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Tim Draper asks Sri Lanka if it has the guts to adopt bitcoin
"6 p.m. Friday February 3rd, 2023. Tim Draper asks Sri Lanka if it has the guts to adopt Bitcoin. Venture capitalist Tim Draper went to Sri Lanka to point out that its reputation is one of corruption, but Bitcoin will fix it. The post Tim Draper asks Sri Lanka if it has the guts to adopt Bitcoin appeared first on protos.
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Sri Lanka Central Bank Says Bitcoin Cannot Solve Economic Crisis
"12 p.m. Sunday, February 5th, 2023 Sri Lanka Central Bank, says Bitcoin can not solve economic crisis. Billionaire investor, Tim Draper, got a tougher reception than he anticipated when proposing Sri Lanka
AP News Radio
Rights group: Litany of crises in 2022 but also good signs
"A leading human rights group says a litany of crises emerged in 2022, but also moments of hope. Human Rights Watch says in its annual report covering conditions in more than 100 countries that amid widespread economic problems and government repression, there are signs that power is shifting as people take to the streets to demonstrate dissatisfaction, in Iran, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, China, and elsewhere. One of the greatest humanitarian crises continues to be in Myanmar, where the government sees power in February of 2021. The group's acting executive director Tirana Hassan, cites opposition to Russia's invasion of Ukraine as a hopeful sign. All governments should bring the same spirit of solidarity to the multitude of human rights crises around the globe Hasan says, and not just when it suits their interests. Jennifer King, Washington
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How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries: Part 3
"Marry almost Christmas guys. Let's go ahead and dive into the third part of Alex gladstone's incredible piece on the IMF and World Bank. Beginning on the section titled. Part 7. Creating agricultural dependence. The idea that developing countries should feed themselves is an anachronism from a bygone era. They could better ensure their food security by relying on the U.S. agricultural products, which are available in most cases at lower cost. Former U.S. secretary of agriculture, John block. As a result of bank and fund policy, all across Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and south and East Asia. Countries which once grew their own food, now import it from rich countries. Growing one's own food is important in retrospect because in the post 1944 financial system, commodities are not priced with one's local Fiat currency. They are priced in the dollar. Consider the price of wheat, which ranged between 203 $100 between 1996 and 2006. It has since skyrocketed, peaking at nearly $1100 in 2021. If your country grew its own wheat, it could weather the storm. If your country had to import wheat, your population risked starvation. This is one reason why countries like Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Ghana and Bangladesh are all currently turning to the IMF for emergency loans. Historically where the bank did give loans, they were mostly for modern, large scale mono crop agriculture, and for resource extraction, not for the development of local industry, manufacturing, or consumption farming. Borrowers were encouraged to focus on raw materials exports, oil, minerals, coffee, cocoa, palm oil tea, rubber, cotton, et cetera and then pushed to import finished goods, foodstuffs, and the ingredients for modern agriculture like fertilizer, pesticides, tractors, and irrigation machinery. The result is that societies like Morocco end up importing wheat and soybean oil instead of thriving on native couscous in olive oil.
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Rights groups urge Sri Lanka not to use force on protesters
"International human rights groups are urging Sri Lanka's new president to immediately order security forces to cease use of force against protesters A day after president rhino wick from a singer who has sworn in hundreds of armed troops raided a protest camp outside the president's office in the early hours of Friday attacking demonstrators with batons Human Rights Watch says the action sends a dangerous message to the Sri Lankan people that the new government intends to act through brute force rather than through the rule of law the group's South Asia director says the nation urgently needs measures to address the economic needs of Sri lankans who demanding a government that respects fundamental rights I'm Charles De
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Rajapaksa ally named PM in Sri Lanka as protest site cleared
"A gutted by a Raja paxa political ally has been appointed Sri Lanka's prime minister hours after army troops and police cleared areas occupied for months by demonstrators Heavy security was present outside Sri Lanka's presidential office hours after the forces had moved in on the major protest site early on Friday hashai Siri wardana a lawyer and protester til the AP soldiers had come and brutally beaten peaceful protesters and destroyed camps They are badly injured and some of the also lower sounds well good Siri were done as she's disappointed by the heavy approach adopted by the new president Ronnie wick from a singer who was chosen by lawmakers earlier this week And he took cowardly action against the peaceful protesters I'm Charles De
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Wickremesinghe elected new president in crisis-hit Sri Lanka
"Lawmakers have chosen 6 time prime minister ranil wick wima singer as Sri Lanka's president Lawmakers tables after choosing Rick from a singer as president to succeed the ousted leader got to buy a Rajapaksa whose fled the country in a vote that risks reigniting political turmoil in the troubled South Asian island wick from a singer's unpopular with voters who see him as a holdover from Russia pax's government namal Jaya a human resources professional reflects the view of many Because they have not listened to the people's demands People are struggling They can't have food They can't have kerosene They don't have gas They don't have diesel They don't have petrol Other protesters chant go home rail I'm Charles De
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Sri Lanka acting president declares emergency amid protests
"Sri Lanka's acting president has declared a state of emergency which gives him broad authority amid growing protests for him to step down The state of emergency was imposed only a few days after rain week re messinger took over as a transitional president the move came after protests demanding his resignation have continued in most parts of the country with some burning his effigy The new president took over from his predecessor gotta buy a japa who fled abroad and resigned after months long mass protests over the country's economic collapse a new more permanent president is due to be voted in by the country's lawmakers and a few days
Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
"sri lanka" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
"What they see as a democratic dividend or a vested political dividend in lieu of that injection of economic support. So your question about are we going to see a complete collapse? I would bet against not. However, it doesn't take away the fact that there is a severe humanitarian crisis that people are suffering, that there is no immediate hope in sight. And there is a restive military. There is, if you like the seeds of a very volatile political situation, are very alive at the moment, but will be see a collapse. I don't think so. But finally, on that semi hopeful note, I will come back to you finally. We started out talking about the effect that this crisis was having on day to today life in Colombo or in Sri Lanka generally, and I'd like to personalize that even further. If you could maybe talk us through what you expect the next few days and weeks might be like for you in terms of just trying to go about your day to today life. How difficult do you anticipate it being? Well, it's already very different and I think we are getting ready. I mean, it's basically an unofficial lockdown in Sri Lanka. We are unable to travel at least by vehicle because there's no fuel. Maybe the positive side is many taking to cycling or walking and this is seen quite hot and you need environment. So it's an unofficial lockdown, schools have clothes, officers, are nearly shut down, the public transport is coming to a standstill. So things in that respect, it's similar to the COVID period. But it's the humanitarian crisis that I worry and the fact that many online to starve. I mean, there are reports now emerging that in the next couple of weeks, we are likely to see significant numbers facing starvation. The 80s going to increase. Suicides could increase. So we are having that kind of impact and it's likely to get worse. But one also needs to factor in the political stability in Sri Lanka it's not just the humanitarian crisis, but the political stability is very tenuous at the moment. But all that said, one of the things that I think keeps Sri lankans going is these peaceful protests that have been there for several months. It's unprecedented that we people have come out, many ignoring intimidation, harassment, court orders, attempts to arrest them. We've had two states of emergency in the last few months and regardless people have come to the streets. So the mobilization of city sense is very much standard resilient shown by many people, is quite remarkable. So while things are dire and uncertain and that there is multiple crises on the ground, the fact that people are standing up and larger peacefully, I mean, we've seen some incidents of violence, but largely peacefully calling for a system change is something we can not ignore. So I also want to end this in a hopeful note saying that hopefully the months long practice lead to system change, but also a reckoning of what Sri Lanka has gone through in the past and learning mistakes from that past and fixing those mistakes. So addressing some of the root causes and ensuring that Sri Lanka's democracy holds together his extremely important at this moment. That was pavani fonseca and charu lata hogg. This is the foreign desk. And
Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
"sri lanka" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
"Listening to the foreign desk with me Andrew Muller. A character in Ernest Hemingway's the sun also rises is asked how he went bankrupt and replies gradually, then suddenly. Though chaos and collapse on the scales Sri Lanka is experiencing may seem akin to some sudden natural disaster, it is the culmination of a long sequence of missteps. Well earlier, I spoke to charu lata hogg an associate fellow at the Asia Pacific program at chatham House here in London and to bavani fonseca, a prominent human rights lawyer and activist in Sri Lanka. I began by asking charu to explain how the current crisis came about. Well, I think we need a seasoned economist to really unpack what has gone wrong. But as a lay person and as an observer of Sri Lanka for many years, I would say that the roots of this go back to the way in which the government built the foundations of the economy. The foundations of the economy were built on heavy borrowing, a progressively welfare state, which spent much more than it generated in terms of its income. And then very high interest borrowing from neighbors from China from other countries in order to sustain the economy. Some would say that it was a time bomb that was taking all this while, and over the recent years I suppose the finger can be pointed more starkly towards the Rajapaksa administration and let's not forget, you know, since 2005, there are two parks have dominated the political landscape of the country and in this they relied in sort of rebuilding the country after the end of the conflict in 2009. They began to borrow massively and began to make huge investments in what were called infrastructure projects, but were they really needed for Sri Lanka is a different question altogether. In addition to that, massive and was scale corruption and allegations have abounded about these practices by the Rajapaksa government. So in a nutshell, I suppose poor economic planning and heavy and very centralized and problematic political administration with not enough forward thinking about the economy and hurt, I suppose, doubly by the pandemic, which affected tourism and the foreign remittances and in addition, I suppose more recently with the Ukraine crisis to some degree. Bavani, now that charu has mentioned the roger pax's, we should talk a bit about this extraordinary family firm, which has dominated Sri Lankan politics for what must now feel like forever, especially if you're in Sri Lanka.
Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
"sri lanka" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
"Very different than other cases where many governments have managed to blame it on COVID or blame it on the Ukraine war. These people say no, it's your fault. You did the wrong thing, including, by the way, delaying going to the IMF by two years. So what the IMF program or what our fiscal adjustment program is, is designed to reverse those policies. In addition, and this is what makes me optimistic is that we've had discussions with the leaders of the opposition and what was remarkable was that even in January, we had a seminar with these leaders of the opposition parties, and they, at the end of the seminar, signed a joint declaration calling for the government to go for a debt restructuring and approach the IMF. Now, what's remarkable about this is that these opposition parties range from the extreme left to the extreme right. They don't agree on too many other things. But they did actually agree on them. So that gives me some assurance that even if the government falls, whoever is the new leader, that emerges from the new government, is likely to support the IMF program. Just as a final thought then, if you were the person that whoever was running Sri Lanka did approach for advice about what they should actually do next, what would you tell them? They already have approached me. I'll tell you what I told them. So I would say we need to increase taxes. The reason we got into this trouble in the first place was that when they came into power, there are approximately administration cut taxes. They cut the value added tax from 15% to 8%. We need to restore that because Sri Lanka, the revenue to GDP ratio is 8.3%, which is one of the lowest in the world. So we need to reverse that. We also need to cut some of the subsidies. So you look as a whole range of subsidies on fuel and fertilizer and a whole bunch of other things that don't necessarily benefit the poor. Fuel subsidies are basically a transfer to the rich, who drive gas guzzling cars and run air conditioners and so on. We need to convert these subsidies into targeted cash transfers. So that you can make sure that the poor continue to get more money while the rich are paying their fair share. Then we need to go beyond that to the large range of state owned enterprises. So it has a large number of state owned enterprises that are all losing money. Sri Lankan airlines, the airline itself, by the way, is one of the biggest losers. It's accumulated losses about 0.8% of GDP. So they have to get rid of Sri Lankan airlines one way or the other. And there are a few others. But these are the major big ticket items that need to be done urgently in order to restore some credibility to the government's fiscal stance. Santa, thank you for joining us that was professor shante devaraja of Georgetown university. You're listening to the foreign desk on monocle 24. You're
Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
"sri lanka" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
"Poverty. And so all loans are scrutinized and evaluated in terms of how they will help the poor in the country. And to similar criteria attend decisions about bailouts or similar rescues from the IMF of which Sri Lanka has had many, 16 O 17, I think, which would seem to suggest that whatever the criteria are, there possibly not stringent enough. What the IMF is mainly doing is trying to restore stability to the macroeconomics of the country. So the country is as Sri Lanka is at the moment having a huge fiscal deficit. It's about 11% of GDP. And so what the IMF does is to say, how can we get Sri Lanka back on a track where the fiscal deficit is reduced? And the current account deficit is also reduced. So that the country will be in a position to pay back the new debt. So that's the role that the IMF plays. I resist the term bailout because I think it's more like a certification of the adjustment program. So that the country can actually reemerge in capital markets. Now, this is the first time that the IMF is actually played this role in Sri Lanka. The previous 17 programs have been simply adjustment programs. And I think it's fair to say that the reason why there have been 17 of these is that while the country was able to agree on an adjustment program with the IMF, each of those times, at the moment, they didn't actually go ahead and implement all of the measures in the program. See, a program is an agreement over a three year period. So they would agree there would be some money in the first tranche coming in as a result of the program, but then when there's a review of the progress in the second year or the third year, you find that the program was off track.
Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
"sri lanka" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
"Follow-up to that, how much optimism are you able to summon for what might lie ahead? I mean, I'm very optimistic. It's not going to be an easy road ahead, but I think it's a revolutionary road ahead because this is unprecedented. We've never had this collective people power voice before. I'm not so surprised, but I think our Sri Lankan political elite are very surprised. You know, they're reeling from that collective voice of the people coming together. You need to understand, like, Sri Lankan society has always been somewhat feudal. And it's probably a throwback from the colonial times and being indentured first to the Portuguese, and to the Dutch and then lastly, the British, up until as recently as 1948. So that class status and privilege has always had the loudest voice in this country. And the biggest holders of societal power here are the religious leaders and the political ones. So up until now, they've effectively been very untouchable. The notion of personal power or citizen power, the ability to exercise a citizen's rights in this country is something that has never really come into the public consciousness. And now of course, that is changing and it's wonderful to see people very unafraid to be angry to vocally speak out against the corruption and the injustice that has plagued this country for so long. So that has come as quite a shock to the politicians of this country. And I feel that it will certainly make them think twice because they're now being forced to be transparent in their dealings. And if there is one blessing in disguise from this crisis, it is that people are now very aware of the constitutional rights and they will be holding their political leaders countable for good governance. And that is why I think everyone in the political arena in Sri Lanka, the opposition leaders are being so uncharacteristically quiet right now. Tanya, thank you. That was the right of tenure Warner cooler Syria speaking to us from Colombo, you're listening to the foreign desk.
Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
"sri lanka" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
"Is there any element of the apparently now deposed order which could play any part in whatever comes next? I mean, do people assume that former president Rajapaksa's exit is a one way trip that we won't be seeing him again. Do people think that Ronnie will premising the former prime minister now acting president is actually part of any solution. Well, there's two questions there in terms of run ill. He will definitely try in some way, shape or form to be part of that solution. And as you can see with the way that he did the about turn, telling the country that he was going to step down and then not stepping down. This is a man who has been sworn in as prime minister a staggering 6 times more than any other prime minister in the country. And all of those times, he has never actually taken that office as a democratically elected official, voted in by the people of Sri Lanka. So he will certainly try and in fact he's already taking actions to inveigle his way into the books of the people. So one of the actions that he's speaking about is to remove the need to address the president of Sri Lanka as your excellency. Another is to demilitarize the north of the country, where, of course, the most fighting during the Civil War happened. A third proposal is to create election and campaign finance reforms. So it's all good stuff. But it begs the question, why is this never been addressed before from a man who has held so much political power in the country for so long? So the cynicism and mistrust when it comes to run el is very much there and the sentiment of the people is that they want him out. In terms of the roger parks, I mean, it's difficult to say, former president and prime minister Mahinda. He was ousted from government in May by the protesters. He still in the country. In fact, he has a travel ban in post on him as does brother basil, who was the former finance minister. He's the guy that's known as the crow or mister 10% for all the commissions that he would skim off of the national contracts and project. We do know that there was always disagreement between God tabia and Mahinda when they were in office together. The aspirations of Mahinda, when he came back as prime minister, he couldn't come back as president because he had done two terms of a presidency. He assumed that he'd be running the show, I think, and guitar would be the figurehead. And it's always been the wish of Mahinda to have his son narma running as president. Nama was the sports minister under the former government. He too is still in country. So who knows if there are perhaps might regain political power that they've currently lost? I mean, we're seeing what Ferdinand junior Marcos now elected as presidents 36 years after his father was removed by the people of Philips for pretty much the same corruption and mismanagement that Sri Lanka is currently enduring.
Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
"sri lanka" Discussed on Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
"If an outgoing head of state and or government ends their term with a dignified set piece speech and a cheerful handshake with their successor, things in a given country can be broadly assumed to be going well. If the nation's leader scalpers for the airport while an enraged citizenry scales the walls of the presidential compound, the opposite analysis applies. Earlier this week, Sri Lanka's president gotta beat Rajapaksa joined the melancholy fraternity of leaders compelled to legate into exile a step ahead of the pitchfork brandishing mob. Rajapaksa's dramatic decampment followed escalating discontent at Sri Lanka's recent descent into dysfunction. An energy crisis and an economic collapse have had dreadfully debilitating effects on the lives of Sri Lanka's people. The now very much former president gotta be a Rajapaksa is one member of a family which has for decades played musical chairs with Sri Lanka's highest political offices. One of gotta be his brothers, Mahinda Rajapaksa, resigned as prime minister in May in the face of growing protests. Another basil Rajapaksa resigned as finance minister in April. Yet another shamal Rajapaksa resigned as irrigation minister at around the same time. As we go to earth Sri Lanka's prime minister ranil with creme singer has been sworn in as acting president, but it is far from clear that anyone is playing much attention to him. But even if they eventually do, what options does he have? How did Sri Lanka get in to this astonishing mess and how does it get out? This is the foreign desk.
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Sri Lanka’s President Resigns After Months of Protest
"Sri Lanka's prime minister has been sworn in as the country's interim president until parliament elects a successor to gotabaya Rajapaksa who resigned after mass protests Jubilant crowds celebrated their victory in Sri Lanka's capital Colombo Protests send me that Graham said he was proud of the group effort to depose the former president This is really something amazing The fact that it happened on the back of largely peaceful protests that just happened not in Colombo but across the country And so in that sense this is really an amazing moment Sri Lanka's parliament speaker set a new leader be chosen within a week by lawmakers the new president will serve
Dennis Prager Podcasts
How the Environmentalists Are Destroying the Planet
"I spoke to you yesterday about the environmentalists crushing of the people of Sri Lanka. The attempt is going on in the Netherlands, as you know. The Netherlands whose emission of carbon dioxide or whatever else fertilizer or Cal tooting produces is so negligible in the scheme of the earth as to be ludicrous and crossing the line from ludicrous into evil. What the Netherlands government is attempting to do to its own people and to the world since the Netherlands is the second greatest exporter. Of what is it a food generally? Agricultural products. Tucker Carlson reported last night on Ghana, which we visited commented. It was on its way to some degree of prosperity, relative to other West African or African countries. And now is a basket case all because of the greens. I always think when will people awaken to the existential threat that the left poses to humanity?
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Sri Lanka protest sites calm as president’s resignation awaited
"Sri Lanka's embattled president got a buyer rasha paxa continues his exit while a curfew is set in Colombo Rajapaksa has left the Maldives and is now bound for sink poor after fleeing his own country amid mass protests demanding he resign over his country's economic collapse Meanwhile the government's announced a curfew in the capital and its suburbs to run until 5 a.m. Friday anticipating more protests troops in green military uniforms and camouflage vests have arrived by armored personnel carriers to reinforce barricades around
Dennis Prager Podcasts
"sri lanka" Discussed on Dennis Prager Podcasts
"A religious group that's Christian, especially in the Middle East and West Africa. It doesn't make the headlines because it doesn't comport with the lying media. It's entirely accurate to Trump phrase. It is a lying media. They lie so effectively. They don't even know they're lying. But the lying whoops sorry, the line is of omission as much as commission. It is reported on page 14 or something. If it's reported, another massacre of dozens of Christians in Nigeria, let's say. But it doesn't comport with the left wing media's agenda, which is to depict Christians as persecutors, not as persecuted. Only Muslims are persecuted. So when Muslims wipe out Christian villages, it doesn't really make any headlines. In the United States, the loathing of Christianity on the part of the left is so deep. That there are Christians on the left means nothing, the ability of people to commit suicide on a national or religious level is well documented. I spoke to the skateboarder in the first hour who was cheated out of her win by a biological man in the women's skateboarding competition. And she spoke of the astonishing amount of hatred directed to her as a Jew. Because she spoke out against the biological man, the feeding all the women. In the women's competition. And I asked her to come from the left or the right, said overwhelmingly from the left. I don't even think she's on the right. Young Jewish woman from Michigan. And I told her, it is amazing that she was vote left. It is an act of suicide on the part of Jews to do so. And it is an act of suicide on the part of Christians. To vote left. As they watch their churches get emptier and emptier left wing Christians. Just double down, same as left wing Jews, as they watch their synagogue, get empty or an emptier. And they double down on the left. Anyway, the greatest teacher right now in America is of Christians. It is so regular that I know exactly what they'll write, so I don't always read them. I spend more time reading left wing pieces than right-wing pieces. But why was it this week this one in The New York Times? So they magazine. So listen to this, this is about the threat of Christianity to America. Talking about right-wing Christians, by the way, for the record most of you know this, but I am a Jew. I'm a religious Jew. I am not a Christian. So it's much harder to dismiss what I'm saying. Since I am not a Christian, however, when you have a commitment to truth, it doesn't matter what you are. Everybody who's committed to truth basically has the same realizations. It's irrelevant if you're a Christian, you're an atheist, or a Muslim, black, white, that's the beauty of truth. Truth is truly the one thing that can unite people. But we're swimming in the world of lies. Men menstruate is the great example..
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Taylor Silverman on UNFAIR Competition With Trans Skater
"Is my first skateboarding competitor and champion. I think I've ever had on the show. And I have had a lot of guests. Yes, that's right. There you go. It doesn't count that my engineer is a major skateboarder, but he hasn't competed. So anyway, it is a pleasure to have Taylor silverman. She is a skateboarding champion and she is a human champion, which is obviously more important. She's had the courage to speak out after a competition and if I'm not getting this entirely right Taylor obviously correct me. So you competed and you came in second to a biological male who competed in the women's competition. Is that correct? Correct. And it was just an amateur level contest. I'm not like one of the top skateboarders or anything. But there was money involved and I did travel and have to compete and qualifiers to get there and it was really shocking to arrive and find out that that was going to be a contest that we'd have the opportunity to compete for a second place at. Were you
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"sri lanka" Discussed on Dennis Prager Podcasts
"Paid off to do so, why are they mesmerized? By western crushing of their economy in the name of something that has essentially zero effect. Over 90% of Sri Lanka's farmers have used chemical fertilizers before they were banned. After they were banned in astonishing 85% experienced crop losses. Rice production fell 20% of prices skyrocketed 50% in just 6 months. All because they listened to western environmentalists. A human crushing movement Sri Lanka had to import $450 million worth of rice. That's amazing. That's amazing. Just despite having been self sufficient, just months earlier. That's like us importing oil after Donald Trump's four years. We were exporting oil. The sick despicable crushing life crutching crushing anti human left. Follow their advice and its suicide. It is suicide. But people are not allowed to hear other viewpoints. Imagine getting up at a college class and saying, actually, this left wing movement is crushing my family and our society, and our world. Imagine that? No, it's unimaginable. Well, they're revolting in Holland and they're revolting in Sri Lanka. Get any ideas? We'll return. The Dennis prager show. Towels just don't seem to dry you anymore. They feel soft and lotion Y in the store, but you get them home, and they don't absorb. Well, Mike lindell and my pillow found that out around 2006 and towels changed forever. He found the best towel company right here in the USA. They have proprietary technology to create towels that feel soft, but actually work, and that happens to be true. I use them. They are all made with USA cotton and they come with the my pillow 60 day money back guarantee. 6 P set two bath, two hand towels, two washcloths, regularly a 109 99, now 39 99..
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The Aim of the Greens Is Anti-Human
"The ultimate aim of the environmentalist movement, the greens, as they're known, is truly anti human. It is a deep sickness to worship of the earth at the expense of humanity. It is an inversion of genesis, which says, and you shall dominate nature. It is you shall let nature dominate you. The depth of the anti human element of the greens is not perceived by most people. Who think that the worship of the earth is a beautiful thing. Because his chest of tin pointed out when people stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing they believe in anything.
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"sri lanka" Discussed on Dennis Prager Podcasts
"Sri Lanka does not register on most people's radar, understandably. There are 200 or so countries. And you can't keep up with all of them. But what the western environmentalists have done to crush this small country is evil. Because the environmentalist movement is evil. I know it's impossible for a leftist to even entertain that called evil was on the right. But if evil is measured not by intentions, but by results, humans suffering has increased exponentially because of the greens. Germany, country that is almost always wrong. Followed the greens, and they are in terrible shape. And it will have repercussions around the world. It's the most important economy in Europe. And it is entirely induced because green thinking has taken over the elites. In Holland, they are crushing farmers. I was shocked to learn how long does the second greatest exporter of agricultural products. So the world has some dependence upon Holland and needless to say, the Dutch do..
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"sri lanka" Discussed on Dennis Prager Podcasts
"Deal, as we say. So here's an interesting question for you. Have you been following what's going on in Sri Lanka? Sri Lanka is an island country on the southeast off the southeast coast of India. I think it's the southeast coast. Maybe it's the southwest coast. It's funny, usually the thing you say first is right. You want to check that. I think it's southeast. Yeah. Southwest of the Maldives. Southeast is Sri Lanka. And I was there. It's a beautiful, it's known for being a beautiful island. It was called Ceylon, it's now called Sri Lanka. I've never understood these name changes. I'm sure that Sri or Sri Lanka is closer to the indigenous language of the country. But why does anybody care what foreigners call their country, must the bad name? I mean, to the Germans insist that the world called Germany deutschland, Germany has nothing to do with their family. They share virtually no letters. I haven't followed that. Why did Peking become Beijing? What was wrong with Peking? Anyway, Sri Lanka, or Sri Lanka, has just seen the government overthrown by massive protests. Massive. Because the man is bankrupted his country in large measure because he followed western ideas about how to bankrupt your country, specifically the greens, economic environmentalist policy. Is there a movement that has done as much destruction as the environmentalist movement? In our time, I can't think of any. There might be, I can't think of any. Every leftist movement is destructive, but this one has been particularly destructive. So this is from common sense, and it's by Michael schellinger, who is a very bright man. And didn't he, didn't he sort of start as a liberal? He started as an environmentalist. He has a lot of intellectual honesty in his life. Okay, let's see. The proximate cause the reason for the chaos is that the nation is bankrupt. Millions are struggling to buy food, medicine, and fuel between June 21 and June 22, food prices rose 80%. Last month, annual inflation hit nearly 55%. Can you imagine that? A 55% annual rate of inflation? Wow. Since the start of the pandemic, half a million people have fallen into poverty. If you've never paid attention to the island country just off in the southeastern coast, I was right. There we go. You might think this is just how it goes in developing nations, but the truth is that Sri Lanka have been gradually rebuilding itself after decades of Civil War and authoritarianism and then this happened. We in the west had a lot to do with it. The underlying reason for the fall of Sri Lanka is that its leaders starting with former president Siri Senna and continuing with his successor of the recently deposed Kota baya Rajapaksa. Fell under the spell of western green elites peddling organic agriculture and ESG. Which refers to investments made following supposedly higher environmental, social and governance criteria. That's what ESG is. Environmental social and governments. Sri Lanka has a near perfect ESG score of 98 higher than Sweden 96 and the United States 51. What is having such a high ESG score mean? In short, it meant that Sri Lanka's 2 million farmers were forced to stop using fertilizers and pesticides, laying waste to its critical agricultural sector..
Dennis Prager Podcasts
How a Band of Activists Helped Bring Down Sri Lanka's Government
"So here's an interesting question for you. Have you been following what's going on in Sri Lanka? Sri Lanka is an island country on the southeast off the southeast coast of India. I think it's the southeast coast. Maybe it's the southwest coast. It's funny, usually the thing you say first is right. You want to check that. I think it's southeast. Yeah. Southwest of the Maldives. Southeast is Sri Lanka. And I was there. It's a beautiful, it's known for being a beautiful island. It was called Ceylon, it's now called Sri Lanka. I've never understood these name changes. I'm sure that Sri or Sri Lanka is closer to the indigenous language of the country. But why does anybody care what foreigners call their country, must the bad name? I mean, to the Germans insist that the world called Germany deutschland, Germany has nothing to do with their family. They share virtually no letters. I haven't followed that. Why did Peking become Beijing? What was wrong with Peking? Anyway, Sri Lanka, or Sri Lanka, has just seen the government overthrown by massive protests.
Dennis Prager Podcasts
You're a Scientist? So What!
"I have been writing for over 20 years a column that comes out every Tuesday at Dennis prager dot com and starts at town hall and then my greats to daily wire American greatness. Jewish world review and many, many other places thank God, because I think I have something important to say, otherwise I wouldn't say it. So what happened was rare, I normally write the column over the course of the weekend and then polish it on Monday. It has to be submitted by Monday late afternoon. Obviously my time. And yesterday, a physician called many times. It took issue with me about Therapeutics, specifically Ivermectin. Which is fine. So I took his call. I like calls it. Take issue with me. But then he said, I'm a scientist. And that was a precious moment in my life. To which the responses so what? I can read reports just as well as you can. I don't know as much as he does about the way the human body works. So that there was no question. I pray that's true. He's a doctor. My the title of my column today, it's my website and town hall. Is your scientist so what?
The Economist: The Intelligence
"sri lanka" Discussed on The Economist: The Intelligence
"After months of protests and economic upheaval, thousands of people stormed the Sri Lanka's presidential palace on Saturday. Demanding president go to Bayer roger pock's resignation. 55 people were injured in the commotion. The speaker for the Sri Lankan parliament announced the gotha as he is popularly known, will step down on Wednesday. He said the go to ask for cooperation in order to maintain peace. The president had clung on in May in the face of public protests, sacrificing his brother, Mahinda Rajapaksa, who is the prime minister, instead. Now prime minister ranil wickrama singer, whom go to appointed to help solve Sri Lanka's economic crisis in May, has said he'll resign too. But the protesters say they won't leave the grounds of the palace. Until the prime minister and president have officially left office. Who started age, did I know in tens of thousands of people assembled in Colombo, many outside the presidential secretary at big beige building that used to be the parliament calling for the president got a bio Rajapaksa to go. Leo morani is The Economist Asia editor. They've been calling for him to go for months, but this time he at last listened to them and announced that he would resign a few days hence on July 13th. At the same time, the prime minister has also said that he will resign. So Sri lankans after months and months of protests have finally got what they want, which is an end to the government that has brought them to the place they are. So what are the scenes look like? What did we see there? By Saturday afternoon, there was an enormous angry sea of humanity covering every inch of space outside secretary. There were lawyers and black codes that were nurses and white frogs. University students would then humongous numbers, but it's important to remember this was not just professionals or students. This was people from every walk of life. These people had come not just from Colombo, they had come from towns and villages outside. In many cases, they walked because public transport was unavailable. There's no fuel in the country so they couldn't fill up their cars. But they were determined to get rid of Goethe as the president is known. And so they piled into buses and they piled into lorries and they piled even on tractors. Whatever vehicles were available. And remember, John, this is a country with deep, deep, ethnic divisions. It's a country that had a 26 year long Civil War. And yet this government's catastrophic ineptitude has brought Sri lankans together. Was the government prepared for this to happen? The government was well aware that this massive protest was coming. They did not know whether the protesters would make it in such large numbers, given the shortages of fuel and public transport. But they did try their best to prevent such a huge still note. The previous day, police had declared curfew, trains and public transport for canceled. The telecoms regulator even told phone operators to tell of data, the operators did not comply. And then, of course, thousands of members of security forces were deployed in the center of the city. Nonetheless, the protesters managed to make it, and eventually they were able to breach the security. There were people launching on the president's bed, taking selfies, they were making tea for themselves and the presidential kitchen. They were swimming in the presidential swimming pool. It was kind of joyous. Our correspondent described it as a cross between storming the Bastille and a field trip, we've talked a lot recently on the show about protests and unrest in Sri Lanka. But what was it about this specific point that caused things to boil over? So things have been simmering away for a while. Starting last year, kiran is economic situation started to deteriorate. And then early this year, that deterioration accelerated. By April, the government had announced it would no longer be able to service its foreign debt. It had stopped trying to defend the Sri Lankan rupee, which was a good thing, a sensible thing. And so that tanked imports became very, very dear. And in effect, the countries are funny. The prime minister Ronald Vikram Singh said as much last week. He said, we are bankrupt. Leo, what do you think is behind the level of anger we've seen from the protesters? In me, exactly two months to the day before this weekend's protests, a bunch of government goods had shown up at the protest site and violence had broken out. And that escalated and led to the resignation of the then prime minister who was Mahinda Rajapaksa, a former president and the current president's brother. The hope was that that would stabilize the situation that people would come down. But the president refused to ghost it, and that was the main cause of everyone's isle. So this protest over the weekend was organized to mark the two month anniversary of that one. And some of the scenes we saw was somewhat similar in fact, two months ago, protesters set the prime minister's personal residence ablaze and the same thing happened this time. This time, however, the president finally saw that it was over and said he would go. The thing to understand here is Sri Lanka was not a poor country. Sri Lanka was a middle income country, had clawed its way to upper middle income status on average, Sri lankans were better off than Indians, Pakistanis, bangladeshis, most of their neighbors. So what you see now is people who would have been comfortably middle class a few months ago, and they are now skipping meals. So you can understand the rage of these people. So what happens next? So in theory, go to and John of the criminals are still running the country because neither one of them is actually resigned. They have said they will resign. The president is supposed to resign on Wednesday the 13th. But the prime minister Ronald the criminal is also still in post because he has said he'll hang on to a unity government is formed. What that means is an all party government that's in charge of steering the country through the crisis. There's also talk of early elections, although he doesn't have any money to hold elections at the moment, but the legitimacy is extremely important. Do you think the resignations of the president and the prime minister will be enough to stabilize the situation in Sri Lanka? Will this be enough? I think so. Sri lankans know that their economy is in terrible terrible shape. They know that negotiations are ongoing with the IMF. They know that the coming months are going to be very, very difficult. The problem was that there was no legitimacy at the top. The problem was that the very people who had let them into the situation was still running the country and trying to lead them out of it. So with fresh government with the fresh president most importantly, because the president has enormous power in Sri Lanka, Sri lankans will feel some degree of confidence that the path ahead is different from the part that led them to where they are now. Is there any reason to think that a new government will be able to deal with Sri Lanka's economic problems more effectively? Absolutely, John. Everybody knows what needs to be done. They need to continue talking to the IMF. They need to come to terms, debtors need to accept those terms. Sri lankans recognize that they're going to be a lot poorer for quite a while. The main problem here has been one of legitimacy and the new government, whoever it is, will have that legitimacy because they're not the larger boxers and because ideally, there will be early elections that they will have been voted in as well. But even
AP News Radio
Protesters break into home of Sri Lankan PM, set it on fire
"Sri Lanka's prime minister has agreed to resign after party leaders in parliament demanded both he and the embattled president step down on the day protesters stormed the president's residence and office in a fury over the worsening economic crisis Sri Lankan protesters demanding president got a buyer roger Paxton's resignation move at pace toward the presidential secretary building while police fire tear gas as they gather barricaded road another image shows protesters sitting on top of a police water cannon vehicle thousands of people have demonstrated in the capital Colombo against the island nation's worst economic crisis in recent memory That prime minister Ronald Rick were missing gig has said in a voice statement he will resign when all parties have agreed on a new government
WNYC 93.9 FM
"sri lanka" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"But how did it come to this Sri Lanka's newly installed Central Bank governor who will play a key role in the upcoming IMF bailout negotiations for Sri Lanka Fiscal dips is almost around 11% of GDP for the last two years That is very excessive We could have taken this decision and we have taken much earlier than now If we had taken those decisions for example good guy we started second process one year before We couldn't have any situation without this kind of suffering in this country That's my way So if your predecessors had made different decisions the situation could have been more manageable today That's my really The leader of the opposition says the problem wasn't just incompetence but also corruption We have a country that is bankrupt We have a country that can not feed its people We have a country in darkness You would accuse the president president and the former prime minister of economic governance failures and failures of policy would you also accuse them of corruption Of course Personal corruption Of course because basically this country has been run on a process of promoting family interests family baptism Everything relates back to the family It's family dominated politics There have been protests here calling for president Rajapaksa to resign for 77 straight days Sri Lanka is.
The Dan Bongino Show
Rep. Austin Scott: We Were Feeling the Impact of High Costs Before War
"You know if you have people on fixed incomes living off a soon to be a bankrupt social security system that are only getting three 4% a year increases if that even in the inflation crisis this is a really big deal congressman I mean you got a seniors who worked really hard who busted their butts some of whom were World War II greatest generation folks who not many and I meant not that many left living on fixed incomes were going to have to choose between eating eating a regular meal or paying the rent I mean that's a serious problem Yeah granted it may not be immediate starvation here like it would be in Sri Lanka which is a serious problem too but it's a problem here nonetheless That's right And the disruptions around the world have an impact on global stability in the economy but right here at home what I'm frustrated with is if you listen to Biden and Harris and Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer they're saying oh well this inflation is Vladimir Putin's war It's Vladimir Putin's war that created all of this inflation inside the United States Well that's not true We were feeling the impacts of bad policy more than 25 days ago This war while it seems like it's been going on for months and months and months I mean it's literally 25 days since Vladimir Putin invaded So they're using this as an excuse for what they're bad policies have done and increasing the price of fuel and increase in the price of food in this country And that's the real shame in the just the lack of character that we have in The White House right now
The Dan Bongino Show
Rep. Austin Scott: The World's Going to Be Paying a Lot More for Bread
"And so with trade shutdown in the Black Sea you've got tremendous increased costs of nitrogen and potassium You've got the increased cost of wheat and corn and sunflower oil And it's going to have a huge impact on the World Food Program and lower income economies You're seeing this a little bit in Sri Lanka right now where they had gone have to go to the IMF for an emergency bailout that's 4000 miles from Ukraine but the impact of the war is already hurting them and you and I and other people who are fortunate enough blessed enough to wake up inside this great country The United States of America we're going to pay more for our bread certainly but there are other people around the world that I'm very concerned are going to be literally starving
The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"sri lanka" Discussed on The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"We should try all right so you might not like this but they do have mcdonald's in sri lanka this thing called chicken big mac which i had to try and actually quite good. It's basically mac chicken patty so that was kinda interesting but more. Yeah to your point. I think you're probably looking more for the local culture to some the guest houses we stayed at. They often would serve hoppers in the morning net. There's a couple of styles it is a bowl hopper which is a bowl shaped pancake made out of rice. Flour is very common in sri lanka and they typically will fill it with With an egg in perhaps some other ingredients of vegetables in the light or they also have string hoppers which are also this rice flour. That's more in the shape. Spaghetti that they often mixed in with the curry's so that's something that if you're in lack you're probably going to try and it's quite good. I'd never added before. I was pleasantly surprised. And i should say not too surprised about the chicken a mcdonald's because having been in a recently in india north of there of course we walked past a mcdonald's i did not eat there just for the record and kiss anybody's keeping score but there were no. There was no beef because of the hindu population and even relocate. You still have about twelve percent between twelve and thirteen percent of people are hindus so it's just easier perhaps if you don't have beef on the menu and they did have beef but it was just. I'd never seen a chicken big mac before which was which was kind of interesting. You're standing in the prettiest spot in sri lanka where he is standing. What are you looking at. Can i be floating. yes you can. Well this would take me back to that tents candelabra hotel and floating in their eternity. Cool looking out over the cantillon reservoir surrounded by the mountains and the forest birds passing over is a son's going down in the distance. You can see a cigarette and now is a pretty yes special spot for us to just hang out and take it. All in. What was the type of pull. It's an infinity pool. Basically and the ones that look like they have no end. At attorney pool is really prunier. I think quite possibly excellent. I think that wraps it up unless we have any other answers that you got leftover that i've run out of questions for we learned as we're driving around that every full moon is a holiday in sri lanka. A lot of things will shut down so and they can happening obviously any day of the week so just something that check before you head into sri lanka other thing would be. Bring lots of suntan lotion. We ran out in went unfor- sometime because they don't really locals. Don't believe suntan lotion and we went without as well ourselves because it was sixty dollars per bottle at the shops and we just kind of passed on that okay. Excellent our guest again has been mike and mike. I don't think you have written up anything yet on this but if you do let me know we'll put a link to that in the show notes and thank you so much for coming on amateur traveler sharing with us your love for sri lanka. Thanks chris In thanks for all the great work you've been doing over the years with the podcast now. We are very welcome.
The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"sri lanka" Discussed on The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"There's these giant ramparts that just surround the whole old part of the town running along the ocean. That's equated steve towns literally just walk around the town of maybe an hour or two. And you're gonna see a lot of the sites along the way passing historic lighthouse. This large clock tower. That overlooks are well-known cricket stadium. There there's an old dutch reformed church from the mid seventeen hundreds and then bears remains from the forward in the military installations others a museum. You you can stop in at the national maritime museum which was quite good..
The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"sri lanka" Discussed on The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"Neat place to hang out and incredible views to out over the indian ocean especially at sundown. In fact i've got this little routine whereas relenting guy comes out in a scottish kill with bagpipes and they do this. Flag lowering cermony and everybody county. It sounds a little corny making. But it's kind of fun and it's definitely a nice spot that just sit on the randa there and watch the sun go down and i did notice that it actually made the book a thousand places to see before you die now. I know that author who is a very charming woman by the way we have met but she does tend to like hotels a lot. So it's really five hundred hotels that you should stay in before you die in five hundred really cool places but this is one of the hotels that she picked for them. Yeah it definitely makes the list. So that was colombo. There's other things to do there. But i think maybe we could move a little further south to the beach area which was popular especially with a lot of the european to go to sri lanka. Then we went to. Eric called pinto beach yet in the south west coast of sri lanka. And really you can pick any of the beaches along there. They're all quite nice and we picked up until only because the resort were staying at which looked quite nice. Happened to be there. We actually just really took it easy. And this was your adjusted to jetlag portion of. I was just. I was just going to say read. My mind was planned to overcome the jet land. It was a long flight as well so it was nice place arrest up and the other thing that we weren't really anticipating leaving canada and the wintertime. You're this was march in the share. One religion canada minus ten minus twenty degrees weather. And you're arriving tropical destination. I can't wait to get off the plane and this nice hot weather but boy was..
The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"sri lanka" Discussed on The Amateur Traveler Podcast
"Hi this is chris. This is going to be your encore presentation of an amateur traveler episode. Because i am not able to record this weekend because it's my son. Mike's wedding. enjoy it bags and read. It's be good. Lord amateur traveler episode six hundred sixty seven today. The amateur traveler talks about cities and national parks and temples botanical gardens and an orphanage for elephants as we go to the island nation of sri lanka. Welcome.