{"id":105185,"date":"2020-08-02T17:23:43","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T00:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=105185"},"modified":"2020-08-02T17:23:43","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T00:23:43","slug":"a-solemn-pledge-by-rusiripala-tennekoon-to-the-people-of-sri-lanka-that-if-elected-he-shall-never-sign-the-mcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/08\/02\/a-solemn-pledge-by-rusiripala-tennekoon-to-the-people-of-sri-lanka-that-if-elected-he-shall-never-sign-the-mcc\/","title":{"rendered":"A Solemn Pledge by Rusiripala Tennekoon to the People of Sri Lanka that if Elected He Shall Never Sign the MCC"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>A public pledge made through the Sri Lanka Study Circle\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Sri Lanka is the hub of South Asia, ground vital for the attack or\ndefence of Nations in South Asia. The Americans are in the process of\nphysically capturing the hub, having negotiated with the Chinese and the\nIndians between 2009 and 2011, at the highest of levels, to give each of these\nNations portions of the hub in return for their support to allow the US to take\nover the lion share of the hub. This is the gist of a relatively new\nbipartisan-US Foreign Policy. Vide <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/East_Asian_foreign_policy_of_the_Barack_Obama_administration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/East_Asian_foreign_policy_of_the_Barack_Obama_administration<\/a>\nand Clinton\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2011\/10\/11\/americas-pacific-century\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2011\/10\/11\/americas-pacific-century\/<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The MCC is the instrument with which the US plans to take over the\nhub, Sri Lanka, and this is only the first phase of Operation \u2018Pivot-to-Asia\u2019.\nThe US is enticing the Sri Lankan political leadership by dangling 480 M USD in\nfront of them to sell the country. The MCC is the biggest threat facing the\ncountry since 1815.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the Parliamentary Elections coming up and with the\npoliticians having a record of appropriating powers never delegated to them,\nthe people have told the politicians, who will only be temporary custodians of\nthe people\u2019s sovereignty for the next 5 years, to make a public pledge that\nthey would not sign the MCC in any form.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In keeping with the people\u2019s requirement, a new\npatriotic-politician, has lain himself very humbly at the altar of people\u2019s\nopinion to pledge solemnly thus: <strong>Tennekoon Rusiripala &lt;<a href=\"mailto:rusiri21@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rusiri21@gmail.com<\/a>&gt;<br>\nSent:&nbsp;Saturday, August 1, 2020 6:39 AM<\/strong><br>\n<br>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>I shall not under any circumstances sign the MCC in its present\nform or in any amended form or by any other name.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><em>&nbsp;<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A public pledge made through the Sri Lanka Study Circle\u00a0 Sri Lanka is the hub of South Asia, ground vital for the attack or defence of Nations in South Asia. The Americans are in the process of physically capturing the hub, having negotiated with the Chinese and the Indians between 2009 and 2011, at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}