Our favorite political pranksters The Yes Men have spoofed the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland with an official looking imaginary website. As part of the project they have also created these fantastic re-dubbed video interviews with global economic, government and corporate leaders where each appear to speak in brutally honest ways about real problems and solutions. The remix video of Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) CEO Patricia Woertz apparently did not sit well with the agro-business giant because they quickly filed a takedown notice to have it removed from Youtube. Luckily for us the video is still live on vimeo.
ADM CEO Patricia Woertz (1:10)
http://www.vimeo.com/9011666
Klaus Schwab (1:03)
http://www.vimeo.com/9008921
Queen Elizabeth II of England (0:52)
http://www.vimeo.com/9008826
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton (0:53)
http://www.vimeo.com/9008981
See more re-dubbed videos on the Yes Men’s parallel WEF site.
Category: news segment
Topic Tags: capitalism, corporations, economics, environment, government, identity correction
Posted by Jonathan o n October 22nd, 2008
Bryan Boyce remixes a Fox News interview with Henry Kissinger as a tribute to George Orwell’s 100th birthday. The video has been around for a couple years but has just found it’s way to YouTube for the public to watch and enjoy.
Category: news segment
Topic Tags: henry kissinger, terrorism, war
FEB/13/09 – Youtube says this video is “private”, that’s all the info we have, but it was once available for viewing and now is not.
Another remix by ATMO films in their Read My Lips mashup series. In this one they carefully cut up and digitally manipulate George W Bush’s Iraq invasion speech to make him slowly lip sync to the voice of a hypnotist putting us, the viewers and public, to sleep. He asks us to “just let go”.
Category: news segment
Topic Tags: bush, government, REMOVED
A remix from Minitrue.com of George Bush’s infamous “Victory in Iraq” aircraft carrier landing speech that also mixes in a bit of footage and imperial music from the Star Wars movies.
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Category: news segment
Topic Tags: bush, government, iraq, war
Posted by Jonathan o n February 28th, 2008
Another political remix that uses a combination of appropriated footage from a presidential news conference cut with original footage shot for the purpose on a green screen.
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Category: news segment
Topic Tags: bush, cheney, News
Posted by Jonathan o n August 30th, 2007
Found this while surfing youtube, a remix of corporate media news footage around the invasion of Iraq.
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Category: news segment
Topic Tags: News, television, war
Posted by Jonathan o n August 11th, 2007
This remix was created by artist Keir Smith in response to the Australian Government’s Fair Use Exceptions Paper in May 2005. The video mash-up explicitly abuses the copyright of easily referenced popular culture audio and video icons in ways currently illgeal but that should be covered by ‘fair use’. Find out more about the video here.
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Category: news segment
Topic Tags: copyright, News