Remember that time an alien spacecraft destroyed a Lincolnshire wind-turbine back in 2009? No? Well, that’s because it didn’t really happen, despite highly misleading tabloid media front pages of the day like this:
The ruined Eco-Tricity turbine in question suffered a severe failure overnight, losing one blade and with another left damaged during a time-period when one Lincolnshire local claimed to have witnessed “a round, white light that seemed to be hovering” nearby. Disappointingly, the “massive balls of light with tentacles going right down to the ground” reported by other observers would appear to have actually been a misinterpretation of mundane birthday fireworks being set off nearby, not a sensational assault from any hovering fossil fuel-powered alien spacecraft.
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Great uplifting article. We’ll definitely be visiting Sri Lanka. Here’s to all the WEF stooges in the world having their residences burned down!
Once more someone who is incompetent or stupid or a psychopath or some combination of those abuses state power to wreak havoc and misery.
We can’t rely on the right people to be in power, the systems of power and governance have to be constructed and preserved to be able to withstand terrible people. Because sooner or later someone terrible gets into power.
Fabulous article Omar. Some. Of the best journalistic insights on Sr Lanka I have seen. Tourism is in dire need of resuscitation and we will visit soon! J