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2nd<\/sup> Smartest Guy in the World — Oct 22, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

by The Expos\u00e9<\/a><\/strong><\/h1>\n

In 2008, an article touting the benefits of world hunger for creating a cheap, motivated workforce was published on the United Nations\u2019 website. The article resurfaced recently on Twitter and went viral; it was promptly taken down by the U.N. within 24 hours.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The crux of the article is that the elite class has a distinct motivation to not end world hunger, because if everyone is well-nourished, there may be no one willing to provide cheap labour and slave away at some of the most physically demanding and unpleasant jobs on the planet.<\/strong><\/p>\n

While the U.N. claimed the article was satire, its author denied that it was a satirical piece and said it was intended to raise awareness that some people benefit from the existence of hunger in the world<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

What could be good about world hunger? Plenty, according to an article written by now-retired University of Hawaii professor of political science George Kent. The story first ran in 2008 and went largely unnoticed for more than a decade, even though it was, bizarrely, published on the United Nations\u2019 website.1<\/p>\n

It wasn\u2019t until the article resurfaced on Twitter that it went viral \u2014 and was promptly taken down by the U.N. within 24 hours.2 In response, the UN Chronicle tweeted:3<\/p>\n

\u201cThis article appeared in the UN Chronicle 14 years ago as an attempt at satire and was never meant to be taken literally. We have been made aware of its failures, even as satire, and have removed it from our site.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Kent, however, who is now the deputy editor for World Nutrition magazine, told Newsbusters that this isn\u2019t the case. \u201cI never intended it as satire,\u201d Kent said. \u201cI did not hope that it would be read as praise for hunger. My main point was and still is that some people benefit from the existence of hunger in the world. That helps to explain why hunger is so persistent in many places.\u201d4<\/p>\n

\u2018No One Works Harder Than Hungry People\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The crux of Kent\u2019s article \u2014 satire or not \u2014 is that the elite class has a distinct motivation to not end world hunger, because if everyone is well-nourished, there may be no one willing to provide cheap labour and slave away at some of the most physically demanding and unpleasant jobs on the planet.<\/p>\n

\u201cHunger has great positive value to many people. Indeed, it is fundamental to the working of the world\u2019s economy. Hungry people are the most productive people, especially where there is a need for manual labor,\u201d Kent wrote, adding:5<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026 For those who depend on the availability of cheap labor, hunger is the foundation of their wealth \u2026 Much of the hunger literature talks about how it is important to assure that people are well fed so that they can be more productive. That is nonsense. No one works harder than hungry people. Yes, people who are well nourished have greater capacity for productive physical activity, but well-nourished people are far less willing to do that work.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Kent wrote that the NGO Free the Slaves estimates that 27 million people in the modern world could be defined as slaves, meaning they cannot walk away from their jobs. That was in 2008. In 2022, Free the Slaves states that 40 million men, women and children are forced to work against their will, generating $150 billion in profits annually for traffickers.6<\/p>\n

Among them, about 50%, or 21 million, are stuck in forced labour slavery in industries that depend on manual labour, such as farming, ranching, logging, mining, fishing and brick making, and service industries, such as dish washers, janitors, gardeners and maids. However, these figures don\u2019t include people who are \u201cslaves to hunger,\u201d Kent notes, which could, perhaps, apply to any of us:7<\/p>\n

\u201cThey do not include people who might be described as slaves to hunger, that is, those who are free to walk away from their jobs but have nothing better to go to. Maybe most people who work are slaves to hunger?<\/em><\/p>\n

For those of us at the high end of the social ladder, ending hunger globally would be a disaster. If there were no hunger in the world, who would plow the fields? Who would harvest our vegetables? Who would work in the rendering plants? Who would clean our toilets? We would have to produce our own food and clean our own toilets.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

I would contend that the number of slaves is actually exponentially higher due to debt. This is especially true for most physicians who have graduated in the last ten years. They are in debt up to their eyeballs from school loans and work in some large clinic where they have no control or autonomy and are forced to follow the narrative. Failure to comply results in loss of their job and inability to purchase food or pay for shelter.<\/p>\n

UN Predicts Total Societal Collapse<\/strong><\/h2>\n

In addition to advertising how to create a cheaper workforce by leveraging world hunger, the U.N. released its 2022 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction (GAR2022), which paints a dismal picture of the future:8<\/p>\n

\u201cRisk creation is outstripping risk reduction. Disasters, economic loss and the underlying vulnerabilities that drive risk, such as poverty and inequality, are increasing just as ecosystems and biospheres are at risk of collapse. Global systems are becoming more connected and therefore more vulnerable in an uncertain risk landscape.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The report warns that a perfect storm of disasters, economic vulnerability and ecosystem failures are occurring, which predict a coming global collapse if things don\u2019t change \u2014 and fast. Noam Chomsky concurs, stating at the American Solar Energy Society\u2019s 51st annual conference held June 21, 2022, \u201cThe challenge ahead is beyond anything humans have ever faced. The fate of life on the planet is now at hand.\u201d9<\/p>\n

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists introduced the Doomsday Clock in 1947. It represents a countdown to global nuclear annihilation. During the height of the Cold War, it came its closest to midnight \u2014 2 minutes \u2014 then cooled, stretching to 17 minutes by 1991.<\/p>\n

In 2015, around the time the film was released, increased instability had moved the clock back to 3 minutes to midnight, due to modernizations in global nuclear weapons and \u201coutsized nuclear weapons arsenals,\u201d with world leaders failing to \u201cact with the speed or on the scale required to protect citizens from potential catastrophe.\u201d10<\/p>\n

In an update released January 20, 2022, however, the Bulletin reported that the world is \u201cat doom\u2019s doorstep,\u201d with the clock moving to just 100 seconds to midnight.11<\/p>\n

According to Counterpunch, \u201cIt will be set again in January [2023], and Chomsky believes a good case can be made to move the second hand even closer to midnight, which is the final hour when humanity self-destructs, either with a bang or suffocation.\u201d12 Some of the concern centers on the deterioration of rational discourse, with censorship reaching unprecedented levels.<\/p>\n

Americans Are Being Kept in the Dark<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Chomsky spoke with Counterpunch about the way Americans are being misled about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. While stating that it \u201cshould be clear that \u2026 [it] has no (moral) justification,\u201d it was not an unprovoked invasion.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course, it was provoked. Otherwise, they wouldn\u2019t refer to it all the time as an unprovoked invasion,\u201d he said. The background of the war, which is missing in mainstream media coverage, that provoked the invasion is NATO expansion. Chomsky explained:13<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not just my opinion, it is the opinion of every high-level US official in the diplomatic services who has any familiarity with Russia and Eastern Europe.<\/em><\/p>\n

This goes back to George Kennan and, in the 1990s, Reagan\u2019s ambassador Jack Matlock, including the current director of the CIA; in fact, just everybody who knows anything has been warning Washington that it is reckless and provocative to ignore Russia\u2019s very clear and explicit red lines.<\/em><\/p>\n

That goes way before (Vladimir) Putin, it has nothing to do with him; (Mikhail) Gorbachev, all said the same thing. Ukraine and Georgia cannot join NATO, this is the geostrategic heartland of Russia.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

What is particularly chilling is that Americans haven\u2019t been allowed to hear this side of the story \u2014 and most are unaware that they\u2019re being kept in the dark and fed propaganda. Chomsky continued:14<\/p>\n

\u201cBy now, censorship in the United States has reached such a level beyond anything in my lifetime. Such a level that you are not permitted to read the Russian position. Literally. Americans are not allowed to know what the Russians are saying. Except, selected things.<\/em><\/p>\n

So, if Putin makes a speech to Russians with all kinds of outlandish claims about Peter the Great and so on, then, you see it on the front pages. If the Russians make an offer for a negotiation, you can\u2019t find it. That\u2019s suppressed. You\u2019re not allowed to know what they are saying. I have never seen a level of censorship like this.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Are We Beyond the Point of No Return?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The late astrophysicist Enrico Fermi was certain that conditions existed on many planets that would support higher intelligence. The Fermi Paradox is that we\u2019ve never been able to find them. One explanation, Chomsky noted, is that whenever higher intelligence developed, perhaps it has proven to be lethal, with self-annihilation possibly inherent with higher intelligence, which hasn\u2019t yet gained the moral capacity to save itself.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are now confronted with whether that principle holds for modern humans,\u201d Chomsky said.15 The U.N.\u2019s landmark report seems to lean in its favour. According to an investigative report by Byline Times, a senior adviser to the U.N. Office for Disaster Risk Reduction who contributed to GAR2022 stated that the world had already \u201cpassed a point of no return,\u201d and this wasn\u2019t being communicated in the report, which was watered down before being released to the public.16,17<\/p>\n

The person said, \u201cThe GAR2022 is an eviscerated skeleton of what was included in earlier drafts.\u201d18 With even the U.N. appearing to dilute its own findings, Byline Times noted, \u201cLike the fictional film Don\u2019t Look Up, we are more concerned with celebrity gossip and political scandals, seemingly unable \u2014 or unwilling \u2014 to confront the most important challenge that now faces us as a species.\u201d19<\/p>\n

The World Is Heading for a Reset<\/strong><\/h2>\n

We\u2019re at a pivotal point in history, with many sensing that society is already on edge, and rising inflation, food costs and product shortages threaten to push it over the line. While we\u2019re told that looming food shortages are primarily the result of climate change and the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the Rockefeller Foundation had already predicted this scenario in July 2020 and was calling for a revamp of the food system as a whole to address it.20<\/p>\n

Their report, \u201cReset the Table,\u201d21 was published just one month after the World Economic Forum (WEF) officially announced its plans for a \u201cGreat Reset,\u201d and many of the contributors to the Foundation\u2019s paper are WEF members.22 They intend for the current food system to fall apart, so they can then \u201csolve\u201d the problem by introducing a new system based on patented lab-grown synthetic and genetically engineered foods and massive insect farms.<\/p>\n

Attacks are coming in from all sides, however, and the food supply isn\u2019t all that they\u2019re after. An influx of investors \u2014 including Wall Street \u2014 entered the housing market during the pandemic, drawn in by low mortgage rates, easy access to loans and enticing home appreciation.23<\/p>\n

It\u2019s now clear that not only did investors, including bigwigs like Blackstone and iBuyers \u2014 which make instant, cash offers online \u2014 dabble in the housing market during the pandemic, but their participation may have been instrumental in driving up prices and making it harder for the average American to achieve homeownership.24<\/p>\n

If the average American is pushed out of the housing market, and most of the available housing is owned by investment groups and corporations, you become beholden to them as your landlord. This fulfils part of the Great Reset\u2019s \u201cnew normal\u201d dictum \u2014 the part where you will own nothing and be happy. This isn\u2019t a conspiracy theory; it\u2019s part of WEF\u2019s 2030 agenda.25<\/p>\n

In a world where natural foods are being threatened by lab-grown counterparts \u2014 Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, owns more farmland than anyone else in the U.S.26 \u2014 and mega asset management firms are buying up so many houses that some believe Wall Street investors could accomplish feudalism in 15 years,27 the concept of starvation driving labour takes on new meaning.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo wonder people at the high end are not rushing to solve the hunger problem,\u201d Kent wrote. \u201cFor many of us, hunger is not a problem, but an asset.\u201d28<\/p>\n

Sources and References<\/strong><\/h3>\n