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American Apparel Spoofer: Bambi Porn Edition
The anonymous American Apparel ad prankster strikes again. This time with more animals! Also—it must be said—with even more poon-tang than usual. Copyranter says the new installment is a spoof of this bambi-themed ad. If Dov Charney doesn't find this vandal and put him or her on the payroll immediately, he's even crazier than we think. Click through for two uncensored photos of the (explicit, artistic) latest work: More »
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London Police Protect Scientology From Teen's Sign
The Brits are rather less enthusiastic about the whole "free speech" concept than the US is. A 15-year-old kid was holding a sign that said "Cult" at one of the Anonymous protests against Scientology in London. The precocious young scalawag had even memorized a 1984 UK court ruling in which a judge called the science fiction-based religion a "cult." But the police gave him a summons and confiscated his dangerous slogan-bearing poster, and now he has to go to court to defend himself. More »
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Scientology's Hilarious Goons
Recent Scientology protests have brought us all joy and laughter, but it wasn't until today that we saw a photo of the church's security goons guarding the New York headquarters. They look, as an ANONYMOUS tipster pointed out, "like they are playing arms dealers in a shoestring-budget 1990s USA Network spy thriller." You'll be sorry when Dolph Lundgren shows up, Scientology! [Security guards by Vidiot]
We love LA, cops.
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The guy you see being taken across the street with the green face paint has, and this is CONFIRMED, been Released. (a few hours ago actually.) Friends of his bailed him out. Bail was set at $763.00. He has two charges against him, but it's expected that they'll be dropped the second he enters the courtroom. Dekalb police step up the repressive factor — Suddenly! Arrests out of the blue. They were arrested for:
1)Protesting without a permit. Which we were told repeatedly by them before the event that we did NOT need a permit.
2)Causing offensive or hazardous conditions. Will upload what the police said to us MUCH later in the protest. Update:
Contrast this to how LA Police treated Anonymous: http://youtube.com/watch?v=k9yIBOnbJjY[www.youtube.com]
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The Scientology Counterattack Against Anonymous Is Underway
The Church of Scientology strikes back! Online. Having grown tired of being hounded on the internet by the anonymous cyber-protest group "Anonymous," Scientology not only filed an injunction in court (which failed), but also posted its own counterattack videos to YouTube. Under the account name "AnonymousFacts," the main video charges the group with "hate crimes" against Scientology—characterizing the group as terrorists. Scientology also made separate videos "exposing" several individual members of Anonymous. And someone submitted those videos to Digg, and even started Wikipedia entries attacking the Anonymous members. It's a significantly different—and more sophisticated—strategy for Scientology, which usually relies on secrecy, intimidation, and litigation to get its way, rather than trawling for internet influence. The four full videos are below: First is the main one, "Anonymous- Hate Crimes & Terrorism Directed At Scientology," followed by three separate videos aimed at exposing specific Anonymous members. More »
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Have You No Decency? A Britney Chronicler Responds
In the Los Angeles Times, Asra Nomani, a former contributor to People, calls on Time Warner and other media conglomerates to leave Britney alone. Portfolio's Jeff Bercovici compares Nomani's call to the moment when Joseph McCarthy was famously asked: "Have you no sense of decency?" (Who knew dirt-digger Bercovici could raise himself up to such moral height?) The celebrity weeklies are sufficiently on the defensive that they maintain an official silence; but, under the protection of anonymity, one senior editor hits back at the critics. When one of the biggest pop stars in music history — one who no less has had a long and open relationship with the press — loses her children, ties up our court system, and is diagnosed with a major mental illness that also afflicts many other Americans, that is a news story. Are the actions of the mentally ill man who recently murdered the Upper East Side psychiatrist, or the NIU killer, any more or less worthy of exploration and explanation? And is it exploitative of the New York Times to run a series on military personnel who kill and beat and stalk their wives and children when they return home from serving in Iraq? These are people after all who actually did reside in privacy prior to their newsmaking bouts of mental illness. To somehow say that Britney Spears, or any celebrity, who have flown like moths to the flame of fame, deserve more privacy or consideration than private citizens is actually journalistically bankrupt, and a rather pathetic attempt at "morality" cloaked behind celebrity worship. Any person or outlet in the mainstream media who actually attempts to put forth this "morality" argument is a. either ignoring other news and events that have likely gone neglected as his or her own outlet chases Britney Spears (i.e., the Los Angeles Times), or b. desperate to find a new way to draw attention to a topic they know their readers continue to be interested in. Yes, these stories need to be handled sensitively, but to say they are not newsworthy... well, you might as well stop being a journalist, and go bag groceries.
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Scientology Should "Beware The Ides Of March," Says Internet
The aptly named anonymous anti-Scientology Internerd group "Anonymous" has released another video threatening the Church of Scientology with more protests and other vague opposition-type actions. For all the overly dramatic voice concealment, spy novel language, and self-seriousness, the scary thing is the tiny little inkling you get that all the precautions just might be smart. Or they could be totally ridiculous! After the jump, the whole video—including instructions for joining the fight yourself, if you're so inclined. More »
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Paul Fetch Is The New Andy Kaufman. Unless He's Just Really Really Unfunny.
I want to believe Paul Fetch is the most cunning comedian of our time. If the videos by this YouTube user are parodies, and his entire online persona is a character, then we must all bow down to the new king; Zach Galifianakis, Tim and Eric, and David Cross must commit ritual suicide in front of him. But chances are he's just a terribly unfunny douche. Examine these three examples of remotely possible genius. More »
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Fight Scientology Without Breaking the Law, Jerks
Mark Bunker, an Emmy-award-winning, anti-Scientologist documentary maker, thinks perhaps it's not such a bright idea to mount vigilante attacks against Scientology and ruin things for people who are not actually hypocrites. "It's not right. It's the type of stuff they do to us as critics. And we shouldn't be doing it back to them. I'm not afraid of anyone reading what Scientology has to say."
the internet vs. scientology
Five New Videos From The Internet's War On Scientology
It's a busy weekend for the Anonymous, the group of hackers and Internet malcontents who declared war on Scientology last week, as they began a series of "raids" of Church of Scientology branches. The war, which Anon has named "Project Chanology," includes a mass media campaign (which the group tracks here), but the organizers do their best stuff online. That's why members of the anti-Scientology campaign have made these five videos over the weekend, including protest footage, manifestos, and an inevitable LOLcats parody. More »
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Hacker Kids To Protest Scientology In Harlem This Afternoon
Anonymous, the loose group of Internet users known for harassing strangers online, is continuing its declared war on Scientology by protesting at 3 PM at the Church of Scientology branch in Harlem. The protest is presumably open to all who oppose the Church or want to fool around on a Sunday afternoon; the scant instructions are in the original e-mail below. More »
how your sausage gets made
Who Actually Attended The NSA's Secret Reporter Seminars?
Last week, Josh Gerstein explained how the information control freaks at the National Security Agency conducted secret "seminars" for reporters—basically, little classes on how and when the government would like them to keep their mouths shut about top-secret and not-so-secret information. What's funny is that no one seems to remember the sessions, which went down at NSA headquarters between 2002 and 2004. Maureen Baginski, who was listed as a presenter at the seminars, said she had no recollection of being present. Why would she? She was only the FBI's "intelligence czar" back in 2004, before she left to work for SPARTA, an employee-owned defense contractor of utmost secret-government-like creepiness. Likewise? Not a single reporter has yet come forward to claim attendance. More »
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Will Elijah Pollack Ever Get A Day Off?
We recently launched a sneak attack against daddy-author Neal Pollack's adorable 4-year-old son, Elijah. Or more accurately, we launched a sneak attack against author Neal Pollack shamelessly exploiting Elijah for his own literary ambitions. Pollack responded. Fark weighed in. Facebook profiles were updated. Pollack expressed a realization: That his constant blogging of Elijah exposes the little tyke—or rather, the trite twee petite-bourgeoise portrayal of him—to public scorn. One might think this would prevent Pollack from sending little Elijah back into the baby mines. But then one would be wrong. More »
you can't be a pimp and a prostitute too
Hey Everybody! Curtis Pesman Is Hanging Out With His Ex!
Dear Paula DuPre,
Your husband Curtis Pesman has been spending a lot of time with one of his ex-girlfriends. After a bunch of flirtatious emails, he went out to Philly, and had dinner in her bedroom. We hear they had "a reconnection, a spark." Paula, we don't know if you remember his advice book "Your First Year Of Marriage," from way back in 1995, but we're pretty sure, just judging from its index, that this was stuff he would tell a bride to be worried about. Don't ask us how we found out this inside information! Oh, okay: It came from a very private journal he was keeping in the New York Times.
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The Lauren Conrad Sex Tape And 'Us Weekly'
The Hills star Lauren Conrad has a sex tape with her ex-boyfriend Jason Wahler. The Hills star Lauren Conrad doesn't have a sex tape with her ex-boyfriend Jason Wahler. This week's Us Weekly has a four-page spread that tries to get to the heart of the matter. They rely on a couple of sources: Lauren, and a "source close to the couple." Hmm! Who??? Well, we've just gone ahead and made some edits to their item to get to the bottom of this confounding mystery. More »
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