covering american news are called foreign agents. by the end of this segment someone will be bombed i don't mean by me i don't. be a bit aggressive for a comedy show i feel like no. i mean by the u.s. military which is god because we're technically at war with a zero country then i think so too that should mean zero bombings right you know. you can use our world with some sort of rational cogent world and in which our military industrial complex is under control and the music industry is based on merit and talent. and we're preparing and dealing with climate change like the doll rather than burying our heads in the sand while trying to convince ourselves that the sand around our head isn't getting really really hot and and that goes to

have gently rounded edges on the side so that when you step on them barefoot it doesn't feel like an armor piercing bullet strike tears. just a giggle a rational world we don't live. instead we live in a world where the pentagon is completely out of role a few weeks ago i talked on this show about the twenty one trillion dollars trillion with a t. that has gone unaccounted for at the pentagon but i didn't get into the number of bombs that ridiculous amount of money buys you according to consortium news president bush's military dropped seventy thousand bombs on five countries but of that outrageous number it was really just fifty seven of those bombs that really upset the international community because there were fifty seven strikes in pakistan somalia and. yemen countries the u.s.

was not at war with and didn't even have ongoing conflicts within and the world was kind of horrified there was a lot of talk that went something like this wait a second we're bombing in country outside of war zone is it possible that's a slippery slope ending in us just bombing all the time nancy whichever president follows bush will be a normal adult person with a functional brain stem of some sort and will therefore stop this madness. we're. where we were we were like a little cat waking up. under president obama there were five hundred sixty three strikes largely by drones that targeted pakistan somalia and yemen despite the fact that bombing outside of a war zone is

a horrific violation of international law and global norms a and we're targeting people for pretty crimes all right and this guy in the hill dr janet then looks kind of like you might do something we don't like one day let's take out his whole family in his home and his chickens don't forget the chickens because you never you never be to say one of his chickens decide to avenge his death. despite all of that there was basically a media blackout while obama was president you could count on one hand the number of mainstream media reports on obama's extracurricular bombing campaigns and even when they did mention it the underlying sentiment was yeah but look at the v.a. . that's what i mean look like ok and let's just drop jenny it's like fuckin steve mcqueen over here with trillions of dollars of debt under his coat. not cool

steve mcqueen. and don't believe the hype that our advanced weaponry only hits bad guys according to the cia's own documents the people on the kill list who were targeted for death by drone accounted for only two percent of the deaths caused by drone strikes to turn into. two hundred covert that took over really pentagon really you got a two on the test too. soon to get five points for spelling your name right pentagon. i mean. every. if we graded our military the same way we read a fifth grader he'd be the kid the teacher like takes pity on and has empty the trash can for extra credit and and he's still accidentally lights the bulletin board on fire somehow just by emptying the trash but that seventy thousand bombs

dropped by bush who is child's play obama dropped a hundred thousand bombs in seven countries he out bombed bush by thirty thousand bombs and two countries but despite all of that donald trump's administration is top in everyone blown out of the water he has basically taken the gloves off the military so they're now just dropping bombs every time they think about maybe dropping bombs. journalist david de graw which is where i've got a lot of this information he's also found that the pentagon's numbers show that during the pentagon's own numbers show during george w. bush's eight years he averaged twenty four bombs dropped per day which is eight thousand seven hundred and fifty per year over the course of obama's time in office his military dropped thirty four bombs per day twelve thousand five hundred per year and in trump first year in office he averaged a hundred twenty one drama drama of. up that day for an average annual total of

forty four thousand ninety six five bombs are dropped per hour every hour of every day that averages out to a bomb every twelve minutes. and which it would which is more outrageous the crazy amount of death and destruction we are creating around the world or the fact your mainstream media your corporate media basically never investigated they talked about trump's laws all of the you know like they say you are a racist bill this bold is headed idiot which is totally accurate but. how dare they be so accurate you know but. but they don't criticize the amityville massacre our military is perpetrating by dropping a bomb every twelve minutes most of them killing ninety eight percent non targets all right he didn't change. but it's ok by the

time talking about that goes we're doing is invited for the why does god god is outside my guide show that an ad goes he goes to get to stand on the why does law and inhale the noxious fumes of trump's aggressive go all around. when you have. his chemical warfare just emanating off. when you have a department of war with a completely unaccountable budget as we saw with the twenty one trillion and you have a president with no interest in overseeing how much gas the department of war is responsible for then you end up dropping so many bombs that we are running out of bombs. and may struggle to make more oh dear god if we run out of bombs how will we stop all those innocent civilians from

farming. like that journalist brittany weber wrote in february shockingly more than eighty percent of those killed have never even been identified and the cia's own documents have shown that they are not . been aware of who they are killing avoiding the issue over porting civilian deaths simply by naming all those in the strike zone as enemy combatants. we only kill enemy combatants how do we know they are enemy combatants because there are struggling right now we know that was our strike zone because our enemy combatants . how do we find out their enemy combatant because they were in our dr jones i keep doing that for hours and i'm going to do i'm. talking about consensus and i believe i will. look this is not about trump even though he's a maniac it's not about obama even though he's a war criminal it's not about bush even though he did has the intelligence of

boiled cabbage. well i've been out of bush joking like eight years. but. just got a good luck put on a don't shoot you know. get back into that this is about all right away military industrial complex that our ruling elite are more than happy to let loose you see almost no one in congress or the presidency trying to restrain or one hundred and twenty one bombs a day you see almost no one on a mainstream outlet trying to get people to care about this recently the hash tag twenty one trillion for the unaccounted for pentagon money has gained some traction let's get another one started all right one twenty one bombs a day a hundred and twenty one bombs per day one every twelve minutes do you know where they're hitting do you know who they're killing do you know why we're killing them a hundred and twenty one bombs

a day or being dropped in your name and my name and her name and his name went to where faisal. and. i don't turn that into like al awful oprah oprah so those of us a bomb and you have a. and you have a. point is the. point is the government and military you and i support by being a part of this society are murdering people every twelve minutes and in response there's nothing but a ghostly silence like someone farted in the elevator and no one wants to talk about it all right lads start talking about it now do you watch b.b.c. .

oh. come on we can allocate the news from behind so do you remember the moment a few months ago when trump went down to puerto rico to empathize with the people after the devastation of hurricane maria you look at what happened here which really is. so you never see. what is your what if you did get. sixty. sixty people versus in the. sixth sense it's a bit more high kill thirty people who are right for a very just right. for just sixty to be able literally my motorcade right over twelve people on the way here so it's this is really. do you remember that well researchers at harvard recently revealed the death toll from hurricane maria may be

a staggering seventy times higher the study estimates a death toll of at least four thousand six hundred and forty five zero right now trunk and head back down there pretend like you gives it away is ok you got to do a better no no i'm kidding he wouldn't do that. les added a new golf course to open then. by the way cutting cutting that ribbon that is the most manual labor he's done his life all right he. pulled a tricep doing that. but seriously he's just a figurehead the anonymous corporate state doesn't care how high the numbers of dead get in better result then just looking for the profit in this disaster capitalism system and speaking of profit over people the new poor people's campaign continued this week with about. it got got about as much coverage from mainstream media as screech from saved by the bell is currently getting for. right now sixteen people were arrested monday in topeka

kansas protesting for better health care and environmental regulations they did that as part of the poor people's campaign but again the chesapeake a kansas delegate about topeka kansas unless you run out of gas in topeka kansas. and even then you feel like i'm pretty sure we're in kansas city. in kentucky this week state police barred a four hundred protesters from entering the capitol building the protesters were demanding wider medicaid coverage for the poor and protections for the environment and the water as part of the poor people's campaign but in kansas just kentucky kentucky matter and unless you care about whiskey or having sex with your cousin and and i care about one of those things a lot right his name is jim. jim beam. and yes. it is weird that my cousin has the same

name as a bourbon. here in washington d.c. twenty eight people were arrested in the capitol rotunda monday while protesting the disproportionate. impact of disasters such as hurricane maria on the poor they did this as part of the poor people's campaign but who cares it's just washington d.c. that's just where rats go to breed with unpaid interns. part it's part of the ied to movement was. bush how many people even died hurricane maria was like six day what is like nothing the sight of you should be quite proud of yourselves in michigan this week hundreds of people protested outside the capitol for more than an hour activists blocked all four exits at the michigan department of environmental quality and refused to let anyone

out they did it as part of the poor people's campaign but who cares that's in michigan as we all know everything is fine in michigan. the last five years of the measure has been saying campaspe does not count it does not count all right if your warner were filled with that much less you would think they were cool to you what you were that. that is a visual representation of a lot of land in the skull. did i mention that protest was part of the poor people's campaign that yes i. found. there are protests going on around the country but your corporate media won't talk about it because it's not trump pornstar all right there is catastrophic prop poverty in our country and people are tired of this abusive system based on false scarcity

putting profit for the rich above the lives of millions get out there. so get out there and protect of. all right thank the west. if that goes well then we'll go way down on the list or whatever going to health care for children or job or whatever is lower on the left you've got to have priorities. i think food both bring people together and i'm sure that these folks will be of the exception of good will come from the field of play the door also for the he meets for through the fisa the mitchell for russia to show that they able to organize a vote up. when

the let me just manufacture to send stuff to the public well. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the financial merry go round the sun be the one percent. we can all middle of the room sit. around the real news room. join me every thursday on the alec simon show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

well. a new study found that when community newspapers shut down local governments become more corrupt because there's even less oversight yes you thought local news there was were only used by local fathers who wanted to avoid breakfast conversations with their local families. i can hear you know i'm i'm really a cartoon about obama is a muslim. anyway i hear it is just this new lack of oversight is our senior listicle writer damaged. enemies judge the future of local newspapers look groom lee there are other ways to spread information i mean have you tried yelling. yeah all right all right no need to demonstrate i heard the first half of the show. regional press is a doctor twenty one bob. we got it we got it regional press is

disappearing and don't look for local investigations online nontraditional outlets have primarily been in the business of content dissemination rather than the production of new information. we're not creating anything new i take that a little personally ok not everything i do is repeating what i find on the web i opened a p.d.f. . and stayed awake then i copied and pasted that quote into my script. was so that you could watch it on you want to send it to your mom who tweets it then a lonely gamer screenshots it posted on reddit where this rant becomes a means that seven people will read that same my friend. your regular edward r. murrow this study measured corruption through municipal. bond prices. well i almost fell sleep when i was saying that.

the interest rate of new. local radio isn't that there are some other it jimbo wrote because no one is keeping the government accountable have the country lives in these news deserts one reason is credit list took over newspaper classifieds and the rent revenue that they generated and judging by the man i met on his list requested my huge q-tips. i don't think we can trust this craig. i would have understood if you wanted my worn socks or panties you know something sensible ok you just created at least five mental images i don't want. people say i am amused. when papers like the rocky mountain news disappear

government corruption gets worse as it did in denver especially when it comes to municipal spending and borrowing this leads to one higher taxes to a less efficient government three uninformed citizens for fewer voters and of course five less material for paper maché. the depressing list of all the oh and yeah i agree the rocky mountain news broke out lists candles that led to federal investigations of city officials so now there's no one to babysit these politicians but luckily they have one investigative reporter and denver so what if he's a tenth grader. that means you can pay him an extra credit only downside is his article with the headline city hall corrupted started with really webster defines corruption as dishonest conduct. of the so i would suggest. if you live in denver you move look we all know if you go home with

somebody and they don't have a bookstore. if you go to one town and it doesn't have newspapers don't with it. so. you send it in no books is a deal breaker for you well and deal breaker number two if he has books but no shelves deal breaker three if he wants to be a comedian deal breaker for him if he is a comedian do great. writing was remember that time or remember the time the american healthcare system was so bad people were going to back alley surgery centers instead but i remember a large it was yesterday because it was yesterday. and today and tomorrow for more on this let's go to our troops bob now let me go.

it seems to say that getting any kind of surgery carries some risk even warned my stop their animals before operated on them. and i definitely warned this that the risk of infection was very high especially when i play the operation drinking game in college and vomited into his chest cavity. but it's where you get the surgery that carries an even larger risk to your life because instead of hospitals americans are increasingly turning to surgery centers the save a buck while doctors who own these centers take on more and riskier procedures to make bigger profits and investigation by kaiser health news in the usa today network has the skiver that more than two hundred sixty patients have died since two thousand and thirteen after in and out procedures at surgery centers across the country thousands of times each year these centers called nine one one as patients

experience complications ranging from minor to fatal weight. the doctors are calling nine one one. one why and i don't see our broker watching the weather channel to see if he needs an umbrella for the today show if the call the surgery center sounds like a place that could be sandwiched in between a strip mall dressed barn and a cheesecake factory then you're not that far off because the first surgery center in the us opened in phoenix in one nine hundred seventy s. a place we between neighborhood shops and a baptist church but a decade later surgery centers got a boost when medicare began paying for center procedures in one thousand nine hundred two and in one thousand nine hundred three congress encouraged doctors to open surgery centers by exempting them from the second stark law which prevents doctors from steering patients to their businesses they own the start law is

a set of federal rules that prevent doctors self referral. the first arc law of course prevent a wealthy businessman tony stark from steering heart failure patients to tony stark industries exclusively for iran see the number of surgery centers bloom to over fifty six hundred this outnumbers registered hospitals in the u.s. and as shocking as that sounds it's not considering doctors who own a share of the center can earn their own fee and a kind of the facilities feed a meaningful sum for operations that can cost one hundred thousand dollars or more with all the money doctors raked in it's surprising to hear that medicare actually good it was down on paying for spinal surgery they considered it too risky for a surgery center. that is and so the surgery center industry launched a letter writing campaign to change medicare is mind

a campaign filled with comments from surgeons and center owners who. we did with medicare like the one you did in an r. and b. group that's always begging a girl to come back. i'm looking at you course to med medicare approved paying for nearly a dozen different spinal procedures and twenty fifteen. and as of twenty seventeen there are been fourteen spinal surgery dad who was the people who made bank off the surgery are going to say is the great idea. if this was the e.p.a. mulling over climate change policy scott pruitt bustin making your brain postcards a said eight out of ten remaining penguin say it's a hoax and if you rely on medicare these centers may be the only option your doctor tells you about surgery is already risky enough take the profit motive out of health care and maybe you will see a system whose only motivation is keeping you alive. and one where your

h.m.o. gets you something better than a child surgeon. according from washington that let me go redacted tonight. that's our show but give free exclusive content by texting the word redacted to four four four nine nine nine it's free and quick and also again you can check out the new podcast common sense until next time good guy. this is. the church secret indeed just like priests accused of sexually abusing children can get away with it would literally like to call this

a do graphic solution so what the bishop needs to do then he finds out the. the priest says is a perpetrator is simply moves him to a different spot were the previous standards not know the highest ranks of the catholic church conceal the accused priests from the police and justice system to that is as old as the eye and then to include that it just is out in the. street.

when a loved one is murder it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murder i would prefer it be killing the death penalty just because i think that's the fair think the right thing research shows that for every nine executions one convict is found innocent the idea that we more executing innocent people is terrifying the is just know it hasn't and that we're even many victims' families want the death penalty to be abolished the respect they get kelly hears because that's what murder victims' families what that's going to give them peace that's going to give them justice and we come in and say. not quite enough we've been through this this isn't the way.

i would rather see russia in. the g. eight as opposed to the i would say that the g eight is a more meaningful group than the g seven and donald trump repeated his call for russia to be reinstated in the g seven which along with new u.s. import tariffs is causing major divisions at the summit in canada. photographs are really showing a tear gas canister fired by the israeli army getting stuck in the last of a palestinian ring protests at the gaza border. nazi looks at google's new range of emoji is including gender neutral couples and vegan salads and the last of the really politically correct.