The Yes Men

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The Yes Men are a small band of anti-corporate activists who through use of the internet have grown in fame and notoriety through spoofing George Bush's election site back in 1999, and more recently the World Trade Organisation's website.

The spoof of the WTO's website looks exactly like the WTO's site in appearance, but the content was satirical. This amazingly managed to fool a large number of people who didn't read it closely enough. People Googling for the WTO came across www.gatt.org, and mistook it for the official site. Much to their pleasure, they started getting e-mails asking them to attend conferences and seminars to present on behalf of the WTO.

Siezing the opportunity, they set to work producing Powerpoint presentations, video clips, and even a skin-tight golden "managerial leisure suit".

The movie follows them as they travel to Finland, the USA, and Australia giving talks at conferences. The reactions to the outrageous talks they make are completely baffling in some places. Without meaning to spoil the movie for anyone who hasn't seen it - at the talk in Finland, they discuss how the American Civil War should never have happened, as the "involuntary labour market" would eventually have found equilibrium, and market forces would have corrected the situation itself. A room full of people with Phds and advanced degrees sit in silence hardly even raising an eyebrow.

I really liked The Yes Men. It's in the same vein as Farenheit 9/11 and other pieces of Michael Moore's work, but I'd recommend people go see it as while highlighting the problems with the WTO, it's really quite funny.

[Rev Scapegoat]

Gutted that I missed the showing of this at the GFT with the Q&A session after it

[Kenny]

Roi oi oi's been going on about this, need to get my arse along and see it at some point, methinks, having perused their site they seem like an interesting bunch.

[Semprini]

I really enjoyed this movie.

it's funny, and it makes the points very well. One of the most fun parts for me was watching how long (and in some cases, if at all) it takes for people to twig what's going on.

Well worth checking out. Thumbs up!

[Ghostsuit]

Sounds pretty good that does.

[Tor Hershman]

It’s regrettable that The Yes Men’s parody is 100% wrong and that mine is, was and shall be, about 00.1% incorrect.

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Stay on groovin' safari,
Tor Hershman

[Posh]

Quite probably the worst thing on YouTube.

[Joe Spinebuster]

Everyone report this fucking clown's post with a request for him to be banned, before he gets too comfy around here. Have you seen his blog? We have enough babbling goons around here as it is, let's try and enforce some kind of expected quality control in new users from now on.
In saying that, he's probably just a spammer, posting his PURE HILARIOUS video on as many forums as possible because he's SO CONVINCED that it is REALLY REALLY FUNNY and will make him "the next big internet phenomenon".