Building a Strong Country Through National Service, Oil Deals, and State Security
January 29, 2023
A heavily administrative day about what a tougher Sri Lanka would require: stronger citizens through national service, foreign-policy and sanctions resets, road widening, English for business, strategic oil partnerships, and a bank and security structure credible enough to hold global money.
Defending Shavendra Silva and Proposing Universal National Service
3:45 p.m. (b)
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I think that Nath Cooray, and a number of people are also there.
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Already, I think that's gone now.
Gota is gone
Nobody sang George Washington is going home like in Hamilton
When Gota went home to America
I think as there's a lack of evidence against Shavendra, that ban will fade away
As they will see he's pretty cool
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I want a strong country.
That starts with a strong people.
They say that if you want to teach a man to sail, you gotta make him yearn for the adventures of the sea
If I want a developed country, all I must do is make sure all of you yearn for prosperity
And your own fat slice of it
Not for me, not for someone else, but for yourself
Always remember because you keep forgetting: that I want to, and will work, for you
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Asking Premalal to Help With Eminent Domain and Land Taxes
5:15 p.m. (c)
Hi Premalal, I will be passing eminent domain, so as chairman of prime lands, you could likely help us to get this done, lease out lands on 20, 40, 60, 80 or 100 year lease and also collect property taxes and land value taxes off of businesses
Road Widening, Saudi Oil Partnerships and English for Business
5:15 p.m. (d)
We need widen the roads too
Hello everyone
Hi Dayani, you can join that Tourism Ministry and Mithila can go in Sandberg's office
I think Wegapitiya could run Laugfs
Unfortunately, that oil bunkering project is expensive, and █████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
We're also signing a hedging deal with them to keep oil prices stable most likely
We will keep 50% as the government
I guess, that, it's worth collecting all the 50% of proceeds to our treasury
Because of the enormous scale of business, these big firms are better positioned.
Local firms will struggle to compete.
We won't give any unfair advantage, however what I will do, is I will ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
I guess China does this often. We don't have to. Singapore doesn't. This is why we lose our economic freedom rating. However, if we just advise them, we should be able to get it done quite easily.. as they can't speak the language in any case locally.
I'm adding Official Language English too. But that's for business as we need to hire foreign workers to get the work we need done.
I can't force those foreign firms to partner up with local companies. I guess, that they are MNCs who have their own ways. But they will see the reason, they respect the local perception or local support, so they will see it as financially advantageous. We will quantify these numerically into their formal consideration. Again, I can't allow any unfair favoritism to any local firms as well.
If Royal Dutch Shell, BP, some French company, Aramco show up, and also Caltex or Exxon Mobil, or whatever.
They'll likely capture the market.
We will ask them to cooperate, but it's kind of a tricky spot. As it's a strategic resource, as it essential energy, █████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
This is why we will do it.
They also shore or take any hits and losses, we are only earning substantially, many, many millions off their operating strategy.
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Laugfs is into I hear liquid petroleum gas for cooking and stuff
I guess, these people will cooperate
France is good for nuclear energy, so we don't rely on and need to import
Problem with Singapore is they must import so much diesel or gasoline, I think diesel to burn in their power plant, about 95% or 99%, to power their island
And all those Lee Kuan Yew office air conditioning units
We can't really give any favoritism to any local firms or businesses
But we will say you guys are part of our country and we want to preserve these energy sources as strategic interests and so, they should include you where helpful
That's all.
They anyway do that.
Saudi Arabia Aramco is great for oil bunkering and oil prices
We also collect taxes off the 100,000+ nationals working in Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates suddenly
We will help them get better jobs and security as well.
BP
Exxon
Shell
They all offer many things we value
Hi Jack!
Ni Hau!
I know Jayantha Dharmadasa is into Port City which is $15b and more..
I hear Ishara Nanayakkara put money in or is earning off it too
And I am unsure what the status of this is or if it's underway still or stalled
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Port City built for $15b will only lose us more money for 40 years.
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There's over 60,000 square kilometres, why make 665 square kilometres?
It's a bad idea.
I won't go ahead with it.
Inviting Asoka Onto the Bank of Sri Lanka IT Team
6:00 p.m.
Hello : )
Asoka you could be part of the BoSL IT team
I think Bob Bigman is in for IT Director, but you can be part of his team
The reason we put them in is because ██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████, so we need the best in the world all of a sudden
Building Sri Lanka Health and Offering Sujeewa Finance Roles
6:00 p.m. (b)
Hello Jayantha, Manjula and Sujeewa...
I guess hospitals, we will have to have a Sri Lanka Health Service
Or SL HS
"Sri Lanka Health" like SingHealth
And policing, well, we won't have any crime in our country
They say you need a thief to catch a thief
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Well.
You have:
0 crime.
Truth be told.
Sujeewa, you can join our Sovereign Wealth Fund if you want to invest aggressively, or else, you can join the BoSL for our savings, loans and banking business, or SL Monetary Authority to advise monetary and currency trading policies
I guess, that
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She's pretty lucky.
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Metaphorically:
Regarding video gaming strategies:
I really don't think twice, (maybe forver), I prefer a decision or action or any progress as opposed to none, and I'm the ask questions second or later, or never which is better, kind of person.
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Especially zombies mode
Well.
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Correcting the Record and Allocating Religious Budgets
6:30 p.m.
Prior edit: I often make errors in grammar or spelling
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or never, which is actually better, *
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She can sing my Colors of Allah song or No Chance
I don't have any plans or plots against her
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It's a bad experience, and it served as a good way to keep that community safe and disarmed for the most part.
I did allocate 10% of our Buddhist Ministry budget for Muslims, and as they grew their demographics, they will get more.
I may only ask later, that because those are Abrahamic Faiths, they pay 1% to Jews and Zoroastrians or whatever.
I think from Buddhist side, we will pay for Atheists. For Jains, whatever. Sikhs, I guess or us / them can pay 1%.
Or for simplicity, we can do it
We can pay out of Buddhist side for these minorities, just 1%, as good faith.
But you'll need to stay at a distance* like most people as I don't accept visitors
And I guess easiest thing for you to do is call Kanchana or email me directly as it's super easy to do so
Or anyone in my family or any of our friends can get to me
My office will also accept any requests
My email, people have to pay a fee per email
And you should contact anyone else before me first to reduce any strain on me.
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Hehe
I put Janaka Mayakaduwa in to run my Food Ministry. Sohli Captain is going here. He's in his 90s now. Seems to be in good shape. He's also 2nd food minister.
I am interested to help use our SWF, to help people buy up farm plots, and to invest in farming, with extreme convenience, especially to foreign investors.
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I did think about our Treasury Reserves.
I guess, that $2.4b is available for investing.
Aramco oil bunkering, I guess, we will match any investment they put in that.
I think small sums are more easy to digest for our risk appetite.
We can invest money into green houses to improve food strategy
However. Eventually. As tax revenue increases, we expect Food Ministry and SWF to invest here.
Ranking Accountant Salaries for a Low-Tax Export Economy
7:30 p.m.
I'm struggling on my phone.
I need a laptop fast.
Hello!!
I guess, we'll pay our accountants around $480,000 at top level or S++ Rank
S+ $450,000
S $420,000
A++ $400,000
A+ $370,000
A $340,000
B++ $310,000
B+ $280,000
B $250,000
C++ $220,000
C+ $190,000 which is quite a lot
C $160,000
D++ $130,000
D+ $100,000
D $70,000
E++ $40,000
E+ $30,000
E $20,000
which is all pretty good
We'll see the data first and do it
Even the tax rates, we need to do deep studies on this, run many data models, improve data set accuracy, and then do it
Internationally the effective rates are often 2 to 4% or max 7%.
Much lower...
I guess, we need to teach programming to our accountants
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I guess, we will have a lot of competition here as we become more competitive
I guess, we could ask some people to live and work overseas, as they offer leadership
Such as Shemara Wikramanayake
Or Patrick Mendis
Or others as well
As we are switching to a largely MNC driven export economy
We want to do the accounting for free
I think we are keen on improving pay
There's likely to be a very few S++ to A rank in any field
Much more E to B++ rank accountants
Yonatan Netanyahu, Religious Conflict and Funding Minority Faiths
10:30 p.m.
Sorry to hear these.
Bibi, his brother Yonatan, Sayeret Matkal commando, unit 269 or 262, he got killed trying to save hostages held by Idi Amin's buddy █████████████████████████████████████████████████
He is having very deep contempt.
You are what you do. His whole life, his existence is in politics. He is Israel, the King of Israel. █████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ Those wars are only driven on incentives. █████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
So what does that make you?
Good?
No.
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I think for Jews, Parsi Zoroastrians, Sufi Muslims, the Muslim demographics, will have to match the 1% maybe.
Just kidding.
That's too much money.
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I think that's better.
When I hear that Pulp Fiction quote. Which isn't even accurate and has been lifted by Quentin Tarantino from someplace else, as all his movies borrow as usual.
Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness
For he truly is his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children
Let me Google this
Jules : There's a passage I got memorized. Ezekiel 25:17. "The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. ███████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ for he is truly his brother's keeper ████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████ ████████████████████████████████ But I'm tryin', Ringo. I'm tryin' real hard to be the shepherd
And I think that the bit, poison my Brothers.
It always only reminds me of one thing
That those Jews and Muslims. They are brothers.
Well, step brothers, same father: Abraham.
It's really sad to see constant sadness out of Israel..
I mean, at least over here we'll have some progress on this stuff.
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Just to match our donations to Jews and Zoroastrians.
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Let's not forget, for these very small casualty figures out of Israel, which are statistically less than 100,000..
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I think Thilanga will be told to deal with my 2nd Speaker Udesh, 2nd Energy Minister Upali because I need Kris to be 1st Energy Minister, and I guess Mahesh is 2nd Health Minister.
You can even hand over their appointments and stuff.
I guess Jayantha Dharmadasa can run our Sri Lanka Health or SLH service.
Lehan Versus an “Anybody but Lehan” Election Alliance
11:30 p.m.
The choices for this upcoming election are clear:
1. Lehan Edirisinghe
2. Sri Lanka People's United Anybody But Lehan National Party Alliance
Who have picked Dhammika Perera as the common candidate, with Sajith Premadasa as the VP and Anura Kumara Dissanayake as the Trade Union Leader.
The Anybody But Lehan Party comprises of:
Sri Lanka Podujana Perumana ¹
Sri Lanka Freedom Party ²
United People's Freedom Alliance ³
Tamil National Alliance ⁴
Sri Lanka Muslim Congress ⁵
Janatha Vimukthi / Liberation Party ⁶
United National Party ⁷
Samagi Jana Balawegaya ⁸
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Take my picture by the pool
Asking Citizens to Build Their Country Without Political Handouts
1:45 a.m.
Ask what you can do for your country.
Don't ask me what I can do for you.
I won't give you a job, or any money, or help you get your kids in a better school.
I won't give you any free bottles of alcohol.
Maybe Jorge André Nunes will.
Maybe Thilanga.
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And I certainly won't partner you to either.
But I will be your partner, and your friend in sincerely developing the country, where you get a real future, that you decide, where you can do your best, in your country your home..
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