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Charlie T
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Centrist| Humanist | Secularist | ⚕️⚛️ ❝When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.❞ - Thomas Paine
Sri Lanka Katılım Aralık 2019
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@devavishka @Dailymirror_SL Do that and you'll have "tourists only" servos💀
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@Dailymirror_SL Are we atleast charging extra
Adding :
Service Charges
Priority Fees
VIP Fees
Tourist fee
Skipping the line fee
And charge them in $
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“Priority Fuel Access Granted to Tourists Amid Crisis”
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The official social media pages of the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) have now been renamed Electricity Distribution Lanka (EDL) following the power sector reforms under the Electricity Act No. 36 of 2024.
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@shanaka86 More food for the fish....as long as there isn't any oil spill involved
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BREAKING:
While the world watches the Strait of Hormuz, someone is systematically destroying Russia’s energy fleet in the Mediterranean. And nobody is connecting the two wars happening in the same ocean.
On Tuesday March 3 at approximately 4:00 a.m. local time, the Russian LNG tanker Arctic Metagaz exploded between Malta and Libya. The Libyan port authority confirmed the vessel experienced “sudden explosions followed by a massive fire, which ultimately led to its complete sinking.” The wreckage occurred approximately 130 nautical miles north of the port of Sirte, within the Libyan search and rescue zone. All 30 crew members escaped in a lifeboat and were rescued. Malta’s Armed Forces confirmed they received the distress message and geolocated the vessel.
The Arctic Metagaz was carrying liquefied natural gas loaded from Russia’s Arctic LNG 2 facility, departing Murmansk on February 24. She was headed for Port Said and ultimately China. She had deactivated her AIS transponder for approximately 300 kilometers before the incident, running what the industry calls a “gray route” to evade sanctions enforcement. The vessel was under US, UK, and EU sanctions since August 2024. She had previously operated under the flags of Palau, Curacao, and Saint Maarten, all confirmed false by authorities. Her commercial managers were listed in India.
Maritime security firm EOS Risk Group assessed the cause as a likely drone strike. Greek media cited multiple sources describing naval drones and a series of explosions. Reuters reported Ukraine was suspected of the operation. No one has claimed responsibility. OilPrice.com reported this may be the first known instance of an LNG carrier being destroyed in a conflict-related attack.
This was not an isolated incident.
In December 2025, Ukraine’s SBU claimed its first Mediterranean operation: aerial drones from hexacopters struck the shadow fleet tanker Qendil southwest of Crete, more than 2,000 kilometers from Ukrainian territory. The SBU called it “an unprecedented special operation” conducted by its Alpha unit. The Qendil sustained critical damage.
On January 22, the French Navy seized the shadow fleet tanker Grinch between Spain and Morocco, sailing from Murmansk under a false Comoros flag. Macron personally announced the operation. Germany denied the tanker Tavian entry to Baltic waters. The US seized seven sanctioned tankers since December.
On February 28, the same day Operation Epic Fury began against Iran, Belgian special forces rappelled onto the shadow fleet tanker Ethera in the North Sea, supported by the French Navy. The vessel was sailing under a false Guinea flag.
Three days later, the Arctic Metagaz exploded and sank in the Mediterranean.
Russia operates a shadow fleet of over 400 vessels to evade sanctions. Western nations have sanctioned 640 individual ships. The campaign has escalated from paper sanctions to physical seizures to what increasingly appears to be kinetic destruction. The Mediterranean is now a theater of covert naval warfare against Russian energy exports, running simultaneously with the overt naval war against Iran in the Persian Gulf.
Two wars. Two energy powers. One ocean connecting them. The age of safe maritime commerce is over.
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
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@NewsWireLK 'Good Riddance. Vive la Persia!' - would be my message
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Iran Embassy in Colombo opens condolence book for Khamenei ift.tt/dc1BgWK
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This week, Anthropic delivered a master class in arrogance and betrayal as well as a textbook case of how not to do business with the United States Government or the Pentagon.
Our position has never wavered and will never waver: the Department of War must have full, unrestricted access to Anthropic’s models for every LAWFUL purpose in defense of the Republic.
Instead, @AnthropicAI and its CEO @DarioAmodei, have chosen duplicity. Cloaked in the sanctimonious rhetoric of “effective altruism,” they have attempted to strong-arm the United States military into submission - a cowardly act of corporate virtue-signaling that places Silicon Valley ideology above American lives.
The Terms of Service of Anthropic’s defective altruism will never outweigh the safety, the readiness, or the lives of American troops on the battlefield.
Their true objective is unmistakable: to seize veto power over the operational decisions of the United States military. That is unacceptable.
As President Trump stated on Truth Social, the Commander-in-Chief and the American people alone will determine the destiny of our armed forces, not unelected tech executives.
Anthropic’s stance is fundamentally incompatible with American principles. Their relationship with the United States Armed Forces and the Federal Government has therefore been permanently altered.
In conjunction with the President's directive for the Federal Government to cease all use of Anthropic's technology, I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk to National Security. Effective immediately, no contractor, supplier, or partner that does business with the United States military may conduct any commercial activity with Anthropic. Anthropic will continue to provide the Department of War its services for a period of no more than six months to allow for a seamless transition to a better and more patriotic service.
America’s warfighters will never be held hostage by the ideological whims of Big Tech. This decision is final.
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BREAKING: Afghanistan media reports that Pakistani fighter jets carried out strikes in Afghan territory
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@PaulineHansonOz Yes Ma'am, bring back the glory days of slavery....
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Australia is drowning in unskilled migration.
In 2023–24, Australia issued 190,000 permanent visas.
The number of core construction trades included:
Bricklayers: 109
Stonemasons: 18
Carpenters & Joiners: 521
Painters: 383
Plasterers: 45
Plumbers: 56
Electricians: 174
Gas fitters: Less than 5
That’s just 1,428 or 0.75% of migrants in a trade that builds something.
These figures are supposed to support housing supply for the remaining 185,000 new residents during a housing crisis.
Meanwhile, visas were issued to:
4,570 accountants
4,243 software engineers
3,957 chefs
These aren’t the trades that fix a housing crisis.
The Albanese Government’s narrative doesn’t stack up… and Australians are worse off.
Great work to former construction worker WA One Nation Senator Tyron Whitten for unearthing these figures.
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Generational politician, I would vote for Hitler if he referenced Murali this seamlessly
The GrandStand Podcast🎙️🇱🇰@GrandStandPod
Murali has the streets (and New York)!
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No monopoly or cartel here.
Rice is good business.
Ceylon Exchange Mentoring@cem_lka
Sri Lanka’s billionaire rice mill owners are looking to put their grain earnings to flight as Dudley Sirisena and Mitharapala Lankeshwara both hint at purchasing helicopters and jet aircraft for personal and commercial use.
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Due to the lapse in appropriations, this X account will not be updated regularly until full operations resume, with the exception of urgent safety and security information.
At this time, scheduled passport and visas services in the United States and at U.S. Embassies and Consulates overseas will continue during the lapse in appropriations as the situation permits. For information on our services and operating status, visit travel.state.gov.
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'Melania' is currently the lowest rated movie of all time on IMDb.
The film is sitting at 1.1/10 stars with over 17k reviews.
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Holy shit he broke the curse
Jim Cramer@jimcramer
The unwind of gold? I think silver is way overvalued
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To all world leaders meeting with Xi Jinping: China sells nothing but cheap products and cheap friendships.
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they're now rugpulling the perioidic table
Polymarket@Polymarket
BREAKING: $2.5 trillion wiped out from gold market cap in 30 minutes.
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