Sri Lanka going under

[Stargrunt6]

Anybody on the grate site got word on this?

 

https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1545505501764632580?s=20&t=CNjQvQfU5KZsYu0mGkOT2g

[Ssnake]

You mean, other than that one could see it coming from a good distance?

A kleptocrat dynasty mingling with Chinese banksters, what could possibly go wrong for a country like Sri Lanka?

 

[Mikel2]

Didn't Hank Johnson predict this one?

[lucklucky]

Then force your farmers to only use natural fertilizers and see the agricultural production significantly drop....

[Rick]

4 minutes ago, lucklucky said:

Then force your farmers to only use natural fertilizers and see the agricultural production significantly drop....

This fact, and others, are mentioned in the book The Poverty of Nations: A Sustainable Solution by economist Barry Asmus and theologian Wayne Grudem.

The free market system is really the only successful economic system.

[lucklucky]

https://www.newsfirst.lk/2021/04/29/sri-lanka-will-become-first-country-to-be-free-of-chemical-fertilizer-president/

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Written by Zulfick Farzan    29 Apr, 2021 | 7:22 PM

COLOMBO (News 1st); President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has stated that he will take up the challenge in making Sri Lanka the first country in the world to eliminate the use of chemical fertilizers without reversing any of the steps that have been taken.

The absence of any country in the world that has eliminated the use of chemical fertilizers is not an obstacle to achieving the goal, President Rajapaksa noted.

The President urged all to unite to educate the farmer and create a healthy generation at a discussion held at the Presidential Secretariat on Thursday (29) to raise awareness on the use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides and the ban on such imports.

“The government must guarantee the right of the people to a non-toxic diet to produce a healthy and productive citizen,” said the President.

 

 

 

[Ssnake]

2 hours ago, lucklucky said:

Then force your farmers to only use natural fertilizers and see the agricultural production significantly drop....

I believe that was just an attempt at spin doctoring the sad fact that Sri Lanka simply had not enough currency reserves to actually buy fertilizer rather than a misguided policy dictated by idiots with no understanding how agriculture works.

[Ivanhoe]

2 minutes ago, Ssnake said:

I believe that was just an attempt at spin doctoring the sad fact that Sri Lanka simply had not enough currency reserves to actually buy fertilizer rather than a misguided policy dictated by idiots with no understanding how agriculture works.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/07/world/asia/sri-lanka-organic-farming-fertilizer.html

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The economically troubled country banned chemical fertilizers without preparing farmers, prompting a surge in food prices and worries about shortages.

 

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It also isn’t clear whether the government will continue to subsidize fertilizer, which made it more affordable for poorer farmers. Lalith Obeyesekere, the secretary-general of the Planters’ Association of Ceylon, said the price for a ton of urea — one type of fertilizer — had gone up in the global market so much that farmers would be paying five times what it once cost unless the government helped with subsidies.

Along with their other mistakes, Sri Lanka's COVID policies and performance badly impacted their economy, of which 12% of GDP comes from tourism.

 

Sri Lanka is experiencing a perfect storm of impacts to food production. Tragically, it cannot be solved by buying food or receiving foreign aid, because Sri Lanka's own-goals happened right before an impending world food production crisis.

 

[lucklucky]

Meanwhile...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/07/10/bid-fertiliser-factory-heart-british-food-supply-collapses/

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Bid for fertiliser factory at the heart of British food supply collapses

Britain will now be overly reliant on its last remaining plant, warns lobby group

 

 

[rmgill]

Is Klaus Schwab paying all of these folks off? 

[lucklucky]

Nothing surprises me anymore...

Strange no one asked Mr.Schwab yet if his  already famous saying "you will own nothing and be happy" is also applicable to patents.

[nitflegal]

It is utterly amazing to me that one of the biggest doomsday predictions of my half century of life was the population explosion and the resultant widespread famine we could expect.  It never happened because the science of agriculture quite literally saved us from this.  So now that we averted that catastrophe our eiltes have decided that if we couldn't have widespread famine and tens of millions of deaths, we'd cripple the innovations that have held it at bay.  I want to believe that our elites and media are simply too stupid to realize the results of their policies but i am growing to wonder if they simply want the deaths. . . 

[lucklucky]

39 minutes ago, nitflegal said:

It is utterly amazing to me that one of the biggest doomsday predictions of my half century of life was the population explosion and the resultant widespread famine we could expect.  It never happened because the science of agriculture quite literally saved us from this.  So now that we averted that catastrophe our eiltes have decided that if we couldn't have widespread famine and tens of millions of deaths, we'd cripple the innovations that have held it at bay.  I want to believe that our elites and media are simply too stupid to realize the results of their policies but i am growing to wonder if they simply want the deaths. . . 

It would have happened in a Soviet command economy.

Edit: The most dishonest profession: journalism, after knowing that Ukraine and Russia are now grain exporters found no news to tell us what changed from the Soviet Union times when they needed to import grain...

Edited July 10, 2022 by lucklucky

[Ivanhoe]

Y'all aren't even remotely cynical enough;

https://www.mediaite.com/news/un-deletes-article-touting-benefits-of-world-hunger-hungry-people-are-the-most-productive-people/

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Screenshots of the post, which web archives appear to show was first published in 2009, began to circulate on Twitter Wednesday.

https://archive.ph/UQJBl#selection-459.0-459.28

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We sometimes talk about hunger in the world as if it were a scourge that all of us want to see abolished, viewing it as comparable with the plague or aids. But that naïve view prevents us from coming to grips with what causes and sustains hunger. Hunger has great positive value to many people. Indeed, it is fundamental to the working of the world's economy. Hungry people are the most productive people, especially where there is a need for manual labour.

 

[EchoFiveMike]

The massive increase in productivity allowed for the massive growth of the unproductive....

What do you mean you didn't see it coming?  S/F....Ken M

 

[Stargrunt6]

1 hour ago, nitflegal said:

It is utterly amazing to me that one of the biggest doomsday predictions of my half century of life was the population explosion and the resultant widespread famine we could expect.  It never happened because the science of agriculture quite literally saved us from this.  So now that we averted that catastrophe our eiltes have decided that if we couldn't have widespread famine and tens of millions of deaths, we'd cripple the innovations that have held it at bay.  I want to believe that our elites and media are simply too stupid to realize the results of their policies but i am growing to wonder if they simply want the deaths. . . 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/talking-about-overpopulation-is-still-taboo-that-has-to-change/2018/06/18/ca7c1838-6e6f-11e8-afd5-778aca903bbe_story.html

I'm sure you and many here are familiar with Peter Singer's influence as an ethicist. In my undergrad Ethics class, he wrote our textbook.  

[nitflegal]

8 minutes ago, Stargrunt6 said:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/talking-about-overpopulation-is-still-taboo-that-has-to-change/2018/06/18/ca7c1838-6e6f-11e8-afd5-778aca903bbe_story.html

I'm sure you and many here are familiar with Peter Singer's influence as an ethicist. In my undergrad Ethics class, he wrote our textbook.  

I always love how these types of article and "ethicist" opinions always seem to focus primarily on how important it is to keep Africans and Asians from having kids; populations where those kids will actually go out and work and hustle.  I'm not sure how the left is so woke and anti-racist yet when you scratch the surface they want third world people to make all the sacrifices and kill off all the black and brown babies in the first world.  Meanwhile they get to keep making babies and grandchildren. . . 

[Ivanhoe]

15 minutes ago, nitflegal said:

I always love how these types of article and "ethicist" opinions always seem to focus primarily on how important it is to keep Africans and Asians from having kids; populations where those kids will actually go out and work and hustle.  I'm not sure how the left is so woke and anti-racist yet when you scratch the surface they want third world people to make all the sacrifices and kill off all the black and brown babies in the first world.  Meanwhile they get to keep making babies and grandchildren. . . 

Let go of any assumptions about the altruism of the left, and figure out what they really want by looking at how things will benefit them.

The left needs a certain amount of cheap labor in Asia and Africa because they need lithium for their iPhones and Teslas, rare metals for electronics, etc. Beyond that, folks from those areas are economic competitors to be minimized. Especially the growing middle classes abroad, which is why so much of the climate posturing involves taking away modern ag and energy from the 3rd world. How dare those middle class Christians in southern Nigeria enjoy A/C, nice cars, and good education without beseeching approval from America's laptop class?

 

* Increasingly better than the US's public education system, judging by my students. The lefties have already relegated west African immigrants to the "model minority" political ghetto.

[BansheeOne]

Rajapaksa packed up his gnus and ran.

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Date 13.07.2022

Sri Lanka declares state of emergency after president flees

Sri Lanka declared a state of emergency after President Rajapaksa and his wife fled to the Maldives hours before he was due to resign. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has become acting president.

Hours after President Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled Sri Lanka early on Wednesday, the country's prime minister's office announced a state of emergency. 

The move came even as thousands of protesters stormed the office compound of  Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe — who has been appointed acting president —, calling again for his resignation, while police responded with tear gas.

"The prime minister as acting president has declared a state of emergency [countrywide] and imposed a curfew in the western province," the prime minister's spokesperson Dinouk Colombage told Reuters.

Rajapaksa flees

Earlier on Wednesday, an immigration official said the president and his wife, along with two bodyguards, left the country in a Sri Lankan Air Force plane. The aircraft landed in the Maldivian capital of Male, a government source said. This was later confirmed by the Sri Lanka Air Force.

The early morning escape of the president follows months of protests in the island nation, which has been battling a severe economic crisis, and culminated in protesters storming the official residences of the president and the prime minister on Saturday.

The  display of public anger forced Rajapaksa to go into hiding and led to him agreeing to step down on Wednesday clearing the way for a "peaceful transition of power."

Rajapaksa is facing several criminal charges and it is believed he left the country before stepping down and losing his presidential immunity.

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https://www.dw.com/en/sri-lanka-declares-state-of-emergency-after-president-flees/a-62453705

[Ivanhoe]

Sub-Saharan Africa is having food problems;

https://allafrica.com/stories/202207130022.html

https://citinewsroom.com/2022/06/theres-no-food-shortage-in-ghana-deputy-agric-minister/

Partly it sounds like a ripple effect of inflation due to national debt service but also fertilizer price increases due partly to the Ukraine thing.

 

[EchoFiveMike]

How we will make Sri Lanka rich by 2025 | World Economic Forum (archive.ph)

Guess what they were doing didn't work.  Wonder if the WEF will make any assessments and changes in their recommendations?  I wager not.  S/F....Ken M 

[DKTanker]

48 minutes ago, EchoFiveMike said:

How we will make Sri Lanka rich by 2025 | World Economic Forum (archive.ph)

Guess what they were doing didn't work.  Wonder if the WEF will make any assessments and changes in their recommendations?  I wager not.  S/F....Ken M 

The wogs just didn't do it right, the Great Reset will only work for enlightened civilizations.