Psh... we ain't need no Mexican staring frogs.
We got Laser Shootin' Elephants of Central Sri Lanka.
I wasn't always like this, I was an atheist, a pagan. I cursed his name before.
But God saved me. I return the love.
Bless you too My Brother.
In this context I agree, and I warned a lot of my neighbors that got the shot that said neighbors will track down and kill the people who vaxxed them.
One thing about us Sri Lankans is that we are vengeful, but won't act on it if it didn't harm us physically, i.e. if you slighted me I'll respond in kind, but if you hurt me or someone dear to me, all hell breaks loose. We've had one man who killed entire families and police officers that didn't handle his sister's rape/murder.
I'm expecting the entire police/armed forces/politicians to be running for their lives once the vaxxine truth drops.
Multiple loans. I"m not happy about IMF either.
I'm Sri Lankan. This is true. See my reply in this thread. Thanks for catching that.
Thanks for your concern. To put your worries aside: no, things aren't like that.
That's a misleading video from the start of the protests fren. I've written a response to that.
I've been trying to help people during these hard times, things will be alright.
I've given my life to Yeshua anyway, so whatever he has in store for me, I'll take it with his grace.
Sri Lankan here. This is misleading. Mods, please change the title. What you're seeing here is not some wealthy person being attacked.
This is an old (month or so) video of a Sri Lankan Police Service officer being chased away by protesters against the political class. Our police service still retained the Khaki uniform from the British Empire days.
The officer tried to do his "I'm a big shot" routine and got clobbered by all sorts of things. This video has been remade with some funny game music and was a meme on Facebook groups in Sri Lanka.
ATM, yes, people are hungry and becoming poor. But, they haven't started going in hordes and attacking wealthy people. Sure people get robbed in dark alleys, crafty daylight robberies, but for the most part (even before the crisis) robbery is less prevalent than other countries.
Our people tend to have an automatic giving response and our Buddhist temples with enough money have been feeding as many people as they can in the vicinity. People like me who are a little well off are also trying as much as we can to provide for the less fortunate (I don't have much time because work has become more hectic with the power cuts, so I provide my mom with the finances and she takes care of the rest).
People right now have had their fawning over the Armed Forces shattered, so all the anger is now being (rightfully) directed at the political class, enforcement class, and wealthy class that supported the political class.
For the time being, life will be hell. In the end though, after all these veils are lifted, I see better times ahead.
WWG1WGA
PS: If anyone is interested, I can compile a list of videos like these of Police and Provocateurs being given the beat down.
Beside this there is Session and Briar.
I particularly like Briar because it lets you send messages over WiFI ad-hoc networks. In other words nothing goes over the internet.
They have been picking us clean for decades now.
The PM is a NWO puppet that perpetuated our civil-war for his own gain. He's now here to oversee the handover of everything else.
Luckily enough though:
- the public has had it with the PM
- the public has had it with the ruling-class
- the public has for a long time had it with imperialists regardless of what they come as
Additionally:
- India, the big hereditary brother, will be pissed if someone even attempts to take us over. Their mentality is: "only I get to bully my brother".
- China, the one with vested interests, will be pissed if someone even attempts to take us over. Their mentality is: "we sunk money in, we ain't letting you walk in and take over."
- Pakistan, long-time enemy of India, will be pissed if someone even attempts to take us over. Their mentality is: "the enemy of my enemy is my friend."
Personally, I'm glad things are coming to a head now.
"Live free or die."
LFG.
Probably have some counterpart to it.
Additionally, due to HIPAA depicting actual patients is illegal or something. So for those reasons, they use a b-roll of older footage.
This seems odd.
Here is Sri Lanka, we've been having oil shortages for months now. But there's always a large amount of oil transports that manage to "fall-over" and spill their goods.
I can't help but think that this is intentional.
A lot of farmers are suffering the same in our country. I was wondering if equipment could be modified to run on electricity and solar panels.
Uganda also happens to be the country to which our (Sri Lanka's) dollar reserves disappeared into via a suspicious set of flights from our flag-carrier, Srilankan.
The more you know.
This is all (malicious IMO) mismanagement. Our country is capable of self-sustainability, just doesn't pay for the people in power to encourage it.
Now everyone except the politburo are suffering.
Most of our government workers aren't workers; they're just slackers that kissed ass into a cushy/stable government job for the pension that comes with it.
Our people are heavily in the "Benevolent Monarch" mindset. To them each new president is some kind of savior that they hand over the fate of their lives to.
Zero self-actualization. Be it at the personal or group level. Anyone that does have some sort of self-actualization is seen as weird or privileged. The "gib" mentality is strong.
When the British were forced to give us independence they lamented the fact that the majority of the population was neither politically wise nor independent and would screw up the country in a few decades.
Couple that with the Indian-sponsored LTTE as a means to annex Sri Lanka and you have a population that's disenfranchised, demotivated, and convinced the grass is greener on the other side while keeping their lawn in the dark.
Are Mahinda Rajapaksha and Gothabaya Rajapaksha related? Brothers I think?
Yes. Nepotism.
Mahinda seems to be a white hat? He stopped the civil war and well loved?
Complicated:
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the army was kept on a leash during the civil war, anytime they made headway, the government reigned them in and allowed the LTTE to inflict massive casualties (this was during the time when the current PM, Ranil Wickramasinghe was in power*).
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Under Mahinda's administration, the army's leash was cut. So technically, yes, he can be credited with ending the war. The army always had the capability, the commander in chief prevented them.
I would have said white-hat a few years ago but ending the was is his claim to fame, and he never wants us to forget that: he saw an opportunity at cementing his name. There's nothing wrong with that.
Problem is what he did with it: cronyism, subjugating law, pocketing public funds, bringing in goons.
There's also my suspicion that he's an adrenochrome junkie.
White-hat? No, just an opportunist.
But Gothabaya seems to be a black hat, probably works for CIA?
He was an American citizen prior to becoming president. By default that disqualifies you from running until you renounce it. The proof of renunciation came way into the end of the election, and even that was shoddy.
Black-hat? No, just an opportunist. CIA asset? Maybe, probably just another pawn for sale to the highest bidder.
FWIW: all major politicians in Sri Lanka are in it for the money. Loyalty means jack. They're on sale to the highest bidder. Very few politicians with integrity,.
Ironic, but the politicians in the country with competence, integrity and results to show for it are the only communist party represented in parliament: the JVP.
I'm not kidding about ^ and I'm still trying to wrap my head around how that happened.
I don't admit to be an expert on supply chain delivery of gas. But I don't think the US government buys gasoline from tankers to resell it to companies and individuals inland.
That's comparing apples and oranges. The US is a better market than we ever were. Besides we don't produce our own gas, so we have to get it from somewhere else.
The article says the gas isn't being delivered for consumption by the people because the government of Sri Lanka doesn't have money to pay for it. The government shouldn't have any part in the supply chain.
In a perfect world, it shouldn't. I'm a proponent of minarchism, so I can understand the argument. But the fact is that the government does, mostly because the only actual distributor of gas is Ceypetco that is state-owned. Ceypetco was supposed to be a solution to OPEC in the country, so naturally it became a monopoly.
Our country has pretty tight regulations on anything that comes in or goes out (unless you're an apparatchik or on the politburo, in which case go right ahead). And in the end it works very well for the people fleecing the country.
So then I looked up Sri Lanka's government and apparently communists hold a majority of seats, at least in recent history.
If you mean SLPP, yes; on paper they claim to be leftie. In practice they're corporationists.
There's only a handful of socialist parties in the country, the only one represented in parliament is the JVP, and even that is just 3 seats.
Sri Lanka is a little odd in that it's understanding of communism/socialism is (wierdly) different from what other countries consider communism/socialism. I can't explain it.
Perhaps this is because the only party with some clout is the JVP which started out in response to the elite of the country taking advantage of the lower class (think giving incompetent graduates jobs because they're from Ivy League schools over extremely competent graduates from the village *school"). There's a huge layer of classism that exists in the country even today.
All in all, sorry if it looked like I was lashing out at you. I also tend to go off track a lot. So apologies for that.
Oh. You. Have. No. Idea.
The only reason people aren't terrified of Covid is because of the economic situation.
Before it was law, I got scowled at for not wearing a mask.
This angers me more than anything.
Under what pretenses can you stop people from growing their own food?
You ANZACs better get your asses in gear and stab this guy up the ass with a cactus or I'm going to cry over the good old days of Mick Dundee.
Nope. They're just pretty good at puling the wool over their voter's heads and running off with the goods.
No gas to cook your food? Burn wood. Or eat food that doesn't require cooking.
This is hilarious. I love how the elites kept complaining about fossil fuels. Then once they cut off the gas supply, people in our country (mostly rural areas, can't find nor burn wood in the cities) started burning wood.
More CO2 emissions FTW.
No fertilizer? Get some chickens on your farm.
All the wise old men were called "old relics" when fertilizer came around.
Now they're dead, and we don't have fertilizer.
If our morons had listened they had generations of wisdom to get us out of any rut.
No money for gas? Ride a bike or walk.
ROFL.
My extended family and I are probably the only people in the country that just walk (walking is called "exercise"), people are so used to transport that they take a bus for walking distance.
I can walk 12 kilks without overexerting myself. The moment someone else tries they dry-heave and crumple at the first klik.
It's sad actually.
The key is all the gas sitting off shore waiting for the government to buy it. What's that all about?
Gee. Take a wild guess who gets a commission on the late payment surcharge? (no sarcasm directed at you, just for comedic effect).
End consumers should be the ones buying gasoline.
I mean we do, but we don't produce our own, so someone has to buy it for us to bring it here.
That's what the government does here with CEYPETCO. The other supplier is IOC Lanka, or Indian Oil Lanka. The only problem no one is wild over IOC is because they price-gouge.
We used to be heavily socialist (I use that term loosely, socialism here is more or less social-welfare with populism and state-managed economies. It's weird actually, I don't even understand.), and it surprisingly worked out well for us till the war screwed us over.
Most of the major corporations are state-owned:
- CEB - Ceylon Electricity Board.
- LECO - Lanka Electricity Corporation (partial state-owned).
- CEYPETCO - Ceylon Petroleum Corporation. *
- SLT - Sri Lanka Telecom.
- NWSDB - National Water Supply and Drainage Board.
- CO-OP - Sri Lanka Co-operative (think state owned Walgreens, but for the lower-income population).
- SLTB - Sri Lanka Transit Board (public transport).
- CRB - Ceylon Railway Board.
- Air Lanka/Sri Lankan Airlines - yup, state-owned flag-carrier.
Were they getting it for free from the government?
Are you assuming we don't pay for gas? Someone has to bring it to the island before we can pay for it.
All of these work on taxes, and the payment we give for their services.
How does it work? F**ed if I know.
Did it work before: yes.
What changed: think "Idiocracy". The govt thinks plants can grow with Brawndo.
They already attempted this. As of a few days ago, there was an announcement of the former LTTE (a separatist group we fought for 30 years and won against) committing a bomb attack today (18th).
It's hilarious because we just got a new PM that did jack-shit about the war since he was in office. India is looking eager to dogpile on it too (they gave the "intelligence alert").
India also happened to train the separatists. Then walked out with their tail between their legs when said separatists killed their PM.
The dumbass is literally our version of Bidum. Multiple farmers are now revolting. They've said that the next time the govt comes to campaign, that they'll be run out of the town with pitchforks.
Welcome change in attitude.
I've made a post on this.
https://greatawakening.win/p/15IYCrkNb1/sri-lankas-jan-6th-army-standing/