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[Sanjiva Weerawarana @sanjiva]

This is fishy:

Cabinet approves Rs. 174 m consultancy contract for $ 30 m tourism development program
https://t.co/0hLhjp1C6O

Consultancy firm that won is "M/s Novel Interdisciplinary Consulting Enterprise Ltd." Hmm.

Seems their website is this: https://t.co/HuY4o0b4iT. Domain was registered in March 2025. Site doesn't load properly and ends up in an Arabic form (see images). I had to use Chrome devtools to make scrolling work. Then I see the attached projects. Gotta love what their clients say (see image). And the managing director has his job title spelt wrong (see image).

This appears to be the managing director: https://t.co/BqL9Mgt7TF who is apparently a procurement consultant for World Bank and/or ADB. According to the content from their site as summarized by Google, another director is "Sulaiman Nazamat Umar Mohamed Nizar is a Sri Lankan biotechnology professional and General Manager at Mike Biotech Asia Pvt Ltd since 2017. He holds a BSc (Hons) ..."

Hey @anuradisanayake @Dr_HariniA @BimalRathnayake there's something seriously off here.

@nimilamalee

[Jay Anderson @TheProjectUnity]

Here is an almost 2-hour long documentary, filmed, edited & narrated by me.

ZERO STOCK FOOTAGE.

I literally went to these places to show you the mainstream historical narrative in Peru doesn't make sense.

If this work matters to you support it with a like/comment/repost

[Aleksey The Great 🇷🇺🎖 @aleksthgrt]

🚨BREAKING

🇨🇳 China :

"Despite its 240-year history, the US has only managed to go 16 years without war."

"It has established 800 military bases in more than 80 countries around the world."

"The US is the main actor behind global chaos and the biggest destroyer of regional peace and stability."

[Gabbar @Gabbar0099]

One of the most widely shared videos worldwide 💔🇵🇸

Israel did this.

[Dimitri Revolt @reality_revolt_]

This is about narrative and transformation, how a new vision of the world is being framed. Watch my docu Series https://t.co/QaU6uVaI93

[Sulochana Peiris @Sulo_Peiris]

Illegally set up businesses run by Israelis vacationing in southern and eastern Sri Lanka need to be reported and removed. A large number of them come here for a break after taking part in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Soon, more will follow in the midst of a rapidly escalating ethnic cleansing drive in southern Lebanon and US/Israel war of choice against Iran. These illegal places are no doubt hurting small businesses run by the locals. Send them away before it’s too late.

[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

🚨BREAKING: This is VERY BRUTAL 🔥

🇺🇸Professor John: "From 1971 to 2022, America killed 38 million people. They are the origin of terrøŕiśm."

“And this is the very same U.S. that now wants to ‘liberate’ Iran.”

BRUTAL REALITY CHECK 🔥🗿

[Earth_Wanderer @earth_tracker]

Gender equality ends here 😭😭

[Rooftop Tiger @RooftopTiger]

Today I learned that the Cholas in Jaffna gave refuge to Hindus fleeing the destruction of the Somnath Temple, and that the Jaffna Kingdom later sheltered those escaping the sacking of Srirangam and Madurai.

[Dr Krish Kandiah OBE @krishk]

The number system we use today has its origins in India.

With all the anti-immigrant rhetoric recently, it's important to remember the ways that different cultures enrich each other.

Fascinating to hear @DalrympleWill speak about his brand-new book, The Golden Road. @BloomsburyBooks

Thank you to @EasternEye for a great evening.

[Stew Peters @realstewpeters]

“The reason why they hate people like Gaddafi, Saddam Hussein, JFK, and Adolf Hitler is bc they banned usury and refused to work with the Rothschild run central bank.”

~ @KenOKeefe1TJP

[Alex & Books 📚 @AlexAndBooks_]

21 Reading tips from bestselling author @morganhousel:

1) Every smart person I know is a voracious reader who also says “every smart person I know is a voracious reader.”

2) Years ago I heard Charlie Munger say “Most books I don’t read past the first chapter. I’m not burdened by bad books,” and it stuck with me.

3) Reading is a chore if you insist on finishing every book you begin, because the majority of books are either a) adequately summarized in the introduction, b) not for you, or c) not for anyone.

4) Slogging through to the last page of these books – a habit likely formed early in school – can turn reading into the equivalent of a 10-hour work meeting where nothing gets done and everyone is bored.

5) Once you see reading through that lens, your willingness to pick up another book wanes. Which, of course, is tragic. “The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them,” said Mark Twain.

6) My reading strategy is to start as many books as I can but finish few of them.

7) College tuition at $25,000 a year comes out to roughly $100 per lecture. Good books – sometimes written by the same professor – can be purchased for fifteen bucks and can offer multiple times as much life-changing insight.

8) Most books don’t need to be read to the end, but some books can change your life – means you need two things to get a lot out of reading: Lots of inputs and a strong filter.

9) If you only pick up books you know with certainty you’re going to like you’ll confine yourself to reading the same authors on the same topics.
10) It’s better to have a low bar in what books you’re willing to try, and even the faintest tickle of interest should be enough to make the cut. Kindle samples are free, so excuses are minimal.
11) Similar to dating, a book you’re not into after 10 minutes of attention has little chance of a happy ending. Slam it shut and move on.

12) You’re not a failure if you quit a book after three pages anymore than if you reject the proposition of a 10-hour date with someone you just met who annoys you. Lots of fish in the sea.

13) Don't turn reading into a game of trying to read as many books as possible.

14) When you try to read as many books as possible in a month, "You're just doing it for the number because when you blow through books that quickly, you're not thinking about it."

15) "You're not reading a book and then meditating on what you've just read and thinking about the points...You're just like how can I get through this as fast as I can."

16) Now Morgan reads 1-2 books a month. He purposely reads slower and spends more time thinking about the ideas in the book instead of just trying to finish the book as fast as possible.

17) I do all my reading on Kindle and I highlight passages that I think are interesting.

18) When I go back through and read something a second time, I definitely find things that I didn’t pay that much attention to the first time because maybe the first time I read it, I was thinking about work or I was falling asleep in bed. I’m definitely a fan of reading things again.

19) I, like everybody, miss holding a physical book and the smell of a book, but I’m a hundred percent Kindle now just because I can search and archive things so much better.

20) Read more history and fewer forecasts.

21) Reading is a skill most of us stop practicing around 4th grade. But what you read, where you read, how you read it, and how you take extract value from what you read is a serious skill that requires honing throughout your life.

[Peter Yang @petergyang]

Love this clip from Jensen Huang (Nvidia CEO) on why innovation requires failure.

"Unless you have a tolerance for failure, you will never experiment. If you don't experiment you won't innovate, and if you don't innovate you won't succeed."