Prime Minister, to keep Scotland's poor poorer through lies and distortions.

"The power they have now to subvert our democracy will come to an end with a Yes."

But Mr Salmond said on Saturday: "The day after a Yes vote there will cease to be a No campaign and Yes campaign - only Team Scotland. We will approach the success of Yes with magnanimity to all.

"Jim Sillars is a great campaigner who has put aside his personal grief over the loss of his wife Margo MacDonald to put his heart and soul into galvanising the Yes vote.

"He is fighting a fine campaign all over Scotland - but the day after a Yes vote will be a day of celebration for the people, not reckoning for big companies drawn into the No campaign by Downing Street."

Asked about Mr Sillars' comments, he said: "Jim was simply trying to express the anger felt by so many people about the revelations that some supermarket statements were orchestrated by the Prime Minister himself.

"However, we must rise above these underhand Tory tactics, and be confident of the new spirit in Scotland.

"The people are showing no signs whatsoever of being cowed. They are in no mood to be bullied by big Westminster Government putting pressure on big business to intimidate the people of Scotland. Indeed, just the opposite is happening."

Labour MP Jim Murphy said he has lost most of his voice "but not the argument" as he concluded a 100-day tour of Scotland urging voters to say no to independence.

Mr Murphy stood on top of an Irn Bru crate for the last time to address crowds in his home city of Glasgow.

He said: "The nearer it gets, a lot of the undecided voters have looked into the precipice and they've stepped back.

"They've said, 'I don't even know what currency we'd use and I don't know who would pay the bills'.

"With the prospect of more devolution coming, a lot of undecided voters are breaking away from Yes towards a patriotic No Thanks."

The former Labour cabinet member added: "The SNP's wishful thinking doesn't pay the bills, it doesn't pay the wages or the mortgage or feed the kids.

"The fact is that all these business have spoken up in the way they have is because they are worried. It's an enormous uncosted risk and it's not like an election - we can't go back."

Ukraine PM slams Putin, ceasefire again under strain in east Ukraine

Sat Sep 13, 2014

* Yatseniuk says Putin wants "frozen conflict" in Ukraine

* Says wants Ukraine in NATO, though knows this not on cards now

* Renewed shelling at Donetsk airport undermines ceasefire

* Ukraine's economy may shrink by up to 10 pct in 2014 - cbanker

By Gareth Jones and Anton Zverev

KIEV/DONETSK, Ukraine, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Ukraine's prime minister accused Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday of planning to destroy his country as renewed fighting near the airport of a major eastern city underscored the fragility of an eight-day ceasefire in the region.

Ukraine PM Slams Putin, Ceasefire Again Under Strain in East Ukraine by Thavam

U.S.-led coalition seeks to exclude Iran from fight against Islamic State

By Anne Gearan September 13

Iran is a huge player in both Iraq and Syria, but involvement in new group could cause Saudis to drop out.

Secretary of State John F. Kerry said Egypt has a "critical role to play" in beating back the extremist Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq. (AP)

CAIRO — Two countries, Iran and Saudi Arabia, have long borders with Iraq, seat of a growing battle against Islamic State militants. Despite the huge stakes for both border countries, only Saudi Arabia is now welcome as part of a U.S.-driven coalition of nations girding for a long fight.
U.S.-led Coalition Seeks to Exclude Iran From Fight Against Islamic State by Thavam