all about the washington post's recent attack on his investigative news outlet. the grey's own post head piece quote, for its employees to be investigated by the federal government or arrested for exposing easels propaganda to justify its war in gaza. the article also linked to the grey zone to the russian, and the iranian government. marx blumenthal says that those claims are a complete lie and not even back by the article itself. he is the guest on the latest episode of going on the ground. everyone saw today right here, and auntie. here is a pv. this is the 2nd intelligence inspired attack on the gray zone this year by the washington post. think the 2nd largest paper in the united states owned by one of the world's 3 richest men, jeff bezos, who signed a deal with a c. i a to hosted cloud for $600000000.00 at amazon, just days after you purchased the washington post. in both cases,

these attacks relied heavily on fronts for us. it is rarely intelligence this article, this most recent article by the washington post, so called digital threats editor, joseph men, cited current, us current and former us intelligence officials, as one of its sources against us. and it represents an escalation against independent journalism and specifically independent media that is busting little lies and propaganda that israel has distilled since october 7 to justify genocide, which was really the topic of our last conversation, which went viral in so many different formats and which has been confirmed and corroborated not only by as rarely media, but by the latest, independent, un report, the post, the way they frame it, is that the iranian government is actually paying the gray zone. and so since this articles come out, i've had to, for example, address this with like college buddies who say,

so the washington post says that iran controls the grey zone. what's up with that is really media i $24.00 and it's really government linked media's out. media outlet reported that iran and russia are funding the grey zone in a bold print headline. a complete lie that's not even backed up by this washington post article the about building briggs in. cuz on the here in russia for over 200 representatives from 20 nations have gathered for the break splost cities farm. now the events have, they have already signed the joint agreements, all the creation of an association or cities of municipalities, who's a mr. she had the best ways to improve people's quality of life. this is now specifically bill able to implement effective and innovative solutions as well. as create new job opportunities since it meet us from china, india. so africa,

iran to kid the u. e. are among those taking part and coming up in october, russia will be hosting the annual break some. it didn't cause that as well. the vice president of the brazilian association of municipalities, believe that the strength of the brakes group is its diversity at las singles, main to is thumbs almost half of the world's population is represented here. and with that we have important decisions. we have a lot in common, a lot to learn from each other. the original countries of bricks, brazil, russia, india, china, in south africa. these are the original ones, and more countries ended up entering recently. we don't need to be equal or thinking any to away. so that we can have agendas in common quite the opposite. this diversity is the richness of rex. so the version of democracy company, different culture can be different from what unites us is the fact that we have the

representation of a large part of the world's population. there's no unique way to manage the whole world if you did not respect individualities. if you do not respect the culture of a country will not be able to overcome the challenges that exist in the world which are near challenges. the agenda of all the countries is the agenda of the 20 century. we have to think about 21st century bricks thinks about the 21st century arrive actually update this time, most of these coming your way up the top of the out. i'll see you again the the hi everybody. i'm rick sanchez. this is direct impact. and this is what we're going to be talking about today. one new pulse suggest vice president, comma le harris isn't performing much better. see,

i'm not sure i saw that coming. i think that's fascinating. so what actually are the vice president's approval numbers? they aren't good. i'm going to show them to you. i'm rick sanchez. let's do this thing. the . okay, here we go. once again, it's a topic that's been in the news a lot lately mister by the president of the united states. looks he's got an image problem right now. and, and the problem is what people are seeing on video with their own eyes. the white house says eyes and the rest of us in the media who show you these images are distorting reality, that these are fig. pictures is what essentially the white house spokesperson said just the other day. are we really? so once again, there is a video that is being shared all over the country really all over the world, which is very damaging to the president and it's sad, right?

i haven't shown you this video because i, i, i just felt uncomfortable. i almost feel like i'm picking on an older person. you know, like one of my parents or grandparents. but now this has become more newsworthy because well, there's a new report out about the b p. come along harris. so 1st, let's look at the video here. it is. now you can see everybody there singing and everybody's, you know, wide awake and everybody's excited and he's just like, standing there. this as a board is no movement whatsoever. and people have looked at that and said, wow, and now look at the for, look at the, the vice president. she's dancing, she's getting a group on, she's actually looks like she's got a lot of rhythm and she's a pretty good answer. right. so, all right, that's, that's the picture. i mean, like it is what it is. you're watching a try your cell 2 things, or you saw combine harris. what appears to be, you know,

uh at least compared to the president uh, showing a lot of bigger and you know, she's someone who is moving a lot. but unfortunately, and here's where the rubber kind of meets the road on the story. her pole numbers are not that much better than the guy who doesn't move so well. watch this is concerns over president fines. age continued to hang over his re election campaign . one new poll suggest vice president comma le harris isn't performing much better . a political morning consult. survey found 52 percent of those asked, viewed, vice president harris on favorably. now of course these rocking numbers can't and won't keep harris off the campaign trail. politicians tend to sold or through such things sold your throw such picks. so interesting way only uh, cbs news which basically works for the state department would present this story

the way they do. and then if you were to watch the entire thing, you'd see that they're rather apologetic and their presentation of the story. but here's the bottom line and they can't deny it. nobody else can. only 40 put at least 42 percent of americans approve of her performance. this is according to political and warning console. these are legitimate pulse. that's terrible. i mean, that's terrible. i mean, i don't get it. is she being dragged down by maybe mr. biden's health problems? is it her performance? what do you think? manila, what is it? because these are really bad numbers for a, b, p, v, p. usually they don't usually matter enough to get either really good or really bad numbers, but these are really bad numbers. oh, well rick, here's the uncomfortable thing, right? is, has america or the world yet thought that if joe biden wins another term, if he were to die in office, i know that's a crazy thing to say. but if he dies in office and the 2nd term, that means we get

a president, comma le harris. and these polls further go to the bulk this whole ages. i'm saying that all america is hating on an old person. that's not the case because comma harris is young and vibrant. she's even a good looking lady. yeah. still don't like or nobody. and i mean nobody wants combo a harris and i can tell you as a california native, she was a very unpopular ag making. 7 so much good use of the old 3 strikes law that was established in 1994. and when she was running against bite and in the, in the 2020 primary destroyer she couldn't win. yeah, she called went on home state california because according to polls she had, she dropped out 3 months prior to avoid humiliation. after tolten gathered aid her lunch at those debates. democrats just have nobody else rec, do you know, would you know what i think what i see her, especially since she's been vp part of that,

i barely knew what she was. uh huh. i see someone who is surprised that they're the vice president of united states. i. oh, i'm sorry, but she like somebody who looks in the mirror when it goes, oh my god, i'm the books price on it. and she goes around. i can't hear you exactly. maybe is to me, but i mean, she doesn't. her persona doesn't fit the role. she doesn't look like she has any of that. bravo, tom, but i'm not. i don't want her to be dick cheney trust me, but there's something in the way she's always laughing. uh huh. i related with joe and she's god bless. she just, she looks like she's very much very uncomfortable. yeah, i don't know what it is just by comfortable and i think whatever i'm feeling because i'm just an average idiot. right. i think the rest of america looks at that and says, yeah, there's something there that just doesn't add up with her. so anyway, here's, here's something else. this is important. russian, president bush must have been watching my show yesterday. i doubt it, but it,

but regardless, these kind of saying the same thing that i mentioned yesterday when i said that it's amazing. but people who live in western countries know so little about this guy, good or bad. few of any know his actual points of view. do you ever hear him speak? i mean, watch this news conferences or watchers news conferences i should say. but, and that's just not smart, mr. brewton. he's now in vietnam. he is continuing, is his. here i am asked me whatever you want to or at any talked about this very thing yesterday. coincidentally, here it is c as in settlement them e. so the most of them got a new point in front of months. so i'm going to need you to close the book girl and the queen from us. it was more than an item. what you still got against both of them they, you get, you may have been been since they can c as in the i even the, we only it will be due to the mean the in from with. so i'm important. he's saying

russia and he in particular, i think has an information problem, not the i think what he's saying is how do we get this message out? how do we get people to pay attention to at least our point of view, even if they disagree? well, i mean, look, wrecked. the tucker interview was really the 1st major exposure put in got to a western audience for years. western media had maligned him as some sort of like a dr. able character and, and had in effect, banned him from their airwaves. and as with any russian related media, right, just as those tensions with ukraine ramped up, i had a b, s, m o, back in february. and by the way they do. but by the way, the current of your to as soon as the interview was over every wester, news media said, oh my god, can you believe i right, the shortened tucker. 7 that after that without it was my joy, right? that's my point. poor messaging problem is not that of his own creation in the

american strangle hold on hollywood and on media. and furthermore, furthermore, rick, the prudent style. what we saw on that tucker interview blunder put is very nuanced and very detailed. yeah, the west, we would call that long winded but western audiences view of the world in 15 seconds to caution slip and sound by that's our culture. and as a result, our political discourse has also been reduced to this. i'm not saying i agree with it, but no matter what it is. so if the russians or the chinese or north korea wish to be more impactful in reaching western audiences, they'll need to get more adept at what appeals to those cultures. and it's, it's these quick, snappy little sound by some portion. yeah, i could just put and doing a tick, tock, video every day. i mean, i know, i know, but i know you're, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're making the point to make a point. i don't think that's because of just the, but it actually is true. sadly enough, that the fact that the guy does

a one hour hour, an hour and a half long interview details the history. oh wow. yeah. and and, and, and then people say, oh i was boring is like, what do you watch? all right, here's a shocker to read it as well, or maybe just a fake announcement. i can't tell at this point, but a ukrainian ambassador, a woman named katarina, letting go. she has come out on the record and said something that i didn't expect . she says ukraine would be willing to attend a peace summit sponsored by china, where you, courtney, and officials would be face to face with russian officials to negotiate a peace deal. here's a statement. i'm going to read it to you. it goes like this. ukraine would consider participating in a base ring lead piece summit with both warring sides present so long as the talks are based on the rules and the principles and try and in the un charter and international law. manila, they bluffing

a well look, rick, there are mixed signals coming from key of on these proposed china talks 1st. this is not a china only proposal. let's get that clear. this is co sponsored by brazil and they pitch that idea of yeah. in early may, i had of zelinski is lot of a summit in switzerland. it is a 6 point plan that has been endorsed by a 100 countries premier. 6 early in the global south is backer. say it's a path to ending hostilities. it's critics say. china is doing rushes bidding now state department spokesman, matt miller is spinning all of this and saying china is just trying to undermine key and steal the stage. the seeing the, the new power broker. so while you have the a basset, or calling china a friend of ukraine, you have the so called president of ukraine, who has, i would say you search power for the last month. say he's going to follow the lead of his finance years, namely the us and

u. k. so the question is whether or not the, the interest in attending these new round of talks is sincere. i can't answer that . i don't know being master. i can't get into rehab, but my read is that she's expressing what the parliament of ukraine wants, those who are still in their official capacity and saying what zelinski can't say. yeah, and i, and i think it may have something to do with the unmitigated disaster. as you mentioned, that was that swiss summit where they invited a $160.00 only 9 the showed up of those $9080.00 of them signed the a court to have now backed out. china wasn't invited, russia wasn't invited. i mean the china was invited. they just to get a little they said, if you're not going to have rush to hear what the hell you're doing, right. and i mean, yeah, we're wasting our time, which is kind of a general question. we're going to have a fight between 2 great boxers. but only one of them is going to show up who wants to go? i mean, what if it, if it is interesting that this is being presented now with follow it,

we'll see if it's legitimate and we'll see what happens up as usual. have a great weekend partner. i appreciate you bank sharing your thoughts. take care. all right, i'm going to join a guest here real quick and i'm going to be talking to him. now he's got a different explanation than i do regarding why mister pool has visited and sign a pack with the north korea pod, castor and journalist trig sarah will be joining us here. in fact, uh there he is going to be having a conversation in just a little bit and i look forward to it cuz this is one really smart guy who writes some pretty interesting stuff. we will be right back. the russian states never as tight as i'm sort of the most sense community best,

most all sense and up the speed. the one else calls question about this. even though we will fan in the european union, the kremlin mission, the state on the russians to day and split the ortiz full neck, even our video agency, roughly all the band on youtube tv services. for the question, did you say steven twist, which is the hi, welcome back. i'm rick sanchez. i'm joining us now. is drake 0 bar? he is a pod, castor, and the general was right. with

a very fresh perspective about global affairs. you can read his material out on the 9th wave, but that's who he uh what, what's he right? what he writes as in some stack, i am a subscriber. so i've had a chance to read some of his writings and i, and i think it's kind of fascinating. let me start with what i mentioned as we were going to break. i was reading with interest your article about why mr. brewton went to north korea. i have been sharing my opinion that he went to north korea because he simply message at the same reason he's on ships into her band. the same reason he's doing military exercises off of the caribbean. he's basically telling the world, look, i do have muscles and i'm going to show them to you. you're saying it's something else. it's about satellite communications with north korea. explain. i'm my, my main argument is that there are many reasons why you went and i think i actually

really feel one reason this office do what everybody has been pointing out in the west and the russians have some arising. but b s been talking about and the own media, which is that is a gesture towards the best and generally in particular to the rest in the asia pacific region that suggests that towards the united states it's a tester towards south korea, japan maybe to an extent australia, all of these things in play here, but i think what has been overlooked is something that is again, which is that my sense is that it's in particular also aiming at south korea. because south korea in recent years has really ramped up. it's almost exports, oscar. we have a very serious military industrial complex pocky because of its own geo political situation on this, you know, for the lines of north korea and it has

a very substantial industry. and it, since the ninety's, it has made an effort to make it technologically cutting edge. and this basically, it seems succeeded and materialism tested. but they can bid for us to direction. i don't judge, they can build network centric tags and so on and so on. and the 2 things about south korea that i think doug certainly important for us as long as that sounds cool. yeah. as i'm officially, but it's very likely that they've already applied supply military supplies to ukraine, of course, versus 5 to train right now. but the other thing that is often overlooked is the poland is wrapping up its military mass, actually pulling this planning in a relatively short time to dump it as a size actually more than double the size of its length force. it is uh, and it is also taking them out with advice from the high cost pool is patricia and

so i've talked about spending at least 4 percent, maybe 5 percent of g d p on this new arguments problem and, and the very large amount of these weapons of these advanced weapons systems is going to come from south korea to give you just one figure. it includes 100-1000 main, better tanks, right? that is an extreme number, i think. so it's $58.00 1st generation pilots. it includes almost $300.00 howard, so systems and so on and so on. and so i'm more over holding that south korea have already agreed that much of this material in the booth actually important on the license, right? so that's also technology transfer from this volume on south korean aust industry to poland and poland. do you live with the is planning already to use this know how that they've been acquired and has pro assessment for which the deal is to become

and even stronger on exports or to the rest of may to you? you're let me stop here. let me just stop you for a minute because i have a question about what you just said, because i find what you're saying to be absolutely fascinating. what you just described, this confluence between south korea and poland, which sounds like a bit of an arms build up. is this being done at the behest of nato and washington, or are these just 2 countries that are figuring out a way to make money off of ours, which they have every right to do? it was a koreans, it certainly is making a lot of money. i mean, it's almost these contracts are brought to almost a month, almost $15000000000.00. so i think it did. right. last name is, but on the other side, all of these items will be made to compatible. right. and if you think about the politics involved, it's very easy to see that non officers could be happening if the united states was

not in agreement on both sides of. so united states was not in agreement with south korea delivering and was pulling, taking this initiative to business, and almost land on it. if you think about what this looks like from russia's perspective, from west coast, perfect perspective lines only like this, right? this basic, the best to bring gram aiming, not only at ross so, but at ross as most important region of allied eastern europe, which is below rooms. and of course, pulling has very complicated relationships with better homes. so i think that all the factors that you have in numerated on site, i don't doubt that. but that as a very specific agenda here on moscow's product concerning specifically south korea and inflicting costs on south korea for this type of engagement. so what's interesting about this conversation that we're having is we often here are leaders

here in the west and certainly in washington. and we've heard this from the white house and most definitely from the state department. when putting or when she or other leaders like that, say we have to defend ourselves because it looks to us like these guys are doing some things that make us feel like they're getting ready to knock on our door or worse. right. and then the state department of washington always says they're lying, that's not true. they're using that as an excuse, they're making stuff up, their crazy, etc, or whatever it is that the reason is, and you're saying there is, as we say in law prima fall, she evidence that the west is in fact doing this and that it is a direct threat to russia and perhaps other countries as well as you stay with beller is yes, i mean look, it's a classic, this alone, right? i want to stay to kind of, um its, of, and it may even actually mean these elements to sort of defense. but from the size,

from the perspective of another state, that states cannot tell if these are going to be used only for the funds or for offensive purposes as well, right? i understand them as always in playing the problem is the west, is that via and denial about this fact we expect that china or russia for instance, simply take all works, but no longer the government in history has taken the word so potentially opposed to yeah, i think this we got that would simply not be normally the security. do you did that? you know, it wasn't far as being folded, and people didn't answer the fact that our adverse or the, or the guy somebody has a side simply take all word for it. that doesn't make any sense. i could speak to, to a physician. i could listen to you forever because you, you obviously think a lot and write some interesting stuff about this and it is a fresh perspective. but i've got to ask you about germany. i, as i'm hearing you say that as i've read what you've written about germany and

israel, for example, but now i want to ask you, what is germany stand and all of this the other day, the ukrainian strong man who's i'm elected by the way, just for the record went to germany and apparently half of the pm's didn't even show up. they protested his speech. i didn't want them there. where the german, how much are the germans like the polls or not like the polls in this situation? i would say they're going to be like suppose, but they're not. um, when you look at the german minister of defense, they've got a court bodies the stores. i'm sure he's incredibly jealous of what his police call he can do. right. but the german situation is that the rhetoric is sometimes elizabeth likes to pull his right to break. now back to russian. very decisive and so on and so on. but the germans don't actually want to pay for this. they've been talking about this, but them not making this type of financial effort. so the gentleman on me right now

is around 200000 soldiers during the cold war restaurant with a low and have 500000 and peace time. if you're edit, the east germans got 200001 this side, you had 700002 them constantly on the arms, among other things to go off the turn of the j as well. right? so right, that was the avenue driven spot. now can't even find a way to expand the homie completely unlike the polls. so i think that from west coast perspective, hold on looks like a much more serious adverse of a right now. in germany, not the germany looks benevolent, but germany probably from the russian perspective, doesn't look serious. pulling does actually look serious while um, drake 0 amar is a podcast or a journalist, you could write, you can read him at 9th wave on a sub stack. and we thank you, sir for taking time to take us through this explanation. please come back. i'd like

to talk to you again. i think, you know, that's a, that's our show. remember once again that we always believe that truths don't live in boxes. so we shouldn't look for truths in boxes, and when i say boxes, i mean only what we think and what our friends think truths are everywhere. that's what we believe that's our mission. i'm rick sanchez. thank so much for being with us. i'll be looking for you again, right here on direct impact until next talk to the in a very public way, israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu as the amended the by didn't ministration. give him the tools to finish the job in gaza. is this a demand to finish the genocide? again, this sounds like

a blank trip to cross any in all the rise in taxes, fees rising tensions. one man is report at least shot dead in kenya as kind of falls on the streets over the rate increases being post by the international monetary fund. we don't need a preemptive strikes yet because our response to any strikes with guarantee the disruption valid on that because that's perfect. i for right, i got them and put in said there is go with needed, need to change the roches nuclear duction and the russian president also said the moscow was of the right to supply long range weapons to.