28-09-2011, 02:45 AM
Don't know if the controversy got over there yet, but...
Alessio Rastani is Not Andy Bichlbaum
Posted on September 27, 2011 by willylomanby Scott Creighton
Yesterday I posted a video from the BBC in which a supposed trader was quite frank in his discussion about the pending collapse of the global economic system. This story is all around the internet today with the MSM outlets trying to claim that the guy is a hoax, another attempt by the "Yes Men" to scam the media with yet another of their crank interviews like the one they did back in 2004. In fact, the Huffington Post is going so far as to claim the guy from yesterday's BBC interview is actually Andy Bichlbaum, the guy from the 2004 interview.
They aren't the same guy. The trader's name is Alessio Rastani and he's a day trader living in England I think.
Here's a look at the two of them side by side one still is taken from the "trader" interview and the other is taken from the 2004 hoax interview with Bichlbaum.
![[Image: not-the-same.jpg?w=288&h=192]](http://willyloman.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/not-the-same.jpg?w=288&h=192)
Here's a picture of him working in a room in his girlfriend's house.
![[Image: day-trader.jpg?w=300&h=195]](http://willyloman.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/day-trader.jpg?w=300&h=195)
These guys did a better photo comparison than I did and they researched and found out what the 2004 video guy from the Yes Men is doing now. Definitely not the same guy.
Yesterday I posted a video from the BBC in which a supposed trader was quite frank in his discussion about the pending collapse of the global economic system. This story is all around the internet today with the MSM outlets trying to claim that the guy is a hoax, another attempt by the "Yes Men" to scam the media with yet another of their crank interviews like the one they did back in 2004. In fact, the Huffington Post is going so far as to claim the guy from yesterday's BBC interview is actually Andy Bichlbaum, the guy from the 2004 interview.
They aren't the same guy. The trader's name is Alessio Rastani and he's a day trader living in England I think.
Here's a look at the two of them side by side one still is taken from the "trader" interview and the other is taken from the 2004 hoax interview with Bichlbaum.
![[Image: not-the-same.jpg?w=288&h=192]](http://willyloman.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/not-the-same.jpg?w=288&h=192)
Here's a picture of him working in a room in his girlfriend's house.
![[Image: day-trader.jpg?w=300&h=195]](http://willyloman.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/day-trader.jpg?w=300&h=195)
These guys did a better photo comparison than I did and they researched and found out what the 2004 video guy from the Yes Men is doing now. Definitely not the same guy.
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