the the have a better, this is direct impact and this is what we're going to be talking about. the, that's just a clip that i prepared for you. it's, it's a scene that gets absolutely crazy. in the french parliament, i'm going to show you the whole thing. i'm rick sanchez. this is direct impact. let's do the the. all right, that's where we're going to begin in the french parliament. part of what you just saw a little while ago. so the french m p's are having this very serious discussion by the way, about joining spain and ireland and it was in norway,

right. norway was the 3rd country. those countries just recognized as you saw here, we, we showed you that report, they recognized palestine, and now the french are arguing that they should do the same, but they should join those countries. well, that's when all hell breaks looks. here it is. i thought you very much love for the

. 7 most of that screaming, by the way, what did you see that guy who is holding up the palestinian flag? well, that's what all the fuss was about. this guy's name is uh, service john dillard j. and he has now been suspended. he's been thrown out of the parliament for, for holding up the flag. now, keep in mind, a 145 over a 193 countries. at the, in the un, i've recognized palestine. southern countries in europe are, are, are starting to join in, which is what is making is real and the united states. it's bad crap, crazy with anger. they feel like they're being defined by these countries. so here's why this friend seeing that i just showed you is so important, right? france is a g 7 country. france is a g 7 country. no g, 7 country has recognized palestine. and if they do that, if they break the ice, if the french do so, they would be the 1st so,

so it looks like each and every day as we and others report on this, things are picking up steam, momentum wise against israel. it seems manila. yeah. right, it's funny about the palestine flag when you contrast it to nancy pelosi unfurling this gigantic, ukrainian flag in congress. as you might write hot about that same right. like yeah, it was a plot. it was met with applause and what have you. but here we are one tiny palestinian flag and they go bananas well loves the french have a, a history of revolution. i mean, contrary to what we think about europeans and i think a lot of our americans opinions about europeans are attributable attributable to, to how we view the british on like the british, the french don't take stuff lying down read. i mean, look at the non stop yellow, best protest before co been hit. i think the palestine issue is pushing the people

of france to the brink. i mean they, they were already wary of what was happening and ukraine and russian media being shut down to control the narrative. but palestine images can't be stopped. of social media rec center. i had a break and i have a guest coming up in a little while, who is in many ways, agreeing with what you say that this seems to be non stop at this point. i don't know what the french are going to decide. they seem to be moving in that direction . we'll continue to follow it for you here on direct impact. we're going to talk now about a decision that seems to come out of left field. by the way. it's actually kind of surprising to me in particular, because i happen to be born in this country. it's not every day we see the us state department do something that makes sense. but i think we have a winner here. you're, you're seriously, you're reading the u. s. has had an economic strangled home on the cuban economy for more than 60 years now. dating back to when j. f. k was the president of the united states. it is purely

a political tool that has been use mostly by presidents and senators and members of congress to get elected while doing nothing for the people of cuba or the people of the united states. but believe it or not, the u. s. is now loosening this embargo by allowing cubans who are part of the burgeoning private business sector. they're to have bank accounts in the united states for the 1st time ever. so they can conduct business. this is a big deal, these small, but this isn't cuba. by the way, we have created a flourishing entrepreneurship with the permission of the cuban government there called me payments. here we go, may be missed employee, nearly a quarter of a 1000000 people in cuba. more than 70 percent of them left the job working for the state for career salaries, i can be payments can be significantly higher than those of state phone companies. the payments are expected to account for 10 percent of q bus g, d, b in 2023. it's amazing. these guys just started putting up little businesses and

before you knew it, people were going and buying their stuff from them rather than from government stores. so it's working, look, it breaks my heart to see how the cuban people, my family have suffered millions of them. i've left the island because of the economic conditions. but you know why i think this thing that i'm reporting on that we're reporting on right now is, is in the right direction. vanilla. it's being criticized by both being criticized by the left and it's being criticized by right. and in my book, usually once when, when it gets criticism from both sides, that means it's a good idea and i agree that's exactly it. if you are getting flack from both sides all sides, that means you're doing something right. so why does moves to loosen this banking regs, regulation with non governmental people? i think it's important to highlight that part. it has to be non governmental people on the island is a step in the right direction to build on what the obama administration had done in falling ties,

that the trump administration then quickly reversed your while this is a step i would say in the right direction, i would still be wary, given what we just saw, the us led g 7 bank stars do in yeah, you in russian state money and, and their interest just last week. so i would say this is a cautionary tale. i think it's celebrate but, but be where you're saying to you, you're right, you're right. it's something that we need to watch. i think it's important and i think it's a step in the right direction. also in the news, the trotter found, the president donald trump is finally come doing on both sides presenting their closing arguments. and now it's in the hands of a jury to decide if mr. trump broke the law when he paid off a porn star. so the voters wouldn't find out about what ever relationship he had with her if the jury think she did it for political reasons and that's 5. and then they could find them guilty of campaign finance law violations. if not, hold on. it's just a payoff and it's really not against the law. that's what's key here. when we can show you the closing arguments. and by the way,

they went on forever because there were no cameras in the court room. so instead, we're going to let you hear from the proxies for both sides. here are donald trump, jr. and robert de niro. it is insanity. it is an embarrassment. it's an abomination to democracy and to our republic. and yet, it continues. everyone in this case is conflicted. edit, hinges on one man who's not just a lawyer convicted. someone who has lost his low license has been disbarred. somebody would serve jail time for lying before congressional bodies. and that's it . that's where we are today in america. if trump returns, so the white house, you can guess, these freedoms go by, that we all take for grant and elections. forget about it that's over, that's done. if he gets in, i can tell you right now, he will never leave friends and we want him running this country, saying i'm not leaving dick taylor for life.

i hope this new ad campaign campaign reaches outside the bubble to remind supporters aboard a danger he is to our lives. i don't know about to, but all i get here is the haunting in the private way. closing arguments went on for like 10 hours. can you should know that jury anyway, rick, you know, you know, what else i noticed behind bobby the narrow is that the man with all the tattoos that guy is one of the guys from the capitol hill police. he was there. so it's important. yeah, yeah. it's important to note who's on whose side, right to do it to mean to police? no 3 actually were there with him. apparently they say they're on fight inside, which why is theirs? why is this political i it's american? well, i mean, when it is political the case, i mean, if you look at this from the lens of, of, let's say, a latin american country,

it what it looks like is the current person and power that be joe biden, is using legal, like a legal gymnastics move to take down his biggest opposition leader, which is donald trump. but i think more funny about this is the celeb celebrity versus celebrity. cuz remember, before donald trump became a politician, he was a celebrity. so i think a lot of these hollywood leads feel like they can talk about it like this is, you know, on par with when they know which i don't, i don't really thought i'm not sure there's a different to the politician in the hollywood elite anymore. i think they're all actors as far as i'm concerned. i'm pretty sure what the final thing international piece summit soon taking place in switzerland. it's going to try and come up with a and into the conflict in ukraine. all the big western powers are being invited. i'm know if you guys have heard about this, but the southern, the us, the brits are all coming guess who's not invited to this thing the russians. so it's a piece summit between the russians and ukraine and cranes going,

but the russians aren't invited. isn't that kind of like having a football game between real madrid and, and manchester united but not inviting real madrid or, or maybe not inviting manchester united. i mean, here's how the kremlin is reacting. they say to seriously talk about these questions without the participation of our country, is absolutely absurd. but wait, if you've been glass curious, look at this. i got another one for you. see that the king of bahrain is holding a piece. i'm going to discuss a piece deal to end the god of the massacre and get so he's inviting to leave that discussion. the russians in the former president part and i mean, you can't make this stuff up manila think about this for a minute. so part of that is not invited to a summit on the war. his country is fighting, but they're invited, but he's invited to a summit to discuss the gods a peace deal. what? so i'm, i'm trying to do the mental gymnastics right now. rick. i don't know how this works,

but i mean, i would say, i would say this is more like an arranged marriage like somebody is really trying to force this couple to get married. but like the bride's not invited, the galleries being discussed and her family has no say over, you know, any of it that i mean that, that, that is such 20th century thinking of like, you know, this is western exceptionalism of us versus the soviet union. will soviet union to exist anymore? you gotta bring other people, as you know, the 21st century is multi polar, and the west is acting like, okay, we're gonna resolve this with just our side. we're gonna, we're gonna tell everybody how this is done right? about patriarchy, all right, we're, we're going to discuss your future will tell you what we've decided about you when we're done with this business over here. i mean, right. uh, good stuff, manila, thank you so much. uh, when we come back, our next guest says quote, the wholesale killing of palestinians and gaza will mark

a turning point in western politics. a dark turn, he writes, for modern western civilization. what does he mean by that? we're going to ask if he is a political analyst who jose very popular podcast, it's called sunday wire, with patrick kennings and we'll be right back the

we are told the pride in ministration won't change and support there. is there a even in light of the recent rock, the massacre, there are no red lines, only empty words. the international community is rallying to the palestinian cause . meanwhile, us stands alone in isolation. the, the they are probably her, my little sister store because the model girl to, i got you. no problem seem to them out of the know nothing 30 minutes us out in the drive i showed my brother through. he was sudden to help people for a lo so now i never looked at searches as being the same. well, i guess i lost my list. that's the outcome of chicago police. it'd be gang chicago is like to give you

a for the police. you really think your life as another crime, same could have been a doctor, a nurse could have been the next president. we can't keep losing people out here. the what is part of the, the employee would posted isn't the defense you of us and bidding the word or is it something deeper, more complex might be present? good. let's stop without cases. let's go products the the,

hey, welcome back. i'm re sanchez and i want to show you something. now, let's put together by my next guest. this is a, this is a clip that was on his twitter feed. i hope he doesn't mind just showing it which you're showing it to you. here it is just completely out of control. it's on a industrial scale. and despite everything that everyone see, the united states has back in israel's military campaign against the palestinian people. so joining me now is pod cast or patrick kennings and he's also a political analyst. he's a smart guy, he's good enough to take some time to talk to us now. and it's interesting you say, and i mentioned this before. we went to break. the thing that is real is doing and gaza will cause a. and the word you use is a dark turn. what do you mean by dark? turn patrick, of what i think it's a dark turn for the arc of, of post world war 2. the post world war 2 world order on western civilization. in

the modern sense, you know, everything that we built, all the multilateral institutions that we built after world war 2 that were designed to prevent the very thing that we are being forced to witness every day. on our smartphones, on our televisions in on, on internet sites all over the web, which is a genocide, we'd have conventions international chords, united nations, a security council. so if, if these things of all failed to prevent this sort of agree, just a war crime, egregious of crimes against humanity, then you could say that the entire post world war to order for the worst possible scenario that was designed to prevent is a failure trend that means western civilization itself needs to have a real reckoning right now and ask itself is a we a, we and we do a regression phase now. so we still going forward? what will matter?

because it seems we are living. you're absolutely right in a world right now we're up is down and everything is upside down and nothing makes any sense. and we built institutions to tell people that we have a built a consortium of countries and we're all going to come together and make recommendations to other countries. but if those countries are big enough and they have enough money, they just basically shoot them a burden. say how, what do we don't care what you think we're not going to do it? and yet we have other countries that are punished for doing almost absolutely nothing. i just stated the case of cuba. i mean q or a 16 to 70 years, they've been punished. decimated their economy has been sold. yeah, i mean it's a country my 1000000 people, but yeah, they're bad is real good. that doesn't make any sense. so we just throw it all away . just let the powerful when the windshield die. yeah, i mean the q bookcase we could talk about that the ship,

but that's emblematic of this permanent sanctions, the kind of regime of permanent sanctions. you look at cuba, you look at the ron, you look at the syria series, a good example of a country. it's been totally strangled by the us and the you and a sort of double sided vice grip of strangling it and the same time stealing it's oil, which the us occupying in northeastern serious. so that's just a real extreme example. but i think the point that we, we really want to make here is we, we, we are now kind of unraveling all of the things that helped to a, stabilize the international system. i. e, diplomacy, i. e, serious calls for the cease fires. if you think about it, rick, a previous presidential administrations, even both the bush administration's would have hit the brakes probably 3 weeks in 2 israel's ball environment of gaza back in october, november because the, the images would just be terrific. the political price to pay would just be too

high. and also, america being an accomplice to this slaughter with just alienated to its allies and potential allies. people that wants to win to its side, but now in 2024. none of that happen. no diplomacy, no peace negotiations, active cause to escalate active calls to escalate in both ukraine and, and in the israel. let's talk about that. let's talk about that. and i'm wondering, and i please don't take this the wrong way and i'm not talking about the fact that they are jewish, but i am talking about the fact that they are the scientists. and when i have started to look at our state department under joe biden, i see zion is after zion is after zion this. we sometimes talk as if their interest in israel is above their interest in my country. our country now. yeah, true. and not all, not all design, this are jewish, carl jews of zion,

it exists important point to make. but the point is that, you know, i pack as a major lobby in united states had lifted what was kind of a moratorium before about, directly contributing to political candidates and congress and said that that was removed. and so you'll see a flow of money coming in that absolutely influence says where congressmen senators are on policy and this happens in october of last year. and then you see this complete wip line on the democratic side. a few dissenters, perhaps on the republican side in terms of funding the war, but pretty much it consensus on both parties. so that capture hadn't fully been complete until the last couple of years. and i think this is why you see this extreme situation where you have the media and the political class going one way or an issue. and you clearly have the people, the popular populace, even the young base of the democratic party going into a totally different direction on this. and that really speaks volumes as to where

we're at right now. yeah, and i think the point that you make is fascinating because i like your i, i like your nomenclature when you say entering a dark side. and i think that dark side is not visible to most americans right now, because they're busy working their butts off and you know, dealing with inflation and watching cnn and fox news and thinking that's the truth . but underneath fox news and underneath the new york times and underneath the cnn, etc. so there are people like you and me who are having these discussions and it's not about you and me, there's so many other people out there who are having these discussions. and i think we're still maybe years away. i don't know what your, what your thinking is on this. when does this, these facts, this truth, this reality break through from the b s that we are most americans, unfortunately, are stuck with right now. and it's not their fault, they don't know any better. i think i and they, they yeah,

i'm not gonna blame the people as much as i will blame the media. i almost don't want to blame government because as you know, rick government's going to do what governments do. politicians do what they do, which is pivot change, flip lie, but the media that used to be a 4th, the state used to have standards, but the truth should matter. and it's the problem is it doesn't matter. now if you look at the whole october 7th and the gaza frog. oh, that is just totally out of control. it's because if you look at history, rarely has ever been a war or a genocide for that matter that wasn't based on lies and deception. you can't rope in the public to back something. is that a lot of dishes? is this without a complete bevy of lies and propaganda? and i think we saw that on october 7th. and unfortunately a lot of these things have been debunked in recent months. but you look at the, the word it's coming out of jo biden's mouth, or it's only blinking. they just keep repeating these troops that are simply not

true statements of that or not. it's never happened. videos this claim they saw, which never have been been seen by anybody. so we're being ruled by a whole series of lives. and that's what's really behind. these emotive themes of these high profile events, but trustworthy propaganda is really pushing a kind of alternative reality. and unfortunately, that's the track that these people are on, and we're not on the same track. you, the people who get their news from alternative sources. look at the polling of recent is very, very clear. if you watch cable news is it's like 70 percent or something in favor of as well. if you don't, it's the opposite. so you can see right there we all knew this was true, right? but now you can see it's proven scientifically, but that's a really great point, patrick i, i think there's a, there's, there's almost a justification for the things that we thought were true right now. based on the polling that we've seen, people who get their news from social media,

people get their news from tick tock, people who get their news from alternative sources have a completely different view of the world. then the people who get their news from the cnn's and the fox news and all that other crap, which is basically paid for by raytheon and several other big companies. speaking of ukraine and you mentioned that a little while ago. i mean, not the big sides here, but i just, i was curious the other night and i did a little googling and i found out the number of, of, of children killed in the ukraine. war so far is minuscule. the number of civilians killed according to international sources, is like 10000 which is horrible. no civilian should ever be killed. but the number of civilians killed in a war that's lasted almost 2 and a half years now. and ukraine has 10000 being while the war and gaza, or the attacks on gaza have already killed like 30 to 40000 people. i mean, what does that tell you as well? what it tells you is, if you look at the, you and figures on this and you look at other

a war monitoring and zeros and so forth, that this is the word in ukraine. ok, it is. capital has the lowest amount of civilian casualties of anything in the modern era. if you compare the amount of conventional arms that have been expended so far in 2 years. what does that tell you? who is the most powerful actor there? it's clearly the russian federation are taking, meticulous care to avoid civilian casualties. otherwise you would not see these numbers. so this, this basically visualize the myth that has been pushed by the west that put in is committing genocide in ukraine. it's just the opposite. and so what you really see there is something very akin to a civil war, something very akin to a major military intervention. and we can argue about the history and the borders and the dumbbells, and whose russian nude ukrainian. but the bottom line is it is not the scorched

earth type of military operation of the united states itself, or israel will conduct and not ask any questions and demand no accountability by the end of it. look at a rock look at libya. look at all of these other terrible situations and now look at the situation in, in gaza span. so effect speaking, speaking of numbers i, i checked those 2 and i think they're rocking somewhere today. and that's where somewhere between 500002900000. and we're going to compare that to attempt how said that ukraine. it doesn't seem like a fair fight. patrick, you've been an absolute delight to talk to your smart guy. uh, good luck with your uh, podcast and you know, keep up the good fight, man. we'll look forward to seeing you again. we'll have you back. okay, thank you. thank you very much, joseph. all right, that's our news. remember to always look outside your own box. when you're looking for truth, because truths generally don't live in boxes, rec center. see next to the,

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