Ukraine, China, North Korea, Medicare, car insurance.

Today, we're discussing breaking news and how the U.S. corporate media functions as a propaganda machine.

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Today, instead of dealing with just one topic, we're going to be dealing with some of the

breaking news stories of the day. We want to highlight how the media is treating the news.

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Brian, first we want to talk about the very big threat that's posed to the U.S.

National Treasury, the thing that might make the country go bankrupt.

Obviously, the big threat to the national treasury is the amount of money spent by the U.S.

every year on the military.

But, Brian, why don't you tell us, you know, I'm guessing that's not what this article is actually about.

No, shockingly, Nicole, the mainstream media, the New York Times in this case, isn't identifying the almost

$1 trillion that the United States spends every year on death and destruction on the Pentagon,

on the military budget. No, the big threat happens to be health care. Yeah, health care. Here it is. A huge threat to the U.S. budget has receded,

and no one is sure why. I was thinking like, wait, did they cut the defense budget? Because

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