Russell Brand discusses an “anti-austerity” (anti-budget-cut) protest that took place in London recently.
Brand also discusses the #LoveThePolice campaign. Can you protest for the rights of workers and also protest on behalf of the police?
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Russell Brand gives his views of the Jeb Bush presidential campaign.
In this episode of the The Trews, Russell Brand looks at the housing crisis in Australia and also looks at mass incarceration. Is the U.S. facing similar problems?
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In this episode of The Trews, Russell Brand discusses world leaders’ pledge to end the reliance on fossil fuels and examines Donald Trump’s activities at his golf resort in Aberdeen, Scotland.
Earlier this month, Britain was in an election cycle, and Russell Brand looked at the Conservative (Tory) political election propaganda. The Tories ran a host of political campaign ads, including on Facebook. One in every £17 pounds the Tories spent on the last general election campaign goes towards drumming up support on Facebook.
Brand analysed their policies, past promises and election tactics as well.
In the video, Brand mentions Quantitative Easing (QE), an economic maneuver governments can take in an attempt to improve the economy. What is Quantitative Easing?
Investopedia states that QE is an “unconventional monetary policy in which a central bank purchases government securities or other securities from the market in order to lower interest rates and increase the money supply.”
“Quantitative easing increases the money supply by flooding financial institutions with capital in an effort to promote increased lending and liquidity.”
Tories also ran attack advertisements that featured a famous note from a former Chief Secretary to the Treasury that implied that a Labour government would run the country to ruin by not controlling the budget. The note reads “Dear Chief Secretary, I’m afraid there is no money.”
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http://www.investopedia.com/terms/q/quantitative-easing.asp#ixzz3bRRskhEV
Four years into its drought, Californians are forced to cut back on water use by 25%, and they are looking to Australia for advice on coping with water shortages.
Russell Brand talks about the possibility of a future where water and gasoline are scarce resources.
http://news.yahoo.com/california-looks-down-under-drought-advice-134750332.html
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Three political party leaders in Britain resigned after the British election on May 7th.
Ed Miliband resigned as the Leader of the (left-of-center) Labour Party after the worst Labour result since 1987.
After huge losses for the centrist Liberal Democratic party, the Leader of that party, Nick Clegg, resigned.
The Liberal Democrats were hit particularly hard, and the party has been reduced from 57 seats in Parliament in 2010 down to just eight now.
Nigel Farage, the leader of the smaller right-wing nationalist party UKIP (U.K. Independence Party) also reportedly will resign. The party only got one Member of Parliament into the House of Commons. Farage has “wavered” on resigning and has not yet technically left his post.
Here, Russell Brand examines the resignation speeches of Ed Miliband, Nick Clegg and Nigel Farage (who has now un-resigned) after last week’s election result.
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Rupert Murdoch is an Australian American business magnate, who became managing director of Australia’s News Limited, inherited from his father Sir Keith Arthur Murdoch in 1952. According to Wikipedia, he is the founder, chairman and CEO of global media holding company News Corporation, the world’s second-largest media conglomerate, and its successors News Corp and 21st Century Fox after the conglomerate split in June,2013.
Does Murdoch have a large amount of influence over the media?
21st Century Fox is known for possessing the media companies with the name Fox. That includes movie studio 20th Century Fox, Fox News, Fox (TV) Broadcasting, local Fox stations, and Fox radio. It owns other channels such as National Geographic. It also owns The Wall Street Journal and several other newspapers.
In 2014, Murdoch even made an offer to buy Time Warner, which owns CNN, the second largest cable news group in the U.S. (Fox News is the largest).
Does Murdoch have certain political views, or is he neutral?
Wikipedia states that News Corp papers were accused of taking sides in the 2013 Australian election. Following the announcement of the Liberal Party victory at the polls, Murdoch tweeted “Aust. election public sick of public sector workers and phony welfare scroungers sucking life out of economy…”
British newspaper The Independent wrote that Murdoch berated journalists at his papers for not doing enough to “stop the (left-of-center) Labour Party from winning the election” in Britain. He “warned them that the future of the company depended on stopping Labour from getting elected,” writes The Independent. After Mr. Murdoch paid a visit to his company’s The Sun newspaper, they devoted a two-page spread to the election – with the left-hand page containing a 10-point “pledge” to voters written by David Cameron.
What if Murdoch decided that a war in the Middle East (against Iran or Syria, for example) would be good for him or that he could profit from it? Do you think his news channels and print media would remain neutral, or would they push a pro-war agenda?
Murdoch’s News Corp owns several newspapers other countries as well. In England, he owns The Sun.
In fact, he seems to own everything under The Sun. Russell Brand talks about it in his “Trews” video.
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The national British election will take place on Thursday May 7th, as decreed by the Fixed Term Parliament Act, which was enacted on September 15th, 2011.
Recently, there was a televised debate that failed to give any party a decisive boost, according to The Week.
The “slugging match” that came afterward was over Trident nuclear submarines and the tax arrangements of people living in the U.K. who have a foreign residence, or “non-doms.” The debate appeared to have put the Labor Party on top of the heap.
Then came the “Challengers Debate,” which included the five main opposition leaders, but neither incumbent David Cameron of the Conservative Party nor Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats, was there. Most pundits suggested that either Ed Miliband of the Labor Party or Nicola Sturgeon of the Scottish National Party (SNP) came out on top.
With three weeks to go, the British election still looks as unpredictable and unusual as ever.
Conservative and Labor are the two main rivals, and they remain neck and neck in the polls. The race between them has not looked so tight since 1992, states The Week.
Meanwhile the Liberal Democrats continue to trail Ukip, the Greens are still a factor, and the SNP’s position appears if anything to be growing stronger.
In this video, Russell Brand discusses the Challengers Debate.
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Kendall Jones is a 19-year-old cheerleader from Texas and she kills large game for sport.
She’s had her eye on the “Big Five” (the African lion, African elephant, Cape buffalo, African leopard, and White/Black rhinoceros) since she was nine. She killed her first white rhino when she was 13.
According to Slate, she poses with the animals she kills, beaming, jauntily pony-tailed, sometimes straddling dead lions or cuddling dead leopards.
Russell Brand’s The Trews examines Fox News’ reactions to Jones, whose hunting pictures went viral last year.
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