"satire" October 2014
"Boko Haram have thanked Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai for her role in helping mediate a landmark ceasefire deal between the group and the Nigerian army.
Nigerian media announced on Friday that the militant group, which has been responsible for the deaths of thousands of people since 2009, had reached an agreement with the Nigerian army, which would include the release of the estimated 200 schoolgirls abducted earlier this year.
“Malala appeared to our leader [Abubakar Shekau] in a dream and said that kidnapping girls was not the answer,” an unnamed spokesperson said on a video released by the group.
“We will go back to focusing on restricting boys education, because there is less stress in that industry,” he said."
"No chocolate fountain, no truffles, no tortes! I’m tired of librarians criticizing our profit-making from one side of their mouth, while stuffing an éclair into the other. If they want to eat, they can fight over the ALA cheese and cracker table."
C’est encore un coup des Yes Men, les soldats de la contre-manipulation, qui ont repeint le Herald Tribune pour les besoins d’une campagne de Greenpeace.
In November 2008 "PriveCo Inc. purchased a domain name for $1 Million. PriveCo is a small company in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan and a million dollars is a lot of money to them, especially in these tough economic times. There is something special in
Suspicious emails: unclaimed insurance bonds, diamond-encrusted safe deposit boxes, close friends marooned in a foreign country. They pop up in our inboxes, and standard procedure is to delete on sight. But what happens when you reply? Follow along as writer and comedian James Veitch narrates a hilarious, weeks-long exchange with a spammer who offered to cut him in on a hot deal.