The hi, everybody want to let you know. This is a daily show, very different because we hold no punches here. So look for truth fund number one. Congress gives the people who give them money. Every thing they paid for truth problem number 2. The i am asked predict, rushes economy will surpass all of europe as well as that of canada and the United States truth bomb number 3. Israel fires back out of ron, and what is appearing like a computerized robotic drone war is the future here. And how scary is this . Im rick sanchez. This is direct impact. The i think you tell me if im right or wrong, but i, you know, what the us congress did this weekend will as one very respected us. President one said live in infamy. 10 another way. They took the money and they ran not once, not twice, not 3 times. He did it for 4 times, counted them 1234. Let me take you through it in case you missed it. I doubt you did, but let me just take you through because youre not going to hear this take on cnn, or fox, or any place like that. Uh, it appears that no country in the world gives more to our politicians, to compel their support. Then israel, we know that, right, weve done that story, you know, that story. So what did the u. S. Congress do this weekend. They voted to send 28000000000. 00 of your taxes, the taxes you pay to israel, so they continue the war. They can continue the war with the palestinians. A number 2 Us Tech Companies do not like to talk and they wouldnt like to have picked up eliminated. So they lobby, that means they pay congress to go after picked up. And what and congress doing this weekend. It passed to measure the bad tick tock, teaching so much for the free market principles of a healthy competition. Right . Okay, now lets go to the numbers 3 and 4 as i promised you, the arms industry in the United States bank roles, influential think tanks were members of congress, get jobs, and get their support and information. They also hire thousands of law this so many in fact that they are now more of them, more lobbyist representing military contractors in washington. Then there are elected officials in washington. But that put that in your function wagner. And they make donations as well. Legal bribes, do these contractors and the 10s of millions of dollars to members of congress. So what did they get this weekend for all of that . Well, perpetual wars conflicts, so they could make more tags and more planes, more bullets, and make more money off of those conflicts with countries like china and russia and congress this weekend. Yes, they passed the measure to sudden close to 70000000000. 00 in taxes collected from americans. Do you crate anti watts . In other words, to feed conflicts with china and russia . Look, i mean, ive just taken you through all 4 things this saturday. They had 4 people who were paying them, and 4 people got what they want it or 4 entities, i should say. I guess when it comes to us politicians, we really do get what they pay for. But in a strange way, congress has aggressive stance toward russia and quoting, its all out assault on the russian economy. It may have actually backfired. Were learning. How do we know that . Well, we know that because cnbc, one of the most followed Business Networks in the United States has come out and said so, confirming with russian president Vladimir Putin predicted last december. Interestingly enough, putting those comments back then were ignored by most western media sources like cnbc you actually had to go to different. You have to go somewhere else in the world. If you wanted to hear what uh, president potent had said, for example, you had to go to india to here mr buttons, protection. For the new, open a new to the most important indicator of Economic Growth and is a growth of gross domestic product. It the, by the end of the yard is expected to be cheap. 15 percent, a good idea. Thats a good indicator of the good means we have bounce back from last years decline, but i sent it. Wow, that was back in december. Could put and have been right after all, most americans were under the impression that the time that he said that, that the russian or comedy was the, the Russian Academy was in the dumps close to collapse because of the war with ukraine and the ship and the sanctions imposed on them by the United States and other nato countries. We were hitting them really hard to make sure they stayed down and we were told, yeah, theyre down, theyre never going to be able to get up again. Oops. The president boynton comes out and predicts this isnt going to happen, were going to be fine, were going to rebuild our economy. Then he went even further. You went and did you remember who did the interview with tucker costs, and we showed you some of that. And while hes talking to, to talk across and hes boasting that russias economy will, and has surpassed most of the economies of all the countries in europe still a rush. It was the 1st academy in europe last year despite all the sanctions and restrictions. Is it normal from your point of view, sanctions restrictions, chief impossibility of payments in dollars being cut off from Swift Services to the sanctions against our Ships Carrying Oil company because sanctions against airplane, single somebody, sanctions in everything everywhere. How we measure that goes to something unique that the mean . Yes, its the largest number of sanctions in the world which are applied are applied against russia. And we have become europes 1st economy during this time. I mean, i doubted that what he was saying was true at the time because i didnt know right. Of course, the Tucker Carlson interview was dismissed by most of my colleagues completely. They never even played it. They never even mentioned that. Those who work here in the United States and in western media. Until now, heres the article im talking about. This is the one that just appeared on cnbc this morning with a headline, which pretty much repeats the russian president s statement. Heres the quote. Russia is expected to grow faster than all advanced economies this year. In fact, according to the International Monetary fund, the i a math, and the cnbc report, russia is g d p growth will hit 3. 2 percent. How good is that . Lets compare. Ive got this chart i want to show you, and in this chart you see how it stacks up uh, how rusher compares with the g. D p wise, by the way to other g 7 nations. Look at rush. Those numbers. Look whos below the us under russia. Somewhere around 2 percent, g, d, p growth, japan, somewhere around one percent. Canada. Well, what were all 1. 5, france around one italy, u. K. Just above half of percent. At the bottom of the list, germany, i barely have a percentage point. And you know, whats most ironic about this chart is that all of those countries make up the g 7. Right . It used to be called the g 8. This way, its not called the g 8 anymore, because they all got together and decided that russia didnt belong with the big boys. Look at it now. It appears that russias Economic Growth will surpass. All of theres joining us now to discuss this is the executive director of the ron paul institute, daniel mcadams. Dan, i mean, i dont know, be careful what your wish for here. Here we have all these countries heating. Russia really hard and promising us here in america. Dont worry. Were going to bury these guys. It, it, i mean, i didnt even believe is what i heard. Some people reported i was doubting pollutants, a politician whether he was being real honest with those figures wants to only because im a journalist and i wanted to double check here. We have the, ive come out this weekend as well as the nbc and say, yeah, rogers economy is super seating all the economies in europe, including ours and kind of you say what a well the wrong conclusion to draw is that sanctions are good because they Health Benefit a country thats kind of a protectionist mentality. The sanctions didnt help russia. But what they did, ironically, is they enabled the rush of the so the products that they would normally sell to places like europe and a much higher price. They would export petroleum in oil to india, india with were flying it and sell it back to germany at 2 or 3 times the rate. So everyone profits, except for germany as use weve seen from your chart, which has gone down the tubes, even ukraine by diesel, from russia at a huge markup. So its not to say that protectionism and sanctions are good is to say that if you have the ability, if you have the industrial base, you can get a route. If you have the resources you can get around and if youre forced into a corner, youre going to find alternatives to swift in other economic tools and use them for your own benefit, which is what russia has done. Well, im glad you made that point and heres why. There are other countries who have been the victims of sanctions from western countries including the United States. Well, one of them is a country that i was born in cuba. I mean, cuba has been under the some of the United States with some horrible sanctions now for the past 506070 years. And in that case, they have not been able to get themselves out of it because nobody can do business with them as long as United States as know. Then as well is, i mean literally in a bit of a economic depth now has been. So for quite some time now, and its because of the sanctions and the castigation is that have been put upon it by the United States. So i dont know what, what, what we can take from this other than perhaps a large country like russia, is able to combat these kinds of sanctions, smaller countries, maybe not so much i and, you know, talk about unintended consequences. In russias case, theyre actually richer. But in cuba is case the unintended consequences. And i was there, i talked to officials when i took a congressional trip to cuba. Every shortcoming they have in their society is blamed on the sanctions. Or you dont have a tv the, whats the sanctions or things arent working well, its the section so it actually helps keep the regime and power strength and the, the, the regimes in place. Do you see any place where i know youve had lots of discussions with ron paul about this where it may be appropriate to deploy sanctions against the country. When you do that, if i ever will sections or inactive or so if youre up or if the country you should forbid trading with that country, that just kind of make sense. But you know, theres dismiss, dismiss, uh, a perception that sanctions are one step before more. But when you enter in, when you interfere with the trade and Economic Activity of a country is by definition war. So the, the left like sections a lot because they feel like theyre going to punish someone without actually going toward the left. It is anti war. And thats not the case because they are an act of war. Well, in the case of ukraine, for example, we know that the United States in 2000 to 2014, was very much involved in ukrainian politics. Most people would argue that they interfered. Some people would go as far as to say that they actually tried to start a cool because they didnt like the guy who was in power there. So or the guy was a leader and ukraine at the time, and they wanted to change them. And that sort of famous victoria newland tapes that weve all either heard or heard of. Now we come back after doing Something Like that with the sanctions to make sure we can, you know, bury rushes, actions against ukraine, even more. What. How do you describes that scenario as well . Its, its a situation where the so called experts in the belt way in dc, theyre all in a circle and they all listen to each other talk and they dont listen to any will. They dont call me up. They will call rick sanchez and say, hey, is this true that russia is taking ships out of washing machines because they dont have anything to make weapons with. I mean, is it true that the rubel is rubble because thats what everyone is telling me that i know well, maybe you just know the wrong people. Maybe you should branch out a little bit more and think a little bit more for yourself. And its funny on one hand and done the other hand, there are real consequences, real life consequences to this kind of circular mentality in washington dc. And thats, i think, what is leading us toward war . Well, its interesting that you say that because as i was, i think you heard my intro, and i mentioned that one other thing that the military contractors do is they own all the think tanks, they own all the think tanks and put their people on those think tanks, those are the people in the thing, things, right . Who then talk to congress and give them their advice. But theyre actually working for, you know, General Dynamics or something. And they also send those people to see and them, and fox news to be the so called experts to tell us whats really going on in the world. So theyre controlling the message on top of giving money to the politicians. Thats exactly true and im glad you said the media because its so important. I mean, there was a time in our, in our, in our recent memory rick, that when you were tired as a, as a general officer in the army, or if you retired as a high c, i, y, ranking c i a official, you would quietly enjoy your retirement, you might move to Loudon County and have a little farm it and have a nice life. Well, its not that way anymore. Your massive pension that you have from your job is just not enough. So you go to fox news and you go to cnn. And you go to the other networks and you helped drives the narrative because everything in dc is a narrative based. Its not the Reality Based Community on like how it was claimed when George W Bush was present at uh, its a narrative based community. And in fact, presently the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, i look it up and he has like a 4. 00 to 7000000. 00 home on the ocean, on some private island in south carolina. Since when does a general live on a private island on the ocean . When he gets us into the right wars that make a lot of profits for his friends, and thats whats driving everything. I know you mentioned the money for your credit coming from taxes. Its actually even worse than that because its not collected out of our pockets directly. Its the most insidious, taxable which is the inflation tax. This money is conjured at a stand there and what it does, obviously reckon you know this very well is it makes the dollars you already have the words that much less. So it hurts the poor and the working out class, much more than the people were talking about in dc. Dan mac, adams, thanks so much. Lets do this. Lets take a break. When we come back, were going to continue the discussion. Speaking specifically about some of the strategies that are used by the people who are able to turn the people in congress. Oh, and we should also mentioned the 3 other things that congress did besides ukraine and why they did. Well be right back the to take a fresh look around as a life kaleidoscope. It gives them just a shifted reality distortion by power to division with no real opinions fixtures designed to simplify. It will confuse really once a better wills, and is it just as a chosen few fractured images presented as fast . Can you see through their illusions, going underground . Can the russian states never as tight as on one of the most sense community best. Most all sense im at the bottom of speaking, what else calls question about this . Even though we will then in the european union, the kremlin media mission, the state on the rushes to day and split the ortiz full neck. Even our video agency, roughly all the band on youtube, the Payment Services for the question, did you say steven twist, which is the, its hard to imagine as we return here on direct impact. Anything like what happened this weekend . I mean, has there ever been a case i ask, where congress has more lately set out to give the people who pay them money, bring money exactly what they want in all cases. Think about it. I mean, the bank Tech Companies wanted for tick tock to be eliminated to be banned because its competition for them to bring 10 companies, United States have controlled social media. They want to mount, so they gain money. And info is the bombing congress to have them do. And what did congress do on saturday . They said were going to band tick tock. I mean, the military contractors has them. I got, i was just explaining, i been getting a ton of money, a ton of money to congress because they want them to have these continually wars, you know, and, and what better war a ron is perfect. China, off ideal and russia. Yeah. Theyre the perfect that, i mean make them a foil, and then they get more money and hopefully theyll blow up more tags so they can make more tax and more. Yeah, planes and more bullets, etc. So they Gave Congress a ton of money in Congress Said okay, fine, were going to give you crane and taiwan, a 70000000000. 00. Heres another one. I mean, all of this happened on the same day. Israel, no country on the history of the planet is ever paid another country, so much money to have them basically do their will. Thats what is real best when its lobby. We all know that its no secret. So what did the congress do on saturdays . 28000000000. 00 for israel. I mean, man, i gotta tell you, then this is absolutely crazy. I feel like i need to get on a mountain top and scream this to the american people. How does this just good . How does this happen as well . The tech top and by the way is also related to the israel issue because jonathan green, black, the head of radio was interest was, was recorded on a phone call saying weve got a tick tock, problem. The problem with tick tock is a lot of young people are making videos because theyre sympathizing more more to palestinians, and theyre concerned about whats happening in garza. And thats just drawing their narrative is real. I think people, even people who are appropriate, where you would say that theyve really kind of box to p r after they went in after october 7th and tick tock support the problem. So interestingly enough, theres kind of a dovetail there, but youre right. Saturday was a terrible day for america. If you actually love this country like you, we must do rick. And they gave a ton of money away. But as you know, hardly any, this money is going to ukraine and we all know this. Even soleski said this money that america passed, it will stay in america because its going right across the belt way to the belt way. Bad. Thats who were going to manufacturing new tanks to get blown up as you very well pointed out. So this is more like corporate welfare, with a little bit of sprinkle on top for so lets get to get a couple of new cars in the house. Maybe what, what do you make of this new speaker, this guy a john . So what an interesting bird this due to is 1st he comes out and he says its about america 1st. Its about controlling the border. Its about securing the border. Its about taking care of some of the needs of americans. Now we move forward a couple of months and so that how are the americans the border . Im going to bag these 4 measures. What what, what, what, how do you do that . What happened in this guy is the same guy. The people are wondering if they have something on him at the very least he sees a not case. I mean because the other thing we didnt mention is the files and reauthorization. And its pfizer on steroids because it really defines without getting into the woods. Rita finds how the government can spy on you without a warrant. They can use your plumber and your gardener and other things. They werent able to do that before. But speaker johnson was quoted, he said, well, you know, when i was on the judiciary committee, i saw thousands of abuses by the, the, i thousands of them. But then i had a briefing from our Intelligence Community and i realize how important it is, the tier of is l, which just shows hes either incredibly not even gullible or somehow hes in on it. But we know for a fact that the intelligence committees routinely live, they live the members of congress. They live to their case. Anyone whos forgotten the rock, livia, etc. All these briefings. Its one of the reasons why dr. Paul never went to these classified regions because you know what, thats what a packed lies after. Oh wow. It just looks like, i mean, i mean, i guess this guy johnson, maybe we shouldnt blame im, its his job and hes going to do whatever puts more money in his pocket. I just looked at open secrets this morning and apparently hes raised 9000000 dollars from different donors, etc. So i guess after a while vermont there to basically represent you and meet them. Theyre just, its a job. Theyre no different than being a lawyer or a, or a doctor or anything else. Its a job. You know, if i can make do an operation that pays me more than the other operation, ill do that operation, or if its a lawyer, ill handle this guys case because he has more money than the poor guy over here. So i guess this is what we get, right . Its a capital so as well as other capital systems, the crony capital, the system, thats a big difference. You know . But what speaker johnson did is very, very unusual. And i was, i spent the 11 or so years on the hill, and i had never seen it. The only way he got the ukraine bill passed was he relied on democrats. He actually lost among the people who elected him. Speaker i e. Republicans. He lost that vote. He reached over he read just how the rules Committee Makes the rules for those as well. And he over he, im going to get too far into it. But he overran the republicans on the rules committee and depended on democrats on the rules committee to pass out a rule to bring it to the floor. That is extremely, extremely rare. So the republicans are furious with them. They want to get rid of a people like thomas massey, who is a patient and a year old and wants to see the backside of the of my jobs and as fast as possible. I liked this massey guided by the way, theres Something Else i want to share with you over the weekend, israel fired back in or on after a rotted fire to time for bombing there, syria embassy, and assassinating. To iranian leaders. To crazy whats happening, it looks dangerous to me, considering this war going back and forth between is real and iran. By the way. Its not really as real, its us. But whatever, well pretend its as real. Theyre, theyre, theyre having this battle with drones and computers and blasting things out of the year of what appears to me the most evident is that israel is going easy on the wrong to fulfill a promise to the us. So to us will that look the other way when, when they, when they attack rafa, i mean talk about an interesting negotiation where it appears that once again baby nathan, yahoo is going to be able to get what he wants. As i say this, he went to the us and said look, i want to attack or offer. They said no, we dont want you to attack rasa. And finally, so what if i go easy on israel and i just do this little, this thing that i just described. And they said, well, that, okay, youre going to attack or offer, it looks like thats what is going on here. And whats discussing is that the, the by the administration is not telling israel dont attack ross because youve killed enough innocent women and children. Theyre saying dont attack or off. Its going to hurt my re election campaign. Yeah, no, thats what its all about. Talk about the cynicism of someone like that. Who can so cold hearted about the pain and suffering and slaughter thats going on there. They only take of their re election chances. Its disgusting. What the oh yeah, you know, i start looking at this thing this week and i was concerned as i am, were down to about 2 minutes here. But this thing with these drones and these missiles and theyre shooting them up expecting that are going to be shut down and its all done through computers and animation and, and a i what a, how does this take, you know, its man the scary thing, is it normalizes slaughter in warfare, and we had this a lot when we started using drones when people who operated them in, for example, new mexico when you went over to iraq and afghanistan and assassinated people without any human contact. I think thats incredibly, incredibly dangerous. And i think weve seen the p t s d in the people who are not in the traces, but theyre basically playing a computer game theyre giving as bad as anyone else. So it does something to your soul into your mind when you kill people in the matter. If you do it from a dark room in new mexico or in a trench and you know, in, in dumbass, daniel mike adams as usual. Mike, thanks to you sir. For sharing your wisdom with us, we look forward to talking to you once again. Thank you, rick. Before i go, i want to remind you of our mission here. Its pretty simple. We tried the silo the world by telling all the truths, not just the one that i want to be spark on. Troops dont live in little boxes. We try to develop stories through and through with different ideas of different perspectives. Things youll never hear anywhere else. This is direct impact and hi emerett sanchez, the the, what is part of the is it that the employee would post good . 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Thank you, congress. Thank you america. The size of the us in amongst billions of more dollars. So whether or not, if you train americas own National Debt is about because of boss is g d p. Good. 60000000000. 00 is designated as emergency spending meaning go, meaning it goes straight to our National Debt. A National Debt that grows every single 2nd to the tune of 8000000000. 00 every single day