INTL Sri Lanka down to last day of petrol, PM tells crisis-hit nation (Updated, #221)

Cacheman

Cacheman

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Sri Lankans broke into the gates of their Central Bank. Two very short videos at link complete with gunfire. Central Bank building next to be occupied,

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Sri Lankans broke into the gates of their Central Bank.
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Jackalope

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Speaking with family members over there, 30 miles outside the capital city of Columbo, everything is quiet this evening. Both the Prime Minister and the President have agreed to resign. There's much less traffic, since there's no fuel. It sounds like the populace is breathing a sigh of relief, now that the Rajapaskas will be out of the political picture. Sri Lanka was at one time close to being a 2nd tier country, with modern hospitals, decent universities, and a good economy. The Rajapaskas managed to destroy all that, with shortages of food, medicine and fuel. Biden is following their footsteps, destroying our economy. What's the shortage du jour?
 
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Coulter

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Wildweasel said:
What happens when China pulls up with a couple of supertankers full of fuel and says: "We'd like to trade you fuel for open access to your ports and airfields by our navy and air force." Look for that before you see Joe and the clowns do anything.

And just like that, China established major bases to choke off access to the Indian Ocean by the US while also placing a knife to the throat of India itself. With the Chinese now dominant in the Indian Ocean, US influence in the region vanished overnight.
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The very fuel Biden - gave them - out of our strategic reserves?
 
ainitfunny

ainitfunny

Saved, to glorify God.
Sri Lanka is dealing with inflation, food shortages, and all the problems we have and theyve been out of gasoline and the President can't handle it. No money to buy food and gas. (import)
He said he's gonna resign.

Theres a video of the palace burning on the Daily Mail website, but I m on a tiny pjone and can get it to copy. Its after dark so you dont see much. But a HUGE FIRE!

Thanks for the spelling correction.
 
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ainitfunny

ainitfunny

Saved, to glorify God.
They ( huge mob of protesters )ust burned down The Presidential palace and the overwhelmed security people got the prime minister out in time. The prime minister resigned.
 
Jackalope

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ainitfunny said:
They ( huge mob of protesters )ust burned down The Presidential palace and the overwhelmed security people got the prime minister out in time. The prime minister resigned.
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Actually, the mob burned the Prime Minister's residence. The Prime Minister resigned prior to the mob burning down his house. The people of Sri Lanka are pissed and hungry. Most Sri Lankans are Buddhists, mostly non-violent due to their religion, however hunger can be a forceful motivator. One non-connected fact, the U.S. Embassy is situated directly cross the street from the Prime Minister's office. The Prime Minister's Office is in a different location than his residence, and the President also has a separate office and palace/residence, not like our White House.

Politics in Sri Lanka are very dirty. As I've mentioned previously, it's not super unusual to have political opponents shot, or disappeared. Mahinda Rajapaska trumped up charges for a popular political opponent General Fonseka and had him jailed. The General was the commanding officer of the military during their three decade civil war. General Fonseka and Mahinda Rajapaska worked together to defeat the rebel Tamil forces, but once the war was over, Rajapaska did everything in his power to diminish the General, because the General was a very popular figure. It'll be interesting to see how the political structure develops with the Rajapaskas gone. Many of the Rajapaskas hold dual citizenship with the U.S. as the other citizenship. I'm curious how Biden will treat them.
 
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jward

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Looks like Albania joins the party, now

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Albania nationwide protests | Government collapsed the economy, told to resign.
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These kinds of riots are also unfolding in Tajakestan (?) in recent days...
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Food riots: Violent protests erupt in Sri Lanka and Iran as prices of everyday goods soar
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Food riots: Violent protests erupt in Sri Lanka and Iran as prices of everyday goods soar
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(Natural News) Protests in Sri Lanka caused by rising food prices have escalated from bad to worse as angry protesters clashed with law enforcement.

Sri Lankans incensed by the rapidly rising prices of food and other commodities burned down homes belonging to 38 politicians. The Sri Lanka Police said on May 10 that demonstrators have also burned down 75 other houses. At least nine people have been killed and more than 200 injured during the civil unrest, which sparked as Colombo allegedly mishandled the country’s worse economic crisis since 1948.
On the same day, the Sri Lankan Ministry of Defense ordered soldiers to shoot anyone found damaging state property or assaulting officials. Armed troops were also deployed to disperse violent demonstrators. They assisted police officers, who were firing tear gas and water cannons, in quelling angry Sri Lankans.
Soldiers were called in after protesters twice attempted to breach former Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahindra Rajapaksa’s Temple Trees residence. While the rioters were unsuccessful, they managed to burn down his ancestral home at the town of Hambantota in the country’s southernmost tip. Soldiers were also tapped to evacuate Rajapaksa and his immediate family during an early morning operation after the Sri Lankan leader stepped down from his post. (Related: Inflation riots have begun: Sri Lankan Cabinet offers to resign as widespread unrest over price spikes boils over.)
Rajapaksa’s resignation followed the emergence of television footage on May 9 that showed government supporters inflicting violence on demonstrators in several locations across the capital. The prime minister’s supporters beat protesters with sticks, tore down their tents and set them on fire.
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Home to 22 million people, the South Asian island has been experiencing rising food prices alongside widespread electricity shortages. Since March, thousands of Sri Lankans have taken to the streets and called for the resignation of Rajapaksa due to his mishandling of the economic crisis. This vitriol has extended to the Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, brother of the former prime minister, who has not shown any hint of stepping down.

Protests break out as Iran cuts food subsidies
Protests also broke out in Iran on May 12 after the government cut food subsidies. The subsidy cut caused prices for a variety of staples including cooking oil, chicken and eggs to increase threefold. Before the price hikes took effect, Iranians cleared out supermarket shelves and hoarded bundles of food.
Those unable to get food took to the streets to voice out their displeasure.
The demonstrators directed their anger toward Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and President Ebrahim Raisi. Elected in 2021, Raisi had promised to rescue the Iranian economy. Footage on social media showed protesters in the cities of Dezful and Mahshahr, both located in the country’s southwestern Khuzestan province, chanting “Death to Khamenei! Death to Raisi!”
Some protesters took it a step further. Footage from the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) showed incensed Iranians setting fire to a military base owned by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Basij division. The Basij facility the protesters attacked was based at Jooneghan county in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province, located east of Khuzestan.
In response, Tehran has promised to pay every Iranian citizen around $14 a month to tide them over the price hikes. It has also cut off internet service in cities across Khuzestan province, according to pro-freedom group Article 19.
Foreign Desk Editor-In-Chief Lisa Daftari said of the protests in Iran: “Every so often, we see these types of protests in Iran. Each time, it is under a different premise – the price of eggs, the price of gas, the price of bread. But the underlining message, supported by the slogans heard throughout the demonstrations, is the same: They are protesting the entirety of a brutal regime.”
She added that the protests are no longer limited to the capital Tehran and other urban areas. “We are seeing protests throughout the country in urban and rural areas and throughout the very vast and diverse Iranian population.”
FoodRiots.news has more stories about protests due to rising food prices across the globe.
Watch the footage below showing the protests in Sri Lanka.

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Protests in Sri Lanka caused by rising food prices have escalated from bad to worse as angry protesters clashed with law enforcement. Sri Lankans incensed by the rapidly rising prices of food and other commodities burned down homes belonging to 38 politicians. The Sri Lanka Police said on May 10...
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Raggedyman

Raggedyman

Res ipsa loquitur
"this is what happens when a people realize THEY HAVE THE POWER TO DO WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE" (1:54)
"this location is going to descend into hell. the police are gone and the military is nowhere to be found" (2:55)
"this is what happens when people decide to STAND UP for themselves" (3:33)
"this is one of many countries we'll probably watch in the coming weeks and months start to fold in the same way" (8:51)
 
ainitfunny

ainitfunny

Saved, to glorify God.
Raggedyman - when you say burn it down
like they did, YOU ARE SAYING THE SAME GOAL AS THE LIBERAL LEFT.

ARE YOU A LIBERAL?
 
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FNFAL1958

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I bet some of that oil that the white house sold china ends up in Sir Lanka along with their Ideology, Ripe for the Picking.
 
Bridey Rose

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Have been watching videos of the protests, and, man, are the Sri Lankan people PO'd. They burned down the prime minister's house, although I guess they were having too much fun at the Presidential palace to burn it. Folks mobbed the palace grounds, and some even broke inside, went to his bedroom, and had a nice lay-down in the president's bed. Others held up his underwear and mocked it.

Protesters were diving and doing cannonballs into the president's swimming pool.

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Meanwhile, the president had boarded a naval vessel and was getting out of dodge.

It was all pretty amusing. Wonder what they'll do for an encore.
 
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Terrwyn

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Well looks like there will be no more Good Karma Hospital filmed as Sri Lanka is where it is filmed. Beautiful country.
 
Raggedyman

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ainitfunny said:
Raggedyman - when you say burn it down
like they did, YOU ARE SAYING THE SAME GOAL AS THE LIBERAL LEFT.

ARE YOU A LIBERAL?
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ARE YOU OFF YOUR MEDS? anyone here will tell you I'm to the right of Genghis Kahn when it comes to NATIONALISM and the CONSTITUTION you can't be doing a very good job at keeping up.

I'm quoting from the video - I'm repeating what's been said regarding what happens when a people WAKE UP and REALIZE that it is
THEY who HOLD THE POWER
not the government
not the MARXIST SKUM
not the NWO
not the WEF

THE PEOPLE
I'm saying this IS coming​
 
CaryC

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I also find it interesting that Sri Lanka isn't the only country tired of their leadership being corrupt and driving the country into an economy disaster.

Daniel Boone had this up in the Russian war thread:

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In other news protests in Albania https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1545876677284216833View: https://mobile.twitter.com/EndGameWW3/status/1545876677284216833?cxt=HHwWgoCygbmph_QqAAAA
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The tweet with pictures didn't transfer so here is the link:

ALERT - RUSSIA INVADES UKRAINE - Consolidated Thread | Page 783 | Timebomb 2000

First reply. (#31,281)
 
Raggedyman

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they must have missed all the newz about the Jan 6 insurrection and RINOs Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger . . . they should be really scared
 
ainitfunny

ainitfunny

Saved, to glorify God.
But, when you find that what you want is the SAME as what your enemies want, something is wrong.
Burn it down and start over is NOT going to make ANYTHING BETTER !
 
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ainitfunny

ainitfunny

Saved, to glorify God.
Wow , I just saw films of the "protests"
it was probably a MILLION people removing "consent of the goverened" from those in power! The govt has shut the schools -no money, shut down the sale of gasoline - no gas, shut down, run out of cooking fuel, (28 weeks) only 5 hours of electricity or less a day, food is scarce and priced out of reach of the average citizen, the govt outlawed ALL chemical fertilizers for everyome, immediately cutting garden + commercial food harvests in HALF! The INFLATION has made all who saved their money into fools with now nothing.for their old age. Even monks and Buddists and Christians were in the protests. Medicine is no longer available.
i noticed almost ALL the politicians are MORBIDLY OBESE and almost ALL thr citizens are quite thin. (Like North Korea)
 
ainitfunny

ainitfunny

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Live Sri Lanka news, says prime minister is loading his luggage onto a Navy ship. the other news sources are claiming no one knows where he is, For security reasons.
 
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