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From the Andaman to the Red Seas, from Myanmar to Djibouti, preaching ‘peace’ and buzzing about reconciliation, the US & EU are igniting wars all around us. White America’s continuing Indian Wars. Wars not to be won or lost but to be daily waged. This truth will not flicker on tv or twitter on the net…

     The IMF keeps stalling to grab assets in a fire sale while dividing the country. Weakening fiscal and fuel and food and health security to undermine our territorial and political sovereignty, did not begin recently. Welcome to the 75^th reading of the gospel according to Soulbury. Denying us a productive modern industrial economy, this outcome is not unexpected. With the latest moves to bust the banks, our thoughts turn to… banks:

     ee Readers are intrigued (see Comments below) about the 19^th-century Oriental Banking Corporation. This OBC was behind ‘the largest transfer of property ever effected in Ceylon at one time’. This week, ee links the OBC to the Rothschild Coffee Estate & its 2,000 acres of coffee, their ‘introduction’ of the first ‘China Tea Plant into Ceylon’, and the first Chinese Teamaker. These Rothschild properties eventually formed ‘the nucleus for the Ceylon Tea Industry’.

     Well, ee wouldn’t call it an ‘industry’, but whisper ‘Ceylon Tea’ and we may hear echoes: ‘Lipton’s Tea Garden’. And Lipton leads to Unilever. And Unilever leads to: well, how about the Council for Business with Britain-SL!?

     The CBBSL includes famous opium-pusher HSBC; (palm-oil devil) Unilever; Keells; Chamber of Commerce, Aitken Spence, Commercial Bank of Ceylon, Etihad Airways, MAS Holdings; Hayleys, Norfolk Foods, Finlays, Hirdaramani…

     So why can’t these mighty English merchants & usurers demand the country’s due, let alone shield the country from the incessant media slings and parliamentary arrows of the English. For it is because of these ole fattened ‘agency houses’, we have to deal with the English at all.

  This week, England’s Minister of State (Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office) Anne-Marie Trevelyan told the English parliament on Tuesday, ‘England is ready to consider financing assurances for Sri Lanka…’ Ready? Consider? Assure? That’s it!

  With the IMF threatening to downgrade and bust the present Bank of Ceylon, what a coincidence how ee recalled last week that the ‘first’ Bank of Ceylon (BoC) royal charter was granted in 1841 by another Trevelyan, English Assistant Treasury Secretary Charles Trevelyan (1840-59). That BoC charter was eventually grabbed – when that first BoC was crashed in 1847 – by the Oriental Banking Corporation.

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