and pulled off the plane headed to russia and had his possible compass skated. he had been scheduled to feature as a guest because the 2024th of pittsburgh international economic born archie spoke with him and follow these recent events. there was a knock at the door, it was to f b. i special agents. they indicated they wanted to talk to me about concerns over my activities. i said specifically what they said, well, it's about the for an agent registration act. and i said, well, i'll be more than happy to talk to you out here, but i'm not letting you in my house. and they said, well, actually we are coming into your house and they presented a search warrant. and at the moment of presentation in my house with swarmed by 20 plus uh, you know, armed agents and they executed their search warrant. this is a frontal assault on free speech. this is a frontal assault on the free press, the department of justice and the f. b i is attempting through their misguided enforcement of the 4 digit registration. they have to define what journalism is,

what constitutes journalism. it has a chilling effect on free speech. and if every journalist in america doesn't stand up, understand that eventually they're going to come after you and seek to silence you . this is about the defense of the constitution, plain and simple. you don't have to like me, you can hate me. you can disagree with everything i'm saying, but the key thing about free speech is that disagreeable speech. it's that is free speech. the american people are being actively deceived by the united states government. and this deception is being perpetrated and encouraged by a, a compliant mainstream media, and it's only through the actions of independent journalists, alternative media, people such as myself, that we, we can challenge this. and so literally what's happening right now is the epi, i, the department of justice, is seeking to suppress the challenge to the ongoing deceptions carried out by the united states government about what's happening in ukraine, about russia. and the danger of this is that if we don't get to grips with reality,

if we don't seek to try and improve relations with russia, we are on a slippery slope that hits in one direction in one direction only. and that's nuclear war. and that why speak out, that's why i do what they do to try and stop this word is actually what the free press is all about. well, just before we go to stop and development from the russian ministry corresponds, as i mentioned, audio sites. these are in full says he claims that ukrainian on the full says all counting to designate a new to lot the teen form as potential targets on you to the power plant stored sites. the internal affairs director at all the help of the region has added the campus potential gave me to strike, rushing it to the facilities, encouraging in cost and some process were pulled. say the radioactive heads have ready been delivered to the control screech ukraine when attack could take place. that information has apparently come from the interrogations of p o w 's were of

course going to update you as more details and much well, those are just a few of the stories that we're keeping. i know i, on the friday of 50000 there's many, many stores inside opposed to produce to head on average, wants to go home and not have a great because the the, the hey everybody, i'm like, sanchez, this is direct impact. and this is what we're going to be talking about today. the stuff that i think i know if i need to transfer. busy it's designed to you to also kind of shows that scene. i don't know if you can tell,

obviously you can't unless you speak german, you don't know exactly what he's saying. but look, here's what's going on. europe is all above because arrest warrants are finally been issued against you. koreans accused of blowing up the north stream pipeline. where does this investigation lead part of what you just heard in that interview? we'll explain it. i'm gonna take you through it. i'm gonna change us, hey, let's do this. the . all right, so that's the big story. it is a buzz. it is a buzz. it should be a bounce. right? germany has officially issued arrest warrants for the people and believes blew up the north stream pipeline. and it does point directly at ukraine according to investigators that stuff that i think i know if i need to transfer. busy it says, i know your thoughts about kind of insurance and seeing how stupid time you're going from stopping. i'm good, that's most and you, i'm in advance. my mind gets asked to find out how far you yes i'm if it was that

far, i don't know. they did tell you can read along, but let me help you. that's the reaction of one german member of parliament saying, yeah, it was definitely ukrainians, a bunch of ukrainians. but then it goes on to say that we should not, we didn't do that, that ukraine was responsible. how explain to me please, cuz that's difficult to understand. all right, so let me tell you, let me catch you up. i just giving you the rest of the investigation, what seems to be reported. at this point, the german chief prosecutor has ordered the arrest of a man who was now apparently hiding in ukraine. though he was originally living in poland when he allegedly masterminded this attack, along with a couple of other ukrainian military officials who put the whole thing together after a night of heavy drinking. stay with me, your and then they managed to pull off one of the most incredible and destructive acts of sabotage in european history by blowing up one of the most important

infrastructure parts of the russian economy. the gas pipelines that helped fuel the homes of both german citizens and other europeans, those gas pipelines sit about, 0300 feet deep under water. okay. not easy to get to. the suspects did all that supposedly by themselves using a relatively small sale boat that you're looking at right there in the middle of the baltic sea. the sail boat is called the andromeda, its about 15 meters long, which apparently had explosive residues on it, which match the, exposes, used in the blash. all right, so let's just stop there. there's, there's a lot more to tell and there's a lot to catch you up, but that's kind of where we are. but no, let me bring you in at this point for reaction. given that, that's kind of the story and i'm not sure. yeah, and that's underscore that park wreck. this story, that's the story that we're getting right now. and remember,

we didn't hear the story until many, many, many months after the list. basically, it was a seismic event, at least according to to danish authorities because they had seismic monitoring equipment that was on, on board home island. that had said it registered the equivalent of $500.00 k g's worth of t and t this explosive event. and let me remind you, rick, when, when this went down in the fall of 2022, i'm going to bring you back to my part of the world where i'm from in hollywood. and in early 2023. the writers strike happened, right? so when the new, the, when the news story hit about what happened to nord stream, it's this ridiculous story that makes no sense. that's full of holes. we don't know who the villains are, who the whatever. and i would say it's because washington couldn't get their hands

on decent writers at the time because the writers drank so. so they left it up to people like seymour hersh. all right, well, so, so let's continue. you're right. it's the story so far. it doesn't make sense, but for the 1st time they're saying it was ukraine, but at the same time they're saying it was not ukraine. so to ask for the business, the big a good rinky dink sail boat. you just show drama. it's a rinky dink little sail boat and the size mileage is on board home. say this is, have a 500500 kilos. worth right of explosive. so we're not talking about a mickey mouse, little, you know, sabotage event, $500.00 kilos as a heavy. yeah, no, they're not yet a couple of drunk guys to swim under and carry 500 k o is. we're not, they're not most uh, they're not robbing a convenient store and that almost seems like what they're saying. so, so let's continue to offer it in this business. and this is why we want to do this . we tell stories like these without proper context. and many of you are,

are watching us from all over the world right now, and you probably don't make the background. i don't blame you. you've got a life to live, right? but you don't understand the history of the significance of the north stream pipeline. without that, it's kind of hard to understand why this whole thing happened, who may have done it and why they possibly could have done it. so here's some background. this is a dw documentary we found a kind of lays out the facts quite clearly. here it is championed by 2 friends. russia is vladimir putin and former german chancellor. gerhard schroeder, the envelope, and these, this guy, we need this gas and it's the most economical way to get it. and everyone who deals with the energy policy knows that 50 biased us, oh, this cheap gas flow directly from the board, russia to loop in germany. a distance of over 1200 kilometers. the pipeline right through the baltic was a kick in the teeth for eastern european countries who had long earned good money from the pipelines running through their territories. skip this one,

i'm talking on the train was skeptical right from the start as it for so exactly, walsh. in fact, what happened? name made this bypassing of ukraine and other countries like poland, which also sold the risks. and because they themselves had pipeline systems which supply gas to western europe, it sounds to me if you listen to that, like russian germany, we're simply taking out the middleman to be able to provide the gas from this point to this point directly. right? uh, more efficiently and cheaper. uh, from russia to the people of germany. they were centurylink cutting out the money. man. manila, that's important here, right? we, you know, read, you can earn a pretty penny being the middle man, and in this case for ukraine, this provides the motive because now when you cut out the middleman, which is ukraine, me, you're cutting out about one and

a half $1000000000.00 worth of transit fees that russia otherwise used to have to pay by going over a land to go into western europe to, to transport this natural gas interest. so we're talking big money here. um one and a half $1000000000.00 per year on average. sometimes more, sometimes, less. but that is a lot of money for a country like ukraine who never really reassembled their economic viability after the fall of the soviet union. they've kind of been stuck in the ninety's. so that was really kind of their, their main major source of income for the state was transit fees that they were charging russia in order to traverse across their land. that's a great point. that's a really great point. um and they're not the only ones here. so poems angry, ukraine is angry and you're cutting us out. we want some of that money. meanwhile, the people of europe are going, hey, that's great, that's cheaper for us to be able to heat our homes. but there's something else here

. this is where the seymour hersh comes in and others we have reported this kind of thing. and that is, it's impossible to look at this story without taking into account which country was against the north stream pipeline from the start. and which country had the most dean from its destruction in that country as us united states. i'll take my word for it. what do i know? listen to what the us ambassador to germany said about it and then listen to president biden say before the stream was blown up. that he was going to know that his own words ended. that's what he said. i'm going to end it. listen nord stream to which simply give russia an opportunity to put more of a strangle hold on ukraine and ukraine's economy during this time of tension. and so we were very much against it for geo political purposes. if a russian bates,

that means tanks or troops crossing the border of ukraine again, then there will be no longer north steam to we. we will figure it out. we will bring an end to it for all that happen. let me give you some numbers now. ready, before all that happened. 202147 percent of your it's important natural gas came from russia. delivered inexpensively and directly through those pipeline spot for pipeline. in fact, some european countries relied so much on russia that they had almost 80 percent of their natural gas coming in from russia. now, only about 15 percent of europe's gas comes from russia. so i'm say 13 something 14 subject 15. so whatever some, somewhere that number, it's not around 50 percent like it used to be. so you ask yourself, okay, so where is that natural gas coming into europe from now? if you guess the united states, you would be right?

how much more than 15 percent of the natural gas now being used and received in europe comes from the united states. oh, and manila we should mention that us gas that they're now getting in europe is about twice as expensive as it used to be. when they got a question, i ain't making it up. there's nothing wrong. you know. well, rick, when, when you're such good friends like russia and germany are you, i'm excuse me, the united states in germany now. when you're such good friends, you don't mind paying a little bit more back if it's quality made in the u. s. a. but then unfortunately, because you're a government, you have to deal with the fallout from your citizens. and then when you also export 3rd party, the cheap gas you use to get from russia into the rest of the european union. and at the time the, the u. k. was, was part of that and they were also getting reaping the benefits of, of, you know, the cheap russian natural gas. everybody in europe, gas prices, obviously their,

their energy prices have shot through the roof over the past 2 years. yeah. and that's why we're seeing. so many demonstrations across all of the e u and the u. k. i mean, besides some civil strife, people are still very upset and angry about the conditions that have been caused for them because these pipelines are now gone. and let's not forget, rick, these pipelines are not just easy to explode by some. do some drug news on a, on a plate. all right. these are, these are giant fortified heavy, sick, steel giant pipes. right? that are fortified over and over and over, covered in, in rubberized material, plastics. and if this isn't like the type in your house bringing, you know, the gas to your stove, we're talking a major industrial pipeline. it's not easy to just blow up. now, as far as the germans go, a guy called august hanning, he's the,

the former head of the, the germans version of the ca, the german for an intelligence agency. he is now quoted talking to the press german press. that is, that he says he has reason to believe that poland, alongside ukraine was also involved in this sabbath. gosh. and then again, let's also not leave this part out. russia was not allowed to partake in the investigation for the past year. the other, even though the denmark territory, even though there no, no, no nearby, there pipeline along with germany. 11. so between $11.00 and $13000000000.00 spent on this, it's your project. you're not allowed to investigate what happened to your product, to your thing, to your infrastructure. i mean, there's a yeah, yeah. okay, holes in this work it's, it's almost believable. how they can't kind of piece this all together and fill in the gaps. it's like the old saying, just walk along. nothing to see here. nothing to see here. just walk along. we'll

take care. we'll take care of this for you. don't worry well tight. well tell you what we find out and we'll let you know. um, well that's why we're looking into this and that's why context matters. and that's why you said formation is important and we're going to be talking in a just one thing. you go ahead one more quick thing. one thing that nobody bothers to also point out the destruction in the fall out from this gas explosion is we forget that this is basically equal terrorism, besides infrastructure, terrorism to germany, that is a nato ally to the united states. the explosion, you know, took place in danish territory and it has been estimated that more than 80815000 tons of natural gas escaped and damaged the, the wild life and the ocean floor. yeah, nobody's talking about it. yeah. and we're right. no, it's it's, it's a go terrorism as well. so the animals here are also dying. so no one's talking

about that we're going to, uh, we're a little quick break benjamin. oh, you're the best at the house. and uh, when we come back, we're gonna stay, stay on this north stream pipeline thing, and we're gonna be drawing about george so well. now he's a senior research fellow with global policy institute, who monitors the numbers that we were just talking about. and can take us through this a little more cuz this is a drill down. we should be doing. this is important. nobody in the us who watches regular newscasts will probably know about it, but the rest of the world is paying attention will be right back. the the

the hey, i'm rick sanchez walker back to direct impact. i'm george join out by the georgia some really senior research fellow at the global policy institute. you know, george, this is one of those stories where as we like to say, if it quacks like a duck, it's usually a duck in the united states had the most to gain from the destruction of the north stream pipeline. the united states has since then gained the most from the destruction of the north stream pipeline. and yet, there are people out there saying, oh no rush, it just destroyed its own pipelines. and please don't look at the us and don't look at the ukraine as possibly being responsible for this. am i crazy or just living in an upside down world of the your episode there. right. it's very,

very funny that this big um, wall street journal a story that appears um the other day makes the number of very interesting uh disclosures. and what has to assume that the wall street journal is being brief by us intelligence or so, according to the journal, this drunken uh, idea. hey guys, let's, let's blow up the north stream. you know, great let's, let's go to it now. so this, this was hatched in a and then it will ready in june. this is a june 2022. i got you intelligence gets wind of it. they don't have a dutch get a live. it does seem to have a, the, the right in front of the office information, not to the germans. they bosses information to the c i a and the c. i a process it onto the john. so june 2022. germany is already fully cognizant

of what ukraine is doing. um, but there's another, a twist, stood according to the c. i a, it was zalinski himself who uh, gave the order to to go ahead and do this. and he told me, uh, the uh, the top military man, so go organize it, get it done. and then the, the americans apparently said no, no, no, don't, don't do it. don't you know, is this the, the, just the dangers, this is escalate. torre last thing we want to do is escalate tensions. um, as soon as the landscape honestly then when, when do this illusion is a, now we gotta call it off. and um, and zillow is that all the way you know, way you can stop that and still went ahead with it. so, um, do you want me to you about this? uh, the 3 months before the destruction of the pipe and the americans knew about this 3

months before the dots knew about those 3 months before. and yet, when it happens, they allow this nonsensical like, is ation to be made that, oh russia did it just through the so, you know, for some reason richard wanted to destroy its own property. oh, well this is, this is really bad. um and um, well you, what's remarkable about this is that it, what this, this is what this thing is saying that the landscape uh hatch. this blan instructors illuminated the loosely just said, you know, i'm going to go ahead and do it. then you'll, you'll basically signing off on sending palms billions and billions of them dollars the most deadly weapons imaginable to people who are destroying your own infrastructure. you know, as i mean, as that's a great point. that's a great point. i hadn't even thought about that. that is it. absolutely. that's what you're doing. you know, these are the people you'll,

you'll find and think that to destroy your own infrastructure, your own energy in the states. then the, the, making you economically financially dependent upon the united states. they wiping out your industry and these are your allies. these are the people you want a saw that the gong financing this of the people don't. so i don't you know about, and that's a great point. help us understand that this is the 11 buyer and all of this that i've never understood. maybe i just don't understand the german id ology. maybe i don't get it, but why wouldn't germany not be on a full out of salt to get to the bottom of this to find out a whole did this here. i don't thing that is going to make very citizens have to pay more, possibly not be able to heat their homes through the winter and all of these things not to mention sabotaging their own infrastructure because it wasn't really shared infrastructure. if you think about it, i mean it's, it's a gas pipeline that takes gas from russia to germany. it's half german and have

russian, even though it's russian, but it's like it's part of their infrastructure. why wouldn't they be so nonchalant about it? i, that's the part of the story i don't understand. can you help most of industry? i'm not going to start, although then to think of your, of us now occupied territory or the unit europe is, has no independence, no solver, and it's a of its own. it say in the colonial, our post of the united states. so germany cannot begin an investigation because it goes by thinking, what was the investigation is going to point to the real culprit. and that's the boss, the one who owns everything. so, you know, go to investigate and, and, and point the finger a lot of the bottom the but, but here, stop, know, how does that get? so when we, i just showed some video a minute ago that was really cool. you say god, schroeder and bottom are put in shaking hands saying, hey, let's do this. it makes sense. it'll be good for you, your people, it will be good for me, my people, hey, hello, all right, sign deal,

let's do it. how does that go from that? we're 2 countries could just have an understanding. you don't have to like the other country, but if you've got a business deal, you've got a business deal, right? how do i go from that to what you were just talking about? where they just know i, we, we don't want gas, we're willing to suffer, to make sure that we don't get anything good for our people from russia. i was think what you know, the gap had schroeder get ahead, screwed up in 2002 came out against the american plan to invade you. uh huh. very open a very upfront. he said, we don't think they brought the many adventures morrow, but we're not even going to allow a country to be used to send the forces when all the help the americans do a, you know, to use our country to transport. man. uh um, uh you know that uh transportation to a rock t he, it was a very hard line that it took. yeah, i wanted to try to shoulder last the next election. so in other words, the germans chose to be a supplicant to be a totally dependent entity. you know,

they, they have a john. so that was actually saying, yeah, we're not going to take any baldwin on allow america to use our territory for this non sensical event. yet, and he was rejected by the german vote as i'm the god this a creature angular model who had to endure humiliation of the humiliation. and she didn't mind, you know, she, you know, she was the found out that her own telephone was top, the americans listening it into all her personal phone calls. she didn't have a problem with that. and the germans didn't have a brother. barrack obama went to german, it's do street, did like a here. oh, well, he's a great man. you 16. this is a present. it was listening in the, the chancellor's phone conversations. the jones have no problem with it. and not schroeder is a marginalized vega in job and he's constantly trying to defend himself. they inflict the humiliation off he was rightly ation when he was right. but he was

right about everything to the right after the 100 percent. right. and everybody else was wrong. yeah, yeah, so, so, so what happens now? i mean, we've got this investigation looks like at least it's an investigation. there's some guy who did this, who's hiding out a new crane? shouldn't the rest of the world say to ukraine and it's government. i give this guy up, he's to us. i was saying that why not? it was a game and nobody really wants to go and investigate this uh too far because if it goes you grand, what to give him. uh, he has got to stop pointing fingers. he's not going to take the rap. uh huh. is that who is going to? is that? yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah i, i did it and you know, who told me to do it, although i, you know, i've got a phone conversation with zillow z, i mean, oh, it was, it was the landscape. so no one is gonna want to press the head with this. uh, ukraine doesn't have an extradition treaty with german either. i know that your brain has an extradition treaty with anybody, so your grandma going to give him a he was in poland. rose allowed him to escape,

so the pickup window. oh, german is going to make an extra day should request. so they say bye bye. you know you can go now. sorry, his gong is out of my hands. so no, no one's going to go ahead with this and it goes off the go. a read today about this illusion is it was allusion is now the ukrainian a basset to the u. k. so he enjoys diplomatic. the so you call when you think about it. oh, i see. so you're going to have a restaurant issued to russian. president arrest warrants against literally and presidents and whatever. but it's exactly a ukrainian, a bachelor has in units. you've calibrated because nothing we can do. you cannot make this stuff up. you put a guy in hollywood as a my colleague, manila would say, couldn't come up with a story as ridiculous as this. and yet they do and nobody's looking so they can get away with the charger or the like to talk to thank you. my friend enjoyed the

conversation but i enjoyed it very much. right. so i show, can you believe this stuff? look uh i always say try and look outside your own box when you're looking for truths truths don't live in boxes. boy, is this ever a great example of that off? i'm rick sanchez, will be looking for you and the proxy by next time the new cry never transitioned to now of the ninety's kind of try out the politics of the not just continued all the way all the way for the and of course to go see the crime that i never had a breach and trust you coming. some stability is the power all sites

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