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e-Con e-News<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n
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blog: eesrilanka.wordpress.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before you study the economics, study the economists!<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

e-Con e-News 11-17 August 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018Deception, misdirection, and obfuscation \u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n

all key traits of a successful Sri Lankan politician\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 13 August 2024, EconomyNext <\/em>(Another US Embassy Service of the Lips)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This ee<\/em><\/strong> reconnoiters the intriguing monotony behind the capitalist media\u2019s name-calling and attacks on Sri Lanka, and the link between the owners of so-called social media and the country\u2019s debt bondage. We examine the interlocking between the \u2018owners\u2019 of Sri Lanka\u2019s debt and such sexy tech companies like Google<\/em>. ee <\/em><\/strong>also highlights the role Facebook<\/em>, et al play in promoting brain drain, as well as interfering in the country\u2019s internal affairs. And, why not? The ruling oligarchy is deeply mired in the white world, and indebted to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     This week\u2019s revelation by the Election Commissioner about a fraudulent website, hosted on a US-based Google server, with links circulated via WhatsApp<\/em>, X<\/em> and other messaging platforms points to  the usual CIA playbook. The news also coincides with the US government\u2019s purported attempt to break up Alphabet Google\u2019s \u2018illegal\u2019 monopoly over online searches (which will only create deeper monopolies). This ee<\/em><\/strong> also tries to show the constant concentration of capital, and the links between monopoly capitalism and the state. Indeed, English news about Sri Lanka invariably prioritizes news by BBC<\/em>, CNN<\/em>, Bloomberg<\/em>, etc\u2026, which spits out the same drivel over and over again. Then again, why not? They cannot very well sum up, after 500 years and more of invasion, that they owe Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     The internet was ostensibly initiated and still belongs to the US government (more precisely its war-making wings). For example, Facebook<\/strong>\u2019s first investor Peter Thiel<\/strong> (who like Twitter\u2019s Elon Musk arose out of white South African & Namibian mining finance) has very deep ties to the US military \u2013 he set up Palantir<\/em>, a major weapons dealer and surveillance firm, whose first institutional backer was the CIA<\/strong>. He also exerts a deep influence on US politics (Trump\u2019s running mate JD Vance<\/strong> was hired by Thiel at Mithril Capital, and Thiel was Vance\u2019s main financial backer in his 2022 Senate campaign). Let us reiterate once more, there is only one party in the USA \u2013 the Capitalist Party \u2013 no matter how many fancy wings (Republican, Democrat, Left, Right) it arrays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Their media monopolies inevitably frame and select a colonized country\u2019s priorities, let alone insist on naming the roots of our discontent \u2013 refusing to look at the sabotage of any attempt at modern industrialization, which alone can resurrect the economy. Their monopoly becomes more evident in capitalist elections, which are a big business for the capitalist media \u2013 the major immediate beneficiary of the rupees, dollars and pounds that flow at elections, along with the ink, electronic and other, paper and cloth\u2026Such media are at the mercy of such \u2018fast-moving\u2019 consumer goods\u2019 retailers like Unilever<\/strong> and Proctor & Gamble<\/strong>, linked to slavish plantations around the world, who run the ad agencies, and thereby promote diversionary sensationalism, instead of focusing on land, labor, and national liberation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Corruption is their cry and yet this is surely nothing new:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The will of the capitalist is certainly to take as much as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What we have to do is not to talk about his will, but to enquire into<\/p>\n\n\n\n

his power<\/strong>, the limits of that power,<\/strong> and the character of those limits.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 Karl Marx, 1865.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The media would rather waste our time on the promises of decadent merchants and moneylenders \u2013 the market minorities imposed on the country to extend the long nightmare of colonialism and its import-export plantation fraud.  Yet, the country can only rise, with where the country\u2019s wealth truly lies \u2013 in its fertile land and skilled labor:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018We must not base our orientation on the strata of society<\/p>\n\n\n\n

which are no longer developing, however predominant,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

but on those strata which are developing and have a future<\/strong>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

even though they are not yet predominant.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2013 J. V. Stalin, 1938.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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