Apr 23rd, 2008
Rice from moon for new sunrise
Govt. desperately tries to get staple food from neighbouring countries as CoL soars beyond planets
Hitherto united JVP plunged into Maha-Wansa battle
By Our Political Editor
It seems a strange co-incidence. Leaders of different political hues are trapped in crisis of disturbing proportions as another national New Year dawns today. For the Government and its leaders, the woes are too many. Mounting living costs brought in gloom for most homes this week. Shops and markets drew smaller crowds. Inter-monsoonal rains caused havoc to the rice harvest. Finding rice from abroad at lower prices, especially for the National New Year, was akin to looking for rice from the moon. World food stocks are not that plenty for any one country to draw like that. As the saying goes; stocks were not available ‘for love or money’.
Last week, a Government dignitary was so desperate that he pleaded with an Asian rice producing country to agree at least on paper to sell Sri Lanka 100,000 tons of rice. It did not matter if a smaller quantity was actually delivered, they were told by the Sri Lankan government official. If people cannot be fed on rice, they could stomach propaganda, the freely available commodity in Sri Lanka, seems the moral of the story. The coming weeks will see a further fuel price hike, not to mention further hikes in milk food and gas prices.
Just two weeks ago, President Mahinda Rajapaksa took the unprecedented step of summoning field commanders prosecuting the war in the Wanni. In a bid to find out reasons for delays and reported high casualties in the light of heavy expenditure, he asked questions and made notes personally. Significant enough, that move saw him take personal control of the war effort - the Government’s top priority issue. In the aftermath of last Sunday’s dastardly killing of Highways Minister and his confidante, Jeyaraj Fernandopulle, President Rajapaksa vowed again to defeat terrorism.
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15 Responses to “Rice from moon for new sunrise”
Rice is relied on by 8 billion people??? I thought we just crossed 6 billion total people on the plant? Are illegal space aliens buying up all the rice?
Good god do you see that? My its the radar men from the moon, somebody please find Commander Cody’s octogenarian body.
HOLLOW MOON THEORY
I was so excited when we were told Canadian astronaut aficionado Robert Godwin was bringing us exclusive video of the new, digitally re-mastered Apollo 11 moon landing video. It’s gorgeous and there’s some never before seen clips, check it out!
I just assumed McCain would nominate Cheney for VP.”You don’t switch horses in the middle of a war…I mean, race..”
Downmoded for being Hearst Popular Mechanics.
So when exactly do we get off-planet? Mañana, always mañana.
I hope they get there before November, so we can hear GWB say the phrase “The Google has landed.”
Cheese!
Peak of permanent light/crater of permanent shadow seem to be for reals. Very exciting!
Wasn’t Grail the name of a Russian shoulder launch missile system?
Which race is going?
The earth has a new moon? Now that is news.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has dismissed talk of a new Cold War between Russia and the US, at the start of a visit to Moscow.Ms Rice said “I think the parallels just frankly have no basis whatsoever”, while acknowledging that “it’s not an easy time” for Russian-US relations.