Sri Lanka’s prime minister resigns after protesters swarm president’s palace

[Kamaji]

Sri Lanka’s prime minister resigns after protesters swarm president’s palace

By Isabel Vincent
July 9, 2022

Sri Lanka’s prime minister announced his resignation Saturday as thousands of protestors descended on the country’s capital, storming through police barricades and invading the presidential palace.

Ranil Wickremesinghe, who is also the country’s finance minister, took to Twitter to say that he was stepping aside to make way for an all-party government to take over the country in the wake of the protests over rampant inflation and fuel and food shortages.

“To ensure the continuation of the Government including the safety of all citizens I accept the best recommendation of the Party Leaders today, to make way for an All-Party Government,” he tweeted. “To facilitate this I will resign as Prime Minister.”

Earlier in the day, thousands of protestors broke through police barriers and stormed the official residence of president Gotabaya Rajapaksa in the commercial capital of Colombo. Viral video footage showed protestors wandering through the residence and swimming in the pool.

Rajapaksa, who has not resigned, was removed by security forces and is in a safe location, according to reports.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/07/09/sri-lanka-pm-ranil-wickremesinghe-resigns-amid-hostile-protests/

[mountaineer]

"Insurrection" - triggered by economic collapse and lack of access to fossil fuels, reportedly.

https://twitter.com/jj_talking/status/1545789828674949120

[Kamaji]

WATCH: Protesters Storm Presidential Palace in Sri Lanka After Climate Hysteria Destroys the Nation

By Bonchie
Jul 09, 2022

Sri Lanka is in the middle of a full-scale collapse after the president announced the nation is “bankrupt,” having run out of both money and energy. Hundreds of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets, and things have devolved into a dystopian nightmare.

In the last several hours, the presidential palace was taken over by a sea of people, angry at the government for putting them in such a precarious position. And as I’ll explain, Sri Lanka’s woes were not only avoidable but were purposely brought on to please climate change fanatics in faraway lands.

https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1545689501758111744

Sri Lanka’s government has been implementing ESG policies (environment, social, and governance) for years, following the lead of the World Economic Forum. That includes banning agrochemicals such as fertilizers in an effort to lower nitrogen emissions. Flowery tales of “organic” farming and saving the planet have now been replaced with horror, as the island nation’s top exports have been laid to waste. People are starving, they can’t get gas or electricity, and none of the globalists who used Sri Lanka as a testbed for their green fantasies are coming to help.

The Daily Caller provides more details.

Environment Minister Mahinda Amaweera declared a government initiative to save the earth from “our own geoengineering misuse, greed and selfishness” in 2020 ahead of a forum on halving nitrogen waste. The move was part of Sri Lanka’s effort to pursue environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals; the country signed onto a green finance taxonomy with the International Finance Corporation in May that included a commitment to organic fertilizers.

If all of this sounds familiar, that’s because the same thing is currently playing out in The Netherlands. As RedState reported, farmers are protesting after their leaders signed onto a European Union deal to dramatically reduce nitrogen emissions. Keep in mind, that decision came even as it was obvious those policies were in the midst of destroying Sri Lanka’s economy.

Climate hysterics simply do not care about who they hurt while they pursue their nonsensical, ineffective “green” policies. It should be obvious to everyone who is sentient that the world needs food in order to sustain its population. To attack that sector of human production is suicidal, yet that’s exactly what the climate radicals are doing. They are following the lead of a Swedish teenager over the wants and needs of their own citizens.

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Source:  https://redstate.com/bonchie/2022/07/09/watch-protesters-storm-presidential-palace-in-sri-lanka-after-climate-hysteria-destroys-the-nation-n591691

[Kamaji]

Sri Lanka is the canary in the eco-fascist coal mine.

[Hoodat]

Sri Lanka protesters storm presidential palace as economic crisis deepens

Sri Lanka, which is hurtling towards bankruptcy, is facing severe shortages of essentials such as fuel, food and medicines, forcing the people to queue up for the limited stocks.

Express Web Desk - New Delhi  |  Updated: July 9, 2022 8:24:14 pm


Protesters, many carrying Sri Lankan flags, gather outside the presidents office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, July 9, 2022. (AP Photo)

With protests against the Sri Lanka government intensifying over the country’s worst economic crisis, a number of demonstrators stormed the President’s official residence and his secretariat in commercial capital Colombo on Saturday.

Video clips of the same went viral on social media showing thousands of protesters marching towards the palatial building.  .  .

https://indianexpress.com/article/world/watch-sri-lanka-economic-crisis-presidential-palace-gotabaya-rajapaksa-8019154/

[Kamaji]

Update: Sri Lanka Prime Minister Forced to Resign, 39 Left Injured in Presidential Palace Protest

By Becca Lower
Jul 09, 2022

Earlier on Saturday, we reported on the visible unrest in the south Asian island-nation of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, as thousands of citizens stormed the presidential palace over severe mismanagement of the country and its resources, after leaders bowed to international environmental extremists.

Now, the government has collapsed under pressure, with the resignation of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, and the breach of the residence left 39 injured, according to reports from numerous outlets.

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1545791133149671425

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Source:  https://redstate.com/beccalower/2022/07/09/update-sri-lanka-prime-minister-forced-to-resign-39-left-injured-in-presidential-palace-protest-n591726

[Fishrrman]

Here's a 1/6 style "insurgency" that worked.

Perhaps the January 6th protesters here could have taken a few lessons from the Sri Lankans...

[DB]

Coming to a country near you...

[Kamaji]

Here's a 1/6 style "insurgency" that worked.

Perhaps the January 6th protesters here could have taken a few lessons from the Sri Lankans...

It worked because enough of the population is behind the protestors.  That wasn’t the case with J6.

[Smokin Joe]

It worked because enough of the population is behind the protestors.  That wasn’t the case with J6.

Sri Lankans were protesting an established government, not one that was about to be established.

Perhaps if more had seen what this fustercluck of an administration had in store, there would have been more folks there to protest that establishment.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Jesse Kelly
@JesseKellyDC

The entire history of the world is people in power thinking their power will never end. Only to abuse it and find out otherwise.  (Video)

https://mobile.twitter.com/JesseKellyDC/status/1545800590160191490

[catfish1957]

Only thing that would have made it more fun, is if they had pitchforks.

This our future too.  No idea when, but it is going to happen.

[catfish1957]

Sri Lanka is the canary in the eco-fascist coal mine.

Well put.  When the lid finally blows off the Enviro-whacko scam, the masses will revolt, and there won't be anywhere the complict leaders can hide.  Dutch farmers are another point, where common people are saying they have had enough.

Eco-facism is truly a trojan horse for communism, and full 3rd world redistribution of wealth.

[mountaineer]

Michael Shellenberger
@ShellenbergerMD
A food, energy, and financial crisis has brought down Sri Lanka's government. But the underlying cause is the fact that the nation's political leaders had fallen under the spell of green elites peddling “ESG” and banning modern fertilizers.

https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1545936747174825984

[Hoodat]

Michael Shellenberger
@ShellenbergerMD
A food, energy, and financial crisis has brought down Sri Lanka's government. But the underlying cause is the fact that the nation's political leaders had fallen under the spell of green elites peddling “ESG” and banning modern fertilizers.

They didn't fall under a spell.  They fell to the monetary compensation and payouts that are being handed to them for following 'ESG' dictates.  Follow the money.  These people are getting paid.

[Fishrrman]

Catfish predicts:
"Only thing that would have made it more fun, is if they had pitchforks.
This our future too.  No idea when, but it is going to happen."

I believe so, as well.
But it won't be "pitchforks" they'll be carrying here.

[Hoodat]

Flashback to 2018.  This article has recently been deleted from the World Economic Forum website.

Sri Lanka PM: This is how I will make my country rich by 2025

August 30, 2018 by World Economic Forum

Author: Ranil Wickremesinghe, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Office of the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka

This is an important moment in Sri Lanka’s development, as the country continues to deliver on its plans for economic development and stands on the cusp of a transition to a knowledge-based economy.

Since the country and its people saw a vibrant transition in its political landscape in January 2015, further bolstered by the August 2015 general elections that formed a national unity government – a first ever political experience for the country since its nearly seven decades of independence – Sri Lanka has put in place many of the building blocks needed to reinvigorate its socio-economic and political architecture.

We have achieved many positive gains over the last three years through bold policy initiatives and pragmatic strategies, that enabled the country to win back recognition and friendly engagements with the rest of world. This has been a key foreign policy achievement of our government. Doors are open again for constructive and friendly engagements that have eased economic and political pressures. However, as per the expectations of all our people, there is more to achieve and the government plans with due diligence to make Sri Lanka regain its centrality in the Indian Ocean and become a knowledge-based, highly competitive hub with a dynamic social-market economy.

The progress Sri Lanka has delivered over the past three years, and the success of its plans going forward, are naturally influenced by the global economic downfall and heavily tied to strategic trade relationships, in particular trade relationships across the Asian region. It is no secret that Asia is the future “economic engine”, and in our endeavours to make Sri Lanka a rich country by 2025, it is our intention to “engage Asia” more steadily, utilizing the strategic access to major growing markets in the region, from India, Pakistan, China, Japan and ROK to the ASEAN. Developments in Africa are also important in looking to South-South engagements and cooperation. While we undertake this re-orientation, we also continue to strengthen our partnerships with the West – particularly our top export markets of the United States and Europe.

Our economic policy, Vision 2025, is firmly embedded in several principles, including a social market economy that delivers economic dividends to all. In the first place we need to ensure we have a skill pool that matches the job market’s demands. Sri Lanka’s education system is being transformed through progressive and important policy reform  .  .  .

https://europeansting.com/2018/08/30/sri-lanka-pm-this-is-how-i-will-make-my-country-rich-by-2025/

[Kamaji]

What is a "social market economy"?

[mountaineer]

What is a "social market economy"?

Something other than the free market, I suspect.