Six Years on and my metamorphosis to bird watching

Six Years on and my metamorphosis to bird watching

These Chameleon have survived the last six years and three generations (probably breed fast) of them were in my roof top garden.

Like the magpie the bird they come to devour my guppy fish (even though two third of the top is covered with plastic netting for sun shade- fish die due to heat stroke).

They even eat the black bees.

Fortunately the black bees have another colony now (that the Chameleon has not discovered) near my fish tank.

Now I ignore them but I have become a bird lover and our garden is bird friendly by all accounts. 

My favorite is the Mynah but watching the humming bird feeding is painful.

I think they spend more energy feeding than overcoming the hunger pain.

I sit and watch them (no eye contact) for hours on end.

Coming to Mynah, he is the most cheerful guy, I call them the cheer leaders in our garden,

Come rain, come sunshine they always have a cheerful melody.

Even the tiny squirrel (last generation that survived the cats) gives way to the Mynah (Squirrels spend lot of time feeding the seeds of the palm tree).

Now coming to the palm (one out of three) tree it has three seed pods of flowers that mature at different times, giving  mature seeds to feed the visitor birds, longer than the mulberry tree that stopped blossoming after the rain came in.

Plants have senses that fine tune for the needy (hungry) birds.

Chameleon, The unexpected Visitor

I have not seen a Chameleon for ages except for the Chameleon Linux Desktop which is capable of changing its window screen.

ChameleonOS is crammed with a range of pre-configured ‘skins’ that will instantly alter the appearance of your desktop (panels, wallpaper, icon and GTK them).

The default skin is available in a range of colours and there are also skins providing the same look and feel as the Gnome Desktop, KDE 3 and Windows Vista / Windows 7.

In the animal kingdom, Chameleon belongs to any of the 160 lizards that can change the colour of the skin at will.

The chameleon, I saw today was in full flight mounted on a another chameleon.

My visit was not welcome (to collect the letters from the letter box) and the female parted the company and the exhausted male who was very angry at my intrusion.

Even though, I was not psychopathic to catch a frame in action for my next book, I quickly fetched my digital camera but its battery was dead.

Last time, I got hold the camera was when two Geckos were in full heat in the middle of the night but before I could catch a frame the guy and  the girl  were smart enough to retreat to a crevice.

In nature psychopaths are not allowed, I said to myself and kept the camera (for its own safety) back in its case.

Let me tell you why they are breeding in my tiny garden.

The top most is my dog who does not allow any cats to venture into our tiny garden except his favorite cunning virile tiny cat without a tail (which does not interfere with his mating habits).

Unlike other cats, he expects cover from my dog for his own safety from other cats.

My assessment of this cat is that he is a cat-womanizer-feline-felonizer and except for mating he has no other obsessions in life and has all the tell tale marks of bite marks on his face and back.

My dog for some unknown reason gives cover for this cat.

The reason being (most probably) his childhood friend our cat disappeared on a Poya day in this blessed city and ended up as meat in Kandy hotel during Perehara, many moons ago.

They were god pals and soul mates.

My dog misses its soul mate and this ugly cat is his present decoy unwanted by all the cats and me too.

I am cat hater by default since they devour all the animals including lizards.

The other reason is that there is a little patch of land, let go wild a bit by my wife.

There is ample hiding and resting ground for tiny animals, including spiders.

That is again by default.

These spiders attract the humming birds too.

Having lost the opportunity to catch a frame, I did a little survey to see that there was a little (puppy) lizard not yet mature.

I am going to see many of them in time to come if the guy was virile enough to fertilize and my rude interruption did not hinder the proper dissemination of its sperms.

I am going to have many more photo opportunities, if its act of fun was successful.

That is going to be my next book cover, if I catch a good frame.

I must charge my camera battery tonight.

Edited on 06-04-2013)
I managed to take few pictures toady and it looks like there are four of them (two little ones too) and they are territorial lizards and do not fear me but would like to retire to their own safety and cover.

PS

Chameleon-OS is based on Unity Linux 2010, which is in turn a fork of Mandriva.

(Not Ubuntu Unity Desktop)

Unity is specifically designed as a base for respins (or branches as they like to call it). 

The current window manager is Openbox with Lxpanel (but not full LXDE).

Story of Three Sri-Lankan Dogs

Reproduction

Story of Three Sri-Lankan Dogs

This is a story I heard from a pedigree dog (not my dog).

The dogs were having a conference at late night.

The subject matter was current political campaign at night.

Pasting of campaign posters and removing of the common candidate's posters were their theme topic.

None of the dogs were involved in plastering or removing the posters.

Their duties were to give guard and protection to stooges of their masters who were doing the dirty work at night.

They were very much disturbed.

1. One dog's master was a supporter of the ruling party.

2. The other dog's master was a supporter of the common candidate.

3. The third dog was the master dog of an election monitor.

4. The fourth dog belongs to the Election Commissioner.

The problem was with the master of the dog of the ruling party (let me take away the master part since he is inebriated to the spinal cord and was never seen on the street but in the bar from morning to night).

He had killed three dogs in a week while guarding the poster blasters.

One was a Muslim dog.

The other was a Catholic and the third was the Buddhist dog of New Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (pronounced Karumaya) killed by accident by his own master.

The discussion was related to what happened to them after death.

The consensus was that all of them were in heaven.

Unfortunately, in a matter of few days the three masters were also killed under mysterious circumstances.

Police are still investigating.

But according to the latest news all of them are at the gate of Apaya (Hell) awaiting their sentences while their dogs are enjoying a welcome respite in heaven.

So now I will brief you with the final unofficial report of the dog conference.

1. The Muslim dog's merits that served him in heaven.

He used to go to the mosque with his master five times a day without failing.

His masters demerit that warranted him summons at Apaya Gate was as follows.

He was very very religious and went to the mosque sometime more than five times.

But he volunteered for the ISIS.

His quota was killing 100 infidels in 100 days.

He actually accomplished 99 but had only one to go.

His final task was to either kill himself or to kill another (making 101) with him and remain here for little while for a prayer.

But being religious he went to the mosque for a very long final prayer.

Unfortunately he was killed by a American Bomb.

2. The Catholic dog's merits that served him in heaven.

Just like the Muslim dog he too went to the Church every Sunday without any arrears.

What was his masters demerit that warranted him summons at Apaya Gate?

He missed and absconded few visits to the Church on Sundays to meet his extramarital flame.

3. The Buddhist dog's merits that served him in heaven.

He used to go with his master with a till (Pin Kate) to collect money for the tallest Buddha Statue in the world.

What was his masters demerit that warranted him summons at Apaya Gate?

He forgot to put the last 7 to 10 zeros in his final treasurer's report.

Now the story does not end here.

It was a total mismatch, 3 dogs in heaven and 3 masters in hell.

The three gods in heaven (previously Sri-Lankan Paraya dogs) finally made up their mind to rescue their masters.

Could you guess how they accomplished this task without the help of “American Drones”?

You have to wait till the Election results are declared.

The Election commissioner has given me a warning that even a small yarn or a little spin by a spin doctor that might effect the final result is a punishable offense in this world.

The caveat is that candidates can yarn any length of fibs and fabrications, till cows come home, like Lanka Cyber News.

We are at Crossroads Politically and Beware of the Political Suckers

We are at Crossroads Politically and Beware of the Political Suckers

My comments (no requests) below are for valid for both Ceylonese abroad and those currently living in Ceylon.

I will keep totally silent once the election is declared and let the officials conduct it fairly and expecting the voters who were hoodwinked for over 70 years exercise their voting rights judiciously, without failing.

Majority of our voters are mature and I bow my head to them and the outcome.

Recent developments are dicey and I wish none of my friends contributes the hard earned money to the campaign in any way.

It has already started and you will be getting emails and requests direct and from third parties for contributions (from the crusaders and jokers).

Ignore them and not a penny of your money should be wasted.

Some of them having collected the money may not even contest or the particular party representing makes no breakdown of the incoming and outgoing expenses.

It never happened and will never happen (until a new constitution is formulated to mandate the requirement).

The current constitution has all the loopholes and fixing them are difficult.

We had a prolong campaign to formulate new proposals and the team that did a very good job handed over the draft proposals to the parliament and all the parties got together and shelved it, until now.

There is no trust on the current members of the parliament and the candidates who are coming forward, thick and thin.

There are lot of jokers presenting themselves and some are coming from abroad and there is not a single national figure to rescue and change the course.

All of them promised to change the constitution from 1990s and none accomplished it having come to power.

It will be the same again but this time with a difference.

The ground reality is none of them will get 50% of the vote for sure.

This is partly due to “The Third Force” which came into existence, still viable and building its momentum and it would decide the outcome.

It will be a rude shock to the system including J.V.P.

J.V.P is trying to buy into this Virtual Third Force (not tested in real life situation, yet) without party bondage and there is no guarantee.

There is a tendency for the jokers in the pack to address this force and make a name for themselves at its expense.

My wish was for this force (not affiliated to any party) to become 40% of the total vote, given the political time, then big enough to undermine the big parties.

It is certainly touching 20% as at present and this percentage cannot be bargained by empty promises.

In this scenario marking the second choice on the ballot paper will become necessary and we do not have previous experience on that issue.

A novelty in practice.

I do not like a second choice and count and my gut feeling is more than 80% is not be willing to go for the second choice.

There is no compulsion to do it either legally.

That is the caveat here and we are left with about 20% of the vote floating and no political pundit will be able to bet on that lot.

That makes this election very interesting and will truly give a cross section of the political wisdom of our polity.

More choices and less concern of the final outcome.

I am sure JRJ never envisioned this and we need to teach him a lesson in his grave.

Average voter can then laugh freely at the wheeler dealer JRJ and his follower MR.

The numbers are in percentages one can derive the total vote by multiplying with the total valid votes casted.

Planet and Plans

Planet and Plans

I have written an enormous amount of scientific stuff (not proclamations but predictions) over the past 15 years, it is prudent to summarize few facts without figures.

Figures can be manipulated or changed or doctored by American and British scientific forums but facts emerging are worrisome.

1. Global warming is happening alarmingly fast and it cannot be reversed.

2. The scientists knew this from early sixties but under pressure by “fossil fuel lobby” and BP, the reality was kept under their iron thumb.

3. The agreement on protocol was deliberately delayed by USA.

4. Sixth mass extinction is well underway.

5. Strangely aliens (strictly humanoids) have visited us to warn on other issues but Americans suppressed the information for 70 years.

6. The Vatican was preview to most of this information and kept it in their archives for posterity.

7. I am not sure what was the status of Israel (proxy) on all these issues but their priority was water.

This is written with alien visitation in mind and I try to make prediction not so outrageous.

In spite of many planets in the universe humanoids are very few.

Their (humanoid) evolution goes into billion of years but earth is the youngest of all.

Why?

I do not know but my observations (not scientific by any means) are a forerunner for future investigations with the help of alien technology.

Earth is the only planet with abundance of water in the whole of the universe.

The abundance of biodiversity (not god's creation by the way) is not seen anywhere in the whole universe.

That the my crunch point of view.

We are polluting of our water resources including the ocean.

All industrial countries are dumping their waste from faeces to lead to mercury to nuclear waste to the ocean.

In time to come biodiversity (including fish) in the ocean will disappear.

Eating sea fish will be poisonous.

Nuclear industry with few more accidents will tip the balance of nature.

The sixth extinction is man made catastrophe.

The seventh extinction is man made but final.

The five or so humanoids who are trying to contact us want to help us come out of this crisis.

But we are not ready for galactic brotherhood or corporation due to bizarre religions.

The cosmic rules prevent from worthwhile dialogue unless we lift our mental agility (one may call it spiritual ability).

My biggest and the real fear is aliens who are not humanoids are with the American Scientists to spoil the soup.

That is why they are keeping Roswell incident under cover.

These aliens want us to destroy ourselves, so that they reap benefit and occupy the earth as their new territory.

The Americans got it wrong.

I hope Russia and President Putin would fill the vacuum.

Russians does not believe in any religions.

China is not ready and woken up lately.

India has too many religions.

Obama or next Us President cannot since, the evangelists won't let it happen.

From Disorder to Order Transition.

From Disorder to Order Transition.

Disorder is the order of the Universe.

Order is the rare occurrence seen only in biological systems.

But this order has come painfully slow even in Evolution.

I would like to go step backward and look at the Symbiosis.

Symbiosis preceded the evolution by eons of years.

Symbiosis did not need elaborate genetic cord (which evolution’s prerequisite).

It needed only meeting of two cells of common interest.

Meeting of opposing cells and parasitism came much later.

The sex differentiation also came much later and symbiosis is not precluded by absence of cells.

I want to go much further back to primordial proteins and not the structured genetically coded protein.

Random association of amino acids could give rise peptide cords without the need for enzymes (again proteins).

Calcium outside layer.

Denatured protein layer

Protein layer mixed with fatty acid chains.

More fatty acids and less proteins.

Bilipid membrane with embedded protein receptors.

Protein can accept protein of another symbiotic cell by random association.

There is a protein called HSP or Heat Shock Protein.

This protien is seen in prokaryotes and eukaryotes.

HSP probably is the result of development of resistance to heat stress stroke in evolution of cells.

There is another protein called CRP or C Reactive Protein that is formed in the liver under stressful conditions.

In other words proteins in evolution have responded not only to heat but any stressful condition.

Protein selection embedded in membranes was probably a prerequisite for symbiosis long before receptor formation for specific function (Antigen and Antibody Reactions).

Heat shock proteins (HSP) are a family of proteins that are produced by cells in response to exposure to stressful conditions. They were first described in relation to heat shock, but are now known to also be expressed during other stresses including exposure to cold, UV light and during wound healing or tissue remodeling. Many members of this group perform chaperone functions by stabilizing new proteins to ensure correct folding or by helping to refold proteins that were damaged by the cell stress. This increase in expression is transcriptionally regulated. The dramatic upregulation of the heat shock proteins is a key part of the heat shock response and is induced primarily by heat shock factor (HSF). HSPs are found in virtually all living organisms, from bacteria to humans.

Heat-shock proteins are named according to their molecular weight. For example, Hsp60, Hsp70 and Hsp90 (the most widely studied HSPs) refer to families of heat shock proteins on the order of 60, 70 and 90 kilodaltons in size, respectively. The small 8-kilodalton protein ubiquitin, which marks proteins for degradation, also has features of a heat shock protein. A conserved protein binding domain of approximately 80 amino-acid alpha crystallins are known as small heat shock proteins (sHSP).

C-reactive protein (CRP) is an annular (ring-shaped), pentameric protein found in blood plasma, whose circulating concentrations rise in response to inflammation. It is an acute-phase protein of hepatic origin that increases following interleukin-6 secretion by macrophages and T cells. Its physiological role is to bind to lysophosphatidylcholine expressed on the surface of dead or dying cells (and some types of bacteria) in order to activate the complement system via C1q.

CRP is synthesized by the liver in response to factors released by macrophages and fat cells (adipocytes). It is a member of the pentraxin family of proteins. It is not related to C-peptide (insulin) or protein C (blood coagulation). C-reactive protein was the first pattern recognition receptor (PRR) to be identified.

Function

CRP binds to the phosphocholine expressed on the surface of dead or dying cells and some bacteria. This activates the complement system, promoting phagocytosis by macrophages, which clears necrotic and apoptotic cells and bacteria.
This so-called acute phase response occurs as a result of increasing concentrations of IL-6, which is produced by macrophages as well as adipocytes in response to a wide range of acute and chronic inflammatory conditions such as bacterial, viral, or fungal infections; rheumatic and other inflammatory diseases; malignancy; and tissue injury and necrosis. These conditions cause release of interleukin-6 and other cytokines that trigger the synthesis of CRP and fibrinogen by the liver.
CRP binds to phosphocholine on micro-organisms. It is thought to assist in complement binding to foreign and damaged cells and enhances phagocytosis by macrophages (opsonin-mediated phagocytosis), which express a receptor for CRP. It plays a role in innate immunity as an early defence system against infections.
Amyloids are aggregates of proteins that become folded into a shape that allows many copies of that protein to stick together, forming fibrils. In the human body, amyloids have been linked to the development of various diseases. Pathogenic amyloids form when previously healthy proteins lose their normal physiological functions and form fibrous deposits in plaques around cells which can disrupt the healthy function of tissues and organs.
Such amyloids have been associated with (but not necessarily as the cause of) more than 50 human diseases, known as amyloidosis, and may play a role in some neurodegenerative disorders. Some amyloid proteins are infectious; these are called prions in which the infectious form can act as a template to convert other non-infectious proteins into infectious form. Amyloids may also have normal biological functions; for example, in the formation of fimbriae in some genera of bacteria, transmission of epigenetic traits in fungi, as well as pigment deposition and hormone release in humans.
Amyloids have been known to arise from many different proteins. These polypeptide chains generally form β-sheet structures that aggregate into long fibers; however, identical polypeptides can fold into multiple distinct amyloid conformations. The diversity of the conformations may have led to different forms of the prion diseases.

Only Fools can agree!

Only Fools can agree!

Democracy and Fool's Constitution.

Democracy fails in a country where fools live in.

It becomes a fool's paradise.

The premise or the simple equation is one fool (Me for example) does not like the other fool's (against YOU) opinion.

It is like the equal and opposite reaction of objects in motion (unfortunately, opinions move faster than objects {often bloated by MEDIA} and they often do not obey the laws of physics).

It is the fools constitution, made by the fools for the consumption of the fools.

So it becomes the fool's constitution subjected to revision by another set of fools.

This fool's equation becomes very complex and intricate IF you substitute ME and YOU of this Fool's Equation by any substance of YOUR opinion when deliberating the Fool's Constitution.

Try substituting

1. Religion

2. Sector of Religion (Shiite and Sunni)

3. High Priest

4. Low ranking Priest (new recruit)

5. Race

6. Colour

7. Language

8. Sexual Orientation

9. Sex

10. Lawyer (Solicitor General)

11. Doctor (GMOA)

12. Banker (Current and ex-central bankers)

13. Wheeler Dealer of Stocks

14. Country of Origin (Sri-Lanka for example)

15. Politician in power

16. Politician out of Power

This become more intricate when Religion, Race and Country are taken as multiples and not as single entities of opinion.

This is the threshold level of emergence of DOGMA, GMOA and or Terrorism.

The corollary is that even from a fool's constitution one can derive some valid political context for the current world, especially Sri-Lanka.

The UNO Charter is one of them, just like the NATO.

No

Action

Talk

Only SHOW or Good Governance (YAK Palanaya)

Or Mayhem.

Last Puzzle is the Life Puzzle

Last Puzzle is the Life Puzzle

I am intrigued by how life evolved on our planet.

I won't exclude the fact that life would have traveled from outer space in a tiny meteorite.

Leave that argument aside for the time being.

How to approach the problem?

Top down approach?

Bottom up approach?

Either way I am going to get bogged down somewhere around one (1) billion years into the past.

The premises are many.

1. Origin of cellular life is incredible.

Almost impossible in a hostile environment.

2. It happened very very slowly.

3. In its progress toward self perpetuation, there were many obstructions including bombardment of meteorites.

4. It went through five mass extinctions.

Currently it is well into its sixth extinction.

5. There could have been half life half chemical scenario.

How the interaction went on we do not know.

6. Cellular life is so labile it does not leave tell tale stories or leave behind markers in stromatolites.

7. Earth is a living planet and it does not have its oldest rocks available for study.

Its oldest rock is only two and a half billion years old.

Earth life of four and a half billion is estimated from meteorites.

There is two billion years of missing history which we have to surmise.

8. In addition there were catastrophes.

9. I am comfortable with the last 500 million years of its evolution of that the last 3 to 5 million is matter of fact biology being unraveled.

10. How could I dissect the first 500 hundred of the last billion years.

11. In addition there are many other questions.

WHEN?

WHERE?

HOW?

Life originated?

12. What was the smallest living particle?

We seem to assume that we know a lot.

On the contrary we know very little.

We are stuck with the hereditary and survival of the fittest scenario that would suit only the last 5 million years, assuming mitochonridal mutations is rare.

In fact, major mitochondrial mutations are very very rare.

It is our energy store.

If it goes haywire life cannot exist in the current oxygen rich planet with cellular life.

This preamble is for further dissection by my friends far and near.

There are number of salient points that were not available to Darwin that cannot be ignored.

They did not come by chance.

My premise is that evolution brought order to the world (universe) without it.
There was economy in participation.
Assimilation of two carbon units, twenty amino acids coded by a few purines and pyrimidines, about 20,000 variants of structural proteins with only levo-rotation (no dextro-rotatoion of sugar molecules) are convincing evidence that it started at one point in modern evolution continued albeit slowly.

But nitty gritty of evolution and diversion of species were determined not by nucleus but by mitochondrial evolution.

Mitochondria were very resistant mutation and they occur once in every 3 to 5 million year intervals.
When that happened drastic changes happened to the primates (erect posture, language acquisition and larger brain) in evolution.
How it happened in ovum is a mystery by all accounts and we do not have mitochondrial data to evaluate.

For example we have giant mitochondria in salivary glands and in yeasts.

Yeast mitochondria can hijack nuclear DNA and that is one way of mitochondrial evolution.
 

 Mitochondria evolved by endosymbiosis.  

Mitochondria originated by a endosymbiotic event when a bacterium was captured by a eukaryotic cell. The organelles have far fewer genes than an independent bacterium, and have lost many of the gene functions that are necessary for independent life (such as metabolic pathways).

Aliens and Biological Forms

Aliens and Biological Forms

In my New Science Hypothesis of Matter and Dark Matter, I deliberately avoided using the existence of biological forms.

Simply because it is easy to formulate physical hypothesis for matter but for biological form, in spite of my extensive research on origin of life on this planet, I have drawn a blank.

Origin of life on other planets and aliens baffles me more.

Darwin’s theory to Lyn Margull's eukaryogenesis to symbiosis are out there for discussion.

That does not lead me to other forms of life in other planetary system in the universe.

One theory does not apply to all.

I used to teach standard genetics and in my introductory lecture, I put some esoteric questions to the students, not expecting any answers.

One is application of binary arithmetics to DNA duplication.

Two is the evolution of number of successful proteins over billions of years and packaging them in an entity call cell.

The number is less than 20,000 and many variants of the original lot have diversified to yield many life forms.

Origin of cell membrane is unknown and baffles me further.

For me life and cell forms are more intriguing than the universe and its extension.

Little I talk about biological entity is better for my sanity.

It is the biggest life puzzle for me.

Coming to Aliens, I am bit liberal in my explanation or imagination running riot, assuming they travel vast distances to reach us and investigate or exploit us.

Their forms unlike ours have had billions and billions of time for adaptation to new situation and territories.

They are more of mind form than biological and generally invisible to humans.

They use shape shifting technology to appear and disappear in this world and other worlds.

They can Teleport effortlessly long distances by mind based technology (as opposed to keyboard and touch button methodology of our computers).

They have no life cycle limitation (of 100 years) and live long.

They have very powerful minds, biological-technology and physical technology.

Any encounter with them by force of combat weapons is one of disaster and one biological entity (what is lethal virus to us) created by them can wipe us to non existence.

However, they are using us (if they are already here) like guinea pigs for their experiments.

Religious mafiosi can be an extreme form of weapon to obtain biological material dead and alive (an absurd extension of mine).

Human Rights

Human Rights

I suppose I have to retire with immediate effect.

Simply because cardinals are talking about "Human Rights".

Let me dish out a true story about human rights.

I had a copy or some draft about human rights, which I did not have the time to read.

This is the time young Rajapaksa was campaigning against UNP (goons) stating human right violations.
 

Vasu was a young buddy then.

I gave the copy I had to a senior (Colombo Medical) guy.

He never returned it to me in spite of my repeated requests.

This was the time of type-writers and he could have made a typed copy.

He could not type or (he he was lazy or did not have a type writer for his division).

I lost my human rights (original UNO Charter) to his negligence.

He kept few my medical books and my valuable collection (without returning) of stamps,too.

He died of a cancer and I warned him (I new the entire family and his sister/young brother died when young), that he was incubating a serious illness (mind you I am a pathologist but good in my clinical senses,too).

He died few years later and I knew about his death some years later.

The above cock and bull story is to nullify the effect of my final statement.

Why the Cardinal does not think that he is violating the human rights when converting poor (economically deprived) by enticing with money.

Why can't he dish out money FREE without a bondage of a religion?

It is is the CIA tactic.

I of course leaned to type (Ko Ko Method) and never got anybody to type my stuff including books.

Tibet, China and Human Rights

Tibet, China and Human Rights

Over one million Tibetans died due to Chinese invasion of Tibet. Dalai Lama was chased out and in exile now.
Tibetans does not hurt worms (any life) even.
Does peaceful means have a say in the modern World?
U.N.O is the largest hypocrisy of the modern World.
Why they (UNO) take offensive action on smaller nation like Ceylon, and does precise little to Tibetans?
Why smaller nation (Ceylon) ask ill-gotten wealth of Chinese for their development?
China is buying things that they cannot invade.
Why India that created to LTTE for their offensive action to influence Ceylonese politics does not react to Chinese offensive in Tibet?
Soon probably in Ceylon.
Human race is selfish, India, China and USA included.
They will soon forget the atrocities of even Hitler.
That is the reason aliens do not trust humans and may be producing hybrids to destroy the human lust.
History repeats itself in unkindness not kindness.
It was calculated that when India and China fought war and each country killed one opposite soldier every second it takes more than eleven years to end the war.
But a nuclear bomb can do that in 3 seconds.
Either one Indian or one Chinese will be left.
I prefer an Indian left instead of a Chinese.
Why?
Indians have a very short memory whereas Chinese have a very grand design as shown by invading Tibet.
What is Trump going to contribute to this scenario?

Amazing Contrast of Ceylon

Amazing Contrast of Ceylon

I have just completed a book on Ceylon.

It describes the amazing beauty with so many rivers and waterfalls.

I have discussed the plight of our wild elephants briefly, where Buddhist monks who preach Avihinsa (Metta) are involved in this illicit trade of Baby Elephants Trade.

Not only monks but some lower court judges involved.

Toady I met my pharmacist who happened to be a Tamil gentleman.

He told me he was fined Rs.25,000/= without any hearing after a visit by the Flying Squad.

Offense was having in the shelf for disposal, 5 tablets of date expired medicine.

There was no legal transaction at all.

I can bet there is not a single pharmacy in this country, not having drugs with expiry date in their shelves (including Government Stores).

What is illegal is selling them not keeping it in a side shelf for safe disposal.

This Tamil gentleman was wrongfully fined.

Whereas a monk who possessed illegally a baby elephant is protected.

The corollary is, a Buddhist can violate common law with impunity but not a Tamil Hindu.

This is why I am against giving special status to Buddhism in the Constitution.

It is the duty of the monks to protect the Dhamma, not Baby Elephants illegally captured.