{"id":85906,"date":"2019-02-26T18:49:39","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T01:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=85906"},"modified":"2019-02-26T18:49:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T01:49:39","slug":"rise-up-sri-lanka-rise-up-destroy-the-enemy-as-it-pivots-to-lanka-to-build-an-electrified-eelam-border-wall-and-make-the-island-its-military-hub-in-the-indo-pacific-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/02\/26\/rise-up-sri-lanka-rise-up-destroy-the-enemy-as-it-pivots-to-lanka-to-build-an-electrified-eelam-border-wall-and-make-the-island-its-military-hub-in-the-indo-pacific-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Rise-up Sri Lanka Rise-up!  Destroy the Enemy as It Pivots-to-Lanka to Build An Electrified Eelam \u2018Border-Wall\u2019   and   Make the Island Its Military-Hub in the Indo-Pacific   (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<h2 style=\"line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt; text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;\">By <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u2018Che\u2019<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left; line-height: 115%; margin: 0px 0in 13.33px; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #000000; font-size: 11pt;\" align=\"left\">\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Children of Lanka, behold thy Mother in the year 2050, penetrated and abused! Mother Lanka behold thy Children of 2050, bereft of mother, dignity and enslaved! <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The above map of Sri Lanka, in the year 2050, is taken from the Gospel according to \u2018Born Again\u2019 America, printed by courtesy of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-85908\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tennaR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"406\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tennaR.jpg 406w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tennaR-218x300.jpg 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This Map is a visual representation of some key elements of an Agreement reached between Wickramasinghe and the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), after two years of very secretive discussions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Agreement (the Americans prefer to call it a \u2018Compact\u2019) was to have been signed in November 2018 between the Americans and Wickramasinghe. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Had the Agreement been signed as planned, the Island by 2050, as depicted in the Map, would have been splintered and the entire Country whored into being an American Military-Base.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sri Lanka\u2019s recent history records how three European nations, successfully invaded the Country by stoking in-fighting amongst the native population. The Sri Lankans of that time did not realise they were being set-up. Consequently, Sri Lanka was conquered and the Europeans ruled the Island for nearly 400 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It appears that we have yet not learned this vital lesson of history. The threat of the country being subjugated by a new Imperial power is imminent. Sri Lanka is on the edge of an abyss with the Enemy now at our door. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\">And pray, what are we Sri Lankans doing? We are squabbling with each other gazing at the other\u2019s navel. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Make no mistake, the Americans are going full throttle to take over Sri Lanka. No apologies are needed, no need to couch our language.\u00a0 Sri Lanka\u2019s Enemy Number One, right now, is America. FULL STOP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\">With the MCC Agreement, only awaiting Wickramasinghe\u2019s signature, the Americans are on the verge of taking over our Country; Wickramasinghe and his cohorts are handing it over to them on a platter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sri Lankans, we do not have much time left; now is the time to comprehend and unite to defend our Motherland. Shed Party, Ethnic and Religious affiliations and differences to drive this accursed Enemy from our shores.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Harbour no illusions, it is a hard fight like what David experienced when he squared off with bullyboy Goliath.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\">But united, we have the strength, the cunning and the wisdom to drive this Enemy out from our shores. And this we shall!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Vide America\u2019s map of Sri Lanka featured above, a prominent feature of the map is the Land-Corridor running the length of Trincomalee to Colombo via Dambulla. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Under cover of \u2018Megapolis\u2019 development, the Americans demanded from Sri Lanka an \u2018Economic\u2019 Corridor of 1.2 Million Acres of land from Trincomalee to Colombo for a lease period of 200 years; the Americans insisted that the law inside this Corridor must perforce be US law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This Corridor literally divides Sri Lanka into two &#8211; the North and the South \u2013 like in the Eelam Map of the defeated terrorists or the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone) on the 38th parallel in the Korean peninsula separating North Korea from the South.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-85909\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tenna2R.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"375\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tenna2R.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tenna2R-300x237.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\">For the lease of this Corridor, in Sri Lanka, the Americans have offered 400 Million US Dollars, which works out to a meagre Rupees Twenty-Four (Rs. 24\/=) per Acre per Month!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\">To boot, this Corridor has the \u2018Eppawela\u2019 phosphates (one of the world\u2019s largest deposits which the Americans were trying to snatch in the 1980\u2019s and were prevented by a brilliant landmark judgement of the Supreme Court), ilmenite, thorium (a nuclear fuel used as a substitute for uranium), Monazite, and rare-earth metals Cerium and Lanthanum. All this for Rs. 24\/= per month!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The MCC did a \u2018Constraints to Investment\u2019 analysis of Sri Lanka. Consequently, the Americans threatened that if Sri Lanka wanted the Americans to go ahead with their \u2018Rupees 24\/= per acre per month\u2019 investment for 200 years, Sri Lanka should abrogate her land laws which had protected her Sovereignty and National Security; Sri Lanka was instructed to pass new Land Laws that would legalise State Land to be brought under the hammer (viz Privatised) and laws which would permit the Americans to buy outright any extent of Land in any part of the Island. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Wickramasinghe agreed to oblige and these new Bills &#8211; the \u2018State Land Bank\u2019 Bill and the \u2018Land (Special Provision)\u2019 Bill &#8211; were drafted. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\">These two Bills and the \u2018Constraints to Investment\u2019 Report were drafted at Harvard in Massachusetts and subsequently sent to Sri Lanka\u2019s Attorney General and the Legal Draftsman for their signatures.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\">To give the readers a sneak view of the draft Bills, some highlights are excerpted from the respective preambles to the Bills. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><u>State Land Bank Bill<\/u>: a. Provides for the establishment of a State Land Bank: b. Requires the compilation of a register of all State Lands belonging to Public Institutions: c. Makes provision for these Public institutions to lease such lands to persons making a request for same: d. Repeals Part 1v, Part v and Part v1 of the Land Reform Act No:1 of 1972 (this repeal includes the restriction in place on ownership of property by a single individual to a maximum of 50-acres): e. Vests the powers of the Land reform Commission in the State Land Bank: f. (Sec 17) &#8211; Enables any person, including foreigners, to lease out State Land.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><u>Land (Special Provisions) Bill<\/u>: a.\u00a0 Grants absolute Title to citizens who presently, by \u2018Government Grant\u2019, have regulated usage of State Lands: b. Permits citizens, who hold Title to State Lands, to mortgage such land to banks: c. Permits banks to sell off such State Lands, mortgaged to the banks, to private individuals including foreigners:\u00a0 d. This Act shall be in operation for only seven years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Americans further instructed Wickramasinghe to \u2018replicate\u2019 in Sri Lanka\u2019s rural areas, the \u201840-Acres and a Mule\u2019 concept that had been enforced in America in 1865; the former slave owners were required to give each of the emancipated slave-families, 40- acres of land and a mule.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Without wherewithal, the black families survived the first month on the flesh of the Mule; thereafter, to survive, they sold their property back to the former slave owners for a pittance and the black families, in droves, trekked and trekked and trekked to the industrial cities like Detroit, Michigan and Chicago in search of employment. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The \u201840-acre and a mule\u2019 concept drove out the black community from their Lands in the South, pauperised and bonded the former slaves from the inception of their emancipation, created mass urban migration to the industrial centres, was responsible for the creation of black ghettos in American cities, created the foundation for a large number of the black community to be sent to prison for drug offences and be deprived of their voting-rights, created a bank of surplus labour which the American private sector exploited by paying them less than subsistent wages. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In an \u2018everywhere-Mary-went-the-lamb -was-sure-to-go\u2019 attitude, Wickramasinghe publicly complied with American directives and announced his intentions of giving each rural farmer family 2-acres of land. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\">With the proviso in the \u2018Land (Special Provisions) Bill that this law applies only for seven years, the problems the American black community are burdened with, would be compounded and accelerated; it could be anticipated that the rural poor would hurriedly sell off or mortgage their Lands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\">When the rural poor are compelled and encouraged to mortgage their lands and trek to the cities, the land (devoid of any one occupying it), becomes available for companies like Monsanto to initiate their assault on our land.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\">T<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\">his is Ranawaka-Wickramasinghe \u2018Megapolis\u2019 development, if you may.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It is pertinent that over 80% of Sri Lanka is State Land. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Does it behove an Imperial Power to invade an island and capture her territory by force of arms when it can simply buy up the entire country with the aid of collaborators from within?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As can be deduced from the Map, the country has been perforated into several parts with provision to make further divisions in the future. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\">An \u2018Electrified\u2019 Railway Line from Trincomalee to Colombo (Vide the Electrified Railway Line featured as little rectangles in the legend to the Sri Lanka Map above) makes a distinct physical separation of the North of the Island from the South. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The electric \u2018protective\u2019 fences on either side of the electrified railway line to protect humans and animals from being electrocuted, would make this \u2018Eelam Wall\u2019 the World\u2019s first electrified \u2018Border-Wall\u2019!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As can be evinced from the Map, Sri Lanka has been metamorphosed into a large \u2018aircraft carrier with several runways, plum in the centre of the Indian Ocean.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\">There is an International Airport in Polonnaruwa too!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\">There is cause for even greater concern. Some researchers claim that MCC has put out another Map, portraying Sri Lanka in the year 2100, a hundred years from hence; as per that map it is arguable whether Sri Lanka is one Island or two Islands.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\">These researchers have reportedly challenged the MCC and Alaina Teplitz to put out into the public domain the map of Sri Lanka in the Year 2100. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the emerging reports, in the American Map of Sri Lanka in the Year \u20182100\u2019, a Canal like the Suez Canal, has been dredged along the length of the Economic Corridor from Trincomalee to Colombo; this Canal has opened up the Bay of Bengal to the Arabian Sea via the Laccadive Sea, affording the INDOPACOM and its RIMPAC military alliance a tremendous strategic advantage over Powers like India, China and Russia. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\">For Sri Lanka such an \u2018Eelam Canal\u2019 would sound the death knell for her; this Canal would permanently slice the Island into two.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Megapolis Minister reportedly is the mid-wife for the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) baby, delivering a Frankenstein mutation of Sri Lanka.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Who or what is this MCC which can commit America to Agreements with Sovereign Nation States? <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The MCC is a bi partisan American organisation (approved by both the Democrats and the Republicans) set up and funded by the US Government, to do what the CIA, the NED (National Endowment for Democracy) and USAID, have been trained to do. <\/span><\/p>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Chairman of the MCC Board is the US Secretary of State and its Vice- Chairman, the US Secretary of the Treasury; the rest of the MCC Board are the US Trade Representative, Administrator of USAID, the CEO of the MCC and four private sector members appointed by the US President on the advice and consent of the US Senate.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-85910\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tenna3R.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tenna3R.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/tenna3R-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 8pt;\">MCC CEO Jonathan Nash and Charg\u00e9 d&#8217;affaires ad interim Robert Hilton meeting Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe at Temple\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Georgia',serif; font-size: 8pt;\">Trees on 20 Sep 18<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: normal; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u200b\/to be Contd<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By \u2018Che\u2019 Children of Lanka, behold thy Mother in the year 2050, penetrated and abused! Mother Lanka behold thy Children of 2050, bereft of mother, dignity and enslaved! The above map of Sri Lanka, in the year 2050, is taken from the Gospel according to \u2018Born Again\u2019 America, printed by courtesy of the Millennium Challenge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85906","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=85906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}