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Politics, Pain and Positivity - Sri Lanka's Democracy November 2018

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                                                                                   Positivity Over the last five years in Sri Lankan politics there has been evidently, even from foreign checks, an improvement in its genuine quality. Politics must always attain a genuine quality in everything it does, and this includes the harmonisation between democracy, judicature and the public.   There is great admiration and success in Sri Lanka's democratic history, in terms of overcoming the country's throes and woes. For example, repeated colonisation, civil conflict, natural disaster and the spread of disease. Its economy and infrastructure has vastly shaped and embossed a rising 'middle class' which has risen up from poverty, and the GDP rate continues to increase positively from 7 years ago. Yet from describing all these challenges, it is obvious to see there are more hurdles along the way to a peaceful functioning government. It requires communication without

Racist Media Hype October 2018

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Racism in Media is extreme, and exacerbates an intolerance for people of different backgrounds and faiths. Media is the main cause of continuing racist ideologies because it gives racist organisations a platform to voice opinions.  There is a huge level of discrimination and jibe, for unjust profiteers, who seek the ugly sounds of 'money in pockets' badly acquired because of their unequal and bias stance this world manages to continuously reject, but still remains.  In the context of terrorism, it should be defined as only Terrorism not by colour or race or gender. Though unliberated "White Americans" still feel a necessity to disenfranchise the American population with demeaning labels to appropriate their ow n development.  Development has to be universal and inclusive and starts with accepting all criminals as only criminals not defined by race or gender or demeaning slander but by circumstantial evidence and valid proof in a fair trial. Media should

Rule of Law, Equality and Discrimination and Islamophobia August 2018

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Martin Luther King Jr once wrote in Strive Toward Freedom (1958), "True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice."  In the United Kingdom this summer, in the months of July and August, there has been a tremendous heat wave tearing through the nation and another wave has also been affecting the people of the nation - a wave of racism, bigotry and discrimination.     Not only has there been a rise in temperature to 34 degrees Celsius, there has been a rise of anti-immigrant  organisations  campaigning for colonialist rights long-gone, with far-right  radicalist  ideologies. The problems people have with different cultures and faiths stems from self-hatred and ignorance, which then is expressed externally, to incite bullying, racial dominancy and a social self-interest.  Organisations  like, Neo-Nazism, Britain First, UKIP and National Front.    In France (2011) and now Denmark (2018) as well as 7 o