No\namount of promises to guard Sri Lanka\u2019s sovereignty can hold water if at\nlegislative & policy level changes are being drafted to suit a neo-liberal\nagenda that aspires to transfer all state assets to foreign corporate hands and\nturn locals to virtual slave citizens. This is the threat that Sri Lanka\u2019s\npoliticians need to understand and identify. Sri Lanka cannot be a sovereign\nnation if its wealth, natural resources, economic activities (ports, airports,\nrailways, roads etc) are controlled by foreign entities who decide what Sri\nLanka\u2019s citizens get, at what price & in what quantity\/quality and removes\nany role of politicians at some point or the other. The changes being done is\nto turn the State from protecting the People and National Assets\/Resources to\nprotecting the Corporates & Countries that will soon own or control a\ncountry\u2019s people & resources. The \u2018government\u2019 will not be defending the\ncitizens but dominating\/subjugating them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Undeniably\nthe neo-conservative\/liberal agenda is pro-West in particular pro-US hegemony<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Their\nagenda is based on perception that Africans & Asians are inferior to\nAmericans\/Europeans. Concept of colonial White-Man\u2019s Burden now masked as\nneo-colonial liberalism. The kalu-suddas are accepted into \u2018their\u2019 society so\nlong as they can deliver what the white man demands of them. They are just paid\n\u2018coolies\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018Civilizing\u2019\nis done via UN\/INGO programs like \u2018Responsibility to Protect\u2019 \u2018Reconciliation\u2019\n\u2018Multiculturalism\u2019 etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
People\nare kept in check using mass surveillance, mass incarceration, open ended\nwarfare, debt curtailing their privacy on excuse of protecting citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Think\ntanks, media, paid journalists, civil society stooges are all tasked to\nbrainwash citizens with sugar-coated opinion to believe these entities are\nworking in our best interests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Political sovereignty undermined<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The\nUNHRC resolutions was used to force Sri Lanka to make unfair & legally\nquestionable changes to penal code, constitution and demonize and weaken its\nmilitary and demoralize by allegations and imprisonment. Placed within this\ncontext we wonder whether the Salawa ammunition storage was accidental? <\/p>\n\n\n\n Economic sovereignty undermined<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Sri\nLanka\u2019s policy is now controlled by US officials, IMF, World Bank, Western Aid\nagencies, Western-corporate-backed think tanks, transnational corporations,\nforeign financial firms, foreign consultancies and foreign legal experts,\nforeign accountancy firms. This is the reality we will have to face. <\/p>\n\n\n\n They\nhave identified and mastered the art of manipulating the biggest weakness in\npoliticians to the detriment of the Nation & its people. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Sri\nLanka\u2019s labor, wealth, natural resources, public institutions, State enterprises,\npublic utilities are being auctioned to foreigners by foreigners who have been\ninvited to do so by the State (perhaps the State is even paying these\nforeigners for their \u2018consultations\u2019) <\/p>\n\n\n\n Privatization<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Is\nprivatization a solution? State enterprises privatized between 1980-2009 had\nperformed worse than public enterprises. European cities are now reclaiming\npublic services from private sector. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A\n2015 UNDP study declared there was no set model for efficiency \u2013 that meant\npublic, private or mixed enterprise model was no solution. How an entity was\nmanaged efficiently and effectively was what mattered. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Neo-liberal Project<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Originates\nin the secret Mont Pelerin Society founded by Friedrich von Hayk & Milton\nFriedman & Allan Waters in 1947. Hayek\u2019s vision was outlined in his book\nThe Road to Serfdom in 1944. The book advocates<\/p>\n\n\n\n Friedman\nbecame Economic Advisor to US President Reagan, Waters was Chief Economic\nAdvisor to UK PM Margaret Thatcher. You can imagine the influence they would\nhave had on the leaders! <\/p>\n\n\n\n How Think Tanks \/ Universities &\nMedia are used to control the world<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The\noligarchs have dumped millions into setting up think tanks, business schools, influencing\neconomic subject in universities to promoting neoliberal thinking \u2013 Heritage\nFoundation, Hoover Institute, CATO Institute, American Enterprise Institute,\nCentre for Policy Studies, Institute of Economic Affairs, Adam Smith Institute\n(UK), Soros Foundation are just a handful of names.<\/p>\n\n\n\n These\nentities are tasked to mask the real intent in language & ideas and present\nas if the program is for the betterment of society. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Chile\nbecame the launch pad for the 1st<\/sup> neoliberal program after\ninstalling Pinochet with US backing. Mont Pelerin rolled out the project \u2013\nanyone who disagreed got shot! That was neoliberal democracy! IMF & World\nBank got their way. That was neoliberal economic transparency! <\/p>\n\n\n\n Media\nwas owned by the billionaires who owned & funded the think tanks and\nuniversities. Media frames language to fool the masses on behalf of the secret\nsocieties that rule them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n