Saturday’s demonstrations were the latest in a months-long protest movement sparked by an unprecedented economic crisis in the South Asian nation. Fuel has almost run out, food prices and hunger have spiked and the country defaulted on its foreign debt repayment. The turmoil has felled the political dynasty that dominated Sri Lanka for nearly two decades.

Domestic factors, including government policies, are largely to blame. The President backed a ban on chemical fertilizers that dented crop yields as food prices skyrocketed worldwide. The coronavirus pandemic decimated Sri Lanka’s tourism industry, a key source of foreign currency.

Sri Lankan authorities have sought aid from India and China, and Gotabaya called Russian President Vladimir Putin this week to ask for help with importing fuel.
Hours earlier Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe had announced his own impending resignation, amid calls for him to quit. But he said he will not step down until a new government is formed, angering protesters who demanded his immediate departure.

“Today in this country we have a fuel crisis, a food shortage, we have the head of the World Food Program coming here and we have several matters to discuss with the IMF,” Wickremesinghe said.. “Therefore, if this government leaves there should be another government.”

In related story, Dutch farmers are protesting the Netherlands' and WEF $26 billion climate plan that could reduce the livestock population by 30%.

The Netherlands is planning on halving its nitrogen output by 2030. The government plan would shutter some farms, as much of the nitrogen is blamed on manure and fertilizer from cattle.

Sri Lanka today. What count is next? When is Nigeria's turn?

Russia is now to blame. Nitrogen emissions will be blamed tomorrow for preventing farmers from farming and killing cattle so that you can eat crickets, to save the environment.



[b]Zelensky was utterly humiliated after only four African leaders out of the continent’s 55 nations tuned in to his virtual meeting with the African Union, one of whom was the group’s chairman and thus had to do so due to protocol. This ratio would never be replicated in the Golden Billion since those countries’ leaders are working overtime to portray their Ukrainian counterpart as the “Second Jesus”, which is part of their scheme to control their people through the creation of a new “secular religion” after the prior one connected to COVID-19 finally began to lose its sway over the masses.

Africans, however, have no interest in joining this post-modern cult and therefore don’t feel obliged to listen to this faux “god”, especially since they have no interest in hearing his lies about Russia. Even though some of them voted against Moscow at the UN under Western pressure, not a single one jointed that declining unipolar hegemon’s sanctions against it. Furthermore, Chairman Macky Sall met with President Putin in early June, during which time he condemned the West’s anti-Russian sanctions as contributing to the global food crisis, which contradicts the US’ false narrative about this.[/b]


https://korybko.substack.com/p/african-leaders-snubbed-zelensky

jimetagambo:
Sri Lanka today. What count is next? When is Nigeria's turn?