In tonight’s edition: Millions of people in Somalia are on the brink of starvation. We speak to Rein Paulsen from the FAO, who is in Somalia meeting with drought-affected communities. Meanwhile, campaigning for Kenya’s presidential elections picked up again on Wednesday after a deeply underwhelming presidential debate. And Senegal heads to the polls on Sunday for legislative elections in which 165 seats are up for grabs.
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The UN Chronicle, the “magazine of the United Nations,” has deleted an article from 2008 titled “The Benefits of World Hunger,” after CFACT’s Marc Morano, editor of ClimateDepot, published an interview with the author of the UN article, professor George Kent of the University of Hawaii.
While the UN Chronicle claims the article was “satire,” Kent, the author of the piece, said the article is definitely not a “satire” but was intended to be “provocative.” After CFACT’s interview with Kent was published, the UN Chronicle deleted the article 14 years after its original publication.
Here is an excerpt from Kent’s UN Chronicle article:
“Hunger has great positive value to many people. Indeed, it is fundamental to the working of the world’s economy. Hungry people are the most productive people, especially where there is a need for manual labour…How many of us would sell our services if it were not for the threat of hunger?
“More importantly, how many of us would sell our services so cheaply if it were not for the threat of hunger?
“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. No wonder people at the high end are not rushing to solve the hunger problem. For many of us, hunger is not a problem, but an asset.”
CFACT’s Morano had this to say about the article:
“This is a UN article and was published in 2008 in the UN Chronicle. It is now just getting media attention and the author of the article, Professor George Kent, told Climate Depot on July 6, 2022, that the UN article is most definitely not a ‘satire’ but intended to be ‘provocative.’ The UN is now trying to erase history by deleting the essay and falsey pretending that it was merely a “satire.”
“Given how the world has been transformed under the ‘new normal’ of COVID lockdowns, it seems this old UN Chronicle article presciently reveals how the World Economic Forum and the UN & the WHO, seek to rule humanity with an iron bureaucratic fist and wish to keep the ‘masses’ poor, tired, and hungry.”
More information can be found on ClimateDepot
The problem in sub Africa is the number if kids. I understand the cultural benefits of. It but the more the world help them the more they have children so a vicious circle is created..
The big media needs to confirm news on the ground and do their homework due diligently to confirm the facts. Broadcasting united nation misinformation to get more funding to waste is travesty. It's certain Southern Somalia regions who are experiencing famine due to international proxy war and displaced population. All of somalia is not experiencing famine specially North and middle Somalia.
South plagued by constant drones strikes , invasions by mercenaries armies(amison) and indiscriminately bombing by Kenyan air force in jubba and Gedo regions. South Somalia sea is also victim of international fishing violation and toxic waste dumping by multinational corporations. United nations security council doesn't do anything productive than raise money to liberalize education in somalia and espouse western values in deeply conservative Somalia, which exaggerates the war in South Somalia. My opnion is based on scholarly research. Country like Somalia who has mineral resources and longest coastal area in Africa should never experienced famine. Unfortunately when internal divisions becomes interest for foreign powers it will never create prosperity for average citizen of somalia, unless they subdue themselves to the will of foreign interferes.
Africa has always had famines, – this is nothing new. The modern situation has been cause through Third World dependence on international Food Aid programmes which have enabled unsustainable populations to increase, which now have been made more vulnerable to supply chain problems in the First World. In 2022, especially by the Ukraine/Russia war interrupting grain.
Sad…….
Prayers…….
Neighboring Kenya exports tonnes and tonnes of fruit and vegetables to European supermarkets.
Don't just focus on Somalia, climate change is a global consequence.
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They keeps producing kids instead of doing some work and developing infrastructure.
the four living creatures, saying, “Two pounds of wheat for a day’s wages,
This is a man made famine. The world economic forum is behind much of what you see happening today.