Buffalo Slaughter & USAID LandBank in Sri Lanka
Posted on February 27th, 2023

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The USA’s IMF package is still secret, right? The President keeps promising to present it ‘soon’. Just like the ‘promised’ IMF loan, which is supposed to act as a suppository to loosen the sphincters of tight-fisted money markets. The package is secret, the promised date is secret, and the IMF is still controlled by the US. So, while the money markets are clearly gaming Sri Lanka, why should China join the US in exploiting SL? As China’s recent statement says, they will support Sri Lanka, but not support the IMF. Yet clearly the English media will allow no such truths to shake their dogged belief in US ‘charity’.

     Why do our media listen to the sermons of the English and the US, clearly the most murderous regimes plant Earth has ever encountered? Check out Russian President V Putin’s take below on US pomposity. Then check China’s exposé this week on the depths of US hegemony, and how it relates to recent events in Sri Lanka. In the end, the obsequiousness of the Sri Lankan English media & the polity it represents, relates to the simple matter that the oligarchy has stolen and placed their golden eggs in the vulture’s nest. But is this all that matters?

• ‘This newspaper contacted the Central Bank of Sri Lanka via 0112 477966, 0112 477129, 1935, 0112 477840, and 0112 867384 to find out whether they are working to get back the export revenue deposited in foreign banks. But those numbers were connected to a fax machine. After that, this writer attempted to contact Mahinda Siriwardena, Secretary of the Ministry of Finance via 0112 484511. But he could not be contacted. An officer there asked this writer to contact the Additional Secretary (Legal) of the Ministry of Finance DD Arandara via 0112 484670. But there was no response. The Daily Mirror then called the aforementioned officer again, and she told this writer to contact the State Ministry via 0112 883525. But it was the phone number of the Ministry of Children & Women Affairs. When asked about it again, her answer was that she gave the number looking up the phone directory in a hurry. This newspaper then asked the officer, who did not even know the number of the state ministry, its phone number again, and this writer was asked to dial 0112 484600, extension 1531. When contacted, an officer said the State Ministry of Finance does not have a separate secretary or an additional secretary or any other responsible officer to take any information. Therefore, this newspaper was asked to contact the Additional Secretary of the Ministry of Finance via 0112 484600, extension 1422 to inquire about all these matters. The DM tried to contact the Additional Secretary but he was also not available.’ – ee Sovereignty, $36bn of SL’s export money held offshore

Sri Lanka suspended paying bilateral foreign debt in April 2022.

However, the country continues to repay loans

obtained from several multilateral organisations,

such as the World Bank & Asian Development Bank.

– ee Economy, Sri Lanka has to meet $2.6bn

in foreign debt repayments & interest this year

• The US government and allied poodles are ‘gaming’ Sri Lanka’s ‘debt’. They wish to promote further chaos in the country to pursue their military, political and economic goals. US poodles include – not just their international financial institutions (IFIs) like the World Bank, IMF & ADB but also – Sri Lankan officials and a so-called private sector (that already monopolizes the country’s resources, but crave even more, through privatization).

     Sri Lanka’s corporations have been caught red-handed parking their profits outside the country. This ee reproduces essays on this ‘bleeding process’ (as Marx called European colonialism), but also the gaming of debt, as well as on the joke of constantly demanding ‘foreign investment’ (see ee Focus).

     Under their breath, some of these politically powerful ‘exporters’ argue, there is no modern industry to invest in anyway. There is no doubt, it is more than money we need (see ee Building Blocks) However, as ee continues to argue, these ‘exporters’ are umbilically linked to the colonial import-export plantation oligarchy. They keep continuing their economic terrorism in Sri Lanka to prevent and sabotage any attempt at modern production.

Economists… have oversimplified the nature of the problem

by talking only of levels of development,

and ignoring the fact that some nations

not only lack development but are locked

into a stagnant state where development is impossible.

(Ruth C Young, quoted in SBD de Silva’s Political Economy of Underdevelopment)

‘The bulk of Sri Lanka’s land is state owned,

and the private land market is inefficient…

This prevents land being utilised to generate capital’

– Economic Blueprint of the SJB Economic Policy Unit

• Killing Buffalo & Mountain Farms for US Land Banks & Tourism – This week ee read reports on the horrifying slaughter of buffaloes and the undermining of mountain farming in Laggala (ee Random Notes). As an ee Reader recallsbefore the English invasion of Ceylon, Sinhala Buddhists did not touch the meat of farming animals, and referred to such as ‘gerri muss’ (also see, ee Focus, Cattle in the Kandyan Countryside under English Colonialists)

     ee sees this violence against cultivators and animals as directly linked to the privatization of water resources and common lands on which both villager & cattle depend. Intriguing it is then to learn that USAID’s International Development Group, based in Virginia (where the CIA is also domiciled) wants ‘2 technical officers’ for a ‘Land Bank Development’ in Sri Lanka. Deadline for applicants is 8 March (ee Agriculture).

     While a supine media is directing people’s attention elsewhere, all land use is about to be centralized in Sri Lanka. And further: individual state institutions will no longer be allowed to give land on lease. Another reader adds: ‘This Land Bank is being pushed by USAID, CIA, Soros’ NED NGOS. They haven’t yet given up on the idea of a Land Bank in Sri Lanka – under the control of the US!’

     This land bank is being pushed under the guise of ‘tourism development.’ So it’s no wonder they are attacking food producers! And it is no coincidence that a webinar on debt sponsored by the Ceylon Tobacco Co features the former English diplomat ‘Sir’ Peter Heap, senior advisor to the CTC’s ‘Research Unit’, who claims ‘tourism’ is Sri Lanka’s major resource, and we must therefore act ‘democratic’ like the English, to whom bombings, riots and police teargas are supposedly ‘foreign’:

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