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The Yes Men identity net.plays [09_2002] THE YES MEN are the corporate children of a website: www.gatt.org. Born when the old General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade had already been replaced by the WTO, GATT.ORG has catalyzed the distracted attention of CEOs, lawyers, journalists and other splinters of the Western ruling class. Over the last two years, the Men behind the website have proudly accepted invitations to international conferences (http://theyesmen.org/wto/, http://theyesmen.org/finland/ ) and mainstream TV shows (http://theyesmen.org/tv.html), as representatives of the WTO. Their notorious Power Point presentations, have collectively been called the "Naked Lunch of Globalization" (see in particular www.theyesmen.org/hamburger). Each time, THE YES MEN have been invited by people who mistook the parody website (http://gatt.org/) for the official WTO site (http://www.wto.org/). Recently, on May 21st, a representative of the World Trade Organization announced the dissolution of his organization to a shocked but supportive Sydney audience ( http://theyesmen.org/tro/disband.rtf, http://theyesmen.org/tro/cpa.html ). He stated the WTO would reconstitute as a new organization dedicated to assisting the world's poor instead of the rich (http://gatt.org/trastat_e.html). The bombshell announcement has had worldwide repercussions, sparking debate on the floor of the Canadian Parliament, where MP John Duncan took the floor to ask "what ...