{"id":136157,"date":"2023-08-06T16:08:42","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T23:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=136157"},"modified":"2023-08-06T16:08:42","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T23:08:42","slug":"white-green-agenda-strangles-our-industrialization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2023\/08\/06\/white-green-agenda-strangles-our-industrialization\/","title":{"rendered":"White Green-Agenda Strangles Our Industrialization"},"content":{"rendered":"

e-Con e-News August 2023 Part 2<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n
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\u2018Before you study the economics, study the economists!<\/em>\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1782, while the newly \u2018independent\u2019 USA was beginning its forays into the Indian & Pacific Oceans<\/strong>, the French & English fought 4 battles: The Battle of Sadras<\/strong> south of Madras, the Battle of Providien <\/strong>near Trincomalee, the Battle of Negapatam<\/strong> off Cuddalore, where the French seized Trincomalee forcing the English to surrender; and the Battle of Trincomalee<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     In 2023, it appears Trincomalee has been captured without a shot. Or, is this what all that 3-decade bloodshed & terror, and this impasse, is all about? (see ee Quotes<\/em><\/strong>, Indian Warship in Trinco)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Also in 1782: There was a 2nd<\/sup> major English parliamentary investigation (1st<\/sup>, 1772) into the English East India Co (EIC)<\/strong>. Edmund Burke noted: When English employees of the Company squabbled, \u2018their complaints inter alia reveal the misery of the natives<\/strong>, but when the staff are all in agreement, the natives are said to be likewise content<\/strong>.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     The history that Canada\u2019s ambassador in Colombo lives in, seems unsettled. He\u2019s all \u2018past tense\u2019. He declared genocide in Canada was a thing long gone. Well, tell that to the \u2018Indians\u2019. (Or whatever it is they call the people whose land they stole and refuse to return \u2013 the ultimate \u2018land acknowledgement\u2019!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2022 Planning<\/em> was turned into a synonym for sex<\/em> in Sri Lanka.<\/strong> Most of the world \u2013 what English headlines always refer to as \u2018developing\u2019 \u2013 has a different meaning for the word \u2018planning\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Yes, planning in Sri Lanka was turned solely into \u2018Family Planning\u2019 in the so-called public mind. What the f#$#^%$#! Well, it\u2019s no wonder. \u2018Planning the economy\u2019 \u2013 as in the sense of the USSR & China\u2019s, and our very own sabotaged 5-Year Plans<\/strong> \u2013 was banned by the USA\u2019s World Bank after 1977. Soon, government ministries, departments and NGOs adopted the sunny word \u2018development\u2019 to their names. And 7 decades hence, we \u2018keep on developin<\/em>\u2019 \u2013 as any Mississippi satirist might twang<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     \u2018The voters in our villages didn\u2019t elect us to tell them with whom or how many times they should make love every night.\u2019 Did Philip Gunawardena<\/strong> say that? Or is it yet more patient English fiction? The means and media, schemes and plots, literary and other, employed to sabotage a national industrial plan<\/strong>, let alone kill leaderships, besmirch Philip Gunawardena and other national-minded politicians, and then massacre 100,000s more, is the real \u2018underrepresented anglophone tradition<\/strong>\u2019 \u2013 the unwritten English fiction in Sri Lanka. We doubt apartheid\u2019s Standard Chartered Bank<\/strong> and opium\u2019s HSBC<\/strong> would sponsor such an award.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Policy analyst Vagisha Gunasekara<\/strong> asserts that \u2018green energy\u2019 is being distorted to thwart industrialization in our countries. She was speaking at the recent Gamani Corea Foundation\u2019s Innovators Forum on Industrial Development<\/em><\/strong>. This ee<\/em><\/strong> concludes its look at that forum, complete with audience inputs and panel responses. Dhammika Fernando<\/strong>, chair of the Free Trade Zone Manufacturers Association<\/strong>, who also spoke, noted that the exports of the apparel sector add little (less than 30%) to their costly imports. Therefore, economists Bram & Howard Nicholas as well as industry experts provide the calculus of what is and isn\u2019t industrialization<\/strong>. The main conclusions are: we need the audacity of a plan<\/strong> and we need the optimism of the will<\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Indeed, one question we\u2019d have liked to ask JAAF director Fernando: How has the apparel fraud prevented its transformation<\/strong> into a bona-fide modern industry? \u2013 by not making a pin, let alone making a machine that makes machines that make pins, and other metalwork! Further, SBD de Silva linked high labor costs<\/strong> to the failure of rural industrialization<\/strong> that would reinforce rice production<\/strong> and labor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     ee<\/em><\/strong> also carries excerpts from Russian leader V Putin\u2019s meeting in the Kremlin with the heads of Russia\u2019s industrial enterprises. There Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Manturov<\/strong> noted that the main driver<\/strong> of Russia\u2019s economy today is the state-owned companies<\/strong> that provide<\/strong> procurement<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     This recalls SBD de Silva<\/strong>\u2019s MA thesis, published in Melbourne, 1954, Long-term Contracts & Bulk Trading<\/em>, about how the English government during their World War 2 bought and sold important commodities wholesale in Ceylon. Despite all the media rhetoric opposing state involvement in the economy, it shows how English government always intervene to \u2018rescue\u2019 themselves & capitalism\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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White Green-Agenda Strangles Our Industrialization<\/a><\/blockquote>