Political Pranksters Say Latest Climate Venture is Not Hot Air
Thursday July 16, 2009
FOX NEWS
By Joshua Rhett Miller
An Internet-based group of activists who specialize in political pranks say they’re seriously determined to expel all the hot air surrounding the highly combustible issue of climate change.
But can the Yes Men -- a group that has previously lampooned former President George W. Bush and impersonated officials from Dow Chemical and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development -- be taken seriously?
Igor Vamos, one of the Yes Men's founders, claims the Yes Men's latest venture, beyondtalk.net, is completely authentic. The group is seeking "like-minded people" to participate in non-violent acts of civil disobedience to coincide with the U.N.-hosted Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December.
"It's a real site," Vamos told FOXNews.com during a phone interview from Scotland. "But right now, it's still in the planning stages."
Vamos, who uses the alias Mike Bonanno, said the site was created about three weeks ago, but it hasn't been officially launched yet. He says several environmental groups and climate action organizations will join the effort and participate in "very wacky protests" as the climate conference approaches. But Vamos declined to identify those groups.
"Not every act of civil disobedience has to be somber," Vamos said. "We're looking for ways to build up a massive coalition to put pressure on governments [regarding climate change]."
Read it all but don't say I didn't warn you: It just gets worse. These morons have an HBO "documentary" coming out on July 27 titled "The Yes Men Fix the World" in which they "scorch today's free-market economy". What "free-market economy"?
If anyone comes up with a sufficiently diabolical plan to prank these "merry pranksters", count me in. Think The Joker Makes a Pencil Disappear.
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