Residents safety. In bed. laughter cheers and applause and everywhere else. Massive protests filling the streets of hong kong. Tens of thousands of these demonstrators have packed into the highways and streets, mostly in the citys central financial district. They clashed with police who reportedly pointed long barreled guns and used tear gas for the first time in years. Stephen yes, protestors in hong kong are being attacked with tear gas. Or as its known in china, the sky. laughter the protests here, its all. Taems. You see, after china took control of hong kong from Great Britain in the late 90s, they promised free elections for hong kongs chief executive in 2017. But now beijing says candidates must be hand picked by a committee of progovernment tycoons. That is not right. Americans know candidates must be picked by antigovernment tycoons. cheers and applause thank you for your service, gentlemen. So thousands of Hong Kongolese have taken to the streets in a collective action the Ne
Little upheavally of late so we thought we would start the week somewhere experiencing a bit of a downheaval. Hong kong. Where last weeks protests have been downgraded from massive, antigovernment rallies to listless teen hang session. laughter which is surprising after days like these. Hundreds of thousands packed the streets of downtown hong kong as police fired as many as 87 cans of tear gas. Determined demonstrators shielding themselves with umbrellas and spawning the socalled umbrella revolution. Jon thanks, china laughter im have to change the name of my new album. laughter you know, i spent a lot of time designing that cover. So the umbrella revolution protesting, anyway . Theyre fighting for what they call a full democracy. They want the right to be able to elect their own leaders. The Central Government in beijing says sure, they can have elections but they can only vote for candidates that have been preapproved by beijing. Jon well, that makes sense, i mean what good is an el
If you remember tyou werent there, man. laughter that was woodstock. Anyway, it tanked the economy. Well, when was the last time you got good and angry about it . Want to . laughter all right. You asked for it. Remember how we gift wrapped 184 billion to insurance giant a. I. G. To purchase that companys terrible mortgage bets so that their incompetence wouldnt become a global extinction event . laughter . We just got the thank you not. Former American International group Hank Greenberg is suing the architects of the governments response to the financial panic of 2008 . He claims the bailout violated shareholder rights. Jon really laughter so just to set the table for you here, the largest shareholder of a. I. G. Wasnt running it at the time was just the largest shareholder a couple that was hours away from bankruptcy is sighing the entity that through sheer force of 184 billion saved it or let me put it another way. Yeah, you gave me c. P. R. , but would it kill you to take a breath m
Great tuesday night here in new york city. Ladies and gentlemen, i am samson and your cheering is my long hair thanks for being here nation, i am a huge fan of the game of footedball. Every sunday, i invite my bros over, grill up some brats, crack a couple of cold ones, forget to take the brats off the grill, burn down my house, apologize to my bros, and hold a vigil for lenny. laughter so naturally, im all over the huge controversy surrounding last nights game between the oh, shoot i can never remember the teams names. Lets say the new england. Big guys versus the kansas city uh chiefs. Oh, theyre actually called the chiefs . Good to know. Thanks. Uh, buddy. Jim . N. F. L. Referees calling a 15yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on chiefs safety Husain Abdullah for dropping to his knees in prayer after scoring a touchdown on monday night football. Abdullahs a devout muslim. He was practicing the sajda, a religious prayer. Stephen yes, a muslim person prayed in the end zone. And even
Present chronosphere, its day seven of the Global Pandemic that some are call ebolapalooza. laughter not many. Just me so far. But its going to catch on. You can smell the fear, thanks to heroes like cnn who asked the question, ebola the i. S. I. S. Of biological agents . Yes, it is. Without a doubt. Scientists have long compared diseases to murderous madmen. Thats why epidemiologists call tuberculosis lung hitler. laughter one person who is irresponsibly calm is president barack ebola. Just listen to how the administration plans to ward off the rage virus. The Obama Administration is taking new action to prevent the spread of ebola. President obama said monday that Airline Passengers traveling from the ebola hot zone will soon undergo additional screening at both ends of their journeys. Stephen well, im glad theyre checking at both ends because thats where the ebola squirts out. laughter but im sorry. applause big round of applause for bodily fluids tonight this is a hot crowd. cheers