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		<title>Not A Defenceless Sri Lanka :the U.N.F pledge to develop the country  is a big joke!</title>
		<link>http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2009/11/15/not-a-defenceless-sri-lanka-the-u-n-f-pledge-to-develop-the-country-is-a-big-joke/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/?p=5637</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Garvin Karunaratne, former Government Agent, Matara District.
The major opposition party, the United National Party leader Ranil Wickremasinghe is reported to have called for the disbandment of the arms and armaments of the Armed Forces because the war is over and it is now time for peace.(At the Emergency Extension Debate in Parliament) This recommendation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Antics of the UNP</title>
		<link>http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2009/10/26/the-antics-of-the-unp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:22:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/?p=4889</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Garvin Karunaratne, Ph.D.
Karu Jayasuriya, the Deputy leader of the United National Party(UNP) has lamented:“How do we sleep at night, knowing that 280,000 people remain interned behind barbed wire fences in the north?”
It is interesting to note that the UNP has now joined the League of Superpowers band led by Robert Blake, US Assistant Secretary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who does deserve the The Noble Peace Prize: Is it President Obama?</title>
		<link>http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2009/10/10/who-does-deserve-the-the-noble-peace-prize-is-it-president-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/?p=4400</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Garvin Karunaratne, Ph.D.(Michigan State University)
The Norwegian Noble Committee has decided  that the Noble Peace Prize for 2009 be awarded to President Barak Obama. In the words of the Norwegian Noble Committee, The vision of a world  free from nuclear arms has powerfully  stimulated disarmament and arms control negotiations. Thanks to Obama’s initiative  the USA [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy  and  the Sovereignty of Nations Goes out of the Window: That is the USA Today!</title>
		<link>http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2009/10/05/democracy-and-the-sovereignty-of-nations-goes-out-of-the-window-that-is-the-usa-today/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 10:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/?p=4245</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Garvin Karunaratne, Ph.D.(Michigan State University)
It is sad that the USA, has decided to forget about vote rigging by President Karzai in the Afghanistan Election and has accepted Karzai as the President of Afghanistan for another five year term.
 This decision was in the face of definite evidence that up to 20% of the ballots cast [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why are the Superpowers Gunning for the Blood of Sri Lanka:  Their actions do unfold their sinister motives.</title>
		<link>http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2009/09/13/why-are-the-superpowers-gunning-for-the-blood-of-sri-lanka-their-actions-do-unfold-their-sinister-motives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/?p=3681</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Garvin Karunaratne, Ph.D.(Michigan State University)
When Dr Mahinda Rajapaksa was elected to  the Presidency of Sri Lanka in 2005, the terrorists, the LTTE power was at its zenith, having aggrandized its position through the nefarious CFA peace agreement done by the Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe, which was in favour of the terrorists. The armed forces [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wind and Solar Power for Sri Lanka</title>
		<link>http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2009/09/02/wind-and-solar-power-for-sri-lanka/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/?p=3341</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Garvin Karunaratne Ph.D.(Michigan State University)
I am happy that my paper: “The Wind Turbines of Spain, France and Portugal” (Lanka Web, 25/8/2009has evoked a response from  Noor Nizam, of Canada, in his paper, “Wind Energy Electricity Generation is a reality in Sri Lanka” Lanka Web, 26/8/2009)   
The thrust of my paper, based on my observation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We do need O.S.M. right now</title>
		<link>http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2009/08/29/we-do-need-o-s-m-right-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/?p=3234</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Garvin Karunaratne , former member of the Administrative Service
O.S.M.Seneviratne , the magistrate at Matara in 1959 was a legendary figure. In my eighteen years’ service in the Sri Lanka Administrative Service, which began as an Assistant Commissioner and ended as the Government Agent at Matara, I have had to appear before many magistrates, prosecute [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wind Turbines of Spain, France and Portugal.</title>
		<link>http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2009/08/25/the-wind-turbines-of-spain-france-and-portugal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/?p=3165</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Garvin Karunaratne.
Touring the three above countries in April and May 2009, many ideas came to my mind about how  we have failed  to develop Sri Lanka.  
In turning out electrical power for the national grid.  I saw clusters of about twenty five or more wind turbines near  various cities. We in Sri Lanka have  some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USA &amp; Britain- Superpowers or Warlords!</title>
		<link>http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2009/08/24/usa-britain-superpowers-or-warlords/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:53:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/?p=3129</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Garvin Karunaratne Ph.D.(Michigan State University)
Formerly of the Administrative Service of Sri Lanka

Not a day passes by without a dictate from the International  Super-Warlords. They have now to be called Warlords because now they have become dubious, are contradicting themselves and no longer uphold either democracy or human rights. They only know to be dictatorial. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Britain- all the Superpowers You do have blood on your hands wherever you went</title>
		<link>http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2009/07/29/britain-all-the-superpowers-you-do-have-blood-on-your-hands-wherever-you-went/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:06:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/?p=2491</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Garvin Karunaratne, Ph.D. formerly of the Srilanka Administrative Service
The IMF voting on 24 th June 2009  granted the loan applied for by Sri Lanka. However this incident was marred by Western Superpowers- the USA, Britain and France abstaining from voting.  It is well known that these Superpowers led by France and Britain  were persuading [...]]]></description>
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