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Sri Lanka - better recognition as a liberal economy

A country struggling to maintain tourism, Sri Lanka receives good news.

(COLOMBO) - While receiving its share of bad publicity over the fallout from a deadly civil war that ended just over two years ago, along charges of war crimes and Genocide, Sri Lanka has been ranked 97th among the 184 countries as the freest to carry out business in.

The Sri Lankan economy continues to progress toward greater economic freedom, registering significant score gains in the past two years.

Has Sri Lanka`s Government-Sponsored Terrorism Hit the Lowest Low Ever?

British national murdered, Russian woman raped at Tangalla; allegedly by a local politician backed by a gang...

(COLOMBO, Sri Lanka) - The murder of Kuram Shaikah Zaman, a prosthetic expert with the Red Cross who worked in Gaza, is alleged to have been carried out by a local politician.

The death has led to sharp criticism over the failure of the Sri Lankan government to maintain law and order and also for encouraging lawlessness and criminal behaviour.

Sri Lanka denies visa to European Parliament group

In the meantime, I will continue to highlight and speak out against what I consider to be war crimes of the Rajapakse regime and to defend the right to self determination by the Tamil people in Sri Lanka.

(LONDON Sri Lanka Guardian) - I was meant to travel to Sri Lanka this week as part of an official delegation from the GUE/NGL (Left group in European Parliament). The idea to travel to Sri Lanka came from the meeting I hosted in the Parliament a few months ago about the massacre of Tamils in Sri Lanka.

My wish to go was strengthened by the many meetings I have had with the Tamil Diaspora, and others active on the issue of Tamil rights, in the recent period.

War and its Aftermath... a Real Killer for Tourism

Learning lessons in Iraq, Mexico, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Israel. Wars remove, often permanently, tourism and economic stimulation.

(SALEM, Ore.) - It hurts to think about it. I would be hesitant to try to name all of the places that war and ruined and closed off our otherwise amazing and wonderful planet. Dictatorships, colonization, fundamentalist religious conflict, narco terrorists, military juntas; the list is long. It isn't distinguished, but shameful.

The majority of the damage has been a result of weaponry manufactured by what used to be the world's two largest superpowers, the U.S.A. and the Soviet Union.

Special Report: Acapulco 1967-2011

Acapulco is close to the breaking point and could even lose the national tourism that has kept it going in recent years if current trends continue.

(LAS CRUCES, N.M.) - In 1967, the Mexican resort of Acapulco was shining in all its splendor and glory. Showered in fame and fortune, Acapulco was the playground of Hollywood stars and a must-shoot for Mexican filmmakers.

Enjoying a reputation as a peaceful but party-filled destination, the Pacific port became the model for an international tourism industry that gave millions of gringos their lasting impressions of Mexico, its people and its culture.

Yellowstone/Ripping Off Taxpayers - NPS Retirees, Other Groups Oppose Boondoggle at Yellowstone

Yellowstone Would Spend $700 Per Visitor Facilitating Risky Travel Through Avalanche Zone for Fewer than 500 Individuals a Year.

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) - Lacking adequate funding to protect precious resources, the National Park Service is nonetheless proposing to spend a third of million dollars each winter in Yellowstone National Park managing a dangerous mountain pass as a travel corridor for fewer than six visitors a day by triggering avalanches with a howitzer.

An appeal to all Salemites in the US

Salem's chance to build international relations, goodwill, tourism and more.

(CHENNAI, India) - During 1959 and 1960, Mr. Hugh Morrow, a Rotarian and city librarian in Salem, Oregon, and Dr. Busnagi Rajannan, a well known Librarian of Salem, Tamilnadu, India corresponded with each and proposed the establishment of a Sister city programme.

Dr. Rajannan visited Salem, Oregon in the US in 1962, and was received by the Rotarians, city officials, senators, and the Governor of the State Oregon, and was presented with a Key to the American City-Salem.

From Eugenics to the Holocaust

After Hitler came to power in 1933, Germany passed comprehensive sterilization legislation and over the next 6 years, 375,000 German citizens were sterilized.

(SAN FRANCISCO ) - In his book, Mad in America:  Bad Science, Bad Medicine, and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill, author Robert Whitaker discusses a pseudoscientific theory called eugenics.

According to this theory, the gene pool was being polluted by the mentally ill, that the severely mentally ill were carriers of defective "germ plasm" and thus, were a threat to the health of American society.

Murdoch is not the only maggot in the rotten apple

Britain, as everyone knows, has carved an unfortunate niche for itself as America's poodle.

(LONDON) - Having disposed of the Murdoch menace - for the moment anyway - it's time for the British public to turn the spotlight on the other villains our craven politicians pay homage to.

Public enemy Number One is the pro-Israel lobby. An organization called the Conservative Friends of Israel states it has “twin aims of supporting Israel and promoting Conservatism. With close to 2000 activists as members – alongside 80% of Conservative MPs – CFI is active at every level of the Party".

Abir Aramin was shot in the head, but nobody shot her

No one has been punished and no one will be punished.

(TEL AVIV) - On Sunday 10 July 2011, 8 Tammuz, the legal seal of approval was given to the book The King’s Torah [1] by Israel`s High Court of Justice, which ruled that the child Abir Aramin, age 10, who was shot in the head three years ago in Anata, was struck by a bullet that came from an unknown rifle fired by unknown soldiers or police.

The projectile that was found under her small body has found no home, and it might as well stop searching.