presidential election, which was to take place in march 2024 after having already cancel the legislative elections last month. the crane is a full fledged member of the council of europe is of course, a democracy. and although democracy is far more than only elections, i think we all agree that without the elections, democracy cannot properly function. you're going to have no idea when they'll be able to vote in such elections because there is only one person who can make that cool. so lensky himself and right now he's clinging on to power. he has absolute authority. he is suspended elections. he has with press political opponents, he has proclaimed a state of emergency. those are all characteristics of a dictator. sweden by cynthia political analyst and research are greg simon's told my colleague nikki aaron, that zillow's case decision to scrap the elections was influenced by his low ratings, not by the conflict a piece trying to justify it by the fact that there's war on this is not the real

reason for the justification, the actual justification of the deeply unpopular if there was any election, he would lose any and he would lose by and large margin. because if we remember what the vice of the and the 1st place, the old ideas back, he was by to them on the, on a piece tickets. and he offered random face to ukraine and. busy boss, and he's done the exact opposite of us just to points out. they have called christi, hey, what's an official say the election and ukraine is an internal decision, but the very same politicians were very quick. the quick, the size, the russian presidential, very thing which i understand that you actually followed as an international observer. why is this such a big difference in the rest of right now? absolutely. i mean, i mean it's not the standards, it's a multitude more than that. you have to pay for that,

it's fine to support via the project. was always the company with the big spaces, explanations why he's legitimate, as always, trying to say is what the americans for putting lipstick on a think. you're trying to make something beautiful when that there's no where is when we're looking at the russian and. ready there's a problem for them because you have the cycle, bad side of the one that's labeled bedside, doing lots of democratic stake. what do it's big for ration which is driving this. alright, well, do stay with our 2 international f. next, a direct impact was represented by the pan. we're back. hi everybody. you know, we're working our way toward becoming the most trusted, the most watch news and information shows internationally and which is close

because we're committed to context and to tell like in this edition, we're going to catch you up on the weeks. big stories, for example, the curious connection between isis k and the c. i a, have you heard about that? and it was really stake. tv. you hear that all the time? oh, that's just propaganda that state tv. is it us or is it them? i'm rick sanchez. and this is direct impact the okay, we have got a lot to talk about and we're going to be talking to the right person. joining me right now is political scientists and co host for the critical hour on radio. sputnik, dr. wilmer leon, thanks for being with a friend. thanks for the invitations. i'm glad to have you here. good. all right, let's get started with a little fun here. national security spokesperson, john kirby. how did you get a chance to see this?

he is twisting his words and trying to find the way he just looks so incredibly uncomfortable. look out what, what i want. i want you to watch this with me. watch how he agonizes in trying to find the right words. so he does not repeat, does not offer condolences or any kind of support to the people of russia or the russian government. instead, he tries to make it individual lives after the moscow attack. here, let's watch our thoughts obviously, are going to be with the victims of this terrible, terrible shooting attack. and i think, you know, when you look at that video, if you haven't, you got to recognize that there's a moms and dads and brothers and sisters and sons and daughters that haven't gotten the news yet. and this is going to be a tough day. so our thoughts are with them. what, what, what the hell is he talking about?

unfortunately, he doesn't even know what he's, what he's talking about. it seems that we did, it seemed weird to you and see when i heard of that was like, why does any just come out and say today the united states of america offers. it's condolences to the people of russia. we are here to offer our support in any way we may have our differences, but we can work together. i don't know be anything because the united states has this, this incredibly asserted effort to demonize in russia's president and, and it thereby demonize the country. and i found it interesting. he didn't refer to it as a terrorist attack. yeah. he referred to it as a shooting issue and yeah, like it was just yeah, the convenient store. and one reason i think is what you want to get into a little later is the fact that the united states may have had, may have been complicit. uh, but i want to bring a hold on. i want to stop you before we get there cuz i want to bring something to your attention. i don't know if you remember, but i did little googling this week and i went back to 911 and i say ok,

so i don't remember what it russia do. after $911.00, i found video of vladimir putin arriving in the united states. going and shaking hands and meeting crowds. mm. i saw him going into a crowd coming off of a plane with people, you know, a waiting russian flags and american flags together. i saw him go with originally, i need to do, you know, 911 place where it happened then. and, and he put flowers in the name of the people of russia. then i, i watched him go to texas and hang out with george bush and offer his condolences. i watched him do all that and then i thought in my mind, so we had a tears attack and that's how they treated us. they have a terrorist attack. and we say ukraine didn't do it, your brain didn't do it because you in, during the 911 video that you watched, you saw diplomacy in statesmanship. what happened to that? it's called meal conservative politics and imperialism. and the

united states is doing everything it can do to hold onto its imperialist, eh, but you can weigh in, perry less than somebody's civil damage, not anymore. and that's on the porch. that's one of the unfortunate elements of our policy. it yeah, is you cannot be civil any more. you suggest sensitivity, sensibilities. i mean, these are the things we learned from our mom and dad. they have nothing to do with jill politics they have to do with just being decent. this being human. yeah. all right, let's get to the 2nd one. so here, here's something we learned this week now alluding to what you were trying to mention a little while ago, but i had you on the back. like i'm in the god, the father of the end of a plastic bag. only if you watch the show, you probably saw this this week. maybe a few other places i don't know. did you know? did you know that the guy who found it isis k was truth was trained by contractors in bog brown, air force base. who worked for the c?

i a did you know that he was the head security guy for the ask dad, vice president who was basically a puppet for washington. the guy's name is shaw. hob areas see him right there. shaw hob ma ha. here. it's not his only name, and he's been killed since by the way you should know. this is what we learned about him while we were doing a segment here. this week, as the leader of quote unquote, isis k was a contractor at bankrupt the us air force base and afghanistan when work security for drug lord rochelle does do a top c r a proxy and the vice president of afghanistan at one time he later worked for a morales, so late chief of the ask in intelligence unit, literally the c i a is right hand man and afghanistan, and he points out that it's right there on the computer page. so what are you

suggesting? clearly is that isis k is and has always been a c. i a cookie cutter. my goodness, by the way, i looked it up. you know, i'm the kind of guy probably like you. somebody says it's like a baby. i said really? so it went right to the lives bank of alec and, and mark, so about a year it's hard to get better analyst and those 2 um but, but think about this, what he just said, right? the organization that apparently the united states immediately came out and said they did it, they claim responsibility is an organization that was founded created, tied to the c i a my god, what are, what are the implications of that? well, the implications are because a, the arch enemy of the united states, isis as we've been told they, they're, they're the personification of evil. if not started by the united states has been i

think, i think really what, what mart gets to, especially in the ice as k in particular has been co opted. scott ritter will tell you that they've been co opted by this, infiltrated by the c. i a co opted by the c i a and now to a great degree is managed. well, i don't privacy, i don't want to be your responsible. i'm gonna work whilst i'm not supposed to conjecture. i'm just supposed to state the facts, but the facts are, if the united states that is tied to isis k, me as it seems to be. then we have to ask the question, is there any link between the united states and this attack that isis k just it in russia? i'm not saying there is a tie. i'm saying it's fair to ask and why aren't american newspapers and american media asking those questions? that's the, that's the important question. and there are other elements of this that indicate that these were not jihadists, for example, they survived. that's the 1st thing to look at is the,

is the 4 shooters they survive, they didn't go down in a blaze of glory, which most ices operatives are trained to do. yeah, there's a lot of question to say that and that's all we're doing. exactly. there's all kinds of questions and why the hell is and anybody else that's getting them by the way. take a look at this video real quick. just put up this video of this. uh, this is the ship that apparently had an issue and crashed into the bridge in baltimore. this is the francis scott key bridge. if you're careful about it, you can tell that the ship was out of control. the motor apparently got out the lights go out. but the effect of this has been dire, it's having a very serious effect on the supply chain globally. and when we come back, you and i are going to talk about not just this, but how many other bridges are suspect, or in poor condition in the united states,

and what it means to our infrastructure. stay right there, cuz we're coming back. we've got a couple of more issues that we've gotta hit, which we think you'll get fresh information on that you wouldn't get anywhere else . i'm receptionist, the of the news, [000:00:00;00]

the the welcome back of rick sanchez here. alarm with dr. wilmer leon. uh, it is. uh leon will yeah, lemme leon. busy know why i keep uh, the hispanic sizes in your name. it is having a serious effect on the global supply chain and its making all of us think of the other 44000 bridges in the united states that are now considered to be in very poor condition. write that down and be careful what bids, what bridge you drive on? what am i talking about this? look at it, the francis scott key bridge. it collapse likes. so my god, i, you know, i probably seen this thing about a 1000000 times and i can't stop looking at it every time i see it. it's amazing to think a tanker apparently lost control of its capabilities, its engine and ran into the bridge. knock the bridge down. people are down and

people died. but the real impact of this is 2 fold. one, it's having a very serious effect. as you probably know, on the supply chain world wide, i didn't know just how big the bottom our board is. it's big issue one of the top 5 in the united states. yes. one of the biggest in the world. yes. so that means there's stuff at stuck there that didn't get mountain stuff that didn't get net, correct. we just got over the supply chain issue. uh, we're just now recovering from the supply chain issue with china. and now we find ourselves hit by this once again. and the. 2 way they're saying not to interrupt you, but i understand this was not one of the bridges on the list, but still you can't help but think infrastructure wise that they should have had a system in place that would prevent something like this from happening. not just letting some ship nearly really without any escort go under a bridge. well now now what they should have done was kind of retro fit the bridge

with barriers around the support stanchions. and so that 3 can hit it so you can hit it right. you hit the you, it's almost like a small. busy island that they put around the support stanchions so that the ship would have hit the, the island which would have absorbed the shock. and that because when you, when you look, i can remember, looked at the bridge a number of times and, and, you know, and, and thinking, why didn't they do that? well, why did they have usually you go out with a ships that small boats that guide you out and they're actually tethered to your ship just in case so they can move you if you can't move fast enough. one of the things that i was trying to determine was how far is the francis guide key bridge from the port? mm hm. and what's the requirement for tug boats or uh, maybe uh, yeah, for $10.00. yeah, that's what the quote to um uh,

to escort and i was unable to come up with that information. and that's a question that i've heard a couple of reporters ask some of those that are involved and it's in this investigation and they haven't given that answer. oh, here's the point. i mean, while we're losing right now about $80000000000.00 a year in the us because of poor infrastructure, bad decisions beat up roads, old airports, bad bridges, deteriorating dams, faulty wiring, bad internet cable connections, and much of the country by the way, because it was put in so long ago and hasn't been fixed, we are spending that money that we could use to fix that stuff elsewhere. so we looked it up and here's what we found. and by the way, these numbers are just the top, the, the tip of the iceberg. because this is how it's actuated in the year 2022, which is the fast to the most recent. we could find every year we got to give at least $74000000000.00 to ukraine,

given present circumstances. israel gets 3300000000 actually it's much more now because of what's going on and gaza. but let's just go with the old numbers. ethiopia gets to point to did you know, i didn't know if you got to that $2000000000.00 a year from us. i mean for me and you our taxes. hm. um, i've gotta stay and get to another 2000000000 um gamma and egypt. jordan, and they're all on the list. these are billions and billions of dollars that could be used to fix those. 44000 bridges that are in poor condition. but instead we're giving it all to other countries m. why most of it being military, by the way, not even monetary. exactly. exactly, and that's, that's the key point. one of the key points right there is, when you look at the countries that are receiving this money, what are the, who are the beneficiaries of of the money? it's not the afghan people, it's not easy obedience. it's not the average age of a lot of them. i just read. yeah. man. yeah. man. yeah. man is the country that's

essentially a packing us right now. we're practically a war with the oven, but what do we have to put your dollars? yeah. and ask and ask president biden, is the conflict that the united states is engaged in india, i'm and is it getting us anywhere? and he'll tell, you know, yeah. and in fact, our for our friend john kirby recently said the fan in fact the saudis were in the we're getting ready to reach a peace deal with us our, our law in the m and the united states told them not to do that. is it? because i think, you know, you almost hate to say this right as an america, but it looks to me like my country will opt toward being in a more situation with a country the not be in a war with the country. and the only reason i can think of that they would choose war over piece is because you don't make money any money on piece. you don't make any money on police. another example that would prove your point would be haiti, what's going on in haiti right now. why is the united states trying to re invade

hayden politics as well? uh, well, there's some geo political. yeah. issues with, with haiti, but the point still remains. why are we starting a war? why are we, why are we starting a military conflict with 80? why are we backing genocide and guys, why are we sending missiles into them? and why did we start? this was just because you probably need to crash helicopters to make more. how the cop, uh well, we need to do. we need to deplete the, the start, the military stocks of our allies so that we can restock the military's supplies for our allies. it's crazy. here's another big story that happened this week. i know you watched it because you're a part of the media any was any one of us are in the media watch this instead say what? this week the u. s. media headed collective freak out. it's like there, here was on fire. all of a sudden i woke up one day and i said what the hell? only so mad about. but boy,

they were mad. it was all over the hiring and the firing of a woman named roll up mcdaniel because she worked for the trump presidency or the trump administration. she also was with the republican party and they seem to not like the fact that she was being hired by their network nbc because she worked in the trump government. so nbc journalist after nbc journalist went on the air and complained and they rode off pads. but why weren't they equally upset when other government types were hired by their own network? look at this list, the compiled and you're complaining about not wanting people. it's 10 saki. so it was a spokesperson for both buy them and obama. that's george stephanopoulos. he was a spokesperson for bill clinton. he's now the anchor man journalist on they me see, they're simone sanders. she was the chief spokes person and have them communications for the vice president of the united states. commer harris, who else we got we got another one. yeah. nicole was,

this is the woman who sold the a rack more. the lives that were the a rockport were sold to the american people by the coal wallace. while she was working as the press r, the communications director for the george bush administration. now she's a journalist with her own show, sarah huckabee worked. 1 for the trump administration and then went to work in fox and now she's working as a governor in the state of arkansas. she goes from government to media back to government, her dad mike huckabee same thing, governor of arkansas has his own show on fox news. and we got one more, let's see. oh donna, brazil. i mean, my goodness, donna, brazil who essentially works as the director of the dnc pitts. i'm really controversial stuff. they are giving people questions and now she works for journalism enterprise. i mean, we have to ask ourselves, as we look at sean spicer as well, who now is an anchor man? it's some cable news channel,

even though he was working for the government. i hear all the time, all the time. we're state tv, right. anybody who works for any foreign country, like china, or russia or whatever name your country, anybody who we don't like that we. well barrett journalists, are all really propagandist and state tv. what the hell can be more propaganda than working for the government being the spokes person for the united states of america? and then the next day after you leave that job, you, you end up being having, being an anchor, a news presenter on a television station. what that, what i mean? what's more state tv than that? it's, it's propaganda. it's this information is this information and you didn't need and get to the no, i could have gone on forever. you didn't even get to the list of, of so called experts and contributors, former directors of the c, i, a former directors of the contributors who come on former generals side remarks. and so let me finish that picture of the painting. so you have somebody like wallace who used to work for the bush administration, or somebody like uh, the gal who they hired out at bc,

who used to work for the buying administration. so she goes from doing that to being an anchor woman or news presenter or a journalist while she's interview. see i guys, but they're not telling us that they work for contractors. the whole thing is, is it is a sham and you didn't even get into the onto the print. so what else did i miss? you want us to print or? well, that's right. yeah. you know, folks that there were that are writing articles and sending them to the c i a to be cleared before they're published in the l a times before they're published in the new york times before they're published on m. s. n b. i know that's crazy. we talked about that earlier this week with the carrier alco here on the show. and by the way, let me just this is personal for me. so allow me just, it is your show. know, i'm gonna just bet for law. i'm a kid, a grew up for worked hard, was able to go to school at the university of minnesota, the arch override school of journalism. i worked hard to get that degree. i am a bonafide educated journalism with an education and journalism i then went onto work for a small station. i want awards,

a practice journalism. i practice my craft. i've covered a gazillion stories. why did i do that? if you don't need that to work in this business anymore, well, as a complement to what you're saying, i am not a journalist. mm hm. i'm a political scientist with a couple of radio shows in a pod care, which is fine, but you don't call yourself at your know because because out of respect to people like you who studied the craft, who practiced the craft, who got a degree in the craft i am always clear, even though many people want to refer to me as a journalist. mm hm. i am not. because i wasn't trained to be was, there's a place for what you did. it was already like there is these folks that nbc that are complaining now, most of them have people who work alongside them who they treat as if they're a journalist, they do the big interviews. they cover all the stories. they've never been trained to do that, but that's not their craft. and look it again, hire

a guy like me and they won't hire a guy like me. right. uh, because there was a narrative. there is a very clear narrative that they want to sell to the american people and they will not tolerate any the name i was trying to think i want to print so i was can delaney and adding that that and be so yeah, that's right. yeah, look it up folks. well, i'd like him. there are so many others that basically go right from raytheon to the set to explain a point of view where they're going to make money pushing the product. and that's, that's just wrong as well. so look at, i'm not saying that the media or everything that i do is correct or everything we do here is correct. we but we try. but you know, to ok, right? you're going to call me, right. you're gonna call me when, when i know what you're doing with this, it just makes me it for us. my behind my stuff. so we have time for did he, can we do a little dirty? i'll do a little did he did he, did he do it? sorry. couldn't excuse myself. here's the pictures video. everybody's been looking

at. now. these are police looking like they're around my god, they're there. they're reading these homes in florida and los angeles. apparently they are investigating some kind of sex traffic, getting rid of this thing, hit me out of left field. what. what do you make of this thing? uh, it hit me uh right for you. yeah, uh i have no clue what to make of this, but what i can say is it doesn't look good. it doesn't sound good. uh, i hope it sounds like epstein, i hope it's not true like what m. s p i get an idea. i got famous friends and they got a lot of money and i know a lot of young girls and i'm going to put the 2 together. now, please, i'm not saying that to happen. but where am i? that's the way that leads to be represented or alleged. and if that's the case, that would be really sick. and then we'll have to see what other names fall out as they shake the tree. or what other names won't fall out because they will be protected as we know happens in the case that we free with this website. that's right. it's always such

a pleasure when you're going through which i appreciate. thank you. thank you so much for stopping by. before we go i as often do remind you of our mission. it's simple, really kinda the silo, the world, right. the don't live in little tiny boxes where i have to think one way or the other, and i'm not allowed to think of what somebody else who disagrees with me might think. now true. so live in boxes needed to we and that's why we do this show. i'm rick sanchez and i'll be looking for you again,

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