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جميل و مؤثر جدا
فيديو مؤثر جدا حاز على اكثر من مليار مشاهدة على وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي من انتاج تلفزيون برس الايراني
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Anyone who wants to help desperate Palestinian farmers in the West Bank fighting for their very survival should consider googling @Zaytoun_CIC for the most delicious olive oil ever... and also spectacular Mejdoul dates, amazing smokey freekeh and best of all, their unbelievable zesty zaatar.
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If you want to find out what Grama Niladhari Division (GND), Divisional Secretariat Division (DSD), Polling Division (PD), Electoral District (ED), Local Authority (LA), District, or Province you belong to, or your house belongs to, or any location in #SriLanka 🇱🇰belongs to, checkout this tool.
nuuuwan.github.io/lk_locator
"If the 14,000 Grama Niladharis are unable to know who the residents of their GN divisions are and where they live, it will be impossible to deliver a whole range of public services. Preventing the leakage of name-address information cannot come at the cost of the State’s ability to deliver services.
Changing how election campaigns are conducted and voting is managed can have many benefits, including but not limited to restricting access to sensitive PII by political actors. But the State must be able to know where its “customers” (those availing of public services) reside. It cannot function if Grama Niladharis, the foot soldiers of the State, cannot be trusted within technical and administrative guard rails. For example, if the databases reside in the Government cloud, it is advisable to log all actions such as access and copying (not routine with paper and file-based systems).
Digitalisation will not necessarily make things worse as claimed by those with incomplete understandings of Jeremy Bentham’s never fully realised panopticon idea. Digitalisation may, with intelligent design and analogue complements, make things better than they are now. Striving for those incremental changes is more productive (and challenging) than jeremiads of digital dystopias."
ft.lk/columns/Is-Personally-…
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You can say what you want about Iran but they're definitely pretty unique in their communication: never seen a country threaten another with a math equation before 😅
For those who didn't get it: there is a famous monetary policy formula used by the Fed called the "Taylor rule" that says a central bank's policy rate (i) should equal the neutral real rate (r*) plus target inflation (π*), plus 1.5 times the inflation gap and 0.5 times the output gap (the "i = r* + π* + 1.5(π−π*) + 0.5(y−y*)" part of Ghalibaf's formula).
Ghalibaf adds α(SOH−SOH*) and β(BEM−BEM*): SOH referring to the Strait Of Hormuz and BEM to Bab El-Mandeb. Both have positive coefficient, meaning the more those chokepoints are choked, the higher the rate the Fed would have to set to fight the resulting inflation.
In a nutshell this is Ghalibaf trolling the Fed, telling them that Iran is - in a very real way - setting American monetary policy.
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*BRILLIANT*
The French made a short film about what could happen after all immigrants would follow the ‘_white, angry old man’s_’ advice to go back where they came from.*
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Uncles, Isle of Gelato, Crust Pizza and other names synonymous with Ahangama tourism were asked to remove structures said to violate CCD laws. Fair enough. The law applies to all. But what about Israeli owned businesses operating without similar legal ramifications? – at Sri Lanka
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a wild idea might be to make Sri Lanka liveable/affordable/nurturing for citizens before making it attractive to tourists. This a country, not a theme park.
A discussion on developing Colombo’s historic Fort area as an attractive tourist destination was held yesterday (19) at the Presidential Secretariat under the patronage of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake.
The project, which is being implemented jointly by the Western Provincial Council, the Urban Development Authority and the Colombo Municipal Council with funding and assistance from the World Bank, aims to develop the Colombo Fort area as an internationally recognised tourist destination.
Accordingly, plans are in place to develop the area while preserving its historically significant sites and buildings, while also implementing a systematic traffic management plan. The project is expected to make a significant contribution to the national economy by establishing links with Colombo Port City and cruise ships arriving at the Port of Colombo.
The meeting also reviewed the preliminary studies being undertaken for the implementation of the project. It was noted that a comprehensive traffic study is currently being conducted to identify measures to reduce traffic congestion in the area.
The President instructed officials to prepare an overall plan for the project and to hold further discussions on it jointly with the Road Development Authority and the Municipal Council. The President also emphasised the importance of giving priority to the development of waterways in the area when implementing the overall project.
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Employment and Tourism Vijitha Herath, Colombo Mayor Vraie Cally Balthazaar, Chief of Staff to the President Prabath Chandrakeerthi, Senior Economic Adviser to the President Duminda Hulangamuwa, Secretary to the Ministry of Finance Dr Harshana Suriyapperuma, Secretary to the Ministry of Defence, Air Vice Marshal Sampath Thuyacontha (Retired), Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Employment and Tourism Aruni Ranaraja, Chairman of the Urban Development Authority M.G. Hemachandra, Chief Secretary of the Western Province Pradeep Pushpakumara and Government officials and heads of the security forces were also present. (PMD)
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BREAKING: Israel Has Just Inflicted A Khan Younis Beach Massacre
Dozens of casualties amongst civilians who were targeted on the beach.
The Israelis are frustrated with their failures in Lebanon & Iran, so they are taking it out on the people of Gaza.
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The Senegalese 🇸🇳 delegation gets this treatment on arrival in the USA. Full tarmac searches, shoes off, bags turned inside out like criminals.
This is straight up humiliation and a disgrace. They’d never put white boys through the same.
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Israel killed Rahma, a Sri Lankan, who stayed back to take care of the pets.
Bless her soul! ❤️
Israel killed Rahma, a Sri Lankan foreign worker, in an airstrike on Habboush in South Lebanon after she chose to remain behind to care for abandoned animals. In a previous voice message, she explained: "I'm not afraid of death. I'm afraid for the animals."
￭ "I hope Israel strikes me and my animals. If we are killed, then let it be together. I'm not afraid of death; I'm afraid for the animals. God created me as He created them, yet out of fear for your own lives, you left them behind,” Rahma said.
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Sri Lanka’s Brito Fernando returns to an emotional welcome with Swedish government's international award for human rights and democracy - the Per Anger prize 2026 - presented to him for the work done by Families of the Disappeared.
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Honestly, Sri Lanka has learnt nothing.
The racism in comment sections across socials are disturbing. People speak as if the war started in a vacuum, with zero reflection on the decades of ethnic tensions, discrimination and political failures that led to it in the first place.
And then they continue pushing the exact same racist rhetoric that deepens division even further - falling right back into the same trap all over again.
Lest we forget.
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I do not cease to be amazed by the education, IQ and upbringing shown by some Sri Lankan men on social media towards the support one gives to an activist who has been abducted in international waters during a humanitarian mission.
Look at Lehan Fernando.
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"Do not ever talk to me about ‘reconciliation’ with Sri Lankans like this."
Says @TamilGuardian editor @Thusi_Kumar. I agree. These comments on Facebook as a response to #Isaipriya image are DISGUSTING!
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