e-Con e-News July 2023 Part 2

‘When the trumpet sounded

everything was prepared on earth,

and Jehovah gave the world

to Coca-Cola Inc, Anaconda,

Ford Motors, and other corporations.

The United Fruit Company

reserved for itself the most juicy

piece, the central coast of my world,

the delicate waist of America…’

– Pablo Neruda, Document #35: United Fruit Co, Canto General, 1950

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‘At President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s reception for the diplomatic community at his Nuwara Eliya official residence last week, US Ambassador Julie Chung: ‘spotted a centuries-old telephone system at the residence and pretended to be calling President Joe Biden. Given the age of the telephone system, President Wickremesinghe laughingly said the Ambassador’s call might be answered by John Foster Dulles, who served as US Secretary of State in the 1950s.’ – see ee Sovereignty, US envoy’s trunk call to Biden: Ranil diverts it to Foster Dulles

‘According to US State Department papers released recently,

US State Secretary Foster Dulles had spent $5 million

to defeat [SWRD] Bandaranaike at the elections in 1956.

Bandaranaike was assassinated in 1959.

That the hidden hand of the CIA was behind this

assassination came out at the Commission

investigating this assassination. Sirima Bandaranaike

who came to continue the Bandaranaike legacy

had to face a military coup to dislodge her,

by anti-Sinhala & anti-Buddhist elements’

John Foster Dulles’ involvement in the SWRD assassination was recalled by the novelist Gunadasa Amarasekera at the launch of Sena Thoradeniya’s latest book, Galle Face Protest: System Change or Anarchy. (US consul Bernard Anthony Gufler met SWRD Bandaranaike on the very day he was assassinated – see ee 12 October 2019, Exposing the Real Assassins).

     Amarasekera went on to note:

‘The Rajapaksas were put in power by the people to carry on this Bandaranaike legacy. With the help of Sinhala nationalist Buddhist forces Mahinda Rajapaksa was able to destroy Prabhakaran and his terrorist outfit. This was an unbearable humiliation for the Western powers (Defence Ministers of England & France flew down to take away Prabhakaran). In 2015 Mahinda Rajapaksa was defeated at the elections for which $30mn were spent, as admitted by John Kerry.

     In 2019 when the entire Sinhala Buddhist people voted to bring Gotabhaya back to power, it would have been a shock to these Western powers. The only way to prevent a repetition in the future was to alienate the youth who were destined to continue the traditional role as bearers of that civilisation, and also, to get them to despise and disown their inheritance.’ – see ee Sovereignty, Taking the lid off the Golden Bowl.

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‘In 1948, George Kennan helped craft the infamous

National Security Council Directive 10/2,

which officially authorized the CIA –

with consultation & oversight from the State Department

– to engage in ‘covert operations’ in the fight against the communist menace.

The directive gave the CIA carte blanche to do

whatever was required: everything from economic warfare

to assassinations, sabotage, propaganda, subversion,

and support for armed guerrillas.’

– ee Media, A Portrait of a Soviet CIA Propagandist

• John Foster Dulles was once an attorney for the eponymous United Fruit Company of Neruda’s ode, a company whose role is played out in Sri Lanka by England’s Unilever. John’s brother Allen, also a lawyer, rose to become head of the CIA (1953-61), and is also held responsible for the escalating the US policy of assassinating Asian, African & American leaders. Where there was no ‘communism’, the US would help create a caricature of it.

     The CIA’s Allen Dulles and later US National Security Advisor & Ford Foundation President McGeorge Bundy had analysed in 1949 the role of the Marshall Plan in the CIA’s intellectual world war on communism. An annual $200mn of Marshall Plan funds ‘financed the work of anticommunist intellectuals, journalists, union leaders, politicians, and other leading figures in Western Europe’. The ‘classic’ US media campaign with the UFC to overthrow Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala was conducted by General Electric shill Edward Bernays, the so-called ‘father of corporate public relations’, ‘double-nephew’ of the Freuds, and muse of the Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.

     At the Thoradeniya launch, Amarasekera also noted:

‘Julie Chang is the guiding spirit behind the Aragalaya;

she is really a remarkable woman, an ambassador,

the likes of whom we have never witnessed before.

She not only gives garden parties,

but also advises both Gotabaya Rajapakse

and the Aragalaya protesters. She patronizes the JVP.

She gives hope and succour to the Red Sahodarayas

in their pursuit of the armed struggle, knowing too well

that it would provide an opportunity for Ranil Wickremasinghe

to accede to the fourth request of the CIA chief

to bring in his troops to the country…’

– ee Sovereignty, Taking the lid off the Golden Bowl

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There is no surprise therefore at the news that the US government’s envoys were involved in the bribing (‘threats & incentives’) of Sri Lanka Telecom to sabotage a bid by a more capable China to build oceanic internet cables. And it turns out that all cables lead to Washington via another giant blob sucking on the eyes, ears and other orifices of this world – the Texan multinational AT&T, which claims lineage all the way back to Alexander Graham Bell.

‘On the sweetener side, the US Trade & Development Agency (USTDA)

told Reuters it offered training grants valued at a total of $3.8mn

to 5 telecom companies in countries on the cable’s route in return

for them choosing SubCom as the supplier. Telecom Egypt & Network i2i,

a company owned by India’s Bharti Airtel, got $1mn apiece…

Djibouti Telecom, Sri Lanka Telecom & Dhivehi Raajjeyge Gulhun

of the Maldives each received $600,000.’ (see ee Focus)

• ee is unclear why Thomson-Reuters has chosen to supposedly ‘expose’ these ‘threats & incentives’ – perhaps to imbue a cachet of intrigue, their articles are peppered with ‘No Comment’ by almost everyone from officials in the US government to those from Alphabet’s Google, Amazon, Microsoft & Meta. The lesson Thomson–Reuters – itself very much part of the US’ military strategy – wishes to teach us, is that the US will visit war, chaos & other economic sanctions on any country that dares not do its will.

‘General, your tank is a powerful vehicle

It smashes down forests and crushes 100 men.

But it has one defect:

It needs a driver.

General, your bomber is powerful.

It flies faster than a storm and carries more than an elephant.

But it has one defect:

It needs a mechanic.

General, man is very useful.

He can fly and he can kill.

But he has one defect:

He can think.’

– Bertolt Brecht

As the hype around AI & ChatGPT reveals, the US simply cannot deliver – all it does like that famous dog who does not eat hay but refuses to let others who do, do so – that dog in a manger – is to bark create chaos and prevent others from getting on in this world. This ee therefore demystifies the torrential hype around AI, ChatGPT etc, as well as the USA’s inability to compete on what even they call a ‘level playing field’.

     This ee also looks at the accusations of unfair industrial practices made against China. It turns out that the USA is accusing China of doing exactly what they and Europe themselves have done (and still do) to develop their own countries.

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‘India has been engaged in licensed manufacture

of Soviet/Russian, French and English aircraft and engines for many decades,

but knows this cannot be considered a technology transfer

which involves not merely manufacturing but also design-development.

– ee Random Notes, US-India Drone, Jet Engine Deals Impact Indigenous Development

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• How unique is China’s industrial policy strategy? US President Eisenhower’s 1961 farewell address called attention to the USA’s powerful military-industrial complex ‘as the linchpin of far-flung US efforts at state-sponsored, taxpayer-funded innovation’. The US’ massive military budget developed many major US technological advances, such as the internet, the global positioning system (GPS), semiconductors, etc. Japan’s ‘plan rational development state’, had their Ministry of International Trade & Industry perfect the art of ‘state-subsidized credit allocation & tariffs to protect Japan’s sunrise industries’.

     Germany’s Wirtschaftswunder had strong state support for the Mittelstand of small & medium-size enterprises. Their recent Industrie 4.0 (2013) compares to China’s Internet Plus plan. France’s famed model of ‘indicative planning’, dates back to President Charles de Gaulle’s 5th Plan of 1966-70, with its ‘fusion of economic & political power’ that merged the French industrial system with the state… The attack on China turns out to be an attack on and a warning to any country that makes its own plans for modern industry-based independence (see ee Focus).

     In Sri Lanka, the English media almost with one voice demands the destruction of a strong state. Discussion of what modern industrialization really is – is not allowed…

US Envoy Threatens & Bribes Sri Lanka Telecom