Noble Realms — WTO Announces Formalized Slavery Model for Africa

Re: WTO Announces Formalized Slavery Model for Africa

null@example.com (Soloflecks) — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:17:50 +0000

Thank goodness it's not real.

Re: WTO Announces Formalized Slavery Model for Africa

null@example.com (ShineOn) — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 16:49:45 +0000

Yeah, I bit hard too!....

Re: WTO Announces Formalized Slavery Model for Africa

null@example.com (Zejith_Themis) — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:14:02 +0000

These guys rock... hoaxing for truth!! I am so enjoying my first half hour of wirless broadband, sucking up their site!

Yay for the YesMen!

And, yes. It did seem plausible to me... the Berlusconi gov't had a plan to ship the illegal immigrant folks detained, er.. hosted that is, at the "recieving centers" out to work where companies requested them. It's practically the same thing, and that proposal was real so I bought this hoax hook, line and sTinker.

Re: WTO Announces Formalized Slavery Model for Africa

null@example.com (morningsun76) — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 05:27:08 +0000

Hoax. http://www.theyesmen.org/

The scary thing is that things are so far gone in this world that it's totally plausible, and many people are accepting this as a legitimate news item. I wouldn't be surprised if we see real headlines like this in another 10 or 20 years.

Re: WTO Announces Formalized Slavery Model for Africa

null@example.com (ShineOn) — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:13:57 +0000

Wow, THe WTO must do something to compete with China's wealth of slave labor, cause paying a nine year old Vietnamese child .50 cents an hour is just freekin crazy. I'm also sure that those wonderful people at Harpo Productions are ramping up a two episode special on these plans for the African people. I can just see Oprah doing a show in Chad and hollering at her female audience, "And you'll all get new clitorises"....Sorry for all the sarc, but the exploitation of the African people is just so sickening!

Re: WTO Announces Formalized Slavery Model for Africa

null@example.com (Zejith_Themis) — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:55:19 +0000

Hoor's Teeth!

Quite a shocking article.

A system in which corporations own workers is the only free-market solution to African poverty, Schmidt said. "Today, in African factories, the only concern a company has for the worker is for his or her productive hours, and within his or her productive years,"

Uh... maybe not basing human well-being on profits might be an idea? The fact that these things are even discussed is diabolic. The old meme that conservation can only happen through privatization has been extended to people as well as land. Supersicko.

WTO Announces Formalized Slavery Model for Africa

null@example.com (oceanchild) — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:40:19 +0000

http://www.gatt.org/wharton.html