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END OF THE WORLD INDEED!

The chronically negative are saying there is impending calamity -- the end of the world - because there is an irreconcilable rift between the Judicial branch of governance, and the Legislature. But, as one astute commentator mentioned in a radio interview last morning, whatever noises being made about the current impeachment standoff by various interested parties in staged dramas on behalf of the embattled Chief Justice, will last only until the next Chief Justice is appointed.

Doomsayers have been saying 'end of the world' for decades now. Obviously, they are having a field day these days, believing their own worse nightmare scenarios would come to pass. They should have learnt a thing or two from Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who did her own little television gig the other day about the end of the world prophesy by the Mayans.

With a straight face she said 'yes, it's going to be the end of the world', and rattled off some of the things she hopes to do before Armageddon comes to pass.

Our average stony faced civil society braggart however would have no such sense of self-effacing humour, having a tendency to internalize their own hubris.

We have this tribe in the newspapers too, and one pontiff has deigned to announce to all from his bully pulpit on-high in his editorial of yesterday, that Sri Lanka, due to the Executive Presidency, is going to end up another Rwanda or a Congo.

The not so subtle racism of that statement aside, the Cassandra-like obtuseness and inanity of it is simply stunning. Here Sri Lanka has a seven per cent growth rate, which is the highest in the region and one of the highest in the world, when most countries are suffering from chronic economic malaise due to ongoing recessions and in some instances, economic Depression.

Having wound up the war, which these same Western-liberal cronies and media pontiffs said could never be ended, Sri Lanka has embarked on a growth trajectory that would be the envy of the rest of the world, but yet if you would listen to the blind that refuse to see, we are headed towards sub-Saharan African conditions.

The good news is that such fact-disrespecting and thereby fundamentally dishonest doomsayers have been around for a very long time now, and nothing of what they said would become a reality, has come to pass. By the way, Julia Gillard would really have hit the Jackpot if she spoofed our local Mayans after a fashion ...

Predictably their latest lament is about the impeachment motion, and hair tearing and the banshee screaming that follows has reached a crescendo since the Chief Justice in seeming desperation walked out of the Select Committee process -- alleging that she is being unfairly treated.

This is not a calamity, since the Select Committee sessions would go on with the chief protagonist in the drama being tried in absentia. All it means is that she has chosen not to avail herself of the opportunity to exonerate herself in person, and before the Committee, a right that she is constitutionally entitled to.

The Chief Justice's political 'backers' are obviously salivating at what they must be seeing as an opportunity to take the impeachment battle from the rightful venue in Parliament to the Lipton roundabout, and then onto the streets. If they can make another Fonseka out of a Bandaranayake, the civil society doomsayers and the newspaper Cassandras would be happy, as they in the end do not care a two-cents worth about the ultimate fate of Ms. Bandaranayake the person.

Of course they all said that the 'S' people would be trouble for the President, and with each succeeding S, they predicted the end of the Rajapaksa government. First they said 'S' (Sarath Fonseka) will do the job, then they said 'S' (Sarath Silva) will do the job -- and now they are saying 'S' ( Shirani B'nayake) will do the job, of destroying this regime.

Blind pessimists doomsayers and assorted losers always live in hope that everybody will eventually lose in the way they are routinely used to being defeated -- but alas for them, that never happens.

A crippled Palestine: Rises up to its feet

On November 29, 2012, sixty five years to the day of the 1947 UN General Assembly decision to partition British-mandate Palestine between Israel and an Arab state, the UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to raise the status of Palestine from ‘observer entity’ to ‘non-member observer state’.

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‘...these countries are not PERSONALLY ANGRY WITH US’ – Part II:

Petrie: A dishonest piece of work

I am genuinely sorry about the speech that was made by my friend, the Hon. R. Sampanthan, one of the longest serving Members of this House for whom I have great respect. And it is a matter for deep regret that he is not even present here to listen to what I have to say in answer to him. The Hon. R. Sampanthan found fault with my Ministry for criticizing the ‘Petrie Report.’

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