thank you thank you. thank you thank you this is a comedy show we're americans in america covering american news or now called foreign agents. so the dow jones has seen its worst december since nine hundred eighty no one is buying anything for the holidays from a company other than amazon mom and pop shops have just resorted to selling mom and

pop. and worker wages are so stagnant they give lindsey lowe hands career a run for its money. to get to the heart of what's going on here let's turn to any if then statement remember if then statements in like elementary middle school you know one day you're your jaded teacher would walk in and be like class we're learning if then statements works like this if tommy is a good looking man then he is a pedophile all right. that'll be all they can write you can write it down. so here's ours for today if big story many quality then instability. so do we have extreme inequality he asks knowingly. this is from nomi prins of tom dispatch if you really want to grasp what's been happening

consider that between two thousand and nine and twenty seventeen the number of billionaires whose combined wealth was greater than that of the world's poorest fifty percent fell from three hundred eighty to just eight. and in the us it's even worse it's three three dude so do we have inequality we have more inequality than what bron james is high school basketball team all right. no no one is really passing the rock to poor danny lips shits. with the rock on the rock. trump brags about how low the unemployment numbers are and they are indeed low however those numbers are filled with people who have stopped searching for work and people who have jobs remember one wal-mart which cost having a canned food drive for their own employees is. if you work at wal-mart and you can't afford thanksgiving dinner that doesn't mean we should all donate cans it

means walmart socks the right. way. amazon probably would have a food drive for their warehouse employees except those workers aren't allowed to stop to eat solid food. instead amazon is patented a device that pumps nutrients into the workers rectally alright rectally yeah you. you know you can choose to take the bar form but it's truly uncomfortable it's not . you know. my favorite part of that triple threat. but one of the worst of the. all of this is to say we have crazy any wallaby and it leads to crazy instability here's the top one percent share of total u.s. income now this peaked right there over there that was before the great depression

all right which despite popular belief was not great. could top four hundred u.s. earners have hugely decreased how. oh many millions they bring home every year now see this peak over here you know that peak that happened right after the two thousand and eight collapse are right or right before right before the two thousand it glads that's what caused it or at that but which if you don't recall our justice department prosecuted nobody for that they're still looking for the guy they're still looking you know now any day they have however put up this wanted poster in the justice department so. they're going to crack this any minute. so what has caused this utterly awful inequality well there are several culprits one is bill clinton's gutting of the glass steagall act another is the federal reserve

quantitative easing which is basically a massive giveaway to wall street while main street stands there with our in our hands or or. another cause is the crushing of unions here's the percent of income the top ten percent take home as compared to union membership in america you see how they separate they're like when union membership goes down the rich get a lot richer because the workers have no power to stop the ruling elite from stealing everything and right now yeah. right doing membership is at a record low around ten point seven percent this level of inequality causes people to protest and to vote outside of the normal establishment candidates this can produce great leaders looking to help decrease inequality like jeremy corbyn in the u.k. or lopez obrador in mexico or it can lead to fascistic anti immigrant nationalist

tendencies like it has in italy france brazil the united states. and others look go away the good ole us of a is there to fight. the leftist and prop up the fascists. in terms of the recent election of outwardly racist president balsa narrow in brazil which the wall street journal endorsed journalist marcello zero wrote it's the cia has its finger prints on brazil's election and in the ukraine the u.s. has been partnering with and funding neo nazi groups you know the nice thing about partnering with neo nazi groups is when you stay at their house they almost always have clean sheets for you. might have some holes in them but you know better than nothing that there's a real lot of problem in the clan community right on the other hand truly left wing

leaders like jeremy corben must be undermined by the ruling elite and the media those elite own outlets like b.b.c. in the washington post can't get enough of claiming jeremy corbett is an anti-semite and of course our lefty bernie sanders was carefully undermined to make sure he lost the twenty sixteen primary in case you forgot the new york city's board of elections admitted in court that it broke the law purging two hundred thousand voters not sure if you recall that so what did we get instead of the democratic socialist we got a racist nationalist so let's go back to our if that ends if any quality then instability if instability then popular uprisings if popular uprising then either lefty leaders or neo fascists if the us involvement then neo fascists. ok i says to me no because the christmas tree was

ok. thank you. well welcome lee can always take the news from behind we start off with exciting news everybody the department of homeland security put out a press statement last week and on the official government website the first paragraph began quote d.c.'s is committed to building the wall and building walls quickly. yes they are so focused on stopping desperate refugees for entering the country by building a wall that they don't have time for things like the letter

a and before wall. in fact in order to save money for wall they have gotten rid of all articles and da jess. and. even articles of clothing have been eliminated that is true that's a recent press conference. that was left. the department of homeland security website continues if we are not replacing short outdated and ineffective wall with similar wall. instead under this president we are building a wall that is thirty feet high backed prior to our president drug taking office we have never built while that. this is. this is so true no we have never bill wall that hard and we have never spoke so good or don't you ask. the man she did it was try.

to set it better myself. this press release by the department of homeland security just makes me so proud. so proud to be an illiterate. we've been under representative government for years. on the same day this v.h.s. release came out trump's department of education put out this which appears to be. a drawing of a cat labeled as a dog. the so yes. so yes the republicans are idiots but the democrats this week also stood up and declared they are not going to be out . oh no they said what you think our brains don't think it's day four so yes yes. here's what happened as you know the u.s.

backed attack on yemen is catastrophic eighty five thousand children under five have already starved to death if the bombing continues it could become the worst famine the world has seen in a hundred years the u.s. senate just recently voted to withdraw u.s. support for the attacks with some loopholes the house of reps however added on an amendment to the farm bill that forbid the house from voting on yemen and the farm bill barely passed with the help of five democrats one of them being collin peterson from minnesota he was asked why he voted to prolong the war in yemen and he said it didn't belong in the bill then the reporter says it's do you have any thoughts about the war in yemen peterson responded i don't know example you about it. look our noble congress men and women are doing their job as best they can the best way to do it is to remain ignorant on the things that will make them feel kind

of gross. so of representative right. now of representative peterson reads about yemen then he will feel really be about voting. tenure the genocide but if he reads instead of golfing magazine of his choice. it is much easier for him to cast his vote and his job is to cast votes so thank you collin peterson for bringing the uninformed leader america hoped you'd be. thank you thank you thank you oh thank you thank you thank you also garnering much attention this week is the senate's passing of a large criminal justice bill that's right. a little justice will the bill gives judges more discretion discretion when the sentencing drug offenders and boosts prisoner rehabilitation efforts it reduces the life sentence for drug

offenders with three convictions for twenty five years and it would affect only federal prisoners who make up less than seven percent of the country's prison population. ten percent. you know i'll just add this to the list of things i'm ten percent excited about right which includes tubing down a river with my aunt. shopping for a couch on a hot day and anything new i'm an employed sound. and now i can add criminal justice bill that impacts a few thousand people i mean and look how surprised we'd be isn't this the best we can hope from congress that they do ten percent of their job that's a big step that's a big step bob i mean eighty seven members of the senate all agreed on this bill and only nineteen of those said i don't know a damn thing about it. that's huge i can't wait for next year i've heard rumors

they're going to address ten percent of climate change what exactly are these guys . ninety percent of us will go extinct. but only ninety but you know who doesn't do anything ten percent coca-cola all right they keep it a hundred billboards have appeared around germany showing brands like coca-cola nutella taking a strong stance against the right wing and nationalist party. unfortunately the billboards were not put there by the corporations they were put there by activists and then forced koch and the others to actually take a political stance and say no when put those we agree. not see. in honor of this we hear every day to the night we've put up some billboards here in the days since capital here in the u.s. to support our brave and loving corporations here's

a lockheed lockheed martin join us in supporting starving children in yemen let me rephrase that join us in supporting the act of starving children. and here's johnson and johnson baby powder last week it was revealed that the baby powder has a special in it and that executives knew for decades that it was a problem and could be causing cancer so here's a billboard we help help with when it first arrived on store shelves many people asked us whether baby powder was a powder used to create babies. we told them no it is not however we can now proudly announce it is exactly the. right fight if you want to actually contact my free weekly podcast of common sense or on i tunes spotify in stature and get the redactor the night podcast called moment of clarity also free

every single week well dr i would. imagine. this is thirty five if you have a but clear and clear involves using your insulin your computer thinks that you have been in an office. perhaps you sort of get into that circular. you could have to stop doing this this kind of you lose the phrase my world became smaller and smaller and smaller until i ended up living it and. very strong magnetic field still in my head. think of it like a real hard shirt my skin burns and wireless access point and just continues on to me with our students in the school so. we are just continually

our citizens in this microwave radiation it is certainly electro small and it's getting worse. my son doing drugs my nephew was still in drugs my sister just with doing drugs it was like an epidemic of drug abuse america's public enemy number one in the united states is drug abuse we started going after the users in the prison population. we started treating sick people people who are addicted to these drugs like criminals while i was on the hill. that the war on drugs was a mistake there are numbers of people who are in prison for. sins for minor minor offenders in the drug trade it's a lot watching your children grow up and miss you in waves and say by day as you're

walking out of a business it's just it doesn't get easier. welcome back. yet has now reached a record one point four six five trillion more than jabal ng since the end of the great recession just a few years ago over forty four million americans are currently shackled with college debt here now to explain the feasibility of student debt forgiveness is senior financial analyst john f. o'donnell. yeah dad priggishness well over there look like. it would look like

a disaster wrapped in a tsunami engulfed in a bit heading thoroughly dipped in a blue bonnet played with the right amount of of clusters. sprinkled on top of it oh. so bad you're saying bad that you're going bad but john is it true that student debt forgiveness would actually it would benefit our economy a lot no absolutely not i mean according to a comprehensive report by the levy economics institute of bard college the policy of debt cancellation could boost real g.d.p. by an average of eighty six billion to one hundred eight billion per year and peak job creation adds roughly one point two million to one point five million new jobs per year. how is that i've got to say what. i thought you meant the overall economy of me. you see i don't have any student

debt because my dad am paid for the entirety of my out in-state tuition that lack of student debt is one of the only pieces of social capital i have to wield over those less fortunate than me and i'll be god damned if i'm going to give enough. you want to come on cute i cheer that you out of your attic you can only four million people in data because of your inadequacies as a person hell yeah. plus women disproportionately hold two thirds of all student debt i'm assuming that lowers their self-esteem and low self-esteem ladies that's my exclusive dating demographic. i'm not going to let the government mess up dysfunctional codependent relationships very may. place. your personal reservations aside how could the government pull this off. ninety percent of these

loans are held by the department of education so the federal government can just forgive that debt and take the financial hit which would only increase the budget deficit by one half of one percent of g d p g p d which is trivial. good to know and what about the ten percent of student loan debt that's privately held you do realize if the government does this and i still want companionship i would have to finance one of those high in real dollars. weeks then a bully is going to come to life and murder me in my sleep was you know you're a kid. that for the record if a real doll somehow anthropomorphize and kill you in your sleep i would care and we'd have a little party here at the studio to tell your story. really that some of the ways that we've been up here oh oh thank you. so private jack of pride and dad

go find a one time massive payment of private debt makes sense if it's rolled out at the same time that public colleges and universities are made to which in free so nobody else could get thrown into the student debt trap there well it's a good. was the and i mean there's already some forms of public college in tennessee new york california the yetzer effect or if it wonderful i mean look people in america should just be happy they are not millennial in china who are using new to secure loans if the repayments aren't made on time the money lenders threaten to leak those naked selfies to the individual's family and friends. that's reactively that's really yeah it is i do the opposite actually i give people my nudes are they a lonely night. the was

the on the no one the sal i was a half what i have asked was. i'm going to have to drop my red nose with a brillo pad. you probably remember the whole fight over net neutrality which you have c.c. decided to crush free and open the internet well now they're going to crush free and open text messaging that's right say goodbye to text neutrality for more on this here's our truth bomber jacket correspondent natalie mcgill. thirty years since being at c.c. voted to get rid of net neutrality and if you're watching this on a mobile device it's a miracle you've made it this far without any signs of buffer. god damn it.

both to sit it out. plugging throttling your internet wasn't enough for the f.c.c. now they're coming for your tax because the drug administration just killed net neutrality for text messages. classifies jordan as an information service rather than a telecom service which are messages protected from discrimination and it's the latest abomination from f.c.c. chair by a former rising lawyer who after were appealing net neutrality added insult to injury with a video about all the things we can still do online after the repeal tries excuse for this move is that it will give wireless carriers the way to stop spam tax without fear of breaking the law and systems bromo tax from taking over phones away robo calls. the problem is high end of tech these wireless carriers consider

spam and we already got a few hints. attacks the voice campaign that would raise money for survivors of the haiti earthquake in twenty two. or three years earlier when blocked a voluntary touch message program from abortion rights may roll pro-choice america because a rising refusal to approve any program that seeks to promote an agenda or distribute that in its discretion maybe. savory to any of our users relieve arises. a woman's right to choose is an unsavory. unsavory is the chain letter type from my aunt carole that is international nice day send us the twenty people who are nice as they are going straight to hell not to the last that but if the fight to free and fair internet has taught us anything we know who. will get

blocked activist groups that rely on short kotex messaging services to organize this includes groups like occupy wall street who use texting services to communicate with protesters or immigration rights activists who relied on it to advocate for dreamers yet if you're one of those people that still believe the f.c.c. was trying to do us a favor consider that if they had left alone wireless carriers like arisan would still be able to filter out spam messages for consumers movie s.c.b. when looking for a solution to a problem they already zome and created an entire lein new problem in the process. just like whoever thought it was a great idea to train cats how to use the toilet good for you now you just create a competition for the bathroom in the morning on your way to wire. the activists to

protest the war for greed these telecom companies represents are facing yet another digital roadblock and while platforms like facebook messenger or whatsapp are ways around this it assumes you live in an area with reliable white by. or that you're fine with the fact that facebook bans the photos and links you send on messenger and that facebook owns whatsapp ok if i'm going to have any autonomy over my tax i'm at least the way to my own stupid ass chain letter tax. ok say ok i'll still hear. more from hell. you know redacted.

you know your headlines from the future so the big news this week is that defense secretary mattis will be stepping down in february and i thought it would be nice to look at the future headlines from three different papers on this same story. where the man is out country fears no one loves steering the ship the bombs lots of places. usa today will announce with madness out war criminals fear their under-represented interim cabinet. and the congo tribune will read a. with madison out pentagon begins a long hard process of getting rid of a smell. that charcoal by whoever they. got by car wash the police car that's right. here are the facts we're going to.

let. that. i've been saying. matter. over. eighty five percent. of the bridge six percent market thirty percent. somewhat under the five hundred three. and. twenty thousand dollars. two point one billion dollars. but. remember one you know.

one. yellow vests sweep through paris again another round of government protests police used tear gas to disperse crowds in a six consecutive weekend of action dozens of injuries and arrests are reported also ahead. pendants riots. leaving dozens injured in protest at a government meeting in the city which coincided with the anniversary of a heavy police crackdown. sacked for refusing to sign an. therapist in the us. pledge which is enforced in a dozen other.