“Yes We Scan” – US and UK in shameless spying on guests of State

It was a good take off from “Yes We Can” from Barack Obama’s presidential campaign in 2008, by the headline in a German publication to mark Barack Obama’s visit to Germany this week. The complete text was – “Yes We Scan” – with an image of Obama with earphones on listening into the sub-text that read:

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POLICE AND LAND POWERS IN 13th AMENDMENT - POLITICAL DYNAMITE FOR INDIA AND SRI LANKA

No Provincial Council including the Northern Provincial Council has enjoyed Police and Land powers for quarter century (26 years). Why is the TNA hell bent on securing police and land powers at the behest of the LTTE Diaspora, other than to fragment this country with the assistance of Jayalalithaa, Karunanidhi and Hillary Clinton?

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From a scribe’s pen:

“NANDI” - THE SOUTHERN STAR IN SPACE

The following chapter authored by H.L.D. Mahindapala was published in Nandasiri Jasentuliyana’s book which was launched last week in Colombo.

The route from an obscure Sinhala-Buddhist mixed school in Dodanduwa, Sri Lanka to the Outer Space Affairs Office of the United Nations in New York and Vienna was inevitably long, winding and arduous, with usual quota of diversions and pitfalls on the way. But nothing en route - not even the English alphabet unknown to him in his early education - daunted Nandasiri (known to his friends as "Nandi") Jasentuliyana.

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