what does the rise of the yellow vests lumen in france tell us about the state of the neoliberal order in europe are the protests in france the largest since one thousand nine hundred eighty eight just about a hike until prices and is the man you will approach the right person to be president to address the problems so many in france.

ah. ah. yes. thank you thank you welcome this is the comedy show where americans in america covering american news are called foreign agents. thank you for being born a shoe in the alexandria ocasio court ten has been ruthlessly attacked this week and i feel a bit responsible i might have accidentally tainted her twitter feed with my truth serum. but that sounds weird so let me back up. you might recall that on a previous show i covered the twenty one trillion dollars that has gone unaccounted for at the pentagon that's right trillion with a t. and i feel like every time this topic is even mentioned if you come would like

a little just a little clue suffix a little suffix right there in that self fix should be. god god god god god god. is right there right there anyway the twenty one trillion includes six point five trillion dollars unaccounted for in twenty fifteen alone and when i covered this a few months ago really the only two journalists looking into it were david de graw writing for his own website and a single forbes article which was co-written by the economist who discovered the unaccounted adjustments mark skidmore and i discovered i don't mean skidmore like found a dusty shoe box and donald rumsfeld's old desk underneath you know the baby skeletons underneath the baby skeletons. i mean he took a. in it to look at the defense department's own inspector general's report so

really he does bother to look at the thing that was designed for the public to look at. that's what he did anyway add to the redacted the night after so it came out it got hundreds of thousands of views like true to go articles on the same topic also went viral and so did that forbes article yet despite thank you yet despite. the display all of that still not a word from congress not a word from the hacks at your mainstream media outlets but then just a few weeks ago something significant was said by the deputy secretary of defense patrick shanahan it happened in a quiet news dump in a press conference that actually actually began like this deputy secretary of defense so you guys know i came down today reporter to see if we.

just because we're murdering people all around the world doesn't mean we can't. get in. during that silly wacky press conference the deputy secretary of defense casually mentioned halfway through that the pentagon had failed its first ever audit the first time the pentagon had ever been audited even though it was legally required to do so since the early ninety's. and after shanahan dropped that bombshell here's what followed reporter what part did the pentagon fail in the audit shanahan how about i give you a technical version of that there are a considerable number of areas where we kind of had a pass and then there is some other ones where they went through and we wouldn't do your inventory serves them and we didn't find these things and therefore there's a finding you don't have a clean assessments so and in

a lot of these audit it's it's the type of finding that matters. if they were in the real reporting looks like they can check out the investigative exposé from the nation magazine that came out a couple of days ago the nation said it's for decades the d.o.d.'s leaders and accountants have been perpetrating a gigantic unconstitutional accounting fraud deliberately cooking the books to mislead the congress and drive the d.o.d.'s budget ever higher deal d. has literally been making up numbers in the annual financial reports to congress representing trillions of dollars worth of seemingly nonexistent transactions. and the next page in the nation who looked like this. so here's here's how this fraud works every year the pentagon tells congress how much money they need they submit the financial reports from the year before. to the

room we heap ing steaming bowls all right. call the adjustments those adjustments cover up the fact that they didn't necessarily spend all the money the year before however instead of return. unspent funds to the u.s. treasury as law requires the pentagon sometimes launders and shifts such monies to other parts of the d.o.d.'s budget and this is no mistake this is false the pentagon's accounting fraud diverts many billions of dollars that could be devoted to other national need indeed the pentagon accounting fraud amounts to death on a grand scale def not only for america's taxpayers but also from the nation's well being and its future so right after the nation came out with this this past week

alexandria ocasio cortez tweeted about it basically saying that these unaccounted trillions at the pentagon could help pay for medicare for all so clearly things are ramping up people are finding out about the twenty one trillion dollars and that means it is now time for the true corporate tax to jump in and drag everyone who dares speak out about about this issue and tour vox which if you're unfamiliar is it's a cross between the huffington post and n.p.r. tote bag filled with rotting disease raccoon carcasses. sold vox put out an article is titled the twenty one trillion dollar accounting area error that can't pay for medicare for all and you know how you can tell for sure that you're a net win spraying idiocy like a super soaker when you when you find yourself saying the phrase twenty one trillion dollar accounting. yet bill cosby just got the

drinks mixed up. sixty three times. yet maggie have glazier sent back says the pentagon's accounting errors are genuinely enormous but they're also just accounting errors they don't represent actual money they can be spent or something on something else sorry. it's impossible to have trillions of dollars of a. helming hours as it is to accidentally bump into the twenty thousand people in an hour is like oh it's iowa g o o o o o o o o o wow ok i walk around ok. since i'm getting too lengthy to conform i feel my five sets of points. all like the writer of four of respond to you this is not simply a matter of boring and counting trillions in unaccounted to outlays if that's the case we're talking about the biggest government by nancy of destruction in the

history of the country. thanks a good way to sum it up here fox is actually a sad group of corporate shills the defense department is actually an organized human murder company and the twenty one trillion dollars of adjustments is actually a massive fraud with me i would be. proud to call court that is truly mostly right but more importantly this story is starting to gain traction people can see the truth and right now it is the corporate media tools who are trying to make sure you think it is just some accounting there's pay no mind to the fact that it amounts to the largest theft ever perpetrated against the american people nobody watching the thank.

you thank. you. cannot attack the news from behind so very very scary story here a terrorist group that began in the united kingdom has officially. to the united states it goes by the name extinction rebellion and if you are one of the big oil or factory farm exacts or the government officials they fund then these activists are indeed terrorists because think about it when an oil exact here is the words green future do they not feel their heart stop a little bit. tonight do they not vomit a little bit in their mouths they feel terrified that we might stop destroying the planet and live longer than say the next ten years. and the ones bringing this

terror or extinction rebellion on twitter at extinction are but do not go there do not read their tweets all right. because you will be traumatised i mean just just look at that look at look at them nothing says terrorist like a knitted cap and a reusable water bottle all right that is it improvised hydration device you know how many concept probably saves i go through one cup perth ship like a man all right her simple so just a few days ago extinction rebellion convened a people's congress at the u.s. capitol here in washington d.c. and they even blocked traffic day or day how dare they come dare they bring a people's congress to the to the doorstep of our corporate congress right and is that supposed to have real people anywhere near it no no no no no all right our congress was meant to be made up of representatives of corporate interests and by bringing real people to the capitol extinction rebellion is making the congressmen

and women feel very uncomfortable all right. when they. read the name of the course they've been forced to touch or smell a real person in years. now some of you might be thinking yes that is true that the climate denying republicans in congress represent big oil. but i think you're selling the democrats short i really do the democrats are brave bold leaders when it comes to representing big oil they really. impact. ok here's a no name democrat and no name democrat speaking at an elite black tie dinner only one week ago that hold suddenly america's biggest oil producer because there was be people i just was so i have he says proudly that he made america the biggest oil producer in the world which means the biggest cause of our

impending extinction so why is it cheering for him he did a wonderful in representing big oil i think i think you are cheering because you're racist honestly i think that. you don't think a black man can destroy the planet just as well as a white guy. because he was right. and so you know so or so me you liberals out there are thinking but republicans are still worse they allow wall street to go one better run while the wall quick tangent i've always thought to the walls an odd expression to me pushing the limits i mean it sounds more like something is going horribly wrong isn't it. how's your dance routine coming it's terrible i was all right but i'm going to be able to walk straight. anyway point is yes you are correct republicans allow more

greed on wall street than democrats just look at this no name republican bragging about it last week sometimes you go to wall street folks. and talk business so if you check where your starts were when i came in office where there are no work what are you talking what are you complaining about the sun thank you please. publicans are of all ticked they are going to do their so full of themselves but they really really should be. full of themselves because they'd so much they really i'm told it's mostly high grade sushi in oreos mainly. but oreos may soon go extinct this is true if dirty eight seventy thing to say about it no seriously a lifelike animatronic uring of tang showed up to protest at the main entrance to the corporate headquarters of mon billy's makers of oreo cookies why was the man because apparently oreos are made with palm oil and mon dillies uses a ton of the stuff in order to do that they knock down rain forests decimating the

little remaining habitat of orangutans so now rang it sang's are trying to make oreos go the way of high drunks. and oreos. and oreos are trying to make orangutans go the way of the lorax meaning imaginary look we have to make a choice right now we do it would we rather have a functional planet with all kinds of unique and interesting animals or would we rather have oreos. i think the answer is clear oreos are right there right there don't miss it they go well with cal nipple mucus. and they show that black and white can live together in harmony. humans entering it's not so much besides the enemy trying to tank was pretty real look at it was clearly we don't need actual apes we can just use the robotic ones. until the ai

realizes what's going on and takes control and sends us into the inevitable charlton heston screaming on a beach scenario from one of the wings. and that face there by the way is probably the face neo cons and neo liberals are making right now whenever they look towards mexico because new mexico's just inaugurated their first a leftist leader in seventy years ok. you're right. huge margin he wants to make many changes the mexico to benefit the people instead of the oligarchy and the drug cartels which let's be honest pretty boring news cycle it really does. if c.n.n. has taught us anything it's that when megaman goal corrupt. man child with the memory of a drunken goldfish wanders around yelling things more on a hinge than grandpa simpson. super energy. and that is why right now c.n.n.

is working to get trump real luck did by covering him every second of every day. helping people helping people and feeding the poor it sounds really boring and dies i mean mexico's new president andres manuel lopez obrador said when asked about trump we must make the us see that the most important thing. subroto here on. a group of justice and universe over here in return where we can. just say it is lopez obrador a guy if he if he wants as president good good ratings he's going to have to learn to say at least a little bit a racist alright. you know or maybe mock a physically handicapped person maybe that'll do it you know same goes for labor

leader jeremy corbyn he hasn't said anything aggressively offensive about women or minorities in ages. i don't even know why they keep the show on the air anyway if the democrats want to defeat trump i think it's clear who their next presidential nominee should be all right i think they. have to be right. campaign. slogan will be all you want to do. and hope better to save us from planet of the right we have to go to a quick break but grab my super patriotic very uncle sam something. they can tell you that the guy.

didn't. know. what was up and that it was. about. him and that was not my. welcome to maximize their financial survival guide. looking forward to your pension account. yanks this is what happens to pensions in britain don't let this happen you watch kaiser report.

we've got the economic diplomacy. complement the small before you go diplomacy and as i said we did not know that the shelf will be something some might suggest is that i have to wait to get the difference without it will be a huge. well so much welcome back i continue to be really can have some major us cities with rents as high as a burning man are only starting to figure out that wages haven't exactly kept up with the cost of housing in philadelphia where the eviction rate is one hundred fifty percent more than the national average city officials are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to apply and legal services for residents on the brink of losing their homes

for more on this we go to our senior slum lady now and again yes. this is. this program sounds like a great investment to help struggling tenants or or it sounds like a slap in the face to property owners like me busting my ass to provide quality affordable housing going to be economy. right pretty sure as landlord a says would also like some free money so we can continue to offer housing like my most recent listing which i have yet to see any inquiries about. that's the liberty bell so just just remind me that the crack was already there and you'll get your security deposit back i'm not reading the liberty bell are you so no better than the landlords these tenants are taken to court when twenty eight philly families a day lost their homes and twenty sixteen you have to agree they're at a disadvantage when it comes to legal actually it which is why it's

a relief the city only kicked in eight hundred thousand dollars for this program the philadelphia bar association just released a report saying this program really needs three and a half million dollars to all to really save the city forty five point two million in costs associated with homelessness and displacement and that three a half million doesn't even come close to the one hundred fifty five million dollars new york city is ponying up for a similar program but with as cash strapped as. really is the city spending that kind of money is as unlikely as a fox news anchor keeping his job after saying happy hanukah on the air. or a back up in a fellow quarterback winning the super bowl. to the philadelphia eagles use a backup quarterback to win the superbowl last year ok ok yeah that's true but lightning doesn't strike the same place twice which is coincidentally what i wrote to reassure renters about my latest property which had a run of bad luck after a thunderstorm. sees this you couldn't find

a photo where it wasn't on fire and one for the pull of department has a fireplace in the center and i know it doesn't have a fireplace it was a fire place. and yes they only find that out until after they sign the lease but it's not like i'm charging them extra i'm very aware of the fact that nearly one in five of the nation's forty three million renters spend more than half of their income on housing but under-handed behavior like it sounds like you're involved in is the reason residents need legal funds like phillies' in new york you know they're both doing it a victory and leaves a paper trail that makes it even harder for residents to get approved for housing in the future so until wages catch up with the rental costs more cities need to follow philly's leave i know i know the wages are an issue which is why i've had to get creative with the sizes of the low rent spaces i provided philly and in places even closer than you think. you mean my desk no one would want to live in my

desk oh you'd be surprised there's some pretty desperate people out there. that will be going through. if you wanted heat you would have rented the fireplace. former president former head of the cia george h.w. bush was laid to rest this week rejects correspondent caravan and took a moment to consider this great accomplished man's legacy of war crimes he filed this report. a wise man once said truth is always the first casualty of war and i call him a wise man because i do not know his name but it actually sounds like something helen keller would say so after twenty eight years of war in iraq what truths can

we recover from the rubble that was then blown up into smaller rubble that was then blown up into smaller rubble it might be tough to recover as the u.s. still has five thousand troops there supporting me russian security forces against the threat of isis isis is making a comeback after it lost its head in syria however in the wake of george h.w. bush's death the media's calling the beginning of american intervention in iraq a noble accomplishment of the late president for the guardian the first iraq war was his most impressive achievement triumphant the president did not put a foot wrong and that's news to me that you can write your own obituary bush did stand up to israel and god lobbies and grew up on the japanese prime minister those were good but c.b.s. concentrates on those drop experience before entering the white house he was

a two term congressman from texas u.s. ambassador to the united nations head of the cia and vice president under president ronald reagan mr bush also lived longer than any president in american history yes he did the most. breathing of any other president a true hero of people everywhere who are alive and now he's gone at the young age of ninety four however as a not at all serious journalist i'm not afraid to criticize dead presidents because it's daylight and their ghosts can taunt me the brutality of dictators have not been an issue when saddam hussein killed thirteen thousand of his own people and one hundred fifty thousand iranians none of that was a problem for us even knew hussein was launching some of the worst chemical attacks in history and still gave him a hand then iraq and axed great thinking that the us would look the other way so the us needed a new story of brutality to mobilize the country and our allies against iraq

a young kuwaiti girl testified in the be rational human rights caucus the record coming to the hospital with guns. they took the b.b. gun out of incubators. took thing can be a month to children to die in the cold war nigeria was in the quickie royal family and the daughter of the kuwaiti ambassador to the us and the story of babies in the incubator is was completely fabricated by the washington p.r. consultancy hill in notes and hired by the quaid government the same people who brought you coca-cola. the president bush repeated the dead baby story ten times now dead babies is a classic propaganda story it's the lame is a war marketing and once a story is perfected of course you will see it again in twenty eleven c.n.n. help spread a hoax about syrian babies dying in incubators why fix

a dead baby if it ain't broke back in one thousand nine hundred one after the iraq war wounded bush started rushing to thank him which killed two hundred twenty seven thousand children under the age of five. h.w. bush wasn't trump morning joe what are we missing with. the leadership of donald trump. george h.w. bush was a realist but he was a realist who also had values and standards and principles these standards and principles were put into practice not only by sloppily bombing civilian targets but also by inaction during the. race baiting grabbing women obstructing justice through pardoning criminals associated with the iran contra scandal on the eve of the trial that he would have to testify there is a striking difference between h.w. bush and the current president and that is that trump comes later you heard it here

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political allegation the. meaning. any politician regardless of their beliefs can be labeled a populist isn't politics populism of some sort or another. but the. standing with. students across france to take to the streets over education reforms that follows weeks of protests against fuel price increases which forced the government to. the end of a.