Cable companies are trying to create an unequal playing field for internet speeds, but they’re doing it so boringly that most news outlets aren’t covering it. John Oliver explains the controversy and lets viewers know how they can voice their displeasure to the FCC. (www.fcc.gov/comments, for any interested parties) Connect with Last Week Tonight online… Subscribe to the Last Week Tonight YouTube channel for more almost news as it almost happens: www.youtube.com/user/LastWeekTonight Find Last Week Tonight on Facebook like your mom would: http://Facebook.com/LastWeekTonight Follow us on Twitter for news about jokes and jokes about news: http://Twitter.com/LastWeekTonight Visit our official site [More]
One of the most important speeches in recorded history was given by a comedian by the name of Charlie Chaplin in the film “The Great Dictator”, with a splash of modern imagery. The film was released in 1940, as an antI-Nazi comedy and was entirely written, produced and directed by Charlie Chaplin himself. Song: Window by The Album Leaf . If you like what you see please share the video any way you can and pass the message on. Transcript: “I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be an emperor. That’s not my business. I don’t want to rule or conquer [More]
Comedian Russell Brand terrified anchors on MSNBC’s Morning Joe program by lecturing them about how the media distracts from real news by obsessing about superficial distractions. Brand almost immediately put host Mika Brzezinski on the back foot by describing his tour as an exploration of how Malcolm X, Gandhi, Che Guevara and Jesus Christ “are significant culturally and how icons are appropriated and used to designate consciousness and meaning….they’re all people that died for a cause, they’re all people whose icons are used to designate meaning, perhaps not in the manner in which they intended.” Brand then poked fun at [More]
  FOUR HORSEMEN is an award winning independent feature documentary which lifts the lid on how the world really works. As the global economy continues to veer from crisis to catastrophe many more people are looking for wise counsel on how to reshape the Western Economy. Over the last three years 23 global thinkers many of whom have been marginalized -have come together to break their silence and explain how the world really works. Their views transcend mainstream media and short-term political explanations to describe in simple terms what needs to be addressed in our universities, governments and corporate structures. [More]
MSNBC’s news anchor Dylan Ratigan is mad as hell and unleashes a fury of truth about the U.S. financial crisis. He, like most of us, are fed up with the political corruption. While convening a roundtable discussion on the market meltdown on eponymous MSNBC show on Tuesday, Ratigan exploded. “We’ve got a real problem!” an exasperated Ratigan shouted. “This is a mathematical fact! Tens of trillions of dollars are being extracted from the United States of America. Democrats aren’t doing it, Republicans aren’t doing it. An entire integrated system, financial system, trading system, taxing system, that was created by both [More]