{"id":92165,"date":"2019-08-12T13:25:48","date_gmt":"2019-08-12T20:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=92165"},"modified":"2019-08-12T13:25:48","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T20:25:48","slug":"sometimes-being-a-brother-is-even-better-than-being-a-superhero-marc-brown-from-today-my-brother-is-your-brother-he-will-now-be-your-brother-mahinda-rajapakse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/08\/12\/sometimes-being-a-brother-is-even-better-than-being-a-superhero-marc-brown-from-today-my-brother-is-your-brother-he-will-now-be-your-brother-mahinda-rajapakse\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSOMETIMES BEING A BROTHER IS EVEN BETTER THAN BEING A SUPERHERO\u201d MARC BROWN. \u201cFROM TODAY, MY BROTHER IS YOUR BROTHER, HE WILL NOW BE YOUR BROTHER\u201d- MAHINDA RAJAPAKSE"},"content":{"rendered":"

By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

For\npolitical opponents,  if MR is no good,\nthen GR is also no good.  GR made MR\ngreat when in power.  Now MR has made GR\ngreat.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If the country rejects MR, it will also reject GR.\u00a0 If the country rejects GR at the presidential election, then it will also reject MR at the next General Election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is what the Nation thinks of you, yourself alone.\u00a0 The Nation has a specific feeling about MR, GR, BR, RW, MS, SP, etc. That is Not Negotiable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Singapore, Late Mr. Hon. Lee Kwan Yew groomed his son to Premiership.\u00a0 Now Mr. LKW is no more.\u00a0 Lee’s son ( Prime Minister) is being challenged by his own brother ( qualified Doctor) and has formed a new opposition political party known as Singapore Progressive Party. Tan Cheng Bock at the age of 79\u00a0 is leading the new party against PAP (formed by his father LKW).\u00a0 Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is 67 years of age.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Sri Lanka, the Bandaranaike family disintegrated after parent’s death<\/strong>. They sold Nittambuwa properties to their servant and the servant Somawathi sold small lots to buyers through Anagi Property Sales. Loyal Somawathie for 34 years, siphoned funds off back to Chandrika and Suneththra for a kick-back.\u00a0 Anura Bandaranaike was not a financial beneficiary of the deals\u00a0 Singapore brothers are also fighting politically, but family property settlement is at the core of the issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sajith Premadasa has no children, so there will be no fighting amongst brothers and sisters for his massive wealth.\u00a0\u00a0 Ranil (relatively poor) also has no children, so he is also on the same platform as Sajith. Mangala Samaraweera does not believe that marriage is between a man and a woman.\u00a0 So he is not married to a woman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Insinuations, innuendo is common in politics.\u00a0 Your unknown enemy is very near you.\u00a0 Your tomorrow\u2019s enemy is today\u2019s very close family relative or friend.\u00a0 Your known enemies respect you.\u00a0 But your unknown Enemy will not respect you. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greed will overtake them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thankfully, the Rajapakse family is still together.\u00a0 They respect their parents.\u00a0 Still, there are pockets of opponents who would like to create a non-existing conflict even before the results of any Election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By M D P DISSANAYAKE For political opponents,  if MR is no good, then GR is also no good.  GR made MR great when in power.  Now MR has made GR great.  If the country rejects MR, it will also reject GR.\u00a0 If the country rejects GR at the presidential election, then it will also […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-m-d-p-dissanayake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}