Demonstrators storm the President’s House in Columbo after President Rajapaksa fled
The anarchic scenes in Sri Lanka are a lesson for all governments in pursuing an economically illiterate agenda
Mark Almond – Daily Mail July 11, 2022
The anarchic scenes in Sri Lanka are enough to make the blood of any world leader run cold. President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s residence overrun by furious protesters. Crowds cavorting on his four-poster bed and in his swimming pool and gym. Sections of the Prime Minister’s home in flames.
This burning building not only serves as a symbolic funeral pyre for Rajapaksa’s government. It is a smouldering lesson for all governments in pursuing an economically illiterate green agenda at the expense of common sense.
Make no mistake: The roots of this chaos can be traced to Rajapaksa’s wrong-headed thinking on farming. In his 2019 manifesto, he pledged to transform Sri Lanka into an ‘organic’ nation within a decade – reducing and eventually banning chemical fertilisers, herbicides and insecticides.
Sri Lanka protestors storm govt buildings. Click to enlarge
It’s a pledge that would probably win votes here, too. Who wouldn’t, in principle, want a greener future, free of nasty chemicals? But the trade-off, as Sri Lanka learnt the hard way, is food production tumbling over a cliff. For them, going green meant going hungry.
In 2020, Covid struck, hollowing out Sri Lanka’s finances and causing its vital tourism industry to grind to a halt.
Any rational government would have abandoned the pledge to hobble agriculture with eco-strictures. But Rajapaksa doubled down, announcing in April last year a total and immediate ban on fertiliser, to the outrage of Sri Lanka’s two million farmers. He was lauded by the world’s pampered eco-dignitaries at Glasgow’s Cop26 conference that November, feted as a green torch-bearer for developing nations, receiving warm praise and Covid-friendly elbow bumps in every corridor.
But what was spun as Rajapaksa’s green revolution was, in fact, cynical cost-cutting. With fewer tourists, Sri Lanka’s foreign cash reserves dried up. The government wasn’t prepared to use what little it had importing fertiliser. So it must have looked to Rajapaksa as a win-win: eco-credentials burnished and the treasury saving money.
There was only one problem: farmers couldn’t produce the yields they needed.
Sri Lanka feeds itself with rice. In the six months following the fertiliser ban, domestic production collapsed by 20 per cent, while prices rose 50 per cent. The tea crop was also devastated: the country’s most important export, and from which the lost revenue outweighed any savings made by not importing fertilisers.
What started as a dream that Prince Charles, with his organic Duchy estate, would surely approve of turned into a sorry mess of over-tilled soils, empty supermarket shelves and the hungry bellies of Sri Lanka’s poorest.
Selling your country as ‘organic’ appeals to visitors jetting in from Islington and Hollywood to enjoy lush scenery in five-star retreats – and assuage their guilt about flying thousands of miles. But today, the misery it inflicted on Sri Lanka’s people can be read in the smoke signals billowing from the presidential palace.
And let me be clear: this is not some abstract crisis taking place far away. Similar chaos looms in the West. In many countries, the rock of the ‘green agenda’ is meeting the hard place of economic reality. Farmers in Italy, Germany and Poland have been objecting with increasing anger to the destructive green pressure inflicted by their governments.
The biggest tinderbox is the Netherlands, one of the biggest meat exporters in the EU. This should be a point of pride for PM Mark Rutte at a time of world food shortage and rocketing prices. Instead, because meat production typically uses fertiliser, Rutte sees Holland’s success in this field as a stain on his green ambition.
Amsterdam has pledged to halve the use of nitrogen compounds in animal manure and ammonia fertilisers by 2030, requiring a 30 per cent reduction in livestock. Dutch farmers are understandably apoplectic and have sprayed manure over government buildings in protest. A confrontation last week in Friesland saw police firing warning shots and several arrested.
You still think green-inspired anarchy is confined to the developing world? If you push the people to the point of hunger, they revolt. Politicians the world over, captivated by the dream of a glorious green future, will do well to heed these dire warnings.
Mark Almond, Director Of The Crisis Research Institute In Oxford
Forget all the tosh in this article. The Sri Lankan melt down is down to prolifligate spending.
It’s as simple as that. It is possible this was done deliberately, so when they rebuild the Sri Lankan economy, it will be to irritate India. Just as the UK is out to irritate the EU. Just as Taiwan has been postured by the US to irritate China.
See the pattern?
in the UK dissent has been stifled with the arrests of several would be leaders
but at least they have not yet been murdered like the voices against another war with germany were in 1939
but…give it time
we in the UK must start to get the ball rolling
it must start with the burning of synagogues
like the jews did in russia to christian churches
there is no danger for the illuminaty
since they know that western societies
are much more divided by class + interests
than hotblooded asian or african societies .
its easier to unite latins,afros+asians than
the mentaly decomposed decadent whites .
Nothing tells a politician “You’re outta here” like a flaming torch to his furnishings.
White man madness, xxxx up the world environmentally, use chemical for years, forced other nations to use these chemicals and nasty pesticides in the soil, now claim green and organic. I have no ideas what organic is, or green. he too comes up with the solutions. destruction and reconstruction white man makes the money. GREED. he lives non-spiritual in his approach to the FLAT PLANE aka EARTH.
Mystic and Yogi
paul fuller fullerangus@aol.com,
I’ve stated this many times in past postings; you need to look at the younger generations coming up.
What people fail to see is that it’s a win-win situation for the jews behind this. Their main goal was the destruction of Israel (European peoples) and God warned the Israelites to destroy them:
Deuteronomy 20:17 (NASB) “Instead, you shall utterly destroy them, the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite and the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, just as the LORD your God has commanded you”
The Israelites failed and in doing so have cursed their descendants to the hell they live within today.
It is these very peoples, these descendants of Cain (Satan) who now comprise the Jewish diaspora.
“we in the UK must start to get the ball rolling
it must start with the burning of synagogues
like the jews did in russia to christian churches”
And how do you propose that? You do realise that all the stupid, Sunday church worshiping, Christian morons will instantly come rallying to their aid, again, going against their teachings?
And the younger generations are all far more interested in fortnight on their Xboxes, Love Island on the TV, whatever sport they follow and like the rest of society the acquiring of money to buy more, useless sh*t for their existence.
It’s not going to happen.
You see, we lost the younger generations in the 60’s. That was when the massive rift was created. It was the time where the collective nations, in the west died. People are too stupid to see that a nation is a people and you cannot JOIN it!!! You are either of it or you are not, but the moronic British public have it set into their heads that if you’re born in Britain that automatically makes you British.
The whole purpose of all of this; all this madness, the mass immigration, the LGBTQ+, the transgender agenda, the collective wars and so on is nothing but the continuation of the agenda of the jew to utterly destroy the Israelites (European peoples).
Don’t expect any uprising. Expect the continuing ignorance, apathy and stupidity of the Brit, incapable of seeing past their own wanton pursuit for self pleasure and money acquisition.
You completely fail to see that, as stated, the 60’s created the massive rift between the nation’s young and old. It was then when the jew brought about the civil right’s movement which was essentially the conditioning of the public to accept immigrants into their lands, to grow, to parasite off of and to eventually take over.
There are not nations within Britain anymore. It’s simply a land inhabited by already dead, vaccinated zombies who are ignorant, narcissistic, selfish and incredibly stupid.
Your war isn’t against the jews. It’s always going to be against your own, because the minute you go after the jews, they’ll throw themselves in front of them, to protect the poor, persecuted jews, who have done nothing wrong to anyone in their eyes.
Mark Almond? Didn’t he used to be the Gaylord in Soft Cell?
> I have no ideas what organic is, or green
Organic is what food is labeled in the supermarket to charge twice the price. It’s the same thing inside the packet but it’s “organic”.
Green is what people that like to pretend they care about the planet call themselves. They buy electric cars and A++ washing machines to be “green”, but then they have children and fly about the world on aeroplanes to make up for it.
fullerangus@aol.com please organize 🙂
Jahi Sami– White Man methods were ancient and good, but the money-mad Jew wants to do everything cheaply while always selling at high prices. English and German towns were known for honesty and good practise. “Retail” used to be a crime and now it is seen to be at the heart of “economics”
> Mark Almond? Didn’t he used to be the Gaylord in Soft Cell?
It says:
> Mark Almond, Director Of The Crisis Research Institute In Oxford
I’ve no idea who he is, but I just bet he’s researching the hell out of it from his air conditioned office in oxford univershitty. These people are always the best people to ask when you’re in a crisis — like the police are the best people to call when you’re in legal trouble, and the council are the best people to talk to when you can’t cough up your immigrant tax.
> in the UK dissent has been stifled with the arrests of several would be leaders but at least they have not yet been murdered
The uk doesn’t murder people — it locks them up for the rest of their lives so that people can pretend they care — see J Assange. It’s the modern day equivalent of a head on a spike at the city gates.
Hey @white elephant
You do know that most of the commenters on this site are Jews and Indian immigrants like the supposedly German “anti vax”
The article makes me laugh. The West already is Sri Lanka. Take a look around.
> You do know that most of the commenters on this site are Jews and Indian immigrants like the supposedly German “anti vax”
Care to share their names and addresses oh omnipotent one?
All the people in the photo and the various videos floating around are, of course, waving their stupid mobile phones around. When the money comes back to kill them, it’ll have all the evidence it needs to get each and every one of them. They all currently think they’re immune to punishment — like those that ran up the hill in washingpants.
Pan,
There are lots of people on this site who are most certainly trolls. As for Britain already being Sri Lanka, I’d disagree. It’s WORSE than Sri Lanka. They had more freedoms before they stormed the President’s palace, than we have here. Then again, what do you expect? We sided with the communists in WW2. As if that was ever going to have a happy ending…