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WTO: COMPASSIONATE SLAVERY TO SOLVE AFRICAN POVERTY

At a Wharton Business School conference on business in Africa, World Trade Organization representative Hanniford Schmidt announced the creation of a WTO initiative for "full private stewardry of labor" for the parts of Africa that have been hardest hit by the 500 years of Africa's free trade with the West.

"Full, untrammelled stewardry is the best available solution to African poverty, and the inevitable result of free-market theory," Schmidt told more than 150 attendees. Schmidt acknowledged that the stewardry program was similar in many ways to slavery, but explained that just as "compassionate conservatism" has polished the rough edges on labor relations in industrialized countries, full stewardry, or "compassionate slavery," could be a similar boon to developing ones.

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"It takes a rare bird to even think up the stunts these guys manage, and an amazing, determined courage to pull them off. These are two of the most creative activists ever!" — Humor Times

"Outrageously entertaining....This movie is glorious testimony to the moral power of satire." — New York Magazine

"Great fun! It takes some nerve, not to mention diabolical intelligence... to pull off the elaborate pranks devised by the Yes Men." — New York Times

"Fiendishly amusing... Out-Borats Sacha Baron Cohen at his most confrontational."—Washington Post

"A hilarious movie.... Even if you don't agree with the Yes Men's political agenda, you'll get a big kick out of this movie." — New York Post

"Almost too good to be a film. More laughs per dollar than any other film fuel." — Monsters and Critics

"It shines with raw wit and originality." — Newsweek

"The Yes Men have pulled off another coup." — Village Voice

"Funnier and more useful than Sacha Baron Cohen's Brüno." — The Observer

"This is the year's top documentary film." — New Scientist

"Comedic vigilante justice… Media-savvy pie-to-the-face." — USA Today

"Exhilarating." — Financial Times

"A riotous reminder that patriotism is often misconstrued as troublemaking." — AMC Filmcritic

"This movie is a hoot, and a pertinent one at that." — Hollywood Reporter

"One of the funniest movies I've ever seen, and two of the ballsiest guys I've ever met. Thank God for the Yes Men." — Morgan Spurlock, director of Supersize Me

"Hilarious, therapeutic, inspiring. The Yes Men are geniuses." — Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine and No Logo

"If you worship Milton Friedman, you're going to loathe Yes Men Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno." — Bloomberg.com

"The Yes Men Fix The World could be this season’s choice." — Screen Daily

"We think it is a serious matter when people willingly misrepresent themselves." — Exxon

"It's really a sick, twisted - I don't even want to refer to it as a joke." — US Department of Housing and Urban Development

 

yes-man (noun, plural -men): someone who agrees with everything the boss says, even if it's demented, cruel, absurd, or just stupid

The Yes Men: A group of people who get themselves invited to conferences on behalf of their least favorite companies, then agree so hard with their targets that their audiences should sit up and take notice...

 

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