well done sri lanka!

we, sri lankans, are proud of our achievements as participants, hosts, and fans, of icc cricket world cup 2011.

wish all the best for our team in today's final against india in mumbai!

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"world cup" - google fail

almighty goog's search algorithm sucks.

do a search for 'world cup' from google.lk (to which all searchers from sri lanka are automatically directed) and confirm.

even though 2011 icc cricket world cup is upon us and sri lankans do not care much for soccer, of the first 10 web results, 8 are for fifa world cup, 1 (at no 10) is for rugby. only the 6th is for icc world cup (tournament schedule from official site hosted by yahoo).

as you can see from the screenshot (click to enlarge ) news results are better.
image results shitty.


google.co.in is only marginally better. instead of 6th, official cricket world cup site is at no 1 (one cannot but suspect that results produced by algorithm were overridden to insert this at no 1; google has done this in past notably to counteract google bombs) and wikipedia's entry for 2011 icc world cup also puts in an appearance lower down, but rest is for fifa.

other search engines (yahoo, bing, etc.) are no better.

if this is the case for "world cup" imagine the quality of results for other searches by south asians.

if google does not wise up, there is a business opportunity here for some one else. remember that google was a latecomer to search, others like infoseek (now unrecognizable as go.com), altavista etc., which once dominated, failed bc they couldn't produce the results ppl were searching for. google is already falling behind in east asia.

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update: wikileaks on sri lanka -a lashkar-e-tayyiba facilitation team in sri lanka?

of the leaked 251,287 american diplomatic "cables " only 931 have been published so far. of that only 5 were on sri lanka (even though there are are reportedly 3,225 on sri lanka in total.) i have posted some thoughts earlier, on first 4 published.

this is on the 5th.

it is from 'diplomatic security daily' sent from american state department on june 19, 2009.

text relevant to sri lanka -

"¶19. (S//NF) DS/TIA/ITA notes earlier credible tearline suggests Khafa,s network is striving to stand up two teams in southern India that rely on the support of LT members based in India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and Nepal. Although specific details of planned LT attacks remain unknown, late-May intelligence indicates Khafa,s cells were engaged in surveillance activities of potential targets, likely in southern India. Early-May reporting further suggests Kerala or Tamil Nadu may be used as a base of operations following the establishment of a facilitation team in Sri Lanka, with the estimated time of completion for setting up the facilitation route and camps to be two to three months. (Appendix sources 8-18)

shafiq khafa is a member of "india-based"(?) lashkar-e-tayyiba terrorist group operating mainly from pakistan aiming, it claims, to 'liberate' kashmir and to establish an 'islamic' state in south asia.

rest of the content is self explanatory.


hopefully we will get more info on what happened to this 'operation', since it seems to have zero public results. or is it still dormant?

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congress winning big in india. good for sri lanka, bad for racists, peaceniks, and terrorists

as results of indian election comes in, it is clear that congress and its allies (united progressive alliance, upa) are winning big, contrary to predictions that that there will not be a clear mandate. (core of upa excluding some who left just before election, has won or leading in 255 odd seats out of 543. this core, which was in government with help from other parties and mps, had about 200 seats in outgoing lok sabha)

this is good for india and good for sri lankans who prefer a terrorist free state .

why? bc due to the size of the win, next indian central government will not be held hostage by regional parties, such as those in tamil nadu.

during the election these primarily racist parties in tamil nadu vied with each other in an effort to save ltte terrorist pussies from the complete defeat they are facing in sri lanka. jayalalitha of aiadmk was the worst of the major tamil polticos (that a living joke like her is a major politico in tamil nadu says a lot); promising to even invade sri lanka. well results in tamil nadu show that the issue had no impact on the election. aiadmk is losing. candidates from congress itself (probably the least racist) and its allies in upa, dmk (only a very slight improvement on aiadmk) are winning. it is clear that tn tamils are not racists even if their political leaders are.

in any case overall result means a stronger indian government able to think about indian interests, not just political interests of a few racists in tamil nadu. indian interests dictate that sri lanka have stability, free of terrorists. that is why even the previous indian government did not interfere here in any major way ( up to the time of electioneering when it indulged in few token gestures to pander to racists in tamil nadu )

to conclude, a strong central government in india is good for peace loving sri lankans hoping for a terrorist free state and bad for terrorists and peaceniks (both racist by definition) hoping for a fake peace achieved through appeasement of terrorists. indians have decided they want a stronger center. good for them and us.

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ps
it was telling that before the election, indian media rightly saw racist antics in tamil nadu as mere hot air. in contrast some international media ( particularly racists in britian) highlighted them. in typical irrational fashion of propagandists they used that and racist tamil protests in some western countries to raise the profile of the issue. in order to force a ceasefire on sri lanka and save terrorists ( the ultimate aim of racists at this point) .

pps.
free market polices will continue and probably expand in india. communists and other leftists were also dealt a mauling. good

indians again reminded of consequences of coddling terrorists and their supporters

last night’s terrorists attacks should remind indians and their government that tolerating terrorists ( and their supporters) of any nationality will backfire on them.

unfortunately in spite of what happened to rajeev gandhi, but it is clear that current racist tamil nadu government in particular need such reminding, given their demands to intervene in sri lanka on behalf of ltte terrorists pussies during last month or two. though the indian central government acted wisely for most part it could have been more forceful and less politically tolerant in its response to tamil nadu governments idiotic demands. (as for tamil film actors etc. who engaged in various moronic forms of grandstanding on the issue, they only showed that idiocy of most of their films flow directly from their own low iqs)

india should implement a zero tolerance policy on all terrorists. that is in their interest, and that is also the most moral and pragmatic thing to do.

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ps

sri lankan government should document the actions of racist ngo peacenik criminals (that is people like paikiasothy saravanamuttu, jehan perera, jayadeva uyangoda, sunila abeysekera, sunanda deshapriya, sunila abeysekera, nimalka fernando, rohan edirisinha, jeevan thiagarajaha, and their ilk (and their underlings like sanjana hattotuwa)) during tamil nadu terrorist supporters’ demands for intervention in sri lanka. this collaboration with foreigners to coerce sri lanka amount to treachery and should be added to their ever growing list of treacheries. human rights violations, and others crimes. they should and will answer for their crimes appropriately, let us make sure.