{"id":124794,"date":"2022-04-27T16:15:13","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T23:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=124794"},"modified":"2022-04-27T16:15:13","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T23:15:13","slug":"u-s-congress-to-probe-assets-fleecing-by-us-citizens-of-sri-lankan-origin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/04\/27\/u-s-congress-to-probe-assets-fleecing-by-us-citizens-of-sri-lankan-origin\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Congress to probe assets fleecing by US citizens of Sri Lankan origin"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Sri Lanka News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>To those who are responsible for the above named article in today&#8217;s Island newspaper,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/island.lk\/u-s-congress-to-probe-assets-fleecing-by-us-citizens-of-sri-lankan-origin\/\">https:\/\/island.lk\/u-s-congress-to-probe-assets-fleecing-by-us-citizens-of-sri-lankan-origin\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This article represents the Sri Lankan version of &lt;Manufacturing Consent&gt; a topic which Prof Noam Chomsky has written extensively in his book about the US Media. The youtube video link is attached.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZPazn1XNDQI\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZPazn1XNDQI<\/a>&nbsp; &#8211; Can You Trust the Media? | Manufacturing Consent Explained<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manufacturing_Consent\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manufacturing_Consent<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If this is a statement by the FBI or the CIA, saying that they are going to inquire into the Rajapaksa money, then it is a valid piece of information. However, this guy who is just like a member of a our parliament, has promised to TELL someone else to ask the authorities to start an inquiry. So most probably some Sri Lankans living in the US have got hold of this guy and told him the story and this story is published in Sri Lanka to &lt;make an opinion&gt; among the readers. This politician is most probably doing this to get the votes of the Sri Lankans living in the US, like what any politician would do. What I am trying to say is that this is a typical case of&nbsp; &lt;Manufacturing Consent&gt; against the Rajapaksas &#8211; Your Slip is Showing Sir!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sri Lanka News To those who are responsible for the above named article in today&#8217;s Island newspaper, https:\/\/island.lk\/u-s-congress-to-probe-assets-fleecing-by-us-citizens-of-sri-lankan-origin\/ This article represents the Sri Lankan version of &lt;Manufacturing Consent&gt; a topic which Prof Noam Chomsky has written extensively in his book about the US Media. The youtube video link is attached.&nbsp; https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZPazn1XNDQI&nbsp; &#8211; Can You Trust [&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-124794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124794","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=124794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124794\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}