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

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Prior to the Great Trump Derangement, liberals like John Oliver did occasionally perform valuable journalistic services. Of course, they NEVER advanced an anti-systemic narrative since they are all, without exception, system-owned creatures, but the role of left-liberals, like that of the Democrat party, is to absorb, deflect and neutralise the continually rising tides of would-be leftism and rebellion. In this tricky job, the best practitioners go out of their way to perfect their creds by choosing subjects that seem to put them on the side of the people. Thus, exposés of the status quo's rottenness builds their credibility for moments when the system, in genuine trouble with the masses, may need defenders who enjoy trust with the people. That's why the mainstream ("legacy") media also publish stuff that sounds critical and antagonistic to the reigning oligarchy. On the whole, however, they always manage to explain such crimes and abuses as "aberrations" to an essentially good system, one, by definition (or so says the US "political-religious" canon), superior to any other in the world. God's chosen system, in fact. (See Larry Romanoff's If America Dissolves, for an engaging discussion of the American way of total indoctrination.)

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In this program John Oliver interviews Edward Snowden, the NSA defector who exposed some of US intel's dirtiest secrets. Like the extensive surveillance inplemented by the oligarchy over mostly unsuspecting Americans (and just about every other human being on the face of the planet). Apparently, through silly jokes that largely dilute the seriousness of Snowden's testimony, and even his integrity, Oliver may have gotten past the invisible censors and still convey some of the truths that need airing. We won't pass final judgment on Oliver's work, here. Watch the episode closely, and make up your own mind. If you do, leave us a message.