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An Australian Coup Part 2 | Padraig Colman
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Rambling ruminations of an Irishman in Sri Lanka. An Australian Coup Part 2. This article was published in. On June 19 2015. Before Whitlam, the Australian people had been electing the “right people,” namely the Liberal-National Country Party Coalition headed for many years by Robert Menzies. Menzies was always happy to do the bidding of the US and the UK. He once said, “A sick feeling of repugnance grows in me as I near Australia.”. Kerr had longstanding ties to Anglo-American intelligence. He was a...
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Chuckle Muscles Part Two | Padraig Colman
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Rambling ruminations of an Irishman in Sri Lanka. Chuckle Muscles Part Two. This article appeared in. On July 22 2015. It’s being so cheerful as keeps me going. Mona Lott, a character on the 1940s radio show ITMA (It’s that Man Again). Legal scholar and behavioral economist Cass Sunstein wrote in the. New York Review of Books. In 1974, economist Richard Easterlin published a paper, Does Economic Growth Improve the Human Lot? Above a low level of income, Easterlin found no correlation between happiness an...
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Chuckle Muscles Part One | Padraig Colman
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Rambling ruminations of an Irishman in Sri Lanka. Chuckle Muscles Part One. This article appeared in. On Monday July 6 2015. More than his Share? 8221; Dodd replied, “The notes are very light, M’Lord.”. Even at the age of 87, Dodd still follows a punishing work schedule. During the 1960s he earned a place in the. Guinness Book of Records. Another Liverpudlian, John Lennon, sang that happiness was a warm gun but Mark Chapman shot him dead. What is happiness and how can we measure it? Many league tables at...
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Getting Death off our Roads Part 2 | Padraig Colman
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Rambling ruminations of an Irishman in Sri Lanka. Getting Death off our Roads Part 2. This article appeared in. On Tuesday May 26 2015.The article was illustrated with this picture. I am not sure if the red stuff is blood or betel spit. In a previous article in these pages, I wrote about the problem of killer buses in Sri Lanka and canvassed the opinions of Sri Lankans home and abroad. Testing for Drugs and Alcohol. Five years on, what has Wijeratne done to clean up his members’ act? Some agreed with a p...
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Elders Part Two | Padraig Colman
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Rambling ruminations of an Irishman in Sri Lanka. This article appeared in. On Tuesday July 2 2015 under the title ‘Betrayal of the Elderly. Professor Indralal De Silva, Senior Professor of Demography, University of Colombo, estimates that 25 percent of the population of Sri Lanka will be over 60 years of age by 2040. He argued that unless our development process is improved and sustained we would have a lower level of income to support this aging population. Abuse in Sri Lanka. If you search the interne...
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Elders Part One | Padraig Colman
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Rambling ruminations of an Irishman in Sri Lanka. This article appeared in. On Thursday June 25 2015. Population ageing arises from two demographic effects: increasing longevity and declining fertility. In all human history, the world has never seen as aged a population as currently exists today. This is the case for every country in the world except the 18 countries designated as “demographic outliers”. There has to be a worry that businesses providing care for profit might put profit before care and th...
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Court Jester: August 2015
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Sunday, August 09, 2015. How should we vote? Indi had written something. Urging citizens to vote for good people. Just before the last election I did an assessment. What we have now is something of a re-run of the same issues but with the advantage of having a short track record of the Sirisena administration to compare against Mahinda. Of the Rajapaksa camp to stymie these efforts. And the candidates seem to be abiding by rules, for the most part. But since January things have been quiet and restriction...
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Court Jester: Controlling Mervyn Silva; threewheelers and milk powder.
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Tuesday, April 21, 2015. Controlling Mervyn Silva; threewheelers and milk powder. With the Sunday Leader. Mr Gotabhaya Rajapaksa said that he tried to control the notorious. Mervyn Silva. This is entirely plausible, Mervyn Silva is a thoroughly bad hat and a public relations disaster. His maverick behaviour would certainly have been at odds with the orderly, controlled world of Mr Rajapaksa. Yet something very strange has happened. Or are unseen and inexplicable forces must at play? The first step is to ...
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2011 | hk L'ourson
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The many adventures of Hong Kong L'ourson. HK – Central and Western. HK – Eastern. HK – Southern. HK – Wan Chai. Kowloon – Kowloon City. Kowloon – Kwun Tong. Kowloon – Sham Shui Po. Kowloon – Wong Tai Sin. Kowloon – Yau Tsim Mong. NT – Islands. NT – Kwai Tsing. NT – North. NT – Sai Kung. NT – Shatin. NT – Tai Po. NT – Tsuen Wan. NT – Tuen Mun. NT – Yuen Long. 12-2011: 5 years and 11 months. 11-2011: 5 years 10 months. 10-2011: 5 years and 9 months. 09-2011: 5 years and 8 months. Follow Blog via Email.
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Shenzhen | hk L'ourson
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The many adventures of Hong Kong L'ourson. HK – Central and Western. HK – Eastern. HK – Southern. HK – Wan Chai. Kowloon – Kowloon City. Kowloon – Kwun Tong. Kowloon – Sham Shui Po. Kowloon – Wong Tai Sin. Kowloon – Yau Tsim Mong. NT – Islands. NT – Kwai Tsing. NT – North. NT – Sai Kung. NT – Shatin. NT – Tai Po. NT – Tsuen Wan. NT – Tuen Mun. NT – Yuen Long. Follow Blog via Email. Enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Hotel and Resort; Travel.
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