The Yes Men have been a little busy this summer. They scored a coup back in June when they were mistakenly invited to give a presentation at a large Canadian oil conference in Alberta. Organizers thought they were representatives of ExxonMobil and the National Petroleum Council. Now how would that happen? Well, the Yes Men are an anti-corporate collective that phishes through false websites–in this case a site purporting to be owned by ExxonMobil–in order to culture jam. At the oil conference, two members of the collective gave a presentation to the audience about a new energy alternative called Vivoleum, which is made out of recycled humans. Modern-day Jonathan Swifts? Perhaps. They were also recently featured on Bill Moyers (video here). Moyers plays along at first–a real treat. The Yes Men were the focus on a documentary a few years back, and, of course, there’s a book. Now who might sell a book like that?

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