A paper submitted By The Sri Lanka Study Circle
The COVID Attack
In the first quarter of 2020, the world
was plagued by a COVID virus which has, as at now, caused the deaths of over a
one and a half million people.
A tiny bug has literally brought the world
-the globalised world – to a standstill with economies dislocated, education
retarded, food chains ruptured, ‘goods and services’ chains scuppered and
health services disrupted.
The virus has adversely affected, albeit
in different ways, both the purveyors of globalisation and those dragooned into
globalisation.
Globalisation impacted
Globalisation is a socio-economic and
political template created and thrust upon the world by the global
money-lenders operating out of America and Europe; it spells out the rules on
how the world, as a single unit, should conduct itself, politically,
economically and socially.
This ‘Globalisation’ template broadly
established many parameters, such as: The food, the services, the goods, the
medicines, each country is permitted to produce and consume: The tariffs
to be imposed when countries engage in trading: The mandatory use of the
American dollar in international transactions: Fixing the value of all the
currencies in the world to the dollar: Determining the wage rates applicable to
each country: Determining the prices payable for the resources of each country:
Determining the rate of interest to be applied in each country:
Determining, the total value and conditions of financial loans -including rates
of interest and prior compliance requirements- that would be advanced to a
country: Coaching countries seeking loans to parrot the geo political script in
public fora: and many more.
The underlying theme in the
‘Globalisation’ template is that ‘private-interest’ shall always prevail over
‘public-interest’ and that the land of a country is, but a mere commodity, to
be bought and sold and made accessible to the global money lenders; in the
Globalisation model, the engine of development is the ‘Private’ sector.
These notions are quite contrary to the
views of Sri Lanka, clearly enunciated in the Country’s Constitution. Public
interest shall always prevail over private interest; the Country’s land is not
a commodity for trade but a priceless resource, belonging to all Sri Lankans,
that sustains man and nature.
Globalisation cause of poverty, bondage
and loss of Sovereignty
In the Globalisation template there is no
place for sovereignty, for the former colonies of Europe and America; the need,
for the architects of ‘Globalisation’, is to possess and control the land and
resources of these former colonies.
To induce these former Colonies to accept
the ‘Globalisation’ template, the Global Loan sharks allured the leaders of
these countries by zeroing in on their frailties; these leaders thereafter
frog-marched their countries into the inevitable debt trap.
The tactics adopted by the Global loan
sharks are no different to the tactics adopted by their local cousins, the
‘Poli-Mudalalies’.
And the end result of ‘Globalisation’ has
been poverty, indebtedness and bondage to the countries at the apex of the
‘Globalisation’ pyramid.
Sri Lanka is at the base of this
pyramid.
Globalisation wobbles
With COVID 19, Globalisation has taken a
major whack; the countries which contrived the globalised template and
controlled the pyramidal structure from their imperious positions, have
suddenly found the pyramid wobbly and unstable.
The countries at the base of the
Globalisation pyramid, although ‘wounded’ by COVID, have discovered that COVID
has loosened the shackles of ‘Globalisation’; these countries are in a
position, now, to free themselves from Globalisation and walk away from this
trap of ‘perpetual bondage’.
American threatens Brandix type
operations
The Americans too, realise that
COVID has caused a situation where some ‘captive’ countries are contemplating
escape from their captors; to counter the collapse of the ‘Globalisation’ model
and to prevent a mass escape of the captive countries from the bondage of
Globalisation, the captors are menacing the captives with the threat of
deliberately infecting them with COVID ; the captors are hectoring the captives
to follow the ‘New Normal’ rules which could lead to a situation, like in
America, where people are literally dying like dogs, on the streets.
There is strong suspicion, among the
people, that this modus operandi was adopted in the Brandix-COVID- Cluster-
Bomb case; the people are eagerly awaiting the results of the criminal
investigations that have been initiated.
In Sri Lanka, all the post COVID
solutions, proposed by notorious American agents, are based on continued
activity within the framework of the impaired ‘Globalisation’ template.
This would be disastrous. Conceding that a
vaccine for COVID 19 is found, what happens when, for example, COVID 30 hits
us?
The Government has gone into shell shock;
after eight months of COVID it has yet to come out with a holistic plan to
tackle the post COVID scenario. There has been no thinking ‘outside the box’ in
this regard.
With the lockdowns, many people have lost
their jobs, some work on half pay and others are unable to generate a daily
income; their power to purchase food for the table has dwindled. There is
uncertainty, gloom and fear in these homes.
The Plan – Human lives first
Taking Maslow’s theory of hierarchical
needs as a start point, the Country’s slogan should be ‘Human Lives First’.
The Government needs to adopt a strict
zero tolerance policy for deaths by COVID. Within this policy framework the
Government must ensure that primary needs of food, shelter, clothing, health
and education are provided to all the people.
In this paper, the Sri Lanka study circle
presents a broad outline of a plan to ensure that all Sri Lankans, poor and
rich, young and old will never ever go hungry. The plan is in a skeletal form
and needs to be fleshed out.
The COVID attack was a revolutionary
attack on human civilization and this plan to provide food, as a response, we
dare say, is revolutionary. Many sacred cows may have to be sacrificed in the
implementation of the plan.
The people would have to be put on a war
footing to ensure the plan is implemented expeditiously.
In this plan, the Study Circle recognizes
that Sri Lanka is a very fertile country and most, if not all, of the food that
people eat can be grown here. And this includes fruits too.
The project would be a government led
initiative.
Perforce therefore, we need to begin
immediately growing all our needs in respect of food by way of crops, plants,
creepers, trees, etc, etc after:
- Making an assessment of
population distribution
- identifying localities where
these crops etc would be grown
- identifying requirement of
local organic fertilisers, local non-chemical weedicides, potential
anti-fungal and pest control requirements.
- Identifying Warehouse
requirements.
- Identifying transport
requirements to plantations, warehouses and retail outlets.
- Doing research and making plans
to prevent crop failure and making back-up plans in the event of such
failures.
- Finding markets for excess
produce
In this plan, the Government shall buy all
the produce from the farmers, store them in Government warehouses, where
necessary, and distribute them to the distribution Centres.
The people have a choice in buying the
food of their liking.
Print Purple Money
To provide the people with purchasing
power to purchase their food requirement, the Government will distribute, for
example, Rs: 30,000/= per month to each and every family.
From where would the Government find the
money to give the people?
Yes, they will print the money, but this
money will be different to the normal currency in circulation; for example, it
would be purple in colour and this can only be used for purchasing and selling
food.
The money thus printed will not create
inflation since it would be used to purchase the food produced; there would be
inflation if the food targets are not met.
Excess supplies of food produced can be
bartered with other countries to obtain essentials which cannot be grown/made
here.
Dump the Dollar
We shall develop bilateral Agreements with
countries, closing the books on previously regulated global tariffs. Wherever
possible we shall do barter trading, disregarding the US dollar as the global
currency of exchange.
The ‘purple’ currency will run parallel to
the normal currency; the ‘purple’ currency will only buy food and ensure that
people have a full plate of food in front of them, always; this is not a burden
to the Government.
With time, Sri Lanka would have a highly
developed agricultural sector where production, distribution and research will
be at the highest of levels.
Even if we are plagued by a COVID 20 or 25
or whatever, one thing is certain; no Sri Lankan will ever go hungry or be
malnourished.
