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Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Government Surveillance (HBO)

2015-04-07T20:48:22.022Z

There are very few government checks on what America’s sweeping surveillance programs are capable of doing. John Oliver sits down with Edward Snowden to discuss the NSA, the balance between privacy and security, and dick-pics.

Jon Stewart Goes Off on GOP for Shutting Down the Government

2013-10-02T18:45:25.171Z

via Gawker:
The government may have shut down for the first time in 17 years, but Jon Stewart is staying put because his excoriation of House Republicans is essential.

On last night's Daily Show, Stewart let loose on the GOP for putting the brakes on the entire budget solely over the Affordable Care Act, "also known as Obamacare, also known as the end of America as we know it for reasons no one is able to clearly explain."

Stewart then proceeded to explain to Republican representatives, since they seem to have forgotten, exactly how government works:

Apparently, they are allowed to do that — [members of Congress] are allowed to make laws, and the President is allowed to sign laws. And what do we do if those laws are unconstitutional? Well apparently nine precogs in magic robes got together, looked at the Affordable Care Act, and decided that it was not unconstitutional.

So everything appears to have been done literally by the book. This bill is now a law, vetted by the very system these Republicans claim to love — but to hear Republicans tell it, the whole thing could just be avoided if President Obama would just meet him halfway!

The bill is a fucking law! Are you familiar with how the word works? Did you see the Giants game on Sunday? Okay: they lost 31 to 7. And you know what the Giants didn’t say after that game? 'If you don’t give us 25 more points by midnight on Monday, we are gonna shut down the NFL!'
Stewart saved some much-deserved ire for the media's coverage of the shutdown, pointing out that what we have here is "not a game of chicken" but "an asshole causing a head-on collision."

He then turned his attention one last time to Republicans to drive home "the degree to which [they] have left the plane of reason" by mocking their claim that Obama can negotiation with Russian and Iran but not with them:

You’re not helping yourself. If it turns out that President Barack Obama can make a deal with the most intransigent, hardline, unreasonable, totalitarian mullahs in the world, but not with Republicans, maybe he’s not the problem.

WATCH: Elizabeth Warren Tears Government 'Experts' A New One Over Money Laundering

2013-03-08T21:34:48.640Z

I will never get tired of watching Sen. Elizabeth Warren act the way a senator should. It's a relief to know that not everyone in Congress is screwing around playing political games, and it's just too much fun watching her make incompetent government officials break out in flop sweat.

At 1:30 she asks a question I can't believe even needed to be asked, at 2:35 she makes an "expert" stutter and sweat when she refuses to listen to his excuses, at 3:17 she plays hardball and it's awesome, at 5:13 she asks a governor for help and is less than thrilled by his answers, and at 7:08 she demonstrates exactly why she was elected in the first place.
source: upworthy

Why Did the US Government and Big Oil Hate Chavez?

2013-03-07T16:56:57.127Z

Greg Palast: Chavez made big oil pay serious royalties which he used for social programs, he enjoyed majority support in many elections, but American media vilifies Chavez as a dictator

MEGAUPLOAD IS TAKEN DOWN!! Due to S.O.P.A, P.I.P.A / USA Government

2012-01-20T23:55:48.654Z

PLEASE Share this with everyone you know!! We need to unite against this madness and stop it!!! Proof: http://boards.ign.com/teh_vestibule/b5296/208004974/p1...